skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not trying to be incendiary, but is there a real need for tables and graphs and all of those colors in a console application?

Usually if you want structured information from some process then you just build a web application that does its work on a schedule or when it receives an API request. Console applications are great for "fire and forget" or even being called by something else and then passing pack simple data back to the caller if necessary.

I had a co-worker that built an extremely complex table display system using ncurses. I wondered what the point was - who is going to see all of these fancy tables? The person who SSH into the system and quickly validates its correctness and then closes the connection? Or people that use VNC/Remote Desktop just to see the status of what's going on?

Edit: referring to the functionality of Spectre.Console.
The bigger and unhealthier you are, the less motivated you may be to get up and leave your desk.

Or...to quit and become a lumberjack, etc.
sadly, HN does not care about politics or real world, just the blinky lights and their 1s and 0s.
Indeed, that also matches with the name on the AS ("formerly Ideal-Hosting UG"). Risky to run something without imprint in Germany.
It sounded like a good idea until I saw that it was synchronous and video based.

Makes total sense, but I thought volunteering answering some questions about photos people upload there when I have some time to spare.
I use C-^ because yeah, C-a is emacs/readline 101 so I hit that 10s of times a minute.
Podcast that re-reviews advice columns/ general comedy and conversation
I think, there was a talk some year ago about a country in South America. It think they had almost mo internet, but a large P2P wireless network all over the country.
The biggest issue with it is a really large binaries that have to be downloaded on page start. So it isn't necessarily suitable for use cases where speed matters. But at the same time, it's perfect for dashboards, I really like to work with it.
I don't think the practice of people easily downloading/installing apps through app stores is going to end. In my network I'm not alone in paying for free apps to support development if they're value-added.
The word he was looking for was sapiosexual
Thank you for your gentle and respectful method of disagreement.

I agree that my assumption was based on hearsay. Fundamentally, I don't believe that children who are loved and protected by their primary caregivers shoot themselves in the stomach in an attempt to die.
But if a person has something important to say, calling people that don't know about the issue assholes is not a great way to go about it. I know there is a western, and especially US/English, bias in tech. But it's not like everyone tries to annoy others, it's more an issue of ignorance.

Btw I agree that when Signal says your messages are secure, it should probably do something to warn about ways things still may leak.
>Trees are crucial to our long-term survival, as they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global heating.

I stopped reading when I encountered this statement. In fact, the connection between trees in the desert and carbon dioxide absorbtion is tenuous.[1]

[1]. https://medium.com/the-philipendium/trees-and-carbon-dioxide...
Vlad - Congratulations. I used to see you and Sergie at Hackerdojo in 2012-13 when it was very early days of Webflow. It is great to see what what you've accomplished despite the challenging circumstances.
> my oldest daughter (3yo then) was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, requiring expensive surgery

That sounds awful. Is she OK now?
Yes. And I'm specifically responding and saying:

That's not his fuckin job!

It's ours - and our government's.
Imagine sacrificing the lives of our youth for 1% of boomers. Morally intolerable if you ask me, but obviously, we all have our biases.
So how much covers my use?
Thanks for the reminder. I donated.

I've been using Signal for a couple years now. Finally deleted WhatsApp this week. This is the first outage of Signal that I noticed. It's a shame, but growing pains do happen.
The argument works, but is too simplistic as other comments mention, and only looks at an ideal-state.

It's unfortunate that politicians are often responsible for making this decision, because most of the time they fail to understand the economics, and make decisions that optimise their term in office or other selfish interests.

I live in South Africa. Last week the governing party made a resolution to "look into" UBI/basic grants. [0]
Today, thousands of disabled and old people were queuing for their basic grants, in inhumane ways, during a pandemic + a South African virus variant that's more aggressive. The Minister in charge of social development, said "there's no money" [1].

Revisiting the engineering argument. It talks about fail-safes if the elevator stops working. This partly assumes that the elevator is maintained, because it not plunging is less of a concern than it being stuck for weeks at a time. If governments fulfilled their social duties, the overall cost of living would remain low, those in need of social services would regularly get them (without the strong need to pay people money). This reduces the bang-bang effect mentioned.

Productive labour forces also minimise the length of elevator failures.
If we look at Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, with a view of universally solving them; we'd be incentivised to optimise for food production (reduce hunger), providing basic + better shelter (reduce homelessness).
Play fair with resources to improve safety (colonialisation, domination, creating wars, displacing people, increasing crime).

Doing a lot of these things, and addressing the ills of capitalism, become the fail-safes that diminish the preconditions that allow people to argue for basic income (where the recipient is an able-body who is not being productive by choice or circumstance).

[0] https://businesstech.co.za/news/finance/459738/government-to...
[1] https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/auntie-theres...
This is a thoughtful comment. I do think it is incredibly hard to gauge "relative effect" between people, so I don't think we can really rank them (except for ourselves, of course). There is some nuance here.

I've also experienced a lot of variance in my social group in terms of what things have really seemed to set them back.

I really like your point that seemingly "small" things can make a huge difference in someone else's state of mind. It's a strong argument for being as kind as you can by default, because you really have no idea what those around you are going through.
Meaning, spending $300-400 per month on various dating apps. Dating apps are effectively places to put your ad up, hence thinking of it as ad spend. It's a combination of paying for the subscription, the premium swipes, the boosts. Over the duration of the month that adds up, especially if you're on 3-4 apps at the same time.
Or some Sugru if you want to get real fancy.
I've been wondering lately whether decaf provides any of the supposed health benefits that some have attributed to regular coffee.
I would be terrified of getting the guy killed
I think the MeWe platform is a lot easier for communication between members.
I forgot obesity
Of course not, but it wouldn't hurt if we all got better at valuing our work more. Heck, majority of developers I worked with are decent, loving people, who could simply never dare to ask to be compensated for the work they do...
I wonder if like many games with microtransactions most of their money comes from a few whales? You raise a good point that if people quickly find a partner they won't pay.
Another similar service is Aira[1].

The main difference is that Aira is not free, but you're helped by professional agents, who had to undergo various background checks and sign airtight NDAs. They have a 5-minutes-per day free plan, and businesses can also offer free service if you're using Aira with one of their products.

My biggest frustration with Aira is that you need to own a phone number in one of the supported countries, which is a pain to set up and maintain.

All agents also have TeamViewer installed, so they can quickly and efficiently help with computer issues. I've been using it for over a year now (with the free plan), and I definitely recommend.
This is not an excuse for being a dick.
Governments probably shouldn't simply ban all free products, but it certainly might be reasonable to ban some economic activities that enable some business models for sustaining free products.
A person who has such high levels of distress or lack of emotional regulation that they cannot manage by themselves the level of emotional turmoil they experience sounds... like PTSD, which uh, yeah, she has PTSD and this was a known behavior that he presumably chose and accepted when he was dating her. It makes no sense to date someone and then actively neglect their needs, even if their needs are greater than people who don't have a severe, chronic illness.
> You know those mono-to-stereo mixing tricks that you’re not “supposed” to do because of mono compatibility, but you end up doing all the time anyway? You know, like the one where you double the track, pan the two versions out and delay one side?

Is there a name for this effect? I'd like to hear an example!
How is it unsettling? Everything in that article is, average for Americans. People just applied romantic notions to something they didn't know, in attempt to understand. It got popular, people joined in, and the mystery was the thrill, the chase.

I don't think it's any different from when you ask a person to describe their pet, they describe themselves.

The fearful part is, how, everyone, decided that in good faith, they should work together, to unlock this past vs just leaving it to the government.

This is a case where it seemed he didn't like his parents, and probably didn't want/care to let them know of his demise.

His romantic life, same, probably didn't care to know either.

But, Mystery solved? We did it Reddit! /s
I don't agree with trusting YouTube blindly. I trust my friends and colleagues that have cured their cancer better. Also note that chlorine dioxide is not sodium hypoclorite. It's like comparing salt (which also contains chlorine) with sugar.
Axios is expanding into local news this month without an opinion section
I agree. Function keys are abstract, useful for particular niche cases. Done right, the touchbar seems like a better solution. I'm glad they brought back a physical ESC, for sure, but I don't think going back to function keys is actually a step forward. It also seems like an un-apple thing to do.

I'd like more ports. But I'm not sold on the idea of going back to an HDMI port, displayport, etc. I'd rather see the world switch everything to USB-C than see Apple go back to one of each port. I'd like to be able to hook up a half dozen monitors, or a half dozen network connections, or a half dozen hard drives, or ... you get the idea.
Apple deserves credit for bringing magnetic power cords to laptops, but they didn't invent it.

It's been used on Zojirushi kettles since 1982: https://www.zojirushi.com/blog/?p=4147

I do like Magsafe. I always wonder how may plug/unplug cycles the USB-C charging will last. I never worried about magsafe.
Another donation.

Everyone around me starts switching suddenly and I want to keep them on Signal.
Unemployment is only a minor part of this simply because it expires after a fixed duration. Housing and healthcare are much bigger factors. For many people, getting a job means losing their state funded healthcare and housing, but the income from the job is not enough to make up the difference.
> I think you underestimate the significance of the small barriers, even ones as small as a search-and-install step.

I think you over-estimate that barrier. It hasn't stopped things like TikTok, Instagram, etc... The modern world is installing apps. It's not a meaningful barrier.

What you're describing with organic evolution into programming is a cool property of things like Excel, yes. But you don't get that by just bundling an IDE into a browser, either. You still have that barrier of the user needs to decide they want to program. Which they don't want to do when they're just browsing reddit or whatever, that's not a natural evolution path like the Excel one.
I agree with your overall point, but I don't think it has unlimited applicability, and ever since Hayek first published on this topic, even liberal economists and philosophers have been critical that it fails to take into account the evolution of government as part of that anarchy of the market. Some suggest the tension between rational constructivism and spontaneous order is a false dichotomy in the real world.

It's worth noting that Hayek's conception of the economy as spontaneous order may run into something of a paradox[0], and in the view of some, the emergent and unconscious shaping of the market as we see it today can certainly conflict with other goals - in particular justice. I think most people are interested in at least asking about what can be done rather than sitting down at the command of "don't touch that, who knows what may happen!".

[0] Assuming that some intervention in the economy is permissible (i.e. anything but anarcho-capitalism), see section "When Would Hayek Pour The Cement?" here: https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_14_01_1_sandefur.pdf
Desktop app is still behind the mobile in a few things but they are getting closer these days
I resent that! I care about $$$ from adtech too.
Commits:
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/800b03140e640f8892f2...

Source:
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_To...
This makes me think it isn't:
https://security.stackexchange.com/q/222055/10863

> after [installing the Keybase app] and starting a chat with your friend, you still need to verify that the server sent you the right encryption key. Since you can't host your own server, it has to be the Keybase, Inc's server that sends you the encryption key of your friend.

> there is no way to display [the 'signature chain' of the person I'm chatting with], I have to trust the server to send me the right key. [Yet the client] displays a banner above the chat saying "end-to-end encrypted".
This is one of the most beautiful ways I've seen tech put to work.

Thanks for being so kind, this is awesome!
The platform offers a recurring monthly donation. Divide by 12?
Very good point. People will happily pay 50 pounds a month for an IPhone and thinking nothing of it. But then really struggle to pay a penny for an app that runs in that iPhone. There’s some funny psychology going on.
No, that's not what I was thinking of.

> after [installing the Keybase app] and starting a chat with your friend, you still need to verify that the server sent you the right encryption key. Since you can't host your own server, it has to be the Keybase, Inc's server that sends you the encryption key of your friend. [...] How does this work with Keybase?

> there is no way to display [the 'signature chain' of the person I'm chatting with], I have to trust the server to send me the right key. [Yet the client] displays a banner above the chat saying "end-to-end encrypted".

It's all marketing department with a sprinkling of blockchain magic.

https://security.stackexchange.com/q/222055/10863
Most Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails
Thanks for the extra context - I should have been more clear. CPI does capture OER and rental costs as you show.

I get that mortgage costs and the like aren't considered as consumption ( rightly so ) but that makes the measure inaccurate when assessing prices people pay to live day to day. Rental prices are generally a more applicable indicator for most of the population as the BLS says but the rising costs of houses and mortgage costs by extension imo should be captures because it signals how money is flowing.

Is there another metric perhaps that captures both consumption costs and housing beyond rent/rent equivalents?
So much going on in VCV rack.

I know there was talk of integrating it with Pure Data.

Im not sure what happened with that since I don't have the time to keep up.
Been using Webflow for years almost daily. Still a big fan but seeing round after round of VC money and little improvement on the actual tool (Webflow Designer) something feels off...
This reminds me of AMC's Lost finale, where after the end of the show, AMC added a simple shot of a desert island with some lapping waves, just to give viewers thirty seconds to digest everything that had happened.

Of course, this confused the shit out of many viewers, who thought it was part of the show and tried to find meaning in it...
Ask HN: Jan 12th has past and I still need to use Flash. What are my options?
I still need to use Flash on a particular government website. What options do I have now that Flash player is actively blocking content.

I am comfortable with loading an old version in a VM, or having a stand alone browser that it works on. Any suggestions to tide me over until the website is updated?
> you don't want to increase the UBI amount because it'll cost you more than it gets you

I think this is an oversimplification, because in practice, there will be a gradient of people around the inflection point who would be willing to take less in order to stop working, and that gradient will vary by the individual and by the job.

Additionally, I can also imagine politicians promising increases to the UBI without concomitant tax increases, funded by bonds or other kind of financial mechanisms for monetary injection whose long-term negative externalities would be easy to obfuscate from voters.

> Imagine a world with widespread automation and general or close-to-general AI without a UBI.

This is the key point. UBI is (in my current opinion) a necessary tool for smoothing an economic transition to a highly-automated level. However, I am concerned that it might induce other economic instabilities such as in tax rates, voluntary or involuntary unemployment, underemployment, inflation, borrowing, minimum wage, and so on -- these instabilities could then spread to social or political disruption that would undermine progress towards the transition that UBI was originally meant to support.

Since the size of the UBI would roughly correlate with the size of its influence economically/socially/politically, then as the UBI increases, the variance of these potential instabilities would also increase. As such, increases to the UBI should be carefully controlled, for example by gating them to developmental milestones. Of course, that opens a whole can of worms on who sets the milestones and so on, so I suppose it's really just shrugging and hand-wringing all the way down.
It isn't really suitable for political dissent. I think they would be more unhappy with things like Telegram that can have huge group chats.
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Well you need protection against 51% attacks, which means you need it to be very expensive to get that many modes, which means the people running nodes need to be compensated for their expense.

Which can be done neatly by having the things in the database have value, so that the reward can also be inside the system, i.e. mining coins.

Other databases people come up with always have problems with 51% attacks, so the system isn't made completely open, so it's pointless because then more traditional solutions are better.
> It's clear that this man developed a personality disorder as the result of suffering abuse as a child.

I don't think the causality is clear at all. If he treated his parents the way he treated his girlfriends then his childhood would have been rough no matter how loving they were.

If he behaves like he did in the article: polite at first but increasingly hostile the longer the relationship lasted then he must have been a hellish teenager to wrangle. One part of the article mentions that his anger at his father may have been the result of putting him in an institution.
So employees can buy houses and achieve other normal financial goals. So those of us that are not VCs or Bumble employees can own a piece.

They're transitioning out of a model where investor money subsidized our dating lives. That means things will change regardless of who owns it.
Yea that’s the first thing I thought. If I wanted to write an honest and fair assessment on someone, I probably would take the stories from ex-girlfriends (or anyone else with a potential ax to grind) with a grain of salt. A lot of us wouldn’t want our biographies to be written by ex’s.

Unfortunately the author really didn’t have many more people to interview as the guy was a bit of a loner.
This is helpful for news articles:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

For research journal articles, just search Google for sci-hub to find the latest domain name for Alexandra Elbakyan's paywall-bypassing site.
Touch Bar may not be there for 2021 MacBook Pro
At the moment the backend architecture of SN is definitely not suitable for that unfortunately, due to necessary trade-offs we made to enable low-friction sharing between users.

One possible way to do this would be to use our API to create some sort of intermediary service that allows this, but that is not something on our roadmap at the moment.

Yep, the forum is Discuss. We were originally using Spectrum but honestly it was kinda terrible haha. We also really like how with Discuss it was (relatively) easy to setup SSO so our users login with their SN account and everything just works. Would definitely recommend!
It works pretty well anyway, they have some sort of request queue management so that if you don't pick up pretty quickly it will try others, and from the outside looks like they probably try multiple people anyway.

So if you get a notification and you are available, great. Otherwise someone else will get it.
It’s about time! Finally time to get rid of those ridiculous bezels
Clojure Core
The counterpoint to this line of reasoning is the fact that Europe has had laws banning neo-Nazism and such speech for like half a century, and no slippery slopes have thus far been encountered.
I can make that even simpler, parents should pay it up front. Eugenics! yay!
Dear Dropbox, I'm a paying customer and if you make sharing my google contacts a requirement I will cease to be a paying customer. I don't care why you did it. I don't care how great it is. I don't care how much more whatever it makes my "experience". I use Dropbox for cold storage and offsite backup - there are other ready options to serve this use case.
Depends on where you're downloading. 4K isn't as prevalent but it's usually out there.
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Out of interest, why was the Windows download deprecated? It's a bit much to expect mom & pop to be playing with WSL?
I was planning to post exactly this. Reminds me of that famous anecdote about the guy who was using different branches in the same source control repo for different functions - who everyone said was a genius but no one could figure out how to touch his code.
Woah, That’s an inspiring story. Congrats on your recent funding round!
> But if a person has something important to say, calling people that don't know about the issue assholes is not a great way to go about it.

I don't mind it at all. If someone uses "being called asshole" as a reason to not even inform anyone, they would have found another excuse. Some people simply register it as strong language and otherwise focus on the content. At any rate, it's very easy to judge what someone says in frustration when you yourself don't even suffer from the situation and/or don't care about those who do.

> But it's not like everyone tries to annoy other, it's more an issue of ignorance.

So she shed light on that, and instead of talking about the important bit, people think it's super important to teach a random person to not be rude, ever? That's what we're focusing on?