skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a FF install...

Turn off telemetry. Set search to DDG. Set "Do Not Track" always on. Get rid of the Mozilla start page. Disable any suggestions for Top Sites or other junk like "Snippets".

That's just as I type, with no thought. There are myriad tweaks in about:config that I've promised myself I'll remember over the years since Phoenix.

My favourite browser is adversarial because they need millions of dollars to write a piece of software which shows text and pictures from a network connection in the intended place on a screen.

Why is this so complicated and expensive? What has the Internet become?

Turn it off and start over. This one is broken.
It’s kind of interesting because in the Snow Leopard era you didn’t have OS level notifications but you had Growl. And the Growl API was extremely well supported, and arguably better supported because it wasn’t limited to App Store apps.

Further, Growl allowed the user to customize look and feel, persistence, the types of notifications, etc which allowed you to create a notification system that was far more effective than anything available on the Mac today.

It’s easy to argue that 12 years later notifications on Macs is worse than what it was in the late 2000s.
There's not much boilerplate for drawing in JS which every computer has installed.
My friends all got ZX Spectrums and had a larger pool of people to swap games with.
My parents got me an Acorn Electron, which has a child i was disappointed. I loved the hell out of that thing and the lack of friends with the same system, meant i learn basic and things spiraled from there. So in a way, something i thought as a mistake turned out to be perfect.
The Binary Moment of Awareness
Godot Showcase – Hive Time developer Cheeseness talks about his experience
How China’s Digital Silk Road Is Leading Countries Away from the United States
It was still honest. Abrahamist history is a road of graves paved in blood and abuse.

Of course it was an abrahamic religious leader who did this. I mean, who else has the ability to be so cruel and sociopathic with zero repercussions?
Why do some web developers hate WordPress?
Edited: "This contains the coronavirus. If you spray your face with it, we will give you money enough to pay a month or two's rent and living expenses, but you risk your death. You are also free to just leave."
Can you say more about what these scammers want? Do they want you to work for them for free?
Has anyone checked that it’s not “both”? GPT2 is big enough to memorize
I have a 1TB MX500 and a much older 240GB M500 and the PoH stats are similarly unrealistic for both. The MX500 has ran close to 24/7 for two months now and reports 328h which is like 14 days. The M500 reports 12k hours (~1.35 years) but it's 5+ years old and I'm sure it should be higher.

OTOH the number of power cycles they report seem to be too high, at 45 and 2332 respectively. Maybe that's related?
That's for when you are working on an hourly basis. I don't know what's wrong with that. That's only to safeguard clients from get billing for hours the freelancer didn't work.

You can work for a fixed price and you won't be tracked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
> Imagine spending 10-15 years of academic work to get a PhD and become the world expert on something important but obscure, and then being told you need to market yourself to the general public and devote a significant portion of your time to answering stupid questions (as in 'who cares about this boring stuff' as opposed to 'what is the airspeed of a pigeon').

Sounds like life to me, I don't see the problem.
Dang, Fry's is one of the only stores in town to sell PLA filament. Beyond that, it's surprising that they've lasted as long as they have. Their electronic components are a huge ripoff, their computers are shitty and overpriced, and their stores have been decaying for decades.
This whole comment section is full of people saying these tiles are reason to quit FF.

That is saying they are okay with status quo. Otherwise they would have already quit.
Did you call them out on it?
$100B in funding to be funneled over 5 years for new US technology directorate
"Let’s state the uncomfortable truth. The future for many Americans is bleak and their lives are going to be nasty, brutish and short."

I find it funny how first-worlders are horrified by the idea that they might have to live in mild discomfort. Maybe try looking at how most of the world that isn't the US and Western Europe lives before saying people's lives will be "nasty, brutish and short" because they won't be working some low-skill 9 to 5 for 40 to 50 years while making 6 figures and then retire with the rest of their lives pretty much planned out for them.
And post delivery is hyper localised, so population doesn't change things much.

Smaller countries than Switzerland have domestic arms industries, but that doesn't mean they use military-grade trucks from them for postal services.
I think the biggest improvement/effort thing you could look at for Postgresql is the cost estimates. It really does a poor job at estimating row counts (over/under estimating by multiple orders of magnitude quite often) when there are multiple joins, and the new extended statistics are for the most part useless for real scenarios that I have come across.
I wonder if this is big enough for Fiverr stock to take a hit. We'll see.
There is a video of what it sounds like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZGL7RQBVw

That automated recover voice is quite eerie.
> That's like saying, "I'll stop punching you if you pay me $50, but until then I'm really enjoying punching you."

It's not at all like that, because punching people is currently illegal, and making noise up to a certain threshold is legal. I like peace and quiet more than I like making noise, so I wouldn't mind a lower legal threshold; but the advantage of paying people instead of fighting to change laws is that there's no actual fight.

The advantage of casting things as a moral struggle instead of a difference in preferences is, of course, that you might be able to gather enough allies to defeat the other side and take their stuff.
The advantage of the "old" control systems approach is that it's not a black box; you can reason about its behavior across the state space and make assertions about its frequency response and stability conditions.

(Is a neural network really different from a very large cascade of nonlinear filter elements?)
No one outside of designers had even heard the word skeumorphism until Apple had that ridiculous iCal UI change that wasted a ton of UI space on nothing but looks.

To be fair, it wasn’t the first or even the worst skeumorphism from Apple (arguably early versions of DVD player that were skeuomorphic to the extent that volume controls emulated a knob, that had to be circled by the mouse to change, from what i remember) but skeumorphism was used fairly benignly for the most part by Apple.
Silent Call has an alerting system that covers six unique inputs of fire, Carbon monoxide, phone ring, sound, door bell, and weather alert.

For a bedridden family member and monitoring thereof, I use the doorbell transmitter unit on the Oxygen generator alarm, the sound alert unit as the panic button for my elder that is bed-ridden. And another sound alert for the gastrointestinal feeding unit. And another for pressure plate under bed mattress (out-of-bed) indication.

While I did do many researches on medical devices and it’s output sensors, I’ve yet to find a suitable bridge unit for medical devices toward the Home Alert or Alexa unit, those are still used separately as well for “simple” outbound phone calls.

I also placed many Silent Call Medallion receiver units with flashing strobe lights , vibrators, and buzzers in strategic floors and rooms. And jerry-rigged one of the receiver unit to a Raspberry Pi unit which in turn sends SMS/Text messages to our phone over network.

For webcam, I’m forced to use cloud-solution (China) as few reliable self-hosting exist but it’s simple and has a privacy PIN. Y! Home and Wiz app were installed but rarely used because it should be compassionate human nature that you should be walking past that bedridden family member as often as you go to the bathroom, there’s no substitute for human touch.

This household is a mostly Deaf family unit hence the extra overboard for sensors and alerting. Peace of mind is immense once installed.

https://www.silentcall.com/collections/medallion

Disclaimer: I’m a hobbyist who tweaks PCB and repurpose them for fun. Very little commercial product for such complete setup of mine exist out there due to strict Federal regulations on medical devices, you must roll your own.
While I think it's stupid and would never dream of going in that direction with my staff (the most talented would probably bolt fast), in principle I see nothing wrong with it as long as:

1) The employer has paid for all necessary hardware

2) If anything goes through third-party services, I can work on the tracked environment in a way that doesn't expose my personal information in any way (e.g. I shouldn't be required to open my e-mail inbox or any other online accound not strictly tied to my employment there)

3) The employer accepts the time wasted on any friction with moving information back and forth (and/or sees to minimize need for that)

If it means running a VM, up any workstation with 16GB RAM.
I haven't used e-ink for a while, but the last one I did had a refresh rate of something like 1Hz. Is this still an issue with modern technology?
> planned obsolescence (soldered parts are harder to repair) and increased profits through price gauging on upgrades.

Neither of these really makes sense.

Planned obsolescence: Apple laptops retain their resale value for a very long time. Even if 8GB of RAM is no longer enough for you, there are plenty of people who'll still be able to use the device for many more years. The days are long over where computers became obsolete after a few years without upgrades.

Price gauging on upgrades: Almost everyone buys the base configuration, and almost no-one upgraded RAM or HD even when the hardware used to allow it. Whatever increased profit Apple are making from upgrades is going to be absolutely tiny.

If Apple really wanted to price gauge on upgrades, they'd at least stock the 16GB models in stores. My guess is that it's barely worth Apple's while to make these models at all, in a purely economic sense. What you're paying for isn't the cost of the RAM/storage itself, but the money necessary to make it worth the bother of making additional models which almost no-one buys.
From colors to Morse code, secret messages appear as Mars rover gets to work
or with MacPorts:

> sudo port install smartmontools && sudo smartctl --all /dev/disk0
Show HN: multi-gitter – Update multiple repositories in bulk
High-End Medical Provider Let Ineligible People Skip Covid-19 Vaccine Line
>It's a great time to found a new university with a lower cost structure and more emphasis put on professors/tenured teaching staff.

That's basically how you survive any bubble. Make sure that your investment actually has an underlying strategy that doesn't depend on the existence of a bubble. Most of the time that means providing whatever good is demand for a reasonable cost even if it means that you lose out on potential bubble gains.
This is far far better than dependence on any technological solution. With deteriorating mental faculties even the simplest of technologies can become a significant source of stress to seniors and they may not/forget to use it at critical times. Use technology as an adjunct to human touch.
I'm a bit skeptical. Development work usually lasts months to do anything meaningful, it's pretty hard to call them "gigs". Building a website of reasonable complexity (not some Wix template) is not like designing a logo, which can be done in under an hour.
New browser extension blocks sites using Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon
The article makes it sound like all Block 40 and newer F-16 have AGCAS. While this might be correct, it's worth mentioning that AGCAS was implemented around 2014 and started rolling out on F-16 after. Block 40/50 F-16s are way way way older than 2014 ... plus most non-US F-16 units didn't and won't get the update at all.
Hey, I used to hang around toy shops and program on display C64 and CPC 464 and, in one shop, an Acorn Archimedes A3000.

I even wrote programs in VTech BASIC, on toy computers with 40x2 character (IIRC - definitely two lines, not sure about columns) LCD displays.
Show HN: Peer feedback app based on best practices
Hello!

Feedback is the key to personal growth. It reveals our blind spots and helps us discover what we've been doing right or wrong.

It can also be frustrating.

People have a hard time separating the impression they have of you from your actual behavior. So, more often than not, you get feedback that's conflicting or confusing.

That's why I spent the last 2 months investigating the art of feedback. I wanted to know what the best feedback had in common. What made them useful.

With my learnings, I've built FeedSpark. It uses the best feedback practices so that people start giving and receiving feedback more often.

#How does it work?

1. Ask someone for feedback

2. We'll send them an email

3. They provide feedback following a template

4. Get your feedback in your email

No personal data will be saved on our end. Everything works via emails and URL params. There are no cookies or databases.

# Stack

The app was made with Bubble. There are, however, limitations. For example, I was unable to create the calendar reminders with Bubble, so these features currently work in a concierge mode: which means I'm manually pulling the strings behind the scenes.

I feel I'll eventually need to migrate the app to a different stack in order to make it more robust

# What's next?

Assuming the app succeeds in helping people get more helpful feedback from their peers. I was thinking about these features and use-cases:

- Sharable links

- Notifications and scheduled reminders to help people incorporate feedback solicitations into their routines.

- User accounts: see all your received feedback and track your progress

- Abuse alerts

- Slack App & Google Chrome Extension

- Feedback usefulness ratings

- Ability to follow up with given feedback after a certain period of time (to check if the person improved or not),
> Everyday people mostly powerless and government pandering to companies for political support.

I lived in a post-socialist country, and trust me, just because it's post-socialist doesn't mean that the systems change to other things next day. It wasn't much different.

There is a ruling class. Capitalism had nothing to do with it.
> you'll never compel a population to install this app and all use it.

Everyone who uses the app gets something they individually want. Noisemakers get the opportunity to be paid to be quiet, and quiet-likers get the opportunity to enjoy peace and quiet for a bit of money.

There's no coercion necessary, although it does rely a bit on geographically local network effects to be useful at all.
Upwork is even easier to game it than that. use a virtual machine, do the "work" there and minimize it while you play games or whatnot.

But in the end is not about true surveillance, it's about liability in case of disputes between client and freelancer. Source: I work as freelancer on Upwork for 13 years now, only hourly projects and always with their desktop app turned on.
> There doesn't seem to have been any effort by Linux developers to fix that (e.g. provide a kernel level GUI to let you pick which processes to kill when out of RAM).

There is no and will be no GUI for that, especially considering that many linux devices do not have any.

However, that does not mean there is no effort to improve the situation. The main player here is, surprisingly, Facebook. Their effort is going to be integrated into systemd in the form of systemd-oomd and Fedora 34 is going to ship it enabled out of the box (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableSystemdOomd).
Oh yes! That’s why I hated Lion and it was basically unusable for me.

I couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was Apple did that took me from absolutely loving the OS after Snow Leopard to making it unusable after Lion.

For me, personally, my Mac still had a hard disk and not an SSD, so features like the auto save and restore windows on boot, which meant you couldn’t easily clean up state led to the computer also becoming unusable slow.
Mars rover's giant parachute carried secret message
NumPy 1.20.0
I wouldn't blame a Canadian for potentially 'paranoid' complaints around groceries; not after the 2018 bread price fixing scandal.
Mozilla Hubs: virtual collaboration platform
Presumably you went in early when the platform was still decent.

I tried it in ~2013 and again recently and it's a shit-show. There's no quality control on the demand side so you waste hours sifting through crap like unreasonably low rates or unclear/nonsense requirements, then spend ages writing a proposal just to be outbid by some Indian sweatshop because the rating system has been gamed to death and there's nothing to weed out low-quality suppliers.

Maybe it's good enough if you want to compete with third-world, bottom of the barrel developers and can afford to live on that, but otherwise you'd make more money on average just working at your local fast food joint.
The edited ones look kinda gross
The "Table of Contents" attempts to hold its original place on the page, even if its original place is below the fold. (My screen is not tall enough to access the table of contents at all)

I find this an ironic bit of User Interface failure.
As someone who has frequently toyed with getting more serious about electronics over the years, I find the ability to browse components in person invaluable.

Unfortunately my Frys has been crumbling for years (nothing says “commitment to excellence” like dozens of buckets around the store capturing rain water), and I finally gave up going.
Are there no kids interested in reading classics on their own? Shouldn't the barrier be even lower since those classics aren't protected by copyright? All you'd need is a kindle with internet.

What's driving the difference between CS and classics? Is one of those simply more fun than the other?
For pure taste I prefer Buko, but 99% of the time it’s dissolved in a cream sauce, so it doesn’t really matter ;)
Growl was excellent. Nearly every decent app used it (besides there weren’t restriction on only App Store apps being able to leverage it) and it allowed the user far more customixability in terms of look and feel and persistence, etc.
New Zeiss camera runs Android and costs $6k
Standard consulting billable hourly to salary is about 3x. But that's accounting for <100% utilization as well.

So ~2x for work performed doesn't seem that outside industry norms, assuming the platform is delivering value and not just matchmaking.
Naming things is hard. My purpose was to emphasize the need to juggle the two definitions when assessing the article. We need a better word for the deployable unit of code that the OP calls a “module".
It also might not be that bad as believed.

I remember when I was younger, we were told about the killer bees were going to wipe out the modern world. Also, I was told that we would all be living on a beach or the sea because of global warming and the ozone hole lazering everything.
> I think a few good questions about life could spot a 12 year old from a 19 too.

It would take a really good liar to be able to pass for a 19 year old at 12 years old. You'd have to weave a really complex web of lies around being almost out of high school (I'm not American so not sure if this is true), drinking, driving. At 19 your life is so different, I find it very hard to believe, except if she's some highly intelligent sociopath.
Font is very small, I need to blow it to 300% to be able to read it without squinting. Black on white is also quite blinding and very uncomfortable when scrolling.

Edit: I thing thought that Apple is to blame here by setting the defaults to ridiculous values.
Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup
> Well, if we're willing to go the financial incentives route, we could just slap their ass with a $250 ticket when they ride through town with loud pipes.

That is already a thing: https://tiremeetsroad.com/2019/01/07/how-much-are-tickets-fo..., It's just a bit underenforced.

I could see the Harley crowd being reluctant to install such an app, but I could also see it going the other way with the right marketing. After all, your phone already tracks your location and reports it to any company willing to pay. And what if, instead of just cash, the app gave discount points for a local leather chaps store?
>Why is it worth protecting speech that is knowingly false and inflammatory?

Because absurd opinion like "the earth goes round the sun" and "there's nothing wrong with being gay" were once "knowingly false and inflammatory" according to the overwhelming majority of people.
Makes a lot of sense. I was a contract PM for a company which used Wordpress and off-shore devs to customise it and it was pretty painful. Couple of observations:

1. The Wordpress ecosystem is valuable because of the plugins. How do you envisage enabling such an ecosystem?
2. The beauty of React is with the components. An ideal end-state would be where a non-techie searches and find a React component they like (without having to go through Github) and they can add it to their WYSIWYG editor without even needing to speak to a dev

Wish you all the best
This is a super cool representation, that made a lot of sense and the animations are super responsive and easy to follow.

Did you open source that page?
I read this article and immediately tried it on my own 2014 MacBook out of curiosity. Turns out its a third party command line tool that doesn't come with macOS that's reporting statistics on a proprietary system on chip SSD that has only been available for 2-3 months. This thing is probably not using an off the shelf SSD controller and the chances are the information is just wrong. Some of the stats reported down the thread look like they don't stack up as in impossible amounts of data written in the time the drive is reported as being awake.

If it is true and M1 computers start bricking in two years time, which I find unlikely, then these people can take their computers to be fixed, if that doesn't happen, a company can't sell something doesn't work, so I would take it to small claims and exercise my contractual right for the goods supplied to be fit for purpose.
This is a very positive change, but I'd be interested to know how the Mozilla folks think about 'collateral damage' from a policy point of view.

The exceptions and shared state lead me to believe they've thought about it and tried to mitigate it as much as possible, but how much is acceptable? If this breaks more than they thought it would, is it something they'd be comfortable rolling back or changing?

For example, if I read this post correctly, this change would put a hard upper limit in SSO logins to 30 days for Firefox users (because StorageAccess is only granted for 30 days). That might not be a _huge_ issue for most people, but it'll add a hard limit to something that's never had a browser enforced hard limit before.
I really don't understand how people tolerate these massive stacks of closed software that tend to have extremely opinionated and forced automatic updates, much less pay a premium for it.
If I started a company today everyone would probably get something like the system76 laptops.