skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever think it's because you're older and your priorities have changed? You have to break an egg to make an omelet. You need a scythe to cut wheat, beat it to thresh it and pulverize it to make flour.

I used to be idealistic too. Once you reach a certain age (24 for me), unicorn farts dont pay for your grocery bill and farmers won't spend a growing season to give you food for free. Find something that can pay the bills and find something you love to do. They dont have to be the same thing. If you find one that can do both, you hit the lottery. Dont feel bad if you didnt hit the lottery. I fully embraced the mercenary mindset right around 25 (8 years ago). Once I figured out the contracting and business world to a realistic level, and separated work from life, I've been happy with life. Before that, where my life had to be work because silicon valley said so, I wont lie, I wanted to jump off a bridge.
The point is that you couldn't publish without an FCC license, which required deep pockets. Publishing an RSS feed requires a host and a domain, which can be had today for a grand total of $70/year if one goes with the cheapest DigitalOcean VPS or under $20/year if one does a little research.

Hosting a few MP3s and a text file that can be downloaded in a few seconds is a lot cheaper and easier than a video streaming setup (or a 10-20 kilowatt broadcast transmitter).
to give you an idea of 1999, I was running Quake 3 on Linux with official Nvidia Riva TNT support and X11.

X11 also ran fine in 1995. Granted, I think fvwm2 was probably state of the art for window managers at the time. From '95 to almost '97 or '98 I stuck pretty much in 80x25 or 80x40 text console. Not because X11 didn't work, but more so because xterm really sucked and the only apps you would use in X11 anyway were Netscape, Gimp or xv (image viewer). Gtk+ also did not exist, so everything was ugly Motif or Tcl/Tk.

Oh, and... there was always talk of replacing X11. Even in the '90s. People have been talking about replacing X11 nearly as long as X11 has been around, sadly.
Providing busy work for people that to prop up Amazon’s selling boat loads of knock off garbage.

Amazing. Surely because “that’s how it worked in the past” isn’t the only option for social organization?

Why not stop believing in Bezos and solve our human problems generally?

Why not a mandate to provide education and healthcare and we provide THOSE jobs?

Because Bezos and Musk are able to get real access to politicians, resulting in the rubes being fed fiscal economic policy that continues to protect them.

The circular logic is mesmerizing.
I can't live without uBlock Origin and uMatrix, and was sad to see uMatrix archived [0]. Still works great, but I'm wondering what will happen long term. Anyone also use both and since drop uMatrix for something else, or just uBlock? How is it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973
One thing I don't like about Adobe is that they set the same price for high and low income countries.

For many people and companies in my region their license is unafordable.

Other companies that offer subscription based es services, like Microsoft, Spotify, Disney, several antivirus vendors offer lower prices.

I mean, I could afford the student price, but not the commercial price of their subscription .
I'm not disagreeing with your assertion (though I do expect it's not as widespread as news articles make it seem), but...why didn't they vote to unionize then? Seems like if the unions said "we'll make sure you get bathroom breaks", then that'd be enough.
Risk Leveling in Program Environments
Yeah, I (as a US immigrant) personally had way more problems with Canadian ICE than the US one.

Semi-relevant anecdote: I was traveling in my car with my mom and sister to Vancouver BC from Seattle (back when I was not a US citizen yet). Canadian officer at the border was more than just inquisitive. He asked who i was, where i worked, which team i worked on, what specific product I worked on and what specifically I did (which was already making me feel uncomfortable, because the product wasn't public back then, so I wasn't really allowed to talk about it in general). The questioning itself took like 10 mins and was absolutely unnecessary. Not even mentioning how aggressive he was, I felt like I was an inch away from being escorted to their "office" for additional questioning. And I am saying that as someone who doesn't usually feel threatened much by any interactions with officers.

On the way back into the US, however, it was buttery smooth. The officer confiscated the grapes my mother tried bringing back with her (despite me urging her not to do so), and he was extremely apologetic about it. Then he said "welcome home", and that was it. Took less than a minute overall.

Not trying to generalize anything from this, as, of course, the experiences differ wildly between individual border officers and such. I just thought it was an interesting semi-relevant anecdote.
If you have android you can FF + Ublock on android.

Sadly ios devices don't seem to have that option.
Well put. He even passively admitted to allowing the censorship in a recent episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3to9t3r9ZQ
why not use g suite on firefox? g suite works fine for me.
How are you drawing this moral distinction? People find visiting zoos "useful" for education and promoting habitat conservation.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, I just don't see how you got there.
> the challenge here isn't technical (e.g. the tech exists and just needs to be implemented) and what is really needed is legislative changes

Totally on point.
Why was that flagged?

Here's a link to the website for The Red Pill, a documentary by a feminist who talked to men's rights activists. You may not agree with the subjects of the documentary, but the perspective is interesting, and was interesting to the feminist filmmaker who created it.

I guarantee whoever flagged me for recommending it did not watch it himself (yes, it was a dude)

http://theredpillmovie.com/
https://archive.is/UDpG8
Show HN: A Twitter client focusing on posting tweets (iOS app)
we have dying cities and poverty in Europe, but it does not devolve into crime.
Each city in Europe have at least a suburb where crime is more prevalent, poverty is a contributing factor but not the only one.
Are you being ironic? Of course there's something to see: the latest glacial shift in the accretion of content control by tech platforms.
The Honest Company S-1 IPO
FF with uBlock is available on android.

Alternatively check out "Paprika" which bills itself as a recipe manager but actually will scrape webpages and extract out recipes for you.
What situation (job or whatever) has led to such vendor lock-in? Maybe if you gave more details others could avoid your situation.
I won't speak for anyone else, but I feel that I normally have reasonably good impulse control, even in 2016; I got into debt because a company I was working for ended up not paying me for multiple months and then shut down, and I didn't have much savings.

I think my lack of impulse control came as a direct cause of me being broke. I had previously never seriously considered any kind of payday loan because I knew they were multi-thousand-percent levels of interest, but that part of my brain wasn't the one thinking. When faced with a really tough situation, I think it's common for your "survivalist" side to kick in.

I never actually did get the payday loan because I was able to (begrudgingly) get a loan from my stepfather-in-law for the back rent, and I very luckily landed a decent-paying job shortly afterwards.

I was absolutely one of the lucky ones. It's not hard at all for me to envision a universe where I was stuck in an endless cycle of debt, and honestly I still have nightmares about that time occasionally. Not fun.
FWIW when I said 6-10K a year, I was including Zell on the upper end of that, and it does a great job of helping the people it helps, and as far as I know is one of the superior grant programs in the US (which is to say, you'll have less support in most other states).

> (I went to Georgia Tech)

Then you're probably familiar with at least part of the controversy: maintaining the Zell/HOPE GPA requirement at GT is difficult. So for an above average, but not exceptional student, or a student who doesn't have a strong support network, the rational decision can be to go to a worse school because maintaining the GPA requirement will be easier.

That means UGA (or State or KSU) over Tech for many people. I think that there are a variety of reasons that's a misalignment of incentives (and thankfully there seems to be some improvements happening in this area).
> For example, I once joined a team maintaining a system that was drowning in bugs. There were something like two thousand open bug reports. Nothing was tagged, categorized, or prioritized. The team couldn’t agree on which issues to tackle
> I spent almost three weeks in that room, and emerged with every bug report reviewed, tagged, categorized, and prioritized.

Honestly, this is one of those traps a team can fall into, where nobody feels empowered to ignore the rest of the business for 3 weeks to put the bell on the cat. The only person without deliverables and due dates is the new hire. And it takes a special kind of new hire to have the expertise to parachute in, recognize that work needs to be done, and then do it with little supervision.

But he's right in general, that you can get some surprising things done by just putting in the time and focus. Which is why it's so utterly toxic that corporate America runs on an interrupt driven system, with meetings sprinkled carelessly across engineer calendars.
I am totally baffled as to why that makes you feel better.
If the user wants to do X which involves increased danger to the user giving users a way to tell the system that app X has the privilege of doing X but not allowing all applications to do X is potentially viable but telling users you don't need to do X anymore is a much harder sale.

It needn't be a prompt users will quickly be prompted to click yes to it could easily be an option in settings or at communicated at install time.
Host based blocking is certainly better than nothing, but uBlock offers much more comprehensive and expansive blocking, not to mention cosmetic filtering and other features that you can't achieve with PiHole/NextDNS/AdguardDNS/Blokada etc..
Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/science/1983-edge.pdf
> The Firefox version of uBO makes use of WebAssembly code for core filtering code paths. This is not the case with Chromium-based browsers because this would require an extra permission in the extension manifest which could cause friction when publishing the extension in the Chrome Web Store.

Anyone know what this extra permission is and why requesting this extra permission would cause friction?
Can someone ELI5 the pros and cons of using uBlock Origin and/or uMatrix?

Should I be using one, either, both? Are they competitors or complementary? What does each do best?
Not to be confused with René Rebe's "T2 Linux" (http://t2sde.org/).
Why not just include the sqlite DB as part of your lambda deployment package?
This is great fun! Works on the phone!
No national program to build where people are, either. Which is a shame, because we're the country that built the Interstate Highway System, and a national rail system before it. The truth is that the hyper-local nature of our politics leads to disparity as much as it does prosperity, and the two often go hand-in-hand. There are too many rich towns filled with professionals and managers with a nearby slum that supplies all of the menial and service labor, but we're probably not ready to talk about what the remedy to that looks like, and I'm not certain we ever will be.
I use Lambda@Edge to conditionally serve brotli compressed .js files based on the Accept request header from an S3 bucket.
Just In Time needs time to warm up and so you'd assume would cost more to boot up and do work and shut down, Ahead Of Time does it... ahead of time.
> Tables can also have relations with other tables (This is why it is called a relational database).

Not exactly. Each table is considered a relation, in terms of set theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_(database)
Ah, I feel I have to point out that dormouse was still eaten until recent times (i.e. decades ago) in Italy/Slovenia/Croatia.

They are now a protected species, but I would expect they are still eaten from time to time to this day.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26751680.
Joe is not building "art". His podcasts are ephemeral, they are for now. Creating a large back catalog is not the goal, it aint a sitcom
I would guess that the interests of SMB owners for US residents and expats differ. SMB owners in the US probably think more short-term and think that policies from Trump will help them (which they may, but will ultimately continue the steady decline of the US workforce, e.g. lack of a social safety net, upward mobility, lack of education, a broken patchwork of poorly-maintained car-centric infrastructure).

SMB owners who are US citizens abroad, however, are driven by primarily one thing, regardless of party affiliation: who will be most likely to support a rewrite of the punitive tax laws that the US places on its expatriate citizens (which no country other than Eritrea does).
It doesn’t make me feel any specific way. I’m just referencing information. What do you mean exactly?
meanwhile, here is a 230 megapixel photo of the sun I saw just this week:

https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/137946154911957401...
Please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Try stracing the desktop client.
IMO, the important question isn't "why did Hypercard die," but rather, "why hasn't anyone rebuilt it, or built something better?"

The author's answer to this question is totally wrong.

> Either way, expect no HyperCard (or work-alikes) from Apple. But how about other vendors? What about open-source projects? Nothing there, either. Oh, there is no shortage of attempts. And all of them are failures for the same reason: they insist on being more capable, more complexity-laden than HyperCard. And thus, none of them can readily substitute for it.

Really? Nobody ever had the intelligence and discipline to design a simple GUI builder in the history of computing since Hypercard?

No, the answer is that there are numerous simple GUI builders, including GUI builders for the web. But none of them are popular, due to the sweet spot of supply and demand that Hypercard hit.

When Hypercard launched, it came with every Mac, it was free, and there was nothing else like it available on the Mac. On the Mac, the alternative to Hypercard was to layout UI widgets in code, with no GUI builder at all, or eventually to pay $$$ for a professional-grade IDE like CodeWarrior. As an entry-level user with no budget, if you wanted a GUI builder for the Mac, you got Hypercard, or nothing. This created a community of Hypercard enthusiasts.

Furthermore, when Hypercard launched, Macs had a standard screen resolution. Every Mac sold had a screen resolution of 512x342 pixels, so you could know for sure how your cards would look on any Mac. Supporting resizable GUIs is one of the hardest things to do in any GUI builder. (How should the buttons layout when the screen gets very small, like a phone? Or very wide, like a 16:9 monitor?) Today, Xcode uses a sophisticated constraint solver / theorem prover to allow developers to build resizable UIs in a GUI; it works pretty well, I think, but it's never going to be as easy to learn as "drag the button onto the screen and it's going to look exactly like that everywhere."

The last issue is the real killer for modern Hypercard wannabes: it's a small step from a web GUI builder to raw HTML/CSS. You don't have to pay big bucks to have access to professional-grade HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Sure, they're not that easy to learn, but you can teach a kid to write interactive web pages, no problem.

As a result, the demand for a simple GUI builder is lower than it was for Hypercard, and even when you do capture a user, they tend to outgrow your product, and there are a zillion competitors, so none of them can build a community with real traction.
You have to conduct testing to show that the device is safe and effective before you can begin marketing it.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/premarket-approval-pma/p...

If you've never gone through the process of bringing a medical device to market, well, I'm not sure there's an easy FAQ that will answer your scepticism. But the basic idea is that you have to do a bunch of testing in the lab, then probably a bunch in animals, then finally a bunch in human clinical trials, then you can actually market the device to the public.

Neuralink is in the 'animal testing' phase, and it sounds like they're likely to start human testing soon.

Note that once they've gotten a device approved for humans, that doesn't mean they will stop testing on animals. There will likely be improvements to the device, new protocols, etc. that will necessitate continued testing as new features are brought to market.
type in the N word to Spotify — prepared to be shocked. on IG (soundcloud) I noticed some wildly racist old song. music is exempt from social justice but open discussion and bad jokes are not.
> That’s an incorrect notion of “definition”.

Nope, pretty sure different concepts means different definitions. Well -- or different "senses" if you want to be technical, but of course nearly everyone outside of dictionary editors uses "definition" to mean "sense".

> The concept of a snapshot is that you make a copy of something at a moment in time. That’s one concept, one definition, one meaning.

Except one of the two definitions isn't making a copy of anything. It's creating a new pointer to something that already exists, that's all. Zero copying. That's the entire point here.

Which is why it's two concepts, two definitions, two meanings.
I am in your camp, too. My muscle-memory investment in the Adobe product line, especially Photoshop, Illustrator and After-Effects, is approaching 30 years old — more than half my life — and that really locks me in for professional, get-it-done-now, reasons.
I'm still wondering if the change would be instantaneous or gradual. Will the speed of light be constant and then suddenly impossible to measure?
There is a semi-open standard and protocol for fitness tracking: the FIT file format and ANT+ for wireless networking. However most devices which support those standards like Garmin generally require the use of a proprietary mobile app for initial setup. Once you finish that you can uninstall the app.
For sure, it's not as powerful as something that can modify the DOM, etc. But, you can also run both, if you still prefer uBlock on your PC.
And the CDC changed their recommendations and guidelines as knowledge about the virus evolved. Unfortunately too many people interpret these changing messages as: "The CDC was wrong before so they're probably wrong now, so I'm not going to listen to anything they say." So frustrating!
I agree that there are cases where a payday loan is a good option, and that if people behaved rationally it would be objectively better to have that option than to not have it. The problem is that people don't behave rationally. And behaving irrationally isn't isolated to poor people (lots of people get 96 month loans on expensive cars they can't afford), but it hurts them the most.

Reminds me of an anecdote from poor African countries. Farmers would buy fertilizer months before they needed it, even though it is logically better for them to save that money and only buy the fertilizer when they needed it (assuming the price of the fertilizer was constant). But they knew if they had the money the would be tempted to spend it in the meantime, so they bought it early to avoid the temptation.

Payday loans can encourage people to take out a loan and spend money even in cases where it would be better for them to find an alternative.
> Kaiser operates in Alabama too, just FYI

I didn't think so. My company offers us Kaiser as an option as well, but only for folks in states where Kaiser operates (I'm in Michigan). I thought one of the distinctive features of Kaiser is that they offer insurance _and_ have their own clinics.

Regardless, the point of Amazon offering quality healthcare plans to the warehouse workers is still great to hear!
Sounds like it. Which in turn is similar to Akamai EdgeWorker (Akamai's JavaScript-at-the-edge)
I've used lots of network cards from the BNC flavoured ones for IPX/SPX and later UTP ones for Ethernet. Most of them worked fine, and most of the time they didn't was because of drivers being not so great, or being misconfigured. Don't have any complaints about the NE2000. It was probably difficult because it was early. Later cards/drivers benefitted from things generally getting sorted out.

A few of the (much later) cheapest bargain-basement (but also popular) cards did have small buffers and had low throughput, or simply lost packets without detecting the errors.
My guess is that it’s much harder to review WASM bytecode to make sure it doesn’t do anything sketchy.
Absolutely, without multiple trust-worthy first-person accounts backed by evidence, the likely best we can hope for is an eventually-consistent story that we are "pretty sure" about. Considering the size of the impact on the world, that will take a long time.
Oh, that's a problem.

That really looks like a task for image maps, except that they only work for images. Yeah, I agree with those two problems.
What's special about podcasts that makes them so much more offensive than music? There's lots of songs that are so much worse.
Where can I find an archive online? I am really disappointed that Spotify is removing all these episodes, and have refused to give their podcasts any attention as a result.
This article may be the most important article on Hacker News you may read this year.

The message of this story is obviously beyond just our IT related professions.

I really wonder if people do understand what needs to be done but won't. Or that they really don't see a way out of a mess.

Are people really wilfully blind to 'obvious' solutions that are boring, labor intensive and terrible to implement? Don't they see the even worse alternative?

This is in the end probably not about smarts or insight.

This is about something more fundamental: values.
Telecom providers will probably provide a service for companies like LG to lock down the connection in such a way it can only access their services. Kind of like they already provide MPLS and such.
Well, since Steam is the only gaming platform available on Linux, and since Steam is sold as a system based on linux with its own Linux distribution, SteamOS, and since Steam have its own version of Wine that magically runs Windows games on Linux, I would say that this statistic says nothing at all.