skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm another data point of overusing Facebook then deleting it entirely, after downloading all my stuff for archival purposes. I quit Twitter as well. Really, the only social networks I use today are a couple of old chatboards I've been on for years, LinkedIn rarely, and HN.

One realizes after a while that most of these platforms, while seemingly benevolent and innocuous, actually thrive on turmoil and strife.

You are not the customer; you are the product. Turn these things off and starve the beast. There's a place for social media and online discussion, but it has to be used judiciously. Don't let it take over your life.
Thank you :-)

To elaborate, when I say "cluttering," it's not really performance I'm after. Of course I realize that yet another small key value pair in a hashmap matters very little. Rather, I'm thinking in terms of debugging and - worst case - weird side effects.

When I debug something I'm not helped by the environment being filled with unnecessary crap, in much the same way I don't particularly declare a bunch of irrelevant global variables in my programs.

In the worst case, a leaking environment may cause problems. What if another interactive shell process is spawned by a sub shell, and suddenly your prompt that queries your mail server, double checks if there's new stuff in GitHub, fetches the next ten days' weather and renders hamsterdance in your prompt using a hacked font or whatever is inherited (except that now maybe it runs as root). Unlikely? Yeah, sure. Still unnecessary.

In the end though, I suspect many people just aren't aware of the difference between exporting a variable and not, and somehow think that "to declare a variable in a shell you must type export".
I've been living out of my vehicle for a long time which is about to fall apart.

There is help here but I've refused it. Thanks.
Why I’m leaving Mumford and Sons
I can't say that I'm surprised, and honestly anyone can open source the architecture for a storage array of comparable use. I think the only unique thing here really is the chassis, but there are plenty of whitebox vendors that sell storage chassis. You may not get as many drives in one, but usually the other components in these things are usually pretty cheap minus the storage. I don't really see this being a loss in the community at all, and maybe someone else will get creative and build something better.
that seems like asking for trouble
Especially flash storage goes through the roof at enterprise purchasing. I've bought the drive trays and used consumer SSDs in servers more than a few times with no real ill effects where SATA is acceptable. If you need SAS, you just need to accept the pain that is about to come when you order.
I think Microsoft can just point to Apple and Google at this point. Microsoft 365 has a massive competitor in Google Workspace, and Google controls Android and Chrome, with ChromeOS being used by the majority of American K-12 students.
I agree. Teams is pretty bad about this. Every few weeks some buttons get moved around so you have to look for them. Instead of fixing problems it seems they just keep changing the UI.
This just seems like a bad faith comment. Is there ANY example of a user raising a legitimate concern like this and getting banned for it?

This reads like cheap, low-effort bashing.
Verizon has also been blackholing routes to ddos-guard for the past few weeks, cutting off access to any sites protected by them: https://torrentfreak.com/why-is-verizon-blocking-pirate-site...
Apple were first movers with capacitive touch screens.
> I don't think sitting through MIT youtube channels is the same as actually attending MIT.

There's an increasingly large number of second tier school admins that are making the opposite bet (more online programs, wider admission pool, commuter and all-online certificates). My bet is that in the next 20 years we'll see an even bigger gap between the online crowd and the few in-person institutions that will remain.
An extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are.

It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.
I feel like if Steve were still alive, he'd be calling Bill to both congratulate him and rub in the fact that Microsoft was second after Apple.
> you were often limited to one or two widely known public servers

I have a found memory for the days when you could still use ns.sun.com (192.9.9.3) as a recursive resolver as it was such an easy to remember IP (for those days anyway).
For most people, if they came across a CV of someone who might be a serial killer, they'd want to read the full article. It's not something that happens every day.
Custom “cops” for RuboCop: an emergency service for your Ruby code
I'm not talking about the Sixties Scoop.
They'd probably accidentally suspend the actual serial killer's account instead.
> All have arguably made significant contributions to society and world at large, magnitudes higher than their net worth and taxes paid.

Very arguable. I would take up that argument. I don't believe this too be true.
If they don't comply they could be blocked in Germany.
If you're interested in a case of a person treating brain cancer successfully with a similar diet, look up Andrew Scarborough, he's presently a cancer researcher iirc, but he has been using such a diet for years to successfully put a rare inoperable brain cancer into remission.
Vaccination Could Easily Have Been Called ‘Equination’
The backwards compatability on Windows is truly great, particularly compared to Linux and macOS (where messages fired off when buttons are clicked silently disappear nowhere, and the button does nothing)....
Well, it's a bit silly to quote SSC (a blog that rewrites basic philosophy so STEMheads can think they invented it) for a definition of "slack".
Classic network configuration is not good UI by any means, claustrophobic non-resizable windows with complicated nested hierarchy. But they somehow managed to make "Settings" not better, with huge whitespace and a lot less functional...
What We Can Learn from Studying UFOs
lol. Who knew Joyce liked farts.
Octal as an HN reader, love it.
Is that true? From the official microsoft site [0], I see:

> Taskbar functionality is changed including: Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

EDIT: Sorry I misread, you meant the icons. But yeah unfortunately it sounds like you can't move the taskbar as a whole anymore. I always kept mine at the top.
> Damages require proof. Unless they can show they lost something because of the mistake, then there are no damages.

You're basing your understanding of slander/libel on US laws I presume? If that person lives in Europe, generally, the bar for a successful lawsuit is __extremly low__ , it only requires the information to be blatantly false, there is no need to demonstrate the victim incurred any damages.
It's surprisingly easy, just time-involved, to sue large corporations in small claims, at least in some jurisdictions. Yes, they've got lawyers, but if you have a case you may still win. I sued one of the largest telecoms in Canada for not honouring a verbal contract, and won quite easily once I proved the facts in dispute. Businesses assume people won't have the commitment to carry through and actually take them to court over malfeasance. Probably mostly correctly. I'm not sure it was really worth the hassle.
An internal code repo used by New York State’s IT office was exposed online
People have learned that anyone who completely dismisses another for use of a word shouldn’t be listened to.
I completely agree, systematically, inflation his poorer people more. This is not a prerequisite for inflationary money systems in theory, but it is the state of Earth's inflationary money systems.

A deflationary currency does not maybe benefit the already wealthy, it directly imparts "real value" proportional to held currency. If you have ideas for a deflationary system that solves this, through wealth taxes or something, I am all ears.

> somehow I don't need to hesitate which one (inflationary, deflationary) I'd rather choose

Because relative to most people, you are wealthy! How are young people supposed to find work in a deflationary system?
I would assume part of this is due to the trackpad. The only trackpads (of those I have used) that I would describe as better than "decent" have been on mac laptops.
It's not in the original title nor is it clear which country we should be presuming otherwise to justify editorialising.
> The NYT writes exactly what will sell. You and I are simply not its audience.

The amount of articles about living in tiny apartments (not to say pods), eating bugs and renting as opposed to owning is just disturbing. The way they all happen at the same time and seem to answer issues raised by other articles by other publications is just scary.
Even in common law system like the US, trial court rulings aren't binding precedent.
When I started developing my JS 2D canvas library (back in 2013) I worked on a desktop PC and used Firefox for most of my code testing work. The library always ran faster on Firefox than on IE or Chrome, which at the time I assumed was probably something to do with Firefox putting extra effort into the canvas part of their engine.

Then in 2019 I rewrote the whole library from scratch (again), this time working on a MacBook using Chrome for most of my develop/test stuff. The library is now much faster on Chrome! I assume what happened was that I was constantly looking for ways to improve the code for speed (in canvas-world, if everything is not completing in under 16ms then you must own the humiliation) which meant that prior to 2019 I was subconsciously optimising for FF; after 2019 for Chrome.

> it requires very detailed knowledge of the JS engine internals and may require giving up most high-level features that define the language

I can't claim that I have that knowledge. Most of my optimisations have been basic JS 101 stuff - object pools (eg for canvas, vectors, etc) to minimise the stuff sent to garbage, doing the bulk of the work in non-DOM canvases, minimising prototype chain lookups as much as possible, etc. When I tried to add web workers to the mix I ended up slowing everything down!

There is stuff in my library that I do want to port over to WASM, but my experiments in that direction so far have been less than successful - I need to learn a lot more WASM/WebAssembly/Rust before I make progress, but the learning is not as much fun as I had hoped it would be.

> Javascript can be made surprisingly fast

The speeds that can be achieved by browser JS engines still astonish me! For instance, shape and animate an image between two curved paths in real time in a 2D (not WebGL!) canvas:

- CodePen - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/ExyZKbY

- Demo with additional controls - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-024.html
OP is talking about product mangers. Why are there so many comments about project managers
They're free post whatever content they want on their own servers. YouTube doesn't want to be blamed for any retaliation that occurs. It's disingenuous to suggest that they're intentionally silencing human rights just as it would be disingenuous to blame YouTube for any retaliation if they had left the videos up. It's called having a different value system. People these days are seem to react with any sort of action that they disagree with the worst possible interpretation possible.
Would Thiel have been willing to sell his shares to someone else at $0.001 at the time he put them into the IRA? Because that's ultimately what market value is about.

It's also one of the valuation proposals for people playing valuation games with illiquid assets. You can declare them at whatever value you want (and pay tax on that value), but you are forced to sell if someone offered you that value for the asset (if you claim your house is worth $1M, we'll let you pay property tax on $1M, but if someone offers you $1.1M for your house, you're forced to sell). That would cut down on people inflating/deflating asset valuations to game tax codes.
I don’t disagree with your analysis, but iirc (its been awhile) this was pretext for (essentially) a stealth layoff

It seems extra hostile and punitive because they didn’t necessarily want people to actually “come back”
Also apps that use React Native, as the RN runtime is written in C++ and uses the NDK on Android.
Ad tech stocks surge as Google delays killing third-party cookies until 2023
The upside to Linux is when one of these kinds of changes happen you have the freedom to modify or swap out components to your liking.

The downside to Linux is nobody actually wants to constantly modify or maintain components to their liking and nobody can agree what a good liking is so nobody likes the way somebody else does it.
It depends on the API. If your API is "put this data over uart to the TTY", and the uart of the device is overloaded and drops characters... Or maybe mangles characters due to bitflips. Or what have you. Its all possible!
I don't think Saudi Aramco counts because it's not listed in a regulated market, so it's valuation is considered suspect.
Hmm, you cant really be sure if this is from bots or not. However, youtube has shown in the last 5 years that they actively want to promote the left and shown that they do not like anyone that has different opinions.

I recall the trending page in the US being spammed with pro leftist videos that were unpopular while major popular videos from more conservative channels werent even showing up.

Or all the demonitization of almost any conservative channels 4-5 years ago. It has gotten better though, oof.

Want to give a skeptic opinion about covid or masks? They'll delete your video or demonitize it.

How about them spamming their own channel with leftist propaganda videos with the likes/dislikes disabled because it was getting 90% dislikes?

Ah well, nothing you can do anyway.
they leaked a few years ago.
Is Sundar Pichai a white male?
You missed his point. It's still worth doing those things as the process of doing them can result in other epiphanies that can lead you to greater opportunities down the line.
Are the White men in the room with us right now? Do they hide under your bed and in your closet?

Boo!
Why don't you think the browsers can agree on replacements? Most of the major browsers have proposals for replacing some piece of advertising-related third party cookies [1][2][3].

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)

[1] Safari: https://github.com/privacycg/private-click-measurement

[2] Edge: https://github.com/WICG/privacy-preserving-ads/blob/main/Par...

[3] Chrome: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...
I have been an Apple ecosystem developer for the past 19 years and this is the best, most succinct explanation of Apple’s outlook re: openness for the HN crowd that I’ve seen. I don’t always agree with the stance, more so in recent years, but understanding that it is what governs things, not a nascent PC market world view, is important to factor in when making hardware, lifestyle, and career choices.
I'm still on Mojave because of the UI changes in Big Sur.
Actually Windows does have a package manager now, it is called winget.
Fluent native English speaker here.

"Not everything needs..." is definitely acceptable English, and sounds more-correct to my ears. It would also be fluent to write that sentence as "Some things do not need...".

As a logician, I find the phrasing "Everything does not need..." to make me a bit queasy, and I would prefer if it were regarded as unacceptable.

HOWEVER, it's not unacceptable. For example, a famous aphorism is "all that glisters is not gold" (often diluted, in recent centuries, to "all that glitters is not gold"), which is surely not intended to claim that gold never glitters. So I guess I have to tolerate hearing it the illogical way.
"A code repository used by the New York state government’s IT department was left exposed on the internet, allowing anyone to access the projects inside, some of which contained secret keys and passwords associated with state government systems."

It's incredible that folks still think that network security and access is sufficient. There are many tools available to manage secrets that don't involve checking them in (assuming in plain text here) to a git repo. It doesn't matter where the repo is hosted, just don't commit secrets.
We don't need to draw a specific line where it becomes a problem to be able to say that Facebook has been irresponsible with their recommendations. Though on that note, Youtube's recommendations have also been implicated as pipeline for radicalizing people.
Might get downvoted for this but I'm not happy with how nextjs keeps expanding its scope. I don't want my server side react lib to do have anything to do with my deploy set up. Same with how nextjs now wants to meddle with my rest API. So while I use nextjs for some things I am having to opt out of more and more pieces of it.
> People shouldn't have to tour every possible jurisdiction on earth to have something taken down in the jurisdiction they live in.

Yes, they should. Or they can save a lot of effort and just block it locally.

One sovereign people shouldn't be prevented by another sovereign people from conducting their lives as they see fit. Global rules are incompatible with respecting the vast diversity of humans on this planet.

Hopefully, 9.9.9.9 can apply this ruling specifically to German CIDRs and be done with it.
It's worth noting that the people in that movie were WAY more loud and emotional than the real NASA engineers and operators.

You can see how NASA people react to tough situations by watching the videos of mission control during the Challenger and Columbia disasters. No shouting. No arguments. Just cool professionalism and restrained emotions.

They have a job to do, and they do it well even under stress. "Steely-eyed missile men/women" indeed.
U.S. Home Prices Push to Record High, Slowing Pace of Purchases
Getting better at algorithm/data structures has made me a much better programmer. People say "oh I'll never use that" but doing graph and tree problems got me much better at writing pure recursive code. I instinctively know how to write algorithms now that are much more performant.

Last night I decided to write a React component that can render formatted JSON in the browser, with collapsing etc...it took me about 4 hours. There's zero chance I would have been able to do that without that experience. I would have just looked for a library to do it.

So yeah, I highly recommend it.
what about bringing office to linux?
A Finger Client
>No, I never made such assumption.

Sure you did. Your argument was that all (or at least all advertising) costs are passed onto the consumer.

>The price point for a single product from a single company is subject to a million forces so nothing can be said. The behavior of an entire industry is a different thing and costs don't magically vanish.

That logic goes both ways and basically eliminates any point in having this debate.
I am not sure this is for consumers. If you are a developer though, this is clearly pretty attractive.
I use Bluestacks to run home automation programs.

It subjects me to ads for third-rate games that I can't imagine people play. First-tier Android games like F/GO and Genshin Impact seem to be disabled on non-phone devices, particularly Bluestacks and Android TV. I see a huge amount of fan art from those games, but I wonder if gaming on Bluestacks is just a Potemkin Village.
I've said for years the day I can reliably play League of Legends on Linux you'll never see me using anything else at home again. Just frustrating that gaming is still largely a best-effort crapshoot despite all the work by Valve and others.
I meant to imply a range that peaks at the highest. Maybe that construction isn't as common and implicit as I thought.
I might have balked at some of this advice until a few days ago, when I tried to create an FHE-encrypted key/value store that could be used as a drop-in replacement for `dict`. As it turns out, subclassing `dict` is awkward — especially if you're actively trying to override __setitem__, or make the object serializable with `pickle` (the latter goal actually introduced me to a low-level dundermethod I hadn't come across before, and hope to never touch again: __reduce__, the evil stepfather of __getstate__ and __setstate__).

I really wanted these instances to be indistinguishable from ordinary `dict` objects as far as interface goes, so it seemed like an optimal use-case for inheritance. But in hindsight it seems like the "composition over inheritance" principle is ushering me to stash k,v pairs in a dictionary attribute of an ordinary (non-subclassed) class object and simply define methods such as update, delete, __setitem__, etc., rather than inheriting them. I don't think that's unreasonable, but the bigger problem I see with that approach is has to do with type dispatching: what if a user of this class is checking whether an object is an instance of `dict` (or `typing.Mapping` for that matter)?
I think that's exactly what this is; it functions as insurance of sorts for the mobile world - such that they aren't totally locked out of a feasible platform (see tablets especially for both ) and also a "why not" for MS & Amazon both. It gives MS a starting point for an Android SDK + existing Amazon Android apps - and Amazon can bolster their offerings which currently are fairly barebones.

It could amount to little, of course. Even iOS apps on MacOS as a concept and practice has not remotely the luster ardent Apple acolytes predicted, certainly not yet even 7 months in.
I didn't see the loud mouths being any less annoying or obnoxious over the last 2 years.
To be honest, some of these are exactly the reason why I would keep the taskbar to the left - UI elements such as scrollbars or caption buttons are much faster to access with mouse, when they're glued to the edge/corner of the screen, because you can just "throw" your mouse cursor instead of having to aim for a 20x20px target. Having your taskbar to the right takes away that feature
I'd like to agree with you about the "nothing needs..." construction being incorrect, but remember that you're never allowed to accuse Shakespeare of using English poorly.

All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told.

Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 7

(Also Tolkien, in the Riddle of Strider, in Fellowship. Imagine a comparison where Tolkien is the less-distinguished writer, how often does that happen.)
How has all this information form the IRS leaked? ProPublica seems to have accessed many of the richest American's tax data. Is this something one person could do? How many people have that kind of access?
Uncle is a title, so if it’s used as GP did (rather than as a noun like you did), it doesn’t require the commas in this way. Consider the word Mister/“Mr.”

Both are correct but use the words differently.
What I meant was, a lot of tribal finance is opaque. A check is given but how it's spent is 100% decided by the local chief.
Oh Windows users, what a crazy bunch. I personally would never use a piece of software that updated (or downgraded, depending on the perspective) against my wishes.
- [Taskbar] Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed. [1]

- Touch Keyboard will no longer dock and undock keyboard layouts on screen sizes 18 inches and larger. [1]

- [Start Menu] Named groups and folders of apps are no longer supported and the layout is not currently resizable. [1]

- Windows 11 Home will require a Microsoft account [2]

- TPM 2.0 is required [1] (some gaming/enthusiast mobos sell TPM modules separately AFAICT)

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22548480/windows-11-home-...
Sci-fi author Greg Egan has written about falling victim to a similar phenomenon, where photos of other people were showing up next to descriptions of him. No serial killers involved, though.

http://gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html