skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Not me, but someone I worked with)

My first job out of school, working away from home and learning the ropes of embedded software.

The office was using on promise databases, email servers and the like, as was somewhat common at the time, but nothing much more than a a few robustified PCs and some networking infra. We were having internet problems being too far away from the exchange and so the telephone company was coming into replace the exchange over the weekend so everything was shutdown on the Friday night.

Monday morning comes by and we boot things up again, but no connectivity… Office is dissolving into chaos as phones were also down. British Telecom is demanded to return this very minute and figure it out!

An hour later a very flustered gentleman turns up and begins to debug a few sockets but finds them all dead. 1 minute later he is at the new exchange (that was inside our office), only to emerge from the room after 30 seconds looking extremely confused.

It turns out Dave, an extremely helpful chap who was in charge of some product final assembly had turned up at the office as normal at 7am and thought he would helpfully uninstall the old exchange and throw it in the skip we had rented for just that purpose. A quick wonder around to said skip found the exchange in there with a bunch of wiring - the helpful chap had really gone to town on this. Sadly, I was quick to identify that this was the new exchange, not the old by observing simply how fresh it looked and the BT chap came over to confirm. Because of the damage that had done to the wiring, it was not trivial to simply wire back the old exchange and so that was the end of office operations for a week.

A small company meeting was held where it was announced that “an error of judgement” had occurred and that we were to have some vacation - much of the in office equipment was taken offsite to get temporary connectivity so that sales could continue whilst we vacationed. Internet remained terrible until I left that gig, now blamed on all the wire patches needed to get the office back on line.
> they draw in so many users because they're easy to use

They're easy to use because the major social media platforms know that reducing friction to use draws people in and keeps them there, while the platform serves their attention up to advertisers. There's even ways that they make it harder to stop using them than to just keep scrolling/refreshing. Dark Patterns abound.

People on social media are generally not communicating with each other, at least not in a meaningful sense. Social media users are sharing things that other people have created to draw attention, and whatever gets the most attention and shares, aka "engagement" sells the most ads, and makes the most money.
Managed stuff like AWS fargate and ECS is what I want to use at work. ATM I've got an ec2 server instance with SSM taking care of it, I don't have to shell in too often.
Do you want freedom or authoritarianism?
The big danger in a cat 5 is more the debris.

There's a saying: It's not THAT the wind is blowing,it's WHAT the wind is blowing.
> Corporates usually replace hardware every 3-4 years don't they?

At the companies I've worked for the programmers generally get new hardware about as often ...but other workers not so much. They are more likely to get the hand-me-down hardware.
Examination of the first documented gangs in the LA County Sheriff's Department
That is an extremely common practice in the industry. Every large chip design house does this to maximize line yield - it is called "binning" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning#Semiconductor_...
I've been hearing people equate forgetting with not caring for my entire life.

It took me years to realize that they - and you - just can't conceive of someone who's mind operates in a way so fundamentally different from their own. So they put their values onto us, and blame us for not living up to them.

I don't blame you - that level of empathy is a hard thing to find - but damn am I tired of hearing this.
What about Odysee (LBRY) [1]? Seems promising.

[1]https://odysee.com
> At any rate, the aid the US gives to Israel has isn't the subject at hand so I'm not sure why you're raising it. We're talking about media coverage and world (not just the US) opinion.

I don't know why you think that was the topic, but U.S. monetary aid (and voluminous other support) is hard factual evidence of opinion in the U.S.

> When the media does report it totally lacks any context ...

That's not my experience. The media I read, such as the NY Times, generally (I perceive - subjectively, sans data) provides context when it supports Israel, and omits it when it's critical of Israel. In fact, I think it's the NY Times' biggest flaw by far.

> here we have one side being heard

Israel's side isn't heard in American news media? Seriously? That's laughable. Look at the NY Times op-ed page, any day (or any day there is something in the news about Israel). And Murdoch publications Fox and the WSJ also support Israel. What major opinion source does not?
Not if you're 65 it doesn't...
While you're technically correct, your ignoring the pragmatic truth: most developers are terrible and should never write code. Because of this reality, C/C++ and all its footguns are something to be avoided unless there is no other alternative (usually this happens when integrating with legacy software or in industries like gaming where the switching costs are extreme).
That's a lot of presuppositions and stereotypes in two sentences.

It's possible that some of those factors matter (I'd think smaller families would increase availability for socialization) but, to provide anecdote, my circle of friends expanded after my breakup, which makes sense.
Tom Cotton is challenging the CRT take in the military citing some divisions between 'conservates' and 'liberal' members of the military raised by whistleblowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtgnIXnvxlw

Also, in the recent news, many conservates are calling off General Milley after his rather heated exchange with Gaetz. I am sure you can find the source.
I only have Windows for gaming. Maybe this finally pushes me to Linux with Wine only. I certainly can use PCI passthrough and an emulated TPM in Qemu.
I don't think I'd seen a hamburger menu rendered on a list, for each item, before. Normally a "hamburger menu" appears once, probably at the top of the page, in some kind of navigation bar. In that context, that icon definitely reads "drag to re-order list item" to me.
> The benefits really start to manifest in distributed computing and package management: much less need to worry about transitive dependencies and conflicting versions.

I can see how that would work better if function references are to hashes of entire functions, rather than just the names of functions.
To this day most people are still in denial about US involvement in that whole Ukraine situation.

Even tho Euromaidan had US senators in person riling up protesters for regime change [0] and the new interim PM, after a bloody revolution, was sponsored by literally the US DoS and NATO [1].

Pointing this pretty blatant evidence out just gets one called a "Russian troll". While in the US some extremely obscure financial connections to Russia, are allegedly responsible for singlehandedly deciding a whole election and making the following one also a rather close call.

Maybe it's just me, but this seems like a pretty blatant double standard, one that also disfranchises a substantial part of the US population, as allegedly being nothing than "idiots" brainwashed by Russia.

It's no wonder how this kind of narrative keeps increasing the hostility and tribalism, even if Russia wouldn't do anything at all.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/john-mccain-uk...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200328203654/https://openukrai...
I loath Reddit design, but fortunately redditisfun is a thing. No add views from me to Reddit, f them.
But all have some at least theoretically plausible hope, say as a child, to aspire to them. Back when sports were only for men, ~50 % -- women -- were excluded even from that. Allowing trans women to compete as women will again remove that hope from ~50 %: Non-trans women.

Yours is a non-argument.
The conspiracy nuts are crazy, I agree, but they are also opposed to oppression so they are our allies.

Be wary of the "divide and conquer" strategy when it is being used by oppressive regimes and various governments.
Yes, but they don't support the Israeli right wing, as specified in the GP.
Good news! Bergstrom wrote a paper, titled "Stewardship of global collective behavior"[1], see also https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1408262388533456904

1 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118
In case it is of interest, here is a fairly short article with a short historical look at data de-identification. If nothing else, it is one jumping off point.

"Data De-identification: Possibilities, Progress, and Perils". 2019. https://forge.duke.edu/blog/data-de-identification-possibili...
> Much of the "truth" mainstream liberals have been pushing in the past year has turned out to be false

For example?
Yes it does have this tone. It's not science. It was written in 1935 by Bill Wilson, a former stock market speculator and salesman. It's designed to be inspirational, as in, you may think you are a hopeless drunk, but I have a solution for you right here in this book. Give it a try.

Edit: Something not often discussed is that Bill Wilson was hoping to make money from this book, being dead broke in the middle of the Great Depression. The first people he helped sober up convinced him that he had to give it away freely.
Data De-Identification: Possibilities, Progress, and Perils (2019)
You're talking about a fantasy world that doesn't exist where Microsoft has gone to extreme precautions like you see on mobile devices and game consoles where there are constant attempts to steal the ownership from users.

In the actual world they don't even enforce disk encryption right now and correct me if I'm wrong, but currently having your BitLocker "recovery code" is enough to decrypt the disk on another machine and changing that would be a massive issue for many data recovery processes.

Unless they plan to do massive changes to the system this is very likely to not be a problem and cracking is likely to still be quite possible.
Yes this is the way. What reddit has done to its own mobile experience is incredibly disrespectful, I couldn’t agree with this article more. Just... let me see your fucking ads?

Does anyone know a way on ios to forcibly redirect all reddit links to old.reddit.com?
There is one thing concerns me about type annotation. With annotation Python code looks like Java code, but with it I don't have advantages of Java (like speed). Besides I see things like `x: typing.Union[str, typing.Any]` - maybe better no annotation.
Hah, it doesn't sell, because we're at a local maxima with electric AC right now.

It's so easy to literally build a square box and stick a cooler/heater in it that everyone (including me) chooses to do it.

Does that mean it's the right way for us to be handling heating/cooling for our homes? Sure seemed like it 50 years ago. Sure seems less like it today with climate change, but we've already picked, and now general cultural preferences make it hard to undo (not even mentioning sunk costs on buildings that are hard to modify)

Basically - the point they're making is that as we homogenize, we put all the eggs in one basket. And we have a long history of making decisions that seem GREAT! today, but actually have some downsides at scale (like electric AC contributing to climate change, requiring more electric AC, making climate change worse, etc)
I often say the same thing myself. I expect it on CNN, and I do passively protest by ignoring links like this most of the time. NPR usually has good articles behind the links, and I'm more inclined to hold my nose and click if they make it to HN. In this case, the actual article is good. I'm lamenting the negative trend.
I was thinking the same thing, I live in a booming part of the US with dozens of home builders putting up tract housing everywhere you turn, and I’d be astounded if a single one of them used copper plumbing. Everything is Pex around here, even on custom 1M+ builds.
Note that steel framing is available in Australia, I think partially because of termites.

https://www.google.com/search?q=australia+steel+frame+homes
How does Google get around cloaking? Don't they need to visit a site from time to time without coming in as Googlebot to make sure they're getting presented the same page as Googlebot?

Or is that always done via manual review?
You are 23. You are not a failure. You have a passion, and a talent, and dedication. You have simply identified an area of your life that you'd like to improve. You might feel like life has passed you by, it has not. 23 is incredibly young, and many people are going through the same things you are. People go through the same ebbs and flows all through their lives. It is natural.

Tinder isn't great, get rid of it for now. Instead, focus on getting out of the house (to the extent you are able during Covid) and doing things that will allow you to meet people. Join a hiking group, take up a sport, join a book club. You will meet people naturally, without the pressure to 'match'.
Techrights is the Alex Jones of the Linux world. They are an absolute nutter and should not be held in serious regard
Here's some evidence to support your hunch about Russia:

> Across our interviews, our respondents [former and current RT journalists] agreed that the goals of the channel [RT] since 2008 have been and still are as follows. First, to push the idea that Western countries have as many problems as Russia. Second, to encourage conspiracy theories about media institutions in the West in order to discredit and delegitimize them. This is clearly adherent to the channel's “Questions More” slogan. Third, to create controversy and to make people criticize the channel, because it suggests that the channel is important, an approach that would particularly help RT managers get more funding from the government.

-- “Anything that Causes Chaos”: The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT), https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/70/5/623/5912109
I came to the realization a while back that I only have maybe…4 friends other than my wife.

When I moved and left for college I was married already and most of my friends were not. My wife and I weren’t big into the clubbing thing so old friends sort of fell away. We did both make some friends in college, some mutual and some exclusive. But there were social factors that made that difficult - mainly we were very, very poor and were often embarrassed to have people over or go out since we couldn’t afford to. A small handful of those friendships live on in my wife’s social media but I have no social media footprint.

After college we both worked and that’s where I picked up the friends I have today. Two (now former) coworkers and a former boss. We have an ongoing text chat and we’re pretty open about real stuff. As luck would have it, both my former boss and I moved to the same state for new jobs and live fairly close. So the four of us (we and our wives) hang out on occasion.

At my current job I’ve picked up one more friend with whom I talk regularly about non work things. But I’m unsure how long that friendship will last as we’re both seeking new jobs, she’s leaving in a week and I’ll (hopefully) be leaving shortly thereafter. Hopefully it’ll last, but who knows.

My wife is better at making friends than I am. She’s joined several local groups around her interests and is slowly building a new social circle. But for me I tend to work from maybe 4am to 7pm and often during the weekend. So by the time I shut everything off at night I’m just so exhausted that I don’t have much more energy to do anything.
> it's their platform and they can do what they want

this is not true for monopolies, AT&T can't disconnect your line because they don't like what you're saying on your calls.
You're missing the point. Big Sur is macOS 11, so Windows is following suit with an 11 of their own.
Doing that would not be a normal cookie, which is my point.
> For example, in the muller report, a more extensive investigation, the specific hacking unit is identified.

How exactly did they arrive at that attribution?

> Today we know APT-28 was responsible, and they're members of the GRU.

How do we know that? No offense, but out of all the places I thought at least people on HN should be aware about the massive caveats that modern-day cyber attribution comes with.

The vast majority of times it's just "educated guesses" based on identifiers that any smart adversary will know how to spoof and thus utilize as false leads.

It's something that feels like was generally recognized and agreed on circa a decade ago, but somehow got lost in the flood of sensationalist headlines trying to sell any nmap scan or somewhat noteworthy ransomware infestation as Russia/China/Iran starting cyber world war 3.
Platform framing is done in the north too.
Show HN: Go implementation of Windscribe proxies client
Ask HN: Alternatives to Windows?
I have forced myself to use Mac and Linux some years ago for one month each and always returned to Windows, because it was just more easy to use. The situation with the whole new Windows 11 seems to be too much to handle. What are the alternatives?
All Google and Alphabet current and former employees and investors are the creators of these tools used by evil.
@dang The link preview for eth.link domains should be shown with the subdomain and probably without the TLD. So for this case instead of eth.link it should show austinvernon.eth.

For reference in case you're unfamiliar, .eth domains are ENS domains (Ethereum Name Service), a decentralized domain system, and are resolved for casual browsing by Cloudflare with the .link TLD for people not running an Ethereum node.
Read about the credit creation process.

Money is created by loans by banks.
I think it's pretty clear the author is using "balloon framing" to encompass all forms of light-frame construction. You can tell because in the very first sentence he describes them as synonyms, "Stick frame construction, also known as light-frame construction or balloon framing"
Yeah, it becomes just about getting a "better metric" which is in fact a number that sounds better to others instead of using metrics to improve user experience.
Also cement siding (hardiplank).
I guess it's time for a user-side script that sends the http request through their daily-driver browser to see what it is, but then they're getting their home computer to visit any and every link... Maybe only when it sees cloudflare DNS...
Remarkable that they're migrating to a decentralized video host:

>"Fearing further blocking by YouTube, they decided to back up content to Odysee, a website built on a blockchain protocol called LBRY, designed to give creators more control. About 975 videos have been moved so far."

I think this is them? I can't readily verify this (and also everything's written in Kazakh).

https://odysee.com/@ATAJURT

[late edit] Related HN discussions about the protocol:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418081 "LBRY – A decentralized YouTube alternative" (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928774 "Lbry.io – decentralized digital library" (2017)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=LBRY
I'd assume it's going well. They aren't backing down in the slightest.
Neat. Well done.
No worries, Google will just sponsor a human rights award and award it to themselves to help them feel better about enabling human rights violations. They have the playbook perfected. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880262
Anytime I see a TED talk, I just automatically assume the technology is at best overhyped and at worst completely fraudulent.
There was a leaked ISO a week or two ago.
It almost certainly requires a heavily customized OS. Those chips are designed for the CPU and GPU to share a unified address space on the GDDR6, there is no traditional DDR memory.
...wow. Congratulations!
Nice comprehensive series but couldn't get to page 4 -site timed out. On the windows side of things, I'm more familiar with "w32tm" and "net time." My time sync post has the highest amount of views on my site from people googling "how to set time clock on domain" so their cell phones match their computers at work. Would be interesting to see how the windows protocols differ from nix.
What is the situation with Windows 11 that is too much to handle?
Does Git not offer a way to view the blame from an earlier version? This would let you skip past the wall.

My company has a web tool for browsing the repo that allows this. It’s still inferior to Perforce timelapse view. But it’s not a hard blocker.
The logo standards only apply to new hardware; what they’re doing now applies to existing hardware as well.
Not a great disambiguation since satUrday also has a U.
Not just can be combined they effectively always are. I’m not aware of any residential heat pumps sold in the US at least that don’t also operate in cooling mode. The additional cost is basically just a reversing valve.
You only need holes in certain places and they can be drilled in seconds. Electricians use specialized right angle drills called "hole hawgs" to drill them.
Also the economic basis of a lot of "cell-phone farming".
you deserve at least 1k votes on hn
It seems a lot of CPUs are not supported, regardless of TPM being enabled or not in BIOS, etc, what we should do to trash our laptops?

Edit: Also Windows 10 end of life It's just too soon...
That link describes platform framing as a variant of balloon framing: "The balloon frame addressed this by way of a variant known as 'western style' or 'platform framing'"

The piece uses the term "balloon framing" to encompass all light-frame construction as opposed to heavy-frame construction like post-and-beam. It think that's fine, I've certainly heard the term used that way before.
systemd has nothing to do with secure boot. Gentoo for instance supports it and offers, and maintains OpenRC

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Inst...
> Yes, because Ninety Percent of U.S. Homes Were Built With Old(er) Building Codes.

Most public housing projects in Vienna, Austria, were retrofitted with modern insulation in the timespan of 10-20 years ago. Public funding exists in various EU countries for home owners to do the same.

> A lot of Europe is a lot more temperate than the US and Canada, so it didn't make much of a difference.

The number of households in Sweden, Finland, and Norway combined is comparable to Canada. Temps seem to be similar there.
In Austria we get -10 and sometimes -15 degrees Celcius in winter, and up to 35 degrees in summer. Same in Germany, where 18% of EU inhabitants live. Bricks are a staple in energy conservation in big parts of Europe.
Same on the consumer side. I like setting up alerts on camelcamelcamel and seeing price history (to make sure I'm not getting screwed) and to buy buy buy when prices hit a certain theshold.
I have run weeks-long computations in a Jupyter cell! The only issue was with OSX updates-- I disabled those.
Also filled with many nuts, though I wish more people would actually use it. It's a very good alternative to YouTube though.
That’s the way it used to be in the US. Vagrancy was a crime but not a felony. Bums were sent to “the farm” to sober up and work hard for a few months.

That changed in the 1960’s. Liberals convinced themselves and those in power that it was virtuous to let addicts and the mentally ill waste their lives away on the street.

Because of COVID, I haven’t been to SF in two years, but on my last trip it had reached absurd levels of dysfunction. Try walking 1 block down Market St to the Mikkeller Bar and you’ll have to jump over 5 spots of human feces, swerve around 3 people snorting god knows what off the sidewalk, and avoid 12 urinating bums. Very progressive.
The author of the paper has a book with the same title:

https://www.amazon.com/Information-Theory-Introduction-James...