skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just as depressing. Employers should have zero rights to code their employees write on their own time unless the employee is using employer specific IP / resources or creating a direct competitor. Needing to get permission should not even be a thing.
please note that the y-axis is scaled, I compared it with the words 'transgender' or 'hacker' and the "intriguing peak" you mention flattened out. Which raises the question of at which point is a change significant in that graph.
This is a serious question: how is this not just a masked way to get people to work weekends? Is it voluntary?
Seems to me the original rendering pipeline wasn't GPU based. The author is just dumping whatever the game renders in a canvas element, there is no need for webgl for that.

Also Canvas is getting some GPU acceleration in some browsers:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2012/07/Taking-adv...
My Intel CPU also doesn't have a GC, so that is how it is.
This has literally never worked for me with any habits I've tried intentionally cultivating. I'll pick something and do it every day for several weeks. Then I stop.

Am I doing it wrong? Am I just weird that I can't seem to form good habits? I sincerely think I wouldn't remember to brush my teeth in the morning if my mouth didn't feel so gross, and I've been doing that every morning for over 30 years!
If you cite Skousen as proof of anything, you've made a real mistake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

They're the seed of QAnon.
Great idea! I wonder if there is a way to include more information about each subscription? For example, 'internet' could be more interesting if there's a tab to show the speed or number of equipment like routers or modems.

My thinking is people definitely forget when they are charged, but may even be forgetting about what they are even paying for!
The name of the game is positive-sum. Amazon can be a behemoth and also face competition in the labour market and others. It isn't Amazon or Mom&Pop, in a fair market there's space for both surely.
ok, billie eilish.
As a student, I've never had any edtech site or "online textbook" that had good UX. It wouldn't be so offensive if I didn't have to pay $80 per semester per course for the privilege of using something that is never as good as a real textbook.
Eventually cash will be considered suspicious for any transaction while the digital Euro would be transparent to law enforcement.

This will happen slowly, with limits to cash transactions being lowered, larger denominations removed from circulation etc. On the transparency side it will again start out with praises sung to its privacy and then "stuff happens", i.e. cannot be that a digital Euro is good for criminals and terrorists...
That's only a footgun if your system is set up to allow an insecure connection to continue. Just because the protocol allows it does not mean you can't add additional requirements.
The problem I have with all these self-promotion frameworks (i.e. CSS frameworks open sourced by commercial entities) is that they are inherently at the mercy of said companies.

Take Zurb Foundation for example, as far as I can tell its basically become abandonware. Foundation 7 has been promised forever and yet we're still stuck with Foundation 6 which has all sorts of bugs and gotcha's that will catch people out because the framework is out-of-date in comparison with the technology that people are using to access websites.

The only exception to this is Twitter Bootstrap which has been consistently kept up to date. Whilst I don't agree with some of the design decisions in the latest Bootstrap 4, it remains a solid, well maintained framework.
I recently had a pie-in-the-sky business idea and I would love for someone who knows more about the industry why it will definitely fail. I assume it's unworkable for a lot of reasons, but it is just plausible enough to be a fun idea for a sci-fi novel.

Get a fleet of 2-4 seater unpowered glider planes [1]

Get a bunch of rural properties spaced ~100km apart.

Put little glider landing and launch strips on each property. Use a powerful electric winch to launch the gliders.

Develop software that can fly the planes autonomously from strip to strip (I assume this is the really hard part, but I am under the impression that autonomous flying is a much easier problem than autonomous driving?).

You now have the ability to shuttle passengers around your network of airstrips at ~200kph for the cost of electricity used by your winches and maintenance of the glider fleet.

My thought is that the electricity of the winches is pretty minimal and could be served with some locally installed solar panels and batteries, and the maintenance is super low since the gliders don't have many moving parts onboard.

The main use-case would be city-to-city short hops that are currently poorly served by rail. It's far easier to build a string of small airstrips than a whole rail corridor.

This idea came to me when thinking about SpaceX's recent plans to catch their Starship boosters out of the air instead of having landing gear on them. The reasoning is that you can have essentially unlimited mass for ground support equipment, but mass on the booster is precious. So you offload the landing gear from the booster to the ground support equipment, even if it's big and complicated. This idea is like electric aircraft, but you've offloaded the propulsion and batteries to the ground support equipment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(sailplane)
* money launderers. Bitcoin is practically designed for this, and you can charge yourself clients a hefty fee to clean their money for them.

* ransomware groups. Their business model relies almost completely on cryptocurrency.
The bot is widely known, every interesting video has a call to the bot in the comments. I don't see how more publicity would make a difference.
we're all doing it already. with bitcoin you can at least choose how much in control you want to be.
Sexual revolution started really with the Boomers, and I believe it is technologically driven.

Invention of the Pill (and similar biotech medical advances) changed everything forever in ways we still don’t understand. And the consequences/reasons don’t cleanly break along Culture War fault lines. (The Culture War was, in many ways, created by The Pill, too.)
> now it's problematic?

I know this is hard to believe, but there are people who actually hold principles instead of just performing them. It's not especially surprising that you don't have exposure to them, but the vast majority of people I personally know who complain about speech restrictions from the left also complained about restrictions from the right when they held more cultural power.

Obviously your counterparts also exist, who cheered rightwing restrictions and complain about leftwing ones. But both of you are the proglem: gleefully proclaiming that you have no actual beliefs is practically a non sequitur in a conversation among people with actual moral centers complaining about the underlying principle violation.

We get it, we know you (and your rightwing counterparts) exist, as much as we wish you didn't. You're exactly what we're complaining about.
Sorry, I deleted that part of the comment as it didn't apply to this topic at hand. Multiple companies have dropped subscription support in india or changed things due to the recent RBI rules around mandates.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/amazon-prime-membership-o...

https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/52003/3

EDIT: Another useful one: https://support.google.com/pay/india/answer/10710851?hl=en

It looks like existing subscriptions were grandfathered until Sept 30, which is why you haven't seen a change. But new accounts cannot use subscriptions until the company has properly implemented e-mandates.
This is one of those times that this adage applies. In the worst case, "begging for forgiveness" does not mean asking your manager for an exception. It means losing an expensive court case with your former employer about who owns your IP.
I spend some time upfront determining this based on the topic, judges, and my team. If you have a non-technical team, or it's a future tech hackathon (crypto, etc) you need to go for the big pie-in-the-sky ideas. If it's an industry competition (e.g., video compression APIs or something), you want to keep it small and technical.
Looks like they’ve released Dark Mode support and Apple Silicon support since that blog post. So maintenance does actually mean maintenance.
This seems like a natural product to come out of MS's cloud strategy. Especially considering the cloud gaming they're building with Xbox Game Pass. Also notable that it's at the same time they decided to turn a Windows 10 upgrade into Windows 11.
There are a lot of misunderstandings about it.

The European Commission, the ECB and other bodies have had groups researching blockchains and digital money for years. They've gotten a bit more serious about it recently and started floating the idea of a "digital Euro", after other governments proposed the same for their respective currencies (and the EU always copies the homework of other governments). They've talked to and polled citizens, banks and the industry regarding how to exactly implement it. They still have no idea what it actually is they want, so far they've just found out it needs to be 'secure', 'environmentally friendly', and similar buzzwords.

It's important to understand that the Euro currently is not digital. What you're using digitally is not legal tender but like you rightly said based on private bank ledgers. This may sound like nitpicking and many don't understand there's even a difference, because they're so used to these sort of IOUs being accepted as money, but it's not the same as a printed Euro bank note. It's as a side-note for this very reason banks among themselves do not settle in this money but through accounts at the central bank, where they're required to at least have a part of it in actual physical cash. Which may sound funny because the banknotes themselves can be printed at will by the issuing government/central bank - but that's another story.

A digital Euro would be digital money issued by the ECB itself. This already exists in a way when they credit money to themselves to for example pay for buying bonds as part of the current QE politics. Most money is created that way. But for us regular people, money exists either in the form of the bank IOUs (so called "book money") or physical cash. We've never seen actual digital Euros they don't exist outside the ECB servers. Digital Euros could be credited the your digital wallet directly by the ECB, for example if they were giving out helicopter money to citizens. Depending on how the system is implemented, it could also be tracked by them, or frozen. There are some who want to introduce it as a way to "fight crime" (I think we all know where this would be going). Others stress it's important it implemented in a privacy preserving way, to make it a sort of digital cash. It could be run on a centralized ledger the ECB controls, or be blockchain based. Both concepts are being considered and researched, they haven't really said anything about which they favor so far. Imo this is an important topic people should look into, it's about the future of our money. It could be a really cool thing and make things easier, or we could end up with a dystopian system where they monitor and control all our financial transactions. It's not unlikely printed bank notes will be abolished in the near future, if we don't have a digital replacement by then goodbye privacy and welcome total surveillance.
You quoted that Amazon planned to have 3,236 satellites.

Yet, SpaceX already launched 1730 satellites, 1630 of which are active, with a planned constellation of 12,000 satellites.[1]

Amazon's Kuiper Systems hadn't even launched yet, and they're going with ULA for their first launch, which AFAIK, is much more expensive than SpaceX, with only 9 satellites as opposed to 60 satellites at a time.[2]

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

[2] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems
I think the quote ties in with what else we know about Alzheimers: it tends to develop in those with smaller social circles, in those who experience less novelty and less healthy lifestyles. If the person is out in society learning a new language, meeting new people, learning a new instrument, exercising their minds' regenerative capacities, that's a great "counter" to aging.

If they're sitting at home, not driving anywhere, watching cable news all day, that's a recipe for rutted-grooves of thought and deterioration of the mind.
Reminds me of the book atomic habits. It emphasizes the compounding gains of small wins.
> There are no “architect” roles at google

In this case I suspect "The Architect" is a reference to the character in the Matrix films. The character who has visibility into every corner of the Matrix and full knowledge about everything going on inside it.

Could be wrong. Either way I very much doubt it is related to a specific role at Google.
Yes, great idea! I'm considering a notes field, as well as a "vendor name" field for this. Maybe even add the ability to group services by vendor?
I don't have a side project, but this is basically the approach I take at work. Try to do one useful thing each day. Doesn't even have to be a big useful thing. It adds up.

I guess that's really the whole point of the tortoise and the hare, now that I think of it.
> Hashed passwords are still passwords and should be treated as such.

Agreed.

> “Zero” implies that hashed passwords are not passwords, since otherwise you won’t get to zero.

You can get to zero:

- No humans in the serving path servers' ACLs.

- Diagnostic/recovery servers for humans which require the person submit a justification that links to a ticket/bug/outage, wait for a second person to approve, perform high-level operations that affects sensitive data ("restore user from backup at timestamp T") rather than exposing direct access ("read from backup", "write live user"), and keep an audit record for later.

Everything is about trade-offs. This approach takes more engineering time to set up and if not done well can really slow down common tasks. And there are certainly reasons there might be exceptions—eg allowing the primary on-call to have unilateral access can speed recovery over waiting for a second person to be available. But zero is possible, and stories like this remind us of its value.
The problem is that each runtime has different GC requirements, so at best it will mean WASM GC semantics will be the underlying JS GC semantics, probably not what you want for a D or .NET GC, for example.
You're absolutely right, I had left this out for simplicity.
Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield
Rapid change already has slowed down. Not too much significant has happened over then past decade. The period of greatest change is already behind us in the early 20th century. Technological and social change can not be ever accelorating. It follows a logistic curve.

I agree that macro scale change did fuel a lot of micro social behavor changes like increase in divorce rates, etc.

In the past family was more sacrosanct because it had more utility for example working on farms together, family cottagw industry. With the industrial revolution the individual became relatively more valuable than before.
That sounds like the best kind of hackathon. I hate the corporate-sponsored ones, they're either "here's some food, come interview for us" if you're the public or "here's some food instead of overtime" if you're an employee.

Your kind sounds like the original spirit of the hackathon, just a bunch of people making things together.
Generally, your company only has rights to that if you've signed away your rights in your employment agreement. People have found success negotiating that out of the agreement by bringing it up.

Haven't tried it, but I'd be interested to try the argument that the company doesn't want to own my side projects, because liability. If I infringe someone else's copyrights on accident, but the company owns the work, then the company is liable, not me. Sweet protections of corporatization. :)

Or if I make a decisions on a side project that others want to "cancel" on twitter - that'll look bad to the company because legally theyre the owners, right? Wouldn't want the company being to blame for something I did.
I live and work in NY. It was standard in my contract with my former employer.
This works for me with workout. I commit to workout 10min everyday. Sometimes I and up doing more like 40m, sometimes only 10m, and it's ok.
And of course, I reduced the start energy for it. If it's only 10m, probably I will do it at home with some equipment.
The article contains that information. Were you trying to highlight anything specific?
Not really. Federal prosecutors have a 98 percent conviction rate. Combined with long sentences means a lot of ppl just plead guilty even if innocent
Can't you squeeze the sides or something? I don't use voice search much because I prefer accuracy. But when I do, I don't use "ok Google"
> Anything private

You don't have to support.

The government will take your support at gunpoint. This is the crux of the issue.
Amid all the untold negatives of a world returning to great power competition as geopolitics resumes, grass will finally begin to grow over the spot where people used to gather and incredulously recount such basic precepts of power to each other as “might is right” and “do as I say, not as I do, or I will shoot you”.
We are in a field where we get to experience these ideas head first.

For instance I remember having to learn how git works, and followed online videos on the base concepts, tutorials with commands to type etc. Most importantly there was no paper nor handwriting involved at any point.

I personally don’t feel like it was holding me down and it would have been a royal pain to introduce a non digital media in the middle of it.

I’d wagger I’m not the only one, and the majority of us got to terms with digital learning and how to be efficient with it.
I'm taking a course on how to build and grow a YouTube channel. The main advice they give is "just commit to making a video once a week, every week, for 2 years, and you're life will change." It's a tautology, no guarantees on how well your channel will do, but it's such a simple idea, and nice motivator to build momentum and keep going.
Ask HN: How do you find an old post that has been hidden?
This morning there was an excellent article from The Atlantic about China's Uyghur treatment through the eyes of a family that escaped to the United States. However, now due to downvoting, flagging, or other hiding, it's no longer on the front page or the next three pages. It had been a front page article. How can I find this submission that is no longer showing up? NOTE: I am not looking for the article (which is called One By One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps). I am looking for the submission and comment section.
It’s a way better mindset to just expect to work on something a few hours each day than to try to set milestones and deadlines because you won’t burn yourself out moonlighting
Have you considered you might have some disorder that affects your executive function capacity like ADHD and therefore requires alternative strategies to organize and cultivate habits?
I'm not spouting anything as proof of anything. Just demonstrating as a matter of record that culturally this battle has been waged before.
That’s true, the article in question does the same.

Nuance gets lost anytime generalizations are applied. This is the way of the world. See media labeling of Gen Z or Baby Boomers. The variation in sample greater than the variety across labels.
The children who are estranged from their parents are experiencing the traditional gaslighting, and not the more recent thing you bring up.

I am estranged from my father for a number of reasons, but mainly because my parents divorced when I was young and my father spend the next 15 years trying to destroy my relationship with my mother through basically any means at his disposal. It came to a head when my father called me late one night while I was in college, and he told me "We did it, we won, we beat her". I was very confused and asked him to elaborate, and he told me that he sued my mom in court for child support that she paid while he was paying for my college attendance. He told me that he loved me more than my mom and that he was paying for college because he loved me and that my mom wasn't paying because she didn't love me. He had previously used money as a weapon in my relationships before and we had discussed and agreed that he cannot talk about finances like this with a 19 year old who is (1) needs financial support to make it through adolescence and early adulthood and (2) wants to maintain relationships with both parents. It was impossible for him to get over the anger and resentment he had for my mom and to keep that out of our relationship, so I cut ties with him. Having talked with him about this a lot before cutting ties, he would consistently gaslight me about how (1) my mom never cared about me (2) his remarried family were the only family that cared about me and (3) that everything he did, he did for love of me and not out of spite for my mother and (4) that he never did any of the stuff I specifically asked him not to do to help me maintain my familial relationships.
No, I can store encrypted data in North Korea without storing any decryption keys there.

I run a Filecoin node and I store the data of approximately 200 clients in my homelab. I don't know who they are, or what they store, because it's all end to end encrypted.

And no -- my clients don't trust me, it's crypto, it's trustless :)
Humans are incredible when they set their minds to something. But it remains to be seen how we can balance out all the remaining CO2 and emissions, or somehow suck it out from the atmosphere without harm. The problem has to be identified, acknowledged, analysed and the correct approaches taken. It's a tall order, but we also need to find new energy sources, clean the environment and stop destroying the wilderness that is left.

First and foremost, we need to start listening to the knowledgable scientists and naturalists.
I like the advice but it always seems to backfire for me.

I started jogging everyday. Maybe 2 or 3km. But recently I struggle to do 500m a day.

Same with programming. I'll start with a few good days but then it devolves to opening an editor, writing a comment or one line then closing it straight after.
i've never had a problem. but i'm not working for huge companies where the contract change would have to go through a legal department.
Looks absolutely amazing.. I wish there was a Linux version.
Because that's the point. The art is about telling people that they are being recorded. Just that apple won't brodcast there faces doesn't mean no one will see them. Or they are not being recorded
This is great advice and has made me think how I can squeeze out 30-60 minutes every day to do something similar. I think one area might be just making my setup more portable - instead of having a fully built out development environment that is on my desktop tethered to my desk, it may make sense to move to a laptop that I can move around the house, take with me on trips, etc. so as to not break the streak. Or even using one of the browser-based code editors or IDEs so that it's available anywhere, even from a tablet.
World War 2 must have felt like the end of the world, and for millions of individuals, it was.

But the world continued, civilization did not collapse.