skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hacker News is a phenomenal source of hatred for using modern browser features and standards.

Complaining about JavaScript is mere table stakes! The true path of "the modern web is ruined" discourse on HN starts with complaining about webfonts, and progresses to laments about any styling whatsoever and "why should designers have any say in how a web page on my computer looks." It's pretty hard to top "images were a mistake," but you get extra points in the lightning round if you work in a reference to Ted Nelson.
I’m appalled this is even on HN.

- If you are an atheist, would you sell it for $5? If the answer is no, why sell it for more? What value can you place on your soul (or someone’s idea of it)?

- If someone is willing to pay much more than $5, consider what they are gaining, and what you are losing. Why would they be willing to pay so much?

- If only in the interest of self preservation, have you heard of Pascal’s Wager? [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
Spoilers, and a tangent I find interesting...

Viper/Wiper was the punchline for an animated TV miniseries/sequence of GI Joe.

(For non-USians: GI Joe was a US weekday after-school TV militainment and merchandizing franchise targeted at children. Which, from the perspective of an adult who grew up watching that as a kid, feels fascinating.)
It's a public company and there's probably only a few people who would be authorised and feel comfortable to speak on behalf of their employer. Most of them have been working hard building the company for years and shouldn't be expected to be on call for a non-production related concern being raised on HN on any given Sunday.

Cloudflare's management is exemplary when it comes to transparent comms, maybe we can wait a day for their response on this one?
The camera is literally the only reason I upgraded my 5 year old phone. There isn't really an app I use that runs better on the new phone vs the old, except the camera app of course, so it was an expensive camera upgrade (with new battery!).
Directory sites like that are hard to find now. IIRC search engines can't/won't tell legit ones from spammy link farms.
In a job I did years ago, we had to deal with errors caused by small changes made in huge object trees in C# in a domain that requires handling thousands of parameters that all influence each other.

Fortunately there was a Visual Studio extension that could export objects into JSON/XML/C# representation; then all I had to do was to diff the object dump. Was often called a "Jedi Wizard" for using this trick lol
I suspect most of the athletes are okay with you not watching. For them, sports are reality and not escapism.
The lack of an OS level volume mixer is one of my biggest day to day frustrations with OS X. Linux is really the gold standard for me though, allowing me to shunt applications around across audio devices on a per app basis when most don't include an output selector.
I have found (and returned) several phones worth considerably more.
Uh a payments company having Apple level value??
that was always an option to stop the discussion.

I mean CDC lied about COVID repeatedly and issued guidance that was disastrous. Remember the whole “you don’t need masks unless you’re a doctor” in the beginning? How about withholding critical information about spread? How about underreported numbers? CDC is at this point a clown gathering and have 0 credibility. 0
I wrote a blog post about integrating org-roam with logseq [1]. Unfortunately this doesn’t work with the the new V2 org-roam update, so I am sticking with V1 for now.

[1] https://coredumped.dev/2021/05/26/taking-org-roam-everywhere...
Right. So when a company has a natural monopoly on a resource or a service, it makes sense to regulate them strictly.

Which company are we talking about again?
every time i use osx i fucking start cursing due to how god forsaken slow it is. apple even managed to make it so slow I notice it when helping my coworkers debug their code.
I know the feeling.

I've found that for the most part, you can work for money or you can work for impact. Commercial pressures prevent real disruption once a product is well established, and when it isn't, your disruption is corralled to the end of earning market share for your company, so anything disruptive that would go against that is not implemented.

That's why I don't work in software anymore. It may seem weird, but i would rather work a bullshit job. But I do write software, and it is all FOSS, and I pick my projects based on one principle: minimum effort for maximum impact.
Is the internet a good example of free markets and capitalism? I always perceived the glory days as more akin to communism.
> to implement the latest kalefedhipster.js framework that doesn't actually provide significant additional functionality beyond what we had in 2015 if not 2005.

Amen. How I miss old plain HTML websites.
The optimizer will delete bar() if FOO is a manifest constant that is not 3.

Yes, but the compiler won't delete it and complain if bar is not defined. if constexpr is not a direct replacement for if macro
I think you're right if you eliminate the word "aided"
> it's just some sub-cultures, teens and troubled personalities that "express themselves" through fashion (the most shallow thing you can do, a juvenile thing in any case)

Are you claiming that dressing to express yourself is shallow and juvenile?

Do you just...buy the first thing you see at Goodwill that fits you? I'm not sure how one could avoid dressing to express oneself, to at least some degree, unless you exclusively wear work uniforms or hand-me-downs.
Which is a fair enough point, but considering the only screens I own are high DPI, MacType is quite interesting to me
It's worth the wait. A full Linux phone that plugs in as a computer with USBC. A bit buggy right now without camera+gps and too many apps, but when software is ready this should be the future of mobile!
As it turns out, the CEO has already responded [1], and I feel bad that we (myself included) made him feel that he had to rush it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28031787
I said that the other day and someone just replied snarkly "Trickle up economics".

That's like saying Thermodynamics is trickle up Chemistry. There is value in looking at macro-ecomonic concepts especially when it comes to government spending, federal reserve interest rates and inflation.
Nonsense, the vaccines were approved for emergency use on the basis of solid data showing them to be safe and effective. Subsequent data has consistently supported that determination. Stop spreading misinformation and undermining confidence in public health. What you're doing should be illegal.
IMO you can still be explicit about field offsets by writing the struct in a usual way, and using static assertions to ensure offsets match the intended layout.
Please stop diluting the definition of terrorism. It is only terrorism if someone is creating fear to push a political agenda. Most of these are simply ransom companies with no agenda other than making themselves money.
I've never thought of that! only rver heard my bosses/colleagues say they felt it gave them a better signal. But it wouldnt surprise me if some people had darker motives like this
mind naming some of those high-paying ones in Canada? I'll be shopping soon and curious.

edit: also in Van.
If nothing did, landfills couldn't harvest methane as fuel.
The good internet died when suck.com did.
Perhaps pleasure-seeking is instead the virtue to counteract self-control?
I don’t see where this says selling a soul is “only” a sin.
Pirates License! Neat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
Can't believe twomad, a YouTuber, indirectly caused a multi million dollar settlement.
> walled garden of algo driven attention optimising dark pattern

The devices are further enabling this. My first smartphone had a physical keyboard. It was the best. Now you can't find one at all. Makes me just that less likely to attempt to type what I'm really looking for and instead to scroll to what the algorithm thinks I want, or pull-to-refresh. If I do venture to type/swipe, I often mangle it terribly or wind up leaning on another algorithm that thinks it knows what I want to say.
I'm not the OP, but Loop Habit Tracker works well for me.
Except that's not true. There is tons of copywritten work sold online without DRM. It's just a matter of getting the business model right.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000265...

> every song from Amazon MP3 is DRM-free and encoded in high-quality 256-kbps MP3 format. This means that they will play on any MP3 player, so you don't need to worry about file format compatibility or licenses that expire.
Jesus, I didn't know people cared so much about metaphorical language choices.

Guess it's all narrative shaping though eh. It's good we have people like you to police little old me from speaking out against your chosen narrative.

Enjoy your spike.
Oh, you were condescending from the start. So yeah, no need. don't expect another reply. It's been a real joy interacting with you.
Have you asked your doctor about this? If they know which component of prior vaccines you were allergic to they may be able to advise on which, if any, covid vaccine would be suitable.
Yeah I've been following malware for a while and this is the first time I've heard of a Wiper. I guess it's like ransomware without the ransom
Medical exemptions are the only valid exemptions. However, you are going to be at a much higher risk without a vaccine should you be infected and develop COVID, so be sure to carefully consider the balance of risk and whether it might be better to take your chances with the vaccine than the virus.
Cars in my neighborhood have started popping up that are painted it what appears to be primer with a coating.

I was kind of wondering why that was suddenly a thing. I don't know if that was somehow directly or indirectly motivated by pantone, but it certainly has been a headscratcher for me for some time and this could answer why that is happening.
You'd ideally do this for 3+ devices and just majority vote on every framelocked frame; take the mean average if there isn't a median.
Oh boy...so this 6% fee is then indirectly passed onto consumers.
I have never seen captchas from another CDN that I can recall. I believe that is partially responsible for people's opinions.
I would have thought that a diversity of systems/OSes would prevent an all-consuming virus (much like in the biological world)
The DRM implementation and algorithm could be "perfect" in a mathematical sense, but as you point out they tend to rely on a PUF in the silicon hardware. Currently very hard to extract but not completely so. However, say a system had a quantum based PUF then it could be unclonable due to QM. Such a system could still be potentially cracked by causing issues in the processor itself like with the ESP32s. Which was my point, since there's a physical system to work in it'd be impossible in a practice to make perfect. Hence it boils down to economics.
I'm worried about my department. I run a small but earnest tech team at a non-profit. We pay the low end of market rate because we simply don't have tons of cash. We've managed to retain a solid team just on culture and having a positive mission. As the pandemic ebbs we've already lost some critical people. And leadership are stumbling through office reopening that is alienating more people. I'm genuinely worried the team will disintegrate and we'll just migrate everything to vendors.
Do you mean Loop Habit Tracker? Once it's installed it shows up as 'Habits'.
I’m just saying, I have adhd, I’m not gonna read this whole manifesto, can you just give me a summary at the top? Jeez, people are so trigger happy with the flagging these days.
Honestly it is not slow at all for me, what're you using it for? With the exception of gaming, productivity, development, and usage has been great for me.

The build quality of macbook is more sturdy than its competitors like xps, thinkpad, makes me so confident and comfortable to bring it everywhere with me honestly.
Apple boots ‘Tinder for anti-vaxxers’ from App Store for violating Covid rules
The recruiters I get reaching out to me through Linkedin rarely tell enough about the job to make it interesting.
fartcannon indeed
If you're statistically discriminating, it doesn't matter if you're correct in any particular case - just that on average, you're more right than wrong. Just because you searched for heart issues doesn't mean you have them, but if people who do are more likely to search about them, then if an insurance company treats all people who search for this as if they are more likely to have it and raise their rates accordingly, they will profit.
I believe the correct term is “countably infinite”
Well I use my iphones for about 5 years so they could continue funding salaries from cash while getting new supply online.
The Grand Tour S04E03 4k web-dl is readily available on private torrent trackers hours after public release on Amazon Prime.

No idea what encryption Amazon use, but suffice to say it is thoroughly broken by someone out there. Given the expense of acquiring those presenters and the production costs of their shows, and how they bring people to the Prime video platform, I suspect Amazon is reasonably interested in keeping that content protected.
The point is that if they're stretching payments over multiple weeks/months then they can't afford it.
Yep. To be fair, so are the (lower, but non-zero) fees from Visa/MasterCard/Amex/PayPal.

It's a textbook example of an externality.
>I see the fundamental problem is dependence on existing capital assets that emit CO2

I don't think you're wrong, but an opinion like you're expressing doesn't say what, who, how it should be done. It doesn't set a goal that can be achieved, and it doesn't imply that success would solve the problem of reducing global CO2 levels.

Have you ever had a project manager tell you how to write code?

>carbon taxes which punish working class people

That's why the revenue needs to be sent right back to the people in equal amounts.

If that isn't good enough, it doesn't mean carbon taxes are less necessary. You haven't stated why it won't work or is not necessary in a way that I can understand yet.

Doing other things seems to me like the ultimate example of "looking for your keys under the streetlight even though you dropped them in the dark".

Or, it's like the joke "we must do something; this is something, therefore we must do it".

Building things produces CO2. People will argue endlessly about how much. It's impossible for everyone to agree on the facts, but the quantity matters.

We don't want any particular activity or product to be generated, we want less CO2. If we reward specific things that are associated currently with less CO2 but don't logically entail it, it will be a very short time until people optimize those goals by producing more CO2.
It's just an example. The point is a co-workers is dealing with his personal problems by forcing other people to do things they would rather not.
Did I miss something? Was this terror? Were people injured or killed and hence fearful?

Politically motivated sabotage seems like a more accurate description with the footnote that computers were used (cyber!). But I guess people have been using "terrorist" to mean anything the government doesn't like. So it's fair to keep using it for a foreign government that also may not be liked itself. I'm sure some consider opposition to the Iranian regime just and noble, which I guess I do on some level suitably restrained. Much as I do for opposition to my own government. Would Ghandi be a terrorist under the modern definition for his campaigns of civil disobedience sabotaging the system?
Summarized memorably as “you can’t outrun the fork” or “the most effective exercise for weight loss is an early tricep extension at the table”
- 2010 isn’t 2012 (and I don’t think that it’s true Elon even said that at the time - at best he may have said 2016?)

- FSD is one example, but the improvement of computer vision since 2015 has been massive and deep learning approaches to general problem solving too. This wasn’t something people were predicting in 2010.

- The deep blue and stock fish style approaches vs. the alpha go or alpha zero approaches are categorically different - the latter being a lot more interesting and closer to general learning vs. the older approach which is more like brute force.

- GOFAI was a bad approach and the optimism in the 60s was wrong. Today’s looks more promising. Being wrong in the 60s doesn’t necessarily mean people are wrong now. It’s hard to know: https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

For the AGI bit I’d recommend reading some of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s writing or Bostrom’s book (though I find Bostrom’s writing style tedious). There’s a lot of good writing about take offs and AGI/goal alignment that’s worth reading to get a base level understanding of the concepts people have thought through.

AGI doesn’t need to be human like to be dangerous - it can be good at general problem solving with poorly aligned goals and just act much faster. Brains exist everywhere in nature, simpler than human brains. A lot of that computation in training could be an analog of the genetic “pre-training” of evolution for humans that gets our baseline which could be one reasons humans don’t seem to require so much. There was a massive amount of “computation” over time via natural selection to get to our current state.
When I got caught at school for this one, the approach was really split.

On the one hand, the administration punished me and one of my friends with something like six months of detentions.

On the other hand, the IT admin asked us to do it again, but write him up a proper report. Basically gave us the authority to do whatever we wanted, and encouraged us that it could be a career, if we did things the right way.

I think that trust and encouragement went a long way to influencing my career path.
There are MUDs still around last I knew, but I think that Eternal September was the harbinger of the end.

I think we need to look at more P2P communication to make the web smaller again. Share things with only your connections again, not FAANG & the entire world.

If your friends want to signal boost something, sure they can to their connections, but the default should be that you get stuff from someone directly connected to you, not via systems run by giant companies trying to learn how best to sell things to & manipulate the world.
We usually quote 50-100% increase for agency web dev stuff (mostly marketing sites) and I'd say we've underestimated a few times. For basic html layouts it's not too bad but the minute you move away from something that looks like Craigslist or Wikipedia stuff starts to get hard. We've used 3rd party consultants to do reviews and every reviewer picks out different problems on the same exact site. I've implemented consultant recommendations line for line only to have that code flagged by a different reviewer at the same company as non-compliant.
Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction?
I am brown guy.I have been in usa for 2 years.One problem I have is that i got this thick south asian accent and also get fluent speaking english because during internship at the end thats only feedback i got from my manager that you are techinaclly sound but you do lack communication skills.So reason for asking the question here is to get advice and resources to solve my problem:)
I’m not sure how many people have spent multiple years on each iOS and Android but I have. And the experience quality isn’t even comparable. Android feels like using a Windows PC where you are always having to fiddle with some setting, install something, kill a process, fuck with the registry. iOS is absolutely hands-off in a way that nothing else is (including Mac OS). For a touchscreen device people are willing to sacrifice configurability for reliability. As phones become increasingly important to people’s lives they will spend the money to get the good stuff (and, iOS has come down in price, and due to the longevity of the products, is far cheaper over the long run. My wife is still using an iPhone 6S, and it’s still snappy).
Spybot Search & Destroy. What a blast from the past :D
Expulsion seems incredibly harsh for how “new” a lot of the concepts were, and no real parental ability to teach kids any form of discipline with the technology.

I received in school suspension for hacking, and I feel like that taught me just the right amount of discipline. I had basically written a boot disk that created c:\autoexec.bat that executed coldboot.com, which was a dos program that immediately rebooted the computer. I then booted all the computer lab machines off that disk. Three days stuck in a boring quiet room with students I had never been around before. Very enlightening.

This was back when we used to see who carried the coolest looking floppies around. Mine was unlabeled black with a black plastic dust cover. My buddy was a rebel and always took the dust covers off his blood red disks.
The author, Arika Okrent, wrote a book called "In the Land of Invented Languages", which is a hoot.
I'm not sure what 'all consuming' would mean exactly. But excess complexity might also indicate fragility, in which case breaking an entire system/subsystem might come fairly easily
Also kiwifarms. They used to be indispensible for Stormfront and 8chan, but the heat got too much.
> You can deduce a lot from reasoning. For example, you can deduce that in an endemic disease, a vaccine without close to 100% efficacy and deployed in close to 100% of the population, all it will serve to do is exert selective pressure on the virus to avoid immune response.

"All it will do" BS. It will save and continue to save lives into the millions, if the fatality rates in India are anything to go by, while allowing for some semblance of normality for people who are not afraid of a risk profile similar to that of the flu when vaccinated.

"It will exert selective pressure", yeah, no shit. You know what also exerts selective pressure? Washing your hands and having a functional immune system. Everything induces selective pressure because that's how evolution works. Since when has that been an argument against vaccination?

> You can use reason to deduce that cloth masks on the wall at the checkout line at the liquor store are mostly useless. You don't need to be an epidemiologist to understand the basic mechanisms by which pathogens spread and have a basic idea of how natural selection works.

This is absolute delirium. Mask wearing works (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.16.21258817v...), (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6549/1439), quoted as being "particularly effective", with several explanatory hypotheses as to why (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777695).

So, yeah, if you're going to claim that the armchair epidemiologists were right, you better show some damn validation instead of making up your own numbers.

Tired of this bullshit.
from the article,

>There was an OD4 diode, but it is deleted from the schematics.

this is why providing schematics alone is not sufficient. PinePhone only provides schematics and not board layout and it is entirely possible that they are only loosely related. an imperfect analogy would be providing source but only running a binary compiled by someone else. you can see what they intended to do, but not necessarily what they did.
E-RUPI – A digital payment voucher system
Then again, a lot of us have paying jobs because of companies that are leveraging open source software. So... I guess it's some kind of altruistic strategy that helps us devs survive better in aggregate?