skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gems on Reddit are almost all small subreddits with a community feel. I'd be virtually certain that its high user engagement is primarily driven by users who've matched into smaller subreddits that closely align with their interests. The big, default subreddits are largely wastelands.

But Reddit the platform seems to entirely ignore this dynamic. New users are dropped into the default subreddits, and there's very little tooling or onramps to help them find small interest-matching subs.
Won’t you please think of the children?!

Pinephone is looking awfully appealing lately.
It's sad how some HN users seem to live in bubbles and are just completely disconnected from the way that most regular people live. Humans are social animals and most won't continue social distancing regardless of the consequences. There's more to life than cafes. Most of us don't even have an outdoor cafe nearby. Also weather is a thing.

You're welcome to complain that this is terrible and it shouldn't be that way. But at some point we have to put aside wishful thinking and exist in the real world.
Perhaps traffic has a reciprocal relationship with monetization and until Reddits management are ready to bite the bullet there is a tendency to focus on vanity metrics such as traffic rather than $.
I'm fascinated by the work that was put into making this legendary movie. Is there a specific genre name given to movies that have only a few people throughout the entirety of the movie in a closed environment? If there was, Alien would definitely top the list.
If you want even stranger TLDs, look at OpenNIC: https://www.opennic.org/projects/ There's all sorts of weird gTLDs:

https://www.opennic.chan/

https://be.libre/

You can create your own gTLD as long as you follow the rules:

https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/creating_new_tlds
Thank you for the comment!

We have a vision to make future versions of our technology that will be even more inconspicuous. We also have IP on implantable versions of this. For people that live with stroke risk, our current form factor is the first step towards providing some peace of mind :)
And Google's entire Code of Conduct used to be "Don't Be Evil". Things change. Money drives all decisions, at all levels above the visceral.

Unfortunately, historical precedent for any given business entity provides absolute zero evidence of probable future behavior. :-\
True, but a downside is that there may be a correlation between specialization/division of labor and depression/ennui.

I don't have any data handy, but I think we often feel greater satisfaction working through all of the aspects to creating something versus being a "cog in the machine" and specializing in one role. E.g. I'd rather build a boat - have a hand in the design, source the materials, and actually physically build it rather than work in a factory and operate a machine that spits out rudders all day, every day.

Of course, the boats created via mass production are probably going to be cheaper and in many ways better than what a novice manages to put together.
"..you put out some content and the company fires you"

It probably depends on the company and the type of content. I can't see coding tutorials and day-in-the-life type videos causing any problem.

Real example: TechLead is the popular YouTube channel (1m+ subscribers) of an ex-Facebook/ex-Google engineer. His videos skirt the line between parody/satire/hubris (pick your mix).

I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel) 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIJoPkh9IU
Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own
The Disk utility downgrade is still annoying to this day.

The worst example of neglect though imho is how finder still doesn’t have an option to cut when you right click. How hard would it be to add that so folks don’t have to learn a keyboard shortcut?
the comment i was replying to stated:

> Why haven't those vendors been already co-opted by governments (Kaspersky on the Russian side, Microsoft in the USA side) into scanning for illegal, copyrighted or secret material and reporting on it

My reply about the only-recent prevalence of E2EE and HTTPS was an implication that the governments mentioned didn't need to get those companies (such as anti-virus companies, etc) to scan for [insert scary material here] as they would have just been able to hoover it up on the wire (as was shown happens in the US by Snowden)

Thus the question of "Why haven't those vendors been already co-opted by governments" is answered IMO - it wasn't necessary.

Edit: to be fair - i now see what you mean - "never leaving the device and still getting scanned" vs "scanned in transit"
1Password developed a SwiftUI version in parallel to Electron and chose Electron
You can add tags to any data resource in Secoda (table, column, dashboard, dictionary term, etc). When you tag resources, you can search for them by tag. Our customers have found it very useful for keeping everything organized.
> Why can't antibody tests be regarded in the same way as vaccination for 'passport' purposes?

They are for the EU vaccine green pass. A certified recovery is counted the same as being vaccinated.
Well said. I had much the same problem, and all it took to appear more positive, was to distill the message down to "This is how it will work", rather than "This won't work no way, no how".

(I cringe inside, but my paycheck thanks me)
One classic example from microeconomics textbooks is child/adult admission tickets for cinemas. The cost to provide the service (and the constraints on capacity) are the same for both types of ticket. But children have less money than adults (in general) and it's easy to stop an adult posing as a child (by checking ID).

The Netflix example is more complicated, as there are transactions happening at two levels:

* studios are selling content to distributors in different markets

* Netflix is selling subscriptions to consumers in different markets

Also, unlike the single-event case at the top of my post, the service being provided isn't identical for all buyers. Folks in the UK don't get the same bundle of shows as folks in the US.

Even if folks in the UK pay more, that doesn't mean Netflix is OK with them watching all the shows that are available to Netflix US subscribers. Because the creators of those shows sold the UK rights to a different company (e.g. Sky TV) that was willing to pay more than Netflix.

Netflix doesn't care about this directly but, if UK customers bypass the restrictions at too large a scale, the creators/studios won't be willing to sell rights to Netflix in future. Because, by selling rights to Netflix for the US, they reduce the value of the rights they sell to Sky in UK.
Sure I can. It will just take some time to do so.
I'm 60% you're joking, but on the chance you're not.

You couldn't keep Reddit going with 10x that team. Just the tooling around keeping up with GDPR regulations and Trust & Safety alone could easily eat $10m a year.
Brain tissue needs to optimize for a lot of things other than computational efficiency. It needs to stay operational for decades with minimal replacement of parts and it needs to be resilient to a fair amount of bumps, diseases and chemical injury. Silicon chips don't have to be build to survive these conditions so it's possible they can be much more efficient at the computational aspect.
This isn't a technical goal. Why should anyone but Uber's investors care?
Why don't we just start off with OnehundredVer, to make the point that version numbers are arbitrary silliness and nothing whatsoever to do with marketing?
I feel like extraordinary monetization of reddit would ruin reddit, and the reason why people actually like reddit.
Say what you will about Disk Utility. I’d still pick it 10 times out of 10 over Windows Disk Management. It’s still unchanged in Windows 11.
I'm one of those with headache, on my samsung s10e it seems blurred, I have to concentrate to read it well.
Based on their logo it looks like: "one is to x"
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Signed Issue of Macworld #1
Sinovac Vaccine Protects Health Workers from Severe Covid-19 in Delta-Hit Region
What locale is that? I know that e.g. de-DE uses trailing dot to mark ordinal numbers, so "1." means "the first", but it also uses decimal comma instead of decimal point, so there is no confusion.
One potential use of SEV is to provide a secure environment to run a VM at an untrusted provider. That provider could do lots of things with funky motherboards and forced migrations without notice by their clients.

If it's an insider attack on company owner and operated hardware, there's always some reason to have a long downtime, and you can piggyback on that to attack the CPUs... Or just put it in a new system and use the migration setup.

Suggested downtimes, organic or sabotage up to attacker's timeline:

HVAC failure: have to shut down many/most/all servers to manage temperatures until HVAC techs can fix.

Automatic transfer switch failure: these things love to fail at the same time as a utility failure, and aren't always easy to bypass.
This is one of those differences between engineering and software. For physical projects how much something is starting from scratch is kind of arbitrary. Knowing for example the ideal nose cone shapes and tradeoffs is a huge advantage.

I mean this is the best way possible, the Falcon 1 didn’t reinvent the wheel. They basically said what’s the simplest useful rocket for getting stuff to orbit copying as much of the design as they could, and built that.
Death, in the case of some younger (mostly women) people and the AZ vaccine. Canada and other countries literally don't use it for the reason, I believe the US hasn't certified it either. The Pfizer vaccine has been linked to some heart issues but mostly minor and with far less frequency.

(For the record, I got Pfizer)
Several new HPCs are already using AMD [1] and that trend will probably continue if AMD continues to put out competitive products.

[1] See the Top 500 list that, by my count, has 26 of the top 100 HPC systems using AMD EPYC CPUs as of their June 2021 listing https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2021/06/
For years I kept QuickTime 7 Pro around after X came out.

For the record, you can just say save -> change to MP4.

But no, QuickTime X is hot garbage; and pretty much represents the kind of downgrade we got from iMovie HD to iMovie 7/X, or the similarly awful FCP transition.
I don't think its disingenuous. The entire purpose of a contract is because neither party can trust the other to go along with what each other "intends" and therefore has to be written out explicitly in a legally binding document.

I think its an important point to be made.
So, if she weighs the same as a duck... she's a WITCH!
Office Closed on Friday the Thirteenth
It looks like the author needs to play a (hardcore-ish) MMORPG. It's hard to compare the immersion to other types of games.

The interesting thing about metaverse-type propositions is of course the insertion of not just play, but also development, education and work that's a part of our lives as well. MMORPGs are incredible in terms of providing a virtual life but don't enable our development as individuals and society beyond a certain point.
Show HN: Fabform.io an Alternative to Google Forms
https://fabform.io a google forms alernative
Literally why it’s called absurd-sql.
I assume the recent "metaverse" hype is an effort to eventually orchestrate a virtual "land grab" and extract rents in a walled garden system.
fabform https://fabform.io
> One computational fluid dynamics simulation of Tesla valves with two and four segments showed that the flow resistance in the blocking (or reverse) direction was about 15 and 40 times greater, respectively, than the unimpeded (or forward) direction.

> Steady flow experiments, including with the original design, however, show smaller ratios of the two resistances in the range of 2 to 4.

So the simulations are off by a factor of 10? How is this possible?
At my company, email is by far the largest online revenue channel besides organic search. Email marketing software is absolutely critical for customer relationship management.

Without these tools, we have no idea whether someone is opening our emails or not. If they're not opening several of our past emails, we remove them from our list. It's good for them, and for us, as we don't want Gmail or Hotmail flagging us as a spam domain.

We want our email list to consist of qualified leads, not just random people who signed up for a white paper and will likely never actually buy anything from us.

By removing non-engaged subscribers, we can then create customer segments to do things like A/B test different offers. Or set up a one-time offer to only a segment of the email list that hasn't previously engaged with us.
Coronavirus mutations: Much ado about nothing (2020)
Employees cost more than just their salary, but I see your point. So far, their attempts to make reddit more profitable have made the user experience terrible. "New" reddit is way worse than old, and is full of nagging you to use the app on mobile, to the point where you can't even view the content. I've never used the official reddit app because I've heard it's terrible, and there are many great alternatives.

I really don't know what they should do with the money other than make reddit more reliable. It was down last night. The value of reddit is the users/community. Technically, it's a modern message board/link aggregator. There are already many clones.
I have gleet.com just so I can make businesses e-mail me there.

And I registered recoveredlover.com to forward e-mail to my friends who'd already had Covid, back when they were the only people who could safely socialize.
Thank you for pointing this out. We are working on a "educate yourself about stroke" page that we will add in our website.

In the meantime: There are some great resources at

1) cdc : https://www.cdc.gov/stroke/facts.htm
2) aha :https://www.stroke.org/
How to Grieve Like a Spy and Turn Loss into Strength
Cloud Native Tech Talk [video]
I'm going to build a business that offers SQLite as a web service. It will be backed by a P2P network of browser instances storing data in IndexedDB. Taking investment now.
Don’t think it’s possible in this case as this is a bridge between multiple blockchains that they have no control over.
I am not a libertarian, so no, I am not confused about censorship only being a consequence of state action. See: The Catholic Church and many similar entities. Now it's mega corporations. We recently learned, however, that some are working hand in glove with the U.S. federal government when determining what to censor. That this is all under the spectre of impending anti-trust action is not lost on the executives of those companies.
Yeah, it adds to the absurdity of all of this.

Although I do empathize with browers vendors. I worked at Mozilla at the time and was aware that this is a lot of things to think about when integrating something onto the web. I get why it happened, but practically speaking maybe it should have won. It's not like Chrome seems to care much about cross-browser standards these days.

I'm hopeful for a storage layer like this though: https://web.dev/storage-foundation/

It might actually be a better outcome if we get a storage layer with close to native performance, and then you can compile and db/lib/etc and it gets to use it.
Java 5 was still v1.5, except for marketing, iirc. The 1.x versions persisted internally for a few releases.
I have no way of knowing if this was rolled out to 100% of users, or if they updated their embedded tweets to use the font.

But more importantly I just want to see a side-by-side comparison.
Three devops to run a website in the top 25 globally? That would be very impressive!
Tcl hasn't been string based for 20 years, misinformation is hard to eliminate. Since the release of version 8.0 in 2001, Tcl internally has value types for integer, bigints, double, boolean, lists, etc.. As long as you're careful not to cause the internal value to 'shimmer' into a string representation, Tcl maintains the value type as last used. Tcl happily converts values to strings as needed, giving the impression of 'everything is a string'.
Free food to keep people in the office and a giant building in the tenderloin with just enough security gaurds to keep your developers safe inside but unable to safely leave.

also money for rubber ducks
User Engagement is inversely correlated to monetization.
> I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

Let's be clear about this: you are the seller, we are the customer. You can't `agree to disagree` with your customers.

If you don't agree to what some your customers are telling you, then they won't be your customers, and you won't lose just these customers but also all the others who observe your behavior. It is a modified case of repeated prisoner's dilemma. If I observe that you tend to defect on other instances, I will less inclination to cooperate. In other words, your reputation will suffer.

On the consistent user interfaces, the consistency of an app with other apps on the same platform is much more important than the consistency of that app across platforms. Even if you use multiple platforms, you switch much more frequently between apps on the same platform than between different instances of one app across platforms.
> now spending years discovering why we have regulations, laws, contracts, courts etc.

Which is funny as for the longest time crypto's argument was that FIAT regulations/manipulation only protects the rich, not individuals. Well here we are talking about network that rolled back because some rich people lost money and another example of organizing one of the biggest manhunts in crypto history because of a code bug abuse. Yet average people who lose money are being told "code is law", should have watched your keys or made smarter investments fool!

Maybe medium is not the issue here...
Anonymity really hurts profits.
The worst part is we understand the concept of meters. A meter is very roughly the size of a yard. When a youtube vide says "100 meters or 328 feet", that really doesn't help.

I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.

In the context of these types of videos the 9% difference is size from yard to meter makes absolutely no difference.

So just gimme the darn meters.
> Unfortunately we do not know that for certain.

If they were forced the searches would be an unlawful violation of the constitution. Various tech companies have repeatedly testified under oath that they are performing the searches of customer data of their own free will and for their own benefit.

I wouldn't argue that it's an impossibility-- but if true it would be a shocking revelation that would result in hundreds or even thousands of cases being overturned once it was exposed. And if it were true it shouldn't improve our opinion of Apple's actions in the slightest: instead of being just an unethical invasion of privacy for commercial gain, they'd instead be complicit in a secret conspiracy to illegally violate the rights of hundreds of millions of Americans.
So far 99.86% of Swedes didn't die of COVID-19.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
Happy to help...at least a bit.
It already is. I do text searches all the time here and have paid for a subscription for awhile now.
Women's suffrage is important. I'd argue denying half the population to vote is similar in degree to a handful of mega corporations determining what is and isn't good science. But it is a difference in kind.
I’m also a big fan of the diskutil command line utility.
Sure, base your entire argument on knowing absolutely nothing about me. You can still go to your climbing gym and climb and socialize without sitting 2 feet apart from all your friends. Like we used to do during the pandemic. But people are choosing not to do so now. There's more to life than HN usernames.

Welcome to the actual real world. Where you will eventually have to take responsibility for your choices despite your deep denial that your choosing to ignore social distancing is actually a subconscious reaction to feeling a lack of control or something and an intentional refusal to distance. That's why you politicize it.
Naturally when I got the idea I checked this domain first. It’s probably for the best that they price them this way, at least for short domains.

I think it’s a considerably shittier to charge a premium for <6-letter-dictionary-word>.dev however.
I was expecting some oddities for Portuguese, given an old chain shift*, but it looks surprisingly normal in comparison with Italian and Spanish.

Also, someone should check the data for ⟨azul-marinho⟩, it's usually a deeper blue than ⟨azul⟩.

*⟨roxo⟩ went from red to purple, while ⟨vermelho⟩ went from an orange-red hue to red.
As a side note when in Brazil I felt like "vegetarian" food meant "just little bit of meat" and "caipirinha without sugar" meant "just don't mix (the layer of sugar at the bottom)" :) Did love it though.
On point - Its /wan-iz-tu-ex/ - referring to scale like 1:100, 1:500, 1:5 etc. In design, especially tangible design subjects like industrial design and architecture, everything is prototyped at some scale or proportions that is friendly to understand the design development.
But it does feel like it's dying.

For example r/linux has "679169 readers", but if you go to the /new page you'll see it has only had 16 submissions in the past day.

New users are automoderated and shadowbanned to hell. There are subreddits where the experienced users with new accounts go and users upvote each other until they have enough karma to post where they want.
It doesn't matter. Your personal actions have essentially zero impact on Apple or any other large tech company. This isn't to discourage you from picking the devices and software that align with your values - do that as you please. Just don't think that you're making an actual impact on the rest of the world because you really aren't.
The framework/API, but the app is very much not deprecated as it is still bundled with the OS.
There are periodic waves of fear that the machine will, in fact, stop. The machine being an immeasurably complex global network of just-in-time delivery, high efficiency (but not necessarily sustainable) food production and so on. That once broken, this system may not be easily restarted, at least quickly enough to prevent disaster.

Y2K and COVID being the most recent such waves. Probably this is why this old short story still resonates so strongly.
There is nothing you can do to reduce the power of big tech until free software can provide an appealing option for regular people.

The best thing you can do to help is pick a problem that stands in the way of regular users adopting free software and dedicate yourself to working on it for 10 years. I don’t mean quit your job. I mean just keep the long game in mind. If you don’t have the skills now, start anyway and learn them as you go.

If a just few thousand people did this, the world would change a lot in a decade. If a decade seems like a long time, it is less time than it took either the iPhone or Facebook to become what they are today, and both of them took relentless effort by developers.
Right, yes. There are certainly some things you need to know off the top of your head to facilitate learning. Generally the sets of data we explicitly have to memorize are fine- I’m more talking about exams where you’re tested over minutia rather than your understanding of the content as a whole.

For example, I took a history exam where it asked “which of these books was not important to the civil rights movement?” listing three books explicitly mentioned in one sentence of the text and one that wasn’t. That’s the kind of memorization we need to get rid of- we need to be teaching people how to analyze concepts as a whole rather than simply being able to regurgitate the text.