skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is the tech world is changing very fast. If you're going to sit idle hoping to make the same amount of cash every year, you're going to disappear within 5-6 years. Not liking where Discord is headed either, just saying some change is necessary not only for growing, but for staying relevant.
Discord is the classic freemium monopoly trap. They want to capture market share with a walled garden and once they do they will alter the terms to milk out every last drop of revenue they can before everyone jumps ship to the new new thing.
> i.e. a newsfeed algorithm that had better engagement.

Sometimes (but rarely) I click on something because I ask myself "Why would these a---- show me this? I want to know more about what's behind it in order to understand what could have made their algorithm chose me as a candidate for this content". Or to check where the scam-URL would lead me to, because this also happens, that ads sold on Google and Facebook are scams, links leading to malware.

Congratulations to them, if they think that this is the kind of engagement which should be valued, that any kind of engagement is a good and healthy engagement. These companies are so rotten and their engineers just don't care.
I run https://pidtuner.com
- GNU Octave for development and testing
- Emscripten, Armadillo and C++ for deployment code
- Static html, css, js (bunch of libs)
- Github for main hosting, Cloudflare for domain and CDN.
A guy from the village I grew up in became a millionaire with a business processing old EUR-pallets into wood chips.

Now he's getting into "sustainable" energy based on burning those woodchips. Note that this isn't about electricity, it's about delivering heat or steam from a "sustainable" source. From what I gather (through village gossip, admittedly) is that the whole process is, and I know this will piss off some people here when I say this but hear me out, heavily underregulated: nobody checks for whether the wood being burned might have been chemically treated, no need for air filters on the small furnaces being built shockingly close to villages, no problem if the hot steam from the furnace crosses half a km of open field without insulating the pipes, and so on.

And he gets millions in government subsidies of course, because "green" energy.
Disclaimer, I’m European and have only been in SFBA for 5months in my life.

Maybe the solution is not to build more residential to keep growing, but instead to limit implantation of new jobs/companies to limit the growth to a sustainable decent value? The result would be to limit real estate price, but without making the Bay Area a hellscape of concrete towers.

I understand it is controversial, but do we really want to transform the Bay Area (which still has some really fine natural beauty and neighborhoods) into the hellscape that are some Chinese (or European) concrete tower based suburbs? Do we still want to keep centralizing more?

Sadly free market + democracy means either the homeowners side are in charge and keep the status quo so their property prices go up. Or the renters side might one day win, and start sacrificing this nice place to make concrete prisons for everyone. The current system ensures that the optimal thing to do will never happen.
‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
We have way too many people in IT who haven't read Joel's blog.

A good 90% of the things he wrote about are still perfectly valid advice today. And it prevents you from reinventing the wheel.
Additionally, I guess there are also many people, myself included, who download stuff again, but I don't use torrents, as I have indeed been burned in the past by that. I now use forums that link to encrypted Mega accounts or similar.
> In which way? Discord is miles behind Matrix in terms of privacy features. It does not even support e2ee for PMs or self-hosted servers or federation. They probably don't even plan to implement that ever.

I actually laughed out loud as I read this.

I mean I'm sure you're not wrong, it's just that vanishingly few people do or will care about self-hosted servers or federation. Hell, if anything those would be anti-selling points, since it almost invariably complicates the UX, especially for initial setup.
I use teams at work. I hadn’t used discord much but then did for a hackthebox CTF.

I found discord way better for work that involves dynamic collaboration ie where folk are often working individually or jumping into each other’s streams to work together.

To achieve something similar in teams we have an open all day meeting that people pop into but it’s sub par vs the discord model.
Is there a way to stop news aggregs like HN to stop showing pay walled content
Hi,

Just wondering how useful it is to have pay walled content posted on Hackernews and why there is no option to see/block it upfront?

More and more content behind the pay wall is posted to HN littering the section.

So who is doing it? Why? Getting on one's nerves by suggestions and then hitting the pay wall makes it not more possible to get more subscription.
I don't even have the possibility to pay easily and if I see something interesting but paywalled, I look up Google for exact that information - and sometimes find something more interesting than this paywall providers offer.

So what's the idea behind making the HN unusable in some terms

(Disc. No offense. I just try to understand why this is done and whether the one's doing that is really not realizing, that doing so might have negative impact?)
>Windows 2000, yes.

Absolutely, i love W2k. No bling-bling no bloat, the last lean and honest windows....serenity-os devs think the same it looks ;)

I used w2k until windowsXPsp2 was released, XP was a least for me bloody unstable before sp2.
The carbon cost of 1 litre of petroleum is 2.4kg. You need to factor in the emissions through the entire production and distribution chain.

Not doing that is like comparing emissions to electric vehicles whilst assuming a carbon cost of 0 for the electricity.
But it means that vaccines are better than we think. If people are vaccinated and then gradually all get infected with the covid, infections still being largely asymptomatic or light symptomatic, these people will get lasting protection with negligible health costs.
It strikes me the best cure is to restrict copyright to force federation - if you sell to one company who retails to consumers in a geo locality then you're required to make available to any company at that price.

Streaming services would be forced to compete in everything except content. Creators would still be paid.

Copyright isn't a natural right, it should be continually adapted to serve the public.

What are the problems with this?

My personal views, of course.
Can you expand on this? I can't remember ever having a registry problem caused by XP itself, nor any issues with TCP/IP. Drivers are a fair call, though.
Hollywood, of which netflix used to stand alone but has now been completely assimilated, has ceased making anything of quality in favor of only making things based on the identity politics of the people involved. There hasn't been a good netflix original since orange is the new black and there probably will never be, at least for years to come.
Desktop applications can track, Web always tracks.

And if by offline you mean PWAs, unless you are doing Hello World, that app cache is going to be cleared and then analytics can be updated.

Finally, there is very little a pure PWA can do without doing HTTP and Websocket requests.
I had a problem with the lighting in my Logitech mouse. I desoldered all the LEDs :)
Yes the scale is fascinating! 2018 per capita emissions in the USA are 15 tons of carbon dioxide per person. So 1 million tons is the yearly emissions for 66,666 people.

Still early days. We need to get 2x better at carbon removal every 12 months for the next decade to get to gigaton scale carbon removal.

See my note about AirMiners Boot Up below http://bootup.airminers.org
They're shoving the agenda down our throats. A lot of shows become overly politicized, with messages of trans rights, BLM, and other stuff being injected to such a degree that it becomes too much and frankly artificial.

I'm not against political and societal messages in TV shows and movies - that has been done for decades, but not if it takes away from the writing and quality of the show. We see that in extreme levels at the moment.
How might a streaming service be designed to increase user happiness and wellbeing?

From a positive design perspective, could certain streaming features give users a greater sense of purpose or goal accomplishment (e.g., mastering a genre) or help users meaningfully connect to others (e.g., seeing what friends have recommended lately)?

While measuring the effects of a feature on wellbeing outcomes is substantially harder than measuring the effects of a feature on engagement (time spent), it is worth measuring/optimizing in the long run. The hypothesis is that capitalist enterprises that make their users feel happier and more fulfilled will, in the end, be more successful than enterprises that merely provide empty satisfaction. If not, the future could be very bleak.
Here, I’ll play devil’s advocate, even though I may have dabbled in anabolics once or twice. (Kidding, DEA! Obviously! D.A.R.E. worked for me!)

The potential side effects are real. Very real. It requires a high degree of information literacy to do even a basic testosterone cycle, as you need to understand the injection frequency, how to control estrogen on cycle, and post-cycle therapy. It’s not like weed, were you can just go buy a vape cartridge. It’s a little complex, and liable to end up going poorly in the most interested market of young naïve men.

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Now, that’s the best argument, though if you’re libertarian minded, it’s still a terrible argument.

Of course the real truth is…do you have money? Do you live in or near a large city? If you do, there are “male enhancement clinics” who are more than happy to provide you with testosterone and maybe more, and guide you through all the side effects and post-cycle therapy. It is trivially easy to get ahold of steroids, and it is not hard to find a doc who will look the other way.
Native can track, Web always does.
> This whole "vaccinated people have higher viral loads of Delta in their mouths" thing makes me doubt your understanding of the science, as well.

Why are changing what I said? I never said mouth. Where are you getting that from?

Please refrain from using snark and ad-hominem attacks on HN. Especially when you yourself seem to not understand that kids are the least vulnerable group.
First of all netflix is good service.

I don't like their ui. This is ridiculous to play trailer on thumbnail hover. I had almost headache first few min using their ui.
Of course it's not dependent on it being Apple. It could just as well have been Google.

And the difference is that Apple gave them what they needed to mandate this while still claiming that they preserve privacy.
Don't power plants have higher efficiency than ICEs anyway, even if combined with the efficiency of electric engines? Correct me if I am wrong.
Really amazing, X Windows, RDP, VNC, Views,... never happened.
Context: I work on carbon removal

Interesting seeing this thread at midnight PST on HN -- assuming this is the Europe crowd, hello!

Curious for people's thoughts about perception of these technologies around the world. Have you heard about carbon removal outside of this article?
Yeah, the title seems to be against HN editorial policy.
The preview is amazing! How many customers you had so far?
I believe they said Polluter Pays.
As I recall, it worked exactly like a modern live CD, with no state saved to the disk.
They don’t want you to watch obscure shows, they want you to watch the top ones (in your region!) as they are preloaded into your cdn already.
It isn't a new currency in the sense that you can, as a central back, configure the server to use "your" currency, and begin converting cash into taler tokens.

For the demo it's unfeasible to use a preexisting currency, because they can't give out free money :-). So the obv. solution was taken to configure their server for a imaginary currency (KUDOS & TESTKUDOS) 100 if which are created out of thin air after you register.

To get started, I'd recommend downloading the wallet (extension or mobile[0]) and registering an account with their demo bank.
With the creation of that account, you should receive 100KUDOS tokens of which you can withdraw to your mobile phone / extension. Do so and you'll get a QR code to scan with the amount of KUDOS selected on the web interface.
With that "money" you can now go to their demo shop and "buy" excerpts from rms's Free Software, Free Society, or "donate" to a few projects (try donating 5 kudos to simulate a malicious merchant), by again, scanning a QR-Code.

If you want to know the details, I'd recommend the paper "How to issue a central bank digital currency[1]" which is very much like Taler.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.taler.wallet.fdroid

[1]: https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03
This was the top link on HN an hour ago and now it’s not even on the front page.
FTA:

> At Orca, this task is accomplished with a blast of heat, which is sourced from a nearby hydrothermal vent

What do they do if there's no hydrothermal vent ? Is the solution still efficient with other energy sources (for example a wind turbine) ?
This. I have a 4 year old MBP with a screen issue that's obviously not my fault. Apple refuses to fix it.
Tips to Improve as a Software Developer
One day I realized that getting dragged into the bingebait series constantly thrown at me just made me depressed. After canceling the streaming services I feel I'm not missing any of it. Also I read more books now. Whatever makes you happy I guess..
Could you name at least two other platforms that offer at least

Decent chat (file sharing, emojis, support for code snippets), decent voice chat, decent streaming and supports PUSH2TALK button? and I personally prefer when it is not self-hosted due to DDoS risk

Because I'm unable to name and that's why I started using Discord
Depending on transmission losses, yes. Theoretically, power plants could also have better exhaust scrubbing and carbon capture, but most currently don't.
As a developer of an application, I have no special relationship with Debian. It’s nice they exist, and I do recognize the important role they’ve played in Linux, but still as a maintainer & author I don’t care about them and their practices and requirements any more than Homebrew, or a bunch of other Linux distros/packaging projects. Is what you wrote consistent with what I just wrote?
Very clever. Slogans and visibility really work.

Is there a high resolution CO2 ppm map? Or does it not work like that, in terms of physical visibility?

Perhaps a big red blob marked “Coca Cola” or “Pitsburg” might kick things a bit more into action?
I’m surprised that doctors are prescribing TRT, with testosterone enenthate, but then only having the patient inject once a week. That half-life is really sputtering out by the end of the week.

(Well, I know why—like you said, compliance. But c’mon, left cheek on Monday, right check on Thursday, easy enough.)
The opposite imo. Vaccines are as good as natural immunity.

You can get a vaccine and risk minimal side effects or you can risk getting Covid and then risk getting the extreme effects that put you in the hospital or ground.

Guess it depends on how risk averse you are, but the end payoff is the same anyway.

I do hate how people seem to shit on natural immunity as if it's obviously worse than a vaccine.
In the future, everything is streamed. You don't own the content.
For comparison, estimates of the yearly costs created by 1.5 degree warming seems to be around 5T/year (e.g. [1]).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66275-4
Hi! European here.

No I haven't heard of carbon removal at all.

I guess I'll have to start reading the article, without immediately resorting to comments ;-)
Thank you for your kind words. This situation is something close to my heart, I think privacy should be a fundamental right for everyone, and it is essential to inform people.
I’m not sure what country you live in, so this may not apply to you, but most countries, including mine (USA) do heavily incentivize the use of green energy. Globally, renewable energy growth is accelerating, now that costs have come down so far. It’s both/and, not either/or.

One other thing is that EVs have huge potential for energy storage. Smart energy policy will effectively use EVs as both a source and sink. In the daytime, when solar is dominant, EVs can charge at work. At night, they can discharge and power your home (V2G). There aren’t many EVs that do this currently (there aren’t many EVs at all currently), but many, like the F150 Electric, will.
Poland is doable if you stay out of major cities. You can rent a studio for $300 (incl. all utilities). Food, if you cook, will cost you $200-$250 ($300-$400 if you don't cook and want to eat out only). Wired Internet and cell phone will be around $20. State-provided health insurance is about $120 per month (this is "socialized medicine", so it provides everything with no deducible, up to treating cancer etc.), but can possibly be gamed - there are loopholes that de facto allow you to pay insurance only once you need it (may be too hard to navigate for someone who's not a native speaker though). Btw the health insurance is "free" if you get any kind of job, even working couple hours a week.

Also, Poland should be a great place to actually run your game studio company from, as the tax on "IT innovation" (should not be hard to include games in this category) is only 6% - everything after that ends up in your pocket (i.e. no further dividend tax etc is required).

Assuming you won't be getting a car, public transit and Uber/taxis are affordable as well - a 5 km trip via Uber should perhaps be around $4.

I suspect other countries in the region should have similar numbers. Healthcare system and tax incentives should definitely be the biggest differentiator.
The bullshit is double dipped as well. You can push bullshit policy and then you can push FUD againts good policy by claiming its just greenwashing. It happens in every corner of politics but its pretty frustrating none the less.
Just tested with MacOS's VoiceOver utility. Yup, it's "ay eleven why"
That's a good question, I don't know the answer to that. One thing to include though is transmission loss to get the electricity to the place it's needed. And at the same time of course include the energy used to get petrol to a gas guzzling car. In other words, the comparison needs to be fair, and that doesn't sound like an easy analysis. I'd be interested to hear from anyone that knows more about this.
Choice Words about the Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript Dialogs
lol this is the most pointless idea ever
I mean, yes, public relations as a whole is getting better and better.
I never understood how parents could disown their children. It's some kind of social brainwashing. It makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective.

By disowning your own children, you're giving an advantage to other people's children (whose parents haven't disowned them)... Some of these kids are downright rotten.
Maybe a bit off topic but wanted to share: For anyone who wants to watch classic and top films from across the world, please check out The Criterion Channel[1]. Their collection has movies such as Solaris and other films from Andrei Tarkovsky etc.

[1] https://www.criterionchannel.com
The truth is, when it comes to negative externalities (like CO2, for instance), government just loves to give out subsidies rather than to create taxes. In economic theory, taxes (which can be then refunded to citizens as dividends), not subsidies (which require to leave the decision on the government instead of free market), are the correct solution to the externality problem. But in practice, regulatory capture and the general hate of taxes cause this not to be implemented. (Although sometimes industrial subsidies can be useful, since markets can also fail and be too slow. Many industries were built faster on subsidies.)
It infuriates some people. Others will say "oh neat, I was thinking about buying a costume from that site and now I can save $5" and buy it.

This stuff is done because it works.
The existing law and user agreement also sets your rights.

Apple might have done what you say last month, illegally.

Now it's in the user agreement and they can do it legally, at scale.

This literally creates a precedent.
An antibody test will give you the proof. And also help determine more accurately how long antibodies last.
Why do people accept being treated like children?

iPhone=Disneyland, Linux=Real world
It's a shame the UI elements built into HTML are so lacking, which I think is what ultimately drives people do things like this.

Look at <select multiple> for example—the browser built-in is borderline unusable. Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user. Same goes for <select>s that need more advanced behaviour like filtering. There's <datalist>, but it's incredibly basic and pretty useless for most cases you'd want that sort of input.

The web is an app platform whether we like it or not, and I'd like to see a robust set of browser-native controls with mechanisms to customise styling and behaviour. It would improve accessibility, improve performance, reduce page sizes (because we wouldn't be re-implementing the whole world in JS), and it would at least go a little way to offsetting the slow erosion of quality desktop software that web technologies are bringing.
Related concept of Upadana

"Upādāna is a Sanskrit and Pali word that means "fuel, material cause, substrate that is the source and means for keeping an active process energized".[1][2] It is also an important Buddhist concept referring to "attachment, clinging, grasping".[3] It is considered to be the result of taṇhā (craving), and is part of the dukkha (suffering, pain) doctrine in Buddhism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%C4%81d%C4%81na
I do get a lot results that way on Netflix on failed searches… It doesn’t present only lexically similar results (“streetcar”) but thematically related films (classics, of the same era and related directors or cast)

My main issue with Netflix is that where I live their movie catalog (esp. classics), is very short, seemingly in favor of Netflix’s own produced “shovelware”.

Also, regarding a search for “the office”, how would Netflix know not to recommend the US version if you’re looking for the UK one and vice versa? That’s such a specific nitpick…
I have to admit I am almost surprised by this. Microsoft has quite some experience with bad chat software. You would think they learned one or two things that they can do better. I

I have to work with Teams every day and many times I wonder who thought the way it works is a good idea? There are so many other decent products mentioned here like Discord, Mattermost, Slack. Just nick a few ideas from each and set up a not exciting but equally decent chat software. Somehow Microsoft managed to make it worse ..
The one feature I want more than anything in the world (and seems to be stalled in Chrome land, which means it’s stalled overall since chrome tends to drive the standards) is the streams API (aka websockets with backpressure). There’s no easy way for clients to signal to servers that they’re overwhelmed, and the result is either saturating the network or the CPU since the message handlers are synchronous.
> All Web applications are spyware and security is not given, hence OWASP.

Web apps are still the most secure platforms to date, nothing widespread really came close in terms of sandboxing & safety.