skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Though you can use private addresses for private networks:

Yeah, but then they are not addressable outside your network, right?
Good write-up, thanks for that! What you say is largely my take as well. It's just strange they'd use such high frequencies and no one I've talked to about this has been able to explain why. I hoped there might be an mobile network engineer here who might know more. Like you say they could be rolling out regular 5G first, then update it later. If true I don't expect it to stay hidden forever but there's already so much spying through existing networks (including for example US spying on high ranking EU leaders) that most people have gotten almost numb to it and I suspect they'd accept it as yet another way they're tracked and go on with their lives. I don't trust these standard organizations like IEEE and 3GPP. The IEEE P802.11 task group for that Wlan sensing capability is chaired by a guy from Huawei for example. Who in their right mind would think that a good idea, disregarding the questionable nature of that functionality as a regular standard in the first place.
Got a few this{thing}doesnotexist.com for AI projects.
Space Invaders came out the day I was born.
I didn't realize that Saran wrap changed formulations. I just did some googling[0] and apparently it was because the original material emitted chlorine and other unspecified toxic chemicals when burned in municipal incinerators.

0: https://journaltimes.com/business/local/ceo-explains-why-sc-...
Thank you. Really appreciate your input. I did read that Vice article before and recently shared it here as well.

From what I remember at the time /r/coronavirus and /r/china_flu removed any discussion about "leaks" (or were they?) from China. On the other hand, not all the "leaks" discussed in /r/Wuhan_Flu turned out to be what they seemed (videos of people "dropping dead" on the streets etc.).
This response strikes at the heart of the issue. Until the wild distortions in the property market are fixed (imo, specifically until Prop 13 gets repealed or significantly amended) big, expensive cities in California will continue have increasing crime problems.

As you can probably imagine, community policing is difficult if you're not a member of the community. And as the cost of living goes up while property taxes remain artificially depressed due to prop 13, the disparity between what municipalities are able to pay for police (which is partially funded by property taxes), and how much those police will need to afford to live there, will continue to grow. It seems like a slow, self-reenforcing downward spiral that will only get re-set if the quality of life deteriorates to the point where people actually start moving out of these communities.
No. It was Stalin's policy (his word was law). Stalin was a Georgian.
^ This! The California population is 39 million. The bay area population is 7.7 million. With the 7,000 new apartments coming online we should see a sharp housing price decrease. Problem solved. lol.
Have you ever been to a homeless shelter? There's a reason homeless live on the street even in areas that have shelter availability.
Take yourself out of the tech bubble. Go to places where you mention python and people think about a snake, not the language. The detachment between what's available already and what people think is possible is often so huge.
I flew into Fukuoka once and out of the window could see beautiful beaches in sheltered shallow bays completely empty. No one on the beach, no one sailing or swimming. Asked my hosts about it and they said no one goes in the water because it's polluted. That's was a damn shame.
What is your suggestion? That only 5% become homeowners/property owners and we're basically back to feudalism?
I think Firefox and Chromium are good examples of what direction can be expected of mainstream open source projects that end up being steered by a company with commercial needs.

Both got forked a bunch, but the mother project remains the popular one due to user stickiness and, frankly, sheer amount of (paid) effort invested compared to small-scale volunteer efforts. Users can still choose to go with Iceweasel, disabled Pocket integration or Ungoogled Chromium or whatever fork de jour, but generally they don't because "the ecosystem keeps moving". They generally get more desirable things added than annoyances. Unless a company gets it wrong and you get a WhatsApp-level backlash to make another competitor viable.

With constantly moving goalposts, commercial interests can keep the upper hand as the community (and much other competition) can't keep up fast enough. That's why Google keeps pushing the web into ever new directions, and why standardized APIs got replaced by ever-changing Electron apps with mandatory auto-update.

If the popular distributions ship with ads, I'm not afraid as long as there is competition out there that does without. I can always do Arch or Debian instead of Ubuntu and I know they'll do the right thing.

Where it gets dangerous is when the base technology is controlled by commercial interests. Microsoft owning secure boot certificates, Android not getting drivers upstreamed, Apple deciding who gets to compete by owning the App Store. Linux may end up in this spot at some point if a particular vendor (or consortium of commercial interests) becomes too powerful compared to the community and smaller competition. Once it gets there, the only escape is having viable alternatives.

If you rely on commercial software, your alternatives come with huge switching costs. Chromium to Firefox is a little tedious, Mac to Linux is a major disruption. The more you rely on a particular piece of commercial software, the more they can control you.

But competition generally does the trick. I don't mind games being closed source, there are so many quality alternatives that the game studios simply can't lock most users in. Now, app stores for games? That's where you want to be cautious, because they control what competition looks like. Operating systems and drivers? If they turn on you, better start swearing and leaving investments behind. Chip-level DRM? Zero leverage, ask your government for help and if they're not willing, you're screwed.

So really, commercial software isn't that much of an issue high up in the stack. The lower you get, the more careful you want to be about end user communities retaining control. Let the companies make apps, let them sell apps, don't let them grow platforms. The platforms should belong to users.

If a company comes along and makes a commercial platform out of Linux, run.
Reading this was a ton of fun. It captured the joy and sense of discovery that comes with figuring out how to do something you really weren't meant to do.
The Rise and Fall of Didi, the World’s Ride-Hailing Giant
Yes, if you actually want to stay in California, rising house prices only actually benefit you if you never want to buy a larger house - but the weird tax laws also disincentivize downsizing. If the smaller house costs more than your current house did when you bought it, you’ll see a significant property tax rise.

I believe that, to counter this, There are some counties where if you move to a smaller house, you get to keep a tax rate akin to what it would’ve cost you at the time you purchased your old house!
I think inflationary monetary policy (a good thing) more or less guarantees that in dollar terms (the thing that matters for prop 13) prices will go up every year. I think prop c does allow for some price adjustment for inflation, but it has a crazily low cap
Show HN: A static site generator built for longevity
Hi HN,

This is an open source project I've worked on over weekends for a long time. The goal is to create a tool well suited for websites you expect to be around for 5 or 10+ years.

Would love any thoughts you have on it.

The reason why I decided to build this is all other (JS-based) static site generators I tried had one or of these problems:

- Built on an underlying framework like React, Vue, etc.

- Relies on complex build tools like Webpack, Babel, etc.

- Depends on a massive tree of modules that force constant maintenance

- Has interfaces, source code and documentation that cannot be understood in one sitting

- Requires that your site source be organized in a way that looks nothing like your output

- Forces a huge leap from hello world to a real world implementation

Thanks,

naansequitur

EDIT - List formatting
FWIW JS apps are indexed by Google. I run FastComments, and the JS rendered comment threads are indexed.
Here's another classic one from 50 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
A friend of mine used to work at Western Digital. He had a magnet from a 10k RPM SCSI drive on his cubicle. If you tried to lift it straight off rather than pry it, you would just lift the cubicle.
It doesn't, we didn't call them trolls on Usenet as a positive thing. The first trolls were still assholes and existed mainly to disrupt conversation and try to start fights between each other. If the height of your personal accomplishments was starting a vicious flamewar you were just a jerk. Hacker on the other hand did not involve the current negative connotations.
The term “peak hackernews” gets bandied about quite a bit lately. I’m here to bandy it a bit more. This is peak hackernews. Somebody writes up how they managed to play doom on a fucking polycom, and the reaction is to dismiss it because it isn’t immediately readable on an iphone. This kid wrote a graphics driver for a twenty year old phone, but hackernews can’t be bothered to view the site in reader mode or grab their laptop.

At least I’m assuming they wrote a graphics driver. I don’t know for sure because the article won’t load for me.
And how am I supposed to know it's on pip or docker? The command should be smack dab in the middle of the front page of their site.

Oh and on a default Ubuntu install I have nejither pip nor docker.

If I have to do that much, I might as well not use Ansible and just use my existing bash scripts, which take care of installing pip and docker as well as absolutely everything else. All my existing system setups are just

curl https://something/something | bash

which is SO much simpler.
> it could just push companies to weed out depressed people from their hiring pool

I’m not saying this is the best metric but they would find that sort of treatment to be highly ineffective. Lifetime prevalence of depression and the depression at any given time are different things; it would be like trying to weed out all future cases of flu based on symptoms at hire time. Either way it wouldn’t make a dent on flu caused by the work environment itself.
> I'm tired of being forced to 'log in' to services just to read important information (now being trialed by Twitter and Reddit as well!).

As a non-user of both Twitter and Reddit, I'm genuinely curious about what "important information" is there that isn't anywhere else? Presumably I'm missing something big?
Much appreciated! However, that was just an example.

Subreddits tend to be great for niche interests, but less so for specific intersections.

Ideally, if enough people listed their interests on an anonymous platform, I could at anytime see previous discussions on any combination of interests (and also participate).
Her review wasn't merely negative. It had material lies, so this was appropriate.
Ah yes, the nebulous "long covid". In my day, we called it hypochondria
Yeah I personally prefer businesses I can just call directly for delivery/pickup. If they know my number they know my order and payment info.
> But I also don't think everyone who is currently homeless in CA is in as bad shape as the ones you most notice.

I beg to differ. I've spent significant time around what could be broadly categorized as "the homeless" in California, specifically in LA and OC, over the last 13 years. As recently as 3 days ago, I was searching for a mentally ill and homeless family member in LA. Last I heard he was on the coast, but I wasn't able to find anyone who knew or had seen him. This is an annual or bi-annual occurrence for me. Sure I'm not out there every day, but I feel as though I am competent on the subject. I certainly have more time in rank than most people that speak up on this one.

If you offered an SRO to most of the people that I've come across in the last 10 years, they'd tell you to go fuck yourself.
IANL but just installing and using GPL software is not subjecting the user to any exploitative conditions. Only if the user tries to create a derivative work (linking) and redistribute that.
congrats, I was looking for something like this, but tried 5 different apps and gave up. there's a bunch of these apps. how do you stand out?
And then when they defecate on your doorstep and urinate on your porch, what do you do? Offer them treatment, they refuse, so you "respect their rights" and move on? Wash, rinse, repeat?

It is strange that people have absolutely no problem banning camping in national parks but think it is a human right to do it in urban areas. Cities, in order to survive, need to enforce standards of behavior, and those who flaunt those standards need to be coerced into following them if there is to be a large number of people living in a small urban area.
I just looked at a few lists of the most racially diverse cities in the U.S. and SF doesn't make any of those lists.

San Francisco also has a disproportionately low amount of black folks living there.
I always thought Perl was the originator of this style, which would explain why it's been in Ruby forever.

I wonder where it started if it existed before Perl.
Try living there for a month 1st.. it has significantly changed.
Why do bats have such bizarrely long lifespans? (2019)
“The Macbeth”
I have friends more invested in housing issues than I am. But they generally agree with my assessment that without fixing transportation issues there is only downsides for homeowners and even renters to new development. It definitely seems like developers don't want to to pay a cent for mass transit. The just want to build lux houses and lofts in some neighborhood and then run away with the money.

I think Scott Wiener is right. Build mass transit and allow developers build housing close in.
Yeah, just like PVC pipes, PVDC emits HCl, chlorine, and organochlorides if you burn it. (Not as nasty as the cyanides that come from burning meat, but still nasty.) But they stopped selling it everywhere, not just places that have municipal incinerators, and (just as with WD) they didn't change the name.
Where do you keep the rest of the things that you need to do at some time? Like do you mainatin some other list of all the things that need/want to do, but not necessarily do today?
This blog post is a huge overgeneralization of large tech companies. You can't extrapolate from one bad experience at one team at Apple to say that all teams at Apple are bad. And you definitely can't then also conclude that all of FAANG is bad.
This has to do with collusion between the ultra wealthy class, the media class, and the political class.
It highly depends on the use case. When people interact with a piece of software all day every day, they tend to appreciate having more information/actions available at a glance. Simple interfaces are better for casual users, but they generally mean more clicking around and tend to be slower to use for experts.
That's like the definition of 2FA/MFA
Ah ok, so maybe there is a need of a term for online pranksters.
I hear about it once in a while, and it looks like the opposite of what I do. It has a book, a website, and a weirdly obsessed reddit community. It got the Agile treatment.

I just write stuff on paper, and write the date at the top of the page.
You’re not wrong but you also miss the point. I subscribe to both the Economist, a newspaper that covers a range of topics and Stratechery, a newsletter that specialises in tech.

On any tech topic Stratechery dives in deep, analysing the incentives, actions and outcomes of each player. Every quarterly report from the big tech companies is analysed. The author also has the courage to make predictions, many of which turn out to be true. It’s worth the money in my book.

The Economist also covers tech topics but at a high level, and for an audience that isn’t tech inclined. Take for example, this gem of an article - Why Companies Struggle With Recalcitrant IT (https://www.economist.com/business/2020/07/18/why-companies-...). For a layman it’s a great intro on software is always delayed and over budget. For those of us who work in IT, it’s all obvious stuff.

A person familiar with IT might say “go deeper, talk about other issues”. In fact, I did just that. I contacted the author and pointed out a couple of difficulties in software that increase complexity, like dependency management. The author was aware of this already but chose not to add this for the sake of keeping the article a manageable length [1].

That’s what the Economist does - covers a wide range of topics, while not assuming the reader is knowledgeable about any of it. Even though finance focussed newspaper, they painstakingly explain every term before they use it. But these two constraints - covering breadth and not assuming knowledge mean there is a limit to how deep they can go on any topic.

If you find a newspaper that analyses every topic in the world to your desired level of detail, please let us know. Also, if the newspaper isn’t staffed by aspiring fiction writers gratifying themselves by writing impossibly large “long reads”, that would be even better.

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[1] - their response to my letter :

Dear nindalf,

Thank you for your letter. You're right, of course - I've always thought it's a bit like an ancient city like Istanbul, with modern buildings sitting on top of layers of old architecture that's only half-mapped and whose builders are long forgotten. Unfortunately there wasn't space to get too evocative in the piece itself.

I've forwarded your letter for publication, though, because it's an important point.

Best,

Tim Cross

Technology Editor

The Economist
It's literally on the first page of the docs. I don't see what is so hard about this. Most of these frameworks require some research so that you understand the tool works.

As an aside, I feel such crusty syseng vibes right now. These young folk want it all point and click, apt-get, spotify me. Are you seriously a grown ass human person in the same industry as me and expecting a huge single button install of a configuration management framework? Ever consider you'd have to build a custom image (whether EC2 or docker or whatever) to support your specific environment? If you want to learn Ansible, learn it. Don't think you can just apt-get and accept defaults here. Asserting right now this is an instance where trying a little harder is required.
I’m wondering if you would be able to play a role in credit card number migrations? Definite pain point.
Do you get paid full time salary or hourly only for the 35 hours a week?
The Charles was cleaned up by 2007 and was not dirty.
People install debian and then setup the proxmox on top of that with an install script to achieve what you want.
I think you need to defend your claim that inflationary monetary policy is a good thing. How is it good for the residents of a country?
One woman's "disruptive" is another woman's "illegal"
The Emscher, a tributary to the Rhine that flows through the Ruhr area, is also being restored for around 4.5 billion Euro.
Yes they wrote a keyboard and graphics driver.

And yes the irony is strong in OPs comment. May be we will see "how I browsed some random website that loads every where else but ios" in 4 years.
Ah, I now understand what your ask was. I misread it.

I'd be interested in something similar! Though, I'm not aware of any platform that offers this...the closest would be Reddit since it hosts the niche communities.
Everything you said about most applicants not being hireable, and the amount of time needed for onboarding, etc. is true.

And yet, from where I sit, it's not obvious that managers (at multiple companies) show that they care that much. I think the exception was when I was at a startup, but I think that was due to combination of two reasons: The amazing manager, and the fact replacing a specialist on our team was even harder.

Disclaimer: My views are my own.
That's very different
All 3 clouds have the same fundamental architecture. There's no magic "serverless", everything is just compiled down to a container or some executable package, placed on a server, executed as requests come in, and then paused with varying control and scheduling parameters.

Azure is a little messier than the rest but the end result is the same.
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At a previous company I asked to be a Conscientious Objector from the performance review process as I was just going to get an On Target rating anyway (I did).

(Not retired yet, I knew I was quitting a week or two later. Amazingly my boss was surprised when I gave my notice …).
Hmmm. I lived in the heart of the Castro for 15 years. When I arrived it was lovely. When I left (3 years ago, pre-covid), it was... not. Homeless and vacant storefronts everywhere.

The merchant who has been running the shop below my place longer than I have been alive (and I'm OLD by HN standards) put it this way: The Castro is dying.

Maybe there are neighborhoods changing for the better somewhere to balance it out, but I kinda doubt it. The change is real.
I don’t think so. They are friends who I play games with and know socially. None of them have significant others, but seem to have non-sexual friends and they aren’t particularly gullible.
Do you feel they’re referring to anything else but a binary package repository belonging to a versioned (Debian-style) distro?
It’s not helpful to be snarky.
Mentally ill people also sometimes live in houses, believe it or not. Some are barely getting by. When housing prices go up, they become homeless. When housing prices drop, some can keep it together well enough to pay rent.
If you're using pass already you could use their OTP plugin:

https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp

That gives you "pass otp github.com", etc. You can also export the QRcode, and do similar things.

I put together a simple distribution of pass with a couple of plugins I use, including otp, which is easy to setup - just clone beneath `/opt/pass`:

https://github.com/skx/pass
I suspect it does allow for design and distribution flexibility. I bought some of that sort of weight (and some tungsten-infused putty) for trying to add additional weight to improve the pulling power of a model locomotive. The putty's malleability and small size made it more amenable to fitting in the cast body.
Where are they gunna move to, and how are homes being $1m not a problem in your mind? Most people will never be able to pay for that, nevermind afford it. Delusional.
John F. Nash, Jr.'s Schizophrenic Son