skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal solution to this problem was:

* register a pseudonymous domain and use Fastmail to forward it in to my real email

* use Twilio + a little TwiML to register a real phone number in my area code & have all messages/calls forward to my cell

This let me establish trust domains: when I share my email with an untrusted entity they get companyname@mypseudonym.com & the phone number I registered before. I always have the ability to know where the communications come from & can quickly cut off junk/spam at either source[1]. And if a company is trustworthy I could always move them to my real domain/phone if I so wanted.

[1]: Phone is obviously harder as there's only one number, but legitimate companies seldom if ever call – their junk is from a consistent text source that's easier to block. My burner & my clean numbers get about the same amount of autodialer calls, sadly.
> making around 750% of average salary in my country.

While I agree that Europe is generally better than US and China in this respect, your salary excludes your anecdote from supporting this notion (by your own definition).
Never had seen Hugin before, I was wondering how people did that open source recently.

And with respect to color management and Wayland with the rumored next release of nvidia drivers potentially supporting Wayland that's about the only thing that would stop me from switching on all my machines. I know there is an open issue for working on that in both the Wayland official protocols and wl-roots so hopefully soon.
I did one show hn for 20-things.com, but I received 0 comments. I highly doubt that anyone saw my post :) The project is alive and kicking, and I intend to keep it alive for many years to come.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you and desire the same thing, I believe just about the entire retail sector depends on Christmas spending to stay afloat.
Siemens Gamesa launches 222m diameter, 14MW wind turbine
The notion of Australia being “anti-imperialist” is rich - they are a product of imperialism and can’t really exist long term without a sponsor.
Here's hoping koalas get the protection they deserve and rebound from this. Heartbreaking.

Koalas are adorable and beloved. Imagine how many less obvious (or "gross") species in similar situations don't get articles written about them. That koala populations can plummet this far should be a clarion call about the state of things.

Mirror: https://archive.is/cZkdM
Random data point. My "Show HN" [0] for my side project back in early 2018 is now a 20+ people company. It was bootstrapped by me but we went the VC route later.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16608812
yeah. If there is something I’m missing, hopefully someone can point out what it is, because I don’t really understand why this matters.
Can anyone confirm if R2 must be used with Workers and other Cloudflare services only? Is it possible to use as file storage instead of S3?
Google glass was the very first of such a headset and not a good experience. It's probably still a little early for smart/AR glasses but they make a ton more sense to be the next big thing vs. VR. VR requires everyday people to do something unusual ... something they havent done before .. that is isolating ... that is uncomfortable for long periods of time ... maybe it will make sense for videogames but not working 8 hours a day with a headset strapped to your face (lol).

Ask those outside of your VR circle ... are they excited to use VR ... strap a headset on their face and work in a virtual world with their co-workers' memojis for 8 hours or would they prefer to wear their sunglasses or prescription glasses that are smart & enhance the world around them like never before. If my AR ideas are not good ...not ground breaking ideas that get millions to billions of regular people buying them im sure other developers ideas will be even better and prompt billions to adapt and buy them. But i am excited to be able to play real life games like ping pong (card games) and have my glasses keep/show me the score in my glasses view. I guess that is a stupid completely void of innovation type idea..... not changing how we do everyday things

Maybe out of all this work in VR things will be learned and used to create smart prescription or sunglasses.
The extensive bushfires and droughts are definitely big factors.
I worked briefly for a forestry in rural Victoria, where we would encounter koalas somewhat frequently where we would plant trees, These are lots that would be planted completely and years later cut and burned.

Wonder what would be also the effects of this on them and wildlife in general.When I have seen Koalas in the wild they seemed very apathetic- saw one stay at the very top of a blue-gum (which famously can shed huge pieces without much warning) even during a storm.
If you step outside of the HN language of the month bubble, you'll see lots of boring companies using languages like PHP and C#. They're not flashy, but they're used everywhere and aren't going anywhere. Sure, they'll be back office type jobs, but they will be stable with good enough benefits and probably won't tolerate rewriting the entire stack in the latest technology every 6 months. Then layer on JS/CSS with whichever backend language you like and you should be fairly safe.

Stack Overflow's survey may be useful to look at, too. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...
What Are Flash Loans?|Everything You Need to Know
Show HN: Val - A powerful static and dynamic programming language(val-lang.org)
I've heard this justification numerous times. Yes, there might be only 0.1%-5% users relying on any given UI feature, but with a constant stream of poorly thought out changes and feature cuts Mozilla will keeps pissing off more and more users until none are left.
This just seems like legal bullying by Tesla. An attempt to scare someone into silence when all other avenues have been exhausted.
People that subscribe to default subreddits and click the Youtube "Featured" section.
How can you provide 500GB of free storage to users? Just curious, do the ads cover that much?
Posting on HN has become an artform that Im not skilled in. Years ago, you could just post an interesting post you can across and wrote, and frequently they would jump to the top.

Today it seems to need shadow accounts, or buy booster packs or some such. Suffice it to say when I announced ZimTik, noone noticed.

caveat: I could be generalizing based on a few personal experiences.
Why invent virtual partitions when you could use something like multiple databases (as in create database) or maybe even multiple user rights?
Multifarm (Swiss based crypto-startup) is hiring Remote CTO (back end+scraping)
I don't know his specifics, but one other thing to check out is something like auticon.com
I've seen tech, education and logistics. And this hasn't been common in any of those. I'm living in Scandinavia but have seen other European colleagues leading a normal life as well.
I.... what?

What?

So the argument is that Google has to support alternate advertising middleware on their platforms? Like, it's not about "they don't take ads from X" but "they don't let other middle-men get involved deploying advertising onto their platforms"?

This doesn't make any sense to me.

There's a lot to hate about internet advertising, but most of that concerns the race-to-the-bottom problems... and forcing platforms to allow alternate ad providers onto their services seems like a good way to make it worse.

Isn't this a compelled speech issue? Shouldn't I have control over what ads run on my site?
I was thinking about this since last 3-4 days and yesterday I come to this same conclusion.I was surfing twitch and yt streams last week to explore more in rust/go, but most or all of them starts from somewhere between and then it makes me miss the whole background and context and its a waste of time watching someone type and talk and read comments for 6-7 hrs streams... then finally I quit this approach and its much better to read source code and articles
Given how many big companies seem to get away with minor slaps on the wrist for even bigger frauds, that leadership might know more than us about how those mechanics work.
Inkscape is such a great tool. I loved it before getting to know SVG, on its merit as an editor alone; but after digging into the SVG format because of web-related stuff, I appreciate inkscape so much more. It exposes many of the more technical aspects of SVG without making things too complicated.

It's nice to see all the new features that are being added; they really feel like the project might be going from niche tool for SVG fanboys to actually usable by a wide variety of graphics people.

So far I've used inkscape for almost anything, from animated web graphics to 3D-Printing (OpenSCAD lets you import SVG files directly and extrude them into 3D). I'd almost like to call it "the blender of 2D"
That sounds implausible. Jalopnik is part of the same cluster as Jezebel, Gawker and Kotaku. Not saying it's not true, but I'd need to see another credible source confirm before I believe it
Congrats! That's a great story. How long did you work on it solo? Who was the first person you brought on?
Kaolas are lucky they look cute.

They are an evolutionary dead end and actually nasty, nasty creatures.
Lol. The US - mostly the weapons industry - made billions. It doesn’t matter if the federal government didn’t.
A culture of fraud and lies
Easy way to find out. Remove the pictures from celebrity gossip posts, and see how much you remember.
Nice project. I like the text file and hotlinking features! Unfortunately supporting hotlinking makes end-to-end encryption impossible. Also, the inclusion of third-party tracker/ad scripts and the discussion of possibly adding “more shady ads” is concerning.

For an E2EE alternative with no third party scripts, see https://wormhole.app (Disclosure: I built this)
I have mentioned this before in other discussions, but there in a large element of luck in whether a Show HN post finds success on HN, or rouses the interest of HN readers.

There are many excellent projects posted in Show HN that get no traction (upvotes) at all. And then there a few lucky ones that suddenly take-off and make it to the HN front page.

There's no "wisdom of the crowds" moment that propels one Show HN entry to success over another because it's more worthy or excellent. In many cases it's simply down to random luck: capturing the attention of HN readers at a fortunate moment. Or not.
SOMI-1 – Turn your Movements into Sound
The German start-up "Instruments of Things" has again launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the first production batch of its new product "SOMI-1", which turns movements into sounds by using multiple motion sensor wearables.

SOMI-1 consists of up to six motion sensors, a receiver hardware and an (optional) smartphone app, which contains ready-to-use soundscapes, such as Ambient, Nature or Club. The technology allows unique performances to be created, as well as auditive feedback for motion sequences. The uniqueness of the system is based on the fast response time, high precision and the number of sensors to be used simultaneously.

In the future, the smartphone app will be opened to external sound designers so that they can offer new soundscapes in a virtual marketplace. In this way, new fields of application, such as yoga, meditation or fitness, can be continuously added to the mobile app.
"websites and applications actively transmitting customer data to Google and Facebook."

Any website doing this for EU users without their consent is going to run into GDPR issues very quickly indeed.
Good things mixed with hamstringing web blocking. The two slices of bread might be delicious but it's still a shit sandwich.
Curious as a native English speaker you parsed that sentence. It is awkward, but I did not think it is actually incorrect. Is it?
You aren't addressing the situation the people are in. They are constantly choosing which need to address with the funds they have at present, not simply deferring the purchase of one half tank of gas.

Building a small financial buffer would likely improve their situation a great deal. It seems likely that it isn't always the case that the lack of buffer is a choice...
Jessica Powell's guide to great 1:1s
Having 1:1 meetings with your manager is something inherent to most jobs. While they’re extremely common to have, they’re not always done properly. This Coda guide by Powell will help you set expectations, make and follow an agenda, and save the historical record of all conversations. Check it out in the link above.
They've said it supports the S3 API, so yes, you could use it wherever you'd use S3 instead.
JP Morgan Chase Embarks on Cloud Native Core Banking Journey
The spam on that thread is really something.
The biggest problem with early startups is finding retention: Finding a niche that will stick and continue to use your product.

Most of the projects on Show HN don't have retention figured out, so most of the traffic from Show HN will not convert into useful numbers for them.

I also want to point out that many Show HN projects wrongly assume that HN is the niche for them, simply because they themself are a "hacker". But this is not a useful distinction. If you're looking for your niche, for product market fit, you want to slice into small concrete audiences, like maybe "developers at 10-50 employee startups in credit building fintech within the bay area". Posting a Show HN isn't a cure to not having a niche of users, unless you're specifically targeting this niche.
Nasty how?
Do you expect your viewer to download and not view it directly on a website?
Koalas have chlamydia.
I am sorry that you got downvoted. In 6th grade civics class (in California) we learned about the wide scale killing of the native populations. I live in Arizona, and we have a landmark nearby called Bloody Gulch where a US general who was supposed to march a tribe a few hundred miles to a new reservation, after about a few dozen miles decided it was simpler to just gun the whole large tribe, babies, children, and adults.

I am glad to be a US citizen, but for us to not acknowledge bad mistakes that we have made in the past (and including the recent past) is wrong, and diminishes our chances to do better morally and to improve our future chances of continued prosperity.
What’s the point of a low stack limit, apart from places like the kernel?
My sister's chocolate shop, its Easter. Took the hit in April - had hundreds of pounds of unwanted chocolate. Had to eat it (not literally).
Maybe Tesla was actually innocent and they are counting on the Streisand effect. It’s a stretch.
Have you looked at synfig? I haven't gotten to use it yet, but it seems like it might be of use to you
>intellectually stimulated by the thing they’re doing and like doing it

This is the flaw in Ed's argument imo. Addictions don't need to be intellectually stimulating or enjoyable.
They say fully compatible with S3 API. I expect workers access to be just a sweet addition.
Suck. Dick. Idiot.
We have a fairly large Nix binary cache in S3, with not insignificant egress fees, and I'd love to try this out as a replacement.
I'm already able to use it on the iPad.

Just went to web.whatsapp.com and made it a home screen shortcut in Safari.
I got a bathtub stopper and I saw on the box a Prop65 warning. Not sure if it's because of the lead.
Let's identify the problems here:

Long work hours
-which might or might not be bullshit

Addicting novelty seeking
-small dopamine hits
-and it's enablement
-phones
-never ending scrolling
-being rich to have access

Procrastination
-mix of fear, uncertainty, belief it will be better at a
later time

I believe all of these should be tackled individually.
> Overall oil reserves are diminishing

This is a dubious claim.[0] It depends a lot on technology and how hard we look for oil. Which was my point. If we disincentivize O&G exploration there will be less O&G produced. If we force O&G producers to lessen production and then renewables cannot be scaled fast enough there will be an energy supply shortfall that cannot be overcome quickly.

Obviously at some point we will run out of O&G and need to be switched over to renewables (with or without nuclear), but doing it prematurely is risky because of the downstream effects of high energy prices and the fact that every institution in the modern world is premised on ever increasing access to energy.

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=R...
Congrats and thanks for sharing. Would love to hear the journey and thought process that you went through.
I will summarize what others said and I will add my own thinking as well.

Web Development: PHP and Javascript and its ecosystem

Mobile Development: Java/Kotlin for Android and Objective-C/Swift for iOS

Enterprise software: C++, Java, Rust and Golang

Machine Learning, AI and Data Analysis: Python and its ecosystem

Embedded: C and Rust

Game development: C++ for PC and Game Consoles, Java as well for PC games, Java/Kotlin for Android games, Objective-C/Swift for iOS games and Javascript and its ecosystem for Web games
I agree. But the idea of asking tens or hundreds of thousands to give up their frivolities so a single corporation can profit strikes a nerve in me, however irrational it may be. I'm not reflexively anti-corporation--corporations are economically necessary--but I guess I'm touchy about the question of whether people exist for corporations or corporations for people.
Never thought about it but yes, what a huge (and easily implementable) oversight - stackSize(), stackUsed(), stackTopPtr() would be a few asm instructions in most cases.
How is it possible to return more fresh water than you use? Where does the surplus come from?
How long are you going to hold to your disingenuous argument?

"Full self driving" is an explicit term - "self driving" means the car drives itself. "Full" means it does it fully. It couldn't be any clearer what the term means.

Terms like "blue motion", "quattro", "mach-e" are just made up branding terms that would mean nothing to anyone without knowing about them before hand.
Two years ago, I posted a Show HN about a music streaming service I've been working on for about four years at that point. It was my first serious project I've ever worked on.

Check out the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20309255

I'm still actively working on that project, and a countless number of features have been added. Yeah, a few people here and there use it, and it is costing me about $100 a month to host on AWS, but I'm not bothered. I'm still very passionate about this space, and nothing else really interests me as much.

If anyone is interested in checking it out, the site is https://ampl.fi/
Microsoft's Bingbot crawler is relentless for changing pages (it seems)
Show HN: Firezone, an open-source WireGuard-based alternative to OpenVPN AS
I created Firezone to make it easier to host and manage your own WireGuard VPN server. While working at Cisco as a security automation engineer I experienced a lot of unnecessary pain managing secure network-level access into our cloud VPCs. I tried OpenVPN Access Server but I personally feel that security software should be open source to be validated (and improved) by the community. I discovered WireGuard and quickly fell in love with it, but soon found managing the peer configs to be a bit tedious and error-prone. So I built some convenience functionality on top, added a simple Web UI, and open sourced it.

Firezone is packaged with Chef Omnibus so the only dependencies are a recent Linux kernel (4.19+) and the WireGuard module. The Web UI is built with Elixir/Phoenix (I’m a recovering full-stack Rails engineer) and runs as an unprivileged user. The Web UI communicates with two other Elixir applications that manage the WireGuard configuration and firewall configuration respectively. I built it this way to allow potentially decoupling the Web UI, VPN, and firewall hosts at some point in the future, but for now Firezone assumes they’re all running on the same host. The firewall application is essentially a frontend to nftables and currently functions as a simple egress firewall to block outbound traffic to specific hosts/CIDRs (in your private network or elsewhere).

In the near term I’m planning to polish it up a bit and add more security features. Longer-term I’d like to add things like DNS-based ad blocking, IP blocklist support, LDAP / SSO authentication, and more user management features.

I wanted to show it here and see what HN thinks. Hope you find it useful!
Smaller general aviation aircraft still use 100LL gasoline (the LL stands for low lead) - and even though there’s lead-free replacement candidates (still going through regulatory approval, at least in the US), it’s been known that areas around airports with frequent GA traffic have higher levels of lead in the air, and children living near said airports may have elevated levels of lead in their blood (https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/08/06/new-study-finds-l...)
Since having older kids, this is completely trashing my wake/sleep rhythm and starting to impact my work. I want some time to do the things I care about in my own time, damnit. I don't want to be externally structured all the time.

I don't feel too bad about staying up late instead of being responsible, but I start to feel burn-out creeping up, and I don't know what to do.
Remember that avgas still uses leaded fuel (though that will hopefully improve soon).
You'll see the find-your-audiance-first mantra in most modern business books. If you want a specific title, then The Lean Startup is a decent startup business book.
That is a very formidable salary compared to the average income, even for software engineers. I suspect you are either a wanted expert in a specific field, an engineering manager, or self-employed?

Doesn't getting into any of the above positions require immense dedication to your craft, to the point of intertwining private and professional live?
‘Bluetooth slippers’ to cheat in REET: Inventor of device
The article links several other sources, including the South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/arti...
I didn’t write a book on this subject but I made a site: https://bloatedmvp.com
Some statistics about Arizona's water sources and where it goes.
72% of the water is used by agriculture.
6% to industry
22% to municipal use

http://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts

But yes, water usage is a big issue in AZ at the moment with Lake Mead and Powell at very low levels which has triggered and will trigger more cuts to the use of Colorado River water via the Central Arizona Project canal.

Arizona has no law even measuring, much less restricting groundwater pumping which is a big problem getting bigger as cuts in Colorado River usage lead to more pumping.
Very good! Are prices inflation-adjusted?
Have you tried working with Blender's Grease Pencil?

https://www.blender.org/features/grease-pencil/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrvfmhI9h8
In Java, if my function doesn't modify the int, there's no reason to test the boundaries, other than 0 if the int is used in a calculation. The type system doesn't solely determine what tests to write. Tests are inferred from a combination of type system, timings, statements and variable usage.
Curious to see how this compares to Bunny.net Edge Storage (they are working on S3 support as well): https://bunny.net/edge-storage/