skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A year of his life gone, unproductively looking at a computer screen.

Your perspective and opinion is valuable. But try not to judge or dismiss others' without the full story. Some of us who played so much did get a lot out of it: socially, intellectually, creatively, etc.
> weekendr: social network for the weekend

Oh, to imagine what could have been...
So, recapping vs code:

* They implemented proprietary sync protocols

* They obfuscate how 'settings' are saved - no, the settings.json is not what the editor uses and they hide stuff in the internal sqlite db they use

* Capping open versions of the product

* And finally, inserting proprietary "licensed" stuff and code that purposefully breaks if you're not licensed
> Did they directly breathe on everybody they infected?

Maybe they coughed over shared food/drink trays.
Precisely; frequency of use is not the same as importance, and confluating them is dangerous when you use it to justify cutting features.
Any recommendations on retail sources for MERV-17+ filters?
Ask HN: Normal for recruiters to message your LinkedIn contacts for references?
A Ycombinator company had reached out to me via workatastartup.com and after going through with the interview process they asked for references before they can make an offer, which I promptly provided. The company did reach out to the references I had provided but also added random contacts from my LinkedIn and asked them to provide references for me - I had multiple friends reach out to me asking me about the application, when I had no intention or knowledge that they will find out about my interview process.

This sounds like a gross violation of my privacy as I would expect for the interview process to be confidential.

After learning about this, I reached out to the recruiter only to receive a "my bad - the upper management had asked me to do this and I won't do it again" reply.

Has this happened to anyone else?
Hackers have long been interested in politics/culture/public policy.

There has always been a strong anti-authoritarian ethos to hacker culture, one where personal privacy and bodily autonomy and the right to encryption were intrinsically at odds with corporate and government attempts to control and surveil, and I hope that doesn't go away.
Hacker News is essentially entertainment. Nothing here is accurate, most voices are not speaking from experience but a sort of caricature role-playing.

There are occasionally helpful resources, all the same. There was a thread a few months back maybe of a list of different blog authors in various tech fields. If you want high-quality, informed, well-written news, you gotta curate it yourself.
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I don’t think any of it came from TOPS-10. Tenex was essentially a port of the Berkeley Project Genie SDS940 OS to the PDP-10+demand paging from a custom (non-DEC) MMU.
Then they'll use your code to train an AI to replace you.
Wow - and they actually had a field test that worked...! I have such a huge respect for the engineers that worked on these systems - it feels like some wild west sorta stuff.
Looks attached to that mesh and the mesh was attached by some kind of adhesive. You can see the fur it took with it.
Hackernews hasn't been hacker news since 2015, when it started being about the books bill gates is reading, or what Elon Musk had for breakfast. It's vanity fair for nerds.
I started working for a newspaper just after 2007-08 hit and hastened the decline of the already struggling industry.

One day, after working diligently on the job for a few months, I pitched my editor an idea for an online-only story with some interesting multimedia elements. He told me I could definitely work on that story “on my own time.” I was an hourly employee so I asked him to clarify if he wanted me to schedule the work around the other stories I was working on at the time. He laughed and told me that he couldn’t justify paying me for any project meant only for the website. I was welcome to work on the story and publish it on my own time of course.

I decided to leave the publication and the overall newspaper industry that day. I still miss the feeling of working in a buzzing newsroom, there’s just nothing like it. Similar to the author, I’m nostalgic for the days when the news cycle was limited by time and column inches.

I don’t think we’re ever going back to anything resembling the heyday of newspaper publishing. If you’re lucky enough to live in an area where halfway decent reporting happens then maybe subscribing to the print edition makes sense. Unfortunately I am not so lucky. I read magazines for my “news” and try not to check the headlines too often on my phone.

I grew up with a morning and afternoon daily. I never knew how good I had it. Two comics sections! News stories with same day updates! Imagine such a wonder…
This is probably the main explanation, I agree. There are countless programming languages and storage methods and so on, 99% of which aren't really of interest to me. I use one long-out-of-fashion programming language only ever mentioned as a punchline, and one non-trendy database. Broader topics usually are of interest to me, and tech-adjacent or societal things relevant worldwide like approaches to housing, homelessness, how we use the environment, developments in growing/selling food (robot restaurants).
In what way the state is the hand that feeds you? Arguably California bit one of the hands that fed it, as evidence by the ability to move, since it is not that special of a place to do business. The state’s existence is afforded by the residents not the other way around.
Are there any particular traits or markers how you can tell a story is bot written?
To each their own. I don’t like anything blinking or appearing in my peripheral
Thanks for the context. I’m still pessimistic about them as unelected ultra powerful blameless immortal all seeing eyes - but I get that good people might make the same decisions with the same info.
Also corruption. Insecticides are big business and there is already evidence of corruption within EPA to placate industry.
Surely with the influx of people early in the pandemic this isn't the case?
The Dual_EC exploit was possible not because the NSA were cleverer than everyone else but because they wrote the standard and chose the parameters. The parameters involved two points, P and Q, on an elliptic curve group with rank 1 and prime order. Because of these properties there must be some number e such that P = Q^e (written P = e * Q in the common elliptic curve group notation) but it is hard to find e from only P and Q (this is the discrete log problem for this EC group and it, or its close relative the Diffie–Hellman, problem being hard is a common foundation for security in cryptography.) However if you are choosing the parameters, you can just choose Q and e and compute P = Q^e yourself.
Tether: A Nearly $70B Time Bomb
I always thought it would be interesting if we looked back to help us figure out how to plan for the future.

Let’s pick climate change, for example, and see how our expectations were met:

2006-2008

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1223424000&dateRange=custom&...
So we should keep a copy of the old installer around?
Lot's of extensions - the ones that Microsoft decided were 'strategic' - purposefuly stops working magically when you're using the "open" vscodium version.
The general obsession is just that it was the game that came with the Nintendo 64, so everyone who owned an N64 has played it, so there's a lot of nostalgia to go around.

The secondary obsession, particular to the speedgame community, is that it's one of the first games to have a formalized, worldwide competitive speedrunning scene develop around it; and there's a shocking level of depth-of-mastery to the SM64 speedgame (i.e. people have been trying to beat the game faster for years, and they're still discovering new ways of doing that.)

For the rom-hacking community (to which the game reverse-engineering community is closely associated), I'd say it's a combination of two factors:

1. SM64 has received very little love from Nintendo since its release—many people were anticipating that Nintendo's (temporary) Switch port of the game would at least be modified to be playable in widescreen, but it wasn't. So the community has taken it upon itself to implement the QoL fixes that Nintendo doesn't seem willing to give them.

2. SM64 has many underutilized engine elements, similar to SMB3 or SMW; like those games, it's ripe for modding and further exploration. (It might be said that Nintendo "leaves a lot of level design opportunities on the table" with each of their games.) Games like SMB3 and SMW, which are easy enough to mod, have had heavily-active modding scenes for decades, with many level editors written, new engine plugins developed, etc. But SM64, and N64 games in general, are harder to mod as compiled objects; you really do have to decompile them to have any hope of doing something new or different with them.
Thanks to the ScummVM team for a truly amazing project.

I second the adventure game recommendations people have been listing, and for those with young children I'll add the Living Books series as an amazing set of experiences to enjoy together for early reading exposure. The Tortoise and the Hare [0] and Arthur's Teacher Trouble [1] are absolute masterpieces of kid-friendly humor.

[0] https://archive.org/details/TORTOISE1993

[1] https://archive.org/details/LivingBooks-ArthursTeacherTroubl...
I discovered this book several years ago thanks to someone here on HN. I did the audiobook version and found it gripping.

Bought the paperback version so I could refer back to favorite parts.

Rhodes' personal story is really interesting. CSPAN did a great interview with him many years ago - highly recommended.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?155692-1/depth-richard-rhodes
how is lua doing these days?
So much more tech / startups focused. Felt much more intimate, and that was a large part of the appeal. Now it is half politics and other reddit material. :(
Interesting hacker type of stories usually don't make the frontpage anymore. (eg. new frameworks, new products or even startups).
everything else works perfectly

Isn't it also the case that pylance doesn't work and has some form of DRM to prevent it from being used with the open source version? I'm not saying that as a reason not to use the open source version, just wondering if Microsoft has already rounded the corner on that second "E" in EEE.
I like to call these "thought prions" - infectious thoughts that near-permanently alter the way you perceive the world. I've seen several extended family members (on both sides of the political spectrum!) completely alter their worldviews based on political thought prions planted in their minds during covid.
I get all those plus I've noticed a Reddit page crashing and reloading the page on mobile Safari once I've scrolled down a few comments. Every page does this without fail for me. I use those and the "Return to /r/popular" messages to remind myself that it's almost never worth my time and to go read something else.
Then there are posts like https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des... which are still informative today.
The first case linked above was in a gym where patrons were supposed to be masked and two meters apart, and the second case had a CDC investigation which would have mentioned that as a factor if it were present.
They are assuming no such thing. You are simply putting words into people's mouths, shamelessly.

But perhaps it's not such a bad thing for you to push people away from your position with such shameless behavior.
Having your own currency doesn't really solve the problem. Sure in theory the US could inflate the currency enough to drastically reduce the value of outstanding debt. But we would still have to borrow going forward, and that level of inflation would drive T-bond yields through the roof. That will mean short and long term pain no matter what.
Just a note, most but not all bumblebees are eusocial or social, but a majority of bee species aren't. That makes finding nests way more difficult, for those species.
Corporate marketing types have to justify their existence by rebranding everything, and they're like sharks in a never ending feeding frenzy.
Uh, their job isn’t to “further cryptography”. It’s to further America’s interests.
A story on the front page back then, "NYC Developer Dilemma" is really quite interesting in the context of today, in terms of how cost of living and balance of power have changed in the economy.

https://avc.com/2006/10/the_nyc_develop/
Likely easy enough for a client based on E2E encryption principles; the backend is in many ways a (fancy) dumb pipe. (It could still require complex infrastructure, but at least there'd be relative little "feature" code on the backend to be rewritten.)
This is the social media arm of a for-profit startup incubator business. The "hacker" is just corny branding, man
Why would you need to do that given what I said?
> Older people get bored of the latest technological advancements and instead become interested in whether Zuckerberg will get dethroned or not.

As I age I am less interested in business topics, and more interested in technological advancements
Mysteriously, their glossary contains this definition.

chim
The secret syllable of royalty.
Toyota really doesn't want to build a full electric car, do they?
But I love numberwang.
https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/modules/p/numberwang
All the data suggest that its not someone breathing on you in passing that's going to result in covid infection, but spending long periods with someone indoors in close proximity. Within a half hour in the massive grocery store? I would be shocked if you caught it. Drinking in someones living room, swapping stories within arms length, swapping spit flecks for 5 hours straight? Definitely going to spread everything you have in such a small enclosed space where the viral load is able to reach a much higher concentration over a long period of time.
If you have showdead on, every single thread has the same user commenting "This is why we can't have nice things."
Wait a second... I sense an undercover seal.
It's dominated by mainstream, intelligentsia-approved narratives.
Acquisition canary
I very much doubt educated workers, and I assume you really mean tech workers, derive much more than money and prestige from their incredibly well paid but for the most amoral jobs. Big tech life is saturated with hypocrisy. Most workers just play along, virtue signaling like the rest, and keep cashing the RSU's hoping to one day have enough cash to be able to buy back their independence of thought.
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Why the dick move though? Any insight? M$ keeps saying it’s no longer like this but does stuff like this…
It is broken in the browser, but the desktop app is still able to revoke proofs (click your name in top left sidebar and pick edit profile from dropdown)
NT has had POSIXy subsystems pretty much from day 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
>But (and I hope dang sees this) occasionally when HN "strays" away from tech it's absolutely brilliant. There's tons of discussion here on some health issues, diets, stuff like that

I've found the opposite. While there is enough knowledge about computing to keep the discussion informed and aligned with reality, outside that field we're mostly laymen. See the various UFO threads, the peculiar support for Wim Hof, the contentious COVID discussions... The health discussions in particular remind me a lot like the enthusiasm for polyphasic sleep 10-15 years ago, or the more recent enthusiasm for microdosing LSD.
so you created this account to advocate Facebook?
the US also said they weren't torturing people in Guantanamo until it leaked that they were.
Red pills might be another term.
Unless you were there, you can’t understand what a magical time this was. The prevailing wisdom was to get a job after attending the university gauntlet.

This was long before pg was known in general, let alone famous. For context, I ended up visiting SV about a year after this for Startup School. We were staying with a relative, who was also tied in to the VC scene somehow. I remember her asking some question that prompted a “Paul Graham” response. I think she was asking something like “so who might your investors be if things go well?” And being 19 and confident, I foolishly felt I might have what it took to run a YC co. Her reply was illuminating, though: “Who?”

The run-up to YC’s worldwide takeover was truly a cool thing to watch. And I think HN was the central reason it was able to grow at all. Most people seem to disagree, but this snapshot provides a glimpse into a time when YC was a sapling, just like every startup in the YC batches now.
You can put tape over the valve on the inside and the outside and that works fine.
Presumably so someone installing for the first time can install an older version where they can set the toggle before upgrading to when the toggle is removed?
I certainly have one such teammate from whom it is a pleasure to learn and whose code it is a joy to read. I have my own analogy for this type of engineer: the DMPC. They tend to have higher stats than the party but don't flaunt it, and they often pull off stunning feats in the moment it is most necessary.
I don't think it's a matter of becoming bored, but about being able to better discern the truth.

Eg: Most new things will be completely irrelevant in a couple of years.
Oh, fully agreed that cash rarely comprises the majority of wealthy people's income - but my point is that most of the tech wealthy in the SFBA comes from FAANG equity wealth, not startup equity wealth.

Startups exits sometimes make a handful of people mega-rich, but as this thread has revealed, making ordinary employees rich is quite rare. Not so rare are the people who hang out at FAANGs, collecting large amounts of equity, and riding the industry up. And yeah, the wealth in this case is typically not of the level to buy $10M homes, but $2M homes?

Once in a while you have a founder who strikes it rich, but that effect is overwhelmed by the more numerous folks just riding $GOOG, $AAPL, $FB, etc. to multi/deci-millionaire status.
It was my nightmare, and it's why I left the Bay. Some random guy grilling me on JS trivia at a party was the last straw.
It would be considered left by the Anglophone community in Canada but not necessarily left by Canada as a whole because Canada is an Anglophone/Francophone country with Anglophone majority with a strong Francophone minority.
I can't find anything like that on my machine and am running the latest Chrome; where is that executable located on disk?
So much of what you’ve said is wrong. Not saying you’re a terrible human being, but what we know about these things is still, unfortunately, not settled. Can you give citations for

1. Air purifiers don’t filter the air evenly (commercial ones since that’s the context).
2. Social distancing indoors is doing most of the work (ie is almost all that’s needed to stop the spread).
3. The virus isn’t free-floating live in the classroom
You need to take your blinders off and get some reading glasses.

> What is the scope of our mission?

> Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world. This means we want to use cryptocurrency to bring economic freedom to people all over the world. This is difficult and important work, and every employee at Coinbase signed up because they are excited about this mission.

More details here: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...

The fact that you immediately jumped to calling it a "screed"—not once, but twice—despite allegedly not knowing this reveals your motives quite clearly. You are simply ideologically opposed to the message, not its form, and in favor of the imposition of a woke monoculture.

Your dishonest use of an obvious motte-and-bailey in your last sentence is just the cherry on top.
Ignoring the fact the terms are used differently in the political realm,if I follow your logic, if we make marijuana legal again that’s “regressive”?
I don’t know if I believe in such a thing. Salesforce has done many acquisitions over the years, and they have ranged from acqui-hire to complete independence. Zoom has no such history, and I’m bummed about Keybase, but the next one could be 100% different.
Does sublime support editing remote projects over ssh?
In my experience, it really depends on the neighborhood. Those you grew up in, probably still has all that clover. My 1940s built neighborhood all did when I moved out a few years back.

But all these new developments and specifically HOAs of the last couple decades you'd probably be lucky to find a handfull.
Yes. Those get harder to find every day unless you know exactly where to look.
I also wouldn't put it past them retroactively patching builds to cover them up.
I started reading HN around 2008 but created my account on October 22, 2009 when I made my first of two submissions to YC (didn't succeed in either). I just looked at my submission upvote history and its pretty much a history of my interests and time wasted in the past 12 years. Wow, time does fly!

I've upvoted 14,129 submissions, here's the first three:

14129. Oct 22, 2009: The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923722

14128. Feb 24, 2010: Isaac Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (1989) , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147968

14127. Marc 10, 2010: Putting Google to the Test in Translation, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1180926

The Asimov entry has my first HN comment ever, with 19 upvotes! How happy I must have been at the time. The crazy thing is that it took me 5 months to upvote three submissions, now I do more than that in my morning round! I must have been more discerning at the time.

When I had slightly more than 10,000 links I thought of starting a blog called "The March of the 10,000", to write about selected bookmarks from my upload list; never got around doing it. I must have been busy accumulating more HN bookmarks :-)
God, what's with all this silent judgement? Have you ever heard of a 'conversation-starter'? How about you ask before you assume?

Having a picture of von Neumann is in no way a red flag as much as having a picture of, or the name of a particular past US President would.
It must be doing something because when I got my blue filtering lenses I could put them on and feel physical relief of pain/strain in my eyes
interesting. i remember the 1000, 2000 and 3000 being "look, but don't touch" and i have vague memories of the 500 but i remember some good reason to dismiss it beyond "it's not what i have."

i wish i could remember what it was. i want to say high peripheral costs- or it was missing something big... but i can't remember now.

was it that the os was designed for more powerful machines and there wasn't much space left for user programs maybe?
Assange belongs in jail for his role in the Russian disinformation campaign. He is not a journalist in any sense of the word. At best he's a website operator that has occasionally been used for good by other people who took real risks.
Thats a rather obscure reference to a concept in the story for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
> made the app feel cheap and had less class

This is about usability and familiarity, not eye candy. "flat" stuff is way too abstract for many users thus the very definition of not inclusive design.

When (old and younger) people can't tell what your icon does because you decided to go "flat" at any cost, you failed as a designer.

flat is also boring has no personality. It's appropriate in some contexts (a web form), but not necessarily in others.

Trend and hype drove the change from skeuo to "everything is flat", this was never about good design.
One ray of light is that Mike Pall is working on luajit again https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT which at this point is a fork of mainline Lua in terms of version history