skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone else that needs it:

The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community.
Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?
As I've grown older, this question has been consuming more and more of my thoughts. I like life, and I'm absurdly lucky. But what's the point of any of it?

HN seems uniquely good at philosophical questions, so I was hoping to get your thoughts. I thought about framing the question more, but honestly, "What's the point of life?" is the refrain that I keep coming back to. It would be nice to escape it.
Does anyone have a TLDR? I love the Atlantic but they assume I have more time than I do.
you've the right to be frustrated, as it's also shame that they made it complicated and this hard to find for the US version of the app.
Hopefully, projects like Krita[1] and GIMP[2] would get more funding like Blender as well.

[1] https://krita.org/en/support-us/sponsors/

[2] https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers...
> "kids these days don't know anyone's phone number!" If it works it works

My passenger had my phone number memorized. I went to visit him when he called me from jail. I used his gmail password to get his contacts' phone numbers to try to get someone else to bail him out, but it was only $300. After a few days I paid up to bail him out. He missed his next court date. I went to the bail revocation hearing a couple months later, and got $200 of that $300 back (iirc).

I make an effort to regularly exercise my mental phonebook, on his account.

Who are your lifelines? - https://www.taxiwars.org/p/who-are-your-lifelines.html
Phone numbers are stored in your phone's contacts app, a tool that does the remembering for you. Making an input box do two different things and then adding a heuristic to guess what the user wants might be handy, but can go wrong. And then, as the linked post demonstrates, users get used to that and treat every input box as if it can do both of these things. It's a race to the bottom. Now your users "got stupider" and you need to come up with even more stuff behind the scenes to fix it.

Nobody ever questioned that you have to learn driving a car. How to handle it, what would break it, traffic rules etc. Why don't we demand that cars become so smart that a 16yo can just buy one, jump on all the pedals and turn all knobs and be a safe while doing so because the car will prevent anything bad from happening? We somehow accept that driving a car is something non-trivial that has to be learned, has certain rules that need to be followed, etc.
There was a long-form, dramatic (as is typical) story about a woman who lost control and eventually committed suicide in The New Yorker or similar that I can't find at the moment, but any search on the "dangers of" or "dark side of" meditation will return ample material to consider before going excessively far with these techniques.

Not to belittle the seriousness of the dangers or their practical consequences: It does seem in life that too much of a good thing, isn't "good."
How will it differ to Substack?
> The only way they could make a plane with carbon fiber wings, fuselage, and empennage, was to replace most metallic elements with titanium.

That's not really true: galvanic corrosion can be stopped if you simply anodize the aluminum parts. There is no titanium required to do this. This is a common practice when working with carbon fiber.
I am going to disagree since I believe that people should have a basic knowledge of the tools they are using. I am not saying that the bar should be particularly high, but being able to differentiate where something is and searching for something is a realistic expectation.

That being said, I think developers have made some things more difficult to understand than they should be. While people understand what an address is, calling it a URL adds an extra layer to learn (even if it is just terminology). URLs would also be easier to understand if they were more consistent from the end user's perspective, much like someone's mailing address, rather than an engineer's perspective.

I would also argue that the omnibar is designed from the engineer's perspective rather than the end user's perspective. The engineer said something to the effect of, "we can differentiate an address from a search query based upon the format of the input". It sounds good on paper. It sounds like it makes things easier for the user. Yet all that it really accomplishes is creating confusion for the end user since it fails to differentiate two concepts.
> Have you ever been driving when a tire blew out at high speed? It's extremely dangerous not only for the driver but all the nearby cars.

Have you? Your characterization of the experience makes me think you have not.

I have had two rear and one front blowout. Blowouts are just flat tires that have a loud intro before the typical "driving on flat tire" music. None of them were any more eventful than a normal flat tire. I'd take a blowout (or normal flat tire) over tread separation any day.

The internet highly highly highly highly highly overrates the danger, likely because blowouts are so rare these days and unfamiliarity tends to result in fear which compounds the Internet's tendency to reward certain commenting patterns. Other than the noise potentially causing a driver to incorrectly make massive control inputs (which would be equally hazardous to do after suffering a normal flat) there is no more hazard from a blowout than from a normal flat. And I say this as someone who drives old junk with fat sidewalls. On something with small modern sidewalls all the danger is less still.

Frankly, the one time I had a valve stem leak that caused a slow flat was much more unnerving as I initially wasn't sure if I was feeling things or if the vehicle was pulling to that side.
If it's the same stuff on his website it is incredibly underwhelming https://www.zachvorhies.com/google_leaks/
Because this private company is pumping content directly into the eyeballs of 2 billion people every day. There are all kinds of regulations on private companies about how they can and cannot act with regards to elections, why would Facebook be any different?
That's not how it works in aerospace. Certification is there to ensure quality control throughout the chain, but you still need to do your own quality control at every step to ensure that what you produce will be within spec. You can't just rely on the certification of your source materials.
yes, it’s miscalibrations of risk, but not necessarily numerical imprecision, that prods my reaction. it’s possible to kill grandma, in many different ways, but it’s not probable, unless intentionally reckless or malevolent. risk is inherent to life, and we need to be continually adjusting our risk assessments so that our individual and collective behaviors approach consistency.
How were they not sued for even attempting to cover their butts for human subjects research standards?
It seems gray to me. I will concede my perspective.

There is no history of the UK being enlightened by freedom.

;)
There's pros and cons. It helps developers because they aren't restricted to the distro's shipped library versions, they can build against what they need. It also confines the app to a sandbox. The downsides are that the packages end up larger because they ship with all of the necessary bundled libraries (which can also increase memory usage of the application because it can't share the libraries loaded in RAM by the native operating system), and there's a lack of trust that the developer can keep up with bundled library security updates.
It's the perfect setup really, you can turn it off, but if you want it you can type "? <search term>" into the address bar and it'll go to default search - or use one of your engine short codes as the first word "@google hackernews"

about:config -> keyword.enabled -> false (to stop sending possible search terms automatically to your default search engine, this includes when you type a URL firefox mistakes for a search term)

about:config -> browser.fixup.alternate.enabled -> false (to stop firefox trying a DNS lookup/connection with the term you typed with www. before, .com after)
What's missing here is type information. This is the reason why the decompiled code is quite unreadable. How to solve this: try to figure out what these missing types (like structs, arrays, ...) are, by looking at how the code uses the variables. Then you define these types in IDA/Ghidra/..., and this will already give you decompiled code that's much easier to read.
Static mirror so we can skip the stupid, text-hidding, pop-up: https://archive.is/RHhg2
They need a lower price point for premium, all I want is enforced reviews of merge request. But $191215 is to much for that feature.
Background daemon that takes up CPU, proprietary store, slow startup, and automatic updates in the background. Flatpak is much better if you need some sort of sandboxing, or updates outside what your distro can provide.
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I know most people buy Android, but at least here in the U.S. that rarely seems like it’s much cheaper – comparable quality devices, and a fair number of people getting the phone their carrier subsidizes (usually the previous generation iPhone or Samsung flagship) so the cost is buried in their monthly charge.
The only thing that keeps me from using it is the lack of an official iOS client. Once they get that, I'll be all over it.
For utility vehicles on sale now, it seems:

https://tweel.michelinman.com/michelin-tweel-family-of-produ...
If these people read a bad news story about google, they will not know how to stop using google for any and all web access. A discerning consumer often opts to alter their product use under similar circumstances. They are dependent on a middleman because their understanding of the boxes they type things into does not reflect reality. This is what it means for a mental model to be "wrong".

The realized model of having two separate boxes could only ever be "wrong" in a moral or aesthetic sense. This is not the case for mental models, which are incorrect when they do not correspond to reality.
Yeah it works in an incognito window. I've never seen a site that completely breaks scrolling with a content blocker installed before.
DatChat: A Meme Stock, on the Blockchain
Maybe I am wrong, but I think I've red somewhere that these are made to be re-threaded. Meaning when the outer layer get damaged with use, instead of changing the whole tire, just the outer part can be replaced. Not too sure how that works though. If that is the case, it should help reduce the amount of waste by a lot. Plus even if these new tires are heavier, I doubt they are 10 times heavier either. I'd be surprised if the added weight to the car will increase the energy consumption in a very noticeable way.
I suppose we should stop using coal to generate electricity.

https://www.iea.org/fuels-and-technologies/coal

Of course we’ve known this for decades. Google even took a crack at it in 2007:

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/11/google-hopes-t...
Apple's software and hardware arcs are coalescing into them going all in on AR/VR. Things like LIDAR, Photogrammetry, spatial mapping, USDZ / PBR and friends all come across as pretty marginal novelties on smartphones, but they are all a part of that strategy, and will make much more sense with a headset. They're coming out of the gate with a robust ecosystem.

Blender is obviously a huge component of the software stack.
It's desperately out of fashion now, but remember having one's toolbar in the mode of "icons and text"? Giving you both the buttons, and a little label under each like "New", "Open", "Save", etc. Why not just have that in this case, ie. a little "URL" label under the address bar and a "Search" label under the other one. Even if a phrase like "URL" is jargon to a newbie, once they've seen it up there for long enough in context with actual URLs they'll pick up a feel for it. That's how straightforward user education used to work. We all had to be shown and told, that this thing is called this, and that thing is called that, at some point. Finally when these aids are no longer needed, and one cares to shave a few pixels off their toolbar, they just right-click -> "Show icons only", and carry on in new-found independence and style. How did this simple sequence of learning get so deprecated.
Why did you choose DragonflyBSD for the game server vs. another BSD?
What did the US even get out of it's relationship with China? Cheap labor to make cheap things that we never really needed. Should've just injected tons of capital into South America and Mexico. Scholarships for the best and brightest of Latin America to come to Harvard and stuff.
Another nail in the American University casket. I worked in academic research for 3 years, and GTFO. I still have a project here and there with a University, but I largely avoid them.

While I do, in principle, agree with the tenure system, it's just not compatible with what the American University system has become. The system has two systems within it: 1. teach / train / attract students and charge large tuition for promises of them entering the workforce higher than their high school colleagues (and justify the price with parties and college football, new dorms, etc.) 2. perform high end research that is funded by Uncle Sam, in which the Universities' skim 40-120% overhead on (yes, OVER 100%) that pays the bills and keeps the lights on. Also pays for large admin salaries.

Universities are corporations, and are "for profit." I'm not sure free inquiry, free speech, and the likes are compatible with making students feel safe / not offended so they can attract their tuition $, while also attracting $ from Uncle Sam and corporations for research.
It was removed for Vista, because it couldn't transition to AMD64. This was after Microsoft had essentially completely ditched Itanium.

(I'd love to see a GOG or Steam or even Origin release of Full Tilt Pinball, though. The Full Tilt version of Space Cadet is better-- higher-resolution graphics plus some gameplay tweaks.)

[edit] Digging a little deeper, that might not be entirely true. The first consumer version of Windows it didn't appear in was Vista, but it sounds like the decision to drop Pinball was made during the XP era (even though it shipped with x86 Windows XP). So issues with the IA64 port (or with another architecture) might've been the reason it was dropped, then that decision was not revisited for Vista even if Pinball might've worked under AMD64 Windows.
This is basically the problem. To constrain human growth so it is sustainable requires a lot of limitations.

Environmentalism is unfortunately a liberal issue, not a conservative one (or an all-people one which is fundamentally is), population controls is basically a war on the poor, especially in the modern world, and that policy can't coexist in the liberal sphere right now.

Environmentalism historically is basically conflict with corporations, and was really about localized environmentalism (pollution of a lake, etc), or it was a small number of corporations (CFCs for ozone).

Global warming and species destruction is a totally different ballgame politically.
You can still use wood if you want.

Many of the reasons you don't are the same reasons airless tires have not escaped niches.
The model is wrong because it doesn’t reflect reality. URLs and web search are fundamentally different types of items.

All models are wrong, some are useful. We are debating how useful this model is.
Not sure which countries will pay, but the article notes this undersea train network would also connect with Canada and Russia:

> China Railway first unveiled the 8,000-mile high-speed underwater railway project in 2014. The underwater train will connect China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S. including a 125-mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait then to Alaska.

> Beijing Times also reported that Russia is already onboard.
I recommend giving OpenBSD a try over the others. It's just... a clean OS, and the base system is extremely well documented; to the point that I think it's the only OS you can learn inside out without ever using Google.

OpenBSD might not be the best choice for any given use, but it's so remarkably consistent and understandable that I think everyone interested in alternative OSes should try it out at least once.
Vive Flow, new VR glasses announced
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Incidently for those with a VPN installed on their phone do not use your banking app while the VPN is running.

The current "We don't need you to tell us where you're going we can figure it out" leads to me getting locked out 100% of the time i use the banking app on my phone with the VPN on and then try to use the card at a nearby store. Obviously there's two different sources of my location incoming and that causes issues.

I guess it's an edge case to have a VPN on your phone but it's very very frustrating.
> living in a midtown apartment

he said he lived in the east village, took the test in midtown
Not a Trump fan, but having previously heard of deep tissue UV treatments, I thought they were completely reasonable questions.

It is interesting that so many people are divided on the president asking medical questions in the public setting.
Hot take! You left out "crypto is a bubble," "doesn't scale," and "the transaction fees!" though.
At a place I used to work, there was a lady who would prank folks. She was not very technical.

Those folks came to me with a request for some sort of Net Send revenge.

I wrote a VB script which ran in a loop, which randomly 8-10 times a day would get a new message from the BOFH excuse generator and net send it.

Ahh, youth.
As Peter Thiel repeatedly puts in Zero to One:

Monopolists love to talk about have they have competitors and act like they’re in competition.

Competitors love to downplay that they have any competitors at all and try to upsell their business like they’re monopolists.
> Facebook's newsfeed algorithms are actively tailoring the content that is surfaced in your newsfeed in a manner that encourages 'engagement', but this quest for engagement creates false narratives and an inaccurate understanding of reality

Except that the “algorithms” are executed by humans and not always concretely defined, this has been true of every ad-supported commercial news medium ever, for the same reason as it is for Facebook: the business model is securing attention of an audience to sell ads to them.
I think enforced purity is problematic (although obviously useful for some purposes such as program correctness proofs). I still want to be able to write:

doThing1();

// thing1 has finished

doThing2();

Where the functions block. Async and Monads and Futures and all are useful for some things, but mostly I just want to do stuff sequentially, blocking, and not confuse myself.

Scala allows this, although the widespread Future-ification of libraries makes it hard to actually practice.
Yes, that would be amazing!
I absolutely adored playing this game on our first family PC back in the day.
That’s pretty common in the industry already. Don’t assume you have any privacy when using company’s devices.
We still do use wood for wheels... So...
I've used it for a TypeScript project and it just worked.

A bit like Parcel, but faster.
Apple avoids GPLv3-licensed software, which may explain why they continue to ship an older version of bash (3.2, the last GPLv2 version). Eventually they must have decided that was too outdated to keep as the default shell and switched to zsh, which has an MIT-derived license.
Possibly getting Firefox from Debian Sid (unstable). Will require some advanced apt configuration to make sure that nothing else accidentally comes from sid, and might break or require further apt configuration changes if it starts requiring library versions that aren't in Ubuntu.

I use Ubuntu and I sometimes install Debian Sid packages by downloading them in a browser and installing them with dpkg.
Citation needed.

<ducks>
How does wood --> inflated rubber imply inflated rubber--> airless rubber? I don't see any logic in that.
Dmitriy Zaporozhets is explicit mentioned in the blog and on the photo. The S1 doesn't mention him https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28573867. Anyone know why Dmitriy owns less than 5% of the outstanding shares of the Class A or Class B common stock?
This game blew my mind! How did you get the physics to be so realistic? At the time I tried a number of different pinball implementations and unrealistic physics was a big problem.
The Earth's atmosphere is about 80% nitrogen and a little less than 20% oxygen, with some carbon dioxide, argon, variable amounts of water vapor, and some pollution.

What's "nitro oxygen", then?
to be fair, the Kaplan materials were particularly good at teaching him about the securities laws and compliance section of the exam :)

his stated goal was not to be an investment advisor though, it was to be able to invest himself
Ring doorbell may cost homeowner £100k in damages
Substack is great for people who already have an audience, or when you write analysis or opinion; it doesn't really work for a team of people covering hard/spot news. It also isn't real time -- so it doesn't really work to cover things _as they are happening._

We're building a network of local journalists, along with others in national verticals. The incentive structure exists in a way to promote news people want to come back to read, not clickbait headlines, divisive or anger driving hot takes, or lowest common denominator coverage. All geared to 18-34 year olds, who are less likely to consume local news in the traditional forms, like subscribing to a local paper or watching broadcast TV.
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Hrm. We have Apple Music and Spotify. As I mentioned, my wife and kiddo use Spotify and have never complained about music gone missing, but my experience with Spotify is probably a few years out of date.

I use Apple Music and only have about five playlists which are sizable. I haven't seen any music go 'grey' in any of them (I just checked). Some of that might be that my music tastes arent' particularly obscure, some of it might be Apple Music's licensing relationships with the record labels.

CDs are currently the best bargain in music at the moment. I can hit a thrift store and find about 10 discs that I'm interested in. Of those, about 5 are usually in mint condition, which I buy for $1-2 a piece. If there's a disc that I'm really* interested in, I can usually pick it up on eBay or Discogs for $3-5, shipped. It's almost always me looking through the discs which tend to be about 10% CCM, 15% country, 15% classical, and about 60% rock. There's always at least one other guy sifting through the Lenny Dee, Herb Albert, and Lawrence Welk records that are all that remains of a thrift store vinyl section these days (though I think Herb Albert is becoming harder and harder to find... :P ).

* We get Spotify for free with our phone contract, but I prefer the interface / integration of Apple Music on my phone.
Also, just FWIW: Sam Harris' Waking Up app has many podcast style conversations with and monologues by practitioners of variations on meditation/mindfulness. I'm suggesting this as a starting point if the article's content is perhaps too esoteric.
They aren't airless, they just don't depend on compressed gas.
Awesome - no reason to keep anyone from investing in them. Anyone loses their money, their fault no matter position in life.

Doriot slots into my "crowdfunding" comment above. Agree
Are you suggesting in a roundabout way that we should get rid of all the things that can encourage bad actors?
This doesn't really answer anything, though, because you don't have direct access to "The Consensus". How do you determine what the consensus is? Media reports? Whichever points come up most often on forums? Whatever points are most often reported in journal articles? The point reported in the journal article you most recently saw?