skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I see what you are saying, but I don't think most opera-dress-up items are pretending to be highly functional. They have transformed long time ago into purely aesthetic.

To go back to my car analogy comfort zone ;), I don't like 22" rims personally (16" tires are so much cheaper:); but they don't bother me. There's no pretense at functionality, some people just think it looks cool, awesome. Some people think ties look cool, awesome. It's not a "fake" 22" rim, it's not a "fake" tie.

But a non-functional hood scoop, and non-functional shutter, strike me as "fake" in way that other fashion/aesthetic items do not. A hood scoop hugely implies that it's shunting air somewhere important. A shutter hugely implies that you can open or close it, brighten or darken the room. They have not yet transformed far enough from their functional origins. Whereas a modern tie doesn't hugely imply anything functional that I or anybody few generations around me have any cognizance of. Heck, I'm from Croatia, and I have to Google every time what Kravat was actually used for - I honest to gawd cannot even think right now what Tie could have been functionally used for.

Maybe a hundred years from now, when hydrogen and electric cars are all anybody ever remembers, hood scoops will be seen as purely an aesthetic choice; and maybe to people from different climates shutters already seem a purely aesthetic choice. To me, today here now, fixed, wrongly-proportioned ones don't evoke either "pretty" or "ugly", they evoke "cheap ridiculous fake".

My 100 Croatian Lipa :->
My family or lack thereof, as well as my commitments and happenings thereby are not work-relevant, and, in my view, not work-appropriate matters of discussion.

It's not "hiding" anything, it's keeping personal things personal. I don't talk about my medical issues at work either. It's not hiding, it's just not need-to-know.

Show up and do your job, and then go home.
;) cheers
The only thing it shows is what that particular author wanted to show. Judging national character by a single movie is not the best approach I would say.

When you live in a country for extended period of time and deal with the locals every day on different levels maybe by then you will have grasped it.
I recently just got an offer from an SF-based startup, I'm so excited about it because I love the product and the fact that it is open-source.
My comp is a bit adjusted by my location (Vietnam) but it's still six figures.
It sounds more like deadlock than a positive feedback loop (also it’s weird that he calls it negative feedback loop).
Let's be clear here, the "system" in question is just exploitative management. If management knows a worker will be taking their leave they can either hire to make up for it or adjust their productivity expectations for a few months. If they don't, that's not the fault of the person taking the leave that they're entitled to as part of their compensation package.
You can also simply opt out of this sort of additional unpaid work by enforcing strong boundaries with your employer.

It doesn't require lying.
Also, I agree, I wasn’t being accurate or fair, at least in general. There are topics where the quality of commentary is dismal.

I’ll try to not comment when I feel a sneer. Thx.
You need to stop building things you don't enjoy building and which you have little to no interest in actually using. After that take as much time as necessary for something to strike your interest, possibly in a totally different domain (e.g., embedded systems instead of CRUD crap).

Once you reach that point tinker a little, not a lot. When you feel resistance take a break, never force yourself. Don't force yourself to write code you don't enjoy writing, find ways around it, at least initially. You need to avoid reinforcing the association between code and pain until you have a buffer of good experiences in your new domain.

It might be (probably will be) necessary to find a new career path in the meantime.

Good luck.
Sublime Debugger
That's not visible either unless JS is enabled (it's not just your imagination, the Web's quality has gone downhill).

If you have issues getting a submission parsed correctly, please email the HN moderator team at hn@ycombinator.com
Facebook's focus on engagement led to radicalization. They knew this.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-dis...

> The Journal reported that research Facebook conducted internally in 2016 and 2018 showed the platform's algorithm contributed to the proliferation of polarizing content. When Zuckerberg was presented with proposed changes to the platform to stymie the spread, the Facebook CEO asked employees not to bring him any more proposed algorithm edits that were "in the name of social good," the newspaper said.
That's such a good book. I first read it after reading Wikipedia's "Terminal Event Management Policy" (a humorous page) which noted:

> In the longer term, archivists are encouraged to pool the resources of the encyclopedia for the common good. A suggested model of collaboration is based on the Leibowitz-Canticle report of the 1960s, which suggests pooling of archives in a centralized location, which might serve as a hub for reconstruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Manag...

After reading that I quickly found a copy in the library to enjoy. Not many sci-fi books from 1959 have remained as relevant and fresh 6 decades later.
Thanks for the kind reply. I know that people sometimes say such things, but they're a tiny minority of HN users. I cringe inwardly when I hear them, and I'm probably oversensitive on the point.
This is ~solvable at a third party level. Nearly everything on NPM (the host) is MIT licensed or similar. When packages are published, run their publish lifecycle and compare to the package that’s actually published.

I don’t have the resources or bandwidth to do this, but it’s pretty straightforward +- weird publishing setups.

Edit: of course this doesn’t apply to private repositories but… you’re in a whole different world of trust at that point.
There is unlimited ballast all around a ship (water)
It irritates me. It's clear that some people confuse it with HN and that sucks. There's even an example in this thread.

YC owns Hacker News as a registered trademark. I don't know if that means we could do something about it. Assuming we could, I don't know if that means we should.
Wow. That takes the lax attitude towards security in the NPM world to a whole new level.
FB recommends and suggests content much like youtube except much more social. Twitter is closer to reddit than FB.
https://archive.md/0Rx9x
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/05/14/new-blue-pigment-...
Nothing can go wrong when turning our children's genetic material into node_modules
Once again zoning is the enemy of efficiency.

Why did we ever agree to this?
Grid upgrades soon will also be needed for further wind and PV rollout.

Upgrades to transmission grids and distribution grids are being modelled and planned. And IIRC Biden's infrastructure bill had a line item for grid upgrades.

Yeah, it's hard to see. We're used to everything being instantly accessible on the web, but an awful lot of work happens off it. You'll read about it when the NIMBYs start going to court.
I made the mistake of buying a Chumby clock (With Firmware signed by Sony, which likely maintained a VM somewhere to boot their clocks until they decided it wasn't worth the effort) without realizing that it needed an internet connection tho even boot and show the time of the day.
You can't just pump a bunch of salt water into the cargo hold of a container ship, I suspect.
Perhaps future "gas stations" will charge their huge batteries at night, when the electricity is cheap and sell it to you, when you'll charge, at a higher price. Only when their batttery will be empty will they need to access the grid.
Facebook had a standing policy against election disinformation and incitement to violence, which it failed to enforce.

The company also had an ongoing practice of making deliberate exceptions to their terms of service for Trump and other politicians, allowing them to violate the rules with impunity.
And Bearings Bank was founded in 1762. And made it to 1995 before imploding. Likely to survive, yes. But at least one is likely to fail over any reasonable period.
betting the carpet in the house adjacent to the farm
What sort of hoops are unnecessary in your view?
Owner-operators are actually not completely allowed in California. And trucks for the most part must be very new to comply with California emissions requirements. The "labor shortage" is in part aggravated by these regulations.

>Danielle Inman, a spokesperson for the National Retail Foundation, which has lobbied for California to overturn AB 5, told PolitiFact that the state’s regulations on trucking impact the availability of drivers and trucks

>(AB 5) makes it nearly impossible for truck drivers to be independent contractors

>At the time AB 5 passed, industry experts said that some owner-operators sought work elsewhere. Some fleets, too, chose to stop doing business with owner-operators in California.

And

>To meet the current clean air regulations, the state Department of Motor Vehicles blocks new registrations of any oversized vehicles older than 2011 — or those with engines manufactured before 2010.

>Some trucking companies have used the regulations to pressure drivers to buy newer rigs, and some in the industry have claimed that, while not necessarily the cause of the backlog, this kind of policy doesn't help.
Gartner: Citizen developers will soon outnumber professional coders 4 to 1
I had (probably still at my parent's house) a Commodore cassette deck, 2 1541s and a 1571. All modded of course.

I remember using the cassette deck but it was definitely a stop gap to a real disk drive.
They’re likely also growing to the maximum height they can bring water to. It’s a good strategy.
You can into the ballast tanks.
because you're a "dev" who makes web pages for a company that can't afford an oracle license. and your office is a starbucks. but you want to call your little toy a pro, because to non-programmers, you make missle guidance systems. well not you. but the other few people on this thread.
Super interesting, encoding information inside of a lease contract. It's almost blockchain-esque!
And then someone forgets to renew the domain.
most importantly, they check version numbers against known compromised versions like this, just in case you aren't on HN to see it.
To be fair to the proposal’s advocates and the person who posted the blog article which prompted it: they’re not wrong that npm audit is mostly irrelevant noise and actively harmful (incentivizes individuals to ignore meaningful security issues) because of that. Their proposal is just the wrong solution, and last I checked in they were too wedded to it.
> A shutter hugely implies that you can open or close it, brighten or darken the room.

This probably varies by the viewer
Super common terms for analog media, tape in various forms (like reel to reel) is very old after all, and it's easy to imagine that the motors driving them exhibit significant speed variations during playback. There were also dedicated wow and flutter meters that measured both: You'd play a fixed frequency tone and it would display the frequency variation of what actually came out. Technically that's a form of frequency modulation, with wow and flutter being modulated with low and high frequencies respectively[1].

Later "quartz locked" high precision drives for example got rid of most of it, but as I recall that got widespread briefly before or even at the same time as CDs, and was far from ubiquitous.

[1] The "high" frequency here still being much lower than what you usually think about when you read "high frequency" even in an audio context.
In case anyone is still looking at this thread:

I walked the dog tonight & actually looked at the windows on the houses. They are not mainly fake-shuttered, as I asserted. I'm sure that's a load off OP's mind. Even my house has wood borders that make no pretense of having a function.

Most houses have some kind of trim, presumably wood, painted in a contrasting color. Others just have the white vinyl borders that the windows were manufactured with. A fair number of fake shutters.
Facebook is destroying our pluralistic, tolerant society, as well as our democracy. How long will we let them get away with lining their pockets at our expense?
Mayor of Long Beach just increased it. https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGarcia/status/1451679404757...
But then aren’t you still trusting a third-party to properly audit their own code and ensure it doesn’t get compromised? Where’s the line?
Chime, like (Bank)Simple, could disappear at any time, hence the enormous value in durable public goods sponsored by the government (USPS, postal banking, etc).
The last year and a half of pandemic aid has been a large scale experiment in universal basic income. The results seem to be somewhat expected: a labor shortage and high inflation.
Just write something worth writing and, if it's good enough, someone will keep copying it.

You won't have certainty that any plan you setup will work and you'll be dead when you can evaluate the success of the operation.
> I have a Trompe-l'œil mouse running along the baseboard in my house :-)

That's awesome. I had to look up "Trompe-l'œil" to see what you meant. That image search is neat.

And this mouse[0] would work perfectly in my hallway. There's already some cracking plaster in there. Might as well lean into it.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/4U6G8sH.jpg
I guess we all collect our pet peeves eventually.

Me, I can't believe that someone could be so bothered by "fake" shutters and not notice the ubiquitous tangle of above-ground power lines (in the US, less so in Europe and the UK). Yeah, a different problem, and maybe the author is also bothered by this, but there are only so many fucks to give in life.
Reddit is worse than facebook. Their voting system concentrates extremism and portrays that extremism as mainstream. For all of FB's stupid "engagement optomization" BS as least there exist fewer feedback loops to mint new extremists on it.
> Is it possible that some company with deep pockets forks Firefox and hires what it's left from its development team to further develop Firefox and improve its market share?

Brave.
SiriusXM uses a similar method, plus buffering, to ensure your satellite radio keeps playing, even if you dare to drive under such rare things as traffic lights and tree branches.
I don't think this feature is present in any third party mail app (and frankly mailbox is not going to release an app with this feature) and honestly that would be weird to manage as in how do you know gmail.com is not the user's own domain but some-other.tld is. But Fastmail does know this as their app is not a common third party app.

Lack of this feature makes full use of catch-all very unintuitive.
So what if it did? Shutters and disc drives are both things that aren't especially useful with modern technology. What if I liked the look of it anyway? Do magnetic fake handles on garage doors make the author angry too? Let people enjoy things.
I’ll bet Wirth’s web pages vanish from ETH’s domain within ten years of his passing.
Ya know, I never thought of it before now, but you’re right. I just want to read an email that I’ve already received!
It's easier for women to support themselves now too, so they don't have to stay married for financial reasons.
No, it means some problems are addressed while others aren't.
And if you can't convince smart people to work on it, maybe you want to think about the idea a bit more!
So why is the board paying her that much? Are they incompetent? What evidence do you have?
This is the #1 reason why I'm going to switch away from Fastmail when my current billing cycle ends. The #2 reason is that they're Australian.

Otherwise I've been super happy with them.
In Europe, as far as I know Arendt is well-known and always popular, particularly on the left.

The "problem" I have with her writings is that, in their precise rationality, they feel utterly bleak. Yes, there are all these terrible dynamics at play, generating totalitarianism from loneliness and monsters from banal people - so what should we do? Is there hope? That doesn't seem to come up. So the reader is left somewhat depressed. (Or at least this is what I remember feeling when I read them, 10-15 years ago.)
At that point, why use miners if you aren't relying on them for security?
First real world photos of the new MacBook notch appear
Why is this a link to Reddit? Usually that’s when the link is to the specific Reddit discussion because that’s what is being shared, but that’s not the case here.

@mods I think the link should be to the actual post here:
https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
Who, and how, is forcing parents to subsidize the lives of single people? Either I don't get what you are saying, or that argument was made in bad faith
Ah, I was too young for multiple drives. While my parents probably saw the futility of not having a disk drive at all, shelling out the hundreds of DM for a second one was likely too much.

And with no own money I put up with what I had. I nowadays suspect that the grease in my then rather old 1541 must have hardened, because it needed the occasional hard slap on its case to continue loading, it would "hang" in the middle of a disk access until you did that.
Technically you could pin directly to a git commit instead of an NPM release
My android (meizu) disables fingerprint unlock after entering SOS mode by pressing power button 5 times. It was enabled by default. I dont'know if this applies to all androids. It works for iphone. This method is easier to do without looking at the screen.
Anecdotal, but well, I’m on online centrist who worked for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Nearly all of the concerns raised in this thread are justified. In my experience, the benefits are threadbare and don’t offset the downsides.

I often see people promoting or defending unions who have never worked for/been a member of a union, which is interesting.
As long as Intel is taking huge risks, they can also look for a blue ocean market. The common factor among all of these customers is that they are centralizing and privatizing their compute - therefore, rather than playing sycophant to the current market leaders, disrupt them. Go out swinging.

Intel has a long history of selling complete platforms, and they had a major role in disrupting computing in the microcomputer era; unlikely as it may seem right now, they have the power to turn the cloud story upside down and support repairability, client compute and decentralized systems through a radical new platform, with their new process nodes used as a hook. They may need to go lobby their case with governments to get some rule-making in place that drives a wedge in the existing monopolies, but they have the pockets to make a run at that, too, and it's a slam-dunk PR win to be seen protecting end users. Their endgame would be to once again sit at the top of the market, holding most of the customers, but it would be a very different market, and reflective of the kinds of broad transformations that are now happening to industry and supply chains across the global economy.
I assume people want features and eye candy over stability or performance? Or the companies think they do. But apple’s snow leopard was a tune up that was well received and effective. Maybe nobody likes doing hard work for boring stuff?

Damn code isn’t anywhere near as fast as it should be, either given the hardware advances (Wirth’s law).
I'm not impressed by STH's moves, I'm not sure if it's a recent development or I've failed to notice it before. Their articles are sometimes uncanny to read, as if they were written by someone who doesn't speak English natively (which is fine), but never proofread.

Add to that their nasty advertising methods, I'm really disappointed because STH has for a long time been one of my favourite resources for enterprise-grade and home lab gear. I've made considerations in commercial decisions using their reviews, but I don't feel I can trust their integrity at this point.
Are there practical reasons for using a linked list in JS? This is an honest question. I’ve taken immutability to heart, so storing a stable yet presumably mutable reference to a cell seems like a bad idea to me. (If it’s immutable, you can keep and use the cell’s value instead of caring that it came from a list.)
Well, everyone was hyped on perl at the turn of the millennium. Yet not many people write it anymore. I keep waiting for the re-surge, but it just doesn't look like it is going to happen.

At nuclear waste sites, even the feds have come up with a few ways of saying "Don't enter. It is bad" with different languages, pictorial signs, and such.

It is really tough to figure out what the next few hundred years looks like. And to be a bit political, I don't think anyone saw the invasion of the capitol building in January.

It isn't easy to predict the future. With the original poster in mind, I think the best bet would to be with archive.org.

Maybe archive.org should provide this service. It could be a way to generate revenue - say "here is a thousand bucks, keep it for eternity."

I'm not sure I would want my thoughts to last that long though.

(And I'm still not sure that it would survive for more than a few hundred years.) Maybe the right thing to do is do something so great for society that they want to write books on you (eg: George Washington).
How does her work compare with that of Rebecca West, who also wrote on some of the same themes.
https://archive.md/FI04G
> And what happens when you need to update those dependencies?

Then you update them just like you do otherwise, like I already said is possible.

> you can't keep it alive on 4yr-old dependencies. In fact, you've cursed it with unpatched bugs and security issues

This is misdirection. No one is arguing for the bad thing you're trying to bring up.

Commit your dependencies.
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https://archive.md/FFGG6
A UBI experiment with confounding variables: lockdown, schools closed, travel and tourism restricted, parts of the economy shutting down, job losses, women out of the workforce to take care of children, health care sector under stress, 734 thousand people dead etc.

If you can correlate UBI with labor shortage and high inflation from that data - then perhaps you were predisposed to that conclusion.
I agree.

The funny thing is, these people heard from people like me about this great website "hacker news", and didn't want to miss anything, so they went looking for it and probably came here first. Thought "?? This can't be it ??" and kept on looking. They then find the blogspam site and think they found it.

Only the real techies I know, read this site. A lot of wannabe techies read the other one :) It's almost becoming an in-joke. Not to say anything bad about non-techies, but this site has a razor-thin target community. Which is great of course in a time where everything is trying to become more mainstream.

I'm not saying this site should change. I personally love the compact no-nonsense style here. It's exactly what I want in a website. In fact I use custom CSS to make some other sites mimic it :) But it does put some people off, and this other site seems to have jumped in to feed off that group. This is why I think it's great that they got hackernews.com, it will give it a bit more profile for that group.
Keeping short grass helps keep vermin away from the house. It is pleasing to walk on, shoes or barefoot. It has an orderly aesthetic.

HOAs and city ordinances that measure the height of your grass to within a quarter of an inch are absurd, but letting your entire yard go wild isn't great either.

My house is surrounded by forest and wild grassy areas, but we still keep a buffer of short grass at least 25' on all sides (with some ornamental bushes and a few select trees) and I wouldn't give it up for anything.