skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep it on, you can keep a firewall on, locally malicious files can be seen on your machine and if they aren't transmitted what is the worry?

If its manipulating data sent to legitimate sites you'd notice while you used it. These concerns aren't absent in other official browsers either.
You can't. Everyone except for RMS also uses at least a real web browser.
I'm guessing your are not from the US?
> I got the pixelart itch again and have a blog to write so I thought I would combine the two. This week I created a little metaphorical fable about building your castle in other people’s kingdoms.

At least you were warned :)
I have a completely different song with the same title stuck in my head.

[edit]

I've only heard the Kylie Minogue song once; I looked it up when it was referenced in a webcomic I was reading.
With that attitude - yes!

I grew up working on cars. It's really not that hard, especially with electric vehicles/retrofitting. The cab is attached to the frame with like 6 bolts. This is a very common practice in shops working on trucks - sometimes it is easiest to just lift the entire cab to work on the truck.

Photo: https://www.dieselworldmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/01...

Doing restomod work is a lot of fun if you are into that sort of thing. You get to play 'car designer' and rebuild a totally new vehicle/powertrain while trying to make it look original.
1. Which age range do you fall under? 30s

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 3 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? yes, often
6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? Clean, basic, intelligent user base compared to other social media platforms.

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? Get involved in discussions on variety of topics. Yes.

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? I would not touch a thing. Maybe add option for dark mode?

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Basic, clean, old school, and informative.
"This telescope would cost an estimated $11 billion, and could launch in the early 2040's."

So that probably means $20 billion and an early 2050s launch? Still worth it in my opinion.
Great product. I'm a frequent user of Segment from the early days and have been curious to see when an open-source competitor comes around that will match feature-for-feature.

Thoughts:

1. You've got most major ads sources that I care about, but it seems that there is a higher bar to implementation. Segment lets me just plug in Google & FB ads and dump the entire shebang right into my data warehouse. A lot of marketing teams are going to have less time/resources to deal with implementation so smoothing this out is key.

2. Functions are an underrated and highly powerful feature of Segment. The ability to operate on data in transit, create custom connectors that "just run" (akin to CF Workers) and the like is a big selling point for more technically advanced marketing teams. It doesn't seem present here and that would hold a customer such as myself back on bigger scope projects.

3. I'd love to see a "compare us to your segment usage" where I select my data sources and destinations to see what you cover vs. Segment in a specific use case (and possibly pricing advantages on a self-hosted vs. non). This would make it much easier to sell through procurement and devops for new customers that are switching.

4. There are going to be a lot of people like me that are soon to start fresh in terms of marketing stack, so going after people before they select Segment might also be a play.

Looking forward to seeing where you all take this. Good luck!
(Consider using “I” instead of “you”.)

I have found that once I become fat adapted, I no longer suffer from mental clarity problems. It takes a couple of days without carbs to get there for me.
Man I wish I lived wherever you do
Aren't Kibbutz still around?
I used to do 16/8 or 18/6 and it's pretty easy. I still usually don't eat breakfast because it makes it easy to get > 12 hours fasted.

A few months ago, though, I started doing a 24 hour fast every week. It takes some planning but it's surprisingly easy. I'm damn hungry by the end, but it's never been an issue. I'll even work out and lift heavy 22+ hours into the fast without a noticeable decline in strength. I have no plan to stop doing this.
Power hungry and HOT. Speed is there though.
Interesting, talks about stripped-down simplicity... $125K. :-/
if you can’t tell someone is good in the first interview… also, compensation is more important than all the rest.
Counterpoint: you say the US was just getting started messing around with other countries governments after world war 2, yet General Smedley Butler, who served from 1898-1931 described himself as a "gangster for capitalism" during this period.

So, maybe they had nothing to do with it and just lied about it, but your claim that they didn't even know how to do that kind of thing is plainly false, which throws doubt on the rest of your claims.
Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild
I think it's absolutely fine. You do something you enjoy and you learn new things.

I think if you actually _want_ to finish something you finish it.
Just as the other comment said, "that's only the conversion kit". I didn't want to wax poetic about the various input costs to a project like that but let's just say I and several of my friends know how much they can cost on both the upper and lower ends.

If you DIY hack it together with junkyard motor and spend nothing on anything you can get away with a self-made conversion for ~5k. If you're buying your parts from a kit like these links and using new crate motors then you will never get under 12k. Not to mention the cost differences of you doing the work vs a mechanic. The cheapest turn-key mechanic-done conversion with a new motor won't be under 15k and will likely push in the 20k+ range.
I’ve learned that once you have dogs or children, everyone else seems to have a very important opinion on what you should do with your own, all related services, etc.
> And Signal forces you to use your phone number as your identifier

Signal forces you to use "a" phone number as your identifier. It does not have to be your primary phone number, or home phone number or office phone number. Just a phone number that you have control of.
Here I am reading, following this reasonable argument and... boom pop-up "call to action" interrupts the hell out of it.

I realize the conversion rate could be lower, but why not put this CTA in a non-pop-up form at the end of the article? If I really enjoyed it, that seems like the point where I'd be on board with signing up.
> Also, arguably athletes in physically arduous sports like Football or boxing are trading damage to their bodies for fame, money, and glory.

The same applies to the trades, any job demanding physical labor (e.g. manufacturing), and to an even greater extent due to the surrender of agency, the military.
Al Gore: How to make radical climate action the new normal
> I really don't like to speculate on executive pay, but I'm pretty baffled why this is seen as such a big deal.

The problem is not the exec getting paid this much. It is about getting paid this much when to me and many long time users like me see a sinking ship with ever decreasing user base... while on the brink of no more pay from Google... Trying to push ads to us. < THIS IS WHERE EXEC PAY COMES INTO PLAY >

The context is important. It's like when your house is on fire and you are casually using the fire to light up a cigar.

> I sincerely apologize that Mozilla isn't up to the pristine standards of the big technology companies. /s

In all seriousness, we just need the heart of the old MoCo (Pre quantum) and the tech of the current MoCo. ;)

Firefox users are ideologically invested in the browser. I do feel like Mozilla is trying to push things like you are this big corp (In a way MoCo is.). While I am absolutely happy with the technical progress and direction Firefox taking, MoFo/MoCo should understand the ideological element here. This is why you see more outcry against "how things should be run" against Mozilla and not Google.
On an engine that makes PHP look like a paragon of good design
Are you Israeli? I read his rhetoric and I have never seen such ridiculous statements made by anyone. They are so disconnected from reality I never seen this kind of belief in my life.
I was thinking the same thing. I use spacemacs and have moved to about 5 laptops over the last five years. Just bring along the .spacemacs files and any supporting tools like ripgrep etc and I am up and running.
Letting me (and everybody else who doesn't want to be part of copilot) opt out is not, by any stretch, unreasonable.

It is basic human decency, and copilot would still be possible even if some of us opted our projects out.
I sometimes drive in complete silence. The friction between the tires and the asphalt is close to white noise. It contains a range of high and low frequencies that you can't easily filter out, something that I tried to deal with at a computer vision class project involving self-driving tech. Also it can be amazingly therapeutic.
I wouldn't put it quite like that, but....

It would be hard to overstate how complicated the nervous and immune systems are. On top of the biology, the provision of medical care is also absurdly complex: there are all sorts of biases in how patients are treated, some of which turn into feedback loops. An early heart transplant might stave off vascular dementia, while a patient with severe dementia might not be eligible for transplants at all.

It is certainly possible for a new person to notice something that people already working in the field have missed. At the same time, domain knowledge is worth a lot, especially when trying to figure out if a relationship seen in messy, observational data is real. I'd be skeptical either way, but collaborating with a more established team would help a little bit.

I don't think that software, in general, has quite so many foot-guns laying around. However, people do give similar advice for cryptography and (sometimes) machine learning because those fields do offer a number of subtle ways to really foul things up.
Emacs is not just for programming. Given the popularity of other uses (org-mode being the obvious big example) it's likely that text editing is the bigger potential market than programming.

There's a market for a customizable text editor. Look at what non-programmers are doing with Obsidian. The outdated defaults Emacs uses kills off their chances of getting into that market. Weird default shortcuts for no reason, a block cursor by default, strange terminology in the documentation, excessive keystrokes in the keyboard shortcuts (C-x C-s to save rather than C-s and C-f to search), and the list goes on. When someone gets to the point of customizing, they're happy with Emacs, but Emacs does everything it can to run them off before they get there.

Another thing they need to do is make sure they have the best markdown mode in the default install, complete with Pandoc integration. As good as it is, org-mode is not what most people are looking for when they are writing a text document.

> Yes, make Emacs appealing and user friendly. But don't forget that a masterful tool in the end requires mastery, which can't come for free.

That's true, but why add all the unnecessary baggage for new users? Just make the editor function like any new user expects and let the customization options turn them into passionate users.
> You can achieve a awful lot with Excel: more, even, than some programmers can achieve without it.

I've heard this a lot, but have never really used Excel. What can it do that a programmer can't ?
My all-time favorite. Even though not much technical in terms of computer science, most of Nolan movies are masterpieces IMO.
There is clearly an API in play here. The article mentions it numerous times. The client app has to use an API to get its data, that's a downside of deploying a SPA. You need to make an API for it to get data from.

If you don't want to make an API that exposes raw data just write a SSR app. If you want to deploy a SPA, well, you have to deploy an API as well and you need to plan around the fact that when you throw an API out into the wild and authorize people to use it (by handing out auth tokens), well, people are gonna use it.
You could ask the same question about eating 3-4 meals per day.

This is a relatively new phenomenon for humans - starting in the 1700s. Feast/famine is how we used to live. The Romans ate one meal a day and frowned upon breakfast, for instance - their default was what we would now consider OMAD fasting. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20243692
How long did it take you to assemble your setup?

Wall time, not fuzzy memories à la "it takes 5 minutes to cook this".

My bet? Tens, if not hundreds of hours.
> We briefly discussed my anxiety, but his immediate solution was the anti-anxiety drug. I made it clear that I was worried about the procedure and wanted to know more details about it. He didn’t want to explain the procedure beyond “we’ll inject medication that will help preserve your vision”, and he avoided answering repeated questions. Maybe he tried to shield me from the details and not confirm my worst fears.

Based on stories I've heard from emotionally immature doctor friends and my own experience being a little more confrontational with my doctors, he most likely didn't know the answers to your questions and was too proud to say, "I don't know."

It seems many forget that, at the end of the day, doctors are people, too, with just as many flaws and emotions as the rest of us. It's unfortunate that this affects quality of care, but it's a fact of life in every industry.

The best thing you can do for yourself in such a situation is to prepare yourself before appointments and remember the humanity of doctors during appointments. If your doctor is being dodgy about answering questions, let them know that it's okay if they don't know and that you won't think anything less of them for it. If it's an urgent matter, suggest looking it up together so that your doctor can provide context for whatever research you manage to find.

A doctor is like a contractor you've hired to inspect and maintain your body. As with any contractor, if you want them to do a good job, you have to work with them, as a team.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Making_a_Mod

The "Making a Mod" Valve wiki page is actually fairly useful for devs totally bereft of mentorship. In general, it seems like there is very little opportunity for devs to find mentorship in making games. Rather, you either figure it out or you wash out.
Yes, typed too quickly. I like the continuous monitoring aspect of II, just not the vendor burden for it. Want to test continuous monitoring? Allow submission of API endpoints for test/recall that a program can check your response on. The rest can be a questionnaire.
"I'm not personally much of a fan of private sector salaries...being public"

Think bigger, you are missing the forest for the trees.

It is not about Tom finding out Joe is getting paid 5% more.

It's about Joe finding out his employer took advatage of his inexperienceand lied to him, and everyone in the industry gets paid 2x what he does.

Corporations have a massive data advantage and leverage over you, they know how much everyone is paid, and how much their competitors pay. This data helps level the playing field.

It also helps detect illegal price fixing, breaches of minimum wage, makes plain effectiveness or ineffectiveness of unions, etc. It informs journalism and policy.

Every time you refuse to tell your colleague your salary, you are not helping yourself, you are helping your boss.
A few years ago I realized that eating made me feel bad, or just took a long time to digest. So I started skipping breakfast. A year ago I cut out dinner too, so I just eat once a day - usually late afternoon, and usually a large meal, probably close to two normal meals. Overall I think it's a better lifestyle, but I do feel more tired than I used to.
Mythic Quest was a lot of fun.
Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals
There isn't a speed limit but by placing strict limitations on the engine design, they indirectly limit the speed of the cars.
I appreciate your sharing your personal experience, and counterintuitive points are always welcome - but please don't point the threads flameward like this:

> So any [...] as some sort of [sarcastic overstatement] is really just idealized bullshit.

You made the pH of this discussion noticeably more acidic with this swipe, and the parent did not deserve it. It's not hard to make comments in a swipe-free way—for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29105572 is making a similar point to yours in a conversational style, as opposed to a cross-examining one. That's what we're going for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you think it would be easier or safer to convert a truck with a full length bed? Like could just put it as a layer in the back bed without messing with the chassis?

I just started driving again. Got an old Tacoma. New trucks are way too big and most don't even have full beds. Would love to just keep a 'classic beater truck' design but EV! Cheaper than just buying a new one anyways.
The meta is that if you add something to your life, and you don't currently have a lot of time when you are just bored, something will have to suffer.

I was wondering why I was often stressed out even though my life was good and I mostly did the things I want to do. Years ago, I had 3 things in my life - work, rock climbing, and coding/reading/videogames ("geeking out"), and I was never stressed for time. Then I got married, so now spending time with my wife became another thing. For a few years, it just so happened by itself that I've been coding, reading or playing videogames very little - turns out I could only fit 3.2 things in my life, not 4, something had to give. That actually made me stressed out and I didn't understand why... When I did, becoming more organized and wasting less time upped it to maybe 3.5, so now I can read a book/code/geek out now and then. But, alas, not as much as I would want.

That's one of the main reasons I'll never have kids - there's just no way I can handle 5 things, and I don't think I'd want any of the remaining ones to suffer for the payoffs (well, maybe work, but not just yet). That is also why you cannot add game making to your life without sacrifice...

EDIT: fixed some grammar
This isn’t about “quaint shops”. This is being able to walk or cycle to your GP, or to the local shops to grab some milk, or to the nearest park to play with your kids. In the most sought after places, it’s about being able to take regular, fast public transport to your place of work, because it’s obviously quicker & less hassle than driving.

In most of the US, you can’t build like this, because of zoning & planning restrictions, so regardless of whether the “middle and working classes” want them, they can’t. The fact that the neighbourhoods that do offer these features have incredibly expensive housing is evidence that people do want to live in these kinds of places.

The UK, like a lot of Europe is a mix - in general new development is very car centric, but still much higher density than in the US.
Agreed. Just out of principle, I'm never signing up for anything that attempts this method.
As I’ve said in other comments what seems to matter is the ratio of time spent in a fed state (body delivering nurtrients) vs a fasting state (body using fat for energy, depleting stores of things and doing housekeeping).

From that perspetive running could help, but only from the point of view of possibly getting you to the fasting state more quickly (a kind of kickstarter), but it would be easy too derail that by eating to soon or a hundred other things.
Ask HN: Best Cheapish 4k Monitors?
Theyre all so much $$$, but things I want:

- 4k

- 32" or larger

- High brightness and contrast

things I dont care about

- Color accuracy

- Refresh rate

- Gsync/Freesync/whatever

Any recommentation?
Thanks! I take it this file is where I can get started to learn more:

https://github.com/jitsucom/jitsu/blob/0aaa74b59eb9d8c885c80...

I see that it instantiates an "AsyncLogger" - does the service wait until data is written to the log prior to returning success to the client?

Is the WAL the same source used to feed both database storage destinations and other SaaS destinations?
increases in A1C seen. potentially putting folks into pre-diabetic range.
Companies probably aren't even looking at your projects, but I'd keep it simple if all you wanted to do was build projects for a portfolio. Simple website with login + database.

If you're not getting a call back for interviews you should probably improve your resume. Maybe list and describe your projects as well, stuff you've learned from it, books you've read, communities/meetups you've gone to.

> I'm not talking about "just follow your heart and build something you would want to use"

In my opinion I do just build what I want. Passion projects are more interesting imo. You can describe and talk about them better, your goals, what you've learned, how you would do it differently, etc.
From an evolutionary perspective, our bodies were designed for fasting. They were NOT designed for 7-8 decades of plenty.
My view on it is pretty simple from a logical standpoint - you own your body, so you get to decide how it's used or disposed of.

I see prohibiting the sale or use of someone's body as asserting ownership over it.
A couple questions:

How are you using the surgical knife in your intravitreal injection procedure?

Any thoughts on how often patients can see the needle? I always thought it was out of the visual axis, but some reports in this thread mention seeing it !?
I agree that security isn't everything there is to want from a messenger. But when the question being asked is "which messengers are secure", it is the only question that matters.
Yes, it has been so far, but this project has progressed much farther and steadily than most every other attempt. The sheer amount of features is astounding though, and highly varied among the different servers and codebases.
Personally I think you should strike this "(...because failure is not an option! ;) )" it's a little offputting. I also think you should put a salary range. I get how it kind of reveals your hand but it also sets expectations.
Figma Plugins to improve your Workflow
Something like Vivaldi but using FF as a base would be _wonderful_.
I was born with cataracts and had the natural lenses in my eyes removed when I was days old. Fast forward to 2018 and I had intraocular lens implants (I believe it's called) under general anaesthetic. Went fine for the most part, however I had to go to A&E because the pressure in one of my eyes was ~65.
The cause was blood leaking into the back of one of my eyes (if I remember correctly), and they had to use the drops you mentioned. At the time I was a bit concerned with what they were going to do, but obviously was willing to have whatever done to get back to normal.

I'm still impressed by how well those drops worked. And, yeah. All I could see was red (blood), and all I felt was just a prick of something sharp. Was done within probably 10-15 minutes.
A mailing list is generally made of people who are a lot more engaged and willing to support you. Twitter and tiktok are places you use network effect to try to grow your committed customer base but the conversion rate is much lower than a mailing list.

I think it also depends on business model and product but mailing lists are fundamentally more targeted than social media. You still need both to some degree.
Americans don't read.