skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the frustration with speed bumps but for the majority of people (US users at least) the signup nag is dismissible and for the rest of the world, it’s a simple speed bump which helps maintain the operation of the business and provides real value back to the end user.

I also have a Wikipedia account, a Stack Exchange account, a YouTube account, a HN account, and countless one-off forum accounts. This is just the reality of the modern web and per-user customization.
I've seen enough revolution.

I would be far more interested in an architectural counter-revolution, with the vendee marching on these modern monstrosities with pitch forks, torches and jackhammers.
Just around that time, I remember seeing facebook and twitter stickers on various stores in malls (with the 'slug' name of the business). I was a bit surprised. Why would you bring your customers to your twitter profile instead of your own homepage? Who says that most people are even using these websites? At the time I never used Twitter and to me Facebook was just a boring place (it still is). At best they were just glorified forums. It would be really strange if a business directed customers to the business profile on a random internet forum.

But I guess for the "normies" it was not just another forum. It was the internet. The internet to them was just facebook and twitter.

People also started using terms like "Social Media" as if it was a new thing. This made no sense to me because the internet was always social. I used to spend a lot of time in forums and chat room in the 2000s. So like, what are these people talking about?
This is a theme in Isaac Asimov's "Thiotimoline to the Stars"; in the story, starship pilots are required to travel through both space and time so as to cancel out the effects of time dilation.
For those looking for something a little less DIY, get an old Airport Express (Sometimes called an AirMac) from your favorite thrift or auction web site. They have a USB port intended for wireless printing.
I hope that electric motor cycles will come down in cost and weight. A little faster than ebikes, and silent, but with all the safety features of a motorcycle. And registered. And requiring a license.
Because no amount of security patches can fix 00s forum software designed without modern security in mind. And the average user _likes_ Discourse. They don't give two shits that Ctrl + F is hijacked because it does exactly what they want. It finds the text. They don't want excuses like "Oh well it doesn't find that text because you didn't scroll down to load it". They don't want to click through 100 pages of thread.
I may be wrong, but I don't think we need anything special to explain this, other than COVID.

Covid came, the economy died. No travel, restaurants, theaters etc, plus work clothes, beauty products ... Now covid is less of a problem every day, and those things are coming back ... we have a huge demand shock.
Connecting the Vuejs Front End to the API Server
It should be pointed out these are affiliates, not actual members. Later down article mentions the bounty for actual REvil leadership members.

This is what makes Ransomware as a Service so dangerous. It's basically franchising. The actual REvil gang gets to outsource the arrest risk to a third party and still gets paid billions.
Can you run a different window manager?
Couldn’t agree more on this

Using public forums would do greater good for developer community and the future developers as it retain the knowledge and can benefit a lot more than just sharing within chat apps
IIRC what you're calling PRIMARY is actually just clipboard and what you're calling SECONDARY is in fact PRIMARY. There is a third buffer, SECONDARY, that's more useful inside text editors and allows you to select text with the mouse without moving the cursor by holding control (meta/alt in emacs), selecting the text you want and pasting with middle click.
I found a bug deep in the Erlang internals that apparently came about due to a missed case in an optimization that the team put in. It was not terribly hard to find though, on account that it was tripped by a unit test that was working just fine on an earlier version of BEAM, and thus was also easy to reduce to a minimal case by A/Bing against both versions.
Hyperbole aside, can you describe specifically what about the user experience you find abysmal?
Likewise. I mean I do seem to have more money than before but almost none of it came via government transfers. I think we got $800 for our kids because they were schooled from home for a year or whatever. The rest is just not having things to spend it on, primarily eating out and travel. I certainly agree that huge numbers of people here in Canada benefited from government money to replace lost wages but they were mainly people in service industries who are hardly “wealthy”. So for real, what does this mean? Obviously in aggregate when you write a cheque to every person for $X it adds up, which is what I think happened in the US, but does it create wealthy households?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29155488
Reserve | Remote | Full-time | https://reserve.org | BitTorrent meets CashApp, backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel

We help our customers cope with hyperinflation, capital controls, and discrimination from the global banking system. Our current customers are in Venezuela and Argentina, and we have plans for eventual global expansion.

We’re silicon-valley-born, and these days we’re spread across the globe. We’re open to team members from anywhere, with preference for the Americas due to timezones. We only recruit engineers with this HN post, and we hire about one engineer per month right now.

These are the categories of engineers we are hiring, and we are especially looking for front-end engineers right now to accelerate new feature development within our React Native app:

- front end: https://apply.workable.com/reserve/j/EE5296426A/

- back end: https://apply.workable.com/reserve/j/64A6752723/

- full stack: https://apply.workable.com/reserve/j/BDAD521C3F/

- web3: https://apply.workable.com/reserve/j/D409ED8CD2/
Hardly any new houses are built with flat roofs. That trend is mostly dead. Commercial buildings still have flat roofs because they need a place to mount stuff like HVAC and antennas.
There are people who aren’t really concerned with which oppressor is subjugating them. They just want to go about their lives as well as they can.

Presumably you were raised to think you have an impact on the world; many people don’t feel that way at all.
Startup Recipes
Not exactly, no. These are weak analogies. The second one doesn't make any sense to me at all. Maybe I'm missing something.

It's like sharing your private key, knowing that others also use that private key.

You immediately make a large portion of your family tree discoverable.

It's the same underlying reason that we (most of us lol) treat revenge porn as a bad thing. You take someone else's blanket of privacy away without their consent.
It's technically illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk in at least Tokyo. The lack of protected bike lanes, however, means that very few people obey that law.

There's a lot of mixed-use streets here without sidewalks, and if cars weren't allowed on them, they'd be great. I'm always worried about being hit by a car on them.
That’s all well and good until you live somewhere with a large population of brown recluse spiders, and a healthy fear of them can keep you from losing a limb.
I hear you. But, I was referring to the term "white hat" in the context of this thread. Maybe I should've better clarified that.

So, the activity you're speaking of isn't what I had in mind. If you've discovered something that you freely report to help operators secure vulnerabilities, then that's one thing. But, this "business" of targeting companies uninvited, then requesting payment creates shady scenarios at best.

Many times, you have no idea who these people are or affiliated with, and whether they will exploit or sell this info on the black market if you don't pay them. You also don't know if it's the beginning of a drip, whereby they just continuously target you for one-off "payment requests" on other issues.

There's very much a predatory feel about it. If people want to offer a service for something this sensitive, important, and reliant on trust, then come through the front door and be transparent about what your service provides and how much it costs.
Yes, hearsay. Thanks for the correction.
And the real leadership likely sees the affiliates as a threat. Someone that can never learn any damning details about the leadership identities.
I just don't get why everyone maintains JIT manufacturing is bad, it's one of the many reasons we can have such reasonably low cost goods, its efficient.
> Practically speaking this means that my work is restricted in that it deliver something resembling a product or service within a couple of years.

So fettered, as per the articles definition of the word fettered.

It really just sounds like you don't like the word fettered for some reason. Maybe it has a negative connotation to you?
The government didn't even grant people a months worth of rent in my city. Not sure how that lead to such a huge infusion of demand that continues to persist, unless there are just that many people with very little rent who are driving this demand. Seems like such a small amount in the grand scheme of things considering most people even working a minimum wage job might see more money back on a tax return than the measly $1200 that's been dispersed.
Indeed, times have changed. The whole world consumes American media. Despite this, my brother and I were able to have coded conversations in a European hostel (where everybody spoke English fluently) using shared anecdotes (Shaka, when the walls fell). We weren't in duress, but not all is lost for people who are.
Yeah. Doubt he’s doing it for the money. He’s probably spending money just to have a fun design studio.
I own two fairly popular github projects (2.4k and 500 stars) - I have a Discord server. What do you recommend for me? I don't want to spend a penny on hosting this since it's a for fun project.
> It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle

Clearly one of them is a promoted pawn.
It can. The govt has stopped it doing so.
Yes I was wondering why economists would think this was a bad thing. To someone like me who knows nothing, this seems like an obvious good thing.
It doesn’t work like that though. If I buy BTC at 60k then someone is selling BTC at the same price. The fiat is just moving from one account to the next. The people getting cash-rich from crypto are either spending it (on lambos) or putting it back into the stock market.
I use a fat bike, with studded tyres, with low inflation for extra grip. Haven't had a problem with any kind of terrain really, but I don't live in a place that gets super icy.
Crude Awakening on Line 5
Gov. Newsom Injured by Moderna Booster Shot, Source Tells the Defender
I was responding specifically to the notion that Google should block all paywall or signup gated sites.

I see your point and I think you understand the product better than most in this thread but I think you’re minimizing the value of enrichment that “pins” over images or static links provide. In the same way, the comment section enriches news articles on hackernews and this site is worthy of indexing by Google.
Reminds me of that line in The Patriot along the lines of "How is 3000 tyrants one mile away better than one tyrant 3000 miles away?"
I used MarkoJS / LassoJS for a startup a ~4 years ago and it was an extremely successful product.

Moving away from it into ReactJS felt like taking a huge step backwards in terms of capabilities and speed.

It's a bummer it's not more popular.
Efficiency at a trade-off of resiliency. If you're talking about discretionary purchases, you probably value efficiency over resiliency. If you're talking agriculture, we should value resiliency over efficiency.
Computers don't function without matter. You don't have to transfer your brain into anything. We don't transfer our brain (at least directly) into our children, and yet, after we die, humanity still survives. Sentient computers would in a way be our children.
Using SMS as a login verification thing is just so irritating. My bank asks me to enter an SMS OTP every time I login to the website. I know my username and password! Let me into my bank account!
I do the exact same thing you do, and sometimes I think about enabling comments so I can have arbitrary tokens to CTRL+R toward.

I have been using vi mode in zsh for so long, I never learned about Alt+.; thank you so much for introducing me!

bindkey -M viins '\e.' insert-last-word

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34290179/get-last-argume...
This is 100% a supply shock. I have colleagues in the import business and containers are impossible to get and when they do you’re looking at 2x pre covid prices.
What is most definitely a heterodox economic view is taking Paul Krugman seriously. He has fully become a newspaper opinion pundit, and very few people among academic economists pay much attention to him because of that.
Just to add some context. Another commenter mentioned gotchas that would make C# developers weary.

The fist that comes to mind is that with a class invariants of the type can be ensured in the constructor or by making the constructor private and exposing static factory methods. A struct, on the other hand, is always simply declared, so don't afford these protection measures. For some reason C# still supports constructors in structs though, and even uses the `new` keyword to invoke them. This creates a kind of trap where structs almost, but not quite, behaves like classes.

Another gotcha is the defensive copy semantics. When a method is invoked on a struct, and that struct is a readonly field, a copy of the struct is created for the method to avoid mutating the field. This is not at all how classes referenced by a readonly field behaves.

I guess the same can be said for the simpler case of just passing a struct as parameter to a method mutating its now local copy. Again different outcome for structs and classes.

Since the code look so similar (its just a different keyword at declaration site) it creates an uncanny valley tripping people up. Not least when refactoring between the two. After all, being a language with a GC means memory layout is seldom a primary concern for people.

However you can now declare structs readonly to avoid the defensive copy thing, or as a ref-struct to retain mutability, almost like a class. And as long as the default value is perfectly valid, like say (0,0) there shouldn't be much surprises anymore.
Yes, the web-public view is being actively worked on: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues?q=label%3A%22area%3A+w...

There’s also a separate zulip-archive project that exports Zulip streams to static HTML: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive
Much game hacking seems to be around competitive PvP.

But I generally see even if you had no hacking, the social feel of a competitive PvP is often elitist and a turn off. The elites always seem to pick on the not so good, offering little true good hearted mentorship. This is not 100%, but a general thing, like 13yr olds having loose lips.

For example: Person A, bottom of the rung, loses a lot. Without mentorship help or good cheer this is not fun, so the options are:

1. Git gud. They have now given the "bottom of the rung" baton to someone else. Issue not solved, just handed over.

2. Leave. Which also gives the "bottom of the rung" baton to someone else, decreases player pool etc.

3. Keep playing and losing. Not many choose this.

With the high % of options being 1 or 2, eventually enough people pick 2. So most PvP is doomed to fail after the hype.

And in the period of time it is running, the elite have fun winning over the losing. Continuously.

Now add hackers.

Seems like unless you are the elite, which by definition is a minority, the only winning move is not to play.
Are you pitying Jony Ive? Why do you think he’s unhappy with current scenario? People make all kinds of career decisions; what makes somebody feel for one person, could just as well work fine for that person.
You should take a look at Pia Maloney and Eric Weinstein work.

CPI is broken because it doesn't factor in a "change in taste or prefence"

CPI treats individuals as a giant unmovimg population mean.

To counter they change to use vector fields.
To fill temporary roles or access specialist knowledge which they do not need to fill a permanent position for.

It generally is that simple. Freelancers fill roles to help complete tasks or build features that the company doesn’t need full time employees for long term.

Consultants are brought in to educate or fill specific knowledge gaps for a team.

Consultants can also be used to enact managements wishes with some separation.
>leaving the preceding minute early is seen as badass - do that instead.

I worked in one organization where leaving early was disrespectful. Being late was a "flex" move done by leaders who were "super busy".

I'm not saying that is right. I'm just saying that is how it was viewed.
In my experience freelancing for 10+ years, in decreasing order of importance:

Can’t find or hire f/t employee.

Need specialized skills.

Only need someone for limited time.

Don’t want to pay employment taxes and benefits.

Get around hiring freezes and quotas.

End run around management, or cover-their-ass move (put blame on outsiders rather than employees).
I did not see mention in the link of the problem of space. You might very well move through time, either forward or backward, but the solar system is moving through the galaxy is moving through the universe is still expanding. Therefore, maybe you moved in time, and when you’ve phased to no longer has the where you needed.
Biden's spending plan could cost up to $4T, Penn Wharton analysis shows
CPI will never been perfect. They could even break it down into 3 categories:
1. Poor man’s CPI: ramen, rent & public transit
2. Middle class’s CPI: house, beef & cars
3. Rich man’s CPI: penthouse, luxury goods & sports teams
MX Master 3 has a USB-C port and is well recommended by myself, however be warned, the advertised functionality around programmable gestures is not really workable outside of MacOS (or windows). On Linux, these gestures are expressed as key combinations as opposed to individual "button" presses, which I believe may be less than ideal.
I've tried this. Personally, I still forget the meeting is supposed to end. I'm trying to start meetings 5/10 minutes LATER.
Building bike lanes is extremely cheap, not sure why funding is an issue
Not the parent, but the situation you described is not fun. But say, I can magically stretch my legs? Or make players not solid for a moment? That's magic from Harry Potter and that's fun.

Fun is making a computer do stuff using your skills which it was not originally mandated to do.

Then there is meta game of playing against other wizards of the world.

However, I dispise pair exploits and unskilled players using paid exploits. That's not magic.
Maybe if there were more of these in the outside world, tech scene or not, we'd have less Theranos kinds to deal with.
"I would go so far as to argue for deployment of a self-contained webservice to the end users that could be accessed via any arbitrary localhost browser"

Might as well use Unity game engine and write your app inside one.
No worries! It was such an easy win for our docs site, I really think this should be the default approach using your Typesense provided hosting or custom as we did and still sponsoring your work.

Most technical documentation sites I think will be relatively small like our (<100MB), the approach of hosting a dockerized image of typesense might be something others would prefer to keep the management of the service as simple as they can. Would be a handy service and a way to get more people to realize how good Typesense is when applied like this.
Using Super73 as an example is like complaining about how fast cars are and citing the Tesla Plaid or a Lamborghini Aventador as an everyday example.

Super73 bikes are premium bikes that start at $1500 and can easily top $5000 with accessories. The highend RX cost $3500 base, has 750w motor that boost up to 1200w with an almost 1000 watt hour battery.

Compare that to something reasonable like the RadPower Radmission that costs $999, has a 500w Motor that cuts out at 20 mph powered by a 500 watt hour battery.

Just like regular bikes, ebikes come in all varieties and banning them all or relegating them to car lanes because a few should be classified as Mopeds isn't the answer.

Some responsible ebike companies ship their top end bikes with VINs that require they be registered as Mopeds.
Off-topic, but AFAIK, the Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard (with the eraser-head pointer) is one laptop keyboard that still features a third mouse/trackpad button.

Are there other keyboards that also offer this?
How does that story have anything to do with being evil, by any stretch of the definition?

Are you insinuating that Google has this convoluted verification flow to intentionally harm people in some way? Or even to intentionally harm privacy or further business goals at users' expense?

Or are you just using "evil" to refer to anything you don't like?
5 year SPY chart is hillarious. Covid was seemingly a blip only a tad bigger than the blip in december 2018, we've been right back into the bull market trend for like a year now. The positive slope from march 20 2020 alone to today has just been insane, just a straight line up with hardly any deviation. So amazingly bullish. Fear doesn't exist in the markets anymore, we've seemed to have abandoned it. Just buy your leaps and profit indefinitely until the end of time. Not even a global pandemic could tear it down as it were.
Right, because IRC (the prior state-of-the-art) is eminently accessible.
Once upon a time not long ago, I got off from my flight into a foreign country (I don't have a SIM card that would work there). I turned on my wifi and was delighted to see they had a public network you can use. There was a captive portal, and the only sign in options (besides using a local phone number) were Facebook and Google. I chose Google, and entered my id and password. Google promptly went into the "sus" mode as you described.

Now I can't use option 1 or 2 because I don't have internet access until Google approves my sign in. I can't use option 3 because I don't have a SIM card that would work locally. Thankfully Facebook login worked.
I suppose it's not pure luck at all. Here in Brazil dispatchers are trained to cope with callers that appear to be trying to sneak an address in a seemly unusual call.
Dating apps are working on this, albeit higher up the funnel (which is arguably more important), and so a lot of resources are being invested in this area.
Your top voted reply to the first comment shows the same same issue.

It would be really great if HN provided multiple different moderation systems, so everyone could select a moderation algorithm that suited them better.
No one will ever convince me that a laptop with a web cam whose position is limited to looking straight up your nose is quality.

I primarily navigate by keyboard, so the difference between an acceptable and amazing trackpad is pretty minimal for my preferences. On the other hand, port wonkiness, temperamental wifi, okay keys, mediocre battery, driver issues and an utterly useless webcam convinced me to ditch the XPS the first chance I got. It's amazing I used it nearly 18 months.
Well if you don’t think we’ve gamed fuel but do think we’ve gamed CPI significantly (ie several percentage points per year for decades), then we have made REMARKABLE progress in reducing fuel costs over the last 40 years, with fuel efficiency improvements on top of that.