skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right out of the doctrine manual, especially that bit about instill[ing] false consciousness which comes straight out of Marcuse and Marx [1,2].

Wasn't there a ban on politics on HN? I have been shadowbanned several times for reacting to posts like this while the posts themselves stay up.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4194332

[2] https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-false-consciousness/
Nakasone: Cold War-style deterrence ‘does not comport to cyberspace’
Because the last Computer Science Conference I went to wasn't small and cozy enough that I got to hang out and personally chat with the leaders in the field.
Absolutely. For example people who have taken 5-MeO-DMT report having profound religious-like experiences. Some say if there's a god then you can talk to him through tryptamines.

I'd really like to know how much of religion comes from psychedelia.
Ask HN: How do I convert a Chrome extension into Android app?
Hello,
My aim is to convert WebToEpub chrome extension (https://github.com/dteviot/WebToEpub)
to a standalone android app.
I do not have programming knowledge.
I hope anyone can tell me what programming language to learn, how to learn it, how to proceed later etc.
>I would happily pay 50EUR if I was sure to obtain a high-quality print, well bound, with crisp text and figures and pages that do not fall apart. But then again, I'm a fastidious bibliophile and probably not representative at all.

Since the book sells mainly in art book shops I’d say you are representative of its public in the sense that the physical and visual design aims to be solid and at a higher level than for ex. most technical books. It’s offset printed, generous margins, nice paper stock, the spine is supple.

It’s not easy for me to know what happened with the copy the Amazon reviewer got. Since Amazon sold them this copy I’d expect them to reply and fix the problem (send a new book) but that’s probably too much to expect!

The chain is long, and I can’t 100% guarantee you that a bookshop sells you a copy in good shape but it should be no problem to return a misprinted one.

> It was a bit surprising that you did not offer a freely downloadable pdf file for the book yourself. Anyhow, if the book is minimally relevant it will appear on library genesis for all to see. Time to stop pretending that this does not happen.

My initial idea with having the eBook for sale instead of for free was that indeed it would pop up on Library Genesis, and for once the license actually allows it, but people would also buy it, giving me an extra income stream (I make more from an eBook than a physical book) and not making the publisher too nervous (after all, they might think that the free PDF would eat into sales of the physical book). It’s quite possible I’ll change this in the future, I’m evaluating it.
We should get rules like that for our industry, I agree.
The reason you're going around in circles is because you keep insisting on repeating something that's not true.

Again, at the risk of repeating the truth: "Repeating it over and over again does not make it true."

There's no need to "drill down" or infinitely recurse on yourself: simply execute a "break;" and stop repeating things that aren't true, and your infinite "while" loop will terminate, and your function will finally "return;".

Has JavaScript's fuzzy concept of "truthyness" has affected your brain, and you're just as confused about the basic concept of "equality" as Brendan Eich is about gay marriage and human rights?

https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/

Figuring out whether (JavaScript == JSX) || (JavaScript != JSX) isn't as tricky as deciding why (NaN == NaN) || (NaN != NaN). And using three equal signs instead of two isn't going to change the result.

(I'm sorry this has to be repeated over and over again, but it IS objectively true that you're repeating things that aren't true over and over again, and that's not making them any more true.)

So please repeat after me: JSX is not JavaScript. That's the truth, it's always going to be true no matter how many times you repeat the opposite, and it shouldn't have to be repeated.
Could be. The issue I had is that my file browser can connect to a windows share, but doesn't cache anything. I need a local copy of this pw file, else I always have to be in one of the two VPNs we have.

Apparently Unison[0] could be a solution. But to be honest, I grab this file once every couple of months because 99% of the pws I need don't change, so I only sync when someone has built a new service I need the pw for.

[0] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
I assume you mean that the Windows API (standard for Windows apps) is case insensitive, but if using the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) it's possible to get case sensitivity: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivit...
I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably. Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies.

It'll be entertaining to watch them engage with their sisyphean mental gymnastics once Apple releases a new product with extra wrenches for their pleasure.
About Reddit: how can users be comfortable with a repository which does not have a decent navigation of past submissions?! You cannot navigate by page, you cannot search by date (or time range), you may be bound to an "infinite scroll" system without a "bookmark" to return there later... Do not users demanding by trade decent control have the disappointing impression they are driving a car without seat or floor, or with a faulty steering wheel?

(Just one of the issues. Implicit: users have a number of severe faults with the instrument to get detached, if they do not orient themselves to forget them.)
I'd go so far as to say: How can it be a standard, if not freely available?
Yeah, that's what I meant.

> that definition might not be particularly convenient

The same way the standard for MPEG wouldn't be useful for someone who just wants to watch a video :)
standard writers usually do all the work for free.

My dad worked on a couple of standards, and while he wasn't paid by the standards body he didn't work for free. He was employed at a company and the company paid him his salary. Working on those standards was just another part of his day job.
Personally I'm fine with using a complicated expression (or a pipeline) built out of basic parts where it's not necessary (because there's some whizzbang operator that'll make it so much more succinct) if that's what I can remember or what is clearer to understand with fresh eyes.
Years ago I volunteered with Free Geek in Portland (https://www.freegeek.org/shop). They collect old technology, refurbish what they can, recycle what they can't. Working computers are given to or sold cheap to people who need a PC. They also have classes and other activities.

That's a small-scale example of recycling hardware that would otherwise go in the trash. I imagine programs like Free Geek exist in other cities.

Lots of companies and organizations offer free computer hardware recycling: Apple, Dell, Goodwill, BestBuy. I don't know how much recycling they actually do.

You're describing something more ambitious and labor-intensive. It costs more (in terms of labor and logistics) to recycle old or broken hardware than it does to replace it with new hardware. Breaking hardware down into reusable components or metal scrap is both labor and technology intensive (and so happens in developing-world countries).

Given the huge variation in hardware, peripherals, drivers, etc. I don't think you can just set up some kind of automated process to transform random hardware, possibly broken, into a working arcade machine (or a working anything). Besides the logistics and labor issues, a lot of modern hardware is designed and manufactured to prevent removing parts without destroying them, or replacing parts. Do you have the equipment to replace soldered components on modern circuit boards, and the people to run that equipment?
Self Godwin in 4 tweets, impressive.
> 3 - AWS is sold to CTO/CIOs. AWS is a massive marketing and sales success

Not always. People on the ground push for cloud stuff because it makes their lives easier and they are used to it from their side projects (where they, more likely than not, used the generous free credits).

It's just like back in ye olde days when all you needed to do to get a copy of Photoshop was the official installer and a keygen... Adobe didn't invest much in marketing and didn't do much against piracy until the end of CS6/the rise of CC, simply to become the universal industry standard.
"Is anyone here a doctor.. Im sorry, force of habit.. Is anyone here a software engineer..Whatever you do, do not close your laptop at take-off.."
ADSB Exchange provides a list of all aircraft registrations they track. It's in the 100k's I think and would certainly include all commercial bulk passenger aircraft.

Maybe by cross-referencing with one of the many sites tracking ownership, and the scheduling data FlightAware or others would provide, it could be figured out.

https://adsbexchange.com
I think by default glxgears has vsync enabled. But it's trivially possible to disable it with an env var. Considering the CPU usage I assume that is what was done. 60% CPU usage for running glxgears at 120Hz seems excessive.
I think it depends on the delivery company. Amazon, Hermes, and DPD have been fairly good with that in my experience, Royal Mail have always made me go through the faff of a trip to the sorting office no matter what.
I actually had the same setup just privately to sync KeePass between different clients. I used OneDrive, and the Linux solutions were not very reliable. But that may have been specific to OneDrive.
Strikes me as a strange reaction. Dune is set 20,000 years in the future, on an entirely different planet. Races and religions are to have been completely mixed and jumbled in that time.

I don’t read the Fremen as intended as any sort of direct middle eastern metaphor, they’ve little in common other than living in the desert and don’t play into tropes.

The language of the book follows the jumbling of time, and borrows from a lot of languages, though likely most heavily from Arabic. This however is the shared lexicon of the universe, not just the Fremen or the planet Arrakis.

It’s a very distinct imaginary culture, much like Tolkiens imaginary cultures. Arguing misrepresentation of someone not being represented in the first place is just confused and misplaced.
As a DevOps engineer, I had multiple encounters with undocumented software just in the past month. Viewing the source code certainly helped.
Cool project, kudos to the author! For those bashing it with "it is a simple OCR", which is somehow standard HN elitism I must say, a couple of things. First, it is a well-thought project: besides online blog hosting, you have a mobile app AND you get a free notebook. Also, great explanation videos.

Someone will say "meh" for this, but if you started and shipped the project (I doubt many of those haters did), these tiny things take ages to finish, especially if you rely on external partners like someone shipping a custom notebook. Not something you can code in your favorite editor.

Second thing: I lurk around fountain pen and notebook/journal communities, where people handwrite a lot. These people spend a lot of money on fine instruments (Pilot Custom 823 ~ $300, Namiki Maki-e ~ $1000) and excellent paper (e.g. Clairefontaine), so they prefer a pleasant and well-around experience rather than something cheap. I see projects like paperwrite.com can bring a lot for them because they can easily "capture" parts from their journal, and suddenly they have a blog post. This community isn't big (however, I noticed a little bit raising trend with going analog and offline), but you will have most of them as long-time customers if something is well done.

A couple of suggestions for the author: 1) Support for italics and other handwriting styles. It is a challenging problem. 2) Support for other languages (even harder). 3) Markdown syntax straight from the notebook would be very cool.
reCaptcha and translate are also down. Even search is affected it is super slow.
As a fellow kiwi, I'm curious where you're hosting.
No, this is a way of saying "hacking", in the old sense of the word.
Google Forms definitely has issues, too. I just had an issue where I couldn't fill out a form.
Get off your high horse.

I use the dislike button to inform other users that the video (usually tutorials) is poorly made and is not worth watching. I get huge value by other users doing the same. That's not trolling and that's not abuse.

People hitting the company that censors them is not good or bad, it's inevitable. Also, a lot of people who used dislike will now resort to writing unflattering comments to express themselves. That is also inevitable. Let's see how that plays out. Surely the content creators' feelings will be spared.

I don't do that, by the way, thanks for asking. I'm just saying it's utterly moronic to take away freedom of expression from all users and channels just because a small subset can't handle seeing a fucking dislike.

Such policies should be opt-in for each channel / creator. But that won't help politicians and big brands to save face, so we can't have that. Sad.
No, average people who see that the price is 40€ vs 200€ for a 2 hours long flight will fly Ryanair.

I do no tunderstand the "have to" and your comment about the places you went to - was Ryanair the only option to get there?
In cases where it's a one time use, anything that gets you an answer easily is great. Could be Groovy, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. or of course these bin tools.

But if it's going to be used a lot, and start-up time matters, then some of the full programming languages can become expensive for the temporary load they create just spinning up. In those cases, the standard Unix tools tend to be so much faster and lighter that it's worth learning them.
For a download folder in particular, this does sound like a great idea. You'd break the list in the browser or whatever, but who cares about that?
How to justify the budget for self-service BI tools?
Hi! How do you calculate ROI on self-service BI tools and services? How do you justify the budget regarding them? It seems to me that it's not that easy to calculate quantitative benefit from using BI in the company. How do you decide that it's a profitable decision? Thanks!
Is it me or are big provider outages getting more common these days?
Ask HN: Why is my Signal app icon red now?
This morning I checked my phone and now my Signal icon is red. Why? I can't find anything online about it either. Their website still has the blue icon too.
I switched to us-altgr-intl (so now my native odd characters are altgr+whatever and otherwise en-us) and haven’t touched my native layout for 10y or so.

So I have no issues with \
Ah that's why my Nest Thermostat is not showing up in Home Assistant. Great design Google, thanx, hooray for the cloud.

(Edit: Nest app does work :s, why must it be like this.)

(Edit2: I also did upgrade Home Assistant this morning, that could also be the cause, I'll have to figure it out. That's really a downside as well, you always have to ask, is it me or "the cloud" [my computer or someone else's!]. I wish the cloud was not a factor.)

(Edit3: Nest integration works again after a restart of the HA container)
On their website..

> The Crank.
Yes, the crank. Is it a gimmick? Nah. Does it charge Playdate's battery? Nope.

I guess they could revisit that eh ?
Isn't basic latin OCR a solved problem? I wouldn't expect to have to pay a human to be able to provide it.
Say that when your own livelihood is on the line, you do what you're told.
It's still amazon's property until they deliver it I suppose, so charge Amazon rent.
Which pre-existing libraries have been integrated that way into the kernel? There's a few tiny pieces, but largely you can't just use pre-existing libs inside the kernel.
Does this really help anyone? Most of the laws this government made didn't help anyone, at all. They just make the people's lives worse with their "good intentions".
Pressure washing is the best way for window cleaning in Calgary
Aiming to be the Reddit of audio, Berlin’s Beams beams up $6M
Who does not like a clean and sanitized home as a clean environment is like heaven and there is no big pleasure than returning to a cleansed space that is safe to live and breathe in. while it takes real effort to do the full house cleaning in Calgary to keep your residence spotless, it has its own set of benefits and rewards as your house will always seem organized and ready to welcome uninvited guests and get-togethers?
I think they're reasonable common it's just becoming more of a think to notice.
Nigeria now earns more from non-oil sector than oil ~Osinbajo
And many people blame their internet provider as google outages are rare.
Same thing as last time this was posted; If a resume has Microsoft, LI, Zillow, and Instagram as the positions listed, that person is getting an invite. When 100s of people are applying, hiring managers don't have time to read every last bullet, but will quickly sort through by looking at stuff like that. It's really not a surprise. The more intense scrutinising comes during the actual interview anyways (as most of the people here know, I guess).
How the TypeScript Compiler Compiles – understanding the compiler internal
How are you getting your Nest to work with Home Assistant in the first place? I thought Google shut down the relevant API a year or two ago.
I have been using gps for ages, it is free.
> The metre is currently defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 of a second.

There, that's free.

I understand yours is likely just a joke, but you're paying for the tool, not the definition.
What I miss from these conversations is an emphasis on memory. I know it has a bad rap, since it's not the same as understanding. But I have the feeling that most of our work relies on things that we've done so many times, they've been memorized and do not need to be looked up again.

Have a look at Anki https://apps.ankiweb.net/, the tool that I use to make memory a choice. See also Michael Nielsen blog on this: https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
> Awk/sed made sense for the time and place they are from, but things have changed.

Don't do that. Do not assume something is of no use because you don't know how to use it. Double that recommendation for tools that have widespread use. There is a reason they're used everywhere.

In the case of awk/sed/perl: Nothing beats them for composition in one-liner text processing pipelines.
What is the most popular new year's resolution for 2022?
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Just because it's legacy, doesn't mean it's not a powerful tool.

Files have multiple advantages over other approaches, such as being independent from the application that created them (even if the company subsequently goes under), being editable with a different application from the one that created them (though imperfectly sometimes), and being self-contained bundles of data that need no infrastructure to support them other than a local application (compared to other approaches, where a large cloud infrastructure is basically mandatory and you're SOL if it goes away for you).

Recency bias is a thing. Try to work counter to it.
I leave a mark (folding the next sheet for instance) to be able to put the paper at the same place when I'm finished using it.
Each human revolution is not necessarily worse. See this list:

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of pagers suddenly cried out in terror
I'm not saying ISO shouldn't make standards freely available, but I think there might be a misunderstanding here:

1. it's not necessarily ISO themselves who insist on fees; rather, often times it used to be spec authors who negotiate rights to publish standard text as a book with much needed commentary beyond the bare spec text, as a way to get any financial compensation at all for experts in the field. The conflict here being a high price for standards pushing buyers into purchasing the book instead.

2. ISO, ITU-T, etc. are delicate international agreements between national standard bodies, (former) national telecoms, non-profits, etc. with diverse legal status and legacy. Reaching consensus through any process involving as many parties is easier said than done; our self-acclaimed "standardization bodies" in IT/Web aren't exactly examples of progress, participation, and representation, to say the least, given that we've reached a stadium of defacto monopolization and stagnation
That's not a coincidence though. They're responsible for closures of a good number of competing flights from destinations that are not big enough to sustain multiple large carriers at different price/quality levels. Thus everybody gets stuck with Ryanair-level service, even if you'd be willing to pay more for more humane treatment.

Luckily, a number of regional players have started to adopt to this in recent years by replacing fleets with smaller planes to offer more flexibility.
He still maintains that software (if you refer to the sysinternals tools)
That she is 'not real' seems to miss the point. Outside of the companies and job titles on the CV the content is total and utter nonsense.

Who isnt going to interview someone who is currently:

> Instagram / Senior Full Stack Engineer - Web App Team

Connected with Reid Hoffman on LinkedIn and slid in the dm’s

Spread Herpes STD to 60% of intern team
Also discussing things with people who like discussing things is like the best way to learn and internalize things. And HN has a lot of people who like discussing and actually read what you say and pokes holes at things you miss, it is like having someone review your thoughts for free.
There were outages around the same time last year. Somebody in the HN thread commented back then that the employees evaluation and promotion window ends around december/eoy, thus more releases are made.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages
Yeah I don't understand the landing page, seems like a screenshot from Trello?
But you can always just use a different layout for your keyboard. So eve with a keyboard with physical key engravings in Japanese you could just use a US layout.
It's a pita and cost me 2 hours (I made some mistakes on the first try) and a 5$ dev account, but this works: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nest/

It's a really nice integration, shows you the history of target/set temp and the times gas was burned. The widget works well.
<insert random Airplane! joke here>
If 90% of tasks will just vanish then there are three options:

People work the same amount and demand ten times as many products and services.

People demand the same amount of products and services but every person simply works 90% less.

10% of the people work and voluntarily give away their surplus to those who don't work.

The first one is called consumerism. The second one is called work sharing. The third one is called income sharing.

My personal favorite is work sharing.
What if abandoning entire cartons of merchandise, and then shipping replacements, just has plain-old higher ROI for Amazon

What if killing the natives just has plain-old higher ROI for an oil company than trying to work with them? What if operating an illegal taxi business just has plain-old higher ROI than following the laws in place? What if kneecapping the competition just has plain-old higher ROI for an ice skater?