skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising. I know this is an extreme view, but I think any advertising other than a spec sheet style ad (just facts) should be banned. I feel like it steals your attention and mindshare day after day. The ads I see on TV now (rarely, as I don't watch live TV much) are just so horrible. Dripping with emotions and trying to tug on your heartstrings to sell some toilet bowl cleaner or some other garbage.

Social media. I feel like if it weren't for these algorithms that prioritize "engagement" over facts and polite content, my country would be a bit less polarized. I think that social media will turn out to be like cigarettes and someday we will discover that it has an extremely bad outcome; at least how it's implemented today. I have come to enjoy HN a bit more lately, as I just don't engage with the trolls or the horrible people that have opinions I disagree with vehemently. The people I think are horrible, at least, because it's a personal opinion, and other's might view me as a horrible person. I have also learned that it's best not to judge someone by one or two views overall, here, and that helps. I wish more social media could be like HN and allow a diverse set of opinions, but ban the name-calling and such that really take things into a bad place.

Most products today are less durable and are generally worse than "yesterday", in my opinion. Perhaps it's the old man in me coming out, with a rosy view of yesteryear, but I think that the quality of things are just lower, in general. I do think that things "look nicer" and are more consistent, but at a lower level of quality. 20 years ago, I had only 5 or so choices for any given product, maybe a curtain rod for example (because I just bought some). Today I can go down to several stores and pick from hundreds of curtain rod designs that look really nice, but half of them break after a few years or less. I still have some shitty looking but sturdy curtain rods from 20 years ago, no joke. Electronics are worse in some ways, but faster and more complex, so maybe that complexity is the source of the decrease in perceived quality. I can say that computers are way faster now, and it's easier to do many things, but I have less freedom than I had with older computers for sure.

This is just about the end of my old man rant. Thanks for listening.

"The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt..."
We need interest rates raised yesterday
haha all this scala hate
as if huge javascript or c or whatever at scale are the best

the reality is, we are in this spaghetti together, so pick your noodle and move on

its just computers, dont take it so seriously :)
I think a more commercially successful venture would be an adult cinematic franchise set in the Dark Frankenberry/Count Chocula universe as they save breakfast (and morning sex) from nefarious threats like the Frosted Lucky Charms Elf and the evil Quisp.
People with mortgages have been making out like bandits for decades, and have recently locked in historically low interest rates that leverage their economic gains even further.

This is a huge drain on the economic productivity of the younger generations, and anybody who was not able to afford to buy in to the scheme before the recent climbs.

It's time to make housing behave at most like a savings account, rather than an investment account.
I’d like to see some localized or regional stats. Feels more like 50% for certain things in certain locations.
> We keep a database of a user’s email messages locally on such user’s computer. Such database is encrypted with a machine-dependent key. We do not store passwords from a user’s email accounts if the user used OAuth2 to login into those email accounts (Gmail, G Suite, Office 365 all use 0Auth2). However, we do store passwords from email accounts that do not support OAuth2. We encrypt such passwords two times.

One suggestion here - a lot of email clients these days store credentials or oauth2 keys server-side. From your website it suggests Scailer aren't doing this ("Scailer does not store email messages or sensitive information on third-party servers, including Scailer servers.")

The above section of the privacy policy suggests that does happen, however it isn't clear if that's offline or online.

It might be possible to word the policy to better reflect whether credentials are shared with the server or not - there's an opportunity for more "all client side" email clients that don't breach policy by giving a third party server access to account data.

I ran the app on Mac, straight from the DMG (noticed that it is Electron-based, so not native on the M1). As soon as I ran it, the first thing I saw was a prompt to allow incoming network connections from the firewall. The second thing I see is a little snitch prompt to connect to scailerservice.azurewebsites.net, before I've even seen the app(!)

I deny that for the moment, then get told my trial has expired, and I need to buy a business licence. I've never heard of Scailer before, and definitely haven't used a trial before. I assume this is due to running it from App Translocation (i.e. straight from the DMG), or that first network request being denied. The link to buy a license then didn't appear to do anything.

In the settings menu (which I somehow got to by clicking activate), I went to general settings, and tried turning off auto download avatars and error reports. Each time I leave the tab, the setting doesn't save by default. Eventually I spotted an "apply changes" button tucked away at the bottom right (of a full-screen window by default).

I attempted to add a new IMAP account (fairly standard Dovecot setup), but got an IMAP connection test failure, apparently with status 3, "invalid command". Digging through the logs, it looks like the issue is something to do with the ID command being sent:

C: xxxxx CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN
xxxxx OK completed

C: xxxxx ID ("vendor" "Scailer.Mac" "name" "Scailer.Mac" "version" "1.0.172.0" "contact" "scailer.alerts@slcode.com")
S: xxxxx BAD invalid command
S: * OK IMAP4 ready

I don't want to sound negative - just sharing a first-run experience from double clicking the .app inside the DMG as a new user.
Also, nearly every developed country is experiencing high inflation. Supply << Demand and OPEC wants it that way.
Submitting a single application would probably be OK, but the coordinated flood might not be
I surreptitiously ran this on my wife's Linux laptop while she was using it. She called out from the other room "it's snowing on my laptop!" Thanks h2odragon and HN, I had completely forgotten xsnow existed and it made for a lovely surprise this morning. :)
$5M bonus fund now available for mobile application developers
To encourage mobile developers to incorporate in-app monetization technologies, VRTCAL has created a $5 billion bonus fund for those who tap into the company’s platform. VRTCAL knows that developers have to navigate the privacy concerns in the sector and need to look to SaaS to improve their tech stack. In doing so, the fund will help reach mobile developers who are sifting through news of consolidation in the industry, experiencing a dramatic shift in the mobile ad sector and, as a result, need to add new ad unit types to their inventory.

A press release detailing VRTCAL’s plans for the fund is available here - https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/11/30/234328....
We use spaCy at work for (mostly) news articles as well. We've been pretty impressed with it overall for detecting larger trends using the NER models. I've been contemplating whether it might be useful to make a spaCy module that uses a Count-Min Sketch to track the top N of each of the NER categories partitioned on a daily (or weekly etc.) time.

Think it could be an interesting use case to get sort of similar results to Google's search trends.
Being a striker does give additional legal rights you wouldn't other wise have, but I don't think that this is one of them. It's also unclear whether the author or people using the script are actually fired employees or bored teenagers jumping on the bandwagon.

Spamming a police department with fake tips is specifically illegal (making a false police report and/or obstruction of justice and/or USC 1001). I'm not sure about fake appointments for a hospital, that seems the most unclear of the cases you've listed.
Unfortunately we're at the point where this would count as indoctrination. Crazy people want their kids to have the same beliefs as them.
I guess my whole point was if they're trying to explain a mechanism, their sample size doesn't generalize to the population; even limiting it to the obese population. If anything they've shown, in their small cohort, that the hypothesis is worth further study.

Having spent a lot of time in academia before moving into biotech, I think this is a pilot study and they're fishing for more research funding. The way those funding mechanisms work, I tend to view manuscripts like this with a critical eye.
Shelter is 33% of the basket weight. Gasoline is like 1%.[1] This is not an energy problem.
This is just textbook populist dumb inflation from printing too much money and handing it out for no work/productivity.
[1]https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm
Agreed. It's like if you see a bus heading towards you, would you stand still and let it hit you or step out of the way?
Flakey code might be an advantage in this specific case.
Interestingly, one treatment for the degenerative eye disorder keratoconus aims to stiffen the cornea (corneal crosslinking) through drops+surgery.
Nah, we were energy independent by the end of Trump's term. Biden's mandates have put a big crimp in oil pumping/exploration here in the US, so now we are, once again, a net importer.

Covid was a part, but Biden put OPEC back in the driver's seat.
She'd probably drone strike him. "We came, we saw, he died."
I think the issue is that even if Mozilla did do that, to achieve the same level of configurability for privacy and security, in ways that the user.js and all it's options offer, or with the many objections they've had to new standards, they would end up needing to fork Chromium to a point where it might become debatable whether the effort was worth it in the first place.

I don't think enough users care about a lot of the values offered by Firefox, and simply use whatever is the default or what most people they know use. If anti-competitive laws force vendors to provide users with a choice, I think this could hopefully give Firefox more of a fighting chance. I think it's important there are options like this that exist, even if they are small, because they provide for the needs of Tor Browsers users for example. Where there are no other browsers that match the anti-fingerprinting features that Firefox offers and which Tor users require.
Interest rates don't really affect gasoline prices.

And raising interest rates won't solve the chip shortage hurting the new / used car industry.
I had forgotten all about this.

There was a derivative called xoj where police cars chased a white bronco across your screen while a crowd gathered to watch.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JJ3V
As someone who worked IT at Kellogg's, I would say the interview was more about confidence and communication skills then it was technical ability. The only "programming" I ever did was VBA/Excel. Although I did dabble with PLC from time to time. I'm not sure if they even have actual software engineers at their company, they seem to like contracting out a lot of that
kind of stuff.
Let’s play word games, that’s really productive.
Yes, it is certainly succinct. But only simple and explained for math majors. :D
You're advocating to turn this:

public class Login {

public void testLogin() {
// fill login data on sign-in page
driver.findElement(By.name("user_name")).sendKeys("userName");
driver.findElement(By.name("password")).sendKeys("my supersecret password");
driver.findElement(By.name("sign-in")).click();

// verify h1 tag is "Hello userName" after login
driver.findElement(By.tagName("h1")).isDisplayed();
assertThat(driver.findElement(By.tagName("h1")).getText(), is("Hello userName"));
}

}

Into this?:

public class SignInPage {
protected WebDriver driver;

// <input name="user_name" type="text" value="">
private By usernameBy = By.name("user_name");
// <input name="password" type="password" value="">
private By passwordBy = By.name("password");
// <input name="sign_in" type="submit" value="SignIn">
private By signinBy = By.name("sign_in");

public SignInPage(WebDriver driver){
this.driver = driver;
}

/**
* Login as valid user
*
* @param userName
* @param password
* @return HomePage object
*/
public HomePage loginValidUser(String userName, String password) {
driver.findElement(usernameBy).sendKeys(userName);
driver.findElement(passwordBy).sendKeys(password);
driver.findElement(signinBy).click();
return new HomePage(driver);
}

}

/**
* Tests login feature
*/
public class TestLogin {

@Test
public void testLogin() {
SignInPage signInPage = new SignInPage(driver);
HomePage homePage = signInPage.loginValidUser("userName", "password");
assertThat(homePage.getMessageText(), is("Hello userName"));
}

}
So here we go again... Number of journalists in jail reaches global high (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495145) and United States would like to contribute to this high number...
This isn't the case, though, the intent is to disrupt their ability to hire non-union workers by submitting bad data, not by taking down their ability to ingest data in general.
Appallingly severe because instead of having to carefully corrupt the stack or guess malicious SQL queries the adversary is deliberately provided with a general interpreter, ready to run arbitrary downloaded code without checks.
> Letting people live closer to work, shopping, childcare, etc. would greatly reduce the need for gasoline.

greatly? how much of energy usage is from work commute?
I like the sentiment, but have struggled on mechanism. Basically, we need to incentivize creating & running good OSS projects: the more direct the incentives, the harder for non-maintainers to game the system.

I suspect the current proposal tilts the bias even further to consulting companies who explicitly rather compete on butts in seats writing code vs OSS product teams wanting to build quality code that minimizes servicing needs. On any individual contract, the product team would be more expensive and thus less competitive, and no longer have a proprietary advantage built up over time to defend against that: the services team can hack the same code.

My observation is 100% as a product person who sees these bids go out and contractors take either most or all of a contract because of this dilemma. If we open sourced even more, we'd get even less interest, despite writing measurably better code.

Instead, I've been thinking something like "X% budget / yr should be grants to SMB OSS project maintainers" based on a few flavors (gov use, commercial use, ...). Incentivize creating popularly used OSS, vs more services. Like take the SBIR budget and make a 20% match to SMB OSS. Maybe a DAO that'd actually help :)
Crude prices have been a lot higher in the past, 2007-2008. The production is fairly in line with the demand.

US actually needs higher crude prices to make sure the incentives exist for shale production to get back to pre covid levels.

The supply chain sluggishness (worldwide) combined with excessive, irresponsible spending (although I hear it "costs nothing"...) explain these figures.

Euro area has higher inflation than pre covid but nowhere near these levels.

It's not transitory, and it's not good.
A pair of Tannoy speakers: https://www.tannoy.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DEL

Originally produced in 1978, they still sound phenomenal. The link above is to the re-issue which is highly faithful to the original.

At a time when it feels like home audio is regressing (wireless streaming speakers coupling a specific protocol for streaming with the amp and speaker, which is building in obsolescence into the hardware), and aesthetics have meant we've moved from larger drivers to multiple smaller drivers (to recreate bass you need to push a lot of air, and a larger drive does this better but few people want large speakers in their room and modern floorstanding speakers will instead try to push the same volume of air using multiple smaller drivers).

The fact that today they still sound better than most modern speakers is testament to their design and build, and what happens when you just keep something single purposed and put the function at the top of the priorities.

I recently looked at replacing my stereo, but instead only replaced the amp to benefit from the streaming capabilities. The speakers remain timeless and will probably be the only pair of speakers I need for the rest of my life (my hearing will have gone before the speakers have any issues).

My feeling is that some things have been perfected: Speakers, the bicycle, telescopes, etc. And that fashion is the risk here, a perfected item only sells to a single buyer once... and so fashion is introduced to drive new sales, and we instead stray from perfection to dance around it as if it's unobtainable.
Legal lawbreaking is such a stupid concept. Have people forgotten that civil disobedience is purposely breaking the law for good reason? God it's like an entire generation forgot how to be rebels when they grew up -- "Oh I'm sorry could you pretty please let me protest you."
Your comment reminds me of CNN's special-in-their-own-minds status where laws are "different for the media." [0]

I agree that powerful media orgs see this as the definition of journalism at stake, and their assessment is close to self awareness in a way that falls comically short. The irony is the harder they fight the despicable internet bloggers the more credibility they lose - near zero at this point in my eyes. The media ideally is a group of citizens exercising their first amendment rights as a bulwark to government abuse; the media we've ended up today is a group of powerful entities aligned with the government. They are always on their best behavior to preserve their access to the latest carefully curated "leaks" and fat and happy in their position as lapdogs. Bloggers, citizen/independent journalists, etc. are the media, and what we call the media is at this point little more than the ministry of truth. Anyone whose worldview could consider Don Lemon a journalist and Glenn Greenwald a fringe internet blogger should be laughed out of whatever room they are in, I just can't take this position seriously.

[0] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787749893649600512
I totally agree. Any recommendations of games with great visuals that don’t focus on killing? I’d love to experience amazing virtual worlds without gameplay involving weapons.

All I can think of are sports games like FIFA, or side quests in Red Dead Redemption. Any other suggestions?
How topics are approached is important. Do you believe children of illegal immigrants should be allowed access to healthcare/schools? Most people will say yes. You then by definition also believe we should have government services/benefits provided to illegal immigrants. If you ask in reverse, do you believe illegal immigrants should receive government services/benefits. Most people will say no. It's not a left or right wing thing. Bipartisan support depending how it's phrased.

The problem with politics is that it's very subjective and how the topic is approach matters greatly. There is no ability to 'fact check' the majority of politics. What fact checkers really are is just censors. This article is concerned about first amendment because they are calling for censorship.

Now back to the article, how's the approach? The article also very clearly is written in 1 direction. Covid conspiracies like lab leak, climate change of florida being under water right now, and election fraud where Republicans have submitted 425 election bills across 49 states because they see the election as fraudulent. Are those misinformation or just politically inconvenient truths?

Clear political skew on the positions is the approach here. I'm not in the USA, not American but when you label your political opponent's speech as lies/misinformation. Bad things happen and Trump is the tip of the iceberg of bad things coming because of this activity.
Magnus Carlsen Beats Ian Nepomniachtchi to Retain World Chess Championship Title
all items ............ 6.8%
food ................. 6.1%
all less food & energy 4.9%
energy ............... 33.3%

energy commodities ... 57.5%
energy services ...... 10.7%
Businesses that are highly leveraged with debt would either go bankrupt or raise prices to account for higher debt costs, which wouldn't address the problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't WebMidi[1] be a solution to your problem? Here is a piano example [2]

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_MIDI_AP...
2. https://abbernie.github.io/tune/
Plenty of people live quite well in denser environments, and in any event, it should be a choice. Right now, in so many places in the US, it is not. Forcing people to have space is wrecking our environment, causing prices to go through the roof, which in turn contributes to homelessness and various and sundry other problems.
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Nowhere near that scale, but we had one office closed, the CEO met with each team personally, then made a wider announcement to the company once all the severance and other things were fully hashed out, and new roles could be found for folks that could relocate.

Probably the right thing would have been smaller lay offs a while ago, they must have seen this coming.
What do you mean in the US?

This is global jurisdiction and enforcement, that's what the extradition is about.
> The constant underhanded tactics

They are also the reason many corporations are immoral.

Or: most unions are legitimately just trying to improve the situation for their workers, and many business owners have a conscience and weigh more than profits in their business decisions. It’s mostly the mega-wealthy who have become disconnected from normal humans and give us these Snidely Whiplash characterizations that ultimately paint both sides with a bad brush.
I don’t read the NYTimes technology section frequently, but whenever I have it’s always seemed more like a “Silicon Valley-themed politics” section to me. Not at all like any of the technology magazines/websites mentioned by the OP.
Congratulations on realising that successful diseases reflect their environments and times in human history.

Were you alive during the Black Death I imagine you'd be talking about how, though you're no denier, it's the fault of people using ships to trade.
Computers Revolutionized Chess. Magnus Carlsen Wins by Being Human
Oddly, the New York Times failed to send a breaking news push notification for the highest inflation in close to 40 years, while it did for some positive but fairly normal employment numbers a week ago.

(Oops, not true, I just didn't notice it. Good job NYT!)
CDC Expands Covid-19 Booster Recommendations to 16-and-17-year-olds
The last iPhone without 4G was iPhone 4s released in 2011. If you have newer, but still very old phone it may not support T-Mobile bands.
If house prices went up 50% it would cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars, a lot more than the same gas price increase would. Comparing just by percentages doesn’t tell much of a story.

The consumer price index has all sorts of stuff built into it, like the price of televisions, which holds the number down. Sure, television prices have dropped substantially, but I’ve spent under $300 on televisions in the last decade so it doesn’t even begin to factor into what my money is worth.

Houses are the opposite, it’s such a huge expense that practically everything else is inconsequential in comparison.
Yeah. I thought the "you boys'll get a kick out of this" was a miss for any woman or trans gamer.