skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just my group of friends but if someone says "hey I've made a campaign for $system, who's in?" We generally jump at the chance to try somethig new.
> Regarding dark theme the dark app background is 12.5% gray and the lighter offset backgrounds are 17.5% gray. If it appears pitch black it's not because the theme is made for OLEDs rather your displays are miscalibrated and completely crushing blacks.

Hmm, are you sure about this? From a quick search, I'm able to find plenty of people complaining about the dark background being pitch black[0] (there's also a Feedback Hub item linked in there, not able to open it as I'm on Linux). I might be wrong, but I am fairly sure my display is not mis-calibrated, as I actually spent a lot of time calibrating it when it got here (have only had it a handful of months). The only downside of the monitor is that blacks really smear when you move them around, whereas dark greys are substantially better.

That's one of the reasons I really dislike the pitch black mode, anyway. It also just looks horrible on anything that isn't AMOLED, IMO.

> If you enable transparency effects the color of your background will blend with these and raise/lower them accordingly.

That's only for surfaces with blur enabled though, like the sidebar in Settings or the taskbar. Non-blurred surfaces are pitch black.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6nzs34/any_way_t...
Jute, jam, journalism, joysticks
Seems like maybe there is some distinction to be made there.
I mean more like, you can generally eat food from grocery stores and restaurants and trust it'll be pretty safe. You can get medical operations and pharmaceuticals, and generally trust them. There are actually extremely large problems here, e.g. Purdue and fentanyl, but even there Purdue has been fined to death by the government. Still, there are huge problems for sure. The problems need to be addressed, but I think if you look to narrowly at some of the problems, you think the whole system needs to be overthrown. Sure that sentiment is increasing, but more pushed by well-off elites than a genuine grassroots uprising. This is one of the biggest problems we face today IMO.

I don't think DeFi helps with most of the problems you're talking about. Supply chain issues, COVID-related business restrictions, health care prices and the role of insurance providers, none of these are caused by centralized financial systems.
I'm the last person to defend powerhungry tech companies, but

1. They enable remote work which is the biggest game changer wrt housing. No other sector , banking or real estate, has done much to help in this direction. The middle class needs to embrace it and demand flexible work hours. 8 hour work were made for the era of factories. OTOH tech capitalists have no incentive to reduce housing costs, since most of them are invested in it.

2. If you include biotech companies in this, they do. But they need to lobby more for faster and cheaper development of drugs/treatments. Certainly tech has not been aggressive here, my phone should have a lot more sensors than just an oxygen meter.

3. Inequality, tech can only supercharge it. Only outsiders of the system like bitcoin can debase the overconcentrated currency.

4. Unkindness ... tech enables individuals to "bowl alone" even more, so what you re gonna see is more and more people "de-socializing" as gig workers reduce human interactions to almost zero. Sad as it is, that kind of distancing will also reduce the friction

5. I guess they exacerbate bullshit jobs by micromanaging and concentrating creative work to a very few engineers. There is a lot of missed potential here and it's a tough one to crack. You 'd need a system to define ambitious goals and allocate valuable work to the right people that is proven to work and bring results. You also need a way to know what people need. Work feels a lot more meaningful when it meets the needs of others.
It's not harder to Dockerise than any other language.
An ISP (I run one) sells a residential connection to you as a user under a number of assumptions that you are like other residential users. That means that your usage these days is roughly 4 Mbps measured at the 95th percentile (in aggregate). When you run a Tor node you cause the following problems:

- your 95th percentile usage is now likely going to be substantially more than 4 Mbps

- your usage is likely to be much more constant (less bursty). This breaks statistical multiplexing amongst residential users. For reference, Netflix with HD video streams tends to burst to 25Mbps for a second and is then idle for 4-5 seconds.

- your usage is now exposing the ISP to DoS attacks and other interesting (read as expensive) problems caused by running a Tor node. This includes legal costs when dealing with investigations into malicious use of the network by nefarious people trying to hide illegal activities via Tor. Yes, your ISP has to bear the cost for legal issues that arise when its users engage in illegal activity over their internet connections.

- your Tor usage is likely to result in the IPs that are used by you to get added to various blacklists. This results in support costs for the ISP when your dynamic IP gets assigned to another user and causes problems for an unrelated.

If you really want to do this, colocate a Tor node in a data center. This kind of traffic is perfectly appropriate in commercial circumstances, and the price you pay will reflect the actual cost of the service being delivered. You're not going to cause nearly as much collateral damage with a dedicated internet connection as you will on a residential network.

Yes, Tor has its place, and if you're going to run a Tor node, think long and hard about the impact it will have before doing so. Many smaller ISPs are not at a scale where the company can afford to carry the costs needed to support traffic patterns that are generated by Tor. Small ISPs have to be very careful to balance the line between expanding to serve the needs of our customers and breaking even. Legal budgets only become a thing after an ISP has hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in revenue. Please, don't do something like this to a small ISP that's trying to help bridge the broadband divide. At the very least, run it by them before doing so.
Those status posts are another great example.
Totally agree. I'm already astonished about the general frequency of comments on HN that as a developer one can't get more than ~4 hours of serious work done per day due to mental exhaustion. That's really not a lot. Doing only 5-10 hours/week, however, is outright ridiculous.
Yes, I'm on the waitlist for the SteamDeck. My estimated shipment time is Q2 2022. That was before the last delay announcement so who knows when I'll get it. But I loooove handhelds.
A Man Who Shoots at Birds All Day to Keep Them Off Toxic Pit
I haven’t used it in years, but I remember the Manipulate functionality being so great for exploring things. Its weird evaluation model always gave that some warts, but it was very useful nonetheless.
Objection (knex-based) is well designed and maintained. It clearly takes inspiration from ActiveRecord. It's light-years ahead of Sequelize in usability and footgun avoidance.
I think there is also this topic of mental work vs. physical work. When I did physical work I could and did work 8-10hrs per day. Even if I wasn’t motivated, just illness was a problem.

But as a software dev I have mostly 5hrs a day of good work, sometimes 9hrs, sometimes 2hrs… then it’s like a block in the brain. Like running out of gas.

Today I mostly just fixed up a tiny shell script. The last couple of weeks have felt like wading through quicksand. I went from amazingly busy in my last project to burned out and „lazy“ in my new project.
> The Platform now ships with structuredClone() ...

What's "The Platform"?
This is a silly little mindgame but it really does help with worry and stress. You basically flip all worst-case scenarios on their head to see the advantages of whatever situation you're in.

Good Game: <seemingly terrible thing happens> Good! Now I can ....

Eg. My husband is divorcing me. Good! Now I can find someone who loves me deeply and doesn't leave ice cream containers composting on his desk.

My upstairs neighbors are hella loud and annoying. Good! Now I can spend more time visiting family, out and about with friends and at the gym getting ripped.

My research study failed. Good! Now I can devote my extra time to writing up another protocol and considering what else I want to work on.

A massive pandemic has me working from home and not leaving the house. Good! Now I can read all those books I've been wanting to get to and haven't had the chance.
> Does anyone else feel that this is more of a human problem as opposed to be one solvable by equipment?

I love this question because it gets closer to the real issue, and my answer is "absolutely". We live in a completely different world distraction-wise than when typewriters were a popular choice for writing.
I don't know if you've lived through an industry downturn but that's a risk you might want to hedge against. Software/tech has had so much growth that it hasn't really had a bad year yet. Long term, even the dot com crash or the 2008 recession weren't super impactful.

My guess is, you are doing enough and aren't enough of a troublemaker that your boss cares to do anything about it, but you're not fooling anyone either. In a structural downturn, they're getting pressure to downsize and you're at the top of the list. None of your colleagues who move on to better pastures will vouch for you anywhere else because they don't trust you to pull your weight. You find yourself pretty unsupported at that point.

At the end of the day, I personally choose to stay sharp at work because it's my personal ethic, but there's also a real risk component that you may want to consider, although as long as the industry is structurally growing you probably don't have to worry too much about it.
At some point, you have to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you're OK being taken advantage of outside of work.

Should probably do it inside of work too, but people gotta eat.
Yeah. I feel like these products were always designed to be ultra short lifespan devices, but in practice, they live forever. ONTs from 2013 are still being used and sold new, so clearly investing in fixing bugs and testing would have paid dividends. But I guess it's that case where you can't go to Amazon and buy the best ONT; Calix or whomever sells them to an ISP once, everyone has a good round of golf and dinner or whatever, and the customers are stuck being sad (and maybe the ISPs give out token credits; we gave out a lot of token credits). The ISP mostly competes by being available to a customer; if you dig up the street, then they don't really have an option to go elsewhere unless someone else digs up the street.

Hopefully some crazy person will launch an astronomically expensive fleet of satellites that solves these problems once and for all. All you need are a few engineers on the CPE team that give a damn, and you can fix the Internet for everyone in the world.
I simply responded directly to Verizon that they are devaluing their premium brand by even asking to surveil & advertise to me.

I pay them 10x or 100x directly what they are going to make with this info and it literally puts their business with me in jeopardy. I also can say it's going to be topic #1 or #2 in conversation about them.

The VP or whoever at Verizon came up with this penny-grabbing scheme is a loser and should be fired.
Might be overdone for your usecase, but you can check out Stripe Treasury.
Reveddit works fine with the current workings of reddit and the archive service's APIs.

Removeddit's domain lapsed. Prior to that it was working, except on Firefox with Tracking Protection (see https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#firefox ).
Kinda hard to make that call given you don't know what kind of lifestyle OP is accustomed to, or where they even live.

At any rate, it's not $600k, because OP is going to retire in 30 years. Reasonably invested, I think you could get that up to $2.5M or so by then. And presumably OP won't be spending every cent of income over the next 30 years and will continue contributing to that nest egg, even if modestly.

A 4% withdrawal rate is probably safe if the retirement horizon is only 25 years. On $2.5M that's $100k/yr, which is plenty for most places in the world. Yes, inflation complicates things somewhat, but I think OP will still be fine.
> all it takes is... discipline

Just don't buy any cigarettes. Easy. Cravings? Pfft.

Discipline is hard, and sometimes solutions can be built that help make things easier. Vaping as an off-ramp for smokers. Screen Time on iOS as a way for the social media addicted to reduce their addiction to the 'gram.

While studying, my solution to procrastination was a moderately nice notebook and avoiding my laptop as much as possible. Pen and paper was really good technology to help me think and study better.
As with most investment advice, it totally depends on your risk tolerance, age, and other life circumstances. If you’re 25 with a solid job and some surplus money to invest, a high risk strategy may be worthwhile. The upside can be immense while the downside (losing nearly all your invested money) may not actually be all that life changing.
Until they don't.
They're also customisable.
i believe thats for the hack, stringifying then parsing the object.
There are dozens of studies that support plant-based diets as reducing all-cause mortality. THIS study is the outlier, and thus demands a pretty high burden of proof.
Fine. I'll laugh on their behalf. In fact, I'll laugh at the government of North Korea for them doing this.
> WWII was the result of Germany trying to take over the continent.

Germany, and also that other country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
In my world, anything that isn't "identical to R's dplyr API but faster" just isn't quite worth switching for. There's absolutely no contest: dplyr has the most productive API and that matters to me more than anything else. But I'm glad to see Polars moves away from the kludgey sprawl of the Pandas API towards the perfection of dplyr... while also being blazingly fast!

Now just mix in a bit of DSL so people aren't obligated* to write lame boilerplate like "pandas.blahblah" or "polars.blahblah" just to reference a freaking column, and you're there!

*If you like the boilerplate for "production robustness" or whatever, go wild, but analysts and scientists benefit from the option to write more concisely.
Conservatives are allowed to criticize things and they’re not automatically driven by some sort of *phobia.
Next you need some way to throw it back in without having to walk over :)
Yes, do give it a try. You might try the Zencast podcast (free, I am not associated). Just to name a topic, you could give the series on introduction to mindfulness meditation a try.

And, perhaps a chat with your doctor is a good idea in any event.

Good for you for thinking how to work for the better.
5-6 years, I would guess
We need to update the site... so many things to remember. Azure if live try it out!
The author is very clearly making histrionic statements about the state of the entire hobby, so my use of broader terms is entirely appropriate. I'm using the term "D&D" in the same way every RPG gamer I know has ever used it: as the genericized trademark that it is, often synonymous in everyday use with some broader sense of tabletop RPGs.

In some places, the author focuses narrowly in on TSR and Hasbro and D&D as a specific property. In other places, the author makes broad, sweeping, silly statements about the hobby as a whole, and implies equally silly despairing nonsense about other hobbies (which is beyond the scope of this thread to even look into).

> Without the market’s demands and the accompanying dictates that stifle creativity in favor of profitability, TTRPGs could have been part of the public domain, with gamers free to build and expand on whatever ideas they wanted, either their own or ones drawn from other sources.

> Game Wizards is not just a captivating story about how one man lost control of his dream. It’s also an object lesson in the way capitalism invariably strips even our leisure activities of their communal joy.

The author is playing a semantic game and moving the goalposts in order to commiserate where there is no imposed misery. Just consumers who sometimes make choices that lead them into boring walled gardens, while still having the choice to walk out of those walled gardens and find the rest of the forest.
Sure, debugging a compiler is more fun.
Cultures that feel threatened tend to produce lots of babies to give them a better chance of survival =).
It’s Windows Millennium Edition 2. Break things that worked fine, add things that add no value, recategorize everything to confound expert and novice users.
I wouldn't be surprised if, in most tech fields, 20% of the employees do 80% of the work.
I haven't used that particular app, but the main Cold Turkey Blocker is great!
Yes.

As an write this, about 25% of the front-page posts are Ask/Tell/Show HN. (7/30) That feels high.
It is like a removeddit 2.0
It looks to me like Terminus (the app) decided to re-name themselves of their own accord. Granted it could be seen as doing so per-emptively.

> Terminus is too close to Termius - a commercial terminal app. This causes a number of users to end up on our issue tracker when they're actually looking for help with Termius - it's better to cover your butt before the lawsuit comes than regret it later.

> There's another terminal app that's literally called "Terminus" and is packaged under this name at least in Debian and Ubuntu repos.

> It just rolls of the tongue better

https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/issues/4088#issue-933082027
hn auto-capitalizes the title i believe. it was submitted uncapitalized.
Aren't you describing a notary public? A person registered with the government who asserts with their stamp that documentation and IDs are verifiable in person?
What about Django vs Rails?
The internet loves stupid crazy things haha
Contexts is pretty good too (another cmd tab replacement).
I think what they are saying is that animal meat has nearly everything a human body needs in terms of mineral, vitamin, fats, etc. On the other hand unless you take extreme care a plant based diet will often be lacking one or more critical resources for the body.
Yeah, it's a matter of whether you want to address problems proactively (nip them in the bud), or reactively after you have a crisis on your hands. If you live in reality, you can see problems and growing trends, and take action (or at least demand of politicians) to do something about it. People SF instead are so deeply mired in a cult-like ideology that they'd rather stick their head in the sand for a very long time denying there's a problem, in fact castigating anyone who points out there's a problem, and instead vote for people who will further an agenda while exacerbating the problem. Read some of the comments on Breed's Medium post: https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-safer-san-francisco-eb40d9d.... You can't help people who won't help themselves.
It's doubleplusgood!
Free to enjoy life as you wish.

It could be learning mathematics, physics, playing instruments, composing, writing, walking, meditating, making films, going to museums etc. It feels like endless possibilities for me. I think having the freedom to do something that you want to do rather than contractual obligation is one of the wonders of life. It may be different for many and luckily if you live in a place where you have the freedom to choice, those who wish to work can work and some of those who have the privilege of FIRE can do so too.
Yup. I worked in the Philly market for a few years (and another year if you count Wilmington).

90% of places I interviewed with while living there gave me insulting low offers, it made me question if I was actually being overpaid (I wasn't).

Left for another city across the country about 4 years ago and have been getting much better offers (even accounting for the COL difference) at better companies.
Not just on Youtube, I have been seeing a lot of ads on Facebook lately promoting scams like these, with the face of Elon Musk and with a Facebook page made to look like it's Tesla or SpaceX.

I report them everytime as a scam, and they just keep popping up like mushrooms after the rain.

What really makes me angry is that all these platforms are letting this happen, without any human intervention, and these can go on for days and days before they are shut down.
I tried connecting a Ubiquiti ONT to a Calix OLT once, but couldn't get any combination of settings to make it work. The OLT saw the ONT, but we couldn't get packets to flow. (This was a test network, so no permissions issues or passwords to guess or anything. Just couldn't make a usable profile for the device. I will admit that I really didn't know what I was doing, I just saw one of the ONTs floating around on a Friday afternoon and poked it a bit.)
Thanks! I do that by design so I’m glad you enjoy it
Can you give an example of "the ones they don't like"? FB is in the data harvesting and aggregation business. Anyone using their data - without reciprocity - is unwelcomed. Full stop.

We're not users to FB anymore than a cow is family to a milk farmer. Of course they'll protect the farm, not because they're benevolent, but simply because it keeps the milk flowing and that product pays the bills.
It’s like playing roulette and betting on every single space
> I got banned from /r/coronavirus for ...

Reddit doesn't moderate individual subreddits. Non-employee moderators do.

Most subreddits are just an extension of whatever their moderators want to see. They're a huge shaping influence on the content and character of Reddit, but their actions are mostly invisible.
Oh there are some bloopers..
Isn't this the case in the US, but in a slightly different manner? We're talking about a majority of adults being vaccinated, and then according to seroprevalence tracking over time, it's estimated that a large percentage of the population (both vaxxed and unvaxxed) have already recovered from an infection as well.
But there is one delta on top of the age difference:
We have a high rate of obesity, and the latest research shows that adipose tissue contributes to bad outcomes due to the virus infecting it and the cells then being a potent source of cytokines that dramatically and dangerously increase inflammation.

The great irony is that as much as we focus (rightly) on unvaxxed clogging the healthcare system, the obese who have been increasingly clogging it over the last few decades are the ones clogging the ICUs when they catch covid. All for a chronic condition that, for most, can be alleviated with voluntary lifestyle changes.
Not as optional as it would be if Node had a standard library to speak of.
Whenever I talk about the Three Body Problem, a book I abhorred, someone always mentions that the first book is just exposition for the next 2 in the series and I should stick with it.

Hell no, a first book in a series should stand alone.
… and it’s using arrow2, not the official, unsafe, arrow crate. Great, it means we can use it !
Most of the major telecoms seemed to tried to get into this ad targeting business. I think there is still Verizon Media and they still have a DSP?

To me it makes huge sense to allow advertisers to bid on known user data - since cookies, IP address, iOS policy are killing that type of targeting for everyone except google.

But they never seem to make it work and bridge that gap.

ATT was looking to sell Xandr though they might not be going through with that I haven't read anything about it recently.
Putting money into cryptocurrency for any reason other than pure speculation is incredibly foolish.