skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it might be kinda fun to do something like that once a month. Especially if they're paying you an engineering wage to do it. Not for everyone I guess but I would enjoy it.

Personally I would love to embed with my customer teams for a few weeks a year to work on their integration with my product. But in my organization the incentives are not set up that way so it would not be a viable thing for me to do unilaterally.
You're right -- I failed to mention the indeed biased bouncers. There was a real purge it seems, in fact, over the past few months, as a lot of names are now silent; and, the tone is now much more 'consistent' (echo chamber-ish).

Flagging/purging content is to me more acceptable than manipulation via suggesting/promoting, though, especially if the moderators are members. Maybe making this distinction is hair-splitting, though.

Shadow banning, on the other hand, is a disgusting technique. That seems like more a childish prank than a means of moderation, and only invites negativity (which is what was trying to be avoided, right?).

Overall, it's a pretty reliable source of links to good articles -- and some discussions.
Enterprise-grade home wifi and networking paired with a generous (1gig) ISP connection we don't really need but is never slow.

High-end espresso machine that makes coffee in one button but with all the settings configurable (grind, volume, temperature, etc)

Canon M50 SLR camera permanently mounted for Zoom calls - got the Mk1 open box, looks amazing on calls, wasn't insanely expensive (~$500).

Tesla Model 3P. We just got a flat at home, they came out and swapped the tire for a temp one within 2hrs and then came to the home the next day to repair/replace the flat. Sadly needed replacing but all we paid for the whole experience in the end was the cost of the tire and that was cheaper than local SF places (which are $$). There's so many other great things about Tesla: it's practically maintenance free, the P edition is faster than a Lambo off the line, it's super safe in a crash, carbon neutral when paired with renewable power source, etc. Might be out of scope for this Ask HN but I just feel it's worth every $ I paid for it, and it's apparently only lost about 5% of it's value in 2.5 years which is unheard of in the car industry.
I have a 2009 Tacoma. I have been getting hounded for years to get a bigger truck, mainly to tote my kids.

It’s like the perfect year car. I still have a backup camera (in the rear view mirror) and automatic windows but it’s otherwise a dumb car and simple 3 dial AC controls. I’ve even repainted it and replaced much of the trim/headlights etc.

It’s by far my favorite truck ever, minus the size, though it’s gotten me out of totally unreasonable situations and even was able to help pull my buddies 2500 diesel out of the woods. So he no longer makes fun of me for it.

With that said, yeah, if I can’t find a similar alternative (no computer dash, none of this type nonsense. ) I guess I’m looking at alternatives. Maybe I’ll get a 2019 tundra in a few years.
There are some things that has tremendous value to me but are offered for free.

A few months ago, I found out about https://endmyopia.org/ and have been following their principles to improve my eyes. I've since learned about how my eyes works and went from -2.75 to -2.25.

If I could have paid a service to heal my eyes naturally without lasik, I would have done it, but the site offered everything for free.
Long time lurker. Your attitude suggests you're not feeling jolly and merry. Not a Christmas fan I assume?
An obvious one, but Spotify. They've solved so many problems in the music-listening experience, it's amazing.

I remember having to manage so many folders of mp3s, manually syncing them to devices. And paying $.99 a song meant a very limited selection. I often relied on free iTunes playlists to find new music, because I couldn't afford to buy new music at the time.

They've eliminated all of these problems. Pay $10-15 a month, and you can listen to whatever you want, wherever and whenever.

I say this purely from the consumer's perspective, though - I'm not super familiar with what artists' experience is like. On one hand I'm sure Spotify broadens your audience quite a bit, but I wouldn't be surprised if artists run into issues similar to creators on other platforms (e.g. YouTube).
> DigitalOcean

Depending on what you need from DigitalOcean, AWS LightSail is cheaper
True, those sites are great but they aren't official. I think most of them come from 1 or 2 companies (Southern CA and FL IIRC) under a bunch of domains skinned a bunch of different ways. I used to work for a nissan performance parts place and they were asking me to make them their own site from the parts diagrams they got from disk through some agreement they had with Nissan as a service department IIRC. (a little over 10 years ago)

Anyways, official sites:

* https://store.mopar.com

* https://parts.ford.com

* https://parts-catalog.acdelco.com

I'm not sure how all of them work but mopar the dealerships decide if they want to be part of it. If they do then the website is already made and maintained. If somebody buys parts off of it they will direct the sale to a given dealership based on some criteria I don't know. Maybe just whats closest and in stock according to their inventory.
All of these things have in-office parallels that experienced workers have seen plenty of. Why is it that remote workers are especially suspect?

What exactly do people think here? That being able to look over a worker's shoulder at their computer screen a few times a day makes the difference between effective in-office management and remote slackerdom?

If that's all managers do, they can be replaced with spyware that measures how much time the worker is typing in VSCode each week. It'll be easy to game but will STILL work way better than the manager.
Brave browser does it for free by “Enable background audio” in settings. It blocks ads by default too.
> One of the great things about DD is one can do it in their down time.

I agree: if people want to work in the gig-economy on a part-time or "side-hustle"-basis, then of course they should.

But I also think that if people would prefer to work in gig-economy as their full-time job then they shouldn't be screwed-over either.

I do recognize that being a "full-time gig-economy worker" working 12+ hours a day can, in-practice, mean working 3-4 hours/day for each of 3-4 completely separate companies, and on that basis I don't believe there's currently a workable way
(in the US, at least) to require any single gig-company (like Uber or DoorDash, etc) to extend FTE benefits like that, but this a new paradigm (is it really that new though?) that needs to be written into employment law with a solution that works well for everybody: it's demonstrable that the greater-society loses when more people don't have decent health-insurance coverage or childcare or even good ol' fashioned time-off.
This is close to Sociocracy’s “Is it good enough for now and safe enough to try?”
Patagonia clothes, they last so long
Profile says your account is…5 months old?
Apart from some of the services already mentioned, I can definitely recommend Stratechery newsletter and Instapaper.
Seedbox. $15/mo for 2TB storage + 5TB/mo outgoing bandwidth. Super fast network connection. One click install for Jellyfin so I can share my library via streaming with all my friends. Plus it's a regular Linux box so I can ssh in and keep an IRC session up via tmux.
So these games are versions of the book "Ender's Game"[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game
Yeah, in an attempt to be concise, some nuance was lost - I think Wordpress as a pure editor, as a real CMS, when set up properly and/or using an OOTB template is perfectly fine. The post editor is good, you have all the basic formatting elements, page types, etc.

But I think that limits you to two universes of setups - either built by a "pro" (for some definition of pro) who configures everything, installs plugins, installs and customizes the templates and basically gets everything perfect OR very basic cookie-cutter installs with lots of limitations.

Either of those scenarios is fine, and I think it's great to have an ecosystem of small designers whose customers are DIFM users. I agree for "blog authors" and writers it's also fine, subject to the above limitations.

The reality, though, is that market is tiny - "tens or hundreds of millions of users" - I do not think there are in the hundreds of millions of blog authors getting active traffic, though I maybe buy "10s of millions". Tumblr alone has 500+m active sites, even if we assume only 10% get actual consistent traffic (which would be roughly consistent with the data I remember), that alone is 50m active sites. If there are 10s of millions of bloggers, we would expect that the active # of sites are in the single-digit millions.
I’d gladly subscribe but I’ve heard that these are a nightmare to cancel (unless you live in California)
As far as subscription go - nothing. Although I will say that Steam is my preferable place to shop for games because they spend actual effort fixing other people's shit. From joypads and AMD GPUs to wine/proton updates.

Yes, gog doesn't have DRM but also expect me to use windows.

I wasn't a huge fan of Valve until MS pushed them into this direction about a decade ago
Has this "post stuff from around the web" ever worked for any company?

I have the feeling that companies doing this have almost no real engagement on their social media accounts?

The social media accounts that do work seem to produce their own content. Like Tesla tweeting about new features they just released.
From the JWST wikipedia page:

"In the 2005 re-plan, the life-cycle cost of the project was estimated at US$4.5 billion. This comprised approximately US$3.5 billion for design, development, launch and commissioning, and approximately US$1.0 billion for ten years of operations.[18] ESA is contributing about €300 million, including the launch.[84] The Canadian Space Agency pledged $39 million Canadian in 2007[85] and in 2012 delivered its contributions in equipment to point the telescope and detect atmospheric conditions on distant planets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
Why is that hilarious? As a conservative, it’s worth noting there’s truly nothing substantially conservative about Trump. He singlehandedly did more damage to the Republican Party than anyone since Nixon, and I would say more. Purge is an ugly word, but absent wholesale house cleaning of Trumpist grifters from the party I don’t see a useful future for it.

However, it seems your point us that you fundamentally agree with OPs central thesis, but that you can’t believe someone politically aligned differently than you can have possibly made that argument.
anecdotally this year was the year that made me switch to vscode after being an emacs user for a long time (last exception still being clojure/cider)

Two points were Dendron which finally is a good enough org-mode replacement for me and the lack of having to battle with extensions and packages in elisp. Config sync as well as the pretty much one-click full setup for almost every language is pretty great.
Fishing & Hunting licenses and excise taxes. The US has 640 million acres of public land, most of which is available for anybody to enjoy.
I don't think artisanal is necessarily "bad", but we should all acknowledge that it will be more work for a result that's maybe better but probably worse for most people.

I ran my own mail server for 20+ years, finally giving up a couple years ago. I strongly disagree that it has gotten easier. As the article makes clear, it's a much more complicated world. Things that have happened in the last 20 years include SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and the rise of providers like GMail. And if you really care about owning your bits, in some ways colocating hardware has gotten harder now that VMs are hugely dominant.

The new requirements to be a good mail server are significant work to understand and implement. The feedback loops are also poor: it's hard to know whether you really have them right.

But the real killer for me was opaque major providers like Google. Occasionally, they decided they didn't like my little mail server. I and a number of other sysadmins couldn't find anything wrong with my setup. But mail wouldn't arrive. I even had SRE friends inside Google and they couldn't find out anything; apparently the GMail folks are very secretive.

There are only so many missed business opportunities and disrupted personal relationships I was willing to put up with for my personal taste for running my own servers. Eventually I hit that limit and switched everything over to Fastmail. For me personally, it was a great decision. It's cheaper and more reliable, and never again will I have to get up in the middle of the night to go to a colo. In contrast to my spending a few hours here and there, they have a whole full-time staff sweating deliverability. It's great!

If people think running a mail server is fun, I say go for it. But even there I'd strongly urge them to consider whether "this looks fun" is the right spirit to bring to anything important to their lives, and whether it will stay fun when it breaks at the least convenient time. So maybe keep it fun by using it only for things that don't really matter to you.
I like my email artisanal just like my bread.
I just got 1gig fiber installed yesterday and it's worth every penny to me.

What do you recommend for enterprise grade wifi? My current setup isn't great.
https://pushback.io - 3 year side project, total failure (money wise)

I originally started it to scratch my own itch. I wanted a notification from my temperature sensor when my new born son's room got too cold (we didn't have AC, so we left the window open).

I knew solutions already existed, but I wanted to get better at programming. Which I did.

Pushback has a little bit of everything and has been rewritten 3 times going from:

- go to rails to hybrid

- puppet to k8s to Ansible

- most react native libraries and their successors

- Hugo to Gatsby

After all of that I thought, hmm maybe I should make this a SaaS. That sparked interest in business development, which I learned a ton. Did startup school 2 times, but still didn't make hardly any money.

Eventually I cut my losses and made something new, Tellspin. I did everything opposite of pushback with my new product.

- landing page first

- didn't write any code of the actual product until I had initial user interest

- chose boring tech

- stopped chasing shiny things

- spent a large portion of time doing marketing rather than building the product.

Tellspin has made way more than pushback in a third of the time. In fact, I don't think I'm even close in terms of hours spent. I'm pretty my hourly rate on pushback's is like $0.001 per hour.

With tellspin, all I did instead was focus on getting interest, talking to users, and distribution.

When a customer gave some feedback, I spent more time on the product. Then went back to marketing.

At this point, I'd say I've spent about 50% time on product, 50% on getting the word out there (blog posts, SEO, guest posts, etc)

Hopefully that's helpful to the ambitious people out there. Your product might be great, but if you focus too much on tech, no one will find out about it.

I wrote a detailed one year retrospective on tellspin's blog if there's continued interest in what I did. Nothing special really, just talking to customers and solving what problem they have.
Flighty - far and away the best app for flights, not even close. The plus subscription is worth every cent.

Bottomless - my internet connected coffee scale, I love this thing.

Stratechery - probably the best tech/software newsletter available.

Sam Harris, Persuasion, and Astral Codex Ten - writers and podcasts I like a lot.

YouTube Premium - I’ll pay for a no ads version of any service I use that allows me to.

Gigabit internet, ubiquiti networking hardware, T-Mobile cellular (actually super fast now compared to Verizon with 5Guc - I can get 600mbps and it doesn’t require being a foot from the access point).
As the article refers to, the technology demo 20 years ago got as far as deploying the sensors from a radio-controlled airplane, and then driving a tank nearby, and receiving and processing the sensor data received. I can only imagine how far this technology has developed in the meantime.

I'm vaguely disappointed I can't go down to Costco and buy a 100-pack of localizers to sprinkle around my own property.
"landing some time next year"
How did Sun manage to get so much hype around Java?
Tinder Platinum.

Cheaper than bars and clubs, way better results.
> Both right and left wingers hate him because he undermines their collectivist/authoritarian sides

Speak for yourself. I don't hate him but I'm not a fan -- I think he's a gifted speaker in crafting what people want to hear but find his reasoning specious.
> Crisp.

Please open any of the publications in https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/publs.html (pdf versions) and then get your own opinion on whether anything else is crisp ;-)
I have an Intel I9 workstation machine, I use it mainly for developement. Let me tell you something: it's the most horrible machine I've ever had in terms of performance (based on compiling a very large C code base).
> Yes, Send Me The World's Wisdom

Pretty good call to action.
> The fact boost is a billion libraries in one speaks in of itself about the abysmal dependency situation in C++. There's also a buncha dep managers that are at each others throats.

There are no dep managers for C++ that have any kind of universality to them.

To reiterate for the umpteenth time: many C and C++ libraries come with compile-time flags that totally change the nature of the resulting library. It is not possible to refer to a "canonical" version of the library the way you could with something for Java, Python, JS etc.

When I say "this code relies on libfoo", it is necessary to know if there are build/compile flags for libfoo that could change the nature of libfoo.{a,so}. If there are not (common, but not universal), great. If there is just one, probably manageable. If there is more than one, game over.

Also, only C++ iostreams are buffered by default. Just like in C, where you are free do IO with syscalls if that floats your boat. There's nothing more or less obvious about this than in C, where stdio vs. syscalls is an essentially identical choice.
I read this a long time ago. Psychohistory is just too hard to buy. Human history is way too chaotic for that sort of modelling to be creditable.
I thought AWS was down. i was unable to access docker hub, aws status page and lot of sites. my DO droplet in BGR was also unable to pull images from docker hub. weird.
I like these rules but if I were writing my own set the first one would be that the most important comments you write are often those describing persistent mutable state. Often the point of keeping an objects members private is to preserve the parity among them and you explaining it where they're declared can save everyone a lot of trouble. Also if you've got a state machine the semantics of all the different states.
> I do frequent pair programming, it's just over a screen sharing / video call rather than sitting beside the person I'm pairing with

If anything, pair programming with a good headset and good quality audio is better than in person.

100% audio clarity and no external noises.
Paradox of tolerance.
Sorry, when was this? Please provide a citation.
Superpower (from Google):
A powerful and influential nation, especially a nuclear power that dominates its allies or client states in an international power bloc.

> I don't know what conclusion to draw from this, but it's just wild to me that China is a superpower, and not only has Taiwan failed to have a revolution, but they're a financial success.

It would seem that China doesn’t meet the definition of a superpower, but I think we should all be very wary of any nation or individual who seeks power over others. Those who seek power are those we don’t want to have it.
If you look at Russia's invasion of Georgia and Ukraine, they are at least "remotely comparable".
Credit Suisse launches legal action against SoftBank
When the difference is "get paid well to do the job and career you trained and worked for" vs. "get paid well to do an annoying, stressful frontline job unrelated to your skillset" then yeah, of course you'd complain. One is much better/worse for you than the other.

The job sucks, and for most of the people working it, the pay sucks too. To that end, I think a major part of why the job sucks is that the pay sucks - so much hard work for so little reward adds up mentally, and makes every interaction and delivery worse - so they're kinda missing the point with the "build empathy" part if they aren't making only delivery pay while they do this.
The above-posted scenario is a great reason to hate it. It's destroying developers' documented rationale for each change.
Another possibility is that you are so partisan that you have a hard time seeing that the author is less partisan than you are.
Ubiquiti Unifi setup is the sweet spot, good hardware and software at a decent price.
Four of those were in the first 15, the last recent one was in 2018, and was a partial failure.
It's because there's this new trend of high-performance, bufferless, copy-less technologies like io_uring getting mindshare. Beginners who don't understand why these technologies work then blindly remove buffering, or forget to add buffering in the first place.
The question ever since it became clear that this coronavirus was endemic has been what a "manageable end game" is: that is, what level of risk and mortality are we prepared to accept, given that deaths from Covid will never be zero.

This is, in my opinion, the primary underlying disagreement. Some people think that no amount of deaths from Covid is acceptable. Some people believe that even the peak pandemic mortality is acceptable. And others fall somewhere in between, by, for example, focusing on hospital capacity. I don't think there is any long-term solution to Covid as a social issue, something we talk about and can't move past, until some kind of consensus is reached on this.
As far as I know the main issue there is that LaTeX is a Turing-complete language and no reliable complete export filter can exist, so in particular one cannot export reliably all of LaTeX to HTML
Russia is looking at increasing disconnection from the West. Might as well collect some fines on their way into isolation.
> there'd be less flexibility in hours-per-week or hours-per-month, because benefits are paid at a fixed rate.

You're not wrong on point a), but I don't think we'd see a "significant" difference though - but you're incorrect on point b) because I've had (and have) very, very flexible working conditions with the same full benefits as everybody else. Benefits don't necessarily have to be fractional nor tied to any kind of fixed rate. If a company wants to extend its health-plan to its part-time workers there's certainly no US tax-code or insurance reg stopping them - nothing other than the generosity (or lack-of) on the part of company leadership.
Surfboards
YouTube Premium was already mentioned. Definitely that. The YouTube Music it comes with isn’t as good app-wise as the alternatives, but the recommendations are aight.

I’ll add: Mint Mobile in the US. $15/mo (paid in larger chunks, I pay annually) for 4GB data, unlimited voice/text. With working from home it’s really quite enough for me.
I invoiced them for the time they made me waste...
I like these.

I use a no-name vps provider that offered a deal for 3core, 2G mem, 40G ssd kvm for 23/year. Could up-in-smoke any time but I've enjoyed it for the last 1.5 years. I usually look for deals on LEB.

Minecraft as well; some of my college buddies and I do a book club and meet up on minecraft since we don't live nearby each-other anymore. 10 years of entertainment for maybe $30.