skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) I think this is one of those jokes that has enough of a core of truth that it isn't entirely a joke. Murphy's Law is likewise a joke, but it speaks to a core facet of reality, so it also gets treated seriously.

And B) there's the fact that Greenspun's 10th Rule is written using just enough technical jargon that the vast majority of non-programmers don't see the joke, and therefore take it as a serious assertion. If he had said "C/Fortran programmers keep reinventing the wheel, only square shaped and crooked, while the round wheel Common Lisp already exists", they'd delete it as a joke.
I had/have some projects:

- https://caseconverter.pro/app - was more experimentation than anything else, paste a JSON and get converted keys
- https://getworkrecognized.com - Could never reach market-fit with that. Wanted to really focus on the employee sides with brag documents but no employee will ever pay by themselves for such a tool
- http://linkedium.com - was a LinkedIn Scheduling tool, was just annoyed at some point with that. Might spin it up again this year. So never launched

Might put them up for sell somewhere. Maybe someone is interested to grow these or find product-market fit. But focusing on some other ideas I have right now.

What I learnt: I am really bad at Marketing and Sales and have a lot to learn there. Will focus on other target customers and trying to niche down with the projects I am working on right now and want to work on soon. Maybe finding someone who is good at it and partnering up might be something to look into.

Also, SEO and content is working to generate traffic. If you can convert the traffic it is a goldmine. The Google Search Console for getworkrecognized looks promising honestly.
PR firms employed by corporations (e.g. Automattic) shop story ideas to media publications, including access to the subject (e.g. Matt). It is possible, but unlikely, that Protocol just randomly decided to write this piece.

What’s in it for them? Well, people do genuinely want to read these stories. It’s “win-win” for the writer (makes their job easier/they get access), the publication (eyeballs), and the corporation (positive story reaches the public).

Source: in my role at my company, I am occasionally asked to collaborate with hired PR firms to promote similar efforts.
I agree with both these observations. The problems felt easier this year than the last (which is the only other one I've done), but the last week or so they got not just difficult, but complex in a not-so-fun way. I do plan to tackle them slowly over the next few months though, when I have time (and after I'm finished with [Rosalind](http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/)).
Well, who cares? That’s just an opportunity to publish the article on your own website. If it’s really worthy of note then your site will become the destination for people who want to read about it.
Do you think offering some kind of onboarding/deployment service would have helped? Helping them migrate all their data and workflows into this new tool?
:facepalm: of course!
How about frontpaged?

“Zuck permabanned me but I frontpaged to get back my account”
Falcon 9 has a better track record than Ariane 5 at this point, but SpaceX wasn't really a thing at the time these contracts were signed.
From my perspective TikTok is worse because it’s algorithm is better at holding human addition, and it’s headquarters is located in an authoritative country. I don’t have any evidence to defend these statements, and it’s quite possible propaganda has influenced by opinion here. I’d love to hear from the experts.
spammers tend to set up SPF/DKIM
HN is a specialty forum. Facebook in some cases is where everyday life is negotiated. In Iceland, for instance, all the unofficial rent/"garage sale" sort of economy lives on Facebook as far as I'm aware. It's not quite WeChat levels (you could still rent through official channels and buy stuff from retailers instead of other individuals), but it's uncomfortably close.

Like HN bans, Facebook/Google bans wouldn't really be too much of a problem if they weren't _the_ platform in their respective domains. As much as I advocate for alternative platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube, them being a viable alternative is a future I hope to see, not the present reality.
Can you win a washing machine that plays video clips or why should anyone participate in those surveys?
> Overall, there is a weak relationship between wealth and health expenditure vs. outcomes beyond $30k GDP/capita and $1.5k expenditure.

Because healthcare is labor intensive, you probably want to at least adjust per capita spending by PPP, and it might even be better to look at per-GDP spending (really, relative healthcare costs is the goal, but you can't easily get that directly.) So, Saudi Arabia has worse outcome but plausibly is lower on the relevant spending measure, as well, compared to Costa Rica. Otherwise, the effect of healthcare consumption is being masked by differences in the cost of healthcare.

(Of course, even looking at per GDP spending, and compared to other advanced nations so that there are fewer confounding factors, the US proves it's possible to spend a lot extra with no result, if you design the system badly enough.)
HN is like a party in a big room, where there are clusters of people having conversations. People mingle between the groups, dipping into and out of the conversations. There are no "connections" between people, and the site (thank God) doesn't "suggest" or promote anything to you based on some algorithmic analysis of your past expressions.

So long as the site acts only as the big room in which the party happens, it's benign. Once the room becomes an active participant and manipulator it becomes what is now a modern "social networking" site, and should be regarded as poison. At that point, leave for your own sake.
I’d just like to take a moment to say how much I appreciate HN and all the work put in by dang and the moderation team. Everyone here really cares about keeping discussions lively and respectful. This is a wonderful community to be a part of!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
Yeah a variety of clowns keep posting this same conspiracy theory over and over, but the fact is that the House testimony does not in any way support your claim

> His company's top officers lied to the public during the campaign in 2016 (and ever since) that the DNC servers was hacked by the Russian Government

The only real takeaway from your links is that crowdstrike does not have pcaps showing data exfiltration.
I'm not saying there aren't some devs who fit in the box you describe, but semantic HTML is an important part of web dev and many front end devs still ascribe to it. As you said, tags have meanings and we should use the appropriate one for the appropriate thing.

And there are most definitely ways to use even the table tag responsibly (and responsively, although that is harder).

And that is absolutely the standard. Just because people ignore it doesn't mean the standards don't exist. Random blog posts do not change that.
China blocking EU imports with Lithuanian components over Taiwan row
It's not just you. I always thought this statement ("github is a social media platform") to be a bit of a meme. I've never had any interactions like that, nor have seen anyone else do it. Some users prefer to make their profile a bulletin board of their "achievements" (real achievements speak for themselves without glitz or unicorn symbols), or use it as something of a PR platform. You can easily avoid those types. (For example, these was a pretty funny LGTM from some random guy on the recent multicore OCaml pull request in like 5-10 minutes since it was posted. The PR in question is a giant and very complicated patchset that was in the works for about a decade, I think?)
S3? Not even joking, a static website with some html5 video tags would bring you quite some way.

Depending on how worried you are about potential load and/or egress costs, you could go for somewhere with cheaper egress as well if you want.
I find it hard to believe that it was the climate that killed all the large mammals worldwide in a span of tens of thousands of years. But I'm open to having my mind changed.
Before Android became a success, I led the development of an operating system with a JVM-based userland for VoIP devices: http://d2tech.com/1-products/mcue.htm

It was designed to use multiple IP communications protocols and to present a unified view of contacts' presence across all the ways they could communicate.
Artificial scarcity is artificial.

Nothing prevents someone from making copies or selling copies that they don't own / have copyright rights over.
NFTs are like art collection, without the exclusivity or actual ownership. It's a good deal for artists (yay, money for nothing!) but an extremely bad buy for customers, who will probably eventually grow out of it.
Joyeux Noël à tous.
A doctor directory. Google black listed it after 30 days. No reason provided.

https://www.opendoctor.io/
na∙thaal∙na shu∙bᴴaa∙shish!
Isn't C++ compilation mostly single-core-bound still? Of course it does compile as many files in parallel as there are cores, but it's not possible to compile a single file in multiple threads.
We have found that mamba (fast alternate front end instead of conda) and micromamba entirely fixes this issue for us. IMO “conda install” is entirely unfit for purpose and probably puts lots of people off of the ecosystem (15 minutes for megabytes of error messages often in the case of unresolved dependency trees). Our CI was often spending more time running conda than running our test suite.

I assume there is some political difference or acrimony which means the actual sources about core conda are entirely silent on the issue - I’ve privately replied to people expressing concern over this on the conda mailing list several times and people are always relieved to know there is a solution.

Seriously, it’s the only way we can tolerate using conda as an ecosystem any more, and only ever feel this pain of 15-20 minute feedback cycles preparing packages with conda-build (for which boa is a promising new replacement we haven’t moved to yet)
I haven't seen an M1Max yet.. but I've had a ton of 15", 17", and 16" MBP models over the last 10 years at work. All have generally been maxed out i7 models up to the latest one which is an i9 I got about 3-4 months ago right before the ARM ones came out.

I'm totally on board with the narrative that the MacBook Pro has been going downhill for a long time and going to ARM is the ray of hope. At least in the case of my i9 16" they finally fixed the keyboard but it's a ridiculous space heater and it's only about 2x as fast as the 2018 i7 it replaced on a lot of tasks, and that's probably only because I was RAM limited on the 2018 one and am not on the 2021 one. The fan drives me bonkers as it pretty much runs full blast all day while I'm working. Lots of us on our team have seen the battery draining while it's plugged into the wall.

Some of these benchmark games miss the point, the user experience for a "mobile workstation" user has just been going downhill for a long time and these new machines are finally starting to turn that around.

I've had as 13" M1 MBP since launch last year FWIW and have never heard the fan come on, other than the fact it has a Touch Bar it's just about perfect for a personal machine. It feels much faster than the i9 for most real world tasks and the battery life resembles a kindle more than a laptop.
https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
But what benefit is there for the end user?
Because using journalctl is so bad.. Hell, you can even forward to a text-based logger. And it’s not like it is some proprietary format either
I don't see why it would be illegal.
Is tending to your own email server really what you want to do with your once and precious life.
In the early 90s I ran a BBS and was a USENET user and administrator (ISP) for years. The SnR of major social media platforms is so poor now. I find it hard to even explain to the young how much better such forums can be.
But this only works in park.
Can't tell from your UI screenshot, but quite often loading a page with devtools open will disable the cache. I forget if this is the default behavior or not.
Meh, but there's nothing to hit in space. The energy required to reach a routine geosynchronous orbit is already ~85% of escape velocity. The added boost is minimally more dangerous and the trip is just empty hours. "Time" does kill spacecraft, but not often.

The Webb self-assembly is absolutely where the scary bits lurk.
Reader mode only works well for a subset of HTML files, too.
There will be varifocal displays eventually.
The slickness is part of the appeal. I agree that he gets some of the details slightly wrong: the part about serotonin and depression sticks out. But at the same time, I'd rather have a slightly wrong and profoundly enjoyable book than one that's a slog to get through but gets more of the details right. I think Sapiens strikes a good balance.
I sleep very well at night knowing I’m making a lot of money.
... and it turned out it was just an oops-ban. (?)
Since it runs on Linux-libre, there is a good chance several devices/peripherals will fail to perform as intended. If the idea is to have a toy distro (working as a VM) to explore around, it’s looking great. But I don’t see why it will gain traction for real use case.
Perhaps it's overly paranoid of me, but I'm not sure that Mozilla being purchased by a firm with significant VC investment is a good thing for its independence.
Yeah, it's a bit of a tautology. It amounts to "complex problem solving tools tend to converge with existing tools for addressing similar complex problems as their level of complexity approaches parity".
Yeah, I show just under 60KB transferred because it's cached and compressed.

Size is a useful metrics, but actual UX is what matters.
Trisquel is an FSF project so there is absolutely nothing proprietary in it (including the kernel which is stripped of proprietary drivers).

Which of course is ideologically great but makes real-world hardware support nightmarish.
Zero interest even in the comments section on this thread, lol.
If you liked Veronica you'll probably also like other Paulo Coelho novels. Specifically, I can recommend "Eleven Minutes" and "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept".
Joyeuses fêtes à tous!
Outstanding :)
Sequoia
PeerTube, https://joinpeertube.org/

You can use an instance that let's you upload or you can run your own on a host somewhere and federated it.
Important to note that the agreement was made in 2007, so reliability as a factor would be reliability as assessed in 2007, not 2021.

I think that in 2021, Falcon 9 ‘s track record arguably suggests it is more reliable than Ariane 5, but it doesn’t matter because the Falcon fairing is too small for JWST.
Well I guess there are two parts to that:

> 1) I predict meta will be a failure if it requires VR hardware.

Meta is almost certainly a word that gets banded around by (Ex-)Facebook meaning future communication platforms. In their eyes WhatsApp is part of the metaverse, FB is part of the metaverse, Oculus is part of the metaverse e.t.c.

> 2) I predict meta will be a failure if it requires VR hardware. Not to mention the cost.

Well the price of VR hardware has already gone from £700 hardware + a £1.5k Computer to £300 for one of the best headsets in 5 years (which does not need a separate computer to run) - so assuming you don't have a gaming computer, the cost is c1/5th of what it was not to long ago.

There is no reason to believe that cost will be a barrier in the western world.
> 100% free of ads and tracking.

> forces you to login
I've seen the little gleam in programmers' eyes when they declare that "what we really need here is a mini language" more than once.

It's a trap.
In fairness to Matt and Automattic, Wordpress pre-Gutenberg was basically unusable by non-technical users. I’ve seen research that the successful completion rate for regular users with Wordpress on a bunch of core UX elements is close to zero.

It’s fine if Automattic wants to say that Wordpress is just for web developers and HN readers, but I think they really want to build the website platform for everyone, and that’s not happening with Wordpress without things like a real page builder.

(Full disclosure, I used to work at Squarespace and will freely say that the squarespace page builder at the time I was there was not great, but it was usable by regular people)
Watch the latest Linus Tech Tips video about this.
You Don’t Have to Compare Flutter and React Native Anymore
Some EU businesspeople are already buckling to pressure:

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1570020/lithuania-c...

The German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to the Lithuanian government, warning that German investors might be forced to close their production facilities in Lithuania in response to Beijing's action, unless there is “a constructive solution to restore Lithuanian-Chinese economic relations”.
We did, yes.

The start was in political offices, which need CRMs and are motivated to move or they're fired. Constituent service satisfaction is one of the top indicators of being re-elected.

Moving into permanent government departments is more of a pain but we did see some success there.

Ultimately, though, the trough between early-adopters and getting mainstream is dishearteningly deep and there aren't enough ealry-adopters to build momentum. Not for us anyway.
also falcon heavy would be required which only has had 3 launches (all success though)
I never use stickers from commercial projects or just because something is trendy.

I have stickers from community projects that I actively contribute to or projects that are really meaningful to me and I support morally and financially.

In limited amount and size not to be tacky...

Many people apply the same logic to tattoos.
> All I have to offer is an idea for branding: LobotomizeMyDevice

#BuyDumb
Yes, I would've myself thought that a CIA recruiter who suddenly comes upon a 22 year old American in Germany out of a sudden, with an offer of money, car, and a ticket to USSR must be a communist spy himself trying to pull off some trickery.
Right? How is video decoding not an optimized chip level operation on modern systems? It’s network traffic and video decoding… it shouldn’t required an i9 going full bore.
Not surprising as Moore's law had stopped applying to CPU. Assuming each year CPU gets 20% improvement, from 2012 to 2021 the latest cpu is 5x more powerful than the old one. Considering 30% performance loss for converting x86 instructions to ARM, 4x is a reasonable number.
Merry Christmas to you all, enjoy the time with family and take a break for bit!
I've worked remotely for almost eight years now. Much of that from home; the last couple from a small office space that I rent down the street from home. I worked in open plan offices for about 15 years prior to going remote.

Both situations are a mixed bag. There are productive days and heavily distracted days in a shared office and there are productive and not so productive days working remotely. Working remotely but not from home is the easy winner for me in terms of overall productivity with a much higher percentage of productive days. Working from home (before the pandemic, when my partner also started working from home) was still significantly better than working in an open plan office, though it did take me the first couple years to work out that I had to be very strict about keeping a separation (work machine gets turned off at 5pm and no work email can reach me outside working hours). When the pandemic hit and my partner started working from home as well (and she's a university professor so it was a lot of loud video calls while she taught her classes), my productivity crashed (but also, pandemic stress). If your home is distracting than, yeah, your productivity is going to crater. But the same is really true for something like an open plan office (I used to get most of my work done by going in extremely early so I could have two productive hours a day before everyone else showed up).
It looks like it was even before Falcon 1’s first success.
But you'd need to be scraped away from the inner side of the Volvo's windshield.
I wrote about that last year: https://j11g.com/2020/07/01/how-i-read-52-books-in-a-year/

Long story short: read every day.

I notice my average is pretty steady, around 30 pages/day. So if I manage that, I’m good. But the thing is — with a good book — reading 30 pages is a breeze. And I often end up reading more. I also notice if I can’t read at least 30 pages in one sitting I probably don’t like the book very much.
>managers who weren't former engineers

woah, those exist?
Yeah but most projects that have compile times long enough to care about have many source files.
The opera actually sounds ridiculously great. Also merry Christmas HN, it's like the colleagues I don't have.
But you’re just playing games with meanings of words.

> "We did not have concrete evidence that data was exfiltrated from the DNC"

They did not have pcaps of exfil traffic but did recover the compressed files that had been prepared for exfiltration. Without pcaps there can be no “concrete evidence” that those files were exfiltrated, but we do know that the intruders did prepare data for exfiltration and had nothing stopping them from doing so.

This is basically as good as it ever gets. How about you name examples of some better investigations?
Author here.

I'm fine and stable, just discouraged and feeling like software, which is the only talent I have, is not good for me to work on because it may do more harm than good.

I have a good wife who is supportive and makes sure I am okay.

Thank you for the concern!

> To answer the question though, like climate change, or whatever big issue, there's personal things you can do, there's groups you can join but we're in a democracy and pushing for things to be put into laws and then enforced is better than relying on copyright which was never really designed or operated with the best intests of society as a driver, despite that being the official spin.

I think you're right, here. Laws may be what is necessary.
Yea for some they moved to Slack but not a part of too many hobby groups or if I am I usually just subscribe to email updates. If they don’t do those then yea I’d either get a text message or an invite some other way or just not be part of the group anymore (which goes to show it wasn’t that important in the first place). It’s kind of a filtering mechanism for important interactions.
How many more times does Apple have to violate people's privacy before we stop calling it "uncharacteristic" when they do?
> there is a good chance several devices/peripherals will fail to perform as intended

For the record, I use Trisquel and it didn't recognize my wifi adapter. I went to the forums and someone said you need special libre wifi adapters that work with Linux. However, my internal network adapter worked fine. It plays well with most ethernet adapters thankfully.
General email server? No, I would be worried too.

But I think you can set up an email server for your own tasks, like sending yourself some notifications. It's also nice to know how this works in theory.

These are the reasons I included some basic e-mail setup in my book (Deployment from Scratch), although also advising to depend on some reputable IP addresses.
> and their replacement with paid Automattic employees

Automattic sponsors about 100 people to work on the WordPress open source project, and that's somehow a bad thing? Also, this isn't an Automattic exclusive thing, many other companies do the same: https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledges/?order=con...

(I'm an Automattic employee, but I don't work directly on the WordPress project)
Some source would be interesting, because it is just blind words otherwise. Also, Arch and several other distros made the choice independently. I am fairly sure Red Hat is not some evil entity kidnapping the families of maintainers making them switch to systemd..