skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved reading Atomic Habits during the first lockdown. I was excited to try out its actionables, specially tracking to keep me honest.

I tried a bunch of iOS apps, but wanted no friction, no tracking, no cloud, no social, etc. so eventually built https://flathabits.com. Also wanted to own my habit data (as plain text), so I made sure Flat Habits stored its data locally as an org file.

I'm an Emacs nutter and can say the strength of a habit tracker lies in removing daily friction from the tracking process itself. The plain text part is cherry on top (bringing piece of mind around lock-in). In my case, it's been months since I looked at the plain text file itself.

As for forming habits themselves (the actual goal)... it's been well over a year since I started running. I've kept it up since reading Atomic Habits (and started tracking).
I think the internet (and its tools) started off with the intention of making the lives of users easier as compared to the alternatives.

However, as the internet became mainstream and competitive, more successful players realized that they can employ dark patterns to increase their revenue by taking advantage of users (lock-in, difficulty unsubscribing, making cloud accounts mandatory, etc).

It's 2022 and I think all the companies everywhere feel like they have no choice but to learn from the best. The pricing tactics used by Apple, are now used by many other companies in different industries and even companies that were non-tech are now using tech with its dark patterns.

Who do I think is to blame? Investors of all kinds. They are making it harder for entrepreneurs who care about their customers to stay in business by throwing money and exploiting consumers weakness for deals/freebies. It's just the mindset of growth at all and any cost, that's what I'm seeing all around me on the internet and offline (by using the internet in some cases).
Ask HN: Where can I find Akira in colour
I am Looking for the Akira Manga in full all in colour. It has been published in the 90s but those prints are hard to find and I am not aware of any modern reprints in good quality paper.
Tests (the consequences) are not harmless e.g., https://empowertotalhealth.com.au/new-study-on-screening-mam...
Are sweetened drinks in China typically sweetened with actual sugar (sucrose)? In the USA, corn syrup / HFCS is generally used instead.
The biggest respect for your hard work (as well for the person that you helped, of course). This article kind of suggested that it contains advice for the people that provide care, but it still misses their personal perspective and what they can do to care for themselves. It is often also especially hard to find advice for people who become caregivers in a relationship that is not inherited / biological but rather voluntary.

I hope you had a good network of people to support you during that time, as well.
> Judging people based on their place of birth and skin colour... I feel like there's a word for that...

Only if you're not the right color ;)
Low band 5G is doing this. Low band 5G is essentially marginally more efficient 4G. As 5G is deployed alongside 4G, it’s often going in weak 4G areas. Phones automatically switch to whichever of the two are providing better service in an area, so the combination of 4G and 5G provide better service quality.

High band 5G (the exciting, fast mm-wave stuff) certainly can improve service in a highly congested area, like a stadium, but low and mid-band offered in combination with legacy 4G will improve service most places in the world.
I'm a non-native English speaker, and I must say that you are wrong.

Even forgetting that many languages have exactly the same construction ("black list") with the same meaning, the thing you do as a non-native speaker with an unfamiliar word is to look it up in a dictionary, or guess its meaning from the context, not try and run some inverse etimology on it.

I mean, for years I understood what "paste" meant (as in "copy and paste") and used that word without having any idea about "paste" being some sort of glue. I still have no idea where the word "parkway" comes from, but understand the word and use it. (If I were to guess from its parts I would arrive to something like a "garden path":))
366 min read !
It's a charity, but it (indirectly?) pays some eyebrow-raisingly-high salaries: https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-pay-study-2019-highest...
They like you! They really like you!
Yes. But a one-line install script is easily auditable. I mean, the URL you are fetching and executing from is in your face. Validate URL, consider your trust - that's all. It's the same what we've been taught before we enter credentials within any site: validate domain.
I'd say it is more because UX has shifted to acquiring customers at all costs, even if it means constantly annoying your current users.

Every time I have to hunt for the "log in with an existing account" button (after mistakenly trying to login to what turns out to be the sign-up form) I want to punch a "UX "expert" in the face so hard it knocks the shitty dye job off their side-shave hairdo.
I'm pretty sure the comment you're replying to is a joke using dang's familiar disciplinary warning format.
Hey, something fun to decorate my resume with:)
I at least once said a thing and it wasn't so dumb it go people talking. Hopefully.
The problem is there's no universal way to install software across platforms in a secure way.

The closest I've seen is running exes with docker run. Then at least I can somewhat control how much access the exe has to my machine.
That was painful to try to read... "Clever" design that abuses scrolling, provide only a miniscule amount of info and outright breaks on browser zoom is a nightmare.
Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications
I did this. Results 1 & 4 were from Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica respectively. Doesn't seem that bad to me.
Optimally, you want to download software from a static, external source that people can vet, preferably protected from tampering with digital signatures. For most of these scripts, there's no way to know if the file you'll receive will be the same as a file someone with an interest in installer security will receive. You'd have to download from a source that you can believe to be reasonably static to get the minimum amount of trust at the least.

It's trivial to serve different files to different user agents, and with terminal escape codes you could even hide malicious code from the few people that cat these scripts. I don't like downloading files from a project's own, potentially dynamic, server, and executing them directly, even though that's commonly the only way to run certain tools.

In my opinion, downloading github release files or even just the scripts from github directly is worse than using reliable repositories with signatures and all that, but better than downloading random shell or exe files and executing them as admin. You'll always be at some kind of risk of software manipulation, so you have to choose how much risk you want to accept when it comes to this stuff.
Oh this got flagged too just like the Guardian article I submitted.

I find it telling that HN don't want to discuss something which tech has largely enabled via social networking sites...
#295, 1107 comments... one comment per three GH contribution... hmmmmmmm
The problem with git master->main is, that if you don’t say “no”, there’s always gonna be the next thing. Like “ant colony”. Ironically Scott Aarson has himself written about this, after having realised he was, like you, wrong for not saying “no”. (Too late.)

You have to say “no”.
To summarize this paper in a less technical way than the abstract does:

This paper finds very strong evidence that omicron jumped to infecting mice in May 2020, then jumped back to humans again in Nov 2021.

* Mutations in the spike protein, which are likely to depend on which animal is best infected, were a far closer match in mice than any of 20 other species tested (P<1.6x10^-11 )

* The types of genetic changes (ie. transitions from one base to another) were not those expected to be found in human cells, but were those expected to be found in mouse cells (P<0.008)

* Omicron binds far better to mouse cells receptors than any other animal or human tested (P<1x10^-5 )

* The genetic changes seen happened at a rate far 3.3x faster than expected in humans.

(my summarization here has traded scientific accuracy for simplicity)

Any of those fist 3 bullet points I would consider pretty decisive evidence. To have found all three is amazing.
As much as I love markets in a libertarian sort of way, they are not perfect. Markets can be slow, and there are many different types of customers.

Fox News and CNN still "sell" decently well. CNN used to be the "real news" some years ago. Not any more. The product has changed. They still try to claim to be the "real news". They are really not. They are, for the most part, an opinion outlet with narrow agenda. Fox News is, more or less, exactly the same but pointed almost perfectly in the opposite direction.

It's not unthinkable for Scientific American to "transform" itself in a similar way and find customers while claiming to be about "science" while it can be mostly about "agenda".
I think it is just part of the commercialization of the web, the same dynamics that happens everywhere where a firm with a good product/brand change it to increase cash flows or some other KPI. Though much more clear in consumer market, but also happen to rich, influential companies (think about the clients of Oracle).
It would really scare me if dang wasn't the first one. But at the same time, I feel immense pain thinking about what he has to deal with on a daily basis. Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 on the shoulders of one admin. I'd like to say how a million flowers should bloom from this shining example, but it seems more like a superhuman attempt to hold back the flood.

In any event, it's been worth it and it's been a job well done.

Also, I'm surprised and a bit ashamed to be #415 in this list. That's probably a whole side-project's worth of time I could have spent elsewhere. But I guess we all need somewhere to commune, talk shop, make friends or blow off some steam. FWIW I've learned far more from HN in the last year than I've been able to bring to it, and I'm thankful for the avenues it leads me down every day as a reader. I would post a lot less if I stopped drinking but, yeah.
Greed and idiocy. Same as always. I think we were luckily sheltered from it for a long time in technology for many reasons - VC funding with long horizons meant no immediate pressure to monetize, lower revenues, salaries and higher entry bars kept greed and idiocy out. Now the VC funded businesses need to show returns and the $$$ is attracting all the wrong people.
While it’s definitely not recommended to do so, you could probably do it. You need to test it out though, not sure every browser will support this.
Very funny how you are doing more of that Derrida thing yourself.

The problem with the claim lies in the attempt to associate a strictly technical concept (the normal distribution) to $GENERIC_BAD_STUFF with nothing more than vague wordplay.

Also, just FYI, you have it the other way around. When you sample from a population, you (usually) assume a certain distribution (at most you infer parameters). For example, if you're sampling for opinion polls, you would actually want to oversample minorities and then correct back.
I've been accused of shilling a product I genuinely enjoyed, because of the english I used. :) I think it seemed too exaggerated. But I'm no native, so what do I know. In the end who cares about upvotes.
I really don't think we talk enough about how much plain old racism, not "reverse-racism", is actually happening to non-traditional races (I.e. White and Asian people). It's seeped so much into the culture that we don't even notice it, and on top of it, we dismiss it because it's detracting and detrimental to social reform for "real" racism.
If this is how little understanding and empathy you have for mental illness, why not just keep out of discussions on the topic altogether? You’d make the world a marginally less bad place, if you did.
It's partially environmental, and therefore can be socially correlated. We know of many conditions that are caused by changes in pre-natal environment (e.g. folic acid deficiency in the mother causes neural tube defects). Genes you don't get to pick, but everything that happens after fertilization is absolutely impacted by the external environment in many ways.
def test_adding_a_user_2(session):
user = make_user()
db_session.add(user)
# this is safe, doesn't assume no other users exist
assert db_session.query(User).get(user.user_id) is not None

If the database is dirty, and that user ID happens to exist in it, this test will continue to pass even if db_session.add(user) has suffered a regression such that it does nothing.
And an amazing one at that.
What I find particularly weird about rustup is their hard coding of TLS 1.2. Does their website not offer TLS 1.3? Is this protection against outdated clients that still default to TLS 1.0 or below?

I think the miniconda example isn't as bad, because you have the opportunity to inspect the script between the commands if you're curious. You'll have to be wary of obfuscation tricks, but at least it's not the direct equivalent of opening a telnet session to a remote server.
I regret to see they skipped the Gameboy Advance SP and Gameboy Micro. The former was quite popular because it was the last console that played Gameboy Color games.
Ah yes, the classic “if you’re depressed, stop being depressed!” comment. Very helpful.

Your comment has inspired me: my brother broke his leg, and just now I texted him to stop being so fragile and just go out for a run. That ought to fix it!
white lies

whitewashing

white collar crime (why not “black suit crime”?)

You’re hallucinating an issue that doesn’t actually exist.
Its actually an article from 2011/2012. "Avoid meat" -> refers to "the china study" -> deeply flawed. I don't think there is scientifc consensus supporting this claim. There are actually studies which state quite the opposite.
I put this as a sub-sub-reply in a different chain, but this 100%. I know for me, when our couples therapist talked to me about codependency it felt like a full on attack. "How dare he suggest that I'M the one with a problem?? SHE'S the one that has to change!!" That sort of thing.

It was very hard to overcome the defensiveness but remains the best thing I've ever done for my own mental wellbeing. It's important not to hear the word "codependent" as an attack.

The book "Codependent No More" was a lifechanger for me. I highly recommend it to anyone struggling in a situation like this.
Because the lab leak hypothesis is off topic, for one, and because nobody has anything new or interesting to say about the lab leak hypothesis - it's just repeating the same specious assertions that don't lead anywhere.

Until there is new data, it's just a lot of noise and no signal.
I was the same until I started using Kagi. I was planning to force myself to use it for a while to test it out, but after two days or something I changed my default search provider and not because of politics but because of results.

It feels like going 15 years back in time - to the time when Google found what I searched for instead of mangling and/or ignoring my actual query every single time.

(Note: it seems some people consistently get better results. I'm not saying it is impossible to get good results with Google, only that I personally have given up.)

Edit: I might sound like a paid shill but I am not. I only know the Kagi founder via HN as freediver and I have not received anything, neither money nor anything else from anyone related to Kagi. (With one big exception: good search results :-)
The issue was that RMS did not conform to some ideology and so he was bullied. The fact that he is wrong or right about his opinions it's not even relevant. We have normalized ad hominem attacks, amplified through social networks. Reputation was everything in medieval science and we are moving in that direction.
When growing up, my dad had a subscription to Scientific American. I learnt a lot from it, even English language. First the easy parts (50 years ago, letters to the editor), and then more advanced columns (Metamathematical Themes, Amateur Scientist), and finally some of the articles.

When I moved on my own in the late 80's, I naturally got my own subscription too. But I was already feeling that the level was dropping. They introduced Science in Pictures, and stuff like that. The day when I felt I could read and understand every article, I decided not to renew my subscription. Must have been early 90's.
CloudFront is CDN with limited features, other CDNs (Akamai, Fastly etc) are more than capable of manipulating incoming requests
The proposal consists in filtering out crappy or scoring sites based on how much affiliate links and ads they use. In addition, it could also penalize:

* GDPR popups
* excessive JavaScript
* presence of modal dialogs requesting email

It's an idea I've been thinking about since a long time. It should also include filtering out "scraping" websites which republish content from other websites (like pinterest) and websites which make block content behind pay- or login-walls (like again pinterest).
Your points are valid. The hardware is something like a bad Android tablet with a few buttons. Which makes it more amazing that they're still selling a ton of them.

RE recycling IP: This won't go well indefinitely (and it seems like they're not introducing anything new), but we're right in the middle of a nostalgia hype, so for now if works very well for them.
For a test manufacturer you are right, and they aren't responsible for accounting for general population frequencies, or conditional frequencies based on things like some sibling has it etc. But there is no need to regulate that. But the serivice in question isnt a test manufacturer, its diagnostics, and they are responsible for this. I think a company selling a diagnostics service should be required to prominently display reasonably accurate FP,TP,FN,TN rates for gen pop, as the next example will show.

This is is not a legal problem, its a customer experience one, and as such its very much what the free market does well. A clever company could say that the tests service we provide works in a two stage process where a preliminary test is used to identify which conditions need to be investigated further, the results of which are presented in a meeting with one of our doctors were the results are explained and additional tests are performed to resolve any ambiguity. This combines the benefits of sensitivity, and specificity in a resource efficient way, and does not provide the user with any scary results before a certain answer is available. The FP,FN,TP,TN probabilities for gen pop for such a company would be much better than those of companies trying to do so in a single pass. But for these figures to mean anything regulating that they are available and reasonably accurate is key to ensure an efficient market.

Another problem is of course that the tests themselves are shit, or the rates based on poor data. The requirement on reasonably accurately reported gen pop rates help with this however, and I see no way around legally forcing diagnostic services providers to prove this. And until someone does, my patent pending algorithm(){return false} tests for all rare genetic disorders with excellent accuracy^^
What page are you talking about? All I see is a hard-to-read white-on-black quarter page of text that takes longer to scroll through than to read and animated GIFs.
A proactive virtual assistant is something I have dreamed of too! The main concern is input and output sources; an AGI might use a screen reader for input and an image neural network for output.

How do you imagine an assistant could autonomously engage with you?

I think we have friendliness knocked down cold, without too much artificiality.
Yeah. I would have this env var inside my reverse proxy to have it 12-factor app compatible.
And I guess your solution as well? And you have some templating mechanism to replace the absolute variable on the fly?

I would use a mix of your solution, i.e. allow the Java script client to be configured with either absolute or relative urls in case one needs to point the client elsewhere + reverse proxy
While I have on occasion been given a "stern talking to" by dang, I guess we can all appreciate his work. Though I sometimes wonder when does he sleep.

(Though yes I should probably be more conservative with my comments)
But it accounts for things that seem to be there from birth yet cannot be explained purely by genetics.
A query on methodology:

Near the end of the list, it’s sitting at around a hundred accounts for each number, yet 70 comments has only 18 accounts listed before the 10000 cutoff is reached. Presumably some 80 or so more accounts were also at 70 comments, but are not mentioned. How wewre items ordered? Not by username, not by creation date, not by karma, I guess it’s just random? Alas for the ~⅘ of the 70-comments-per-year users who were excluded by capricious randomness!
This seems to be very close to the number of Traffic Fatalities for 2021. From the way the news media reports on gun violence, I thought that the number of gun deaths was much higher than vehicle related deaths.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
I shilled my own product once and it didn't get downvoted, but that day people started signing up with thousands of stolen credit cards. Dealing with the fraud that was a result of that post was probably one of the most interesting things in my career though, so I dunno, I guess HN delivered as always.
I don't buy that logic. I have absolutely no problem with the word "master" for e.g. a main branch, or for something that controls something else for that matter, but why wouldn't it be OK to let someone do all the work of changing a fine word into an equally fine one? How does that force you to do non-neutral, negative, changes in the future?
Exponential growth, otoh, is quite a regular feature of nature. Rabbits boom and bust. Single cell algae transforms a newly formed pond within days, followed by exponential growth of organisms that like to feed on it.
> Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021

I recognize an hyperbole when I see one, but this one is kinda of a big one.
Also somewhat true in a way.
That time was possibly the peak for using baseless accusations of sexism to counter any criticism of women, at least in the online reddit/twitter/facebook/etc sphere. The old HN threads even have some. I feel people have been gradually getting slightly braver in standing up to this.
2022: Valve releases the Steam Deck -only slightly more expensive than the Nintendo Switch- allowing the user to play all past Nintendo games, using the power of Linux. Oh, and it has Steam support as well. Oh, and you can and may jailbreak/root it out of the box. Oh, and it runs SteamOS, based on Arch. Oh, and it doesn't have joy drift (OK, don't know about that one, we'll have to see).