skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're really abusing the terms 'dark pattern' and 'ethics' at the point where merely popping a notification about ingame events is covered.

When Tetris was first released back in 1986, its uniquely addictive nature led some to theorize that it was intrinsically harmful, or more conspiratorially, that it was a weapon made by Russians to harm US productivity. Had Tetris first been released in the modern era, I think both of these (patently insane) complaints would have been taken more seriously.
plus no ads needed because the website's devs can have an initial amount of tokens that are vested linearly thus incentivising them to mantain the website
There's a button called "Show Text". https://i.imgur.com/sf7ztjZ.png
You absolutely can criticize both. Come on, man, you're doing it right now.

> I don't think that a bunch of MAGA morons running around in the capitol is a serious threat to our democracy.

You should be worried as to how and why it is they felt inclined to prevent and reverse a peaceful and legal election. There were/are some extremely powerful people pressing narratives in order to obtain power by means outside our democratic election process. Our democracy/society feels very much like it is teetering. The degree to which the crowd was embarrassing a year ago does not in any way temper my worry about the future.
> Blockchain is amazing (I love my signed git commits and the integrity that provides), but proof of work is contributing to the destruction of the planet.

I can't believe this narrative still exists, 'Blockcahin not Bitcoin' was how it was phrased back then, now it applies to all PoW systems now that word has entered the lexicon by otherwise unknowledgeable people on distributed, immutable technology.

This isn't meant as a personal attack, but more as a rebuttal to a senseless and baseless argument: this is what irks so many of us that actually understand this technology and it's potential (money is really only its first application that allowed funding to occur in a project otherwise deemed 'valueless' since at it's core it's just a opensource software project): are you aware that Bitcoin (the Network and the most well known PoW system) is accelerating and expanding the use of renewable energy[0] and is greener than any of the woke FAANG/MANGA in terms of energy usage?

Or the fact that it's trying to mitigate and recapture energy loss in the oil and gas Industry [1]. To date, other than Google who partly invested in Ivanpah (which failed, but was worth attempting none the less), there hasn't been a single thing from SV that has done as much to incentivize the creation of renewables. Even Tesla's charging stations/network, as awesome as they are, are not prohibiting the use of fossil fuels. Lets compare relevant attributes here.

So, please, stop with the hyperbole: this was barely tolerable 4-6 years ago when it was touted as a reason to ignore or marginalize this tech and shoehorn alts that made no sense but were centralized and provided the banks and regulators to control them. But now... it's just sad and shows how pervasive narratives created by powerful entities (this was Blythe Master's work, btw) can last rather than taking the time to look into it yourself what it is that you are repeating.

0: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/bcei-white-paper

1: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/mining-bitcoin-clean-ene...
Why not? It was a niche hippie/health-nut thing back then, but it was around.

Here's a random article i found from forbes that goes into it a bit:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/02/01/ko...
70s and 80s scifi media frequently depict floppy disks being used well into the 22nd century and beyond, despite the fact that optical and solid state storage did exist in some form back then.

Either is is done to make the scenes relatable to the contemporary audience, or human beings really lack the abiltiy to imagine things they have no empirical experience with.
Understood... but why are you doing this?

Bc someone could decipher your passwords if you record the sound of your keystrokes while entering them?
So the solution here would be a fine that is also affecting the developer.

No, the solution is jail time for the founders and board members of these companies. Along with extremely harsh and vindictive confiscation of their assets.

And generous incentives for developers (such as the GP commenter) to snitch on these people for asking them to be knowingly complicit in their immoral activities.
It's also a bit hard to find good methods that are seriously into polymorphism.
>> That's the logic of a Ponzi scheme

No, that's not the logic of a Ponzi scheme. Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme.

Ponzi promised a 100% return on investment in 90 days. He got money from 15,000 investors. He needed 30,000 investors in 90 days to pay off the original 15,000. By the end of the year he would have needed 240,000 to keep the scheme going. By the end of 5 years he would have needed 16 billion investors. Crypto has been around what, 14 years now? In 14 years he would have needed 1080863910568919040000 investors.

Ponzi schemes don't collapse sooner or later, they collapse sooner. Ponzi started his scheme in January of 1920 and it collapsed in April of 1920.

Crypto is just a normal speculative investment. People buy it because they think someone else will pay more for it later. Same as speculating in gold, Amazon stock, or MTG cards over the last 14 years.
Thank you so much for all of this great work. What was the inspiration for this direction? Was it a personal itch? Or something else?
Huge shame to see them go. My usage of them dropped off in recent years, but I still greatly enjoyed the curated service. I always had five or six longform articles saved to Pocket and loaded onto my Kobo if I needed a quick distraction.
https://hnrss.github.io/ was super useful. thanks a lot. i am now using miniflux which is super clean
Of course, demanding a specific format is the definition of being anti-innovation.

Same with peddling with the web. They ruined the browsing experience for everyone and they're messing up with the market model of allowing people to sell their activity information in exchange for free stuff online.

The advertising model is what made the web possible. The more restrictions you apply to how websites finance themselves the more you constrain the web to be built by big actors with money and stifle innovation.
You can argue the law is just and right till the cows come home but the reality is it has made browsing the web much worse for everyone in the EU for unclear benefit.
Ask HN: "Modern” Web App Development
The last time I did web development from scratch for a frontend-heavy app (think unbundling Excel), the way of doing it was with a frontend in React/Angular/Vue/etc, and a backend REST API in anything. It seems like things have changed a lot, and I'm wondering how I could learn about that and evaluate the different approaches. Nowadays I hear people talking about their frontend framework (React, lots of Next, things like that) and that's bascially it. A few questions:

- How do you handle authn/authz? Do you use auth providers? Who are they, and what are the tradeoffs? Do you deploy yourself an auth API? Which one do people use?

- How do you handle persistance? With database providers, like Firebase/FaunaDB? How's testing?

- Do people just don't write backend anymore? I hear a lot about lambda functions, which seems great for one-off jobs (send an email, process an order), but I don't imagine that people write all of their backend with it. Are backend not a thing anymore?

- If that's the case, what are the tradeoffs compared to the "old" way of doing it, and the even older (server-side rendered HTML with lots of JS)? Do you gain development speed? Maybe you write more code specific to your "problem" and less plumbing that everyone needs? Would you consider this the best approach to develop a frontend-heavy app in 2022?

- How do you learn about all that? Read news often? Are there people making comprehensive reports/tech radars of what's used and how well it works? Are there good books on the subject? Blogs? Podcasts, videos?
I get what you're saying, but I think I disagree. Ordering on Amazon from your phone is a much faster experience that reaches more products, but it is an analogue to mailing in an order from the Sears catalog. I don't think there's an 1822 analogue to the Sears catalog.

And the quote was about "surprise". I don't think it'd be a complete shock to see that the world got more connected, ordering became easier, deliveries became faster. In 1822 the railroad was very much still in its early stages; the Erie Canal had just been completed, the Pony Express and the telegraph were still almost 40 years away.

Put differently, a lot of "0 to 1" stuff had happened by 1922.
> Is crypto an emerging method for dictators to expropriate wealth

Yes, same for local mafiosi/siloviki who can force the electricity company guy to look the other way (at gunpoint).

> Are there going to be “blood bits” similar to “blood diamonds”

Given the recirculation and tumbling, probably a majority of BTC/Ether went through shady people's hands (just like most $100 bills have coke residue on them...). Bitcoin advocates usually tout this as a feature not a bug.
I don't have a dash cam, as for a variety of reasons it's impractical. For example, to capture someone tailgating me, I'd need a read- and forward-facing cam, remember to switch it on every time, and ideally also remove from the car each and every time, due to theft considerations. I know police reception of such evidence varies a lot by locale.

I'd hope a black box would effectively serve a few purposes:

- Aggressive drivers would know that, should they cause any accident, their whole (recent?) driving history will also be scrutinised, deterring them from such behaviour in the first place.

- Should they cause a serious accident, their fault would be more obvious; road accidents often don't have great evidence for fault (few quality eye-witnesses etc.), either inspiring caution, or otherwise eliminating them from driving.

- Finally, as a standardised device, it would be far more effective at providing evidence than ad hoc cameras.
WFH since 2006 in 5 different houses (one with wheels), so I've had a bunch of different setups. Started on a desktop with triple monitors, but my sweet spot seems to be a 15" laptop with a 15" ASUS M168B USB monitor next to it. I don't actually need more than two monitors, and this setup travels super well in a backpack for use in hotel rooms and jobsites.

I've had dedicated office space in and out of the house, and I've had corners of the bedroom. Any of the above were fine with me, but some people prefer having dedicated space for specific things. Nothing special about my desk or chair, but I did splurge on my Realforce Topre keyboard and Shure Aonic 50 headphones.

Kensington Orbit trackball has been the easiest on my RSI, and fits great on my current desk's keyboard tray, where I wouldn't have room for a mouse. Logitech Brio 4K webcam. Teams and Zoom can both blur the background pretty well even without a green screen, but I have thought about adding some lighting. I have a USB mic for recording audio, but my headphones work fine for conferencing.

My current experiment is adding a NUC with a third monitor for status dashboards so I can keep them visible at all times. Still tweaking the setup, but I think I like it.
If NASA[1] could have this, they would do this. They'd prefer it if they could give their *nauts pill-like nutrition delivery systems.

[1] Also armed forced with deployed troops would love this too as it makes food logistics much easier.
91 ? 9 : 111111111
Have you read the Hallowe'en Documents? Leaked Microsoft memoranda about their attitudes on open source and competition.
I am not implementing them "from memory". If I know the principle of, say, a B-Tree, and I know how to program in language Blub, then all I have to do is translate the principle into code.

It's the same with translating a concept into natural language. I have not memorized the word-by-word explanation of how the JW-Telescope deploys. I have an image of the process in my mind, so if someone wants an explanation, I translate that principle into english dynamically.
You can host on AWS and still get hours-long downtime, as has happened recently.

Whether the cost of trying to add another 9 to your uptime is worth the marginal benefit is for each company to decide. Each 9 gets exponentially more expensive. A lot of companies who think otherwise actually can afford (and will, sooner or later, be forced) to be down once in a while.
This is different. What you usually see is mock-ups of graphical shells. This is a kernel.
What I understood from this article is that science and technology may be more accurately projected than society and politics; I would imagine because those seem to be more chaotic processes, but also more easily carry the bias of the writer.

The article also highlights some shortcomings of the 1922 zeitgeist as there does not seem to be much thought about the positive or negative environmental impacts of technology, other than on air quality, or any talk on climate change.
I once stopped and asked my passenger to get out, in random part of the city, after big argument about seatbelts.
Or you could catch a hint and let go of the discussion of a product you deem potentially "worthless".
I think you're ignoring the giant world of custom, bespoke, enterprise software which is majorly written in Java (and these days on web) - the fact which makes Windows in the Enterprise (Microsofts main money maker) much much less sticky as they would have liked.

The little bubble you're talking about is far from Microfts main concern.

Luckly, Linux and macOS never really could grow out of their niches to really hurt Microsoft.
There are plenty of governments that can't be trusted to maintain law and order, or to refrain from arbitrary violence. When that happens, we do our best to let people vote with their feet and obtain asylum protection elsewhere, to the greatest feasible extent. Do you view that as an "undemocratic" practice, too?
> (What is "normal" is of course culturally determined and varies by your local culture, social class, etc, and covers all sorts of things. (...))

-I've heard the quip -'Being considered normal just means you are as weird as the national average.'
Not exactly a prediction, but The Victorian Internet is a good read: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/victorian-internet-97816355739...

That revolution was more about the speed that information travels than who has access to it.
So Carrefour got a fine that was only 2% of Google's fine.

Carrefour has revenue of 80bn/year (Google has 68bn/year in Europe).

Very spicy indeed.

"The complainants argued that Carrefour (1) did not comply with their data access or erasure requests; (2) sent them direct marketing communications despite the fact that the complainants had objected to receiving those communications; or (3) in one case, did not allow the complainant to unsubscribe to marketing emails."

This all seems a lot worse to me than making one button harder to press than the other.
I understand that, but do you really think that it helps you cope and move on over time if you just avoid the word death forever?

When I lost my dog it was devastating to see other dogs. But it really helped me move on to just expose myself to more dogs and eventually even get a new one.
Small cardboard box might get easily lost; also, you now have to wait for the baggage collection.
Thanks. I've tried it when it came out and wasn't really convinced. The video on its homepage looks better now, I'll give it another try when I'm on Linux again.
Still you can get a nice server with i7 cpu 32gb memory with 20tb traffic for ~28 euro, vat incl. This is super competitive even with DO or others.
Author mentioned physical copies to be available around April.
Dear god yes - this is the answer.

Display ads aligned to content on the page and thats it.
plus it would be trapped in my email. Is there a backlog to review? seems like a downgrade from longform which is a normal functional website.
Tell that to NASA or your local nuclear powerstation provider.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
curious how much money the author earned versus the time the author spent?
They already reinstated the subsidies that halve the LPG prices and made a song and dance about firing some ministers. But at this point, the discontent is bigger than that...
I'm quite interested in this exchange, because I've noticed that a lot of very successful people saying they had strong dark motivations early in their career, but are now very glad to have much healthier sources of motivation. The pattern is so consistent I can't think of many high achievers that I know for a fact weren't driven by dark motivations in some early stages of life.

I've developed the theory that explicit preponderance of dark motivations might have knock-on effects in shadow integration that are hard to get elsewhere - any thoughts from those who recognise this pattern?
> they state that dismissing the popup or continuing to read without making a choice is equivalent to acceptance.

this will not fly with gdpr (which is the whole point of the popup) as consent has to be explicit.
Maybe those hard SciFi were set in an age where people have advanced beyond the phone.
Breaking EU directives isn’t merely morally questionable. This is as close to law as we’ll see on EU level. States implement laws to enforce directives.
> Too many smart (or smart-sounding) people either here or on Reddit claim casually that some X will take hundreds of years to do. Where X may be artificial intelligence, conquest of longevity or whatever else.

> The reality is that we do not know

Yeah, but it works both ways, I see a lot of people on reddit claiming aging will be solved in X years (usually in their lifetime) and it does not sound any smarter.
To be fair, that was probably due to something else than the DNS stack. For example, i assume the web interface downloads countless dependencies from a 3rd party repo (such as npmjs), any of which could have been victim of a hostile takeover.

DNS is nowadays very robust and secure, and if you have unattended-upgrades configured there's literally zero reason to be frightened by DNS.
I guess you're alluding to the "lab leak" theory. I can't say I know how serious it should be taken, but just this: If this really was a lab leak and China knows something we don't know, then I'd be really scared of their current behaviour of locking down entire agglomerations over two-digit numbers of mostly asymptomatic cases.
The US is near the top in cancer survival rates.

https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20180131/us-...
As always, when this kind of things come up, I'd like to mention "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit" (2012), by the late David Graeber. There's a reason late 20th and early 21st century technological development went the way it did, rather than the way it looked like it would from the mid 20th century.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declini...
I don't call other users bots. I understand that people can have an opinion that coincides with what Russian propaganda impose. In this case, the fact that they sound the same as Russian bots is completely unrelated to me, my opinions, or my comments.
> It does not follow that, scientifically, the year 2022 should fail to be amazing.

Well... About that...
> Russia's interests are aligned with western companies interests that buy Russian exports.

Just to be clear you are blaming “the west” (US, UK, Sweden, France, Canada, Switzerland, etc.) for Russian intervention in Kazakhstan because those countries buy Russian products? (Leaving aside all the other countries in the world which do the same but w/e).
The 90s Java hype must really have been otherworldly to make him panic this much.

I think it is a certain personality type that has more than $50 million* in assets and still has this level of competitive edge.

I think most people have a number that would drive them to relax a bit and just do whatever they wanted. I think for some people whatever they want though is to engage in cutthroat competition.

* arbitrary number likely different for everyone
The above sentiment is not altogether wrong.

Once people have certain comfort they cease to be productive and look for ways to while away their time. Sometimes its neutral, sometimes it may be a productive hobby and sometimes it's detrimental (as in they know what needs to change in the world and they will make it so).

It's also telling that at the dawn of the XX cent, the US was not a wealthy country. Per capita we were more or less on par with countries that are today still "developing". Out position isn't a foregone conclusion and needs active development to remain there.
Thanks, that's a nice read! (Note that I never suggested that CSS creators were unaware of the TeX box model, though I had no idea to what extent was it considered early on)

That also supports my claim that reflowing in TeX's box model would be simpler ("CSS is richer").

I simply highlighted a few things where TeX's box model does a great job for what are commonly hard problems with CSS even today (how do you align columns on decimal points?): I imagine most people, even LaTeX users today, are unaware of the internals, and I hope it's valuable for people to learn of them.
That's correct. The only thing I've noticed so far on BB10 is the "Four Pips" signifying connection to BlackBerry infrastructure vanishing from the top icon bar. Calls, SMS and browser work for now.
It's work, but it's not difficult. Documentation is good and some daemons like BIND take care of key rollovers automatically.
This is a marketing blogspam toplist.

How did it get upvoted?
Yes, it's what you initially thought. I sudo often enough during the streams that I could see someone trying to pull that off and succeeding.
Sten is most probably on HN - just need him to say Hi :)
The fact that we will scale energy usage does not make the scaling factor irrelevant.

Increasing at 1.5x vs 2x has very different implications for the planet, economy, and international politics.
Well, money isn't secure in the sense that it doesn't protect you against inflation like bitcoin does; also, the money in the bank can be taken from you while you can really own cryptocurrencies.
In 1984 MacPaint images were spread on CompUServe and BBSes. Someone made a ReadMac program for the MS-DOS machines using CGA to scroll the picture in black and white using 640x200 monochrome mode.

https://www.pcorner.com/list/C/CREADMAC.ZIP/INFO/
> Why should I, when I can just as easily order in?

Because

> I really enjoy cooking, I can spend hours doing it

?

Also if you are even just an average/mediocre cook, you can usually cook more tasty and interesting food than what you typically find on Uber eats, unless you order from a different high end restaurant every single day.
"And in the U. S., anyone can sue anyone at any time with no reason (though there should be some semblance of a reason, or good luck finding counsel to take the case)."

Judges hate this be careful. If you sue for "not enough ham in your subway sandwich" - I would bring overnight clothes and a toothbrush. Contempt of court is a thing. Judges hate time wasters.
I don't think i'd like to go this way, but that's pretty cool. Please keep us posted!
I wish the quality of prose as well as underlying journalism of today’s mainstream media and newspapers matched those of yesteryear. When reading the posted article, the decline in quality is shown to be immense.
Beware of the imposter syndrome. It never goes away. If your old code looks awful and embarrassing, you are on the right track (you are learning). Focus on learning to read code. It is more important than writing. Find a good open source project and read some good code.
You only make $15.50 in a year?

Also does it make sense for you that one region can make fines based on global revenue? Would it be OK if Iceland also gave companies fines based on global revenue rather than the revenue they have in Iceland?