skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh good, more out of touch drivel on the front page of HN so people can gently reminisce about the good ol’ days. This article is absurd, from premise to conclusion, and it took me a moment to realize it’s not a satire of itself.

1. Dropbox and Syncthing are two different tools with two different use cases targeting two different kinds of users. I doubt they even see themselves in competition as surely the users are quite different. I stopped caring about direct sync when workstation computers were no longer the hub of my computer use…

2. …seriously it’s a mobile first world and you expect people to take Syncthing seriously as a Dropbox replacement?

3. The author is mad about things like “accounts” and “2FA” and “Gatekeeper”. Sounds like they should go back to XP. I’m sure it works the way they used to love. Once again, comparing modern best practices with your power user impatience and impetuousness doesn’t prove your point in any capacity.

4. This assumed power user is complaining about making an alias for the iCloud folder? And uses spaces in pathnames? If you’re a programmer this isn’t unusable because if you’re a programmer you should know better. I agree with the author that the iCloud folder should be more visible on the CLI, but unusable? Strange how I’ve been using it daily. Guess I’m not a True Programmer.

5. What Dropbox UI is the author complaining about in the “Power Mode” section? A file picker directly copied from MacOS Finder but with checkboxes? This has to be a troll.

6. The author is mad about calendar sync because apparently they can’t read basic copy on the Dropbox website that never markets the app as a “FILE SYNCHRONIZATION” service (boomer-level emphasis theirs). I don’t use Dropbox either because it turns out I don’t need a full teamwork collaboration tool - what Dropbox actually markets themselves as. This is a platform of work related tooling, not simply “commercial Syncthing.” I imagine calendar tools as being part of this (clearly) stated goal.

7. “Wait there’s more!” Please no. I think that’s quite enough.

Everyone can like what they like, but this is encroaching on “old man yells at cloud” territory.
I'm no statistician, but don't you have the same problem however long you run it? Giving even more time for slow conversions to amass?

Also you and GP are calling the example fictitious, but seems to based on 'real traffic logs' via https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2623330.2623634
The real evil comes from putting it in ~/.bash_logout or equivalent so it doesn't get as much visibility as a bashrc might.
There’s a difference between personally wanting it, and mass appeal with a prediction of mass adoption.
Testimonial hearsay, such as depositions to the police, is evidence. You have no idea what you are talking about. Stop mansplaining
Ask HN: How do you deploy your side project?
I'm trying to figure out how to deploy my side project (solo dev) but I'm no devops pro. My stack is node + postgres. I'd love to have a nice CI/CD pipeline so I'm curious what others have found successful at this scale.

It seems as though caprover and dokku are in this kind of space. I've also considered k8s/k3s but it seems overbearing. I'm experimenting with docker swarm mode, which seems more manageable. Just looking for recommendations.
I was about to say, it's also possible that he realize that right now if he quits Apple, he has an almost "legendary" status, to a point where he could easily come back in a few years for at least the same salary as before, if it turns out that working for Intel sucks for him.

If Intel is offering a competitive salary and promising interesting work, this is basically a zero-risk move for him.
For Philips, $175 every 4 years, for the batteries. Pads are $70 every 2 years: https://www.aed.com/blog/do-aed-batteries-and-pads-expire

I'd take expired batteries and pads over no AED.
CO2 also helps plants grow.

We should increase the atmospheres CO2 and urea production. More food for all!
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29828419
Before OS/9?
The DDR5 memory bus used by Intel's latest consumer processors does not have ECC enabled. The memory dies themselves have some internal ECC that is not exposed to the host system and is not related to the fact that they use a DDR5 interface; all state of the art DRAM now needs on-die ECC due to the high density.
"Can" theoretically, or there's a valid attack vector which one may pull off immediately in the wild?
Hilarious watching (tech-literate even) people lose their mind over this. While they use their iPad/Android to generate a million data points about intimate life details, conversations and locations on a daily basis - no problem! It's only an outrage when someone says it is.
Have you considered anxiety as a cause? It can cause similar issues but giving it ADHD meds is a BAD TIME.
It's entirely possible that some people here were inspired to become Software Devs, etc. by some of his work (especially "Sneakers").

I'd say that's reason enough.
That's undesrststing it quite a bit. The activity & interests match up well, both high and low activity periods, lots of posting about age of consent, goes dark the same day she's arrested. The name may also be an allusion to her estate.

Judge for yourself:
https://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_...
It’s a fossil fuel thing, part of synthesis, not just a supply shock (but probably also).
This doesn’t square with your definitions of legitimate claims on property.

Taxes are “lawful”, therefore under your framework, they are neither theft nor robbery.

Unless, somehow, lawfulness has nothing to do with laws. In which case what you’re saying is just straight up nonsense.
If the prices are denominated in USD, and the consumers are in countries with stronger (less elastic) currencies, it's likely caused by inflation pressure from obvious sources like QE-infinity policy, debt monetization, and de-facto negative interest rates. What we are watching is the controlled demolition of western economies. It's not a conspiracy, it's an ideology that has prevailed and this is all downstream of it. I hope you like eating bugs.
I still miss QNX. Rock solid, super responsive, very tight and a neat model to build scalable applications.
Anyone who disagrees with vaccine efficacy is a bot? Wow, you sure made a good argument there!
How would you suggest someone get started modding games that don't have an api? What background knowledge should I develop?
Have a mailing address that is in the same city but not your residential address.
Note: I think I'm most bummed out about the lack of equity. I know that options are tricky and rarely convert into real lottery tickets (but I still want some skin in the game at this company).
The production affected seems to be the clamp that holds a wafer, which seems pretty crucial to getting positioning right though the rest of the process. If they aren't able to resolve the production issues, or farm out the work somehow, we're likely to see more constraint of high end chip production for years.

Imagine trying to machine parts on a milling machine without a Kurt vise to hold it in place. Machinists normally work to 100 or 10 micron precision. In EUV chip making, position has to be accurate to 0.001 microns in all dimensions. It can't be done without these clamps.
Actually, there is significant dispute to the CIA being capable. They are pretty good at destruction and coups, but seem to be very inept at dealing with serious opposition nowadays, getting pwned repeatedly and losing assets.
Feedback is uncompensated consultation.
Freely telling someone why they are failing does not benefit you.
Whether it benefits the overall industry in general, could be a net zero as you are then demonstrating a willingness to give away expertise for free.
> however trivial

Previous testing should give the company at least some baseline understanding of what is trivial and what isn't. The correct way to experiment is certainly not "let's experiment every idea!"

> however obviously beneficial

If you've been around long enough, you've almost certainly run into dozens of "obviously beneficial" changes that led to poorer performance.

Most of what you're describing is issues with poor prioritization, a lack of understanding about your audience, and a culture that has a difficult time making decisions.
From another Hacker News: discussion on the topic: "The rule of thumb when I started contracting was that your hourly rate was your annual salary divided by 1000"

So if the offer was $100,000, your hourly rate as a contractor is now $100/hr
I guess that's why they changed the definition of "vaccine", huh?
> I don't know what to make of this statement. Apple wants to control every aspect of the product.

Yup. There is zero chance they're going back to Intel. If a competitor could actually deliver better silicon than them, they'd be going to AMD, because AMD actually builds custom solutions and can be coaxed into at least getting decent security (see: Xbox), but that still leaves the power management gap on the table, and would force another ISA transition. It would be a monumental failure on Apple's part if their silicon engineering fell back to the point where it makes sense to give up all the control they have and the benefits that come with that to switch again to third-party chips. It's not going to happen unless Apple somehow ends up so far downhill that they are on the brink of failure and have no other choice.

OTOH, if Intel starts offering its fabs to third parties and somehow ends up ahead of TSMC again at a competitive price, sure, Apple will totally go for that. But they will definitely keep doing their own SoC designs.
> Non-SP GBA has problems: AA batteries, buttons are mushy, unlit screen, bad power delivery causing noisy audio

Impressive project and hacking aside, the the original DS and the DS Lite (which both support GameBoy Advance cartridges) addresses most of these concerns.

Do those two systems address the power delivery and noisy audio?
I'm not user that much memory would be needed in the lower end models. A home computer would run on single-user mode and that wouldn't need a lot of the extra memory structures a multi-user environment needs.
> Apple was Intel's flagship customer for laptop PC chips. It doesn't seem surprising that Apple would hire someone from Intel's PC chipset design to lead their own effort to replace it.

You've magnificently missed the point of my comment.

And then, of course, for most of the relationship Apple was quite unhappy with what Intel provided, ultimately deciding to take the matter into their own hands.
Our team is really struggling with Projects for these and many other reasons. The most annoying thing is they hijack CMD+F to use their command-line-like filter, which prevents me from quickly finding words that I want to see on the page. There's also no way to just simply make a ticket from the board itself, and the main value prop of using a Github product -- keeping Engineers in the Github environment without having to have multiple tabs opened -- is completely wiped out by Projects opening a new tab for anything you click on. Not impressed so far.
Do it! Do it! Booking the defib course was almost the first thing I did afterwards. That and arrange to meet the people who'd CPR'd me. That was a positive and powerful experience and good for them because they'd been much more traumatised than I was.
Headline seems overly generic: 5.17 of what?
Also good to see if revenue can increase while adding few or no employees. Then the potential for flywheel is there, vs. an agency that scales costs linearly with revenue.
YMMV indeed, I have not encountered that yet, and have definitely missed initial deadlines.

But some things help - when giving estimates or timelines, I go through my usual charade of "they are guestimates, usually you should double or triple them, the further out they go the less likely they are accurate etc".

Also, I promise I will monitor progress, keep them up to date, and let them know as soon as possible when plans deviate. I also discuss backup plans early (cutting features or pushing back, starting with pilots and tests, etc..)

It has worked pretty well for me so far. Not to say it's _just_ about how you handle the situation, you can have a shitty manager, that part is out of your control unfortunately.. :)
With DDR5 you can have (a form of) ECC on all current 12th-generation Core CPUs. That is, if you were able to find DDR5 DIMMs on the market, which you currently cannot.
I'll preface this by saying I switched from Dropbox to Syncthing a long time ago and I love Syncthing.

I also love Nik Tonsky's writing but he's serious misrepresenting the ease of Syncthing in this post. He initially describes it as:

You download a single binary executable. You run it. There’s no step three.

No, seriously. It’s so simple I thought I missed something. But no. After you run that binary, you have a fully operational node of Syncthing. It’s ready to sync with any other Syncthing node, no other setup necessary.

He then goes on to describe the definitely horrendous process of getting Dropbox going with the official client[1].

BUT, then he goes on and explains the complex setup involved with Syncthing, which if it were explained screen by screen, like he did with Dropbox, would look even more tedious and complex.

You're not going to switch to Syncthing because it's so much easier.

1. Maestral: For those who use macOS or Linux and want to stick with Dropbox for some reason, give Maestral a try. It's a free, open source app that does what Dropbox originally did: sync a folder.

https://maestral.app/
Thank you! That's a pretty good idea..

I've just pushed an update that removes the hints.
> urea is a major component of fertilizer

Oh yes. And alarm bells are ringing.

"I want to say this loud and clear right now, that we risk a very low crop in the next harvest. I'm afraid we're going to have a food crisis." — Svein Tore Holsether, CEO and president Yara International. https://fortune.com/2021/11/04/energy-crisis-food-shortage-s...

"Major fertilizer producers Yara International ASA and CF Industries Holdings Inc. said soaring energy costs are forcing them to halt some output of nutrients crucial for growing crops." https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/europe-s-energy-woes...

"In the fall, soaring electricity demand led the southwestern province of Yunnan, a key phosphate producer, to order drastic production cuts by energy-hungry industries, including fertilizer." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/business/urea-fertilizer-...

"Farmers in India are desperate. Trucks in South Korea had to be idled. Food prices, already high, could rise even further." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/business/urea-fertilizer-...

"Among farmers and ranchers, very few topics are being discussed as much as the skyrocketing cost of fertilizer and increasing concerns regarding availability." https://www.fb.org/market-intel/too-many-to-count-factors-dr...

"High fertilizer prices could exert inflationary pressures on food prices, compounding food security concerns at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are making access to food more difficult." https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/soaring-fertilizer-pric...

"Higher farm input costs, expensive shipping and good demand provide for a grim combination... We are under La Niña conditions, the second such event in as many years, and the weather cannot be expected to be normal until Q2 2022 at the earliest." — Rabobank Outlook 2022: Hell in the Handbasket. https://research.rabobank.com/far/en/documents/842941_Raboba...

Hell in the handbasket here we come!
The current Airtel scenario is a good demonstration I’d say.
GitHub Pages also doesn’t (yet) support custom headers and you can add them with Cf via Workers. So if you’re concerned about the results of securityheaders.io, for example, you can add those in.
That seems to be highly correlated, thanks!
I clicked on this waiting to see (interesting) Doom gameplay loops. I was greatly disappointed.
The only lever we have as a society is regulation, and that is only because it has the capacity to change where people can make money. See what happens in countries where green energy is cheaper, it booms. It's not because they love the planet, it's because they can save or make money. There is zero chance corporations will suddenly have a long-term outlook on saving the planet and decide on their own to cut emissions, so we can forget that angle.

There was always a lot of talk about carbon taxes, but since we're somewhat past that point now, what about a carbon capture rebate as well? If you can make money from thin air, I'm sure carbon capture technology and industry would boom. If a company can't avoid carbon tax from it's process, which some products simply can't, it then has to offset that tax with carbon capture rebates to be profitable and exist in society. If the math doesn't make sense, they don't make the money, so sad, tears in the unseasonable rain.
You beat me to it – such an excellent film.

Great dialogue, writing, and acting. I loved the rare peek at what San Francisco looked like back in the late 60s (very different from the current San Francisco Bay Area).
I've visited Italy quite a bit and been there for nearly two months in aggregate, spanning all regions in the north, and in the south spent weeks in parts like Puglia and Campagnia. My impression was that culturally, the Italians in the south are VERY different from the Italians in the north.

Even just the different driving style was very apparent.

Wouldn't you say that the cultural experience in a random village in Puglia will be very different from the random village in Trentino?
10+ years and I still don’t understand why developers and orgs think it’s necessary to squash and rebase.
What's wrong with wanting to get paid? Do you think he should have been loyal to Apple?
> Donations that can't be spent aren't really useful as donations.

And my employer-sponsored 401k account isn't useful to me either... seriously you may not believe in "Bitcoin is sound money" or whatever crypto flavor of the day, but I actually think it might be OK if it necessarily takes most people even a bit longer than a year to figure out how to "cash out" their Bitcoins.

I mean that you honestly have to be pretty obtuse to believe (today) that someone who received a bitcoin donation in any year before 2021 (and kept it) received what amounts to a "not really useful donation." Year-on-year, even in a bear market, yada yada – none of these are good reasons for you to BUY bitcoin, but as someone receiving a donation from a human who thought you did a good job, I think maybe "try not to look a gift horse in the mouth" is a valid adage here?
'significant problems with the policing system that can be worked on.'

You are naive if you believe government unaccountability is something that can be 'worked on'. The police violence is allowed due to government immunity, which USSC created out of thin air. It's not realistically going to be able to be incrementally fixed.
VCs buy growth, headcount signals growth
Looking at the specs and focus, out of interest, what would have be taken from the C900 over to the ST?
Different CPU, board and bus, graphics on a plugin card, different OS, different market focus and pricepoint. I can't see anything there apart from Shivji that's common.
I'm guessing that this was a countersuit to delay Atari after they sued Commodore for 'stealing' the Amiga, thereby delaying the Amiga.

As far as OS goes, ironically MultiTos is POSIX compatible. Had Atari stuck it out, it might have ended up similar to OSX in that you could cross-compile UNIX apps to MultiTos to use with a standard UI (GEM).
>When I put on the PIP, I went straight to HR. I complained about how I had been completely screwed, was super pissed, and suggested they pay me to resign.

You were lucky to get 30 days. Bear in mind HR works for the company, not you. In general, when you talk to HR expect them to act in a way to protect the company, not you, and keep HR's bosses happy, not you. Your complaint went right to the boss, and they conspired to use that as further motivation to see you out of the company in any way legally possible.
The scene at the end of "To Sir, With Love" - where he decides how he wants to have an impact in his career - is always really moving for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaEf4ktpPA
Could have been but in this case your comment prompted it (:
Because that's what helps train AI to recognize targets (for military and commercial purposes). All captcha is is a free ML training for companies, it has nothing to do with any security.
Ask HN: Holmes/Theranos Verdict and Safety Culture?
I have some conflicting thoughts and emotions about the Holmes verdict.

I believe this case was pursued due to the flagrant disregard for the health (and thus safety) of Theranos clients. If it was 'just' financial fraud against investors, I don't believe the public would have been so angry, and the prosecutor so motivated.

However, Holmes was found not guilty on the charges related to blood tests. One of the jurors said they believed she was 'one step removed'. The blood test charges were also not directly health related, they were fraud charges, as in the patient was defrauded into believing the tests were accurate.

The comment about being 'one step removed' made me think of safety culture and how no executives at Boeing were prosecuted for the 737 MAX debacle (so far as I know).

Laws do not punish moral failings directly, no matter how big or flagrant. It is quite clear that Holmes failed to establish a safety culture that put accuracy of test results over profit or funding. But there is no law that directly addresses that particular failing, and it's hard to see how American jurisprudence and society would frame or accept such a law.

So while I do see that Holmes was punished for her lies, and those lies were related to health and safety, I do find it hard to reconcile with the idea that health and safety are more important to maintain than legitimacy and fidelity of funding a startup.

What does the Elizabeth Holmes Verdict say about Rule of Law and Safety Culture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXicFk5q50 - Dropout Podcast on the verdict and juror point of view.
A society does need trust. The US is losing that trust which is worrying. The almost-majority who doubt election integrity is a symptom of that, not the cause.

When it's 60% who have doubts, is it still a "blindingly obvious lie"? What about 80%?
My question doesn't exclude machines, at least I didn't intend to exclude them.
Developing for Windows felt nicer than developing for Amiga and I did both back then.
When I was growing up in the 60's, I was enormously impressed by Sidney Poitier. He was undeniably a man in a time when African-American men were called "boy" and gave lie to every negative stereotype I heard back then. He was important in the civil rights movement, if only for his commanding presence and piercing intelligence that helped turn attitudes about blacks around for the better.
That's what I mean. This is new to them so you're going for guinea pig status and that means that your situation will be very unstable. Better aim for a company that can deliver on their promises. Again, this is not an accident, it is a sign of complete incompetence.
Empathy is seeing the world from someone else's perspective. While it's common to comfort and stand by someone you empathize with, particularly if they are going through tough times as you presumably recognize that they want to be comforted and stood by, that impulse isn't itself empathy.
Make sure you factor in extra taxes, in addition to the premium for being a contractor (that on its own should be at least 20%)
Isn't it significantly easier to hire internationally by having the worker become a contractor? Does the company have other employees in your country?
Remember when talking about menstrual irregularities post-vaccine got you banned from the internet? I do.