skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I also have all those things you mention. I own a house, but it's far from the city center and my commute is one-hour each way (which thanks to COVID I haven't had to endure for 2 years now, I can't even think of going back to that now). If I wanted to buy a house of similar level as mine, but much closer to the city center, it would cost so much I would need to earn something like twice as much as I earn now to be able to keep up with payments.

That, to me, shows that my salary is still well below the well off people in the city who can afford those houses (for an idea of what I'm talking about: houses in the more affordable areas around the city where you can get 20mins commutes or less, or even ride a bicycle to work, cost upwards of €700,000... with my current salary, the recommendation is that I shouldn't borrow more than €350,000 - around 4.5 times the yearly salary before taxes, so I need to first save around €350,000 or sell my current house and hope I'll make this much in return to be able to buy a house where I want... even then I would be playing with fire as interest rates are set to increase and any increase could get me just below water if I tried something like that). I would say that, given this, to be considered well off you need to make enough to be able to afford a house like I am talking about here, which would require you to probably earn at least €100,000 per year, which is well above my current pay and I don't know any companies here that pay this much for developers no matter how experienced (though I've heard it's possible - just never seen it concretely and never seen offers above 75,000).
> Japan [...] No lockdowns. No vaccine passports. No vaccine mandate. No mask mandate.

Japan may not have mask mandates, but it is my understanding that they had very high levels of non-mandated mask wearing.

> Literally nothing.

If you're implying that they had Great Barrington style mass infection parties, I would certainly like to see more evidence of that.

> Sweden also had no lockdowns

"Lockdowns" is a red herring. Very few places in the world had complete lockdowns, and very few places in the world were completely without restrictions. Notably, Sweden closed universities for some time and instituted domestic and international travel restrictions and assembly restrictions — exactly the kind of measures that get described as "lockdowns" in other countries.

> and two years in, has lowest excess mortality in Europe

Lowest, other than… Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Norway. Notably, they did MUCH worse than any of their immediate neighbours, which should be their natural peer group to compare against: https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336

And Sweden's particular way of "protecting the vulnerable" was to simply euthanize the elderly if they caught COVID: https://bioedge.org/uncategorized/questions-raised-about-swe...
The law didn't create worse experience, companies did by not following the law. They just went with some dark pattern to keep data and try to work around the law. Guess what? This is illegal and this is exactly what this post is about. It's a bit weird to complain about the law instead of companies trying to extort your personal data, process and resell them, illegally and without your consent...
When I think of pros and cons of re-learning this crap I always re-evaluate what I have and what I want - and always come to the right conclusion - my time is better spent elsewhere - working on my own ideas or just more family time.
Joules are the new bits.
I did it weekly in days of w95-98, but when I began to work with clients circa 2004, I stopped. Because it was always more beneficial to restore a broken system rather than reinstalling it and losing all of the apps and settings. Clients could even ask for a reinstall, only to call me few days later remembering that thing they forgot to mention/re-check. Reinstalling must be the last option, when an OS turns FUBAR.

Today my OS installations live through generations of HDD/SSD drives, and I always have a quarterly or so full-system backup in case my system drive fails. All other important data is in the cloud (steam, gitlab, email, bitwarden, etc) so it's a matter of re-download. My latest reinstall was when I built a completely new PC in 2018, when I decided to build everything from scratch consciously, just for tech fun (I probably had to do that anyway, because windows doesn't like massive hardware changes). Before 2018, another system lived on a laptop, which I gifted to my friend. It has around 6 years of install time today, iirc.

I think I make a fresh macOS with drive format install monthly, I'm kind of obsessed...

With all respect, it looks like a sign of an anxiety-related issue, like niche OCD of some sort. I'd try to understand the driving feeling and deal with it on a subjective level.
Sure but some stories are a little more reliable than others.
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Roughly once every new computer. Although I will often take that chance to try 3 or 4 different Linux distros just to see what works best and if any of them are doing anything new and interesting. However once I pick one I will generally keep it until next major hardware upgrade.
No, I think it's a problem of over-engineering and subsequently ending up with fragile systems. If the author had a service that didn't take up much time for them to maintain because of the various problems that appeared, they probably wouldn't close down the project.

One case worth mentioning: The Pirate Bay. One the of the largest websites in the world (or was at least), with the least amount of technical focus. The website hardly changed, never made the owners any money, they never focused on the technology but rather built the simplest thing they could for the smallest amount of money the could. They had the largest adversary at that time, but still, the website is up and running and basically been since day 1. I think their trick is that they never really cared about the technology itself, and only cared about making information free.
Some medical insurances require using CVS. One might be surprised by how shitty that is, but if so one has forgotten how shitty it is to live in a jurisdiction where medical insurance is a thing that is necessary.
> donating/selling the entire project to some company or foundation

It's not 100% clean service - you are arbitrarily blocking access to certain resources, so I would guess companies wouldn't want to be associated with it.

> having a business around it

For a service like this, it could pose a major breach in trust for its users. Maybe there's a business that doesn't involve changes in the DNS that I don't see.
Impressive movement of goal posts! We’ll done!
I don't see anything interesting or appealing about Go at all. I've read and written Go, I've watched Pike's talks on it, and I follow its development.

I could talk a lot about why I think it's a bad language, it would be hard to summarize it since I'd want to cite Pike's talks on "simplicity", articles on Go's GC implementation, discuss error handling, what I think makes a language "good", etc.
Still non-zero infection rates. Also it is clear that they have lead to increase spreading as people take less precautions and do more risky behaviour like drugs...
U.S. Diplomats in Geneva, Paris Struck with Suspected ‘Havana Syndrome’
>The EU is never held accountable for the laws they make

Of course it is. The tech sector is practically non-existant here, and if something works out, they leave for the US. Isn't that what being accountable is?
I was able to negotiate a 45k pay raise at my current company.

After clearly proving my value for about 2 years. I made it obvious that I would accept a role at my friends company if they couldn’t come up. I explained to them nicely that I would rather stay, but I can’t without a large raise.

It can be done, but it would have never happened without me pushing them. No company is going to willingly throw out raises this large to people without reason.

I agree with your point fully, it’s just unfortunate it doesn’t happen.
Never. Unless I accidentally hit rm -rf on my system. Even though it is easy to recover as I have backups automated to my external drive as well as on cloud, it will take me a few hours to return my system configuration back to its original state and this is not fun, not anymore.
Apparently I live under a rock and am just hearing about this, had to google what it is. Its a neat game play loop of one word and one play per day and makes it not really copy-able. I mean yeah you could create a game to copy the concept but then if someone is playing with friends and they are playing a different game with a different word it kinda won't work.

If people play once per day and it takes a few minutes, _any_ amount of advertising would probably kill the game.

I think its awesome to not monetize something. Not everything needs to get on that hamster wheel. Whats next? multiplayer? private games? corporate events? More versions that are just like it - 6 character words, then 7, etc. Maybe the person just wanted to create a fun game. His best bet is a tip-jar, if Apple allows that.
Hopefully you mean the 8-hour assignment was paid or that would be an unacceptable ask.
IPOs vs. Startup Investments for Middle-Class Folks
This is just an aside, but this might explain why their (online) shop sucks so hard (and no browser on what amounts to a phone without a SIM card?)...

It's not just that the UX is a bit clunky, it's that it's a veritable morass of junk, a lot of which is regurgitated ports of PC titles...

They didn't understand how online shops work, to be fair all titles still at least play, but there is not as high quality control as I would have expected.

I say this as, Nintendo has a reputation and clout as a games developer (honestly none of their consoles have ever been great - they have mishaps in the software world but it is rarer), looking at their store you see a suspicious similarity to steam with sales - in fact as far as software goes a humble bundle subscription is probably a better value proposition. It's just not the rich and high quality, unique catalog people have come to associate with them. Maybe it was always like that regarding 3rd party games, but it just underlines how much they don't understand the internet...
Much like the "bandwidth of a container full of DLT tapes", it would be entertaining to calculate the amperage of a truck full of 18650 cells driving down the highway. It will probably turn out to be comically small compared to a wire.
But you have chosen that line arbitrarily. You can have groups that separate along decisions. Some select way A, some select way B. The same group dynamics apply. Agreed that skin color is a good candidate, but it was not required in the case of gas chambers for example.

As an outsider looking towards the US, I wouldn't say conservatives started with this discrimination and it is far more a product of academia that might have removed itself from common problems of people they also like to make fun off because they are insecure about themselves.
The relentless post-GoT grimdark is at least part of why new media shows more or less don’t appeal to me.

I have enough of that in my daily life, lately; i don’t need more.
> This type of attitude doesn't appear to be so uncommon, at least among people I know.

It's my case too. I worked until 40 with a great job doing cool things, with a lot of free time. I'm not materialistic at all, don't care about wealth, social status and stuff. Yet, I started worrying for my retirement and savings, wasn't able to buy a house. Now I work for a FAANG for 5 times my previous salary. It's not easy,
I don't always adhere to the company's values, oncalls suck, it's a lot about patching broken systems I didn't build. But money is important.
What does a filesystem have to do with my shopping?
Ahh the classic I have nothing to hide defence. Old as time itself.
Every time when new Qubes OS is released. Soon 4.1 is out: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2021/12/21/qubes-4-1-rc3/.
I'm getting 182mbps with my VPS, (600 without).

South America 600mbps > Atlanta VPS
Also… if you consider the size of most companies, 50k per day turns into 17 million a year.

Now you won’t be exactly poor, but it’s not the same thing as having won the lottery since you still need to pay for staff, marketing, etc.
This whole article is... optimistic.

> 4. Enter the IP address you found on the network device, but add 20 to the last section of digits, and then select OK.

> As an example, if your computer's IP address displays as 192.168.2.5, enter 192.168.2.25 on the Nintendo Switch.

Hope you don't have more than 20 devices on your network (after your PC), and that they're not configured to be close to 255 there...
It would be if the EU had the legal powers to do so, however the EU's treaties reserve national security to the member states.

EU law does apply when national security concerns of non member states are engaged, though hence the Schrems cases succeeding (and why the UK in on shaky ground when it comes to equivalency decisions post-Brexit).
Doom II: Sunder – Map 12 (The Zealous Machine) UV-Max in 19:50 [video]
This is so true. Every time I get a new (used) laptop, I think "I should do a clean install". Then I start thinking about all the configuration, packages, applications, little scripts, .bashrc, etc. and retreat to cloning my last hard drive over. I think my system is going on 13 years now. It's collected some barnacles for sure, but the price of starting fresh is too high.
I agree that there are certainly legitimate uses for cars. But many countries in a cold climate manage by with more biking per capita. I would say it makes people mobile for longer and the grandma (up to some higher age) would just ride her own bicycle. The turkey will fit on your rear basket no problem. Jenny could also ride a bike home, because she has the school close.

It is of course only applicable in an urbanized area (even small cities can and do work like that). Not all the time, but below-freezing does not by itself mean prohibitively cold. Urbanized area means it is never near-total darkness for good and for bad.
I wonder if it is GPL compliant, including the ability to update the Linux kernel/etc.
those are just self-certified, CE is only on the authority of the people who put the label on not on some EU agency. They can be held accountable for not following CE correctly but not having the correct logo is not a problem.
Since TheDock is more a powerful layout builder than Gutenberg, we have wrapped and extended Gutenberg making it functional to TheDock and not the other way around. You can also visually create custom fields generating ad-hoc page editing enabling WordPress to work as a simple CMS. At last TheDock creates native WP child theme writing the PHP files easily customisable with your text editor if needed. In what way you will like to see real example?
I've been installing the OS on each new release to a Mac since the 2010s and do a CCC of the filesystem when moving to a new Intel Mac. An OS reinstall on a Mac is pointless if there are no issues.

For Linux I keep data on a separate partition so I can mount it via whatever distro I installed elsewhere, then I add the partition to /etc/fstab and mount over /home. Been doing that since 2000s.

Windows I only run in a WM or on the work computer so a fresh install for former and the latter is not my problem.
I really really think math is in fact harder than other things people do, and math people are using weird definitions of words to hide it.

Like, when they say something is easy, they might mean "It's easy if you know all this foundational stuff that you could learn in six months".

Everything else technical has shortcuts. Nobody knows how WiFi works, they use a module. If they do, they're probably a specialist.

But math has almost no shortcuts almost by definition. If it did we wouldn't call it math we'd call it using a math library.

It's the same shock I have practicing music, or why I can't drive, or why it takes me 2 whole minutes to line up a jig to cut a 2x4.

What programmers do is on the screen more than in the head. There's no "practice this kick 10000 times". When you see drawPixel(x,y, hexcolor)... that's... all there is to know about that function besides how long it takes.

Things that DO require skills that have to be learned, rather than just facts you have to be familiar with, seem shockingly difficult compared to anything in a JS app.
Or that joke about TCP:

1: Do you want to hear a joke about TCP?

2: Yes I do want to hear it.

1: I confirm you want to hear it.

1: I am now going to tell the joke.

2: I acknowledge you are now going to tell the joke.

1: I will now start the first sentence of the joke.

2: I acknowledge I am now ready to hear the first sentence of the joke.

1: So a network packet walks into a bar

2: Sorry I couldn't quite here you. Please start over.

1: Do you want to hear a joke about TCP?
> If the author had a service that didn't take up much time for them to maintain because of the various problems that appeared, they probably wouldn't close down the project.

Is this even possible in our modern day world, where there are constantly breaking updates and security risks that need fixes (look at the recent log4j debacle, for example)?

Because while sites like TPB and even HN don't outwardly change often (for example, if the UI works it's generally left that way, without a redesign every year), there is no doubt that they still take attention and effort to maintain, keep running and more importantly, keep running securely.

Of course, if you're talking about the domain complexity (which you need to deal with) vs accidental complexity (which you introduce because of either lacking knowledge or chasing after the latest and shiny technologies), then i fully agree with you in that regard! That's why i rather enjoyed the "Choose Boring Technology" talk: http://boringtechnology.club/
There is also interesting information about the carrier APIs. Honestly, the article was helpful.

The only info I felt was missing is how to retrieve the carrier when given a phone number.
Hackernews like many online communities will repress interesting and rational truth seekers like you as they inconsciously value more an establishment or their ego/feelings or preconceived ideas over a logical argumentation as long as it lacks a stronger argument from authority or other logical fallacy that could make their brain cross a significant enough mental shortcut to update their beliefs.Sound argumentation only has limited power here and when you have a point the conversation will often digress to off-topic attacks instead of addressing your points.
This systemic mental defense mechanisms leads rationalists from around the world to self-censor themselves or be downvoted to hell. Also eventually they risk being converted to the fallacies of the rest of the group-think.
Be strong human and keep arguing, the world's needs you. Of course we all need an appropriate amount of epistemic humility (and not more), especially the proponents of the extremely epistemologically weak CDM theory.
"....it also deftly reveals the critical importance of translation and of interpreters – for without them neither cross-cultural interactions nor cross-cultural understanding can even begin."

Sometimes it can be humorous. Read a label on a package of potpourri in a dollar store: "Scented Kitchen Odors".
What exactly are you worried about? What would your SaaS do that would be going against the GDPR?
>I am located in Germany, but if I would start a SAAS site today, I wouldn't try to sell to the EU. Just isn't worth the trouble.

If you're located in Germany then the GDPR applies irrespective of where your users are. It applies because you - as a data controller or processor - are in the EU.

You would have to be established outside of the EU in addition to not targeting EU users in order to not be bound by the GDPR.
Vosk speech-to-text means my initial voice prompts aren't sent out of my phone, and RHvoice means the TTS responses wouldn't be either, right? At least in principle. I understand virtually anything you use a digital assistant for involves lots of internet.

But it's tantalizing to imagine writing my own skill that would be heard and responded to by my phone with no internet involvement.
Ask HN: Have you ever made money dual-licensing a GPL work?
You don’t have to do any of that. You can sell advertising directly to companies, and moderate all content before it’s displayed to a user.

A lot of people don’t like that because it takes away from your true focus: content creation or software development.
Firefox support finally acknowledged it https://twitter.com/FirefoxSupport/status/148159226614171648...
I don't think anybody here (including me) claims these are _good_ docs.
Persistent Practices
You're right - I'm using "Fauci" as a synecdoche for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID). Dr. Fauci was the director of NAID at the time of the approved 3.7M funding for EcoHealth Alliance's "UNDERSTANDING THE RISK OF BAT CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCE" project.

The fact that this project was funded by the NAID is public knowledge. Here's the source: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529

Now, whether or not this project was previously rejected by the DoD over GoF concerns...well that's what the attached article explores.
A friend of mine has been in software development for over 10 years - possibly closer to 20 but I'm not sure on that point. We chat a few times a month about work stuff, and routinely he will express amazement at being disappointed about something not working 'correctly'.

"Well, the documentation says this takes key X, but it doesn't work if I send key X, I have to send Y"

"This service seems to break when this JSON comes back down a second time".

"I press this button and it shows it being clicked, but it just locks up for 5-10 seconds before finishing the click. That's a really bad user experience. I'm surprised companyX doesn't seem to understand that's confusing to people."

And on and on. After... years of these observations, I pushed back a bit with "I'm surprised you continue to be surprised by any of this. You've worked in software for years now. You should probably be surprised that anything works and continues to work."

A system continuing to work between various client/browser versions and system upgrades over a period of years, serving multitudes of users, with as little downtime and no data corruption is really... surprising in these modern times. It shouldn't be, but there's so many moving parts, so many players, that long functioning services do surprise me.

A recent bank merger meant that two regional banks are merging. A recent mortgage refinance meant that this newly merged bank also bought my mortgage, and I'm supposed to make payments to them. Their system for setting up a mortgage payment is broken. Like.... errors in dev tools console, with relatively obvious root cause as in a field like CustomerId is referenced in another part of some code as CustomerID, and when I try to click X to move forward there's breaking JS code.

This was a problem for at least 5 weeks that I know of, but from the little I could see via twitter and forums, weeks before that. There is 0 way of me contacting anyone who could even understand my issue in the first place, and that's a whole other topic. That they likely didn't have monitoring in place (I couldn't see any obvious tools such as sentry installed) is another story, but... I didn't chose this bank. I don't have a choice in using them (same with regional utility companies, etc).
That would be a serious problem if Oracle's idea of "UTF8" wasn't roundtrip compatible with UTF-8, but it is fortunately, so approximately no one should notice the difference.