skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is surprising for me how people can't imagine a scenario where:

Some government agency (KGB, FBI, CSI, whatever) comes to VPN, secure mail, etc provider;
Informs that some "enemy of the state" is using the service;
Demands to overtake the service, install some software etc;
Or else CEO of the service is also an "enemy of the state".

From this moment this service is not only "not secure" but directly allows access to your email data, leaks all the keys, passwords, browsing history, logs whatever they want etc.

Yeah VPN will allow you cheat Netflix. Never trust any service to not comply to some government agency.
> But is kind of sad they skip 5Gbps. I thought it was the best compromise for consumer between 1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet.

I suppose forwards compatibility is good, but unfortunatel unlike 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps is practically unusable on existing CAT5e cables.
What about macOS did you find disruptive? Was it a matter of getting used to a platform you haven't used as a daily driver for years and years or were there specific things that you just simply can't do (as well)?
I find small amounts of cannabis[1] removing one annoying aspect of my ADHD: racing thoughts. Alcohol does the same for me but alcohol impairs my ability to work and weed does something opposite: I get creative, accurate, conscientious and "more focused" than usual. This is not "real focus" with "mind silence" that real ADHD meds bring but if I can smoke a tiny amount of pot and avoid taking what's usually prescribed - this is a win.

Larger amounts of weed tend to hyperfocus me but impair some processing abilities. For me, less is more here.

I'm smoking daily for over 20 years. I don't know how would my mind function without all those trees but I think I'm doing ok. Anecdotal but the single noticeable effect of daily cannabis smoking is the lack of so called "morning wood".

[1] Cannabis sativa ~19% THC <1% CBD, prescribed by a psychiatrist
Oh I thought the last elections were in 2017! I totally forgot out the next ones!
Its much better than that - I get semi-constant stream of creativity in my mind that simply isn't there when sober. You could say I become more artistic. I also literally go for 1-2h of walks and come back with tons of remarks, todos, plans etc. to improve my personal or work life. I just need to quickly note them in my phone or they would be probably forgotten when set of next ideas come. Picking up forgotten bits in life that would bite me later. Planning future with more clarity.

Few of the ideas are later dismissed as unrealistic or overly optimistic, but most of the best long term decisions in my life have been 'found' in Inception movie style while high, and expanded later. The perspective is really different, and I literally get a second, different opinion on my life and all the choices/duties.

I've handled tough breakups with this - the emotions were not suppressed or ignored or twisted to get out easily, rather I've got full exposure to all their sides which allowed me to process them remarkably quickly. The result was I got over it all and properly closed things for good in a rather speedy way.

The thing is, that's me - the next person might get a very different effect, sometimes rather negative and not helpful. Drugs don't work uniformly on everybody, even on alcohol some get cozy and some aggressive.

Its not about dumbing down at all - that's alcohol domain. Just shifting mindset to something alternative, in more than one way my mind is expanded. The next morning I am dumbed down, but in 1000x more pleasant manner than after alcohol, rather too-laid-back for some stressful annoying tasks.
Well its a feature that affects the specific area where your having issues (performance), so yes would be the right thing to start with.
Ironically, what has happened here, is that the poster above you thought it polite to explain themselves, which gave you an opportunity to attack a super-specific not-necessarily-representative scenario of their argument. All while effecticely counterarguing that explaining yourself cannot possibly backfire, ever.

The irony is delicious here xD
> I’ll have to move

Move houses or companies?
Wouldn't you get a better and cheaper camera if it's really a camera and not a phone?
I personally enjoy GNOME so I can't be too critical about where the start menu does or doesn't pop up.

However, "just use shortcuts" isn't a solution to bad design. People don't rename things too often, so such shortcuts are rarely picked up. F5 is the only shortcut I think most computer users know about, and I doubt they realise it'll work in explorer as well.

Nobody cares about shortcuts when the problem is that the UI is unintuitive. If they did, they would've already learned and used them. At this point you might as well direct them to Powershell, because that's even more powerful. We're talking about features that people regularly used half a year ago and now can't do anymore.

For young people this shouldn't be a problem, they just need to decode the new iconography, but for the elderly this change in behaviour means re-taking the entire "how to use a computer" course from the start. The continuous design overhaul Microsoft is trying to do for no apparent reason other than please designers who won't be using Windows anyway is only making everyone's life harder.

If you're redesigning, people shouldn't ask where the buttons have gone. Their new location should be logical and intuitive after only a little bit of looking around. With the new context menu (and the new start menu, actually) this isn't the case. It feels to me like the design was made for an entirely new product instead of for an interaction of a product with thirty to forty years of history.
> except for the extremely strong willed, [...] addicting

Addiction isn't about willpower so much as psychopathology and genetics. It's a coping mechanism.

> getting used to a serene state of mind is [...] kind of counter productive

What is suspect about serenity? Is religion equally problematic as a source? How is it counterproductive?

> such substances are not natural and

A naturalist argument is usually invalid. We can't expand upon the rules of the universe. Plastics are just as natural as anything else. Cannabis also doesn't induce any foreign states in our brains.

Even using the narrow definition of "can't be found in the wild": cannabis is a plant, so it very much does exist in the wild. So do alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, psilocybin ("magic mushrooms") or ergotamine (LSD).

When applied to brain chemistry: to my knowledge, drugs don't do novel things to our brains. They promote infrequent states, but that doesn't make them unnatural. Especially not if you consider how alien dream states, meditative and transcendental experiences feel.

> with unchecked use, might put a whole society in danger

Adding a slippery slope to it doesn't improve your line of reasoning. It does tend to whip the masses into a frenzy, like its cousins "Won't somebody think of the children" and "Why should we help those who won't help themselves?".

It also doesn't conform to reality. Have California or Colorado collapsed because weed was legalised? Have the Netherlands?

> I am ambivalent about the whole movement to legalize it

Decriminalisation seems obvious to me as a solution, if coupled with a sorely needed investment in mental healthcare (across the West). The latter is necessary regardless of how we consider drugs - see homelessness, domestic violence, suicide, burnouts, etc. Decriminalisation works (cf Portugal's results), dries up income sources for the cartels, allows quality controls to be put in place, reduces stigmatisation for users, lowers the threshold for seeking therapy, keeps people out of prison for victimless crimes, creates a revenue source for the government through sales and other taxes...

The alternative to decriminalisation is telling the population "we know best". Looking at the so-called war on drugs globally, it's also an endeavour that's bound to fail, strengthen drug cartels, escalate violence and cause more damage than it prevents.
I don't think this is minimalism though, this seems somewhat informed by "a picture is worth a thousand words" (hence an icon suffices). Let's not kid ourselves, designer just need to justify getting paid.

A programmer suggesting a "refactoring" of the whole codebase is often frowned upon (yet happens). On the design side it feels like the opposite, if a designer doesn't come up with some sort of overhaul every year, they, or their boss will feel insecure or something.
The video is more about gender equality than snow clearance, and I recommend it.

It shows several ways public services were "hacked" from the point of view of gender equality, leading to better results for everyone. And I think questioning assumptions is very much a HN thing :-)

(Unlike the headline writer, I've understood the examples to be "we're trying this in at least one city in Sweden" rather than "all of Sweden does this all the time".)
Jensen Harris' blog was deleted when Microsoft replaced their dev blogs platform, but it went into great detail on the creation of the Ribbon. As far as I can remember, search couldn't be ready in time for the initial release.
Why not ban ALL ads?!?
If there is anything nefarious in the design and rollout of k8s it's just to make it uncool to run something small.

I've worked with it for a bunch of years now and run a cluster at home, but I do hate that it scales down so poorly. Is so much work to run a bare minimum, if not for SME-purposes but for local development. It's just starting to get acceptable.
> Like mental illness and ADD were reasons for killing people in America just a couple of decades ago?

Citation needed.

You realize a couple of decades ago was 2000, right? The closest I can think of what you might be talking about is the eugenics programs ran up to the early 1960s. Even so, those weren't executions, but rather sterilizations. Barbaric, but not murder.

> And currently, today there places where it is acceptable to drown your own babies if they demonstrate delayed development.

And what part of making health recorders more accessible would influence that one way or another? Do you think it's the fact that heath records are hard to access that protects us from parents murdering their children? How are other nations in the EU managing to not kill all their kids for defects!
Session IDs and loadbalancer cookies would be required cookies, "legitimate purpose" is a different concept
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This can be an issue if building it is a hassle.

I just built the desktop app in <5min by checking it out and running:

make prebuild; make linux-app

Substitute linux with win-wpf or mac.
They also provide both linux and windows binaries from their GH releases.

It's only for OS X they do not provide a compiled binary, which you can presumably build easily.

Given that, it's quite entitled to say it's "working solely on app stores".

I'm not Mattermost, but if I made a desktop project in the future I probably wouldn't bother with providing OS X binaries for each release either (I'm a bit out of the loop on what the latest is but doesn't it require Apple hardware and/or a provisioned dev cert even for "sideloaded" apps these days? Is it as straightforward to set up in CI as normal builds?)
They were aware of the changes, but as they stated: it seemed to be working fine and, therefore, was ruled out early on as a potential problem.
If only it was that simple.

Sober, I’d be coding and a notification would pop up on my phone, taking great attention away from the work. My child would be crying in the next room over and my brain would be formulating thoughts to discern what the fuss is all about.

My washer is leaking and now I have to set up an appointment for someone to come look at it and due to my busy schedule, I’d have to find time.

Distractions takes away the drive and motivations to code.

On Cannabis, the answers are there in my head and what to do.

Phone notification? Not important, ignore it.

Child crying? She has her mom.

Washer broke? Handle it after work.

Easily said but I think like many on here has stated, any stress reducing solution can make a difference.

Ymmv.
I hoped that Microsoft would have finally reduced the number of duplicate interfaces in Windows, but on the contrary, there's now more layers than ever. As a long-time Windows user, the UX is truly horrible. I like the visuals, but I hate using Windows 11.

The taskbar is just one of the many symptoms of this disease. Just right clicking on files in Explorer is a nightmare. If I want to get to the properties of a file, I need to jump through hoops. This is nuts :)
For me it was when I couldn't right click and "Open file location" from the Windows search

What folder is Gears of War 5 installed to on my PC? Who knows, certainly not me. Also a reason why I hate the Windows Store (not that the mac App Store is any better)
I’m a Django developer at hart and have been for 15 years. The dream I have that I hope WASM will provide is to package any app (Python, Ruby, Rust, Go, anything!) up into a single binary file that we can deploy anywhere, on any architecture (x86, arm). No more packaging nightmare, no more containers, just a single file that runs anywhere. Maybe it’s wishful thinking but I hope it happens.
We now call this "proof of work".
The year is 1961 and C is still about 10 years away to become a reality, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems_descri...
I just want to make clear here that in reality that it is Apple and Apple alone which is holding back web apps from competing with their ecosystem.
> I'm curious, are you a native English speaker?

English is one of my native languages yes.

> I'm not, but I speak 7 languages. I can tell you they are not just "tools for communication". They are expressions of culture and you can see in them how people think.

> There are things I can say in Spanish that I can't say in German or Japanese, not because of lack of vocabulary (well, that too) but because the concepts just don't translate. And this happens in both directions.

> Even my behavior changes when I'm speaking some languages.

People attribute these differences to language, but I think that's mixing up cause and effect. Learning Japanese has meant learning a whole new culture and new ways of thinking - but those ways of thinking seem to be far more part of the Japanese culture than they are part of the Japanese language - e.g. even when speaking English, Japanese people will generally express those same concepts and modes (quite successfully, even when they're "objectively" untranslatable).

Put it this way: not only would I say that the difference between my behaviour and interaction pattern when talking to a Japanese person in English and a Welsh person in English is bigger than the difference between talking to a Welsh person in English and a Welsh person in Welsh, I'd say that the difference between talking to a Welsh person in English in Wales and talking to a Welsh person in English in Japan (in a culturally Japanese context like a workplace - perhaps not in the tourist spots) is bigger than the difference between talking to a Welsh person in English and talking to a Welsh person in Welsh.

> Edit: it goes without saying but I believe that that diversity of cultures is a great thing we should cherish.

Hmm. I think many cultures have valuable things that are worth preserving, and in some cases valuable things from different cultures are incompatible with each other and so must be preserved separately, and a monoculture carries a risk of catastrophe. But I don't believe in diversity as an end in itself; if there's some cultural practice that is simply bad and has better alternatives, I think it would be crazy to insist on preserving it just for the sake of it.
Does anyone know what tool this one is?

https://blog.roblox.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-perf-re...

Is it really perf?
> The web remains decentralized, but everyone chooses to remain in walled gardens.

So despite how you wish to define the technology there exists maximum centralization.

SSH is not the web. The web is HTTP.
My wife and I will have to buy one soon, because it is pretty much the only way we can establish a line of communication with other parents of my young son's peers at kindergarten (he's nearing 3). Not doing so would stunt his growth on an emotional level, because we would deprive him of things like play dates and such. Not due to malice on the part of other parents, but because not having WhatsApp (here in the Netherlands) is not something other people can always grasp. We can choose who we interact with, but we can't choose my son's friends parents.

It's so incredibly silly how owning a smartphone isn't even a matter of preference any more; people just expect everyone to have one. I don't really need one, despite loving train travel and independent exploration on holidays. Paper maps work fine, preparation using a normal computer too.
To replace W11 taskbar joke I installed StartAllBack - after 30 days you must pay about a coffee and it's all back and even better. Yes I'm fanboying. https://www.startallback.com/
Running Tableau Server in the cloud bears constant risk of losing activation
People think they are hiding from the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the sherrifs department and the criminals trying to steal your banking details.
Docker was not the only container based system back then and we did have other projects for running arbitrary code in the browser. Were they as good as WASM? No but the browser wasn't as good either. Point is it's not just WASM that makes him feel that way today. It's pretty damn hard to roll back your mind 12 years and then apply 12 years of innovation from the side and make accurate predictions of what you would have done differently.

Just like "if we had internet in the 19th centry", it implies so much more.
As someone with 8 years of experience in SRE in Google: I wouldn't be so sure about that. Most outages require only rudimentary understanding of the particular service. Pretty much "have you tried turning it off and on?", with the extra step of figuring out which piece of the stack needs the kick. Hence, there are many SRE teams that onboard lots of services with this kind of half-support. The on call only performs generic investigation and repair attempts. If that doesn't help, they escalate to the relevant dev team, who likely will only respond in office hours.

Only the important services get dedicated oncalls. Most important ones will have both 24/7 SRE and dev oncalls.
(from the post) Tableau is checking to see if the host has changed. This can happen all the time in the cloud, for example GCP has a live migration feature that keeps you going even if the underlying hardware fails. Also, restarting a VM is not guaranteed to boot up on the same host.
The problem: Support cannot reset the license count, until you have reached the limit (max of 3 activations), i.e. participated in a lottery and hit the jackpot by locking up your system:
https://kb.tableau.com/articles/issue/error-tableau-server-i...
Yes with 1GB you can run k3s.
In my opinion, any tool that allows teams/individuals to publish/post updates and subscribe to other teams/individuals' posts or updates can work. Bonus points if you can have threaded conversations (like HN), examples:

- https://friday.app/

- https://wordpress.com/p2/

- https://www.yammer.com/ (is this still a thing? used it like 10 years ago)

- etc...

We also used slack (or equivalent... also used hipchat, and even jabber before that) for ephemeral, one off, non important stuff. And then a lot happens also in READMEs, Merge/Pull Requests, Gitlab issues, helpdesk tickets, etc. Not much use of emails other than for notifications.

At the end of the day everything has a link and things can reference each other.

I think what most companies are missing is a way for employees to "post" and "subscribe" to updates that are interesting for them.
I get banning the collection of data, but why ban the targeting? Does showing someone products they're more likely to want hurt them in some way? Saying an advertising company is allowed to know everyone's personal details but isn't allowed to, say, only show Islamic prayer mat advertisements to Muslims seems pretty backwards.
If the advertiser can correlate health, religion and sexual orientation with the allowed parameters, then they can still target ads implicitly based on these categories.
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That, and GDPR. Damn I'm so glad I live in the EU.

Say what you will about those annoying cookie banners, I see that as good things.

Progress is made!
If you kill someone with a car in a way that's neither negligent nor reckless I don't see how it could fulfill the criteria for involuntary manslaughter which are exactly those things.
This is marked as dupe. That's 10 months ago and this is the third time total it's been shared here - I though that the dedupe timeframe for projects has generally been a lot shorter previously?

(From someone who saw this for the first time)
One might hope that his last act was to calculate the chance of his reaching 99.
I've found long term success in getting off of Facebook (never used Twitter) using the following steps (I still visit Insta most days on the native app however):

* Got rid of the native apps (except for Messenger Lite) years ago

* Switched to mbasic.facebook.com in the browser

* Recently I logged out of said mobile site

Now every time my muscle memory goes to facebook.com it asks me to login and I close the tab. I don't miss it at all and have no urge to login once I see the login form. I think I may have finally quashed my FB addiction!
Targeted ads that follow you around on the web need to be banned entirely. My aunt can predict what health issues or products my mom searches for on Google, because Facebook almost immediately serves her ads related to my mom's searches and browsing history.

Targeted ads are turned off in my mom's Google account, and she does not have a Facebook account. The two identities were linked together by the ad industry when in 2014 my aunt logged into Facebook once from my mom's previous tablet, and that's when they gave my aunt a fifth sense.

What's even more frustrating is that the current tablet runs Blokada for host based blocking, and there's uBlock Origin in the browser, but none of that matters, my aunt will call her to point out what shoes my mom was reading about days before.
I understand that OSs are really complicated. I've been exposed to every one now for almost four decades.

What's dismaying is that in that four decades it's now just regression. I admittedly have used MacOS for a couple of decades -- simple and it works well enough, but always run Windows as a secondary OS and Linux "as needed".

Windows has gotten so ersatz and bizarro that it's just strange to me when I do use it every few days.

Windows 2000 / Windows 98 had it down. It wasn't fancy, logical, and it worked. It's been a confusing mess since Windows 7.
The sort of already happens. Over here, businesses don't have to pay sales tax (VAT) on the goods and services they buy, because when they finally sell the item or service to a customer, the sales tax is charged in full.

So while a business doesn't pay sales on the fuel they need to deliver their goods to me, it gets paid in the end because the cost of the fuel is included in the price I pay and the sales tax is levied on the whole purchase price.

(It is a little more complicated than that. Don't sue me.)
This is every large company I've worked at in the last 5 years.

Brooks' law has exponentially increased the amount of syncing required and the explosion of open source and SaaSes has shrunk the amount of coding required.
My religion doesn't allow any advertisements on Sunday, as they are the work of the devil. Monday to Saturday are off limits for the same reason :-)