skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, the cost of a car is one factor, but the bigger factor is that Singapore is small and well-connected with public transport. It's quite normal for someone to live in one end of the city and take bus / train to the other end for work.
I fully agree. Technical people often get lost in the weeds. I recall someone trying to extoll the virtues of a self-hosted YouTube alternative (the name escapes me). To him it was clearly superior to YouTube. So I installed the solution, and spent an hour trying to set up and subscribe to the required indexing services. I gave up and went back to this person and explained that no one is going to spend even 10 minutes messing around if they just want to see funny cat videos.

I've built my career on trying to explain this human element to technical people, and if anything, my job security only improves year over year. I see this same attitude in the Linux community: a willingness to work around UX issues because of perceived benefits in other areas. This is why Linux remains such a niche OS for consumers. No user should ever, for any reason ever, have to open a CLI to install a program. But try arguing that on any distro forum and expect a world of hurt.
I have LineageOS installed on an old BQ Aquaris X for more than a year now.

Most of the time it is unusable and slow. It randomly crawls, i.e. opening a browser, an input field, or the GMail App will make the device halt for about 10s.
It will never get the new Android.
Camera was always crappy with LineageOS. WiFi is broken since a few weeks and will constantly just vanish, needing to connect manually.

I almost only ran Cyanogen or Lineage on my devices, if not stock. I tinkered a lot with my Cyanogen installs back in the days, trying to even the bumps and failings.

Any device that has a decent stock image will run better with stock than any LineageOS or CustomROM in my experience.
You seem to have very strong views on this and I don't but as a natural follow up from your arguments, how do you propose we deal with the obesity crisis under the lens of people who don't self preservate and have all sorts of cardiovascular issues and bring healthcare costs to unbearable highs for everyone else?

To be clear my position is that you should treat everyone, fatties, smokers, antivax, whatever, merely because I don't know when I'm going to find myself in one of the "wrong" groups and I'd like to get treatment then, so I think they should get it too.
Right, imagine someone convicted of possession of marijuana. There are still plenty of people who consider marijuana on par with hard drugs and serious crime. In their eyes, someone convicted of possession may as well be on par with murderers.
I'd love to have knobs "how experienced driver I am" and "how familiar am I with the area" (this one can even be automatic, given the amount of data map app makers collect!) for the map apps.

If I'm in an unfamiliar area, I really don't want to theoretically save a few seconds by taking a shortcut via little maze of twisty passages, all different. Just give me a straightforward route using a highway, please.

(edit: typos)
Try making this change incrementally. Set a very small goal for the first week. For example you could start forcing to sit at your desk for 5/10 minutes with no distractions and start small just making a list of what you should do. Give you a small goal after you managed to sit down.
Slowly increase the time and start doing some exercise. Walk everyday of you can't do anything else. Walk a lot with no distractions, no phone/music, just the environment and your mind.
Try to stick to a routine every day if possible.
And then slowly increase those minutes at your desk every day.
Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?
Twitter takes 20 seconds to load on my phone made in 2020. It then takes about 5-10 more seconds for me to close all the popups and that's IF it doesn't fail along the way (which it does sometimes), IF I don't misclick anything (which the website makes painstakingly easy).

All of that to load a list of 280 chars text messages, occasionally with a picture or a video. How come even my pocket supercomputer with 8 cores and 8GB RAM takes that much time to display just some text and pictures?

It's yet worse with reddit.

I do understand that some companies may be motivated to break their own websites to force users to install spyware ("it's better in the app!"), but making a broken website doesn't take dozens of megabytes of JS. Same slowness could be achieved with a few setTimeout()s. What's more, websites are slow even when they aren't trying to push an app down your throat - e.g. the desktop versions of those same websites are hardly better, and even websites that don't have an app to "offer" are oftentimes just as overengeneered.

What I'm trying to understand is what is the motivation behind this? I wouldn't have any questions if webpages required manpower and optimizations to be fast - but on the contrary, anyone with most basic html skills can come up with a faster frontend than twitter's[1] AND cover that same functionality (text, a few images and a couple of forms - ALL of this is covered by HTML alone, doesn't even need a single line of JS!). This means that companies pay people to make their websites worse, and to do that in a laborious manner - again, not just some setTimeouts()s, but dozens of megabytes of code (and that's compressed!). And I can't help but wonder - what is the incentive for that? Why? A business should generally save money wherever possible and only spend it to make profits, shouldn't it? I just can't see how the crime against everything decent that is the twitter frontend could possibly benefit the company, or anyone for that matter. If anything it would harm it. And it costs it money.

[1] - see e.g. Nitter, Invidious, Teddit - all of those much more robust than the sites they grab data from. Also pretty sure that even if the people behind these did get paid, it was orders of magnitude less than what the people these companies have working on their frontends get paid.
Exceptionally fitting? I don’t even care about other xkcd references–927 is the only number that I remember by heart because it is the poster-child of overused, tired, boring, thought-terminating (again), stock responses to people or posts which are about doing things in a better way than established things which happen to have been around for a while, have a spec, and maybe that have multiple implementations; i.e. things that broadly have a standard! (And of course there are always multiple “standards” because no one anoints a king to implement the-one-true-solution—multiple people do it independently. And then we get to snicker about “multiple implementations”… i.e. multiple people having minds of their own. Humans do not possess some kind of insect-like hivemind.)

A lot of what people present on Hacker News are suggestions on how to do things better than we have collectively done up until now. And some people—apparently enough to populate every such thread—feel that they are adding to the discussion by trying to shoot the whole thing down by posting the “mandatory/obligatory” 927 link (note those words—they even tacitly admit that their point is wholly worn down and tired).
> This is news to me, and I'm having a hard time searching for information about it. Can you link me to where this record is?

It's public record, but it's usually available on request with agreements as to legitimate use. The exact contents differ by state, and the application may be through the state or county election office. There is a rough summary here: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access... but it's not entirely accurate (e.g., it doesn’t indicate vote history—whether, not how, a voter voted in particular past elections—is available in CA, but it definitely is. e.g., the Sacramento County request form has a box to check to include it https://elections.saccounty.net/Documents/Application%20to%2...
This applies well to me. However, I was well into adulthood and several ruts before I realized I have an additional weakness: I'm (almost always) unable to change perspective without the help of others.

I don't mean that I need to tell others that I'm in a rut and need perspective change. I need the others – friends and colleagues – to help anchor my perspective to reality (or their reality) by simple having normal interactions with them.

Needless to say, the pandemic has made this hard. And I'm afraid that the older I get, the less I can rely on this very good mechanism I have for perspective change. Any advice?

(A therapist suggested I train my own ability to reality-anchor. It worked a tiny bit, but given enough time I always start doubting my own anchoring, and need peers to reanchor me. I know their view isn't canon either, but it feels objective to me. Mine feels shaky.)
It was more like $90 per person for one-way, 1.5 hour ride, of course it's fancy for that kind of cash. I guess all Machu Picchu prices were subject to 10% YoY growth pre-COVID since, you know, they don't make them anymore.
But sci-hub does not embed anything. Checkmate elsevier

I m considering that elbakyan has enough credibility to start her own series of open source journals
> Same snake with different color.

Yes and no.

Yes, it still amounts to building user-tracking functionality into user agents.

No, it’s not the same approach, because (IIUC) FLoC was doing unsupervised clustering of users, whereas Topics allocates users into predetermined clusters. This makes it potentially more transparent and also seems designed to work around the “protected categories” objection to FLoC, although in a world of proxy metrics and indicators I’m doubtful.
In the engineering sense this has already happened.

I'm not sure "abused" is the correct term, though. It's an immutable data store, like IPFS with a server in a jurisdiction you don't control. It stores data.

Is it "abusing" ext4 if you use it to store a movie rip?
> In this context I’m assuming MTV isn’t music television that for some reason has decided to become a valley startup instead of playing music on television (would fit the whole SV pivot mentality)

Mountain View I guess :)
We asked our customer to include a small piece of information for every request they made to us to better serve them. It took five years for our customer to make the change. A one-or-two day cadence didn't make sense for us, nor apparently, for our customer.

Oh, our customer? It's the Oligarchic Cell Phone Company. They don't move fast. And as a result, neither do we.
Google Drive flags files for copyright infringement due to digit combinations
There kind of is a standard notion for logging on UNIX and it's /var/log/. stderr, although it suggests a stream for errors, is actually more correctly called a diagnostic stream. Depending on how you execute your program, you could implement writing to a file in /var/log/ inside your program or you could just write to stderr (diagnostic) and redirect it to a /var/log/ file.
You might want to double-check that. The CAs (all but two, basically) disagreed with the lifetime reduction and actively voted and argued against it.
> What does VSC do to mitigate that?

Basically it's not running a block filesystem over SSH at all. You are editing your files remotely. So there is no risk of block corruption (which has bitten me on the arse before).

In fact, if you log in twice to the same remote host as the same user using VSC, your editors will magically update each other, live. This is the underpinning of a pair-programming aspect of remote VSC that MS intend to productise.

And if you log into that machine and edit a file that is open in VSC Remote using something like vi, VSC will know about the changes. Plus you can edit very large files remotely.

Yes, you obviously could/can do all of your git stuff in a terminal window -- that is how I used to work even with VSC before the Remote facility was added. After 30 years of using unix I'm fine with that if I have to do it.

But you lose all the editor integrations, because git cannot work effectively over networked filesystems. Whereas with VSC Remote, all of that stuff works exactly as if it was local. Including almost all extensions, which install into the remote. The normal file search does not work well over a slow SSH filesystem link, because to search all those files they have to be downloaded, whereas file search in Remote mode is done by the remote.

What I like about this is being able to work with pretty much any machine that can support VSCode, without having to worry about installing dev tools on that machine. I then also use Vagrant so I can separate concerns among my clients (I'm kind of working in a pre-Docker world in the wider sense in the job I do, still, so Vagrant boxes and my own configuration system are a good substitute). Or I could edit inside WSL2, while VSC itself runs on the Windows machine.

I think Nova looks very nice indeed, and as a Mac user and erstwhile Transmit mega-fan I wish them well, but I was never impressed with Coda, which was interactively slow in the editor -- in some situations painfully so. (The iPad version was an occasional lifesaver but I use GoCoEdit there now.)

But it's pretty inescapable that VSC Remote is its killer feature. It's just that unless you've used it, it's hard to explain. Now that I know how much it has helped me, I can't envisage going back if I have the choice not to.
The criticism is very much addressing ideas. Nietzsche's criticism of stoicism as a life-denying philosophy is also a criticism of what he perceived to be a particular leadership culture in a, in his perspective, declining Europe.

Passiveness, denying emotions and lived experience and with that also beauty and heroism and embracing risk and instead opting for rationalizing and theorizing and detachment is, he argues, bad not just for ordinary people but for the entire culture.

And I think that's very relevant today when it comes to leaders. We don't really have leaders as such but rather science, public intellectuals, bureaucrats, processes and so forth. When was the last time there was a modern leadership that had a sense for beauty or aesthetics?
Ah, there's a secret, you stop trying. You need to do something difficult, new and unrelated. Cycle to Canada and buy a hot dog. Live off-grid for a week. Take your nephew to Disneyland. Something clearly defined, and a bit nuts. When you return, you'll feel much better.
Although "TLS can be used for those non-HTTP protocols" the tls-alpn-01 validation can only be used on the authorised ports, which for Let's Encrypt is port 443, aka HTTPS.

Now, Let's Encrypt would technically be allowed to enable this validation on a few other ports, 80 (HTTP), 25 (SMTP) and 22 (SSH) under current Baseline Requirements, but understandably they have no plan to do that.

If you actually want certificate issuance unrelated to web servers you should either hook up a web server explicitly for issuance or use DNS proof of control.
Excellent perspective, thanks for the positive and factual viewpoint
It seems like you might be on the odd-parity cycle:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/

Granted, parity in this sense doesn't track "reality", but it might be worth deconstructing your dismissal a bit. There are people that have to deal with irrational fear. Recognizing that you have direct control over that experience can be liberating and life-affirming, to use your language.

Personally, where I find the juicy bits are in the questions:

- How do you discern reasonable vs. unreasonable fear?

- What external factors are controllable and which are not?

- The feedback between external and internal factors is probably a mess of non-linearities. Where are the attractors? What does the landscape look like? How can you find the really nice/cool/fun/interesting attractors?

Etc. Of course, the above can be generalized beyond fear (via some appropriate natural transformation---hi Haskellers).
Probably uses a swap file on the 8MB of flash which most likely has just as fast read speeds as the original Dos PC's ram did.

*Edit*

it looks like it is using a clone of Doom called PrBoom so the system requirements of the original would not apply. Kind of misleading but my eyes are so bad I probably couldn't tell the difference between Doom or Pong on a 1.3" screen anyways!!!
I think you’re misreading my post. I’m not saying that this isn’t happening, often with nefarious reasons. I’m saying that this is a man made decision and it can be changed by another man made decision. It’s not a natural law, but people often treat it as auch.
The big danger with HN is that it's pretty one-sided, and reading it affects you even if you are aware of that fact. So while it's good to keep on top of tech news and tech politics, there's little beyond that.

Our world is so rich, and I feel that by reading HN only you miss out on a lot.
Certificates have always been sold and priced per year. I highly doubt lifetime changes benefitted certificate authorities, and I’m pretty sure they had it forced upon them by browsers. If anything, it prevents them from collecting 2-3 years of revenue upfront.
HN for me is the equivalent of "being the dumbest person in the room", ie. I get to learn a lot and get confronted with new and challenging ideas, which is great.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Stablecoin Ambitions Unravel with Diem Sale Talks
I did that once, but the target is a shell. Shells relies on argv[0] to determine what it is running as (login shell have prefix on argv[0]). So it end up blew up in a funny way.

After a bit google I realize I need to repeat the file path by myself on *nix. In windows, the spawn equivalent take a long string, anything after file path is argument. So it can't be a bug since day 1.
For a layman like me on medical matters, it seems very strange that a pig's heart is used. Would it more logical idea to use a primate, our closest "cousin"?
I don't have stats no, just personal experience. It could certainly be a reflection on the fact that I drink, and in both the UAE and Malaysia my friends also moved in multicultural circles. Maybe it's similar to people who take drugs in Western societies - they tend to hang out together.

Of course being a Muslim and actually practicing Islam are two different things.
Wow, I feel this same way and have never had it articulated so well. I have saved your quote for future use when trying to explain this to people. Thank you!
Intro to Basic Semantic Search
>You're making a very basic mistake of logic.
>Success (in this instance) requires Popularity but Popularity does not imply Success.

How is your statement logical? Who says success requires popularity? In what universe does that make sense?

A heart transplant was successfully completed recently. The man survived with no immune rejections. The heart came from a genetically modified pig spliced with genes to prevent rejection and stop growth after transplantation.

First time it occurred. It is a "successful" transplantation and BY DEFINITION since it only happened on one person in the whole of human history... NOT POPULAR. So if this "successful" event happened in the reality we live in... it means that things can be successful and NOT POPULAR at the same time.

"Not Logical"... Come on man.

>You are making up an alternative definition of success, which is untestable,

No I'm using the definition of successful in terms of the English language. Look it up in the dictionary to see if it contains the word "popular."

>But you haven't disproved that my idea of success is invalid. You keep attacking popularity.

My point isn't too prove anything. All I am saying and I repeat for like the hundredth time that you're statements have no logical basis. That's it. You claim is INVALID.

Here's an example that you can probably understand. If you enter a password into a system... I tell you the password is INVALID. I said nothing else. I didn't say no password exists, I didn't say a password does exist. I said NOTHING other than your password (aka claim) is INVALID.
It is facebook for tech bros, with occasional nuggets that are really good. There 's a certain level of self-worship by the people who occasion here , but i don't think its that special. It's basically what reddit would be if its audience was 10-20 years older.

I 'waste' a lot of time here because i have a lot of empty time these days. I would like to have more diverse communities on the internet, i 'd take 10 forums instead of the duopoly reddit/hn taking all my attention. There is value in participating in separate the bubbles vs participating in watered down groupthinks.
"...she uploaded a file named "output04.txt" that consisted of a single character, the numeral one ...

Shortly after uploading them, I received a string of emails from Google indicating that those files had been flagged for copyright infringement...

the automated email notification she received offered no way to push back against the determination of Google's content vetting algorithm – the Request a Review button was not included in the message she received ...

The e-mail explicitly said 'A review cannot be requested for this restriction,'"

How far does pattern this need to go, before someone changes direction?
"I hope 'plunging' means 'up,' and '75' means '200'"

- Homer Simpson on stocks
I wonder how you coped with the ethical side of such a job.
> Not too hard to carry the actual physical cards, or use a separate device (smartwatch).

Yeah, because what I want is to buy a watch if I want to pay with my phone. Great solution!

> Complain to your bank / switch to a better bank.

Ah, yes, the "Switch-banks-because-your-phone-is-broken"-Trick, didn't think of that!

> LineageOS shoves the commit log right in your face, you can have a pretty good idea when it's really important to update.

Yeah, but the CVEs and firmware bugs are not and will never be in the commit logs. And even if they are, when I install an update on my phone OTA, I obviously will not pull up the commit log! How much time do you think I have?!

That's what the "Security Level"-indicator in the device settings/info is for.

> Really? Performance and stability are typically the reasons to switch to custom.

Yes, really. My LineageOS was always crappy slow on my BQ Aquaris, for every version. The camera is simply unusable. Every update brings another random bug. Since a few weeks it will lose WiFi, needing manual intervention, sometimes just 3 seconds after connecting.

If you want a working device, and not tinker with it all the time, or risk being stranded without certain functionality, you are safer with a device with a decent stock from a manufacturer that updates it diligently.
> The expected lifetime value of any article in Nature Neuroscience for the authors is well above $11,390

This. Authors are the customers of the journals; the service they are buying is a push towards tenure and more funding. This has been true for a long time; open access only makes it more explicit.

When readers are the ones paying, you can argue that they are paying the journal so that it makes sure that they are reading serious, properly reviewed articles.

When authors are the ones paying, how do incentives align?

I think journals are now in a situation similar to the one of rating agencies and accounting firms. I don't think it will work out very well.
On the contrary it's an interesting information because it gives credit to the various lab hypothesis, including one that was suppressed at the beginning of the pandemic.
Reading HN makes me learn something I did not expect.

But the opinion in replies can be one sided sometimes.

Read, but assume there are *more* opinion/topics other than what's available on HN.

Basically the same should be done on any forum/social media.
Anecdata :

My wife's parents worked in Kenya for a few years in the 70s and they where advised that having a maid and a nanny was expected.

(we are Swedish)