skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not miss the old internet per se, but I do feel sad that in 1997 I had a 56K dial in modem on a Pentium II running Internet Explorer and today I have a 1Gbps connection on a M1 MacBook running a modern browser, and web performance is still more or less the same.

Instead of spending our extra processing power and bandwith on useful stuff, we spent it on tracking and JS frameworks and other bullshit.
Both the car and the nanny have a TCO that is vastly higher than the purchase price/salary: the car needs maintenance/service, parking, repairs, fuel, taxes and insurance, and the nanny needs a place to stay, food, and he/she consumes water and electricity.

People tend not to calculate TCO or even be aware of it, they just look at their monthly incoming and outgoing money and check if their cashflow doesn't hits 0.
I always thought that motivation leads to action. But it's actually the other way round: Action leads to motivation which then leads to more action. So just do anything to get started, and then the motivation from doing something will hopefully kick in.

A rut is a vicious cycle, and the only way out it is to actively break it by doing something that goes against it.
That's worked pretty well e.g. for OpenBSD. Their code isn't perfect, but they've evaded lots of bullets simply by removing things they don't deem necessary.

I think I've evaded many bullets exactly the same way.

More code and more complexity -> more bugs, more holes. It's pretty simple.
Google maps is exceptionally limited to the point where it’s very easy to beat on mapping features so there is a lot of room for competitors to survive in various niches.

- The offline experience is garbage. Default behavior should cache large routes offline immediately when I’m on WiFi.

- partial connectivity experience is garbage. Stalled map loads, freezes, etc while driving through a 1x cell service area, even if map was pre-downloaded.

- ads for places I don’t care about.

- unable to automatically show places I do care about.

- searching for exits sucks

- searching for rest areas sucks

- measuring distances requires interrupting the navigation

- no way to view current speed, elevation

- filtering for restaurants with drive throughs very frequently ignores the “with drive through” part of the query.

- gas prices come and go on gas station display. No way to filter on price.

- why in the world can’t we filter based on restroom cleanliness?

- trailer towing friendly parking lots?

- enter max range between drives, give me fuel stops optimizing for gas cost or cadence of stops. Mapquest did this in the early 2000s FFS and you printed out the result.

- overlay recent breadcrumb history on map without it getting blown away any time navigation is interrupted.

- search map without interrupting navigation in a way that doesn’t assume something should be added as a waypoint. (Sometimes people use phones for more than one thing at once on a 12 hour road trip.)

The list goes on and on. There are like 4 use-cases that work with google maps and they are all for basic users and nothing else.
Thanks for sharing this. Thats sure looks like a great alternative.

Fun fact: I actually lived with Casey (the maintainer) in a co-living space about 7 years ago. Small world ...
Market Selloff Is Ultimate Test of What’s Real and What’s Not
The car was probably more akin to a private jet. It would require a professional driver, for starters.
> I calculated that at a minimum the world economy needs to increase five-fold for global poverty to substantially decline. This is in a scenario in which the world would also achieve a massive reduction in inequality: inequality between all the world’s countries would disappear entirely in this scenario. It should therefore be seen as a calculation of the minimum necessary growth for an end of poverty.

> A five-fold increase of the global economy is certainly not easy to achieve, but it is also not impossible – it is what the world has achieved in the last 5 decades, and the climate researchers of the IPCC expect even more growth for this century in their ‘Sustainability Scenario’, the scenario in which the world is most successful in avoiding climate change.

Surprising that such an increase would be what is needed in order to avoid climate change. I would have thought that those two things were in conflict.
> seeing if there were any "attributes" that they could not easily explain

I am sure there are many, but the more obscure the less they probably contribute to class probability.

Sitting down is probably an indicator of old age because 90 year olds are sitting for more hours than a 20 year old. It probably does not contribute a lot but may contribute something.

More obscure might be a color of shirt that is more popular with 90 year old men in the USA than men under 50.
> kind of like there's a converter for TextMate syntax definition files to Code's format

Got a link for that? I was looking for a TextMate grammar to Monarch converter and couldn’t find anything that works
Except when the watermark is right in the middle of the page and harms reading flow.

I had the case a few months ago very frustrating. The PDF was encrypted, I couldn't remove the watermark.
I can easily afford a car, but don't want to. The hidden cost of ownership, driving, all that stuff take a lot of attention. Not to mention that cars in a big city do more damage to your quality of life. Please, stop using cars as a proxy for prosperity.
I hope one day personal cars become luxury again so only rich will be able to afford one, the rest would use public transport including self-driving car-sharing
I do enjoy not coming down with the flu or spreading it to others
Nonsense.

Modern reactors are safe.

Even the old (inherently unsafe) reactors like the Soviet Chernobyl style design aren’t some sort of apocalyptical danger.

Less than 40 people died in one of the most serious accidents ever (Chernobyl).

That’s a fraction of the number of people killed every year because of windmills and fossil fuels.

Far from “rendering cities uninhabitable for decades” there is no reason why Chernobyl couldn’t be repopulated today.

Heck, they have tourists visit the site every day these days.
Maintainer and operator of Astiga here - thanks for mentioning the service!
They are invasive if they somehow end up on your system even if you don't need them and didn't ask for it.

The C library is something that I actually need, unlike a GUI sudo prompt for.. audio? I don't even know what such a prompt looks like because I've never seen one.
Yeah, but only because you can't really have "shades" of black. The CSU and AfD are both indicated as blue the same way the SPD and Die Linke are both indicated as red, but usually different shades (or e.g. using magenta for Die Linke, which is even sillier as Die Linke is to the left of the SPD).

Every party has an official color of course, but they're not always used in reporting. For example, while the CSU uses blue for its logo, the CDU uses red but still is traditionally represented in black.
I agree with you, I think it is a very US centric point of view.

BTW I think they where referring to middle class: you are middle class if you can go on vacation. (IMHO it doesn't make sense to be considered rich if you can go on vacation)

In Europe we are used to having a lot of vacation time, it (almost) doesn't matter which is your job, in the US it is not like this.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/rocket-scientist-say...

which references

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1156294287245660160

Quote:

> Digging through some old notes. Found this quote from a few years ago from a senior academic engineering source at the time.

> "Senator Shelby called NASA and said if he hears one more word about propellant depots he’s going to cancel the space technology program."
Hufu had a product in 2005: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu
It is actually finished now, it just isn't used because of political tensions. They have no operating license in Germany yet.

The pipeline itself wouldn't be needed because NS1 would have enough capacity for the immediate future. Although Russia capped the throughput for political reasons as well.
That is interesting to be fair, I didn't know these APIs. Certainly something to have a look for either replacing WASM or for new projects.

I've considered using some JS libraries that are around for sometime (like https://github.com/buzzfeed/libgif-js), but the challenge of using WASM seemed more interesting in a hacking perspective let's say hehe.
There's nothing in this analysis report which proves beyond doubt that this is malware.

There's plenty of software out there that behaves this way. I don't think they have solid ground for claiming they've been hit with malware here.
Ask HN: Is eBay cancelling Apple ID accounts?
I know it sounds far-fetched, by I am wondering.

I had my newly created eBay account permanently cancelled, with no appeal, today.

The account had a single item (a Svalt cooling dock) for sale, and the description and text was similar to an existing Svalt item on the site.

The only thing in the account that could be flagged as 'suspicious' is the email. I used Apple ID and I did hide my email, so the resulting email is something like:
`xyz4rt5uiosshpv@privaterelay.appleid.com` (not the real one)

I wonder if that's what flagged the account, but as usual in these cases, there's nothing the support team will tell me or do to help (which I understand, they have their hands tied by internal policies)

So, I was wondering, had anyone else here had a similar issue? And, what other platform did you use to sell stuff after that?
Aside from preferences, is there a reason why C# or F# wouldn't be a more natural choice? I'd imagine porting TS to C# would be easier (especially for this specific use-case) and that the performance would be good.
We're definitely heading for a Y2.1K problem and we've learned nothing.
Yes, I would be OK with killing any number of cats to save any human’s life.
I second tedmiston's point above. It's mainly convenience (running `npm run` which can be auto-completed with a shell integration too), but also discoverability: If you're switching between multiple projects, its nice to know that you can simply look there for the commands that you're able to run.

I especially like the package.json scripts for simple one-liners, if I have something complicated I might also create a ./scripts directory with a script and call that from an npm run-script.
Someone should check this against the sci-hub library.

Could make a nice research project :)
You could even just move a few words around, depending on the language.
Depending on the language, you could even just move a few words around.

Do that randomly, combine the products, and you might get enough entropy to create unique fingerprints for each download.
Randomly do that, combine the products, and you might get enough entropy to create unique fingerprints for each download.

(This silly example can create 4 unique fingerprints)
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> "usually it should be more like a day" is bad advice in my opinion, and a likely source of micro management.

Depends what "showing" means - on the other end is doing all prototyping/exploration as pair programming - thus immediately "showing" work to at least one other engineer.
Holding humanity and progress at ransom
Agree. Choose an action with a predictable achievable outcome.
The example I read on HN a while back was going in to the backyard and shoveling a big whole and then closing it again. Totally pointless but rewarding.
I don't have a backyard, so I do the dishes. Find out what works for you :)
I believe it to be prudent to remove those that want others gone. I don't even support or view Rogan, but since he is one of the few to offer a diverse and inclusive perspective, wrong or not, he probably simply provides a better show and his viewer numbers underline this too.
The population of browsers and things that don't understand TLS1.2 is miniscule now, so there should be no impact in disabling tls1.1 and below anywhere possible.
Sign up for Meetup and go and do something completely different and random outside your comfort zone, usual location and contacts.

That and exercise. A walk is good enough.
> Whoever is covering space news should at least be aware of that, leave alone not referring to him as a “meteorologist.”

He is a meteorologist:

https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/
> pointless abstractions

Of course anything that is "pointless" is indeed pointless. And "great abstractions" are indeed great. What's your point? And what has that got to do with your origial low level list?

> A house where the floorplan is decided before the needs of the tenants are even clear, will likely have to be reshaped later

Yes obviously. And a well thought out floorplan that takes into account the needs of the tenants is great. Again, what's your point? And what does that have to do with your original low level list?
I'm coming back around to computer games. Short sessions, usually late in the evening is a great stress reliver and an alternative to alcohol for me.
Ah, well. The title of the post is click-baity. This is less about algorithms, but about data interpretation. The article does mention it, but nowadays everything is an algorithm, it seems.
Yeah, all the stories there are fake, as they follow the same formula / similar-ish screenshots. And antiwork is always on the front page of reddit, so its attracting more low quality , karma grabbing posters
> You're making a lot of unsubstantiated assertions that are in the realm of conspiracy theory.

Care to say what?

> Someone wealthier offering a higher wage than the other options available to a person, and a person consequently choosing to work for them, is not authoritarianism.

No, that's literally choosing between the least bad authoritarian entity available for oneself.

> What your argument is based on is inflammatory appeals to emotion

It is? So let's push democracy into the economic sphere as well since according to you there would be no difference. One worker, one vote.
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Maybe this explains PRC's new hard-line anti-Bitcoin stance (over the last year).
Sounds like high bus-factor. Were you also expected to pick up "alien" code dumps as other programmers left? Were you happy/efficient working with these unseen code bases?
LinkedIn is getting "facebooked" lately but I have a lot of former coworkers there. And since we share a lot of interest I always find some useful content. You are right about self-promotion, "real-life" stories that have nevere happened and other spam content on LinkedIn

I've never tried to stick on reddit... Maybe I should give it a second chance. The pure size of it makes me hard to decide from where to start exploring it.
I just assumed Racket supports curly infix notation, but looking just now I see that you need to use the infix pragma and wrap things with @{}

I liked GNU Guile for the fact that it's enabled by default, thus the following is a bit more readable in my opinion

(when { 0 < x }
(diplay "positive") (newline))
I heard it put best as "Don't polish a turd".
You will notice that this is not an issue everywhere (or at least not as dramatically so as in the USA).

I guess a bit like housing prices have disproportionately risen in London compared to other places since Agatha Christie's time ?
I don’t sense hostility outside the typical vocal minority. Having straddled the FDA-regulated world and the libertarian-leaning internet cultures through the aughts and teens, my experience is that the internet libertarians are simply ignorant of how the FDA actually serves us. Pretty typically libertarian—freedom as long as nothing gets more dangerous. Kind of like rebellious children.
Check it into a second, private repository?
I have the same issue. So I do it in the evening (even though everyone says not to). Improves my sleep dramatically, and the next day I feel rested (which is not normally always the case)

Of course, don't listen to 120 bpm music to 'energize' you while you do it. And YMMV.
It's a question of rates, and culture. Not all countries and groups will be affected the same way.

Pretty verboten topic though and kind of unpalatable to think about, even if you don't particularly care about these sorts of demographic shifts.

Personally I like that the whole idea of "race" might become increasingly indeterminate and vague in liberal societies.

The phenomenon is real but for fully understandable reasons not much is published about it.
Ok, that does help. Yes, I had been thinking of London as having the best available at the time, the most up-do-date. I didn't consider the impact building codes have.
Proper defensive C programming solves these problems.

If argc is 0, don't look at argv.

Sanity check argv != NULL before looking at it.

Or, maybe write security-critical programs in safer languages like Rust.
It goes both ways. Because Google has a free cafeteria, it disincentives building restaurants close to the Google offices, due to the low number of potential customers.
> I believe this is why books most often have a single author.

... And at least one editor, no?
TIL that Starbucks is a luxury experience (I'm not a coffee drinker and there's no Starbucks in my town). I thought it was the McDonald's of coffee, I mean if it's luxury why are they using Styrofoam cups instead of glass?!
Ethical protocols are useful to have to prevent genuinely bad stuff from happening but they are indeed over used to instead limit legal and political liability; which is not the type of "bad stuff" most people would care about but which is something that gets expensive quickly if you are a multi billion dollar corporation in the business of converting government funding into profit (aka. a Pharmaceutical company). The only bad outcome they really care about is of a financial nature.

When ethics devolves into morals and religion, it gets worse because in that case the "bad stuff" is somebody feeling offended/insulted and when that conflicts with potentially life saving new treatments; that in itself might be considered a bad thing (unethical?). Ethics has this way of contradicting itself.

When you weigh two bad outcomes, the rational thing to do (the least bad thing) might not be the ethical thing to do but some people (me) would still consider that the right thing to do. When letting people die that want to live (an important caveat) is more ethical than doing something to prevent that, something is very wrong. Also letting them die when they actually want to is considered unethical by some.
Yeah, I had the same feeling that MV3 has been rushed and is not 100% ready. The other issue as well is that Mozilla and Google roadmaps are quite different, so you might end-up having to support both MV2 and MV3 for a while at least. And even then, Mozilla will have some different APIs on MV3 (albeit they will be extra APIs when compared to Chrome).

I am looking forward to see the state of things in December 2022.
If you want to talk about extreme capitalism (US healthcare) vs. GDR Stazi communism, only, then sure the conclusion that you are lead to is obvious.

And yet there better models than both, once you get past the emotional appeal to this false dichotomy. Any well-off European country with universal healthcare (usually socialised), well-regulated free markets in most other sectors, and relatively low income inequality will do.

That's leaving aside the models that are currently "science fiction".
Well the game can be beaten constantly with just 2 move...

Probably can impress your non-programmer friends?
I feel buddy. I have been there before. The one "trick" that has helped me tremendously: I force myself to to work on something just little bit. A tiny bit and then built on that. 10min, 15min a day. Just get a bit going.
Could this be seasonal (assuming you're in the Northern hemisphere)? Try a session on a sunbed, see if it makes a difference.
This is strange and sort of answer some of the question I have had about HN. Personally I dont flag stories much, ( I wish I could look back at the history of post I flagged LOL ) I just dont vote on it.

I am surprised so many people decided to flag a post just because it is Enterprisy. It may also be the case some people create account for submission, voting and flagging purposes. And only participate in minor discussions to gain / wash karma points.
From the article:
"[pigs] they can be genetically manipulated to produce organs less likely to be rejected on transplantation."

Is this true? How would these manipulations be carried out?
Small victories.

Start with the smallest, simplest task you can complete. The endorphins from that you apply to the next small job and so on. Ideally each of these small tasks move you a tiny step towards your end goal(s).

The idea is to create and maintain a positive flow / momentum. If you stumble step back to something smaller and regain momentum. The difference with discipline (also a valuable trait) is that a good flow makes you _want_ instead of _need_, a more positive and less stressful mindset.
Interesting that he brings up "a robot to automatically brew Starbucks-caliber coffee".

Here in Australia, you can get a really high-quality coffee from just about any petrol station for $1 (in AUD; around 70c in USD). Yet in spite of this, we have a thriving cafe scene where people will gladly pay $4-$5 for a take-away latte.

What's equally "irrational" is that Starbucks, despite the high amount of effort put into each drink, is generally considered to be worse than the $1 coffee from 7-11 or Coles Express.

I'm not 100% sure what the takeaway point is, but it was just so jarring to read that Americans view Starbucks as a luxury rather than some kind of bizarro-world meme.
No, backpackers in SE Asia are still mostly on the expat side. Even if they are broken students on a sabbatical year, they mostly have families home that can back them up in case of need. (Exceptions apply, YMMV etc etc.)
I can't speak to the social expectations to have a housekeeper or cook as a domestic employee, but in many developing nation environments with high income disparities between the working class and those who hire domestic staff, there's another thing to consider.

In some places that don't have supermarkets the process of buying groceries for a whole family is much more time consuming and labor intensive. For example, you get vegetables from one market, you go to another place if you want chicken and wait while they literally kill it in front of you, chop it up and put it in a plastic bag.

Everything comes from its own decentralized market and requires a lot more time/effort to buy on an ongoing basis.

Shopping and the process of buying all the supplies for a household is not nearly as convenient as going to Costco or similar in north america.

Often the role of cook is combined with general duties of procuring household supplies, handling things like the local electrical bill, hiring laborers for household repair and maintenance, etc.
Ancestors of Inuits came to polar regions less then 10 thousand years ago. Yet even during this short from evolutionary perspective time frame they got a mutation that inhibited ketosis.

Even outside the polar regions to places where fruits and vegetables where not available or were very limited people came relatively recently. For example, in Mongolia it happened about 20 thousands years ago. Moreover, human population there in any substantial numbers appeared less than 10K years after domestication of animals and access to their milk. In Mongolia people living in traditional ways drink a lot of fermented horse and camel milk getting enough calories from carbohydrates to avoid a permanent keto state.

So a permanent keto state from evolutionary perspective was never sustainable.
Wow, I remember being mesmerized by TLP back in the day. Thought provoking and confusing, all at the same time.

I just reread the Amy Schumer post. What a wild ride.