skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The King of England died from a disease caused by getting shit particles in your food.

So? Many people die from even baser diceases today too. Including homeless and poor people in the US. And they toil their whole lives before that, and are made to feel insignificant, and have no power or servants, unlike the kings.
So Apple has a tool against stalking caused by their own products. Reports of abuse are rising though. Technically trackers are illegal in Germany, but the law and legislation acts slowly.
I believe Pentax have a system like this in some DSLR models
no, Pixels are not high end Android phones, upper midrangers at best usually, nowhere close to Samsung/Xiaomi high end, heck they even use years old cameras without upgrade
That is such a ridiculous comment, I had a mighty chuckle.
> Programmers around the EU are among the best paid professionals in their local markets,

That's not really true. I live in Austria and many more skilled professions earn better than most devs here as the local SW industry sucks, almost no product-based companies and a market overabundant with talent.

I'm sure in hot markets with plenty of product based companies like London, Berlin, Amsterdam or Eastern Europe the situation is better.
I don't think it's reasonable to quote the price of a new car (which is in tens of thousands) when determining whether someone can afford a car.

I sold my last car for €500 and it wasn't in the worst shape.
Lol at the "just let go" vibe, then a stab of "adderall helps too" at the end.
"offers" !?

Not the onion.
he meant per year...
In the US, the median software dev comp is more like 2x GDP per capita though. The BLS says 110k for devs + QA testers median salary, and IIRC that doesn’t factor in stock.
No, it's time wasting. But it's not as bad as Reddit is.
If you're a rich person with stuff in your company's name, or some kind of structured impersonal assets (and ultimately, relatives to take care of you, and friends to do you favors every time you bankrupt and default Trump-style) yes.

Otherwise, there are repercusions from one that aren't there on the other - up to incoming a debt slave to your default's arrangement, not getting any credit anymore, and even ending up homeless.
Xcode Through the Years
Yes.

1. I sometimes stumble upon random strangers who do something related to what I'm researching or working on and usually you can just comment and they will reply. This level of accessibility to the actual tech people is rare. Imagine trying to reach a Google software engineer through their end-user support channel. Won't happen. But you might e-meet the same person here.

2. It's great for conversation topics with peers, especially if all of you check the headlines in the morning.

3. I just love the long-term prediction articles and especially their discussions. Of course, the predictions will most likely turn out wrong. But understanding how people reached those predictions can be very valuable for making sense of the arguably messy tech landscape affecting all of us.
> "usually it should be more like a day" is bad advice in my opinion, and a likely source of micro management. Let professionals do their work.

In my team we always publish some form of status report at the end of the day. This could be a pull request or a list of open questions on the task. For us that is less about micro management and more about bus factor: If a person calls in sick the next day the rest of the team wouldn't be able to continue that persons tasks without this process.

I understand that this can be detrimental when it feels like micro management. But I believe it is more a question of framing.
Privacy concerns with BigBlueButton's new Learning Dashboard
>I'd say it depends on the EU markets. I have the feeling that IT professionals from Eastern Europe (I'm from there) are a lot better paid, comparatively speaking, to IT professionals from many other Western countries (with the focus on "comparatively").

It's true. Unless you work for a FAANG, or some Fin-Tech or a unicorn flush with cash, dev wages in Western EU are not higher than Eastern EU anymore.

I know devs in Poland and Romania making way more than me and some friends do in Austria/France/Belgium.

It's because of huge amount of outsourcing from US companies moving directly to Eastern EU, pushing the wages higher than what Western EU based companies can offer locally, coupled with the higher taxes in the Western countries, meaning devs in the West taking home lower wages than their counterparts in the East.

Someone here said it well, but I don't have the original post to quote anymore: {a cleaner in Sweden makes way more than a cleaner in Poland, but a dev in Poland can end up making as much or more than a dev in Sweden}. That's whack but that's the reality of supply and demand caused by the bleed from the US tech boom to certain regions.
>In the TV era, they weren't.

Well, what do you think killed the TV era? Competition from a medium that promised less annoying ad experiences. I bet that you can't sit through an entire NFL game today without your phone and the ability to mute/switch channels.
Exactly. If the law was changed to allow judges to impose "denial of transplants" as a punishment, then one might consider that a good or bad thing, but in that case it would be the courts not the doctors who makes the determination, and the legislative who'd be ultimately responsible for the rule existing.

As long as there is no such law, it's not for doctors to impose such restrictions.
I am regularly frozen in place by these.

Here is the only solution that works for me: ignore the big picture unless your heart is clearly telling you that you are in the wrong place. The big picture is a mosaic of smaller pictures.

1) Focus on one small thing you can do right now that you can complete before you next feel the urge to, just as an example off the top of my head, play WEC Le Mans on an emulated Amstrad CPC again despite it having no productive benefit.

2) If you're not getting _anything_ of your many tasks done, it kind of doesn't matter much if the "one small thing" isn't from your most urgent project; any work is progress out of the rut.

3) at the same time, if there is one thing causing you major anxiety, address it productively, even if that means acknowledging that you are delaying it and someone else is a better fit. Sooner or later if you delay it too long it'll be taken out of your hands anyway.
As a kid, I was extremely anxious from both genetic and situational reasons. Earthquakes nearly gave me panic attacks. I decided I didn't want to be limited by phobias or fears of unknown/inexperience. For personal development reasons, I dove towards anything that scared me to get over it: arachnophobia, acrophobia, peniaphobia, atelophobia, and whatever else that seemed limiting or impossible. Also, it took decades to get over, but I used to be deathly afraid of women more so than stage fright in front of hundreds of people. Now, when I see someone interesting trembling on the other side, I feel obliged to offer sympathetic reassurances, i.e., today only: free hugs for normal humans, supplies are limited. :)

I have a condition of unknown etiology apparently causing autonomic disfunction that also causes my sense of fear to be almost silenced.[i] It's a constant state of "anxiety", hyper-vigilance, and inappropriate sinus tachycardia unmanageable by anxiolytics (CBD, BZs, etc.), box breathing, meditation, therapy, or anything so far. Emotionally and psychologically, I do not feel much in the way of any actual fear or anxiety despite having physiological anxiety symptoms. Adrenaline and self-preservation instincts still work alright. If I could relax, I would give my left nut. I don't have PTSD, i.e., intrusive thoughts, nightmares, flashbacks, or sweating episodes. If I had to do front-line combat, I wouldn't have any aftereffects.

i) Examples:

1. I had no problem confronting a 300 lbs. aggressive, mentally-ill, homeless dude from terrorizing a mother and her young son.

2. I do stupid, extreme sports shit and take random risks (not gambling or substances) for fun. PPG, 40+ mph e-scooter in traffic, and learning to longboard. Used to street race.

3. I've been through multiple mass-casualty regional disasters. In each, I only felt inconvenienced and later reflected on the losses of life.

4. I may not be John Wick, but anyone stupid enough to come at me with a weapon better know how to retain it, or they're going to lose it and likely receive an educational beatdown. Irish propensity for grudges, finishing fights, and lengthy military family lineage.
I bet 100 years ago rich people in developed countries thought the same. The answer was technology (more energy extraction and more efficient use of resources and energy) and now a better standard of living is achieved by several orders of magnitude more people even while the whole population has increased dramatically. Everyone in the world can live by same or better standards if technological progress continues. Ofcourse it will never be perfectly distributed, so there will always be "poor" and "rich".
> 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.

Students aren’t paying for college, the government is.

The researchers aren’t paying Nature, the government is.
U.S. Food Supply Is Under Pressure, from Plants to Store Shelves
I think this is a clever solution. I'm not seeing why it requires the hash to be a fixed size though.

Why can't the algorithm just keep whatever is common between the two files?

Or just take the shorter side of the diff and zero it out?
Usual culprit - your brain's dopamine circuits are fried by your daily activities like endless phone browsing, video games etc.

Cut down on dopamine junk and you'll find motivation without any effort.
If a burn down your house and farm, and you end up working on a McDonalds or a sweatshop to make ends up, you'd do it too because it's "a better option than any other" for you.

Same if your parents took you there, because the state is rigged in favor of the rich guys, which have fucked over their prospects, pocket money that would go for development and infrastructure, sold national resources for cheap to foreign companies that bribed them, and so on.

What's the "better option" is not some neutral natural given state.

But people who haven't experienced those things, think all is well in the best of all possible worlds, and these sweatshop guys should be thankful for the greay opportunity.

(To add insult to injury, more often than not, those people live in the countries benefitting from both exploiting the sweatshop countries to underdevelopment, and from the resulting cheap sweatshop products).
I would just render each page of such a PDF in two colors (black or white without shades) and turn the images into a new PDF to upload. If that doesn’t make the steganography fail, maybe add a lot of static? Or censor illustrations anyway since many journals provide them independently of the text.
That textbook definition of “valid” only applies to purely deductive arguments. Outside of mathematics, most arguments humans make have a significant non-deductive component (inductive and/or abductive). So, unless we assume that moral reasoning is closer to mathematical reasoning than to the kinds of reasoning we normally use in the sciences and humanities-a very dubious assumption-the formal concept of “validity” you are invoking has rather limited relevance to morality. That’s why I read your statement as intending “valid” informally rather than formally, since in its informal sense the term is not restricted to purely deductive arguments; and informally it is very much a normative concept (formally, I think it has multiple formal senses, some of which contain more normativity than others)

I think your overall point is, you are expressing scepticism about claims to know the truth of some particular moral proposition, grounded in a more general scepticism of the possibility of any moral knowledge at all.

I think that kind of general moral scepticism is (usually) a form of normative scepticism. The big problem I see with normative scepticism, is that attempts to argue for it logically and rationally turn out to be self-refuting, because logic and rationality are themselves normative concepts. Furthermore, if one understands knowledge as having a normative component, normative scepticism collapses into radical scepticism (there is no such thing as knowledge), which obviously ought to be rejected.
I skim in the morning for "News".

I avoid otherwise because of the "Hacker" (i.e. tech bro) vibes.
I think this may already exist?

My car's built-in navigation presents me with the most straightforward route by default, and shows me options when they approach. If I take one of those options, it has a personalisation setting that will prefer that option the next time.
What if he had kids now?
I don't see how it reduces harassment. The creator still sees it. It is not like they were removed entirely... And I think some manipulation was already possible. So I see even less point in this action.
Of all the developer sites I go to that are not pure Q&A, HN has the best signal to noise ratio: Lots of folks with interesting backgrounds often add insights, explanations, and rebuttals in generally polite and informative comments.

I also check the 'new' postings (see top of the page). Often times, there are interesting posts in there that for one reason or another don't get enough traction early to make it to the first couple of pages. But they have interesting content. It's also, in a small way, a service to the community to get in there and upvote worthwhile content.
> AFAIK the brain releases endorphins or something when you exercise

People tell me this all the time, but when I exercise I just feel tired afterwards?

Maybe it only happens to people who are fit who have a history of exercising regularly?
Almost every sufficiently small unit of time here is a complete waste. However, over a longer timescale I find it useful. I kinda look at it like a webring for discovering points of view I wouldn't otherwise stumble across. And some comments are insightful.

My biggest gripes are the endless "rewriting X in Y" stories and the comments from people who are smart in their own field who think that any other field is amenable to their armchair reasoning.
A more interesting question would be why haven't users punished "slow" websites by not using them?
as late as 2015, 2.1 million people were somehow still using its dial-up service

That number is how many AOL Dial Up customers there were in 2015. It's from this article - https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-2-million-people-still-p...

Paying for the service is not the same as using the service. There are many reasons to pay for a redundant dial-up connection in case of an outage with your main internet provider. There are probably lots of people who had a dial-up account but forgot to close it. Some people probably did still use it, but for things they don't need broadband for (email, IRC, etc).

You can't use the existence of a handful of dial-up connections to claim we should be building web software for people on dial-up. That just shows you haven't thought about things enough.
An other way is WebGL.
There's a small YouTube channel by a person with anosmia who made a number of videos explaining what anosmia is like. I think the series is worth a listen if you're interested in that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG3_w7IOivw&list=PL32E3dB2pp...
I have a different conclusion. The article mentions that the car would have cost her 3 months of income. That doesn't sound too much and is roughly about the same what people pay for cars today, maybe even more.

The reason she thought about the car as a luxury and not a necessity is that then the society wasn't dependent on cars like we do today. They travelled less, worked closer to home, milkman brought milk to home and grocery shopping could be done closer to home as well.
I'm browsing HN everyday, but only once. I look at the first page, open the titles that seem interesting in new tabs and that's it. Sometimes I go into the comments and read some opinions about some topic.

I also read the good titles I missed during the week in the newsletter on Saturday morning.

I keep up to date about new technologies and directions, I think that helps me adding context to my managerial decisions.
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annoying to read
This, but for biking and without a knob.

Make an econometric model of my previous recorded routes with explaining variables: elevation, distance driven already, time driven already, time of day, temperature, road quality, wind direction, rain and explained variable: speed for the next kilometer.

Predict my speed on potential routes based on that.

Calculate routes taking these predictions into account.
You get what you want out of it.

My favorite use of HN is simply to get informed discussions on the pros and cons and alternatives to specific technologies I'm kicking the tires on.

For example, if I'm looking for a good VPS host that is cheap with great support I'll pick a random one off a Google search and then restrict it to HN discussions. Bingo, a plethora of alternatives from people with some experience with them.
From Hilaire Belloc, of pre-war (1911) Britain:

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.
> we could just write $64k checks to every American

Actually $51k. Over 66 years. Comes at around $780 per year. If it were paid off only by Americans. It will be used and paid for also by Brits, Australians, Israeli, Japanese and about 10 other nations.
Yes. I've played many PS4 games for a week from my library. It's like the world's best free trial.
Neil Young deletes open letter calling for Joe Rogan censorship on Spotify
The answer lies in entropy.

A mix of misaligned incentives (users are not the customers), tyranny of metrics and the fact that developers use overpowered machines (compared to the rest of the world) [0].

Add on top of that the inevitable bureaucracy and conflicts of interest of any large organization, and you end up with these bloated apps. Developing good software and fighting entropy (apps bloat) require a lot of efforts, and you can't achieve this when nobody is accountable (high churn), or even have that goal.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/qzoxp0/mobile_de...
> ship functionality on the daily

This creates unnecessary exaggerated expectations. There is only so much you can accomplish in one day, some functionality take way loger than that. We don't want to ship half baked solutions, but we are expected to do so... In order to accomplish that sacrifices have to be made on everything else that is important in software development: proper testing, documentation, refactoring and a clean codebase. Its perfectly valid for a developer to give the update "I am still working on ..." / "I am still trying to figure out:..." / "I am in the process of preparing the codebase for this update" for a certain period of time.
The thing is that

>by the time it actually gets removed in a future version.

doesn't always happen, so we're left with new, new v2, new v3 options and old one still exists "because it may break somebody's workflow"
> So ignoring the tvs, computers, holidays, cars, healthcare and all the things that we cannot compare and comparing what we can, it is obvious that just to live in 2021 we need more money that what we are making and so it is easy to see how most people feel that the living standards have gone down.

The thing is, you can live today without all of that and your living costs would be comparable to Christie's.
A house without electricity, centralized heating, safety regulations of today will cost far less to rent, if you can find one that is.
Today's housing comes batteries included with all of that so it will be more expensive. People might feel their standards of living going down but if they were to spend a week in a 1919 house they'd be much more grateful.
Airlines flying near-empty ‘ghost flights’ to retain EU airport slots
Then leave one security patch out of the update and push it to the next one.
"Waterfall works best in well-understood domains without a lot of uncertainty."[0]

Agile is, by far, a more effective way to run an R&D shop. By far.

"Agile teams show progress with working software, not documents. Right from the beginning. And that's huge." [1]

[0] The Art of Agile Development, pp. 35
[1] The Art of Agile Development, pp. 8
Nah, that's mostly a western preoccupation.
How do you submit your papers to scihub?
I think photoanalysisd can be turned off. In Photos, go to preferences and turn off memories.
It's good that people in North Korea are born into a prison and will spend their entire lives in there. The government has given them a life.

Of course, it would be better if they had good lives, and I totally support that. In theory.
Before I would say so-so. I got useful links and discussion, but I also felt like spending a lot of time here. Even for my few articles making it to the front-page I would say that the traffic was a bit of vanity -- surely nice for ego, but that's it.

Since my SHOW HN submission, though, I cannot complain at all :)
If you find you are developing too much of a HN habit (visiting much too frequently). Turning on procrast in the settings to 3 hours (or greater) is a great way to train yourself to do fewer visits.

Also the 'best of/top links' is great for finding what has been popular (although it maybe too late to add your comment at this point):

https://news.ycombinator.com/front
Or just like America.
They usually never take those yearly vacations since it would mean lost of practice and connections.

By this definition, the only people who are rich are young professionals in Western countries who actually take those vacations and go on year-long travel through South America, for example.
TAAL brings 4GB blocks to BSV with breakthrough upgrade
> People die in prisons, catch fatal viruses in court, etc.

Prisons and courts aren’t designed to kill. Methylated spirits are. This is very simple concept you seem to be struggling with, governments shouldn’t seek to kill their citizens, or introduce deterrents that operate entirely on the principle of making people fear for their lives if they fail to comply with the law.
Nasm – A cross-platform x86 assembler with an Intel-like syntax
I quite often find confirmation to my own thoughts in HN comments. It's tremendously useful to see peers express anonymously and to learn their vocabulary along the way.
Original title: "A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro // It's likely only a matter of time until PwnKit is exploited in the wild"

> a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges

Original publication of finding at https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022...

Immediate patch (though distributions are already providing security updates): remove the SUID-bit from `pkexec`

# chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec

...

The article from blog.qualys.com (signed Bharat Jogi) is very, very well written, and instructive. It would be nice to have a good collection of these sources.
MicroG 0.2.23 reintroduces support for SafetyNet
In the past, revocation was supposed to help cases where the owner of the certificate exposed the private key in one way or another.

Now it seems that revocation is supposed to help the CA covering up mistakes made by the CA.

Maybe we actually need a better CA.