skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Chrome reportedly destroys Mac performance – here’s how to fix it
I read the article and still don't understand what she does or what web3 is. I learned a few new buzzwords though.
It turns out that sometimes no one is checking.

https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-681c35ee3afdd4...
Bridge became disjointed in Albany: https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=130405

I remember it pretty vividly because the woman who drove over it was on the local news in tears. Could have been much worse.
Weird to see this described as a "deprecation," when really it's removed entirely.
Ultimately, the economics of every one of the states depends on the federal government. The government creates dollars in locations like vector field sources, and creates sinks by way of taxes, thereby setting up flow, motivating activity. For the federal government, the vector field is non-conservative.

States, however, don't have a money printer. Every dollar they spend, they do have to tax or borrow.

Some questions arise in my head: If local infrastructure isn't being maintained, is it because it's not worth maintaining? How would we measure that? Does the stochastic nature of the problem make it intractable for local/state governments?

For example, if I have 4200 bridges that are in need of repair in such a way as I can expect two to fail this year, and I am unable to predict which two, does preventing two collapses necessitate addressing all 4200? Is that scale entirely too large for my local government? If it is, is that because those 4200 bridges serve too few people? If not, is that situation unprecedented (can the local government adapt to address a problem that it hasn't had to before)? What if the local government is unhealthy (ideologically opposed to service, disenfranchised citizens, perhaps a southern state)?
Big $CORP employee here. This is a pretty solid take in the parent comment. Big companies offer good pay and advancement opportunities. But, that does come with a heavy dose of corporate theatrics and organizational bullshit. At small companies, on the other hand, your options to advance may be more limited, and if you don't like the job you're in, you can't always jump to a different part of the company the way you could at a big $CORP. Like anything else, it's a tradeoff.

My advice to OP would be to simply try it out. If you see a job at a big company that interests you, go for it. You'll quickly see whether you like working for a big company or not. I never thought I'd enjoy working for a large company, but I gave it a try and I like it very much, corporate BS notwithstanding.
Me too - but never thought about this good tip with the "find" command.
The article's caveat about storing "just the commands" (run log) applies though..
> I've long used Linux exclusively on laptops/desktops and in the past I've been a Linux/Unix sysadmin but I have no idea how to go about getting a smartphone that runs Linux and works with the major carrier services or how much it would cost.

You aren’t doing enough research or trying hard enough then. PinePhone exists. Raspberry pi+4g modem and accompanying software for SMS/telephony exists. You can find Linux phones with a simple Google search (I find Purism and PinePhone on the first search results page for ‘Linux phone’. Also plenty of Android phones can be rooted. I managed to root every Android phone I owned since I was a teenager with limited technical expertise by following some simple tutorial or another.

It isn’t Apple’s fault that the average person isn’t doing their research or trying hard enough, so why should they be suffering the consequences? This line of thought stems from entitlement. Just because Apple’s solution is so good users feel entitled to other solutions being just as good, and when they aren’t up to par, initiate litigation against Apple for providing such a high quality solution that makes others pale in comparison.
> Could something like Unix happen again?

I wish Plan 9 had taken off.
The risk of unpatched vulnerabilities between now and the next "major release" far exceeds the risk of inconveniencing anyone foolish enough to rely on the system Python 2.7 installation.
Me: older self taught startup guy who transferred to a large edu a few years ago.

Not all large co’s act as a monolith. Some allow smaller depts to run their own shop while having access to their resources. This could be bad in terms of learning ‘the right way’ but that’s what interviews are for - to ask them questions too!

You really want to care about the mission of the large co though.

If you find one you like, get in touch with their recruiters, show them your resume and ask point blank if it needs restructuring to make it through their weedout filters. You bring things to the table that don’t always fit in the boxes.

Also widen the scope in terms of how senior you want to go if the co promotes well from within.

Good luck!
You clearly are not a constructive participant in this issue.

> What is the relevance of this at all?

You brought it up.
Firing front line responders, nurses, etc for refusing the mRna shots backfiring?

Not encouraging preemptive healthy lifestyles backfiring? (Obesity, etc)

Things will work out just fine.
>>> if it produces more and better science

Its not even about science anymore, its all about money and prestige [0]. I am not saying there are no principled scientists, but money and prestige makes the world go around.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/science/charles-lieber.ht...
Yes, Netscape was one of the companies Microsoft set out to crush, but it was hardly the only one.
To be fair, one company did: Digg. And that's why no one uses or remembers Digg anymore.
No pictures of the Germans? Pity they were the most stylishly dressed of the lot.
It's funny that some of these pictures still look better than what a modern phone can produce. Crazy to think about.
Perhaps, all I know is there is currently only one product offering / ecosystem that frees up my time from doing tech support for my parents.

My dad had a OnePlus phone from 2016 to 2018 or so and it was a mess. I don’t know what he clicks on, but he does not have those problems on iOS.
Hydrogen to Replace Natural Gas Is an Inefficient Use of Energy
> What? In a point release?

See also the breaking change of 12.3 kernel extensions with Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive:

* https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/25/macos-12-3-cloud-storag...

* https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/macos...
Tangential, but there's also a port/recreation of Linux/Unix on the C64 that's fun to play with in an emulator called LUnix (it's not just a hacker tool :) ).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix
Just look at the growth in the number of Adobe employees between 1990 and 2019 at this link :

https://dazeinfo.com/2019/11/08/number-of-adobe-employees-wo...

if headcount was any way to measure success, then the killing of Flash did Adobe the world of good.

edit : not corollary, but the capacity to manage Flash security might have arrived too late, if I recall that late 2000s sudden Acrobat hegemony that was so absolute a stranglehold on corporate document cultural defaults they were uncaring about opt out only browser extension auto installation and more dark patterns than I care to remember. Unless the dark patterns secured that growth. Ugh. One of the primary factors in my purchase of a top model iPhone for my first Apple product that wasn't Snow White era was the ability to print to PDF (edit removed anecdote accidentally aggregated)
Is it just me or in the past couple weeks it felt like Twitter actually went the opposite way, allowing normal access again (no popups) like before?
It sure looks like new. I recently ordered some DDR2 for a printer's mainboard.
Hello again HN; I built a chrome extension called Bookee (https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/).

There are a lot of extensions out there that help you manage your bookmarks, but I wanted one that showed me a preview of each bookmark. Whether those are screenshots, open graph images, or thumbnails, I wanted to _see_ what the bookmark was.

I'll be open sourcing it soon to make the process more collaborative, but in the meantime, it makes it much faster (and easier) for me to search through my 700+ browser bookmarks and find what I'm looking for.

If you have any ideas on features, integrations or design feedback please let me know in the comments :)
Does MacOS ship Python 3 by default? I've been using homebrew for so long that I forgot.
Ironic that the schema.org approach basically matches the Waterken server schema model from 2003. Tyler Close was ahead of his time.
I'd like to point out that the majority of replies to this comment are about industrial espionage, and not academic research.
Makes shebangs easier
Like this one? https://www.crowdcube.com/
Commenters in this thread are making a lot of generalizations about tax structures and so on, but it important to keep in mind this is a special case at a number of levels. Pittsburgh has an unusually large number of bridges. These bridges were built during times of relative wealth when the local steel and related industries were doing well. Since the decline of American industry Pittsburgh has scaled way back and had to rebuild itself as a medical and technology center. This recovery is mostly a success story, but the infrastructure cannot be maintained. For example, the greater Pittsburgh area has some of the first suburban areas to be completely abandoned with services withdrawn, Penn Hills being a poignant example of this. Obviously no bridges should be coming down, but there is a real problem here of how to build and maintain a modern city that is smaller than the older one that it replaces.
Wish someone would create a machine learning thing that deletes brands from video footage. Just filter all that noise right out.
I wrote an entire essay about this at https://tech.genericwhite.com/remembering-details-of-program... but here is the gist...

The main things I have figured out are, 1) use a script to contain all the stuff I know I will not remember, 2) structure projects so that there is a script for each environment I have to work on, 3) be rigorous in making all that structure the same because I know I will not remember where the script is if it's different, 4) use aliases (also, btw, listed in my .bash_profile) to execute them so I am not confused and 5) make sure to write all the fussy details in those scripts and keep them up to date and refactored frequently.
When you refactor a commonly used structure, it's easily possible to hit situations that you described. In those cases, having nicely organized commits are super important. You need to make sure that the commit that does the refactor only does the refactoring. Nothing else, then you can review the PR commit by commit and it becomes much more manageable.

When people start doing multiple things in a single commit with 1000's of changes, it does become mentally exhausting to review. Unfortunately, it requires either being extremely diligent when making the commits or being familiar with git rebase -i.

Of course, sometimes it's just thousands of lines of new code and impossible to review :).
In the revenue category...
I have not tried it but this is where an enhanced shell history (particularly with cwd) might come in handy: https://github.com/ellie/atuin
It's dismaying to see history rewritten so brazenly.

Nortel collapsed because it made bad investments during the tech bubble, and then was hit by the nosedive in investment in network expansion when the bubble burst. On top of that, Nortel was terribly led, resorted to fudging its finances, and got caught.

That's what caused Nortel to collapse, not supposed Chinese spying. Huawei, the alleged beneficiary of the spying (which is just an unproven allegation at this point), was not even a major rival to Nortel when Nortel began to collapse. Huawei had barely even begun to expand out of China at that point. Nortel had much larger international competitors.

Yet somehow, almost two decades after Nortel began to implode, a rewritten history of Nortel's collapse, somehow premised on Chinese spying, has begun to become popular. I think this has much more to do with the recent increase in tensions between China and Canada than with any new information about how Nortel went under.
Think that $300 Billion is over multiple years. E.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/04/new... has $300B over six years, or between 1 and 2 percent.

So in fact, if your other number is correct, about 1/2 of the bridge budget.
I do the same thing with the added benefit of being able to hear screaming, sirens, or anything that would alert me to re-close the door.
Other obvious comparison points off the top of my head would be Venice (~400 bridges, much smaller than Pittsburgh if you count the island city rather than the broader region), Amsterdam (bigger, but has 1200 bridges apparently) and Birmingham UK (no total for bridges found with a quick Google but there's 100 miles of canal and a lot of elevated urban motorway and railway). But the great thing about being the place with the 'most bridges in the world' is that if you've got an impressive number of bridges, who's counting?
I don't think anyone has to argue any of those things when the alternative is to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere.

The building is burning and people are trying to pump the brakes to discuss the most efficient and clean way to put out the fire. I don't care if it turns all your (and my) papers to mush, we need to be spraying water everywhere immediately.
I just want to throw this out as a counterpoint to the "our infrastructure is crumbling" narrative: https://www.slowboring.com/p/roads-and-bridges (look specifically at the bridge part)

Which isn't to say there aren't targeted places we should improve, but I think these discussions often boil down to "everything is awful and unmaintained" which isn't true.
Does he just get paid to turn on and off his computer because apparently that takes all day
Drifting branches seems to be the main argument pro feature flags. I wonder how teams avoid breaking parts sleeping behind feature flags, by the ongoing development of its surroundings.
This is a news article, not the NTSB final report.
Unicode in Five Minutes
> ... is this level of industrial/scientific espionage even a critical factor in our current world?

Yes
In Montreal, all of the bridges are in terrible condition, in part because they were built by the Mafia but also because of the weather and the road salt. This is probably st least in part responsible for the difference between Pennsylvania and Texas, though the states' finances and management of course also play a role.
They decided to not ship anything and let you download it yourself.
Ask HN: What is the most hassle-free way to build a personal blog?
First, I want to explain why I want to save the hassle and save money: My personal blog is ad-free. I just want to write, so it is not worth spending too much time or money (preferably free) on non-writing behaviors, and I do not have the ability to deal with complex, high-maintenance systems.

I am looking for a way to blog that is effortless and have minimal maintenance on the server side (like static site generator vs WordPress), a way to write the blog that has a better writing environment on my PC. (Maybe a local CMS or something like that)

Few ways I know so far but they are not perfect

The first one: WP2Static plugin for WordPress (or other plugins by WP2Static author Leon Stafford [1]). They work, but they have some minor issues, they do not export sites perfectly. Other solutions [2] recommended by Leon I have tried: HTTrack has not been actively developed for a long time (since 2017) and does not work anymore, Wget can't crawl the site intact, Shifter, Stratti are expensive (But they run smoothly), HardyPress' cheap plan has only 500MB, Sitesauce's hosting provider Vercel was censored here. (I know, right?)

The second approach is called Headless CMS [3]. But after doing some research, it seems that running a fully local Headless CMS requires writing complex API calls (Strapi, etc). Better solutions are either expensive or free but require an account and have some limitations. I would prefer a completely local and free solution (I am so greedy :-|). NetlifyCMS seems great but it seems like it can only be hosted on Netlify?

The third way is Ghost [4]. Ghost's writing experience looks good, but if deployed to the server, it may require continuous maintenance. Ghost's static plugin [5] seems to be not working perfectly. Ghost's Headless CMS also requires writing API calls.[6][7]

Fourth way: popular services like wordpress.com, Medium, Tumblr, etc. are not accessible in my area, so I can only consider self-hosting.

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[1] https://github.com/leonstafford/

[2] https://wp2static.com/alternatives/

[3] https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/

[4] https://ghost.org

[5] https://github.com/Fried-Chicken/ghost-static-site-generator

[6] https://ghost.org/docs/jamstack/gatsby/

[7] https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/sourcing-from-ghost/
> then we aren't really a union

A republic union in military protection and legal/political bridges/agreements.

If the fed is in charge of everything, then there is no union, just a large federal state. This is what we're becoming as everyone places their hope in Congress for solutions.

Like most large countries with a single rule instead of unified states, we're going to regret this more as time goes on. (Excluding countries smaller in population than a single US state)
The alternative is to have state and local governments allocate funding for infrastructure maintenance. There's no need for the federal government to get involved; that just creates an extra layer of bureaucracy and waste. Congress should only be funding major projects with a significant impact on interstate commerce.
Effectiveness of a Third Dose of Vaccines in Preventing Covid-19 Hospitalization
Arguments about Highly Reliable Agent Designs as a Useful Path to AI Safety
It's surprising that such high-quality photos could be made back then.
Your $300 billion number just isn't true. If you're looking at that Forbes article, well, it covers 6 years. So it's only $50 billion a year. About 30% of that you're counting twice because that was money from the US military budget they spent on foreign aid. So, a bit under a whopping $35 billion a year, or less than 1% of either tax receipts (which are actually over 4 trillion) or less than 0.5% of the US budget itself (6.8 trillion)

0.5% not 8%. These numbers are very different.

Although this bridge seems disconnected from the highway system, so I'm not even sure the US government even funds it at all.
This assumes brew works on your machine. It doesn’t on older Macs.
It did as python3, but the default python was still 2.7, though it's had a deprecation warning for a bit.
I've seen that claim before, but then I remember my dad grew up on a farm and TV wasn't much available and he is very nearsighted. So the claim is either completely false, or only a small part of the picture.
What's "the market"? You mean, top 5% pay in the country where you live? That would probably be about US$15k/year for me, not really what I'm looking for. So they'll hire you for full remote but pay you 80% less than someone who'll move to Palo Alto?
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Extra background information

I used to use WordPress and I liked its non-technical friendliness. I used to use the export function to back up my blog (I did not know how to back up databases at the time), but one day my database was unfortunately damaged, and the import function could not import correctly, all my pictures and videos are lost. After that, I turned to static site generators. After trying hexo, pelican, hugo, I was amazed at the generation speed of hugo and the ease of "installation" (only one binary file), so I chose hugo. After using hugo for a year and a half. I started to feel bad. In the beginning I was a SSG noob, so I used the basic theme, which lacked a lot of things, such as meta description, featured images and other seo and user experience optimization, and later I changed the theme a few times, but due to the different features of different themes, I had to manually change the headers of each .md article to fit the theme(they work without changes, but please forgive me, I just hope the .md article will work with the new features of the theme).

Finally I found the Academic theme (now called Wowchemy) and it looks like an ultimate theme for me, I've been using it for a few months, but accessing the CDN the theme uses (previously Cloudflare's cdnjs later jsDelivr) from my region is slow and sometimes even inaccessible, although I could self-host CSS and JavaScript, I realized that it was time to stop, so I gave up and switched to writing notes on OneNote.

Recently, I wanted to start blogging again. I re-examined WordPress and SSG based on my earlier experience. I found that there is a relatively complete plugin called WP2Static, which can convert a website into a static website (like generated by SSG), but the latest version(7.1.7) has a problem with handling sitemaps, I found on GitHub that the problem has been fixed, but not merged from the dev branch into the stable release, my own attempt to compile the dev branch failed, and I found the exported content is missing, so I did not adopt this solution. I also learned that SSG seems to have evolved a concept called Jamstack. According to my own understanding, it seems to be a combination of dynamic and static. It separates the front and back ends and can be freely combined?

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I don't disagree either, but the whole GPLv3 situation is still not solved after all this years. Will they completely remove bash, rsync, eventually?
We are not the same
This is probably the only good reason I can think of why they might point a laser directly at us. They have no idea we're here, listening. The chances that we happen to be listening at exactly the right moment is miniscule. For the same reason, I don't have a lot of hope that SETI using radiotelescopes will ever find anything. But using lasers to power a ship or probe headed to our solar system could make sense.

Well, maybe not from Tabby's Star; it's over 1000 ly away. I'm sure they have plenty of closer targets to send their probes to.
Portability: one you hand-code assembler for an architecture you lose compatibility for others. Unless you provide multiple code paths to account for this, but that increases testing and maintenance requirements.

Future optimisations using better on-chip features, or other new techniques: new instructions that reduce the task might get used by the compiler but it won't update your section in hand-coded assembler.

Maintainability: you don't want to force larger parts of your workforce/community to be familiar with assembly if it is not useful day-to-day, or lock your assembly capable people to maintaining those hand-written-assembly portions.
Call me when scholars are being massacred in the streets... Get a grip.
internet was supposed to be the savior. these sites were the vanguard of the brave new world.

instead it was the worst sellout ever, using the greatest power in time, to build megaliths that have humongous power of distortion.

yes, it hurts. and it should. much more. but they manage to make people to 'move on'.

in the end. we forgot. It's always about power.
Only because of a JetBrains license I get through work
Is mobile unsupported?
This is a great commonsense idea which is likely to have a positive impact.

However, given the array of things which have been termed "Dutch" in English, does "Dutch Reach" sound naughty to anyone else?