skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FaceTime is over Internet. If AT&T is charging you for "international data", then please redact personal information and put your bill on the Internet. That would be absolutely crazy.
Software Paper Cuts
It's not necessarily typeset the same as the letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diameter#Encodings
I pay for more Content than I ever have. Ever.

I have 600 records, pay directly for a YouTube show, pay for 5 substack blogs, I have hundreds of dvds, 500books, endless video games for multiple consoles, Netflix, hbomax, Hulu, boomerang, Shudder, Amazon, I've had sling, CBS watch, wb archive, criterion, and others.

I go through periods of Pandora or Spotify.

The reality is every company wants to charge but they all want to be on the open web at the same time.

Can't have it both ways.

I control what downloads on the internet I pay for, on the device I own.

If you didn't erect a paywalls? Your fault. Not mine.

I wouldn't bed a stranger without a condom

I don't browse without an ad blocker. Or privacy badger.

People who understand ad blockers but don't use them are corporate sychophants.
Twitter fights are well known to turn into meaningful change. /s
Plants are living things.
There was a "metaverse"-style chat room in the mid-90's that I loved. It looked like a side-scrolling game that was actually a chat room, and you chose an animal avatar to interact with the other avatars. There were ways to unlock different avatars, as well as some sort of currency, but I don't recall any of the details.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It's been in the back of my mind for almost 20 years.
I love having a dumb car. My wife has a modern car and my experience is superior in almost every way. She has to select a temperature and then her AC system blasts her with freezing or burning air until it decides the car is at the desired temperature. Since the selector only goes down to 65, it's impossible to get medium-temperature air on a nippy day. My dash, on the other hand, has a dial that goes from cold to hot, and I can make the air come out at exactly the temperature I want. She has a button to select where the air comes out and has to cycle through the head/foot/defrost/etc options and then wait for a motor to get what she wants. Mine is a mechanical dial I can turn to any setting instantly with no motor to break later on.
Practices like this are hilariously common in the industry.

Right out of college I accepted a job offer at a small consulting company on the east coast. They promised they would give me free housing at their luxury apartment for the first few months and give me all the training I need to excel in areas of my interest. I flew across the country and found out the whole thing is not as advertised. Their luxury apartment had piles of unwashed dishes and flies in the kitchen and piss on the bathroom floor. They had bunk beds in each room and I slept with three other dudes from wildly different backgrounds. My first night, this guy from Turkey assured me that everything is going to be fine, that he was shaking in fear for the first couple nights but he soon learned that if you work with them, they get you what you need. At the same time, another guy from Chicago was telling me how I need to look out for myself because the company likes to steal money from your paychecks.

The next day, I learned that "working with them" meant going through their "resume revision" process. Turns out, there was a network of consulting companies like this one, each creating fake experiences for one another. Fresh grads who clearly have never coded anything of significance became senior engineers with 5 years of experience. The resulting resumes looked real stacked, filled with keywords that recruiters love. Furthermore, during live interviews, they actually placed someone with actual technical knowledge behind the laptop camera to basically write out all the answers on the whiteboard while the candidates read out the answers.

Some of the people there loved talking about how so and so got placed at prestigious companies and became hugely successful in their career. Most of them knew what they were doing wasn't the most ethical thing to do, but not many complained given their visa status. Also, they were actually really grateful to get a developer job that pays ~$40k. They were just regular people.

I personally didn't need visa support, and I had the luxury of being able to fall back on my parents. So about a week after I flew over, I gathered my things and left. It was an interesting experience overall, one I'm glad I could experience.

My 2c for interviewing: always look up key phrases you see on resumes and see if identical copies show up. It's usually a giveaway sign.
> If I give you suggestions, you're just going to say, "well that's the way we've always done it and people will be confused if we change now", which is exactly what they said about C until someone decided enough was enough.

Believe me, there are a lot of people trying to find better ways to teach and communicate mathematics. There's inertia, of course, but it wouldn't be the first time people change notation because it's better.

> Even something as simple as the set of integers being the letter Z requires you to understand German to know why we chose Z (and not I) in the first place.

I mean, you'd just move from confusing people who don't speak German to confusing people who don't speak English.

> Or d/dx being totally unintuitive for anyone not well-versed in differential calc.

You are not going to find any notation for a derivative that makes the concept intuitive for people that don't know differential calculus. If anything, it's more intuitive than f'.

> Still, it seems less helpful than it could be if mathematicians weren't married to tradition.

Or maybe the tradition has been built because after decades of mathematics nobody has found anything better.
I like this, reminds me of how much shitty experience HN has on smart TV's.
I remember reading the first paper and my impression is that a lot of the engineering limitations back then no longer apply in 2020+.
The funny part is I remember a time when even on HN the majority defended ads for a myriad of reasons..

There's quite a lot of HN readers who work for businesses that derive most of their revenue from ads (Google, Facebook, content companies, etc) so there's always going to be people here who are willing to stand up for ads. The famous Upton Sinclair quote is quite appropriate - "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
I've been on HN for years, but missed this. Thank you!
If a particular city wants this for new development it can happen. Often starts from volunteering for the planning committees.
What made up the southern tier, and where was/is it?
> In fact, we are cutting forest to meet demands for lands to grow cattle because it's still not enough.

That's not true. "We" are not cutting down forests. It's the Americans who do. It's Americans, both South and North Americans, who consume almost double the amount of beef as in any other place in the world:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-type?coun...

(Annual beef consumption per capita: Argentina - 42kg, US - 37kg, Brazil - 37kg. Next largest amount: Portugal - 18kg).

In truth, the most common meat produced and consumed the world over is chicken and pork:

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production#meat-production-b...

(million tonnes of meat by livestock type, 2018: poultry - 127.31, pigmeat - 120.88, beef and buffalo - 71.61)

It's the Americans who cut down forest and rainforest to plant soy and corn to feed (or at least "finish") their cows. The rest of the world can do fine without the extravagant, inhumane and destructive factory farming of cows. We already do.
That does make sense and I hadn't thought of that.
But considering the huge portion of internet users with adblock enabled, wouldn't it make sense for the advertiser, publisher and third party to collaborate on a system installed on the publisher's servers that the third party verifies is an accurate metric?
Or maybe the naysayers are correct that the whole ad tech universe could never and will never work and is doomed?
Sway has had support for both of those for years.

Tray: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/0.14.0

Screenshot: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/0.10
It's still not that simple. Internal-combustion engines are extremely inefficient (and pollute more since they're harder to monitor and not reliably professionally maintained) and there's a lot more waste involved at every point of that process. You also have factors like regenerative braking to further complicate the comparison.

The other big factor to think about is the relative emissions profile of the shipping system which brings that fuel to you specifically where you live. It's true electric power has transmissions loses but those very considerably as a function of distance and it doesn't require the same power to be shipped multiple times. Shipping oil in a tanker with high-pollution marine Diesel engines is going to be different than piping it to a refinery or having a modern freight train haul either coal or oil, refineries aren't exactly low-pollution, and gas also requires a considerable amount of pollution shipping it to thousands of fuel stations (with electric power, at least a lot of the environmental impact is focused in one location).
Yeah, I think this point tends to be missed sometimes. Two countries with the same headline rate, where one has ~universal vaccination of over-65s and the other has 80%, would be expected to have very different death rates.
Would be interesting to apply game theory to tech debt, because it is, after all, The Great Game we all play, whether we admit it or not.
This has to be the most unpopular opinion so far

I have a few questions for you

1. How long have you been doing this ?
2. What do you think of other (not just monetization) ways ads are bad as in bloating the web, privacy and security issues ?
3. What if you truly need to access a website but it has too many ads ? You give up ? Use adblock ? Continue with ads ?
Review: MNT Reform Laptop
Sounds like a neat party trick! (At least, if you've got a really stable connection.) Did they do an md5sum afterward, or how did they know it worked?
How can something like this ever work out? If you're an okay-ish candidate and you hire someone better to do the interview, you might get away with it. But if you don't even know the basics of the job as the post claims...
Is it even fair to characterize it as waste at all at that point? If it’s presently not economical to do anything else with it other than leave it in place, that doesn’t seem the worst given that it’ll break down into the soil and/or feed into the wild food chain.

Or is food that doesn’t go into feeding people somehow just considered “wasted” under industry nomenclature?
But... is the interviewee proxy doing this as a side gig? If they are good enough to get paid (presumably) for taking interviews, how can that be more valuable than just taking one of the jobs they successfully interview for?
NightCafe Studio: Generate Coherent AI Art
This is basically an extended exercise in equivocation. It's pretty cut and dry that the statement does say one thing (keep ads out of search), and doesn't say another thing (don't place ads above search).

And as I've said in numerous comments, there's a thematic level at which the statement is clearly at odds with Google's ethos in 2022, but that point can be made without equivocating between unlike things for the purpose of misrepresenting the statement.

Edit: in response to your question: Google's statement critiques the placement of ads into search results. So one example of them acting in a hypocritical manner would be to place ads directly into search results.
I've considered getting a monitor-style dumb display for my next TV, but the issue is that none of them have an inbuilt TV tuner. I get pretty fantastic reception at my current place in Queens and I'd hate to give up all my OTA channels and switch to something like Sling or YouTube TV, which again just brings back around all of the same pitfalls of a smart TV.

edit: just saw that the one you linked does have a tuner and remote! Brilliant! Might actually end up buying the 32 inch one, it's very reasonably priced.
Does anyone actually feel like they are owed anything for free (site seems down, apologies if the author said as much)?

I will browse news and articles sometimes -because- they are free. If they were not, I simply no longer visit said page. I don't feel I'm owed their content in any way, and I'm OK just walking away if they decide to paywall it.
I don't know if it makes that much difference, but I like that Ublock Origin by default only disables itself for the specific site you click it on when you click the big power button. I always try to reinforce to people how to turn Ublock Origin off if they need to (and I like that Ublock's UI makes this really easy to do), because I'd rather they disable adblocking for one site than remove it completely from their browser.
Twitter use to be a place to find folks of common interests, but its been flooded with political and other highly annoying topics that I prefer to avoid. Sadly, there's not good way to filter out the content and they keep flooding you with it :(

R.I.P Twitter for me; haven't touched it in over 2 years.
It is a good idea, I actually use a dresser for my workstation at home and I’m always standing like I was at my standing only desk at the office.

I find that it takes about a year to transition to standing only during work, especially when you’re used to thinking deeply while sitting, but it has been a huge help to my productivity and it dramatically lowers the energy barrier to go in to do some walking or a quick physical activity to keep the mind sharp.

Be more productive is nice, because then I just take all that extra time and use it to help around the house or go on walks outside myself.
Right, but that is absolutely a misuse, since if anything it's the opposite that's meant, it's a 'claimer' - I claim relevant experience or context through being a lawyer and SE.

Again not just boring and nit-picking on something so common where I know what's meant; I was just surprised that a lawyer (i.e. someone so familiar with it) would make that error. (Or use it with that (proscribed) meaning, if you prefer.)
So I wanted something like this when we were looking for a minivan I don't trust smart devices or vehicles as that's just one more thing that will break.

So we found a van didn't have those things but my wife insisted on BT and a backup cam. So we negotiated with the dealer and they were able to make a deal with us to have their shop install a backup cam and Bluetooth for cost, and we love the van ever since.

My point is that a lot of features can be put in the car after market and you don't have to deal with having to buy the whole upgraded package.
It is misinformation because it is outright wrong. Follow Malone for a couple of weeks and you will see he has nothing else to share but: Vaccines are bad, Vaccines are killing people.

- https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jan/06/who-robert-ma...

- https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252...

> As we prevent three deaths by vaccinating, we incur two deaths.

> "Are we headed for the situation where the ~30% unvaxxed will be devoting their lives to operating whatever is left of the economic infrastructure and serving as caretakers for the vaxxed?"

This is what got him banned from twitter.

Why don't you try to investigate a bit yourself? People with credentials can have no other motive to spread misinformation and all the motive to "save the humanity" ? Sad to see this on HN.
The things I dislike about my car are all fancy "smart" features. A keyed ignition would have been fine, but they replaced it with a push button. I can stay in my lane just fine, but every time I turn on the car it turns on lane assist and I have to do a button sequence to turn it off.
No worries. I have a PhD in physics and understand a small fraction as well. Some I have no idea where to place (even though I went though extended math, and I quite like the subject).
That's actually a pretty good strategy and I am inclined to try it.
Just for the record : I don't deny that COVID is a threat, and still I am not vaccinated and probably won't be.

And it is not because I have complications, I just don't feel like it.
Podcast – Loris Degioanni of Sysdig – CTO and Founder
Belgian civil servants get legal right to disconnect from work
Sounds like she sees the refraction of light through the different densities of air, aka a mirage. Artists are usually more perceptive of how light contributes to what we see.
Grakkit – It's the Fusion of GraalVM, JavaScript, and Minecraft
Yes that does get you 99% of the way there at least. It does require predicting/assuming the electricity prices though. If they are predictable enough, that's fine. It doesn't quite reach feature parity with actually fetching electricity prices every hour and slowly learning when it's cheapest over many weeks.
The two-column proof has been a thing in math education for over a century [1]. I have been told by math educators that it is almost universally detested by school students, because of how it restricts their thinking. Nevertheless, it would be useful at the research level to include more of this hinting. But hinting is not a notational issue at all.

[1] https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/4265...
SponsorBlock is one of the coolest extensions of recent times. It's also a great example of crowdsourcing actually working for the benefit of the commons.
Spotify publicly posts content policy as Rogan responds
Still working here. Was hoping to get a break, but no :)
Carjacking around here tends to take the fake-accident tactic. This is where the criminal bumps you enough to think an accident occurred, you pull over to exchange information for insurance, and then the criminal pulls out a gun.

I have a few notes.

1. Even though this is incredibly scary and stressful, the percentage of people actually shot in carjackings is almost unheard of. If I had a family, it would be a better trade to lose my car than to have one of them sexually assaulted on a lightrail, or have myself get a knife somewhere (both of which have happened within the past few months).

2. Carjackings can be (partially) avoided. The police have sent out warnings in the city that if someone bumps you and you suspect a carjacking, go to the nearest police station or at least drive to somewhere with a lot of cameras up close and witnesses (gas station?) before exchanging information. This means that carjacking still has some preemptive measures I personally can take, whereas riding the lightrail, stuff just mostly happens.

3. The map of carjackings in Minneapolis has far more people living in that area than people riding the lightrail. The lightrail, by number of people traveling on it and by size / concentration of people within a given area, is much more dangerous.
Discord + iMessage, but it's just friends and for fun. We're not building anything.
a receipt is boring, i'm imagining a cute sticker nft commissioned by the artist that fits the theme of the concert. And i'm not suggesting that with concert NFTs we wont take pictures, but i think it can work alongside to enhance the experience and have a verifiable way of determining ownership.
Does it work well on linux these days?
'I know it's worse for the environment ...'

Considering all-in light rail costs per passenger, your assumption may not be correct.
Another interesting side effect of not using HTTPS is that other sites won't trust yours. In particular, if you try to use Open Graph or similar metadata to generate previews that other sites can embed when your link is posted, many of them simply won't do it because they don't trust the origin.
Whenever I encounter a latin/greek medical term I often amuse myself by translating it into colloquial English.

lithotripsy = stone crush

presbyopia = old man eyes

streptococcus = chain of spheres

contusion = bruise
Seems pretty hard to successfully pull this off. The better your chances of being successful, the more likely you could have gotten the offer on your own. If you needed the stand in to get the offer, you're not likely going to be qualified and won't last.

Perhaps it could be successful for people who are technically competent, but have a severe stage fright when interviewing. At the lease, you'd want the stand in to record the interviews so you could watch and learn who's who and get the context of the job before starting.
The Reverse Spiderman Principle: With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power
> Who is saying they expect free content?

Anyone using an adblocker is expecting free content.
Building new things is seen as business risk, I reckon.

This is why startups or VC backed things can explode, and innovate, but once you IPO, innovation is not what’s important - it’s about perspective I guess.

When the death spiral of anti-innovation starts, people such as talented developers start to drop off, and in the end you’ll have a slow, bureaucratic mess of an org, sustained by the inertia of an already existing customer base.

“How about we yank up them licensing fees?!”, or my favorite “Let’s rename a product suite!” (Citrix, as a case in point, is notorious for this…)

This be the enterprise IT lifecycle.
Absent a real situation with real people, I agree.

In practice, however, many developers work in a low trust environment where management is quick to bring out the stick for any (perceived) mistake or error. In that scenario, it's understandable to not want to expose your mistakes.
So there is no censorship?
So there is no middleman in the peer to peer payments?

How would you solve those problems without a blockhain?
I'd say React has reached boring by JS standards.
My company (just me) hosts a hacking group on Discord. Particularly interested in topics like databases, compilers, emulators, operating systems, browsers, etc. That's where I hang out!

https://discord.multiprocess.io for the invite

I also just started a virtual monthly hacker night where hobbyists and professionals give talks on any of the above topics (anything tech internals, really).

I'm looking for more speakers. If you want to do a lightning talk or 20-30m talk let me know what you're interested in talking about!

meetup.com/hackernights or multiprocess.io/hackernights/
I have definitely seen this before but it seems pretty more on the extremities. Although that's where all these ideas started, good and bad.

Not just with magic but the idea of white/black, light/dark as a placeholder for good/bad qualities being racist. Seems much more obviously related to illumination than color to me (scary/bad things happen in the dark/blackness/night).
I always preferred the Dungeon versions on Inform6 and the ones in C.

ZDungeon runs everywhere and it's almost a full rendition of Zork with some changes here and there.

If you want something to target the ZMachine, you should try Inform6. Any 16 bit computer since ~1987 will run z5-z8 games.

If you need to run the game well on 8 bit computers, check Puny Inform, which uses a more limited VM (the old v3 widely used from Infocom), but the stories will be good enough.
I’ve always wondered how companies that do mass interviewing like Google and Facebook determine if the person who interviews is the same person who shows up to work? I imagine especially with completely remote work, if you delay joining by a few months, who is going to remember what you look like?

I’m sure this happens and I’ve seen people trying to hilariously cheat on virtual interviews but the fact that people are probably successfully interviewing at FAANGs and getting away with it intrigues me.