skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this works great when one wants to do staff augmentation or contract for tech companies.

Maybe this is what the OP meant.

The situation is a little more complicated if one wants to sell services to an end client that is not technical. Finding the right marketing mix to get in front of these clients is a challenge (ie, they are not on HN and many of them spend very little time online for work-related activities).

I keep hearing that going after a relatively narrow niche where you can offer relevant expertise is the way to go. Even then, I suppose some sort of direct outreach is the way to go.
For the names I looked up in the UK, this might as well have been a map of population centres. Almost every surname was focused in London, Birmingham and Manchester. It's to be expected, I suppose, but not very informative.
The lesson here seems to be: don't mess with people's sugar
> as you’ve probably already entered payment information into the Microsoft ecosystem either for buying apps or movies on the Microsoft Store app or for making similar purchases via your Xbox.

Is this really that common? I've never interacted (directly) with the Microsoft "ecosystem" in my whole life, and I've been a Windows user that entire time. If I was going to purchase a movie or an "app", the Microsoft store is not the place I would go.
The reason is because there was a long discussion about Reddit as a search engine in that thread. reddit.com will likely never be indexed. Many of the subreddits already are, but I haven't exposed the ability to do something like Google's `site:reddit.com/r/*` yet. That's coming though.
Unfortunately, besides Office, my employer still has a much longer list of desktop and web applications that only work with Windows and Windows-only software (e.g. Internet Explorer). The most prominent obstacle is Acrobat, as we use fillable PDFs with smartcard digital signatures for all of our internal paperwork. Adobe stopped supporting Acrobat for Linux around 2013. I can't even view a lot of our PDFs with the alternative viewers, let alone fill and sign them.

Anyway, I agree to your point about Microsoft turning my opinion against them with all these things about Windows 11. I used Windows 10 at home quite happily from 2017-2021, and I even praised the new Chromium-based Edge to my friends and coworkers. I switched back to Linux when I got a new laptop in October, and I feel like I got out of the Microsoft ecosystem at the right time. I still need a Windows 10 virtual machine on-hand for occasional work-from-home tasks, though.
I know that trade with China makes up a relatively small part of the US economy however, what happens when nearly all the goods you buy say some part of it is made in China?
And mine keeps cutting out if someone fat walks between my laptop and the router 6 feet away...
There aren't enough tokens in the world to make me accept what you describe about brave. Always surprised when I read HNers actually using it. It just sounds really scummy what they do to me.
I guess blogs that are linked-to in non-killed HN comments should probably be crawled a bit. Have you considered using social user karma (this could be a 1-10 score uniquely calculated for users of each of HN, Twitter, Reddit as long as it's built in a modular way) as a weight in a PageRank style schema?

Here's how I am going to evaluate your search engine. Yesterday I searched Google for "get dynamodb table row count" and found this URL, https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/aws-dynamodb-count-items, which provides a terrible recommendation involving a full table scan.

With DontBeEvil, I didn't find the correct answer, to use the describe-table API.

If you really plan to dedicate a year to this, I would strongly encourage you to re-post again as soon as you have a strong update. Right now this has potential to provide value but really does not. So update us when you have confidence that you might be providing value! But we think you're on to a great opportunity.
Why do you assume Bitcoin will be the coin of choice rather than a “DigitalDollar” of their own creation? (Or are you just using it as a stand in for conversation?)
Done, thanks for the heads-up! (Also corrected it to read 'achieved' ;-)
> Noise cancelling headphones work as well at home as they do at work. I love mine.

This is actually the bug, not the feature. These people have bought noise cancelling headphones, so when they join a meeting everyone else it bothered.

>Imagine: I definitely spend time outside of "work hours" doing work, so it might balance out.

Why are you doing work outside of working hours? That does not make sense.
There are rumors that Russia is about to cut themselves off the internet exactly because of this reason, any day from now.

They have been preparing for it for many years, and they had an exercise in 2021, which was based on the law introduced in 2019.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-disconnected-globa...
I think this overly trivializes the posters situation without reason, but the end point is correct.

Maybe the business is dead, maybe they will lose their home, and maybe their life's work. This will certainly happen to countless people.

The point of Broad and durable sanctions is often too simply hurt the lives of citizens and pressure or weaken the government.
I recently used Fiddler along with Frida[1] to deal with cert pinning in the app I was looking into.

[1] https://github.com/httptoolkit/frida-android-unpinning
But did they establish a link and transfer data?

Broadcast packets with the SSID aren't too difficult to get. You only need to get one.

Fun regardless, but I'm curious for more info.
I was unaware about this feature. I have not seen it myself. Seems like a bizarre feature.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-...

https://youtu.be/h34Oh8CEnqA
Couldn't agree more with what you said here. I have split feelings on punitive punishments like this. I like many others have family in Russia, anytime you take a punitive measure like this, sure it may punish those responsible, but it's really just going to punish every day people that just want to contact their families.

Russia getting cut off from financial services is also a huge problem for every day people with families there. Right when the Ruble collapses, we have fewer and fewer means of supporting our families over there. I get the why, we are trying to cut off Putin and the oligarchs at the knees, but it's sad that everyone else is getting swept up in it.
So I assume Russia will join the EU 13 years after being utterly destroyed as Germany has been joining the EU in 1958 - we have only very limited data points here. Though because of the Russian scare of the 50s perhaps Germany was let in earlier then one would have guessed. We would need an external threat like China that unites the EU with Russia, something very unlikely from the current point in time.
China is 3rd largest trading partner to the US behind Canada and Mexico.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/t...
The question is: what is bloat? Is everything that depends on Electron bloated? I'd say yes, and there's a lot of non-enterprise software that uses electron.
So I'd rather say what is special about enterprise software are UI/UX-trade-offs that are unimaginable for consumer software.
And these trade-offs are often (not always) reasonable.
Lol, yeah January 6th truly is the important event here. Truly the benchmark for the worse that could happen. What a completely self centered comment, like I'm sorry but you realize we are talking about a war and you still managed to bring up January 6th as if that was even remotely comparable or similar to what is currently happening?
This is an old article, dating back to at least 2005 as per Web Archive[0] please edit the title to reflect that.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20050201000000*/https://www.qsl....
Closest Black Hole to Earth Is Not a Black Hole, but a Vampire Star System
I don't disagree, but the point is the $1.1B has already been spent which makes relegation a non-starter.
Rebranding? I think the term applies, but is more general than what you're asking for.
Ask HN: Books recommendations on developing critical thinking?
hoping get your recommedation on critical thinking, decision under uncertainity - other than khaneman's book.
if you need a crazy french canadian gaming warlord providing commentary, heres the xqc version (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1409387850?t=00h58m50s)
Not yet. That's an astonishing about of data, and I want to make sure that people genuinely want it first. I'm considering an index specifically for this actually.

I'll put you down as a +1
> And, my personal interpretation is that, given that one already went through all that trouble to attain it, it must have some profound meaning by definition.

Wouldn't this depend on what "profound" means? The "lean" model of enlightenment favored by Daniel Ingram and other modern practitioners is that it's really about progressively dispensing with the psychological "need" or "craving" for some sort of personal identity (in the philosophical sense). It's one thing to reveal that personal identity is an illusion (that's comparatively easy in many ways), another thing entirely to restructure your underlying thinking process so as to fully engage with the world without needing to constantly refer back to that basic worldview. There's plenty of room for disagreement as to whether that's 'profound' enough!
It's interesting how the world rallied immediately to the aid of Ukraine in a big way, compared to the middle eastern countries that have been destroyed by the likes of the US and allies, or the South American countries that have been completely destabilized by the US government.

Really makes you think...
I wonder what they looked toward as a possible successful outcome? It seems like most of the things you’ve written should have been seen in advance as either likely or at the very least possible risks, so what was the gain they sought?
Work. I work mostly on the Microsoft stack, and I haven't broken the habit of Windows powershell to move to Powershell Core yet.

When I got upgraded to Win11 I first switched up the UI to look like Win10. I made a copy of System32 so I could keep the scant few things which were unusable in their W11 version (namely snipping tool).

It's basically Win10 more or less now. With some annoying regressions in how Explorer works. I won't enumerate them here.
Yeah, I didn't get that comment either. Countries like South Korea are economically dependent on China.
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Stacks v1.8 – The secure Trello alternative just got even better
Neither statement is true but is oft repeated. I can bring some clarity:

A poorly regulated electrical market doesn't make a poor user experience. In fact, it was government meddling that created the crisis: Forced closure of coal plants before suitable replacements that could withstand 100 weather year events were available. The free market in Texas has and was leaps and bounds ahead of other markets in green energy production. Texas has also wanted to build countless nuclear projects that are stonewalled by the NRC and other green energy projects that die due to EPA or other local agencies. Believe it or not, green energy companies play dirty too and leverage government bureaucracy to stifle competition and expansion of green energy.

Secondly, it was not Only Texas. I live in Kansas and travel to Missouri weekly and we certainly had outages. The reason is all of these areas are covered by the "Southwest Power Pool" which is a generation pool which agree to sell energy to each other and help out during extreme events (an oversipmlication, but good enough for a HN comment). Texas operators trade energy in multiple markets so nearby locations were affected. My home state, produces nearly 2/3 of its energy from green sources: wind and nuclear and the excess is sold to the SPP and can be consumed in Texas.

Texas is in fact the _ideal_ energy market, as new ideas can compete immediately and directly and operate on small scales. We'd be doing ourselves a huge favor to operate more grids like this as it lower the entry bar for clean energy startups.
Why "cut them off" rather than mark all ru originating traffic with a specific header/tag? That way, consumers can decide whether to reject that traffic or not.

I'd also support individual services extending this to e.g. tagging user accounts. That way you could:

- mark posts in forums based on if they originated in ru i.e. better detection of Russian bots/shills in forums where Russian-based participation doesn't make a lot of sense.

- firewall forums s.t. different groups of users cannot see each other.
Maybe their news debunks ours, can you prove there isn't a holocaust going on in Ukraine right now? It's almost impossible to disprove a negative, and any reasonable argument can be dismissed off hand as a lie.

In fact if there was a holocaust in Ukraine right now being perpetrated by the west wouldn't they just deny it?

The point of Russian propaganda is to create noise it doesn't have to be right it just has to make noise.
I always found ULA's reliance on Russian engines absolutely ridiculous. If they don't have their own engines they have no business being a launch provider. Apart from SpaceX, USA's launch capabilities for the past decade are in complete shambles.
Deepfakes are being used to push anti-Ukraine disinformation
>idea of receiving all my regular human interaction through a badly made Electron app from Microsoft for the rest of my life is just not a good idea in the long run.

Have you considered bars?
Doesn't seem to like diacritics (ie accents)

Tried my name in France with/without the accent.

Seems weird for a site related to Europe.
Math, unfortunately, has never been my game. How often does a likelihood or probability become significantly less than 0. Isn't 0 the floor? Or is 0 the 50/50 value?

I agree on the wasting of money for the wallpaper pattern that is called a degree.
> You’re the one extrapolating that they are saying ALL SPAs are bad

This was not my extrapolation. But if you skim over a comment you're likely to perceive it as falling into one broad camp or another whether that's the case or not.
A Performance by Russian Cadets Shocks an Audience, Shows Rising Homophobia
Sitters ruin toilet hinges and make the seat all wobbly

You miss leg day or something? Pop a squat
It appears that you forgot to end your sentence with `/s`. The first time I read it, I did not see this as sarcasm, and so did not understand why @superpie responded to you the way she did.

Now reading your comment again after a few days, it's clear that it's sarcasm. So it would've really helped the "slow" people, like myself, to see the sarcasm right away, and respond to your real concern/intent.

I guess the lesson is, people on the internet can't read your facial expressions, so make those expressions explicit by using the small cues like /s liberally :-) That's why I use this generic smiley liberally in my conversations, to show that even though I might be complaining about something, I'm in a generally happy mood, and don't want the reader to get the idea that I'm pissed, which is the default expression a reader might perceive me to be in.

Back on topic. Yes, this gadget seems useless for portable things that you actually move around quite a lot, e.g. a toddler's toys. But many products use batteries, and yet they are not moved around much, or at all, e.g. Keyboards, TV remotes (the ones that are used only to turn the TV on or off), Kitchen appliances, Game controllers, etc. This would be a great idea for those portable-but-not-usually-moved battery-powered products.

I agree with @sidpatil, though, that these should be cheaper so that the customer may want to at least consider using this product before popping in the next set of batteries. Bonus points if you can make the visible parts in different colours to match the customers' other appliances.
Was a time George R. R. Martin could've pulled off something as splashy. Doubt he could do it now.

I wonder if this will be the inflection point in Sanderson's career, I can already hear the "everything sucks" critics sharpening their knives over the amount of money raised. He could drop something with the impact and longevity of "Lord of the Rings" and there's still gonna be people bitching about that much money for 4 books.

Another nail in the coffin of the traditional "publishing industry" too. Expecting to see "edited and produced by" credits in books soon, and to pay attention to the names of those as much as the authors.
The Russians want sanctions, they want UN officials walking out refusing to listen to diplomats. It makes the west look petulant and will only bolster the reason Putin gave publicly for starting the war.

Russia has been preparing to be isolated for 15-20 years. They are largely self-reliant and have four massive trade partners in Brazil, China, Iran and India. Plus Germany needs their fuel and have no alternative.

The more the west sanctions the worse it’ll be for the west and better it’ll be for Russia. Ultimately, the war is over. Russia supposedly wants an independent neutral country; I suspect they’ll take half the country and force the other half to be neutral.
>Who from "the West" is going to consider major investments in China now?

People have been saying this for more than 10 years. As long as interest rates remain low and China continues to grow, there will be plenty of western money flowing in.
Not to mention Iraq or Afghanistan by the USA or Crimea by the same Russia in 2014.

What's even weirder is that Ukraine is not part of EU and it's not part of NATO.

Double standards indeed.

I'm not sure if it's because of racism (they're attacking a country with white people), if it's because we need something to forget that covid became irrelevant but the restrictions of our freedom are still there or if the west need to justify sanctioning Russia for whatever reason.
Yes, because the protests on January 6th were literally the worst thing to ever happen in the United States, way worse than 9/11 or the Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbour. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden told me so. January 6th was WAY WORSE than the riots and arson that took place in multiple cities the previous summer. Those were "mostly peaceful" where as the Boomers on Jan. 6th are terrorists and should be held without trial indefinitely.
I wonder how modern (2022) equipment might fare?

Certainly the author picked a beautiful region to do that kind of outdoor experiment in.
Many EU toilets are small and in old buildings (no electricity near toilets). So ymmv.
I specifically wasn't solely focused on that, in fact that's pretty clear from what you're responding to regarding ISPs and freedom of access.

> transmission or distribution by any means such as cable, satellite, IP-TV, internet service providers, internet video-sharing platforms or applications, whether new or pre-installed.

Since this is a legal obligation, I fail so see how EU protections against ISP censorship would apply.

It really hinges on whether you believe the law is saying "transmission or distribution" here means that you cannot under any circumstances allow a user to access the content. This language is specific and I don't believe has ever been used in the EU to mean that.

My read on this is that this is designed to prevent situations where ISP, cable, satellite, et. al. providers have more direct involvement in its transmission or distribution. Consider cases where companies offer a streaming service that sometimes includes news channels (e.g.: Netflix), or ISPs that offer their own streaming services doing the same. In those cases, those companies are taking an active role in deploying the content, so they would fall under the umbrella of transmitting or distributing it.

The "court order blocking illegal content" is an example, not an exhaustive list of the ways a legal obligation to censorship could pertain.

This is why I linked the regulatory article itself.

This is also in the context of a blog post wondering if TOR is now illegal because of this. Would that make VPNs illegal as well? How would the EU even consider shutting down VPN service providers in other countries?

I will gladly stand corrected on this if I'm wrong and the ultimate result here is that RT becomes inaccessible to the EU based on this law.

However, it will not affect TOR any more than it would affect VPN providers, anyone offering VPS services, etc.
> "Because your rights end where other peoples' begins"

Understandable, but what happens when rights conflict in the other direction? Why doesn't my ISP's right to block access to parts of the Web end where my right to consume information begins? Why do we place more importance on the 'rights' of an abstract non-living corporation above the rights of actual citizens?

> "what a company allows or doesn't allow on its platform is compelled speech"

Would this make things like Net Neutrality and public broadcasting laws likewise unconstitutional? The government always requires this for several things deemed to be in the public square. I see no flaw in bringing parts of the Internet's infrastructure into it.

> "a baker has the right to censor you"

Scale and scope matters. We're not talking about a mom and pop shop choosing not to do business with you, we're talking about multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies.
uBlock Origin, HTTPS everywhere
Unfortunately for Putin I think they've already blown it. China could come in and basically buy Russia now given the damage all these sanctions have done to their economy, and meanwhile they've illustrated clearly that the rest of "the band" does not want to get back together. Putin is going to need to learn Chinese.
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Wouldn't the "next chunk" problem be mitigated greatly by just maintaining larger buffer sizes? I know most client devices (such as Smart TVs and HDMI Dongles) don't have the memory capacity for it, but a 10 second long buffer would effectively mask a lot of those issues.

That being said, most residential internet packages have low upload speeds, which is an issue
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That is not without basis. Many cultures with meditation traditions caution against unsupervised meditation. Interestingly enough the Christian bible describes the devil trying to tempt Jesus during his 40 day meditation retreat (which is what people would call it these days). Coincidence? Maybe.

Definitely not saying meditation is a way to connect with the devil. Just saying that it's not as much baloney as you might have thought.
> For just one example, I was watching the trailer for the MSFS cloud service a few days ago, and the entire ad is just bullshit - nobody plays games like that, nobody sits like that, nobody holds their controller/device like that.

Anyone got a link? There are a ton of ads/trailers showing up in search but I can't find that one.
"Can you explain why Snowden is refugee in Russia for having denouncing the crime of USA worldwide ?"

Afaik, you are probably thinking of Assange (who is currently under arrest in the UK). Snowden is a refugee in Russia for exposing NSA's surveillance.
On iOS, the header doesn’t stick at the top of the page.
Yep, relevant xkcd:

https://m.xkcd.com/1138/

Without a per-capita adjustment, this is near-meaningless.
I have 3 sizeable EC2 instances running an ElasticSearch cluster, plus a beefy box for data preprocessing and crawling.

A big chunk actually goes to BigQuery. There are publicly available datasets for HN, Stackoverflow and a few others there. I've also loaded up the Common Crawl index. The query and storage fees really add up.

I'm hopefully done with huge BigQuery queries, so that $200 will probably drop for a while.
Second time in fifteen minutes I happen to come across you serving up weird apalogetic interpretations of dictators and dictator-wannabes. (First time here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456634 )

Twice is coincidence...