skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped using Google Analytics when I realized that it doesn't produce any useful actionable data for me. It's just a feel-good thingy, where I watch the page view numbers and go "oooh".

Those page view numbers do have a relationship to my business. But it's like measuring traffic on a highway when your store is next to it. The numbers will be somewhat related, but not actionable in any way.

I guess it makes sense if you get paid by page views (ad-supported sites?). But I have a B2B SaaS and I get paid by subscriptions. I rarely care about any of the metrics that GA shows, and I found that many of them are bogus anyway. I could probably wrestle GA into measuring what I need, but why bother, there are easier ways to handle that.

A nice side benefit is that I'm not participating in the global people-tracking business and I'm not subjecting my users/customers to that.
Hmm, since the Fuchsia IDL is for IPC how would the two programs communicating know what field the other chose to omit?

They'd need to encode present/absent for every single field? Too many optional fields and you end up encoding variable lengths over and over too.

They go through great lengths to define alignment, how address space specific pointers are meant to be encoded/decoded in-place, field ordering etc. They seem like opposite ends of the tradeoff spectrum to me.

Protobufs drifted towards maximizing optionals, this seems geared towards minimizing them.
You are presumably an adult. Are your friends only within one year of age? Unlikely. That this happens for children is a consequence of our morally-bankrupt "education" system which isolates children away from the community and only with people the same age for socialization (of which teenagers are known to be poor at). The same way you can't blame an individual for not walking places in, say, Atlanta, because the path between two locations is interrupted by a highway; or you stop all fires from burning in a forest which has had fires for thousands of years then wonder why the fires are so intense; it's silly to point to social media being the primary issue why teens are bad at socializing when it's a direct consequence of your society to concentrate together people with wild hormones without a moderating influence.
"slave" wasn't removed. It's still a valid guess word, as are both "fucks" and "cunts" (I just checked, and still got today's word in 4). All the NYT did is 'demote' it from the special list of daily words because, fairly obviously, the NYT belive the optics of using the word as a way to make money is a bit complicated. There's no good reason why the NYT shouldn't have full control over an app they paid upwards of a million dollars for...
The demonization of Economics is as common amongst the fringe left as the demonization of vaccination is amongst the fringe right.
MIG for mach
From XSS to RCE – dompdf 0-day
One can be happy for the creator’s individual (and deserved) success, while at the same time begrudge the fundamental change brought about by its acquisition.

Simply saying “everyone shits on this guy” is not really helpful, or accurate.
Is the NYT already monetizing it? If not, I think it is too early to tell.

I don't see any ads while playing it.

It loads a lot of scripts from what seem to be advertising related domains though:

insight.adsrvr.org
platform.iteratehq.com
static.chartbeat.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com
tags.bluekai.com
tags.bkrtx.com
www.googletagmanager.com
analytics.twitter.com
c.bing.com
googleads.g.doubleclick.net
sync-tm.everesttech.net
www.google.com

Are they already making money from this or what are all these external scripts about?
Microwaves have two door switches to stop this happening.

If one fails, the microwave will still whir and the turntable turn and the light on, but the actual magnetron will be disabled. That's probably what happened to yours. If he actually had his head in an 800 kilowatt microwave turned on, even for 1 second, I doubt he'd have any vision left.
What about transitive dependencies?
Eh. There are plenty of tools and programs that are windows only and that will never change. There will always be vendor lock in as long as vendors exist.

I’d rather have teams start with high quality apps and branch out when it makes sense for them. Maybe it never will make sense for them and that’s okay!
Presumably because protos are designed around RPCs while FIDL is designed for IPC and different trade offs make sense in each case.
Wordle is a game everyone can play every 24 hours. The game show is… a game show
Strange that Soviet-Era bioweapons labs holding "plague Libraries"are now totally safe bat research labs, after two decades of hardening their security to protect their contents and training scientists to continue their work. It's not a conspiracy that these labs have been on the forefront of biological warfare for fifty years, it's history.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2005-10/threat-reduction-pro...
No, my claim is that a few are lying and/or exaggerating the truth, and most others are unwilling or unable to point out the lies. Just like what happened with Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction", which were a much more consequential lie, I hope you'd agree.

It's definitely an easier explanation than supernatural alien craft.
> That's not how it works? That's all I get? I'd refer you to the site guidelines, barging into a thread and going "NO U" is not a real conversation.

There's no point in detailing beyond that. Respectfully, it's like someone suggesting quicksand is a good way to stop tanks because they watched it in a cartoon. I'll add some commentary in good faith but I'm not going to comment beyond this.

The fact of the matter is that the amount of chemical product you need to try to slow down the enemy is so insanely large that it just doesn't make sense to use -- it doesn't make sense to produce, it doesn't make sense to prepare, it doesn't make sense to bother firing.

I invite you to pick your chemical weapons agent of choice (sarin, chlorine, whatever is the one), pick a spacial size you want to attack an enemy in and then do some back of the napkin estimations at how much of that chemical weapon product you would actually need in order to disperse enough in that area to achieve your objective. I don't want you to account for failed launches, or wind, temperature and so on, let's assume that every munition fired will go to the exact spot it needs to be and disperse perfectly.

You'll very quickly realise that chemical payloads are wholly useless. We're talking about in the magnitudes of hundreds or even thousands of rockets to clear out a small area.

Perhaps it made sense in trench warfare 100 years ago, but it doesn't make sense to use against a guerrilla (or even conventional) force in any modern time.

> We don't see people deploying chemical WMDs not because they are too expensive but because of political reasons, and after that, because they don't have them due to disarmament treaties. All it takes is someone deciding they really want to win for all of it to change. You can deny a huge area for weeks with a few chemical warheads. You can make a city inhospitable using less materiel than it'd take to flatten it.

None of this is true. Sorry, but it's just not. And hopefully following the exercise above you'll come to see it that way as well.
No. Most employers I've encountered pick one for you. The best I've had is the choice of Windows or Mac.

They have never let me pick Linux.

[Edit] Actually, one did. That was also the first place that I used Linux containers, long before Docker Desktop was a thing, and before the hype train really got rolling.
Back when Docker really made sense for process isolation, rather than using it as a lazy Linux VM for building on your laptop.
I think 1-on-1 tutoring is great and I agree that there should be more of it. But whether "genius" has declined seems unclear to me. In my life I've personally met a handful of astoundingly smart intellectuals who work across multiple disciplines -- I imagine these people are probably as smart as the geniuses of history. And I think there are still intellectuals and artists who impact the world at large in a big way. Imo what has changed is only that for some reason these people aren't canonized as "geniuses".

I suspect that, like "top college", people are only considered a "genius" if everyone (or at least "every notable intellectual") knows about them, and there is only room in people's memories for several such people; but over time, the number of really smart people doing revolutionary work at any given time has grown from a handful to many thousands. As the ratio of "available genius spots" to "people who should be considered geniuses" has shrunk from near 1.0 in the distant past to a tiny fraction today, culture responded by giving up on canonizing geniuses.
I think the revelation is if you offer expensive support (a real person to call, on time pizza or it's free, next day onsite repair, etc), that makes improving the product by fixing bugs easy to justify, because it lowers your support costs.

Of course, you could also lower support costs by having a mostly ignored user support forum.
Raising your seed round: why size doesn't matter
Seems to be buckling under the load, I'm getting timeouts and missing figures.
FWIW, you can disable the Issues tab on GitHub, there's a setting for it.
Jesus, you are right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hqq3VjrcFc

I guess this means, everybody can build games like this and the NYT would not be able to say they infringed on a game concept they own?
I'm sure the legitimate justice system can be misused alongside the others in various unethical ways.

A slippery slope: we've reached a point where, with some kickback, institutions like the media can nearly silence dissent from a manufactured truth to whatever end. A witch-hunt/moral crusade, leaving fame and fortune aside a bit, is a potential consequence of this dissent. The true believer can, has, and will silence, punish (or kill) a dissenter, as their mere voice and presence risks the crusade by humanizing the dissenter and threatening the discourse on which its built. Given that many of the crusaders are true believers, a sense of dignity seems to follow the process, thus the rush of the crusade's actions and the enrolment of more crusaders wishing for even greater truth and justice. I can see this rapidly spiraling out of control, with or without government support.

La lanterne? She's always been waiting.
You are betting your company worklow/future without contracts?
In principle I agree. Still I see structural differences in comic books and the abuse potential of psychological principles behind skinner boxes (esp. randomized rewards).

We are basically training ourselves with systems like these to press the lever again and again.

Even HN with the random element of 'will my submission/comment receive votes' works like a skinner box. And we don't even have notifications here.

Not sure if it is a good idea to train young people into these dopamine "shots". I remember how friends of mine spent all their pocket money on these collectible card games. Looking back these were my first encounter with the loot box principle.
Please read the guidelines and don’t post such obvious flame bait.

> Eschew flamebait.
Why so cynical about it? That's just what the situation was. The topology of our species' communication changed entirely within a single biological generation, from centralized orgs that delay and transform the signal, to the point where one node streams natively to any channel of their choosing, no transformations applied. How is that not worth mentioning in this thread, and how is it justifying cynic remarks?
Good. This won't be well received here because many that read HN are either just working in social media companies or directly on the teams responsible for addicting children. They don't like the idea that what they're doing is destroying the minds of a generation (and a half, at this point).
> Seriously? They're shutting down Google Analytics? Deleting all data six months later? The replacement is a completely different product with the same name but no migration path, and wasn't even the default option less than two years ago?

Yes. That's what the original post and the entire discussion here is about.
‘self’ works on pages too.
Yeah don’t use it if you feel depressed =]
I don't expect this to be very popular here for obvious reasons but to me it seems like it would be a huge win for both the average person and society overall. Competition drives innovation and market efficiency, while buying up competitors and mergers reduces competition and incentivizes vaporware and patent trolling in pursuit of a quick buyout.

Despite peoples best hopes and wishes, huge multinational corporations and businesses have not passed any meaningful efficiencies or savings to consumers or workers. Any benefits from economies of scale are quickly devoured by investors and high level administration. While good for those few, it comes at the expense of everyone else who have most of their choices taken away.
They had a hard time with doing whatever was necessary to get their cabling on poles and finding sites for equipment.

They also found that when you light a fire under the butts of incumbent telcos, they can deploy modern infrastructure really quickly. And the telcos already know how to get lines on poles and how to site equipment boxes.
Few minutes ago worked fine. Could be “the hacker news effect” ;-) try later.
Lingo isn't wholly original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto
Well I hope your friend tried to work with the IRS. At the very least they can put tax debtors on a payment plan, but I would think that they could grant an exception to your friend to have the gain and loss cancel each other out even if they took place during different accounting periods. Never hurts to ask.
Up until today 'slave' (and 'agora', and 'wench' and etc.) was removed. It seems like starting today NYT has reinstated the previously-removed words. Interesting.
Aren't the boundaries of time zones federally defined? Does this bill change that? My understanding previously was that the only choice states had was between summer DST and year-round standard time. Otherwise California could have switched to year-round Mountain Standard Time instead of lobbying Congress for year-round Pacific Saving Time.
I would absolutely rather my kid be addicted to reddit 10 years ago than reddit today, for example. MySpace over Twitter, for another.
TikTok in fact shows you a video of a man saying “woah you’ve been scrolling for a while. Maybe you should take a break” after like an hour. So it’s totally a doable thing for them to interject and suggest a break.

Like you said, they review every post already. The tools are there they’re just being used for the wrong goals.
it's impossible to predict because actually what art is known in a timeframe changes depending on the taste not on the art itself. so your question is "what taste is common to humanity and did not change for 500 years". maybe porn? if it was considered art
Designed out on day zero is the siren song of waterfall.

Getting it right the first time is a very hard game to win. It’s best to save some of your energy for the times that really count. It’s always interesting to me when coworkers exclaim that doing the right thing is too hard. Reminds me of myself at age nine trying to get out of chores. More seriously though, “if it hurts stop doing it” is how dumb animals think. Pain is information. Ignoring it is dumb. Almost as dumb as giving up is.

Just last week I was having a hell of a time getting some code to work. Running into a wall. Okay fine, I’ll write more tests. Still struggling. Oh hey, you know what would make this way easier? If I rearranged this code in the manner I thought about this morning but decided to not work on until tomorrow.

If eating the code is difficult, there’s a point of very quickly diminishing returns where adding more logic to the tests is making things worse, and you should think about whether The code is too complicated to test. Maybe you need to remove code, instead of adding it twice.
This sounds like a genuinely useful product with terrible marketing/copywriting on the landing page. Make your next hire in product marketing.
+10

This is my experience with many different systems. I’ve found that mentoring and personal development identification techniques for what to learn, and when, can be helpful. Inviting a developer to be part of the decisions made regarding their future may seem obvious, but in practice it’s often not done…

And documentation… I’m known as “Just write it down,” but there is usually significant pushback… from all parties.
Useful reminder for the armchair lawyering: the only person's who's opinion of the law carries any weight is a judge. Lawyers make arguments to sway that opinion.

The opinion as fact stating here is incredible. The law is the law because that's what the law says it is. This was a stupid thing to do. There's just no arguing that.
No they haven't, and I've never worked out a way to clean it out of the reports.

At minimum they need a disavow tool.
The entire point of the essay is Paul felt bad when someone told him one of his opinions was bad and so he wrote a 5000 word sub-tweet to make himself feel better rather than trying a moment of introspection.
As someone who doesn't like getting spoonfed, I didn't value the importance of a good mentor until I got one at my company.
> Who has the time or money to pay 5 people to just go around harassing and stalking people for political gain only?

Things are automated now. Nowadays while living in Germany, torrent some movies and stop paying TV license. Then observe what will happen. In society there are hordes of bored lawyers and sadists who eagerly harass for a fee. Given legal immunity and pervert sense of purpose, people simply like to be invasive and predatory.
> Where in the world would raising taxes on a dime be perfectly acceptable?

Any place where the no-taxes-ever party doesn't have a permanent stranglehold on at least one branch of a deadlocked government.

The United States is an outlier in this.

> Imagine you have a rent or mortgage payment, but inflation hits 10% so your taxes go up 10% month over month to counter it.

If inflation is that high, the real cost of making your mortgage payment is shrinking in real dollars.
Descriptions:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Am...
An interesting spin on this would be to save all text from every web page you have ever viewed in a browser. I am willing to bet most of us have not viewed more than 10G of raw text in the past 10 years
COM uses MIDL btw
> incorrect array access would lead to a runtime exception, whereas in C++ this leads to incorrect memory access or memory corruption in case of writing.

Which is why the STL gives you std::array with a bounds-checked accessor (at()).

If you haven't checked your bounds, use that and handle the exception.

If you use a C-style array, expect C-style memory safety.
Do you mean a guide like this https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTAL...?

Each service has it's own requirements so it's hard to make a generalised guide.
Unless you're talking about fundamentals of running a linux vm that's exposed to the internet? There are guides on aspects of that, though I've yet to find anything really good in that area.
Yes, selling right away can be the way to go. I couldn't, however, until IPO. After IPO, similar competitors were doing very well, so I thought the company had a chance.
I've written a 5-minute worth-of-reading report about Airdrops
Perhaps American dishwashers are different, but EU dishwashers have 5 independent safety mechanisms on the heater...

1. It will only power up if the water level sensor detects water above the level of the heater. In many machines this is a hardware switch, not software+relay.

2. Power to the heater goes through the door switch. With the door closed, a fire in the wash compartment will run out of oxygen pretty quick.

3. The heater has a temperature sensor on, and software control to turn the heater off at a set temperature.

4. The heater has a thermal fuse, which over 150 C will permanently cut out the heater.

5. The heater isn't exposed on the bottom of the dishwasher where things could touch it - instead it's under a grille or embedded in a pipe that water flows along during washing.

I know all this because my dishwasher caught fire... But it wasn't the heater but a power supply wire to the heater which had a corroded connector. Turns out many years of vibration and steam is hard to design connectors for...
Nah this was like 2021. It was an SPAC merger that tanked.
What do you mean by, 'Try paying your taxes in BTC ...' ?

In USA, sales taxes are paid to government by the vendor. As just a typical person in USA who does not work for federal government nor reside in D.C., sales taxes and property taxes are all that I (implicitly) pay. The vendor and I determine amount and type of my payment.

Your comment had a threatening tone implying something bad may happen. What is the lurking threat?
What are you using for quantitative behavioral data at your B2B SaaS?
I'd need to find another mantra. After emptying the wastebasket (30 seconds), every object in my office represents a past and/or future project that I haven't the mental bandwidth to prioritize. I'm not quite at hoarder level, yet...
Social media is good and bad like everything else. I don’t think it’s self evident.

Climate change denial is spread on social media, but so is climate change activism. Propaganda is spread on social media by Russia, but it’s also used by Ukrainians to share their story easily with the world.

Good and bad.
Oh, they would so blow our tiny minds that to even think through one hypothetically would ruin the entire article? So I should just imagine how horrified someone (anyone?) in 1830 would be by the fact that I think black and white people, men and women, are moral and political equals? (That's what you just had me read.)
I think the keyword for that phrase is "reliable".

Overtime, I had to go back to fix "working" base images that had become stale, and when dealing with layers and layers of base images this really gets tedious.

BTW, I haven't dealt with nix generated images in production, I'm not aware of possible drawbacks (other than people not being familiar with nix), so I'm not really endorsing it, although I would like to try.
Titles never seemed to matter much for many things. I think though that people defer to authority and to do a thing that requires to get other people involved seems to require blessings - from above, from your "authority" etc. Note this is completely anecdotal and that those with a special big sounding title do have sway.
As long as their server is closed source (which manages the actual key exchange) I won't use tailscale.

A good alternative is: https://github.com/tonarino/innernet

I'm not affiliated with Tonarino. But sure its interesting: https://tonari.no/
The Only Unbreakable Law [video]
Vim and Visidata. Emacs, actually. Open source rules all in my book.
The manual to my fridge says to never leave it running unattended...
I think the general consensus at Hacker News is that email is a poor medium for secure communications, and that even a streamlined "GPG-lite" wouldn't solve its inherent problems.
A Decades-Old War
It looks like I was not the first to post this. You can go ahead and remove it
It's there really some reason not to generalize IPC to RPC "between processes"?

To be more specific, is there really a justifiable specific of either of these applications which prevent us from having a single tool which would cover both?
>This idea there is some "silent majority" of pro-tracking and pro-ad HN users doesn't track with reality.

Not anti-ads and tracking doesn't mean those are pro-ads or pro-tracking.

>If that was the case we'd expect the odd pro-ad/tracking comment to always be near the top of the comments section.

It often takes lots of courage to post something contrarian. That is why it rarely happens.