skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely right! We expect all information to be given to us, instead of us seeking the specific information we need.

The solution is to - like your maxim implies - reverse the paradigm, by treating technology like it was initially designed: a tool for us to use with intent.

Even the apps and websites which have been optimised for engagement can be valuable. The value is what we make of it, just like how the websites make value out of us.

Advocating for quitting technology unfortunately becomes more and more of an impractical advice, as technology is further ingrained into our lifestyle.

What matters the most is being mindful and honest with ourselves. The moment we lose sight of how we use something, it starts using us.

It seems like your book focuses on a similar mindset. I've stumbled upon it before, but now I'll definitely be giving it a read! :)
> What does this say about NFTs exactly?

"it was done as a joke and nothing more." can pretty much describe NFTs
These past couple years must have beaten all records in censorship

So we are cool with political censorship, scientific and medical censorship, covid... But sex censorship adjacent is the thing we need to investigate

A lot of the points have nothing to do with 'Silicon Valley' since it broadly reflects society views. It seems more a hint that someone wants 'Silicon Valley' to manipulate society views

I don't think anyone has any problem finding sexual content

Also I don't think we want sex related content being forced on us 24/7
If the sight of a naked female breast messed kids up, breastfeeding would be a bit of a problem.
This seems like a bad idea. People can stick with Vanced if they want I guess, but Vanced was shut down recently and this site doesn't make it immediately clear whether it's a fork, or a different team, or really anything about what's going on.

I don't see how an app like this gets popular and becomes safe to download without Google shutting it down a second time. I don't recommend that people download a version of the app that doesn't even mention the previous takedown and doesn't mention that it is presumably being maintained by a separate group. It just seems really shifty to me, this is a huge opportunity to throw malware at people.

A big part of 3rd-party software is trust, I don't like recommending an app to people where there is no chain of trust and it's not obvious to me who the developers are. And I don't see a way for whoever these people are maintaining this website to build a chain of trust without getting shut down again.

I would strongly recommend using an Open Source client that isn't currently getting legal threats and that is transparent about how it's being built and distributed and who is distributing it (personally I like NewPipe, but there are multiple options). I do not recommend downloading Vanced from a random site that doesn't even reference or acknowledge the takedown, I think that's dangerous advice to give.
> I don't understand why there's been so much brouhaha over heat pumps as of late, it's nothing new.

It is something new for the mainstream American consumer.
I'm sorry, were you expecting a confrontation, since that's the norm in Internet conversations nowadays?

I'm agreeing with you that yellow doesn't seem to be that common.
Has anybody had success with plain text working in teams in business? I prefer it myself but teaching everyone I work with markdown, org-mode, git etc seems like a big undertaking. For example, we have a specification in development and that spec lives in Microsoft word. Plain text would make tracking the changes and collaborating on it much easier IMO, but word has it’s own abilities to do that. And with plain text you give up the wysiwyg formatting which people are accustomed to. Perhaps writing specifications in confluence would be better than plain text or word - who knows. It’s likely only because of my bias that I think plain text is a reasonable choice.
> Does this mean Anchorage's airport is going to get increased traffic again?

Anchorage is already one one of the busiest airports in the world for cargo. During the beginning of the pandemic, it became the busiest airport in the world for that reason (while people weren't flying, cargo still needed to be flown).
That data is really old, modern heat pumps do much better at low temperatures.
I'd be curious to understand what you mean by that. From what I've seen/understood the far left is very intent on categorizing, separating, and forcing "equality" upon.
I'll add the ability to specify and tag regexes ("comment", "timestamp", etc) on a file-type by file-type basis, and then specify various tags as "unimportant" for the current diff is super powerful.

It means you can do things like compare two system logs from different times and have it highlight you exactly the differences you care about.
There's also Adoptoposs [1] which basically serves the same purpose.

[1] https://adoptoposs.org/
That's a different insanity — "BEEKS" we call ourselves =P
WinMerge for comparing two individual files.
BeyondCompare for comparing deep nested directory structures.
That image kind of looks like cosmic ray trails in a cloud chamber, I wonder if some of the defects are related.
No, because the debt is owed to the government or to private lenders. Once the money is issued from the lender to the school for tuition, the school has no further exposure to any risk. Total scam.
Great tips for application developers. Though this still exposes you to potential transitive dependency supply-chain attacks on first-time installs, though it's likely very low risk at this point, especially if you're careful as you've described.

For library authors that want to take reasonable precautions yarn makes it very hard. Though some suggest leaving transitive dependency updates up to the consumer makes yarn more secure, as they can update to the fixed packages sooner..
but I don't believe this benefit actually manifests often.

I guess the moral of the story is that semver is really great on paper, but people suck at it, sometimes on purpose.
Seems legit. I think they think it's a warning shot, they are now on Google's list. This letter is a "nice" way of saying - guys well you are now on our list and shut down or well force you to shut down.

Smart play, rather end on a high note, without months and months of C&Do letters and axety and stress. Learn and move on.
Anchorage still gets a lot of freight flights stopping for more fuel. It’s an interesting airport to plane spot at since it is quite busy with large planes despite having so few (relatively) passengers.
> the best heat pumps go down to about 0 F

Mitsubishi makes a line that still has reasonable COP numbers down to -13F or so. It's a clever trick: the actual problem at these very low temperatures is that the refridgerant in the lines starts to get slushy as it approaches its own freezing point, but it still functions. So they actually steal a bit of the heat that would otherwise enter the heated space, and use it to slightly warm the refridgerant so that things keep ticking along.
> the SAT's a way of laundering discrepancies in generational wealth

this is a ludicrous modern reinterpretation of SAT testing.. sure, testing has lots of downsides.. linking it to "wealth laundering" is your own obsessions showing IMO
There is good laziness:

- Don't Repeat Yourself
- Don't Reinvent the Wheel
- ...

And bad laziness:

- I don't want to do this because I need to be careful
- I don't need/want to understand what's going on as long as it works
- ...

The latter is what leads to most issues/bugs.
America is a country that loves the free market country, yet no one seems to be talking about supply and demand to fix college prices.

Double the number of large quality state universities.

Re-index public university tuition to what they were in 2000 + inflation. Mandate that funding comes with X number increase in tenured professors.

Re-instate public funding for state universities to what it was in 2000 + inflation.

A supply/demand imbalance is in effect, and bloat has taken hold on top of that.

Yes building new 20k student universities takes time, but in 20 years these problems will be solved.
You could say the same about our mitochondria
But can you get your data out of Vizawrite and into some other tool and edit it there? And will Vizawrite get ported onto all the environments you might want to work in? (eg does it have a mobile app?)

The value of plain text with markup is that any of the tools @xenodium mentions above can work with data from any of the others. I use emacs/org to edit my data from BrainTool, I use Orgzly on the same file on my Android and its also part of my LogSeq digital knowledge garden.
It depends on the heat pump. If you get a mini-split, and have decent insulation, they can work down to -20C:

* https://www.mitsubishielectric.ca/en/hvac/professionals/fs-s...

* https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/articles/what-is-a-heat-pu...

* https://www.fujitsu-general.com/us/residential/benefits/year...

Some folks using them in Alaska:

* https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/even-in-frigid-tempe...

If you get a heat pump that looks like the 'traditional' external AC unit (giant cube), those tend to work down to about +5C. Not sure how much more they cost above a 'regular' air conditioner:

* https://www.lennox.com/products/heating-cooling/heat-pumps

The Technology Connections channel has a couple of interesting videos on the topic of heat pumps:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zrx-b2sLUs

He has a video entitled "How to calculate when heat pumps make financial sense (and other heat pump follow-up thoughts)":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRdq2ExLJns

NR Canada has a "AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMP SIZING AND SELECTION GUIDE":

* https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/nrcan/files/canmetenergy/pdf/A...

Financially speaking you're going to have to break out a spreadsheet and plug numbers in: (natural) gas prices, electricity prices, efficiency of the units, etc. Doing a search for "heat pump calculator" may get you started.
I'm pretty sure Windows got their priorities straight: telemetry, advertisement are the priority and they're executing their strategy very well.

Your priority as a user are different, but, sorry to say, your voice doesn't count. The year-end revenue and KPI is what counts, because you and 99% of other companies will still be buying and using PCs with Windows preinstalled and paying Microsoft for licences. You say so yourself, you're disappointed with the direction Windows is taking, but you still use it [for very legitimate reasons].

Why should Microsoft sell Windows for $199, when they can earn $199 + $x/month/user from ads and create more value for its shareholders?
It's obvious to anyone that bringing screens is just bringing in distraction. And even in the fields where they may be of some benefit (maths for example) the benefits are so minor as to be pointless.
Intersectionality is just about how people can be oppressed along different lines simultaneously, and how rather than having separate feminist, black rights, trans rights movements they should be working together across those lines. Intersectionality or leftists or whatever didn't invent the categories, it's about identifying the way society mistreats people based on categories.

I'm also not sure what you mean about leftism being defined by "obsessive generalising". Being somewhat familiar with left wing theory (Marxism, anarchism and postmodernism) I just don't see it - left theories have nothing to do with generalising people and everything to do with understanding socioeconomic systems.

Edit: also intersectional theory is about how different social categories play off each other, ie how being black and trans is different from being white and trans.
I'm a recent Obsidian convert, absolutely love it and its the only note taking app that I've managed to stick to past a few weeks. How do you use custom scripts in it? I'm aware you can make plugins and things for it but I'd love to be able to write up a script or two to update some shortcodes for some nice weekly stats in a few places if possible
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30692091
We had multiple people have serious health issues, but it was very much a slash and burn company. Hired people, rung them out, and threw them out.
> Steam has never allowed "pornography" on its platform

The amount of pure porn games that clutters some lists makes me doubt this very much.
Build an OpenSCAD WASM Configurator
Someone else could make a better version of it. But if I had to guess, they are using some internal tools or hacks to make it work the way it does.
what about a wise form of agrotech ?
I believe plaintext/markdown as a format is a bit overblown, though I am glad there is a wealth of tools and tips around it.

Just as an example as a Hebrew speaker who regularly uses math - MD editors that support both RTL and math rendering are difficult to find. And that's squarely inside the domain of a "knowledge worker".
So maybe its WWIV we should be worrying about..
Yes, and H8crilA is saying YouTube also exists off ads revenue.
Could you keep the old gas boiler as backup for the heat pump?
> heat pumps aren't economical in regions where it gets below 0F

You haven't defined economical but here's a quote from Mitsubishi:

"Hyper-Heating INVERTER® (H2i®) technology which can provide up to 100 percent of heating capacity at 5° F and continue operation down to -13° F even without auxiliary heat. Select units equipped with Mitsubishi Electric’s H2i plus™ technology can deliver up to 100 percent heating capacity down to -5° F"
In case it isn't clear, this article is not someone who was there talking about the history of fascism. There are plenty of history books for that. The whole point of this article is to give a different perspective on fascism and to rewrite history in a new and original way that just so happens to be more convenient to them.

This whole thing can be summarized simply as "Everything I dislike is fascism, even things that have absolutely nothing to do with fascism, and everything that actually is fascism and has a lot in common with my ideology, wasn't really fascism, and certainly wasn't socialism, even though they all called themselves Marxists"

or to quote the article specifically:

>The article on fascism signed by Mussolini in the Treccani Encyclopedia was written or basically inspired by Giovanni Gentile, but it reflected a late-Hegelian notion of the Absolute and Ethical State which was never fully realized by Mussolini

in other words, sure it was developed by Marxists (Giovanni Gentile, and everyone else behind fascism were all Marxists philosopher), but it "wasn't real socialism". It is exactly the same "not real socialism" that all defenders of socialism always use when their ideology goes down the drain.
This is often the only reason for me to open vscode on a project. I hate everything about their git flows, except the merge UI
There's no discussion there so these end up being links to nowhere.
The problem of creating GUIs libraries almost from scratch is the platform fragmentation, which means that a cross-platform GUI libraries would have to abstract away the Windows API win32, that is one of the most stable and most complete GUI libraries; MacOSX Objective-C Cocoa; Unix and Linux X11 - X Windows System, that lacks Win32 button and other higher level widgets, in this case it is better to use GTK as backend instead of targeting X11 directly that may even be replaced with Wayland on major Linux distribtions; Linux Wayland backend directly; Linux framebuffer for embedded Linux systems; or OpenGL for a immediate mode GUI like Imgui. Another trouble is that GTK is not so stable like Win32 and has many breaking changes on every release that may require anything depending on this library to be modified.

The following design patterns are widely used with graphical user interfaces: observer-design pattern; model-view-controller; model-view-presentation; two-way-data binding; property binding; command design pattern; and composite design patterns for representing a collection of objects as single object.

For understanding event loop it may be much easier to implement a Xterm or VT100 keyboard-driven terminal user interface TUI since this does not requiring dealing with too many backends.
Typically I’ve heard the construction “dealt a better hand”
Presumably, some malware have been trying to exploit this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/spectre-and-meltdown-fl...

I've never seen them in the wild.
Now I know where Shopify got the idea for their "Life Story" interview. They do have this open ended stage where you do not even know what to talk about. Canonical at least tells you what to write about. LOL
I think the argument would be better if Germany was some sort of education haven. My cousin fosters study abroad kids in the US and most are German. They say the German education isn’t anything to tout and having an American education on your CV is a big +.
I’m not saying this whole thing is perfect but I just don’t see anyone banging down the doors for a German education.
Time to move into NewPipe, I guess
Windows 11 is the first windows release I haven’t used. It’s also the first windows release I will never use going back to windows 3. I am completely done with it now. The last release which wasn’t a complete punch in the balls was nearly 20 years ago.
YouTube premium is 12 dollars a month.

For me, this is worth it to remove ads and add background play and picture-in-picture.
> Basically, a user controlled spam filter at the server.

This seems reasonable, and even achievable. It's probably already possible to reject emails that don't have SPF and DKIM (to prevent spoofing), so we just need a way for a sender to determine whether the recipient has whitelisted them. If they haven't been whitelisted, they should be limited to sending a short (100 character?) plaintext introduction, with no hyperlinks.

> to be invoked as needed for sensitive data. 98 percent of email doesn't need encryption --- but that last 2 percent does.

I disagree slightly. The 2 percent that does need encryption also requires that the other 98 percent be encrypted too, so that:

* attackers don't know which messages to target,

* the pattern of encrypted vs. unencrypted emails doesn't reveal information in itself, and

* the user doesn't have the mental overhead (and error potential) of having to decide which emails are worthy of encryption (a task which requires them being able to reliably predict the future).

Much of the logic for encrypting the whole of the web (as opposed to just "important" pages) applies to the need to secure (almost) all email too. The main difference, I think, is that the web is a pull architecture while email is push, meaning that spam and identity works differently, and server-side filtering can't work with E2E encrypted email.
The probability of one of the old engines on a 747 failing was significantly higher than a single engine on an A350 or a 777.

A two banger today is safer than the queens of yore that did those routes.
Or, maybe, we're not cool with any censorship?

And nobody is suggesting that sex-related content should be forced on anyone 24/7. But there's no reason why one shouldn't be able to find and join a group on, say, FB that caters to such things.
You're absolutely right about information being a key part of computer science. I don't really know how to articulate the relationship between "process" and "information" but it makes sense to me to group them together, and I do like the name "informatics" to describe the science.
> Before that I had not really reflected on my own level of understanding about abstractions.

This is the main reason I try to do this when I can. When building things for fun I try to do it from the lowest level of abstraction that I can so that I understand more of what the higher levels of abstraction cover up.

I guess I just like turning unknown unknowns into known unknowns.
my first wife was older than me, and she never paid her student loans. She never had credit of any substance for the rest of her life (this was long ago and I know this is true).
Tell HN: HN is not the first result for “Hacker News” on DuckDuckGo
Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/K_LtC9LMJTcB
Yes. It's not a relief for everyone, especially library authors, as bugs can happen only on your particular set of transitive dependencies. What a fun time those days were.

Anyway, semver makes me sad sometimes. Haha
during the peak of the COVID labor shortage, many producers did increase wages but found that they still couldn't get workers. also in North America at least, many/most laborers are undocumented immigrants. white collar workers aren't quitting the desk to go out in the field..it is backbreaking work. if the labor pipeline dries up (which is a very real thing as immigration has decreased in North America/the US) then no one will be doing that job.

i suspect the amount of money that farms would need to pay workers to fix these shortages would drive all producers into bankruptcy
You've got to admire Microsoft's support of open source software. They're doing their best to push users to Linux! By making their UI as ugly and difficult to use as possible so that users don't feel too much of a bump in usability when they try Linux.

I'm sure MS can get the job done and kill off their OS with just a few more years of obnoxious bullshit forcefully shoved into their operating system!
> The intro text leads me to believe that it's not shotgunned

Given that they asked questions about high school, and also questions about being an 'industry thought leader', I disagree.
Yeah, the Roman Empire collapsed in the West for all practical purposes.

The best evidence to me is things like femur length decreases (and therefore inferred height reductions) of adult skeletons). There is a host of corroborating evidence from settlement sizes and shapes (defensive boundaries) as well.

If your civilization can't supply enough nourishment for the majority of its people (or even for its soldiers), it's collapsed.

Bret Devereaux has just done a series on this.[1]

1. https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-f...
not sure why you're getting downvoted, it's a good parallel

however, i'm gonna push back on the idea that people were fleeing cuba because of castro's economics versus the US sanctions that crippled the economy
> If farm workers' job gets sufficiently bad from a value proposition perspective, then people will leave the occupation

They are. Farmer suicides over the past 10 years have skyrocketed. Farmers are committing suicide at twice the rate of combat veterans. [1]

I'm afraid I can't take your comment seriously as a dispassionate economic analysis since it lacks even basic empathy for people caught in this ongoing trainwreck of "supply/demand" mechanics.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-amer...
Isn't vanced just a patched version of the official app?

It's not mentioned in the article, but I imagine the copyright infringement, goes a lot further than simply infringing the trademarks and logos.

Presumably, they don't want to release the source code, because it would make it blatantly obvious.
> We really need farm workers, and most of them live in poverty.

How are both of these true? If a job pays poorly, doesn't that suggest there are many people willing and able to do those jobs, relative to the need for the job to be done?

Maybe this results from some market distortion? But AFAIK the main market distortion in the farming industry is the opposite: subsidies that make farming more attractive than it would be, which would tend to increase farm workers' equilibrium wages.
Russia has been politically stable for the last 20 years also
If you place an undue burden on applicants, just know that you are filtering away both the ones at the bottom who don't know how to code and have faked their resume, and the ones at the top who can't be bothered with jumping through your hoops because they have enough other options.
This points to an NDA with Google.
NFT being a joke is such a lie