skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another anecdote: I’m in Oakland, where condo prices went down slightly during the pandemic overall, yet Zillow’s estimates are always much higher than Redfin’s (which seem to be in the same ballpark as the sale prices).
Apple products have been competitively priced against similar-performing hardware for years. The so-called "Apple tax" is a myth.
Burnout is your body trying to save itself because your conscious brain is killing it.

The solution is not to rest and then resume consuming toxins but to eliminate the toxicity.

In order to do that, you must identify what is killing you.
Exactly. During covid, foods destined for restaraunts couldn't even be sold to consumers since the supply chains didn't exist in many cases.
Would changing the subscription to a card that's about the expire work to stop the charges? Or changing it to a "virtual card" number and then canceling the card?

I'm not advocating for scamming any service provider but in this case I'd have to assume that an invalid payment would automatically cancel the subscription.
In light of all of these dark patterns, I have gone a different route.

I use burner virtual cards, through privacy.com. This way, I can terminate my card instead of having to deal with the nonsense that cancellation has become.

This might have some repercussions, such as account terminations, however, I only use this method on websites that I have disposable accounts with. It is well worth my time to keep using virtual cards for as long as these dark patterns exist.
surprise?
After being burned out and reading a lot into it I think the main reason for a burnout is 'not accepting'.

Not accepting: you hate your job, you need a break, you need to recover from a disease, you hate your house, you need help, you need to stop cheating, your asking too much from your body, and so on.

This causes stress and when this goes on for too long your body burns out.

A lot of this comes from social pressure. You hate your job but you need it to pay the big house. You don't want to buy a smaller house because 'what will my family think of me when I do this'.
Or: I need to go to this client while I am sick because else I might loose them.

Anyway, for those who are feeling burned out I would say: step on the brakes because a burnout can really be dangerous and life threatening.
Why Keccak is not ARX (2017)
Mine does, they have a lot of options though so not sure they all do.
They add up in the sense that each increases the likelihood you will be compromised, and reduces the set of activities that you may safely and privately perform.
Anything using Apple's subscription management is easier. It's one reason why many rush to defend Apple's restrictive App Store policies whenever the subject comes up.
1passwords upgrade strategy is the worst. They have continuously pushed releases over the years that have made zero improvements to the core use cases yet causes headaches because of changing UIs, multiple plugins with differing feature sets, desync between plugin and native app etc.

There's nothing I'm doing in 1password now that I couldn't do 5 years ago. Yet I've had multiple cycles of pain and had to pay for upgrades I didn't want.
leave the file explorer alone. or ms would ask for subscription fees to avoid ads.
Lobbying at its finest – an open form of corruption. The system needs an institution controlling these "interest groups". A force that can weigh the millions of dollars they spend to sway decision makers' opinions against "the greater good" (which often turns out to be public health).

The same goes for the unneccessarily prolonged fight against tobacco companies and junk food in schools.
The only case I can think of that's not represented would be plug-in binaries for which there is no source available.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15289431
I thought Apple didn't embrace VPx codecs because they were made by Google? Last time I looked, VideoToolbox only supported hardware-accelerated H264 and H265. So I assumed that all VP9 decoding must happen in software.
Creating a company is easy. Staying on top of taxation/regulatory filings is more difficult.
>Any major complaints on the dactyl-manuform? I can see the lack of per-key RGB being annoying.

No complaints from me. It was only my second soldering project. It was quite a bit of work but the results were very nice. I know RGB is possible its just that my soldering skills aren't quite ready for that. I'm not sure whether or not per-key RGB is possible but I didn't look into it. Bluetooth is also an option although I didn't try it out. Some people don't like 3d printed cases but I thought the end result looked nice.

I used zeal tealios (silent tactile) switches for mine. I'm thinking of attempting to make an alps version with some vintage Amber switches (IMO the best clicky switches ever made).
Calling social security a ponzi scheme while thinking your 401k isn't a ponzi scheme is completely backwards.

Your 401k depends way more on people continuing to inflate it upwards. And you have ZERO guarantee, anything can happen.

At least social security is a government backed program, and they can ALWAYS find more money. Maybe it's the best solution at the time, but they can. They can raise taxes, borrow, simply print more money. And don't nitpick these points, because yes I understand there are issues and it's more complicated.. but they can do it.
There are dozens of democratic, well-led governments in the world that fund studies and release recommendations. Arguably many are less corrupt/business-friendly/polarised than the US.

You can source your advice from any of them or a sufficient consensus. Most even publish their recommendations and findings in English too. Interestingly, none of them asked their healthcare systems to prescribe cheap-as-chips ivermectin, all of them provide free vaccination and all of them recommend face masks for the last year and a half.
https://pypi.org/project/forbiddenfruit/

Apparently there are ways to monkey patch core types, so you could probably add a __hash__ method to list…
I use Privacy.com to help with this kind of dark pattern B.S.
Thanks for the link. We have arranged for about 20 studio appartments to be made available for Ukranians, and, it's possible we could organise more. I submitted details to the google form on bg4ua website. Please give me a call to see what else we can do, if you are involved with them or otherwise, I'm up late (+359 879 340194).
Make the occasional "no reason" call/chat, just a 'how are you doing' to someone you've newly met in an online meeting. One of our exec directors (who is by nature fairly approachable) hosts a weekly drop-in online meeting where anyone can stop by and chat about anything - often non work topics.

Doing these things historically would be considered quite of of character for me so I understand it can be difficult to do.
I definitely agree that it is difficult to make users switch if there isn't enough of a value add. I was hoping for features like the suggestions and voting to give enough of a reason to switch, but admit that it might not be enough.

I really appreciate your comment about finding a niche and fixing pain points there. Certainly a less clear path, but more fruitful too as you mentioned.

Good points, thank you for taking the time to put this together!
Also, Wikipedia is able to make so much money from just donations because their target audience is "literally everyone."

MDN has a smaller set of users, and the thing with running websites with user-generated content is that it scales up pretty well. MDN probably only costs about a tenth as much as Wikipedia to run, but has much, must less than a tenth as many users.
"Mozilla CEO Increased Her Salary From 2.5 Million Dollars to Over 3 Million"

This person alone receives around 1% of the budget.
2 vehicles over the years. last one was $16k? But was buying from dealerships that just had what i was after.. not a collectors car or anything. Probably more utilitarian than anything.
I don't know about canceling Prime, but I did delete my account a couple of years ago and I remember that process being much easier than I expected. Didn't have to call anyone, for example (like some other companies).
Yes. I picked that word because of its meaning.

If anywhere on that comment I gave the impression that it is how I believe things are, it is due to a bad choice of words.
That helps feed people who can't afford food, but doesn't make food available. Subsidies are insurance for farming risk, you can't use stamps on food they didn't grow.
I am sorry. :D
If you like the layout and want to "dip" your feet in, go with a "let's split" first. That's what the tango is based on, but minus the milled case. I used this for a good 18 months until I recently decided to upgrade, realizing that despite my efforts to improve on it, this minimal layout was what stuck with me. I wrote a bit about it here, also made some potato pictures:

https://ssb.muchmuch.coffee/%25dbEXC3mtHL8%2Bg1P4lGiE0FhMAGc...
Well, in that case UN would just cease to exist, for good or for bad. We really don't need yet another international organisation that only pretends that the international law exists and apply it selective only to weak countries, leaving USA, Russia, China & other to be above the law.

Selective law is worse than no law at all, and selective justice is worse than no justice at all.
A paperclip maximizer would at least have a supportable goal. I don't think that's the case here.

A lot of the rethoric around "data-driven UX" just pretends that the company's goals are always perfectly aligned with the customers' - when of course in reality, they are often completely at odds.

This makes it easy to talk about "improvements" and "optimisations" and make it seem like those changes would be in the interest of the users - when in reality, the changes are primarily improvements for the company.

E.g. "retention" is really a poor proxy for user satisfaction. Yes, a user can stay because they like the service. They can also stay because they haven't yet found what they were looking for, because they don't know how to unsubscribe or because they are addicted. Retention doesn't care.

However, what retention is a very good indicator of is how well a user can be monetized. I think, the fact that after so many years, retention is still one of the primary KPIs shows pretty well how serious the talk about "user satisfaction" really is.
> do you think you'd ever be happy with anything Mozilla produces?

I switched to Mozilla Gecko after Opera Presto was sold to a chinese firm and they switched engines to Chromium. After that, I have been using various Firefox forks since Firefox started bundling useless software and made really questionable decisions sacrificing user privacy for their greed. I am really glad that forks that respect the user, like LibreWolf and Tor browser, exists.

> The comments like this from people who will complain about everything are completely valueless.

I have given specifics. Your comment though is less useful.

> We're lucky to have an alternative to the WebKit oligopoly.

We are unlucky that the current management of Mozilla is slowly selling out on this, under the influence of Google and their own greed - 100's of millions of dollars and yet, making a modular browser engine is not a priority for them as that means more competition and innovation from other open and closed source developers that will threaten their cash cow.
I suppose US Citizens are all "in on" the US gov'ts various coups in Latin America, military interventions in the middle east, overzealous surveillance state, and lets throw Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in there because we haven't overthrown our government?
I feel sometimes that Prime is against you.
Had a Hotpoint friege freezer where the door handle broke due to the vacuum seal being too strong, engineer came out, replaced the door because you couldnt just replace the handle and then he plugged it into a device on the pretense of checking the electrical safety. Fast forward a few weeks the compressor would not start.

Hotpoint is part owned by Us company Whirlpool and Chinese company Haier.

Its my belief the fridge freezer firmware was updated using the mains cable much like thernet powerline adapters work. I still have the fridge freezer so will be tearing it down and inspecting the electrical components to prove this in good time.
The truth about war is messy – just read Wikipedia
25 years ago, we were all bitching about having to program our parents' VCR for them. In 25 more years we'll be asking a teenager how to get TikTok beamed directly into our brains like they're doing.
> No offence but it just sounds like conspiratorial nonsense based on some scary sounding terms.

It's exactly that.
Hi Hakeemmidan, thanks so much for the feedback!
Compared to the price of other tools in this space and/or price of a technical writer our price is definitely a lot lower.
Besides creating the doc, we also offer user analytics and make it easy to auto-update etc, so we provide value in staying our platform with the monthly subscription.
We also share the opinion that a lot of APIs currently are undocumented due to tools being tedious, and we want to change that.
dot files in a directory, directory synced everywhere using dropbox/syncthing. Mackup to symlink all my dotfiles back to that shared dir
The Wargamer's Curse
I suspect Amazon uses a lot of dark patterns. Multiple times I've discovered that I'm subscribed to some Amazon digital subscription that I had no idea about. I do read my credit card statements every month, but there are enough Amazon purchases on there that I don't notice a small monthly subscription charge.

When I've tried to cancel them, it takes me through a confusing series of dialogs that I have to read very carefully to make sure I'm doing the correct thing.
Calling food that is 90%+ made in another country a "Product of the USA" is just insulting and I think if there was no money involved in the judges' decision making they'd just call this what it is; deceptive trade practices.
"Beef, designed in California"
libreWolf seems to be built regularly using the latest version of Firefox. If it ends up using the nightly build of of firefox nightly or dev edition in the future it could release security updates even faster then firefox "mainstream" itself. LibreWolf does not appear to be maintained by a single person like you implied. Its a relatively new project it can either go one of two ways: become popular and gain lots of supports + maintainers, die a slow death. After having actually used it for a few days it seems good to me. I'll continue to evaluate it as my daily browser.
If thou dost not understand, lurk (or fork) moar!

I jest, but I see it as follows:

There're two sides to the programmer. One is as the frustrated artist, tormented by failure and imperfection, that rages at a machine that they just want to do what they mean, and not what they say.

Then there is the stoic, caring gardener, worried about cultivating this or that, or what the environment as a whole looks like. Maybe even venturing to give a shit about what others think.

One builds. The other maintains. The two sides do not without effort integrate, and once integrated, (enlightenment) happens, you tend to become more aware of such concerns, and it can buffer against the primordial drive to create this thing now without reflection.

I see it as the builder's yin to the maintainer's yang. I love it. It is a sign the hacker spirit is still alive and well.
For the browser, I use a Firefox login to sync my work machines (laptop + desktop at home.) I’m still enough of a neck beard to not want this for my personal stuff, but for work it’s a dream come true.

For command line, all the tools I use have the equivalent of “source other/file” in their config language so all my dotfiles begin with a source line that sets up my sensible defaults, and then local changes come afterwards. For example:

# ~/.bashrc
source ~/.config/dotfiles/bashrc
# Local stuff
GITLAB_TOKEN=…

.config/dotfiles is a git repo. I have very few local overrides, there’s no install step needed other than a git pull, and no mucky symlinks. The initial setup is a script on my website that I curl-pipe-to-bash on new hosts.

For my dev environment I have a script that builds a dockerfile that makes an ubuntu:jammy and installs 30 Debian packages, 10 Python packages, and two locales that apparently I can’t live without. When you run it, it bind mounts $HOME into the container and then cd’s to the directory I started in. With one command I can go from ~/projects/foo on my machine to ~/projects/foo in the container with all my favourite tools.

You can bind mount SSH_AUTH_SOCK and your X11 Unix socket too to run a bleeding edge copy of Xeyes. Docker on macOS M1 means the same environment in macOS as on my dev servers and desktops.
Making Storytelling a Part of Your Product Documentation
I recently bought a home. We toured a Zillow home, and I can understand what they were going for and where they failed.

We were able to pull up to the driveway, book a tour for that minute, and walk in the front door. It was almost a magical experience compared to the process of finding and going to showings. The listings were clear and thorough. The experience was extremely compelling.

The downside: the homes were absurdly overpriced. I bought a home for about 10% less than the last Zillow listing. For less, I got three times the land, 40% more square footage, a better location, updated appliances, new carpets, landscaped back yard, horseshoe driveway, two car garage. Almost zero effort had been put into modernizing the Zillow home and it showed.

I suspect if I had come in with a very low offer, they'd have accepted it. But for what?

If I was Zillow, I'd have licensed the tech to realtors. I'd definitely be inclined to buy a home through them if they weren't the ones selling the property directly.
Even email is, for many thorny issues, much less efficient, potentially, than a phone call or a real face to face meeting. And phone calls have fallen out of style.

I can’t help but think of how many email chains stretching out over weeks could’ve been resolved in 5 minutes if everyone were in the same room (and not in a meeting context, but standing up near a computer) and were insistent on actually getting the problem solved.
In some theoretical world that doesn't actually exist, you could use carbon capture and storage technology (which is a catalytic process, but is far from as simply as bolting on a catalytic converter to something) to mitigate the carbon from burning methane. But the electricity you'd get would be far too expensive to build a mining operation on. For what you're describing to be viable, the mining group would have to pay for 1) the technology to capture the flare gas and transport it to a generating station (all doable, but the reason the gas is being flared in the first place is because it's not cost effective to do so); 2) CCS technology for the generating plant (again, a known tech that because of cost is used only where there is a market for the CO2 byproduct; 3) some kind of deep geological or other storage for the CO2, or they'd have to find a new market for the gas that did not result in its eventual release.

And after all that is done, you'd have electricity that cost enough you couldn't make mining pay, and it would also be true that the electricity you so generated could, given all that you've done, be sold and used for some actually useful, environmentally sound project.

The notion that flare gas somehow solves the environmental impact problem of mining is a rationalized fantasy, in other words.
Rather than having selections for multiple languages (for each task) it seems like language detection or a selection/setup screen would be best. With fallback, to english, or whatever your default is. Maybe use online translations services?

edit: Oh it seems you do have a language drop down, but there are still multiple languages appearing in quests... this just means more quests I guess eh :)
Worth checking out, but it’s possible to get much higher rewards on a single category like groceries.

“6% Cash Back at U.S. supermarkets on up to $6,000 per year in purchases (then 1%). ” Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express which Whole Foods accepts.
Well apple got an architecture license, has been iterating on their design for many years, has bought companies with significant expertise, and has been pretty aggressive with making their Iphone/Ipad CPUs the best that they can be, and more recently applied a very similar design to MBPs, Mini, and Studio. M1 is based on the Apple A14 core and the future M2 will be based on the A15 core that's been shipping for awhile now in iphones.

Sadly you can't take advantages of Apple's CPU designs unless you buy into their ecosystem. Here's hoping ASAHI linux (Marcan's port to the M1) goes well.

There's little things like ditching the 32 bit ISA, not a big deal, but does make each new iteration that much easier from a design and testing standpoint.

ARM also has a loser memory model, which makes it easier to use more effectively use existing bandwidth.

But there's no magic. It's a straight up aggressive design, wide instruction decode (yes that's easier for arm than x86-64), large re-order buffer, wide issue, etc. Anandtech has a nice summary comparing various M1 features to the Intel and AMD competition. Apple has a high IPC and they make the most of their lower clocks (usually around 3.2 GHz). The chips from Intel/AMD that they are compared against are often in the 4-5 GHz range and burn significantly more power because of that.
Thanks for this comment. I guess I’ll continue paying the disable Pocket, download installer ID, and other cruft of bad policy costs to continue using FF because Sync is too useful for Bookmarks and plugin auto install to discard.
The government can “guarantee” a lot of stuff. What happens when the government can no longer borrow money and either cuts benefits or starts printing money that leads to inflation?

We have already seen that in other countries.
The great Python dataframe showdown, part 1: Demystifying Apache Arrow
Yup. It's very difficult to pull off. Especially if you are coding at both
This has been the sales pitch for the last decade but it hasn't been true. The reason why is simple: nobody _has_ to use Bitcoin and the baked-in deflationary model incentivizes using alternatives. Since it's failed at popular adoption that means that you're left with the margin plays described in the article where people will use it in the rare situations where it's cheaper or more convenient but they're not tied to it any more than they're tied to, say, Venmo. The absence of healthy demand means that the volatility isn't going away.
More information:

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/10th-circuit-confirmed-...
Cash is probably better than food stamps. Food stamps prevent you from directly buying what you actually need/want, but it doesn't prevent you from buying groceries for strangers and trading those groceries for less money so you can actually buy what you need/want. The result is that the same amount of money spent on providing assistance as food stamps doesn't provide as much benefit to the recipients as the cash equivalent. And this doesn't even include the costs of maintaining the infrastructure (including time wasted writing laws that restrict what food you can use food stamps for) required to make food stamps work.
But also other things. At the time I was digging tatters with my grandad, I was also reading with him a cartoon adaption of Melville's great book "Moby Dick", and from that point on digging up tatters was interspersed with cries of "Thar she blows!" and "Tis the great white whale!" as the tatters came to the surface.

You don't get this stuff with lettuce.
Feel kinda bad for Mozilla that their user base continues to dwindle down because of all these forks.

But they only have themselves to blame. I'm using Fennec F-droid on my phone because someone at Mozilla decided to castrate extension support in their main branch (and nightly keeps breaking every few weeks so that's not an option).