skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in my city there is a trauma 1, a few trauma 3s, and multiple hospitals who have no ER at all. T1 is downtown, surrounded by homeless encampments, and is perpetually broke. By city charter T1 cannot file for bankruptcy protection and cannot turn away anyone seeking emergency treatment. T3 and outpatient hospitals are in rich suburbs, no homeless camps, and the parking lot is full of luxury cars. They also cannot do most emergency services and will send you to T1.

The overnight stay in the T1 is $10k for a grimey room while the T3s are closer to $3k-5k before insurance. I've volunteered at both types and it is night and day difference in the staff and the patients.
In the context of buying used hospital equipment and the concerns of a layman making a mistake due to the very confusion you highlight... Seems at least relevant.
I don't think "protestware" is fully correct. Destructive behavior is more than just protest (my understanding is the dev deleted and changed user files to "heart emojis") and is something that shouldn't be tolerated. It's malware.
Remember the human.
There's an English language family member of this granted patent that was filed in the UK. English specification starts around page 30: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/96/4d/2b/749f7a4...
I kinda agree with you. Seems they were even after his girlfriend, being overweight or something.
Fun fact, Tencent (Chinese conglomerate) owns about 40% of Epic. Ubisoft also tried adding blockchain tech/NFTs to their games to manage cosmetic items, which is stupid on multiple levels, IMO, especially since you can't actually transfer them outside of their closed ecosystem.

Valve has the breathing room to do what they want. Their cash cow of Steam helps them out A LOT, since they don't even need to make games anymore. Instead, they've invested into what they think benefits the future of gaming. Who else in the games industry would make a non-locked-down VR headset, or work on anything Linux-related? Maybe indies, if they had the money.

Valve will probably make HL3 at some point, but last I heard, it was an idea waiting for the right tech. I'd rather it stay that way if it makes it better.
Considering that GitHub is priced at $4 per user/month, I really cannot justify paying 5x of that amount, especially without even using any of the features in the paid tier. I really like the product, but I am going to have to look for other options.
That's exactly what regulation is - society telling people how they have to run their business.
> Covid primarily targets end of life individuals

Once the bulk of the over-70s got vaccinated the impact of covid deaths was spread pretty evenly between generations over 30. So after summer 2021 (Delta and Omicron) this was not accurate.
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This was a problem, but in the last year or two there are some good ones again. Check out the Sunbeam F1, which is actually reasonably snappy.

I have used a dumbphone all along and agree that they were really bad for awhile. The Alcatel Go Flip 2 was a Kai OS device that was one of the worst pieces of a electronics I ever used, and I was stuck on it for 4 years because there were no alternatives on 4G. But now the phones are alright again.

The article highlights the Light Phone, but my impression is its battery life is so bad I wouldn't want it. But it's also custom software on a custom device and has some potential.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30786649
What about countries buying oil and gas from them?

They're almost all (except India) moving away from that. It's not something that can be done overnight. It's been in the news for almost a month now.
I can't agree with these arguments.

A) IP geolocation is far from perfect, quite a few completely unrelated people could have been affected.

B) There was a chance of massive collateral damage to stuff like hospitals, water company, etc. and therefore affecting civilians, including children. If you think Putin wouldn't use that to rally Russia and launch a massive war, you haven't observed Putin for long.

We got very lucky this software equivalent of a warcrime was stopped early. Yet the punishment was absurdly light. I will staying away from NPM after that.
Even more relevant to the question: it introduces complexity that harms citizen's basic needs by putting in place knowledge inequities. You can make the tax code as complicated as you want, and the hyper wealthy will still be able to pay for people to understand it and squeeze out every drop of value because the absolute amount of money in play makes it feasible. Spending $200k to "save" $1million is a good deal. That's maybe a couple full time employees. If you wanted to save $100 instead, throwing $20 at is isn't gonna get you anything.

So all those people who can't "subcontract" their way through the complexity with specialists are left to their own devices. And they don't have the time or expertise to navigate it themselves. So the tests and checks and processes and discoverability weeds out deserving people constantly just in the hopes of preventing some "undeservings" from having access.

It'd be like writing an algorithm and every branch of logic you put in you have to do a random roll and throw an exception some percentage of the time. Each new branch compounding to filter more and more while also costing more and more to facilitate. But that execution reality is ignored so that the pure logic can be focused on in a vacuum.

It's all like the opposite of Blackstone's ratio regarding crime that "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". Social programs are designed such that they would often rather let ten innocent people suffer than one guilty person benefit.
Did you understand what I was saying?
1) Private individuals do ~everything on phone and tablet operating systems. Tellingly, those have lots of native development going on. The main exceptions are PC gaming enthusiasts, and, as one might expect, there are tons of PC games released every year. That's what happened to B2C desktop software.

2) Businesses and other organizations have a bunch of reasons to at least be OK with using web-apps or tightly-integrated-to-online-services Electron shitware, and maybe even to prefer those things to native applications, and other businesses have a bunch of reasons to want to sell them web-apps (subscription vs. single sales, especially). That's what happened to B2B desktop software.
I have a 4+ year commercial application Video Hub App built with Electron and Angular (it's also charityware - $3.50 of each purchase goes to a cost-effective charity).

https://videohubapp.com/en/

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - MIT open source :)
Yeah, figuring out how to fit 200 hours of anything into 168 hours seems like a worthy endeavor indeed.
So basically virtue signalling
Reminder that Gitlab's stock is down more than 50% of their all time high post IPO. I'd expect more pricing/feature changes as they try to improve revenue/EPS.

Can an open core company survive a recession AND maintain their community/developer mind share?
Really, it's about not drawing attention to yourself. You can probably buy a Tesla if you also have a regular job, just don't buy it in cash. That cash transaction may be reported. Act like a "normal person" that has loans.
> The last 2 years have been very good for some, and very bad for others.

This seems like a great way to put it. Personally I've loved my time during the pandemic. Chilling at home with my SO and some marijuana after work is my happy place. Seems like the pandemic forced a lot of people to spend more time with their family which caused them to realize they had settled down with the wrong people.
It's also a CPU hog. Why can I watch a 4K video in VLC for hours, but throwing up a couple of 200x100 windows in Teams kills the CPU? I guess Teams is written by interns.
Hello probable physics nerd.

Did you see the Englishman
https://git.ist.ac.at/hlab/environment/-/wikis/Boards/The-Bi...
I can't speak for all Electron apps, but Beekeeper Studio is a true desktop app yes.

All the assets (css, html, js) are bundled in the app, nothing loads from the web, it is truly 'local', and works 100% offline. It's possible to change styles based on what OS you're running on, and there's the full suite of native APIs you can call.

To weigh in on who pays for software -- I'll let you know once I've sold more copies of my paid version, my guess is that more MacOS using individuals pay for apps, but more businesses running Windows pay for bulk licenses.

Maybe Peldi from Balsamiq will weigh in here.
With all of the recent stories of people being locked out of their Google Accounts with no recourse, it would be great if Google offered one-time customer support for, say, $50 that would work with you to restore access to your accounts.

They may not make money hand-over-fist but I bet there's enough need for the service that it would be self-supporting.
Which programming languages do hackers use? Survey at German Chaos Computer Club
[PDF]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.12466.pdf

Very small sample ( 40 responses )

Bash/Shell/PowerShell 72.50 %

Python 70.00 %

C 32.50 %

JavaScript 32.50 %

HTML/CSS 30.00 %

C++ 27.50 %

Go 22.50 %

SQL 22.50 %

Java 20.00 %

Others 20.00 %

Assembly 17.50 %

C# 15.00 %

PHP 15.00 %

Rust 12.50 %

Ruby 10.00 %

Perl 7.50 %

TypeScript 7.50 %

Kotlin 5.00 %

Scala 5.00 %

VB/VBA 5.00 %

Lisp 2.50 %

Swift 2.50 %

Objective-C 0.00 %

R 0.00 %
This article has nothing to do with Let's Encrypt, ACME, TLS, or DNS.
I thought more a well-written Perl script.
Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline
I don’t know if I’ve seen a cross platform UI development toolkit that produces truly accessible UIs. At least with HTML you can make a solid attempt to support various AT like screen readers.
Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
I haven't seen anyone in this thread, or anywhere else, state that killing Ukrainians is uniquely bad. Do you have a source for this assertion?
I do worry that public health has a measurement problem where they only focus on things they can measure/estimate and things that they do cannot estimate they ignore instead of putting in an unscientific guess.
Seems it happens at the same time of the day in each case.
It's great, but the hole is too wide.

The ball shouldn't go in easily if you hit too hard.
I vouch for the Sunbeam F1. It reminds me of the dumbphones of yore and is totally functional. Also check out r/dumbphones, lots of reviews there.
If I've learned one thing about myself being married with a kid on the way, it's that I lack a lot of intrinsic motivation to do anything productive. Left alone I'll video-game and drink my way into an early grave. I need something to be responsible for to keep my self-destructive instincts in line.

I only started working out consistently because a couple of years into marriage my wife made an ultimatum that she didn't want to have kids with someone who doesn't exercise. And as pissed off as I was in the moment I couldn't really argue with that. Being a dad (which was something I wanted) demands a certain level of health/energy to do well, never mind longevity, and I was rationalizing not working out on a weekly basis ("I'm too tired, won't be able to watch my form." "I'm still kinda sore from last time." "My foot hurts a little, better not push it", and other sorry excuses). To be fair I'd never worked out consistently in my life. I needed that kick in the ass to form the habit from scratch as an adult.

Likewise I've steered myself away from many self-destructive impulses in the last few months simply because my soon-to-be daughter deserves something better than a tired, beaten-down bastion of mediocrity for a father. It's even helping my career, as I have to set an example for her and being a tuned-out clock puncher isn't what I want for her.

Call it a pathetic lack of self esteem, or a natural lack of inhibition, but I've always been wired this way as long as I can remember. I need the responsibility, and even if I resent it in the moment I know by taking it on I'll end up in a better place, and the people I'm responsible for usually do better as well.

Just offering an alternate perspective. Different people are wired differently.
I love ssh certificates for access and indeed we're using this for accessing our production network using a few small pieces of home-grown infrastructure.

However, there's one big issue nobody is talking about: There is zero support for certificate authentication in any SSH clients for iOS and most people who have network access here also have iOS devices.

And even if there were support, just supporting the certificates alone is not enough - there would need to be some automatable way of getting a new certificate into an app as the whole idea of the certificates is that they are very short-lived (days or even hours if possible)
I think I might be your target audience (oggling with the idea to create as SaaS, and good background in python). And let me be blunt: your promo material sucks

The docs show me what words to type to get your product, but not what your product gives me. From what I figured out it gives me a lot of django stuff. So should I go away now to learn all that djange stuff (probably yes), but then why do I need django forge?

The best explanation is the heading of the video. But still, what is the benefit. How difficult is it to build a SaaS with vanilla django, and how much easier is it with django-forge. I couldnt figure that out.

Can you make a video, where you show how to make a full fledged SaaS with django-forge and deploy it? How long would that video be?
With the interesting conclusion: we must all learn to live without fear even in legitimately fearful circumstances! If you cannot control your emotion, it becomes rational to ignore your reason, or even "hack" your reason by feeding it false belief. Somehow that one scene in "Airplane!" comes to mind, with the long line of people waiting to slap the hysterical passenger. The joke being that in an emergency most people are fine, a few people get hysterical, and other people cope by slapping the hysterical person in order to "help" them calm down.

In the end, it probably doesn't matter; the Fermi paradox strongly implies no civilization makes it out of their tiny radio bubble alive. Consider that our own radio waves have only traveled 122 light-years into the void, and already our civilization has been at risk several times from nuclear weapons, and is now at risk because of climate change and biosphere degradation. A civilization desiring interstellar contact must prioritize it's own longevity above all else. That humans might be the first in our galaxy does not bode well for humanity's chances! Which brings me to my own favorite tool to disspel fear: zoom out, remember it's all temporary at some timescale, and enjoy the good stuff while it lasts.
But the performance is worse. I point out the example of a small spreadsheet. Open it in Google sheets, and you are using 1/2 gigs+ in ram plus heavy cpu. Open it in a desktop app maybe you will use 20 to 30 mb of ram, and low cpu usage.
Thanks, but an answer from someone that knows the language that they're talking about would be much more productive.
Good luck proving that these songs were not created via automation in court - or that the claimant did not create the melody via automation for that matter. Wouldn't most electronic music fall under that definition?
>Assuming "base model" means minimum storage, this is unsurprising. The SSD controller probably has a fixed set of supported configurations, so only those that Apple ships will work, which AIUI is 2x2T or 2x4T. Therefore you'd need two of the 2T model to be able to pair them up.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1506859863212965895
Increasing Postmark's capacity: A parable of pipes
Yeah, my org had a Kerberos setup for some DB/middleware/CLI tools. I inherited a bunch of random script tools that took the whole typing in passwords for everything. Screw that, first thing I did was write a Kerberos module and set up a Kerberos keystore. Presto, no more typing passwords for everything. Typically it ends up boiling down to whether or not the backend thing you're talking to supports Kerberos, many don't and only have the whole SSL thing. A well setup Kerberos was much nicer to work with than chained SSL certs.
In other news, somebody outside Microsoft did, literally, anything with Windows 1.0.
My comment was not intended to indicate whether or not $2.5k is or is not outrageous.

The point of my comment is that $69k was apparently deemed to be sufficiently more outrageous and hence clickbait worthy such that it incentivized the writer to lie about the facts.
CSP plants have never gotten beyond the prototype phase because no one has figured out how to make them economically viable. One near me in California just shut down because maintenance costs were skyrocketing.

Batteries, in their current form, have all sorts of issues that haven't made them economically viable either. Liquid electrolytes (liquid batteries) do show promise for grid level storage, and I am pleased to see lots of activity around them but we are still probably 5-10 years away from anything worth scaling up around.

Hot water is fine for extreme micro uses - individual buildings - but again not even remotely viable for something at scale, let alone replacing base load generation for the grid.

Base load is the real nut to crack - and so far solar is no where near being anything but a nice supplement for base load.
Now that I think about it, that's the only scene I can really remember well. Maybe I should let sleeping insomniac dogs lie.
Conversely, can you name a service that has this many users that has this many issues?
Thanks for the link, they probably need to add another entry to the list. #hugops
Tried it, looks great. Thanks!
A heuristic such as, right to speak with a human, if
a) Customer pays for the service
b) Service stores any data of the customer's (e.g., email provider, cloud storage provider, facebook, youtube, instagram, etc., but would need a threshold i.e., a simple throwaway comment would not have enough value to trigger, but an article, photo, or document would).
c) Service acts as IdP where being locked out might result in being locked out of other services (e.g., "login with facebook/google", Okta, etc.)

I am sure there are other cases I have missed, but this should give an idea. The problem will be in defining the rules specifically enough to address your concerns, yet vaguely enough that companies will not find ways to satisfy the letter of the law while violating the spirit.

Yes, Github would fall into the categories above. If, as a result, Microsoft decided they no longer wanted to provide non-paid accounts, then so be it. Their business model was unsustainable if it could only work by abusing their users. Some things of value may be lost.

This right to speak to a human should apply to non "web" companies too.
It wasn't available when I started Beekeeper Studio, so I never tried it.

I used to hate native-apps-that-are-actually-web-apps, but I'm a full convert after using VSCode, that's what encouraged me to take the leap with BKS.

Electron is the market leader, so maybe Flutter will end up better, but at this point I'm skeptical.
I'm not sure how that's relevant. The fact that it's difficult doesn't make it unsolved.
"Snowflake users"

What an unfortunate company name. Or funny, depends on how you look at it.
As long as we're airing pet peeves, mine is about over-literal misunderstandings:

> Kafka cannot scale infinitely. Nothing can.

It is very common that when a phrase can't be literally true, it signals a metaphorical meaning. E.g., if a teen tells you their new teacher is a million years old, it's not a literal statement of age. Similarly, nobody expects "scale infinitely" to mean that, as in Universal Paperclips, that we'll be converting whole galaxies into Kestra clusters. It means that any bottlenecks are external to the system.
>> On a deeper level, generally to relax you need to fix the thing that would stop you from relaxing - you have a headache and you take aspirin. Alcohol is not the solution to any stressor.

So aspirin for a headache helps you relax but alcohol for an introvert’s social setting anxiety does not help you relax? What a strange line to draw between “stressors” that are acceptable to solve with drugs.
You're not providing a service though are you? You're providing intellectual property for people to do things with.
Has anyone here made any trades today?

If so, what is your overall experience?
That has been my experience as well, by and large. The "virtual assistant" thing propagated by the 4-hour work week crowd only works under very specific circumstances.
I'm not sure I understand the point here: are you saying that a CRL is an effective protection against compromise? If so, how exactly does that work?
yeah, he's not, by any definition, the first line of the article says that is an alternate clickbait as a joke which maybe allows it to comply with HN posting guidelines, but given that the poster's username has the NL acronym in it which probably means Netherlands, and the Dutch-like name of the author of the article, (and actual prolific DJ scene in that country), its probably the same person, so its unknown if that actually makes it fit HN posting guidelines to me

Its amusing, it got me to click though and I was pleased by what I read
The point, I think,would be an on/off ramp that ignores KYC and isn't receptive to court orders to reveal customer information.
Anti-aircraft guns can't actually take out most drones.

Good analogy.
I was saddened to see that he stopped producing videos after this. This is exemplary of a serious social problem we seem to have.

I feel for him personally, because I've had a similar personal "ultimatum" regarding online interaction:

I don't comment and don't contribute at all any more because the emotional load of what you receive in return just... Isn't worth it.

So much nasty, pointless noise. I was taught as a kid to "Say nothing at all, if you have nothing nice to say". Now I'm sticking to it, and some.

It's sad for sure, as this represents a macro-level chilling effect on social interaction.

I don't want to be "that Evan guy" in the comments trolling, and I don't want to risk receiving the noise of trolls. So I just opted out.

These days, I just passively consume things online, observing the waves of rage and bigotry, and letting them flow by, knowing I have no stake in their game.

Things are much better in real life, where I have great conversations with friends, family, and coworkers. We can get in to deep conversations and negativity isn't taken personally like that. Because the bandwidth is higher between participants and we care about each other.

The only remaining way I contribute, is to create one-off accounts, say what I think if it's nice, and never look at it again. I don't want to see the responses, because they just lure you in to wanting to respond, and they end up wasting emotional space in my mind.
This doesn't need to be a right (of which there are necessarily vanishingly few). It just needs to be a choice. If you pay more, you will get better service.
it's easy to win a trade war
There's a good Diablo 1 "making of" video, the lead developer talks about learning C while coding the game in assembly. I'll try to find it.
>this stuff seems to only happen in the JS community

What stuff? Drama? That happens everywhere.

Malware? That stuff happens a lot of places, maybe npm makes it more accessible but that's just a technical hurdle ... doesn't mean it wouldn't happen elsewhere if folks could do it easily.
A similar policy with a similar motivation was allegedly a major factor in the commonly-cited "first easter egg" in Adventure for the Atari 2600, as well as the founding of Activision.
There are a lot of organizations that do a lot of good in the world that do not meet that standard.
My company recently switched to github actions from Gitlab CI because gitlab had so much downtime.