skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently the cat being overwritten here has been in use as a mascot by a group of folks who were banned from Reddit. So I'm not sure it's as simple as stating that admins wanted to control the board, there could have been some abuse going on that we don't know about.

>The Admins are currently at war with r/drama's offsite forum, who have been brigading Reddit. Last week the Admins banned lots of them permanently. So yesterday those brigaders drew their cat mascot in r/place, and the Admins used their powers to erase it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/tv2lmx/comm...
Yep, I tapped out on netflix too. Never said anything about it to anyone that didn't live with me. Pretty quiet and mundane decision, more like a realization it just wasn't worth it anymore.
Martin Kleppmann wrote an illustrated children's book on cryptography
All you have to do is look at the impacts of predominantly renewable generation on the west coast to see that just building renewables is insufficient. CA is massively renewable but storage starved and as a result heavily leans on neighboring states dirty generation to balance the grid. We need storage projects and transmission upgrades, the generation itself is the cheap and easy part.
If those IDs are fixed, then third parties will be able to collate identities and owners or operators over time.

Do you have any details / references on the specification?
It is unfortunate they did not just do the paid route and keep it Open Source.
All things considered it’s great software but yes it can be kinda heavyweight at times.
I have noticed that TikTok is more likely to show the content from my current location as I travel between countries. Must be the geo tagging that makes it easy for the . 80km is a long distance when it crosses national borders.
Reading it slower or faster wouldn’t fix this since colloquial English would allow it to be read either way.
Batman has something to say. Joking aside it would be interesting to see this used my a malicious actor leading people to a malicious website.
Someone found a tweet of his saying that if he'd ever release a new Monkey Island game, he'd announce it on April Fool's Day. So he did, and of course nobody believed him. But 3 days later he posted this:

https://grumpygamer.com/return_to_monkey_island
I see. These sound like two different products, Google Search vs Google Scholar. I can imagine AI + natural language processing is dramatically changing search performance of dense-detailed text.
Metadata like that, associated with a specific users identity.
Thanks - I'd be keen to try this at some point, if anything just for personal usage. I've got more than enough hardware CPU & RAM-wise, if all it takes is getting a few TBs worth of solid-state storage it seems like a no-brainer.
Developers flood Arizona with homes even as historic Western drought intensifies
I think you’re conflating “tinkering” with simply desiring a different feature set. In my case I actually want “less” from Google in terms of number of features. I don’t want to tinker either, but we naturally reach for toggles as a way to tell the system we want different (not necessarily more) features.

Most of my search results at this point look like a spam ridden inbox from the mid-2000s.
I totally agree, that "making the world a better place" has become more of a placeholder than anything else. What I was referring to, is more of about finding problems to solve that will help people. It doesn't have to be a world impact, but if I can help 1 person do 1 thing only 1% better, that's good enough. Because, then, this small improvement can do the same and snowball into something massive that later on could have a ripple effect. That's mostly my goal.
I love you.com mobile app, just saw that they made a layout update, really cool
None of these seem like the next Google. Too complicated.

The earlier Google, when Google was at its best in both performance and results, was incredibly simple. It indexed the entire web. It returned keyword matched results based on relevancy. There was no customization required. No editorialized results. No Big Brothering the user against thoughtcrime or wrongthink. No promotion of The Current Thing. Just information, whether good or bad, true or false, as a search engine should be.

Something that can replicate that will have a good chance of success, but I think the longstanding challenge to both Google and competitors is how to rank material in an increasingly siloed and ideological web filled with agendas, astroturfing, SEO optimization, and spam.
> the top comment isn't about asdf which I had hoped to learn about

Oh I think you're using HN wrong. To learn about the subject you can read the actual article that's linked to. No guarantees about the comments section.
Have you thought about *.Family? That's what's we went with.
Best headline I've read in while.
Can I just say how refreshing it is when people post links to their PDF whitepapers without having to sign up for a newsletter or other marketing BS?

I <3 sparkfun and adafruit.
So does his new free speech wagon mean disinfo is back on the menu at twitter, and a return of the former president*?
One-click checkout company Fast is shutting down April 15th
When people say inventor, they think Nicola Tesla or the Wright Brothers.

Elon musk is more analogous to Stebe Jobs, primarily a businessman with some engineering backgrund.

Then there is the whole controversy of tesla being funded by two guys, him being an investor and forcing them out of the company.
I did clojure as a hobbyist for years and have only recently taken a job where I'm working full time in Clojure on a large codebase (i.e., first time having to maintain somebody else's Clojure code). It's not a golden hammer by any means, but I'd definitely take it over Java (or Scala) any day.
I haven't encountered a single person in my young, left-wing, NYC bubble that demands I actively support trans women in female sport leagues, as opposed to not opposing them. I don't even know what the difference is between these things (does active support mean lobbying or volunteering?).

I do, however, have some family members that demand I actively oppose this, and get very mad when I profess neutrality.
> "The Nazis are evil" is also an overused trope and is hardly radical but by reusing it it helps protect us on a civilizational level from actual nazis.

Hows that working out? Cuz it doesn't look like it's doing much except creating painfully generic stock villains.

People forgot how popular the Nazis were, both in the US and elsewhere. And no one can really articulate why they're popular now outside of "day racis", which is a thought terminating cliche.
That's definitively a good perspective, and a great reminder!
Lab turns hard-to-process plastic waste into carbon-capture substrate
That is a way of looking at it without nuance. Russia falsified the elections in the East in 2004 and tried to murder Yushchenko. They created a problem in western Ukraine by themselves, which precipitated the revolution in 2014. Since Russia is profoundly gifted at domestically blaming the west for their own problems, I can see how it would seem like the US forced a coup.

Perhaps Russia shouldn't invade their neighbors. It seems to make their neighbors not like them.
I’ve seen it so maybe uncommon but not untrue. But it’s 100% true that British people have a weird problem with pedophilia, even compared to other western countries. Problem both in the sense that you all seem to be pedophiles and also in that the topic is enveloped in moral dogma.
The modern era, no one can make a mistake, no one can be allowed to ever forget their mistakes, and we must always use any minor mistake to cancel the person if they do not agree with us politically
I think 'more customization' which is a theme with a lot of these alternatives is a fundamental dead end.

I tend to agree. It's an attempt to deal with bad design by putting in switches, options, and knobs to tweak. That's because 1) it's easier than focus groups, A/B testing, and taking video of users using the thing, 2) design takes some artistic talent, and 3) it lets the programmer blame the users for the problem.

This is a vice of open source people. It's why Linux on the desktop has never taken off. "Just edit /etc/conf/foo/bar/prefs.txt" is not a design. Nor is "On the visual side, you can modify everything about the way things look, even being able to write your own custom CSS."

I'm critical of Google's search, but this is not the way to fix it.

Consider just few more search options, alongside "News", such as "Scholar" and "Noncommercial", for when you're overwhelmed by crap. And "Popular", for when you want the crap. Don't add another interacting dimension of tweaking.
> Node is doing the right thing

Node does a different thing. It can coalesce two different versions into one if the two things are within a certain semver range, but there's nothing that enforces whether things within a semver range are actually compatible. The most prominent example is Typescript, which famously does not follow semver. Another notable example of how NPM itself does things wrong is that it considers anything in the `^0.x` range as compatible, whereas semver distinctly says the 0.x range is "anything goes".
Values.

Word.
This look really good.

Can it be used as a front end with say C++/C# etc to replace Excel COM interop?
Have you tried to price out a comparative PC?
If you even can? Because there aren't many that will take as much RAM as that $50K Mac Pro and when you do find a PC that will all of the sudden you realize there isn't much of an Apple tax at all for the equivalent hardware.

Want to argue that Apple should have more variation in their offerings and price points? Sure - I heartily agree. But blithely tossing out a contextless $50K price tag as being some sort of "tax" is just silly.
Thank you, truly appreciate it :)
Your website is broken on mobile
Nice announcement, but I really can't wait for an Apple Silicon build of the Engine. Would love to develop games on an M1 device.
US has done it's fair share of banning . Trump even tried to ban TikTok.
Cross Domain Compositor: hardware-based compositing for a secure user interface [pdf]
> the push to add types to JS, Python, Ruby and other dynamic languages is largely from developers accustomed to Java, C-Sharp, and other enterprisy languages who would probably rather not work in a dynamic language at all

I recall Guido van Rossum stating once, that he got convinced of the necessity for type annotations by JetBrains explaining to him how hard it was to provide good code completion. Not sure its the full answer, but back then I found it interesting as an example how lobbying can work.

(I feel rather indifferent on the type annotations for Python actually, I can see their usefulness, but also the shortcomings of retroactively introducing such a system into a dynamically typed language).
How Much Money Has Rick Astley Made from Rickrolling? (2015)
This is one of the reasons I love working for You.com.

SEO is killing Google and it needs to be addressed before it kills the internet. Having the opportunity to build an app that solves a search, instead of perpetuating a spam system, has been really rewarding... and we're just getting started.
It is absolutely unclear.

A teacher shouldn't have to risk legal action by saying "Timmy's parents are both men who love each other, and that's okay." This bill introduces that risk because the teacher doesn't know who is going to decide what is age appropriate. A parent could decide it was inappropriate and initiate a suit. Will that happen often? No, but what teacher is going to risk it?

It's very difficult to find a reason that the wording "age appropriate or developmentally appropriate" is so vague, expect that the bill's intent is to silence the subject as much as possible.
In the US, most public schools have health class that covers these topics in 8th or 9th grade. The bill isn't touching that. Third grade is far too young.
Never heard of guix til now. An annoying piece of software with a cult-like following does sound up my street, though.
No, you're talking about inflation, we're talking about increasing prices. Why do you think they're the same? Electronic devices aren't priced like bread.
B2B. My partner runs a Shopify store where companies come back each month to stock up.

Apple Pay, Shop Pay etc. have made a big difference in conversions and customers seem to like it as it skips a few steps for them.
This is just a 2022 version of a billionaire buying a newspaper. Not shocking.
TLDR; Be objective

- evaluate yourself against an objective rubric => medium has one (here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EO-Dbsayn8Nz9Ii3MKcwRbt-EIJ2MjQdpoyhh0tBdZk/edit#gid=2049640133), but you can build your own and get feedback
- list out your accomplishments, things you've done that you take pride in. compare these skills/accomplishments against what a qualified candidate for that role would have have
- Ask your former employers or managers about your strengths and how they would level you
- Read the army doctrine of leadership. Understand how leadership works in large organizations, understand what poor, good, and great performance is.

... I would personally add that soooooo many people in leadership positions are just making it up as they go. Especially at mid to lower level leadership/management roles. A company with a great product can literally have the worst management/ leadership possible and still be fine, so don't feel like you have to have the world on your shoulders. Good leaders work to define what needs to get done, and enable their people to be able to accomplish these goals. So just go for it!
Yeah it is a shame agree
I nearly also used the word “sacred” in my comment above.

I gave up MacOS for Linux because I felt like Apple wasn’t letting me operate my own computer anymore. Even Ubuntu has eroded the transparency and control I have over my computer over the last decade, at least that’s my perception.

I feel like the only part of my computer that I understand anymore is what happens in the terminal.

I don’t categorically hate having magic happen on some remote server that makes computing easier for me in some way… but I really need to have a space that I understand and control and — over time — that place has slowly been compressed into the command line.
> Chan manifestos are the only thing that might qualify.

Plenty of other punk types. Train hopping crusty punk types come to mind. Moxie Marlinspike has a few great stories about hanging with that crowd.
Normally I would pull the command I need multi-line editing for back from shell history, using the search operator '!' and print predicate ':p' before invoking bash's 'edit-and-execute-command' on it. I suppose while in the editor then I might need history again, but I can't recall it being an issue.
I personally think this new search engine sucks. There's 1000 good reasons to create a new search engine to fight Google but they don't get it, they don't have vision and their features just sucks.

"[...]We do not log or associate searches with an account.[...]" why would I trust that and why would a create an account in the first place ?
I don't know about $200/month but I am 100% on board with paying for DRM free entertainment.
Yes, twitter has more interpersonal than baseball does, but the points system looms large over every word.
Post-NeRF world: Google Maps and Waymo would've mapped the entire world, every city, road, terrain, crowd everything you can think of with any range of artistic tones, lighting, weather effects.

It would be just a matter of paying Google a license fee to use their environment in a film or games.

"Hey Google, generate a GTA V clone with cel-shading located in Liberia with Final Fantasy 7 characters but not enough to infringe on US copyright laws."

"Sure, here is the link you can share or the downloadable executable to submit to Steam"

"Good, you go ahead and submit that to Steam and let me know when it hits 10,000 downloads"
I consider myself pretty firmly in favor of LGBT+ rights. But at the same time, I can see why parents wouldn't want sexual education as a part of a curriculum for 5 to 8 year olds. Sex ed certainly wasn't being taught in elementary school when I was a kid. But this legislation goes both ways. A teacher can't teach 5-8 year olds that there are only two genders, either.
I think people are really over-analyzing this move. I think it's motivated by prestige, not money, nor is free speech the heart of the matter.

Twitter is a stagnant company. They have thousands of engineers that in the span of a decade don't seem to produce much at all, nothing visible or memorable anyway. Long-lasting Twitter problems (culture, spam, algorithm issues) never seem addressed. User growth is stagnating as Twitter fails to appeal to "normies" in a way Facebook and other networks can.

A perfect target for Musk to come in, do a few sweeping changes, and get out. Thereby proving once again that he gets shit done where others can't. Case closed.

It doesn't take much. People have been begging for an edit button for a decade. If he'd get only that feature implemented, it will be remembered forever.
Agreed. Thiago's introductory PARA writings do seem to imply a strict deadline, but like the parent, I use a concrete definition of completion ("completability") as the defining characteristic of a project. If I can't do this, then it's a major red flag and there's some deeper problem and the thing either isn't a project (e.g. it's an "Area" - something you to want to maintain a standard on over time) or it's not well defined enough yet and there's prior work needed.

Case study: Frederico Vittici of MacStories recently wrote about revising his own system to eliminate deadline times from his system as unnecessary overhead that he'd picked up long ago. It was a case of an item from "someone else's system" which was adding stress for no benefit.

All organizational systems are really custom-fit jobs. Look at others' systems and understand the individual techniques and how they fit together. Then apply those to your situation. This is a bit like the advice to not just take someone's complicated dotfile setup (vim, shell, etc.) and add it to your own wholesale. Instead to learn and apply piece-by-piece, understanding that sometimes several pieces must "go in together" to make everything work as intended. (this also applies 100% to every single software team's process in my entire career, btw.)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5960411A/en

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/37/e6/81/3ebb1f3...
And yet, you're a long time, heavy-ish poster on the more heavily moderated Hacker News.
I went through the same recently. Became interested on too many different things, projects and topics because in my mind there was so much going on.

Get enough good sleep. If you don't sleep enough you won't be able to focus and retain anything you learned long-term. Don't put on headphones or fall asleep listening to videos/podcasts or looking at things on your phone.

Create a setting in which you can do 1 thing uninterrupted. If there are any potential distractions, put them away, turn them off or close as needed to create necessary boundaries.

As we grow older we accumulate and we obtain more things that we could make use of but have effectively the same or less time to devote to each individually.
Imagine all these humans will be paid / corrupted by the destinations if they hold outsize influence
At https://you.com we believe in choice but not force it. It will just work out of the box, but as folks shop or get really into something like coding - we have heard from many users that they like or dislike certain sources or apps.
Like w3school - it's in every search engine but some folks hate it so they can downvote it.

I personally benefitted a lot from the ability to like the reddit app once and then see more real reddit results?
> Certainly you WANT the school district to do some filtering for the school accounts, right?

a) No. Filtering (if there is any) should be limited to their own network or a school-issued device, not some device the school system doesn't own. b) Filtering only the school accounts is pointless if the student can just switch to a non-school account (or guest account) and access whatever they want there.
I spend my free time making IDE tooling used by thousands to make game mods played by millions. Am I making the world a better place?
Great book.

My friend is Thai and said he (Bagciaglupi) couldn't speak the language to save his life, but otherwise liked the book.
Really liked https://www.thingybase.com/ , but no updates in recent times.
There's a book I love to send people: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001REFRZG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect (old school. no kindle. just hardcover. :) ) "Something Really New" How innovation works. First question in the book is: you need to come up with a new idea for a faucet company. Customer research says: Users want lots of variety in their faucets. Everyone then immediately comes up with the same exact ideas: faucets that are easily customizable. Faucets that have skins. Etc.

When really innovative stuff is just about removing steps. If a process has 10 steps, remove as many as you can, and now you have something truly innovative on your hands.

I feel like Google did exactly that. Pre Google steps: search for XYZ, wait, check first link, second link, spam, spam, check next page. Post Google: search for XYZ, get XYZ.
This link answers my question - thanks.

Far left is the opposite of far right, for which we can all point to many of them that have been banned from twitter.
So you think they should stake their whole business on pleasing customers who not only don't pay for the product but who make a hobby out of not paying for media? How do you supposed they keep the lights on?
From what I'd heard, he's the perfect boss; adverse to workplace politics, interested in truth & results above all else.
We did exactly the same, tried to uneject from CRA recently and just could not get it to work in PNPM, switched to Yarn and it just worked.
According to the linked article, Jon appears to be one of the co-founders
Not to mention he doesn't have the political capacity / capital or the history as Jack at Twitter
Don't overthink this or spend too much time researching. Improving mental health is very much trial and error.

If you're uncomfortable taking anti-depressants, start with therapy and improvements to diet and exercise. For a lot of people this is enough.

If after a while, you're not getting the results you want, try an antidepressant. You may have to try a few since they work differently for different folks.

If you're taking the anti-depressants and don't want to anymore, try reducing the dose or stopping altogether. A lot of people only need them temporarily. Some people find them useful long-term.
Bug in Amazon scams me into buying more units than I asked for
For the past few weeks, whenever I try to buy 1 of something on Amazon with the "buy now" button, an order for between 2 and 5 often ends up being created.

I figure if this is affecting me, there must be a large subgroup of users who are having orders stuffed for product they don't want.

I've tried to contact support, but no one cares / believes me.

Video of the bug in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq53MlnqSnU
I think what you wrote makes perfect sense and I could get behind not caring so much about some standards for some positions. What would you propose for the support jobs like “Culinary Specialists” or “Logistics Specialists”?
sorry for you :P
Wow where did you go after! AskJeeves?
wow - there was scandal story breaking only a week ago about CEO Domm Holland, whose dubious business ethics in his native Australia was completely ignored by US investment community who piled in cash into Fast. Fyre Festival style story coming I feel
Yeah, so creating a nazi military batallion out of a nazi paramilitary to fight an ethnic civil war against Russians may not have been the genius military move Poroshenko thought it was :(