skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussion on X-Rays was interesting, but I think their confidence was slightly misplaced. I know that I sat much closer than 6 feet as a youth.

"It is, therefore, very doubtful whether any appreciable percentage of such rays would even get through the screen itself, let alone the glass wall of the cathode ray tube. In fact, very soft X-rays are absorbed by a few centimetres or even a few millimetres of air."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube#Health_concer...

"Concerns about x-rays emitted by CRTs began in 1967 when it was found that TV sets made by General Electric were emitting "X-radiation in excess of desirable levels". It was later found that TV sets from all manufacturers were also emitting radiation. This caused television industry representatives to be brought before a U.S. congressional committee, which later proposed a federal radiation regulation bill, which became the 1968 Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act. It was recommended to TV set owners to always be at a distance of at least 6 feet from the screen of the TV set, and to avoid "prolonged exposure" at the sides, rear or underneath a TV set. It was discovered that most of the radiation was directed downwards. Owners were also told to not modify their set's internals to avoid exposure to radiation. Headlines about "radioactive" TV sets continued until the end of the 1960s. There once was a proposal by two New York congressmen that would have forced TV set manufacturers to "go into homes to test all of the nation's 15 million color sets and to install radiation devices in them". The FDA eventually began regulating radiation emissions from all electronic products in the US."
Trolling is absolutely a form of bad faith communication. However, you needn't look far on twitter to find that trolls are pretty high hanging fruit compared to ideological flamewars perpetuated by non-trolls fighting to score points for their respective ideological teams.
Thanks, it's useful!
As a longtime user of Macs this is dead on. Mac OS UX feels cumbersome today in a way it never used to feel. A lot of that is by comparison to Windows 10/11 and Linux, rather than actual regression, but it doesn’t change the fact that it feels bad. I remember first using OSX and it feeling like a revelation compared to Windows.
Honestly it wouldn’t take much to fix this. If they implement drag windows snapping; rethink full screen mode; and improve the intelligence of dock autohiding, I think it would do a lot, but as is I feel like I am fighting the software to do basic window navigation.

At the same time, I think Apple is currently doing some of their best most sensible hardware design and their quality control has only gotten better.

Despite my misgivings about Mac OS I still choose a Mac for work because I need a laptop and I want a quality machine, but I really hope Apple take a long hard look at MacOS and devotes some resources to pushing desktop operating systems forward again.
This take is quite accurate, just a few points:

1. By broader macroeconomic trends, I was suggesting that HN commenters might be criticizing "charge more" simply because consumers in general, who may not be able to afford as much as they used to, would be adversely affected. Of course, tech companies who monetize by pursuing any number of alternate policies (adding ads, selling data, F2P loot boxes) would be just as roundly criticized. Lose-lose.

2. I'm not sure how feasible it is to expect the amount of labor crossing into capital to be on par with how it was in the dot-com bubble, or even just a decade before. Sure, a large amount of dumb money continues to slosh around in tech so long as interest rates and other economic conditions remain favorable for investing, but that doesn't mean the number of entrepreneurs will increase proportionally

3. Tech industry trends have shifted over time, and corporations don't simply make decisions at the expense of labor only for the sake of shareholders, but also for the founders themselves (who are also technically shareholders, sure). Witness this rather curious pre-pandemic thread from December 2019 where the HN commentariat almost overwhelmingly denounces joining startups, in favor of joining FAANG or starting one's own startup instead. (Though the latter would seem to contradict the 'less of software labor wants to join capital' idea.) As the second comment puts it pithily, "the math changed."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065
Take the risk. Or make a throwaway.
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Some people need to quit and run their own business and go through the pain of learning the skills to do so. If they don’t quit, they become impacted with resentment. People who are very creative and have the experience of having their innovations stolen / reassigned to others over and over again get extremely resentful.

I know because I am one of them. In my experience, the people who don’t understand are the ones who don’t create anything and are generally mediocre. Most employees do not design new ideas, programs or strategies. They act bewildered when their colleagues do create novel innovations and then seem to want to “own / run them.” Your reaction signals you are probably not in the creative sector, which is typical.

The people in the very upper 1% of the talent pool are most disadvantaged by corporate systems. If you create some new program that gets a lot of attention, management often can’t wait to divide the credit between you and others who didn’t do anything and then say it was “team work.” The one who produces all the inventions and ideas knows otherwise.

I have been burned so many times I am now deeply cynical and refuse to create anything new for anyone other than myself.

Example: I designed a program which got $20 million in funding (this is not a made up number). The project was then given to a lifelong veteran of the company. He got to “do the strategy.” That meant he took my exact slides and reformatted them. Then he was put to “manage” me because I was only allowed to be “an execution person” due to my seniority.

He got all the credit, I got all the work. That is one example of the benefits of being creative in these environments. Learned my lesson several times: Don’t create IP for corporations. Ever.

Best case scenario is they take it away from you Later rather than Sooner.
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Low snipe. Annnddd... disagree.

In general I think Microsoft Windows has precious few tastemakers. It's a radically consumerist / default system. There are basically no bonding grounds, no places where tasteful Windows users emerge from, gather at. And how could these things emerge from a radically consumerist / default system? Consumer OSes are define by their overwhelming colossal hordes of default users with ultra low interest just scratching by. There is no imaginable place for an interested engaged Windows community to take hold.

Basically it takes way outsider communities to drive this indifferent passive receptive commumity of Windows users to good. The Linux users have tadte, care, empathy... entirely unlike 98% of users who simply passively consume what they are given.

i fall hard away from you. disagree very heavily. it's a tasteless undiscerning world versus people who have some real consideration, who engage. we haven't really figured out how to let the rest of the world engage in a choiceful system, there's still rampant casual violence & disdain for alternatives that in truth work fine.

regardless, there's precious few tastemakers & people with legitimatizable opinions. i can think of few better users than the linux users use lambast, shirk, disdain as the people who have tastes, who care. i dont know why you would so callously & casually disdain caring & community like this. way out of touch to me: what better more responsible authority might we turn to?
Google is budgeting for more expensive engineers, so they end up hiring less.
Maybe only a unified direction towards dysfunction lol

But yes in the context in which you have laid down you are correct I believe.
Reminder that home construction and indoor climate vary regionally. While every modern home tends to have air conditioning, heating and insulation to some degree, some areas can get away with very little while others need a massive amount and different methods.

It's also interesting how often buildings aren't retrofitted for climate control. Sometimes it's a unit that used to have a fire place but was retrofitted for apartments, or used to have gas or oil and was converted to electric-only. I've been in four rentals in my life where I had to bring my own air conditioner and heater.
This has been previously covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30951723

"Needless to say, if the show were set in the United States, the parents would be under investigation by Child Protective Services, and the children in foster care."

So would my parents be in deep trouble and many others too if the freedoms I experienced back when I was a kid were to happen today (back then all us kids and parents considered such freedoms to be the norm).

Here's my comment to the earlier story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30953588.

As I said then, I truly feel sorry for today's mollycoddled kids.
the first and third vary widely by state regulatory regimes. only the second is actually consistently applied by the federal government.
Facebook is mentioned 19 times, Fox News once, and talk radio zero. This is a very techno deterministic argument that utterly fails to acknowledge the main source of misinformation and division is boring old tech like cable news and radio. The main role Facebook serves is to make Fox and radio personalities more accessible.
I’m gearing up to do so. I have bought a (cheap) watch repair toolkit and a degausser. I have an Amphibia that’s losing about 8 or 9 mins a day that I’m prepared to risk damaging by futzing with it myself, and a second Big Zero where the second hand has fallen off. There’s a local ish guy here who will service just about any old Russian watch, and most,y charges a flat $150 for pretty mush anything (I assume that wouldn’t hold if difficult t9 get it expensive parts are needed) But I’ve rarely spent as much as $150 for one of these, so having a shit at opening/repairing one myself doesn’t seem too much of a risk. I have a list of YouTube videos and blog posts queued up first though…
Learned about iberian gauge while taking a train in Portugal last month. The tracks were further apart than any that I have ever seen. Rail is much more complicated than people might think
And, that's my point!

But, it happens that my anecdote is somewhat valid, since the 12 mini was cancelled (which is the phone I was referring to): https://tech.hindustantimes.com/mobile/news/iphone-12-mini-p...
I agree that it seems a little bit over-dramatic, but seeing as an employee said it was a "shit show" (quoting from the article), there must be something going on over there. I can imagine that once the realization set in that Musk wouldn't be joining the board and would in fact just be continuing to criticize Twitter on the platform itself, this caused consternation and people began to wonder where he was planning to go with this.
Just to add: this was long before Russian propaganda.

I'm not saying I agree with it. Just something I have noticed.

And my friends aren't online. They say this in person. For example, in a bar and hear someone being loud. American.

Seeing tourists making lots of unnecessary noise in the street -> american.

This is half joking but also what people seem to actually think a lot of the time.
If the reason for carbon offset sales is due to marketing and the desire to look good, then the firms buying it won't care how good or efficient the offsetting is done - they want branding and marketing out comes, not environmental outcomes.
I wonder what that would make HN?
This change is doubleplusgood
Big banks will bring accountability in terms of ensuring the market functions to make them money. Whether or not it functions to help the environment in any way at all would be entirely incidental.

Notice all the financial institutions self-congratulatory boasting a few years ago about divesting from thermal coal. Little odd how that wasn't timed with any new revelation about climate change or coal in the past 50 years, but rather exactly with sagging coal price and estimates of peak coal and continued demand collapse and replacement by cheaper sources. They've gone a little quiet about that since coal prices skyrocketing 5x to historic highs in the past year.

God help us if the big banks are the only ones who can save us.
> "Repeated file-name lookups are common — consider...~/.nethackrc"

Lol, <3 LWN
Facebook is a good place to start. This is how it works on your roommate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112559
> To achieve both of these, builders are increasingly designing buildings to be sealed bubbles of air, where any sort of flow across the outside boundary (air, water, energy) is minimized and controlled.

there's an associated ideology (overall attitude) that is bundled with this mindset (and outlook of the world). That of isolation and control over what surrounds us; a deepening (widening) breach (disconnect) with the natural (wild) world surrounding us.
That sb1310 had an expiration date
Really good article. Succinctly articulates and categorizes types of online social interactions I've observed over the past decade. I'm guilty of occasionally engaging bad faith communications myself. I'm trying to do better. For a while now I've felt this uneasiness that the escalating social discord we've been seeing over the past ~5 years could have disastrous consequences. I'm starting to think in terms of urgency, this year-over-year escalation of social discord needs to be addressed even before climate change.
People aren't desperate in the West, not by a long shot. It's popular to complain in this particular way, but it just isn't borne out by facts.

We are so rich that our poor are chronically fat. Even very poor people have very high standards of material living. Refrigerators, televisions, heat, etc. Many people in the world do not have these things still. There are people for whom lifespans are limited by things other than diseases of wealth (i.e., obesity).

The basic problem at the core of your complaint, I think, is a too-uneven distribution of social status. The basic cause is is keeping up with the Joneses. You and I measure our social status relative to that of the other people we observe (both in person and via electronic media). It is entirely possible to be a person of very high social status who views himself as rich and privileged, but who nonetheless has a considerably lower material standard of living than even poor Americans. This could be a chief in a small-scale society, for instance. He can be king of his local mountain, but die early of easily preventable disease

(There are other likely perks to his position that poor Americans won't usually get, though, like good mating opportunities and ample leisure time)
Also because up till, I guess now, Google Cloud TLS is just LetsEncrypt.

Which does raise an issue: I'm not sure why you'd use this, given Google's history of killing projects. What's the compelling reason to switch - especially since they feel content to release this under the `alpha` command set for the CLI tool.
Most rail stations are wired for water and electricity already, and small scale hydrogen crackers are already being deployed commercially in the US.

That addresses all your concerns, except maybe that people will want to produce hydrogen at home from their own solar arrays. That's expensive, but arguably unnecessary, since the hydrogen would mostly just be used to power cars.
It’s more basic too. Bad faith redefines the nature of the situation. It’s no longer a conversation and instead a game. And in game theory you have to play on level ground as your opponent. Ie when they go low you have to go low or exit the conversation turned game. “Going high” in modern rhetoric doesn’t actually net strategic advantage.

So maybe that’s insightful. Point out that conversations (unless they’re debates and everyone’s agreed to debate) are not games.
github is not the world. And it's certainly not the center of mine.
Aviation has paid with so much blood resulting in tight regulations and internal controls to get the point where any current accidents are unlikely edge case scenarios. [1]

SaaS has lot more tolerance for failure, so my money is it is something simpler but difficult to get implemented in large org.

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In a ideal world this incident should impact their revenue, growth and stock price substantially.

It is unlikely to do so, because of stickiness of enterprise customers, no better alternatives, compared to say Google, Facebook, Amazon where a minute of downtime is immediate quantifiable revenue loss so FAANG really obsess so much over how many 9s of uptime.

The typical management of enteripse app companies like Atlassian have no incentive to do anything beyond cursory lip service and get away with under investing in tech.

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[1]3 years back i would have stood by that, but after Boeing 737 max twin disaster and systematic problems leading to it , i am not so sure those lessons are not forgotten.
It's not on Roku's client, but it is on the web. Unfortunately, instead of showing it in the app as a single thumbs up, it shows none, so, you can overwrite your rating without knowing or if you use that as a sign that you've watched the movie, you may get confused.
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Good point but look at the fate of community broadband. That’s a battle being fought, and often lost, in statehouses.
I wonder the same, having no idea what Zettelkasten is/are... it sounds like a solution for a problem I don't think I have.
Since I had my first kid I've seen lots of targeted ads for educational toys on social media. Sometimes it goes to Etsy, sometimes it goes to an individual website. The thing is though, at least half of the ads are for products that you can find on AliExpress for half the price or even less.

I've noticed kitchen goods are usually the same. And it's not just Etsy... I've even seen Kickstarters that haven't finished, yet the product can already be purchased on AliExpress :D

Here are a few quick examples I found on Etsy. I just searched for "toys" and these were in the top results. Some of these even use the same photo as AliExpress:

1) https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1173294523/baby-bath-toys-di...

https://a.aliexpress.com/_v1syYw

2) https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1082197084/silicone-stacking...

https://a.aliexpress.com/_vD7zYA

3) https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1036245657/rainbow-stacking-...

https://a.aliexpress.com/_vDw2AA

As far as I am concerned Etsy is not a place for home made goods, it's a place to learn how marketing and drop shipping works.
They're more homogeneous in almost every way, including wealth, race, culture. They're also smaller.
You guys should check out prices in the Nashville area...
> Let's see how many people will pay money for their `is-odd` dependency.

If they're unwilling to pay for it, then maybe they should reconsider including it as a dependency? And maybe, just maybe, if they include it as a dependency without any intention of paying for it, then they should have zero expectation of support for it?

And likewise...

> especially in the JS world when you depend on 500 packages for a bare React project

...then maybe they should consider an ecosystem wherein they, you know, don't depend on 500 packages for a bare project? And if they do, then maybe - just maybe - they should expect to either contribute to the ongoing maintenance of those 500 packages or else be entirely unsurprised when they inevitably fall into disrepair?

> Yet I as an open source developer I want to announce that my projects are actively maintained

Then do so: remove the clauses in your licenses w.r.t. warranties and liabilities and fitnesses for particular purposes, and declare that you'll commit to active maintenance. If that's your prerogative, then nobody's stopping you. Chances are, though, you'll grow weary of the expectations from others with which you've burdened yourself without compensation.

A better form of seriousness would be to offer support to those willing to pay you for it. Naturally, this means producing something that's worth such an agreement.
"Bad Faith Communication: discourse that is intended to achieve behavioral outcomes (including consensus, agreement, "likes") irrespective of achieving true mutual understanding"

I would argue that nearly all advertisements fit this description. The field of advertising has achieved a massive technological leap over the past few decades.
I have similar issues like the author but the comments in this thread have solved some of those problem.

I also moved from Windows to MacOS. What was the purpose behind introducing ctrl, opt and cmd button? What do they stand for?
5% profit isn't the whole story here - If you can't increase profit, increase revenue. These middlemen have a lot of power and an incentive to use it in making the system less efficient.
I've been using it for the last two months. Literally just sent a message on there a minute ago.

I'm digging it so far.
What the…?

Do they imagine people in Africa, Latin America or Asia will give a rat’s arse about the ‘race of the mathematician’ they are citing?

It’s math. I don’t recall scrutinizing the ‘race’ of the mathematicians of antiquity or the renaissance or modern times when I was in school.

These idiots want to inject ‘race’ into everything.

This is utterly idiotic. What’s the point, to achieve paralysis?

At the height of the Cold War, when the fate of civilization was in the balance, still we gave credit where credit was due -so long as translations existed to give people proper credit. But this?

What happens when they get to philosophy --do they discard all of Western philosophy its derivatives and then construct something parallel but not quite copying it because, obviously it would have problematic underpinnings and unwanted ways of thinking and processing.

Are Indo-European languages 'racist', do we invent grunts to communicate?
How is this very different from other industries? Many industries are suffering from labor shortages, either via retirements, or people finding better jobs. Perhaps being an airline pilot is just not as good as other job options right now, or maybe a bunch of pilots aged out (60?) and not enough new younger pilots came into the industry to fill the gaps?
I long ago made bcp38 and fq_codel available in openwrt. It would be great if cloudflare told more customers what better home routers they could use as a base.

We also solved the bcp38-like problem ipv6 had by using source specific routing throughout openwrt. A lot of other router makers are still not doing this right. Turris gets it right, I know.

It would be good to know what else cloudflare thinks would be a good set of DDOS protection features (route 666) home routers should have? Please add requests here: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cerowrt-ii-would-anyone-care/110...
I don't understand what's random about always switching to the last window you were using. It's a simple rule, no exceptions. Macos window/app switching rules are too complicated and full of special cases, which makes it harder to integrate into your work flow.
No one mentioned the home/end keys so I will. ;-) I am a big user of these, use them a hundred times a day to go to front/back of line. Mac doesn't do that, goes to front/back of doc, which I do very rarely. But if I do, just click with the mouse or hold down PgUp/Dn. More common operations should get the default hotkeys imho.

I managed to change this, but DBeaver finds a way to screw it up occasionally.