skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some similar thing happened to be once: years ago I made a fun fake image, photoshopping some text into a place in a very realistic manner, and posted to Facebook (which was popular those times). It was in one of my albums, me and a few friends had a laugh, then we've forgotten about it, as usual.

Then a few years later I started seeing the image I created as "real" in various forums to legitimate publishers and major newspaper websites. Everyone believed in the image, taking it as a fact (which is fair as it looked legitimate and was posted from a "reputable" source), commented under it with various levels of confusion.

I still Google that time to time to giggle a bit, but it also shows how Internet people tend to copy stuff from random places (e.g. My Facebook album) and post in various places and things go viral exponentially without almost anyone questioning it.
Without lockdowns to flatten the curve.

It's not similar at all
I’ve created the rcmd app switcher (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd) in 2 days, going from statically assigned hotkeys in my BetterTouchTool config to a real menu bar app with dynamically assigned hotkeys for my most used apps.

A big part of that time was spent creating the icon, and copy pasting boilerplate code from my other app for the menubar UI.

Coding the main functionality of the app took little time and it still remains one of the most fulfilling projects I’ve completed.

Of course, I have invested a lot more time since then, especially in handling edge cases with odd keyboards, only because I wanted the app to be useful to as many people as possible.

But it could have stayed the way it was as well, where a 2-day project was still solving a problem thousands of people had.
You can have multiple accounts on one "trusted phone number". Trusted phone number is where Apple sends the SMS 2FA code. I have several Apple ID's on 1 phone number.

This is different than "Reachable at" phone number which must be unique and is used for iMessage and Facetime, and if it's blank other people can only reach you via iCloud account email.

(It makes sense if you think about it, parents setting up iCloud accounts for their children's iPads who might not have their own phone).
Schools are closed, and for good reasons. If I'm the parent I wouldn't want my kids to get COVID. The gospel of online education may be coming true? Jokes aside, it's not as miserable as many people may think.
“My Country, Right or Wrong”
I'm curious what line you're riding and at what times of day. I love the MBTA and rode it for years (Red Line and Green B/D) but I've definitely been on rail cars that "smell like piss" or similar.
> Walter Bright's Digital Mars compiler but how different is this from Zortech?

It's the same compiler, but upgraded for C++98. It's Open Source now.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/dmc
Which Grammy winners fared best on social media?
What is "free speech"? What are your feelings on censoring pornography, gore, or false advertising?
I think it's accepting context and intent. I if I say 'Half the time when I get to work the door is ajar' I'm not claiming to be precise. To your point, since I didn't give the expected error for my claim I'm not attempting to be rigorous or precise by saying that fraction. If you jump on my back and say 'it's actually only 30% of the time that we leave the front door to our business open all night!!', then you are just failing to adapt to the way everyone communicates in a very bad faith way, and holding onto some false belief that you are 'technically correct'.
In case you thought I disagree with you, this might clarify why this is just a difference in tense: If you have malignant cancer, it is "killing you now" (you are in the process of dying of something) but only later on will it actually "kill you" (ie. you will become dead).
My point was that it's unreasonable to expect the exhaustive audit of all node modules. That said, "major tools and things by international corporations" like Gatsby depend on the topic library [0].

https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/event-source-polyfill
I have been tinkering to use chrome auto filling form to sign up for random services with the email address of the current director of the CIA Bill Burns. Haven’t tried it though.
Borland came out much later than Zortech C++. Borland abandoned their own OOP extensions to C when they saw how well ZTC++ was selling.
I completely disagree. We see a continuing trend of consolidation and obfuscation. Most social media hides and scatters information intentionally to absorb user time, theres no value in providing information quickly and accessibly. I fear Google becoming worse is also by design as well. Its only time until they introduce their own infinite scroll.
This is what happened with HTML. At first the syntax was pretty simple, but the error-correcting parsing meant that invalid syntax became widespread. In order to ensure compatibility between implementations the spec ended up having to specify the exact parsing of any form of incorrect HTML also. Now the parsing algorithm of HTML is incredibly complex: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html
I’ll be even lazier (heh) and just straight up leak memory for true once-set read-only config values.

https://github.com/shepmaster/stack-overflow-relay/blob/273a...
Exactly what I wanted to know. There's no way I want to run another heavy weight Electron app.
Just use a browser extension version (works on Firefox despite the name only mentioning Chrome): https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.
This is unhelpful.
If someone extracts a pattern that, say, three arguments follow, which we can then call the "shape" of this kind of argument, which of the three arguments are you suggesting is imprecise? Or is your position that any actual argument which fits into any pattern at all is somehow imprecise? It's clear that we are miscommunicating regarding the meta vs object level of this essay, but I'm not sure exactly where the disconnect lies.
It’s been reported that Omicron was relatively mild in the West because so many people are vaccinated or have had previous exposure.

In a place like Hong Kong, where relatively few people were vaccinated or previously infected, Omicron was much deadlier.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/04/09/asias-ou...
> I'm confused by what you are saying here. Corporations have always been totalitarian in their decision making. How often have you heard from your boss "this isn't a democracy" when they make a decision that's unpopular among the employees?

I am saying that people who are seemingly opposed to that stuff are the first to shout that Twitter is a private company and thus can manipulate its userbase however it wants.

> The more interesting dynamic to me is the free-market, anti-regulation, low-corporate-tax capitalist politicians arguing we should create regulations to make the market less free.

Yeah, and it’s good that people finally loosen up their radical stances and start to realize that the state isn’t the only source of oppression.
Sandstorm.io was basically doing that, and it’s the direction I’d want to see as a user. Unfortunately it isn’t attractive to application providers who want to monetize their applications, and without enough applications it’s also not attractive to users. Maybe it needs to be combined with a platform like NextCloud.
That's fair. So the whole people greeting you and saying hello, sounds a bit more like an overstatement. Here, I was speaking more to the fact that you can have a better social life there in general. Most NRI (non-residential Indians) that were born in India, will have a larger extended family back home. This brings a lot more family events, gatherings, and I am sure, drama; something you can maneuver around I think.

The whole what will SOCIETY think of us, I think it really varies depending on what parts of India you are in. At least in India, cultures vary greatly even from city to city. I have heard very very progressive things happening in India, and also very regressive things. It just depends on where you are and how much f*ks you give personally. Who cares what a lady three doors down thinks? Let them think what they want.

I definitely see your side of this though, as that was my perspective before. Mine is a bit different at the moment, but might change in the future.
like central park? It's grass and asphalt without a tree, in hot days in summer becomes a furnace. Better put some buildings AND a nice park
I think s/he wants something that the users hosts together.

Ads can be blocked, reduces the value of your service and do not pay enough to cover infra cost unless you have many users.

In comparison - the resources needed to run a desktop app is 100% provided by the user.
My 2015 Tacoma is the same size as a 2005 Tundra, and significantly larger than my dad's 2001 Ranger. The Ranger looks like a toy when I park next to it, despite them both being in the same class of pickup trucks.
One of my big realization of 2021 is that this is exactly what blockchains can provide. You can have permanent hosting of your website on Arweave[1] and interactions with the website could save your state on Ethereum or similar. You pay once to host the website, and then it's free to browse and users pay whenever they want to change the state (e.g. post something on your website). Ethereum is like this big world computer that anyone can publish to and users pay to interact with it. You don't have to worry about hosting or uptime and it will be up there forever.

[1]: https://www.arweave.org
There's the SAFE Network that will do exactly that. It's pay on put. You as a developer would have to pay a one time cost to store the app on network, but that should quite cheap. Users would then pay to store their own private data through the (web)app. It uses its own browser and protocol as sites are stored on a peer to peer network.

It's still in somewhat unstable test versions, but I think there's hope it can be out within the next year or so.
C72: A port of the earliest C compiler to x86 (2021)
Not sure of your source, but by most measures of efficiency US freight rail is the best in the world, and also carries 10x weight * distance per capita than Europe.
Or the FOSS FS Notes https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes (I don’t use it as it doesn’t fit my case but I bought it because the developer is really dedicated to work on it). Very similar to Bear.
What? You can rotate the camera freely in Banjo-Kazooie.
The closing line is a stretch. Seems more likely that instagram going towards NFTs is cementing its irrelevance, rather than improving NFTs.

Isn't this all just a convoluted way to have TF2 hats?
> cheap mirrors/collectors and steel pipes

The funny thing happened, solar panels got close to the same cost as a curved mirror.
> You have to earn people's trust and respect in order to do that.

I would rephrase this to "People are unlikely to listen to you if they don't trust and respect you."

Obviously you can tell people when you think they're wrong without them trusting or respecting you, but you're clearly right that it may not have many useful results in that case.

> On the other hand it seems very easy for pg to gain the trust of commenters here...

I have a slight bias against pg.

His earliest essays I enjoyed, but his writing in the past ten or fifteen years strikes me as suffering from the blindness induced by being rich and myopically focused on startups and technological advances, with the apparent assumption that those things must be inherently good.

If I happen to agree with him on this particular point, it's not because I'm inclined to like his stances by default.
Love the service but nervous on the lock-in. Any guides for how to migrate off Apple after using lots of emails?

I’ve been happy with the Fastmail+1Password integration as that “feels” less painful to migrate off the in the future.
The flipside is that people like him get called "transphobic" and harassed despite his very reasonable objections to the way his kids get educated. I don't know that calling him "transphobic" is any less (or more) accurate than him calling others "groomers".
Haskell also allows you to bypass the type system plenty
https://status.atlassian.com/uptime
Why Doesn’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis by Building Some New Cities?
I think Google also has recovery keys. I have a slip of paper with ten long strings on them that Google told me could be used to regain access to my account.
Not really. I try to not let it bother me because it's been this way most anywhere I've worked. I did once have a manager who was very good at this. I was surprised how positive it made me feel.
A lot of your commentary is about lockdown not being too bad, but what are your thoughts on the rationale for the lockdown when Omicron is relatively less dangerous? Do the people in your social network feel the costs are worth it?
How is peertube these days
Storage cost is plummeting even faster than solar or wind cost ever did.

A renewable dollar is still better spent today on generating capacity, and will be for several more years, most places. Waiting, you get more storage for your money, and you then already have overcapacity to charge it from.

Until the share of renewables approaches enough to destabilize the power grid, building out renewable generating capacity displaces more carbon from entering the atmosphere, and so is a better use of capital.

At the same time, decreasing load factor of nukes and fossil plants, as they become too expensive to win bids, will drive them offline in favor of much cheaper storage methods as fast as that comes online.

The enormous industrial and export value of synthetic hydrogen and ammonia production, after local tankage is full, make them the compelling choice for long-term storage. Initially, those will be burned in gas turbines as they edge out natural gas, both locally and abroad, but improving fuel cells will finally displace turbines.
Incorrect. Amtrak owns and operates the most valuable and viable stretch of rail in the United States, the Northeast corridor stretching from DC - Baltimore - Philly - New York City - Boston.
It's not reactivity that's the problem, it's React. The way svelte and solid.js do it is simpler. Things only run once unless explicitly made reactive. And there is no virtual DOM.
Say I don't care about the sanctity of my commit history, and wish to scrub my personal email from all of my public repositories. How would I go about doing this without losing the commits themselves?
> the hardness of its pillars makes them brittle, not strong, so they cannot be used to build upon

I think this is generally correct. Most of the time starting over from a clean sheet leads to something that will be discarded by history. And you're much more likely to build something of lasting value if you look for a small contribution to make within the general scaffold of the status quo.

But this leaves open an interesting question: When does a clean sheet reset lead to something the work can build upon?

In my opinion, tech progresses in phases of expansion and contraction. In the expansion phase, people take the status quo for granted, and add useful refinements in niche areas. In the contraction phase, the status quo has calcified a bit, and there are many unnecessary assumptions baked into the architecture. This phase in the cycle is ripe for someone to come in, tear out all of those assumptions and start new foundations.

Those foundations will be weak in many areas, but users can stomach that because the status quo was already beginning to really slow them down. This is the classic "disruptive technology" moment.

The question I think for anyone wanting to make a contribution is: When you look at your problem domain, where in the cycle do we seem to be?
I'm surprised this is not flagged, but some feedback anyway:

You must improve the landing page. It's like a demo of the service you provide. Do you do web design? Make a nice page for your studio. Do you have some portfolio of previous projects or some fake demo projects?

You posted a few projects you did in github. Perhaps add info about them in the page. Does your brother also have a github account?

It's easy to get traction here with a blog post about an interesting problem you solved while working, that has interesting solution. Any interesting anecdote? It's important to balance the write up so it's technical enough but not too technical. If it's hardware add some photos. Or some relevant graphics. Add at the bottom some info about your studio and a link for more info, only a paragrah.
Freight rail is perfectly fine spending minimum amounts of money on clapped out tracks that twist and curve. Freight rail is never going to compete with air freight on speed, and is also much faster than boats, so speed is not really a priority.

Competitive passenger rail is high speed. High speed requires double tracks (to avoid slowing down to let trains pass), straighter rights of way to go faster (increasing land acquisition cost), and very high maintenance levels for safety and comfort reasons. Hosting is freight trains on high speed rail tracks also significantly increases their already high maintenance costs because they are so much heavier and cause more wear and tear.

Nationalization, I think, is less the driving fundamental here than the inherent conflict between timely, regular passenger services and the American freight rail system for bulk freight. The only time the freight railroads really prioritized passenger services was when they delivered mail on those trains, which is also lightweight and needs fast delivery, but that has long moved to air freight.
You accused me of defending something. What actually happened is I asked a series of clarification questions ("Filters make no sense?", "What flow?"), neither of which was answered by the way. Again, I have no dog in whether or not you use Shortcut. So I am not defending anything.

>I never said anything about JIRA except in the following context

That's exactly why I ended my last comment the way I did ("not saying you were necessarily").

> I never said whether or not I was looking for an alternative

Why are you commenting on this thread? The whole point was to suggest an alternative. You never even suggested another way filters could work. As far as I can tell, the mathematical definition of a filter is that it's composed of sub-filters. So please either admit you're a negativity-spouting troll or contribute something positive.
>reputable western vaccines

Many vaccines were developed, the less effective ones aren't really a matter of "reputation" but something more like luck. Many things were tried, some worked better than others. There was no guarantee that never-before-approved mRNA-type vaccines were going to work, be safe enough to use, and work better than other vaccines, but it did turn out that way. That was not a result of a priori superiority or reputation, but an experimental technique happening to work out well.
This website is very similar: https://www.darkread.io/
They kinda do have to share data with advertisers, some things might be very hard to do otherwise and they would have to become paid services inaccessible to the non-rich.

The law could be changed/fully enforced to stop dark patterns(And the training effect), but we don't currently have replacements for all the things that would no doubt shut down if they actually stopped tracking.

If they want to actually stop the spying without disrupting the whole tech sector, they could be giving grants for people starting new FOSS donation-supported sites like Wikipedia and protonmail.

At present I get the impression the law is written with the idea that it's better to have no access to a certain service than to have a nonprivate service. If that keeps up we might not even have Tile trackers and doorbell cameras at all someday, because they might be just straight up banned.

I'd say a habit of clicking stuff without looking is far more dangerous than any amount of spyware, because tracking cookies don't steal credit cards and such, and I'm pretty sure most people consider ransomware worse than tracking.

Plus, it holds up the entire tech industry. If you can't trust users not to click every permission prompt, then a lot of features become impossible.
I don't have the big picture data but all the people I know (locals and expats) have been vaccinated. China and the Western world are taking different approaches to COVID, I don't believe in anything said from either side, there is simply not enough scientific and trustworthy data, only time will tell which approach is better.
> They didn't call it "functional" though.

See [1] where they say "if you’re a functional programming purist and feel uneasy about React relying on mutable state as an implementation detail, you might find it satisfactory that handling Hooks could be implemented in a pure way using algebraic effects".

[1] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-...
Is the problem the end chemical or the intermediary waste stream?

Even if the end result is inert, there are probably a LOT of waste byproducts that are pretty nasty--this is fluorine chemistry, after all.

If the site is just dumping those, that's going to be bad.
In Go there is the concept of "sente," [1] forcing the other player to react. This also means having the initiative or controlling play.

It looks like there's the same concept in chess. [2]

This seems like the way to teach initiative. And maintaining initiative.

[1] https://go.fandom.com/wiki/Sente

[1] https://www.chessjournal.com/initiative/
Flow batteries look interesting, but they have moving parts. That is probably fine for large utilities who can staff people to maintain these batteries. It is probably not fine for a small solar and battery install house or village.
Money is a 'finite' resource in the sense that we have largely agreed that it is finite. Funnily enough, we only manage to agree that it's finite for some things (education, health care, climate change) but not others (police, militaries, extravagant government buildings).

In terms of actual physical and labour resources, they're not fungible. People working on nuclear power or geothermal are not going to be terribly useful to advance the state of the art on wind power, which is already a largely mature technology that needs money and effort put into deployment not research. They also use largely different materials, technology, and equipment.

Likewise, you can't just take "money spent on geothermal" and throw it at "building windmills" because there are other bottlenecks involved in windmills that aren't just magically solved with money. And, of course, likewise.

Anyways, every advance in materials science all of these things engage in helps all of them advance.
Where I work there is a bot (that must be custom code) where you can leave these props in any channel. It sends out a summary email to whoever received the praise and their manager containing everything they got that week.
There's actually a lot of open source apps that have this property in a particular category: web3 apps. Users (or other intermediaries, not necessarily the app dev) pay the cost of transactions, and thereby pay the cost of the data storage / computation layer.

HN doesn't seem to like web3 very much yet, but one of the most positive innovations it brings is giving open-source apps a direct business model (instead of the usual "pro" and service org or hosted-version model). There are plenty of open-source apps making hundreds of millions or billions in revenue in this space!

Even utility open-source projects receive significant funding through projects like Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/).
Good luck with that. Most legitimate interests require the reason to be defensive or a relationship to exist where there's an expectation they would need to process your data. I am legitimately interested in spamming you is not really a defense.