skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are definitely working at a different bank than I was... Mine had an entire division focused just on internal technology and tooling. Which was actually a bit of a nightmare, because it led to things like building our own cloud with customized versions of off-the-shelf software. Because of course if you ask the internal technology group whether we should build a cloud or buy a cloud, what do you think the answer will be? And of course the publicly-available version is not good enough for our super special needs, so we'll customize it and just ignore the fact that we are now either (a) on a treadmill to keep up with upstream or (b) more likely just ignoring upstream. My company chose b, until eventually years later they realized that those super-special needs weren't so special and had a huge uplift project to get to the publically-available version.

Anyway, the group I worked in was an acquisition with a completely different tech stack. So we were basically completely ignored except for the occasional saber rattling that we should be moving to blessed tech stack. After which we would say, sure give us a project with time and budget reserved and we'll get right on that. Cue the crickets. Also, my group was PCI burdened, so we quickly became exempt from any of the afore-mentioned cloud stuff, because they were afraid we would make the cloud in scope for PCI.

Now, most of the people who I knew were decent have left. But it wasn't about the technology -- the paycheck is enough to get through that. It's mostly around back-to-office mandates. Which is a strange stance, after the company spent who-knows-how-much moving all our machines to be virtual desktops that we could log into from anywhere.
For me, Gothic Nightmares.
If you agree with the OP maybe read the article that they posted?

This was never a thing that DDG claimed they were for. DDG is about privacy!

If we were talking about nearly any other issue, I might agree with you. But in this particular case, this is not a political issue! This is an invasion. End of story. Any "information" claiming otherwise is propaganda and does not deserve to be spread as truth.
All sorts of cool things that we’re now getting back to with Starship 40 years later… sounds like the very definition of a dead end to me! No one took Shuttle and iterated on it. It had a bunch of impractical ideas combined for primarily political reasons that resulted in actual shuttle flights being incredibly dangerous.

It delivered lots of pork, but at the cost of actual progress.
> The tech industry is absolutely the most benevolent force for good these last few decades.

It's hard to agree with that statement knowing that Facebook allowed genocidal rage to fester on its platform, ultimately facilitating the Rohingya genocide[0].

The tech industry may be the most force for good in your life today, but when you take a step back to read about hardware manufacturing in China, state/privately-sponsored social media psyops, the industry's pushback against pro-consumer policy like right-to-repair, etc., etc., it's really hard to take a statement like that seriously.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
don't be daft the users of this platform implicitly, unequivicably trust that apple is not doing anything bad with this... </sarcasm>

Frankly I'm (unfortunately) not shocked and nor should any other user of any other platform be, this is the norm in the industry right now. I'd like to be able to turn around in 5 years and say I'm glad they turned off all those servers and disabled all that tracking but I'm not counting on it...
Strategies for Faster Yield Ramps on 5nm Chips
This is yet another (most welcome) hypothesis in explaining the sheer differences in our Moon’s nearside and farside. Just last month I wrote a feature article explaining the other leading theories for what caused these nearside-farside differences if anyone’s interested: https://blog.jatan.space/p/the-two-faced-moon

The Moon is so much more interesting than most people think.
Just off the top of my head:

* Virtual/Mixed Reality platforms pre-mainstream and growing.

* Massive advances in machine learning AND

* No corresponding advance towards AGI

* Huge power and flexibility available via cloud and containerisation.

Tech is as cool and as open to opportunity - using the facilities and exploiting the gaps in things like the above - to the small scale and independent developer as it's ever been IMO.
What stops someone from pointing this camera at a really high resolution display showing anything they want? The analog hole goes both ways.
> Personally I have seen prices go up well above 10%.

For what goods/services? Have you been tracking the same goods/services over the past year to make this analysis?

> Inflation metrics are complicated and there is a huge incentive to keep the official numbers down as they affect trillions in spending in terms of social security and other numbers tied to official inflation.

You haven't provided anything aside from personal anecdote (without any actual data to support it). Your understanding is built entirely on your own experience, the official numbers are built on a transparent basket of goods that is meant to represent the entire country.

For me, housing costs (most people's largest expense) hasn't changed in 3 years because I have a 30-year mortgage. Does that mean that the 5% CPU measure of housing expenses is false? Of course not.
I think the person meant about how the few options available actually come to existence: how are they come to be the ones that would allow the person to pick one over the other? Is it common sense, is it because it was decided this way.. How?
Let's try and refrain from strong language such as "delusional" and "unarguably," we'll likely find more to agree on if we do.

But yes, I agree a hospital overloading is a crisis for those providing or seeking to receive care at said hospital. The cause and remediation of said crises are I think likely significantly more involved than just attributing it to COVID. In other words, the crisis of a particular overloaded hospital is not likely strictly a COVID crisis, but rather an issue with how care is prepared for and distributed in general.
Yeah this is the big thing for me. Technology continues to excite me as the tools to create continue to become better and more accessible, both in software (for music/photography/CAD/etc) as well as in hardware (3D printers/CNC/microcontrollers/SBCs). It's easier than ever to get started making things, and we're seeing a really inspiring explosion of creativity as a result.

The tech industry on the other hand, is increasingly a source of disillusionment. Over the last few years we've seen so many of the exciting companies that emerged in the early 2000s drop the facade of user-centricity and switch from providing value to extracting value at the expense of users. It's gotten to the point where I feel deeply uncomfortable depending on closed source software (and SaaS in general) for anything important, as it feels like it's only a matter of time until the users get screwed over.
> However, you do not need ublock origin here for privacy protection.

I'm happy to see DuckDuckGo entering this space and happy to see them building off of WebKit. And I think that DuckDuckGo is doing some fairly good stuff for privacy right now, and I hope they continue to move in that direction.

Nevertheless, this is a concerning comment. Ublock Origin isn't the only way to block ads of course, and it's not impossible for something else to do better. But there is a reason it's widely considered to be arguably the best adblocking browser extensions right now, and it's not just hype or advertising.

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> Our tracker blocker is powered by our best-in-class Tracker Radar data set

The reason Ublock Origin is currently arguably the best-in-class adblocker for privacy protection is not because it does web crawling or because it uses a special data set, it's because of its capabilities.

DuckDuckGo using Tracker Radar data really has nothing to do with this conversation. It's possible DuckDuckGo's protections are sufficient on their own, but to make that determination you'd need to talk about the actual anti-circumvention features that it has, not just where it gets its data from.

Bringing up Apple is particularly unfortunate, because Safari has easily the worst adblocking performance out of any major browser, so if they are using the Tracker Radar set to inform that, it's apparently not enough on its own to give them competitive adblocking performance.

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> Similarly our Smarter Encryption (HTTPS upgrading -- https://github.com/duckduckgo/smarter-encryption) is also based on regular web crawls and is many times more comprehensive then anything else out there.

This really shouldn't be in the same conversation, adblocking and connection upgrades are two separate factors of privacy. Both are important, but "we upgrade HTTPS" is kind of orthogonal to extension support.

However, since we're talking about HTTPS upgrading, bringing up that DuckDuckGo maintains a large list of sites to upgrade for doesn't really mean that much given that HTTPS upgrade policies (ought to) just all be based on the same lists. It's the same issue as above, I'm not worried about what data you use, that should be something that a lot of different extensions pull from. I'm worried about the capabilities, I'm worried about how effectively the browser can actually leverage that data set.
Whenever I see people struggling with "integration" I find they're always using the word "integration".
I agree. What the fed missed here when they originally said transitory was just how long it would take the supply chain to recover. Places in China are still doing zero-covid style lockdowns causing further shocks to supply around the globe. Throw in a war that drove energy prices up, and you have quite a number of existential factors that could quickly go in the other direction.
https://careers.walmart.com/technology perhaps?
Good investments can't be looked in the short-term. Over the medium-term, bitcoin has been the best investment in history.
> As you mention, computers can become "orders of magnitude more capable" simply by shrinking to a smaller form factors. We're about to have smartphones that are fully usable as computers, or smart watches that you can run free OS's and homebrew applications on.

He talks about functionality. Not power. Yes, computers are more powerful now. But the point is that old computers were way more flexible and "powerful" in an usability sense. New computers are full of arbitrary (and natural (1)) barriers to stop you from having full control of your pocket CPU.

(1) The natural additional barrier is also complexity. Early computers were simple. Some hobbyist could write a system from scratch just by having some knowledge about computers and electronics. Now you have a lot more factors, an OS, a plethora of drivers and a browser that's closer to a VM than a HTML parser.

> There's still plenty of projects trying to do that kind of thing. Big Tech social media is only the most popular part of the Internet, you're mostly free to ignore it if you like.

You are right. But that kind of connection is disappointing to our 20 year old geek self. We (naively) wanted more people to become computer literates. Instead, we got algorithms and fake news.
No, you buy tesla cards so Nvidia doesn't sue you and stop providing firmware.
Part of it is also just the field maturing. For a solid generation or two car tinkering was accessible and widespread. American culture still has a lot of influence from this but as cars matured and became more powerful and reliable, the need to do it and the threshold to get anything out of it changed. I think the latest new "niche" in that domain is the import tuning scene, decades old at this point.

Some tinkerers do it because they just enjoy the tinkering but for most I think it's a combination of enjoying it some while also getting some tangible benefits out of it. When any device you could easily DIY is available off the shelf, the cost-benefit changes. You have hard DIY left, but not easy tinkering for moderate gains.
I don't think it's disingenuous at all, paying for something that is not built yet that may increase in value does not = a security.
I once got in a long argument with a pro vaccine journalist about this (I am also for vaccines).

The predominant viewpoint in modern day journalism is that a true headline that is technically correct and gets page views is a good headline.

This is the first sign of bad faith communication in the article (misleading with facts).

Example (ficticious) controversial headline:

"Scientists extremely concerned that new variant will kill more children."

Two scientists, and only two dead kids globally (so, less than the current variant), and this is a fine thing to say, apparently.

The goal of a good journalist, in their mind, is to be technically correct while selling papers by getting people to assume the headline means:

"The scientific consensus is that a larger percentage of children will die from the next Covid variant".

No minds were changed during the argument, but I think we both learned something.
I do this from time to time! Archive.org.
Go to your GP, try to get a referral, wait 6-18 months to see a psychiatrist, then get prescribed ritalin or vyvanse, then later on if you don't like those you get strattera, and if you still don't like that, you get dexedrine, the closest thing to adderall without being adderall.
> It's still thousands of potential deaths, and nearing a million for all of China.

People die all the time. Every day. Shanghai has 25M people. Let's assume the US's annual death rate of 8.8 per 1000. That's 220k deaths per year, or 4230 deaths per week.

Statistically with the current numbers, getting everybody infected would result in less deaths than having no covid at all :o) Sure, we'll only see real deaths with a delay of a few weeks, so that's witless, but as stated in my sibling comment in this thread, Omicron seems not to deliver on this from my personal experiences at all.

Having a total lock-down over it seems absolutely ridiculous to me.
Everything and everybody are hit. Etsy becomes yet-another-aliexpress-but-more-expensive (especially if you are not in USA and shipping from China is cheaper than shipping from USA, as many aliexpress resellers ship from USA).

It is very hard to find real hand craft on Etsy, if you don't have direct link for exact creator.
Qt is the reason I started doing desktop cross platform application development several years ago.

Not doing anything new in recent years but Qt is definitely a joy to work with.

From MVC on data management in the widgets, networking, UI handling and tons of customization.

The Qt Creator IDE was the fastest IDE I've worked with and very helpful with Qt Designer integrated.

Dealing with system icons in Linux or i18n, tooling, compilation and building and so many other really complex stuff is pretty damn easy with Qt.

Although I've used Qt/C++ and never the Python binding.

Thanks for all the hard work and amazing people behind it.
If it only happened on Sundays, I'd suspect it was either from something you did on Saturdays, or something you didn't do on the weekends.
Show HN: AV1 and WebRTC
Using routes is a key technique in memory techniques (an the so called 'memory palaces'), presumably because when we went hunting for food we needed to find our way home, so memories attached to routes are a lot stronger.
What do you mean? you don't enjoy having to cut all the red tape during a pull request to apease the SOC2, PCI, ISO27001, RGPD, CID360, GDPR powers that be?
There's plenty of usable middle ground between "rack in a rando datacenter" and doing everything on the cloud. You can leverage VPS hosts, or run the bulk of your workload on prem and use the cloud for infrequent scalability needs.
> Covid measures left a whole lot of people working from home, inefficiently.

Can you explain what you mean by that? I think many of us would argue that we’re more efficient now in WfH situations.
For regular languages (not templating), if they have good tooling for converting to/from AST it's quite possible. The codebase isn't very flexible right now, but it's also not very big. In fact monocle itself is less than 900 lines of code.

I'm not sure if it makes sense for monocle to support multiple languages, or if each language should have its own port. Someone writing monocles in a specific language probably wants to do custom scripting in the language they're used to.

Templating languages are trickier, because they usually don't have great tooling. In fact, we wrote our own tooling to convert from ERB to builder (a template system where you generate HTML through Ruby methods) and back. So for any templating language you would probably write a tool that converts from that language to builder, and back.

On the other hand, ERB is about as free-form as it gets. Templating languages that are more strict are probably easier to add. For more info on how ERB is supported, I wrote another post that goes into detail: https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/erb2builder/
Yes, the commenter you're replying to is specifically talking to programmers, and tell them, from a programming perspective, not to treat a credit card number as a number. They're specifically trying to draw people's attention to the distinction you're saying they "mix up". The point is—even if you might call it a number, you cannot use HTML's "number" type or any numeric types in popular programming languages for storing or processing this data. That's the entire point of the article
Over longer time the US average temp is useful, it tells us something about the climate, not the weather. Maybe that analogy kinda works for the economy.
I think this is it. While things have changed in the last couple of decades (how could they not?) - it's still largely a matter of perception. Personally, I'm still excited about tech, even if I'm probably in the same age range as OP. Is there a lot of work on "boring" things? Probably, but what may seem "boring" to you can still be really amazing to somebody else. Not to mention all the ongoing work that I think almost nobody finds boring in areas like AI and robotics. And everywhere, really, there's a lot of cool stuff going on in tech. At least to me.
The Ironclad Argument Against Racism
If anyone is interested, I have an archive of a lot of AOL progs[0].

These got me into programming and I made a couple of my own that are now completely lost to time.

ccoms (chat commands) were my favorite. The program would scan the chat and when you sent a command, it'd do whatever you asked and send a response back to the chat for everyone to see. Basically turning the AOL chat into a public command line. One of the more popular things people used it for was for playing pirated music. You'd send `play rammstein` to the chat, and it'd start playing a random Rammstein song from your mp3 collection.

I started writing one later[1], although I haven't touched it since 2016. It'd connect to your spotify account, instead.

Also, it seems Mark Zuckerberg was in the scene. He apparently wrote Darth Phader (a fader.) A fader would make your text in chats fade colors by injecting html to change the text color between each character. So, your text would start blue and fade to red further along in the message, then maybe go back to blue, it was all configurable in most of them.

Edit: I can't believe I left this out, but there's also a facebook group[2], Justin has a site with a lot of content about progs[3], and I recently stumbled on the AOL Underground Podcast[4].

[0]: https://progs.rexflex.net/

[1]: https://github.com/RexMorgan/qwik-tools

[2]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/297526060414740/

[3]: https://justinakapaste.com/

[4]: https://aolunderground.com/
Considering how much Ruby borrows from Perl that is one of the better suggestions I've seen here
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Where are these statements coming from?
On Windows 10 or later you can turn it on though. I did this two days ago, you just need to add a registry entry.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/make-the-windows-10-clock-d...
I grew up a bit before that. I'm fortunate to have seen society change from mostly-computer-free to folks swimming in tech.

I've also written about half-a-dozen apps that somebody later took and made into a super cool startup. I don't say that to brag. Ideas are cheap. Execution intelligence is where it's at.

I mention the apps I've written because you really have to establish more context if you're going to lament about tech's coolness death. Is tech not cool anymore? Or is it just not cool to you? I feel like I've written a bunch of cool stuff over the years. It's always been cool to me, for whatever that's worth.

Given that setup, I will answer using my own definition of cool. Software ate the world, and that was awesome. It also had a bunch of side-effects nobody wanted to think about, and that sucked. But because it ate the world, ie became an integral part of human existence, tech became incestuous. It's so prevalent in our daily experience that it became impossible to talk about what might be cool or not.

We ended up with a bifurcation. Path A talks about tech only in terms of people creating and sharing content with one another, whether that's a cat pic or instructions to use CPR to save lives. Path B is just concerned with mechanics regardless of impact: how do we set up that identity server template in kubernetes?

I find the endgame of both sides of this bifurcation to be extremely boring. I can solve most tech problems I'm given using tech. Yay. I can explore creating interesting content in various genres given some rando platform. Also yay. But at some point along both of those paths, it seemed like it became a race to the bottom. It all devolved into mindless, manipulative crap. Even if I became a rock star on the tech path or the content path, so what? There'd be a million new folks coming along next year doing it better, and in 50 years nobody would care.

I decided that to me, it was the visceral feeling of integrating tech with creativity that brought the most life satisfaction. That's the feeling I got when I was writing my first apps for a local business at 16. It was the feeling I had architecting big systems that took off and still provide value. You can't separate one path from the other and expect any sort of long-term satisfaction. At least I never could.
There's an easy way to prevent "randos" preaching at you. When you see something online and there's an option to share your opinion or make rude comments, don't comment.
Indeed, the Moon is a harsh mistress.
> One method would be to have a unique key burned into the image sensor by the manufacturer. That key will be in turn used to cryptographically sign the raw signal output from the sensor to verify that the image was indeed generated by that specific sensor.

This would be horrible for privacy, although somewhat mitigated if the camera program/app discarded the signature by default.
I just use the Privacy Extension from DuckDuckGo. It’s not an ad-blocker, but blocking trackers just happen to block most ads.
The researchers used a magnetic resonance imaging technique to get their data:

> "It turned out that either visual stimulus—the grating or moving dots—resulted in the same patterns of neural activity in the visual cortex and parietal cortex. The parietal cortex is a part of the brain used in memory processing and storage. These two distinct visual memories carrying the same relevant information seemed to have been recoded into a shared abstract memory format. As a result, the pattern of brain activity trained to recall motion direction was indistinguishable from that trained to recall the grating orientation."

Alternative hypothesis: the technique used wasn't sensitive enough to distinguish between how the brain handled the different information types.