skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IRS does this too; you can ask the IRS for their opinion on a tax matter, and they can give you a letter that states their position; which is a defense if you follow it, but it's not necessarily how the courts would rule. Many times it is worth following the letter of the law and being ready to defend it in court.
I used to work in a Customer facing role at a Enterprise Software Company that sold up and down the Fortune 500. I got to see a lot of different tech stacks.

Many use a lot of proprietary software, which can be a type of hell nobody understands till you end up as an expert in a niche area and spend your day dealing with vendors and tech support to fix anything. After 5 years you are an expert on "EnterpriseSoftwareCorpA On-Prem Elastic Scaling Stack and Integration to EnterpriseSoftwareCorpB On-Prem Data Stack" which nobody really sees as valuable, so you are now trapped in your career.

I know a bunch of people who wisely let go of 10+ years of their experience in some aging software so they could start again as an AWS solution architect. I'm sure it's was brutal doing that in their 40s/50s, with family, etc. It was tough, but 2 years later they are in a far better career position than those who are still praying for something to happen with those Enterprise stacks.
There's a git repo with graphs drawn from the data of confirmed visual sightings of equipment:

https://github.com/leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine

In particular this graph here which shows Russia is at at steep net loss over time, while Ukraine is gaining modestly over time:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine/m...?
Why not title it as just that, an interesting engineering project instead of bringing in Scandinavia in the title for the sole reason that it pulls more unsuspecting clicks.
If this were true, it would show up in drastically lowered revenue across many industries. That isn't the case.

Here's a summary of revenue/share for the S&P 500 (from Standard & Poor's data): https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-sales/table/by-year
It depends on the level of poverty we're talking about. A decently large percentage of undocumented migrants from Central America own cars, for example.
That's Orion you're describing - https://browser.kagi.com/ - and it's from the people behind Kagi, a truly amazing search engine. (I don't work there or know anything beyond being a user.)

I'm still defaulting to Brave until my extension set works seamlessly, though my Developer Console-fu might also deter a complete switch.
I still think technology is incredibly cool, especially if you follow your interests and curiousity rather than what's popular and going to make you money.

That said, tech companies and most of the people on HN do seem a lot less cool to me than they used to…
There’s a difference between a business declining over time with a clear downwards trajectory, and suddenly dropping from the sky and crashing. The latter is why this is so shocking.
Actually this generation will have a very different relationship with the past. Never before there was so many high resolution traces of your daily life.
Progz were sort of the gateway drug to real hacking of AOL. There was a headbanger dude named Beav who archived most progs for download on his Angelfire website LensHell. There's still an archive available (https://lenshellprogarchive.com)

Progz were mostly for annoyance and were either released as one purpose programs, such as a punter to boot people offline, or a fader to color text in chat when colors were introduced, or an OH Scroller that scrolled endless text to disrupt chat (you would run these on hacked overhead aka "OH" accounts used by staff that didn't get auto-booted for scrolling). Some progs were sort of All-In-One programs where they had maybe a punter feature, a fader feature, etc. These all in one progs usually had a bunch of useless stuff like an "echo bot" or "trivia bot" or whatever. Some had more nefarious purposes like termers which were used to get people's accounts terminated. Things like punters and termers were usually short-lived as AOL would catch on to whichever method they were using an patch it.

The article talks about the open-source sharing nature of progz, and maybe that was true for the folks who lived in the vb private chats or who released their BAS files (dos32.bas was my first ever intro to coding), but many in the hacker scene were typical teenage boys who would constantly try to one up each other and prove how leet or oldschool they were...and new methods weren't always widely shared. The biggest status symbols for AOL hackers were leet screen names, like "Boss" or "Hack". Even more leet were 3chars which were the smallest amount of characters in a screen name and thus hard to get. The leetest of all were restricted names that had banned words, like "FuckAOL" or were only 2chars like "DJ", or indents like " MrLeet" since they were seemingly impossible to make.

In order to get these screen names, hackers would find ways to steal account information to reset the passwords, or use tools like Sub7 to infect users and then steal their passwords. More technically savvy hackers would exploit holes in AOL's systems such as the "sign up" page which was the source of a really famous hack in 2000. Other hackers were adept at finding ways to convince AOL to terminate an account for supposed threats. Because of this, most AOL hackers had an extensive numbers of <>< or phished accounts to avoid a rival hacker from terming you "perm" account which was usually paid for by your parents. The term phish and its associated progz, phishers, phish tanks, etc., were actually coined on AOL.

Some guys from the scene are legendary. One guy who used AOL on a Mac would often find exploits only he could use, including one where he stole pretty much every 3char name available. Rumor has it he went on to create a very popular online game where users are slithering snakes. :-)
3.5% is a very small price for what is one of the greatest human achievements: freedom to travel anywhere, on a layman's salary. Up until the modern age, world travel was reserved for the elites. Travel means freedom, and I strongly believe our freedom should come first when talking about GHG emissions.

Let's cut out the 96.5% first, then reduce travel.

The same with cars. Automobiles amount for a small portion of total gas emissions. All in all, passenger cars+ passenger aviation is about 10% of total emissions. Yet we heard complaints about these more than anything else. And not only complaints, but policies that want to fix this problem.

Why not focus on the 90%? Industry lobbyists love this state of affairs, we auto-flagellate for 10% and nobody says a peep about the elephant in the room.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport
I think the point is that many had other preferences, but our two party (and FPTP voting) system doesn't address them. Who I voted for in 2016 and 2020 weren't nearly my first choices, and I think that's a fairly common experience.

Ranked choice would show a lot more nuance in people's beliefs that US politics would have to address. I haven't looked into it in some time, though. It seemed to work where implemented in Europe.
- I was a lot more inattentive as a kid, and I found myself in situations where my inattentiveness was an embarrassment for me (i.e. I'd be called on randomly and would be caught off-guard). As I got older I'd learned that I'd been masking my symptoms---for instance, when I'd attend a presentation or meeting I'd be afraid that I'd be seen as "not paying attention", so I put in extra effort to focus. Because I'd be masking my symptoms, for years I didn't know if I had ADHD or not because my symptoms didn't seem to fit the definition of classic ADHD/ADD symptoms.

- I have a ToDo app on my phone (and also as an extension in my browser), and it's very satisfying to check off items. I also maintain quick ToDo lists on Post-It notes.

- I use the LeechBlock extension to block certain websites between certain times of the day. Although HackerNews is blocked on Chrome, which I use for work stuff, it's unblocked on Firefox---I'm pretty good about not opening Firefox and HN during working hours. Link: https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/

- If I'm really distracted, I'll move my phone to the other side of the room so it's out of sight.

- I started seeing a psychiatrist in late-January and started taking Vyvanse as a result. I haven't noticed any significant differences pre- and post -Vyvanse, but it has been slightly easier for me to start a task and work on it for a while, whereas I used to bounce back and forth a lot more.
That's certainly not true. Maybe in New York or DC. But there are lots of cities in this country that lack basic public transportation. Even in Philadelphia where we have a pretty good network of routes, a astounding number of people commute out of the city via car to work.

That people are arguing only implies you are bourgeoisie, and feel the need to explain how these poor people are really effected by X and Y and Z. I have people on my team where their weekly bill for travel to work has doubled in the last two years. It hits peoples bottom line quite clearly.
Same here. D and B12 were drastically low. Though mine were not migraines really, but close. Occipital nerve pain. Supplements (B12, D) and neck exercises, and heat fomenting have been of tremendous help. Touchwood!
> people have this doom fantasy

It’s a weirdly predictable phenomenon around American inflation discussions. Has it always been this way? Is it renewed interest in gold bugging or people sour about crypto losses?
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It depends on the underlying valuation of the stock, and the industry sector.

Stocks for retail/commodities/food/oil... will generally keep up with high inflation, since these industries have low margins and profits track closely to prices. There will even be some speculation, so it might pop in these environments, only to come down when clarity returns.

Growth stock will be obliterated in high inflation environment, because they're valued for future profits, which will be worth less because money is worth less.

Business services, entertainment, ... kind of wavers in between.
Fair warning, many non-tech F500 may be less of “places running their setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter grandfathered into an affordable Edgecast plan running a LAMP stack on Debian using borg for backups?”

And more of “places running near archaic .NET/JVM versions that somehow manage to combine bureaucracy with lack of organization”.
In the sprit of TFA, let me try to steel man their argument, with which I don't agree.

Effective communication requires nuance, and definitionally nuances are subtle, and therefore are often difficult to convey in a terse way.

Headlines definitionally are restricted in length. So we can say that nuance and headlines are natural enemies.

Therefore, the best thing a headline can do is to direct a reader toward nuance, which hopefully is contained within the article. So an article that gets page views is not just good for the publisher, but it's also good for discourse in general.

But what about technically correct? Well, I think it's safe to say that a headline that gets clicks but is technically wrong is not what we want. Then let's consider technically correct, what does that even mean? To me, I'd really have to hear the argument in full, but in the spirit of steel manning I'd have to think what they meant was "factually correct", as "technically correct" has some negative connotation having to do focusing on facts while ignoring or discounting more salient issues.

Then again, due to the limited nature of a headline, some or even most of the context must be elided. So really I think the difference between something being "factually correct" and "technically correct" is intent to deceive through lies of omission.

Given the above, I would say a good headline is one which drives the reader to nuance and does so in a way which is factually correct, which I could see characterized as "technically correct and gets page views".
I wonder if that's something that can be practiced and improved upon.
It’s important to find things in common with people on a human level. Hobbies or other special interests are good for this.

My advice is to simply not think about work outside of work and build friendships from other common interests.

Also, social class comparisons aren't helpful. A mechanic is smart, and in their eyes a person who can’t change their own oil isn’t.
One of the AOL-Files OGs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734502
A search engine should rank results based on quality. Misinformation should be ranked poorly. Just because some misinformation has a political bent doesn't mean it should be exempted.

Surely only the purveyors of political misinformation could disagree with this.
The compulsion to equate Trump and Putin is, itself, propagandist.
This is standard culture in Japan, fwiw. It would be considered extremely damaging if a company didn't issue an apology like this after they messed up.
It's definitely not a gamble.

When you press Cmd-Tab, first of all, if you hold it down for longer than about a second, it shows you the icons of the currently-open applications, letting you select which application you switch to.

Whenever you use Cmd-Tab to switch to an open application, it will always foreground all the open windows of that application that are on the active desktop/space.

When I'm doing something like you describe, where I know I'll be switching back and forth between a specific pair of windows of different applications (and I have a bunch of other windows of those applications open), my usual practice is either to size and position them where I can just see both at the same time (large screens ftw), or I'll pull them off into a separate space where Cmd-Tabbing between the two applications will be guaranteed to switch between just those two windows.
Numerous Garmin smart watches sold since at least 2019 have over week of battery life. Mine would probably last 2 weeks if I didn't use the GPS every day.
>Usually if official statistics and what you see are misaligned, its the official statistics that are wrong.

See, I think the opposite. If your numbers differ from the US gov. official ones, you're either doing something wrong, or measuring a different thing.

The BLS in particular aims for consistency in reporting. They ask people what they bought, and for how much, then they go around collecting real world pricing information about products.

No other entity is putting that much work and effort into collecting pricing information. So anyone reporting different numbers is less accurate than the official BLS ones.

Even people who complain that they under-report "real" inflation use BLS numbers, but they change the weights on the various categories such that categories experiencing the highest inflation are also weight the highest.
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The odd thing about this kind of stuff is that it won't help you unless you're chronically dehydrated. But nobody thinks they are chronically dehydrated. So the best or only effective way to give this advice is to tell people to drink more water.
>Open question: won't inflation lead to mechanically higher stock prices, specially if it's demand driven?

Mechanically higher not-USD things. Crypto, stocks, real estate, gold.

>Say we give duplicate the amount of money in the economy(M1 M2 etc) and prices immediately double. Won't that also double firm revenue, profits, dividends, and thus firm value in nominal terms?

It wont evenly distribute amongst crypto, stocks, real estate, gold, etc

>Thus, if stock prices and home prices are +10% in nominal terms, with inflation close to 10%, doesn't this mean they are just breaking even?

Oh ya, like you have to compare inflation to GDP to interest rates.

If GDP was 15% and inflation was 10% and interest rates are 10%. Those are some big numbers but not really a giant problem or anything. Social mobility would be fantastic in those numbers.

Reality: GDP is 6.9 with previous of 2.3, inflation 8.5%, and interest rates are 0.5%. YTD S&P500 is -6.75% while 1y is 7.3%

In reality the GDP figure is fake, temporary boost that wont be able to hold on.
> inflation was occuring before the Ukraine invasion

A hypothesis perfectly corroborated by core PCE, the metric OP criticised [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31003409
Fn + left arrow is Home. Fn + right arrow is End.
I think the key is: don't have a script per se, have a list of talking points, and be willing to re-record sections as appropriate.

That said, one of my favorite YouTubers (CGPGrey) does all of his videos from verbatim scripts. But he also records his voice overs multiple times in order to get a good take.
Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd

You've swapped from window 1 to window 2

Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd

You swap from window 2 to window 3

Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release Cmd

You've swapped from application 1 to application 2

Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release tab

You swap from application 2 to application 1

That if you type something after swapping window and the behaviour changes is even worse!

For cycling

Press Cmd, Press Tab, release Tab, Press Tab, Release Tab, you can move from application 1 to application 3, although it doesn't switch immediately, just shows you a menu while you hold down Cmd

Do this with windows and the actual window changes as you move, not a menu

It's poor behaviour and one reason I prefer my linux desktop to my anicent macbook. (Another reason, I've got about 15 opwn terminals, but I can't just raise 1 terminal window above my browser, I have to raise them all. Of course there's no focus-follows-mouse either, it's all very user-unfriendly, at least by default. I'm sure there's some software that might fix this, but back in the 90s when I was using Windows I remember that sort of software was just terrible. The easier option is to finally fix my linux laptop, which died around the time covid started, and thus wasn't a critical path fix)
I think that every so often technology takes a wrong turn, and additional complexity is added to try to overcome the fundamental flaws. Much like the laryngeal nerve which controls vocal cords goes from the brain, loops around the heart, then back up to the throat. Made complete sense in fish, when it was a straight ling from brain to gills, but completely wrong in giraffes.

There are quite a few wrong turns in Unix that spread because it was just “the way it’s done”. And HTML + Javascript is a terrible way to make client server applications, but constant additional complexity slowly smooths out the worst of it until nobody really thinks there’s a better way.

There is, but the effort to start over just to get to the current level of functionality is far too much to bother.

But that’s the fundamental difference, in the early days every path was equally available for exploration. Now you’re pretty constrained in how you can do what you want to. Still lots to explore from there, but the complexity of the underlying implementation means it’s not quite so fun any more.
Zapier is a god send for the non developer portions of a company.

I work in marketing. Marketing projects are inherently speculative, you don't know what they will achieve until they're done. Add to this that dev teams at every company have full sprints planned for months. Getting a marketing project done through the dev team is months of exertion and sweat.

Or... get Zapier approved by security, get platforms plugged in officially, nice and tidy. And then the marketers can do what they need in the platform, and they're able to iterate and learn at a much faster pace. It changes the whole game.
Yes, particularly when you consider how different the landscape must have been before it was settled and deforested.
> Is it necessary?

I'm assuming that they didn't spend time authoring this for no good reason. It got 2700 stars on GitHub, which isn't nothing.

> The only complexity this calls out is that of microservice architecture done to an extreme, but not that of Kubernetes.

There are better approaches to dealing with tracking requests through a microservice architecture than a ham-fisted packet capture.

By default, the way networking is configured in Kubernetes is exceptionally complex. It certainly stands to reason that a packet capture may be useful at some point.
> under the assumption that “boring” means “straightforward and just makes sense.” It does not

I'll second this. Strongly.

It is not so much boring as more of an amalgam of scar tissue and duct tape that accumulates over time and is a maintenance nightmare. You might run into the rare place that does things "right" with old technology but those are rare.

I do think some new things are "crazy" but I'll take "crazy new" before "crazy old" most days of the week.
Holy shit. January saw the highest seven day peak of the entire pandemic here in MD. And we’re heavily vaccinated.

I’m outside the DC halo, so I’m not sure what it’s like in MoCo. But here in Biden/Hogan country COVID is over. Even in the most progressive-leaning spaces which had been extremely careful with masking throughout the pandemic (school, church).
The things you liked are still happening in areas of computing that are not currently respected. Which would be just like the time period that fascinates you.

So if you’re willing to really replicate that, then its blockchain, crypto and various distributed file storage systems.

Fire up an Ethereum full node and contribute to the coding and testing the merge, or any dozen of Layer2’s or completely different paradigms that have scifi goals.
Neptune just experienced an unexplained temperature shift
For lame progz, I loved Gothic Nightmares by Masta. Every time it opened it'd play the intro to ICP's Great Milenko and just made you feel like you were some cool hacker dude lol. Mikey's VIP spammer was pretty awesome too, except he inserted his own affiliate links in every n message so he was probably making a lot of money from a lot of unsuspecting IM spammers.
>This was never a thing that DDG claimed they were for. DDG is about privacy!

DDG absolutely claims to give more neutral results.

https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgos-new-video-targets-g...
Same experience here. I lived in Portland at the time and was sympathetic to the cause. But then seeing the protest devolve and turn the Park Blocks into a sketchy homeless encampment really made it difficult to support the cause. The media didn’t have to twist anything, the results spoke for themselves. Your average person is not going to support something that turns their parks into shanty towns.
I discovered a punter on MSN messenger.

You could use swear words by substituting the ascii equivalent for a letter.

So looking at the ascii chart, I was wondering if BELL would do anything but it didn’t.

However, NULL would boot all my friends offline and re-boot them off as they auto-re-logged in except myself.
What a scene-- these are great: https://patorjk.com/blog/2012/05/03/cracking-magus-fate-zero...

I looked further and found each cipher was simply doing a
character offset, meaning each cipher was a Caesar Cipher.
The offsets were 70, 97, 116 and 101, respectively. If you
look up the corresponding ASCII code for those numbers, you
get the word “Fate”. I tried out this new decoding strategy
and was able to successfully decode a directory of MaGuS’
files. I had broken the code! MaGuS was using what is known
as the Vigenere Cipher, and for that particular directory,
“Fate” was the pass-phrase.
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