skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The impact isn't massive just on mental health, but also on general productivity and people's social lives. It's just way too addicting.

My main app of choice is YouTube and it's just astonishing how much amazing educational content there is on the app.

MIT OpenCourseware, 3Blue1Brown, PBS Eons, SmarterEveryDay, ... and I could go on and on....

DESPITE THIS, their recommendations and the YouTube search has gotten so unbelievably terrible over the past few years that it's just becoming unusable.

Their recommendations have nothing to do with the channels I'm subscribed to, instead it's so much goddamn crap with click-bait titles/thumbnails (because one of the biggest factors for the YouTube Rec. Algorithm is thumbnail click-through-rate).

For YouTube search, if you search for "schlieffen plan", then sure the first 3-4 recommendations will be based on what you searched. BUT after that, the fucking recommendations have nothing to do with your search query... instead it'll just be completely random stuff that the YouTube algorithm thinks you might click on.

It's gotten completely unusable with YouTube shorts now because they're trying to shove that shit down the throat of their users (99% of the YouTube shorts are complete fucking garbage).

It's really a shame because there's so much amazing content that's been uploaded to the YouTube platform, but the idiots in charge of the company are completely ruining the app... especially over the past few years.
This is what I do too. I web host a couple of sites for friends locally but when I have an overnight lightning alert I notify them, turn off everything and pull the plugs.
Cloudflare workers are pretty good if you are running something in Nodejs stack.
Wow, this sounds even more batshit insane than the UK's Help to Buy Equity loan scheme:

https://www.gov.uk/help-to-buy-equity-loan
This happened to me, somehow lightning caused some kind of surge in my Ethernet network and killed ports on 3 of my computers. Turns out cheap switches aren’t grounded, you have to manually put a wire on a screw. Sucks!
It's quite likely that the stuff connected to your UPS is also burned out. I hope you are lucky and it is not.

If your hard disk is a magnetic one rather than an SSD, it's possible that the data will have survived, even if the electronics died. HD retrieval companies work by swapping the media with a working device of the exact same model.
We went camping in a California national park once. The park was really beautiful but imagine my shock when not only did they have designated campsites that were extremely boring, you drove your car all the way up to the site, there were individual parking spots within 10 meters of each tent site!
Really hard to win the lottery if you never buy a ticket.
There is already the activitypub client to server protocol but there is 0 interest in it.
Ugh. A tweet with no details. Just explain your rant and not tease the world.
I had ground added to my house in the Philippines. The electrician will not do it correctly until you specify exactly what you need. They will always bias towards the cheapest option, because that is what most people want here. You need to specify to install a grounding rod, as well as the length. Consult your local electric code.

I'm guessing your electrician connected your ground wire to the roof, or some other part of your house construction. That gives you a nice path for lightning to go between the utility neutral and your roof through your appliances.
My own TL;DR; summary, Software has had dev-shop consultancies/agencies for years, got a large spike in work / demand then pull in extra bodies at short notice, need 24/7 support, contract in some folks on the other side of the globe.

This model seems to be coming to the restaurant. Not a crazy idea IMHO
That’s the problem the GP is describing though: it’s easier to get a promotion externally than internally. Their proposed solution wouldn’t really improve things but companies have got themselves into a really weird position when boomeranging is an efficient promotion path.
I live on an small remote island. We only have two certified electricians and they are all super busy on constructions sites and don't have the time for this type of problems. We have Thai "electric men" at our disposal. When he did they grounding of the sockets I was very impressed with that he did not turn of the electricity at any point.
Over here they are mostly bought up as an investment, usually before they are even officially sold.
When I play a video game an AI or another person’s programming is the other side. Imagine using a second controller to control the npcs and interact with your character.
Also it seems social media has huge effects on bullying too. As it doesn't anymore stop at home door, but continues through day and night. Previously at least outside school and getting there from there you could escape it. But now it is ever present and probably somehow worse if shared to multiple people on Internet.

And nothing is done to punish the bullies or remove them from the system. They are not locked up or shipped in some facility where they could not anymore cause harm and damage to others. So sad that adults allow them continue it without any proper repercussions.
And not just the power cables. Network (and phone) cables, too. They're effectively long antennae. I've lost Ethernet ports and DSL boxes to lightning.
My money is on this being a media stunt and the next tweet will be something like "now I love it"

It's probably a lead-in to some announcement of collaboration or similar
The SPA is definitely what you want i building an app like Google Sheets.

The grey area where the pendulum might apply is in more line of businessy kind of apps: email client or online banking are examples.

I think there is no pendulum though,
there has just been a lot of choice in the last 10 years on all sides
I’d argue a major role of a manager is to make decisions and take responsibility for them - it’s not employees don’t “want to”, that’s usually not their job. Everyone unilaterally making their own decisions creates an inconsistent mess.

To me, it sounds like what they did is what good employees should do which is consider the problem
and present it in a way that made the decision trivially easy for you. You can still overrule it if it’s not reasonable.

If you want to say “use your initiative if X” then fine, but the scope of that should be reasonably clear. It’s always a bit of a balancing act, of course.

When it comes to decision making, managers span from people who are too willing to make decisions without a full understanding the situation and detail, often to the detriment of their team and customers who they are distanced from, to those who outright refuse to make decisions. There are lots of bad managers.
> It wasn't totally stupid plan, but it doesn't work if one party ceases to be interested in economics more than other grandiose plans.

It doesn't work if the other party is just one person (or few people) in power for over twenty years, and all open society institutions in that other country have been systematically suppressed.

What's a chance that the same person is capable and willing to represent all possible economic and society interests?

> The Great Illusion

Publication date: 1909; 1933. Interesting. The idea stood the test of time.
Name and shame the surge protector brand/model you used. I've seen them make outrageous warranty/guarantee promises between $10,000 and $100,000 so it might be worth using that to replace some of your hardware.

For everything else - you need an electrician. It's not as easy as just a "big metal stick somewhere in the garden" -- get someone (else) out to actually inspect and deal with it. The reason being is that IMO: your surge protection devices shouldn't have fried if they were properly grounded. So the previous electricians might not have properly grounded your property.
Bugs Matter: counting insect ‘splats’ on vehicle number plates [pdf]
Can paper still be a storage format?
Cloudflare reports earnings tomorrow, so something is up.
How to Spot and Avoid Greenwashing
sadly no. ostensibly for safety reasons actually, I think, but likely more because airlines would have to sacrifice seats for wheelchair space. instead, you either have to limp (if you're able) or transfer to a transport chair so they can wheel you to your seat. it's a hassle.

it'd be a tight squeeze through the aisle if it were possible, but I could make it work in my chair.
There's also this tweet from a week ago https://nitter.eu/eastdakota/status/1520102050738032642#m
Most security products are snake oil. The vendor selling them and the people buying them (always business execs never engineers) have no interest in how well it actually works as a company is never buying these tools to actually be secure only ever to give the impression to some higher exec within the same company or tick a box on some audit process (which requires something to be in place but doesn't require verifying it works).

It's beyond a joke how the "cyber" industry operates.
A first look at Facebook owner Meta's new retail store
I think the usual way to do it is to pitch your manager on a new project for something that the company actually needs, but for which the fancy new tech you want to play with just happens to be the best tool.

Of course, this will also cause people on HN to shout at you for making things too complex, but you can't have everything.
Not to defend Apple watch or other smart watches, but they have been my dream since my childhood watching James Bond movies. So I love both mechanical watches for their engineering and smart watches for what they bring to the table. We dont have to diss one to make the other feel better.
They rang the alarm bells because they saw the trend and tried to curb it. They knew things would get bad, not neccesarily at an exact date. We are only now experiencing the contributions to the atmosphere made at the dawn of the last century. This delayed effect is worrying to say the least.
You don’t really sound like a person who writes code for fun.

On the contrary, I write code in my spare time a lot. I have a ton of GH repos, CodeSandbox things, Codepens, etc. I tinker with things all the time. I'm just aware that others don't so I try not to let my own preferences bias how I hire people. Missing out on a great candidate because they're not like me would suck for my team. Plus, I'm also aware that people's 'free time code' often isn't representative of how they write code professionally. I wouldn't want to be judged on mine...

Your expectations are wildly out of touch with how most software companies operate.

I've run a software company. I've worked at a lot of them. I'm very aware of how much things are held together with duct tape and undocumented YAML files. I don't see how that would impact how I'd review someone's public GH commits though. The company they work for might be operating a codebase that's one commit away from catastrophe, but it might not. I don't get to see that code so I can't really use it as a reference.
I am working on a ~10 year old PHP project, the amount of changes that needed to be made in the last decade because of the changes in the language are almost non-existent.

But using new features is nice and makes the code better, there are even projects (rectorphp) that can automate using of new features in the existing codebase.
There's tons of rewards for good behavior. Happens all the time. Some customer calls your boss and says "I just want to tell you, so-and-so was great to work with." And you get a raise. If it hasn't happened to you, you might not be very nice or good at your job.
You can use the same FFI as K&R C, write a couple of Assembly helpers.
Yeah, I am European, I've lived and worked in 3 different EU countries.

But Americans really don't appreciate how lucky they are. An American CS college grad can earn more than almost all senior/staff engineers anywhere in the EU e.g. ~$150k.
Hackpad
I do something similar but I’m based in Australia. I’m registered as a sole trader (one man LLC basically) and just invoice them once a month. I need to manage my own retirement fund, tax, health insurance etc.
The question we engineers should keep in mind is:

Traditionally it has been very hard to force the will of the few onto the many, without at least having some of those many taking part in the game. There are technologies with the potential to massively alter that equation.

If you develop such a technology like this one you can be sure it might be used precisely for this purpose: powerful men now need fewer poor men to stay in power.

Maybe it is me living in Germany, but the imagination how the Nazis would have put to use the technology we are currently developing makes me shiver. Many of us create technology as if our democracies are built forever. And they are — until they are not. Or they are not — but not where we live, so we don't care.

I get, that it is hard to find any technology that couldn't in some way be abused in a horrendous fashion by the next authotarian society — however there certainly is a gradient there. And we decide where we feel comfortable to put ourselves.
i see people balk at this but not at student loans, which have similar properties ('cept with the zero interest and the discharges).
We had one of the subdomains protected with CF DDOS protection and we only had to setup a CNAME record on our own DNS that pointed to their servers.
If, like me, you don't machine learning, this might be useful [1]:

Kaggle, a subsidiary of Google LLC, is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.

I did not see the word explained in the article, which was otherwise really well-written and instructive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle
And once again the law makers are about 20 years behind whats on the ground...
Grounding is important for shunting the surge to ground.

Keep in mind: surge protectors and UPSes are not necessarily going to prevent damage directly caused by lightning. Lightning has a lot of energy and is high frequency and can make its own paths to ground through and around protective devices.

Lightning strikes cause power outages in a larger area. When power returns, you can get a high voltage surge. This is what surge protection suppresses and protects against.
So do native ones :) FWIW, you speak English better than I speak anything else.
It's also really hard to win the lottery if you do buy a ticket.
I don’t know, I see girls obsessing over their image, grown women obsessing over their image, selfies taken everywhere all the time just to show one’s face…
I grew up in Germany, so I was told stories of my grandfather, who lived through an entire world war, his home, home town, home country being entirely destroyed, being denied the return to his home since it was annexed and now behind the iron curtain, civilians he knew being murdered, pieces of butter being the best currency available, the nonexistence of any infrastructure such as roads, the very definition of political extremism in positions of total power, no outlook for any education at all, basically the entire continent in ruins.

Yet, he and many others lived.

I'm not trying to downplay the problems of today's youth (I'm not even 30 myself and will have to deal with lots of them by myself). But I think humanity has proven that it will find its way.
What you’re describing sounds like normal camping, you hike for a few hours and pitch your tent somewhere. Isn’t the drive in picnic variety just an American phenomenon?
A lightning bolt carries a current upwards of 100,000 amps, and has upwards of 10 billion joules of energy.

A high end consumer grade surge suppressor might be rated for 1000 joules, and a few thousand amps of peak current.

If lightning directly strikes your house wiring, no amount of surge suppressors are going to save you.

For an idea of what a surge suppressor that can handle the blow of a full on lightning strike looks like, take a look at the units used by utility companies on their high tension lines. Typically they are about a 6" in diameter and often several feet long -- and those units still need to be replaced after a single direct hit! https://www.equipmentimes.com/product/details/Lightning-Arre...

The best thing that you can do to protect yourself in the future is to have a lightning rod network installed on your roof, which will shunt the current from the strike directly to the ground.
Otherwise the only failsafe alternative is to completely unplug sensitive equipment (still OK to run from battery but with all ethernet etc cables unplugged -- wireless network only) whenever there is a storm predicted.
California will make houses more affordable by any means, except by building more houses...
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
> cursed out a taxi driver because he wasn’t careful enough loading the luggage

But what if this taxi driver really did toss around the interviewee's expensive luggage, with his best interview clothes and perhaps some materials or documents for an important interview the next day? Does the taxi driver report back, yea he got upset, but it was my fault? What if the interviewee just got off a long flight, wants to rest up for the interview, and isn't really up for chatting with a taxi driver? Does the taxi driver report back that he was rude, wouldn't talk?

I will agree that if the person is a total rageaholic nutcase, passing that info along to the company is valuable information. But reporting on anything else -- asking the driver to keep quiet, requesting he take better care of luggage, asking for a specific route, turning down the radio, whatever -- I'd be more suspicious that the driver is a nuisance than the interviewee has character flaws.
A demagnetizer is on the shopping list, but at the same time, a quick adjustment every now and then is easy enough. I also love my watch, so a switch to antimagnetic isn't high on my priorities.
>> Where does JAX shine vs. Julia? ...Documentation...Code Quality...

I am not sure I need to go beyond that. The decision is somewhat easy here. I am surprised that integration is not mentioned. JAX is just Python (library) so it could be easily integrated into the rest of the system. It fits very well into Python/C skillset.
You could use DHCP for this. It can map your Servernames (their hostnames) to a local domain. eg. devicename.mackrevinack.homstead. But it can also map to just the hostname.
Maybe your monitor isn't high res enough to appreciate it.
> Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area

Do you have a lightning rod on the house? If not, you absolutely need one, and you have to make sure it has a proper grounding rod. If you don't know if the one that is there is reliable, put in a new one.

> It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours.

... and let me guess there is no grounding connection at your house but only at the owner's house?

> Any suggestions on what to do next? A big metal stick somewhere in the garden?

For starters - I'll base it on German standards:

- generally, get a licensed electrician on site to review your whole electric installation. It may be severely damaged (e.g. by overvoltage breaking down the isolation of the wires)!

- both your house and the owner's house each need a proper, separate grounding rod for the electrical system. The closer to the house, the better. In Germany, it's standard practice to have one horizontal rod below the foundation and a separate vertical deep-going rod. You can have the electrician measure the quality of the grounding.

- both your house and the owner's house each need lightning rod(s) on the roof connected to the building's grounding rod

- your surge protector in the UPS isn't able to take a full lightning strike, which is why lightning protection usually needs three stages: the first one made out of spark gaps is directly at the point where the electric supply line enters the house, it will take out the brunt of the lightning strike but still leave a dangerously high overvoltage. The second stage is in the distribution cabinet, here varistors are used. The third stage is your UPS's SPD. And it will always need all three stages to work - leave one out and the system becomes useless!

- you also need lightning protection for the phone line and the TV antenna. In the latter case you need to protect the antenna itself by attaching the mast to the lightning rod and the antenna cable / distributor with an appropriate SPD system.
My Nuclear Arcade Machine
and why is low budget bad
Seems like a strange system that a government / central bank would purchase assets with low interest rates and then sell them as they raise interest rates. Whats the purpose behind this?
>It's breathtaking to see the pendulum swing so obviously and definitively back in favor towards HTML-first and SSG/SSR-first solutions—to the degree that even the JS-framework-hotness-du-jour braintrust is going all-in on SSG/SSR.

The pendulum swings large due to under-educated (and I don't only mean CS degree in school) developers, now days the industry is fill with developer wanna be jumping on the band wagon, many if not most are not really interested in software development. SPA was created to split up front-end/back-end development to cater to these new bee 'front-end' developers. That way the only thing they can screw up is the front end. The way how these Reactive app does thing, makes it easier to split that up. Front end is client/browser, backend API. It make sense from management point of view. It is stupid from a true software developer point of view. SPA also allow to control what user can and can not do. e.g: Link that doesn't allow user to open link in another page. SPA became so popular that w3 even made what so called web components to try to be like React.

However, it is stupid to recreate browser rendering functionality in JS, and try to build desktop like apps in a document based system, even if V8 really made that fast by JIT compiling the JS.

I do like the 2 way binding the vars. And if I'm going to us a reactive app, I would use Solid/Vue/Mithilral before I event touch React/Angular with 10 feet pole.
I stayed in a hotel over easter, the wifi in the hotel did not allow outgoing ICMP, tcp/22 or udp on any port. The only traffic I could find allowed outbound was on tcp/80 and tcp/443

udptunnel did the job, although I had to tether off my phone to get the server up and running.
County comm mid pilot watch, it's advertised as Sapphire. Comparing with colleagues at the time, it was a far sight tougher than their watches.
I don't use social media, never did, nor watch TV - and i have the same outlook - because that's what's happening. And i had the same outlook when i was a teen too.

Increased divide between rich and poor, lack of middle class in my country, our pension/retirement system has been a joke for 10s of years and we were joking in middle school about it(!). Politicians actively working against country's best interests to line their own pockets is a norm - and that applies to every party so even elections are a joke.

Add high inflation to that, as a teen with limited budget you tend to notice price rises of snacks and fast food.

USA was hailed as a the promised land here when i was a teen, disillusionment with it is also a contributing factor.
But is this econony better for everyone, or just for some?
In my city apartmenrs bought en masse by headgefunds, and developers trying to sell 7m2 cages as "microapartments" as most people are unable to buy a normal one.
So perspective may be different, because housing market is booming, but most people won't buy an apartment.