skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying curation is the world's hardest job but stakes are a bit different when you've become popular enough to make a living off of it. It's like being a Youtuber -- folks donate to you because you add value to their lives via your content. Even if generating links and paragraphs seems low-effort to you, to do it well every day for 24 years you can't shut off your consumption of media and you need to stay in a certain mindset. You are always a bit concerned about whether you are delivering value too. Every job takes a psychological toll and one that involves being "on" for 24 years certainly warrants taking a break.

It's also clear that Jason has other things going on in life and wanting to clear your plate and reset is very human and understandable.
In my experience, insinuations of brainwashing are applicable in both directions. We all hold assumptions about the world which lay upon foundational beliefs like a pile of bricks. The ones at the bottom are often invisible or taken for granted.
Looks great. Although it could really use a "tt" ligature. Just look at the names "Scott" and "Letteri" and you'll see what I mean
Cloudflare's browser integrity check feature.

WTF does that even mean?!?? What "integrity" is Cloudflare checking? Who are they to dictate what browsers are permitted to access websites or not? Half of the point of the Web is UserAgent independence and the idea that you don't need some "special" client to access resources. This seems to fly in the face of that? Am I missing something?
Flagged solely for the link to product-hunt.

It feels like you're calling for votes there, rather than showing off your project in good-faith for the audience here.
"It gives me energy reports from the same month of last year."

I have 2x Nests in my house and I don't know if I'm missing something, but I only get a usage history for the past week. I feel like a "smart" thermostat should tell me a lot more about my usage and it should be pretty trivial to develop.
The fact that the US grows a lot of food domestically seems completely counter to what you're saying. Growing food within the US has a lot of benefits but doing so in the middle of the desert is the worst possible spot.
When you really boil down a lot of the arguments, it seems to work out to ‘x demographic should have y percent of this high paying industry/powerful position because I say so’.

Which is really about wealth distribution and power blocs.

Which, historically, requires significant effort and adjustment from ANY demographic to get into said power bloc, or make that wealth. And a whole lot of adjustment from them for it to work and everything to not just collapse into ruin. This tends to happen organically. A new student thinks x is cool.

They go into it, but most burn out, or figure out the actual work (or actual people who also like the work) isn’t to their liking and leave.

The small percentage that remain usually have some kind of cultural or parental support, or a particular mindset, that makes them a fit for the situation. If it continues to fit, they find success.

Over time, industries in certain areas then have certain demographic/attitude/background patterns.

It is not uncommon for people who aren’t succeeding using whatever existing system or patterns exist, if the industries are seen as valuable and desirable, to grow resentful, try to weaken/capture them, and/or attempt to destroy and replace them.

It’s also not uncommon for people who ARE successful to setup barriers (explicit and implicit) to perpetuate what they saw as creating the success and protect their (and their kids/whatever) ongoing success.

Both of these responses have evolutionary pressures in their favor.

Kumbaya, cycle of life, etc.
> no individual can be a part of more than two business.

Do boards count? What about non-profits?

> - no business entity can have more than 150 people.

I'd note that future businesses will be less people dependent. Many businesses have > $1M revenue per employee. Perhaps some can even hit $1B per employee, this becomes trivial if you make everyone a contractor / gig worker.

Just like in accounting, the counting for the purposes of this rule can begin to get creative.
If you consider five points to be "very easy"...

I need a simple solution. Someone below said how to do it in windows - doublecqick first photo. DONE
Is that photo of the 2 dogs generated by an AI? Look at the leash - it kind of phases in and out over the closer dog's legs. Kind of like an AI that knows that dogs typically have leashes but not for what their purpose is. And the foliage is particularly swooshy looking.
Butcher’s Knives, Treason and Plot
The kerning in the word “often” was so bad!
What is the German approach?
I’ll freely admit I haven’t tried all of those tasks, but I’ve been happy with GoodReader.

(But I’ll definitely agree: Preview for iPad is a big gap in Apple’s offering.)
It's become common enough that you know what it is without looking it up, which I think is a fine place for it to be, even if it's fallen out of use. World Wide Web, Information Superhighway, and other means of referring to what we just call the internet today are also somewhat esoteric, but you probably understand what they are.
Yeah honestly I only remember Avatar the movie because of the SNL Papyrus skit mentioned in this article lol. Possibly superior to the movie. But who knows, maybe Avatar 2 with its new font will be better...

I mean, I do like the ideas and messages Avatar the movie was going for, but perhaps it was too visual for me. The experience of watching in theater was great/dazzling but nothing really stuck with me.
there are also 3D printed mods that add a switch
I can’t believe it’s been 24 years. I remember exploring 0sil8 way back when and being inspired by the cool things you could do with html. How time flies.
Can I ask where you get the 100k price point from? I am absolutely not trying to start a flame war, or have this dive into an emotional argument about the merits BTC, but am genuinely curious where somebody gets a price point from since from my eyes I can't tell how to derive any sort of "intrinsic value" from cryptocurrency. Would appreciate any sort of response or analysis!
Whatever floats your boat.

I can stand up a REST API server with PostgREST and a database in a couple of hours. I can deploy new models with a SQL migration.

Like I said, if you want to do server-side rendering it's still a place where Rails/Django/etc shine but I think they could learn a thing or two there to make them better. They could improve so that folks can write/maintain even less code.
Don't you find it annoying losing all the settings in your car? Radio stations, etc.? If you're leaving your car for a long time without driving it, I would suggest adding a pigtail to make it easy to plug in a battery tender instead.
Robocoupes are easy to clean and setup and take up little space when not in use. An amateur making coleslaw (or whatever) can process 10x the amount of produce then an average pro chef with a knife and cutting board. Yes, some gadgets are not worth the hassle but there is a reason these are in near every professional kitchen.
You're speaking for "professional artists" like it's a monolithic class. There are many of them that claim "Art is subjective!" is pseudointellectual.
Other tech (like, RDF) already tried to claim the term “web 3,” years ago.

That was Web 3.0. Which in some ways makes this even more egregiously cringe. It's just different enough to be different and just similar enough to be confusing, while simultaneously conveying no semantic information at all (which to be fair, neither did "Web 3.0", which is kinda ironic...).
> You've now changed corporate governance, since companies can only grow to $2bn before a majority shareholder can no longer exist.

The vast majority of companies worth over $2bn don't have a majority shareholder. Do you think if Elon Musk didn't have a majority share of Tesla they would boot him. (BTW, he doesn't). I actually don't see any examples where that couldn't happen nor do I see any negative consequences.

> You've created an opportunity for market manipulation since speculators can drive the price up to force a large shareholder to have to liquidate part of their position.

To what end? But sure, market fluctuations happen, and we would need to prevent that.

> What do you do in the event of a takeover? The acquirer buys the company for stock, the previous owner now has to liquidate some of that stock to pay for his increase in net worth. Situations like these are going to create problems for the legal and regulatory system.

I don't understand how that's different from "what happens when stocks go up".

Obviously, the effects are far reaching, I'm pretty sure that's the goal. And I think a naive wealth cutoff isn't a good idea. But the idea that we couldn't deal with the fallout seems a bit crazy to me.
My nest once asked if I wanted it to "learn" my habits and adjust accordingly. I clicked Ok thinking it would create a nice schedule. Instead it set temperatures to 14C at random times and be all over the map with when to heat the house and when to leave it cooler.
Sorry to keep posting this same sort of comment here, but: does that say anything about U2F or FIDO2?
On the highest level, yeah, it really is just more modern.

In practice though, its also flexibility. GWT shoehorned you to do certain things a certain way and only that way, where as Blazor only limits you based on what calls and modules can be safely converted to run against the WASM driven runtime. Which means you aren't limited to a specific list of ways to solve a problem, its more (and increasingly so) flexible than that. So for instance, GWT has specific widgets[0] that you should use to represent the use interface, Blazor doesn't limit you to just Blazor compatible widgets (there are some though, because at some point the abstraction runs out of juice). You can use regular conventions and classes too, like the normal .NET HTTP client stack, regular data classes etc. You can also re-use Razor components, most of the time.

To be clear though, Blazor isn't a panacea, it has its own caveats and downsides, however I think its really innovative in terms of concept and execution. For anything behind a login its a pretty sensible choice IMO. I wouldn't go making your marketing / info / purely static pages with it though. server side rendering or pre-rendering is a much better choice there.

Also worth mentioning, on top of all that, is Blazor can cross compile to native applications too, like iOS and Android, with (largely) the same codebase.

[0]: https://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideUiWidgets.html
I'd suggest looking for well-rated games with smaller budgets and smaller price tags. Their ideas tend to be more focused and earnest which might be more up your alley.
I've had great success using Frida (https://frida.re/) to do stuff like this recently. Frida injects a V8 runtime into the target process, enabling you to use JavaScript to dynamically patch/inspect/modify code and data, with all of the JavaScript running inside the target process so there's minimal impact on performance. They provide a nice Python API for remotely controlling the process.

It works on rooted devices, debuggable apps, and can also be added to an existing APK with minimal effort (just patch a single Java class and add a native library - there are scripts to do it for you).
It's people that have the highest impact milage. We can pack food tightly into a truck and they don't mind waiting when the packing takes some time.

We can't easily pack humans more densely into trucks, so reducing their miles traveled has a much bigger effect (and if the distances are shorter they can also walk/bike/bus instead of single occupancy vehicle).
It really rubs me the wrong way that someone claims to be "burnt out" from a job that probably requires an average of an hour or two a day of non-taxing work. I'd love to see Jason say with a straight face that he's "burnt out" to a minimum wage worker who works 12+ hours days, 7 days a week, or even to your average office drone who spends 8 hours a day pushing TPS reports without any breaks in a soulless cubicle. It just seems really tone deaf and privileged, especially given how much Jason has loved to post about issues regarding privilege as of late.

It's on the level of someone saying they're "malnourished" because they had to give up a daily diet of Michelin Star-level restaurant food.
Why? It's really not very different to having several microservices in a monorepo.
Only alterantive is to cut back some of the corn/soybean production in the midwest and grow some of the other crops grown in California. If that doesn't work, like you said, we can import water but other states need to cooperate and the federal government should chip in some funding. You can't just tell Californians to suck it up and figure this out by themselves when the state has >10% of the population plus many essential crops and industries.
I don't think it's unreasonable to require NFC reading, given the security advantages. The real issue is that Apple forbid side-loading and their Android app uses Google Play Services.

They should remove the dependency on Google Play Services, and probably publish the API details for any enterprising Linux nerds that want to make an app. If they did those two things I don't see any grounds for complaint.
Right, but neither Google neither Mozilla wants to support it even if they don't need to pay a cent.
"Having used NoScript with temporary allowances, it's glaringly obvious how much of the web doesn't show anything without JS enabled. If there's a trend to not make everything render on the client, I'm not noticing it."

You're not noticing it because JS SPA frameworks have been the new hotnessTM for ~10 years.

"We could very well end up back in dumping grounds of abstraction spaghetti bad object-orientation.[...]it's way too easy to munge business logic with the view. Yeah, Model-View-Controller suggests a separation of those concerns, but now it's up to the human to follow that convention"

This is a problem with modeling and coupling that happens on SPA's as well, unless you've somehow solved that pesky human problem :D The fact that there's an API layer helps....sometimes...but many times your munging of business logic just ends up being in two different layers instead of one.

"...MVC being a flawed concept. It might be okay for hammering out a prototype, but in the long term so many things need to happen in order to keep it intact; Rails introduced concepts like "concerns" exactly for this purpose, because an MVC structure in a pure OO language like Ruby is very rigid."

Agree. IMO one of the main issues with MVC was that the layers were somewhat ambiguous, which caused bloated controllers or munged up models. In the past I found that "splitting" MVC to be more like MVVM with dedicated backend and view model layers resulted in a much cleaner separation of concerns without the need to go full SPA just for the side benefit of having an API layer.

TBH having worked on multiple high traffic, large-ish MVC apps and high traffic, large-ish react SPA's, I'm a fan of "the old way" of building apps. It felt faster, easier, and much cleaner. I can't wait until things like blazor, hotwire, and htmx help server side templating become a thing again. IMO it would help clean up the state of the web dev industry immensely. Maybe I'm looking at the past with rose colored glasses?
The majority of the value of remote work is the convenience of no longer having to sit in a seat pretending to smile for eight solid hours. Remote work focuses attention on more productive tasks. Virtual offices reinstitute the original problem of biasing appearances over merit.
I love the dystopian futuristic vibe of this comment. I imagine your son stuck hovering 15 feet off the ground...
I don't think such a monolith can exist. That's my point
I heard that the military sometimes has the requirement that a given command shall be repeated verbatim by the person who received the command in order to make sure that it was understood correctly.

Air Traffic control as well, though not a requirement I think it's often at the controller's discretion to ensure there's no pilot deviation, but in general ATC communication is something I find strangely....

therapeutic just tuning into a stream and listening to while I work.
Can't he report it to the police? If this is not illegal I will start my own E-Bay asap.
You are badly confusing sex and gender (and wrong about sex, too, but that's not my job to educate you past your ignorance). Advertisers do care about the gender differences between "people who menstruate", "people who have facial hair", "people who are post-menopausal", "people who like masculine aesthetic products", "people who like feminine aesthetic products", "people who would prefer not to answer any such questions on a survey" and several more. They overlap more than a lot of people would like (there are "people who menstruate" that are also "people who have facial hair", etc), but that doesn't mean that they aren't "real" genders that real people experience. Advertisers continue to mistake sex for gender themselves, often thinking that sex plus age range equals gender. It is a first approximation and it sort of accounts for the distinctions between "people who like feminine aesthetic products" who are also "people who menstruate" versus the ones that are "people who are post-menopausal", but they are wrong about that too and it is still only a bad first approximation.

Those are all real categories (the word gender is just one of several English borrowed from other languages for the word "category", along with genre), whether or not you believe people should be allowed to choose the category they best identify with and that category should be distinct from assigned sex at birth. It's all real, whether you choose to believe in it or not.
It makes a picture from the digits of a prime number... the sneaky trick is that it just makes a picture using a "image to text digits" algorithm, and then just adjusts that number until it is prime.

There's a video going more into detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dET2l8l3upU
Growing food in the desert is the improper part. There are plenty of areas in other parts of the country that aren't experiencing crippling drought. That is where water intensive crops should be grown.

Most southwest desert farming only exists because of government subsidies. If farmers actually had to pay market rate for water most farms in this region would not be possible.
Actually, poor people pay significantly (2 orders magnitude) more per unit water than (presumably sometimes corporate) farmers, who are often growing cash crops that make almost no impact on feeding anyone in the area.

I don't disagree with the market being a fancy BS system to separate the working class from the wealth or anything, but you can't let your politics colour your perception in arenas you know nothing about. Otherwise you are ironically furthering the exact politic you probably hate - emotionally driven
The licenses have already been paid for the hardware implementation, that doesn't explain, eg, Chrome's refusal to leverage hardware decoding (and stop burning so much power on laptops).
How I Have Set Up a Cost-Effective Modern Data Stack for a Charity
I edited it to clarify, but I think given the context you could understand what I mean.

> just as advertisers drive advertising-dependent businesses with no direct voting stake, non-voting owners can substantially influence business decisions

That seems to be arguing past the point. Can you give a more concrete example?
Why does NYTimes offer a .onion site that still requires a recaptcha, loading resources from google and other 3rd parties directly?
I think the point stands. Nest, Sails, Adonis, Redwood, Blitz and many others you could plausibly lump into this list, all of which are playing catchup/reinvent to the alt-language sharks, none of which have crossed the threshold where the Lindy Effect [0] would apply. There is as yet no MVC/Rails shark for the Node/JS ecosystem.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Zeeka: Layer 1 Zero Knowledge Blockchain
Is there something about 100K that makes it a reasonable price target?

It's a nice round number but so is 10K, or 0K for that matter.

I own some BTC, but more to hedge against the possibility that I am wrong about it than any other reason.
>or Western statecraft begins at Plato or Weber rather than its grounding in Chinese statecraft brought over mostly by Leibniz

You're all over the place here, and simply factually wrong.

Plato/Aristotle's writings on politics and statecraft predate Liebniz's interest in Chinese philosophy and politics by around 2,000 years. It is simply inarguable that the Western political tradition is grounded in them. If you mean to say that modern Western political theory and practice is more influenced by Chinese thought via Liebniz than is generally acknowledged, that is a much more defensible statement.
Oh I wish nest could run my fan for 5 minutes but it can do only 15. Touched a raw nerve.
Thanks! I'll try this out
Very nice, thank you for making this! It is so satisfying to see new technologies (eg filesystem API) actually solve old problems (eg tiddlywiki saving)
> If you let your kids laze around and do whatever, they will ignore you when they are 15, and wish they had stricter parents that forced them to do more things growing up when they are 30.

This doesn't resonate with me at all. As a child and teenager I had freedom to effectively pursue whatever I wanted to pursue. I played guitar because I wanted to play guitar. I programmed because I wanted to program. I drew art because I wanted to draw art. I never took lessons I never wanted, nor went to boy scouts, nor pursued organized sports, and all I feel is I was lucky that I had parents that let me dodge those bullets. I also generally did not disobey or ignore my parents because I thought they were reasonable people that told me I should do reasonable things. If they told me, "Clean your room" I might think that an unpleasant activity but I couldn't really dispute that it was good to do even at the time, so I just did it.

My parents forced me do very few things, but I can't think of a major forced activity that didn't feel like wasted time that actively made my life worse. For instance, a terrible cabin trip I never wanted to go on didn't actually help me build character; it just soured me on the outdoors for years.
Maybe the difference is that in 1996 games were still somewhat nerd-niche rather than mass media. If you look at mainstream interviews of the time with, say, pop stars, I think you see the same kind of hype/glaze/insincerity. The person sinks beneath the brand.
Reminds me of this video: Can you name a character from Avatar? https://youtu.be/kxp1IBK1OPI?t=6
People like this font https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
Sure, why not! I'll drop you an email, if it's fine for you.
NFTs are coming for Instagram and other social media platforms (2021)
It only appears this way because you are not aware of the nature of the cycles, and what causes them.
Agreed, but these are communities of interest, without governance of any kind. There's no one to police bad behaviour, to refocus on constructive efforts, to maintain an agenda or to call timeouts when it gets overheated.

Given that, what's the alternative to a messy communal brawl that hopefully doesn't destroy the community? The author of the essay speaks about the ratchet dynamics as if it's obviously to be avoided; an alternative read is that his take is descriptive of what's actually the way that these things get worked out, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
https://www.drought.gov/current-conditions