skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least this place has the kind beatings into submission thing going for it. That's the advantage of having a paid moderator vs. group moderation. I think it builds a healthier culture.
More correctly, Australia had a voluntary gun buyback program, and a significant amount of the returned money went to buying more, newer guns. Today they have far more guns now than before the ban.

This is easily checked from Australian news, govt stats, and research papers covering the issue.
The default feed is completely worthless. Unfortunately I think that's what a lot of people see. Carefully curating a list of quality subreddits is key to a good experience, but most people either don't know to do this or don't know how.
I can't stand how Google recommends this, as a dark pattern that their TOTP app is special and that users have to use it for 2FA for Google. There are so many better TOTP apps out there (like Authy or Aegis).

For a while, Google Authenticator was abandonware (despite them still recommending it for 2FA!), and didn't have any options for backup/restore. They have always been the worst 2FA app in terms of features and bugs, not surprised that they're getting even worse with time.
Since this is about Python specifically, I'll go ahead and and highlight `pip-audit`[1] as a specialized tool for generating Python SBOMs and running audits against the official PyPI vulnerability feed.

FD: My company, my work.

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/pip-audit
Those use pipes which use a recorder- or whistle-like structure which sets up oscillating air pressure in the pipes.

The harmonium uses reeds as the primary oscillator.

It's like the difference between a recorder and a clarinet.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good/better.

If USPS banking helps the unbanked by only 50 units of help instead of a maximum of 100, it’s still a 50 point improvement. If Morgan Stanley or JPMorgan can offer me a better banking deal than the post office could, that’s no reason to not have the post office offer banking.

I agree it should be open to everyone, but don’t agree that there can be a maximum of zero-point-zero difference in customer base vs other banks.
Congrats! At 4% yield, that's like you've made (and invested) $150k, after tax. Before tax that'd be a yearly salary of well over $200k. If you can do 2 of those every year, you're on par with mid-level FAANG comp, once you include RSUs. There's probably a benefits and self-employment tax angle I'm leaving out though. And surely it's more volatile. But if you can keep it up it seems pretty solid.
Email predates the internet by several decades, as do blogs. Technically, even credit cards were being used "online" before the internet was readily accessible.

And what we call the "internet" today was already being used by companies and research institutions prior to becoming commercialized. The pre-web was useful from the moment it was created. It didn't need to "find" a use case; the use was immediately obvious.

OTOH, we're still waiting for cryptocurrencies to present a use case that isn't better solved by an existing technology.
Meaningful Work: What Leaders Can Learn from NASA and the Space Race (2017)
Yes, good point. I'd certainly like software where it's easy to run any version you like.

In the Apple ecosystem that's tough because they roll out breaking API changes in the OS every few years. So if you buy a new computer, upgrade your OS, or otherwise try to keep up with a changing world your software will stop working.

My thoughts on software longevity and why it's a problem for our industry: https://museapp.com/podcast/49-software-longevity/
A game that was great fun to play with my grandma, parents and young cousins at the same time was LittleBigPlanet. We only played LBP1 and 2 so don't have experience with the newer games.

It's not really what you're asking for, but IMO it's lots of fun and young ones can get very creative in the level editor.
Time to Stop Coddling Crypto
Yeah, and honestly that's a really great thing that they have pulled off very well. In the olden days, the front page was the only option and now it's really just their "Top of the Funnel" so to speak. Most user-generated content sites have a solid 90/9/1 split where 90% are passive consumers who are either not logged in or logged in only to curate their feed, 9% might make comments, and 1% are driving most of the submissions and moderation. The front page is dominated by the 90% and exists to drive SEO and ad views to pay for everyone else. If you are in the other 10%, you login, curate a feed that excludes /r/funny or /r/pics and just zooms in on the special interests you like and it's a fantastic experience. And yeah, you do that with old.reddit.com (or i.reddit.com).
I think it's mainly fine for general subs and great for super niche stuff I am interested in.

Like any Internet forum, of course it'll have its issues, particularly on the Reddit scale, but for the most part, I think it's pretty decent and I find it way better than most other 'social media' platforms.

NOTE: RES is a must-have for me: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
Your experience with TERA is akin to mine. Not only the game was innovative, skill based and overall fun to play, the interaction with other players was like none I had ever experienced.

BTW, did you ever made it to exarch[1] in the alliance? I only made it as far as commander during my time.

[1] https://tera.fandom.com/wiki/Alliance#Exarch
You can create a Hide My Email address manually if you go to System Preferences > Apple ID > Hide My Email (Options) > Tap the + button.
I'm going with inflation. Definitely not some major societal shift. So much of the stimulus and pandemic unemployment money and probably PPP went to strip clubs. Prices are through the roof but people have less disposable income right now due to everything else also being through the roof.

It will even out somewhat. I don't think hookup apps are a factor really, but Onlyfans and premium snap chats probably are, at least on the supply side.
The problem is that you need a camera on another device to export it, they explicitly disable screenshots while the export QR code is up which I need to use in order to copy it over to my keepass.
The problem with this is the number of guns in Australia has increased despite the buyback.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-n...
+ #-CPU-Core + RAM Size. That's me. :)
Haha, I just realized (I updated my initial post). I'll post this on Antinet Reddit now.
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
To understand how this situation has come about have a read of Red-Handed by Peter Schweizer.

The Chinese "elite capture" program is well-documented.
They intentionally ensnare govt & business elites in lucrative deals with China to ensure they remain pro-China.

The media doesnt talk about this corruption as they all have movie studios and also want to sell their movies into China.
> The building wraps these days have rather insane R values and do a good job insulating the house

Building wraps have almost no R-Value. The basic function of building wraps is to keep water out, which is why they are called WRBs (Weather Resisting Barriers). Some higher end ones also block air infiltration, but those aren't used very much.

For example, staple up house wrap doesn't block air the way it's typically installed, whereas fully adhered wraps do a much better job of that.

Some sheathing systems (not house wrap) like Zip-R have insulation value, but not "insane" by any means. The maximum R-Value Zip-R gets you is 12 (at a big price premium compared to alternatives), and the code minimum for 2x4 walls is 13.

In many climate zones that experience both extremes of heat and cold, it makes a lot of sense for homeowners to exceed code minimums for insulation, although it makes less financial sense for production builders who are trying to minimize their build costs.
Hey @jobigoud! Yeah, currently VideoMentions only uses the auto-generated English video transcriptions when searching for matches. If there was enough demand, it could be expanded to support other languages. Doing so would add complexity and would make searches take much longer, though. I'd probably need to add more UI fields to allow users to select the languages to target. Could be done, though!

Yes, youglish.com is a neat tool! I stumbled upon it when looking around for a way to search YouTube videos based on spoken words.

Thanks for checking it out! :)
I do worry a bit that I'm carefully building my own personal echo chamber when I make a custom feed the same way that everybody on Twitter does.

I really do wish that the default feed wasn't such a burning trash pile.
Thanks! I actually never thought of searching for it (since I'm just not a gamer much anymore). It is interesting to see that this at least is a [sub] genre. I just watched a dozen or so of different gameplay videos and it's a bit different than I imagined. From what I've seen, they appear similar to strategy games or even reminiscent of Lemmings. They even tend to have an orientation of top-down over the world or side scrolling. I think having a 3D racer would still be cool and actually have the POV be as an enemy driver where you actually control that one enemy vehicle but not the whole wave of enemies. But tbh, what do I know about gaming these days haha. Thanks for taking interest in my random idea!
I tried for three years to a prescription for Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). As all the support forums swear at how much better it was then plaquenil. But I could not find a doctor that had heard of it.

Finally found an online pill factor, had a little back and forth with questions and concerns. Got my pills. Dramatic quality of life improvement.

I could not get a single doctor to do 10 minutes of research on what the pill was.
It also gave authorities the flexibility to implement pandemic policies which would have been unenforceable in a place like the US.
I can think of a couple major points that have caused massive culture shifts on reddit (some might say for the worse). There have been other temporary shifts/events, but I think these ones were longer lasting

* The "Digg invasion", when Digg 4.0 came out in 2013. This is when reddit turned into mostly memes. Before that, the frontpage was closer to slashdot, but much more open conversation around it. (of course there were still ffuuuu comics, but we dont talk about those)

* The pandemic in 2020. It seems like your typical Facebook user started using reddit. Reddiquette is no longer a thing -- if you don't agree with something you downvote. Alternative views aren't supported, people don't want their views challenged. I think this has been the biggest culture shift and probably what you're getting at. It's people looking to kill time rather than adventure to learn something new.
Given enough eyeballs, all content is shallow.

For most of the past decade, Reddit have pursued a growth path, with features and changes designed to hook and keep on-site an ever-growing number of eyeballs. Put the blame for that squarely on Conde Nast / Advance Publications / Steven Newhouse (CEO).

This has had corresponding impacts on the quality of discourse. My own response, as noted at my personal subreddit, is to take my time and attention elsewhere, which seems to be widely reflected across other subreddits I've followed. (See: https://teddit.net/r/dredmorbius, particularly pinned posts.)

HN has remained one of those places --- moderation, search, and a reasonably-well curated membership seem to help. It's not ideal, but it's dramatically better than typical online forums, and has maintained a remarkably even keel for going on two decades, all but unheard of.

For various reasons, progress to implementing an independent blog have lagged.

As a lark I created a new account that blocks idiots, though I've not used that sufficiently to determine if it has a positive impact on S:N ratios, though I suspect it might. The idiots are, however, legion.

If anyone else wants to try that practice and report on results, I'd be interested in how well it does or does not work.
Will this app pay 6000 a year for 25 years?

It's an impressive creation but this is not a good way to value it.
What products would this be in reddits case? I don't see what subreddits that show up on /r/all are secretly advertising.. The better explanation using Occams Razor is that optimizing for engagement metrics means that low-quality, broadly appealing shallow content simply is more popular
Here's a list with many Australian mass shootings since 1996

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Austral...
Proton also supports cash for renewals/upgrades, but they went out of their way to remove the cryptocurrency option and the cash option during signup...
This is actually really helpful. I'd be concerned that deleting the browser would result in other apps breaking but that's probably a risk worth taking.
Games, and media in general, that respect the theory of relativity.

All we have had so far is Europa Universalis with a space skin. Nothing can ever travel faster than light, that's how the world actually works. Children of a Dead Earth was in the direction of what I want but I got bored quickly because it's orbital dynamics puzzles.
The First Nations of Catan
For several months, Google Cloud has been interested in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. The Alphabet subsidiary is now looking for a new marketing leader to help it navigate the Web 3.0 shift.
> What is terrible about the UX?

It's been a few years now, and they still haven't fixed so you can copy and paste text in their text inputs.
NFTs are so stupid that most people have difficulty in understanding how stupid they are.
Emergency locator transmitter your data?
> "Can someone who behaves in the way described in these articles really be that important to your organization?"

You might ask Steve Jobs (probably the biggest poster child for successful technology industry jerks), Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds (before mellowing out later in life), Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Scott McNealy, Jeff Bezos, etc. about that. In short, yes, they quite obviously can and anybody who is amazed by that hasn't been paying attention to how the real world works. Much as some on HN would like to think otherwise, decency has nothing to do with intelligence; some of the worst human beings I have ever personally met were also quite smart and capable engineers. And businesses are willing to overlook quite a lot for the geese who are laying golden eggs.
> I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version

The day they kill old.reddit is the day I stop reading it.
> From the tests I have done it seems impossible to get QUIC and HSTS to even work on the same site.

I don't understand, maybe you need to explain "the tests I have done" here ?
As someone who codes primarily to make a living rather than out of some innate passion, I’m perfectly fine with this.

When I change clients, I’m usually up and running within an hour because almost everything looks very familiar. Compare this to JavaScript development which can have any number of tool chain permutations.
These .forever domains don't work for email or websites. To use them, you must configure your router with special DNS config. The FAQ [0] has a technical explanation that most people won't understand. I think this is dishonest, false advertising.

> Do .forever domains work in a browser like a website?

> .forever is a top-level domain in the Handshake root zone, so you will need a Handshake resolver in order to view .forever domains. We created Fingertip, an easy to use menubar app to simplify this. It uses HIP-5 to delegate subdomain management to our fork of ENS.

[0] https://foreverdomains.io/
Zapier, a popular no-code platform, has made a very specific segment of computer consultants redundant, and that's very threatening to that segment of developer. You can argue around that all you want (what about retraining, or a rising tide lifts all boats, or that a better dev experience is a better dev experience), but no-code is fundamentally threatening to those who've spent their careers, often ones that predate stack overflow, leaning to program.

If someone's career depends on them not understanding something, they won't.
A VR game where you take a snapshot or ghost of yourself performing some movement or throwing an item, which then repeats itself in the world. Then you can make more snapshots and string them together to create a Factorio-like game which uses the snapshot of those movements to assemble products.

E.g., ghost 1: pick up ore, throw ore -> ghost 2: catch ore, crush ore, throw crushed ore -> ghost 3: put ore into furnace -> ghost 4: pick up metal bar, throw metal bar, etc..

Then the player is running around building interactable buildings with produced resources and that oh so satisfying factory spaghetti starts forming.
Most people live in houses with poor insulation and ventilation, because they either don't used to live in a hot climate or have air-conditioning.

We don't build smarter because air-conditioning is cheaper, but a lot of people can't afford neither, and they are becoming necessary to have.
Congrats! Downloaded.

Relevant to today's discussion, did you use SwiftUI or the ol reliable UIKit?

Here's the url for those who are looking:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/five-three-one/id1560266240
Also, the rate of firearm violence was already on a linear decline.

The buyback program didn't have much, if any, effect on the rate of decline.
A high-quality, completely FOSS shooter/fighter/soccer game.
It’s not risk but cost and also difficulty in ground testing safely. What changed is they may not test them on the ground but in orbit. Just design it very conservatively and launch to a safe orbit and test there.

Technology can just progress, nothing massive needs to change. DARPA sees that the time is ready to advance this technology once again. They will test it first at very small scale. The purpose is deep space space force robotic vehicles being able to make lots of maneuvers (to avoid ASAT? To do multiple missions? Changing orbit to avoid detection?) with high thrust, ie quickly.
The NYT article was written by some very far left activist writers, and that's why it has be taken with a grain of salt as another data point but far from the whole story. The writing is reactionist and full of venom, and that automatically turns me off.
I want to push back against this a little. He gets $500/month now, there is no guarantee he will keep receiving that number when he stops maintaining and improving his app. I would assume the number will go up if he keeps improving it, but if he stops it will eventually become 0$/month.
You're right, they didn't see any such evidence. But that's a moot point because the accused is procedurally blocked from presenting it.
Apollo for IOS is great as well
Or it goes:

1. I sign up for niche but well-made service

2. I pay $50/year or whatever. I'm fine with that because I'm going to rely on this.

3. Not enough other people do. The service wants to make more money and pivots to enterprise. They don't grandfather old users and the minimum price is now $9.99/mo for a limited feature set, and $14.99/mo (min 3 seats) for the features I used to have
Honestly, despite the UX changes, Reddit has stayed remarkably consistent over the past decade or so I've used it. Big, generic subreddits are trash and always have been, but small, focused subreddits are great. Reddit is still hands down the best place on the internet for product recommendations, candid product reviews, niche hobbies, and discussions about TV shows, movies, and games.

Edit - to prove my point further, take a look at the top 1000 posts on r/all from 10 years ago.[1] Does that look like quality content to you? Once again, the front-page of Reddit and the large subs have been hot garbage since day 1. Nothing has changed in that respect. You've always had to go the smaller subs for quality content.

[1] https://www.redditarchive.com/2012-05-25.html
And now that the login page https://account.protonmail.com/login redirects to https://account.proton.me/login, my Firefox pass manager do not autofill the login anymore, I believe that is a UX nightmare for non advanced users.

And to be honest, I don't know the best way to avoid UX problems when a service change domains.

I mean, besides that many users will lost access/do the reset pass process because of that, the experience to fix this as a user is: go to the pass manager, copy the credentials from the old domain, go to the new login page and paste it, save it as in the new domain, and delete the old domain saved credentials, because that will be saved there forever with no propose and confusing users with duplicated login information.

I guess more advanced password managers maybe notify about domain changes? But at least Firefox and I suppose Chrome, which is massive, don't have that.
The various Lego games are surprising fun and very forgiving to a second player.
I'm using the Cupertino widget to have an iOS look and feel. I care a lot about the experience and I didn't want to release an Android app that feels like an iOS one.

That being said I'm almost done making the app look great on Android. I'm just waiting for some Material 3 widgets to be done by the Flutter team.

My thought process was simple : I don't like any of the apps on the App Store for 5/3/1, so I'm going to make my own!
Yeah, pricing is really tough. I've experimented heavily with feature-based pricing, most notably in Heroku, and people absolutely hate it. When you put your best features behind a paid upgrade, you're preventing people from evaluating the most important part of the software.

Free trials are another solution, but time also ends up being a bit arbitrary.

In the end, storage is a good metric that doesn't require complex feature gates. We borrowed this model from Notion: they had 1000 blocks free in their original product, but once they started getting those sweet enterprise dollars they were able to give more away for free to individuals. Dropbox and GitHub are two other examples.

Our service still does a lot of work proportionate to data size, so in that sense it's still SaaS and has the same cost dynamics at work. But in the end the real cost of software is engineering salaries, not infrastructure, so that whole discussion is sort of a red herring.

Obviously it remains a problem to solve that our industry can't find a pricing model that is both (1) healthy and sustainable for the business and (2) people find amenable.
See also http://planetvermont.com/v9n2/machine.html
That is essentially what the kernel cache is.

Caches are pretty heavily customized for the database design because they control so much of the runtime behavior of the entire system. The implementations are different based on the software architecture (e.g. thread-per-core versus multi-threaded), storage model, target workload, scale-up versus scale-out, etc. The "custom buffer pool" isn't just a cache, it is also a high-performance concurrent I/O scheduler since it is responsible for cache replacement.

Even if you were only targeting a single software architecture and storage model, it would require a very elaborate C++ metaprogramming library to come close to generating an optimized-for-purpose cache implementation. Not worth the effort. The internals are pretty modular and easy to hack on even in sophisticated implementations. In practice, it is often simpler to take components from existing implementations and do some custom assembly and tweaking to match the design objective.

In either case, you still have to understand how and why the internals do what they do to know how to effect the desired code behavior. For people that have a lot of experience doing it, the process of writing yet another one from scratch is pretty mechanical.
"Vote out Trump in 2020, <my name> said, and the US voters obliged".

This is not a matter of nuance.
Low-quality, broadly appealing shallow content also drives away anybody interested in putting in effort