skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His response to the ad-hominem is just flat-out the wrong answer for the committee. The answer is to address his main point, which is to say that there are many non-Canadian creators that won’t go through the hoops when they start out, and who get buried under the algorithm by the large producers who do, stifling growth. Just railing about government overreach is just the most easily dismissed talking point.
Most of the world can't afford the same hardware that you have. If you, as a web designer, say, you need to have the latest thing and the best possible connection to enjoy this website, then you shouldn't be surprised if you get people complaining and deciding to go elsewhere.
Hardware need not be CapEx. There are plenty of leasing options available for just about everything. There are also some wild Section 179 options:

https://www.section179.org/section_179_leases/
> You don’t think the big health insurance companies in the US do the same thing?

To the multiple peers who point out the US uses MBAs too. I'm pointing out that both systems use MBAs and come to the same conclusions such as "We can save n% by using n-1% less effective drug."
This chilling effect is already going on. I'm writing a science-fiction thriller and took most of my notes off Google Drive out of fear that they would misconstrue them as political extremism. If AI is being used for content moderation then this only raises the likelihood that a false positive is identified, devoid of any context, and I lose my entire Google account to an uncontactable bureaucracy.

I made a Nextcloud to host my references and storywriting notes. Nextcloud is horribly buggy, difficult to maintain, and has very poor user experience compared to Google Drive - but at least I don't need to worry about my entire digital life being auto-terminated by an overzealous robot, with no reasonable appeal process beyond "knowing enough people to make a stink".
From 2014 http://bada55.io/ includes a much more expansive set considering hex colors do not require all six characters. #101
Thanks, that looks great.
> Netflix, Spotify, etc. have largely solved the convenience issue.

Huh? With content spread out over Netflix, HBO, Disney, etc., you need multiple subscriptions which you can't possibly call "convenient".
Just pick the one you like the most. It won't be the language nor framework that will be your bottleneck or your project will succeed or not.

I usually reach for ruby first when I face a new project. But that's just because I like the language a lot.
If you think 50% cost overruns and overheads are uncommon for state sponsored projects.. you will be right but only because often the actual numbers are much higher.
Nice landing page. I built git-rerere as a service for a company, they only use it internally. The most annoying part of rebase is resolving the same conflict again and again.

.git/rr-cache is the recorded resolutions that help auto resolve the same conflict by matching "preimage" and re-apply "postimage". You could add this feature, it's a killer even github doesn't have a way to feed in rr-cache.
Anecdotally; I still wait 5-6 minutes for online to load, and 3-4 for single player.
Flipping classes is interesting, but it has problems.

Even trying to rely on outside media, it's still much more labor intensive for teachers.

And you need a more motivated student body than the typical middle school or high school student. The small quizzes you include to make sure that students consumed the flipped content beg for exploiting and cheating, even with randomization.

Finally, it's not really clear how well it works. In general, K-8th work away from teacher supervision shows no evidence of benefit, and the educational research we have on the flipped model is mostly of poor quality except for a couple of good studies of undergraduates.

Education tends to have big "trendy ideas" that have some plausibility that they'll work and excitement around them and a whole lot of administrator support and profe$$ional development services spring up around them. And then you have people endlessly debate the merits based on personal experience.

(I'm about to teach a microeconomics class where I'm going to flip 1/3rd of the lessons in a private high school environment with a relatively motivated student body; the motivation is so that I can fit more simulations into an already-very-dense AP curriculum without an infinite homework load. I've become a relatively successful middle school teacher of engineering and mathematics enrichment classes over the past couple of years and I struggle to see how I can flip much successfully-- so much of my success is around social pressures that come from interaction of students with each other and their teacher).
rec.music.gdead was one of the most active usenet groups. IIRC rec.arts.books.sf-lovers was also a very popular group. I'm a bit nebulous on whether it originated from the mailing list or the other way around

There were also quite a few "for sale" type groups, I remember when the group for computer equipment was split into about five subgroups after it got too big.

Just editing to add - there were also a lot of regional groups, one of the earliest and probably biggest was ba.* There were also state/country level top levels and a few colleges had their own too
Amazing little tool! Could you also make available the portable binary?
Reddit. Most know the reputation that the largest subreddits have, but if you drill down past those troll-targets, you'll find very specialized subreddits that have very focused conversation.
I agree with you. I have a robot vac and a plug in stick vac. The robo vac is scheduled to clean 3x a week when no one is home. Most of the time it finished this just fine and things appear ok.

But in Fridays when I get home I give everything a once over with the plug in vac and the amount of dust and dirt it captures at first surprised me. The robo vac's suction just can't compete

But I still don't mind it as it makes keeping the floors in general cleaner easier - but if I had to do it again today I wouldn't buy the robo vac.
This doesn’t meaningfully reduce e-Waste. The average iPhone user is conditioned to trade in their phone with already decent recycling programs being their destination.
Yes! WebAuthn, TOTP, Recovery Codes, MFA Policies - it’s all there :)

https://www.ory.sh/docs/guides/mfa/overview
It appears that you are now the one having trouble parsing English.

You know how in a book when fictional characters are talking how they use quotation marks to indicate that? In my comment, my fictional someone was talking, so I used quotes.

Perhaps you could stop telling me how to write my comments and stop telling me to change my writing behavior for your sake, just because you misunderstood?
It’s Easier Than Ever to Travel Abroad Without Cash
Yep, alt.religion.scientology, alt.tv.northern-exp, and news.admin.net-abuse.email were my main hangouts.
Perhaps you're thinking of the payroll loans.

There were three economic impact payments that went out to almost everyone:

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistan...

For people under the income caps, the total disbursed to each adult was 3200, plus additional to parents / guardians for each child.
Just pull out those pesky GSM/WiFi antennas and it will stop.
Show HN: Gwak – restaurant recommendations from people you trust
After hundreds of interviews for a FAANG I'm become more and more weary of this format. Particularly I find the the leetcode style "problem solving" question to have the higher rate of false negatives. It's common for candidates to bomb that question and do well on the rest.

My favorite way to judge candidates now is by asking a “clean code” question. This doesn’t refer to Uncle’s Bob Clean Code, but to code that is simple, maintainable, and extensible. I give candidates a simple and slightly ambiguous problem statement, usually revolving around “write a library that does X”. I expect candidates to ask questions and clarify the ambiguities, then proceed to define the APIs and finally write the code. The implementation is straightforward, with no tricks or logical puzzles. Only use simple structures such as lists, hashmaps, and loops. Then I ask one or two follow-up questions for more requirements, such that they need to modify or extend their code. Depending on how this is organized this might be trivial or very complicated.

I feel this format is the closest to on-the-job work and gives me a good feeling of what it would be like to work with these people. Also has a lot of freedom and allows one to peek inside the candidate’s mindset. How do they deal with ambiguity? How do they approach API design? how do they handle incorrect values? Do they care about corner cases? It is also mostly devoid of what developers hate most e.g. trick questions and obscure algorithms.
yeah i feel like the best thing to do these days is just setup a server, encrypt your files, and use scp. ...like we were doing in the 90s
pay out of pocket is the nature of the system, so it's not really a point.

What would be a good point is a discussion about if want a society where the people who pay for a procedure get better outcomes, or if we're willing to say to those who pay "You will get a worse outcome because we're also serving those who cannot pay. This comes down to cultural values and ethics.
+1 for your question. I am at a constant struggle with my news addiction to the point where I am not achieving my life goals and I end up being mentally stressd constantly reading sad stories on CNN, WSJ, NYT, CNBC etc. I am also addicted to HN and probably spend more than 3+ hours surfing it everyday (at least I get a good value out of using HN) and everyday I just dream about not opening any news apps on my phone browser but as soon as I wake up, the first thing I go for is the browser on my phone. Would love to see how others are dealing with this news addiction?
Are you saying that there already was a large, established CCS production base in Europe at the time the standard was introduced? Otherwise, what were they protecting?
I don't think it's just nostalgia. The bizarre, not quite phone, not quite PC monitor infinite scrolling design of these neoforums is awful, and far worse for effectively finding and cataloguing info.
"In fact, month of birth is a significant factor in student athletic success."

This was not an argument for school athletics. It was an observation that age quantization-- whether by schools or by private athletic leagues-- makes a big difference on the trajectory of athletes. In turn, you have from age quantization alone pretty big physical differences in students of the same nominal age.

Your comment is completely orthogonal to what you replied to.
I'm also wondering this. I use Brave and I'm wondering if adding Privacy Badger is overkill. I already use uBlock Origin and Decentraleyes.
Something like that?

https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84
Notion Acquires Cron
Hey everyone, OP here.

I've been working on this during nights and weekends for the past several months.

As someone who enjoys finding and trying new places to eat, I've gotten tired of scrolling through the same results on Yelp and Google Maps. Over time, I've realized some of the best places I've been were based on the opinions of trusted sources.

Gwak is a mobile app where you follow specific people for more curated recommendations. You can follow friends or specific influencers and you will only see recommendations from these people.

As a reviewer you:

1. comment on restaurants
2. add them to lists (e.g. Best SF Coffeeshops, Brunch spots in Brooklyn)
3. share with others

As you review places, these get added to an auto-generated web profile (so you can share your lists of restaurants even with people without a Gwak account). Here's an example: [1].

I also include a list of the award winning restaurants (Michelin and James Beard) because I've never found a place that actually aggregates these and shows me which are nearby.

Stack:

* React Native (using the Hermes Engine), Expo managed
* Hasura on top of Postgres
* Remix deployed on fly.io with tailwind
* Dokku on Digital Ocean

Thanks and I appreciate any thoughts, questions, and feedback!

[1] https://getgwak.com/profiles/352c42a1-de04-41be-bb83-fc0ca81...
But as a user, I don’t want to waste time (and resources) re-fetching the same library from different sites all the time. I might not be somewhere with a good internet connection or I might pay for data, etc.
Yes, absolutely, I've never seen this talked about before, so I'm happy to read it here. I also experience MASSIVE audio crackling and insane lags. I think it's related to memory pressure (high swapping) since it seems to happen once the graph goes into the red. I switched from a 8GB Pro to a 16GB Air and am much happier with the function keys and the increased RAM.
Zero percent or negative just means people involuntary pay by inflation. There is not free lunch (someone had to work to make it)
You need a full Santa exemption with business reason to use brew. The average person working on some server that deploys to borg does indeed use their Macbook as a thin client. Who's obtaining deps for their builds from brew? If you're building stuff on Mac, it's via bazel and all your deps are in source control.
No, Synology has a DynDNS-type thing that can work with dynamic IPs (QuickConnect). Also note that Tailscale has an official Synology package, so you could have your own private mesh VPN to access your data anywhere.
And make sure to explain the story to the Bank/Credit Card company as accurately as possible. You paid X for Y amount of service but want to cancel after Y amount of service and instead Dropbox just cancelled you right away and won't refund you the difference.
Leetcode tests how is your math, and math is hard because handwaving and virtue signalling does not work with it.

Algorithms should be not memorized but derived on the go from well known mathematical models.

This is what good schools like MIT used to teach.
Because you can start a project with the existing, proven and expensive tech today. Grid-scale storage is purely theoretical today (bar pumped-up hydro, which is infeasible in most locations). There's lots of hope, and money should be invested in the various alternatives, absolutely. But nobody can say when and if that tech would be ready.
IMHO and we're worse off for it. I still keep around non-web versions of old software like Picassa that are so much better than the web alternatives now being offered.

We've given up a lot for being able to run in a web browser. Web UI is janky and fussy and time consuming to use. I've been using computers since 1988, and the UI now is the worst it's ever been for anything other than dicking around doing half-assed work.
HN search. I knew the terms. I remember upvoting that comment when it posted. I still don't use Dropbox. (sshfs backed on a zfs server (hosted by rsync.net))
ICE Searched LexisNexis Database Over a Million Times in Just 7 Months
I didn't understand the reference but I didn't have to quickly scan to other comments because the next comment mentioned that it was a reference.

I would also say that sometimes being exclusive can make a joke funnier to the in-group. Denoting your sarcasm can make humor less attractive, in the same way explaining a joke ruins it. Sometimes you want to be vague to see who catches the signals.

Some people, myself included, will react poorly when requested to perform additional work when additional work from the requester also could have been performed.
XML predates the web because, as wikipedia puts it:

> XML is an application profile of SGML (ISO 8879)

The same page also notes:

> most of XML comes from SGML unchanged.

XML is, therefore, not "web technology". It has been used within a web context, but predates the web in almost all senses other than having actually been created by the W3C.
India’s first virtual influencer Kyra
Sadly at Rockstar it's likely that employees are curious, but are under so much pressure for deadlines, and working such long hours, that they don't have time to follow their curiosity.
Be sure to block JavaScript as well. Makes the web a lot faster, and very often better too, with only the occasional site (though considerably more of certain types of sites) breaking. What I settled on a couple of years back was to disable JavaScript with uMatrix, but have that extension disabled in Private Browsing mode, so I can just open a Private Browsing window if I want to run something with JS.

In Firefox, you also just have the “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above” checkbox in Settings → Fonts → Advanced that you can untick, which will stop most web fonts from loading, though Private Use Area code points (used in icon fonts) will still work from web fonts (so that Google’s Material Icons with its stupid ligation technique is just about the only thing that will be mangled).
I think signature lines on the posts helped with that.
My Intel Mac (2017 base MBP) actually quits applications when RAM usage is too high. There's no warning, and no notice that it's happened. They just quit. And this is despite plenty of swap space. It's mind-boggling.
This is a really dumb feature. Out of everything you could add to GitHub, why spend time on this?
It is representative if you do it correctly. But testing is expensive. And the development time is short. Etc.
> A degree (In which you've proven you can understand these algos and spent 4 years studying)

Unfortunately this means next to nothing anymore. I have a bachelor's degree in CS and Math, and I found it very useful. However, I host a fairly large community and provide tutorials on coding projects. I've had several people working on a masters thesis in CS reach out to me because they're following one of my tutorials for the thesis. They then ask a very basic question that indicates they don't know how a package manager works, or how to look up documentation on a library. I think these two tasks are some of the most basic programming tasks available, and if you can make it through 5-6 years of college in CS and still not have the most basic understanding of this, then a degree means absolutely nothing anymore.

Some more anecdata, I've had several friends who graduated with me and can hardly code. It's unfortunate, but I think degrees are just an expensive piece of useless paper that tells you absolutely nothing about the individuals abilities.
I still maintain bandwidth costs are the most poorly understood in the current CTO/CIO/Dev generation.

The "cloud native" generation has (of course) never purchased bandwidth (as in circuits, cross connects, etc) and the result is "Well, AWS charges $0.09/GB so that's what it costs".

I wouldn't be surprised if AWS is capitalizing on this blind spot and offering many services as loss-leaders knowing their 100x markup (or whatever) on bandwidth more than makes up for it.
Or just use a shell that understands JSON and can just pipe the output to JSON. In Nushell you can query the free space and then add `| to json` and you are done.
Measuring Developer Productivity in Python and Rust with Project Euler
No. The cool kids aren't even aware Usenet exists, the nerds are using Mastodon, the turbonerds are using Freenet, and the hypernerds wrote their own protocol and only shared it with like twelve of their friends and they have a blood pact between them to never post it to HN.
Telegram is really a great organizational app and social platform. I created and sold a startup based solely on telegram interactions.
Did you know that you can script the behavior of any torrent of any size of any tracker and many privacy features along with extensible plugins - PicoTorrent, BiglyBT and Tixati.

They are highly advanced clients even incorporating features of Tribler,
https://torrentfreak.com/academic-torrent-client-hopes-to-sh...

So only those with a chunk of familiarity should use these, but as always these things entice HN crowd.
That really sounds like hitting a RAM wall.

My M1 Air 8GB is great for everyday tasks but if I start running heavy IDEs etc. and start hitting memory pressure it acts like you describe.
Do you want zero notice resignations because this is how you get zero notice resignations.
That does sound pleasant. I wish I could push notifications into a todo list with 1 button / click. I am usually not bothered or distracted by seeing a notification, but having to choose to delete it or act on it immediately is what gets me. I tend to delete everything and keep the interesting ones in the back of my mind for later ("I should check out my gf's new IG post")

I like notifications, and I try to respond to them intentionally. I open apps intentionally (this was easy enough to learn) and close apps intentionally (this was hard to learn). So I am pretty good about actually going into the app to do what I intended to do in response to the notification, and then closing the app. I can reassess afterwards if I want to spend more time in the app and open it back up, but again I create an intention before opening it that has a stopping point.

Intention is the difference between enjoying some funny short videos while sitting in a waiting room, and losing 1-2 hours of your life a day to doomscrolling. And if I could have a filtered list of notifications in a todo somewhere, I can set aside time to update myself on whats new that I care about but arent super important
I'm curious if this is literally always true?

I agree that competition often helps improve pricing and quality, of course.

But I wonder if at times competition leads to a net degradation such as "race to the bottom" scenarios?
I voted and advocated for change in directions I felt were healthy and positive.
I have found that journaling in Day One and then having my journal entries printed and bound as a book every year (Day One offers this service in their app) has been a good trade off.

Writing on my phone, adding pictures, copy-pasting passages from the internet are easy to do.

Once printed and bound as a hardcover volume, I know it’ll outlive the app, my phones and probably myself.
AI to help study first images from James Webb Space Telescope
Get the advantages of microservices without the drawbacks
People like microservices because they offer potential in the long run, and the most often mentioned advantages are scalability and decoupling parts of your application.

However they come with a lot of drawbacks as well.
You have to architect your application and add a ton of features to make microservices work correctly (infrastructure, deployments, tracing, communication between microservices, caching and a few more)

However most of these concerns disappear or become less complex in a monolith architecture.

The middle ground seems to be a monolith architecture with clearly separated interfaces and database.
The interface separation can be enforced at compile time (ex. compile each interface implementation separately from the rest of the code).
The database can be also split by having multiple databases, but it is easy to have a shared cache, without having to worry about synchronizing databases/cache between microservices.
In this way it would be easy to extract an interface in a separate microservice when it's needed later, and it would enable a lot of speed at the start.

Let me know about pros/cons of this approach, or if you have experience with something similar.

It can be called a decoupled monolith architecture.
"All of those /categories/ use HTTP"
For rich text editing, undo should probably reset the scroll position and the cursor close the edit you're undoing.

I think reseting the time position would also make sense for video editing.

So basically, it's a way to get back as much as possible in the context you were at the time of the operation that is undone.
8GB with a 4K display connected was definitely not enough for me, but I also have a ton of tabs and a lot of stuff running at the same time. This kind of use seems much better with 16GB. You may be able to get away with 8GB, but 16 may still be worth it for you.
whats the point of even caring about what school a person went to if you can rank candidates based on some test score?