skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The reported losses from crypto scams in 2021 were 60 times larger than in 2018..."

But wouldn't the size of the crypto market in 2021 be at least 60 times bigger than in 2018? I'm not saying it's not a problem, but this factoid might just be another way of saying that the crypto market got much bigger, and still had scams in it.
I would insert for 2nd place:

- The system knows you two are friends (there are multiple ways for that), and you get recommendations based on what interests your friends
Reverse engineering does not necessarily imply circumvention of technical countermeasures, e.g. removal of DRM.

Reverse engineering would also be a copyright infringement issue, which does have a carve out for reverse engineering.
There's plenty of people there who are ok with me setting cookies, I just don't like those who decline because they fuck up my metrics so I can't do sales effectively.

Anyway this doesn't answer the question.
I honestly don't know why the initial reaction is *to have a union*. To me, this immediately puts you at a position of distrust with your employer. And, I simply don't understand all the HN hate toward management. I highly doubt most management teams see workers as "easily replaceable" especially considering how hard it is to get workers these days.
We don't need to do video calls. They are superfluous. In fact, most interactions can just be emails.
No, I definitely don't expect apple to make rational design choices at this point

Exhibit A, this thread

They've been shifting design choices in a direction for years and this is what came of it. They could have made other choices but did not
He paid others --- based on Musk's advice and repeated comments on Twitter which lead directly to the price being inflated.

What Musk did was brash and not very smart. This guy's lawyer obviously thinks the chances of forcing Musk to pay something as a result are pretty good.
Can't you self host this?
"categorically better off than at any point", that should have read
Group cohesion is more important for the Republicans at this point, because they're numerically inferior.
"How to Prove It" was my textbook in my Abstract Algebra class. Absolutely loved it.
> I don't blame the journalists, but the work conditions and economical situation of the media industry.

Why wouldn’t you blame people who voluntarily took a job writing science articles while having zero credentials? They could be normal news journos, nobody forced them to report on science specifically.
Awesome thanks a ton for the details, very helpful. I certainly need to get a fair bit better at Spanish before I embark on anything similar. And having taken a few fairly short hikes in Colombia in the heat I can definitely see heat stroke being a concern. Thanks again!
Recently didn't eat for 40 days and didn't notice this. Suspect there's some issues by putting the mice on calorie restriction vs fasting. Ie "the researchers fed the mice right before the experiments" - if you're in a fasted state and do introduce food you're going to create an insulin spike - if you were also previously calorie deprived you could go hypoglycemic right after.

Going back as far as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment it appears in certain survival instances calorie restriction is worse than no calories. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experimen...
I get the annoyance, but also, targeted ads means both a more efficient economy and information environment.

Mass ads means more money goes into ads and ads are irrelevant to many people. Only big co’s can afford mass ads. Targeted ads means ad money is vastly more efficient, and your information environment is less cluttered. One-man shops can afford targeted ads.

I like seeing relevant ads. I like supporting small businesses targeting me. Privacy isn’t a concern either because the three-letter agencies can find out whatever they want about me if they want anyway.

FWIW, I’m not in advertising.
Multi-View Wire Art
So, you have specifically worked at an Apple store? Please share your experience.
Was this really essential to research now. The conspiracy nutters are going to eat this right up.
Not that hard. Since it's not a use case that most GNU/Linux software needs to be concerned about it's easy to make mistakes and resources are scarce, but once you know what you're doing it's usually not a big deal (maybe except of some specific edge cases). There's lots of old games on Steam that still work on modern distros and new games that work on older ones (and, of course, there's a lot of them that's broken too - but these days it takes only a few clicks to simply run them in a container and call it a day).
It may be so but it's the same as saying put a big spike in the stearing wheel and people drive safer, good intentions over all but flawed when the cyclist ends up in a&e.

In risk management this is trying to flatten the curve by increasing the chance of death.
I think this approach is really common for programmers who aren't programmers first. REPL and Excel both really encourage this style due to their near instant feedback loops.
The ChromeOS equivalent of LineageOS is usually just installing a normal linux desktop distro, sometimes one that's been been tweaked to have drivers specific to chromebook hardware like GalliumOS (https://galliumos.org/)
I travelled the world. I was able to do that at the time because I had no debt or dependants. Now, I wouldn't look for one because I feel I could use the time well.
A Weirder Moment Than You Think
I participated in the interview process at work for a number of candidates.

One of them was clearly glancing at code from the internet on video as they worked through the problem. The other produced a lovely recursive solution (when recursion was not called for); but googling for solutions to the problem produced nearly verbatim code as the first hit. Neither of them could discuss their solutions at a high level.
First of all, I'll repeat that I'm not an American and neither an expert on (presumably) your country's politics, so this is just my armchair observation.

Thiel is funding a new breed of politicians with "hard-right" ideals. The first is Donald Trump [1], which I don't think I need to expatiate following those riots (that was widely used to mock the USA) globally.

His, protégé, Blake Masters, is running for the Arizona Senate position (backed by $10 million+ of Thiel's donations [2]). Masters has some unique ideas, such as opposing Roe vs Wade (abortion rights) and expanding gun rights (in his words, "Eliminating or restructuring the ATF, Repealing the National Firearms Act, and Opposing every kind of federal firearms database or gun registry"). You can see them right on his website - https://www.blakemasters.com/.

Also, JD Vance (backed by $10 million+ of Thiel's money [2]). Vance also has some unique ideas, such as promoting claims that Trump lost the election because of voter fraud [3] or suggesting that Biden was intentionally allowing fentanyl to flood the US because it mainly affected the Republican base [4]. You can check his website and see policy ideals similar to Masters' - https://jdvance.com/issues/.

Now, I'm not saying that everything about them is bad (everyone has flaws). I tried my best to use non-biased political resources (Reuters and Politico have a great rep on my end).

I don't understand much about American politics, but from the little I know, if I was there, I'd be nothing close to a "leftist", but more like a pro-capitalist "conservative", so I'm not really looking at this stuff from a biased lens.

So, from my foreign armchair, I just look at some stuff US politicians say and do (mostly Republicans for unclear reasons) and I'm like, nah dude, that's too extreme...

1- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-thiel-...

2- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/peter-thiel-senate-...

3- https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2021/10/vance-spou...

4- https://sports.yahoo.com/j-d-vance-wildly-suggests-021349250...
That's why bitcoin and ethereum are so awesome. It gives this power back to the people and there is not a whole lot that governments can do about it except watch the flow of funds. Of course we can argue over finer details, but the overall course has been set. It is just a matter of innovation now.

Having the combination of bitcoin as the single limited entity (simple is valuable) and eth as the programmable, more complex version of that, solves a lot of general needs and provides a good foundation to build on.

Sure the on/off ramps make it easier to trace it to individuals, but what happens when people stop using those and just deal with each other directly? L2's will make the smaller day to day, transactions cheaper and faster and those will just roll up with checkpoints on the L1's.

DeFi is a bottom up step in that direction. To emulate the existing infrastructure, we need programmable money. It stumbled to begin with, but again the foundation has been laid. Cat is out of the bag, so to speak.
This is absurd. It is now a V team's job to continue with, not the other way around. In fact, this kind of outsider perspective is very valuable to growing language communities because it's plain impossible to attain by themselves. As long as the article is not written in a derogatory tone (and I believe not) the OP's job is done by now.
I tried this once in London and it wouldn't work.
Or, just turning on any bright lights will do wonders. Most people have very dim lighting.
This is wild. Bravo to the author! (For the tool, and also for really funny documentation and commit history)
Most actual versions of this kind of thing out in the wild have Roboto; what's your reasoning for wanting to exclude it? "Inferior"?
All you need for rolling deployments is >1 instance and load balancing. You can use DNS load balancing which isn't very nuanced, a local load balancer per machine (like nginx with 2 backend on the same machine) or more complex load balancing systems
Unless I am mistaken, workers can file a grievance with the US Dept of Labor or their state Attorney General office. Are you saying this is not true?
>But butterfly keyboard had been pretty much universally decried as a terrible mistake almost everywhere, including HN.

That was certainly not the case until the reliability problem got magnified in 2018. When the problem has been there since 2016. Before that Butterfly was somehow the holy grail for touch typist.
My point is that people come up with very powerful and complex routing systems using kube and conflate it with with "discovery". We did this at my work. Consul was the "only solution" that would "work" for us (pre kube). Consul is a type of discovery, but people also lop in service mesh features which are well beyond "what IP address do I need to send packets at".

4 years later consul is gone in aws for us replaced by this simple dns/alb scheme. We haven't really needed all the features of advanced discovery.

The key in general to "discovery" seems to be load balancers and dns in our approach (service protect thyself vs well behaved clients). Easy to use LBs on aws is very powerful feature. We don't have that on our on prem and it changes how we approach things. There discovery is harder.
Many commenters here seem to miss the humor and self-irony. I find the article well written and it has an unexpected turn.

And we all know that everything is true. The amount of programmers who write things from scratch is tiny, and ironically it is usually a thankless task.

Often, you get ahead by stealing or churning around other people's code and being a ruthless politician.
Previous threads, with lots of discussions:

- 317 points | Sept 18, 2018 | 96 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012334

- 934 points | Jan 1, 2020 | 498 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929709
I spent a lot of time on a project run by people like him. The leads kept trying to figure out why the coders were lazy idiots while they constantly reshuffled requirements, switched around the organizational structure, pulled them between projects, heaped on unclear requirements, yelled in sprint reviews, etc.
Twitter influence is now a not-insignificant leg up in faculty hiring and academic politics. It’s becoming really hard to take academic science seriously.
But what kind of policy does that opposition to large businesses translate to? How do you prevent them from actually arising?

Left answer to that is that large businesses are the result of unbounded concentration of capital. Left authoritarians (the ones I think you refer to as Marxists? even though not all of them are, and not all Marxists are authoritarian) want to limit it by state action. Left libertarians think that taking the government out of the picture and reworking property rights around some notion of usufruct is sufficient. But what's the right libertarian answer?
I think it's clear to people who specialize in that. I don't know why startups don't hire a DevOps/SRE/Syseng/Sysadmin/Architect contractor right off the bat. Hire a really experienced one for one month and they'll give you several different options, lay out the pros and cons, costs, staffing, time estimates. Take their suggestions and implement the one that fits your business plans.

For example, a single VM you ssh into works fine if you do daily VM snapshots and deploy from snapshot. If somebody breaks it, revert to last working snapshot. Blue/green in multiple environments work with it too. Super cheap, super simple, easy to recover, automated. Very boring.
>if we could use leptin to increase dieting efficacy

it's called a refeed and bodybuilders have been doing it for decades to drop fat while maintaining muscle mass, you don't need leptin injections

some recent studies have backed up the bro science as well

>The researchers reported that 19 participants in the continuous diet group completed the study and lost an average of 9.1 kg furthermore, 17 participants in the intermittent diet group completed the study and lost an average of 14.1 kg (4).Hence, the authors concluded that greater weight and fat loss was achieved in the intermittent diet group (4)
It blows people’s minds how much a few good practice suggestions change their image. I come from a film background and get requests for help by colleagues and friends constantly. I almost always just reposition their camera and move a lamp nearby to use as a key if they have no window, or as a kicker if they do.

It’s really easy to teach yourself this stuff, it’s not magic. Most people just assume their gear is either too cheap or they’re too ignorant to get it. 5-10min of research and 5-10min of implementation will do wonders for most people.
Looking at the in-app purchase on iOS in Europe, the price seems to be about EUR 5.50 which I find to be quite steep, for these kinds of features. I've been wanting to support TG's development for a while now, but I would have hoped that this would be more in the vicinity of 1-3 Euros per month.
Can we just admit jourald is a thorn in the side of people taking systems seriously. The default behaviour even on polished distros is just bad and it's mainly because of the mindsets behind it...
Also the vast majority of people using these web cams don't have nearly enough lighting. When there isn't enough, the software cranks up the ISO to ridiculous level which gives that distinctive "webcam grain" look thats awful.
You make a good point.

I suppose that’s one of the ways poor people stay poor - getting pigeonholed into making the best worst choice for many products drains what resources they have.
To your point, I've seen some modern webcams accentuate extremely minor facial blemishes to the point where observers actually notice it and call it out, concerned that the person is sick or has had some sort shaving incident. I would think compression would make that even worse.
> I can solve for x in x/a = b/c by cross multiplying so that xc = ab

Multiply both sides by a

xa/a = ba/c; a ≠ 0

Simplify

x = ba/c; a ≠ 0
Author seems to have struck a nerve with many such programmers in this comments section.
As a longtime, happy user of an iPhone 6S (on my third battery, second screen, and second charging port), I am curious as to why you consider the iPhone 7 to be obsolete for personal use. I know that later models have better screens, cameras, processors, etc., but I have a crisp Retina display and all functionality I use seems fine.
I’m quite certain there are groups in the world who would have paid far north of $20k for the ability to copy PS4/PS5 discs that don’t need a modification or jailbreak to play.

I’m not saying that’s what should have happened, but $20k for something this severe is practically asking for that to happen.
But he DOES race motorcycles. So there's that.
I jiggle code around until it works. But I am also very smart. If it doesn’t work by jiggling, I learn or invent a way to make it work.

I am a self-taught programmer. I copy, but I also innovate. I don’t follow at all the academic approach (I never studied CS or was very good in school). But I don’t paralyze when I can’t find anything to copy from like a Roomba stuck on a rug.

Do you have a term for me?
Ask HN: Other Uses for GitHub?
Apart from committing code, what other uses does GitHub serve?

I’ve seen a few other uses which are common:

- Filing issues. Found a bug? Great now submit an issue and hopefully it gets fixed soon.

- Jekyll blogs. GitHub is great for statically hosted blogs via their GitHub pages with Jekyll integration.

- Documentation. GitHub has a wiki feature that allows you to write docs for your project.

- Hosting static sites with GitHub Pages.

Apart from these what other applications does GitHub have?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does "cloud first" mean in the context of an operating system, does it mean that you need to always be connected to the internet to use it, like can you use the computer offline?
Hell with zoom you don’t need OBS. Get a cheap $20 capture card and an HDMI cable, you’re all set.
Was there any evidence at that time to support the conspiracy theory?
"Sure but". Look at the last 100 years of the value of gold. The value has gone all over the place, with many crashes. It isn't as stable as you think.

All it takes is one single "discovery" of a massive cache of gold. That cache is then controlled by the government who's land it is found on. It is one of the most heavily manipulated forms of 'money' on the planet.

It might be good enough for you, but as the person who started this thread, I'm clearly in the camp of less government control over my funds... No, thanks.
You should also probably add either nullglob or failglob depending on your use case.

I would also add dotglob because it’s rarer for me to want only non-hidden files than it is for me to want all files.
Curvature of your fingers makes you think you’re touching screen higher up
Why would anything but a human need democracy?
On linux you can use v4l2-ctl to fine tune the webcam settings (focus, gain, white balance, etc).

The C920 has really poor firmware, none of the auto settings work well. Auto focus is particularly bad.

I wrote a quick script which hard locks all of the settings of my C920 to the optimal values for my office conditions.

The low light performance of the C920 hardware is quite bad, but if you have adequate lighting and manually configure the setting you can get a pretty good setup.
This is only true if you're a beta bucks provider doing CRUD to support a family. There are plenty of real programmers out there working on their own projects and the hard part in these WORTHWHILE projects is certainly the programming :)
I am in the opposite camp. I want to work for the author of the article because he gets it and he has humility, a trait that top level commenter (who informs us unironically in his profile that he likes grapes and other plants) needs some work on.
Is is just me, or is this article missing links that it should have?

> Exactly 5 million on exactly that day? Probably not. But if not exactly, then just how large is the uncertainty? Here’s an example for how to do it right, from the economist, with a central estimate and an upper and lower estimate.

Where is the economist example? It's not linked or quoted or anything.

> Here’s an example for how not to do it from the Guardian. This work is published in the journal Physical Review Letters. This isn’t helpful. Here’s the same paper covered by the BBC. This one has a link. That’s how you do it.

The BBC Example isn't even linked (which I find hilarious bc the sentence is describing the BBC not linking the paper). I don't know what BBC example the author is discussing.

> An example is this story from 2019 about a paper which proposed to use certain types of rocks as natural particle detectors to search for dark matter.

What story? It's not linked....

Reading back to the top this appears to be a transcript, however it doesn't make much sense that only some of these parts are linked and as a result the transcript (for whatever reason) randomly includes links.
Given the amount of modern day graffiti carved into benches and tables in parks and scratched onto bus windows, probably not that angry?
Adding a Feature to the MEGA65
Ehhh it’s not quite that simple. Optics and sensors have requirements that screen builds clash with. You’d need to make them thicker, for starters.
I think he means in order to fit a camera you need to increase the thickness of the laptops lid. Whether or not this leads to double the weight , idk but there is definitely a weight increase to fit the camera.
Basically, there was money to be made building it. And now there’s money to be made tearing it down.
> But that's different from "I can think of a way the world is bad according to my politics, that must be it."

It's not productive to dismiss someone's argument based on their politics, unless I guess you think I'm an extremist (I'm not). Politics is a core part of how we understand our world, our societies, our institutions, and our cultures. I'm open to having my politics changed and I love to discuss them, but I won't be dismissed because I believe climate change is a huge threat, or for my other economic political views.

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Continuing in good faith, raw kilowatt hours diminish what a potential pollution cost externality regime might do, and I wouldn't say that a system based on them succeeds in factoring in pollution externalities.

CO2 is more brass tacks. The global CO2 budget is ~40 gigatons of CO2 a year [0]. There's ~8 billion people around, making the per-capita carbon budget 5 tons of carbon/year. You could tax this in different ways:

- Software producers have their software measured for energy use, paying a tax per N users per Wh

- Individuals are allotted 5 tons of carbon/year for free; can pay $2/lb from 5-6 tons, $4/lb from 6-7 tons, etc.

- Industrial sector participants are allotted 50 tons of carbon/year for free, etc. etc.

[0]: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/1917/2022/
I think the biggest factor is animations. Switching from an old Android phone (with animations turned off) to a brand new iOS (at least at the time) felt like a downgrade at first, because every interaction with the UI was so much slower than I was used to. Clicking a button didn't actually make the thing I wanted to appear immediately, but instead it faded in over 200ms or something, making the phone that had 10x better specs feel much slower.
I recently listened (cheating I know ;) to "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567610.How_to_Read_a_Boo...
It is an old book, 1940/1972 but still relevant.

Their philosophy is basically to focus on quality rather than quantity. Find the books worth reading and read them at "normal" speed.

“Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not really worth reading. A better formula is this: Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.”

― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
A “lost,” “too-scary” episode of Sesame Street has been uploaded