skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has an ongoing bad policy of harassing users with products and services they don't want.

There was the time that they killed the perfectly good OneNote by shoving three icons for OneNote onto the task bar.

There was the time that they killed OneDrive by (1) making it the default place to save files with Microsoft Office and (2) making it impossible to save your work if OneDrive wasn't working (which was most of the time!)

I am thinking seriously about decommissioning my XBOX ONE for a number of reasons, including: (1) I don't have that many games I really want to play on XBOX, (2) Media functionality is almost right but not quite, (3) I am sick and tired of having GAME PASS shoved down my throat. If I can get my SteamOS building working well I'll give up on the XBOX ONE.

That said I am in no hurry to delete my GitHub account the way I deleted my SpammedIn account.
There's a half a year between government policy and reality on the ground. It's a big ship to steer. If it kills one in a thousand would anyone even publicly acknowledge it. At best we might go from "safe and effective" to "no one forced you to take it".
I am! That's billions of a metric that people would agree is "a lot" :).

Billions of searches per year is just a weird metric that obscures what you'd actually want to know.
OctoML CLI: A New DevOps Focused ML Deployment Tool
well they wouldn't want people to stop smoking now would they
I’ve been really happy with Brave search for the ~2 months I’ve been using it
"Meta’s move is the first time that a fully trained large language model will be made available to any researcher who wants to study it." - Is that true? Isn't GPT-2 open source? I mean, I am totally onboard with releasing models like this as open source but Meta isn't the first one to do it...
Status pages are lying to you
If Mozilla and the various other non-megacorp browsers (Vivaldi, Brave, Opera) banded together and built a governance structure for Chromium, similar to the Linux Foundation, they could try to stop this fate. But they aren't, and they won't, due to hubris, pride, and jealousy.
I'm a little surprised to see Twitter in the list of companies rescinding job offers. I know they're possibly being acquired, but I can't imagine that anything's impacted revenue so much that would impact hiring decisions so radically as crypto's crash affected Coinbase.

Redfin makes a little more sense as the real estate market cools down.
That seems like a compelling reason for China to become a deep-water power (if it is not already): protect its oil-shipping interests.
This might be a dumb question, but what it the purpose of a cigarette that doesn't contain nicotine? I thought that cigarettes were primarily a nicotine-delivery platform.
but the title of the book has "the"
They'll learn.

Apple needs to do better though, as always.
"TypeScript 4.8 Beta", not 2.8.
20 year payback horizon for us in MD, USA. And that's still would only covering 20-40% of our annual electric usage. We have a fully electric house.

It doesn't take more than a couple trees in the wrong place to make you a lousy candidate for solar.
> 81% said improving their own equilibrium is more important than advancing their career right now.

Are these the same 81% of executives driving return to office?
I'd suggest an isolated LAN (network switch and all) for the interior stuff, with your system hooked to that LAN as well as your normal, internet connected one.

The isolated network should have its own root DNS server that returns "no" for all queries outside that LAN: that'll save a lot of time and misery with DNS timeouts.
Synology has a full Google Drive replacement with apps built-in.

I think the fact that I'm The first person to mention it here, and the fact you didn't find it yourself, is revealing about the true level of demand for such a product.
> but a modern main stream language that can avoid code generation and Visitor Pattern.

Yeah, a language with nice algebraic datatypes and pattern matching does eliminate the need for Visitor patterns.

But the reality is that many programmers are working in object-oriented languages where the Visitor pattern is useful, so I deliberately picked Java in order to teach that approach. The book tries to meet you where you are and not where you might wish you were.
Who says it's boring? I find jigsaw puzzles - especially doing the same one over and over -- to be intolerably boring, personally. But some people absolutely love them. Same with puzzles of all kinds. Writing the same story over and over with slightly different characters/settings/twists is kind of like a puzzle. I can pretty easily imagine the kind of person who would enjoy that, as a sort of largely-mindless recreational process. Lucky to get paid for it, though!
Only takes you 8 days to read it, funny right? ;)
Don’t celebrate it yet, threads have very high click through rate, I really doubt that these are going to replace threads because they won’t dare to touch “the algorithm” after they see the decrease in interactions
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/china-oil/#oil-reserves
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/us-oil/#oil-reserves

Looks like the US and China import about the same quantity of oil. That doesn't contradict what you said, but I think it does diminish its significance.
> … the blending of religions.

And when they conflict?

We can blend oil and vinegar but they'll settle out into oil and vinegar.
The same results but private is a superior outcome.

Heck, just being not-Google is a bonus for many people.
> Local branch names for short-lived branches are a crutch

Hm. We must use git completely differently then. I can't really imagine what what I'd do without them.

> there's nothing they convey that commit messages don't express better.

Presumably you'd still want to maintain a list of HEADs, so you just want to alway refer to them by hash instead of a branch name? That's fine I guess -- not sure what it buys you.

> What happens if you amend a commit after checking it out?

Then it becomes a new commit? Not sure what you're getting at.
I'd expect that Google would be more likely to sell your data on your chronic condition and make you unemployable and uninsurable. They are highly unlikely to worry about protecting individuals.
This is the same profession that literally pays the Nobel Prize organization to give them a special medal every year.

If you want to understand the condition of economics as a study, simply search for 'is Economics a Science?'. Economics will do anything that will give them legitimacy that their research can not provide.
In this case, I hear it as "lihb-ray-office" from random users.
> You definitely, 100% can make a backup of your iCloud Keychain and save it offline. https://support.1password.com/import-safari/

Can you use it with webauthn after that?

> I'm sure the user who remembers to back up their password manager will also remember their Apple (or whatever) password. Parent was talking about failure cases of forgetting your "master password" - that's problematic regardless of the tech.

Apple password is not enough to recover access. Apple usually uses 2-factor auth.
I also use both, and I find myself diving the spam folder of my personal account more often, although this is likely because my work account receives much less spam than my personal account because I've shared it sparingly.
Any long run like this would use optoisolaters.
See also: FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31835843

Submitted by kgwgk | 3 hours ago | 141 points | 241 comments
I'd be very surprised if profile pictures didn't have a large impact. Anything you can do to make one end of a conversation seem more human would (I suspect) have large implications in how the other end engages/reacts.

Without human identifiers it's much easier to address an opinion without consideration for the human who is expressing that opinion. I believe many people might take for granted just how much non-verbal signals play a part in effective communication. A smiling picture signals to me, before reading any of the users text, that they are generally a person with a pleasant disposition. There are likely strong non-verbal cues than a profile picture, but they seem likely to play a part and when that part is going from virtually zero non-verbal signals to one, I imagine the impact is noticeable.
In my experience, most people on twitter won't click to read long form content if it opens in a separate view. They won't read past few tweets either. I believe most twitter users don't want to read beyond 280 characters. A thread provides them an opportunity to comment on any 280 characters section they have actually read.

They should have provided similar interface to typefully to write long form tweet and a button to view all tweets as an article like threader app while keeping the same UX/UI with little changes.
I know you’re being facetious but: the lesson is rather that mocking generic third-party APIs is so easy, that you can end up in mocking hell real fast. And that you should take the harder route for your future sanity.
Sure they are. I pay about $6 in California taxes on each pack of Juul pods I buy. Other states have different rates.
> Unsurprising, really. The usefulness of it cannot be overstated.

meh, I can count on my hand the times it was useful to me.

oh, and having to deal with docker desktop is not fun
It’s good to have options, indeed.
It's turned into a gut reaction that "smoking" of all sorts is bad, no matter the logic behind it.
I've experienced pains using mobile apps to configuring 2.4ghz IOT devices on dual band home networks.

This is more of a shitty router problem, but if everything is dual band this problem will go away.
Smoking prevention has been going well for decades. This graph[1] shows a consistent year-over-year decline in adult per capita cigarette consumption since about 1970, bringing it to around a quarter of its peak level in the 1960s. I had more trouble finding good graphs for teenagers, but it looks like teen smoking had a resurgence in the 1990s and has been in decline since then, with a sharp rise in vaping in recent years. (See Figure 2 here[2].)

Before e-cigarettes came along, it sure looked like the United States was well on its way to eliminating tobacco smoking altogether.

[1] https://kottke.org/14/07/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-smoki...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/su/su6901a7.htm
We are removing the option to create new subscriptions (mullvad.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810104

Submitted by mritzmann | 2 days ago | 1439 points | 434 comments
The takeover of government functions by multinational corporations is a cyberpunk trope. See any of William Gibson's fiction from the early 80s.
Absolutely. Two of the big reasons are improved understanding and problem solving skills on my part and improvements in the tech stack I use day to day making things more clear and covering more use cases cleanly.

The third is that I’ve come to recognize that the average quality of answers on SO is quite poor — while they technically serve as solutions to posted problems, they often come with big caveats… use of private/deprecated APIs, hackiness, and feature misuse abound.

As such when I use SO these days it’s usually not for wholesale solutions to problems but rather to add to a greater body of examples of APIs in action which I can then abstract and use as needed. It’s decent for this use case.
> it makes a whole class of problems much easier.

The other big realisation is just how freaking enormous that class of problems is.
I think we might be hitting a point where technology improvements can no longer outrun inflation.
I think it seems like yet another environmentalist that’s realized they were wrong on nukes and is now overcorrecting.

This is a “yes, and”, not an “or”. Yes we should build nukes and we should continue the massive ongoing deployment of renewables.

Recall the IEA estimates at current rates of consumption, we will be out of nuclear fuel in 200 years. Replacing fossil plants with nukes would mean accelerating that consumption rate such that we will be out of fuel in 25 years or so. Yes, there are non-commercial and experimental systems to run on other fuels and extract uranium from other places, but we should not bet the planet on them panning out. We should invest in all available options.
Only about 500 people filled in APL, whereas about 22k people filled in Java. For a lot of people APL isn't really on the radar.
there is an entire multiverse fan fic where Al Gore won the presidential election and we're all living in a post-scarcity society.
Or simpler yet: container gardening with pots and big totes
Or when they suspend you for no reason...
Counterpoint look at the bios lawsuits that IBM won against people who had just seen IBM's code

Or the windows xp leak and how that is a mess for wine/proton/reactos devs

There is no concept of fair use in code copyright

Copilot is 100% a ask for forgiveness later sort of project
That's a loaded question, don't you think? What I meant was that there are several respected economics scholars who have endorsed "hard money" and/or competition among currencies. Regarding "shilling", Milton Friedman didn't quite do that but he largely predicted a system like Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqjwiQidlk
Haha, yup, I've heard that was the case (but didn't double check) so i just used it as an example.
> I wouldn't be suprised if there are windows users who are still downloading OpenOffice

I wouldn't be surprised if as many or more Windows users were downloading it than downloading Libreoffice. The problem is that the name isn't punchy and is unpronounceable in English. Plenty of people who are completely knowledgeable about the situation still refer to Libreoffice as Openoffice.

It's intentional sabotage, more than probably covertly initiated and maintained by Microsoft, and destroyed the entire Apache Foundation for me. I avoid all of their projects, because if that project has a commercial competitor with deep pockets, I can't trust it not to be intentionally bad or broken.
My friend makes about $300k a year on a fitness app. I can tell you it's not a get rich quick scheme. It has taken him years to build up and he was a talented programmer who probably could have made that same money at FAANG.
There's ASM and C answers, without going near BigNum libraries. You wouldn't necessarily have to implement or use a BigNum library.
For me personally? 0%. I just do simple copy/paste, scatter plot, sort asc/desc... not a heavy user of hotkeys. I had some trouble finding the Chart button at first since the icon's different, but that was the only issue.
I wouldn't but there are people who will
Mullvad audit found no information leakage or logging of customer data
like mercurial?
They're not version numbers, they're model numbers. And the C5 seems to have fewer features/peripherals than the C6.
https://search.brave.com/goggles?q=elon+musk&goggles_id=http...
Adding on — if you are building an audience you should be investing in platform diversification and alternative ways to reach otherwise you are a ranking or feature whim change away losing access.
This is neat. I've used Cloudflare's Zero-Trust SSH, but I've been frustrated that it interacts poorly with sftp and scp because of the client-side changes that they make to ~/.ssh/config

Does tailscale have the same issue?
I found Lunar through your blogs and love both!
Except, many poor people use smoking as a treatment for mental health issues. It's a bit of a "poor mans prozac".. (Which isn't entirely true, because at the current cost, I think it cost more than actual prozac).
This looks cool! I've been bullish on Latin America since remote became more popular. It's natural that people in the US would want to hire someone in more similar timezone and culture than people on the other side of the world.

There are great people everywhere, but in my view, it's been much harder to source good people from Latam than it is from Eastern Europe or South Asia.
Yup. When I hear OpenOffice I think of something professional. When I hear "libreOffice" I think of the Adwattia icon set and gnome crashing because of some broken default.
They should definitely be using the full width of screen for longer form "notes." I personally would also prefer a modal as opposed to a completely different page.
100% agreed. The "What is up everybody..." and "...and I'll see you...in the next course" bookends get so tiresome
Same thing for some of the other links, which they do twitter.com/i/bookmarks for example, instead of twitter.com/bookmarks.

I know this because at one point it was broken in the UI and one of the side links went to a profile instead.
The current state of Frances nuclear fleet would disagree with your position.
He's writing even faster now than when Worm was written and the content is much more complex, characterizations are richer, the world is even deeper, etc.
This looks really useful; sort of a roll-your-own-Bootstrap tool. I had my own version of this, but I’m looking forward to experimenting with it.
If this ends the thread unrolling apps and posts that are clickbait headlines for 1/x to continue it’ll be good as a user but probably bad for Twitter’s engagement volume.
Every walled garden needs to plant their own flowers. It's an unfortunate side effect of profit motive and keeping people on the platform rather than integrations and openness.
We don't modify or require changes to your SSH client. You can use any SSH client you want.
I used to be a big fan of desktop Microsoft office, primarily because of stability, reliability, and ux innovation.

They've clearly stopped investing in quality, every time I go back it is buggier and less reliable than before.

I don't use Visio, but even Word is becoming a nightmare.
I spend 95% of my day reading existing code not writing it, I have no idea what these developers writing code all day work on
> I think that part of the reason why that approach is taken by the DEA is to avoid creating opportunity for legal challenges that might undermine the existing precedents that give them power to regulate even intrastate commerce.

Is definitely correct.

> When states legalize a drug, they actually remove the laws prohibiting the drug. When most states legalize marijuana, they also create regulatory regimes to dictate how when the drug can be created, sold and used.

This does not mean that it has been made legal in the state- the state does not have the authority to make it legal, as that power is reserved by the federal government.

I will concede that "decriminalize" may not be the best word to use, but "legalize" implies that it is legal under state law, which it cannot be.

In truth, I'm suspect of the legality of states imposing criminal punishment on drug use as well. States which have passed laws on immigration mirroring the federal government's laws (in an effort to step up what they viewed as lax enforcement) were taken to court and shot down under the Supremacy Clause: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-182 and similar cases. I think the same logic would apply to drug laws, if any politician were foolhardy enough to challenge the states on it (as it would be far less popular to do so).
Hydroelectric is the worst for catastrophic failure. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Nuclear reactors are extremely safe by comparison.
This is just as wrong as the "war on some drugs."

What I (or anyone else) do with my body is my business, unless it negatively impacts others (e.g., driving while impaired, infecting others with disease, etc.).

To those who would argue that this is a net good, consider that cigarettes (and vapes) are nicotine delivery systems.

As such, reducing the nicotine in cigarettes would likely lead to more smoking as smokers need more cigarettes to obtain the same amount of nicotine.

That would increase secondhand smoke exposure and, arguably, result in more exposure to harmful combustion products by those who aren't smoking.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
The discussion is about governments losing that monopoly.

It is true that one plausible mechanism of that transition is outsourcing. Let a mercenary outfit become too competent and your vendor can become your rival.
Tailscale is my absolute dream networking solution, I would go as far as to say it will ultimately change how we develop applications in the future
They picked that name for a reason.
Maybe something similar to alcohol free alcohol?
Which part of antitrust law allows that insanity?
Can you expand on the “stackexchange spam” point?
Economics is a soft science built on top of sociology which is built on top of psychology which is built on top of physiology.

If you understand human behavior at a macro level you can unlock economics in my opinion.
This is not a "study". There's nothing observational or even experimental in this paper to demonstrate a measurable effect (much less calculate the effect size) in people.

This is literally just looking at pathways and saying "yeah that seems possible".
It's not fake.

It's just an alternative that doesn't involve killing animals. For example, beyond burgers or impossible burgers, helps meat eaters who want to reduce their environmental footprint, transition to a more plant-based diet.

Or say you want to have spaghetti bolognese - instead of using minced animal meat you use an plant-based alternative which is better. And most people don't notice a difference these days.

Or say chicken nuggets - the plant based alternative - pretty amazing and in blind tests most people couldn't tell.

Food science is pretty amazing these days.

So what's wrong with that?

I personally don't need those products, as I don't have a craving for meat or dairy. But I have them some times.

But others do crave it, but they don't want to support factory farms - so these plant-based alternative products help.

And what is vegan propaganda?

All veganism does is promote a life style that's free from cruelty as much as possible.

What is wrong with reducing cruelty and environmental destruction?
> Regarding ios vs android, it's easier to make revenue on iOS for sure, but again, if your app is high-quality and useful i'm not sure it makes a big difference.

Why is it a "vs"? Why not just both? I thought so many tech stacks nowadays are more or less cross platform and make it relatively easy to ship to both or am I being naive?
Is taxing sugar rich foods a good idea? Because I lived around Chicago when it happened. Didn't work so well, and ended up as basically a "poor people regressive tax".
Tailscale employee here. Tailscale SSH works at the target side by listening on the SSH port on that machine. Client changes aren't needed for this to work, all that is required is to use your SSH client as normal. This should allow you to use sftp and scp without issues.
Impact of reading about climate science goes away almost instantly
I don't know, in times when account suspensions and/or removals for political reasons seem progressively more frequent (and arbitrary), it doesn't seem like a great idea to entrust the longer writings to them as well... It seems wiser to maintain separate blogs.
Feudalism, here we go
Having given the matter more thought, I do believe I spoke out of turn.
I'd argue that profile pictures might even make things worse because people get tempted to use pictures of themselves which drags difficult (and completely irrelevant) ideas like race and sexuality into the situation.

EDIT (out of quota):It's not that your profile picture would be actively used against you, but it's going to create a subconscious effect. Also they take up a ton of space in a text only chat. I stand by the idea that profile pictures are just stupid.
Wonder how much it was insured for, and how recently the owners up that amount.