skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has also decreased the quality of content online in general since everything appears to be optimized for idiots with a 5-second attention span.

Whether it’s TikTok videos with that awful TTS voiceover reading the caption (I can read it myself, thanks) or YouTube videos that now always start with a ~5 seconds extract which spoils the entire video, or gaming videos with insufferable personalities. Oh and don’t forget to subscribe and hit the notification bell!
Stupid hidden camera videos have been viral on YouTube for more than a decade, and YouTube pays out (a lot?) more for views. If no lawyer has milked this angle yet, I highly doubt it’s profitable.
Yours is "Twitter's Down" while this is a link to an article; not that yours necessarily should have been flagged (although that's a community decision so apparently several people thought it should have been) but they're not the same post.
> The bubble mostly affects new home buyers, which are the ones who need the least protection.

So now you (or more generally the government) get to decide who is more deserving of appropriately priced housing? Why do new home buyers need less protection?

> Rent is inflation-adjusted and can't be raised at will, so there is a very long delay between market prices increasing and most tenants actually bearing the cost.

This is precisely the problem with this policy. When price doesn’t feed through to the market, the market can’t adjust. People simultaneously argue that the free market doesn’t work while endorsing policies that prevent the market from working.

> it seems to demonstrate that the simple supply-demand model does not reflect reality

The population dropped from its peak by 1.2mm people. Prices subsequently fell so much that it was possible to buy houses for $500. That’s exactly what the supply/demand model would predict.
I think there are plenty, but this is just not a productive environment to discuss anything crypto related.
Oh, this is just the beginning. Ten years of “oh, just buy index funds” strategy will unwind with a huge snap.
I can reach it just fine.
Go on and copy twelve pages of a book right now. Tell me at the end that it's not painful.
With us, they would have the candidates purchase their own hardware from a custom store and then “reimburse” them.
Yup darknet markets were how crypto got started and we have yet to find a better use case
I've been a gearhead practically my whole life, so I totally understand. Personally I think ICE cars will soon be thought about much the way we think of steam locomotives. They're pretty cool, some people will always love them, tinker with them (or models), there will be shows, etc. But compared to modern transportation they are loud, slow, stinky polluting machines that no one in their right mind would ever use for daily transportation. ICE had a good run (ignoring the whole climate change thing), but times change! See also: carburetors, manual choke, drum brakes, leaf springs, etc. ;-)
May as well find a use for them
Because low income anywhere (rental area or even just low income suburban areas) typically has a population that is less able to invest into their area (in time or money), and historically has shown that they seek an extractive relationship with their environment rather than invest in it.
Years ago I was walking with my wife and parents along a path/boardwalk across a marsh to the beach on Cape Cod, MA. At the top of the platform where the wooden stairs went up the dune and onto the beach there were three people standing, one holding a sun shade. We just walked past them, but my Mom chatted them up briefly. Apparently they were doing a photo shoot for a J. Crew catalog, but I never would have guessed that since they just worked around us.
What is your opinion on Mr Beast? I just watched a video of his for the first time and he gave away over $500,000.
Public spaces like malls require a permit/location release for a commercial shoot on the property, and social media is increasingly commercial. I would be surprised if there were no lawsuits to this effect yet.
Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings
Hey HN!

Alexis here, I’m a product manager and software developer in Berlin by way of New York.

I want to show you this app I made – It’s like a "buddy" for those, like myself, who inadvertedly talk too much in meetings.

The app gives me feedback and a little more in control of what I have influence over by:

* Keeping track of how long I’ve been speaking

* Catching myself before I talk too much

* Developing a better sense of timing

I truly love having conversations with people in real-life.

But online meetings, especially group calls, tend to make me nervous. I can't read body language. The tone of voice, micro-experessions and social cues get lost.

If you, too, accidentally talk too much too often, check it out "Unblah". Watch the quick 2-minute demo and download the macOS app over at https://unblah.me/.

Cheers!

Alexis

PS: There’s a whole FAQ section for common questions you may have – Including if this is yet another "native" Electron app ;)

edit: bullet-list formatting
Cloudflare has started kicking people who forge or don't send their referrers. I'm pretty sure they'll ban you (based on customer configuration) if your user-agent doesn't match their fingerprinting/probing.
Obviously the most exploitative thing is doing it for the clicks, but none of this has ever felt "sweet" or "positive" or whatever other guise they're presented as.

I wonder who finds this type of content genuinely appealing?
The consent issue is even worse with live streaming available on many platforms. It is impossible for people captured in live streams to provide consent until after the content has been broadcast. You can make the argument for fair use in public spaces but once the "host" starts to interact with people, they are forcing people to be participants in their video without consent.
User agent discrimination will never make sense to me. It's such a trivial thing to work around too. Are there legitimate use cases for describing yourself to the web, or could we all just hard-code the bullshit magic string chrome uses and be done with it?

Ad tech is the only reason I believe this garbage continues. Maybe we can hope and pray for some kind of regulatory relief on the horizon. Alternatively, we can start building services the way we know they need to be built, and quit our jobs when our dickhead MBA bosses order us to do inhumane things with the products.

If someone in my organization ordered me to do UA/browser filtering for our web application, I would likely quit out of protest. The primary reason no one asks for ridiculous things like this in my organization is because they are convinced that I actually will. I have made it abundantly clear to the business that certain areas of technology are no-go. Being assertive about this trash fast & early can keep it from becoming a thing in the first place. Clearly, not an option for every career & job, but developers are in such huge demand that they have a non-zero amount of control over this destiny now.
He should've used the Tell HN: tag since he didn't link to an outside article.
It's funny that I have never seen a negative review of that video on the internet until the woman spoke up, shows you how fake most people are.
Can someone explain what

#if static_cast<bool>(-1)

is about?

My thoughts were "that's just #if true, no?", then "wait, static_cast is not part of the preprocessor, that can't work" to "wtf, it actually compiles"...

Edit: As people point out, you can click on it to get context. And yeah, that one is an oof.
Social Media has largely exposed the levels of narcissism embedded in a large number of human's psychological makeup , Selfies, clout chasing and virtue signalling are ever increasing forms of narcissism that really has destroyed the internet IMO
When you require point and range queries. For example, given a cart-id, fetch the skus; given a authz-token, fetch scopes; given a user-id and a time-range, fetch a list of pending order-ids.

There's a lot more you could do though, DynamoDB, is after all, a wide-column KV store. Ref this re:invent talk from 2018: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HaEPXoXVf2k

Apart from being fully-managed, the key selling points of DynamoDB are its consistent performance for a given query type, read-your-writes consistency semantics, auto-replication, auto-disaster recovery.

See also: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AggregateOrientedDatabase.htm... (mirror: https://archive.is/lc2eO)
Does your company have a website? You didn't divulge it in your linked post.
You should probably get https://github.com/bictorv/chaosnet-bridge up and running. http://chaosnet.net/ has some instructions. I did this the other day, so I can confirm it's doable.
I realize that this is a minor nitpick and I'm taking it out of context, but:

> The theory goes that ideas are cheap, and execution is everything.

This isn't wrong. In fact, it seems more right than wrong. All people, all the time, think they have ideas, some even novel. Not many can carry them out in practice.

I do agree with the article that the culture of celebrating mindless productivity is mistaken.
Porkbun
No, I surely did not.
The corresponding Qur'an verse (because they're all faces of the same coin):

"To give charity publicly is good, but to give to the poor privately is better for you, and will absolve you of your sins. And Allah is All-Aware of what you do." Al-Baqarah 272
Oldest Programmer
Seems a job for libcaca.

In any case at $JOB we do not use Team for videochat (we use the even worse Webex for that) so for us Team is indeed a glorified IRC.
Here's one of many examples, just from a small county in Florida, relating to the "Sex Money Murder" gang:

https://www.fox13news.com/news/41-arrested-in-racketeering-i...

"We did a gang wiretap... where we listened to social media apps... where we listened to cell phones and their communications... In total, 41 suspects are facing charges..."

That's what I'm talking about. Suspects being monitored. Even if there's not a court warrant for such individuals, I'd be happy with the LEO using any means to catch criminals involved in sex trafficking, murder, etc.
You think viral exploitative TikTok videos that cater to the lowest intellect are the worst thing in media right now? You'd be wrong. Writing articles about those videos is outright the lowest rung on that ladder of shit.

Another low for the guardian, once a newspaper, now a propaganda/outrage rag of no news value whatsoever. Don't fall for the clickbait, and do yourself a favor: don't click on guardian links. It's all garbage.
So I don't think this particular suggestion applies to you, but because it is one of the common endgames for collecting, I'll share it.

Many collectors end up shopkeeps as a retirement hobby.

There's a million caveats here -- you need to live somewhere that has enough people to visit your shop, you need to be financially secure enough to sink some money into renting a storefront, you need to be able to spend time in your shop on a regular basis, and you shouldn't expect your shop to actually make money.

But if you like collecting more than having a shop gives you a space and an excuse to putter around with your collection, repairing, maintaining, and displaying it while selling and occasionally buying new pieces. There are any number of antique shops or used bookstores that started from someone who retired with a large collection.
Reminds me of when I was a child and my very religious Aunt and Uncles would slip me a 5 pound note without saying anything and without it being obvious to my parents :)
Engineers teach a robot to imagine itself, become self-aware
limiting peoples ability to trade isn't justice anymore than limiting their ability to speak. Sure you could conveniently stop many crimes if you could just monitor and censor everyone's ability to speak - but I think the consequences are quite obvious.

There isn't a crime in the world that can't be stopped in more appropriate ways than giving an authority presence the ability to stop me or anyone else from spending resources that they own. Nowhere on the list of top crimes against humanity have there been situations where it would've been better if centralized powers had more authority.
It depends on the context and use of the video, and I really blame social media for driving this constant pressure to be relevant and generate content people will interact with.

Granted this isn't a random act, but at a family birthday gathering sometimes it can be fun to take a photo or video of a loved one opening a present and capturing their genuine surprise as a memory. But I've never uploaded them to the Internet, because it wasn't about likes or shares. And I don't feel that capturing the moment ruined any of the meaning behind it.
Another commenter in this thread mentioned the median is $4000 as of a few months ago.
Threads as rooms?
People can't look beyond the specific use case they envision. For example, probably half the pages linked on HN are just godawful to use on a mobile browser in landscape mode.
Because when you can hear that people are clearly in, and you know yourv video feed is available to them, and no one answers the door after waiting and ringing twice, it's a reasonable conclusion. Especially when this seems to be a feature of those with Ring doorbells.
>I wonder who finds this type of content genuinely appealing?

The only people I've ever heard say anything about this kind of content are radio DJs who are talking about the wholesome stuff they've posted to their employer's twitter and why you should definitely follow them.
I don't think there's much case for a lawsuit. The mall has a right to kick you out for doing so but once it's done there's not much legal recourse in the U.S.
*group chat software
Try the FS blog, they have plenty.
I always tell people there are two clear areas where DynamoDB has some major benefits:

- Very high scale applications that can be tough for an RDBMS to handle

- Serverless applications (e.g. w/ AWS Lambda) due to how the connection model (and other factors) work better with that model.

Then, for about 80% of OLTP applications, you can choose either DynamoDB or RDBMS, and it really comes down to which tradeoffs you prefer.

DynamoDB will give you consistent, predictable performance basically forever, and there's not the long-term maintenance drag of tuning your database as your usage grows. The downside, as others have mentioned, is more planning upfront and some loss of flexibility.
https://news.gandi.net/en/2022/03/for-all-the-people-and-one...

> Cutting off Russians and Belarusians would only encourage the creation of different closed worlds and digital networks. We have chosen to hold out our hand to these people. We are not at war with them. Only their leaders, and their madness, need to be stopped. We will of course react quickly against war propaganda of any kind.

Few points that made me choose them (though I would probably take Cloudflare if they supported the TLD of my domains):

https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit

https://www.gandi.net/en/gandi-supports
You’ve got me there. I’m never really strictly doing aerobic exercise.
There is a difference between the social.media selfie photographers and those people trying to take nice pictures of beautiful places. A big camera usually points at tue latter, phones and lighting and whatnot at the former.
Bring back the fail whale!
Seeing a cat pass on a video feed is unlikely to tell you where your cat is.
You assume that she would request the video taken down. But she might have realized that from her perspective, the damage is already done and she would gain nothing from the video being taken down. And would very much prefer him to get his share of unwanted attention as well (e.g. making it all the way to the hn frontpage)
Boson: A hobby interpreted programming language written in Rust
I actually feel really prepared for this one. 2007 made me nervous, but not this one. I feel secure in my employment and I finally have a real emergency fund even if I lose my job. I'm not optimistic about long term though. The infinite growth delusion seems like it will break in my lifetime, retirement is scary
Not OP, but I just downloaded one such WordPress business card website with wget and put it into S3/CloudFront.
I live in Canada and recently invested a small amount in a startup via AngelList RUV. There were two funding options: (1) wire transfer, (2) transfer USDC via Ethereum network. One of these options is cheaper, faster, and more flexible than the other.

Crypto has long been criticized for being gambling and lacking utility. I think utility is finally trickling in, although currently in limited settings. If you look at _all_ of crypto from afar, there is a lot of noise and bullshit. If you zoom into the right applications, there are use cases that are gaining product market fit.
If you aren't willing to tell me up front how much you're prepared to pay, then I can't be bothered to apply.

This is especially the case for tech recruiters: tell me who you represent and how much they're prepared to pay, or I will mock you.
Oh man. Canada is doing something smart in a very welcome change
> Live life well

Nobody with sleep deprivation is doing this.
There might be a case for calling this kind of video "commercial use" to help someone profit off of views. In many places that requires a signed release from the subject of the video.

Security footage isn't generally used to advertise a product or person.
The flip side here is agreement on both sides, for me that is the moral question. Not that it was filmed, but that all parties should agreed to the filming.

Prearranging to film giving you a million dollars, is very different from just showing up an putting camera's in your face with out your foreknowledge or consent
incorrect, those imports paid in fiat are traceable - that's how we enforce sanctions today - we fine companies like banks for violating sanctions all the time - you know how they're caught? Financial audits, every time.

Companies use proxy countries to bypass sanctions all the time. You know how they're caught? Financial audits.

> change the fact that circumventing agricultural import laws is a massive crime

I'm not sure how people so easily forget that it was a massive crime to protect jews from being murdered. That same thing still happens today with various minority groups around the world.

If you pay attention to non-developed world problems, you become painfully aware that bypassing laws that are a "massive crime" is extremely important for solving some of the worst problems in humanity today.
It's really a shame people turned virtue signaling into a dirty world that can't be used in civil discussion. It is a great descriptor for all sorts of human behavior in all sorts of contexts.

Edit: y'all are kind of proving my first point.
There are some wonderful stories with the EPR, like falsification of material analysis records [0].

[0] https://www.french-nuclear-safety.fr/asn-informs/news-releas...
On the other hand, being caring is a great advantage. So maybe rather than looking at it as "the world sucks, we need to be less sensitive", we should look at it as "people are sensitive, the world needs to suck less".
Yeah.. these[1] just didn't feel like light-weight swings given Dave's background with Twitter

[1] https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1547547608251568128
As another point of view I will add my own experience.

I spent a lot of time on my computer at 18. I didn't have a job. I turned out fine :)
Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself
I only read about video sharing in a group, not every-user-to-every-user calls. Which easily eats up a lot of bandwith (, at least on the server if that is the place that pre-renders all video tiles together for lower network load in sum).
Nuclear is appreciated here but there is definitely controversy about the usual: cost overruns and waste disposal.

e.g. refurbishement of Darlington was hundreds of millions over budget: https://globalnews.ca/news/3795801/darlington-refurbishment-...

I just came back from a few days up in Grey-Bruce and there are signs all over the place angry about the proposed NWMO waste diposal site up in Teeswater there. Very divided community about the issue. (Then again the same rough area or just east of it was extremely bitter about wind turbines some years ago, too, so can't please everyone...)
For extra bonus points, read this blog post by the author of the site: https://user-interface.io/why-you-probably-shouldnt-put-form...

And all the screenshots are stolen, as mentioned in other comments. This guy is just a hustler.
Actually, I see that article as the only way for that woman, and anyone else being in a viral video really, as the only means to get their voices heard as well. Hard to stink against millions of views and likes otherwise.
> I understand why disclosing any salary information would be challenging for the company as it changes how compensation negotiation is done but will also affect the overall culture.

So do I, but I refuse to care. I'm not willing to jump through all of the hoops that come with interviewing for a tech job only to find myself having to say no because I'd be taking a pay cut.

My life matters, I'm not getting any younger, and I'm not willing to waste time for some corporation's convenience. I already have a solid job, and a decent network outside of LinkedIn in case I need to jump ship. Tech recruiters will deal with me on my terms or not at all.
You can treat them as an investment. With this stance, I don’t think you will regret when you sell your investment. Just like your other investment.
And I can see you have a good reason to sell some or all of your collections, to buy a house.
Crypto in its current form is worse than gambling.

With gambling, unless it's illegally rigged, you know your expected value will be say $0.90 for every $1 you put in.

However, in return, there is a possibility that you may have a one in million chance of getting back $100 for the $1 you put in.

Crypto, on the other hand, is a Ponzi scheme. It has no internal value and the current owners of crypto are paid entirely through the money brought in by the future owners of crypto.

Now, to be completely fair, I don't think the majority of crypto backers perceive it as a Ponzi scheme. There were many people working in the space (maybe even the overwhelming majority, although that's unlikely to be true anymore), who actually believed that Bitcoin had real value because it could become a real currency. Similarly, there are people who actually believe that Smart Contracts, and NFTs are actual useful technologies.

The problem, however, is that

(a) none of those technologies have panned out, possibly because blockchain simply does not solve the problems people actually face...it solves the problem of "What if the entity who owns the database we are recording our transactions in is unreliable". In practice, this does not seem to be a major problem at all, and further, blockchain appears to be a terrible way to solve this problem.

(b) Even if the technologies are useful, the limited tokens and the fact that they are largely hoarded by early adopters, simply serves to enrich those early adopters, which drastically reduces the utility of any crypto based technologies for future users, the ones who are actually using the technology. Crypto tokens are an implicit tax on technology. It would be like if Google was invented, but to use Google you necessarily had to pay $0.10 every search, but that cost is ridiculously dynamic, often jumping up to $1/search as well. Google would never take off and it would impose an insane tax on everyone else, and society as a whole.

The latter is why crypto in its current form isn't just a successful/unsuccessful tech, its an actively society damaging technology.