skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recently the Washington Post Doxxed the LibsOfTikTok account creator, who's only crime was posting the views of socially liberal people on tiktok.

Puhleeze. Can totally understand the anger at what WaPo did, but I call major bullshit on "who's only crime was posting the views of socially liberal people on tiktok."

Libs of TikTok regularly took things egregiously out of context, like I remember watching a post of hers and thinking "damn, that's fucked up", and then went and investigated the full source material, which in no way said what she intended, and got mad at myself for falling for Libs of TikTok's false outrage in the first place. She's the poster child for arguing in bad faith.

She also regularly republished obvious troll accounts as fact - anyone remember the insane "litter boxes in schools" troll posts? And then when called out on the obvious bullshit, instead of simply saying "yeah, I was wrong", goes into some ridiculous defense of "well, there must be some truth there somewhere because the school board didn't immediately denounce it."

There are plenty of commenters that accurately, and fairly IMO, point out some of the most egregious excesses of the progressive left. Libs of TikTok is not one of them.
>What I don't get is why Netflix never licensed their technology to other platforms. For instance, why not white label their tech for Disney, Paramount, sports leagues, etc

That's probably a company worth billions. But not the hundreds of billions Netflix is valued at.
Back in the 90s we considered the ability to "View Source" an indispensable tool not just for learning but also for keeping the spirit of the early web alive.

If your design is so precious to you, you can use flash or DRM or something similar so nobody can copy your design quite as easily, but this is a disappointing attitude to see.
It seems like they are using [1] Wish [2], a library for "SSH apps"

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~erock/prose.sh/tree/main/item/cmd/ssh/mai...
[2]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
Quite often, yes! I sometimes collect them for making lockpicks and other small tools (a common practice!)
Browsers seem to require an order of magnitude more effort to package than is typical that distros occasionally struggle to keep up. It's the only software in which I use upstream binaries out of preference. I assume it's a safer bet from a security and/or performance perspective.
Tech-oriented internet commenters have very different behaviors and spending patterns than typical consumers. We occupy a unique position in that so many of our tools and technologies are freely available on the internet. Many people also grew up during periods where piracy was rampant and even the paid tools and media could be acquired (illegally) for free if you knew where to look. People stuck in this bubble tend to resent any requests for paid software, especially when it goes beyond one-time payments of nominal amounts.

It’s a bubble. Outside of the bubble there are quite a few people who don’t mind paying subscription fees for software that delivers value. HN is not a good place to gather market sentiment or perform product research for this reason.
This comment gives me "how much could a banana cost" vibes.

You can out-brew Starbucks with about $50 of "equipment": $20 Mr. Coffee machine, a pack of 100 paper filters for $5, and a $20 electric grinder. Skip teaching yourself how to source good beans and just buy some fresh, local whole beans at your grocery store. Probably a medium roast.

Pike Place really is not a high bar. (I doubt I'm even two degrees away from anyone who has a $3,400 coffee setup.)
It is not fascism, because while fascism is inconsistently and vaguely defined it generally involves idealization of the state as guardian and embodiment of the nation, which is a collective identity held to possess greater value than the self. In Robocop, the state is impotent and people are directionless, and no sense of national identity is depicted at all. OCP seems entirely unconcerned with what people do or think or what values they have, as long as they continue to spend and be exploitable.

Nevertheless, by the time Robocop starts, that fictional US is no longer capitalist in my opinion. It clearly WAS a market economy, and that’s why OCP is there, but now the government has suffered state capture… and while that can happen from free market capitalism, it’s very much a post-capitalist condition. The market is no longer functional, because OCP has acquired such unchecked power to exert coercive force that they replace the government that is supposed to monopolize such things. The government of Robocop’s Detroit is so broken it can’t run its own police force, so it turns the job over to OCP which has all kinds of weapons and killer robots. Capitalism requires private property rights, which is failing in Robocop - no one can feel secure in anything. They can get robbed in their stores, at home, or walking down the street — and anyway, no matter how good a job Robocop does, OCP is still going to forcibly acquire all the land, knock down the old city and displace everyone to build a new town where OCP is the landlord of everything. This is more reminiscent of feudalism — OCP is the crown, and the crown owns all the land, but it delegates responsibility to nobles, who extract value for their own interests (like the corporate bad guy selling the right to operate drug monopoly in the new city to the criminal bad guy).

Obviously, Robocop is a work of fiction, and any resemblance to real persons or events is entirely coincidental… right? :)
When I use usem, I mainly do that on the job and Jetbrains IDEs provide value to my employer, not to me.
Aha! 92 dropping to 72 is good evidence of systemic bias, I was misinterpreting the data thinking the citation was related to tech.
I'm skeptical you need all of that to get a cup of coffee you'll like the same amount.

Is there quantitative data out there on the kinds of coffee people like the best? I recall a TED talk [1] which claims (not as its main claim) most people like weak milky coffee despite claiming to like a dark roast - claimed preferences are different from revealed preferences. I don't know if that's true or not, but it'd be interesting to see the data.

Personally, I think my bar for "good coffee" is so low that I'll be satisfied with the shittiest mug of instant coffee with a small amount of any milk.

[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_...
No, I do not want my water heater to run WebAssembly. Or a Docker container. What could possibly go wrong?
I agree that everyone should use a password manager. But that doesn't mean you need to subscribe to one, rather than buy one outright or use the (rather capable ones) that platforms already ship with. 1Password could have run a good stable company. Instead they took $1B in venture capital, and now need to desperately grow an monetize their user base to justify their $7B valuation.

It's easy to see why some things need to be subscription-based; e.g. the value is actually in some kind of constantly updated content; or providing ongoing service actually has a significant cost to the supplier, e.g. in bandwidth, compute resources, operations. Neither of those is the case for password managers. (Or at least, should not be the case.)
I try to counter this with long walks and regular weight lifting. This is all I can do. After number of tries to get to talking with people I realized I am just not that type.
Chrome profiles. I need a distinct browser environment for each of my clients.
I'm all for spending money on convenience (that doesn't mean a "fundamental laziness") and enjoyment

NordVPN and CleanMyMac or the oversubscribed options like Apple+ are not enjoyable nor convenient to me

"fundamental lazyness" - things like relying only on your phone to unlock your car then running out of signal/battery/etc and getting stranded somewhere and looking like a dunce because you were more lazy than you should have been. Or getting takeaway coffee as first thing in the morning when a coffee machine would pay for itself in a month of usage.
Do surgeons purchase any od they equipment they use on the operating table, or does hospital provide it all?
Expecting people to have to use NDAs to not spread your hobby tech project is pretty much the antithesis of the "hacker ethos" that this website is literally named after
I pay for the Jetbrains all products pack, $250 a year. I spend on average 3-4 hours a day in their products. That $250 is pennies compared to the amount of value I create with the various JB IDEs.

Good software - like IntelliJ, GoLand, etc. - don’t just act as a tool to get the job done, they act as a force multiplier enabling vastly better UX, tooling, etc. compared to competing software. I can’t imagine relying on Eclipse or VSCode for my work nowadays - I could do it fine, but it would feel like cutting an arm off.
I see dozens of these scattered about every time I go walking in my area. Need to order a bunch of those protection/charging boards and start harvesting the free batteries.
Why did they never used IMDb rating?
I think the substitute are explorers, where the enemy is the unknown. Tin astronauts works.
No. If they don’t want their emails marked as spam, they shouldn’t send spam.
That's definitely CEO behaviour, legally she is still on the hook for that expense and it can go on her credit rating. Don't try this at home!
im not talking about criminals, im talking about the public in general going NIMBY because they are so afraid of interacting with police that they wont report crime. this has been a problem for decades.
One roommate is 85, the other is 27. Such arrangements are growing
I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces
I think I agree with you.

I don't think that the integrity of elections and democracy are the main point of this essay.

Orwell wrote a lot about authoritarianism, and as you say, "communism" was the prime example at the time.

What he hints at here is not only the fragility of democracy. It's about the fragility of civilization.

It's about the "will to power" as defined by Nietzsche, and the power of belief systems, as well as the primal underpinnings of our society.

This essay makes me think about the authoritarian side of capitalism, "freedom" (to take what you can), slavery and many more topics.

My takeaway is that our contemporary masquerade of "capitalism=freedom=human rights" is nothing but an illusion of a select few.

But that's what makes Orwell great, everybody reads him differently.

I'm well aware that Orwell is favored for "anti-socialist"/"pro-freedom" stances and I have read 1984 and Animal farm.
Defensive action is for the most part formidable and magnificent. The stuff that builds and creates heroism, myths and legends. Never miserable or soulless, unless it goes beyond its original purpose.

Every reality has at least two versions of it, or more.
An ICBM will take less than an hour to travel that distance ballistically. Ie going to space and back.
News app is fairly good actually. I use it for BBC Good Food magazine mostly.
Observing from Europe, US politics seems like an extreme case of identifying with the opposite of the enemy. Over several cycles of oversimplifaction, each party simply takes some position from the other, and vocally proclaims the opposite, regardless if there was some truth lost along the way.

What's surprising is the tone of the pro-Democrats responses here: vitriolic but without real substance except whataboutism aimed at republicans. HN is the highest quality online agora I know, which to me is hinting that even the upper ranks of US voters are caught in this process.
I also don't understand paying for this when both Apple and Chrome have one, and you can even use the chrome one instead of apple for most things on the iPhone
No, they haven’t. The graph in question is inflation adjusted. Non-inflation adjusted wages have grown by much more than 25%.
I can understand your account because the publications industry is foreign to me mostly... Possibly perhaps people who read dig more deeply for new publications?

The experience, methods, and landscape greatly varies for each sort of content being promoted, yet social media only presents one particular success script for everyone, and I think that's a huge problem.

I produce music, and it's a wasteland of major labels being featured while independent labels struggle over table scraps... heh... Quite a different playing field to most others, but also similar in many ways.

The common thread is usually that big business and popular people are more often than not the only ones featured on the front page, and it's a very long, hard and winding road to get to limited placement spots there.
I don’t think that’s the case at all?

If you look at any modern voltage regulator it switches in the megahertz range with variable pulse width and interval. This is all controlled in the digital domain (lower end ones do use analog control loops, but higher end do not).

Above the megahertz level switcher everything else is just capacitors providing low impedance at frequencies into the high hundreds of megahertz (and at gigahertz it’s on-die capacitance).

‘too fast for digital’ makes no sense when talking about control loops, digital is faster.
There are diminishing returns there, and I'm assuming this was standard drop coffee, not a pour over. Is a Mr Coffee and some generic ground coffee going to be as good? Likely not (but if it's a generic coffee shop, it really is a toss up in my opinion). If you get a $1,500 grinder and then use something like a V60, that's more expensive in equipment than most people care to buy or can taste enough of a difference to make it worth while.

Also, most people don't care about their coffee enough to consider $1,700 "nothing".
Simulated annealing is still prone to getting stuck in local minima if the steps during the high-temperature phase are unlucky.

It's always worth trying a multi-start approach, i.e. run the same algorithm more than once (in parallel if possible) with different random initial guesses.
If your problem is differentiable, then multi-start continuous optimization (gradient descent, Newton's method, etc.) can be more efficient than something like SA.
Depends. Was the software commoditized in the 90s or a trivial feature that should be included in the OS?

Or is it serving a lucrative niche that pays for itself every day in productivity? Need to be clear before making a judgement.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117489
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130444 (not Show HN, but as it is not that new I thought a retrospective blog post would be more interesting)
Another trip down memory lane. Remember when you could comment on other people's amazon comments? Those comments were the best. I would often scroll through comments until I came to one with a long chain of replies. Then I would really have a good insight on what I may purchase.
No. fuck 'em. Any company that makes a living from sending unsolicited emails deserves to be blacklisted by every mail relay possible.
What do you do about WebAssembly's lack of real threads?
I actually totally agree, it's hard to become re-invested if I take too long of a break. The lore gaps between missed seasons are somewhat frustrating.
Nobody owns ideas or designs
Since nobody else has brought them up yet, I would recommend ALL of Orwell's Essays, which can be had in various editions.
I really see no issues with how it's taught currently, but my experience is limited to myself. I'd also be the wrong one to ask because I was the type of student that went to class, struggled to pay attention, and then would be forced to teach myself things (I found the structure of school + having someone to answer my questions to be absolutely vital).

However, I just wish this industry was more willing to engage in on the job training. I think this could work people with and without programming experience.

Though perhaps those without experience would take too much time to learn and/or might end up being uninterested, thus being a huge cost/time sink for a company despite being a good investment in the beginning. I will say, it's hard to be a good programmer without some sort of passion for the craft. The best programmers I have known have usually all been people that genuinely enjoyed programming. I throughly enjoy it myself, but I am so burned out that, my passion is almost gone, and I seriously think it is starting to hinder my advancements.

I am just annoyed with the fact that so many places turn down talented people, not for their inability to learn, but for the sheer fact of not knowing <insert trending bullshit framework>. Yet these same businesses are the first to cry about how hard it is to find talented workers or how there is a worker shortage.

As for programming education though, I do not think there are any issues to programming that cannot be extrapolated to education as a whole. Programming is just using a keyboard to type memorized syntax into the magic electrical box.

Instead of focusing on programming, I think it'd be better served to focus on what programming relies on -- logic, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, troubleshooting skills, and perhaps a few others.

However, our current system tries to teach my previous and imperfect list of required skills while teaching programming languages and their respective syntax.

I bet you could education some damn fine "programmers" without them ever touching a computer.
I agree - my employer pays for IDEs and developer tools without question, and the main benefit goes to them. Some of it comes back to me in promotions and bonuses, but not all or most of it.

Me paying for tools to increase my productivity at work might still make sense if it helps my pay increase, but it's even more worth it for the employer to do it.
you have containers that are better that parallel profiles
I use bobby [0] for that

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bobby-track-subscriptions/id10...
I would imagine that depends on whether they’re employed by a hospital or incorporating themselves and running their own private clinic.

If you’re a salaried SWE, obviously expense the $150. But for a contracting SWE? $150 is really nothing compared to what a woodworker, wedding photographer, welder, or most any other self-employed professional has to spend on their tools.
Unless it's for ideological reasons and nothing to do with money.
This looks like a great way for delusional "entrepreneurs" to get terrible results.

Looking at one of the bounties currently available:

> We would like there to be a search bar in the middle of the navigation bar. The user should then be able to enter a query and filter questions in the database. The searching should be “fuzzy”, meaning that a search query such as “Issue with HTMA and firbase” should return the item with “firebase” or “HTML” in its body, title, or tags. There should also be the ability to filter by factors including date posted, author username, and whether the question has an accepted answer.

The amount offered for this is $100. That's the equivalent of two hours of someone making $100k/yr - which would be a relatively pedestrian salary for SWEs in the US. For that amount, you're asking someone to:

* Get into your codebase

* Add a UI element

* Wire it to a backend

* Set up a fuzzy-search implementation

I'd take more than two hours just reading documentation before I got started on a task like that. Even assuming the person filling the bounty is familiar enough with something like Firebase to be able to set up a pre-existing search implementation in a short timeframe, there's no way you're going to get anything functional in less than a day of work end-to-end, including tooling setup, implementation, basic spot-checking, and deployment. At that point, the person working on it is making roughly minimum wage in most states.

Is this just supposed to be a stealth outsourcing/wage arbitrage play? I can't imagine anyone in the West doing this, other than maybe undergrad students looking to build a resume.
Patdiff – colored patience diffs with word-level refinement
For the microeconomics-inclined folks, the paper from Ronald Coase about why firms exist (to avoid extensive negotion/transaction costs) provides the argument for why this might or might not work. That is, this would make a great natural experiment to test the paper.
I use this button in 2 cases:

1. This is a letter from company like Facebook and my choice will never cause difficulties for them. I do not need millions of their reminders and my spam report in Gmail is being forgotten regularly.

2. This sender use to send me malware, for example some MS Word documents or doing something highly suspicious like distorting letters in a message obviously for breaking some spam filter.

I use to ignore all other spam messages, because I do not want to harm good people who use email for advertising.
> some gateways strip too-long query strings for example

Uhm. What?
Say you are building an app or service, does anyone have rules of thumb to setting subscription amounts or tier levels?

As a consumer I like subscriptions because I can easily calculate, “how much time and effort do I spend doing X, is it worth $_____ a month for that?”

My career has been enterprise software for internal apps so I’ve never sold software before. Setting costs feels like a WAG (at least initially).
Selection Versus Control (2019)
Firefox supports multiple profiles, though the UI is not as streamlined as Chrome’s. In Firefox, open about:profiles to create and open new profile windows.
I have M1 MacBook Air base model and I use it mostly for React/Node projects, and it's pretty good actually.
Yeah, that's fair. There's a cost. I've deleted it a couple years ago. I miss out on some stuff for sure. I have an iMessage group chat with my family as a replacement, but of course not the extended family and certainly not the more distant friends.
I see. There are plenty of UI design tools like sketch, figma, adobe xd but Illustrator has the illustrative part as well. I don’t think any of the UI tools are a great replacement for that.
The washing machine in particular is not a subscription in disguise. You'll only pay (a well defined price) when the machine actually breaks (in a way that is not economical to repair), and you are free to choose any provider, with no pressure or default to just buy the same brand again. Especially if the machine asked for a "renewal" too early for your taste, you're probably not going with them again. They have to sell to you again.

With a subscription, by doing nothing you just keep paying to the same company in perpetuity. You even keep paying if you stop using the product unless you actively cancel. The company sells to you by default, not by convincing you to make an active decision for them.

A washing machine is also a big purchase that you'll probably spend some time to think through to some extent, much more than you will with your Netflix subscription - despite being quite small compared to typical subscriptions! A $600 washing machine that lasts 8 years is $6.25 per month. The subscription models are generally abused to charge way more for a product by making the payment seem small to people who are bad with money. A subscription washing machine would likely be "only" $3.99 per week...

For example, at rent-a-center a washing machine that costs $520 at Best Buy costs $1223.28 if you pay it off as planned (and I believe their business model also revolves around preying on people who miss payments).

Phones are also commonly sold as part of mobile plans, where you pay approximately the purchase price of the phone each year.

That's why most people who do the math hate subscriptions: They realize that they're now asked to pay 2-3x (and often even more) of what they were paying previously (or would typically be paying without a subscription model).
Most people I know at least use a music streaming service, so I'd say you're in the minority of people that I know. Respect to you!