skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
congrats, you just realized what the majority of tech "improvements" from the last few years really were.

It was about making it easier for companies and gaining more control, not about the consumer.

The tech world will only get worse, soon it seems like we can only choose to be completely locked in or completely locked out.

I fear anonymity is going to no longer be realistic in any sense soon.
They will if it's obvious. But I don't think it always would be obvious.
Because it's not worth it, and will favor a certain type of apps

- weather app (like this one https://www.ventusky.com/), you check it maybe 2-3 times a day

- news reader, you check it few hours a day

why should the news reader generate more revenue than the weather app that needs licences to various weather channels only because the news app is open for longer?
TLDR: They got rid of them due to a hoax originating from South Africa that a child got spiked with a heroin needle and died from an overdose.
Broken and distrusting: why Americans are pulling away from the daily news
Another Code Review tool discussion from 25 days ago: Show HN: Crocodile - Better code review for GitHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31841215)

Related, but from distant past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15722849

@Dang: Can we add a feature to auto link related threads in an expand\collapse section?
For folks who started web dev in the 90s, with 9600 and 1440kbps modems, 1mb seems way too much.

Probably not always accomplishable with the high res hero imagens and videos we need these days, but we should strive for a web that’s instant. There’s no reason we should be waiting for a page to download and render with the bandwidth and hardware available today.
Yup, this is what I ended up using for some time. Though, and YMMV, after doing this in a dedicated way for 2-3 years, I ended up stopping entirely. Probably because more than anything, all the pretty graphs and tracking was mildly interesting -- but it mostly just taught me that I spend reasonably and don't have much of a need to track every little transaction.
I hear this a lot, but why does it worry you? Are you worried that the peak sustained performance of the M2 MBA will be insufficient for the tasks that you want to do? At the end of the day it's a small, light, passively cooled laptop.
I would guess the way they treat the boxes is likely subconscious, rather than based on an actual considered belief on whether they contain a TV or not.
Plenty of well meaning people want to do better personally and don’t realize that they’re shifting the discussion to a damaging frame. It happens all over politics!
The retirement bit seems more like an American-centric thing. I've worked on various projects involving American and European companies, and to be honest the European workers seem much more content with their work-life.

I can only assume that it is because of stronger labor laws, more relaxed work/life balance, etc.

Some of my American (contractor) colleagues would work like dogs for 6 days a week, often from early in the morning to late in the night - depending on the status of the project. It was the first time I observed actual burnout in people, and how visibly it changes people and their personalities.

In any case - most of them, especially those over 40, would often discuss their big plans: Only work 5-10 more years, then retire, and live life.

If 50-60 hour weeks, all year round, is any good indicator of American SWE life - I can understand why devs. are daydreaming about retirement.
The background of the quote is fictional books. In reality, generations that grew in tough times have more issues in general. They drink more, commit more crimes, more violence, have more mental health issues, you name it. Wars dont make people better. They make people desperate, resentful, hateful due to all the suffering and inability to get help.

Notably, WWII was started by generation that went though WWI. Generation after WWI had more terrorist acts. Oh, and war in Ukraine was started by Russia - country that average person is far from living in luxury or economic prosperity.
It's not just exchange rates.

The problem is that, in some places (like India, for example) $10 might be a lot of money.

One might be able to do a lot more with $10 in India (₹800), than with $10 in USA, due to reasons that are beyond anybody's control.

For instance, I can travel 3000 km by train with $10 equivalent in India if I really wanted to (wouldn't be very comfortable, but it's possible).

The wages in those countries are also proportional of this.

This becomes relevant if you want your product to be not expensive, so that it reaches a wider audience.

For expensive goods the price difference doesn't matter as much. (Though I know people who were bummed that the Ford Mustang 5.0 V8 was twice as expensive in India than USA — but that's a different market).
Tom Scott is perhaps a better example of how hollow monetised content can be.

His formula is taking topics that have been covered by other creators, dumbing the content down a bit, adding a sponsor block and a clickbait title. There's no effort expended in contributing new topics, or adding new colour to existing topics because researching that requires too much time and expertise to repeat day after day.
I write at www.somehowmanage.com (have made the HN front page at least 3 times that I can remember), and I'd say the biggest benefits are:

- It really clarifies my thinking.

- If I'm going to work with someone (someone I hire or who wants to hire me), I can share my blog posts as a way of showing how I think (outside the interview context).

- With my team, I can share posts that reflect an opinion and they are way more coherent than me doing it in audio.

- It's also really rewarding to occasionally get a note from someone about how they learned something from something I wrote (or just to see it organically mentioned on Twitter and such).

Honestly one main roadblock for me (as someone with no social media following) is that when I try to share to HackerNews, I've gotten flagged as promotional. But really when I share I'm kind of in the mode of "I think this would be interesting for the HN crowd, let me share it and if they agree they will up vote it". And when I'm writing, it's mostly for the HN type of audience (I used to write on Medium but found that I ended up being pulled to write more click-baity, mass-consumption pieces that were less rewarding to me).
Nope. But people were commenting on how drinking or not drinking impacted their career.

If you actually want to know thought, my life overall has gotten much better since I stopped drinking. The only thing I've lost if 3am drunken yelling about music with a few friends on a regular basis. Which I'll still partake in but just leave at 1 instead of 3.

No longer being hung over, no shame cycles and depression the day/s after drinking, significant extra cash in my pocket, and no more acting stupid while drinking is all a huge plus. My mood is actually steady for the first time as an adult and that is hugely valuable.
We have those issues with delivery in the UK but it’s not so much for these fast delivery services here in Germany: if it’s not in stock you can’t even order it, and the fresh stuff is actually pretty high quality (definitely past Lidl quality)
I completely understand. I lost a total of 170 lbs. While that put me into “I am not the fattest person in the room” category, I am still in the group of “fat people in the room” at least visually. The reason is excess skin.

So even after four years of being at the lower weight, in reality the only way to get rid of excess skin is surgical. I am not willing to do that, so I have come to accept that even after all my efforts, I am never going to look svelte.
> The main reason this utterly failed, is because there is literally no reason for people to use this, considering that most Phones came with Android pre-installed and nobody was mad enough to install FirefoxOS instead which came with no software support and had no unique selling point.

Mozilla spent tens of millions pushing Firefox OS app development: asking developers to build for an underpowered device that they couldn't buy, whose users spoke a different language, didn't want to spend money, and didn't yet exist.

Separately, every app built for Firefox for Android (yes, it has app support) worked on Firefox OS. The Android version had millions of active installs. Smart people were working on making web apps compilable to APKs, but that work was killed.

Meanwhile, what DID ship was an OS with two app stores: Firefox Marketplace and Everything.me. The latter was a spammy mess that gave glorified shortcuts baked into the home screen. Lots of folks didn't even know that the actual app store was.

Firefox declined because leadership put fools in charge of strategy. They were so high on their own supply that they thought fxos was going to make developers materialize out of thin air. It was wishful thinking at best.
If I have cardboard and paper scraps and stuff is it better to compost it at home or put it in the city recycling bin?
Inapplicable research seems to exist at some corporations. I mean they hope that the net results will be profitable, but they're willing to fund a lot of stupid false starts to try to get something interesting.

Bell Labs is the best example, but Xerox PARC. Valve seems to have launched the VR revitalization.
My guess is the quote is a variant of Friedrich Nietzsche's "What doesn't kill you" quote. I also believe Nietzsche is wrong. What doesn't kill you, leaves you traumatized and incapable of making objective decisions because the trauma will taint your thinking from now on.
I've shared meaningful experiences with people in life over a flat white in Manhattan though (I didn't order instant coffee). Why dump on the scene, where better for a casual chat than a coffee shop? It's very specific on this point, Maxwell House is mentioned an odd number of times.
'True balance': Japan's quiet telework revolution
My impression is that he is comparing himself to others and worrying about other developers working weekends, possibly making him look bad if he does not do the same. The reality is that the “weekend warriors” at the company are doing more of the same type of work while he would be working on other tech of his own interests on weekends if desired, broadening his knowledge of other toolsets and methods, which will prove quite valuable in the long run.

Quit worrying about what other people are doing.
eSIM experience with my European providers:

* First ones eSim generator system fails with "something went wrong" after deactivating the previous SIM. Leaving me without ability to call or message someone for the whole weekend until their support comes back on.

* Second one wants me to come physically to their office during working hours to move eSIM to another phone. The closest one is currently 400+ km away.

* The third one requires a phone call to reactivate a new phone and will throttle those requests to a few per year. They don't care if you commonly use more than one phone.

In general, the experience is outright abusive to users in comparison to swapping a simple tiny chip card.
AS someone who's lost a similar amount of weight (actually a bit more), trust me when I tell you that no one loses that kind of weight intentionally without cultivating an eating disorder.
I’m curious: what would need to be added to Excel to do this?
Belgian law seems pretty data hoarding heavy. Even things like activity logs will be kept around for 10 years after contract termination, per your Privacy terms.

Fintech might be overall more security focused in their software development practices, but 10 years is still a very long time to entrust someone with your data.
I have a personal site https://daniel.do that I don’t write on frequently.

It’s mostly because when I am motivated to write a post it’s about something that’s a really big deal in my life or something that took a long time.

Like I wrote a post about being a software engineer at the CDC when COVID hit and more recently about becoming a digital nomad.

My blog is not for job opportunities/professional purpose. My resume and LinkedIn gets me through any of those doors. It’s my representation of myself online I guess. The same way someone might curate their instagram feed, if someone wanted to do a deeper dive into who I am they could use my website.

But I do have opinions about technology and have considered writing polemic style articles. I’m just not sure anybody would read them or care.
A Tale of Two Pools
ah, i didn't mean to suggest that SPI is adding additional latency (i'd have bet the opposite), i'm pretty confident it's everywhere else in the stack causing it.
I just came from a trip to Iceland and most of the country had no trees. Some corners had a little, there were also obvious plantations. There was one place that had old forest and was in other respects very magical: Ásbyrgi Canyon. Just downstream from Dettifoss which was an insane experience by itself.

From what I have gathered the biggest obstacle to tree regrowth in Iceland are sheep which can roam anywhere in the island for I think 4 months in the year and just eat saplings.

Obviously the sheep farming industry does not want to hear about limiting their herding areas and you can guess the result.
Mozilla suffered brain drain when Gary Kovacs showed up and killed browser development and burned everyone out rushing to ship a project that wasn't going to succeed.
Considering our history, yes, I could see that Poles might not want to laugh about Jews. My gmail username is the same as my HN username, I personally would love to hear a Polish Jewish joke and promise not to take offense or think that it represents your personal viewpoint.

A German once told me a German Jewish joke. How do you get 100 Jews into a Kafer (VW Beetle)? Im Aschenbecher.

I'm still yet to hear Arab jokes about Jews, even though I live with and am friendly with Arabs. I know they probably have some good ones.
Internet Apocalypse Countdown (Indonesia)
No that's definitely a mistake in the article. Not only are the RER tunnels from the 70s, they also run much deeper than the metro tunnels. They didn't exist in any form at the time. The metro tunnels did, though
Yes. I can't find a link to it, but it's in the <head>, so parsers and browser extensions can see it

https://podviaznikov.com/feed.xml
I don't remember this but it doesn't shock me. Having grown up with Lego in the 70's and slowly loving it less though the late 80's and 90's I could have told them exactly why their product was failing.

In my mind it was simple why I stopped asking my parents for it and stopped buying it myself. There was way too many highly specialized pieces in the sets. It really limited what could be built with them. It stopped allowing creativity. I would see the boxes and be like I don't want that because I can only make a couple of things.

That period kept me away from Lego for a long time, even after they corrected. Now I love some of the creator sets... But I still find their space Lego lacking, and many of their city sets are lacking too.

Just compare the old or new galaxy explorer set to modern space sets. It's obvious how they've let us down in the space Lego area. I wish they would redesign and release many of the old space Lego.
Bubbles and Megaprojects Parallelize Innovation (2020)
i was trying to say that switching to SPI to reduce latency would be redundant, given that the rest of the stack seemingly adds so much..!
Yah, and to be honest-- good riddance. PlayPlace was definitely non-core, not-well maintained, etc.
Yeah I agree that was badly phrased. I meant data points not used in any aspect of the training procedure. Such as a photo taken after the image recognition model have been trained.

It's widely recognized that image recognition models typically perform well also on such data. We don't need to quantify that exactly to conclude that many large (in terms of parameters) models generalize quite well to data neither in the training or the test set.

Provided that the model space is large enough to contain both models that generalize well and models that don't (while still fitting the training data), some explanation why we tend to find generalizing models is required.
The approach I'm trying is to set a price and then give people an option to raise it or lower it based on what they can or want to pay, maybe along with a message talking about the difficulty in creating prices for people across the world.

Currently, I only have this set to some of the more scalable options (the plan to get access to all the recorded audios and not the plan where I give an hour of 1-on-1 calls per month), yet it may even work for things with more variable costs, if the minimum price is still sufficient.

So that's what I'm gonna try, because as you mention, the other way seems highly complex and also we customers can sometimes feel annoyed by regional pricing, especially for digital goods. But who knows how it'll work.
Indonesia urges tech platforms to sign up to new rules or risk being blocked
I've found it worth doing. My blog (xeiaso.net, formerly christine.website) is the main way that I get employed at this point. It also helps that people link it here a lot. After 100 articles or so writing got a lot easier and now people rely on my blog for a lot of things. I think it's worth it, but I've also been exclusively self-hosting it. I currently have the code (and writing) open source on GitHub (https://github.com/Xe/site) but I'm considering moving the writing to either a private repo or a SQLite database because people keep copying it, slathering it in ads and rehosting it.

EDIT: also because independent personal blogs are a rarity now, having a decent one means that you can really stand out from the crowd.
I honestly don’t believe capitalists/ruling class will allow this. During the last decades productivity increases stopped going to the workers and I think this will continue.
Ah heck, maybe the kids will be fine then lol
Has anyone ran a web server on M1/Linux?

Thoughts, comments, observations?
Happened to me. I'm very pragmatic but I'm more idealistic than pragmatic. I was well payed while on the industry but wasn't happy with what I did. I basically did thing for which I hated the industry and developed products with abuses which I used to fight against.

I left my job and now I work as a teacher. I doesn't pay well, it is much more work, I had to leave the city I was living in but I now feel I'm not doing anything I think is unethical and I have much more autonomy to decide what I do.
Your link just goes back to this HN comment section.
I wonder why this is true when their iOS touchscreens are very responsive.
OP sounds a little.. intense, but hey. As long as they're not hurting anyone.

Since we're talking about eyewear care -- here's my approach. I have spray bottle of water, rubbing alcohol and dish soap (mostly water). This gets off any but the most stubborn grime and grease rainbows. Couple of spritzes then a wipe with a soft clean cloth.

(The original use for the spray bottle was to kill house flies, it's extremely effective)
If you talk to people born in the late 80s to early 90s in the areas near Chernobyl you’ll find out that many kids died in their teens and early 20s or are living with cancer today. Maybe they didn’t die, but they no longer have thyroids. Saying that 60 total died from Chernobyl is insulting.
How would you even grade such a thing? I can't think of any objective way to grade best place to work. I work where we get free soda - I've been here for 10 years and still haven't used it, so for me this doesn't make it great. I have a sit-stand desk, I'm one of the few people who use the buttons to switch every day, so for me this is great, but for most it is a muh thing. There are ping-pong tables in some offices. There are bike racks and showers in some. to me the best part of going to the office is the people - how do you rate that when what people like in each other is different.
At face value, I agree.

The moment a system begins to expect individuals to bear that burden unevenly, it starts to rot. The moment a system is deliberately set to do this in such a way that it “rolls downhill,” the system is a failure.

Whether you are the CEO or the janitor, you are human. Oddly the CEOs seem to forget that more often than the janitors. Aren’t we all just shocked.
The plug/wire means I can keep my tooth brush[1] closer to my sink than where the plug is, in my case multiple feet from my sink. The toothbrush is also "wireless" and charges on a dock.

If a couple had 2 of your tooth brushes they'd have no plugs left for razor, hairdryer etc.

For me the Aha on your unit would be to figure out how to put a female pass through on to it so that I can still plug something else in like how this does : https://www.homedepot.com/p/Huntkey-2-1-Amp-2-Outlet-Wall-Mo... (the first visually similar idea i could find with a google search)

[1]: https://oralb.com/en-us/oral-b-pro-1000-rechargeable-electri...
Yes, but no. The law is PSD2, but there are so many requirements that it's impossible for a private person to access it. First of all you need to generate a certificate which needs to be signed by a financial authority. Then you use client-based certificates to connect to these APIs. [1]

[1] https://support.n26.com/en-eu/security/open-banking-psd2/psd...
> He's not a "household name musician", either.

How do we determine who is? Is Vangelis?
> misunderstanding that ashkenazi jews are nazis

I've never heard this misunderstanding. Interesting, I wonder if it's local.

Germans have some good Jewish jokes, I posted one above in a reply to a Pole. I know it's a crazy sensitive subject, I couldn't bring myself to write the punchline in English.
> But HN users can be assumed to be adults.

Could have fooled me.
Mine goes back to the very early 2000s when it was still a LiveJournal, it is worth the cost to me because it is a repository of my thoughts and memories that I felt like sharing with the world.

It is 100% for me, not for trying to get a job or anything.
I lived in Colombia for a while and you can use the Rappi app to have anything delivered, usually pretty quickly. They'll even bring you cash (like an ATM) or go to any store and buy a specific thing you ask for. And delivery costs are so incredibly cheap that locals can easily afford it (in the city at least).
A trick to remember that one is:

Losing lost an "o".

(Even a lot of native speakers mix up lose and loose.)
Where is the blame? I see a lot of dog piling on a person who is genuinely trying to fix a problem.
Forced?
Are those trees native to Iceland? I would hope that they aren't just trying to increase forest cover using species that have the potential to be invasive.
They didn't show the landing. What happens if it lands on the cook top? I saw no fire extinguishers nearby. ;P
A page with a big image should still be able to quickly load the important parts (text and layout) and then have the big image finish loading in parallel.
A court subpoena to Google for my calendar to figure out if I'm planning a trip out of town, or my Maps data to see if I've gone to an abortion clinic, is something that Google could choose to honor given the authority of the demaning court.

That possibility doesn't imply they should do away with offering Calendar, or with providing Map history; that's a feature the user takes advantage of to figure out where they've been (you'd be surprised how often I use that). The solution isn't to stop offering features; it's to fix the bad law.