skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was actually built between 2012-2013 - it is quite a tangle of old and rusty (but very reliable) PHP code and IE9-era, 'jQuery-esque' JavaScript. Realistically this can't be usefully made open source (and if it were it would probably have to be rewritten in order to be more generally useful). That said I would be very interested in an open source re-implementation of this using modern techniques!
I'm not browsing netflix regularly but we have a few tv shows which are worth keeping netflix anyway like the current Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Russion Doll, Better Call Saul, ...

Next to that we watch normally one old TV Show which is the easy way to go to. Right now its Friends. Bevor that it was Star Trek Voyager.

Thats enough for me already to not feel bad for paying $10 per month for it.

But than there is also something we don't have in germany: super weird tv shows like 'The floor is lava' or 'is it cake?'. I scroll through them and watch a whole season in lets say 1-2 hours by watching the start and forwarding to the end or so. And there are so many of them and surprisingly interesting like the glass stuff or the chocolate show with Amaury Guichon, which is crazy :D
> If your household income is $200k or above (which, let's face it, most HNers probably do earn)

What? Not everyone here lives in the US
> 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.

When I wake up and the household hasn’t finished yesterday’s pot I just pour it in a mug, zap it, and I’m fine. Let someone else go to the effort :-)

Coffee has a lot of rituals that have replaced smoking. People rave about Philz coffee in the Bay Area, but if you walk in you can’t just walk straight out with a cup of coffee. No, you must make a bunch of choices (there’s no default nor minimal option) and then wait for them to make it. The entertainment is the point. I like that in a restaurant but can’t be bothered for just a cup of coffee. I’d rather spend my time on talking with the person I’m with, not paying to be entertained.
Sadly, this is not very practical. A lithium cell in itself is a chemical time bomb: if it gets mechanically damaged or short-circuited, it has enough oomph to burn your device, skin or house. For factory-produced battery packs this effect is mitigated by having protective circuits that monitor charge level, temperature and a bunch of other parameters, cutting off the power if the cell is deemed too dangerous. But once you take a random lithium cell off the street and try to revitalize it, you are opening a can of worms: depending on how it was used, it might be full of dendrites [0], ready to cause a fiery short-circuit a few charges after. It might have structural damage due to gas buildup, or someone literally stepping on it. It could have been under direct sunlight for longer than it should, and so on.

It's fine to tinker around with it for your own experiments, but you don't want to ship it to anybody who's not going to be using it in a fireproof lab wearing eye protection.

A better idea would be to find a way to properly recycle the raw materials (i.e. extract the lithium from a dead cell), but that could be several orders of magnitude more challenging.

[0] https://www.batterypoweronline.com/news/a-look-inside-your-b...
You get account support with Google One or a Google Workspace subscription. There are other support avenues as well. Account bans do happen but for the most part it appears that when it does, that the person who got banned doesn't share the full story and people are more than happy to jump on the Google hate train. Google is a successful company and it annoys a lot of people that others don't have the same hate that they do.
It's common for non-FAANGs too. I make it a hard rule that I won't take a job with one of those clauses, but it's often in there by default, which means I either convince them to do a carve-out or turn down the offer.

Whether it's a deal-breaker for you or not, make sure you read what you sign
I've used Edge for almost a full year, didn't notice any difference from chrome, despite being complimented for better windows optimization. Moved back to Chrome.

It wasn't disappointing, but it's just that I didn't have a reason to stay there.
Don't forget to check out Total Recall. Guy was on a roll. Only Cameron can rival his mastery

Did you enjoy the female cop catching that guy peeing? And what happens next? Still gets me every time.
Recommended by the MIT guide to lock picking - https://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf page 44
This article does not say why the law was changed. The linked article at the bottom explains the tradeoff: The chases are dangerous.

https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/2022-05-26/see-ya-washington-p...
No surveillance or tracking on a device that is surveilled and tracked? What am I missing?
Please don't take it personally, I don't know anything about you. It's mainly a reply addressing how yours is a common response on the matter, while social media encompasses a wide variety of perspectives by nature, that aren't well suited to individual tropes.

I assure you, no personal offense or attack was intended by my response, I am just posting based on the issues involved. It's a very large issue of concern for pretty much everyone on the Internet.
A System Dynamics Primer
There's https://smol.pub for that!
The USA usually reports household income as you do, which contains about 2.5 people.

So per-capita income is far less than the $67k figure you picked, and 5% is about right.

In addition, using the mean (average) is deceptive, because it is skewed by the few people that earn a lot (Jeff Bezos walks into a bar). Using the median would make more sense (although the person you replied to hasn’t, probably because it is harder to find).

The mean on HN is possibly higher, making the point moot? There are a lot of international commenters that could swing the number down.

Side note: if you want to compare how well you are personally doing you need to compare by other factors. Age cohort especially matters for income and wealth comparisons - even for software dev?
How does it compare to Google's password management? I constantly use it from chrome or mt Android phone.
Noncompetes are their own well-defined clause; the IP/inventions clause is a totally separate thing, and the unqualified version is totally unjustifiable, they just throw in there because they can
Fortunately it was just the atomiser wires - so it briefly powered on before it was snipped off.
Well guess not anymore, because the article is down?
I still have a few Lithium polymer MacBook batteries after replacing them due to swell. I think it is possible to get individual cells from them and use protection circuits like this. The problem of course is that they swelled, there is videos how people puncture outside shell to release gas, but it is a very dangerous and scary thing to do.
Seems like if protocols don't provide any liquidity for their tokens, but the tokens can be used to have access to a protocol revenue, I don't see the problem.

Except for most tokens/protocols don't have any revenue they can share with token holders…
Yeah - you could reasonably call Metropolis an ancestor of cyberpunk but it predates punk.
Be extremely careful about damaged batteries, they are a major fire risk indoors. Strongly recommend outdoors disassembly away from structures. Metal ammo boxes are a good idea to store the batteries in as a lot of RC hobbyists know
One very basic one that I see is "how much employee time am I saving you?"

If a company pays its engineers $75/hour, saving 10 hours of engineer time is worth $750/month!

That's a high number -- plus, it's on you to prove you really can save that much time with your service -- but I think it's a reasonable starting point.
> What really gets me is the cell phone bill, though.

What I don’t understand is that we have been on the same fixed, unlimited plan with five identical lines yet somehow the bill varies each month.
No need to be. It was just strange and unexpected :-) So this is "homelandhosting", spamming the Gaijin from whereever with whatever by redirecting, to whatever the algorithm thinks appropriate ;->
Developing Mars industry and economy will almost certainly lead to better ways of doing things on the Earth.

Necessity is the mother of invention.
I do not think it is a good idea because the people building the project have no skin in the game.

Your initial ideas need constant iteration as you interact with reality to see what works.

A team that will leave in a few months for the next thing have no incentive for iteration or great execution - both which are needed to interact with reality to find something that works.
Almost all flagged posts are flagged by users, not mods, so there’s no single reason to provide. This is covered on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

If you have a question about a submission, email hn@ per that page instead of submitting something new.
Weird... Since quantum, FF usually it's faster that Chrome for general browsing. Specially if you have uBlock origin installed.
there’s plenty of power play mind game “respect” abuse that doesn’t neatly fit into your categorization imo, which unravels the rest of what you’re talking abt
Agreed.

To be totally fair, I don't think $1500/yr is a small number, but the author subscribes to so many stuff. I can't get close to that even actively trying. I think most of people would end up with something close to $500/yr which is even more reasonable.
Or shielding content from intrusive ISPs. Comcast and AT&T will both shake down people over torrenting media, especially if that media is copyrighted by one particular mouse-related company.

It's also a good way to obstruct mass data gathering by governments, provided your chosen VPN lives outside the 5/9/14 eyes.
> Racism (or at least a strong sense of cultural superiority) is almost certainly a key component behind Japanese immigration policies.

That proves my point--you're conflating "racism" with cultural conflict. "Race" is a construct in post-slavery societies, where animosity exists between people who otherwise share history and culture. White southerners and Black southerners are culturally very similar to each other. The animosity of the white southerners toward Black southerners is based on skin color, and that's why it's deemed illegitimate.

The Japanese preference for their own culture is completely different. Unlike skin color, culture makes a huge difference in people's daily lives and there are good reasons for people to prefer their own culture. When I fly back from visits to Tokyo, I land in JFK and am immediately hit in the face with cultural differences. If I were Japanese, and liked Japan the way it is, why would I want New Yorkers coming and changing it?

> But that's a world away from the dog whistling that goes on when politicians deliberately stir up racist sentiment by singling out entire cultural groups of migrants as being the source of recent crime waves or undeserved recipients of welfare etc.

The concept of "dog whistling" is just circular thinking. A study shows that, when you take Trumpian rhetoric about crime and immigration, and omit the reference to Trump himself, the majority of Hispanics and Black people agree with the statements: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/biden-latino-vote...

"We began by asking eligible voters how 'convincing' they found a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points. Among other elements, the message condemned 'illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs' and called for 'fully funding the police, so our communities are not threatened by people who refuse to follow our laws.' Almost three out of five white respondents judged the message convincing. More surprising, exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos."

Why is Trump's rhetoric "racist" even though the majority of Black and Hispanic people agree with what he says? Because "Trump is a racist." It's circular.

Illegal immigration creates real burdens on communities. One of my wife's cousin's kids goes to a school in the Portland exurbs where 30% of the kids are children of immigrants who not only don't speak English, but mostly don't even speak Spanish (but rather myriad indigenous languages). That creates real problems and burdens for the school. Why are folks in that community morally obligated to be happy about these changes? They're not.
May have looked it up.
Interesting read.

Speaking of dystopian fiction authors; Aldous Huxley wrote the well-known book "Brave New World". [0]

Doing a quick search for MK-ULTRA on Wikileaks one can find this now unclassified transcript from 1974:

> ... AND OTHER CULTS LIKE IT ARE NOT RELIGIOUS, BUT WERE DELIBERATE SYNTHETIC CREATIONS PART OF A SERIES OF PROJECTS THAT INCLUDED THE MK-ULTRA OPERATION, THAT WAS RUN THROUGH BRITISH INTELLIGENCE CONTROL OVER A SECTION OF THE CIA, WAS RUN THROUGH ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GREGORY BATES OUT OF PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA. [1]

Wonder if BNW is a blueprint, rather than a fiction book. Thoughts?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201109003500/https://wikileaks...
I personally dislike Firefox for its annoying "Looking for updates" pop-up whenever I open the browser. That 3 second stop generated more dislike from me for Firefox than bad privacy policies of Chrome ever could.
The one way it makes sense is as a mechanism to buy cheap equity stakes. The person running the scheme adds more money to pay market rates for sufficient staff, which effectively buys them a 5% stake in each company.

If it is the same four people across all companies, and their fully loaded cost is 200k (not a lot in the valley, but plenty in many other places), then that works out as 32k for a 5% stake. Compare that to Y Combinator's 125k for 7%.

If you accept that you can't run 20 startups with four people, no matter how much Club-Mate you feed them, then you could try staffing each position at 25%, and be paying 200k for that 5%. Not so hot, but maybe still good enough?
If a criminal is driving dangerously and risking other people lives then the cops should be able to absolutely blast them into oblivion without hesitation.
I disagree. I have yet to see a browser try to enable so much telemetry and features that track everything you do on the web. There are like 30+ things unique to Edge that they push on users. Even after turning them off, I've had Edge magically turn them back on without my consent. Chrome isn't perfect, but if you know what to disable it really isn't that challenging to make it as privacy-friendly as Firefox... and Firefox isn't the perfect angel here either. Chromium is even better, especially on Linux to escape some of the "Google-ification". I really do not see any difference between Chromium and Firefox when it comes to default privacy settings. Regardless, it is always best to go in and disable them or use a policy file to do so.
> I thought this wasn't possible due to Apple's limitations

It's not possible, it doesn't have critical feature parity, resulting in some traffic simply not being routed through tor, and If it can't route all traffic for a web page the whole thing becomes kind of pointless, because now the website and your ISP can identify your access:

> iOS has full control over some network traffic, which may result in this traffic (including audio or video embeds) routing via your normal connection and not over Tor. [0]

I feel that all of the browser apps for iOS really aren't helping the situation. They should just remove themselves, they are just confusing to the general public, giving a false sense of diversity and freedom of choice on these crippled devices... it's caused many confusing conversations with people when it comes to iOS browser issues too. "but i'm using Firefox. No you are not. Yes I am"

[0] From the article
> I would say that proper password manager is the best investment you can do from any app.

My bed is the best investment in the sense that I spend 1/3 of my life there. That doesn't mean it would be a good idea to pay 1/3 of my income towards a bed and mattress subscription.

Healthy competition from many suppliers means that I can buy a bed for a one-time, materials cost + profit margin price instead of purely value-based pricing, and spend the surplus elsewhere.
What about SMS and phone calls?

It's like saying I need alcohol to stay in touch with my alcoholic friend. No you don't.
I've had background projects working on Web privacy measures since the Junkbuster days in the 1990s.

Pretty much any practical measures I've thought of, I think of (usually obvious) ways they can be countered, and assume it's only a matter of when that measure is on the adversary's radar and worth their time.
Dunno if I can give you proof. I didn't document the experience as it was happening.
Ask HN: Does being different make you feel better?
Imagine a person who loves doing the following:

- Change keyboard layout to Dvorak

- Use Vim keybindings everywhere, including the browser

- Learn unpopular languages such as Racket, SmallTalk

- Create numerous aliases for zsh (or Bash, but zsh because it's "better")

- Make plenty of automation scripts e.g., by AppleScript, Ruby, JS

- Use automation apps (on macOS) e.g., Keyboard Maestro, Alfred, Karabiner-Elements, Hammerspoon, etc.

- Assign custom shortcuts to favorite commands in each app

- Read/Write emails right in terminal

- Spend hours writing scripts that replace a boring task that would've taken minutes to finish

- Theme and rice the OS

- Spend hours fixing the OS/application problems that shouldn't have existed in the first place

- Finally, get to work, thinking that he's now super productive...

Are you like this? Is there a way to fix this behavior? Why trying to be different (as much as possible) is enjoyable for some people (me included)?
A good reminder - thank you for sharing.
The out of region TV is a use case but I wonder how long before this turns into a cat/mouse game between VPN providers and streaming services/content providers. I am pleased to see (when I have to sit through these ads on podcasts) that providers have seemed to start emphasizing this use case instead of their dubious security related benefits.

This is kind of my point - now if a law enforcement or security service wants to get access to a treasure trove of traffic and analytics that is likely significantly more interesting to them than general ISP traffic they send an NSL or equivalent to a VPN provider and have it all nice a collected for them. That said, DoH appears to finally be gaining some traction (default on Firefox, IIRC).

Hah, I’m a little curious about what kinds of friends you have for this to be of concern :).
I'm on Windows 10 with FF right now and Alt+D just worked for me, along with Cmd+L and F6 as other have said. I think your muscle memory should be just fine. Time to switch!
Hopefully fixed - didn't see anything on my machine so was wondering what people were talking about!
> In that case you can serve both input and output within the same IO callback, thus the playthrough latency will be only a single period.

By playthrough latency, do you mean having the output play the same audio being captured from the input/mic? One period of loopback/playthrough latency is only possible if you can instantaneously copy data from the input to output buffers (for example by using the same hardware buffer for both?). In practice, PipeWire and JACK2 both introduce 2 periods (in PipeWire, quantums) of buffering latency, which I've discussed in my blog (https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/low-latency-audio-output-d...), or you can confirm by reading their source code.
Firefox was good a few years ago.

Somehow they managed to get on-par with Chrome performance. So, I switched back to FF after being a Chrome user for years.

But they couldn't keep up, so I was forced to leave them again.

I went for Brave, because I wanted to reduce my use of Google products and I couldn't be happier.

Chrome performance, good adblock integrated, Tor, IPFS, and crypto wallet out of the box. Awesome piece of tech.
I've been on team FF since the switch from IE like 20 years ago- I agree sometimes there is additional jank, but I also want to add that it is rare enough that it's been a non-issue 99.9% of the time.

Even then, I expect some of it is the fact I use an obscene number of plug-ins to break most social media sites (to prevent overuse).
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive/and or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>My proposition: deposit of 25€ for small electrical devices and 50€ and more for bigger ones so that these do not land in landfills.

This is already a thing in EU, and parts of US and Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Waste_Recycling_Fee
I like the idea! However, the price is challenging for Latin American founders like me who are currently in bootstrap mode.
> 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.

That is their greedy business decision, and it should not reflect to every one of the password managers. If it costs too much, change service.

However, there is a reason why you would pay for the password manager. They have the highest security requirement from the every app.
Their auto-fill properties should not fill to scam websites.
They should support every possible machine, like BitWarden for example does, even CLI is there.
They should be accessible at any time.
Their data can’t be leaked with bad memory managment.
Their UX should be designed in a way that everyone graps the idea of good password, and can keep using them.
Too often people stop using them, because they are too difficult or clumsy to use.
The recent biography of Keynes (“The Price of Peace” by Carter) spends a lot of time discussing similar theories put forth at the time; Keynes was very critical of the Treaty of Versailles as he considered it an inevitability that crushing the German economy post-WW1 would produce a nationalist demagogue.

Indeed, the treatise by Keynes after which the biography was named provided a technical argument for that thesis.
See “ESSAYS AND OTHER WORKS: A selection of essays, articles, sketches, reviews and scripts written by Orwell. This material remains under copyright in the US and is reproduced here with the kind assistance of the Orwell Estate.”

“Politics and the English Language” is a particular delight.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Kudos. How about a voting mechanism so that quality rises to the top?
Hey! How did you choose Kumu? I'm currently exploring a landscape of SD tools, and Kumu seems both cool and unusual, but it's not clear if it can be used a replacements for Stella Architect, which is prohibitevely expensive. Does it have features like feedback loop analysis, for example?