skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This resonates. I'm in a highly regulated industry and nothing makes my happier than a Sev 1 emergency where I can push all the mind numbing process to the side and actually FIX shit. Otherwise it's process, and review boards, and iterating on the change til someone is happy about some arbitrary documentation issue.
Isn't a great part of the occidental world going through 40°C heat waves right now? That doesn't concern you?
This is why AirPods are popular. While this drives audiophiles and geeks who obsess over performance of their technology (not knocking them, I’m one of them for many devices) up the wall, the reality is most people are not audiophiles and can barely tell the difference. What they want are reasonably comfortable headphones that just work, and Bluetooth is so famously bad at this that AirPods stand out.
Feels like theres some cherry picking going on. eg whilst “the power rock of the ‘80s is… incredibly cheerful’ the 80s also played host to Joy Division and Suicidal Tendencies neither of whom exude incredible cheer (though the angst is expressed very differently). Similarly the cheerful rock’n’roll of the 1950s might be contrasted with the mournful blues and jazz which spawned it. Or what about the 50s novels of Richard Yates pretty bleak stuff compared with the life affirming tone of best selling contemporary novelists such as John Green and Becky Chambers.
For tires that support the vehicle via air pressure in the tires, contact area is roughly weight supported by tire / air pressure in tire [1].

[1] http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2013.web.dir/connor_matt...
there is something in this. Maybe the having a huge squad is itself an attempt at asserting popularity, a narcissistic trait which is usually an unhappy one
Counter arguments:

While there are a ton of lost movies, we also live in a world in which services like Criterion Channel, Mubi, and Shudder make more film available than ever. The other week, I got curious and watched a movie from Ulrike Ottinger, loved it, and when I get around to it I can watch any of a dozen more of her movies.

Likewise, I just bought a boxed set of folk horror movies from Severin Films. I miss good video rental stores, but even pre-Netflix there weren’t more than a dozen US cities with video stores where you could rent stuff like that.

The top grossing lists are mostly dominated by blockbusters, it’s true, but let’s look at (say) 1978. Grease, Animal House, Close Encounters, Every Which Way But Loose, and Heaven Can Wait (a remake!) are the top five. It’s been a blockbuster-driven market for 40+ years, with the occasional breakthrough art house film and, more frequently, a big non-franchise genre film (The Martian, Us, etc.) None of this has prevented great directors like the Coen Brothers, Soderbergh, or del Toro from making very good movies.

There’s a market for super-hero movies. There’s also a market for “real” film. These two things are sometimes in tension, but I think at the moment they’re both viable.
>Rather, think common sense with a sexy lady offering their hot single friends to you, or some person offering you 10 million bucks as long as you can cover the small transaction fee of $1000, independent of the medium its send over (whatsapp, instagram, telegram, fb, irc, matrix, mail, ...)

>nobody talked about that the FB app itself is a scam or evil or whatnot

You are continuing to miss the point. It's not a strawman if you are ignoring my concern. Instagram _is_ the concern. I don't care about confidence scams; my problem is Facebook, and the rest of adtech in general building massive databases on everyone else. The EU has been toothless in preventing this; and adtech is so entrenched that this will likely remain the case.

"Opening" the platform is only good for developers, not for users. Opening the platform just means more ways for users to track me and others around me. This is not a strawman; this is literally apple's marketing on what a platform like their offers. For you to just ignore the problem that platforms like Meta propose is naive. Again I don't care about nigerian prince scams; that is not why I tell people to buy an iPhone.
Indeed, this guide is very informative and easy to digest. It's practically required reading for anyone taking CS 6200: Introduction to Operating Systems [1] in Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science Computer Science program.

Thank you, Beej. Looking forward to reading this again today.

1. https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-6200-introduction-operating-syst...
I too like when crises time hits, when I have something I need to act upon and deal with. And I think that's a lot of it - WW2 people could do their part for the war effort, their enemy had a face, they could fight it, they could win. You can understand this at the simplest levels, everyone understands fighting.

I can't fight climate change, I can't fight COVID. I'm powerless against the specter of fascism. We have all these anxieties about what's happening, but no way we can do better. Frustrations and anger pile up but there's no catharsis. A lot of the time embracing the darkness in media is cathartic.
Now apps can do that? Couldn't apps previously/currently hard code their own plaintext DNS resolver? The only change here is that now it's encrypted, and network operators (including yourself) cannot mitm DNS?
lol, exactly. Same here as well. No regrets about getting the vaccine, boosters or future shots.
Basically, what is the equilibrium?

There are many social equilibriums, and not all are equally desirable for all; but Everybody writing from their backpacks while traveling is not one of the equilibria states (which does not necessarily mean it's not a suitable goal for an individual, as long as expectations are tempered:)
Or just have a way that prevents those kind of attacks. Like having the trusted bootloader light a LED or show a hash code of the configuration on screen.
True, but I also think the romanticization of depression is a factor as well. Just look at "Doomer" culture on the internet, or "black pill" types. Watch one of those videos on youtube, and all of a sudden you get a deluge of those types of vids. That is what I fear for future generations. When depression is seen as an aesthetic, some people(mostly teenagers) try to identify with it and accidentally end up depressed for real.

For most people, it is more complex than that. However this is a trend that I worry about.
I'm interested in hearing how you found transitioning from digital design to software development and what did you have to study in order to pass software interviews? I've also been a digital design engineer for the past 3-4 years since graduating but I would like to move into software development for my next job. I have some experience programming and a basic knowledge of CS/software topics but presumably not as much as a CS grad and would have to spend some time learning to close the knowledge gap.
> A lot of people say they have a passion what they have is an interest. Anyone who has a real honest to God burning passion is going to be doing it regardless of anything else just because they love it.

This reminds me of a part of a Ken Robinson talk (maybe it's a TED Talk), where he describes talking to a friend after a musical performance. He tells his friend, "I'd love to be able to do what you do on the stage." And his friends basically tells him, "No, you don't. If you wanted to do what I do, you'd be practicing on your guitar daily. What you want is the praise and benefits of the hard work. You don't actually want to do what I do."
I wonder how many people think they have depression, but are actually simply suffering from despair.

Medication won't help you if you're living paycheck-to-paycheck, dealing with landlords constantly increasing rents while wages are stagnant, worried that getting sick and missing a couple days of work will result in losing your place to live.
I've heard people say that the serotonin deficiency hypothesis was invented by drug companies rather than academics. Is that true?
Phase of matter created in quantum computer acts like it has two time dimensions
This is situation with many conditionals:

1. Apple won't stay competitive for its major partners in the app store.

2. The app will be really important for you with no alternatives.

3. It will be both important and won't be up to your standards established by Apple.

My suspicion is that if it provides really interesting functionality, it will have enough competition that you will be able to choose from.

The major danger comes from scams targeting uneducated users, however, if Apple really wants to protect them, it will make everything possible to maintain their app store as a viable distribution channel.
Please correct me if I am wrong, have not followed LibreWolf for a while. I did try it out for a bit. I believe they are just implementing some facets of the custom user.js [1] and custom policy files and then changing where cache files are stored.

I was not a fan of their cache location changes as I had to write custom rules in bleachbit [2] to vacuum/compress/clean database files created by LibreWolf. In a weird way I think they made their browser less private with that move as not everyone is going to write custom bleachbit rules.

[1] - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

[2] - https://www.bleachbit.org/features
I mean, we don’t charge lower gas taxes to luxury cars because they pay more upfront, so I don’t know why this is now an expectation for EVs. And we’ve never had flat taxes for sales; gas is actually the only exception in the US I’m aware of, but that’s probably because of the price volatility of gas making a percentage tax hard to budget for.
Just build my own operating system, ok.
I have a very similar crisis reaction. Acute crisis bring out the best in me. Unfortunately conversely, long slow simmering ones without agency break me over time.

Anectdote: I was very into “extreme” sports as a kid and into adulthood. I eventually took up skydiving and had quite a bit of fun with it. Met a lot of old timers with a lot of jumps under their belt. An observation really struck me talking to them: the people at the top of “extreme” sports are not really adrenaline junkies, but control freaks.
It depends on the person, their stage in life, and many other factors why people do what they do.

I went through something similar. I had to choose between chasing my passion or security. I chose security. Things get real when you get older, your body starts falling apart, you need to provide for family, etc.

Even if you choose to follow your passions, the lure of security will come. The author gives an example of writers needing to write pulp novels, courses, copywriting, or any other boring stuff.

And even if you do end up doing your passions and still live comfortably, is it really worth it? Would your passions become monotonous and cause you to seek other passions?
My understanding was that it’s always been about the physical size and the impact it has on the stack-up of iPhone components. Looking at a standard mini-jack vs. my iPhone 13, the connector itself is close to 40% of the thickness of the phone. Add the additional size for the jack’s structure and you quickly get to a point where the phone has to be thicker.

Now, has Apple gotten too obsessive about thin phones? Maybe - but that’s a different discussion.
builtwith.com says[0] Amazon CloudFront

[0] https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fnebula.app%2f
Typically there's a way to suppress specific warnings in systems like these. In your company's situation, I would look at moving away from a scanning system if it didn't allow overrides like this.
A regular expression like that is hard to decipher because it is a giant pile of unformatted duplication. It is challenging to read in the same way that a program written by manually inlining every function call in the entire program and then putting everything onto the same line (because you have a non-newline statement separator) is hard to read.

Let us see how to use the advanced technology of factoring out common expressions into "subroutines" makes it much easier to understand. Note, I have no idea of what the regex you are doing actually does, so I am doing things purely mechanically, and I have only basic working-memory knowledge of regexes.

First, let us restructure it:

(
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[ \!\$\%\&\(\)\*\+\-\.0-9\:\<\=\>\?@A-Z\[\]\^\_\`a-z\|\~]+
[ \!\$\%\&\(\)\*\+\-\.0-9\:\<\=\>\?@A-Z\[\]\^\_\`a-z\|\~]*
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[ \!\$\%\&\(\)\*\+\-\.0-9\:\<\=\>\?@A-Z\[\]\^\_\`a-z\|\~]*
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([;#]+)*.*$

Now let us reorganize the clearly common expressions:

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Now let us factor out the common expressions:

common = { \!\$\%\&\(\)\*\+\-\.0-9\:\<\=\>\?@A-Z\[\]\^\_\`a-z\|\~}
separator = {\;\#\/\\}

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At this point, going any further likely requires a deeper understanding of what it is actually trying to accomplish, but the purely mechanical transformations have dramatically reduced complexity of the regex to something in the realm of comprehensibility.
Or it's incentivized in the wrong direction, in the case of something like an MSP that bills more for out-of-hours calls so it's actually profitable to have events happen.
For children it is diet. I bet that our children's diets kill more than guns.
Road bikes aren't really designed for being in traffic in the first place so that places some of the downsides of that on the user. I've used one for many years, so don't get me wrong, I love riding one but it is abundantly clear to me that when my bike tires fits into the slots of a drain that that is my problem and not the problem of whoever designs and maintains the road.

In many places a road bike isn't actually street legal (no bell, no fenders, no lights, of course you could add those).
> people in the past had real problems, like living through a war [...] Something happy was a counterbalance

I would posit the opposite, that gritty content resonates more each year due to American's lifestyles being less subsidized by those abroad.
In our case it's one hour, essentially based on "what if my home internet doesn't work and I have to get to the actual office to start responding, how long will it take me to get there from anywhere in the city." You don't go on vacation or plan your wedding, but otherwise your day is pretty normal.

I can't imagine less than 30 minutes.
I think Spring Boot defaults to Logback these days.
> forcing message passing platforms to submit to sharing private encryption keys?

Why assume that requirement? For E2E encrypted messaging services all that needs to be shared are public keys for interoperability to work.

In the case of middleman encrypted messaging you already trust the provider not to sell you out. If they interoperate then you trust N providers, where N is the number of providers engaged in a particular chat thread.
That's true, but as soon as you allow something, you're probably allowing it for all time for all future governments.
If the users prefer Safari they can keep using it, no?
> Also, double click on Library in Music.app nee iTunes on macOS. Plays the whole library, linearly, which, like, who does that?

Often, when I see a feature like that, one that makes you ask "who would want to do that with the whole dataset?" — the answer is usually "developers regression-testing their feature branch of the program, where their 'whole dataset' is a test fixture consisting of a bunch of data samples where each one exercises a weird edge-case path in the code."

Sure, you could just make a playlist for this. But iTunes has a directory it watches within the library, where putting stuff in it will cause iTunes to automatically move those songs into your library. And if I were an iTunes dev, my scripted "Test" action would consist of creating a new library directory structure; plonking a copy of my regtest fixture dataset into its auto-import dir; starting up the new build targeting that dir; and then sending it the Automator action "Library → Play All." A playlist would only complicate that.
Generally, by doing actual work instead of linear recursion exercises.
Show HN: This Food Does Not Exist
Got the vaccine and the two boosters. Don't really regret it but I don't think I'll be bothering with any further boosters.

I don't believe the conspiracy theory nut-jobs about the vaccine. But I do feel it was oversold to us as "Get the vaccine and a booster and you'll be immune to Covid". The reality seems to be that we're expected to get a new booster shot, every time the virus mutates.
One time I’ve seen a similar problem was due to my home router screwing up multicast.
This is the big thing for me. I know full well that failure is not only possible but highly likely, and that the price is my financial safety net being expended. The ego hit isn't the problem, it's the resulting inability to pay bills.

Thankfully I like my day job quite a lot so my strategy has been to try to drive down cost of living where reasonable and accumulate more padding than is actually necessary, so when I finally commit to doing my own thing I'll be able to fund multiple attempts, preferably with some downtime between each to prevent burnout. Success is still anything but guaranteed but I figure that my chances are better that way than if I were stressed and in a hurry trying to make things work before my bank account ran dry.
This looks like bad news for Apple, much more so then for Google. It doesn't really address Google's ad-driven ecosystem, but goes hard after the app store and hardware differences where apple has prioritized privacy rather then ad-spend.

I don't see a alternative to apple the to emulate Google and ditch privacy in favor of ad-tech after looking at the text.
oh, yeah, that's what it was.
Very Nullsoft Beep.

https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/
> Any given small patch of road I drive or ride over would only get about 29% as much force on it from the car as it would from the bike at any given time a tire is on that patch of road.

...

> This is similar to why if I were to put a flat metal plate on my chest and set a bowling ball on top it would not hurt, but if I were to set hold a dagger against my chest and set a bowling ball on top it would likely hurt a lot.

This is because your chest is weak and soft in comparison to the incompressible metal plate or dagger blade, which is not analogous to the situation on the road. A better analogy would be poking yourself with the tip of an al dente noodle compared to the load transmitted by a large, spongy slice of bread. Neither is going to hurt you in any way.

Whether your tire is transmitting 110 psi or 32 psi doesn't matter much because the compressive strength of Portland cement concrete is ~4000 PSI and the compressive strength of bituminous pavement is ~500 PSI.

However, soil bearing loads are on the order of 15-50 psi under constant loading, and can act as a spring or can yield at much lower transitory loads. The dirt beneath the pavement (or rather, the dirt beneath the gravel beneath the pavement) gives easily, so instead of asking the concrete to survive the compression forces caused by the contact patch, you're asking it to form a beam/plate that spreads the loads over a broad area, and asking that beam to resist deflection rather than crushing. The real damage, and the reason that damage scales with the fourth power of axle loading, is caused when a large truck rolls over the road, the ground shakes, and the roadbed flexes down into the soil under the axle and back up after it passes.

Try to imagine riding your road bike over a piece of cardboard laid on the sand. That wrinkling and creasing is much closer to actual road wear patterns than a dagger cutting your chest.
Sounds like they need to put toilets on the bus. People poop, it's normal.
I generally hate Bluetooth. But, your post is golden. I'm sorry you are dealing with it.

I don't know if it's a Lexus problem, or an Apple problem,
but what I know is that I really fucking hate U2.

My best understanding is that this is a Lexus problem, because on the occasions I have connected wireless speakers to my iPhones this has never happened.

CarPlay solves some of these problems and is maybe not perfect, but generally a far saner UX experience than what car companies have managed to cook up over the years.

I would assume similar things are true for Android Auto. Like, not perfect, but far saner than whatever the heck the UX wizards at Toyota brewed up.
And your health. Getting woken up often is not good for your heart!
> Good luck blocking ads on your smart tv now!!

Android's support for custom DNS servers in combination with an ad blocking DNS server has been a very effective system level ad blocker for me. No additional software or hacks like on device VPNs needed.
Ah,oops, my whoosh!
TDD as a Software Practice
That's mostly because the concept of tracking has been pushed over and over again politically, it just never made it. It has been on the agenda in NL since the mid 1980's.
It takes a lot longer to build houses that are up to building codes, and bridges that have 10x safety factors rather than 2x. There's a reason we have building codes and large safety factors. Software engineers are discovering this today.
Same experience several times. Tool picks up examples code dependencies from our dependencies is another form of this.
the issue is that this can pop up in any library, not just logging. It's about keeping your deps up to date (or not) by a "3d party" (assuming he mean 3rd party)
People looked happy in movies and TV because that's simply how it was done. One of the things that made shows like The Simpsons and Married With Children so revolutionary was their rebellion against this artificial happiness, peeling away the veneer to show the dysfunction that was always lurking beneath. This "peeling away of layers" defined much of the 90s, and eventually led to a kind of one-upmanship to see who could be the grittiest, the most provocative, the most extreme.

There's a similar revolution brewing at the moment in Japanese TV with the release of shows like The Naked Director.
This is basically all bluetooth headsets though. Try using any of them to play games on Windows while using in-game chat. The audio drops down to tape recorder quality because there isn't enough bandwidth.