skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I sit down at a computer, I want to run an application and get something done. I don't want a desktop environment in my way, trying to entertain me, or otherwise distracting me. I am also not trying to entertain someone else when using a computer [see footnote]. Looking pretty is for art and games.

The specific aesthetic that matters when you are working and trying to accomplish something are ergonomics. Is what I need where I need it and easily findable?

Below are concrete preferences of mine and likely many others which could lead to a DE prioritizing things other than appearance:

- Can I see at a glance my commands and tools, or are they hidden behind "beautiful" panels and other formerly skeuomorphic metaphors that got rubbed down into large blank areas of color?

- Do all my commands and tools fit on the screen and aren't separated by seas of overly minimalist whitespace or require clicks in weird, unobvious places or require weird mouse gestures that might be misinterpreted from my normal mouse movements?

- I want text labels because I'm literate and can understand words, not impressionistic random icons that look like hieroglyphics.

- When I click on something - is there some immediate feedback to give my brain a sense of interactivity? After all that is why I'm using a graphical toolkit and not a serial terminal. My RAM should go to what I'm using the computer for, which is applications, not the DE.

Footnote: Some who work in sales or marketing and use computers in front of others, such as paying clients, might actually need to "look pretty" while doing their tasks. Their DE requirements would be different.
This is native Postgres partitions. The only addition is pg_partman which helps with some automatic partition creation and pruning. In coming releases it is likely that partman won't be needed at all, but at the moment this helps smooth out the few remaining rough edges.
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SysAdmin Day Bofhle
July 29th is the 23rd Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, you can play to guess the Unix/Linux command to celebrate.
The napalm bomb you're speaking of is made of gasoline. Which is in most cars and vehicles on the road. So you're less afraid of something designed to catch fire and explode (gas) than something that is designed to operate safely at it's core (batteries)? That just doesn't make sense.

Other than being afraid of new technology. And that's totally ok. Its fine to say you don't like change or new technologies. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In everything we've done, there is always someone willing to lead the way, and others that will follow.

And the range anxiety is not really applicable to a bus. In fact you could say this is really the perfect use case for an EV.
Oof, that is a high monthly subscription cost
I feel the sentiment in my soul. Both the awe and wonder at the sense of adventure and unbridled creativity of it all, and the mourning at the knowledge that this is the beginning of the end.
> What are the safest industries in tech right now?

If anyone knew what's safe then you'd see investor dollars pouring into those industries right now. At the company level you'll have a much better chance of survival if your company makes a profit (which is frighteningly rare these days). But overall, during downturns, it's only possible to know what was safe when looking backwards.

My experience, having entered the work force in the shadow of the dotcom bust, is that the best path to safety in tech is to be in the highest percentile of skill you can be.

As boom periods extend more and more people flock to tech because of the money. If you were in industry pre-2008 you'll likely recall that most programmers in tech were in it because they had a passion for programming (especially in the growing startup scene at the time). Eventually we get to more recent years when you have boot camps just churning out mediocre devs.

Things were very similar in the dotcom boom, and after it went bust there were many programmers who never went back to programming. And nearly everyone took pay cuts.

One good thing that changes in crashes is people start looking for sincerely good and experienced people more and more. A seasoned dev, who during boom times is an annoying hire when you're just trying to drive up head count, becomes a valuable asset when you need just enough devs to get the job done.

So depending on how bad this gets determines which percentile you need to be in to maximize your probability of keeping your career. A small correction just means the bottom 10% disappear, in more severe cases only the top X% might survive. The other thing that changes is that interviewing will become as challenging as it was for the previous cohorts lower percentile. For example if you're just above average getting a job in the future will feel more like a newbie programmer just out of a bootcamp, if you're in the top 10% and previously didn't have to try to get jobs, it's going to feel more like an average dev struggling with their first leetcode interview.
They are almost certainly still hiring. It's correcting in some areas where they have enough fokls already.
So I know it sounds counterintuitive, but I have found that when I got an Apple Watch (the OG) it drastically changed my relationship with my phone.

Before if I got an alert I would want to open it, and then that turned into opening other apps and before I knew it I was in a spiral.

But with the Apple Watch I get the alerts I want (texts largely) on my watch and everything else is stuck on my phone. The important alerts are front and center, if I need to respond I either can from my watch or I can from another Apple Device (I often get an alert for a text on my watch and then open iMessage on my Mac for example).

So my phone now is much more... I purposefully open it when I need it instead of I need to respond to something and it turns into a spiral.

I know it isn't quite the same as being disconnected. But it is weird how much having those alerts on my wrist has drastically changed how I view my phone.
Why is it $270?? Pinephone is $150-$200
> If your EV runs out of juice, you have to have it towed to a charging station.

Maybe that's the situation near you currently, but as EVs get more popular, these services will as well. It's just inevitable.

https://thedriven.io/2022/02/01/melbourne-start-up-launches-...
Russia says it will quit the International Space Station after 2024
Recently on Twitter a lady was complaining about inflation. She posted a photo of about a week's worth of groceries and its combined new price, as this was what she typically bought every week.

The inflation part was instantly forgotten due to the "food" itself. The picture pretty much contained none. A carnaval of over processed food, carbs, sugars, supplemented with giant containers of sugar water. Not a single fresh thing, not a single high quality thing, not a single ingredient, nothing of any solid nutritional value.

And she has a family. This is what their two young children also eat. Nothing but garbage.

I'm not at all elitist, I enjoy junk food in moderation nor am I anything more than a reasonable cook. But I consider the above example of this culture an extreme case of neglect to the point it is actively harmful to the entire family.

It makes me mad because there's zero reasons for it. Every adult should be able to cook something basic, even more so if you have children. Surely it can't be rocket science to buy basic things like an egg, potatoes, veggies, rice...whichever, and prepare something semi-fresh? It costs less time than eating out.

If even that is too difficult, Youtube tells you how. If even that is too much effort, there's services dropping fresh ingredients at your home with instructions on what to do with it.
I think the threat model is a three letter agency demanding a list of customers from Mullvad. Mullvad does their best to make sure no such list exists, but by having credit card info they are forced to know your identity.
That is the argument made by Andrew Appel’s paper “garbage collection can be faster than stack allocation” https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/45.pdf and it’s the compilation strategy used by SML/NJ as set out in Appel’s book “compiling with continuations”
This is like a restaurant that has a QR code on the table instead of a menu.

Yes, it's absolutely possible for someone to use the QR code to fetch the menu from a website using their phone. But unless you do it often, you just don't even know how to do it.

Doctors are insulated from DICOM the same way that most humans don't normally type "h t t p : / /" They just click on links and things show up for them.
It helps someone who is HoH like me to enjoy content that would have had been previously very difficult to access, not just entertainment but educational and otherwise
Anecdotal but I've never had an issue with Google ads and I'm a novice.
Well yeah, but if it comes to a court case, someone will have to prove that the person that bought the card was also the one that used it. On top of evidence of actual crime, of course.
Yeah google is rapidly bureaucratizing. No doubt people are internally starting to establish territories and then bloat their teams to justify their salaries. While cutting off communication with adjacent teams. It’s usually how it goes.
The code must be scratched free first, so I assume Amazon doesn't know the code, and thus can't link it to a specific account. And I assume Mullvad themselves are not linking the code to an account either, but just checks validity and then charges up the account by the value.

There are probably indirect ways to force a linking, but they are probably also highly illegal. And people could also just exchange gift-cards or use more indirect ways to buy the cards, to dilute those data further. So overall this is a rather useful solution, as long as more than a handful people will buy them through amazon.
Privacy and user empowerment stopped around 2007 and most technological advances suit the capital and political classes for their benefit, hegemony and ability to control us. It’s time to stop buying new hardware and to be content using older hardware to halt the erosion of our privacy and maintain what little independence we have.
If your system doesn't have any slack in it, how can it respond to change? Having a slightly underloaded system is definitely the way to go, it leaves you with some gas to change direction if you see that you're barreling towards a cliff.
I'm definitely in that camp. 4Dwm was nice back in the day. I never got the appeal of CDE back then. That said, after looking at old screenshots, I definitely prefer anti-aliased fonts.
Being on the flight log doesn't prove a crime.

Situations like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Giuffre_v._Prince_And...

which are one person's word against another are the most frustrating cases when it comes to getting justice.
http://archive.today/G6QlD

https://web.archive.org/web/20220726013946/https://www.theat...
Oh neat! I feel like Facebook Messenger already does this sometimes where it combines emojis.
I've been thinking a bit abut trying out something different here. What I have in mind would be an alternative method that the user can opt for instead of the captcha (if flagged). It would be for those privacy people on Tor or Mullvad or what have you and will not compromise on privacy but may be a bit more techy/involve some form of crypto (no investments or new coins etc tho).

So you'd still have the CAPTCHA of today but with an alternative.

Assuming it's something that would seem to be a usable and smoother solution for those people you are today locking out or providing a hassle for without significant increase of malicious bots (maybe you'll even get less if it works all right and it means you can tune up the aggressiveness in the rest of the system), about how much willing would you be to try something out?

(I'm aware of PrivacyPass but IME while I did have it work at times, most of the time it works extremely poorly to the point of being unusable on both Cloudflare and hCapctcha, while maintenance and support seem on the backburner)
I wonder how the free stuff is taxed. It sounds like it would fit under a fringe benefit and technically would mean it’s taxable.
Non-paywalled: http://archive.today/G6QlD
Investor capital flows towards whatever will generate a return fastest. Money is flowing into shitcoins daily, should I take that as a signal that that's where innovation is happening? No, because innovation and investor sentiment do not map 1:1.
When I lived in NYC, I felt this was often true, but my hypothesis was that it was a reflection of the real estate footprint of grocery stores. A restaurant can receive daily shipments from vendors based in the outer boroughs (or further). If I really wanted to, I could have taken the subway to Queens for grocery runs, but that wasn't actually going to happen. But the Whole Foods on Houston takes up a large footprint of valuable real estate, and of course that drives up the price of everything. The choice between cooking and eating takeout weighs the labor of the kitchen staff (ideally low in a high throughput kitchen) vs the overhead of a supply chain which uses more high-value space.
If they truly understood the scam they’d know it doesn’t end where they win. So yes, they actually fell for it because they publicly participated in it.
Well yeah, but if you do it directly then your CC company knows. Someone will know, it's just a matter of who. You get to pick that.
While I agree, it isn't any less addicting than a Googled phone, sadly. I'm in agreement with the OP that I need something else, but I'm finding it both hard to get away from the iCloud infrastructure and also just part ways with a smartphone.

If I could get a dumb phone that could still run Google/Apple/Any Maps for GPS purposes, I'd be first in line.
Help us test system trust stores in Python
>I haven't seen HN use shadowbanning to censor anyone.

I have been. ( I would be surprised if you did see this message). Profile of the banned account is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dennis_jeeves
CosmicStrand: The discovery of a sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit
Maybe it's a signal-to-noise thing.

Companies that have been growing sustainably and building innovative technology that reduces costs 10x (in a recession) get a lot of attention. Especially if they are turning a profit without any accounting tricks.

Companies that were never going to be profitable are having problems raising money now and sounding the horns. There are a lot of those companies, especially on HN, but please don't categorically dismiss my experience as a fantasy.
Nice! To be honest my reaction to removing subscriptions was a bit 'ehh, I get it, I know I should be pleased, but subscriptions are actually really convenient'.

But this is pretty much fine. Maybe/hopefully (I'm not too lazy to check - 'GB' is 'upcoming') I can Amazon-subscribe and the only difference will be a bit of code-entering admin.
Because someone’s OKR or some other metric depends on it and they will keep it from being on the status page as long as possible until there’s no denying.
> just chess

Ah yes a game that reinforces that lowly peons should be sacrificed in battle so that the 1% can come out on top. No possible conflicts in morality there /s
It just feels like your want is just so niche it's unrealistic to produce the exact phone. If you stopped at wants 1 and 2, sure. When you start adding apps and a bad browser it's veering off into strange requirements because for those things to happen you essentially need to pay for a fully featured phone anyway.

It sounds like you could use an iPhone and only leave the phone, message(disable iMessage in settings), install whatever app or two you want, going settings and disable notifications, or put it in focus mode, or do not disturb mode, or do all three of those things. Then you can go into settings > safari > advanced and disable javascript.
This is why I always read HN with Show Dead turned on. Often, dead comments are the most interesting and thought-provoking in a thread.
Government grants come in all kind of amounts. Some a only a few thousand and some are 7 figures.
Clearly not the case. A very large number of people use these sorts of flows without problems coordinating or explaining.
The goal is not to prevent you from running Linux, is to make it so that Linux cannot access the content you are interested in.

Remote Attestation establishes a root of trust that can be used to verify that all of the software down the line is "approved":

- You won't be able to browse sites or use apps with ads unless you run a 'trusted' device, OS and browser that does not block ads.

- You won't be able to browse sites with captchas unless you run a 'trusted' device, OS and browser that does not allow bots to interact with the browser.

- You won't be able to run Netflix unless you run a 'trusted' device, OS and browser so that you can't record the content.

- You won't be able to play online games unless, again, you run a 'trusted' device and OS so that you cannot cheat, or more importantly modify it in any way (why would you purchase skins if you can mod them in?).

- You won't be able to use online banking unless you use a trusted OS because banks.

Remote Attestation is pretty terrifying and it will be here soon unless it is regulated out of existence, which is unlikely.
How can we calculate the mining reward once PoLW is activated?
See, this article made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end; I don't believe this is aimed at legitimate users of the service, but aimed at people who are told to go and buy one of these cards for someone else.
I will build you an $80k ARR business, I just need a $365mn down payment. If you want a business that loses $100mn a year, that will cost you a lot more - probably in the region of a $5bn down payment.
Microsoft 365 management is broken down into multiple admin centers. An admin center is a website used to manage part of the tenant. For example, there's an Exchange Online admin center that can help you manage the email portion of your Microsoft 365 tenant. Another SharePoint Online admin center to help manage the SharePoint Online part of your tenant.
I've always assumed that a VPN is a honeypot already, especially the bigger ones that advertise a lot.
Exactly. Plenty of smart people signal their acceptance of NFT nonsense because they see the gravy train and want a piece.
It was deliberately similar to contemporary Windows and OS/2. (Sadly the only part that stuck was CUA.)
> my employer quickly matched it

I have a very cynical view about this sort of behavior. I feel that managers do this to make the employee lose the offer at hand and then are put on the "first to be fired" list.

Once a decision has been made to move and you inform your employer that you are leaving, it is best to leave. Even if the counter offer is higher than the new offer. It just shows how dis-honest your manager is.
Let Things Burn
lol I feel like HN is in a fun mood today. I've seen lots of jokes today and it's been kind of nice.
It's interesting seeing the twitter comments:

[1]

> I never seen something more dystopian

>> Come on, you are in Los Angeles, just go to the corner if you want to see something more dystopian.

[2]

> What about human rights ?

>> I dunno ask your government.

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1. Their strategy seems to be "Deflect. Deflect. Deflect.". They never address criticism. They just focus on other problems.

2. If your response to a question about human rights is "I don't know", everyone should be scared.

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[1] https://twitter.com/adara_salim/status/1551750220643307525

[2] https://twitter.com/keeganc15/status/1551678707672178697
Why would you garbage collect something that is going to change in the first place? By definition there isn't a way to reach it any more.
Presumably you can use a lighter and drive a car though.

One of those two may no longer be the case for people soon...
What is stopping someone from creating this experience on a modern phone?
I don't have this problem. I can't stand and have never been able to stand browsing social media or the internet on smart phones. I have the latest iphone max, but I only use it for comms (phone, SMS, email, slack, discord, zoom if I'm on the go and really screwed) and taking pictures. I never have and never will "consume" on my phone unless I have absolutely no other choice of device to use (like if I were locked in an elevator with only my phone for several days). Mobile websites are terrible so when I do "consume" on my phone I inevitably check the "request desktop site" checkbox and do everything I can to avoid the site thinking I'm mobile, because once they know you're mobile 2/3rds of the features suddenly are unavailable typically. 99.99% of my media consumption, video watching, and web browsing is on my laptop or through various streaming devices like apple tv, etc. In the past I did play a few select mobile games that were quite good like Bloons TD, but I always gravitated towards the desktop version instead when it became available, and I find that these days there aren't any good games that aren't pay-to-win via microtransactions, at least none that come up when I poke around.

So for these reasons I've never understood how someone could find their phone addicting. It's an ad-displaying machine with terrble UX and limited functionality that can also do comms. I browse social media like Twitter, etc., on my laptop. I can't understand how anyone would ever want to do that on mobile.

My favorite phone I've ever owned was still my Lumia 1020 back in the golden days of windows phone. That phone embodied the two tasks I care about (comms and taking pictures), had a dark-mode UI way before that became popular, and generally just stayed out of the way and was performant.
> If they truly understood the scam they’d know it doesn’t end where they win.

Why?
Well, we cook at home almost every meal throughout the year. Something I noticed compared to old country that for lot of people here each meal is always about the food they like to eat at that time. Whereas for us that likeness/preferred meal is only couple times a week or so. Most meals are really like rotation of stuff from pantry and fridge.

If I were to eat only meals I feel like eating all the time it would be too much of mental hassle even if I could afford to purchase ingredients.
> Being on the flight log doesn't prove a crime.
Nah but it sure as shit warrants an investigation, something we won't get. I'm sure billy gates and willy clinton never did anything nefarious though :^))))
How to Change the Passage of Time
> The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

The first step is reducing net CO2 emission, and these kind of things are a good first step. (I prefer biodiesel/ethanol instead of fancy chemistry, but both go in the same direction.)
There are already a handful of Lorawan companies that have built out networks or partnered with telcos. They have raised money from places like Comcast. They will probably exit back to places like Comcast. Governments are often their customers. And they are way too boring for a16z.
RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
Often times, some take the extra step of utilizing services such as rdp.sh or any other "instantly" deployable VM in the cloud (these are services that take monero/cryptos btw), sort of like a bastion host. Once connected to that instance, they would then deploy their mullvad that was bought via amazon to add yet another layer of obfuscation.

Home ISP ---> (optional VPN to connect to rdp.sh deployed VM in the cloud) ----> Mullvad VPN on the bastion host

This is of course, not viable for the long term and very cumbersome to deal with if you're doing this on the daily. Unless you are under threat of a nation-state threat actor... you'll be fine.
But only briefly, because they'd have to sprint, so I'm ignoring that part.