skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the real culprits are the digital "gas stations" that make money hand-over-fist with TikTok's engagement loop. Apple, Google, and to an extent, Microsoft are all complicit in letting people make addictive experiences that promote their respective platforms. Much like the gas station, the smartphone is ubiquitous. Everyone passes by the TikTok aisle on their way to texting their mom or Googling a pie recipe, rich or poor. Worse yet, the guilt they feel for their addiction causes people to hide it. Nobody wants to address it, they just want to scroll their For You Page, enveloped in the comfort of homogeneous content. I normally don't glean empathy from people who make bad choices, but social media just makes me sad.

I think, ultimately, the only solution will be stripping platform owners of their power. Google and Apple have both undeniably abused their market position to promote harmful content and shelter the problems that TikTok causes. We'll either die in the shackles of our own corporations, or live long enough to watch them topple over.
Hi everyone, I have build this long back. Posting it here in case you find it useful. I made summarization work completely on client side by running python library in android.
you cannot blame people. Do you blame Russians/Soviets and Chinese when their media are state organs that set agendas and promulgate state positions?

Yes, blame the media --all of them they all have abandoned principles of neutrality in favor of ideology and partisanship. It wasn't so during Clinton or Bush's time (not that any of the two were any good).
as someone who is re-learning to code now after a 15 year absence, django is for sure making it feel amazing. Sometimes folks in this community overthink normal people's actual needs when it comes to programming tools, Django seems to support most everyday uses just fine.
Interesting to hear this. I'm getting a bit annoyed about too much reliance on iOS/Android apps myself, but at least for most banks around here I still have the option of alternatives. I do miss my printed out lists of verification numbers, but I could pay for SMS delivery or get one of those smartcard readers.

Which, now that I looked it up, seem to be a German peculiarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_num...

Another annoyance lately is traveling. I need two apps for the car sharing services, two for public transit, maybe another handful for scooters/bike rental etc.
I can absolutely guarantee you making SMP work in a cache incoherent environment is a hard problem. :)
Kids Are Back in Classrooms and Laptops Are Still Spying on Them
Yeah, partisan politics are everything that is wrong with our country. It's just a big race to the bottom. "How dare you suggest my party needs to improve instead of fixating solely on The Other Party which is at least 1% worse than us (if you squint)". Too many people putting their party over their country; too much hatred between compatriots.
Didn't feel like it at all when I did it.

Maybe they didn't understand the reasons - I hate clickbait thumbnails and titles.
Many decisions are made in seconds based on an impression from an ad, or walking by a product in a store. Sure some purchasing decisions may linger for days, months or years, but even with such long times to ponder a final decision, there are likely a huge list of options that were thrown out in seconds because some aspect of the product message didn't resonate.
I find it hard to try to blame the cigarette (or any) companies in a world where maximizing money is encouraged. Don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm not trying to justify anything, but there would be another tiktok instantly exploiting the opportunity if tiktok would vanish.
Oh God no. I hope they pour tons of money to find out people won't buy their shitty NFTs.
> Are you suggesting a different technology stack for the fundamentals?

It's not that important in general. But I assumed that if you're already overwhelmed by JS infra, you might get a smoother initial experience with less messy yet still interpreted dynamic language like ruby.
Thanks for the request. Could you give me the best sources in Canada similar to zillow? I can try and explore if I can scrape it.
I feel that I am in the same bucket. Especially with WEB/API architecture. I've got a decent set of architecture rules that have worked well for every company I've joined. But asides from minor syntax/style opinions, no one ever challenges these rules.

Likely because any consistent architecture is going to work fine. And the typical developer is writing code with a business need in mind. So it pays to stick to something simple rather than experiment with new design patterns.
What is it then? I would class intentional communication with the public for the purposes of inculcating a positive association with your organization as advertising, and so would most people I know.
> Kepler's laws are explanatory because they explain planetary motion as a result of Newton's law of universal gravitation

So "explanatory" means that the theory references some other theory?
"changes hands"

Meaning, if you give or sell the ebook to someone else.

Yes, anyone should be able to give someone a book for free.
I thought the NFT market, which is mostly art, plunged 90%+. And of the remaining, a number of them are still wash sales. Is that not the case? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding what it means for royalty market to be fine in NFT art world.
We should instead make mandatory a couple of years of research for everyone.

1. You learn that you know nothing, even for the slimmest slice of science

2. You learn that a search on the internet, twitter whatever will not help

3. You learn that you have to put the work to start understanding

4. You learn how to learn in depth

5. You learn how cope with failure and yes how to learn from it
Yes, I had the dubious pleasure when I dabbled (thankfully briefly) with Azure's CosmosDB!
I guess they're finally fully admitting that subscriptions mean nothing anymore and are YOLOing away.
Tinder steps back from metaverse dating plans as business falters
It does but I guess it’d be nice to see both at the same time.
It's pretty poor rhetoric to claim a majority when you actually mean a tiny minority
With recent lack of Raspberry Pi boards I've been looking for alternatives to run Klipper. I happen to have two Beaglebone Black boards that could control my two printers over USB. Unfortunately, all of the Beaglebone Black support is assuming the printer is directly wired into the SBC GPIOs. I'm not creating a custom printer, only trying to control an existing one. Another complication is the only way to install Klipper and it's components is to build it one's self - no packages, only Python's pip. Doing so quickly eats up all of the Beaglebone's eMMC storage, making the device inoperable. Kind of bizzare that a Klipper install would require ~4G of space. I suppose the next step is to try and create an image using Yocto with everything pre-installed. It's a lot of hoops to jump through.
Not just for displaying text, but monitors have traditionally updated from left-to-right, top down. If you update the frame buffer in the middle of the screen refreshing, you end up with screen tearing, which is when the frame that gets drawn has the top of the previous frame, and torn in the middle to display the next frame below.
> python2 was deprecated
ffmpeg had about infinite amount of releases and API changes

Yay. Why do i need python for a music player ?
It’s also a self fulfilling prophecy too.
(Saying this in the voice of Austin Powers) - Athankyu
And this is at least the 4th or 5th time within 10 days that either the website is down or performance is badly degraded.

So bad for a website that is basically the go-to resource where IT professionals get their answers.

So bad that the whole platform is closed-source, so we can't even spin multiple instances.

The main resource used by developers and sysadmins around the world is locked and centralized, and when that central place goes down all the answers go down with it.

We need crawlers and scrapers to download EVERYTHING out of the SE platforms, and they need to do so on a daily basis. All content on SE must be mirrored across the world, and if they don't want to do it then we'll do the scraping for them.

And, most of all, we need alternatives that are open and decentralized, and we need them right now.
But plenty to do with distillation, which is the mechanism this solar device uses
Yes, this usage is basically "wahrscheinlich". Here it is a rhetorical device to soften the author's conclusion:

> The bottom line is that, with the announcement on July 28 of a two-quarter GDP decline, we can be highly confident that the U.S. economy entered a recession early in 2022.

This will usually be the case. When something is likely X it is probably X, not possibly X.
Well I'm not 100% sure how it is these days, but IIRC OVH IPs used to have a bad reputation, because their cheap prices attracted spammers. On the other hand, my current e-mail provider uses Hetzner and I haven't had any problems getting my e-mails delivered, so who knows.

I currently host my stuff on Uberspace, if I needed a 'real' VM I would probably go with TransIP because I already have my domains there and they are local to my country. I'm just talking from a personal perspective though, I'm not hosting any business servers or anything like that.

Admittedly it's also very possible that the reason you hear more about issues with OVH and Hetzner is just because they have more customers.
>I tend to associate excessive enthusiasm for pythons async await framework as a sign of immaturity and potential for doing things without understanding them fully.

Couldn't it be the inverse? I.e. your inexeperience with async code in other languages, and not understanding it fully, translating into "new thing aversion"?
This is going to make django-ninja even easier to use, so it's very welcome.

And if you like django and never tried django ninja, it's like DRF and FastAPI had a baby: https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/. You define your endpoints using pydantic type hints, and it generates the API, validators and docs all in one go.
Ah, apologies I misunderstood. Outbound email from gmail appears to work for me. Perhaps google's servers are having trouble reaching the domain you are sending to or maybe a specific cluster you are connecting to are having an issue.

Does your domain look ok in the EDNS tester [1] and in the delegation tester? [2] Refresh the delegation tester a couple times as their timeout is really short.

Edit: I forgot to add the MX toolbox [3]

[1] - https://ednscomp.isc.org/ednscomp?zone=

[2] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/

[3] - https://mxtoolbox.com/
> Media has spent last 5 years creating false narratives just because they don’t like the orange guy

Nevermind the 8 years before that with the black guy.

> the root cause of this problem is not those 60% or whatever then number is on the other side, it’s lack of objective and trustworthy institutions like media.

I agree. It takes 2 to tango; it's still important to apply accountability proportionally.
I want more freedoms than just the ability to complain about not having freedom though.
Same experience! I watch on NewPipe and the recommendations are very good: videos related to the video I'm watching. I open a video “How jet engines work” and the recommendations are more “engineering visualisation”-type videos, I open a lecture by Yanis Varoufakis and the recommendations are more lectures and debates on economics, I open a CCC talk on the Amiga and the recommendations are more excellent CCC talks. But the key is: not being logged in, or the “enhanced recommendations” (ironically the value-add part, supposedly) fuck everything up.
>Successful architects in agile organisations no longer see their role as exclusively making architectural decisions. They see their role as ensuring good architectural decisions get made. Mostly by team members, sometimes with support from the architect and rarely by the architect themself.

This paragraph resonated well with me. Someone does need to make sure good decisions are made (and by extension, how we define "good" and "goals" for the architecture), but the team should understand the how and why, and be part of those discussions. IMHO, this elevates the team as a whole.
The charitable interpretation is people want the president to do something about it, and he first must admit it exists.

Imagine the frustration if your house were on fire and the fireman is telling you that nothing is wrong.
The "rest" that hates it is also a very vocal minority, probably even less than the 8-10%.

Most people don't give a shit about it. Assuming the rest does is heavy projection.
Not my president did not mean he was falsely elected, it was that they found him repulsive.
When it comes to music, it usually takes up to 5 songs on autoplay before YouTube will get in a rut and replay the same exact sequence of 8 songs. Every. Time. Forever. It's not that I dislike those songs, but I think I'm starting to at this rate.
>So you think publishers only deserve to get paid for the first copy, and then all of humanity should be free to replicate and distribute their work for no cost?

Unironically yes. Copyright is a moral evil, and "intellectual property" is a legal fiction. No one owns ideas.

That being said, I'm pragmatic and realize that copyright (and patents/trademarks/etc.) can be a necessary evil as well, which is why I'd fully support lowering copyright down to 10 or 20 years or so. No reason Disney should have exclusive rights to their latest Marvel CGI-fest for longer than someone who discovers a cure for cancer would have exclusive rights to profit from their discovery.
from collecting excessive data on users

Nothing's going to happen for at least a generation. Boomers/Gen Xers in power need to die off, they don't/refuse to understand the Internet.
My go-to recommendation was ballroom (swing, blues, etc.) dance. If you're in a major US city, there's usually either a college or professionals scene where pretty much anybody can show up. Formal ettiquite, a structure to socialize on top of, and a filter for people who want to interact was a good combination. But it's a little different now after 2020.

Nowadays, I would recommend looking into gardening, beekeeping, or homesteading groups in your area. As food prices go up, there has been a surge in these. I meet a lot of interesting people in these kind of meetups.
GLSL Is Hard – Stop Using Operators and Love the V_vTexcoord
Ask HN: Has the YC application changed in focus?
I applied to YC around 2017, and I seem to remember a lot of questions about the founders. Per what PG has always written about, the people were the big focus of what you were backing when investing in an early-stage startup.

I just looked at the application today, and it feels like that focus has been lost. Is this just in my imagination or have the questions shifted quite a bit?
I also feel that the questions would be too open ended for the stackexchange model
I just read https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/11/they-actually-want... and didnt believe it. Turns out its true :o

You are very lucky nobody at your company caught on yet. My suggestion is hire me as a subcontractor - I will do your job for half your wage, you will have plenty of spare time to do whatever.
>> It works the other way too: Wen did you last see Magnus play on Chess.com?

> Actually, I don't get your point here. Ideally players would be free to make their own decisions on an ongoing basis, which is what we assume Magnus is doing.

In this respect Magnus doesn't think like a player.
As owner/investor of Chess24 why advertise Chess.com?
He sticks to Chess24 and once in a while to Lichess.

Who broke the news that Magnus wasn't going to play Nepo?
Chess24 of course - not a coincidence.
This looks like an essential tool to have on your side for working. I will for sure recommend it to dev around me. Well done Alex and Jason!
Kind of wild to think that we have all these cities next to the Great Lakes and we're just sort of letting them decay.
Pearson is a great example of how a single company can have such a profound effect on the accelerating decline of an educational system.

If you ask a soda manufacturer if water is good for you expect a point of contention, and with Pearson the same. That which is good for society might not and often is not good for a particular companies bottom line.
Me also, still rolling code for custom embedded hardware at 65. Started in the mid 1980s, in embedded, running proprietary RTOS, then later, commercial RTOS (pSOS, vxWorks, ThreadX, QNX), then NetBSD, and now Linux.

The amount of Python code I have written in the last three years, when I really only learned Python six years ago....
> If I was running a trading clearing house, or Instagram, I'd probably care about marginal improvements, and then use another language.

Ha, Instagram was written in Django!
I don't know man, the article doesn't seem to be a device, more like a method, and their only example was a tiny tiny vial. I can't tell how big the device for a family of 4 would be.

The man in this video [0] claims to be able to collect 10 liters of water in a day. His simple facility is less than 2 square meters but easily scalable.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIPSqszu8qg
There is another possibility: stating something as a fact could have legal implications (especially if it isn't "true"), but stating an opinion is often fine. So, I would read this as "Our opinion is the U.S. economy is in a recession (not a fact)", despite the article trying to convince you. It even finishes off with

> "we can be highly confident that the U.S. economy entered a recession early in 2022."

which is stronger than "likely", but still shy of saying that it is so.
YT Ruined by "You too, can strike it rich on YouTube"
"Do not use Strava, it will only make you feel slow"
People should be able to do that.

Absolutely, 100%.

I hope it didn't appear that I was saying otherwise - I was purely stating an observation.

I would feel that way about any kind of government payments, "aid" or otherwise. However, I think it's especially true for money marked as economic stimulus payments. That money is specifically meant to... stimulate the economy. It's meant to be spent.

Even rich people "playing" with money stimulates the economy, because they are spending the money.
I thought that USA doesn't allow copyrighting facts which to me numeric values certainly are.
My worst tech decision: A G Suite account for personal use
Do you run anything on them then? I think the article's argument holds for any software, not just Linux.
This feels like pga vs LIV in the golf world - just platforms trying their hardest to be anticompetitive and players/viewers losing out.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/zSJ8B

TL;DR: Basically these people are ruining it for the rest of us.
My googling seems to indicate;

> All of the past 12 recessions identified by the National Bureau of Economic Research have seen at least two quarters of negative GDP growth, and, conversely, each instance of at least two quarters of negative GDP growth has later been declared a recession.

Is this untrue? Perhaps, because some other sites list 14 recessions not 12… Then there’s also this;

> Over the past 75 years, there’s been a U.S. recession every time real GDP has fallen for two consecutive quarters (in Q2 1947 and Q3 1947, real GDP did decline without a recession).

> Over those 75 years there have also been two recessions without back-to-back declines in real GDP, namely the 1960-61 and 2001 recessions.
Ah ok I missed that. The draw routines andy wrote have applesoft entry points.
Dude. Take off the political glasses.

Disney lost value because it's mismanaged by a horrible CEO, and hasn't produced anything meaningful outside of Marvel and Star Wars since forever. Add to that a struggling parks business in general, combined with epic mismanagement around "maybe we should just target people who want $5K hotel rooms and $2K drinks", and... here we are.

Netflix, similarly, suffers from self-inflicted wounds. Their struggling attempts to monetize account sharing are a much too late financial attempt to paper over the fact that their auth system is... not so good. Mildly put. Their content content has taken a deep turn towards "reality" schlock after they so brilliantly ousted Cindy Holland (who was responsible for bringing good content) while elevating Bela Bajaria (the king of garbage shows). Those shows play well on social media, but they do shit all for the bottom line.

It's not "went woke", it's "leaned into incompetence".

The same holds true on the political side. A large chunk of the recession rests firmly on politicians who completely and utterly fucked up the handling of the pandemic. Republicans and Democrats both. Different flavors of incompetence, but... it was a shit show either way.
I understand that having ADHD would make this more diffcult, but I have found it helpful to use the feature on my phone (iOS, but presumably Android has similar) which limits the total amount of time I can use a particular app every day.

When the time limit is up, I can still keep using the app if I want to, but often that is a sufficient reminder ("I've already been using this app for an hour?!") that I can stop.

I appreciate this feature because I can enjoy the app but also still feel in control of my time.
SAME. No one tells you about the M420 command. Worse of all, the original Ender 3 does not have a config EEPROM so it saves the settings on the SD card. Sometimes I’m not 100% sure if the bed mesh is even saved/loaded. Klipper took away all the doubt. Too bad RPi4 are still so hard to find or I would tell all my friends to change to Klipper.
As a freshman, I had to buy a calculus textbook. Now, this was introductory calculus, pretty much the stuff Newton/Leibniz invented and nothing else. It's been the same for centuries.

But the textbook was on version 9. Nine! Why? Because every year, a new version was sold, with the only difference being the problems are numbered differently - so when the professor handed out homework, you needed the new version to keep up.

I'm an uber-capitalist, but making money should come from adding value, not whatever these idiots are doing.
Middle america would be devastated by this move. The coasts + Texas would be overwhelmingly rich vs the poor flyover country states.
I wasn't thinking of it as a public threat, more of a personal log of people who I don't consider trustworthy.

I unfollowed a lot of people over the last year who had turned to pushing scams. The problem is, my memory is short. I'll soon forget who the scam artists were, and, if they scrub their profiles clean, I'll probably end up following them again.
The list of members of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee is publicly available. The chair has been on the committee since 1978, so even if Krugman joined he would not be the leader (and frankly the board would be insane to follow him rather than Christina Romer even if the older members dropped out).

Please avoid creating easily debunked conspiracy theories.
Hillary literally conceded the day after the election.

Has Trump ever admitted that he lost?
Ford Corporate is livid with their dealers. Back in 2018 when they put out the Focus RS, dealers basically killed that car with markups. Dealers all marked them up 20-30k which put them around 70-80k OTD. While some bought it at that price, they all just languished on the lot and Ford eventually cancelled due to sluggish sales.

An almost similar thing happened to the F150 Lightning, Ford had to threaten dealers that they would withhold any future deliveries if they caught wind of markups.