skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had my son on an amazon android tablet the other weekend. Internet access disabled using parental controls. And by the end of that weekend, the tabs that I found opened on the default browser was crazy. All from clicking ads in various apps, auto-play videos, and what not. Ads for viagra, credit cards, home loan applications, other loans, mobile subscription content, etc. Luckily internet access was off so none of them loaded, but I could still see all the failed open tabs.

Tech giants will turn this example around and say "look we need more walled-gardens to protect users". But in reality, as soon as they open the floodgates, there will be solutions that can do the same without giving away more control to Google/Apple. The narrative has to change, and the first step is to give device owners full control.
What Does Israel Fear from This ‘Terrorist’? (2021)
My wife grew up in North Dakota where the brutal winters make life miserable for many people. I once asked what the benefit to living there might be and she repeated the oft-given reason the locals usually say - "It keeps the riff-raff out".

One of the reasons HN has a really good signal/noise ratio is that its simple design and lack of 'flashiness' does not attract the usual Internet crowd. Only people who really care about technology and the details of how it all works stick around here for very long. Those who want cat videos and meme discussions quickly move on.
Every laptop I've gotten has been good for programming. I been using laptops to code for 20 years. They were mostly HP and Dell. Recently I switched to MSI.
NASA's – Artemis 1 Moon Mission – Live Updates https://www.space.com/news/live/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-...

NASA Live : https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive/

NASA Live (youtube) - Official Stream of NASA TV's Media Channel : https://www.youtube.com/nasa/live

The Space Launch System (SLS) - USA Super Heavy-Lift Expendable Launch Vehicle : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

Artemis 1 - Planned un-Crewed test-flight for NASA's Artemis program : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1

The Artemis Program - Human spaceflight program led by NASA to explore the Moon : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
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Firefox Nightly + uBlock Origin seems to work well on Android
I found this with my ThinkPad. If I don't remember to completely power it down, I'll pull it out of my bag and it will be hot.
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That's just shifting the goal posts.

NASA Administrator Bolden is quoted to have said:

“Let’s be very honest,” Bolden said in an interview. “We don’t have a commercially available heavy-lift vehicle. The Falcon 9 Heavy may some day come about. It’s on the drawing board right now. SLS is real.”

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/nasa/adrift/2/
I've just switched from Surface Book 2 to Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3402ZA)

Pros:

- beautiful, bright display with 16:10 aspect ratio

- comfortable keyboard with backlight

- pretty decent battery life for my programming needs

- port selection (1 x USB 3.2 (2 Gen), 2x Thunderbolt 4, HDMI and audio jack)

- good performance

- beautiful design

Cons:

- if you try to run some games on it (it has Iris Xe Graphic card) - it will become hot very quickly

I've choose Zenbook, because I had one in the past (UX32LN model) - and it still holds up pretty well and works flawlessly while being used for office stuff by my wife (it will have 7 years now)
You really think so? I think discussion and moderation is consistently good. Perhaps the 'SF bay mainstream' is more just a reflection of the HN audience in general?
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"serious" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because it's a no-true scotsman: anyone not paying is not serious enough.

"advanced features" is also vague enough to be true no matter what you mean.

Practically speaking "magnetic notepad on a fridge accessible from anywhere" has been solved over and over and over again, and often in better ways.

Slack is a shiny UX on a middling bit of software with a good marketing department.
I’m slowly trying to make ansible playbook that pulls in my dot files and installs everything I need (node, rust, go, all my CLTs, etc).
In fact, when I first opened HN, I couldn't read the comments very well. Because the font is too small, the layout is dense, and there are no pictures. But when I started reading the comments carefully, I was really surprised by so many people being active on it and so insightful most of the comments are.

Now I'm actually getting used to reading these text-only pages.
Single Page Application Deployment on AWS
Ethereum’s energy use expected to reduce by more than 99 percent after “merge”
The only downside, and it feels like it's getting larger every year, is speed. You can tell Firefox rendering and js execution is behind on Chromium. On laptops/desktops there is plenty of HW to compensate, but not on phones, is my experience.
Drivers have no better option. It's easy to blame them as if they had the myriad employment options software engineers do. They don't, and the opportunity/operational cost of gig-work is not obvious or easy to overlook when you need to put food on the table tonight.
Yes, human spaceflight is expensive, but SLS takes it to the next level. You have to admit that SLS has been a bit of a boondoggle, and is looking increasingly irrelevant.

Given falcon 9 has been launching crew dragon for a numbe of years, and Starship is the selected lander, and falcon heavy exists for heavy lift, why continue with the SLS?

I for one will enjoy watching the launch, and am excited by humans travelling to space, but would have like to see NASAs stop shovelling good money after bad.
> Its questionable if the consumers are hurt, as basically SoftBank is subsidizing the consumers.

This subsidization is not free though. They are distorting and ruining markets in the process. Driving actually profitable competitors out of business, then collapsing themselves.
Err. I think that is quite extreme.

What we are seeing is an increasing number of wealthy people trying to fit into a system designed for a smaller number. I mean Harvard takes on a freshman year of 2,000 out of something like 3 million 18 year olds.

Most Ivy Leagues will have a small airport nearby. Usually Cessnas etc. On graduation day that thing is full of private Lear Jets.

The plain old wealthy, someone who worked hard built a successful company and retires - the American dream kind of thing we imagine here on HN. That person does not get a ducking look in at Harvard.

The system is failing everyone - which is kind of weird.

But nah. I don't think there are back rooms with smoke and cackling bankers working out how to stop the poor from reading.

I mean that was true in slave owning southern states but that's now just toned down to simple racism in the country club.

The problem is that the racists in the country club are only slowly coming aware how much the system is ducking them. None of them are able to say their daughters got into Harvard.

Hence Trumps popularity. He probably won't fix it but he at least says he will and blames the country club racists problems on the people that they hate (as opposed to the actual cause)
You didn’t finish your post - if information is power, how much should be shared?
It shouldn't matter if they were successful or not, the method is, as parent wrote, sustainable and has no place in a supposedly stable economy.

Just like a robbery is illegal no matter if it was successful or not.

Plenty of other companies employ the same tactic but within one company and calling products "loss-leaders". Microsoft can run GitHub without making any profits with GitHub itself, as they can spend money earned elsewhere on running GitHub as a "loss-leader", just in order to push out any competitor that doesn't have a huge corporate behind them.
Adguard adblocker for Android works also with an internal device only "VPN" and is not on the Play Store for a while (because of problems with Google Play Store rules). They are amazing and if you use an Android browser without internal adblocking (which I still think is better) such a VPN adblocker is a must for Android devices. I only had to whitelist a few applications like e.g. Google Photos. Have been using the app for some years and it's actively maintained.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html
There is nothing to substantiate the claim that Egyptian writing developed contemporarily to Sumerian. Sumer predates Egypt by almost 1,000 years
I have no particular dog I wish to back in the Microservice vs Monolith debate. But I think since you joined at the inflection point it's probably worth it to take a good look at why their monolith landed them in such a poor place and so that no matter what direction you go for the future you can at least make different mistakes.

Microservices won't magically fix issues with tightly coupled components or poor achitecture. Those problems can and do still happen with them.
> this is happening on a global scale and all major currencies do it (USD, CNY, EUR, JPY)

This is nonsense. Mathematically. OP argues Japanese companies print “a foreign currency profit for head office that requires converting foreign currency into” a falling local currency. That can’t simultaneously be true of the U.S. dollar and Japanese yen. If one currency is falling the other is rising.
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Why didn’t your friend exercise his options?
How to Give Bad News
Starship exists as much as SLS does.
Are you sure about the 3.5W? That seems high. An iPad at idle with the display on uses less than that.
> Edit: One issue with virtually any better-ish new laptop will be that the display won't be native sRGB. The LG Gram series uses P3 displays, for example (most will be similar), which means that colors will be over-saturated and especially reds will be very intense and orange-y.

I spent a week fine tuning Linux/Win11 with a new Dell monitor because reds were really weird. I know nothing about color management so it was really frustrating.
That particular question was not very well received when posed by NASA administrators.
Drones can be very quiet. I saw my police flying playing with one and it was a whisper even from 30 feet away.

I was surprised because I thought all drones had that annoyingly loud hum.
Apologies in advance for being off-topic, but —

is it just my perception, or has it become increasingly common over the last year or two to end questions with _in <current year>_?

I vaguely associate that with SEO spam sites, and I feel a little pinch each time I see an actual person pick up that pattern. It is as if a black hat SEO trope has invaded our consciousness.
> We are all in the same mess, Japan’s situation is just ahead of us

We are in opposite situations.

Japan has been fighting deflation for decades. The U.S. deployed massive stimulus to fight deflation and is now raising rates and cutting the budget deficit to fight the resulting inflation.
Would you mind sharing some things that juniors have forced that you think are bad?

I’ve recently switched jobs and my team doesn’t write integration tests for our services but rather manually test them with postman. It’s definitely odd and very inefficient.
There are a few thousand compiler jobs in the world. Maybe in the tens of thousands, i'm not sure. For everyone of them there are thousands (again I don't know how to measure, could be in the ten thousands) of programmers using the compiler.
When people say Uber drivers, they don't mean "oh he is employed by Uber as a driver", they just mean "he drives Uber".

Your 2nd paragraph above confirms my comment. Uber isn't the one who forced those shit working conditions on them, except for those who were employed as taxi drivers previously. They fell on a bad time, and Uber allows them to make money in bad conditions. Would you like them to just wait it out at pole emploi instead?
just get a dell workstation. the precision ones are good. just buy a new one every 2 years when the keyboard/power starts failing.
> In the year 2100, a lot more humans will have gone to space if we iterate quickly with unmanned projects for a few decades then as our capabilities increase, send humans.

IMO, it's just much more effective to do both with the same system - like Falcon 9 which can fly Crew Dragon, but can also do regular cargo to orbit. It's important to improve systems like life support, etc. Launch is not enough.

Architecture becomes toxic when you can only launch with crew ala the Shuttle. SLS is pretty close to that - there is technically a cargo version of the rocket, and there are theoretical plans to launch deep space probes. But with Artemis using 1 (and according to some sources, up to 2) SLSes per year, that doesn't leave many available for cargo missions.
The Page Boy was a project which would have allowed for the GB Color to wirelessly send/receive email, read news/sports results, get weather reports, use a "search engine", send GB camera photos/animations to other users, and even stream live video. Mario was to deliver small voice samples throughout usage which would be updated by Nintendo.

The product was pitched by a small firm called "Wizard" to senior Nintendo executives in 99. Nintendo responded enthusiastically, but the project was terminated in 02 due to the immaturity of the telecoms infrastructure at the time.
I am a 25 year Apple user but wanted to work on VR more alongside my normal dev work while remaining portable.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 inch is an excellent laptop. Fast, AMD Ryzen 9, NVIDIA 3070 or 3080, 32 GB RAM up to 48 GB, good battery, decent keyboard and trackpad, lots of ports, fast HDR 1440p screen.

only two issues from my late 2020 model: fans get hot and loud when you push it (this may have gotten better), and previous versions to 2022 had no camera.
Adguard works so well that I forget it's there until I try browsing the web away from home.
This list is maintained by Nadia Eghbal of "Working in public" fame. Great summary of the different mechanisms.

I'm working on something in this space. Would love some feedback. Putting final touches to it at https://thanks.dev. The concept is "my donation should distribute across my dependency tree".
> are distorting and ruining markets in the process

Which markets did they ruin?

Ride sharing and food delivery are bustling at the local level. The one who got screwed tried to match Son’s scale.
New York City AI Bias Law Charts New Territory for Employers
But also have regulation that identifies businesses which have "arguably" predatory business models. Just because you don't charge money for something, doesn't mean you are offering something for free whilst at the same time operating on a investment type ponzi/pyramid-like scheme that relies on user numbers and ad-eyeballs increasing.

As much as I'm an absolute free-market capitalist advocate, we need to all get it into our heads that it only works in an absolutely free market that isn't propped up in some areas by regulation. As soon as we start fiddling, we have to make sure we fiddle in the right spots, otherwise we're just solidifying and promoting an unhealthy/unfair/predatory market.
You made an explicit point of highlighting this "irrelevant detail" in multiple posts.
At school, they used to say that two don't fight if one doesn't want to. Except that was a lie. Bullies didn't get the memo, while teachers and parents were happy to repeat the lie, wash their hands and blame the victims.
"Overnight success makes millions" ... great headline, and then the story notes "after working 10 years towards the success"

"extra ordinary" is just as subjective as "ordinary" is. If a reporter has any skill at their chosen profession, they should be able to write an entertaining story about nearly anyone, highlighting some extraordinary or exceptional characteristic or experience they've had.

Everybody's got their own weird and wonderful.
> You're allowed to anything you can imagine for private purposes.

Not legally, no.
If DoorDash represents the drivers’ best option, it seems to me that we should be at least somewhat supportive of the arrangement they voluntarily enter into.

Taking away the drivers’ best option is, as you observe, not likely to leave them better off.
HP Dev One!!

It's a recently launched laptop, specially focused on developers and comes with PopOS. I've haven't seen a single bad review of this laptop. Only available in US though.

https://hpdevone.com/
> how much open source repos have become a part of many people's CV/resumé.

This is also possible because of competition. I am a student. All my peers grind much more Leetcode than me. So I put at least some code on GitHub and add that to resume. Not necessarily useful for others, but experiments I did etc.. included.
Usually it's not just 50 EUR cheaper, but a few hundreds EUR cheaper.

Is it worth the risk? It depends. I use it regularly to visit friends and family back in my home country. Usually not a big deal if it gets cancelled. If I have something important to do I flew out a few days early and sped that time with my family.
The internet is overwhelmingly filled with low quality tribalism, and one common format is "woe is me, the rational conservative underdog, shouted down and censored by the evil West coast elites", and of course the many politically reversed examples. I think people on HN are understandably jumpy about keeping that kind of stuff off HN, even though they may jump the gun sometimes and unfairly lump in things that merely smell like that, and aren't necessarily going in that direction yet.

And, while your observation probably does correspond with the political direction that such action leans, I've seen tons of cases of what I think are "jump the gun" downvotes from both directions.
True, they can choose between working a miserable job that at least allows them to live for a bit longer (which is a low fucking bar), or just die out in the streets. Capitalism is magnanimous.

There is nothing voluntary about not wanting to die. It's working under threat.
Musk/SpaceX have been working on Mars for literally decades at this point, and are very cognizant of the incredible difficulties involved. Here's a primer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program
houdini (3d animation package) can go pretty far with parametric flow based scene descriptions. I really wonder what's the actual scalability problem in other fields.
The Lenovo P-series are amazing. I used to use my P50 as a portable ESX server. The P16 is out now, I would love the larger screen but the newest hardware doesn't work perfectly on Linux yet.

I tried a P5xS model for a while, which is supposed to be a slimmer, lighter 'workstation', but the performance was severely lacking. They are only as powerful as the T series machines they are based on.

I no longer needed such a machine so I switched back to the X1 which is as close to a Mac as I think you can get.

From time to time I am issued various Dell or HP laptops from work, and frankly they aren't really comparable. The keyboards and trackpads are horrible, they're buggy...

However, I will say this about the Dell Latitude that is my currrent take home from the office: it will sit in the 90 degree weather, in the sun, and operate without any issues - unlike my iPhone. I'm sure it clocks down (I can hear the fan going), but it works without a hitch. The screen is a bit hard to read in the bright outdoors, but after changing profiles in my terminal/editor and bumping the font up 2 sizes it's not terrible.
So split it in half.

Imagine living in a world where we say "it's pointless! don't do anything, it's all out of your control." That's what we always say.

Imagine saying to someone losing weight "don't bother, losing 2 lbs this week is meaningless when you're 100 overweight."

Defeatist ideology. I get it, you want to be "right" while the problems continue. A classic problem with engineers - think of everyway it is meaningless or doesn't work, instead of "how can I make this work?" The solutions are not mutually exclusive. If the deficit is 2% then a 2% reduction in household use can be effective. Even if it's 4%.
Surprisingly comments sections often have this - if you can wade through them.

Watching a video on a repair on YouTube? Before commencing check the comments and see if there’s anyone pointing something out. Often there is and you can find tips or pitfalls to avoid.

The value of HN-style moderation becomes clear when reading years old threads - most everything is on point and relevant even decades later.
Windows 10 and 11 can run https://github.com/ledoge/dwm_lut ("applies 3D LUTs to the Windows desktop by hooking into DWM")
Good point. Another thing is that program gets desugared into graphs anyway..
I've heard a saying (living in Tokyo and close to the Startup scene) that if you have a startup and Softbank comes in calling, you better take their investments or they'll bankroll your competition enough to put you out of business.
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Yeah, I think almost everyone recognises the decisions were more about politics, than sending people to the moon. It's a real shame, as blatent waste just gives space detractors very valid arguments to reduce NASA's budget.
NASA's – Artemis 1 SLS Moon Rocket Launch – Webcasts
> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads

In my case, I browse a limited number of web sites that offer no ads (or a minimum amount). The moment I visit a web site with tons of ads, I just close it immediately and just ignore my original intention of visiting that website (e.g., this happens sometimes in HN: people link websites of newspapers, but I don't last in them more than 2 seconds)
I dont know how anyone can work all day on a 15 in screen, drives me crazy.
NASA's – Artemis 1 Moon Mission – Live Updates : https://www.space.com/news/live/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-...

NASA Live : https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive/

NASA Live (youtube) – Official Stream of NASA TV's Media Channel : https://www.youtube.com/nasa/live

The Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 – Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25

The Space Launch System (SLS) – USA Super Heavy-Lift Expendable Launch Vehicle : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

Artemis 1 – Planned un-Crewed test-flight for NASA's Artemis program : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1

The Artemis Program – Human spaceflight program led by NASA to explore the Moon : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
> On the road, you often only need 2 ports - one for charging and one for whatever momentary things you need to plug in briefly.

perhaps that's all you often need, it's a little presumptuous to say so about others
Canada, where power is governed at the provincial level. Province was Nova Scotia. Dealing with the government utility was slow and inconvenient. Tech was solar and wind to battery.
I haven't had the same issues with my framework. I'm running an Intel 11-gen i5 version of a framework I bought in Feb of '22. Sure the battery life sucks for Fedora and the trackpad is a overly sensitive but overall it's worked fine for me. I complained to them about a noisy fan and they sent me a new one.

Perhaps there's some variability in the build quality between machines or batches. I've been happy with my purchase.