skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the real shift was generational: by 1979 it was the cusp of the earliest Boomers who were raising young kids. They weren't like their parents, growing up in post-war life: They were scared of urban pollution and crime, and didn't have a popular collective experience like WWII, but a divisive one(the 60's, in sum) which helped produce a variety of bogeyman narratives of dangerous Vietnam veterans roaming the streets, illegal immigrants selling drugs, Satanic cult leaders and so forth. Part of the embracing of Reagan's America was in overlooking the parts of this narrative that were self-inflicted by prior US actions, and moving blame to scapegoats. Thus, "stranger danger", distrust of the city, and a general self-alienation with society in favor of personal safety was normalized at that time.

There were definite benefits to the Boomer outlook at the time: smog was curtailed, health-conscious diet and regular exercise became a popular idea(albeit heavily fad-driven). But it also created a more litigious, low-trust climate, which has only driven in the alienation further. Today's political climate is a sort of crescendo on all those concerns, and I see in the current working-age generations much greater willingness to change the deal.
This is because the author and many others make the trivial error of not measuring how many people it cost to build those bridges. And when I say cost, I don't mean headcount.

11 people died building the Golden Gate Bridge. Safety does cost more time. But it saves people.
There's nothing overblown about being forced out of a neighborhood you've lived in all of your life. Now the problem is reaching epic proportions all over the world.

I also do not understand how the second sentence and the last aren't a direct contradiction of each other.
No one is running their OLTP and batch processing workloads on sqlite (bedrock or not) at scale. There may be unique cases for specific situations but show me an org with large and broad concurrency demands running sqlite at scale and I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Peripheral neuropathy is the symptom, not the underlying issue. Zyrtec is popular among people who frequently sneeze but it's probably not what you're looking for if you're ingesting so much of a substance that it makes you sneeze uncontrollably.

Do you really want to be the person who has to explain to the doctor that you have no feeling in your hands because you're taking so much B6 every day for a bit of anxiety relief that it fried your nerves, but you thought that you could just cancel it out by taking a ridiculous amount of B1? Especially when there's so much else that can treat anxiety, including well-studied and benign things like lavender oil?
How did many people “give up on USB” when that’s all that is available on PCs?

Besides, wireless charging is much slower and video over wireless introduces lag.
Hard left politics would build housing or pass legislation/policies that encouraged it rather than preserve the wealth of already wealthy property owners through discouraging new building.

There is more to left politics or even sane politics than being socially very liberal.
Do you know if there is an ebook of this anywhere?

It’s out of print and used books from people I don’t know gross me out. It’s weird I know. Like a phobia almost.
Maybe counting unimproved land?
can you tell me if a market like India is on your radar? i mean i use an old dell e7440 because the current sold laptops on amazon are basically the same with mostly structural differences and now epidemic of having windows license prices baked in to the product and no way to get without it.

sure, the OEMs have their local websites and you can order from there without windows but your options are seriously limited.

then you have included ram limited to like 8GB for upwards of around 50k inr which is just insane. if one were to do a BOM on these brand new laptops, the markups would be insane.

with something like framework, i could potentially get the products at a same/cheaper rate because it is "upgradeable" and also because i dont have to pay for windows
I’m beginning to believe it’s just a Russian euphemism for assassination or murder. Like saying “he sleeps with the fishes.”
Not so when it involves crossing country lines.

A country should focus on its citizens first, foreigners second.

Then again EU is an unique experiment as it is.
This was the comment I came here to post. The son of Ukrainian/Belarusian Jewish immigrants, family was and is everything to us; but immigrating, while "hard" is still sometimes the right thing to do.

I have yet to meet the child of a Jewish family who does not intimately understand this, given how frequently those families often had to move, while staying extremely close.
softwood is horrible to use. The resin in it burns up and gums up in the chimney and can cause chimney fires.

Ya its free but also burns quick and doesn't put out enough heat.
You may wanted to say 1Gbps
Gosling was hilarious in that movie. He seems to really enjoy playing goofy stuff. He is funny in his SNL appearances as well.

But Clooney is a master at goofy. Intolerable Cruelty is the most underrated movie ever.
Haha, I see! Good one.
I build locally. I’ve heard good things about sccache, but have never used it.
Again you mention the number of startups that do something, how is that relevant without reasoning why that is good?

I don't know the entire history of startups or for that matter DLP more than you do but mistakes and sabotage happen at any commercial entity and this is not an easy problem to solve at large enterprises as you probably know even more than myself, but as a startup you can define data classification and handling policies early on and a DLP is just a tool to help you enforce that and by DLP I don't mean a firewall but MS Information Protection in this case. You control how secret and sensitive information is shared and stored. You use it to build a solid culture of secure data handling. It becomes more costly and difficult as you grow larger and you avoid costly mistakes and sabotage because you have a good handle on where your data is and how it flows.

My point wasn't that startup should implement MSIP/DLP and O365 but that a checklist on HN and copycatting is not the best way. Get a consultant to help you get things straight based on your specific business goals/needs (maybe you will cash out in 5 years and just don't care so get gsuite and take the risk). There is no generic one size fits all checklist where if you do those things that means your random startup's security is going in the right direction.

If you're fintech or work with government contracts you really do need MSIP or the equivalent, if you're selling a new cool database product that is FOSS maybe you're like a decade away from even considering it. My post was anti-checklist mainly. If you care about security let a pro help you plan it according to your needs instead if checking a few boxes and hoping that was enough.

And startups do get hacked and get their data stolen although most won't advertise it to the public.
A lot of that is politically motivated suspension of disbelieve rather than national credulity though.
VSCode's built-in Git features and the extension Git Graph are well-made, cross platform, and meets most basic needs. For complex operations, Git CLI is still necessary.

Fork is an excellent Git GUI for Mac and Windows. It's a paid product, and not open source.

https://fork.dev/

Also, DiffMerge is a useful tool that integrates well with a Git GUI, to visually compare and merge files on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Assassination Attempt Foiled in Argentina: Gun Triggered on VP Cristina Kirchner
This is an ongoing news.
So far all that is known is that the person is from Brazil, and there were 5 bullets in the gun (But the chamber was empty).
If bodies like the EU stepped in, we would still be “mandated” to use micro USB. When the EU first was thinking about “mandating” a standard, that’s what they were referring to.
In my youth, I did too.

Still do.

I don't have the energy or desire for it any more, but I found some of the experiences beautiful, mind-changing and life affirming. Others were simply ludicrous amounts of fun. And a few were merely boring. These days I'm a successful software engineer in a finance-adjacent space, making good money, living the dream.

I don't think LSD is some wonder drug that will save the world, but I do think that there is value in these substances. Young people should be given access to safety advice and clean, measured substances, not scare stories.
Organizations are being denied cyber liability coverage for not having EDR across the board. Without the data to prove what didn’t happen, most regs require assuming the worst, possibly resulting in hefty fines. Unfortunately the current cyber landscape does not favor the worker.
The $0.01 savings is for the maker, and not for the buyer.

For a typical cable, it's probably around $0.30 to $0.50 to make, and they tend to sell between $5 and $15, depending on the spec.

For simplicity's sake, we'll assume $0.50 cables that sell for $10. Now, if you save $0.01 in manufacturing, so the cost is now $0.49, and if you sell say 100k cables (feels like a believable amount) then you've saved a cool $1000 in making them. So your profits are $1000 larger now, and you can pat yourself on the back. Good job!

The kicker then is how those profits can be used to make MORE cables. And $1000 of extra profits means $1000 of extra cables. Just over 2000 more, in fact, which you can also sell for $10 each.

Those extra 2000 cables have now earned you a cool $20k of profit ALONE, from only $1000 saved dollars, which itself was from only a single saved cent! Amazing job!

If you keep repeating this, you can probably start to see how this begins to run away:

Even starting with only $1 to make $0.49 cables, you end up earning over $1M on your 19th batch, even if you were spending only 10% of your sales to make new batches of cables and pocketing the other 90%! You actually pocket $1.5M on that batch, and then only spend $167k on the next batch, which promises to earn you even more!

Meanwhile, your competitor making $0.50 cables, starting with a similar $1 and 10% to new batches scheme, would only get to pocket $1.1M on their 19th batch! That $400k is a pretty tidy bonus you've earned.

On your 20th batch, you're selling 80k cables, but your competitor can only afford to sell $60k. We've not even reached the 100k a batch mark, let alone a million cables, and you're already way ahead.

And that's compound interest, folks! From $1, saving only a single cent, we can earn $400k more than we would have otherwise. Outstanding.

EDIT: I took so long to write this that I see andrewstuart2 has summed up the first half of the story far more concisely than I. Nicely done! I feel that compound interest is important for seeing the bigger picture of profit over time, so I'll keep this comment as is.
>I recall as a teen how hard it was to recommend antivirus because so many of them were garbage.

Spybot Search and Destroy + Adaware were always a knockout combo until maybe 2010?
Long Covid responsible for about a third of unfilled jobs in the U.S. – research
I don't know what to tell you, other than that you're trying to relate large enterprise security to startups, and that's simply not how it's done.
> In large part by not asking restaurants for permission to list them on DoorDash's platform and publish their menus.

Unsurprising - I think a few months ago someone posted a list of big software companies and the iffy strategies that they used to get market share.
That sounds like a leadership problem rather than an indictment of sqlite
"ASK HN: My GPT-3 spam responder got hired for a job at Infosys. Now what?"
I think the housing crises has caused a lot of it. I am trying to have kids in my mid 30s, in large part because it took that long until I was financially stable. I can't even imagine what it must be like for a non software engineer.

Maybe a lower population -> lower housing prices -> easier to start a family will cause some sort of equilibrium.
> In large part by not asking restaurants for permission to list them on DoorDash's platform and publish their menus. A lot of restaurants complained about this but DoorDash didn't care. In cities like Seattle, this was made illegal but by then DoorDash was too big. A lot of these VC funded companies use shady tactics to grow and usually have powerful allies in the right places. Btw, AirBnB was also notorious for spamming Craigslist using bots to bootstrap their two-sided marketplace

How true is this?

What I understand is DoorDash lists restaurant and their menus without permission. Does that mean DoorDash doesn’t charge a listing-fee and gets revenue purely from those who order food?
CDC estimates of flu deaths in the US per year: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html

For the 2019-2020 year, there was an estimated 20,000 deaths for an average of 384 per week.

For the 2018-2019 year, there was an estimated 28,000 deaths for an average of 538 per week.

For the 2017-2018 year, there was an estimated 52,000 deaths for an average of 1,000 per week.

So, yes, that is exactly how much the flu kills every week, on average. In a bad flu year, like the 2017-2018 year, the flu kills twice as many as that.
There are many computers to choose from (system76 as an example). Although with various 'security' features that is slowly being eroded. Arm systems are powerful enough as an alternative for many uses.

Dual booting and unlocked phones still exist (second hand fairphone or even pixel is an option) which at least let you own the user land. As do the linux projects stated. There were quite a few dual boot capable phones a few years back, but they received little interest.

Smart home devices don't need to connect to the cloud. Buy a zigbee one if you really need a remote control your light bulb.

TVs that don't connectto the internet still exist.
You really think forcing standardization of micro USB would have been good? At the time, iPhones were still using the iPod 30 pin connector. I would have hated to be using micro USB over Lightning.
High resolution monitors can take up quite a bit of bandwidth.
With virtualized currency and literal microwave pain rays, I don't see this remaining the norm for every boom and bust cycle.

There will soon come a time where revolt is no longer possible.
You should do more research then, it's not just multiple sightings but there's ample physical evidence and has even caused injuries and death. Don't know what's suspicious about it, beyond being an extraordinarily rare and barely understood phenomenon
Show HN: Lectron – proxy for devs to protect your SSH/RDP servers
Toyota Motor to invest $5.3B in Japan, U.S. for EV battery supply
The bit about turning a dockerfile into a rootfs. A docker image is just a tarball of tarballs. We do something like this:

- you can dump the image using `docker save <name>`.
- you can then get a list of the tarballs in this image by extracting this tarball and reading the file `manifest.json`; `Config` -> `Layers` will give you a list of tarballs (see undocker for how to do this: https://github.com/larsks/undocker)
- Untar these in a directory and use linux tools to convert this dir to a rootfs.
Are You a Security Evangelist?
Nope. Official advice is "use RDRAND".
My sympathies! Sounds like a nightmare story indeed and I might refuse a company's offer on the basis of having to go through this alone... Although can't deny that for the most of us US salaries are pretty damn appealing.

Truthfully, if I was director of IT and security, I'd likely just source all laptops in my department and preinstall everything needed and then ship the machine to the new employee, giving them passwords through a secure channel e.g. Signal / encrypted Telegram chats / PGP'd mail etc.

I've worked once on a corporate Linux laptop and it was a nightmare. The machine in particular wasn't very good and was easily overheating and its fans were always spinning, and of course the VPN worker crashed every 3-4h or so -- which still wasn't a big deal for a 8h working day, mind you, but you did have to always be prepared for the next thing you're doing to fail with a mysterious network failure.

Again, sympathies. It sounds like a shit show. Another thing I'd consider would just be to ship everyone the same 8GB RAM laptops that all remote into cloud instances. Machine stolen? Tokens / passwords / keys expire every hour anyway even if the IT is asleep at the wheel for that one hour, so who cares.
Very true for PCs but it’s starting to shift with both consoles and receivers with Atmos decoders. For example, the PS5 has a custom audio DSP chip with 3D sound capabilities for reverberation, spatialization and more.
In Range, David Epstein talks about about NASA and some of their disasters, like the explosion of Challenger. NASA is the entirely encased in specialized knowledge, and has a completely data-driven mindset, with no room for logic. If you can't prove it with data, they wouldn't even consider it. He explains that, “Reason without numbers was not accepted. In the face of an unfamiliar challenge, NASA managers failed to drop their familiar tools... The Challenger managers made mistakes of conformity. They stuck to the usual tools in the face of an unusual challenge.” Even though the mistake that led to the Challenger disaster could have been caught, it was the uniformity of thinking that lead to an organizational blind spot, and that uniformity was to be too focused on data-driven arguments.

There is a famous call prior to the disaster on which engineers had raised the concerns but it was based on intuition and a few cherry picked samples, not a full set of data, and this was the night before the launch. Because of the lack of data, they went ahead with it and we all know the tragedy that ensued. Moreover, other engineers who agreed that there was an issue didn't speak up, because they too lacked the data, and knew that management wouldn't care.
I ordered one to New Zealand when they initially released. Had no problem going through a shipping redirection service (YouShop) but did have to pay import duty and some other fees on top of regular GST which wasn't cheap. Also pretty sure I have no warranty coverage because framework wasn't technically selling outside of the USA at the time. Still totally happy with my purchase.

I imagine the purchase experience would be a lot smoother now.
I explicitly list on my LinkedIn that I'm not interested in "web3" but that doesn't stop the messages. This has me thinking of fun ways to waste a few minutes of these recruiters' time in return for wasting a few (many?) minutes of mine...
I’m reminded of the starship Destiny in Stargate Universe.

The Destiny spaceship travels from one Solar system to the other, and occasionally dives into stars to refuel itself.

https://youtu.be/8iXoK39yLQM
That's all propaganda spread and sponsored by groups that were hoping to make money on it (as often is the case with stuff like this).

Obviously there were cases of injustice and violence against Jews from the hands of Poles - tensions between different religious and national groups back then were nothing uncommon and we're talking about uneducated peasants in a pre-industrial environment, under horrendous situation of 5 year long war, and pressure from German occupants. There were case of violence between all sort of groups eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia...

The idea that Poles as a nation are guilty of some general crime against Jews, where they were the ones dying in the same concentration camps, built and run by the Germans, and trying to help Jews on organized institutional level is simply absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBegota

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising#Polish

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler
I am very confident the image at the top of this article is generated by any of these currently popular text-to-image models. This feels like the beginning of ignoring artworks I see online, foreshadowed by header images at the start of tech blogs.
Ask HN: Are there any free services that convert website text to speech?
Apologies if this has been asked before. If so, please link me to the relevant thread(s).

I'm looking for a free TTS service or website that will accept a website article URL as input, then parse the contents and produce a decent-sounding audio reading of the article's contents. I intend to use this for personal use only to listen to articles/blog posts while doing chores, exercising, or other activities where reading is impractical but listening is feasible.

An open source project that does this would also be acceptable, as long as it can accept a link as input (rather than requiring one to copy-paste the text of each article). Some modern websites (such as WSJ and The Economist) offer this as a built-in feature on many of their articles, and Edge has this as a built-in feature, but it would be great to find a third party website-agnostic and browser-agnostic service capable of doing this for any given link.

I've seen a lot of "freemium" services while doing a few quick online searches, as well as others with a monthly or per-article fee. If no other solutions exist, I might consider paying for one of these, or I may try to develop my own solution.

Thanks in advance for any insights/suggestions!
there is a runtime. its just baked into the final executable. you can't have garbage collection without one.
That's a different thing though. I don't want Zoom and Chrome pwning my system. I just want less intrusive antivirus software. Or at least have the decency to show up on the menu bar's status icons list with a spinning icon or whatever.

Apparently that's too much to ask. No, I have to find out why my compilation is currently going 2x slower by checking the CPU load and seeing yet another XWhateverService taking up 200% CPU and 50% SSD capacity.
> If so what was unique about Tokyo?

Japanese culture would be my guess.
Whats full size? 16? Yeah I like the 16 or 15 inch form factor but that MacBook Air M2 has stolen my heart and portability feels important to me even though I am usually just at my apt. Does your Framework come with integrated or discrete graphics? Just curious.
Sorry, what is what?
Turning 能勇 "can be brave" into "have no fear" is translator's license, but turning 慈 into "love" butchers the whole thing. :-)
Ask HN: Should I force my team to use TDD?
For the last 4 months of been gently pushing our team to use TDD.

I can't say I've personally found any advantages, I don't think I caught any bugs, but who knows... It's the right thing to do... Right?

Anyway, my team typically will claim they are too busy, and our end to end testing is good enough. And admittedly I don't think many of our bugs would be caught with TDD.

I'd like to think our software is critical, but we are judged on man hours saved rather than perfect first programs.

Any thoughts on if TDD is our only solution?
I would not consider that an easily swappable battery, and while I might get a spare battery, I wouldn't casually change the battery since it requires opening the laptop up and unscrewing it.