skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're all part of the same family account, I don't really understand why it isn't an option to just ignore it.

Because there are way too many spouses who go to as absurd lengths as setting private investigators on their partners. Stalking is just as much a concern inside families as it is for everyday persons - I might be tempted to say that the impact is worse given the potential for domestic violence. Or just imagine fundamentalist parents tracking their children to Planned Parenthood, a known LGBT-friendly place or whatever.

Ideally, there would be laws and regulations on trackers - and not just hardware-ones like the AirTags, but also software-based ones - that mandate features to prevent abuse, but sadly politicians haven't caught up on tech developments yet.
Inthinkblimbo would be waiting alone. This is waiting with people you can communicate with. Thats right. Hell is other people.
Scuba-diving veterans Suunto should be terrified of the Apple Watch Ultra
Now that I think of it, I remember that when I was a kid (40 years ago), occasionally my mother would cook snail/frogs. Snails more than frogs actually. Maybe it's one of these traditions that we're losing.
And what makes it experimental in your opinion?
Just being on booking.com doesn't guarantee a professional host, though. I booked a small B&B via booking.com and they cancelled an hour before arriving. Or rather, they told me that we couldn't come and instructed us to cancel ourselves. That felt weird and I said I wouldn't do that. What they then did, was to invalidate the creditcard payment.

Luckily I could book another hotel, even though it was holiday season.
There's no point in talking about sunscreen without reference to skin type. You're probably a Type 1, which doesn't tan in any significant way.

Anyone in the 2 and 3 range can build significant sun tolerance by being careful, 4 and 5s don't generally need sunscreen. Jury is out on skin cancer, Bantu people in Africa don't all die of melanoma, so clearly melanin is doing a lot of work here.
I'm waiting for him to realize that agriculture will use two orders of magnitude more land than is needed to power the US with renewables. Will he conclude that eating is impossible?
Ask HN: A User Research Survey
Gm everyone,

We are working on a platform that will help Africans move, manage and make money with a seamless end-to-end experience. I have posted this erstwhile but just wanted to clarify our intent. I would love to hear your feedback regarding what we want to build whether you are based outside of Africa.

Thanks!

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Tampermonkey is great for this, because it can log everything and it brings its own XMLHttpRequest:

GM_xmlhttpRequest({
method : 'GET',
url : 'https://myloggingurl/?client='+client+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+
'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title),
responseType : 'json',
onerror : function(e) { console.error('URL-Logger', e); },
});

I've been logging all my web activities since 2018, it's been a great tool. On the server side, I filter out ad spam and other extraneous URLs, and then run a cronjob that converts all new HTML documents it sees to PDFs with wkhtmltopdf. It's been a great tool for finding stuff in those moments where I go "hm, I remember seeing something about this months ago..."
Awesome that the "TVs in India" site compaq.tv has an SSL certificate that expired A YEAR AGO
My observation is that even when I'm highly motivated I shouldn't go over the scheduled time, otherwise my energy to work will drop and with it, motivation.

It's counter-intuitive to say the least.

Perhaps there's something about sitting down for extended periods of time that causes this effect.
What if the solar system is an atom in a giant brain?
I'd really like to hear more from Svelte devs about what non-happy paths look like. I specialise in React.js and there are any number of escape hatches to make sure you can get something working just the way you want. What I fear about Svelte is getting to 95% complete and finding the one obscure thing a stakeholder will not budge on is not possible.
it's just marketing
You're not technically allowed to bring the other stuff onto the islands, though in my experience they don't check, I flew into Maui from Japan one time and brought sunscreen (as you might imagine the ingredients are better across the board, including for reefs) and this wasn't checked at the agriculture scanner.

Point is, the regulations to keep those ingredients out of the reefs have been mostly successful.
Essentially. The CO2 cooled AGR has much lower power density and was thought by its designers to be a much superior design to water cooling for safety and cost reasons.

It turns out, definitely not on cost grounds and the AGRs are all reaching technical end of life a few years after their original rated lives whereas light water reactors are getting life extensions basically everywhere for decades beyond that.

Light water thermal reactors are the worst kind of nuclear reactor except for all the other ones which have been built.
Out of curiosity, what do you find clunky about Vue's variables vs Svelte?

I've been working exclusively with Vue for the last... 6 years. Since the launch of v2. So my mind is already conditioned ;-)
If you want something that is a bit lighter weight, check out Surplus. It's been around for ages, is used for real projects, and has a lot of the same design patterns Svelte adopted, without a lot of the extra language semantics.
Unfortunately these "your property as a service" startups have been permitted to grow for long enough that there are both buyers and sellers for whom it's an entire lifestyle.

(It's totally a cultural bubble, but a pretty thick one and one that overlaps a lot with HN.)
How is no one mentioning the Fed's book Modern Money Mechanics?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Modern_M...

Then there is the accounting system the Federal Reserve uses: FAM:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/financial-account...
Well the context was a massively subsidized system that is years away from being reliable, will take well over a decade to roll out, has large negative externalities, requires giving up numerous freedoms, and may not ever work, for solving the same problem trains solve but worse.

The amount of public resources going into roads between now and when driver monitoring makes a difference is staggering, and we could just spend that money on transit and solve numerous other problems at the same time.

Responding to a (admittedly snarky) suggestion that we steer towards an egalitarian future rather than a panopticon when both are equidistant with a tautilogical assertion that we're not in the good future now is the same tired line that comes out anytime anyone suggests improving things rather than expending greater resources making them worse.
This. People usually say "get a used Thinkpad", but any of these laptops will also do. There are many options.
The usual place. Surround your fusion reactor in a very thick blanket of opaque hydrogen plasma so the neutrons can bump into something.

Contain the whole thing in some kind of force field (if only there was some alternative to the EM force for this purpose), then when the photons hit your photon electric generators you get electricity.

If you arrange things such that the outside of the opaque hydrogen blanket is about 5800 Kelvin and your photon-electric generator panels are spread out in parallel to...let's say about a kilowatt of energy per square metre they should last a couple of decades and your efficiency will be okay, maybe around 20-30%

There. Fusion power plant invented. Sadly it's just a pipe dream though because we couldn't roll it out without first waiting for a stable fusing plasma source on earth.
Crediting People
NimbleText (for generating text from tabular data)

JsonBuddy for analysing json

are both really useful and worth paying money for.
Fitbit does sleep tracking, and is more like "charge when you shower" not "charge all night".
When I interviewed for my current job, I had to take psychology test and I'm very skeptical to those kind of tests. The guy that ran the test explained that this wasn't about putting me into a colored box but trying to figure out what I naturally preferred to do in a work situation with the idea being that things that I enjoy are probably things that I'm good at because it takes less energy to perform. I don't know if it works but it's an interesting idea, things that takes less energy, you do more and you're probably more proficient at it.
> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types

This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right.

He wasn't.

For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m...

Or, a generation earlier in 1884, the book "Salads and Sauces" by Thomas Jefferson Murrey (New York) has a chapter on sandwiches. https://archive.org/details/saladsandsauces00murrgoog/page/n... including "Apple Sandwich", "Anchovy Sandwich", "Beef, Raw, Sandwich", "Brie Sandwich", "Caviare Sandwich", "Clam Sandwich", "Curry Sandwich", "Dandelion Sandwich", "Duck Sandwich", and so on for several more pages, ending with "Welsh Sandwich". Look under "Goose Liver" for the foie gras entry.

I hope I helped save your meal!
Do you mean this?

https://github.com/adamhaile/surplus
I think you're joking, but I'll still point out that it's not actually much heat. The atoms of fusion fuel move very fast, but there aren't many of them.
Microsoft needs to improve customer support
I am struggling hard to book Microsoft 365 as I need Powerpoint for a single occasion and get reminded on every corner why I switched to Google + Apple a long time back.

Waiting lists in chats? Seriously? I am not supposed to loose focus of the chat window? Holy cow.
I work with React (Next.js) on my main project and while I don't appreciate some things generally I haven't had any issues and Next.js in particular has been great. I also find JSX stellar.

I used Vue from 0.12 until around ~2.5, I really liked it at the beginning (coming from a jQuery only world) but I was forced into learning React for React Native and then I kind of standardized on it for a while and Vue fell off.

I used Svelte for a side project recently and it was quite enjoyable but I do really miss JSX and I don't like the $: syntax. I plan to give SolidJS a try on my next side project and then I'll standardize on either Svelte or SolidJS for side projects and React for big things.

Since Svelte and SolidJS are such great options for smaller things I kind of don't have a use case for Vue anymore, but I do remember it fondly.
Definitely! My point was more that I find it odd to see the exact same mechanism all around you every day and then throw your hands up in disgust on this specific instance.
And then crowley’s utter and abject horror at the discovery of what we can do to ourselves, no Hell involved at all.
and, considering to whom the book was dedicated, some other famous english apologists as well.
Airbnb is a clusterfuck of an organization. If you ever get to know their business, it is apparent that they are an onion of tears after only the first layer. Run away, run away..
I would suggest double-checking this intuition with Dante.
I don't see how Svelte is "React without all of the bullshit", Svelte really seems like the complete opposite of React. To me it's more like a modern Angular 1 where it's a magic HTML DSL (just now with a compile step to make it more optimized). For instance, Angular 1 had the ng-if attribute in templates for optionally including parts of the template based on JS values and Svelte has {#if ... } blocks in templates that do similar. Whereas React is just JavaScript, you just write a function and ifs like anywhere else.

Seeing Svelte take the global variables (are they now not global because of Svelte's compiler? probably) in a <script> tag and binding them to HTML elements seems too magic for me. Whereas at least with React, I can sort of understand how it works under the hood and could probably write a poorly optimized version of it without thinking much about it.

React isn't perfect by a long shot so I think something will eventually overtake it, but I hope it's not magic HTML templates, that seems like a step back.
Any claimed author who's not read The Screwtape Letters has no business writing modern literature.
Firefox Facebook Container update overwrites body fonts for all sites
You are right there's a difference between not minding black smear and the black smear existing. Taste differ. You mind, I don't mind and I wouldn't mind on a blown up apple watch screen. You mentioned the massive screen door adding an enormous pixel soup. I countered that if anything this would work against nausea - my 2010 monocular was a floating tv screen with a massive screen door effect.

I'm enthusiastic about something you consider "a very early 2010 thing to do" and not having any real use case in the "current world of real HMD's". Like you I live in the current world of real HMD's. My use case is enjoying playing quake on the smallest waterproof device possible. Q1 on the apple watch can be considered a novelty, yes, but I would like to take it as far as possible, because I like retro and repurposing and I like the size of the apple watch compared to a quest.

Of course, QuakeVR on Q2 exists, Apple HMD's are on the radar and I could link my android phone with a lightweight HMD and play quake that way. Why bother? Good question
Both Central Banking and CBDCs lead to the same outcome though; reduced personal liberties (privacy and economic freedom), and increased interference of the state with its constituents and the macro economy (skewing incentives through centralizing forces).
That was my immediate thought as well - Apple Pay is authenticating the credit card, but isn't (afaik) actually involved in any transfers,
Been reading Lars' bug hunt logs since it started and its amazing. Guy retired rich and instead of lazying around or doing vain publicity/philanthropy he chose to develop and maintain Emacs, all out in the open. Almost all the bugs fixed are also not his own. As a newbie Emacs user I reported a bug and Lars investigates and fixed it within couple of days! Real cool guy and we're quite lucky to have him around.
I wanted to share a new feature we just released - NetBird Network Routes that allows access to your private LAN, VPC, or corporate network from a WireGuard-based overlay network. And, of course, 100% Open-Source :)

See the documentation for more details: https://netbird.io/docs/how-to-guides/network-routes
I used to drool on Compaq Presario adverts - they looked the coolest and totally out of my reach at the time. I think there is a market for using the brand with some innovative stuff.
Completely disagree. Fatigue isn’t just an “idea,” it’s an unavoidable consequence of repeated exposure to a stimulus.

The political will to solve problems is a finite resource. Squandering it on trivial crusades is, IMO, one of the most wasteful and harmful decisions that could be made.
From my recent experience with WebAssembly developing a cryptographic library for Nodejs and the browser [1], I have to say that once someone needs to use memory allocation, typed arrays from JS to WASM (I did not manage to make the opposite work) etc. it quickly becomes obvious that there is lack of documentation and build system fragmentation that only hurts community growth IMO. If I was less motivated to finish the undertaking, I would just give up and go with libsodium-wrappers or tweetnacljs.

I started with clang targeting wasm32-unknown-unknown-wasm as my build system but this just did not work with malloc/free, unless I was targeting WASI, but if I targeted WASI I would not be able to run the module in the browser except with a polyfill that was hard to set up with C/TS stack. I ended up with emscripten because it was importing the module with all the right helper functions but there I was getting memory errors on debug mode but not in production. I needed to pass the Uint8Arrays from JS to WASM in a very specific way (with HEAP8), otherwise the pointers were not working properly, but I was not able to find this in the documentation. I only found out from a stackoverflow comment somewhere after two weeks of brain melting (why would Uint8Array(memory.buffer, offset, len).byteOffset not work?).

After I compiled the project successfully and the JS was giving the correct results, I decided to compile with -s SINGLE_FILE command in order to make the package as portable as possible, but this increased the size significantly because it translates the bytes into base64 that are then converted into WASM module from JS. A package manager of a compiled language that outputs cross-env JS that solves these problems automagically would be, IMO again, a game changer for the ecosystem. I believe this is what AssemblyScript tries to achieve but I honestly could not make it work for my project after experimenting with it for one or two days.

I get that a lot of the problems come from the incompatibility of browser and Nodejs APIs and different agendas from the various stakeholders, but I would very much like to see these differences be reconciled so that we can have a good developer experience for cross-platform WASM modules, which will lead to more high-performance components for JS, which is a programming language that affects so many people.

[1] https://github.com/deliberative/crypto
Rule of thumb is: it's fired after assignment of a named variable from the root scope which was mentioned in this reactive block.

You can even add a line that just says `myVar;` and the reactive block containing it will be executed on every `myVar = ...`.
Fuzzing JavaScript with open-source tools (live stream)
Fun fact, this is from the times when macOS (Mac OS X back then) wasn't Unix compliant, and it caused a $200mn lawsuit.

HN thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016

And for a couple of years after they sorted out the compliance, they really pushed UNIX in their advertising materials. After all, they paid more than $20mn to sort out compliance.
Reviews can have objective facts (the AC is broken), but there is a subjective quality to them that has to be calibrated to each person (shabby decor to one person is faded glory to another).

Maybe that’s a good use for AI. It could Calibrate itself to each persons “taste” and filter the world for them. Instead of making users rely on fake metrics like “stars” or hidden clues like the presence/absence of neon lights, or some quality in their logo to signal what type of establishment it is…this signalling/filtering could be done for them virtually.
Even government-run services cost money (usually much more than private ones). And the government gets its money from us, not from the sky.
> What if AirPods was a company?

They wouldn't release a single product, because of proprietary Apple ecosystem and patents wall around it.
I don’t know — while I do often fall victim to doomscrolling/commenting/etc, what the article claims is true: I can equally well get sucked into some random niche topic I am enthusiastic about for hours on end. So my attention span is indeed not changed from when I read a book with multi-hundred pages in a sitting in my teenage years, it’s just that my motivation/interests are not the same anymore.

And thus I have to disagree with you here - there is an issue that many people experience but to combat it we have to actually know the reason behind. Attributing it to something that may not even exist is harmful.
Pentagon stops accepting F-35 jets to check for Chinese content
Cool. I'm not the one making sweeping generalizations, OP is.
Agreed. I'm a fan of Troy's, but for a non-physical copy, it's too much money.
That's a very uncharitable take. What part of my comment makes you think that I live dispassionately?

The whole point is that my work is almost single-handedly defined by passion. When that runs dry, I take a break and do other things. It's easier to do good work with a well-rested mind full of ideas.
The one 5% thing I’ve run into is a lack of proper generic component props when using Typescript.

Granted, that’s a rather advanced topic, but I miss having a <Component<MyType>> where all the type checking “just works”.

It’s not a dealbreaker - more like just something I noticed coming from the React world.
What companies like Airbnb are doing might also be illegal. For sure it is highly unethical.

I wonder how they would react if everyone would start trolling Airbnb and Facebook by submitting photoshopped IDs :D

Good point about the holograms. But since public companies are verifying them -- and not the gov't -- the information what is on them must be public as well. Heck, I'm even willing to bet someone in this crowd might be working for such a company and might know the answer.
And if the info is out there it can be photoshopped (or tampered with via AI, stable diffusion ID generation, my next weekend project maybe haha ;)

Ok, returning to more serious matters (that before waa a joke BTW), the only ethical way of verifying an ID would be an eyes-only approach, where you only show your ID to an employee, no copies being taken (this requires Airbnb to habe offices everywhere, which is not feasible they would claim). Then you'd use your ID to generate a number that can't be tracked back to your ID, akin to how datasets are anonymized. That way all the company knows is that a certain string of numbers identifies a semi-unique person. I have heard the German postal office had implemented such a system once, so it could be done actually.
Just because you can doesn't mean you have to. You can do 25-30 and put in 40W + whatever gravitational energy you need to gain (which will slow you down a lot on the hills).

But really, anything as efficient as an upright or more is fine.
You don’t need to write .value’s everywhere, that’s about all. And Vue is a lot more convenient in other ways.
Does women include trans people?
There are many books that are compilations of articles and blog posts.

I've read several. I had never read the original posts and found it quite enjoyable. Short, sharp chapters that are easy to pick up and put down.

I'm not sure it's low effort. There is effort spent writing the original posts and then reviewing and compiling them into a cohesive narrative.
Congrats, you just compared Steve Jobs to Alex Jones and proved the original commentor's point.
> Moving forward, I question whether these types of suspensions should be allowed from the tech giants without any oversight or regulation. At what point does a company become pervasive enough in everyday life that they owe users an explanation or warning before dropping the guillotine? Or is this all part of an ongoing trend, toward something like the Chinese Social Credit Score system, where the consequences of not maintaining a high rating are socially crippling?

I'm starting to feel very strongly about this. Not just about AirBnB but about every part where tech is pervasive that it becomes a monopoly (or close to it).

There has to be some balance between keeping malicious actors off the platform and the responsibility to not fuck peoples lives up (AirBnB is far from the worst offender).

Examples: Ebay & Etsy that people run microbusinesses on. Google locking people out of email with no ability to recover. Paypal freezing money indefinitely. The list goes on.

I live my life out of AirBnBs (and to a lesser extent booking.com -> aparthotels) and have had the complete gamut of hosts and properties. Losing access to AirBnB would be problematic to say the least.
This is at the top of the search. I've never read it.

https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Management-Core-Competencie...
> Deuterium is not a problem. A rough estimate says that there's enough of the stuff to cover 100% of the world needs for thousands of years.

Far more than that is available.