skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose that following instincts offers a much much discounted cost on your psyche for "getting it wrong".

Let's say I have a choice between A and B. My instinct is telling me A, and I have a rational reasoning for B.

Assuming that the strength of the instinct (0 - 100, "complete indifference" to "every cell if my body is screaming for it") is comparable to the confidence I have in my reasoning (0 - 100, "complete guess" to "I have factual proof and competence that tells me this is the answer"), then if I get it wrong because I went with A I'll be much more prone to accept it as "I'm ok with this mistake" then if I went with B and go it wrong.

This, to me, is true at all levels of intensity. If I don't have strong feelings one way or another I'll follow instinct over reason and assume that my subconscious knows something I don't. If my rational confidence and instincts are high (assuming I dont have time to analyze the conflict), if I get it wrong "rationally" I'll kick myself more than if I got it wrong "irrationally".

So there is a real advantage in mental health with going with guts.
Twitter and Facebook both have websites that are both easy to deal with on the phone.

Global IT spend is 4.5T.

https://www.serverfarmllc.com/blog/mind-blowing-worldwide-it...

AWS percentage of that spend is infinitesimal.
Is this more than an odd UI over what amounts to one of those GitHub "awesome" lists of links? I drilled down on a few categories and it seems like it's just that, but... slower to use.
Boeing to pay $200M to settle charges it misled investors over 737 Max safety
Your average constant electrical load is 4.2-5.5 kW? That seems excessive, are you running crypto miners or a small manufacturing operation/welding shop out of your home or something?
I wonder if we could make a more semantic web by enforcing some meta data standards and having more piecemeal content.
That's certainly possible -- lawfare definitely happens in the West (Russiagate, anti-Corbynism and Lava Jato come to mind).

But if it was simply about political maneuvering, death penalties are wasteful and severe. So that suggests that there is more to it.
What I'd really like is a tsc that creates code to check types at runtime, like for API boundaries and parsing unknown input. Kind of like a built-in Zod. Maybe it's just an automatic type guard anywhere you have an "as SomeType" or an ignore directive.
It can also lead to accidentally quadratic behavior which is why the modernized string ops that get so much hate these days rely on one iteration over the input.
They also have a big datacenter here in quebec impacted by the rate increae, and our electricity prices haven't really increased. Prices for industrial uses here are around 0.08-11$(CAD) per kWh.

(Edit: to be clear the OVH rate increase is still pretty reasonable, and is justified by other factors)
Except that those individualistic countries in the west have some of the lowest rates of corruption and lowest perceptions of corruption in the world. The supposedly less individualistic countries of the east lag behind, including China.

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

The Asian countries that do match the west for low levels of corruption (Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore) largely have a very obvious trait in common - wealth. The least corrupt countries are all among the world's wealthiest, and the most corrupt all among its poorest - regardless of how "individualistic" the country is.

The poorer a country is the more necessary are the advantages to be gained by gaming the system. The weaker a country's institutions the easier it is to get away with corruption - hence the worst offenders being failed states like Syria and Lybia. It's honestly fairly simple even without considering culture.

If anything a more collective society is more susceptible to corruption (and I say this as proponent of big government). The reason China hands out death sentences for corruption is that an individual at the top of the governmental organisations in China can do an enormous amount of damage since the government directly controls the apparatus of the economy and has a huge stake in every major company. No governmental official in the west has as much control over the societal purse as a high ranking official of the CCP.
Strive to clarify fundamental goals.

Consider possible second-order effects of policy decisions.

Reevaluate intermediate goals after observing their effects.
Declining VC investment into LatAm startups could throttle digital growth
The system of employment is the problem. Drug dealers and police are employees and they cannot win. While the system has power employees have none.

Mike, Bubbles, Bunny, Omar, Hauk, etc are not employees or get out and they win or at least get out to live their own lives as they want.

Independent Entrepreneurship is the only way out. It may not work, but you have a chance,
They are forks of Quantum browser framework of which Firefox is one instance, like Chrome is one instance of "Chromium" browser framework.
I am just saying people should be honest about not being willing to make a stand.

Instead of talking about it as a law of physics
The show is extremely dangerous to mental health, if you care about living in a good world and can't handle the impossibility of it.
how about all of it?
> As you might expect, alongside its new observations Microsoft has new products aimed at easing this potential mismatch in expectations.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
What was the last search widget that went missing? It was only a couple weeks ago. It got brought back like a day or two later.

Maybe they delete them so people learn about them. :)
What a strange comment. The article itself gives you the trend. It doesn’t answer the why. I’m giving an insiders perspective to my experience, which is what the best HN comments typically contain.

Should all comments here only be pointers to research? That’s not the community that I’m interested in, as that’s what’s easily accessible already via google.
Yeah, you missed it.

GitHub ripping off everyone’s code to build copilot has caused a small (not as big as it should have been imho) exodus of open source projects to Gitlab and others.

I still don’t see how it’s a good idea to import unknown code with unknown licenses into your project, but apparently if copilot does it it’s okay.
EU unveils new emergency powers over the European economy
And how is that different than solving esoteric algorithmic problems?
I agree here. I've started watching Kitchen Nightmares on YouTube and for a 40 minute episode there's usually 2 ads to start the episode and another 4 or 5 breaks for ads. The breaks are either 2 ads that can be skipped after 5 seconds or a single 15 second unskippable ad.
The carbon filters like the one I linked could have been designed so that the activated charcoal could be replaced. Unfortunately, The companies who make these filters choose profits over environmental sustainability.
Why Walking to Work Can Be More Polluting Than Driving to Work
You can say whatever you want, doesn't mean I won't criticize you for it or downvote you.

And I'll flag if you violate HN guidelines, which you have.
Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy
The Benefits of Dabbling
I don't see the unique selling point of Edge. It's just a re-skin of Chromium with Microsoft tracking added. It's largely a data grab by M$.
Bubbles is a desperate addict. Omar is dead before 40 and was hiding his sexuality.

These are not successful lives.
Is it? Or is the case of Mozilla innovation being suppresed by the virtue of its almost entire revenue coming from the main competitor? "Failing to see" could easilly be imposed.
We thought that access to better technology would make people more free, but there are many ways it can make us less free instead. First through differential control of technology; whoever has control of some new tech will be able to use it to disempower others. Second is through robbing us of agency; technology can make it too easy for us to do things we don't want to do, causing us to do them against our will. At some point we will need to confront these issues.
From OP post:

> ...team is great and lot of interesting challenges...

A great team and exciting challenges are a strong retaining factor, and I dare to say, it's way harder to find a job that excites you than one which pays well.
Amazon are a wild success because they do a few simple things like process orders and have stock and not be a nightmare to deal with. Because other businesses refuse to compete with that, we have to ruin amazon, otherwise people will get used to things just working. Then where would all the lazy incompetent shortsighted people be?
ItsyCal (macOS). So simple, and so useful.

The best part is being able to replace the standard menu bar date with my custom date, including time zone.
> I suffer from some pretty intense Analysis Paralysis at times.

I used to be like that when I was younger. Not only for specific things regarding software, but for many things in life. Eventually I've developed my own "mantra" which is something like "any-thing is better than no-thing".

Nowadays it still happens to me some of the times, mostly when I have too many things to do at the same time and don't know where to turn to. One example: from 19:00 to 19:30 every day I have to set the table, do the dinner, prepare the soup and fruit for my small kid and wash some dishes, as my wife baths the kid. Some days it is too much at the same time, and I start to feel paralyzed, like where do I turn to? My current solution is just to do anything. Anything at all. And as soon as I do anything, I start to see things moving, and instantly, that paralyzing feel goes away!
I'm not in a position to answer but finer non invasive tests about your own body state so you can adjust and reflect on your case rather than averages.
Those Western "Corruption" ratings are deeply unserious. Washington is totally, systemically corrupt. Lobbying, insider trading, and the revolving door are all corrupt practices that practically define the Beltway.

Try winning even a local government seat without being buddy-buddy with local "employers", media, and other unofficial power brokers. That's not democracy.
Until there are cybernetic implants, the "ends" are the app running on your phones, which they control.

The quandary of what one allows to run on those implants sounds like a chilling sci-fi novel (chilling not because "but FAANG could read your thoughts!" but because people would absolutely still get them installed).
Sounds like the problem is simply that the US doesn't seem to have real time pricing of electricity.

In Norway we pay what the market determines is the current price. Most people don't have flat rate charges. I can see the spot price in real time in an app.

Why isn't that good enough?
It's very easy to forget how long a big log can burn
At the level you're talking about, it sounds like you should use similar metrics those managers use. Revenue/expense of the systems they oversee or business value of initiatives under your purview.

Not that that would be useful for anyone. Managers will get away with saying they "grew revenue by $10 million per year" or "reduced expenses by 20%" despite that being mostly BS unconnected with their actions or choices. I don't see why you couldn't get the same level of credit.
Do you really trust TOS like that, though?

Assuming they're not blatantly violating the policy (which I think they've done before), it's pretty easy to weasel out of that statement by only sharing keywords from the conversation, or only sharing the info with advertisers (but not WhatsApp and Meta), or redefining what a "personal conversation" is, or carefully redefining what "end-to-end encryption" means, or ...

There's no transparency, a huge power imbalance, and terrific pressure on WhatsApp/Meta to monetize as much as possible.
> I don't know why Google isn't recognized widely as an IBM.

Because they aren't?

> As they squeeze they will keep getting more hatred until something finally rises to fully replace them.

This will happen whether or not employees love them. Every company gets replaced. Very few have staying power. Id be shocked if <insert your favorite tech company> isn't replaced.

> Google search barely works anymore.

Oh? I've been able to find everything I'm looking for, and the new QA cards, leaving aside the ethical argument, actually saves me so much time. Not sure which google you're using.

> YouTube is slowly turning into an almost television like experience in terms of ad counts.

Hmm, on your version of youtube are you able to skip parts of the video you find boring? On your TV does watching certain videos serve up more videos in the same vein? If not, then they are nothing alike.

> Their AI division doesn't release much of anything on the back of morality concerns.

Maybe tensorflow doesn't mean much to you, but I bet others would be thankful for its release. Besides they have no obligation to release any new AI development to the public. This is just your personal expectation of them.

> Their phones have all been pretty buggy.

Every phone is buggy compared to Apple, but their own phones are significantly less buggy than 3rd party android phones. Have you used an Oppo or Xiaomi phone?

> Google cloud is third fiddle to aws and azure

Not sure this is relavant. This probably highlights more of the other two's strength's rather than GCP's weakness. Personally for new projects I use GCP over AWS for various reasons.

> In the absence of growth they'll squeeze everything they can. Their customers and their employees, and they will slowly die.

All companies die.
It’s pretty easy to host your own Nitter instance too (I do) if you want to avoid the rate limiter errors.
I would think so. I've lived right next to the Bay Bridge on 2nd St in SF and the amount of soot on my window sills and just inside my windows was a constant chore to clean up. At one point I found a map that stated I lived in the worst place for pollution in SF. I'm much happier now on the west side of the City.

Here's a different SF map showing where most of the exhaust is (PDF):
https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/ehsdocs/airquality/airpollut...
This sounds a LOT like “there’s always been slavery throughout human history - I’m not denying the transatlantic slave trade was brutal. But we need to put it into context [insert Wikipedia article talking about the history of slavery]”. You can’t “both sides” this with Wikipedia links or arguing you’re speaking from a logical / non-personal perspective.
> I have no problem with killing them,
> What I won't do (and find ethically or morally questionable besides cruel) is to play with them while inflicting pain

Nobody here is saying it's ok to torture roaches for fun. The article doesn't say that either. The lasers are for pest control.

So you're kind of arguing with the air here.
Manufacturers independently test raw materials coming from suppliers, sub-assemblies from contract manufacturers, etc. If we're going to consider software a "supply chain" it seems like a good idea to subject it to the same rigor.

Speaking about real world manufacturing: I'm ignorant of the details but I would assume there's some construct in law or regulation for liability to be assigned back "up the chain" if due diligence in statistically sound testing "down the chain" is demonstrated.
> 99.9% of people with adblockers installed never ever touch those [advanced features]

Custom matching algorithms and ability to fine tune or expand matching algorithms according to new content blocking challenges are actually a kind of advanced feature that are used by all those users without them ever realizing it since their content blocker work seamlessly on their favorite sites without the need for intervention.

The declarativeNetRequest (DNR) API has been quite improved since it was first announced and its great, but since it's the only one we can use now, it's no longer possible to innovate by coming up with improved matching algorithm for network requests.

If the DNR had been designed 8 years ago according to the requirements of content blockers back then, it would be awfully equipped to deal with the challenges thrown at content blockers nowadays, so it's difficult to think the current one will be sufficient in the coming years.
With negotiation Hydro Quebec is substantially less than those numbers.
A lot of the billions of dollars earmarked over the decades for telecom and cable companies was spent on dividends and buybacks rather than fiber rollout as intended.
To add the economic situation is consequence of trump pulling out of the nuclear agreement, sanctioning, and democratic administration keeping the status quo.

@dang my other comment is dead. Flagged or not according to guidelines?
Earlier on it says “If a system deviates from its design, the contractor becomes liable for any such failure, whether related to the specific deviation or not.”

And yes, you’re probably right that systems would have to be much more legible. I’m interested in imagining what that tech landscape would look like.
I thought mine was high at about 1.6 MWh per month!
I did a stint as a seasonal worker for UPS a number of years ago, when I was burnt out from tech. It was a terrific break from coding for a couple months - the pay sucked, but they my covered health care even for part-time hours, and I basically got paid to exercise while recovering from burn out.

It is really not a bad gig as long as you can afford the lower pay for a while.
> I’ve used a declarative ad blocker on iOS for years and haven’t seen ads in a long time, especially not on big websites like Youtube

I do too! But I also run into pages that are broken all the time (pages don't scroll down, entirely white/black pages load with no content, etc). This is with AdGuard's basic filter set and updated filters. uBlock Origin doesn't have these problems.
I’ve always assumed it’s because of the association of 14 with 14 carat gold.
I don't know where the start or end of this is. They bought netflow data from Cymru. By itself that gets you this: https://github.com/m3047/rear_view_rpz/blob/main/utilities/P...

Passive DNS reconstruction is a real thing. I wouldn't test out a web site on its own FQDN and expect it to stay unnoticed; just sayin'.

Just because the PTRs are garbage doesn't mean that Amazon, Fastly, Cloudflare don't have the data. Nuggets of truth are scattered in other comments. The GitHub tool is a political statement in and of itself.
> We blame everything except the OS, mostly because we don't want to cast doubt on the wisdom of Linus, and the sanctity of Linux.

Why single out Linux here? Every Unix fits this (except maybe SELinux). And then, does Windows also fit here?
He seems to define "consult" as "receive a specific move from the engine". GMs have stated that they could throw a game simply by being alerted that a good move existed. I doubt that would ever show up on a statistical analysis of moves. It would at the very least require an analysis correlating think time, move, and depth of analysis required to correctly analyze the current position. You'd have to say "hey wait player doesn't usually notice there's some X depth analysis opportunity and actually take it." And that doesn't seem to be the analysis which happened here by a long shot.
Just having my 4x3090 constantly running deep learning experiments consumes 1MWh/month. And that's GPUs only.
I find it easier to navigate personally, but you can still use the one in the OP if you prefer that kind of style.
It looks like it's being worked on, see <https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279>.
Thank you for your comment. This is a great point! I had not considered this earlier but after looking at https://github.com/edicl/hunchentoot/blob/master/request.lis... it is clear that this could potentially lead to denial of service.

I have now updated the Nginx configuration to block arbitrary headers coming from the remote client and explicitly pass only a limited set of headers to Hunchentoot. So now I have something like this in the Nginx reverse proxy configuration:

proxy_pass_request_headers off;
proxy_set_header Accept $http_accept;
proxy_set_header Content-Length $http_content_length;
proxy_set_header Content-Type $http_content_type;
proxy_set_header If-Modified-Since $http_if_modified_since;
proxy_set_header Referer $http_referer;
proxy_set_header User-Agent $http_user_agent;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

I will push this configuration to the GitHub repository too sometime this weekend.
I think us programmer types need to be careful about overanalyzing major decisions and completely ignoring our gut feelings. When choosing a life parter for example, you can find someone who "looks good on paper" and ticks certain boxes on what you think you want, but maybe they aren't a good partner for you for simpler reasons. Unless you are self-aware enough to know what will actually make you happy, you shouldn't discount your feelings. Derek Siver's "Hell Yeah or No" comes to mind here.
Alleged 17 year old Rockstar, Uber hacker has been arrested by UK police
Not "to himself", it was for a speech.
just dont understand why these kinds of frauds or predatory market manipulations, whatever you want to call them are not super illegal, they are pure theft
So basically no data to back this up.
I just don’t see how a teacher mentioning a same sex spouse is obviously violating the law in the way you’re worried about.
Pi-hole has been an absolutely life-saver to our household. It's typically blocking ~50% of traffic.

Using someone else's device and off my network is entirely scary.
Hah! The sad thing is that wasn't even autocorrect, just being half asleep.
My TypeScript-like language (still a work in progress) does that :)

https://www.brandons.me/blog/bagel-bites-refinement
Yes, that's how institutions operate. Seeing Like a State is the classic text on the subject.
Bunq ordered designer drugs from website to investigate client
After all the stories about neobanks getting into trouble for not doing money laundering checks effectively, it's nice to see one being smart about it.
No mention of the shoulders that Apple products stand upon.
Rome’s journey is effectively over - the founders couldn’t make it work after raising a VC round, and I wouldn’t expect it to go GA.
Even a very poor adblocker will speed up web page loading in the average case. If google went that route, they would be forced to confront the fact that not having an adblocker is one of the worst web performance decisions one can make.
stood up a Signal proxy on a VM with the following specs:

- Single core 1GHz CPU
- 640 MB RAM
- 10 GB storage ( default size )

I'd say docker is pretty light.
I haven’t measured, but Subnautica (on Switch) takes forever to load a save when it starts. I would not be surprised if it takes more than one minute.
Emacs. TeX/LaTeX. Classic Unix. i3. A bunch of Scheme implementations. Tcl/Tk.
And there is less resistance. Dying to indulge Putin would be like dying to indulge W. Dying to eject Russia from Ukraine seems better, except the need to is tragic.

Combat deaths among Ukrainian soldiers is comparable to Russian losses, maybe more than half, if Ukrainians from occupied regions used for cannon fodder count as Russian.
Where are you getting that first part about freedom? Maybe it's a generational thing but I can't seem to visualize them as anything but constrained from the outset.

The Witness is maybe the 'freest' example I can think of but it's still a range of puzzles
git - can't imagine working without it

also:

unit test frameworks - what a godsend

ruby - brought joy to writing code, even if I don't get to use it much anymore