skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Figma runs on the cloud and doesn't move hardware sales. FCP and Logic were 2 smart strategic acquisitions which helped Apple retain “PRO" users at a time where Windows had become good enough for this market segment. PRO users continued to purchase Apple's overpriced hardware when they were clearly falling behind PC's in terms of sheer performance and value because they were stuck in these ecosystems. Figma on the other hand can run even on a Chromebook so no need for users to upgrade their workstations every couple of years.
Just uninstall the apps.
“I wrote this back in 1989 while I was designing Monkey Island. It is now the futuristic year of 2004 and we are all driving around in flying cars and wearing sliver jumps suits.”
I ported a large C++ library to the browser
pcl.js is a Point Cloud Library (PCL) that runs in the browser, powered by Emscripten and WebAssembly. Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open C++ project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

Github: https://github.com/luoxuhai/pcl.js
welcome to the machine.
Eh. There’s a podcast for every topic under the sun, and I can listen whenever I want, wherever I want; even offline. Podcasts are like Spotify or Napster or something. They’re a marked improvement over local radio, and by a long shot.
The best way to solve this would be to pick three topics ahead of time. If you're worried about the phone's microphone, do so by pen and paper.

Then randomly select one of those three topics to discuss on WhatsApp.

Finally, keep an objective eye out for ads about all three topics. Ideally, log every single ad you see.
> overall focusing less on minute pixel-perfect details for the frontend

Turns out the presence of a real cassowary has the same effect on people too!

If you put a cassowary in a meeting room with a team of developers they tend to say things like "wow look out for that beak" and "that claw sure looks sharp" instead of being concerned with pixel perfect frontends. One of those strange quirks of the human psyche.

Joking aside. I like cassowaries because I imagine seeing one is the closest I will ever get to see something like a Velociraptor. (I know they are not meat eaters, but still. The closest analog I will ever likely meet.)
WhatsApp Privacy Policy:

How We Work With Other Meta Companies

As part of the Meta Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information (see here) with, the other Meta Companies. We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings, including the Meta Company Products. This includes:

...

- improving their services and your experiences using them, such as making suggestions for you (for example, of friends or group connections, or of interesting content), personalizing features and content, helping you complete purchases and transactions, and showing relevant offers and ads across the Meta Company Products; and
Fun, but backwards! Wish I could toggle right-hand drive
Sharp Tech and Stratechery Plus
> Serial’s production company released S-Town, an almost anti-commercial literary-nonfiction project about the remarkable life of an unremarkable man.

Yeah fuck this style of journalism. If he was unremarkable he wouldn’t have had a hit podcast made about him. This is an remarkable article written by an remarkable journalist.
Disappointed to not find a flower shop at branch.com:1080
The article doesn't strike me as super biased, but it may be a bit shallow regarding the issues.

If one doesn't start with the premise that Christian beliefs are bogus, then I'd be interested in:

- How could someone realistically use the modern Internet and still avoid content that starts them down unwelcome paths? (A secular analogue might be suicide ideation.)

- How could that guy's accountability partner have better recognized false positives?

- How could that guy's accountability partner been more of a friend and less of a (seeming?) jerk?

- Is an app store provider truly inclusive if they disallow apps that make privacy tradeoffs that appeal to one religion's adherents but not to another's?
Not really. There are vast archives of newspaper articles accessible through a web interface. You just need library access. The free, open web is mostly just a spam ocean, but if you make an effort to access the services that catalog useful information, it’s still very useful. The Google web is shit, though.
I do dream about school sometimes too.

But for me, it is speaking up to the teacher (telling him he is wrong), or confidently not caring about what the teacher is ordering the class to do.

Or event confidently deciding not to go to school today.

I can earn a living with my programming skills, I have 0 reasons to endure school bullshit anymore.
Yes, it is good offer.

Most internships are not paid and getting experience is more valuable than those 200 - 300 euros.

But don't stay intern too long.
Uh... how can it be OK to organize to communicate an anti-lockdown message, but not OK to organize a rebuttal... by the people tasked with communicating national health policy?

Not to mention the large "plot-hole" in the narrative at the start -- I guess the Biden administration was getting an early start in October 2020?

Basic reason dies when you join a political tribe.
$780m profit in 2021.
Show HN: MathB.in – Mathematics pastebin written in Common Lisp
A true fact about what we built yesterday isn't a necessary limit to what we can build tomorrow.

The storage tech works (as would a global power grid), we "only" need to scale it up, and at current prices a global grid would cost about the same as current annual spending on fossil fuels, while the cost of batteries depends on your estimate for storage requirements, which depends on the diversity (location and energy sources) of the grid, but could be in a similar range.

(Batteries are also the most expensive of the seriously considered solutions, other storage methods exist and work just fine but aren't so good for cars and we need the batteries for cars anyway).

I'm not sure how long either approach would last before needing servicing/replacement, but I'd be surprised if it was less than a year.

Anyone here know how long underwater HVDC cables last?
But that’s weird, as 9! is just 360,000, 6 digits in decimal.

Assuming a pocket calculator has 8 digits, it would overflow only if the starting number was around 300. Was it like that?
Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…
Without the bodice you would be out of balance while holding the dumbbell. If you're making a ring around the world, you must learn to reason circularly.
The old joke is that if you want to increase the quality of the ads you see, google rolex and Rolls-Royce for a week
Yes, but it is also primarily a large-animal dewormer.

You can use it in humans, but in a far smaller dose than you'd expect. It works quite well as a dewormer in humans too.

It does precisely fuck all against COVID or any other sort of virus.

Solid gold against intestinal parasites though.
Who is they? Google or meta?

Google are definitely collecting data from gboard.

That may not be directly shared with meta but is likely to get indirectly shared through overlapping advertising identifiers.
They won't be openly sharing your text, but they will be scanning to and flagging you as having interests in something in your text or something related to what you said, then sharing that with advertisers.
Of course everyones adult life is different but if you have a decent job you generally never have to worry about money, unless you spend it on unneeded stuff(I admit this assumes a western country). That doesn't mean it matches your experience, but an outlier doesn't invalidate the general point I made.

> My kids however are leisurely creatures

How so? They are forced every weekday under duress of the law to go to a place they didn't choose to be. If they don't perform in their forced labor they are put into more forced labor. They have to listen to you and you probably very often take away their agency to do what they desire. Kids do have more "free" time, but that time is not actually free. But the way the can spend is very narrow. But more time does not equal better.
Sounds like you had a bad experience. Sorry to hear that!
Of course the HackerNews hive mind can’t stand for this! But when someone pops up to complain about his essential social network account being banned on some flimsy pretext everyone agrees that that shouldn’t be legally possible!
Another option would be that META created a small model that could be run client-side and picked the right selection of ads to show elsewhere without even exfiltrating keywords.
> In the comments I mostly see "because of js and adtech", but is there a factual analysis somewhere ?

I'm not sure what sort of analysis you're looking for, but different sites have different problems. I'm not convinced that averaging them makes sense, and it's very difficult to create a reasonable metric. As soon as you start measuring some specific metric, people will optimize for it whilst still making the site unusable. Unfortunately "usable state" is too hard to quantify without it being game-able.

> How much is due to the recent massive deployment of https and related latency

Very little, you can check here [0] and see for yourself. Obviously it depends on your distance to the server you are reaching, but the added latency of HTTPS isn't really a factor when you're looking at 10s for a page to load.

> What type of contents is causing most of the waiting time ? Images, css, js ?

Lets look at CNN (only because I happen to remember that a lite version exists thanks to someone on HN). The lite[1] version loads entirely in 350ms for me. The normal version[2] with adblock on finishes loading everything after 1.43s. The normal version with adblock off, finishes loading after 20s and reflows a bunch of times as ads get loaded.

So I agree with the rest of the comments, it's "because of js and adtech".

Disclaimer: I'm in South Africa at the moment on 4g, my internet isn't the best :)

[0] https://www.httpvshttps.com/

[1] https://lite.cnn.com/en

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/
I wish I had this much clout as a VC but I'm sad to report that it doesn't quite work out like this at all.
Nice work! Do you automatically convert the links on yanking?

How has being free from employment been working out so far?
I didn't mean learning specifically. Anything really.
I work at AWS in Professional Services where we are pushed to go after the other 95%. I watch the ReInvent videos. He is very much talking about growing by going after the other 95%.

I know first hand how many large enterprises and state and local government institutions are self hosted.

In context, he is obviously talking about AWS’s growth potential by going after a large untapped market.

As far as “needing an app”. Do you really think the same people who will show up by the thousands to watch Trump and go through the trouble of invading the Capital won’t go out of their way to go to a website and post their opinions?
Fascinating discussion.
After his mentioning of having a substantial portion of his net worth in Adobe stock, all I could think of is “oof, this is why everyone says to diversify.” Since he left Adobe in August 2021, Total stock index is down 17.7%, while ADBE is down 54.6%.
Right, I figured it was a set up and not how I first interpreted it, but that initial impression stuck and I just couldn't carry on watching the rest as I was so nauseated by him after that.
Indefinite and Fictitious Numbers
If grid battery prices fall another 90% (on trend, this will be in 10 - 15 years, and there is no reason to think that it cannot happen), the economics will probably be different.

Need to skate where the puck's going, not where it is.
There is, in fact, far more than enough raw materials for all the batteries that will be needed.

Stationary batteries do not need lithium. And utilities can store energy in bulk without batteries, in other media.

All the nukes will be mothballed as there comes to be zero hours during which they can offer power at a competitive price. Each reduction in duty cycle means they have to bid higher for what is left. Owners may write off capex and try to get enough just to pay to maintain their turbines, and fail at that, too.
Good, since when the schools did reopen, they immediately had to shut again due to massive outbreaks that were directly related to the reopening of schools. God knows how many died or developed chronic illnesses due to schools reopening too early.
Same here. I've also experienced it with other JavaScript simulations. I suspect it has something to do with Chrome's hardware acceleration because it works smooth as butter on Firefox.
So, Tech management is performance art? Having always worked in 1-10 person dev groups, I’ve always wondered what all those people do every day. I guess, again, we’ve learned the answer - nothing of use to the bottom line.

Edit: I am a professional. Treat me like one and I’ll act like one. Treat me otherwise, and I’ll apply my algorithmic skills to the job rather than the product.
It's not hard to see the echo of the web in podcasts: Balkanization and commoditization. I think Econtalk was my first podcast, back in 2007 or so. It was not a crowded space, and the one show I listened to seemed interesting and well-made. More importantly, the guests were not on stop 62 of their 100 podcast marathon, so everything seemed fresher.

By comparison, just about every podcast is produced better now than back then (though I doubt the necessity of 100MB file sizes for an hour of talk) and I can listen to 5 separate podcasts that have weekly content, all of which is more tightly tailored to me than my favorite 5 episodes of a year's worth of my favorite show in the old times. But that means there's too much stuff to meander through, plus I'll end up hearing the same person interviewed on all 5 shows.

And, advertising everywhere. Most podcasts aren't the handsfree experience they used to be, now that I have to seek past ads every 15 minutes.
> Is there any need to have a back pressure system for a single user?

I don't think the fundamentals of the system change because of a single user. Life is logistics. If I have a lot of stuff in the HOLD state, it might indicate that my life is super busy, and give me some areas where I should perhaps set up automation for those tasks, or see if I can make behavioral changes to avoid those.

For example, there's a city trip plan in the author's screenshot. Assume there were 5 or 6 more. If you find yourself planning trips to a bunch of cities but never actually taking them (I have personally been in this situation a few times), then perhaps the Kanban board can reveal that bottleneck.
Write your code like you will need to debug it at 2:00 am drunk
And the fact that the US is not a representative democracy and the small states have much more representation in government than their population should allow?
I understand that you have a rich imagination, please do not use it to justify censorship.
Create a story/epic or whatever to reserve points for support.
Ezno: a new TypeScript compiler
Only if you believe that investigating software patents are in the public's best interest.
Hydrogen costs about $1/kWh of energy storage capacity when stored underground in solution mined caverns in salt formations, so that's a tough target for batteries to reach. Even a 10x reduction will not get them there. The higher efficiency of batteries also becomes proportionally less important as the cost of renewable energy itself declines.

It will be interesting to see where the crossover point between hydrogen (and other e-fuels) and current batteries lies. There are also technologies that will fall between them, including certain battery technologies with low current density (Form Energy's batteries are in this category) and various flavors of thermal storage. The latter has the possibility of shifting over to reheat with hydrogen in emergency situations when the directly stored heat is exhausted.
Yes, it was a government initiative to create a decentralised network. Getting ready in 1994 was over 20 years late.

Fun fact: Queen Elizabeth sent an email in 1976. Or more likely she pressed a button.
Depending on your OS it should just be a matter of starting a webview with the code as the default page and running it full screen. Then a small loop looking for mouse/keyboard events so it knows when to quit.
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
Did you listen to Shit Town?
Strong iPhone 14 Pro sales gives Apple 60% of high-end marketshare
OMG this is... quite the misunderstanding -_-'
Indeed. And if well written, the majority of the code shouldn't need comments. For example, well-chosen descriptive identifier names can make code fairly self-documenting.

The comments then should then be reserved for the cases where it is not obvious why or how something is done, or for assumptions that can't be expressed through code (type system or similar).

So instead of having the following

// set i equal to five
i = 5;

either skip the comment, or, since 5 might seem arbitrary, comment why 5:

// first four slots are reserved
i = 5;
Which is why you should self-host all the fonts you use, which is incidentally also what you need to do to be GDPR-compliant. Its not the fonts that are the problem here its the font CDN.
Checkout this webauthn (passkey) implementation helpful for your web projects: https://github.com/authcompanion/authcompanion2
Err, for a while, they didn't. But soon enough new gatekeepers and middlemen (GAFA, Paypal) returned which not only had we hoped to get rid of, but even paid public money (ARPA, CERN, W3C) and established net neutrality legislation for, in vain.
Zoomers and young millenials can't listen to radio - the word itself is uncool.

Re-branding is important. If it's new, it's cool. And everything old is made new again.

Functionally, of course there's some differences: podcasts are free from the physical limitations of radio, there's an unlimited number of channels, and anyone can start one. But at their essence, they're the same.
Fact is that despite people often being able to slack off (in-office or otherwise), productivity is still magnitudes higher than it was decades ago, and is continuing to increase.

Maybe we should stop trying to squeeze every ounce of work out of people? Most businesses could happily reduce working hours, even give an extra day off every week, and see very little (if any) reduction in profits.
To answer the questions about the guy's accountability partner: the guy didn't (truly and freely) choose his accountability partner, his "accountability partner", actually "monitor", chose him.

Add: And it seems the guy was rushed ("forced") into installing the app and agreeing to the "solution".
I would like to add to that, that this is not true for the country side. At least in Germany. Public transport is pretty much non existent there, e.g. (anecdotal) a part of my family lives in a village with ~4000 inhabitants. To get to the next bigger city there is one bus that goes in the morning and one that goes back in the afternoon. That is it. If you want to go to dinner or visit someone after that, you need a car or go by bike 15km one way.
Faced with sanctions, Russia wants to switch to Linux
Is Hans Niemann cheating? – Expert analyzes
IMO keyboard apps, ISP, clipboard fiends are to be blamed for the most part
Depending on which country it's ok, just don't continue for more than 2, max 3 months. Actively look for dev positions and also tell the company you would like to upgrade to a full time dev position after maximum 3 months if they're happy with your performance.
It works when everyone in the book is a smug asshole, like his narration of the Interdependency books. You just have to suppress your desire to smack him in the mouth.
OTOH, the "two dudes talking" also produces the absolute worst podcast content when they do their small talk on air rather than getting it out of the way first. No podcast audience wants to hear your inside jokes and about how everyone's been making fun of you for your ski injury.
Which is more likely to start a controversy and trigger the law? A teacher saying that she and her husband went to a Christmas parade or a woman saying her and her wife went to a Pride parade?
Exportation of software or services to facilitate personal communications of Iranian citizens is allowed under a general license as long as it is provided at no cost. General license means it does not need to be applied for.
Ah this is all a good point, yeah. I guess I was more thinking of the presence of/emphasis on a narrative (quantity of dialogue, cut-scenes, character personalities, etc.) rather than the direct bearing that narrative has on gameplay (you're right that it's often relatively little).

I hadn't really thought of Fallout as an RPG, nor e.g. Deus Ex, I guess the FP nature makes them seem more different. Witcher is more of one, but I guess they all 3 have commonalities.
So most likely WhatsApp on your phone includes an engine that reads all your incoming messages and tells Meta that you are interested in some topic X based on your recent messaging history. Meta is not per se breaking the E2E encryption, but their app contains a backdoor that reports some topic-level information back to Meta that could be used to deduce what you are talking about without totally breaking the confidentiality of your correspondence.

(All this is just a guess based on OP's report and the above quote.)
Because this all happens on the front end and the backend accepts the requests - I'm curious if this is exempt from the legal definition of "hacking" aka "accessing a remote system with Ill intent" or however it's defined .

Although I guess that applies to sql injection as well so in theory there was really potential legal trouble here?
No, to get people back to the office, make it worthwhile. More and better work has to be accomplished given all the time and hassle getting to/from the office and working in that environment.
I am actually doing it remotely from another country outside of EU and NA.
The puzzle conundrum continues to live on, though. Some time ago, I bought a game app from the "escape room" variety. It's got no relation to escape rooms, it's just how it's called/advertised. It consists of a sequence of situations where you have to find a final item, which the game recognizes as exit, so that's perhaps why.

After the first level, the puzzles were rather convoluted and opposite to anything that would happen in real life. The "protagonist" decides to go to a bank (i.e., the next level is at the bank), and there passwords are hidden on a scrap of paper behind a ventilation grating in the toilet or as a bar-column in a financial report. Who would ever do that? You open a secret area by making sure the folders in two cabinets are in the same order. Then, when you find a cheque to the protagonist's father, he decides that's all the information the bank will reveal, and since he doesn't understand why that cheque was written in the first place, the next level obviously will be --I bet you already guessed it-- his father's church.

At the church, you find a note taped to the inside of the bell in the bell tower. Then you ring the bell a few times, and the thing, which is larger than the protagonist, so must weigh several tonnes, comes crashing down. It lands in one piece on the church floor, and you can access the note. Then you have to move the pews in some pattern in order to access something else. In real life, it would be obvious that there is a mechanism attached to the pews, but the game just makes things visible or invisible as long as it keeps the player on the happy path.

So yeah, I gave up on that one.