skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely worry about the future of scholarship as our print media becomes more and more fragmented and hidden. It's not necessarily about ensuring essential knowledge is carried forward, but rather a "sense of the past". In researching history, the further back you go the more fragmented and unreliable your sources usually become. So it becomes harder and harder to figure out the broad sweep of these past cultures, what life was like, the things they believed, and so on. And I think we're doing that to our present historical moment by deleting the recent past and creating a continuous present.

We have the Internet Archive, we have Wikipedia page histories, but everything else is ephemeral. If Archive.org ever goes the way of the Library of Alexandria, we'll have lost irreplaceable knowledge of the web itself, and the cultures that existed on it. It will live on only in living memory, but this is also transient, and soon nobody will live who remembers what this time period was like. Wikipedia will not reflect it, you'd have to dig through page histories to find fragments, like historians and archaeologists sifting through ancient manuscripts and ruins for clues.

A potential dark age is forming, and avoiding it right now hinges entirely on the continued efforts of two donation-funded organizations, one of which makes it increasingly harder to view the past, the other facing legal disputes that could see it shut down. I think we need to make archiving the present important, so it does not become a mysterious, inscrutable past for our descendants.
> At the end of the day, Windows is the only desktop OS that enables me to use my computer to do the shit I need or want to do.

I disagree on two fronts.

First that Windows is the "only" desktop OS that enables you to use your computer to do the shit you need or want to do. macOS and Linux both do as well.

Secondly that Windows is actually a very terrible OS to use your computer to do the shit you need to do unless you have zero care whatsoever for privacy.
if it's postgres, then 5 mins as shown in the video :) Otherwise what data warehouse are you thinking of and what's the use case behind it?

Can you clarify what you mean by "not out of box" API? We haven't built an integration with Argyle yet but once we do it would be the same experience as Plaid
Curation is the first step, but we also need more organizations who take on the job of keeping some bits of the internet from going dark. Especially for things that were originally done for the common good.

There's a local group here that basically specializes in devops for little public projects that have run their course. They even do a little bit of work trying to provide templates for new projects (eg, for a local hackathon), but I'd like to see them go farther.

Bigger, more national or international groups that come up with recipes for projects where they say, "If you build your project on this structure, then we will be more likely to run it for you," I think is a reasonable logical next step for the Internet. Given the task of running 10 projects that 'need' 4 servers each, it would be very good if I could do it all with 20 servers, not 44 (40 + orchestration machines).

We don't have a "PBS for the internet" but then PBS didn't always exist either. You need a beach head of some sort to even propose such a thing to government.
I don't think it's a perspective - I believe I was fortunate to have the support system that I had. As a child you are supposed to be protected and cared for. And I hope that I can do the same for my children.

Maybe you mistook my perspective for hubris - but it is what childhood should be - innocent and pure and if it's not, then society is failing.
Dave (RC Cofounder) is stepping down next year
Gonna have to wait for someone from the community to come along and profile the game to find that 10 Mb json file of in-app purchase items being parsed in O(n*2).
> Want to be happy? Don’t follow your gut.

And that strapline tells me all I need to know....

I don't care about being happy - its an ephemeral feeling, that can even be induced by drugs. Why should it be held as the pinnacle of anything? Should my life be about chasing doughnuts and bjs?

What I do want is to understand and get closer to the truth and meaning.

PS But I also understand why 'happiness' is promoted as a value to be sought. It opens you up to being sold to alleviate 'unhappiness' and to lessen 'pain'. As if pain is something to be avoided as opposed to an opportunity to learn and change.
>assertion Firefox is dead

Firefox is (and has been) no longer a consideration in web development because of its tiny and thus inconsequential market share.

Lest we forget, Firefox was once the market leader that usurped the position from IE6.

>they tried to rip off Chrome

The constant dumbing down and changing of the UI, removal of XUL in favor of WebAssembly (dropping Firefox extensions in favor of becoming compatible with Chrome extensions), moving to the Chrome Version Number system (we're on Firefox what again? 100? 150? 200?) to not look ancient comparatively, etc.

I'm sincerely of the opinion Mozilla should just drop Gecko and move Firefox over to being another Chrome fork. It would be far more in line with Mozilla's goals of shipping a Chrome ripoff in vain attempts to steal Chrome users.
Try Linux Mint. It uses Cinnamon and Cinnamon is very similar to Windows and without all of the baggage
The implication, though, is that iPhone is at least the most common device used. At least in the US, this is not true.
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
They're not in the same category. Two of those are advertisement firms, one is a hardware company.
Better look at it from a career perspective. Is there any visibility for upper management of refactoring/rewriting this mess? For them it might look like a bunch of months without any new features. Think short-term. Your goal shouldn't be to maintain that code for a long time. Add some fancy features and present it to management. Get a promotion and switch companies.
Yes. The UX is much better.
Linux customization capabilites are phenomenal I give you that, but it takes a very big amount of time if you want something specific for you, and when an update hits and things just break :-(
no. its called deprecated API for a reason.

Its deprecated
Or find something to work on that you actually care about. I don't have any trouble working on something for 12 hours a day when I find it intrinsically interesting and meaningful.
Climate change is not the dominant factor.

Pre-1800, about 1.8 million hectare burned each year in CA:
https://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Conservation/Fi...

> The idea that US wildfire area of approximately two million ha annually is extreme is certainly a 20th or 21st century perspective. Skies were likely smoky much of the summer and fall in California during the prehistoric period.

And from: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...

> Instead, global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence that there is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago. Regarding fire severity, limited data are available. For the western USA, they indicate little change overall, and also that area burned at high severity has overall declined compared to pre-European settlement.

We have simply been lucky, so far, that mass settlement in an area of the US that experiences very regular fires and 200-year droughts has happened to affect us so little. In the past other civilizations have had to leave the area completely.
https://svelte-hackernews-eight.vercel.app/item/32954717
No. What does “below <subforum>” mean? Below their standards?
When I read "Sent from my iPhone" I feel sorry they don't have a proper keyboard and that they have to touch cold, hard glass instead; what an unpleasant tactile experience!

And then I remember I now have to do the same, because someone switched off my fantastic BlackBerry (R.I.P. until resurrection comes!)...
I've been work on a proof of concept with Wails and it's a productive development loop. The only thing different about the front end code vs a website is that it calls functions generated from my Go back end (fully typed!) instead of making an HTTP call.

The end result is a single binary. I suspect there's interesting things to be built as small extensions/compliments to command line tools.
I love how this still comes up all these years later
Very glad I decided to come back to this thread and see what it turned into.
I was raised Catholic, and none of that happened.

You were raised by a lunatic.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32908724
It's an interesting phenomenon: the dwindling middle class in the West frowns upon corruption even as it is the lifeblood of the ruling classes.

Who do I gotta donate to? Which ZIP code do I gotta live in? Which special "membership plan"/recurring bribe do I have to pay to get access to decent social services?

America in particular has institutionalized corruption so that it no longer resembles the bespoke form practiced in developing countries. Media portrayals plays a big role in this. After all, what is corruption but allowing market forces to rule over human rights, justice, and essential public services?
Simon's previous TV show, and his book, revolved around the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. I feel like that was already enough to squash hopes of living in a good world.
I'm curious about the notion that Firefox tried to ripoff Chrome. I have qualms with Firefox, but that wasn't on the list.
Don't.

Care about yourself.

If you're working on things that interest you and with people you enjoy interacting with and you're treated well by your employer, then your job with take care of itself.

If you're not, find a new job until that list is satisfied.
> WireGuard is a great demonstration of why the total complexity of the implementation ends up affecting the UX of the product.

This is absolutely true! Probably everything you could do with WireGuard you could accomplish with OpenSSL/OpenVPN, but the complexity is staggering. This makes it much more difficult to troubleshoot and far more likely that there will be an error in the configuration that could lead to compromise.
Yeah, you care, but most people probably just click accept. I want an "I don't care" option. Ad-blocking the banner only goes so far and is harder on mobile.
Minimalism is powerful at conveying truth.

/humor Just don't input the wrong numbers. "Oops pasted a date-formatted cell .. spinning up 19258 instances ..."
Riiiight… the way to greater productivity is to party hard at work instead of grinding out results at home. Brilliant.
i3 is so simple and intuitive!
Every statistic I've found shows not only a 50+% share of the existing market, it also shows new phones from Apple are selling to over 50% of the market.

It makes the email signature even more bizarre.

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...

https://hypebeast.com/2022/9/apple-iphone-overtakes-androids...
1.)Have kids.

2.)Work at doing something else, since you clearly don’t like what you’re doing. Looks like you’re already doing that, so just keep going. Could your physical activity and health be what’s affecting your mental state?
Plenty of research and news stories about this if you care to search. The speculative part of my comment is about the transcription which I'm speculating because of their fervent denials despite evidence which technically their wording in their denial statements is correct.

If I had to guess, your whatsapp messages are e2e secured but keywords are sent to facebook when they match some condition. So if you message "happy birthday" to someone, they won't see that but the fact that the keyword "birthday" was found even if the word isn't included is sent to fb. That way they can say they're not snooping your messages.
The car needs to charge for 4 hours overnight (say, before 7am). It's currently 9pm and the price is currently 7c/kwh, should it charge or not?

That question is obviously underspecified, you can only answer it by knowing whether or not the price will be below 7c/kwh for 4 of the remaining hours in the night. You answer the question with a predictive model of the price, and you build that predictive model with "AI" because that's how we build all our best predicitve models.

AI doesn't get to say "you can't charge", you get to say "and I'll delegate the question of which 4 hours to charge during to the AI".

> similar to how all of these dogshit smart thermostats can be completely shut off from heating if "AI says so".

I assume you're referring to the instance where texas power companies remotely increased the temperature on peoples thermostats? That's not AI, or even remotely related to AI, that's humans controlling other peoples stuff without permission. That risk exists whether or not you use machine learning models to predict electricity prices.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/remote-thermos...
YC Launch- Convenient At-Home Health Tracking- Quantify by SiPhox
YC- backed SiPhox Inc. just launched Quantify, an at-home test kit service that enables users to track 17 health tests ($99/test) + sleep, activity, and heart rate data from your wearable device ⌚ in a single dashboard.
Does Factorio benefit more from RAM latency or bandwidth? Apple's processors have unprecedented GPU-like memory bandwidth available to the CPU, but I don't recall hearing about the latency being anything special. (For latency, AMD's 3D-stacked cache might be the best solution out there.)
It seems to me that Americans got played on this front. Racism and prejudice where it counts is still alive and well, albeit often in a suit or living out of sight now. It's often not out, loud and proud anymore, but, arguably, short of lynchings, at least that kind was easy to spot and avoid. Much harder to deduce people's inner positions now that we're all running mini PR operations.

Social causes also got co-opted by corporations who happily surfed from wave to wave and skated past accountability to their causes they were attaching themselves to.

In the meantime, the US economy is a shambles, the average quality of education is spectacularly bad and the future doesn't seem to have a strong upward trend at this time. People's attitudes generally are not good.
That dude (you?) compares his contraption to the same three filters taped randomly on a box fan. That's a little silly. I'm surprised it filters anything at all, as the air would simply flow between and around the filters. During Oregon's 2020 Labor Day fires many of us just taped standard 20"x20"x1" home filters to a standard box fan. You can tape all the way around it ensuring that all air passes through the filter, and the filters have pretty good ratings (we used MERV 11 and 13 filters). We found that they worked very well. Here's a picture of one of ours (we had three running in different places): https://photos.app.goo.gl/XkEKBdt5m8nN8NU7A

I don't have any numbers, but I strongly suspect for purposes of wildfire smoke they work as well as what that article is proposing.
Why do we as a community continue to post paywalled articles?
I am astounded by what is feasible with OSINt - from tracking Vice Presidenal picks and billionaires jets to counting tanks destroyed.

I don't really understand the Venn Diagram here with journalism, spying and democratic debate, but it's there.

A cottage industry that I assume will explode into things like

- Hiring background checks

- consumer credit and counter party analysis

- supply chain somethings (the old how many trucks left that depot last month tells you something valuable)

Any other ideas ? Companies already springing up to do this?
docker and clion is an amazing experience. One can change their toolchain very easily without worrying about interference from all the crap on my dev machine I have installed over time, or that one needs a different config all togethor. It's similar to clion with windows/mac but the experience deteriorates, but the VM for WSL is much better on windows(no need to allocate a huge chunk of ram) than macos for docker
Principle of least privilege is for things the client can control, like sending the cookies in the first place. There has already been a "do not track" option since 2010. It got basically deprecated because nobody respected it. And even if they tried to enforce it, and I actually cared about being tracked, I wouldn't trust it.
You guys totally hit the proverbial nail on the head!
You've got to look at the combination: (1) Cut taxes, (2) Cut spending too? Or not, (3) If not, is the increased deficit financed by selling bonds to the public, or to the central bank?

An increase in the money supply comes about only if (1) taxes are cut, (2) spending isn't cut, (3) the central bank buys the bonds issued as a result, creating the money to do so out of nothing.

A deficit financed by selling bonds to the public might perhaps increase expectations that sometime in the future the central bank will buy bonds using newly created money, but that is likely to have a more muted effect than them actually creating money now.
Herc is not a character to be emulated. He is a brutal and vicious officer when he is a cop and when he gets out he does private security for an organization that causes ever more harm to society.
I mean yeah, but that's like saying 'extreme quantities of river fire? maybe for the 2000s! the cuyahoga used to catch fire every few months and thats the way we liked it.'

[edit] Fun fact: the cuyahoga did used to catch fire regularly, so much so that the famous photo people think of in reference to the incident that led to the creation of the EPA was actually from a previous fire.
> This way too I can troll people on the internet when they suspect this is happening and I can say "bUt ThE bAtTeRy LiFe!" to defend Meta: my corporate overlord business daddy.

Please, stop with the sarcasm.

Okey, let’s say they manage to record us without a huge impact on our battery life. Now, how do you send these recordings or even the extracted keywords from a popular app, a client installed on devices controlled by the users and susceptible to reverse engineering and network traffic analysis without anyone noticing it?

It’s just too much risk and they don’t even need it, see my relevant reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950204#32953216.
"The average record store lasts 2.75 years. The average dentist business lasts 19.5 years."

Average means nothing unless the distribution is normal. And business longevity is not a normal distribution.
Thanks for getting back to reply. You have no idea how helpful this kind of comments are, as are real life experiences :)
Coming from a devops background, I kind of wish they didn't support arbitrary docker containers, as I found the experience fairly painful (going through one of their guides), and soured me from using Fly at all. Maybe it was the app's fault, but troubleshooting was not intuitive at all, especially on the networking side.
Sidestepping your culture war flaming, this is just a race to the bottom. Are we supposed to give employers are free pass to work someone to the bone just because they're poor? Surely we can also acknowledge that, that while it's unfortunate that having a sweatshop job is often better than no job, employers should not treat their employees like shit either.
This thing is ancient, I tried playing this for a bit way before I actually started on my Vim journey some 7 years ago. My dad introduced me to this, and I didn't really see the point to it, never really came back to it either, so I have no idea how useful it actually is, but I'm glad it's still around.

I'm sure there's better Vim learning tools these days. Though it should be noted that learning to use hjkl doesn't remotely begin to cover the expressiveness of vim keybinds for editing, and I think this tool at least goes more in depth than most others.
Anecdote but my close friend joined Google about a year ago. His sentiments are pretty similar to yours - he says he’s never experienced such entitlement before. Not sure if Pichai is taking the right approach but I can see where he’s coming from.
For my simple road warrior setup, 8 lines that are clearly understandable were all it took in wireguard.

OpenVPN was always a nightmare
You can use io-ts [0] to define your types, and it'll generate functions to typecheck for you. Syntactically it's a bit gnarly and the documentation isn't great; a first-party solution would definitely be nicer. But it works, and it's amazing that it works.

[0] https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts
To answer my own question, it does indicate that something is playing, even of the audio is turned off, which is useful.

I guess I'm wondering if anyone can "read" waveforms, or if there's some other usefulness to it.
I was so delighted to discover DaVinci for a multitude reasons, but one of the biggest ones was that it doubles as a full-blown audio editor (for my use-cases, anyway). This allowed me to finally ditch Audacity, after its development took some very questionable turns last year.
If you cannot care about the goal, then the goal is likely not really worthwhile. There was at one point where I exhausted myself for what was essentially an SEO app. I got to the point where sitting in front of the laptop and the thought of typing generated significant pain; my body freezes. That's burnout. I had nothing left to give. After that, I swore I would only look for work that I find worthwhile and purposeful. I identified some broad areas of social impact that felt meaningful for me (e.g. legal, healthcare, education, finance) and only looked for startups that were working within those areas. YMMV.

If you are young, and you have a good social safety net (family), then it is probably better to actively search for a different company, one where you feel that you are contributing meaningfully and purposefully.

If the only reason you are there is for the high income and the prestige of working there, but you do not feel you are contributing meaninfully, then forcing yourself to work through this will hollow you out. You'll wake up at middle age with a middle-age crisis. You might succeed with the prestige or wealth, and none of it means much. (Or you realize that your youth is ultimately ephemeral, and you can never get it back again). Further, at that time, you are much less likely to absorb the risk of changing your career -- dependents, tech-industry ageism, etc.

In this post-lockdown economic time and huge demand for workers, this is the time where it is favorable for employees. That window is still open, but it is closing. When it closes, we'll be left with lower demand for workers and higher inflation. The window for job mobility is open now and it won't last forever.

You may possibly be able to apply for a different job internally, but I suggest it is something you feel you can contribute meaningfully.

If you still insist on staying, you can try to get a mental-health leave until you come out of burnout. Take the time to find out what is really important to you. It is probably not status or prestige, even if it seems that way. If you're able to find the purpose within you, then that will be what gets you up in the morning; you might be tired, and even exhausted, and yet, purposeful and meanginful work makes it feel like it is worth it.
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