skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I was aware there were drives sub-$200. To be perfectly technical, 1.3 hundred dollars is still "hundreds" of dollars in English. And the fake drives aren't generally more than 40 dollars.
Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
I have a few years of experience working mostly on the frontend with React and am getting more and more frustrated with all the added layers of complexity needed to work with most common frontend frameworks.

I’ve hit a point where it just doesn’t seem like the end justifies the means in the vast majority of cases anymore which really doesn’t make me excited to work on much in this space now.

The one redeeming quality of doing this kind of work is that it is in very high demand, and I worry that the price of becoming more specialized or doing something more enjoyable with less bloat is that it becomes much harder to find jobs.

Has anyone either switched from doing web development type work to something else they enjoy more for similar reasons? If anyone considers themselves very specialized in an area, do you worry about job opportunities?
Packages are never a win win. The reason they are not is because they are designed to get you to pay more.

Take an example of cars. Any user buying a new car would almost always pay for all the safety features if a “safety bundle” was available that had all the safety features. Instead they split apart all the features into different bundles along with luxury features to make you buy stuff that you don’t care about. Want blind spot detection? Great we have our pro bundle that gives you that with seat heating (driver only btw) and all weather mats. Want collision warning? Here’s our pro plus that gets you that with heated steering and seat heating for front passenger.

Cable bundles were exactly that. After spending $200/month, I still couldn’t watch all the football games from my couch and that was a travesty. But I did have 200+ Spanish channels. So it was a win win right?
That is a yet to be solved problem. But people are working to make sure that doesn't happen.
If you're using an ad blocker I assume you're using your browser to watch? If so there are multiple plugins that will add sped up playback to Hulu. Some of them are just generic HTML5 video adjusters.
If you are looking for general advanced graphics video lectures then this might help. The lectures at the university of Utrecht (one of the top universities of the Netherlands) are now often recorded and published sinds covid started. There advanced graphics lecture recordings, slides and exercises from last year are published on this website chttp://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/magr/2021-2022/index.html
Yeah, I’d be plenty happy seeing both alcohol and marijuana as scheduled iv or v drugs that you can just get a quick prescription for to alleviate stress, malaise, or what have you.
> The FTSE 100 is almost at the same level as in 2014

The FTSE 100 is currently at almost exactly the same level as it was on New Year's Eve December 1999!
Ghostwriter: A distraction-free writing experience
At least in Toronto, it doesn't work that way. The amount of tax dollars the city wants to collect is set in advance. The value of each property only affects the share of that property's contribution to the tax base. If everyone's property price doubled, then the rate would be halved. https://torontoist.com/2014/01/everything-you-ever-wanted-to...
> That’s likely more a function of the OS’ “It Just Works” factor than the hardware...

That is exactly my observation. When the good power Mac laptops came out a lot of my ThinkPad Linux laptop using co-workers jumped ship. Number one reason stated: battery life. Number two reason stated: suspend works reliably. Number three: it is POSIX/UNIX-ish enough that it is familiar and I can do my job.
I watch this channel on the regular and... yeeeahhhh this is right on the money. It's definitely not neutral journalistic reporting of the war, and plays pretty fast and loose with "footage that some viewers might find disturbing". Heck, his catchphrase, "Knock em out cold" is pretty obviously a euphemism for killing russian soldiers. If anything I'm surprised he has survived this long without being demonetized or straight up stricken out (Cody's Lab nearly got struck out for far less).
interesting.

i'll agree on battery life, mine is mostly on AC power (used as workstation) and i never bothered with https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop_Mode_Tools but i hear it makes a huge difference, the 4k display on this doesn't help.

my keyboard is okay (they're easy and cheap to swap, maybe try another one), but i do hear some subtle electrical noise from the mainboard when it's "doing stuff". i don't use the trackpad at all and generally hate all trackpads for any prolonged use -- a compact bluetooth mouse is the way to go (i use Logitech MX Anywhere).

i don't use the use USB ports much except a USB-C for an external NVME, no issues with it or the others when i've had to use them.

i opted for the integrated card reader. unfortunately only micro-sd is available and the latching spring is too stiff and too deep (so the card sits flush) and is basically impossible to insert or remove without a paperclip or credit card to push it into place.

but this 4k calibrated display is amazing compared to what thinkpads always came with, even their 1440p matte IPS options were garbage.
Hello fellow hackers!

Did you ever wonder if your product or brand is mentioned in a podcast many people follow?

Did you ever had that moment where you heard something in a podcast, but couldn't remember where?

Well, now you can easily search * INSIDE * podcast episodes using podgraph.io!

Podgraph currently tracks around 200 podcasts (top 50 from several countries), parses their RSS feeds, and uses AI to transcribe and then index the content to make it searchable. We'll be adding more podcasts to the mix as we go.

Hope you enjoy it, and can't wait to hear what you think about it!
The explanation makes sense on a technical level.

But if the intent came from within the service’s app (i.e. I’m already a customer), why offer me an ad for the same one?
You can navigate to the pages of each artist by clicking the page number. Each page has sub-pages ("alasivu") that showcase the art.

For more about the technology, Wikipedia has a good summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
I gather that tyrannical forces are something our species will continue to deal with for our evolution.

I'd counter that tyrannical forces actually spurs humanity in the right direction. I say this because I have notice over the years that our species have been dealing with this problem since the birth of mankind. This is an observation, not a plug for tyranny.
While I agree... I feel this is easier said than done. I don't think any sane person would be against letting fraudsters get away with outright scams.

It seems if OP was able to just have their re-payments enforced, things would be set right.
Used jslint extensively back in the days.

The reason why it fell mostly in disuse nowadays is because jshint appeared, which allowed a lot more customization of the available rules being applied.

Later eslint popped up with it's plugin engine allowing anyone to have their own custom set of rules.

As far as I know, no one cared about jshint's license because there was no code being shipped, and eventually code would be minified anyway leaving no traces of jshint.

Now... We can talk about the morality of ignoring a license, but ultimately jshint's license was simply ignored by almost everyone
> it implies that if you respect the laws of the countries the people you serve reside in, you can choose to follow the law by not serving them, and therefore not having to "do what they say", or serve them, but then by their laws "do what they say".

This is only a real dichotomy if there is a legal enforcement regime forcing one to choose.

You're substituting a few handwavey indirections to profit-based incentives. While partially true, this mainly functions to absolve Twitter from not taking a more principled stand - the same argument could be made if they started doing more deplorable things with user data.

So sure, the stock market is fickle and irrational, like every herd. But the fundamental analysis for Iran being able to attack Twitter is that Twitter has poor security, period. I'd rather focus on the real problem than merely shoot today's messenger.
See for instance the replies to this guy's clever idea yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubers/comments/xxlkvi/using_dem...

It may depend on what country you're in or if you're on mobile or not. I wouldn't know for certain, I'm a uBO/NewPipe man.
Started downloading my Youtube liked videos back in 2009 (and keeping it updated ever since). +10k videos ~1.5 TB. It's pretty much nothing and a huge chunk of them gone forever from the site, especially pre-2010 ones.
> Identify which of the files should be modified first.

I'm curious how many software engineers work this way — i.e. you need to make a big change, and you can determine a sequential order in which to make changes?

My working style is mostly jumping back-and-forth across all the relevant files and tests as I go, realizing new things that I need to change, and iterating until it all works end-to-end.

Am I the outlier, or is Maiao's expected workflow the outlier?
what do you mean there is no virality?

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

either you are off base or you need to learn stuff
Google Docs: Press CTRL-CMD-SHIFT-T CTRL-CMD-SHIFT-E to Exit Table
It would be great if they’d just offer (marked up or not) DRM free, high quality 4K video files to download / own.

I’m really not interested in 99% of the content on any of these platforms.
> “Used to”

They don’t anymore for many reasons. They also ask you to stop if you try to take one.
No people would just use 32 bit x86 and continue with that for many more years and move to SPARC/PowerPC for the few cases where you really need 64 bit.

People not just gone use really bad processors because they have no other options.
> Not to mention, passing smaller things leads to less memory usage, which is generally also a good idea.

It's not using any more memory. Whether you pass in the person object or the string, you're putting a reference on the stack. There will be a slight speedup with the more generic one if you are accessing the name more than once in the function, but you can avoid that by storing the name in a local variable.

And picking between the two isn't as straightforward as you make it out. Sure, you make it so any string can go into sayHello, but now you've introduced repetition at the call sites as they each have to pick the correct property to pass in. Also it means you can't easily change the sayHello function to do something like meeting a new requirement that it needs to greet the user more formally. If I take the whole person object, the change can be made in a single spot instead of having to modify the callers:

function sayHello(person) {
console.log(`Hello ${person.title} ${person.lastName}`);
}
The X230 is nearly identical physically, and you can swap the X220 keyboard onto it.

Advantage being 3rd-gen/HD4000 igpu which is Vulkan capable, not available on the X220. This difference makes the X230 far more practical in terms of modern graphics development/environments.
Ah interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
Unfortunately sending every millionaire into space for them to realize this is an hostile environment is taking us closer to earth destruction. Sorry to be sour about this, but people could just teach themself astronomy and realize there is no place out there to welcome us when the earth will be on the verge to become unlivable. Even assuming a colony of a dozen women/men is ever established on the moon or Mars, they will die in a matter or months or years once the tether to earth is broken.

Reading this guy paid millions of $ to realize these basic facts fills me with overwhelming sadness too. Can his experience be of value for us? Given that he could have discovered what he just experienced by reading good books, I think this n+1 experience has zero value. Send human beings in space to perform scientific experiments. Period.
what about "you may run this locally on your, or your organization's servers, but you cannot offer it as a free or paid service?"
Technically it’s possible in any environment except those that kill 100% of the population. Whatever survives, survives and reproduces.
Qualcomm Predicted to Remain 5G Modem Supplier for iPhone 15 and iPhone 16
Did JFK Eat the World’s Largest Tamale?
The zoning laws are easier to work with, they’re basically summarizing a large number of anti-nuisance laws. In practice, it shouldn’t really matter if you have one or the other for the resulting city.
> By the way, "bad article": I think you're a little bit over exaggerating.

With all due respect, you might be a little bit biased.
+1 windows chrome Version 105.0.5195.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Ask HN: How do companies handle background verification for dropouts?
I am a long time lurker in the community and joining a position after 7 years in a FAANG+ role.

I took multiple positions from Sr. SE to Head of Engineering in different startups but the due diligence is quite lax and people don't care much about your degree in early stage startups.

I wanted to hear from HR or people who know about the background checks.

- Does it matter a lot in bigger companies who use fancy background verification tools?

- Just in case it comes negative do the HR recheck with candidates or what is the process to not get it negative at the first place, etc?
Nothing about the celts and the gallic/gaul mercenaries who fight with many tribes?
Depending on the size of the construction company, any claim made against them will just result in them shutting down and going out of business if their insurance won’t cover it. This is a pretty common occurrence in construction.
I’m one of those people. I went from paying $75/mo for T-Mobile and $40 for streaming services and Apple Arcade to paying $90 for the top Verizon plan. Why? I needed coverage where T-Mobile doesn’t have it and also need non-ridiculous terms (looking at you AT&T) for international roaming, and it effectively saved $15/mo. On top of that, bringing my unlocked device got a credit that paid for 7 months of service.
Show HN: I developed this cross-platform note-taking app in 3 weeks
The website and app is here: (Win, Mac, Linux)
https://binderus.com

It’s a markdown note-taking app that focuses on simplicity and good user experience.I have been developing webapps using react for a while. This is an attempt to build a cross-platform app using react, tauri. This shows that we can build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps without the burden of big bundle size and memory hog issues.

The app is only ~3.5 MB, takes 40 MB RAM; works directly with your files & folders, no proprietary DB or data file (no lock-in) like other products.

p/s: I've got some mentions about other products, so I created this FAQ page to explain the motivations behind this app. I hope it helps clarify some questions. FAQ: https://www.binderus.com/#/how-to
Yeah, that only works well if I carry my fridge around with me! /s

I could carry the note, of course; but the chances are I'd forget to pin it back on the fridge. Perhaps I should stick a colourful note to my fridge, saying "Paramedics: instructions in desk drawer".
Same goes for TikTok. A lot of the most liked videos are poorly cropped snippets of years-old YouTube videos.
Depends on how the marketing people defined their funnels. Maybe they thought that people who showed interest but then left the app, are more likely to come back if they saw it later elsewhere on the web. But at this point it is just speculation
Writing my own feed reader was one of my unfinished side projects.
Thank you for sharing your struggling.
No. We are the first species that can understand the consequences of our doings, and thus we are fully accountable. Saying that maybe something better will arise is wishful thinking.
That sounds great in theory, but you can't implement it in practice. It's often easy in hindsight to identify where are those suboptimal 5%-away-from-perfect-timing points where you should have done a rebalancing, but we have no idea how close we are to the next peak/trough.
Not always feasible, but pi hole makes all devices and software magically ad blocking. Just works!
No, it's not. That information may be "HI", but it's not "PHI", that is the "protected" part has a specific legal definition under HIPAA, and nobody in that call has any additional legal requirements based on the fact that someone said Jenny is pregnant.
"Some" ? The entire market cap of modern Silicon Valley is based upon monetizing surveillance.

This topic demonstrates one of the main pathologies of the US model of governance. Instead of pushing constructive actionable privacy restrictions for everyone, the government is poised to create another hook that merely emboldens corporate control.

What we need is a US GDPR with an analogous definition of consent - if implementing functionality to examine and delete my data is too hard, then just don't store surveillance records about me in the first place! But what we'll end up getting is ineffectual nonsense to be nullified with more clickwrap legalese that nobody reads.
This is technically plausible.

I’m not an ad expert but how often do ad networks work associatively? I.e recommend something to person A because friend B did something?
Chrome, because it just works. Firefox is too slow with the apps we're developing due to having terrible Canvas performance. Bug reports on that stretch back years with no fixes. Also, it keeps bombarding me with useless ads.

Safari is fine but it doesn't offer any tangible benefit over Chrome.
It is unfortunate that this stuff is not open source in the first place.

the pcengines apu2 is currently my preferred small system. one of the things I really like about it is that the firmware is open source. I will probably never need to build my own firmware, but I like knowing that I could.

https://pcengines.github.io/

Having said that, I think there is still a big ol black box of AMD secret sauce in there, sigh, so close yet still so far. why so secretive? what are you trying to hide?
I don't get this. You say you're perfectly willing to pay to watch media that is ad free, and you do. So then why do you feel you have the right to pirate shows that are not ad free? Why don't you just watch ad free media that you pay for instead of pirating media that forces ads? Is there not enough media that is ad free for you to watch, such that you need to resort to piracy?
With all due respect, you're not adding anything to discussion. HN really surprises me every day. :/
(posting some extras as comments since the original post is already way too long)

How does Reflame deploy so quickly?

Some major contributors:

- Reflame never does more work than absolutely necessary for any change. Every JS/TS module deployed through Reflame is transformed and shipped as independent ES modules. Only modules that have never been seen before are transformed and deployed (taking advantage of content-addressing to simplify caching). This means Reflame isn't just fast when our projects are small. It will stay just as fast as we scale to hundreds or thousands of modules. Because it will continue to do the minimum amount of work possible for every change.

- Reflame always deploys via the most direct possible path. A typical deploy of a trivial hello world project using a traditional CI service consists of: a git commit & push from our laptops, waiting for a webhook from github, spinning up a VM or container, cloning the git repo, installing npm dependencies, transforming and bundling source code, and finally uploading the output. Each of these steps has a latency floor measured in seconds, adding up to 10s of seconds of latency to deploy even the smallest change. Compare that to a deploy with Reflame's VSCode extension: we get a file change event, we upload the file, our server transforms it and stores the output for serving. Done.

- Reflame is completely region-agnostic. We haven't yet figured out how to make light move faster in fiber optics, but we can lower the effective latency floor it imposes by having servers close to our users. Reflame lives in 3 regions today: 1 in western US, 1 in eastern US, 1 in central EU, and we'll be adding more based on customer demand. Each region is a first class citizen. Updates in each region are visible immediately to users in that region, and replicated asynchronously to all others. We also have some magic in our CDN to ensure previews get routed to the originating region so customers can collaborate using previews across the world without dealing with replication delays.
Man, wait until you hear about the JWST
One of the most interesting things I've read in a while.
In what way is there a problem? He hasn't been penalized, so it seems like he's profitable enough to let it go. Why are you trying to police his behavior for Amazon?
Tyranny generally results in stagnation. It’s a bottleneck. All the power and decisions reduced to a single individual or group of individuals leaves no room for experimentation and growth. Progress becomes single threaded instead of parallel.
I’m talking about having someone move my office while I was in a meeting.

The ridiculously low pay that PHD students accept is another problem entirely.
Stack machines must be converted to register machines anyway before you can perform most useful optimizations to it, which is linear time or worse, and the process of doing SSA on webassembly in the current form is linear time anyway.

You will not speed anything up by using a stack machine here. The usual reason to use stack machines is to make it smaller and easier to run an interpreter on, not to make it compile or optimize faster
As someone that's done sales, it is very important to qualify even incoming leads. I can't count how many times I wasted my time because the person who thought they wanted the product actually wasn't a good fit. After I implemented a lead qualification pipeline, that number dropped dramatically and the leads that did qualify were, predictably, much more likely to buy.
We know about this video and lots of indie math explainer videos like it thanks to 3Blue1Brown's "summer of math exposition". if you haven't heard about it, think of it as the best binge watch drop ever

https://youtu.be/cDofhN-RJqg
Unfortunately the LSST sensors will be extremely disturbed by blooming from bright reflections from satellites. With the exponential increase in satellites projected in the coming years a non-trivial amount of observing power of this amazing instrument will be lost.

https://www.lsst.org/content/lsst-statement-regarding-increa...
Thanks, agree system provides privacy protecting attribute verification (age, legal-voter, citizen, income, etc) — but after quickly reviewing it, does not appear to support anonymously doing so in a way that only the user knows their identity and the endpoint identity — but neither the endpoint or government know both, even if they or an attacker have access to the security tokens from the endpoint and governments servers.

Did I miss something?

Another user suggested Privacy Pass system, which I have reviewed before and currently reviewing to see if it fits system profile I am describing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33133758
Why would you recommend using this over for example GitHub Actions (also free) with a workflow that installs nix and then builds the flake?
It has become quite awful. I was looking for gloves the other week and I ended up buying them at Decathlon because the selection at Amazon was so terrible and untrustworthy.