skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s likely more a function of the OS’ “It Just Works” factor than the hardware, and Apple’s grasp upon that factor is increasingly fragmenting and growing more tenuous because mobile form factor products and profits have taken leadership focus off of the overall product ecosystem experience.

The ascendancy of Macs in technical staff ranks commenced simultaneously with the ascendancy of Linux in the datacenter. The Windows tooling to integrate with Linux wasn’t as smooth as Macs. Back in the Dark Ages, about half of the battle IMHO came down to Cygwin and similar weren’t as nice as Terminal.app and Homebrew. And Terminal.app was a better ssh client than PuTTY. Back then if your backend heavy iron lived on Linux, then the overall development experience was simply lower friction on a MacBook Pro.

This has changed these days, of course. macOS’ low-friction edge is narrower now but a lot of what remains like mobile power and video management continues as especially challenging areas for Windows and Linux. VS Code is doing a lot to decouple developers from their hardware.
Stop watching the markets, stop reading the news, do something fun and engaging. This is the best advice you'll get (which is why so many people are giving it). If you're serious about feeling better, please take this advice.
There's "enclosure" for RSS. And Atom can have "<link rel='enclosure'>".

How I parse enclosures in my own timeline you can see here: https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&post=4 (also with a nice link to the original source)
Thank you. I legitimately debated on whether or not to respond, lol
I don't understand the question, it already supports comments. littr.me is basically a link aggregator and discussion platform that's very similar in UX to (old) reddit, hacker news and lobste.rs.
That resonates with me. The work I find fulfilling or important doesn't pay well or at all. Other jobs range from pointless to actively harmful. Even then, my hard work is really just to make some CEO out founder rich.
So yeah, I try to find work that will pay the bills and that doesn't drain all my energy, so at the end of the day, I can still do something good. We only get roughly 80 years to be alive on this world, so why should I pour my adulthood into feeding social parasites? That's what would be unethical.
>>I do agree that maybe we should consider the frivolous waste of sending people to space for joyrides when the cost is so high.

Each manned space orbital launch has massive spin-off benefits, and brings forward the day when space flight is accessible to the masses.
No, I wouldn't assume the religious are "pro-death".
Except it’s not a funeral at all, they likely still make well over median income.
I keep an old phone on airplane mode with a backup of my 2FA codes in my Auth app in case my current phone dies. Peace of mind. Totally agree with the other commenter about using multi-factor authentication in most cases.

I do not leave myself signed in to Mail on my phone. I don't even have my accounts set up there. If I lost my phone and someone gained access to my signed-in Mail account, that would suck. I also stay signed out of Facebook, Twitter, etc. if I'm traveling anywhere.

I prefer LTE over WiFi in most cases, unless I'm on a trusted WiFi.
> Comparing the work ethic of my parents generation to that of millennials is… like comparing night and day.

Is there any quantitative data available to back up this claim?
But at least you know that when your house burns down due to a chinesium power strip, you can return the burnt remains to Amazon for a $20 refund.
You're not alone on this one! Although I have savings, I'm also not able to achieve enough monthly earnings to leave me in a (much) more comfortable position. Last month I did a lot of interviews for newer jobs, but got rejected at almost everything I applied. And I read a lot of indie hackers reaching 1K, 1.5K, and so on, and I can't even get a single cent out of any idea. And how have I tried to come up with ideas for web apps! My current solution is just to rest a little bit, stop reading too much internet crap (HN included), and focus on what I have and can realistically get in the short/medium term.

I wish you all the best!
Sadly, it's the mad pursuit of said dollars that seems to be the primary driver behind our voracious appetite to consume nature.
How could the user verify that the endpoint never learns anything about the user's identity, and that the system never learns anything about the requesting endpoint? In situations where privacy is particularly sensitive, either or both could have a motive to learn more about the user.
Your flippancy about mass extinction leads me to believe you aren't internalizing any of the suffering therein, or the loss.

Extinction happens, and, more broadly, death happens. However, we don't stand and deliver a eulogy composed of "idk, people die, no big deal" at a family member's funeral. Immense loss imparts grief.
> voting with our dollars, say by buying a Tesla vehicle, etc

Buying a Tesla is not going to save the climate. Not even if everyone does it. We need transportation options that scale. That means density, bikes, buses, trains. It means anything except personal 2+ ton motor vehicles.
I personally wouldn't say 30/70 = 42% is niche but accept that the term is up for debate.
I worked at a medical clinic that was looking to do something similar. When the COO found out I was a Raspberry PI hobbyist, he approached me to find out if his plan was possible. What he wanted to do was to put IR sensors in all the medical exam rooms, so he could determine usage, without impacting patient privacy. This was technically quite easy to do, but not something that went forward, mostly due to too many other projects.

This same COO later became the head of a private school...
Again, I can see you're one of the few who are well off and have a nice, comfy financial buffer to fall back to. Congratulations!

But I don't get how you can brush off fuel prices that have almost doubled since 2 years ago, almost double the butter and egg prices, rocketing energy prices, to just name a few examples as "ridiculously small" and "nothing really serious" when a good chunk of the populations live more or less hand-to-mouth and can barely afford such a drastic and sudden increase of living costs?

This to me is simply willful oblivion, and it's sad to see how people never learn from the past.
>> I'm rejecting the premise indicated by your forward slash, that being a team leader and setting an emotional tone for everyone involved are synonymous.

Yes. I reject that premise as well.

>> The rest of the team had a sharp constrast to Shatner in their style of celebration, so which group wasn't following their leader's tone properly? And the group that was celebrating loudly was doing so independent of Bezos, but somehow required him to join in soon and give their tone his affirmation? It's an absurd idea. It makes no sense after just a bit of thought.

I think that if Bezos would have settled into a lengthy quiet and introspective discussion with Shatner at the time, it would have changed the overall tone of the group (or at least could have). Of course, I don't know for sure, but I have observed human behaviour in the past.
And that's why the CIA started this merry band of shadowy infrastructure hackers :)
Lenovo has lost its way with the ThinkPad brand on repairability. But that's a niche more adequately filled by new players such as Frame.work, who can solely focus on the repairability and extensibility aspects for enthusiasts.
There's a correlation between being religious and being "pro-life". Even the dimmest pro-lifer can see that it's hypocritical to insist on saving the life of a foetus that has never seen daylight, at the risk of the mother, while allowing an old, sick person to die naturally. So they are forced into an "all lives matter" posture.
For the most part, doctors and hospitals don't want to do it. This is a patient and family driven phenomenon for the most part
Meh. All I'm saying is that when real bullets are flying, you'll find you have a much (much) harder time selling people on conspiracy theories. Trying to convince people that it's really western illuminati at fault works poorly when it was the other side that rolled the tanks.
I know this an outlier, and not related to emotional hospice decisions, etc but my mother had a heart attack in her 60s and was flatlining after they were reviving from cooling? protocol at the hospital. The doctors used defribrillators multiple times while I and siblings were in the room. The head doctor turned to us with an annoyed tone saying "look this isn't ethical to continue" when we asked if they could do anything. He then agreed to give her an adrenaline? shot, then they packed up and everyone walked out to our confusion.

She stabilized and survived, and is still here 12 years later. I appreciate what the doctors did for her, but I am very cynical about blindly trusting what overworked/numb medical workers tell us now though.
If you attempted to set it to its dirtiest mode, the game Leisure Suit Larry would ask you a series of sports and pop culture questions from the 1970s in order to verify you were an adult (in the 1980s). Of course, kids just looked up the answers and swapped them on crib notes on the playground.
Feed readers are my learning project, I use it to learn new languages. I've built and rebuilt readers in vbscript, vb.net, c#, php and python. php and python have been the easiest since they have good parser libraries. Also I've used SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite and just JSON flat files. I think I've built something like 10 or so variations. In the last few I've expanded to not only pull from RSS and included Hacker News, Twitter and an enhanced pull for Reddit feeds. Though I'm not pulling Twitter currently because of some API changes that I've haven't bothered to spend time on.

Helpful hint if you need favicons for your reader you can use Google.

https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=techmeme.com

The above is a load balancer for this url where the t1 subdomain may change to t[1-9] but this URL allows you to change the image size.

https://t1.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&...

I use it to grab and store sizes 16,32,48,64 of the icons with a monthly update ping.

My current iteration is built in python with a mysql backend. It's setup in a river of news style with an everything river and one for each feed and I generate topic bundles also. The feed engine is running every 15 minutes grabbing 40 feeds at a time but the static site generator is only running every 6 hours to keep me from spending all my time reading news. Since I pull in Reddit feeds I found that it's great for feed discovery.
This isn't bizarre at all, you'll see similar things before discussing any emotionally charged topic.

People will preface an argument with "of course pedophiles are bad..." before explaining why the latest anti-encryption law is bad or "of course racism is bad" before explaining why some racial quota system is counterproductive or similar things for pollution, homelessness, drug abuse, war, etc.

It's a simple thing to help the reader understand the perspective the author is coming from, especially useful when the author knows they might otherwise be lumped into some category they want to avoid being grouped with.
Be careful, it is derogatory.
I am on 10 Gbps is parts of my house for a while, 10G on UTP consumes a lot of power and you cannot realistically fill a SFP+ switch with RJ45 transceivers because of that; they are also very expensive for what they provide. At the same time, a SFP+ NIC and a DAC or AOC cable is a lot cheaper and low power.

In most cases existing cabling is CAT 5e, you can run 2.5 Gbps with no problem, while 10 G requires re-cabling. This is practically the reason 2.5 Gbps exists: it is the limit of existing Cat 5e infrastructure, just put a switch and you're done.
This is also my own experience. For my recent job I was paid a ridiculously big amount of money for what? For basically working on a website that is not even useful to society in any meaningful sense. Did I bring any value to the society? No. It even feels I diminished it somehow. And the disproportion between my earnings and those of my fellow colleagues in other fields is solely because at this point my skills are valued by the marked more, not that I am "better" than them in any other way. Something is broken and I don't believe it can be fixed easily.
advice given me during the dot-com boom at the end of the 90s

"the important thing about options is that they should be 2-ply"
Is it the official music video though ? I thought the original one was the one they did in China with a copy of the eiffel tower ?
Have there been instances of governments providing cryptographic identification services yet? That seems like a hugely beneficial thing they could do in this space (with the side benefit of social websites that aren't overrun with children). The only part that would be challenging is preventing the government authentication servers from knowing which websites you're visiting.
I think we have a different view on the meaning of "pay with your changes." I take it to mean "you must send patches/pull requests/... to the upstream project," which isn't the case. Whereas, if my reading of your message is right (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) you consider it to mean something like "you must make the changes you make public."

I personally wouldn't consider the second interpretation as "paying" for Free Software any more as I would consider having people publically criticise me as "paying" for Free Expression.
Hospitals in Canada aren't always "owned" by the government. For example in Ontario they are mostly private non-profits.

And even if they are publicly owned, there is someone looking at the financials to make sure they have enough money to keep operating.
Russia is mobilising 300k men (and probably more) to replace 6k dead?
I'd tend to put myself into the other camp, that doctors tend to be too slow to reach for palliative care options, but your comment is thought provoking. A lot of my thoughts on this were shaped by Atul Gawande's 2014 book on the topic of end of life care and the suffering that can arise from never "giving up." Your anecdote about feeling the doctors were too quick to suggest palliative care makes me wonder if it was the exception or if the pendulum is now swinging the other way. I'd say the viewpoint of the article is pretty in line with Gawande's as well.

> Should we minimize the suffering when there's no hope? Definitely. But not until that point unless the patient clearly chooses otherwise.

There are so many things to weigh here, I can't imagine having to help other people make this choice. How do you decide when there is no hope? When literally every possibility has been exhausted? How do you decide when the hope that remains is likely outweighed by the suffering that will be endured to achieve it? What is an appropriate amount of suffering for a 1 in 4 chance of a few more good years, or a 1 in 10 chance, or a 1 in 25 chance? What is the break even point in terms of quality of life where it's better to have a gradual decline at home and then in hospice rather than spending the only months or years you have left under a battery of treatments to buy the lottery ticket that you might come out well-ish in the other side?
I have a stack of ThinkPads (T400,T510,T530) that I use for testing out new distros, etc. I love how easy it is to swap SSDs around and that they are built like tanks. I only really need one, so I'd ditch the 400 and 510, but shipping costs make it not worth ebaying them. I figure that, one day, I'll meet some local techie kid and gift them, but I haven't run into any in my RL circles. Any other suggestions?
I noticed that the article is not properly segmenting the finance world: google/microsoft/apple/(starbucks)/etc are significantly steered by the same group of people: vanguard and blackrock.
So not everyone, even in your chosen subset of the market.
Yes. Windows looks disgusting.

It's been getting worse for a long time. Windows 2000 was the best version and it's been downhill from there. I was lucky to be persuaded to switch to Mac in the mid-2000s and miss most of the awfulness.

At this point, it's the worst of both worlds: baroque, distracting and confusing, but without genuine interest or charm. It's like staring at one of those failed neural net generated pictures where your visual cortex is vaguely stimulated but you have no idea what you're looking at.

My kids will never touch Windows. It would feel like the electronic equivalent of letting them live on McDonald's and food coloring.
My stock options have gone to basically zero twice in my career. It's OK. I knew going in they were gambles on companies I wasn't sure would take off, and I made sure I still had a decent salary from those companies. I also got a LOT out of those companies in experience.

You don't have to buy options that are underwater, or that you're not sure will go back up. You might choose to buy some anyway for Reasons (in both my cases I did do modest purchases, and nothing has come of them), or you might decide to go put your money elsewhere.

My advice to you: particularly if it's early in your career, don't put all your eggs in one basket, and don't have only one iron in the fire. Find other ways to squirrel money away. Diversify your holdings over time. Consider all the investment vehicles your company may offer: US companies I've worked for also offer ESPP, 401(k) contributions and matching, and RSUs (which unlike options are actual shares given to you), for example.

Finally, go talk to a financial advisor if you haven't already and come up with a long-term plan that makes sense to you. That should give you some peace of mind!
Since we are sharing music videos that show the beauty and dread of space, here is this one for Pink Floyd fans:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6xh4kiGygFM
Little interest or had they just grown up?

My point is that interest in sci-fi technologies and having some interest (prior or current) in gaming are highly overlapping demographics. Many games explore interactions with future technologies.

Additionally, from a technical perspective of an executive who is looking into VR, "if a headset can provide the fidelity to play games then that would mean it can likely do X and Y complex things my business does"
Was it bad for you before being born?
Newegg Creator
Czechia is a very nice country and is right across the border.
> are not deliberately/*exclusively* trying to make a value judgement
Living standards have been improved far more effectively by bringing more people into jobs with higher productivity, driven by capitalist systems.

Look at the tens or hundreds of millions of people brought out of abject poverty in China and India and other countries by adopting free market economic principles.
I have seen it explained before, believe it was done using a combination of combination of differential privacy and zero knowledge proofs, but might wrong. Currently trying to find a detailed explanation of how to implement such a system using existing technology. In mean time, if anyone else is aware of such a system, please post a link.

EDIT: This appears to cover some aspects, still reviewing it and to confirm it covers all the system attributes I described:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/96232/zkp-prove-t...
Oh well. Looks like this guy will have to get a proper job now that jabbering on and on while other people's war footage plays in the background is no longer profitable. Big shrug from me.
I always took that rule as "don't post insinuations (accusing other HN users of being) astroturfing, shilling, bots, foreign agents...".

Can we not point out when corporate entities are comprised of these things?
Of course, it's always easy to be cold and calculating when it's not your life or your love ones at stake.

And sure, I think most people would argue it's not worth spending another $500,000 treating a terminally ill patient with a 0% chance of survival.

But often the chance isn't 0%, it might be 15%. So if it's your loved one who has stage 4 cancer and the doctor says "it's going to cost a lot of money and only a 15% chance we'll cure the cancer", not many people will say "meh... those odds aren't good enough, so lets just put grandpa in a hospice and let him go"
I consider the likelihood of needing to repair or extend it within a 6 year lifetime, and I believe the Macbook has by far the best reputation in that regard.
If you sort the reviews on these items by lowest to highest, you'll usually find somebody who actually purchased and tested the item confirming it's a scam.
Most times when this happens its because the patient doesn't have these goals clearly documented, in my experiences hospitals are willing to follow the wishes of the patient. If the patients wishes aren't clearly documented that's when it gets tricky.
Not sure where you live, but in my state (and states around me) EMT/Paramedics know to check the fridge door for a MOLST form that is usually brightly colored (easy to see) and contains your wishes - i.e. no CPR or no intubation etc; usually these are filled out in conjunction with your doctor, they keep a copy and you put a copy on your fridge where it is easy to find - more common for very elderly folks and those with terminal illnesses - but I supposed anyone could have one.
Since the GP talks about stock options I’m guessing these are part of their total compensation and not a discretionary investment. I’m in a similar boat - stock is about 50% of my total compensation but its value has dropped by 90%. It’s hard to be blasé about losing almost half my income.
It's just literally not true. Species can evolve without their predecessors going extinct?
That's another of numerous scams on Amazon, not the one discussed in the article. The SKUs themselves are fraudulent here.
The X220 was for many long-time ThinkPad users the last good one. It had real keycaps and no trackpad. Too bad about the display, since the X220 was during the era that Lenovo was gaslighting buyers about how IPS panels simply could not be procured on the open market, right before Apple showed them to be liars. The X220 display is truly ghastly.

Like some other X-series enthusiasts I consider the X61 Tablet with the AFFS panel to have been the pinnacle of the series.
Besides K&R and Modern C, I like the classic Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by van der Linden.
How about ancient Greek philosophies (e.g., Aristotle, stoicism)?
Does anyone think foldable displays is particularly innovative? I feel like most people who are fans of the thinkpad are not looking for innovation - they're mostly people who want conservative laptop designs.
> she was still given a feeding tube against her stated wishes and my family's protests.

How did that happen? That sounds like assault. Did they not know her express wishes?
Have an gen1 x13 AMD running Pop OS! which is supported well in the latest kernels (early on there were issues with sound). Its a great machine to develop on with no hardware problems yet, although I'm only at the 2.5 year mark.