skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point is not that these measures give us a perfect way to measure human well-being, but rather that they give us a decent stab at it, which is definitely worth taking.

The old motte-and-bailey tactic, nice!

If he thinks productivity metrics are "voodoo", wait til he learns more about those measurements of happiness and well-being. It hurts that we don't have a good way to measure well-being rigorously and consistently, but given that we do not it seems like step one should be to get to the point where we can do that, and only then should we consider whether we should replace existing measurements and paradigms with it.
I mean you still wouldn't use an editor without ctags support, right? That's just a bad smell.
I think I agree with the central premise, that labor productivity is (and is increasingly) a wacky metric.

I’m not sure GDP is as wacky right now, e.g. https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/all-poverty-is-energy-pov...

I do strongly agree that we should be clear that we care about GDP because it lets us buy more quality of life (in many cases, literally more life), and if GDP diverged from providing that we should stop caring about GDP

I’m not sure I buy that the right metric is hedonic well-being though; the issues with Mills’ Hedonic Utilitarianism are well-known, and I don’t want to prescribe heroin or wireheading for everyone to maximize their subjective happiness. I think some metric of Eudaimonic Utility is probably more what we want.

What are the factors of human flourishing? How do we measure and improve those? Things like health, education (in the broadest sense including trades/crafts), economic security/opportunity, physical safety, community, etc.

One can easily imagine higher-GDP configurations that trample most of the populace on the above, and we should not choose those merely because “growth is good”.
Kelvin is just Celsius with an offset. Rankine FTW.

Edit: Background research for this snarky remark led me to this table.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_scales_of_temp...
The same operation has been doing DDoS attacks at various Russia-opponent-related targets for quite a long time, this is not a new unknown organization.

However, yes, there doesn't seem to be a reason to assert that it is ordered by the Russian state (specific attributions e.g. to a particular agency or individuals have been made for certain operations, but generally it takes a lot of time and is done only in restrospective), it could be just a loose group of activists scattered around the world and sharing just a chat channel, this attack is unsophisticated enough to not require any specific resources or cooperation.
How do you query if the type implements a particular method?
Sounds like some kind of feminine product.
"Manufactured in China" (a.k.a. "everything") and "designed, built and controlled by a Chinese Party affiliate" seem to be very different. There is some risk in "manufactured in China" too, but orders of magnitude lower.
this killnet guys stated that they are starting USA airports DDOS in their telegram channel, they also provided list of airports and their urls
they've done similar things before, most of their "hacking" consists of ddosing some sites that they randomly decide are an enemy to Russia
I have extremely niche playlists like this: male and female presenting singers shouting the same lyrics at the same time, songs with cheerleaders in the background, songs by two or more NYC area rappers about high seas piracy. For your list consider adding "Hot" by Liili in which the lyrics code switch Russian and English but do contain "eeny-meeny-money."
1 happens to me as well. And I even use the Mozilla VPN. I noticed it also happens with Cloudfare's Warp. Turning it on/off or even closing the display while they are active sometimes result in complete loss of connectivity when trying to interact with a tab again.

A lot of times, I have to close the current tab and open a new one to regain connectivity.

It is my only issue with Firefox on mac, currently.
Why put people's names?
iOS handles this differently - there is a distinct permission for accessing local networks and devices, and another for location. Within location, you can choose precise or vague.
Exactly so. It's a rule meant to prevent one type of problem (people injecting unvetted nonsense or personal vanity/grudges into articles) that ends up creating a different and rather over-arching problem. On the longer articles, Wikipedia becomes an almanac of disjointed facts, not an encyclopedia of coherent knowledge.
so glad i didn't use this, was very close but then read, or should i say saw, some things about a certain executive that put me right off.
Yea I think us HN'ers are in a bit of a bubble here and many of us are unaware of the unprecedented amount of monitoring and measurement being done on employees in "normal" companies today, and not just office workers having their keystrokes counted. Service workers, warehouse workers, delivery drivers, everyone is now subject to monitoring and measurement of their behavior at a microscopic level! The last 20 or so years have been a real permanent sea change.
This is fantastically stupid.
It harms those who are dependent on your income, such as your family.
Being in a state that legalized marijuana, the tangential rise in crime and homeless is significant and was unexpected. The activity of legalizing one small thing (weed) isn't bad but the broader scope of societal degradation makes me wish we had not legalized it. For all intents and purposes it was legal before, just wasn't big business.

I think online gambling is in the same area socially.
When I bought my first MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, it was a magical experience how it was designed and how free from constant nagging everything was. It felt like a complete, designed product.

MacOS and the rest of Apple’s offerings are not quite like that today, with many new prompts for their services and almost Vista-like permission requests on the iOS side.

But they still “win” just because everything else seems so much worse now.
Uncanny Valley is a term to describe things that look mostly correct, but are "off" in a way that triggers an alarm in most human brains.
From the pictures linked in the article it seems to be about more than just the ISP.
You have a long history of breaking the site guidelines like this. If you keep doing it we will ban you. Commenters need to follow the rules regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29916995 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424722 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28934735 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28711245 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25177097 (Nov 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24246111 (Aug 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19107006 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892823 (Dec 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679796 (July 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569702 (Sept 2016)

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Edit: dismayingly, your recent comments have been so frequently vicious that I think enough is enough at this point. I've banned your account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Not much different than a 20th century Broward "opportunity".

Hundred years ago in Broward there were still some blatant frauds where the investors had put in money to purchase land but the "developer" just spent the money without purchasing any promising assets. But mostly by that time it was typically already more sophisticated and actual land would be purchased which would be impossible to develop without further investment, and even then might never turn out to be profitable. Before spending the rest of the
money, trying to raise more money of course.

Hey but it was other peoples' money so it was worth it for the "visionary" to take his chances and go "all in". With the remote chance that any money might eventually be made, that would be great when starting from nothing. Without actual profits or even income, if the anticipated scale can grow into a few million for the one selling the dream, that's still OK even if the investors have put in dozens of millions.

Things have come a long way since then, in the last half-century especially.

When there are not so many legitimate sources of income for many decades with no end in sight, the culture tends to embrace the illegitimate.

In ways that are technically legal as determined by extreme experience exploring the edge cases.

The surprising thing about Theranos is that it wasn't in Ft. Lauderdale.
> This is about patterns though, not single events.

I agree, and I don't think we know enough.

> The point isn’t just that Scotland is snow-free with record-breaking heat this year, but that it has been increasingly snow-free and hotter in recent times.

I agree that snow coverage has seen a trend of reduction, my point is this specific event has happened before, and we should be careful about how we handle that.

> Has NZ been getting colder at the same time rest of the world is heating up, or did they just have one colder winter than normal?

It was one unusually cold winter at the same time as a heatwave in the UK.
Meanwhile Android supports morse code.
Linux 6.0, free Ubuntu Pro, Stellarium 1.0, & more – FOSS Weekly
Correct. We do not: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/
Money laundering/sanctions laws apply regardless of the currency you use.
You made my day lol! Decided to take inspiration from another website actually, I don't think it's a new trend. (yet ;))
Thanks for the feedback though.
That's also an option, however, it does not remove enough profits from land ownership rent seeking.
Note that the version of Firefox this article references was released on July 26, 2022.
This is one of the best reasons I've ever heard for not running iOS.

I completely understand why Apple won't allow it from a third party: that's a security and privacy nightmare.

I even somewhat understand why Apple hasn't developed such a feature themselves: it's a very minority use case and has some legal concerns in some jurisdictions.

But the end result is, yes, iOS is not for anyone that needs to record calls like that.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/932
I love software like that, thanks for sharing. I do worry about seems like a single-user contributor project, though. Pleroma and Mastodon have healthy amounts of contributors and activity, so I feel more comfortable about going with them.
When I was a corp dev living in Atlanta working at an unknown company in 2000 making $70K a year, many from the small town I came from thought that was impressive. People were impressed for some reason when I told them I was a developer at GE in 2008. It really doesn’t take much.
Below a graph showing 2% growth year over year: "The lack of exponential increase in labor productivity is sometimes used as an argument that tech innovation has slowed down in recent decades..."

Steady two-percent growth is exponential growth. The "exponent" is 1.02.
One shouldn’t have to justify whether or not they are a victim of racism when they make a statement or claim. This isn’t Scarlet Letter.

You seem to place more value in the views of the supposed victims of discrimination. Ironically, this is discriminatory to anyone else who has something to say on the topic.
I’ve seen this argument before, but how much bigger would the regulated market have to be before we call it a net neutral?

Because if there were $1 billion in illegal bets, and $20 billion in legal bets, which of those would be worse for society?
They politician class is corrupted by Russian.
For few months at least once a week/two we see new leaks about another German politician with Russians connection exposed.

Same case with arms export German population wanna help, politicians not so much and bomb every export proposal(even with 70%/75%+ popular support which is extremely weird for democracy)
US is a decade behind China's WeChat. I think we should catch up.
> One quote that stuck with me was a Ukrainian saying you guys (US/West) are next, they are practicing on us.

Don't forget this goes bi-directional. We (the West) aren't idle recipients of what others do to our countries without response and even preventive measures. Granted the main danger is that we basically have a lot more to lose than our self-proclaimed adversaries but that doesn't mean we are helpless.
I submit that a possible test for whether "helpful action will produce a good outcome" is whether individuals and families are grown internally in the direction of maturity and joy.

Actions that externalize the feedback and set up gatekeepers to manage matters seem to hit diminishing returns rapidly.

In a musical metaphor, life is jazz. An Effective Altruism seems like so many reams of sheet music that lack joy.
Russia would still sit in the UN's General Assembly. This proposal is about removing its veto power in the Security Council.
That seems to be ray casting (a la Wolfenstein 3D), not ray tracing.
Really nice job and thanks for the shout out to my book.
I don’t know man… Acme requires a GUI (and a mouse), has been imported from Plan 9 (Unix does not have a notion of a “plumber”), and its UI is pretty much a copy of Oberon’s. The way it look to me, this is as far removed from whatever Unix is all about as it gets…
I meant https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal (should've checked).
But long (> 4mn) conversations will be gone
It ought not. Even Hollywood et al haven't managed a 500-year copyright yet!

The issue is likely to be over who took the modern photograph of the work and that's copyrighted/copyrightable. This ought to be nonsense but it isn't. The trouble is that the use of copyright here locks up works of art and much other other material that's long, long out of copyright. It restricts public access to works that everyone ought to have access to.

All galleries and museums have to do is to keep famous works out of sight or in positions where any photograph taken is sub-optimal or ban taking photos altogether then make available their own copyrighted photographs that were taken under ideal conditions—but at a price! This is a massive breach of the public domain and ought to be outlawed under law.

If galleries and museums say that they depend on the income that such works bring in then I'd suggest the income model is wrong. 'Bastardizing' copyright in this way isn't the answer. And I'd ask what financial income model did these 'copyright-dependent' museums use before this nonsense started some time about three/four decades ago (obviously they were successful back then)? Perhaps they ought to be forced to retreat to that earlier income model.

Incidentally, I took my own photographs of the Birth of Venus in the Uffizi some three decades ago and they were easy photos to take (the lighting was excellent). I'm now curious as to why I had no trouble taking the photo at the time (nor did I have any problem taking photos anywhere else in Florence back then—and I always take many (in brackets) to ensure that I always get at least one good photograph. For instance I recall exposing several full 36-exp rolls of film when on top of Brunelleschi's Dome (as one doesn't get to do that very often)).

Thus, it seems that this recent copyright action by the Uffizi implies that the rules about taking photographs in the gallery must have tightened up in recent years.
It sounds like you don't think these expectations are unreasonable in a healthy environment. Is that what you're getting at? I believe it's possible to hit 50/50, and I think I personally do (with the caveat that I don't do all of these things explicitly, every time, on every project), BUT I'm also on a high performing team in a healthy work environment.
Perhaps your approach is wrong. “Put in work and ask for extra responsibility that will help you get a better job the next time” doesn’t mean fluffy resume padding, it means putting in effort at the next level so the bosses see that you deserve that promotion. It means gaining actual skills and experience, not some resume talking points that a tiny bit of scrutiny would reveal as fluff.
The other nifty thing about the plasma globe is that immediately after someone plugs it in, they are likely to be too distracted by the luminous fingers of writhing plasma to notice the shell window popping up briefly on the monitor. Nicely-executed hack on multiple levels.

For the same reason, waiting a few minutes to pop up the shell, as the article says they did, actually seems counterproductive. It might have been better to pop up the window intentionally -- launch the browser to display an ad from the company that made the gadget, maybe, or a 'user's manual', or something like that. Something that would appear innocuous and expected, while providing cover for the payload.
No reason to have limited licenses. A state run clearing house for all money going in and money going out. Then publish the results of this, so people can see how bad a deal gambling is, the state can get their cut, and people can know which places are legit. In the meantime, this will prompt illegal casinos to offer either better deal (better odds) or worse deal (extended credit) than can be had at legal casinos.

The situation right now is there is no reason for an illegal book to offer a better deal, and the worse deal is already illegal, so nothing would change by making it legal.
Good, I think? Fiber is technically superior in almost every way for ISPs. If incentives are aligning to build wider fiber networks then we all benefit.
WebP and APNG both support looping with far better compression than GIF.
Those work together. But I find the most insidious aspect of these platforms is how it allows companies to exploit our vulnerability to unhealthy behavior. Even if you grant that Instagram's content isn't toxic (which it is, but just hypothetically), the ads are terrible. I, for example, don't drink. I was never an alcoholic per se, but I had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and in many ways I miss it. Instagram shows me ads all the time trying to convince me how fun it is to drink, and why so-and-so drink is delicious and amazing. Now extend this to shopping additions, misinformation campaigns, et cetera.
Culture and consumer expectation is a big part of product/market fit. It's really only the current crop of SV companies that have sometimes managed to transcend this culture gap and operate identically in every market while making a profit. (To see an SV example of this bombing, Uber did not fare well in China or SE Asia.) But traditionally, companies like Walmart, KFC, etc. have had many failures branching out of their home markets because of a lack of product market fit.

China runs a risk of any sufficiently isolated economy; its consumer preferences start diverging from the rest of the world's. The intentional isolation of the Chinese economy through measures like protectionism and the Great Firewall only increase this risk. It's not limited to China though, Japan has similar issues. As an example, until the advent of smartphones Japanese phonemakers were producing increasing amounts of esoteric features that only Japanese consumers wanted.
Please let me know how to buy one, they are forbidden since 1936 with very few exceptions and astronomic prices.
When "going out and helping other people" you need to carefully evaluate any side effects or consequences, and also recognize that some methods of helping are more wasteful than others.

Would it be better to buy 10 needy people health insurance, or to use that money advocating for health care reforms? What if it's 100 people instead?

In general, should you act locally or act globally? Should you invest your money to use it for big improvements, or spend on an ongoing basis making small improvements instead?
Fair point. To make the global impact more clear, I would say something like: "Scotland is amongst many locations this year around the world with reduced snow coverage, including X, Y, Z.". That makes a stronger case for global warming in my opinion, and is still understandable locally.
This would be a pretty strange false flag: why bother blaming some random group that hasn’t been linked to the Russian government?

To my mind, the most likely explanation here is the simplest one: airport websites make good testing targets, and Russia doesn’t punish hackers who target non-military resources in the West.
worked like a charm for me. Great work! Looks like a competitor to arcade
> If they truly do a cyber attack on infrastructure like they’ve been doing to Ukraine it will end in war.

This has been the conventional wisdom, yes. Just like the conventional wisdom before February was that full scale land warfare between modern industrialized european nations was a thing of the past.

What we’ve seen over the last year invalidates all of that. If they could paralyze Ukraine with a cyberattack, they would have by now. That bodes pretty poorly for their ability to meaningfully impact the US.
This has nothing to do with free-speech absolutism.

> You could get yourself arrested for shouting "Fire!" in a cinema.

Not only is that not true, the justice that quote is based off of later changed his mind.

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> Visit Auschwitz, then have a think.

The US is not a perfect country by any means, but in this we are superior. Freedom is risky, the question is whether the curtailing of freedom is worth it.

No way in hell is it worth having the police show up at your door because of a meme image you shared on facebook.
How do you know it's correlated?

I'm in a state that is in the process of legalizing it but it's not done yet but the social degradation and rise in crime is also happening here.
Google never changed its name, it's still Google and calling it that is appropriate. Google introduced a holding company Alphabet to own several companies (Google, Waymo, DeepMind, Verily, etc).

Facebook changed its name to Meta.

Comparing the two in the way you did is either incredibly ignorant or incredibly disingenuous.
Worked like a charm! Nice work. Looks like a competitor to arcade
This is so nice to randomly come across. Let know if there's something that I can do to help (I am the author of CBofN). You can reach me at <my first name>@<my last name>.org.
How does it compare to LunarVim (https://www.lunarvim.org)?
As somebody who spends some time on this, identifying common infrastructure and targeting that is the best bang for the buck: all kinds of stuff lives in the sewer that you never thought of. OTOH it does require some whitelisting, because all kinds of stuff lives in the sewer.
Farmers in Bangladesh pump so much water it may help reduce floods
The Dutch government does.
If only Apple hadn't pulled a Google on us and let people use uBlock Origin in Safari unimpeded...