skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breastfeeding is overhyped.

Both my sibling and I, along with my wife and her siblings were formula fed. My kids were 100% formula-fed as well, because my wife decided she didn't want to waste her time pumping. Both generations are perfectly normal and healthy. We all caught COVID with only minimal symptoms.

Not having to breastfeed took an enormous amount of stress off my wife, and allowed us to split the work of raising our kids more efficiently

In Canada, I've heard that breastfeeding has been taken to a religious morality war, where some parents had to sneak in formula into the hospital because the mother couldn't either breastfeed properly or weren't producing enough, or simply didn't want to.

There are some advantages to breastfeeding and some disadvantages. I think the narrative of companies in the 3rd world trying to hook low-income families on formula should be considered a crime. But there's nothing inherently wrong with formula and it raises perfectly healthy children.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)

Related to your comment on Captain Hook.

Thanks for the very informative post!
1lab: Ncatlab for Homotopy Type Theory
> shooting each other with f-ing nerf guns

Well before COVID and the WFH swing, I left a job that I loved because of f-ing nerf guns. Because it just went crazy. People started with the 1 shot at a time guns. But then someone else bought one that would shoot 10 in a second. Someone figured out how to make a magazine that held 30. And so on and so forth. So when I got hit with 1 or 2 darts a day, sure. But when I was caught in a crossfire of 100s of darts, I just got sick of it.
This looks awesome… installs app on iPad… oh it doesn’t support the full screen. Useless.
I have found the books System Design Interview (volumes 1 and 2), to be really nice and informative reading material on this topic.
tracking data server-side relies on a persistent cookie on the client. if you delete the cookie, the link is severed.
I read on another comment by a high school teacher that many of their students write essays on mobile. It seems that the younger generations are mobile-digital native, as opposed to desktop-digital native.

I don't expect desktop apps to be completely replaced by mobile apps, but the migration of some specific use cases is interesting to watch:

- Maps and navigation

- Email / instant messaging

- Photo editing

- Video editing

- Online shopping

- Banking and accounting

- and now, coding
> Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"?

Yeah that would be pretty cool.
FWIW the very vast majority of our users are integrated with either Adyen, Braintree, or Stripe (all open-source plugins).

I know of ~20 integrations with more advanced gateways/processors: these are closed-source plugins, but the overall community wouldn't benefit much from accessing them (e.g. it doesn't make sense for many companies to directly integrate with mastercard APIs).
I had a year long break in 2014. I did many different things in that time.

Learned to play the bass guitar, found a partner, contributed to Firefox, took a few CS courses, etc.
Ask HN: How to ease in Git to someone with Git PTSD
I came across some colleagues who can’t stand Git (even the slightest whisper).

Alternatively, Perforce is used extensively in the gaming industry, really good integration with Unreal Engine.

Yesterday, I finally understood why: in their previous team, someone who didn’t understand Git at all, brought it in, and they ended up commiting directly to master and using spreadsheets to track who was editing what (no gitflow, no PRs) - just baffling, of course it didn’t went well, and of course they hate it.

How do I get them to trust the Git system again is an interesting challenge, but Perforce works, and basically wanted to share this amazing story.
Not sure if you meant it as a pun, but if so: slow clap.
>> A SAH spouse is not an equal partner with a 50% contribution. More of an oldest child with extra responsibilities and a higher allowance.

> This is a really depressing way of looking at things.

No, it's not depressing, it's total BS. Anyone who's ever been in a remotely serious relationship knows keeping score like "percent contribution" leads to the end of that relationship.
Just asking your reports to send you a note on what they have done the last year, would help to figure out what’s going on. Some positions are necessary to keep even if they really work two months year, due to institutional knowledge and maintenance.
AFAIK, internal waterways does not literally mean inside the US. Internal means routes between US ports. A foreign vessel could still sail between two deep water ports for example, if the act were repealed.
It's honestly impressive the amount of coding that young people do from their phones. There is a very healthy healthy community of those who have some solid environments on their (mostly Android) devices. Whats funny is that this was the dream of the One Laptop per Child non-profit that was solved by the flush of ARM devices instead of donor dollars (ftw free market!)

I work at Railway and a lot of our younger, international users use Railway from their phones (usually in class) and it's quite impressive. Honestly, such a fan of Repl.it its why I am a customer of their service and this is a step in the right direction for the dream of the universal runtime.
> The debate went back and forth. But in the end, the Congressmen basically admitted that the only reason they wanted the US to build such a machine would be because the Soviets had one too.

I want to see when that admission was made, and how someone got them to admit it. It was the most surprising part of the article for me.

Wouldn't it be great to see more defense spending introspection and honesty.
Your bias is showing...

> collecting crypto donations in a pool on 'behalf of' those websites

No. The rewards program is centered around the people. It just happens that the way to discover the people and address the payment is through some specific platforms (like Youtube, twitter, reddit, github, etc).

> holding them hostage

Nothing is held hostage. The only legal way that they can pay someone is if the person goes through KYC. The system can only recognize the recipient as "authorized to receive payments" if the creator has signed up to one of the partner exchanges.

> keeping them for themselves

This is false. Contributions were going to the user pool. Now they are returned to the original donor.
> That assumes that you can't work hard from home, which I don't believe to be true.

Where's the analysis of the job to see if it can really be performed ideally remotely.

Also, "hard" is a straw man. As a boss I want output not effort and part of being near coworkers is to avoid getting stuck and wasting resources.

> where is the connection between investing yourself into your job and going in to the office

If I was your coworker or boss and I showed you that connection for the job in question would you admit it and come in?
Among women I know, I don't see this attitude. Women I know who want careers actually want it because they don't want to be dependent on other people. Every woman I know either has personal experience or knows another woman with personal experience of being in an abusive domestic household and being unable to leave because of no personal income. That's a huge motivator not to be SAH.
If you have tech support or knowledge base articles for your product, you can include unique error codes in your error messages so that Googling the error code will find the appropriate support article. Microsoft is pretty good about this with their KB article numbers and their compiler error messages like C4000: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/compile...
You listed two options but you're forgetting a third: you have almost no reliable information or context so the actual choices made aren't interpretable by you in any meaningful way
Hey, I like the idea of working less too. But why is this needed? If 4 becomes the law, how long until people will demand 3? And we have already experienced shortages of goods recently, how will things get made or shipped or fixed if people are working 20% less?
That was a lot of words to say "custom silicon is currently on the upswing".
A push button solution to this is needed.
What devs and doctors wish you knew about writing bug reports
Bitburner is my favorite.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/

It’s an idle game at its core so it feels like Factorio whereby you try to automate as much as you can as efficiently as you can.
> "lol just buy a Tesla”

Of course not! I expect legacy automakers to commit financial resources towards charging networks if they want to encourage their development. Less share buybacks, more investment to move the EVs they supposedly want to sell.

Tesla is used as an example because they don’t fuck around. No network existed, so they built the supercharger standard and then went and built the charging network. Legacy automakers just flail about half heartedly. Innovator’s Dilemma and all that jazz.

The lower half economically speaking will be waiting for some time for an affordable EV unfortunately, until the manufacturing flywheels pickup steam, pushing down costs. The evidence clearly shows folks will stretch to buy more expensive EVs (like Teslas) versus buying Leafs and Bolts.
I mean, the failure of a lot of experiments to replicate is extraordinarily well documented...

Not to mention the corollaries from the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...):

"In addition to the main result, Ioannidis lists six corollaries for factors that can influence the reliability of published research.

Research findings in a scientific field are less likely to be true,

1. the smaller the studies conducted.

2. the smaller the effect sizes.

3. the greater the number and the lesser the selection of tested relationships.

4. the greater the flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes.

5. the greater the financial and other interests and prejudices.

6. the hotter the scientific field (with more scientific teams involved)."

These are all reasonable criticisms from my own area of expertise: applied econometrics.
I noticed this too and couldn’t believe it at first. It makes no sense at all. This renders the entry-level iPad essentially dead in the European market. It’s a pointless product for now, especially at 64 GB of storage.
Yeah, this is a great point. Both overly defensive programming and (my personal least favorite) overly-commented code are instilled in students at a very early point in their careers by irresponsible teachers trying to find something to grade students on (Didn't handle negative values? 5 points off! Didn't leave a comment on every line? 1 point off per line!)
Ask HN: What Is Serverless
If you had to breakdown serverless and explain it to someone in middle school, how would you describe it?

Would you use an analogy to make it more relatable? Would you try to explain it on a surface level or go into the depths of serverless? What concepts would you focus on?
I use Repl.it web interface for programming on the sofa from my Android phone. There's various bugs in the editor but it works well enough.

I currently subscribe to repl.it. the freedom to quickly create a Java or Python project is really easy and helps me work on problems where I want to write a small amount of code that is at the idea stage.
> As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south

Based on my understanding, there aren't a plethora of opportunities to outsource work cheaper than good German devs.

I say this having worked for a German company with some excellent developers. Hiring a good developer from India would actually cost a German company more than hiring one from Germany (even if it's a remote job).

This question is definitely relevant to U.S. workers though, but I think the U.S.-based companies preferring workers in their own time zones prevents cheaper off-shore remote alternatives from being hired en masse.
Making it scale properly to iPad screen sizes and doing nothing else shouldn't be too hard to do and would make it a lot more useful for people. Even if they don't want to spend the time developing an iPad specific layout, no reason not to use the full iPad screen with the current layout.
Per capita is useless metric when you spend most of the time in the most crime ridden areas (the busiest places in NYC). Crime/area is more relevant metric.

I have been beaten up bad by teenagers and cops did jack shit (across the river in jersey). A friend of mine got robbed at midnight on 5th avenue (it was busy), cops again did nothing. Gun shots in washington square park and a faculty member was robbed there. These are anecdotes from years ago, its much worse now. You've to be on guard every second when you're out (especially at night). This is not a healthy life, and no wonder people become rude, 0 trust society will do that. Traveling in subways are essentially playing Russian roulette with a few more empty chambers. You can't pay me enough to even visit that place again.
> If BMW compared one of their new vehicles to the best-selling car in America, who is going think BMW is intending for the reader to compare against a Bugatti Chiron? That is not what anyone would conclude, and it's the same here.

You just said it right here. If BMW is Apple, and the Best Selling Car is the Tata or a Chinese Brand ( because that is where they made the volume ), which reader would have made that conclusion?

It is a misleading comparison. And it doesn't look good on Apple.
I don't inherently disagree, but "if you turn your back for a second, then out come the wolves" sounds like a sign of a toxic culture
Europe's rail freight is not very efficient actually.
Don't get confused by this. The takeaway isn't "See how useless our efforts are; greenhouse gas is a load of bunk!"

The takeaway is "We're doing a shit job of reducing greenhouse gasses."
This is pretty encouraging. The cookie banners are an example of ruining the web and an active contributor to ruining the web. Can't wait to get Brave 1.45 on Arch, I just checked and it isn't out just yet though!

Long live the web!!!

I like Brave's focus on "user first":

"New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications. Brave’s approach is distinct and more privacy-preserving than similar systems used in other browsers (such as the “auto-consent” systems used in other browsers), and helps keep the Web user-first."
> I find the development setup and deployment to be much more complicated

My understanding is that is the problem repl.it is trying to solve. In a sentence: think about your code and not your environment.

My curmudgeonly self thinks that there are deeper problems and externalities that programming on a phone/tablet or in the web only exasperate. Computer literacy is shockingly poor among the incoming generation of people who have only used mobile devices, WebUIs, and maybe a Chromebook - and that's not the fault of people or technology, but the business models that only succeed by locking users into platforms and hiding details of how those platforms work. The issue with programming on mobile or through something like repl.it is that it hides too much - at the end of the day, tinkering with computers requires computers that can be tinkered with and software systems that can be introspected.
Thanks to that I was able to locate a game[0] I had been searching for for years by investigating likely candidates on a "1000+ Games!"[1] or somesuch CD.

[0] It was Space Exploration Mission Alpha[2]. A lunar lander clone where you play as aliens visiting all of the Sol system planets. I never did find the non-shareware Space Exploration Mission Bravo, so if anyone knows Jeffrey R. Marken please drop me a line, I'll gladly pay the $16.75.

[1] A bald-faced lie

[2] https://archive.org/details/SpaceExplorationMissionAlpha_102...
> If there was no COVID, people would be working in office as they've always done.

If my aunt had a dick, she'd be my uncle. This is a useless counterfactual because what happened has changed the dynamic. We can't base anything on a counterfactual.
>Lower birth rate means fewer bodies to feed and a smaller environmental footprint.

Only if you're willing to starve the elderly.
I have not done it full time, but I find IDA is only useful for niche processors and out of the way things. I have still done it deeply and consistently for the last 16 years. For day to day use Ghidra is just better for me and I went pretty deep into the IDA well with tooling and Python scripting. Decompiler, yes, but it really depends on what features you need and what processor architectures you are reversing. IDA is still the most versatile and indispensable for some tasks, but that is not the majority of my work or interests these days and when it is, right tool, right job, etc.

Arguments of keyboard/mouse efficiency are dead to me. The limiting factor of any reverse engineering is definitely not how efficiently you can keyboard navigate a UI. People are too in love with efficiency of the wrong things and not what the real limiting factors of reversing are, which is comprehending the program. I don't love clicking around but it has never once slowed me down on a project.
> How are you supposed to "build relationships outside of work" in that environment?

Do the things you enjoy: run, bike, ski, live music, drinking, church - whatever floats your boat. Other people do them too. Meet them. Be friends.
No fake marketing :-)
> Russians

Are you sure about that?
Do you regret asking them? Sounds like you missed out on a lot of free cash, but I guess this stupid thing called "conscience" might have spoiled the fun of that eventually anyway..
And methane is made of unicorn farts right ?

Producing one tonne of lithium requires digging out 500 tonnes of earth. We don't mine lithium with solar panels and horses, it's an extremely energy intensive and polluting industry, and that's only a tiny part of the equation, building the car already is already extremely polluting

Is it better than straight up burning dino juice ? Sure, is it sustainable and eco friendly as it is presented today ? not at all

And that's not even talking about the fact that a big part of car pollution is due to tires, heavier/faster accelerating cars = eat through tires more quickly than lighter/slower vehicles

There is no shame in buying a tesla but don't feel like you're saving/helping the planet, this is environmentally friendly the same way having 1 terminal cancer is healthier than having 2 terminal cancers, you might die in 6 months instead of 5 but you're still utterly fucked
Offline contracts could require support to be applied across all spend.
I wish I would have read that 5 years ago. I tried to fix poor coding practices with mandatory review steps, and it just slowed down development and didn't fix anything.

For example, we often forgot to backport fixes. So I added a question to the PR template: "Does this PR need to be backported?"

I thought if people saw that question they would stop and think about it, and wouldn't forget backporting bugfixes.

It turns out they just always typed "No".

I just added friction and the problem persisted. When people don't care, you can't fix the problem with process, because they'll just mindlessly follow the process and make the same mistakes that the process was supposed to prevent in the first place.
IIRC pv uses splice internally and simply tells the kernel to mive pipe buffers from one pipe to the other, so it is very unlikely to be a bottleneck.
my point still stands that a woman saying they want to be a "mom" and not have a career is looked down on by their peers due to the last 30 years of career propaganda. Fear of being abused is something else entirely.
If you have two or more language keyboards it gets even worse. If you have the French keyboard installed you basically can't use English words that start with Q. Ffs, I get it if I type "Q" for the first letter of a text field and it suggests "Qu'est-ce". But, if I'm using the English keyboard and I say "Where in Q[ueens]?" and it jumps to French on the Q that's just ridiculous.
Microsoft bought it years ago and essentially hasnt updated it for years. Now they're blaming iOS for canning it for good (next month).

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/29/microsoft-kills-off-swi...
How Do You Preserve a Video Game?
> An oil burning icebreaker burned up to 70 tons of fuel in a single day. The Lenin by comparison burns just 45 grams each day.

Huh.
Nobody would like to use Copilot if the quality of the code it produces would be like code from Microsoft. Garbage in = garbage out.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how bad someone is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's possible there are many different paths to the clinical end state, but for me burnout had nothing to do with boredom at all. It also didn't feel like being bored when it has set on.
We've collectively decided that the old way is not good enough.

"I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."

I'll come to the office if paid X times current wage to make it worthwhile, and the company wasn't willing to pay the premium.
https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
Something about the way that was written brought this amusing thought to mind: what if this hype-man blog post about shortly had been created with shortly.
I had similar feelings at my old job, and tried a bunch of band-aid solutions: setting boundaries, spending more time on hobbies, exercising more, caring less. None of these tactics had the same impact as quitting my job and taking a sabbatical.

Some things that were useful when I was thinking about quitting:

1. Auditing my assets to see what I could pull from on short notice without impacting my tax situation or retirement savings.

2. Reviewing this guide (https://www.academia.edu/9672192/MDD_Major_Depressive_Disord...) to verify that I was burnt out and not depressed; I didn't want to quit if I was depressed and not burned out. Had I been depressed, the move would have been to get on therapy through my company insurance.

3. Journaling about how I felt, what I didn't like at my job, and what I was looking forward to on break.

I don't know if I'll go back to the same type of work or industry, but my time spent reflecting on my goals, enjoying hobbies, and sleeping is already paying off tremendously.

I see some people mentioning the stress of not having a job during an economic downturn, but I find there's a certain amount of peace to it; I've already lost my job so I don't have to worry about that happening in the future.
TypoSwype: An image recognition tool to detect typosquatting attacks
EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
"going back to the ROC"? It sounds like you aren't aware that the ROC still exists; it governs Taiwan. Some of the things you say are true but it seems clear that this is purely by coincidence, not a result of any knowledge you might have of the topic.
Really? That's a grossly uncharitable interpretation of what I said. How abominable of you, Socrates.
It was always a pain to implement plans in the products I built over the years… Stigg’s solution gave us what we needed and saved precious development time!
The average is going to be skewed up because the people who take their kids to the cash only daycare where the toddlers learn a second language for free have long since realized that mentioning such an arrangement except to hand wring about it's existence is not the kind of commentary welcome on places like Reddit.

But yes, above the table daycare is ungodly expensive.
I repeat that I don't know what you're talking about and it doesn't reflect my experience with women. Do you have sources or something?