skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How come my soccer friend thinks he can watch a bunch of Javascript youtube clips and take an easy distance course at a university to score him a high paying job 2 months from now? That's not how it works

Except it's exactly how it works: Your soccer friend can probably job-hop for years before everyone realises they have no idea how to tell a computer what to do, and by that point, they might be ready for management.

Why are you so mad? You think hard work should be appreciated or something?
what is the basis for this exrraordinary doublethink?
Apple Watch heart rate notification helped 12-year-old discover and treat cancer
The guy working for oil and gas can console himself that hundreds of millions of people would die or be plunged into misery were his evil bosses to shut down the business.
They became a "real company" when they signed the search deal with Google and stopped using Inktomi (search had been a secondary feature of Yahoo until that point; the real "value" was seen in their Big Blue Wall of curated links). That was also roughly when they finished fully integrating Viaweb (Hi, PG!) into their store. This was if my ancient memory serves roughly exactly during the April 2000 crash.
The article shows that self-described libertarians do not uniformly align with the Libertarian Party platform. In the same way, self-described liberals do not uniformly align with the Democratic Party platform and self-described conservatives do not uniformly align with the Republican Party platform.

Your perception of what libertarians believe in is more closely attuned to anarcho-capitalism, which is a radical subset of libertarianism. Most libertarians are not anarcho-capitalists. I described your comments as fallacious because you are attacking libertarianism using arguments directed at anarcho-capitalism (straw man).

I have never described my political affiliation here, so please don't make assumptions. The Pew Research survey says that 12% of Republicans, 6% of Democrats, and 14% of independents describe themselves as libertarians, so it is not reasonable to label all libertarians in that survey as Republicans.
As others said, is a layering violation. What that commandment means in practice? Essentially, you can't just udp your way around the protocol, and do frame comparison to test robustness of the protocol, you have to care how it looks like when encrypted. And you now need to use a subset of the TLS spec which most widely used implementations in the wild consider private API. So most QUIC implementations are built on some broken fork of openssl. This leads to fewer implementations, which means concentration of power (spec is not king, the implementations rule the protocol) and narrower attack surface for exploiters. And we all lose.
CORS: An Introduction
This has held true for me as well. I consider myself a delicious steak to my female companions disinteresting salad as far as mosquito's are concerned.

This has also given me an understanding as to why if you ever see any product reviews for DEET based mosquito repellent you'll inevitably see one or more people advocating some hippie tincture that's apparently better but has no terrible chemicals in it.

I always think there was probably a human mosquito meat shield nearby who was taking the hits for them.
I am an amateur dev and used to look for the MOFD (most optimal framework of the day).

I realized that I spent more time perfectionning my work than actually do the work.

I settled for two languages for the back (go and python and a fixed nr of libs) and one framework for the front (quasar, vue3, vite), and PWA to have an "app" on desktop and mobile.

This is heavy, not optimized, ebery problem looks like a nail to my only tool (a hammer).

But I write mostly for myself and managed to write over an evening the app which would track chores at home for the kids, display it on the home dashboard and disconnect their phones until they are not done (just kidding for the last one, my children are way stronger than me and I do not take risks, and stay with the "because I said so").

I have many similar apps, some I throw away, some I use, some I open source.

Perfectionism is painful.
> they're writing their own

AFAIK it is mainly a fork of Simon Peter's Hello System. He did the bulk of the work, AFAIK.

Credit where it is due.
Nitrates in beetroots can enhance athletic performance [video]
I started using my own domain names 20 years or so ago.
I let gandi.net host my mail and from what I know they haven’t been involved in any privacy related scandals.
I use rsync.net for my backups.
I avoid the American internet conglomerates software and services like the plague.
Losing your card is not the same thing as not having a number assigned to you.

There is a huge difference.
Yes. Well perhaps not feminine wiles, but a greater degree of determination than men need.

Even here in Norway, which is a bastion of egalitarianism, men still have life time earnings substantially in excess of women and are a larger proportion of industrial workers, politicians, and board members.

In other societies that are less advanced in this respect I can easily imagine that the occasional wielding of a 'feminine wile' might count for something.
I had similar hallucinations taking Ambien once (recreationally) as a teen. I was reading Wikipedia when the whole page just came to pieces and clattered to the bottom of the screen, like the widgets came off their hinges. It's like it activates the hypnagogic state without requiring you to be asleep first.
Or a laser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGjP9SE7tsM
Crucial caching choices: Where, when, and how
anti-fragility, permission to fail, rapid iteration

basically risk isn't controversial, and it rapidly iterates to more and more resilient systems
What BBS software? How is it connected to telnet (I’m assuming).
Software engineer is the new yuppy. I reckon the majority of users here work for either 'evil' companies or frankly useless ones which is just as bad IMO. Meanwhile we have historical happenings between social, environmental, and health issues that they could contribute to but otherwise take fat paychecks and bury their heads in the sand.
I have had maybe 3 mosquito bites in my life, despite having lived large stretches in the tropics.

Mostly they don't even land on me, but I have watched when they do - the closest they get to biting is lowering their proboscis until it touches skin. Then they fly off.

I always assumed it had to do with skin odour, probably diet related. It's surprising that the science isn't more advanced on this considering how harmful/annoying mosquitos can be and how primitive the current countermeasures are.
I used a PDA for a phone and that was pretty much a smart phone but slightly thicker. I didn't get the hype about the iPhone because all the fancy features it had just seemed to be on my phone already.

Mobile websites went through a phase where everything looked like iPhone menus for a while and that was often quite annoying because I was used to just reading normal web pages, even if they were often slow.

I think the iPhone made an important change in that it was significantly more powerful (and expensive!) than most phones people used. These devices were out there and they had been for years, but Apple normalised spending ever increasing sums of money on a phone.
Some people are into self flagellation. That’s fine. It’s when they think they’re better than you because of it that it becomes insufferable.
Strong maybe on that from my side. It really depends on where you work. But in every startup I have worked with and have been on call, there was quickly at least a middle manager joined to see if he can provide something of value (in most situations he will for instance call other teams members as needed or coodinate with teams in other timezones).

I think, in the end, it's a bit of both, you need to care about the product to actually do it, but you are also correct in that the tradeoff has to be worth it.
> Has there been any consideration for a pivot towards an overarching strategy of radical honesty and openness?

If you want to start going along that path, I think you need to take responsibility for being offended, e.g. let people know that you being offended by whatever they are completely open and honest about is on you and not them.
Building an OCR Service with Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda
We already did. It's just that some companies are more directly linked to human suffering as others.

Or to put it bluntly, whats the point of privacy and freedom if your country isn't livable anymore due to climate change or you're dying of cancer due to toxic waste?

But there should also be something be done about social media companies poisoning our minds, or companies like clearview putting our freedom at risk.
"I have no mouth, and I must scream."
Hell, the 3rd season of James Burke's Connections in 1983 showed him talking to a voice-activated and voice-responding virtual digital assistant over a satellite modem scheduling videoconferences, buying airplane tickets, and making electronic financial transactions. Everything about that was already possible in 1983 except for the voice recognition; it just wasn't yet cheap enough to be in mass use.
Yeah - Covid seems to be one a few topics that bring out "special" opinions. It's a pity, and not confined to HN, but seems to be a sign of the times.
https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20656/shanghai/population

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20464/beijing/population

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20517/guangzhou-guangdong...

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20667/shenzhen/population
They are the ones that also run the SMTP and POP3 / IMAP servers for my domains. Selling a few GB mailbox together with a domain is pretty common.
Yeah I spent half my internship in a acquired COBOL shop, the thing is not all cobol is created equal and theirs was the sum of all evil (old debt, old code generators, less old 4GL transpilers, eclipse pluging glue code).

I'm more interested into people from that era doing lean and mean apps. I've seen a few instances of AS400 and COBOL programs that gave me more joy than anything the web ever produced. And I assume Parent was talking about people doing similar things.
There are none to be interested in, and never were.

I welcome correction on this, but TTBOMK there never has been a single one, from the original Lisa OS in 1983.

Apple OSes have always been designed and built as an integrated whole. That's one of the things Apple owners like about them. Rather than developer effort being split across dozens of competing rival implementations, there is one, and all effort goes into improving that single one.

Before I get called a fanboy: I wasn't an Apple owner until about 12 years after the Mac launched and I have never bought a new Apple product in my life. All mine were 2nd hand, or free, saved from disposal.
Amazon Cognito Triggers: all you need to know
That is what's called a false dichotomy. It's a terribly basic and foolish way to analyze such a situation.

As pointed out elsewhere, fossil fuel companies had full knowledge of impending climate doom decades and decades ago. They chose to fuck us all for their profits, instead of making slightly less money while still enabling industry.

We've lost innumerable species forever, among other incalculable losses. Examine your glibly evil rationalizations a bit more closely.
It would be interesting to see how they planned their migration. Wrapping or gradual replacement..
Carpentry is the better analogy for programming. There's a spectrum for the work software engineers do. neurosurgery and concert violin are pretty tight on what the end goal is and you don't usually do a decent job from day one without a lot of supervision.

Whereas smacking a few bits of wood together (framing) gets you in the door as a carpenter. But there's a whole bunch more to learn if you're going to do fine woodworking. However, you can be productive from day one if you're willing to learn. That's the same as being a developer these days.

People will pay for low end skills because they are still a skill. You have a comp engineering degree. What are you working on in your job? Does the education fit the work, or on reflection do you have a little too much qualification for the work you're doing?
Yeah, notably the Radxa ROCK 5B who has outperformed the Apple M1 on performance/power.

Wow.
I mean it's like any real world thing, potentially non profit. A group of people elected to run public services for everyone else which people pay a fair amount to use. Something that's constantly reviewed, where new members can join and others can move on.
It seems you’ve responded to a refusal to subscribe with an argument for willingness to pay. It is possible to be open to payment and not to subscription.

HN is filled with people bemoaning subscription software. Subscriptions, whether to software or news, shift power toward sellers and invite dark patterns for its abuse.

That abuse is well enough recognized to be the subject of an often celebrated (on HN) CA law attempting to make subscription less odious.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Can’t speak for parent but I’d be slow to conflate unwillingness to subscribe and unwillingness to pay.
I am too. The most interesting take I heard is that motivation is not the spark gets you going. It's one more impulse that a depressed impulsive person has. I give in to the impulse until I get all the dopamine I was gonna get out of it, then I impulsively abandon it just like I took it up.

So the intuitive idea that you start with a burst of motivation and then you maintain it with discipline is wrong. Motivation is exactly the kind of impulsive distraction that destroys discipline.

Starting with discipline means rejecting random motivation when it comes, just like you might want to reject candy or lighting up a joint. Starting with discipline means you make the commitment first, and you fight to stick to it without any of the motivational high.

From that lens, I started seeing "get my life together" thoughts at 1am to be as bad as the worst impulses I struggle with.

https://youtu.be/TImmiAS1USQ
Ye in 2022 looks like what would happen in Steve Jobs had a love child with Jimmy Jones.

One the plus side, there is plenty to say about moving up the value chain and for creatives to starting to own the means of production and distribution for their work; on the other, we have to centre Ye's vocal anti-semitism, which appears to align with the doctrine of the Black Hebrew Israelites, and the potential damage it might do in influencing others with these ideas.

A conundrum for freedom loving societies - do we allow hostile dissidents to create their own spaces within sovereign territory?
Ask HN: Task management for open source companies
Hi fellow HNers.
We're currently using GitHub as our main task management resource but it's starting to grow on us since we have non-code tasks/non repository we'd like to keep progress on.
The ideal system would have deep integration to GitHub as most of the work do comes from there, and we don't want to have the annoyance of two task management systems. (like if we "import" a ticket from GitHub any progress there is updated in our system and vice versa)
No games, no tiktok? It won't be a success. And good luck spelling out your passwords.
Our son is four. I don't think I could make it through that speech.
> (A SIM stands for security information management, and traditionally collects, monitors, and analyzes security-related data.) Said another way: It’s the thing that helps make your smartphone a connected, data-driven device.

That’s the worst definition of SIM that I’ve seen in my life.
There are a few mentions of "platform authenticators", but do we even have such a thing on Linux? There isn't even a standard X.509 certificate/key store, unless you count GPG which has little application support. Firefox and Chrome use separate UNENCRYPTED NSS stores, LibreOffice and some others just hijacks the Firefox store, KDE apps use GPG through Kleopatra, some apps keep p12 files...

What we desperately need is a simple protocol with a set of basic functions like sign, encrypt and verify that every program uses (like Microsoft's CryptoAPI), then let the user pick a provider depending on their needs. You could have one provider that stores a dir of unencrypted key files if you really don't care, have the files encrypted and request a password on each use, one that talks to a smartcard, maybe a one that uses a connected smartphone with a secure element to do the crypto...

This project is the first that I've seen doing something like that, but it seems to only focus on FIDO/webauthn/whatever. Hopefully it can be eventually generalized to other cryptography uses too (HTTP client certs, S/MIME, PDF signing, encrypted disks/folders...).
I wonder how easy you could make a smartphone for the visually impaired last for ages if you just remove the screen. Make them glass rocks with speakers that run Android (or iOS but it's not like Apple will ever permit such modifications). Paradigms like flat screens and even the base shape don't matter as long as the OS audio feedback is done well.

You could give someone a smooth rock and they'd be able to use it as a smartphone no problem as long as you put on a normal OS (none of this locked down bullshit) and integrate the existing accessibility service well. There'd be loads of space for batteries and you only need to care about the limits if the capacitive layer, the screen tech itself doesn't need to be foldable!

Perhaps for tech service you'd need to add some kind of display out, probably over USB so you have hook it up to a hub and have a non-impaired techy service it if necessary, but there are opportunities here way beyond "just buy a screen you'll never be able to see".
HTML to PDF or Screenshots, without hustles
I would search every cloud.
Don't use g! use s! if you're going to do that. If you use !g almost every time you may as well just go to google from the beginning
Bill Gates' new climate plans, and an AI bug bounty
yes, for the most part, there are evidently some custom algos in there but most results are from bing.
....and yet it is state sponsored agencies which are tasked with doing so! The question of who is watching the watchers has never more relevant, yet not asked at all in this article, which seems to be of the position - 'we tell the truth, they tell the lies', a position which itself is the apogee of propaganda
I think HN removes "How" at the beginning, I recall seeing something similar before. Can't for the life of me figure out why.
Which is somehow the most difficult part for me by far. Once I have started it's sticking to it. The material is only the third hardest part.
I don’t often hear people talk about so openly but I think a large number of people now look at say Facebook or Palantir on a CV especially after 2016 as morally comparable to working as a tobacco lobbyist.
He is not a dissident or whatever, he is mentally ill and being exploited by people close to him. It's sad really. Like that extremely fat guy on Youtube. The world should stop encouraging these people.
> It's the only system where you are not at the mercy of some external entity to be always benevolent.

Until the owners of the network run away after extracting all the value they can, or they decide to fork it because it’s in their best interest, or they end it because it’s not as profitable as they wanted, or your exchange decides to halt trading so they don’t lose money, or, or, or.
I disagree. It doesn’t take 10mb of code to put a few lines of text to the screen. This occurs because:

1. Site owners want to track everything with really aggressive spyware.

2. Many developers are grossly incompetent and will blatantly tell you a few lines of text cannot be written to screen for less than a billion dependencies riding on the largest most trendy frameworks (plural).

That is millions of wasted CPU cycles per millions of users per day, which doesn’t also include the data centers than consume more power and water than the nearby city where people live.
I use DeepL for Spanish to English translation on a daily basis and can honestly say this tool made language learning so much easier.
It's amazing to see how it can easily change the translation of the word as you type in the full sentence.
Unpopular on HN, but I just don't see a problem with Google having my email, for what they provide me. Almost unlimited uptime, global redundancy, best search experience, storage all for free. I'm ok with the trade off for now.

Its just not worth the hassle.
Which evil usages are you concerned about? I think it would be very useful for the public.
The lie is that you aren't as valuable when you start working. The system is just set up that way to take advantage of your naivete.
Learning to program is not some discrete event, some fixed point in time, where you could not do it before, and you can afterwards.

It's a continuous process. Understanding the syntax is maybe the first step but this is easy. Understanding control statements like conditional code and loops, maybe recursion, is a next big step, if it's all completely novel to you. At this point, you probably already can program a lot of basic things, when you are persistent enough to work through all the errors. So at this stage, you might say you have learned to program.

But then there is so much more, like all the relevant data structures, etc.

I'm know coding since 25 years and still I feel that I'm far away from really having mastered it, although I feel very confident in most things. Currently I think I could definitely improve my architectural skills. And there are many other things where I lack knowledge, which could have been helpful in certain situations.
A couple of years ago I downloaded every podcast app I could find to try them, and landed on pocket casts, I've found it the best organised for how I want to listen, and this is great news on top of that!

Now I can finally see about making a PR to show buffering status
>Get real, people.

Just because you swallowed that pill doesn't mean that others should do the same.

It's precisely when the odds are stacked against you (be it education/age and/or whatever) that success it most impressive.
This is just childish. Written by a probably 20-something journalist who has never in their life been responsible for fulfilling a real human need.

Without fossil fuels, civilization would grind to a halt. Billions would die. Yes, we need to move to renewables, but it's not going to happen overnight. In the meantime, somebody has to extract, refine and distribute fossil fuels. Telling them that they're evil for keeping the lights on and your house warm is not helping anyone.

Tobacco, sure. Don't smoke. But people do smoke. I guess we could make it illegal. Look how well that worked for other drugs.

Nuclear weapons. Our enemies have them, so we need to have them as well, which means people need to work on them. It is suicidally pollyannaish to think we can just stop working on them and everyone will get along and sing kumbaya.

This is pure clickbait and nothing else.
Revise UUIDs
A Psychological Theory of the Culture War
That would be nice, but the thing is that the OS X UI has been heavily influenced by more mainstream PC desktop UI design, which makes it both more accessible to migrants from other platforms, and for making imitations of it.

Classic MacOS wasn't, and there are no complete emulations of it any more. There were in the '90s, but they are lost now. I've looked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937562
India. I get recruiter calls too, but the interviews have become batshit now. I would need to prepare for a year full time to clear these.
I'm not sure I agree. Those apps are already (somewhat) navigable for visually impaired people. This "phone" has all those same tools at its disposal.