skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Meanwhile, the global energy crisis of the 1970s incentivized architects and engineers to design buildings that were increasingly airtight — why pay money to heat a building just to see that heat escape out a crack around a window? That, in turn, required new approaches to controlling their interior climates. Mechanical systems for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) became more common, as did open-plan layouts to allow for better air circulation.

The flip side of this process is that residential windows became smaller, reducing not only natural light but ventilation. Apartment buildings changed from layouts with lots of windows and cross-ventilation to maximizing the footprint on the lot.

Perhaps more efficient for heating/cooling, but also traps a lot more polluted indoor air. It is startling that today in the US there are a high number of residential units with gas ranges/ovens but very little or no ventilation.
Yeah, but is that really true? I mean, I get that Eliza didn't enjoy the process, but there's no way of firing someone that they'll enjoy.

Several months fully paid for your job search, and no firing on your resume? Sounds very generous to me. I appreciate there would be stress from poor communication about what was going on - but telling someone they should look for another job would be constructive dismissal.
I'm in no way grateful that I was bullied, I didn't enjoy my school years. But part of the reason why I was singled out for bullying was because I spent a lot of my school years buried in math books rather than being with my peers. When I started to understand how badly behind I was socially at around age 14, I started to make the changes necessary to catch up. This meant talking and listening to to the kids at my school a lot more. I didn't realise this because of the bullying, but they were clearly related.

The bullying was damaging I agree, but I think taking me out of school completely would have been so much more harmful.
what in the world could that upgrade have possibly fucked up for an "email and e-commerce" machine.

I completely understand how things get fucked up for engineers and serious tool users or users who have needs for very specific hardware that require very specific operating systems to run. but an email and e-commerce machine?

what could possibly have broken email and e-commerce?

also I'm very impressed that the very first comment I read on this article has twisted the topic of "value-add software that hardware vendors put on is garbage" blaming Microsoft in record time.

It's amazing how good the vocal HN commenters are about things like this.
Related: finding air quality measurement devices seems very difficult. It would be nice to know all the things in the air which we are concerned about - CO, CO2, Radon, PPM-stuff, etc. It seems few devices do it all, and some of them actually fake it (using a lookup table based on other measurements).

I'm hoping one of these days someone on HN who is an authority will post a buyer's guide.
How? He used that computer to buy stuff online
One of my early bootstrapped startup failures was a site for anonymously referring colleagues' cv's, linkedin and other profiles to a pool of recruiters with the intent that the person would get recruited away. The premise was that these neutral referals were higher quality leads for recruiters than reaching out via cold emails, and just because one of your co-workers would prefer to see you somewhere else doesn't mean you can't be great at what you do in a new role with new relationships. I spoke to one manager who had to do layoffs and said he would have loved to be able to get some of them recruited away, as it would have been a net-positive for everyone involved.

It was in the time when Tinder and other taboo breaking apps were coming to market, but it's better than the alternative. If it sounds mean spirited, consider it against the alternative of "managing-out" or "pip'ing out" people, which is a terrible artifact of labor law where instead of setting clear expectations and outcomes, it incentivises gaslighting people for months, sabotaging their mental health and relationships with their colleagues, and with knock-on effects for bringing that home to their families. Firing someone with clarity and closure sucks, but the band-aid comes off. Managers who avoid difficult conversations and use passive gaslighting instead can wreck the families and homes of people who are accountable to them. Referring out someone who isn't a fit to external recruiters (outrefer'ing) seemed like a relatively humane solution.

Free to out-referers, subscription fee for recruiters to get the warm leads by city/role and skills. Maybe the time for it will eventually come.
by planting a perennial meadow

While this works, an alternative if you have a lawn already is to just stop cutting it every x weeks but mow once or twice a year. Mow paths where needed. More often than not there are already seeds/plants in the soil which just never got the chance to grow. And if not, depending on where you live, fauna and wind will transport seeds to your garden. The end result (mind you, takes years) will usually be similar: of the seed mixes bought, a bunch won't grow, others might but won't thrive. Whereas starting from 'scratch' this also happens. And what's left are those which happen to thrive best on the local soil type and circumstances, which usually is what works best for the local ecosystem.
It's probably fairly easy to write an adapter here.
*empty eye socket
Show HN: Helm-dashboard: the missing UI for Helm
not just bad press. they were called before Congress and asked why updates weren't required.
Show HN: Check a device's WebAPI capabilities by opening this page
> global legal system

Every time you hear "social media should be unmoderated and it should be impossible to deplatform people", you should think of all the traumatizing-but-not-actually-illegal material here which people want shown to everybody.
orange after space-between should be deleted
My guess is that the majority of people using ES could actually use something simpler like this.
My mom's used one for years now, and seems content with it.
Freezing Europeans can't beg Russians for gas if the pipelines are broken.

Joe Biden was vocally against the pipelines. It's not a stretch at all, but let's just forget he said what he said, hey?

The conspiracy theory is that Russia destroyed a functional pipeline that it had complete control of. Why are the Swedes hiding their findings? The idea that they are covering for Russia is ridiculous.
> Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though

We already do this with pacemakers
As long as NetBSD runs on it...
The sound of Earth’s magnetic field
100% agree with this.

Point updates of macOS take 20+ minutes on an M1 Max with 32GB of memory and a blazing fast SSD. What could it possibly be doing?

Even iOS updates are a bit faster.

Is apple even interested in fixing this?
It's really quite impressive to equate access to nice parks to factory farming as a bad thing while also claiming that people must be socially sated because they live in densely packed areas.
A) I never said modern. Video games have been enthralling to people for decades.

B) The word "addictive" gets bandied about very freely when it comes to video games. Unless we're talking about loot boxes or pseudo (or not so pseudo) gambling in video games, there's a pretty big difference between video game "addiction" and an alcohol/nicotine addiction.

My hobbies are not "addictive", and nor are the things I find boring "anti-additive".

Video games are designed primarily for the person playing them to want to be there, to learn what the games world has to teach, and in some cases to draw as much money out of the whales as possible.

Standardised schooling is designed primarily to be quantifiable and scaleable.
I lost track of the number of times we got rejected for our app because the reviewer's Internet connection was down. "Can't log in, getting no connection to server error." Yeah dude, you need to connect to the Internet first.

One of the dumbest reasons I saw for being rejected was that our app's "invite a user by email" functionality (which only sends an email, nothing more) was mistaken for account creation and they wanted a cut of revenue.
Meh, it's just silicates aka quartz aka what sand is mostly made of aka one of the most abundant minerals in earth's crust. Yes, the molecule contains an element useful for semiconductors, but that's like mentioning sodium batteries in an article about the origins of soap just because both contain Na atoms.
> what made my partner ditch windows for good and switch to linux

that's like moving underground because you once got a sunburn.
Plastic clothing should also be taxed to take into account externalities until natural, sustainable fibers are price competitive.

Specific to washing machines, I wonder if there is an option for a micro plastic filter?
Fydetab Duo: Open-source and hackable Linux tablet, powered by FydeOS
A very disruptive to the user, B seems like he was up against a time limit according to the thread from the little I read.
You mean that "Socializing the costs, and privatizing the gains" fails when you start forcing companies to pay for externalities?

And that's social media, pollution, and climate change in a nutshell.
...as in Europe (but I am certain there are exceptions and am looking forward to the replies pointing out where that is not the case)
"Car X is capable of the same velocity as car Y, per hour."
An Enumerator for Spring Boot Eureka and Actuator Endpoints
The point of an insecticide is to kill the specific insect being a pest to the crop. Not to kill every single insect altogether.

Maybe people like you should experience what a world without insects would look like. I can save you the time. There will be no world.
> Seems like an excellent way to deal with people who avoid bans

I'm sure this would be reasonably effective on the specific goal of occupying these users' time for days/weeks/months/or even years until they realized that they were talking with robots, but it seems like it might have significant negative social consequences for some groups.

For instance, imagine somebody dealing with depression who genuinely needs a human to talk to. Like many in modern society, maybe social media is the only human interaction they have until they get shadowbanned based on tenuous reasons. God, what happens then when depressed and/or unstable people only have robots to talk to for years? What happens when they realize that they've been tricked and feel intense anger/sadness/hopelessness?

This is playing with peoples' lives with fire and shouldn't be an acceptable practice.
You're downvoted but you're correct. Rates of people going to universities have collapsed, especially among men.

They're having to start campus diversity for programs now in some places as a form of affirmative action in schools that became too gynocentric.
Ask HN: Any good guide which include best practices for library developers?
I am interested in use cases such as

- server-side libraries ex: sentry serverside clients

- front-end libraries ex: react-query

I am interested in aspects like API design, architectural decisions, dev tooling and etc.
What do you mean with the not trusting VPN to keep logs, etc.? It's your VPN, you host it, why would you care if you log youself or not?
No - I tend to not take myself too seriously and was very much optimizing for smiles over "usefulness" or "github stars" so it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"you can smell some dickweasel's little OKR in the inexplicable frustrations of someone who just wants to use their laptop, phone, tablet"

Enough said.
You're focusing solely on the content.

My abject hatred of TikTok stems from who controls it.
related maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime
> What?! What attack are you referring about? What fork are you talking about?

Wait, really? On September 15th, someone attacked the Ethereum blockchain and stole all the value, handing it off to this other coin. Our coins are still there, but per current markets they're only worth 0.47% of the value they should have. I can't believe you missed that.

Now, obviously you think that's different. And that this giant act of fiat by a centralized operating body was a GOOD act of fiat by a centralized operating body. But it was still a giant act of fiat by a centralized operating body, which points out that the kind of "self-sovereignty" you believe in doesn't exist. You are and will always remain solvent at the whim of the people running the economy you're part of. That's simply the truth.

The difference is that you trust the ETH cabal where you don't trust email providers. And I think that's misplaced.
I could not get Magisk working, so for me I cannot use rooted Android as I like to be able to access my bank accounts and credit cards.
The Mighty Pickup Slims Down
You need to search and then scroll and like stuff and follow people to get any signal in TikTok. There is a ton of great content. For example, maybe you are into weightlifting or gardening. Search for a particular aspect of weightlifting like "rear delts" or for gardening "pruning" and like some stuff or follow some creators you like. Rinse and repeat a few times. It doesn't take long to fine tune a feed that is pretty good.
Quality aside - but for me who just tried Tiktok a couple times, there was always some severely disturbing content on the homepage including gross pimple popping, viral infections, skin diseases, and other content that's not considered normal. Although some of it seemed fake, it definitely throws sensitive people off guard and the fact this platform of an app does nothing about it is beyond my understanding.

Fuck Tiktok
If glyphosate+surfactants affects apis, maybe there's other insects that are susceptible too.
The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
This article makes a lot of great points. Thankfully, proof of "green-ness" of a building such as LEED Certification is becoming marketable, and developers or building owners can advertise their building's LEED status to potential tenants. What likely needs to happen to really achieve healthier indoor spaces is to create a standardized process similar to LEED certification for all new construction. Just as the article states, the change needs to happen at the policy level.

Aside from policy changes, customers also have a tremendous amount of leverage in the design process. If customers begin to push for healthier materials and designs, we'll likely see change faster than waiting for policy or building code changes.

Many architects push for healthier materials and designs but cost is such an enormous obstacle. Healthier materials are usually the more expensive option, and are the first to go in any value-engineering endeavor.

There are ways to design for maximum natural ventilation as well, but there are several generations of architects educated to design for HVAC systems, likely due to the energy crisis that the author mentioned. They just don't know how to design a building for passive ventilation. Heck, I finished school in 2020 and just barely touched on this kind of thing. Contractors and engineers also stand in the way - it's tough to re-educate such a huge industry with so many actors, trades, and fields involved in every project. This is also somewhat of an American problem. The western/American AEC industry could and should look to elsewhere in the world for examples of healthier design. Above comment about lack of education applies here as well - very few educators in America can teach this, as most never learned it themselves.
Taste is learnt. Some people consider junk food to taste good only because they’ve been conditioned to eat it when they were growing up. If junk food was not a regular thing in your life, I doubt you’d consider it particularly tasty. Due to health issues when I was a child I couldn’t eat a lot of things at all growing up which for others were just not that healthy. I always ate at home. As a result I don’t consider junk food particularly tasty. Quite the opposite, home-cooked meals made out of raw ingredients are the most delicious thing I can think of. I also have a group of friends a bit older than me who grew up before McDonalds and KFC entered my country. For them too stuff sold by those places isn’t particularly pleasurable to eat. On the other hand I saw plenty of families who these days go to McDonalds every Saturday/Sunday, where the children are conditioned to expect regular visits to those places and will make a huge drama if it doesn’t happen. If you’re in US, from what I’ve heard even normal food in supermarkets is already more processed and the fresh stuff may somehow even be more expensive, so that’s a whole other can of worms.
How deep have you gone into vim?

Admittedly it's been a while since I tried vscode, but when I did my experience was that vim's functionality is a superset of what's available in the plugin. Especially if you learned on the plugin, vim would generally work the same as vscode.

The issue was the other way--there was functionality missing in the plugin, or sometimes when you tried to compose more complex operations they didn't work or worked strangely, etc.

Like, if you're used to working in C you won't see the advantage of a C++ compiler, but if you've spent 15 years working in C++, you're gonna feel pretty hamstrung by a C compiler.
you can definitely use https://secondfounder.com
If I don't buy anything, I'm out of the market system and the whole argument of "the market is best" falls down: it means the market hasn't solved my problem.

> The fact that you decided for Android or iOS shows that both of these choices have a positive net value for you - so what are you complaining about?

Android suits me more, but I would like to be able to run multiple VPNs at the same time. What do I buy ?

I didn't buy Android because this is what I want, but because it's the closest. But how do I drive the decisions to where I want ? Am I supposed to wait that a million alternatives are created and have the same level as Android, then only can I buy what I need ? This just doesn't work.
The blink element has been consistently criticised by usability and accessibility experts. In 1996 Jakob Nielsen described the element as "simply evil" in his Alertbox column Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.[14] The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 state that content authors should avoid causing the screen to flicker or blink, noting that such effects can cause problems for people with cognitive disabilities or photosensitive epilepsy.[15]
But the context of this entire post is laptops.
What's most disturbing is the realization that a measurable percentage of humans are just f*cked up.

Considering how many reports there are of Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok, and other sites where content moderators are suffering from having to perform their jobs, it suggests that there's a great deal of really terrible stuff going on - and worse, that the people involved are filming and attempting to share it.

This is a serious thing, and it paints humanity as being far darker than it would seem from the surface. It also suggests that the apocalyptic movies may not be so far off when they suggest that humanity will revert to open barbarism if we're faced with a catastrophy large enough.
Optic blast!
I'm also a bit scared. Sent mine in to Lenovo with an obvious hardware fault (rebooting randomly, happened under both Windows and Linux) explained to them. They reinstalled Windows and sent it back still broken. The second round I called in and got to talk to a guy who had no idea how they sent it back like that, who got it fixed, but sounds like the first attempt wasn't even the worst it could be.
I'll look some videos from a while ago. Again, great series, hope you keep publishing!
I agree. But also, we shouldn't throw around the word "addicted" so freely. Aside from the argument of if it's really an addiction, there's the issue of framing:

Addicted to video games or simply absorbed in an interactive medium?

Uninterested in learning or simply bored by the un-engaging monologue?
I don't think that's necessarily true. All you need is default-on sandboxing that is "painfully obviously wrong" for the system owner to bypass. As a case in point, look at macOS. You can bypass almost every security feature in macOS by rebooting to recovery and disabling CSR, AMFI and whatnot. And even after disabling all this, touchID will still work, and I believe it will still be accepted as a platform authenticator.

I think something similar could be compatible with free software ethos.
Information about every executable your run on "your" laptop goes to a special server belonging to Apple. It must be a huge and costly mistake...
if you lived in the UK/Ire and see how much normal people drink perhaps you'd see its pshysiological effects compared with habitual heron use aren't exactly comparable
Nobody cares about the potential. People only care about a CEO as the person who signs off quality of life.

Musk has barely signed off anything, he's constantly postponing the moment when he'll sign off quality of life, but he's getting paid right now.

Today has been a slow day and I used the various different flavors of Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft so many times. They might not be a colony on Mars, but at least they are real.
what about shielding? cancer?
Back in the day at Kodak it was a common trick to give a bad employee a stellar review and put them up for internal transfer in the hopes that sone sucker would take the underperformer.
Turn on contents search and try strings that might be in it.
Here is how to get the date from the Unix timestamp (GNU/Linux coreutils):

date -d @1666666666

macOS/bsd coreutils:

date -r 1666666666
This sounds like the inverse of "Work to Rule." Instead of employees doing exactly what they are told in the dumbest way possible to sabotage production, you have employers technically upholding a contract in the dumbest way possible to make workers miserable and outrage the public.
Is a non-public hostname “obscurity” or is it a form of password/credential? Or is a credential actually “obscurity”, only so vast an attacker can’t possibly have enough electricity to shine a light on even a remotely relevant part of it.

It’s all about risk/probabilities in my view. How likely is it to find the hostname? How likely is it to find the password?

The only real differences is that there are best practices ensuring passwords are never logged in clear text anywhere, whereas it’s not the case for a hostname.
Security through obscurity is fine if it's an additional layer in a well thought out security implementation. I've build a bespoke Node.js site/service where I sometimes have to kick out clients due to various reasons. I sometimes fear reprisal and have to consider a targeted attack on my infrastructure. And indeed I do get the occasional hack attempt with for instance hand crafted sql injection attempts (I receive an instant notification when this happens). The best approach in hardening your infrastructure I think is trying to hack your own service by trying a plethora of methods like sql injection attacks or denial of service attacks on your public api's.
Yes, but long form videos can only be consumed in long linear form.

Long form text can be skimmed, organized, and referenced. The signal to noise ratio can be a little lower without being an issue, because it's trivial to sift through a certain amount of noise when you are reading text. And you can have conversational content that doesn't spiral out of time constraints.
Are Real Numbers Real? (2017)
Wow, talk about living in the 90s...
I think we're making a supervillain recipe here guys...chill
I talked to someone who had a similar experience in New Zealand. As I understand it, this kind of treatment is more common in countries where the employment laws make it hard to fire someone. It is also more common when the employee's severance package is large and the employer is not just disappointed but upset with the employee.