skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't save the output of curl into a file, you certainly aren't one of the few people capable of meaningfully inspecting anything you download.
No 25% every quarter. Essentially doubled our salaries to stay a year. Was a very profitable business being operated with a skeleton crew and we were burning out, there was no other option.
> Anyways, at least Google allows sideloading so devs can live without Google Play. When Apple pulls something like that we have no choice.

Being able to sideload apps is the single issue that has kept me on android my entire life. Not being able to install the apps that I want to install on my own phone is a no-negotiation deal breaker for me. I really wish Apple would loosen their white knuckle grip on their precious iOS devices so that I could have options, but they obviously don't respect their users enough to give them that choice.
Oh, please. This "internal communication" was a bunch of blue hearts if the source is to be believed. What vital business information did that leak?
Ooooh, this is a pet peeve of mine! The productivity measure in economics is only tangentially related to how hard people work. Consider this, productivity is defined as the sum total of goods and services produced divided by total hours worked. If a company is highly automated, productivity will be higher than for a company in the same domain that is less automated. This has nothing to do with how hard employees work at either company.

Also, if the sum total of goods and services produced by an industry is not tightly coupled to hours worked, productivity will just fall with falling sales. So, if Google sells less of their GSuite subscriptions, but doesn’t do layoffs, productivity will fall. And this has very little to do with how hard individual Google employees work.
They out here saying tech workers are the downtrodden proletariat... they are not. They are firmly within the bourgeoise--top < 5% of wage earners in USA, and top < 0.5% in the world.
If you want a free society then that's the only way. If published in today's age, Samuel L. Clemens would have been cancelled by mercurial cry bullies.
Pretty much what I expected. Also, I'm surprised that the Swiss Franc is worth exactly the same as the US Dollar. Is it pegged to it? 45USD per hour for an hourly manufacturing job is shocking as well, that's about $90k per year. I'm sure it makes it a nice place to live but God help them if they ever need to get something done in a hurry. I imagine they have to tightly control immigration as well.
Oh boy, where to start with all the problems in this post.

* you can buy helium hotspots for $100 now, on par with other lora gateways

* " vast majority of the income of the project" is vague and incorrect. The hotspot OEMs (of which there are 50+) receive sales revenue, not "the project".

* You're referencing a Senet chart, which is actually a roaming partner on Helium. This isn't actually a helium coverage map.

I will correct myself on the coverage, about 98% of Americans are covered, not 98% of land in America. Oops. America is a big place.
Solid – Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a vibrant web, for all
This feels like one of those technologies that dead ends because the costs of PV solar cells/wind turbines and batteries is dropping so fast that by the time it's ready for the mass market it is no longer competitive, especially when you add in the complexity of engineering the solution to match your problem and being a first mover on a new technology.

I note that even the figure provided in the article ($2,000/MWh) is out of date, and current prices are closer to $500/MWh and still dropping. I'd expect this to be a nice niche solution for them but have tepid uptake elsewhere.
F-Droid discusses such things here:

https://f-droid.org/en/2022/09/30/free-software-and-inspecti...
But Apple, MS, Google, Amazon, etc. use their size to control formal and de-facto standards, giving them a competitive advantage.
how do you define fascist in this context?
PhotoStructure will definitely take care of deduplicating your photos and videos, but it doesn’t do other file types.

I’d use the latest alpha build, by the way: I’ve made a ton of improvements from the stable release (I hope to promote the alpha build through beta and stable soon).

In any event, it’s good to think about what you actually mean by a duplicate file. I’ve written about this here: https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplica...

Also: once PhotoStructure has examined your files, you can decide what to do with the “duplicates”: https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-dup... (and pipe the result through xargs).

Have a full online backup before starting this project!
For anyone who's looking to build something similarly, you want to search for your agency's GTFS Realtime feed: https://gtfs.org/resources/gtfs-realtime/

Transitland offers an API that's easier to use than parsing the agency's XML imho: https://www.transit.land/

None of this will still solve the issue of ghost busses, though. ;)
Years ago I rented a desk for additional contracting work I was doing at a shared work space. I think it was called Nedspace when I was in Portland. Many companies going remote offer this, will pay for your monthly spot.

Personally, these days at the age of 42, I prefer working remote.
Especially if you’re in a hot climate.

Maybe one day we’ll have a refrigerant network in a home that refrigeration could tap into, but the cost of specialization will probably exceed the savings :(

Or maybe run a municipal water loop into the fridge? Many are almost there when they have an ice machine (which is also horrible for efficiency).
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is the encrypted unblockable future. One of the reasons I hate security and privacy engineering culture is because it's always used as an excuse to remove user control
HN's headline style auto-formatter is getting weirder. Are all leading numbers removed now? Would "3,700 expected to be laid off from Twitter" become "expected to be laid off from Twitter"?

I appreciate the intent of this algorithm, but I'm not convinced it's still fulfilling its original purpose.
How do think embeds actually work? There is not snapshotting of data - it's simply a URL that renders at request - an HTML iframe.
Right. Being an effective CEO is not about having original ideas. It's about selecting the best ideas, and creating a team to realize them.
I have once seen a proposal to make any sudo call wait for 10 seconds before doing anything so that the person running it has a moment to thing about what they just did do (and have ~10 seconds to ^C cancel it).

The person arguing also brought up that normally anything needing sudo should be automatized so that should be fine.

I'm not doing enough system administration to judge if that is a sane idea or not ;=)
One thing is for sure: It will be absolute hell for those who will have to keep things running in the coming months. For better or worse Twitter infra is extremely comlex. 50% gone would be very rough even if the cuts were made thoughtfully and things were in KTLO-only mode. But that's not the case. Musk has already been pushing changes through skipping the normal process and will likely continue doing so, aggressively. Not a good combination.
I think I'll stick with my original opinion based on my own experience and reading. You don't get to decide for me any more than I get to decide for you.
Same boat. Totally miss the socialization. I hated having to steal part of my living space to make an “office”. It is so isolating. But I live in an apartment, which unlike the “huge house in the country” crowd doesn’t lend itself to making an office. Especially with a kid.

Sure I could move to some huge house with a fancy office but that just seems wrong to me. Density is the only way only of sprawl and inefficient resource use. But density makes it kinda hard to have a two bedroom, one office apartment. It also becomes rather depressing.

I dunno man, the chips are gonna fall on the table sooner or later. Lots of people working in the tech industry completely lost their mind over Covid and I suspect there is a lot of healing that people need to process. I don’t think people are working with their whole brain yet…
The good people at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics are aware of this fact which is why their measurements are price adjusted. I always wonder whether people who make these comments think the people over there haven't taken a stats 101 class.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
That's fine for me as I'm in EU :) .
Cribbing from Eric Weinstein: there are no labor shortages in (reasonably) free markets. There are just supply/demand mismatches, especially through the pricing mechanism.

Wages in real terms have been stagnant since the early-mid 70s. We probably, generally, need to pay workers more.
Nonlinear Curve Fitting with NumPy
fdroid doesn't. They still have horrible UX for installing updates and it fails to install more than half of the time.
I'll say it was regarding one of Apple's Pro-Apps at the time, but to say much more would probably "out" me :)
>Compiling from sources is a bit sketchy, but it is also the vector that is easiest to analyze, so I think they cancel out.

Is it really meaningfully easier to analyse? I get that it feels better, but I'd bet that the people saying this would fail to catch the backdoor every time.
“Arts and letter daily” posts this content. Not a forum though. I don’t know how content is selected, but it’s good. I check it every day.
What do you think TMZ is?

There are tons of subreddits that are devoted to catching some person or another with questionable tastes or interests in saying something they shouldn't. In these instances, rather than linking to the post (which may result in a moderator taking it down or the poster realizing how badly they're being dragged), they instead take a screenshot since it's a bulletproof way to retain the content.
Look at Legault in Quebec re the notwithstanding clause as he’s used it several times. Any government that relies on suppressing fundamental rights to govern is not legitimate. This coupled with a four year majority really sucks. Basically, the charter of rights and freedoms in Canada and its provinces is toilet paper.
No jobs without businesses, so really we are keeping the workers in mind.
"Rhetoric" is far too generous - assuming the person is peaking honestly, it is well into mental illness (delusion) territory - although, all people suffer from this kind, so it is not classified as a mental illness, and is thus (in part) not considered not a problem worth worrying about (or a problem at all).
> Blokada uses the Private DNS feature of the phone to block ads

Oh, good, I had interpreted "Cloud filtering" as some sort of content blocking API. DNS makes sense.

> It should also be noted that you can use the VPNService in android to only set a DNS server to use, without actually sending any traffic through a VPN. Using the VPNService in this way is not going to be allowed with the new Developer Policy update. When used this way, the privacy issues aren't there--though there is the potential misunderstanding of end users who might think they are using a full VPN when in reality they aren't.

That's good if VPN apps aren't always actually implementing a VPN, and it likely eliminates the battery life issue, but the confusion is a problem as users can't tell the difference between an actual VPN and one that is only doing DNS stuff.

In fact an app could say "don't worry we're only doing DNS" but actually be a VPN. That sounds dangerous to me?
You may very well be right! I didn't mean to come off saying you are wrong, just that Revenue isn't a proxy. IKEA on the other hand I very highly doubt has a higher market cap. Retail typically has high Revenue and low margin, like Walmart
Android has no system-wide content blocking APIs. Furthermore, Google's policy specifically states that VPNs may not "Manipulate ads that can impact apps monetization", proving that this is not about VPNs, but about ad blocking in general.

My solution is a WireGuard VPN to my home network (which is behind PiHole) but a local solution cannot properly block network requests without the VPN API.

Blokada has switched to doing DNS-based blocking through DNS but that's purely to get around Google's arbitrary restrictions on the VPN API.

Users should be able to use whatever network filters they like. If I don't want to send ICMP packets, or DNS packets for certain servers, or any other kind of specific traffic, I should have control over what my device is doing.

Note that the VPN API does not necessitate actually setting up a VPN to a cloud server. The VPN API exposes packets to an Android app so it can decide whether or not to forward the packet, rewrite it, send it through a tunnel, etc. Normally, there is no cloud service when VPN ad blockers are in use. Blokada has switched to a cloud system but only after Google blocked their normal system.

Until Google releases a comprehensive network filter driver API or firewall API there is simply no alternative. The Blokada local DNS server solves one problem (the need for a VPN) but cannot prevent ad libraries from using DoH to work around content blockers.
I'm just starting a new project, and having only rolled our own ghetto authentication and authorization in the past the number of options out there is quite overwhelming!

https://free-for.dev/#/?id=authentication-authorization-and-...

...any advice on a cheap + easy self-hosted solution?
Do any of your coaches have ADHD themselves?
What an embarrassing article, assuming it's not a parody. It reads like a caricature of the current female yuppie class:

"made me laugh until I cried. Then I put my face in my hands and screamed a little bit."

"we cannot agree that trying to hang the vice president is a bad thing, I am very, very tired of screaming"

"People are freaking tired, man"

"some of us could make banana bread, but medical and other frontline workers most certainly could not"

This is some upper-class woman who has a comfortable life and needs to invent problems to make herself feel alive. The entire article is basically composed of disjointed midwit bromides like the ones I've quoted above.
"I wonder where all that increased productivity was wasted and by who."

By the same people telling us inflation is happening because wages were going up/workers had more leverage, not price gouging by oil companies and such.
What about fox news? AM radio? These are bastions of radicalization but they dont let anyone come on and say anything. At the end of the day this sort of rhetoric played by these groups is taught in university communications classes as a way to exert influence. Its all just propaganda at the end of the day, and that can come in the form of a pamphlet, or a meeting in a town hall, or from some talking head on tv, or a tweet. Social media is just another avenue for propaganda to manifest just like how the printing press is.
Nope. Not in California. Employment contracts with a CA entity are “at will” / can be terminated with no cause and no notice.

Which is how it should be IMO.

Anyway just google “ca at will employment” and you can learn about how you are wrong here.

Here’s an article that explains it in paragraph 2 https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...

I have been close to the counsel and HR during execution of several CA layoffs, within blocks of Twitter HQ :)
The original title is 11 characters too long for submission.
The implication is that the statistics are what they are under the condition that women take the precautions that they do.

In other words, the 1/X statistic is conditioned on the average person's precautions (like not walking outside in a lightning storm), and by not applying on those precautions, you're using the statistic outside of the distribution that it applies to.
I’ve had a non trivial number of issues with them over the years. Enough that I moved all of my infrastructure to other (more expensive) providers.

That being said, it was probably value for money spent while it lasted.
Yes, the word recession seems less than appropriate currently. The universe is capable of far larger variety than our human vocabulary after all. Having been a first in 100 years pandemic, this last pandemic occurred without precedent in modern history. We probably don’t have a good model for what we’re going through and won’t for years or longer.

This Fed opinion piece has some great points related to your point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394486

That author found much of the latest growth in profits attributable to reduction in corporate taxes and not much else. This latest might be a reversion to a market preference for lower P/E ratios. That would look like lower productivity even with the same earnings and thus actual productivity, a clear contradiction.

But be careful here. The next thing to write about after headlines of lowered productivity are lowered wages.
Mighta been RSV, that shit is really nasty and obviously it won't register on flu/covid rapid tests.
A Nice benefit of not having to move your fridge and other appliances around when you move between properties.
> and is rarely (if ever) rewarded

productivity growth is always rewarded, it leads to more goods at lower prices across the economy, so everybody's standard of living goes up. This is a very real effect; consider how small percentages of inflation cause pain throughout the economy, the same pain is produced through productivity drops.
Huh, you don't say
> Personally, these days at the age of 42, I prefer working remote.

Of course you do. You have the space to accommodate it and have yet to see the larger impact this “everybody works at home” will have.

Work is work. That’s why you get paid for it. You get paid because otherwise nobody would do it…
Diamond can burn.

Though other crystals should be highly stable. Quartz seems geologically and chemically stable, plain old glass ain't bad. Something reasonably cheap is probably preferable, both from the cost basis (an expensive-to-create archive is a challenge) and the repurposing challenge (a diamond-etched bibliographic archive might have other appeals to those who chance across it).

Even parchment proved sufficiently valuable that works were often repurposed (and lost) through palimpsests.
Confirming the exact location of the invention of the web (2010)
Odd response—especially the (perversely ironic!) dig in your first sentence. The blog post states:

> At Akamai, we use the User-Agent header at the edge and as part of many Akamai products for business logic

The post then goes on to describe several things that are expected to break (or would be breaking—if Akamai weren't taking steps on their end) since they rely on the value of client's User-Agent header, and it affects how they respond. It's definitely not just for being used at Akamai to help reproduce bugs in the same environments...
This is an important thing to realize, which is that (almost) all productivity everywhere in the globalized economy is really just an arbitrage between energy and labor prices. For the past ~200 years, if you could find a way to do some job with less labor by burning coal or electricity, you would do it and keep the gains. This is because energy has been extremely (some would say artificially) cheap the whole time. The only way to keep productivity anywhere near 20th/early 21st century levels going forward will be to arrange for this cheap energy to continue.
You have cobra coverage until you go get another job, which is something you absolutely have to do regardless. If you have an hsa, you’ll still have a bunch of money in there, too.
Operating a massive, distributed, real-time ad platform requires lots of engineers.
You are missing the part that somebody could add additional ballots which is a claim that is being made. Supposedly there was a water leak and then people brought in some extra ballots.
Yeah, the problem with "just use feature detection" is that most of it only works on the frontend, or by having the frontend send additional data to the server after the initial page load.

Sometimes you need to optimize things for certain browsers or bots before a single byte of JS has been sent, relying only on the first few request headers. Akamai probably needs to.

Deleting the cruft but retaining the highest bits (product name and major version) like Chrome is doing seems like a reasonable compromise.
A write-up describing why Functional Programming never "sticks" in mainstream dev:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DilbertProgramming/comments/qg99f0/...
Assets re-invested back into the company rather than through a stock buyback could have increased earnings/share also. Of course, you eventually run out of things to re-invest earnings into (that could lead to more earnings rather than being wasted), and have to decide whether to do a dividend or a stock buyback.
Well yeah that's what ground source heat pumps basically are. They just don't run at 600 degrees.
What are some music/movie trackers a normal dude has a good shot at getting into?

Open to studying obscure archival standards and peering.
> conservatives are more likely to be criminals

The correlation runs the other way. Mass shooters and people who carry out acts of political violence in the US are overwhelmingly driven by conspiracy "logic" that has recently been embraced by the right; Qanon, pizza parlor conspiracies, racism, etc.
The actual title is "Carbon Capture isn't real" but they walk that clickbait back in the video, to it just being pointless.

So, I agree with most points made in the video, capturing carbon emitted from burning fossil fuels, is obviously dumb and we should be rolling out all the things that reduce carbon and make our lives better, before we start sucking carbon back out of the air.

So I agree that all the talk of Carbon Capture and Storage that the fossil fuel lobby funded, was 99% a con. They were literally saying, we'll just keep doing what we're doing and then bury the carbon via some as yet unproven method to help them stall progress on alternatives. And it was always obvious that moving to cleaner more efficient processes was better.

But, they then link that to a "no pain, no gain" attitude to climate change. It's only effective if you have to work hard and inconvenience yourself. Why would that be the case?

Having oil and gas corporations not release methane into the atmosphere and stop actually financially rewarding them for doing so, is not something that is going to affect my life negatively. Quite the opposite.

And it's those same oil and gas corporations, that have been telling us "climate change is fake and/or unfixable and/or expensive to fix" in an utterly cynical attempt to make people give up trying to get them to change.

So, there's lots of things that we can do, that will make our lives better, and fix climate change at the same time. Let's do those.

Not the ones that cause us the most effort. The ones that cost the least effort for the most gain are ideal, like:

insulation

efficiency

using heat pumps

electrify everything

stop actively subsidizing things we don't want to happen

track and fine methane emitters, especially the ones that are leaking publicly owned methane

build lots more renewables for cheap energy, especially in developing nations

eat as much meat (and food generally) as your doctor recommends for your health

carbon fee and dividends that give money to the average person and let them choose how to spend it so the free market can work.

Then we can start talking about the wackier ideas like geoengineering or carbon capture.