skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1. Blocking people is reactive. It means that everybody still sees the first time somebody DMs them calling them a slur.

Well, that's the "treat people as grown ups part". In that: treat them as if they can read something they disagree with the "first time" and they wont melt.

Calling people slurs or violent threats etc could always still be banned - first time you do it, you're out, or three strikes, or similar.

That's unrelated to content (whether the content is controversial or some disagrees with the view, etc), and easy to implement and check.

>Advertisers are concerned about their ads

Sucks to be them then! Advertisers shouldn't stiffle speech.

Disney also didn't like to be associated with gay content, not that long ago. And all kind of partisan political views could be pushed for or against by advertisers. They should not have such a say.

In fact I think they should not be allowed by law to be picky on placement on any forum of speech (magazines, social media, etc) where they like to have their ads in.

Either they shun the medium altogether, or they buy slots that can appear whenever, alongside whatever. This way also people know it's not the advertisers choice or responsibility of being alongside X post, as they can only buy slots on the whole medium wholesale.
Historically it’s a new concept.
At least for the west but I suspect for human as a whole.

We used to jump from childhood to adulthood without lingering.

I don’t cast any judgment on the concept of teenagehood. I think it’s out there now.
Swarming bees may potentially change the weather, new study suggests
This comment reeks of entitlement. I can barely get by on a salary in the top 5%
Darktable is great! Some things work differently to Lightroom, but it is great if you know what you do in post processing. Not that I really know what I do in post, but I believe that I get better at it.
If my boss would send me annoying survey questions every day. He'd 'understand' that he's really annoying me.
> TeX is a program for typesetting, and IMO if one is a programmer, it is best used as a target or output format

That's the only thing I ever found it to be good for. Even then, it's a PITA. The world would not be a poorer place if it disappeared and was replaced something that that separated style definition, markup, and content in a reasonable fashion, and used modern language techniques (just a CFG would be a start) for the first two.
If we're adding standard output fds, maybe it would be a useful time to define any mechanism for consumers of those fds to discern the total ordering of bytes written to the three of them.
Early PineTime adopter here. The lack of physical buttons is such a massive downgrade that I can't really bring myself to use mine anymore. The apps are also very lacking compared to the Pebble. Specifically timers, stopwatch, alarms. I have no other watch to recommend, I just stopped wearing one. I do occasionally update the firmware and see if things have improved, but they're still not as good as I'd like. I do support them and what they're doing. The hardware itself is maybe just too flawed. I hope that we see more stuff get support from the same OS. Something with more buttons.

With the Pebble I had app shortcuts on the long press of most of the buttons and could pretty much navigate it blind to start a stopwatch ASAP and lap as needed without looking. I had tons of saved timer presets. The alarms could actually wake me up (before the vibration motor broke). PineTime won't let me save timer presets, set timers over an hour or so long, and it's not obvious enough when the timer ends. I think it vibrates once instead of doing it until dismissed. These are basic things, and to me they matter even more than seeing notifications from my phone appear. I even used my Pebble without a phone for months at a time before.
Is it mostly engineering or other roles being laid off?
That was an example to show it's not something that does not exist in the linux world. There are less extreme examples through the whole spectrum of isolation, from firejail at one side (which uses capabilities) through a couple of container-based approaches all the way to qubesOS, which is the most robust from a security standpoint I would think and is also the example I chose because I'm most personally familiar with it.
It looks like they copied Element's Spaces[1]

[1]: https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/
Whatever you're arguing becomes moot when you realize that Reddit had millions of users at whatever point it "had child porn". Murphy's law.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

Android 42%

Windows 30%

iOS 18%

> everyone uses a web interface

Can you provide some global statistics for this claim? I don't believe it's accurate, but I don't have a good way to measure or disprove it.
FCC taps 13 providers to manage 6GHz band access for new Wi-Fi standards
Slowdown in inflation due to wage component of inflation falling. What, didn't you hear that the Fed was very interested in pulling on that lever? Just yesterday Powell complained about the labour market being tight, guess businesses heard him all right.
> They are openly hostile towards their own users.

Yes, and it's deeply ingrained in their culture so unlikely (IMHO) to change. My eyes first opened to this in April of 2011 when I was (horribly) surprised by Gnome being removed in favor of Unity, when I saw how they treated their users and community on forums and such. It was the same condescending attitude we see today where the user are complete idiots who want to do things the "wrong" way and the canonical employees (especially the "community managers") know the "right" way to do everything.
Reminds me of COVID onset tbh.
Indeed, I can't (legally) drive it at all. The registration has expired and it is due for a smog check, which automatically fails with no cat.

Mine is an E450; There are a several companies that make an after-market cat for an E350 with the same engine. I contacted them and got roughly the same response from each:

> Unfortunately we do not have a catalytic converter for your vehicle.
Although it may seem that the vehicles are similar, in reality they could be
completely different when it comes to emissions. We've seen some cars that
are the same year, same make, and even engine size, that use completely
different catalytic converters. It has to do with the manufacturer and which
emissions tier they are registering that vehicle for. That being said,
although the E-350 maybe similar to the E-450, in reality the converters and
emissions level could be completely different and that's probably why we
don't have the certification for it. Sorry I couldn't help you out. Take
care.
Indeed, being homeless in Minnesota in the winter is a death sentence.
Exactly, me too! And I've looked everywhere but nothing fills this niche anymore.

I had the first generation of Mi Band, the one with only 3 RGB LEDs, no display. And I loved it, I could easily see I have a new Gmail notification when it gently vibrated and the LEDs flashed red (well more of a breathe animation than a flash), or a Facebook Messenger one when it was blue. The Bluetooth communications it used made it easy to program your own vibrations and LEDs.

It sounds non intuitive but 90% of the time the flashing LEDs made me NOT check the phone. I was like, "oh blue, most likely my brother replied, I'll check it later"

I also fantasized about modding my current analog watch but fitting a tiny battery and a tiny BLE chip and a tiny vibration motor and surfacing tiny LEDs is way outside my possibilities. Chronos sounds good in theory but the end result is not what I want. I don't want to increase the thickness of my watch, or have to recharge it or worry about a magnet not staying in place.
Nothing on that list that I would disagree with.

But, this is all the exact opposite of what I've seen from electorally successful anglosphere[0] politicians.

Do you think you could convince people to vote for that?

[0] I live in Germany now, but my german language skill is only good enough to tell me that politically the AfD hate me and Die Partei are having a laugh
One reason to support this sort of feature is that it makes it easier to split changes into two reviewable steps: first make a minimal change that introduces some ugly thing like break-with-label, then clean it up with a no-change-of-behaviour commit.
> We'd like to share with you this blog post

On the https://news.ycombinator.com/submit page use title and URL, no need to add extra content. The URL is not clickable otherwise.
I think Iain M. Banks called this an "Outside Context Problem" :)
I am not going to argue about the tastes here but please consider the fact that TeX is a typesetting language. Ignoring whitespace altogether would make .tex files unreadable (as a comment below states). I am again puzzled by complaints about whitespace treatment in TeX (which has facilities for handling it, like \ignorespaces) at the same time having no objections to the choices made by, say, Python (which to me makes a totally wanton decision about such, also I am not suggesting that you personally are inconsistent in your opinions). Also, poorly written LaTeX macros in this case are not a reason to blame TeX itself.
shrugs

The article is as-yet unwritten -- the premiss will be that in general, the privilege of being permitted to worry about any given thing is, in an organization, the most critical plank of status. The opposite of a window seat.

Pay, equity, everything else -- not as important.

It has little to do with my former employer specifically. It's anthropology.
There’s also resticprofile which takes care of scheduling (with launchd on macOS) and maintenance tasks for restic. I especially enjoy that resticprofile can create a prom file for the backup status that I can just scoop up to my monitoring.

https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/
I have a blog since 2003, and I started thinking what is the point. It helps me to go back sometimes and review my thinking then. But then, we move forward. This website with my personal words wasn't creating a lot of future value for myself.

For others, I realized that market has moved on. There was market for self-publishing for masses, then came micro self-publishing, and now quick videos, edits and nano publishing with using advanced technology in visual media, which wasn't possible earlier.

And if those do not create future value, they might faze out too.
> whatsapp is not end-to-end encrypted.

Didn't they work with the Signal team for their e2e encryption of messages and calls? Are you saying that they've removed that despite showing the opposite at the beginning of of every new conversation?
Problem is, I already moved my friends and family to Signal and removed Whatsapp from my phone. It was an uphill battle that I don't want to fight again. What do I do, now? As much as there's a lot of questionable stuff on Signal, that's nothing compared to whatsapp. Do you suggest a Signal alternative that is significantly better?
Jeez. This is an incredible severance package.
Hi congrats on Artemis, looks very cool!
This is indeed a huge and very competitive market with a lot of different solutions.
We saw a lot of founders tackling the problem with different approaches leading to structural differences in the tool they develop, so I think that there's actually much space for innovation and improvements! Would love to have your feedback on Akiflow :)
With machine translation, it's obvious why phrasebooks aren't popular anymore. But when I'm learning a new language, I do find it helpful to have a list of common phrases to study. While machine translation can help you with literal translations of things you want to say, you can't have high confidence that the translations are the most idiomatic way to express common things. Phrasebooks can help you with that.

For example, in Hungarian, the literal translation of "Hi, how are you?" is "Szia, hogy vagy?", but you would almost never say that when greeting someone. Instead you would say, "Szia, jó napot!", which means "Hi, (I wish you a) good day!". If you ask a Hungarian how they are doing without any context you're probably going to put them off.
So I was building a side hustle right before I had to switch to job hunting due to illness. The side hustle is sooo enjoyable to me since I get to finally solve problems I've heard about tangentially but never got to work on in my day jobs.

I also don't mind leetcode, strictly as a way to learn esoteric algorithms that don't show up in 99% of crud engineering. It's also a fun game. aka facebook quizes for nerds.

But you can't just do the 75 blind questions and be done. You have to scope out the questions that a company is known for asking and commit those to memory, since everyone else is doing it. Last night I had to re-learn matrix operations and memorize how to do them for a company. I loved linear algebra, ...back in the day.

And I just had to laugh last night at the absurdity. "In what world would anyone implement their own matrix operations? Why the fuck am I being judged on coding in a shitty web ide and ability to sight read code like im at some fucking nerd recital? I should be able to use an ide with a debugger dammit"

Instead of just following my passion and intense desire to build my project, which incidentaly should be the same skills a good hire should have, I have to pull myself away from "real" engineering, in order to focus on gaming the test like I was taking the SATs again.
If you're thinking that we would create AGI but contain it and asking would it breech that containment? Yes, and in a trivial amount of time, in all cases.

The next question is, "Would it go on to end humanity?" No, I think not. I think that most destruction happens from a survival mindset. "For me to survive, it can't." I'm not sure we're looking at that here, in terms of AGI. I don't see that anything that we would create would be destructive to ensure its own survival.

The existential threat is before we get to AGI. And maybe that's what you're referring to -- a machine to source and produce paper clips that goes rogue and consumes all resources leaving a dead planet and mountains of paper clips.
You are probably overestimating Netflix traffic by a lot.

IX.br peak traffic is 20Tb/s, DE-CIX peak traffic is 14Tb/s, AMS-IX is around 11Tb/s.

The 800Gpbs machine is probably enough for a country.

Netflix traffic stats at PIT Chile, this is their only peering connection in Chile: https://www.pitchile.cl/wp/graficos-con-indicadores/streamin...
> (Why don't they blow up a gas station?)

If it's helpful, this organization has in fact actively sabotaged oil infrastructure in the past to protest and no one gave a single shit. They had a whole week where they decommissioned several pumps back in August. I think its helpful instead of asking "why don't they <obvious>" to assume someone has already tried it.
How will it change you fear?
A subreddit is a community - if you don’t like the norms, go to a different one. It’s like going to someone’s party and loudly asking why they all like such lousy music – nothing positive is going to come from it. In many cases, it’s not even entertainingly weird - more like “you should try something good. You probably haven’t heard of my favorite band before but look them up. Nickleback.”

Note also how I mentioned people repeating low-effort arguments. The tedium comes from the stream of people who come, repeat someone else’s idea, aren’t prepared or willing to engage intellectually, and whine about censorship when nobody finds that compelling. Anyone who spends much time in a particular forum can recognize that and see that there’ll be very little value from engaging. We see that a lot here where people complain that HN is biased against cryptocurrency because the response to “have you accepted our lord and savior bitcoin into your heart?” was not well received by people who remember the exact same claims being made a decade ago.
I'm not convinced free money is as much of an issue as large consumer demand shifts after covid. Inflation-adjusted, money is still free.
Sugar Substitutes Surprise
> What if Google demand every Android devices to support AVIF and not JPEG XL?

Has there ever been a case when a company has demanded a device not support a codec that wasn't a patent dispute? And what does it mean for a device not to support an image format? Almost all image decoding is done in software.

This seems like an unfounded concern.
In case of the diff viewer in VS Code, the goal is to present the changes to the user in a helpful way, so that the user quickly understands what changed.

In case of the merge editor, the diffs should reflect the actual edits as close as possible, so that non-conflicting edits cause non-conflicting diffs, which then allows a non-conflicting merge.
From galgalesh, the snap package maintainer, in the linked forum post:

> I was just linked to this thread from our issue tracker

> As a maintainer for this snap package, it’s mind-boggling to me that, even after almost two weeks, the store team did not contact me at all. I had to find this out myself from users reporting it on our bug tracker.

> After almost two weeks, the maintainer of the snap has not received any official communication about this, but @roadmr was able to provide this tiny sliver of info in a thread on this forum.

From the original comment of this particular thread, also from galgalesh:

> Snap Maintainer here, this is because of a DMCA takedown request from lawyers representing Signal. Canonical is currently working with them to clear things up.

> Canonical's communication to me was initially lacking due to issues in their process, the process has been amended and I'm back in the loop again.

Seems pretty clear that he was neither aware of it being taken down nor the reason, so I think it's safe to assume that Signal didn't contact the maintainer directly.
My feeling is that in a narcissist’s head admission of mistakes is a fate worse than death.

So I start suspecting anyone who talks like this if narcissism. The orange toddler talked like this too.
Yes, I'm looking forward to CX7. And to other pcie Gen5 NICs!
I use restic to a backup to a local drive, then use cloud storage to backup the repos. I know restic supports some direct backup to some cloud backends directly, but this seems more decoupled and less prone to errors/hangs.
I merely quoted some stats, stats are not racist. I read through your rant but didn't see an explanation of why only upper caste Indians are emigrating to usa. whats that about? How do only 30% of Indians make up 90+% indians in USA.
This also explains app size, IMO. Querying an API and displaying remote videos/images should not require 40+ MiB Android apps. I think most of the app size is the tracking code that analyze how much time you glare at ads.
> Just took this screenshot. It's also not new, my girlfriend has been using it for years.

Never seen this before - but I have it as well! It must have been added in the last 6 months or so for me... Thanks for pointing it out :-)
For me, it's because I don't know where to start and what to write about (maybe i'm overthinking it). I created a github pages website two years ago but never put anything on it. Maybe I can't just write!
I'm not too worried about it. It doesn't matter how intelligent you are if you have no access to the necessary resources for your plan to succeed, and I can easily see humanity security society in a way that even the smartest AI doesn't have a hope in hell of changing anything. I have no reason to fear a paperclip maximiser if it cannot get the resources needed to turn everything into more paperclips, which it almost certainly won't be able to do because giving it said resources and abilities would be overkill for its intended purpose.

And the same goes with any AI trying to destroy humanity. How? Logically, most things shouldn't be connected to the internet, or offer any sort of override, or have the ability to cause damage. While most companies and organisations are human controlled, and wouldn't have a reason to work with or provide resources to something trying to wipe them out.
Clicking on the headline on HN is still clicking on the headline.

It's a mystery, people are tortured by mysteries. "How the Contents of this Tiny Green Box Completely Changed My Priorities!"

There were one or more homeless teen spare-changers that loitered around Pioneer Square in Portland, OR in the 90s who would tell people riddles, and charge them for the answers.
> This is likely because threads are a "high engagement" signal for Twitter and therefore prone to being gamed.

You mean this is the reason folks respond differently to the form of twitter thread? This is one that is definitely not from a growth hacker but folks here still seem to hate it.
Looking at the banner pic on their main page, they seem to have at least one ISP install of multiple racks in the wild. Also, doing a little reading on how "fill" of the devices works, they talk about doing peer-to-peer filling of appliances located at the same site, which leads me to believe, even if not deploying a full rack, deploying multiple appliances to an ISP site is a relatively normal occurance

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/peering/
Reddit is already aggressively pushing for users to go to their official app when browsing on mobile. I would not be suprised that custom-made apps will be more limited in the future, up to the point of being pointless. Twitter did it. Reddit may do it (only allow read-only as a first step?). They also may disable old.reddit.com at some point. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.
All of those are legal except for child porn. Not even your insane nanny state agrees with you.
> Lots of folks are good at doing the job but bad at interviewing for jobs. Interview prep is a massive industry.

Thanks to interview prep, lots of people are good at interviewing, and terrible at their jobs.
you are right, not so useful for Result type, but still, it comes handy for Option types (since None doesn't hold anything).
I think the concept is, you protect yourself with the cash you earn. Similarly to SW contractors in EU.
I'm recording a series where I'm creating a new programming language.

Shameless link here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqirAnnqaCZ8lT8w7p2P...

I haven't posted it here yet as a "Show HN", because I don't think that I'm far enough along. But I have averaged more than one video a day since I started.

Disclaimer: This is 100% live coding in Vim. You are my rubber duck. I make mistakes. The most recent video will be going up soon, in which I track down a memory leak.

Last night I added "if..then" statements, but that video is not finished editing yet.

I don't have a massive following, and since I don't do the "fast paced, instant gratification" type of videos, I doubt that I'll ever develop a large following. But that's not the point. I wanted to put this out there simply because I thought that it should exist.

Also worth noting: This is not a copy of the "Crafting Interpreters" book by Robert Nystrom, although I think it's a great book!
It occurred to me just last week as I was reminiscing over some past interviews that while I have written a substantial amount of code, pseudocode, and algorithms it has never been while standing at a whiteboard.
I wonder if this is partly why upper-end salaries get so sky-high when compared to other country's tech sectors. It might be accounting for a level of risk that you could be cut off at any moment, especially in at-will states.