skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everything here will be for everyone and there's obviously a _lot_ more good stuff there, but here's a list of some good apps to look at:

- OsmAnd - offline version of Google Maps

- FreeOTP+ - FOSS 2FA app

- NewPipe and/or SkyTube - Youtube app alternatives. They break every so often when Google changes something, but when they work, the experience is much better than the stock YouTube app

- Simple Gallery Pro - view/manage photos

- OpenTracks - track running/biking/etc.

- MuPDF viewer - view PDFs

- FairEmail - privacy-first email client

- NetGuard - Application-level firewall (can block outgoing network requests)

- Forkyz - downloads and lets you solve daily crossword puzzles

- Gadgetbridge - app to connect/manage wearables

- Aurora Store - replacement for Google App Store

- Barinsta - Instagram client

- Fennec F-Droid - Firefox for Android

- Silence - Text message app

- VLC
Well, it appears to be fixed now (for my websites at least), so I'm not as worried about Akamai as I was a couple hours ago. If it's another decade before I have an outage, I'm satisfied. On the other hand, if this happens again any time soon, it will be time to start evaluating options, I guess.
It's much easier to have a rule that says "no public posting of internal communications" than "make a judgement call about whether an internal communication is vital or not". And with an upheaval going on at Twitter at the moment, nobody has the time to do the latter.
First I've heard of this. Any further information / background?
Its not i that needs to reason why as of 2022 remote work should be a right and not perk handed out by benevolent employers. It is you who should reason as to why we need to sit in offices for hours a day given all the modern tech and communication skills.
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I practically don't know anybody (except for tech literate guys) who doesn't install non-Play store apps because of security reasons. Also, average guy doesn't know about APK stuff.

If another app store is allowed, people will definitely download apps from there, though I believe percentage would be quite low.
They didn't have enough advance notice? Didn't they have like 6 months of notice? Everyone knew that Elon was planning on doing mass layoffs after buying Twitter, a process which started many months ago.
I always laugh when hotels have a tiny ice-machine room that’s sweltering. Swing and a miss by the designers.
He wasn’t born in the US, can’t.
I personally just pack things at the bottom I don’t use often.
Simplify much, are we?
10% would also include automatically reviewed tweets for misinformation, covid, and any other language filters they have in place.

Not all reviewed-for-moderation tweets would happen because of user reports.
E-ink is much better choice.

Bus & Mag-Lev?
Godd critique and I agree.

I think grammarly is written in Lisp: https://www.grammarly.com/
> Is that fair?

I don't know! Probably not. It is all a political struggle and Musk for sure pursues his own goals in it. But if all this results in a twitter that is more interesting, open and less prudish than before, I think it is worth it. You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
That's not how lawsuits work. You don't sue someone for something they might do with zero indication that they will. When you buy a company headquartered in California and elect to layoff half of it, you probably know your legal obligations.
Meaning the ones willing to put up with an abusive work environment.
> I liked it better when it was uncorrelated.

Is there a theorem that says returns never stay uncorrelated, because everyone want to diversify?
The Stable HashMap Trap
Interesting performance tradeoffs in HashMaps
I pointed this out in a sibling, but 10% would also include automatically reviewed tweets for misinformation, covid, and any other language filters they have in place.

Also, having worked for a company that did ML sentiment analysis and content analysis against the twitter firehose, the accuracy of ML was closer to 65% than it was 99%. Yes, the company had a huge in-house crew dedicated to checking that 35%, and monitoring twitter manually for anything missed.
One of the rare jazz devotees of the Grafton:

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Grafton_saxophone?lang=en
Agree. If Apple allowed it, I think I would switch.

Android used to be clearly better for a lot of what I wanted my phone to do: more customizable, better app integration ecosystem, less vendor lock in for default apps.

Apple has slowly shored up its software weaknesses, and Android has slowly gotten worse at this (e.g. Google appears to have no plans to make RCS APIs available - they whitelist client APKs - so you're stuck with the stock messenger app). The single thing holding me back now is the walled garden for app installation.
TomTom say «go through the roundabout, second exit”. Or “left” or “right”. Which is infinitely better than Google’s “take the second exit”, which in 95% of the situations means “go straight ahead”, but since they don’t bother to say that, you need to count every frikkin’ time. That alone is reason good enough to use TomTom.
Do you mean being able to follow the tutorial at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p...? I've never needed to do that before but it seems pretty straightforward. So far I haven't seen anyone specifically request that skill in a job posting and I'd consider that a strange question to ask in a skills test for a general developer position.
Apologies, I misread the Blokada comment as implying there was another mechanism – I don't know what they mean by "cloud filtering".

iOS provides APIs to do content filtering at the system level, I assumed they were referring to something similar.
I can confirm this is exactly what is happening: CA employees that got laid off will technically remain an employee until January, even though they just lost access to email/slack/etc.

Source: I read the layoff email one employee got.
And now these restaurants, theme parks, movie theatres, literally everyone with a low-skill, low-margin business are all finding out that maybe a society shouldn't use "productivity" to judge the worth of people.
DoorDash and Uber were fun while they lasted.

Maybe someone will try and fail again in 10 or 15 years.
Yup someone has to foot the bill for the reckless policy dictated over the past few years. And as it was in 2008 the middle class will pay for it again.
>"Musk's dream of a Mars colony seems easier than trying to co-ordinate that 1.5C global warming plan or prevent myriad of other apocalypse scenarios."

In the best case scenario, we go to mars and do the same thing again. That's disregarding all the actual problems it would take to get there, and live there. And also disregarding all the problems we actually HAVE to solve about living here (and living, in general).
I think these levers are more of a fiscal policy than monetary policy. Fed does not have the levers, but the government and fed together have the levers. I always felt that the independent central bank is pretty artificial and used as an excuse.

But I am in complete agreement with you on the point you made. Why are we treating profits as untouchable? If labor and cost of goods go up, maybe profits should go down before passing the cost to consumers? I suspect the answer is not very pleasing for many people.
VPN blocks it on all apps, but generally speaking I agree it's better to do this in this order, where possible:

In-app (browser, css aware)

In-dns (local resolver)

In-network (pihole or IP firewall)

Ex-Network (vpn/proxy)

Since the first option has very sparse universal support (and shrinking) - you need to rely on the less savoury options to achieve proper adblocking.
> Because it’s exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, to obtain accurate bot account metrics without data that is exclusive to the company.

Which is why the court ordered discovery that forced Twitter to give him that data.
AFAIK this workaround did not work in case of GDPR so I doubt it will work in case of stores regulation. Basically figuring out who is or not EU resident is complicated and huge legal minifield.
In ancient Athens they spoke (ancient) Greek, so no they didn't have an ideal of "free speech", as in the modern US, they had ideals of isegoria and parrhesia - separate concepts that Athenians at least recognised were often irreconcilably in conflict with another. Any such nuance is completely lost in most modern applications.
Bernie Sanders has a habit of posting his op-eds in the publications that he feels will deliver the message to his intended audience.

In other words, he likely wants to spend less time "preaching to the choir".

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/media/op-eds/
Also note that you are looking at plaintext output here. By default `jc` and other JSON filtering tools do syntax highlighting when outputting to the terminal so it's actually quite easy to read JSON these days.
>I miss my commute, 30 minutes each way on a train — it was my reading time. Now I don’t read, work or something else fills the slot.

This argument is absolutely insane to me. You weren't paid for your commuting time before - if work now fills that slot it's because you're choosing to work earlier/more.
Yes! I'm excited about this question. I'd like to share more about specifically what I've been working on in coaching. Most is related to (1) my work as an entrepreneur and (2) my role as a partner at home.

I'll start with (1), at work:

At work I struggle with time management, prioritization, getting stuck in "waiting mode", not being able to finish any detailed task (very important for legal etc), and getting easily distracted from any task at hand

Concretely, with my coach we started with helping me envision what would be different in my life if I fixed a certain number of the above. She explained this hope and motivation created would help me draw from an internal source of motivation since for a long time I theoretically wanted to change certain things and knew the path but couldn't actually bring myself to do it. I'd say this helped mildly, but I did feel a lot more hopeful and supported.

For me the most impactful change was having my coach guide me through the process of experimenting with different daily schedules that incorporated deep work blocks (she helped me set up triggers, rewards, plans for distractions, etc), certain auditory alarms throughout the day, and very specific systems that helped me get these small "detailed" items changed. I'm simplifying this a lot and I'm happy to go into detail more if anyone wants.

(2), at home:

I struggle with impulsivity, especially when I'm super stressed at work and not getting enough sleep. We addressed this a few ways, including some psychoeducation around nutrition and sleep, setting up some decent systems there (but it definitely didn't get me the whole way).

What was most helpful was to do a journaling exercise my coach led my through where I identified things I said that I regretted (this was a tough exercise for me to do, to have it written out), and rewrote these situations after the fact. Then when I had a long enough list, we looked for themes around triggers/situations and then rewrote the book for what would happen in those situations. We went through a light "practicing" exercise and eventually I had those on sticky notes in front of me until they got etched in my brain.

Overall, both (1) and (2) I'm still not great at, and we try to view everything as an ongoing journey of management, rather than "curing" ADHD, which won't happen. The biggest impact for me (and many of our members) has been having someone guide me through the steps and ask me questions and kind of just support me when I'm really hard on myself.
If it is like a 401K fund, the tax is deferred (it will be treated income rather than capital gains later). But they also wouldn't have had to charge tax right away for dividends (dividends are re-invested into the fund, and taxed as income later).
> Yeah, not

Provide some evidence. I just ran tokei on freshly cloned tinygrad repo using arguments from[1]. Got 4854 lines of code, which is less than 5k lines.

[1] tokei --exclude *.json --exclude accel/cherry --exclude test --exclude examples
I feel like everyone I know has split into one of two groups: The first group is chronically online, perpetually consuming news, and increasingly isolated from the real world. The second group is sick of the constant sky-is-falling sentiment on social media and news media and has increasingly disconnected from their computers and phones.

The second group (more disconnected) is much happier on average than the first group (chronically online). The most chronically online people I know have gone through cycles of being convinced that Trump was going to cause nuclear armageddon to believing that COVID was going to kill or debilitate everyone they know, to thinking that economic collapse is imminent and nuclear war is inevitable, and so on and so on. It never ends, and as soon as one crisis fizzles out they're on to the next one within weeks.

The author of this article clearly fits that description. Here is her description of the pandemic:

> During the early days of the pandemic, when we were all locked down and obsessively monitoring our sense of smell, there was nothing else to do but worry and work. Well, some of us could make banana bread, but medical and other frontline workers most certainly could not. And with so many businesses shutting down, the fear of being fired was real. Those who did not lose their jobs worked like hell to keep them; those who lost their jobs and then managed to find new ones did exactly the same thing.

Anyone paying attention to the job market knows that the COVID closure fears were real, but short-lived. The economy immediately swung in the opposite direction, with hiring sprees everywhere and wages being driven up spectacularly in response to the increased demand. Characterizing that period as "everyone being afraid of losing their jobs" can only be done if you view everything through a heavy filter of cynicism. It's like the positives disappear from memory and only the most negative things can persist.

That said, this is a real problem. People like to blame Facebook or specific social medias, but honestly websites like Reddit or smaller communities like HN are some of the most persistent in spreading this type of world-is-collapsing narrative. It drains people.
From their company, yes, I am saying that.
I mean, we know what happens when it's possible. Us techies can handle it, but wave $20 in front of teens with no money and they'll click through any warning or "are you sure" prompt they're told to.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
The social media hive mind noise does not reflect serious engineering circles.

John Carmack reflects the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQro0rkg2DE

George Hotz reflects the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_Y8CUcqks

Andrej Karpathy reflects the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxladysbTE
I pay for FastMail (out of UI preference) but was with Zoho for a while and don't have a bad word to say about them. Especially for free, but even if they weren't.
How to Present a Strategy in 6 Slides
Sure, but there's no reason Twitter/whoever couldn't decide to offer a parameter like `at=<timestamp>` - which is really not that different to, say, a link to a file on github at a particular commit.
I also wonder....

function sudo { su -c "$@" root }

though I guess half the struggle is enabling sudo without a password
A realistic roundup of what today’s Matter launch means for your smart home
I was responding to "physical realities in this area are pretty rough" - obviously there are other blockers
I do, but I feel like it defeats the purpose. In order to insert those ?s you have to parse the query, which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.
Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation
This is definitely a benefit of using distro-provided packages.

You get some vetting, and in addition, standard practice for many distros is to build everything that goes into the repos in sandboxes or VMs which have restricted or no network access. Additionally, some package managers incorporate that kind of sandboxing into their builds categorically, like Nix and Guix. (For Nix, this may only be on Linux— there are issues with sandboxing on macOS.) So if you build your project's dependencies via Nix or Guix, you're also protected.

This only protects you from `setup.py`-type (build time) attacks, of course. If the distro packages get compromised in some other way so that malicious code ends up in your installed programs (this attack has elements of that, IIRC), you're still in trouble.
I have seen a lot of sentiment wonder "why some people do not like Elmo Musk".

This fact is probably something close to why I personally don't like the guy: he comes across as a personified avatar of the fact that laws don't really apply to folks with those kinds of resources, and that us peons have literally no recourse when faced with a rich person who wants to do whatever they feel like doing.
Unhinged Engineering
> This is pure speculation, but I'm guessing they were working on ensuring that the ML models built by Twitter to do things like content moderation, tweet promotion, identifying trending hash tags, customer service help, and more were behaving in an ethical manner.

Sure, but this is just a feature of the product in question, so if you have some metrics to measure such outcomes then the product developers themselves can do this checking as part of their development process. I'm not sure why this would need to be a separate division. Presumably Tesla's autonomous driving developers are also creating metrics to ensure they don't run over dogs and children, they don't need a separate ethics division to tell them this is important.
The Pros and Cons of Working Directly for the CEO
Here we go again. The onsite crowd demanding that their coworkers fill in their socialisation and emotional voids. I hope employers understand that quite a few want back to office so they can slack and cheap chat with coworkers, maybe play petty politics a bit too.
Remember when computers and automation promosed to give us all this free time? Turns out it just meant companies could pay one person to do the job of four.
> browsers are much faster than people think they are

Serious question: my 2017 MacBook Air grinds to a halt on many web pages, especially ones with video animation, to the point where I can't type because it drops multiple characters. I have to use an ad blocker to make pages workable. Is this normal or is there something wrong with my machine?
How is “mechanical ballot counter” a third, distinct option from “ballot counting machine”? Are you saying that if it had no electronics and operated solely by a human turning a crank on a bunch of gears, springs and levers, people would see it as more reliable and trustworthy?
Good points. I'd add another factor: poor organization can crush measures of per-person productivity, not because individual workers are exerting more or less effort, but because of bottlenecks, duplication, and general mismanagement. One outfit can be running around frantically 24/7 trying to fix the latest breakdown, with resulting low productivity, and another can just be humming along, calm and relaxed, but more productive overall because their systems are better designed.

Case example: the airline industry took COVID bailout money and used it for stock buybacks, while laying off large numbers of pilots and other employees due to low demand for air travel at the height of the pandemic. As demand surged recently, more and more flights were canceled (~75% decrease in number of flights) and this created a huge revenue drop so technically, 'productivity per worker' declined. Layoffs resulted in a 'increase in per-worker productivity', but now, mnay airlines don't have the necessary staff to run their businesses smoothly, so their revenue is suffering, passengers flights are getting cancelled, and labor is calling for strikes.

Gross mismanagement 101.
I imagine that productivity is also about investment? Someone with an EUV fabrication plant has more productivity than a person with a hammer. If we add in that new technologies make people more productive maybe we haven't had increases in these in sometime. What productivity increases could self driving cars create?

Looking at data I found here https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity it does not look like there has been a real drop at all, just a jump for the past few years (why is this? initial WFH improvements during the pandemic?) that has dropped back to the same gradual historical increase. I think I'd like to see more analysis to be sure this is or isn't a real trend but I wouldn't worry quite yet.
It's not that I disagree with you exactly, but as someone who teaches at a UK university (much less prestigious than Oxford or UCL)... I used to complain a lot about how much money we were sending to Microsoft and Blackboard etc, but then someone pointed to me that the main non-outsourced piece of software we use (the main student records/teaching info system) is borderline unusuable. Horribly slow, lots of 90s errors like commas in course names breaking things, doesn't work on a tablet, etc etc. At least the Microsoft stuff works.
> I wonder where all that increased productivity was wasted and by who.

It was stolen by the upper classes and distributed to the stock markets, which exploded in value. There's numerous graphs outlining exploding stock markets, C-level payments or rents over the last decades, but wages have largely stagnated. And yes, a bit of the stock market increase is due to QE policy flooding the markets with money.
A caveat with them is that they're really trying to be price competitive, and can sometimes go overboard (like design their own custom datacenters and servers with watercooling, and skipping some things like fire suppression systems, and using cheap material such as plywood). Having a backup with a different provider, somewhere else, is always a good idea.
> the only operator on its own tracks

Amtrak only owns ~630 miles of tracks out of the 21,000 it uses, and basically all of that 630 is in the North East. This is definitely Amtrak's best area, although that's partially because of the amount of people going between Boston/NYC/Philadelphia/DC; the rest of the US doesn't have as many big cities that close together.

> multi-state 1000km trip

If you get on I-5 North in Los Angeles and start driving, 1000km later you'll still be in California.
> he didn't consult a proper lawyer

Do you have any evidence for this?