skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the xscreensaver apple2 hack does this if invoked with -text. beware, without -fast it also simulates the apple ]['s slow text output, and it always simulates the apple ]['s lack of lowercase

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -program bash -text -fast
> "I'm just afraid that if I died today, then my life would have amounted to nothing".

> When I imagine the ideal version of myself a decade from now, I'm not a grizzled infra engineer or a founder who has raised millions of dollars.

You are 20. You have a long life ahead of you. Enjoy the exploration and I hope you continue to realize your self.
Apple: Proof you can pay and still be the product.

It's like someone breaking into your house and rummaging through your desk taking photos because that suits them and there is fine print. One day as a society having a networked cpu involved in someone doing something won't make nearly every lawmaker, lawyer, judge and customer have their brain fall out of their ear and they'll actually be able to think critically about it and respond.

"But facebrick/goog/the stasi are a little bit worse so..."
As others have noted, professional licensure (which can be revoked) is used in other industries.

Not feasible to ask this for every developer, but for safety critical systems it should be mandatory.
Steam is basically the classical example of an ECE
The seminal HK show about the stock market would be The Greed of Man (大時代) [1]. It's 30 years old, but classic scenes in it are still used in memes even today.

Edit: I totally forgot to mention the "Ting Hai Effect"! [2] Wikipedia has a great summary which I'll just quote here:

> The Ting Hai effect, also known as the Adam Cheng effect, is a stock market phenomenon in which there is a sudden and unexplained drop in the stock market whenever a film or a television series starring Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng is released. It still remains as a popular topic among stock brokers, years after the television drama The Greed of Man was broadcast in Hong Kong in late 1992. The effect is named after Ting Hai, the primary antagonist in the drama, who was portrayed by Cheng.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0843185/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ting_Hai_effect
Yeah it's probably an oversight, but that oversight feels particularly irresponsible given that it completely blocks the ability to access web sites (the primary function of a web browser) based on a third-party block list which can't be disabled.
I can almost imagine seeing the low bass string on the longest piano vibrating. The frequency is so low you can pick hear the peaks and valleys.
I think it's true that many PhD students have less time for pursuing their own research interests than they would hope, it is very tied to your advisor's wishes. Brink of depression is probably not a huge exaggeration either, at least for a non-negligible subset.

Barely subsisting is definitely not true for a STEM PhD at a decent program though. You're getting paid way less than you could probably, but as long as you're willing to have a couple housemates (usually fellow students) and are not yet supporting anyone else it's a reasonably comfortable wage. Keep in mind that solid health insurance and student perks like university gym membership are also provided at 0 cost.

This might be controversial, but people who have excess expenses (for whatever reason) in their mid 20s probably shouldn't undertake a PhD in the first place. That's the only way a STEM researcher who didn't settle for a subpar school could possibly end up in additional debt as a PhD student IME.

Post doc wages, given the career stage and associated job culture/benefits, are notably shittier. Debt still feels like an exaggeration to me, but a 35 year old with a lot of training and unclear future career prospects should at least be able to support a middle class family lifestyle with their postdoc wages. A 25 year old that is working towards an actual degree and still benefiting from student status is such a different situation.

In hindsight, the maximally enjoyable thing might be to work for FIRE and then pseudo retire to being a PhD student. A PhD can be inherently valuable, the problem is just how tied it is to an insane career path.

Anyway, it's possible the posting students are humanities PhDs? At a good place they still don't pay tuition, but will often get basically 0 stipend. So they legit need loans for living expenses. Either that or Twitter amplifies complaints from schools that one really should not do a PhD at.
Not such a great business though:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...
Depending which country you’re in or bundle you choose, Disney gives you:

- all the fox content which is a massive range of genres

- Disney animation and live action stuff (including Pixar)

- Marvel and Star Wars

- national geographic documentaries

- a bunch of shows on Hulu or from FX

The range is actually quite a bit higher overall.

In the US these are split out over multiple services but in most of the rest of the world, Disney merged it in to the one app.

I currently have the latest Pixar film in my recommended list next to The Bear and Reservation Dogs.
Writing down what I do in Obsidian
That's pretty cool. Are there also other editors that could, at a stretch, pick up similar tasks? Emacs always seems so singular in these accounts (or in the it's-an-OS-sense) but I just wonder what some other editors in that class, or close to it, might be.
It heats the troposphere.
If you commit to eat sleep and breathe art and you are lucky enough to never get tired of it you will succeed. Draw and paint as much as you physically can. Keep an entrepreneur’s mindset and hustle. Be prepared to use technology to stay competitive. Try out 3d, VR, AI, everything at your disposal.
Thanks for the answer. Again, just curious, perhaps because of the other threads lately, but do you have a strategy for protecting your business from compeditors?

I mean, say your service is popular, what stops a compeditor from simply providing the same service?

In the past one answer would be "they have to write code" but given that you explicitly see value in open-sourcing this, that answer falls away. Do you have any other way?

I ask this not to be a dick, but I'm genuinely curious as to your thinking here.
I’ve been meaning to grok nspawn - for my recent use cases the filesystem was the only level of isolation required but I’m gonna check it out for sure. Glad to hear it’s as good as I’ve heard it is.
This is the way I plan to go!

I love coding and I have my own dream projects.
My plan is to earn enough to be independent and follow my dreams.

Not retired yet, but collected some nest egg.
Since then, I stress less, only work on what I find interesting and speak up when I want to.
Funny part: I only got raises faster this way.
^-- this!

Also, a container can house a container.. kind of. If you think of containers like file system inodes then there is a logical view of containers container1: (init -> dockerd) -> container2: (init -> dockerd) -> container3: (init -> dockerd) -> container4: (process) is perfectly feasible and from our view there is a hierarchy of containers, but in reality it would be possible assign a process in container4 to container1 and create all kinds of cool logical loops. This is effectively what a daemonset is in kubernetes. =)
Runtimes typically use pivot_root and not chroot as well.
What have Exxon and other oil companies profits looked like this year? Have they been hurting or making record profits?
I think the article is slightly misleading. Most (84%) of the mass is exhaled as carbon dioxide: https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257
Hardware came from oversees and there was no licensed PE on the US side. But you're right, there should have been.

This was before the device was submitted to the FDA for approval. Chance they would have rejected it. A fallback position for a developer not willing to Play It Hard would be to make sure the risk docs submitted to FDA document this failure path. There is a whole process you are supposed to go through to analyze risks / harms and whether your controls are adequate.
Bc it’s reactionary nonsense. Nothing natural about it, just uninformed on modern archaeological and anthro research search as from wengrow, graeber
This is very neat. For a while I’ve wanted to create a visual wysiwyg editor for creating/visualizing supervision trees in Elixir/Erlang - love to see visualizations. (The observer is epic)
Show HN: WowTo V2 – Free Video Knowledge Base Software
Several months back we introduced WowTo in its nascent stage to the HN community and received lots of feedback, suggestions and product positioning. A lot has gone into our product since then and it helped shape our product for the better.

Today we are introducing v2 of WowTo.ai as video knowledge base software. Before we start explaining about it let me briefly convey on what made us create it.

When we studied on what users currently use for their video help centers, we came to understand they mostly use YouTube channels. However on connecting with some of these users, we came to know their pain points on using YouTube as their primary host for support videos.

* YouTube advertises aggressively which spoils the support experience for videos
* Videos cannot be organised beyond a point, it is not made of organisational structure especially like support centers
* Shows related videos that are not really related at all

But ofcourse YouTube has many pros also, it is free and has a great social community, However when it comes to support videos, we don't think it is really the goto-place.

This made us branch out WowTo into a video knowledge base platform to create, host and share support videos with ease.

With Wowto you can
* Create step-by-step video tutorials in a snap since the editor is designed for support professionals

* Host all your videos in a YouTube like beautiful and branded video help centers. Or even create a video academy

* Provide in-app video support contextually with our support video widget - after all we know video engages and explains it better in most cases.

This time we have a very liberal free plan with no time limit. Go ahead and create your video help center for your product at https://wowto.ai
Twitter to add ‘official’ mark to verified big accounts
> How would anyone know if they in fact got a X layer coated lens (where X could be from 3 to 8) from a discount shop?

How do you know you're getting it from the brick and mortar?
Interesting he brings up zynga and their impressive petabytes worth of clicks. They weren't able to sustain a business off of that insight so was that a technology failure or a business model failure.
> if your not paying, your definitely not the customer

This is correct enough. "p → q" does not imply "~p → ~q". In other words, if you are not paying, you are the product. If you are paying, you may or may not be the product. The adage does not say anything about this scenario.
anecdotal: based on personal experience

antidotal: based on curing a deadly poison
>>Our teams are working on clearing out the withdrawal backlog as is

The "as is" worries me here
Mainstream media is also full of false rumors
Or, for extra challenge/fun, as a stage play.
I think it’s a good move if that’s what you’re itching for, especially at an early age. I’ve been for 20+ in the software industry and would myself want to do art instead but I am now 40+, have a family and hard responsibilities. I still do it (I paint) and loving it but as a hobby instead. If I had the chance to make the same money I’d switch in a glimpse. I wish you a great journey, regardless where your destination ends up.
I've never liked this logic. In almost any circumstance a "median" isn't a perfect point on a plot. Saying "half of the world is below average intelligence" is just dumb because you could easily argue 75% of them are "average" and not above or below average.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience.

The cliche "pills don't teach skills".

A mix of (or at least experimenting with) meds, skills, routines, potentially therapy... all good starting points but the key is to figure out what works for you. And we'll take all the help we can get! Each neurodiverse person is different and will likely respond to a different mix of solutions.
I think you might be reacting to the title - the article is a lot more measured in its claims, and is a fantastic read.
> 1) I'm invisible, no car can see me and no matter what I do to make myself visible a car will ignore my presence and drive through me

If you try to ride in a way that you're not noticed (off to the side, behind parked cars, using the sidewalk, then motorists will not see you until it's too late to avoid a collision. That's not because they're purposefully ignoring you. It's because their attention is focused on traffic, traffic control devices and where they expect traffic or pedestrians to cross. They're not focused on you because you're not where they expect.

> I am extremely visible and have a target on my back, and every car is intentionally trying to run me over.

This is demonstratably false. There are many cyclists who ride and motorists aren't intentionally targeting them. The motorist who doesn't notice the cyclist is the greatest risk because the motorist won't take actions to avoid a collision until it's too late to do so. Therefore, the safest option is to ride where motorists are looking, which is in the center of the lane.

> Just that I had to invent a way to ride that felt safe for me and others because the law makes no sense for me.

The problem is that different cyclists will come up with different ways to deal with the situation at hand. This makes them hard to predict or know where to check for motorists and drivers of other vehicles. One time, there was a cyclist riding down the sidewalk the same speed I was going on the road. The cyclist suddenly decided to cut across the road right in front of me and I barely avoided a collision with him. I had a trailer and one of my kids in the rear child seat with me and had there been a collision, we would have suffered serious injuries. A cyclist riding in the road directly in front of me is more predictable and won't cause a situation that could lead to a crash with injuries.

I think that eduacation programs that focus on how to safely ride in traffic is the best option. Cycling Savvy[1] is one program that I've found very useful.

[1] https://cyclingsavvy.org/
It's interesting how much more people find Twitter to not be useless/bad when literally nothing of material value has changed.
> The labor pool of software engineers is very diverse in terms of backbones, ethics and morals.

This is exactly my point. The same is true for other engineering disciplines, too, but by codifying their ethical responsibilities (and, in some cases, assigning liability to engineers who forego those responsibilities), other professional engineering organizations help to ensure a bare minimum for what is and isn't allowed in their profession.

I'll give another example that has much less dire consequences than the OP's. 90% of "scarcity marketing", e.g. "Act now! There are only 2 rooms left!" or even "8 other people are looking at this property!", is complete and total bullshit. I've even seen A/B tests where they developers were like "yeah, the data here is not real, we just want to see if it has an effect." Why is this even in the realm of acceptability? There is no gray area here - it's not just a "dark pattern". It is 100% outright lying. Yet I never heard someone stand up in those product reviews (myself included, so I'm no hero either) and say "How can we spend so much time on our 'company values' when this is obviously bullshit and slimy?"

I wish there were a "software engineering code of conduct" that said that outright lying to end users is verboten, and that software developers can be held personally liable if they are aware of the lie and still implement it.
This is the best summation. Period.
I mean, tracking lets companies identify you across different events. Apple doesn't need to ask for that when you are using iphone. I don't even mean it in a malicious way, just the fact that it will keep doing authenticated requests to their servers. They are not able not to track you while providing their services.

(this is regarding your comment not the article itself)
I'm torn on this. I think many saas type services can be a spreadsheet, but excel is only 98% of the way there. Because the main issue with excel is that it is local only and even then cannot be accessed even by other local programs. Hence all the wacky VBA "scripts" that turn into full flegded programs. I wish excel _would_ become a database, that is, a frontend to a postgres instance that could be run locally or on a server. Then we just set the postgresql srting in our app and everything just works: excel is the frontend, special features run in a sane programming language, can be updated seperately ect.

Since that will nerver happen, someone needs to make an open source speadsheet that runs on postgres. And yes, it does have to be open source because otherwise nobody will learn it. And it needs at least 80% feature parity with excel.
Plus a break from the industry is healthy anyway even if one needs to reskill a bit upon reentry.
One doesn't become a near-monopoly to play nice, you should assume everybody does everything they can get away with.
If you ever do want to see how addicting it is, you need to prime it first so that it doesnt just show you teenager cringe.

All you got to do is look at the tiktok videos already shared to your instagram feed, and follow the accounts watermarked in those videos

basically recreating your inferior instagram algorithm with only tiktok content your friends and explore page already show you

now you’ve upgraded from a consumable dopamine inducing system from last decade, to an intravenous dopamine hit directly connected to the source
Tiny violin indeed. He still has 400M....
> Also, shout out to Disney for actually making it easy to restart a show from the beginning. I don't understand how Netflix has dropped so much money into children's programming without doing any sort of user testing to find out that kids generally like watching the same shows again.

I'm baffled at how much of a pain this is. Don't show him more stuff, he very clearly wants to watch what he's chosen; yes again, what do you want from me?
Zoho Crosses $Billion Mark
At least in this case, the watch is monitoring for and gently discouraging the unwanted body/brain states rather than changing them chemically. Plus it (seemingly) does so before the sleeper internalizes anything from the nightmare.
Modern containers are a mix of cgroups, namespaces, pivot_root (like chroot but more appropriate for containers), and seccomp.

Some implementations (e.g. firecracker-containerd) also use SELinux and CPU virtualization support.

"containers are just chroot" is an oversimplification to the point it's misleading.
As a technical person, it’s an interesting time to do this given the change that’s coming from “generative art” tech.

I’m 30 years (and one exit) into my career in tech. Still thinking about being a rock star… or at least learning to play guitar well enough to share it with people.

I still struggle with the question of whether to follow passion or money. I recently had an exit as the CEO of an HR Tech company. I’d love to make a Sci-Fi game. My old co-founder and I have it partially spec’d out. We love it and there’s much joy in building something like that.

But games are like movies… the audience is fickle and you can easily make a good game that is a total financial (hobby) failure. Where as another HR Tech startup feels… not like a total layup exactly, but like making a dish that you’ve made several times before, a crowd favorite. You know how to do it. You feel good about pulling it off. It’s not super fun content but at least it’s creating something and you feel like you can make something good that people will like, which means financial success.

Good luck to you. YOLO.
Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta
You are 3x-10x more likely to die from an alcohol related incident than you are from any vaccine side effects. Especially for people under 50.

Come back once I see anti-vaxxers levels of crusading against alcohol, and I might take you seriously.
It's a lot easier to change the way one rides than it is to change society to match the norm in another country. I ride in traffic using the full lane and have been doing so for close to 20 years, riding several thousand miles per year. If I waited for infrastructure, driver education changes, law changes, etc, then I would still be waiting 2 decades later.
Ok, we've replaced the linkbaity title with a more representative sentence from the article.

If anyone can suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, and using language from the article itself), we can change it again.
Are you able to lucid dream?

If so, you can create impossible illogical situations and force yourself to wake up. Breathing under water, flying so high the overview effect saturates your ability to generate fake ground, jumping and sticking in the air. These are all examples of things you can do that demonstrate to yourself that you’re dreaming.
Show HN: Quickly Brainstorm App Ideas
Those fancy brand name frames are literally just different names for Luxxotica.
The GP wasn't referring to "not my favorite technology choice", but instead for the tendency to over-engineer and invent complexity in order to maintain job security. That is, both a character flaw in an engineer as well as systemic problem in the organization that rewards the expression of that flaw.
Taking that a step further, is Binance doing the same thing?
I already did that. I decided to keep things simple, so I just built a web app that proxies raw SQL to mysql and returns the results. So it's even better - your database is written in ruby AND has an http json api for wider compatibility!
If that is how a system behaved, I, as a user, would pull my hair out.

"How can you not see that file? It's right there!"

It'd be a great way to cement job security in IT
My DIY ergonomic travel workstation with aluminum and magnets
Thank you for your comment.

I am the 'entrepreneur' in question here (who also uses our ADHD coaching), and definitely do not want to profit from anyone's disability. I hope that comes through at some level! We are definitely in the process of engaging with health service providers but the unfortunate nature here is to get something innovative and tech-enabled out there, we first need to prove that it is helpful to folks (which is our mission anyway! By providing at-cost services while compensating our coaches, our main goal right now is to prove that we can help people with ADHD, like me!)

The also unfortunate reality is that there aren't enough therapists out there with ADHD specialization, especially once you filter for an individual's state/insurance. We know we're not the be all end all, but hopefully a useful stop to help gain some skills and routines for people with ADHD.
I have quit, and I have been laid off, and I am contrasting the experiences from my own perspective. Forgive me.
Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses [video]
Hacking Sweden's election with pen and paper (2010)
The caveat is very true, and I think that I would be unhappy if a licensing body told me I'm suddenly "not qualified" to do the work I've been doing well for many years. Besides, it wouldn't be just for me to bear licensure costs (whether direct or indirect by being out of work while I get licensed) to correct an ethical fault in companies.

Perhaps licensure could be an effective solution, but one that is not very empathetic to engineers. Maybe some kind of a government-owned ethics controller/body to handle unethical software would be more just for engineers. Although it could also be very inefficient.
To protect people from getting scam and to put money in more efficient and productive industries.
Would love to hear some specifics from the course that come up for you at work!