skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Journalist's job isn't to master a field they cover (although this can help a lot), but to know what questions to ask to whom.

The modern corporate journalist's job is to know who and what to ask so propaganda can be constructed according to the wishes of the corporate-political complex.

This person paid fealty to the regime, ergo the job of journalists was to pump the scam and silence questions and concerns until the ruling class is not left holding the bag. Whereas if a billionaire fails to do those things, then the job is to find negative things to print and minimize the positive.

> Lack of skepticism and fact checking is, indeed, sins of the profession, but that's it.

On the contrary it is the very core of the profession, and it's how it's always been. The idea of the professional journalist as an impartial and unbiased truth seeker and reporter of news is itself propaganda.
How do you define "unproductive businesses"?
Ask HN: What is the thing you've did as a manager that you regret the most?
It is similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112 but about being a team leader, operations manager, or project manager.

Currently, I am moving from being an individual contributor to a management position. And I constantly have this thought in the back of my mind that at some point I'll do something dumb and let down people that I am responsible for. It's illogical because through the last couple of years I have substituded the manager for weeks without any issues. But I understand that this is a normal reaction for anyone who is facing something new

So I thought that the HN community with all its experience has something to share on such topic

Thanks in advance
NextCloud has integrated OnlyOffice for document creation and editing.
For whatever reason, SMS operators in India rely on blockchain to validate SMS templates and customer’s do-not-disturb settings.

For a sense of scale, SMS is a 12.5 billion dollar business in India.
I was disappointed that there wasn't a clear successor to drywall coming. I'm not a huge drywall fan, but not for only the listed reasons.
I hate that it gives you limited-to-no options to easily maintain, repair, upgrade or retrofit new utilities. It means a very messy and time consuming "cut, do work, re-drywall, tape, mud, sand, paint" process that is way too onerous for a lived-in house.
I've long wished for a new system that was both cheaper and more convenient for the long-term owner, but there aren't any that I know of that have gained any real wide traction.
I can see Jetbrains as being the conduit for selling such a tool, because their customers are willing and are to some extent trained to pay.
> This is somewhat Quake 3 specific but I also really miss user generated maps that would just automatically download.

This was (eventually) a feature of Quakeworld for the original Quake as well. You could even download an entire mod, like Threewave CTF, one asset at a time; though in practice it was much faster to download the full pak files.

Still, though, it worked well for maps, and for lightweight mods, or variants of popular mods. For example, there were many flavors of CTF that added their own runes. Anyone up for a game of Thunderwalker CTF? ;)
Were they there before without anyone going out of there way to put them there artificially?

If so, then yup, perfectly fine.
If you have a null check on the pointer in the body, GCC will elide it.
Smoking causes cancer. Not tobacco. Not marijuana. Inhaling smoke causes cancer, pretty much independent of what is being burnt. (Though obviously some substances are even worse still.)

For some reason people think it is tobacco that causes lung cancer, and therefore joints are safe/healthy. Ridiculous. It is inhaling all that ash that gives you lung and throat cancer.

Vaping avoids the carcinogens of cigarette smoke, but likely carries its own risks. As you mention it's like breathing in a Halloween/stage smoke. But why do you think that is safe to do?

Ultimately if the air is smokey, it contains particulate matter. That particulate matter is not good for your lungs, no matter what it is.
I get being a bit tongue in cheek with a grabby title, but the ending of this post is:

> Although some features are still missing, I absolutely love Scala 3 and promote its usage in production

That's the precise opposite of the message of the title. That's a bit annoying and makes me feel like I'm being hoodwinked.
Cheap Laptop Lyre
Amazon is in a great market position to implement GPT-3 (or GPT-3-like AI) in Echos. I would pay a considerable premium on these assistants if Amazon could adapt their current features to the new generation of language models in useful ways.

The wealth of knowledge that language models like these have is fantastic. Although as Meta's Galactica has demonstrated, you can't just slap an input box on a pre-trained model and ship it. It needs to be much more integrated with useful services, and robust with fact-checking. But a company like Amazon should not have problems doing both (and more) if they would commit to it.

It's so sad to read about the mismanagement of this technology in the article. They have a tremendous stake in the world of AI assistants and I wish Amazon were more optimistic about the technology. Perhaps a conversational AI assistant could drive revenues itself (without the need of complex monetization).
Who uses the free version of Office 365?
In all instances, it's a matter of time and place (moreso the former than the latter); we can see huge generational divides in homeownership rates by generation.
Useful in warzones I'd imagine
Between that tweet (completely bereft of detail) from SBF (who is now a confirmed fraud...), and the FTX bankruptcy filing, I think there's a simple explanation for it.

1. Only some of the silos/firms in the silos have been audited. The auditor, thus, has no idea if there are unrecorded liabilities (SBF didn't exactly keep notes about where the money was supposed to be) between different firms in the silo.

2. The WRS silo (FTX US, FTX US Derivatives, etc) has been audited by a real accounting firm. The auditor for the Dotcom Silo (FTX.com, other exchanges, etc) was Prager Metis[1], the "First-ever CPA firm to officialy open its Metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform Decentraland." I have doubts that this one was a through GAAP audit.

3. There were no audits at all for the Alameda/Ventures silos.

4. Crypto crashed earlier this year, which probably wiped out most of the stupid investments FTX made. It's possible that they may been only half-a-billion-in-the-hole in 2021, as opposed to ten-billion-in-the-hole.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/11/meet-the-metave... [2]

[2] “I don’t know anything about FTX,” said Jerry Eitel, the partner emeritus and chief metaverse officer at Prager Metis. “I’m retired,” Eitel added, before disconnecting on the phone. (Eitel is a one-time CoinDesk contributor.) The head of Prager Metis’ audit practice could not be reached for comment.
I use a surprisingly complete shell on iPhone to synchronize git repo.

For some reason, that shell can go out of his own box, so he can write into obsidian files for instance.

The play command trigger the phone media player but there is a package manager and it’s akin to git-bash for instance. It ‘s provably a pain but it boils down to find the right binaries.

It’s called “a-shell”, there is others. I use this one for simple things but it can run cron for instance. It kinda changed how I use my old crappy iPhone. ( moving file around )
The 2nd wage earner gets hit with the marginal tax rate. So you have to factor in roughly a 30% ish reduction of that 2nd salary, not to mention transportation and other expenses. And tech workers don’t always marry high salary tech workers.
OpenOffice has largely been replaced by LibreOffice. It's a perfectly fine office suite, but the draw of Office 365 and Google Docs aren't the document editors themselves, it's that you get E-Mail, chat, file storage and PIM in the cloud with it.

The alternative isn't just LibreOffice, it's LibreOffice + Postfix + ejabberd + Samba + Apache + Radicale, which you all have to put on a server somewhere and set up individually.
I don't think anybody is diagnosing themselves with ADHD over this, but if you have ADHD it seems like a good thing to know. I definitely agree smoothed brown noise > brown noise though.
Yep, this has been my observation too with friends investing in crypto (fortunately they at least understand the golden rule of not investing more than they can afford to lose).

They ask me about some new coin that offers some absurd gains and after looking through it, it becomes obvious that it's super sketchy and potentially a Ponzi scheme, I explain that to them and they proceed to go for it anyway because they think they'll be able to pull out before it goes bust.

It was the same about SBF. I'm generally a fan of crypto (specifically with projects that have genuine utility though), but it was always obvious to me that he was probably doing something like this simply from all the hero worship surrounding him. Part of it is probably that successful CEOs of billion dollar companies don't tend to have such a goody-two-shoes type of reputation. Every big tech leader has had a pretty bad reputation while they've been in that position.
(Interviewee here) WireGuard itself barely touches DNS, and tailscale as far as I know doesn’t have any code that would change how your external DNS resolution works. What you’re seeing might be a misdiagnosis. If you email tailscale support we’ll be happy to help figure out what happened and if it’s a bug.
He used the 240 FPS camera on an iphone to measure time from start of key movement to screen update several times and rounded to the nearest 10ms. He also used a 1000 FPS Sony camera to recheck the 40ms and under results.

He does mention that he includes the keyboard latency; other latency test results he found exclude that step.

I find it fascinating that you think no one would bother to read details about a nerdy subject on Hacker News. Why else are we here?
> Slightly tangential

That's a little more than slightly. I've got no clue what in the article brought that up for you or how you're relating it back.
You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company will survive
And I could be wrong and this could be from a previous iteration of this “inert” liquid dialectic insulators chemical line from 3M but I believe some of them have at least in the past had a less the ideal toxicity profile or have had issues with the normal and inevitable slow chemical breakdown from ionising and cosmic radiation… producing notably toxic gasses you definitely wouldn’t want slowly building up unmonitored in an enclosed space for the years.

Don’t get me wrong, the Novec line and it’s ancestors and siblings like the stuff that cooled the old Cray supercomputers… are the sort of Chemical wizardry that had chemical engineering on the prospective career list when I was in high school. I just remember seriously investigating using them for a project regardless of the price and coming across some sort of chemical safety red flag. So if anyone knows/recognises what I’m half remembering, feel free to share the details!
That's why headscale exist, its even sponsored by Tailscale!
Interesting. There are tons of great new languages these days, but the sheer mass of existing libraries, documentation, tooling, etc... make it very difficult to break in and gain momentum. I feel that three major languages emerged to dominate (not to be confused with being loved!), at least for now: Python, Java and C/C++/C# block. All for very different use cases. And JavaScript for the browsers, of course.
This of course rests on the assumption that there is such a thing as a 'regular name'.

I'm obliged to link you to 'falsehoods programmers believe about names' now. I'm not happy about it, but those are the rules.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
I think my favorite use of the term is "bro-science". These are the rather strange takes on human physiology that you might hear from enthusiastic gym-goers with little formal education on the subject (though they might be in quite excellent physical shape regardless).

I'm also a fan of the word "brogrammer" [0] which you can see from the existence of the wikipedia history goes back a bit.

And here's [1] a parody documentary of "bro" culture from 2006, meaning it's among the earliest of Youtube videos.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8
I tried Kite and didn't even keep using the free trial or whatever the free tier was at the time. I don't think the issue is that developers won't pay for tools. Companies like Jetbrains are incredibly successful selling tools to developers. The issue for Kite is that Kite wasn't worth paying for.
You can probably pipe that to VLC
Not sure it’s the most appropriate, and you might need a file for it to plug to anyway. Not that can be a stream
Tesla R&D + advertising spending per vehicle is about the same as other car makers R&D + advertising spending per vehicle.
Anyone too young to remember or non-DOS gamers, you can see it in action here on Duke Nukem 3D running in browser on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/DUKE3D_DOS :)
I am personally fed up with the brew devs and have switched to nix on my mac instead. The UX of brew is already disgusting, and I don't think a crypto-embedded package manager will be any better.
> The only way in today's climate is to learn the subject,

Somewhat, sure, but they aren't going to become an expert.

They are reporters. Journalists. They report what people do and say. They present their findings. Hopefully they find people that are willing to cast doubt on a subject, which in the case of crypto, they did. You had many articles from journalists reporting back on problems with crypto.

We pretend like FTX was something that was well known and well established, yet I didn't hear much about it here prior to everything collapsing. And suddenly, all these armchair experts come out the woodwork, apparently well aware of all the problems with FTX but apparently never spoke up once and didn't think it was news worthy. The experts are out there, but apparently none how how to talk to reporters.

> "New startup claims quantom tech could crack your bank account password in just 3 seconds" will do better and requires less knowlege and effort than an a real investigation.

Let's ignore all the "real investigations" that happen.
Optimistically, maybe they’ll separate the brands now? But yeah, I guess we’ll see in 2023 if “Office 2024” comes out or not.

(Also, love that iOS parsed that “365 2023” as a phone number)
No, we don’t need those people. Smart elites don’t make a great country. If they did, India would be a great country. What makes a great country is virtuous common people.

There is a new book describing research that shows that even after four generations, immigrants retain about half of the attitudes of their home countries: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35594.

A fundamental feature of American culture is that it idolizes the “common man.” When you allow elites from other countries to immigrate to the US, you’re importing the cultural elitism from those countries, and destroying American culture in the process.

My family immigrated from Bangladesh to northern Virginia in 1989. When I was growing up, it was an egalitarian, decent place. But we were a wave of elite immigrants, and now 30 years later it’s unrecognizable. Much wealthier, sure. There’s tech jobs and elite immigrants to fill them. But the culture has changed completely. And what’s the upside for the people who were already there? Do they really benefit from Google employees pricing them out of housing, etc?
I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Tesla safety at centre of South Korean trial over fiery, fatal crash
Detroit is pretty cheap, as is most of the rust belt. Not just the city proper either, but many of the suburbs. Right now you can go on Zillow and find hundreds of houses for less than $100k in Oakland & Macomb county, just north of Detroit, within the metro area. Same goes for Cleveland, Cincy, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Milwaukee etc.

The problem is, younger generations all want to move to the same handful of cities and wonder why pricing is so high in those cities.
Why is an internal system in the same namespace as users?

I wonder whether there are constraints that made it difficult to implement this functionality in another way, or this is just a bad design decision.
> Also, if anyone is in (or knows anyone in) criminology or criminal justice reform, please advocate for continuous glucose monitors for LEOs and judges. Reactive hypoglycemia is positively correlated with aggression and punitive judgments. Time of day when court is held has a documented impact on severity of sentencing. This is almost certainly caused by varying degrees of reactive hypoglycemia.

All I have to say this is equally logical, fascinating, and terrifying. Thank you for this comment - exactly my kind of mind-opening aha moment.
I think a big problem is that many people like me don't have the discipline to learn anything in depth.

Here is a service I always want: I'm in a prison cell. I cannot get out until the prison evaluates my progress on a target that I submitted for the service (say fully read a tech book and create a demo). I'd also setup a default end date which will be evaluated and confirmed by the prison. If I don't complete the target before the end date I get double charged for each day and food becomes shittier. Of course there is a hard deadline to make sure my bank account still exists afterwards.
Deploying Python web apps as AWS Lambda functions
... for neurotypical people and autistic "individuals who have less severe social symptoms".
Reform AI Alignment
I wrote in the previous thread that this one stemmed from but here is the nutshell:

- Its impossible to know what we want at a young age, literally only 1% probably does one thing their entire life cause they are obsessed with it.

- The secret to life IMO is experimentation and exploration. As silicon valley as it sounds, we are shit at predicting what we want because of external influences and us being products of our surroundings. We only start making action when we get to the extreme point of dissatisfaction. However we can notice things that we enjoy in the process.

- Frequent introspections and writing helps. Journaling in general helps us understand our mind and is connected to real mental healing.

- Drawing up alternative paths (based on odyssey plan) => 5 years if i continue on my current track, 5 years for alternative, 5 years if money (or other responsibilities) were no issue puts things in perspective.

- In general it seems productivity is a myth. We can't push mentally through the catharsis of us really not wanting to do something. Its super super hard. It can be done, but hard to sustain long-term. Thats why gym habits take time.

- Focus on what brings flow or energy. Every day I try to notice what is the process where I lose myself in the moment. I recently discovered programming. I don't do it to make a startup or get a job, but its intellectually challenging and brings me joy. Its probably because of novelty, but it fills up my day as a hobby. Perhaps in 5 years it won't be the case anymore but there are always things to experiment try that'll put you on a different path
Indigenous Australians are known for their use of songlines: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/s...
Port-forwarding ?

Ngrok?

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Makes sense. I need a fan on during the day/at night/going to sleep, get most of my thinking done/best ideas in the shower, and have a hard time working without ambient music. On top of adhd, I have tinnitus and like to think all that helps with canceling that out as well
How's the upgrade story these days? Some years ago there were a lot of scary stories about upgrades going horribly wrong due to DB changes or otherwise being non-trivial.
If only those pens could remove the bureaucracy.
Thank you for this! It's also super helpful that it runs directly in the web browser. :)
EDIT: Why do I post sometimes...
I don’t see what that has to do with Elon Musk or Donald Trump, which the blog post was about. What you describe was true long before Musk bought Twitter or Trump ran for president.
Lets just say that while a transman is pregnant are an honorary woman. Problem solved.
Possible, but the bigger question would be what’s the follow-up? If you don’t have hundreds of thousands of troops ready to invade - why do a massive and expensive conventional first strike? A thousand hypersonics won’t win the war.
This was the most frustrating part of learning this stuff while growing up; I quickly got into more esoteric issues and complicated questions than I could find answers to from the limited circle a ten year old has. The big breakthrough was a teacher who let me use his Internet connection to post on newsgroups. I was always amazed at how incredibly helpful people were on there, even at big name companies at the time. This was in the early-to-mid 90s. I even had someone from Microsoft explain and correct code I had been sharing to make a silly TSR that would bounce a smiley face around the prompt (which was an existing .com executable I was trying to reproduce)
The population that matters is the population that would otherwise be FTHBs, roughly 25-35 year olds. That population has grown like crazy as Millennials come of age. Most of the pandemic deaths were Silent Generation, and many of them were already in nursing homes, not occupying detached SFHs.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

Things will change in ~10 years as baby boomers start dying off (or at least vacating their homes for senior living) en masse and are replaced by the relatively tiny Zoomer generation, but things are going to be tight for the next decade or so.
What problems would you pay to have solved for you that don’t already have a solution?
> The one downside is the space rent that you have to pay to the park that is not under your control.

“Other than that, how did you enjoy the show Mrs. Lincoln?”
But she is still XX and was born with ovaries.
> Then we grew our user base. We executed very well here, and grew our user base to 500,000 monthly-active developers, with almost zero marketing spend.

> Then, our product failed to generate revenue. Our 500k developers would not pay to use it.

Isn’t it better to work with a smaller number of users but more closely first. Otherwise you burn the chance to impress all of those users. Plus with 100 users you have a decent sample but you can also reasonably interview them all one on one.
Our country sucks up to elites, because their vast wealth makes them gods.

The fourth estate is totally owned by the elites, and there is no real dissent with the views of the wealthy. That's why global warming is only now recognized at all (three decades late), because it is actually on some of their radars now.
I know nothing about Airbnb's numbers but the thesis just doesn't make sense to me. It seems like this is a whole article around a hashtag.

The easiest explanation is that not everyone is mad at it. Assuming that airbnb is growing, and the ratio of bad experiences to good stays constant, the absolute number of bad experiences is also growing. Both hosts and guests that have had bad experiences are being more vocal. The viral hashtag probably helped aggregate all these experiences together but there's no data in the article that shows that the ratio of bad experiences is growing.
This article is very suspicious considering aviation's future is looking very bright with Airbus, specially in the UK [1], supposed country of the author

Don't fall for the FUD, it's like EVs/FuelCell [2]

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/27/airbus-sets-up-uk-facility-t...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeoeJyJmN4&t=455s