skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You use a tool enough and it shapes your way of thinking.

Yes, that's true. I can't fathom writing Java in anything other than Intellij because it's shaped my thinking to "my tool should already know what this symbol is, where it is, and what arguments it might take". I guess it's shaped my expectations more than my thinking, but I hope you see what I mean.

> I see it more of a question of, do you change the way you think to match the tool? Or change the tool to match the way you think?

Fair question. I guess my response is that one of the lessons I've learned the hard way in life is that my way of thinking can be wrong.

And while I enjoy a tool you can tweak to your desired tolerances, I prefer to use the tool that is most closely aligned to the task at hand.

You can get a nice even surface on a piece of timber using a chisel very carefully. Or, you can use a plane.

You can cut down a tree with a stone lashed to a branch, or you can use an axe with a metal head. Or, a chainsaw.

Changing between any of them requires a revision of how you think about the process, but it seems obvious that the cost of doing so might be worth it, even if the chainsaw requires changing how you think to incorporate concepts like kickback.
It renders HTML and CSS. It looks like what HTML would look like.
But according to Trump he wasn’t actually asking, he was being sarcastic.
Our 65" Samsung faded out (blue/purple). Just needed to replace the white back-light LEDs. $60 in parts. About 1h labour (mine).
Ask HN: How hard would it be to make an open hardware prelit xmas tree?
I was reading the thread about repairable household items(0) and I was thinking how frustrating it was trying to get support for my prelit RGB LED tree this year.

I took everything apart but I am not good at identifying circuit components but I suspected things would be easier to diagnose and repair or replace with a little more open info from the manufacturer but that is unlikely.

Does this seem like something that could realistically be done by a group of amateurs? Or maybe a kickstarter to pay for professional electrical engineering and just making everything open?? Seems like these artificial trees are over priced and there should be a way to reduce the cost.

Maybe just open hardware lights and light controllers?

(0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148219
People who think we've made serious qualitative advances in debugging would do well to reread H.H. Goldstine's and J. von Neumann's thoughts on the topic from 1947.

What we have done well is to quantitatively scale so that we're applying the classical debugging techniques to Big Balls of Mud, and not just a few lines of assembly.

(the record among my colleagues was writing, then fixing, 3 bugs in a single line of assembly)
Funny thing is, as a practicing muslim - there is no compulsion in religion (direct quote from the Qur'an). Iran literally is using the ignorance of the populace to push their own means of controlling the masses.
So either that's a good sum to their standard of living, or the data isn't all that personal and private in the first place.

The transit nerd in me kind of wants to buy it, not for maliciously tracking the customers, but to analyze the commuter and intercity travel patterns of 30m people.
The same way an engineering manager prevents errors when telling a very talented individual contributor what to code. If a natural language statement is ambiguous, the computer (AKA talented IC) would ask you to clarify it. Unlike the IC, however, the computer would always be aware of things like time complexity, edge cases, etc. of the code it writes, and could alert the user accordingly.
It seems there is a growing movement of headless CMSs, but I am afraid of vendor lock-in with Cloudflare and the like.

Are there any other CMS's that people are using these days? Perhaps looking forward to be using in 2023?
I had an appliance repair person come out to fix our dishwasher ($$$), he told me this would happen again if I repaired it, and I should just buy a new one. Instead, I bought the component online and DIY'd the fix instead of paying him another $200. The component failed a month later, just like he predicted. I bought a new dishwasher, after spending hundreds to repair my existing one.

Moral of the story: hubris is expensive.
GDPR itself is mostly good although it goes too far in a lot of places. I'm all for full disclosure of what they collect, and for data portability, but I'm not a fan of right to deletion, or technical requirements on how you handle even trivial data.

Plus, the GDPR doesn't allow tracking as a precondition for using the service. Which is needed for the law to mean anything at all, otherwise all the big companies would require it and you'd be disadvantaged if you refuse, but it does change the business model.

It seems like an unsolvable problem, short of some kind of government funded subsidized open source equivalent of Google or something.

The real trouble is from even stronger laws than the GDPR that many individuals want. I'm not exactly sure what the wording of those imaginary laws would be, but a huge number of people did not want Amazon Sidewalk to happen, especially as opt-out, many want tile/AirTag to stop, some people want CCTV to be totally gone, etc.
I live in a different country, continent because of the boredom of buses in late 90’s.
I would look around and just see how little was happening in my town. I hated it, it spurned me on to escape.
If the monotony of bus journeys was eased by social media I am sure I may still be there.
> If the Chinese government requests data from TikTok, an American company, that sits on US-based servers, TikTok actually can challenge that request. US laws will come into play, and it will not be a simple matter to transfer the data (particularly in secret).

Lol the CCP doesn’t need to go to tiktok it goes to the parent company to access data. Bytedance. Which we know has infact accessed data from China.

But it’s clear now that you support the CCP so this is a pointless conversation.
I love the forecast precipitation for the next hour, it used to scarily accurate, now it’s far wide if the mark.

Also the radar was interesting, seeing if the rain would just miss me, or go straight over me. Weather provides the information but it’s down a few taps, not easy to get to.
Sure, Swedish. I prefer day first in English as well as I understand it it's accepted and commonly used (British English).

The languages I know how to say it in are all closely related to Swedish but they agree. And then Spanish uses day first too.
I've seen this title about three times, and each time I've read it as "How to Befriend Cows". Cows are fine and all that, but I like to eat them.
I moved to WebStorm/IntelliJ after many years of working in vim and neovim, fully loaded (LSPs, telescope, nvim-dap, coc.nvim, 20 other plugins), and I find JetBrains IDEs to be just much more intelligent, come in a single well integrated package including impeccable git integration, refactoring capabilities, and debugging experience (with the last two being particularly important and vastly superior to neovim). Vim is just not worth it IMO unless it is for fun, I used it mostly because it was fast to open, made me feel in control and I enjoyed fiddling with and configuring software to my own liking.
Why not just write "raidforums"? (But no, that forum has been down for 8 months)
Or 1959-12-31, so nobody has to guess if it is yyyy-MM-dd or yyyy-dd-MM
How would it become truncated?
As others have said, a lot of things are just thrown out even though material cost-wise they can be cheaply repaired. The issue usually comes down to effort and time to do it versus just getting a new one, if you have no skills doing the necessary repairs then having a skilled professional do it for you is often not worth it.

However, if you do have skills and tools to do it, you may be surprised how much crazy money you can save by just maintaining the same product way past its expected lifetime. Especially true for various electronic appliances that often break down because some wire has gone bad somewhere.
Whether or not there's any security benefit, I've often benefited from pre-reading install scripts by deciding to install the thing somewhere else, or with a different setting, or noticing that the entire install script is basically just a lot of paranoid noise around simply downloading the binary and putting it in a binary directory, etc.

Some are so elaborate it's hard to poke through what they're actually doing, but a lot of them aren't.

Making an all-in-one install script that doesn't require any arguments involves making a lot of decisions for the user that you may not particularly like. Pre-reading gives a chance to decide whether or not you like those decisions.
I always find lower cost couches quickly (3-4 years) get “saggy” wherever people sit the most. I wonder how difficult it would be to source higher quality after market springs and replace them. I always feel like it’s a waste to buy a new couch when the old one looks fine but has just lost support.
Let's remember that Gmail opened the door for Google to become the default identity provider for many people. A lot of consumer and behavioral data can be inferred from every service account tied via OAuth to google.

Were you searching for homes to buy? You'll probably use your google account. Bought a couple of home automation devices, cameras, and doorbells? Chances are you are using a google login.

Use Waze in your car? Now google knows what car you drive and the places where you go and can tie it nicely with all other pieces of data because you are using your google account.

This is invaluable for them. From your usage of a google account, they can infer your family arrangements, probably what your job is, your income and wealth level, tastes and habits.
> Oh also: I want to write some notes in handwriting on my iPad, and then ocr and clean up those notes to be liked I typed them, but still preserve the original handwriting. I desperately want to be able to hand write notes sometimes, type them sometimes, have them all in one place, and have that place be a stream of consciousness and searchable.

You can try Nebo.
Almost everything can be repair, or makes economic sense to repair.

I think the key point in your question is 'easy to repair' and that depends on your skills, knowledge, and whether you feel comfy around electrical stuff if that's the case.
I don’t think they are dumb enough to let China take Taiwan unopposed, no.

Taiwan definitely got the Ukraine message, incidentally: https://twitter.com/MPWangTingyu/status/1607702645296492545
I wonder if that issue with no Ethernet during internet recovery can be solved by using an adapter with a chip that doesn't require drivers on Mac.

I have 2 that work on M1 Macs without installing anything

* Anker 3x USB + Ethernet with an RTL8153 chip (they don't make the hub anymore, but there's others still using that chip)

* Anker USB-C Ethernet (model A7613) with AX88179A chip

We bought a load of Anker USB-A Ethernet adapters for our new office, and with Big Sur they all stopped working. At the time I think Anker didn't provide the new drivers, and the chipset manufacturer themselves required you to also install an app to enable the adapter. Really not a good experience for our users, and we're slowly trying to get rid of the adapters.
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Top 5 Trailer Dollies for Your RV Buyers Guide
If you live in an older neighborhood with a single, tight road, just as I do, chances are you always need help to pivot, pull in & out or park your RV. Regardless of how skilled you’re, reversing, parking, or lining up your trailer hitch without needing a truck can be backbreaking labor.
Don’t go to biker bars, there’s a couple pullouts in Oakland Berkeley where people tend to stop and chat.
The warehouse in Port Costa is a known hangout though.
All around the world, women are better empathizers than men, study finds
Guix is addled by GNU. It will never truly take off unless they can break free of the yoke of GNU and actually deliver true user freedom.
The skill I value most in a DE is the ability to build effective model deployments and project layouts that are SIMPLE.

If I were to switch functions and find some protected time, I’d go off into the woods and build an example deployment compatible with company infra that is as light weight as possible. Then evangelize my team.
This is a great response, I agree. One thing I'll add onto point A is that I think it's sometimes impossible to know which side of the 70/30 you're on until the rubber has hit the road and you're deep into implementation. Which of course, complicates the whole thing even further.

Take this recent experience of mine - I'm helping someone build a teletech system with Twilio. Nothing too crazy, just connecting customers to a service provider. Seems like the perfect candidate for NCT - heck, even Twilio offers their own in-house NCT (Twilio Studio).

I just started building it yesterday and a literal avalanche of questions hit me. What if the call drops? What if the customer isn't happy with the service and wants to speak to someone else? What about (x/y/z) concerns?

Before beginning I would have put this project square in the 70%, but now I'm convinced we're in the 30%.
Alternate moral of the story: design flaws do not often correct themselves
Meat will probably be considered a premium product sometime this decade. I hope not, but that's the way it's looking.
Breville coffee grinders. The company does not sell parts, and so 3D printing was necessary to bridge the gap when mine broke a few years back. It ended up being one of the small victories over entropy for me, and I wrote it all up on iFixit here[0]

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/BCG800XL+Grinder+Jamming+due+to...
HN will flag accounts that constantly submit spam. You can see them if you go into your profile settings and enable "showdead" then click on "new" at the top. All of their posts will be dead on submission.
> Look at toilet paper

So you are saying, the authorities should have send out a public messaging: "Don't buy toilet paper, toilet paper doesn't work", and that would have solved the situation?
It is, unfortunately the "Islamic Republic of Iran" is anything but Islamic. Show trials, murdering innocents, etc. They're emboldened by their Soviet allies, CCP, etc.
Default Vim is best.

Actually just editing/copy/paste/delete is more than enough for 99% of uses cases.

I been using vi since 1982 and vim now. No need for anything else.

No plugins. Nothing. Just vim.
Maybe it will help people actually do their due diligence and demand more from the companies they invest in.

The fact that there was apparently so little auditing of certain things is … beyond me.

However, the video does an analysis of the charges and so on.
True, but there’s always truth behind the noise. There’s already disruption going on and it means exciting things for our field going forward.
We recently had a dishwasher repairman fix our ~15 year old dishwasher. We chatted about buy vs repair and he noted our fixed-and-woking-again dishwasher could potentially still last longer than a new replacement, because of worse quality of the new ones.
I feel like most things that have a small plastic clip that gets broken...like a vacuum cleaner. Look up "plastic welding" and save lots of money on simple things like that.
I'm not overlooking it, it's the brokenness of digital distribution that I'm trying to underscore. If I spend four hours baking a cake, I can sell that cake and make some money. But then I don't have that cake any more so I have to bake another one in order to make more money. If I spend four hours baking an mp4, I can sell infinity cakes. In the pre-Internet analog age, we invented the copyright system so someone else couldn't come along and steal money from the original baker, err writer. But back then, it still took quite a lot of effort to make and distribute those copies. Digital distribution over the Internet makes it so dramatically easier that copyright and its corner of capitalism is broken and we need a new system to properly handle this relatively new invention we have on our hands.

Because what is the point of the whole system? We have one system for two different types of goods. One type is limited in supply because it's physical in nature. The other type isn't really limited in supply because it's digital. Why then should the same kind of money be used to pay for them? How about having two parallel money systems, one of physical goods and one for digital goods. How about for digital goods we eliminate copyright and replace it with a system where we grant every person 864.00 digital dollars (DD) each day, and track what eve check person spends their time watching, then distribute the DDs accordingly. So if I spend 2 hours watching a Disney movie, they get DD 72.00 and they further redistribute those DDs to everyone who played a part in its creation.

Then, the government sets up a system where it will buy DDs for $s, so people will still want to make digital goods, but it becomes a distinct system. This lets us ease into a post-scarcity world - because we absolutely already are there for digital goods - but without having to solve some of the issues that UBI faces.
"Since Fc-mediated effector function could be critical for viral clearance, an increase in IgG4 subclasses might result in longer viral persistence in case of infection."
> Smart phone and web based offerings to do basic tasks of interacting with government, bank, shopping and similar services literally are unusable in many if not most cases for most over 70.

been working on the web for ~20 years now. the amount of debugging, switching devices, just general hacks i need to do in order to interact with certain websites is a bit crazy:

- open my desktop browser

- open a specific browser

- disable all extensions

- open a new private tab

- inspect element with the dev tools

- js breakpoints and fixing minified js code on the fly

- removing or adding css

- allow location/camera/etc permissions

all so that i can press a button on a website :))

i’ve always worked in small teams. and we always tested on all the browsers, on all the devices. manually and automatically. and this is every time we deployed.

how some of these broken websites get to see the light of day is just unreal.
Yeah thought that should be obvious. Not every republican is a white nationalist but these people made no secret about their vote, or their belief in great replacement theory, or their views that non whites aren’t fit to hold government office.
On Debian derivatives, vim-gtk is built with X clipboard support via the “ register. +”yy will yank the current line to the X clipboard and so on. Note vim-gtk does not force you to use the gtk version; the terminal version it includes (which replaces the usual one via alternatives) also has “ support.
I've used Vim since 1993, pretty sure it was 93, might have been 92, and it was probably just Vi initially, but then I progressed to Vim.

And I still use it.

So yeah, guess I haven't hit 20+ years, but I'm pretty damn close, and still not as committed to it as you are.

Length of time using it doesn't correlate to passion.
At my workplace once you’re decent with Terraform, a cloud ecosystem or two, SQL and Python the next best thing to do to advance would be to hone soft skills and become a better communicator and manager of people. If you can unlock teams to accomplish things, set vision such that stuff gets done and on time that’s how you become truly valuable.
I’m shocked that there’s such a myopic view of “date” as a type in design that we don’t really see concepts such as “expected date range.” Am I expecting an input that’s years ago? Recent? The future? These would all be very different widgets if designed well.
You don’t need the media to see we are in a deep depression the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression.

Did you know housing is less affordable now than it was during the Great Depression? [1]

Most food was also cheaper adjusted for inflation, with some exceptions, like milk.

You could say something like “but unemployment isn’t even close” — except with the way unemployment is calculated, many people who aren’t working are not considered unemployed. In my experience driving around this country, I watched as pristine countryside during Covid turned over the years into nomadic cities of impoverished people. The 525 outside of Sedona, BLM and National Forest land all over the country, turning into cities of people without homes, evading rent and modern serfdom, or just not being able to keep up with anything.

For these people, we are in a Great Depression. During the Great Depression, there were also many people still employed. The employed people still lived a good life. The difference is, the employed people had to physically go to work, interact with the community and society at large, and had to come face to face with the depression around them.

With the internet, remote work, the norm of package delivery, food delivery, grocery delivery, and the digitization of banking & digital services, along with the digitization of finance, there is no need for that any longer. People with means can completely insulate from the suffering of lower class.

So for them, we never need to be in a Great Depression ever again — as saying so would shatter the illusion of abundance being portrayed.

I know we are in a Great Depression because I have seen it with my own eyes as I wander this country. The strange thing is, most everyone else doesn’t seem to see it.

[1] https://relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/report-its-harde...
M5Stack Thermal Camera 2 Unit combines ESP32 WiSoC with MLX90640 thermal camera
I've recently looked again into the strange world of IBM operating systems (z/OS, IBM i, AIX), primarily because they all run Java, and my open source library junixsocket (https://github.com/kohlschutter/junixsocket) needed a corresponding JNI (C code) implementation on these platforms for the native part of supporting UNIX domain sockets in Java. Of these IBM OSes, I found that z/OS was the weirdest one.

Since you're an enterprise consultant already, you probably already know that there's always an opportunity to cut down expenses/technical debt, while providing justification for past decisions made by the company (after all, they've probably invested quite a lot in that infrastructure, so these decisions couldn't have been wrong...)

Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you dare to go, there may be a pot of gold waiting for you or a black hole that sucks the livelihood out of your body. After all, it's mostly a legacy system. Don't expect entirely new systems being written for those niche operating systems. But maybe you find your very own niche in there.

I know a company that I worked with in the past has their main business powered by IBM mainframes, and they may well keep that system going for the foreseeable future. A lot of code may already be running on zSystems Linux or be converted to run on it. At that point, you largely only have a different processor architecture to deal with, and some minor, yet annoying incompatibilities and restrictions that you will encounter soon enough.

A good starting point to learn about IBM z may be "IBM Z Xplore" (https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com/), which gives, apart from an online tutorial with challenges, some free access to IBM z systems. Also check out IBM ZD&T for Learners Edition (https://ibm.github.io/zdt-learners-edition-about/).

Don't expect that IBM responds to any of your inquiries unless you already are a paying customer.
Notes for the Yale Course CPSC 465/565 Theory of Distributed Systems
And that’s assuming your time is worth $0 too. Unless it’s a clear win, or just something I feel like taking apart and learning about, I’ll usually use it as an excuse for an upgrade.