skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally prefer to read my feeds via my email client, and hacked up an RSS to email script:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

Having the feeds in your mail client makes sorting, and searching trivial. Plus you get the content archived for future reference.
improved farming leading to pretty much free food for everyone

Bad assumption.

Food production is a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode. Increased production depletes the soil of minerals and decreases nutrition levels. Also, it is increasingly concentrated in monopolistic corporate hands which will have the means and ability to wring every last ounce of profit out of a critical product that every human must have --- even more so than shelter.

It's possible to live in your car, a tent, under a bridge or even in a cardboard box --- but not without food.
Because the password manager storing the strong, randomized passwords is now compromised, you walnut.
> That book is the catnip that folks like you and me base our life decisions on.

For sure, this was me in college and grad school. Little in the way of real-life experience, so I borrowed liberally from these business books, the details of which are often simplified or omitted for the sake of the narrative. Unfortunately in life, it is those omitted details that make up the pain of taking risks.
Another way to look at it - from here on out, you have the experience to start and maneuver from a better place. That's pretty valuable.

All the hustling in the world won't fix a bad idea, a bad or non existent problem-solution. A lot of ideas just aren't viable businesses, no matter how good one or two people might think it is. On the other hand, you don't really know what can get traction unless you're willing to kill your ideas aggressively.

Only big changes give you big changes in outcomes. Small tweaks to an idea get you small change in outcomes - in the early going. Sure at scale, a button change can be a million dollar benefit but not when you're seeking out the "does anyone give a shit and will they pay for it stage"?
This!

Instead, you create a link with a comment in Signal to a group of friends, copy that to a few other Signal groups who are mutually exclusive of those other groups, then paste into a few Discord groups...

Literally a manual social network.
It's ironic you should mention Bangladesh because there's a guy on my payroll who lives in Bangladesh and I'm flying him to an international conference soon. It does indeed take more paperwork than usual, it will be a unique opportunity for him and probably not his last with me, he's a great employee.
You really don't understand the difference between "throwing in the towel wrt education" and "acknowledging that not everyone meets those standards" (for a variety of reasons)?
"GNU C" has a number of features that make the language far more pleasant if you're willing to give up the portability and use them. A big one if you've been using modern languages is anonymous functions.
Agreed—I love RSS, but don’t really see “organizing newsletters” as its killer app, or experience “newsletters come via email” as a pain point. Filters seem to serve basically the same purpose.
I absolutely get your point, but the solution feels incredibly heavy handed, especially as 99.99999%+ of the users are unlikely to ever warrant tracking.

Surely a better solution would be briefing journalists not to install pretty much anything on their phones that they don't actually need.

Edit: for clarity, I guess I'm saying that if there's ever a point when a country/company tracking you is likely to warrant problems, perhaps you need to consider how it could happen and how you could avoid it.
Check out GIMP - its window menu includes an entry for "Dockable Dialogues", at least on macOS. Might be close enough? I don't think I've ever seen anybody else spell it that way though!

(This would also, if you squint a bit, serve as an example of "dialog" being short for dialog box.)
The danger of being a distant software architect
Watchdog Says 53 VPN Apps Unavailable in Hong Kong Since Security Law Passed
Happy holidays and thanks for making this such a great space dang! Hacker News is my new favourite site for news in 2022.
> How do you propose we "ban" it from the United States?

Sanction it.

> some in government may want to do the same for Twitter

Difficult to do this with an American, or even allied, country.
I think "Audible exploits people" is a perfectly valid complaint. But it's important to understand that it's the natural inclination of corporations to exploit people whenever they can, and if you want them to stop, you need to make it harder for them to do so.

There's a lot of ways you can do that. By introducing regulation, competition, empowering people, or even banning corporations. The first two seem to be the most popular in our society.
I really love this project. Very active developrer/ community and many new features over the years. Also a very helpfull documentation.
It sounds to me like your expectations are way out of whack.

I’ve seen friends, acquaintances, and colleagues become entrepreneurs. Without an exception, every one that has a serious social media presence is a fraud. They have a company that is either money losing or fed by their parents. They pretend to be entrepreneur geniuses on social media but really have done nothing but basically be instagram models.

The people I know who have successfully started companies are nothing like this. They usually have industry experience directly involved with or at least closely related to what they start (e.g “my company has to do this ourselves every time but we’d definitely hire it out if we could”).

My advice would be stick to climbing in whatever industry you think you’ll enjoy most and just keep your eyes open. Worst case scenario you’ll have a good career
Only solution: exit the industry and don't look back. We need to create & capture our own value.
Performative political advocacy makes you look asinine. Especially when the novelty wears off.

If you’re still on the red hat train in 2023, my associating with you makes me look a bit dim myself. It’s kinda like naming your kid Adolf… you’re projecting something gross.
Waterfall Software Development in Action
Any other poignant examples? Like a review site like glassdoor would they fake reviews?
The Diving Save
> Why should that be unreasonable? Seems a little cheeky to sue someone and expect them to keep on entertaining you.

One things that’s being missed is the compartmentalization of the individual in their professional capacity and as a private citizen. The person was attending the venue as the latter.

The only time this partition is disregarded is in vindication.
Are Progressives in Denial About Progress? Yes, but So Is Almost Everyone Else
Desktops themselves are increasingly becoming 'irrelevant' for people who aren't specialists or using them for office-productivity tasks.

Judging from what I see from my family and people I meet, many homes no longer have any kind of desktop or laptop computers, and rely exclusively on mobile devices of various types.

The era of the 'home computer' will probably turn out to be a "brief" window between the early 80s and this decade. Some people who need specific functionality might have a laptop. But even there, tablets or other restricted mobile-type devices are making inroads.
Kind of related (to broadcast TV, not online media) - broadcasters are required to subtitle British TV in most cases. Tom Scott has a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m__OZ3ZsO4Y
Moving it becomes necessary when you acquire lots of photos and videos
People cry foul, and yet I’m sure they wouldn’t hesitate to scan a guest’s entire social media history for any unacceptable statements (i.e. racism, sexism, *phobias, neo-nazi, etc) and ban them from the venue.
Wonder how often this is the case. Especially a couple of years ago, in early SPA time, show 1s spinner every page navigation. shudder
I'd love to see this as easily enabled in mainstream distros like Debian. Perhaps by being incorporated into the major libraries? Memory safety problems are a huge problem and this looks like it would counter many of the heap related ones. Thoughts?
Working remotely != moving for geo-arbitrage. If anything, it's the opposite, where the employer is taking advantage of geo-arbitrage.
>I wouldn't have expected audio to be such a high percentage. I would've guessed about 20-30%.

i follow a couple of authors that basically write their books with audiobooks in mind, because most of their orders come from audible.

i, myself, switched exclusively to audiobooks[0], and i couldn't be happier.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/DJgSfdX
I had a friend/colleague build a successful startup.

I didn't know him on day one of his startup, but I knew him from very early on. He had some initial customers, and was making progress, but slow.

Early on, through connections, he landed a remote contracting gig that paid a full 40 hours/week, but usually didn't consume more than 10-15 hours of his time per week, and that went down over time. It was supporting a legacy system, so there wasn't a whole lot of new dev/work, but it was seasonally important, and had to be up/maintained/etc. That was, IIRC, something like $60/hr. So, early on in his startup, he ended up having a 'side gig' that was paying $100k/year, but only taking up ~12 hrs/week most of the time.

That left plenty of time to focus on building out things the initial handful of customers wanted. It also gave him a lot of time to just... grow slow. Ended up getting to .... $30k/month in recurring revenue while employing just a couple of folks (part time, IIRC), and... then one of his larger competitors decided to close up. He had a few months of non-stop working building data migration tools to convert competitors to his platform. But that took him to another level.

Getting a remote consulting gig paying guaranteed base while not consuming much time was very... lucky. He didn't look for it, but knew it was a good deal when it arrived, and he jumped at it. This was crucial to the 'afford to fail' part referenced above (apologies for the long post here - that was the trigger phrase).

That second part was very 'luck' based as well, but he was prepared to capitalize on that luck. This was years in to the journey, and the startup was already comfortable with respect to revenue/profit/etc.

But... he built that over years, very slowly. No amount of 100 hour weeks could have landed him any of the competitors' clients early on, because he wasn't known.

During that build, he could 'afford to fail' because of that remote contract. And now... he can try new things and afford to fail for the rest of his life (assuming the gamble isn't too big!)

A lot of word of mouth, a lot of slow growth, a lot of initial luck, a lot of patience. It worked out for him over about ... 8-9 years, but any of those pieces missing early on would have resulted in much lower growth, or stalling, or he might have given up and moved to something else.
But why can't you GUARANTEE that your microservice will ship by then?
The artist for the image on the basic programming cart was Rick Guidice. He did a lot of art for Nasa in the same style. [1]

A big reason video artwork from that period is so interesting is that the game graphics were limited, forcing a lot of artistic interpretation. Semi related, I recently found this, which seems like a futuristic reimagining of the original Atari style. [2]

Atari was a real pioneer in this space. They got their start doing arcade games for the midway. Which necessitates having eye popping attraction art to draw in players and collect their quarters. The quickly developed their own style which was pretty much copied all over the industry.

There's a great book called Art of Atari which is I highly recommend if you are interested in the history of this stuff. [3]

[1] https://www.rickguidice.com/nasaart/nasaarti.html

[2] https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Tim-Lapetino/dp/1524101036
A shit sandwich is

1. Spend time saying something positive

2. “This is why you suck”

3. Spend time saying something positive.

Let’s just get to #2. Don’t waste time trying to protect my feelings. Most of the time even for #2 you waste time trying not to be too “hurtful”.

Only discussing #2 avoids wasting time and helped me improve and get to a solution.

I can be diplomatic when necessary. But it’s like when you are learning a foreign language and translating everything in your head.
> didn't see you shut down Uber who did worse things

You're comparing a company pursuing commercial interests with a militaristic dictatorship threatening our allies.
This is the thesis of the book “The Vital Question” by Nick Lane. It’s a pretty interesting read. At points the book was slightly beyond my reach in comprehension but I still enjoyed it.
Its because Kickstarter is not a charity platform. It is a business platform.

People are not fine with him collecting money. They are fine purchasing some premium books written by him.
I think the biggest thing holding back the development of the next generation of social networks is this pernicious belief that it is mandatory to put some sort of public comment section on everything, where anybody with a pulse (or the technical wherewithal to fake it adequately enough) can slap anything they want down next to your content. Context matters, and this has a certain inevitable effect even on the original content.

It is a tool. It has times and places. It is not mandatory, nor is it always a good thing. It is quite often a really, really bad thing. It can always be adjoined to a piece of content, like we're doing right now. It is not mandatory for the original poster to host it.

If you want a social network that works that way, you are spoiled for choice. If you are unhappy with those social networks, consider the possibility that much of your unhappiness may in fact stem from this very idea. If it seems like everywhere you go is kind of a cacophony of regression-to-the-mean discussion, insults, lowest-common-denominator... this is the root cause.

It is not a bad thing that "replying" to the creator of an RSS-based blog is exactly as hard as they choose to make it, up to and including making it impossible.
I am working on a smart RSS reader that I can make a demo of myself using.

I am ingesting articles w/ superfeedr, sending them to a webhook answered by a lambda function, putting the items into SQS, and then picking them up and putting them in an arangodb database.

It will show a single item at a time, Tik-Tok style, and you can thumb up or thumb down. 2004 vintage text classification was able to do this well with 1000 judgements which a moderately avid user could supply in 10 days looking at 100 articles a day.

It won't be easy to sell unless it can learn on many fewer judgements than that so it needs some semi-supervised classifier that does better with fewer judgements. A real product also needs some kind of clustering to deal with the reality that an event radiates stories gets echoed many times by different sources in the media and blog industry and whether you are interested or not interested in the event there is some limit (usually) of your tolerance of the event dominating the stream.
Tell us greenies a little more? I don’t use RSS for writing or reading, but maybe I should.

Is this consuming other RSS feeds? Is it publishing a feed and 65% of its traffic comes from feed consumers?

That would be nice, since I don’t want to be at the whim of search engines anymore (for blog type content).
What are you using for GUI with Linux? Given these are complaints you have, I’m guessing you aren’t using a userfriendly / more integrated distro. Ubuntu is not totally GNU and has proprietary code, but it is pretty userfriendly.

Anyway, in general:

If you like Mac, use Gnome. That is the default in Ubuntu.

If you like Windows, use KDE. That comes default in Kubuntu.

Ubuntu is debian-based, so you need to use packages that support that if you use Ubuntu. Dropbox and Spotify both have installation instructions for using it on Ubuntu and, when I used those instructions, everything worked fine.

There is also Maestral for dropbox: https://maestral.app/

It is an open source dropbox client. Needs less permissions and the performance is good, it works well in linux but I had some issues on arm based Mac. Used it a year or two ago so perhaps it has gotten better.

I’m willing to bet there exists an open source solution that integrates with the Spotify SDK as well.

Sleep, power management, etc all work well for the userfriendly focused Ubuntu distros. It was a major pain point for me for a while many years ago when I started, but I found that KDE Ubuntu distro and it made everything a lot easier for me migrating to linux. Give it a shot.

I do think Valve involvement will help the landscape a lot, I just hope it doesn’t bring must-haves that are proprietary.
Slide toggles are widely considered
to have bad usability because it's not clear what position they are in.
Total cost to the company may not be. Employees are costlier to the companies in Europe.
Why does user feedback need to happen on the same channel as new content notifications? In my mind keeping a distinction is a huge advantage because it puts the creator in charge of how they interact with their audience.

They could add a comment section to their WordPress blog. They could cross-post to Reddit. They could have an email dedicated to comments and feedback. They could do none of those things because they really don't care what the audience thinks.

Because RSS/Atom doesn't integrate two-way interaction, there are no preconceived notions of how the second direction ought to work.
Perhaps you can reduce the animation time by 5% every month. One day people will have gotten used to the faster behavior. Eventually you can remove it without anyone feeling that something is off.
Corsi-Rosenthal boxes can help reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants
All of my interactions with dang have been extremely positive. He is one of the main reasons why HN is the community it is. Thank you for all you do and happy holidays!!!
Direct link to Dang’s comment covering topics of “Major Ongoing Topic” and “Specific New Information” mentioned above:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490
Only the encrypted randomized passwords were leaked. Unless you knowingly used a bad password for your cloud-based password manager, you're fine.

If you did use a bad password for the cloud based password manager, you're the walnut. The whole sales pitch is that lastpass can't fuck you as long as you have a reasonable password protecting your vault.
The wall of links is what pays Google ad money. Website owners pay a lot of money to be presented on top of the search results because of that.

I would assume it’s quite difficult to keep making the same amount of ad money by having a ChatGPT competitor. If the AI can already answer most user questions, then no one will click on the ad. Maybe there could be a clever way to include an ad into the reply text but that will make it hard to include multiple ads - so overall there will be less money.
US military spending is 4% of GDP. When a warmonger is president, that goes up to about 6% of GDP. The NATO commitment is 2% of GDP. It is not particularly extreme.

The real drag is the US healthcare system, which effectively finances most of the medical R&D for the US, India, South America, and Europe, and also provides ridiculous levels of treatment for people who are about to die (in comparison to other health systems). There is also the US social security system, which seems to be very inefficient at best...
I disagree. When it comes to social issues, American left-wing could be considered far-left in many countries (basing on the recent Stanford's guide to political correctness).
Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
1) Newsblur has been a nice lifestyle business for Sam Clay. I suppose it won't ever be a billion dollar unicorn, but it works beautifully for consumers of content.
> The simplest explanation is usually true. A billionaire enabler of Sam's was willing to put up $250M in collateral because Sam spilling on him would cost him far more that $250M.

But whether SBF is out on bail doesn't affect what comes out at trial. If you're saying that SBF is effectively extorting those other individuals, on threat of revealing their secrets, then their pretty dumb extortion victims, since nothing stops SBF from continuing to demand massive investments of their money such as this one.
I acknowledged your point. I also agree that the individual should focus on what is in their power to exploit. But I think it's also important to recognize and work to fix systemic issues if we value a just system. Both can be true at the same time and I think it's sometimes a mistake of the hustle-porn mentality to focus exclusively on one while ignoring the other.
Health care in the US is effectively a corporate tax and should be labelled as such.

If you want to compare the real costs and benefits of starting a business you need to compare like for like, which includes all national, state, and privatised taxes and other indirect costs.

When you include those the reality-based answer is that the US fares relatively poorly.

Which is why the US has a more aggressive VC sector. Whether by accident or design start-ups are forced to look for outside funding far earlier, and bootstrapping is far harder.

The result is more of a monoculture that chases unicorns and less of a vibrant sector of independent small and medium businesses, some of which will grow into unicorns naturally.
Looking back at my career, there have always been points where I felt I hit rock bottom and anything I did wasn't helping.

When I quit my job to start a new career in software engineering, I hoped to find a job after a couple of months of preparation. Even after 8 months and close to 200 applications, I still couldn't find a job.

I felt like I made the wrong decision by quitting my previous job and whether I actually had any skills to work in tech. I almost decided to stop and take a different job when I received a life-changing opportunity as a software engineer.

The good thing about hitting rock bottom is that the only place you have left to go is high. It will be hard, but slow progress will surely help you reach your goal. If things aren't working out as you expected, it might be time to switch your goals and try something different.

Anyway, this is undoubtedly not the end. You were clearly determined to pursue what you wanted, but maybe it wasn't aligned. I genuinely wish you all the best for your future, and I hope to see you reach your goals.
I mean, we could just tax people more and redistribute to the bottom.

Basically create a society with some high income spread, say 100x. So a low salary would be like 40k as a floor, and 4milliom as a ceiling. Wealth can be capped via a similar scheme.

That way, people are highly incentived via capitolism just as they are now, but wealth is constrained.

Imo it's not that the mechanics are wrong, it's that the parameters are ill-tuned
From my background I find really bizarre that in the United States it is allowed to refuse service at all.
Don't confuse the issues. A major difference between the parallels you draw is the concept of a protected class [1]: a group which has been granted specific legal protections because of a long history of widespread discrimination. Or do you think it is also OK for the baker to refuse to sell cakes to black people? That is what is in play in the bakery case.

The MSG thing is a completely different issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group