skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonderfully written, I think most software developers born in the 70s-90s started like that. I'm not sure I understand the advice at the end. If one becomes so cynical as to consider pursuing manual labor instead of their life passion, wouldn't all manner of reading, hobbies and hacking end up in the "what's the point" hole? What's the point in coding a game of Pong that will end up on a shelf being used by nobody? What the point of being inspired by an old book if you're still writing CRUDs?

The AI revolution can't come soon enough. We'll all be out of a job, but perhaps we'll all be better off.
there are plenty of remedies. the interface of private (narrow) and public (broad) interest is vital and unavoidable but it should be subject to outmost transparency and independent checks. further, corporate structures (size, contracts etc) can change themselves (they are just legal constructs after all) to reduce perverse incentives.
Neither, as I don't see either ever going away at least within my lifetime (in my 30s).
Perhaps, read it when I was 15 years younger and haven't reread it. "Set and setting" is more important than age in some sense, age is more important than "set and setting" in some sense, and "set and setting" and age is equally important in some sense.
The day of the Linux desktop.
Do you pay by the kilo (or pound) for cucumbers or per unit?
Fidelity marks down value of Twitter stake by 56%
Happy families and high quality romantic relationships?

We have lots of gadgets, but the simple things like being able to find someone to marry and have a family with are becoming much harder, and much more frequently ends in financial ruin.
Love Canary Tokens! I use an HTML one to get notified whenever someone opens the CV page on my static website.
Put them on the shelf in alphabetical order. Like in bookstores.
I interviewed with a company named Gaussy recently who use it for warehouse operations.
Making a GUI that supports isolating a client is a great innovation. Making a GUI that force-isolates ALL clients is obnoxious. I really think the functionality should be behind a gate like OpenBSD's pledge/unveil tools -- a process (or cgroup etc) should declare that it should be isolated, then launch whatever. Otherwise it should continue to work the way people expect computers to work! But this and other suggestions were disregarded because security.
thats why you need criminal banks like Wells Fargo and HSBC

great user experience because they dgaf and their relationship with the Federal Government wont be altered
I'll study differential equations. I have an exam on 4th of Jan
RSTS as in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E ?

I was not aware of this. Will have to do some reading for inspiration!
My dad has been a space fanatic for his whole life, but because of where he lives he never had a chance to see a rocket launch. Last summer I took him to see one of the SpaceX launches. I’m really glad I did. Personally, it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Does someone know why SHA-3 isn't considered instead? Wouldn't its sponge construction—that allows outputting ("squeezing") any amount of data[0]—allow git to maintain backward-compatibility with existing tooling by continuing to use the same 20-byte output?

Is it that for d:=160, min(d/2,256) = 80 bits of collision resistance too low to justify the change?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3
If we really cared about tracking and privacy, browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies). It's full-on insane to use the law to force every website developer to add their own cookie banner when we could just change the browser and be done with it.
Show HN: My Yearly Reflection Notion Template
Hey HN,
I'm submitting this again hoping to reach more people today – because it's the last day of the year and more people are in a reflective mood.

I want to share with you my latest project, the Mental Garden Yearly Reflection. It is a guided introspection in the form of a Notion template that helps you learn from last year, and for deciding how to spend the next one.
For the past three years, I've used the time between Christmas and New Year for reflection, and it had a profound positive impact on my life. As a result, I moved to France and learned French, started playing the trumpet in a big band, and quit my job to pursue my own projects. Without the yearly reflection, I don't think I would have made any of these changes. It has been truly valuable for making meaningful changes in my life.

There are already a few tools out there that help you do an end-of-year reflection (for example the Year Compass (https://yearcompass.com/), but I wasn't really satisfied with any of them. They focus on aspects that aren't really important to me, and they don't include areas that I'd love to think about. I therefore created this guided introspection (primarily for myself) – so I can think about the areas that are important to me. I hope you find it valuable, too.

In the future, I'd love to turn this into some kind of web-app. You could pick the areas that are important to you, and ask follow-up questions based on the answers. You could then spot year-over-year trends. The most exciting feature for me would be receiving regular emails that remind you of your own answers. For example, say you wrote what you value about your own family. A few months later, you would get an email with this text you wrote. It's like an inspirational newsletter – but with your own insights. And then why stop at "yearly" reflection – this would be awesome on a monthly basis, too!

I'm curious about your thoughts and feedback about the template and my vision. It would fill me with absolute joy if someone uses this.

Have a great last week of 2022, and see you in 2023!

With gratitude, Marc

PS: No need to signup, there is a direct link on the download page. You can also go to directly to the Notion template here: https://bit.ly/3WRptfW
I built KTool (https://ktool.io) — it allows you to forward web articles, newsletters and RSS feeds to your Kindle.

---

I did a Show HN 4 months ago[1].

The reason I started KTool was to spend less time on computer screens, and more on e-ink Kindle. I was afraid of going blind.

After 4 months improving KTool, it now becomes a tool to help you combat doom-scrolling. Instead of mindlessly scrolling the web, I deliberately send interesting articles to my Kindle.

Recently, I added newsletter & RSS support, it's 100% automated now.

My favorite source of content is Hacker News RSS[2], Stratechery[3], Indie Hacker Newsletters[4] and a few other Substack newsletters.

I can enjoy reading HN latest stories or my fav authors' latest pieces on my Kindle without spending hours browsing on my computer.

I just reached $580 MRR today (Dec 31st)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

[2]: https://hnrss.github.io

[3]: https://stratechery.com

[4]: https://www.indiehackers.com/newsletter
I'm usually a strong advocate for holding citizens of democratic nations morally accountable for their nation's actions. Asking software authors to martyr and incriminate themselves on behalf of a minuscule fraction of the public, even though they are part of the few doing anything at all, seems exactly backwards. Law reform should start and end with the electorate and their chosen representatives.
I find the volume of ideas I have far outstrips my time to write meaningfully about most of them, so now I have a Backlog page on my website where I can just post a single paragraph and leave the idea floating there. That way I have a record of it, and someone else can pick it up if they have time and interest, and I don't feel like I have to write a comprehensive treatment for every idea.
Taxes pave roads, build hospitals and schools, keep shipping lanes free of pirates, and provide weather-monitoring radar and satellite systems.

Taxes keep famine, war, and pestilence at bay.

Also, not paying your taxes is an easy way to ruin your life, and paying your taxes is an easy way to improve it, assuming you live in a country with a competent government.

I can't tell you how much I love not having to hike down to the river for water, or not having to smell heaps of garbage at neighbors houses because we have trucks pick it up roadside.

No one ever tries to hijack my car either, mostly due to tax-funded stable, secure society.

Taxes make life great, even if we don't spend them optimally.

edit: you only need open a history book to find out how miserable life was before
As much as I despise chatbots they are not going anywhere.

So let's say you had the funding and intent, how would you build the next gen chat bot to avoid a lot of the pains we have with them ?
My favourite use of Blob Opera is this rendition of Cruel Angel's Thesis: https://youtu.be/2nGcm848Eyg
Really unclear comment. Who are you talking about
>You want a Cathedral built in honor of "nothing?" Have the Hubble Space Telescope.

Extremely bizarre to think that the Hubble Space Telescope is a Cathedral built in honor of nothing. Nothing? Peaking into the Heavens is ... nothing? Okay.
Indeed, that would have been a better link. A bit hard to guess. The linked page has "get started", "overview", "learn", and "blog". I expected to find it somewhere there. My bad, but I never take much time to trawl the whole site, and I think many with me.
You can't, unless the services are mandated by law to make this possible. They are trying it as hard as possible for you to know this information and to opt out.
I have the exact opposite opinion (about the OpenBSD book). I used basic ls, dd, tar, ps, cat, etc. Did not know (still do not) Unix systems beyond configuring a basic "how to" driven webservers, DNS servers, etc.

Michael Lucas can delve into depths without making it sound too technical IMO. Sure, you can skip chapters too (ktrace in my case) and continue with the next one if it gets heavy.

His books can be read by newbies and seasoned pros alike.
You could just truncate SHA-256 to 20 bytes for that matter.
VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux
Interesting. I do remember something about some French people getting a bit uppetiy and moving to Belgium.

Whether that had any actual measurable effect on the economy is the actual question though. I suspect not...
When traveling to Japan, we had a bathroom like this. We filled the bathtub with water to wash the kids. When we drained it, water came out of the floor drain and we were afraid it would overflow into the hallway. Works well in theory but in practice we found some flaws.
That depends on the market and seller, I have seen both. And whether I buy a cucumber depends on its quality.
Based on the data shared with Nielsen according to TFA, it looks like Netflix is a little more open with data in the UK:
https://www.barb.co.uk/news/netflix-signs-up-to-barb/
I guess the libertarian American argument would be that the free market is already doing its job here, as the parent commenter is no longer using Amazon quite as much as they used to. Walmart is providing a better service. People will eventually figure that out and flock to Walmart. Why do we need the law to tell Amazon what to do?
If one is forced into writing code that needs to be fast in a language other than Python, then I'm not sure I understand why Python gets to claim any credit?
I don’t think professional software development is worthy of being compared to monasticism. You shovel the shit and get paid. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is. No use pretending otherwise.

There are so many other things to pursue in life besides computers. It’s ok to leave computers behind. It’s not a sad thing, it’s a happy thing. If it’s time to move on, realizing that is healthy and good. You don’t have to hate it to move on, just decide that there’s more to life.
IPFS is not the only option available. Swarm's been making a lot of progress.

Hackernoon released a blog post comparing the two projects.

https://hackernoon.com/whats-the-difference-between-ipfs-and...
> title

You should be used to the illegitimacy of reading a title on the literal side, that so frequently comes compressing an idea in a short sentence. The first paragraph makes a specific reference, with a link, to the interpretation of «zero emissions» the article intends to counter.
Why not add a check to see if the new hash is a collision? With an index I don’t think it would ever be a bottleneck.
A good example of the robustness of binary formats compared to text formats.
> Google has changed its appeals process, giving users accused of the heinous crime of child sexual exploitation the ability to prove their innocence

This seems backwards to me. Maybe I’m too American to understand why I should need to prove my innocence. Yes, Google isn’t a court of law but the same principle of justice applies.

I guess the best practical advice is to have backups and never to rely on the shifting winds of corporate policy.
Had never heard of Cosmism and enjoyed this as an introduction.

Wow, human thought and philosophies vary so much! I’m familiar with philosophy in which life is ultimately suffering (not that we can’t make something good out of it) and death is release. Cosmism trends in a very opposite direction. This writing literally labels life as good and death as evil.

Would enjoy it if someone could clarify if I’m misinterpreting or oversimplifying anything here.
“A generation of tech workers (and tech journalists) who believe Pet Bereavement Leave is normal will discover a new normal“ Oh my…
Factorio addicts might disagree
Harfbuzz 6.0
Just for personal learning, I wanted to see how fast things could be if I kept everything within the same datacenter.
Think SoC with multiple CPU and GPU cores, plus boatloads of programmable logic.
The strange afterlife of George Carlin
Ask HN: Is it possible to be successful if I never got into any top schools?
I went to a fairly mediocre state school, and it seems like everywhere I look the only successful folks got into top CS schools (though not all went), especially in the HN comment sections. This implies ability at college admission age determines future success.

I’m a mid level engineer at unicorn fintech company but I make below average for my payband and I’ve never worked at selective tech companies like Google etc - if anything, it seems like I’m considered intellectually inferior to subhuman by society. I’ve considered grad school to increase my status but I didn’t get a 4.0 in undergrad (got a 3.9x) and only had second author papers, no first authors. Is there any hope for people like me? I feel like I’ll never be able to retire, own a car, or even upgrade from the tiny studio and austere lifestyle I have. Meanwhile the people that went to top schools have it all and get unlimited validation to boot. What’s the point of living if these top school admissions committees considered me stupid 8 years ago and no matter how much I work I’m still considered mentally defective today and forever?
When you own such a large portion of the ebook sales market, it very much could be considered predatory (bordering on monopolistic).

Larger authors are not compelled to agree to these terms sure, but if you’re a smaller publisher or author trying to get your work out there and noticed, it can be hard to gain ground without selling via Amazon.
The only resolution I have: to step out of my confort zone more often. I’m defensive by nature but most times I’m “out there” net results are positive.
Former pope Benedict dead at 95
What the Fox News are you talking about?
Maybe I'm confusing is and ought, but I don't think Americans are pissed with the military per se, or if so, the anger is maybe misplaced. Ideally, and mostly true in practice, the US military is a neutral tool of the State. I for one am truly thankful that the US military has a culture of staying out of politics. Historically, states decline into authoritarianism and ruin once the military starts running things.

Unlike, for instance, the 3-letter agencies, who do actively engage in political maneuvering. These organizations, ostensibly comprised of patriots, should really look at history and introspect.
I taught a freshmen course with some readings from this book. It was quite an interesting experience.
Auld Lang Syne: The history and lyrics of the traditional New Year's tune
I've clearly missed something. How is this any better than just executing a script in a well organized directory? Seems like I lose tab completion without significant benefits.
https://archive.ph/2022.05.27-231540/https://www.nytimes.com...
Didn’t Jeff Bezos lose a lot more and faster in the 13 month period around his divorce?
Michael is indeed a gem and I am happy to hear that his writing is equally strong on the FreeBSD side of things. Absolute OpenBSD was my introduction to OpenBSD in the mid-00s and I just recently re-read the latest edition (a new one is rumoured to be in the works) now that I am looking to go back to OpenBSD. Yes, you can absolutely just go with the manuals and FAQ with the amount of Unix-like experience I have at this point, but Michael frequently notes clever tricks and confers the different mentality on things that exists in the OpenBSD community. This, in short, is priceless.

I have worked through Httpd and Relayd Mastery as well and I am eyeing up SNMP Mastery, Ed Mastery (I expect Michael to make me laugh a good few times), and SSH Mastery after I am done with OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems and (not by Michael though) The book of PF. Keeping Michael fed seems like a great way to bring more BSD knowledge out there and hopefully keep an alternative to the now so very corporate (and much larger) Linux sphere going.
I have previously used Dask to handle larger data sets, and that made me wonder - how does Quokka compare to Dask?
> On the other hand, some features are simply over the heads of beginners, making the code found in packages practically unreadable.

That's too bad. I taught myself Python last year but have kept it pretty "101". That is, I write code simply. Since I am new to Python I don't know if the unreadable code you're describing is because it needs to be (perhaps I am still tooling around in the parking lot of Python) or if it is the result of programmers being too cool for school (ha ha).

Perhaps if the latter I ought to blame the language for giving programmers a basement of esoterica to plunder rather than the programmers themselves.

As obtuse as C could get with pointer arithmetic and the cryptic looking "question-mark-operator", there really wasn't much esoteric stuff in C. Contrast that to my experience with Swift where seemingly every week or so I would come across cryptic code where someone was using a capital T or some bizarre case expression I am unable to mentally parse.

> Turbo Pascal

You suddenly made me miss an ex-girlfriend. Maybe they still code in Turbo Pascal in Portlandia.

I can dream.
Indeed, the one upside of Cul-de-sac suburbs!

But really, kids should be able to do that in a park instead of having to scramble whenever a car pulls up.
There’s something to be said here for neighborhood interactions among children of varying ages. I used to enjoy playing around building forts in the suburbs with some other young guys in friend’s neighborhoods that had lots on kids in the same age ball-park.

It’s not life-changing autonomy, but it was definitely free from any sort of helicopter parents for afternoons at a time.
Regarding the license, I want to know specifically about the part "If You Share the Licensed Material [...], You must: retain [...] identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);"

(abridged "Section 3 – License Conditions" https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode )

I could of course click through 100 individual pages and search whether one of the authors left different attribution instructions, but I would rather not.

The download script generates some "README.dataset.txt" file which states "Provided by Roboflow License: CC BY 4.0", even if the dataset has been created by a different entity, so those files are misleading at best.
Of course, that's not what I said.
I would think this is obvious, as, similarly, cheerful real live customer support people don’t necessarily improve customer service.

If I have some issue I find it quite frustrating that the customer support can't do anything more than me.

In the case of a local bank down here in Australia, the out of hours, remote, customer support people can't even look up any of your details. Their script seems to be based on the text on the web site. They are really friendly (being Philippino), but can't actually do anything at all.
The two large ones I'm thinking of is excessive meat consumption and excessive air travel.
Unless you're talking about some theoretical promise, C++ promise implementation imposes dynamic allocation.
Small tangent, but what happened with the alternatives?

I hear that Mercurial is having a good time at Meta and Google, but hard to find reliable repo hosting.

The big three, Gitlab, GitHub and BitBucket are just git.

Baazar is Breezy now, but not sure how much life it has in it.

Darcs has peculiar distribution via Haskell package managers.

Are we "stuck" with git?
It’s not the warrantee, it’s the device drivers.

All the parts of the XPS 13 are expected to work well with Linux. They've been selected specifically for that and they’ll receive firmware updates to improve that situation.

That’s not the same on the XPS17. On an XPS 17 the parts just have to work with Windows. They might work or they might not.

If something doesn’t work with Linux on the XPS 13 or Precision model it’s someone at Dell’s paid job to fix it. On an XPS 15 or XPS 17 it’s your job.

Get an XPS 17 if you want one obviously but you're not buying the same experience.
I understand it's an open source project with p2p encryption. So for government to snoop, they must modify the code and let users download it and run the now insecure application. So in this case the GitHub code itself is a warrant canary.
DXY is at 104 so it’s definitely not everyone.
My favourite cover is the Champions League theme song https://www.reddit.com/r/coys/comments/uveeaf/_/
Ah sorry, I had a feeling that phrase was going to be problematic. I tried to surround it with the context around the game theory required in first past the post.

To clarify what I meant, with FPTP you have to be quite tactical because of how that system fundamentally works.

With Ranked Choice the effect and likelihood is far less. Importantly the second order effects are meaningful. Even if your vote was exhausted it still captures your opinion, and can influence the next election because you can record your opinion for others to see.

With FPTP, we don’t record everyone’s opinion on who is best suited for office, rather we record who you think everyone thinks will win (else your vote can be wasted or work against your intent).

IMHO if you need to vote strategically with Ranked Choice, it’s implementation has been warped and needs to be improved.

Like everything brevity is required before you can dive into the nuance. Perhaps a better way to describe ranked choice is that you can’t waste your vote like you can with FPTP.

Wasting a vote has a much more specific meaning than the general usage I come across, which complicates this more. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasted_vote
Indeed, it's discussed here 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852651

edit: I've assumed that using SHA-3 would be somehow better but their security guarantees seem to be the same (yet).
Germany has a substantial labor shortage in practically all departments except low/unskilled labor. Unemployment hovers around 5% and falling.

There are regional differences, but all in all, the threat of “I’ll replace you with a cheaper immigration” is bogus, because there’s not even enough qualified immigrants to fill the open positions, let alone replace anyone with.
We won't be able to prevent it only if we accept it. The erosion of privacy is self-imposed, so if it brings damage and people consider it important, it will stop.