skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying resonates a lot with me - I feel like I fell into programming (also writing game hacks), and I'm jealous of the passion I observe in others for SWE-specific concerns.

You look at the core problems of software engineering from a human-centric point of view - which is a great perspective, IMO.

Have you thought about trying to transition to a role that is more human-focused? I'm guessing with your level of experience, it wouldn't be too hard to find a path to team lead or EM. I'd also potentially consider consulting, either freelance or as part of a firm.

Personally, working on a larger "system" that includes people - a team, a department, a solution - is much more rewarding, because I get to work on a larger class of problems with a more diverse toolset, and I get to observe my impact on others.
So you’re telling me you can give Amazon money for their closed book system, give them more money and they can just decide to take away “””your””” books you’ve bought over the years?

Can’t wait for the apologist to appear and explain why this is just totally fine
I don't have a twitter account but something is very different now. Before twitter always brought up a dialog asking me to accept notfications but it doesn't anymore. It also would bring up a dialog when you scroll too far in a thread that I need to log in to see the rest of the conversation, that is also now missing. Twitter seems to have lost all user hostility for people not logged in.
Part of what I liked about older scrabble dictionaries (you can use any dictionary you like) was the variance in difficulty in using various letters. Get an 'X'. That is a nice letter to have with high scoring potential with lots of two letter words. A 'J', not so much with only JO as a two letter word. Z, high value with a large word set, but can't go two ways (no ZA). Q, high value but a bit of a pain in the ass and you need a U. Maybe you should turn it in. Now with QI, QAT, etc., the Q is not as cool. But nothing says you have to accept those words. Often we don't play with them.

As suggested elsewhere, we play with a two letter cheat sheet to make the game more fun for those that don't know all those words.
Or just a gopher client against gopher://hngopher.com :D.

gopher://magical.fish has lots of sites.
Check the amount of alcohol present on the shelves of US stores. There's enough to kill the roughly half-the-population who consume several times over.

The point is not to compare alcohol & fentanyl, but to note that "enough X to kill Y" is a really bad way to think about quantities of drugs.
Sounds like kindle is pretty broken
U.S. Income distribution (book review)
> and telling people to quit is unreasonable.

well, it's not :/. Just quit.
I've been getting back into social media via Mastodon.

Social media never had the hold on me that it did for some of the people interviewed in that article, but I had stopped checking Facebook and Twitter a few years ago, largely for the negativity and argumentativeness I felt it bringing out. I don't know if that's due to algorithms designed to maximize engagement, or if it's just human nature. If it's the former, then Mastodon may offer a path to the benefits of social media without optimizing for addiction.

Mastodon currently has nowhere near the reach of Facebook or Twitter. Maybe it never will. But in the meantime I'm enjoying following interesting people on Mastodon and the generally positive discussions I've seen there. Curation is certainly required since there's no algorithm making an effort to hook you in.
I just wish FaceBook was presented to me like HackerNews:

- My Favorite Group is meeting next week at a local restaurant
- My Neighbor is on yet another amazing trip with his perfect family
- My old classmate found a preachy article that he wants to share
- etc.

I crave the connection, but there is such a thin line between that and bragging. I love it at a party when I ask what someone has been up to and they have an interesting response. I would hate if that same person just walked up in my face and said, "I went to Aruba, a Paul McCartney Concert, and that new trendy restaurant in town". Then I also hate that I feel that way.

I could do a better job of self moderating if the presentation wasn't so intentionally in my face.
These guys seemed to have a working version from seeing them on a documentary.

https://www.bruderhof.com/
The WSJ book review is at https://archive.vn/fc6GR .
Ask HN: What's Happening at Southwest?
The media narrative is that there's a massive software failure going on in its scheduling system, and they need to stop flying for a day or two to "reset" it. Anyone have first-hand experience on their systems about what that really means?
Nope, quite unfortunate.
At least, the sums extracted from Haiti and corrected into 2022 money should be part of the conversation. It’s much less murky than reparations in the US. Slave owners in Haiti were both black and white, and foreign policy toward Haiti was directly punitive to demonstrate an economic cost for other potential slave uprisings.
That's completely untrue though. There's enormous amounts of legitimate business happening in ad tech. You're just saying you don't like the methods. Ads drive sales of real goods and services. And mostly for reputable real-world businesses.
Although, the existence of this does create the prison industrial complex. It also drives things like mandatory minimums, the drug war, and other negative aspects of US law. Because there is a financial incentive for convictions and incarceration, more laws with prison as the sentence are made. Lobbyists from major corporations often support these laws, and then purchase the labor from the prisons.
> women probably should not join whatsapp groups (except immediate family), but it is a good medium for banter among male friends.

Wow, what?
I'm glad that you brought up agricultural indentured servitude. I live in the midwest US, and I feel that the migrant workers that we hear so many bad things about are just picking the individually optimal outcome, and if we wanted to see fundamental change we need to punish the companies that exploit these workers for rock bottom wages.
- gopher://hngopher.com
, gopher://magical.fish , http://68k.news and , as a sinkhole, gopher://gopherddit.com
Does she need the entry visa stamp on the new passport to exit? Or able to get the old passport from her current employers
THIS. This is especially true for old (and new?) academic books / works. If its really popular book, old academic books are available to buy at exorbitant prices ($100-$1000+) or alternatively you can just get it free as a pirated pdf. Guess what most people will prefer!
I badly need a "tour" mode
The number of people who grind for retirement, retire, and then realize all they needed was 20-30 hour work weeks and not retirement... there's something there.
There are multiple measures of GDP. This must be Real GDP growth. Real GDP will either use the prices in a base year or a GDP Deflator to account for the changes in price.
It's absurd to think a highly technical case around fair use for API compatibility would bear any sort of relevance here.
> Facebook

Why would I want a Facebook account at this point, who even goes there anymore?

> Women should not join WhatsApp groups

Would love to hear your attempts to justify this position.

> Twitter

I feel twitter is trending downhill at this point. Recent changes mean you see lots of garbage whether you chose to or not. Perhaps this is inevitable with social media.
Thousands of members of an online community which was previously supportive exiling you and attacking you, etc. is a pretty good push-over-the-edge.

I'd suggest investing research time proportionate to the weight of your opinions.
So if you write a book, and sell it for $20, and I make a copy of your book and sell it for $10, you are ok with this?
As a Filipino, I have heard so many stories of abuse not just in Arab countries but also in Hong Kong and Singapore.

edit:

I'm almost 40 now and stories like these have been prevalent since I was a kid.
commercial interests underpinning research and creativity have to all times been the driving factor behind innovation and art.

See also: Pyramids, Sixteenth chapel, Rambrandt paintings, computers
> Then look at how many projects FTX and Alameda owned or were invested in and all the hacks involving their projects and the questionable auditing companies like OtterSec.

I would expect breaches in many Solana projects just as I would in other blockchain projects but after looking at this more in both here [0] and here [1] it is more Ethereum projects that have shown to have these hacks for years (due to it being there longer than other projects).

I have not seen the overall blockchain(s) of Ethereum or Solana getting outright hacked at the core. But Polygon comes to mind as a highly centralized chain which got its whole chain breached [2] requiring the developers with access to the chain to force a silent update on validators.

That doesn't look 'decentralized' or 'secure' to me on the core level of a blockchain in the case of Polygon which another VC and FTX funded chain.

[0] https://web3isgoinggreat.com

[1] https://rekt.news

[2] https://polygon.technology/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-t...
I'm on Twitter mostly out of morbid curiosity....and I've noticed since Elno took over that:
-The unending doomscroll is now about 6 inches long
-There are times where it's ad | ad | ad | content | ad | content
-IF you look at what IS there and categorize the entries as positive (+) or negative (-) it looks like: - - - - - + - - + - -

It's much easier to see the patterns now.

I heavily curated FAcebook to get rid of any hint of politics. At the worst of the midterms, there was nothing of note there.

Mastodon is a blast of fresh air, I really like the vibe and people...and it's not big enough (on my instance) to overwhelm with content, which makes it easy to disengage.

So, am I using social media? Yeah. But it's not as poisonous when you're AWARE of the poison, and it makes it really easy to disengage.

We're not evolved to deal with it, but it IS learnable. Much like we weren't evolved to deal with pretty much ANYTHING in this modern age...yet here we are.
For the average person, it isn't. For the average person with a Kindle, buying a book from Amazon is a very smooth process. My 83 year-old mother does it easily. I pirate e-books and it's kind of a pain in the ass to get the book, convert it to MOBI format, and then transfer it to my Kindle.
After reading the albeit messy thread, no, it seems the names of the filters are the issue. They are trademarked. So the developer prepended them with the letter 'i' two hours ago. I'm not sure the developer understands the issue properly. You can't use someone else's trademarks in your competing product as if they were your own marks.
1. You bought the books fast/easy on Amazon... That is incredibly suspicious activity though, buying everything with different cards... You can get this fixed by dealing with Amazon support.

2. You bought them pretty fast/easy here too... Without knowing if you can transfer that format to your device.

The title is misleading and inaccurate.
I wonder though could you have it create a list of comments about the function. then use the comments to generate smaller functions and then generate test data for those functions then build unit test for those functions then have it build something to solve the original problem with the smaller functions along with test data.
My excuse is that people use Facebook to plan events.

Nobody held me down to the ground and put a gun in my mouth. It's a useful tool. As with any tool, if you can't see it as such, it says more about you than it does about the tool.
Is this correlation or causation? The problem with past approaches appears to be a focus on states that are probably just correlates.
To your story: it sounds more like a problem with Spendesk though. And if your goal is to "give it back to some of the authors", attempt no.2 already achieved that.

To ebook and DRM in general: yeah they suck. But that's kinda like a dead horse at this point.

To the convenience: I don't find buy an ebook on Kindle any hard if your goal is just to read it. And after graduating from uni years ago, I have no idea where to get pirate ebooks, so that's definitely harder for me. I'd assume same goes to the majority of people.
what kinds of things do you track?
Yeah the economic growth is nice, but. Have you seen the air? Have you seen the water? It's getting all literally toxic.

And, of course, all the energy is almost 100% fossils (coal). Which is funny... South Vietnam is sunny basically most of the year (when it's not raining), yet there are no solar panels.

There are some wind turbines in the highlands though, even when half of them is never working. I'll give Vietnam that.

Good luck there cannot be no ecological protests, because the government will shut down everything and put everyone to prison for life, like with the Formosa Steel protests some years ago.
I would be interested in a crowd-sourced approach where she hosts open-source tools she runs periodically to generate reports to give to the right people in government. I don't know how international matters should be handled but I imagine initiative can be taken to remove the problem in our own backyards.
Ja. I was frustrated…
I knew lucidrains from the epicmafia web game he did. Miss it!
One of the biggest problems in actually using cryptography in the real world is matching keys to identities.

Using cryptography to solve the fake persona problem only works if the key-identity matching problem is solved. It would be great if the fake persona problem was the impetus that managed a solution to the key-identity matching problem. But I have my doubts.

Notably the key-identity matching problem isn't technical. Its societal. "just do government provided keys" is technically easy, but society (rightfully so) is suspicious of this. Other solutions exist, with other trade-offs. SSL certificates have centralization, revocation, and weakest-link problems. PGP-keys have spoofing, verification, and usability problems (though I liked key-base's approach here). European E-id is an interesting step, one to watch, though I fear the EU bureaucratic system might make a crucial mis-step. I really like SSI based approaches, but SSI is mostly about using crypto when the key-identity matching problem has been solved, and less about solving the actual problem.

Some technical aspects that need solutions that tend to be un-acceptable are handling key-revocation, key-theft, key-loss (as in forgetting), and key-duplication.
I agree entirely, and it's still not quite the same thing.
Refurbished from Lenovo itself? Or third party?

First party refurbished are usually as good as new.
What other topics are you horribly misinformed about?

http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/codeofalabama...

https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp

https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ArkansasLaw

I think every municipality has them online as well.
I wonder if there's an accurate record (time series) of what got canceled when, why, in what order, along with an accurate starting state for the whole SWA system. Then, for Monday morning quarterbacking, modelers and scientists could step through the meltdown in slow motion, and see, at each step, what they think could have been done differently.
Is this speed-trap still here? yes/no
I remember working at a Border's bookstore a long time ago, when management saw the coffee bar as a cost center that was a distraction from their real jobs.
Well luckily most people in society don’t decide what to do based on how easy or fast it is. Stealing a car is also easier than working to make $40,000.

I suggest a library.
> ReDoS really isn't the same as "traditional DoS", because the latter has a vastly larger footprint

You're confusing DoS (denial of service, a very broad class of problems that includes ReDoS) with DDoS, which is a distributed denial of service attack, something that disables a service using multiple malicious sources of input.

The terms are used interchangeably (often erroneously) a lot, but the single-D DoS needn't have a "big footprint". It could be making their server crash with a single byte somewhere, like a particular old Linksys router exploit some may remember.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/twitter-and-the-cia-...

Re-posting comment from above because it was good, (not mine).

" The perfect unison of the mainstream news in response is itself an interesting news story. They say it is not newsworthy, and smear the journalists who say it is. How does this unanimous pronouncement of an absurdity arise? What a perfect model of the Herman-Chomsky propaganda model. A few outsider journos point at a monstrous 1984-like mass mind-control operation and all the insider journos nervously cough and change the subject. Hm. "
You mention that removing the DRM isn’t exactly legal— is this something that right to repair would address? Are there places where DRM circumvention is legal? I had thought that at least in some jurisdictions breaking the DRM on things you’d bought yourself was a protected activity, but I confess I know next to nothing about where things stand.
The root of that is that CVSS scoring is utterly broken, and that even if it wasn't, issues bellow some threshold probably shouldn't be assigned a CVE.

And if open source developers have it bad, people running public bug bounties actually have it worse as financial incentives add to bragging rights...
Sounds like a niche case. For average people who buy one book at a time, Amazon's purchase process is single-click. All of the Kindle books I've gotten in recent memory have been DRM-free. I'm having trouble feeling any outrage here, I think most retailers would have flagged your account if you used a bunch of different credit cards, one for each item you bought.
Does anybody have more information? This is quite sparse.
What I ended up doing was buying my books wherever they were cheapest (e.g. a used bookstore or the kindle shop or whatever) and then pirating a non-DRM e-pub version so that I didn’t have any hassle and could read as I pleased.

That way, my conscience was clear (subjectively).

Then, the FBI or someone took down z-library. So, I’m not sure what my next move will be.
it deserves nothing better
When I open Google Maps, I see a map of my current location and at the bottom I see, "Latest in <your town>" which shows photos people took of local businesses and food. These are ads. What does a picture of somebody's meal have to do with navigation?
Another, if it ends in e it’s usually die
Because employers _want_ people to be fungible. The quest to quantify and systematize hiring is a Quixotic effort at solving real challenges, but it persists because nobody has come up with an actual solution.
I wish there was more content like this - "making hundreds (not thousands) of $ in MRR after y years".

Give a dose of realism and pinpoint the second benefit — the skillset that is truly unique and worth it.

You no longer care about an isolated Jira ticket. You see a thread from vision to execution. As a dev, you start to value other parts of the company and build better bridges/interfaces between teams.

As someone said, building something on your own feels like staring into the abyss and eating glass. Be aware, it's not for everyone and can cost you — not only $$$ but relationships and health.

And that is even if you are passionate about the thing.

It reminds me of Steve Jobs's thoughts on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznJqxon4zE&ab_channel=coach...

Having started a side project in 2018 myself (now in low $$$$ MRR), I can attest that passion is key — because it's what you would do in your free time anyway.
For All Mankind (1989) https://www.criterion.com/films/599-for-all-mankind

This was one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Even if you don't care for the Apollo missions, it's just so well done it deserves a watch. It's less than an hour and a half.
Just pirate the book and send money to author directly. In the end they are getting peanuts from book price.

https://forum.mobilism.org/viewforum.php?f=106
As an active library user w a 4 year old and 1 year old going to the bathroom at the sf library wasn’t a good situation- so for many folks (disabled, those w young children) the library was not available to them.

https://sfist.com/2013/08/27/were_doomed_sf_main_library_bat...

And yes, with children access to a bathroom is necessary.

Also now elsewhere and going to library is so fun. We can bike etc. they are reasonably strict though. No sex, drugs, sleeping etc
Show HN: Qrgpt, a small CLI utility for better code generation
There are manufacturers that explicitly encourage repairability, right? Lenovo? Any others?
Well I had to scout around a bit, but this is a 2021/2022 project, despite what that background might have you believe.

the editor itself is only about 1000 lines of C.
As a very visible and recent example, prisoners were used to manufacture hand sanitizer in New York during the height of the pandemic.
Stuff like this hurts to read. I don't have any DRM stuff for my ebooks so people can avoid any hassles, but at the same time it totally sucks when I come across is being pirated.
> for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them

Well there's your problem. Look Amazon is a shady company and I completely understand not wanting to hand over any more money to Bezos. But one account making N orders on N different cards in quick succession is going to trigger any rudimentary anti-fraud protection
Coverage of Mr Trump’s financial arrangements with KSA were prominent in coverage of that visit, and what the change could mean. For example, while campaigning he said that KSA was responsible for 9/11 and that it wouldn’t exist without American intervention. The story of his visit as POTUS notably covered this change. Mainstream media covered his son-in-law arranging Saudi funding. Covering change is more important than fanning outrage.
you don't need a network lab. this article is not about that. it's not targeting you if you don't have a network lab. feel free to skip it.

but if you have one, this article might interest you.

similarly, an article about having a snail in your aquarium is not about you, needing an aquarium. skip that too if you don't have an aquarium.
Really? From my country news, seems foreign workers sent to SG or HK fared better than those sent to SA and M'sia.
How does one really verify someone’s public key in this situation? E.g. a fake account would presumably be able to generate a fake website of themselves that looks at least semi-legit, and use it to post their pubkey. What would give us confidence the key comes from a legit person?
So is your rotary phone.
SpaceX’s Launch Control Room: 3 Rocket Missions in 31 Hours
The option I want is “old people are in the car. Choose a route that won’t make them scream ‘where are you going?? I’ve been taking the same route for 40 years!’”
Ok yes all true. But if authors cannot make a living then what?

What if the content was sourcecode for your non-open-source software - would you still feel the same way?

In order for ideas to be free there has to be some new way to compensate authors for their hard work. Voluntary donations don’t work well enough.

Perhaps the solution is an “idea tax” that everyone pays a small amount into every year - and the proceeds are distributed pro rata to authors based on the relative proportions of their content in all downloads?

You can’t just liberate all content and not also find a way to compensate people who work to make the content as their paying jobs. That isn’t sustainable.

There is a missing idea in your plan. I think it can be solved somehow - but might require an equally radical and blanket solution on the economic side.
FB was better when it was just a wall and not a feed.
It seems to be a direct competitor to the ESP32-C6 which also has WiFi 6, BLE and 802.15.4. It will only be supported in v5.1 of the IDF, so not quite there yet.

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs