skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're offering a web based messaging app, I am assuming that no matter how "secure" you may claim it is, your site is filled with spyware that connects to every other website in my browser. To me that's a big negative, and so I'm not going to trust it. As a byproduct I am uninterested in allowing a "secure message" website the ability to spam me when I'm not on that site.

If I decide I like/need your service I would expect an app to be available, because again, I don't want the constant threat of my messages being tied to the identity the various spyware companies have built from my browsing. I also don't want to have to switch to my browser and then find the message tab or wait for a giant multi-meg web app to download again. If Safari limits access to the spam API to just home screened pages then I wouldn't mind the addition of notification spam: creating a home screen app is a reasonable indication the user does value a site highly, and more importantly limits the ability of random sites to spam me with notification requests.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that you can make mediocre cross platform webapps more easily than actual good apps, it's just that as a user I don't care. The argument "this is easier for me" falls flat because plenty of other people have been able to make apps, and those apps are typically better, but they actually get basic platform behavior correct. Failing that you can make an electron or similar app, and have all the crappy cross-platform BS, but hey at least you get to ask to spam me and you can't sell me out with spyware linked to my normal browser instance.
Ask HN: Best way to figure out good goals / things to spend time working on?
I'm still going through my plans for this year I as i've been busy with other things / ill.

I really do want to get my life into a good place this year and have fun doing it, but i'm still struggling a little to be clear on what and how I do that.

Anyone have any thoughts to share?
Hopefully not the power led, as the audio filter is switched with the same signal.

Some early games made that mistake. It sounds horrible in anything newer than the first A1000s.
I won't accuse you of strawmanning but this misrepresents my statement.

It's would be weird to drop in figures about drug deaths in this article or something like that. I don't see why that would be relevant.

But it'd be good if there was some more critical reflecting done. Perhaps your drug days would be remembered less fondly if a friend died of an OD? Or maybe you were shielded from the criminal elements of drugs. Perhaps you avoided catching any of the lifechanging STDs that run rampant amongst drug users.

It's the "it can't possibly happen to me" mentality that these nostalgia-fueled articles have that rubs me the wrong way.

With that said, I do think anti-drug messaging needs to confront other positive aspects of drug use, particularly in controlled clinical settings. Many staunch anti-drug people haven't even heard of it because they simply don't encounter it in their usual reading material.
I ignore terminfo and just stick to the general VT100 escapes + ANSI. You can expect any decent terminal emulator to deal with them correctly. It isn't worth trying to work with a crusty abstraction mechanism that doesn't offer much benefits today and is largely opaque and hard to manage.
It can definitely be useful, but there are also programming jobs/tasks where it's not useful at all. "modern programmer" covers a lot of different cases
At least IBM learnt that lesson. One of the most frustrating things at my previous company was the enthusiasm to throw 50+% of engineering time at projects that even in the most optimistic projections would not bring in even 1% of the profits brought in by the main product. Said main product was very much in need of more care and could have been improved by a lot more than 1% with a doubling of work hours spent on it.
A recent interesting ornithopter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXg-qoRN0co

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2022.3189812
Maybe it's because it's presented as a binary. If users want to be comfortable, it tends to equal 'remove belt'. But if users could be instructed to "if you must, loosen the belt" they'd at least have people keeping them on? A loose belt won't protect in a major event, but it should at least keep you in the seat for an unexpected drop.
My perspective comes from a place where I went to a fantastic school but the ADHD made even that education system feel medicore/poor. Not every parent will have the luxury and freedom required to help kids reach maximum potential. If lifestyle changes are enough to fix the situation, the child doesn't meet the critera for ADHD in the first place.

Homeschooling requires a lot of sacrifice from parents in order to set up the child for success, both socially and career-wise. Covid showed me the value in kids socializing with their peers in their age range, during middle and high shool, and how much they will struggle socially if that piece is missing. The thing about ADHD is that once the child leaves the homeschool environment, they will begin to struggle.

It is a myth that ADHD is possible to outgrow, the current thinking is that kids that seemingly outgrew it were incorrectly diagnosed to begin with. The stigma around medication ends up negatively affecting people that are diagnosed. I know I delayed starting medication longer than I should have from the stigma and from time to time feel guilty for needing it after I come across certain messages or articles. It feels like imposter syndrome. The stigma around the diagnosis has been changing but not around the medication.

I respect your decision regarding medication and in many ways agree with you evaluation of the US school system. I do hope you reconsider your take on a diagnosis, it's not prescriptive in any way. It can only benefit the child, "worst" case scenario is you paid a healthcare professional to talk to your child for an unnecessary few hours. There are a tons of options that open up for kids once there's some sort of documentation like a 504, in the US. Simple things like no restriction on bathroom breaks and just being able to have small snacks like baby carrots in class helped me, but it's open ended. I have heard of accomodations like extra exam time or being able to audio record classes and even alternate testing environments or formats in college.

I don't expect to change your mind, I just wanted to share why I believe differently. I appreciate you hearing me out despite my bad initial impression, in my experience that is a usually a sign of a great parent.
Madagascar Plan
I wonder if it's still being developed. It's concerning that it's still an Intel-only build instead of a Universal build that can run natively on Apple Silicon hardware.
> " not only can they age mice on an accelerated timeline, but they can also reverse the effects of that aging and restore some of the biological signs of youthfulness to the animals. "
I worked at a place with no product owner and I would literally have to task switch from writing code to talking to an irate customer on the phone because we only had basic tier 1 support. I would also have to fly out to the customer’s actual site to live debug while they stood over me mad. I’d have to also gather requirements and ideas from them. All while also needing to do a full-time software engineering job.

I would have killed for a Product Owner to shield me from that!
You might like to include this experiment in future research: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
This is what happens tv becomes unwatchable.
James Damore argued that the gender gap in the tech industry was not due to discrimination, but rather to biological differences between men and women. I don't think this equals to anti-diversity.
Are we still talking about "command line applications"? Because your comment is exactly how I feel about web development, and somehow all the "younger developers" are more than happy to sit around with seemingly infinitely-complex GUI front-end stacks that only have some indirect relationship to JavaScript.
I hope you're right. But remember that readers of this site are not representative of the computer-using public in general. If Mac (and eventually iOS) users have enough sites, friends, or support people from mostly-computer-illiterate service providers telling them to use Chrome, I suspect they might.

Most people don't even understand iCloud, let alone notice the few Safari integrations that aren't form- or password-completion that all browsers can do.

Not sure about credit-card completion though. Do other browsers offer that? I really appreciate that one in Safari.
Someone in Maine won
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/us/mega-millions-jackpot-...
There's new games being made for the 2600 all the time. A few years ago I got really into it but never made anything worth sharing. However, I found a Twitch stream called ZeroPageHomebrew [0] that I've been watching religiously ever since. They used to just cover 2600 homebrews but they've recently branched into homebrews on other early Atari systems as well. The developers of the featured games are often in chat, sometimes they do call-in interviews. It's on twice a week and they never run out of new things to show.

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew
You realise the Apache came long before the ASF, servers, or the internet, right?

Claiming the Apache people came long after the conception of the idea" is a ridiculous claim.
The trial size is not too small to be statistically significant. It may warrant further investigation by scientists in the field of clinical nutrition.

However, it is too small and insignificant for Hacker News readers to make meaningful use of, and it would be incorrect for them to read anything into the results presented. That is the difference.
Isn't this basically what happens every time the lottery is won by someone who wins a much smaller amount?
What kind of system was that, if I may ask?
Copyright notices are not clocks
Me too, just don't be afraid.
Could you say more about quantifying value?

I'm a big fan of both aiming to deliver value (by having a value hypothesis for each new thing) and making sure we're delivering value. But actually quantifying it can be tricky. Do you mainly use value proxies here? E.g., X people are using the feature Y times per week?
The Strange History of Photo CD Games
I use f5bot.com, a free service that checks Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters for keywords.
That's fine to ask but a non-answer gives you almost no information other than perhaps that the candidate never bothered to learn in great detail exactly how it all works because it's never been important enough to spend time on.

If you're looking for strong diagnostic skills, then ask those questions geared to give you direct information as opposed to trying to weed it out from the answer to a vague high-level process description question. If the candidate has no idea why you're asking then any answer at all should be satisfactory.
I doubt so, since the study is not about intermittent fasting, but intermittent meal skipping at best :-).

I think that skipping a meal every once in a while, and regularly skipping meals according to a specific pattern for one, two or ten years, are completely different activities with very different outcomes
I donate about 15% of my income to various organizations, all focused on animal advocacy. If you prefer to focus on humans, I'd suggest donating to Givewell (https://www.givewell.org/) or to some of the charities they recommend.

If you're a software engineer in the US, you're earning _way_ more than most people in the world, and you can comfortable donate a large chunk of your income to help people (including non-human people) who are much worse off than you.
I think some nuance should be in order. After all... Some people pay say 10% while others pay say 45-50%.
The article did not say how the bad data was introduced. There is plenty of room for contractor malfeasance or incompetence to be a factor. Working around the safety measures in place, for example. Using an import tool improperly. Directly modifying a database through console, or, custom application software written without customer knowledge. Abusing privileged accounts in non-authorized ways. I'm sure there are many more.

The engineering precautions in system design always involve trade-offs. There is no perfect system that could be created for acceptable costs. Ultimately it is always going to come down to humans following the rules, hopefully as few of those very-trustworthy humans as possible, though that's where the FAA may have been lax.
Encryption enabled by default at different S3 compatible providers:

- [x] Microsoft Azure (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/stora...)

- [x] Google Cloud Storage (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/encryption)

- [x] Backblaze B2 (https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217973398-Encry...)

- [x] Wasabi (https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150016...)

- [ ] DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-crea...)

- [ ] DreamHost (https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001089163-En...)

- [ ] Linode (https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/server-side-encryption/)
Please keep your kremlin propaganda off this website, and take a long and hard look at yourself.
And, of course, most of them are being hoarded by state-sponsored thieves, particularly the British.
Fourthing — it’s as good an adblocker as any extension I ever used on chrome.
And in London, the Underground closes down altogether overnight, except for some lines running on Friday and Saturday nights. (And that Night Tube service is a relatively recent innovation, starting in 2016.)
A key thing about promotions is to write it from the perspective and for the benefit of the reader.

I'm very interested in book promotion strategies. This article has nothing. It's about the author, the authors coworkers and their books. Nothing at all on actually promoting your books.

If you want people to read your work, it has to benefit them. If it doesn't, it won't get read or shared.
That deal is mostly forced by google, not the will of the creator.
Ah, see I prefer not to have my personal data proliferated to a bunch of additional companies that want to monetize my data, and I like my use of such apps to not include spyware linking that to all the trackers on the web.

It would seem we're unlikely to agree on the value proposition of notifications from random websites. My assumption is that I'll see a bunch of BS "get notifications" spam from a variety of sites, none of which have any reason to justify the spam. Just as happened with the first version of "let's give websites the ability to spam users. Surely that won't be abused" notification system.
Glass Onion’s cinematographer wants to end the film-vs.-digital debate (2020)
Whipper is great and I use it to backup my audio CDs in FLAC format.
There's a plugin called whipper-plugin-eaclogger which will generate the logs in a format compatible with EAC.

Then just run whipper with: `whipper cd rip -L eac`
Tbh I agree with both of you. Things feel fucked all around.
> Clearly this individual doesn't understand git at all. The script wasn't even doing anything. Their other tasks, which were application development tasks, demonstrated code that was also somewhere around an intern/associate level.

I think I must always take "can't program" a bit too literally, because it sounds like this person very clearly can program but doesn't understand git. I have worked with enough senior/staff engineers from exotic computing environments (mainframes, academic/scientific computing) that the idea of a senior engineer who doesn't know git is not surprising, but I would have expected such a person to ask for guidance/help. I found myself in similar situations when I joined MSFT despite having only used Linux/OS X for over a decade.

I guess maybe I would suggest that you phrase your assessment of someone like that as, "this person is unfamiliar with a standard tool and does not produce work that meets my code quality bar" instead of "this person can't program," as the implies that they got and have kept their current job through deceit and/or outright fraud, and were caught attempting to defraud you.
I give money to Givewell's top charities (i.e., mostly Against Malaria Foundation in recent years) and would encourage it.
> Mind altering drugs allows one to glimpse what kind of person one could be

Or you could just watch a movie, you know? Or, god forbid, use some imagination.
If you work a stressful job and pay more taxes than the average person, then arguably you are doing more than the "legal minimum".

In some more socialist countries, the "legal minimum" is choosing to live off welfare and not working/paying taxes at all.
It makes sense in scenarios where it's easier to verify a provided solution than it is to create one.
If only the App Store were that simple.
Every time I pipe the output of `terraform` somewhere I always forgot to append a `-no-color` option.

Every time I also think of just making a wrapper for it, but I never do.
> If only all the younger developers were aware of how to properly develop command line applications.

They are doing just fine. You can't expect them to learn 50 years of technical complexity in a few days and why there are so many different shells and how they behave differently.

edit: replaced debt by complexity
So you expect that the world the cost of your lifestyle choices at no cost to you?

Absolutely, yes. I chose the path of freedom as in governments, geopolitics, philosophy and ethics keep to themselves for the most part. I could not in my wildest dreams make a dent positive or negative on the global air quality even if I bought the biggest diesel engine, deleted all the emissions systems and drove up and down the highway twelve hours a day. That said I do not do that. I rarely leave the house.

Why shouldn't you pay for the cost of your choice to live in a rural area?

The cost of living in a rural area is having to be more self sufficient which I am making a significant effort to be so I am doing my part. I see no reason that big city cultures should impose their lifestyle choices and fallout from their mistakes upon me. Air quality in big cities is horrible and I moved away from that. I suggest everyone that can get out of big cities do so. Big cities are unhealthy in many ways, air quality being only one of them.

Big cities were important at the start of the industrial age. I believe we are leaving that age and moving into something else though I am not sure what to call it. In the case of tech it won't be long before people can live in just about any part of their country including in very rural areas. I envision a hybrid of industrial and rural agrarian lifestyles where people can be more self sufficient and also contribute to the whole economy. This pretty much as to happen as boomers are retiring, gen-x is tiny and that doesn't leave many people to contribute to the economy. People will have to get back to growing families and that is very challenging in cities whereas kids can be free labor in rural areas.
Any SF-based Adobe employee will attest to the novelty of working next to The City’s only rotary.
There's also a great podcast episode from Indie Hackers about the founder of Key Values, Lynne Tye. The name and logo is also great, as a development reference.

https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/086-lynne-tye-of-key-va...
I am totally with you on product hallucinations being a big problem. For me the sweet spot is a product manager who grounds needs in user research that is then shared with the team, so we could get a real sense of who we were building for and why what we did mattered. And who then follows up after we put something out there to see if it's really working for the users, so that we can iterate until it's right.
By "they" I meant CDC/FDA. They should know better than to arm the scare-mongers.
Are you definitely sure about that? I'm not trying to be awkward but the binaries are actually different - they have differently sized text sections, one has an extra undefined symbol, relocations are different and their disassembly is substantially different too.

Try downloading both and then using otool to see:

otool -fahl Streamline.app/Contents/MacOS/Streamline >/tmp/sl1
otool -fahl Streamline\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Streamline >/tmp/sl2
diff -u /tmp/sl{1,2}|less
3 months would not be nearly enough to internalize the concepts you want to learn even for a very experienced developer (who just never tried web dev before). In your case, this is waaay too soon to jump to any conclusions IMO.
> I am seriously addicted to the internet in general and while it may not be an addiction in the physical sense, it has caused major issues in my life.

Interestingly it still can have physical effects. I have seen a case of an person who got addicted to web novels (like every day another short chapter; hit their quirky humor; not porn; clinically depressed). And that person showed effects of withdrawal in their interaction with that media in certain situations. Sure the effects where comparable harmless but still there anyway.

People (probably not you) are often prone to think that addictions to non-classical "drugs" which don't crate a physical/body dependence is mostly harmless not taking it serious at all, but it is not. In case of the person above there where cases where they where unable to function like a normal human sometimes for one or two days because their addiction had fully consumed them. (Through last time I have seen them they where doing better wrt. to this aspect.) Ironically that person had been aware that they where prone to addiction due to there mental health state and staid far away drugs, including smoking, porn and a strict ban on alcohol outside of social gatherings and even there close to never. And then the internet screwed them over.
Public intellectuals today are more loved for “style” than content
Donated blood for the first time a few days ago.
> researchers who implement real systems

That's what I didn't like about Gebru - too much critique, not a single constructive suggestion. Especially her Gender Shades paper where she forgot about Asians.

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...

I think AnthropicAI is a great company to follow related to actually solving these problems. Look at their "Constitutional AI" paper. They automate and improve on RLHF.

https://www.anthropic.com/constitutional.pdf
It is at least somewhat better on Windows because you don't have anywhere near as much "magic security behavior" that "loves to insta-crash your app". That said, the de-facto standard of Sparkle doesn't exist on Windows, so it feels even more like utter chaos. (That said, I frankly have a hard time taking Sparkle seriously since they decided to drop support for old versions of macOS randomly.)
Wow, effective altruism is still a thing?
I wish you to succeed, of course :)
> This isn't about regular web pages that want to annoy you.

I can't wait to see what the proportion of "hey let us spam you" requests from sites is to sites that have any reasonable justification. I'm guessing it won't be good. Just as happened with the first API that gave sites notifications.