skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding SponsorBlock doesn't use any ML stuff, but is simply a database that allows other users to submit what they think is a sponsor (or other annoyance). I've found it to sometimes not get all sponsors (especially for more niche videos), and the self-promotion sections are usually too agressive (but they can be disabled).
I'd say give it a go honestly
You being a person is not mutually exclusive with any of those other sentiments. They are able to coexist.
The solution is to use Advanced Protection on all accounts, always.
Because the most expensive (lucrative for Google) ads include competitors bidding on each other's names as keywords.
Not sure how that typical that is. Maybe if you're interviewing at a hedge fund to work on their trading algorithms then it's possible.

If you're doing general quant library or low latency stuff at an IB I wouldn't say this wouldn't happen but I'd say it's definitely not common.
The social media equivalent of fuzzing basically.
Fully native isn't especially realistic. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, general purpose tooling written by a small team can't support multiple native UIs.

What often works for me is something like Wails, but it has its limitations. For instance there's no multi-window functionality there either, and while the new Wails supports more OS integrations there's still some aspects that need improvement to compete with native UI.

I'd love to try Flutter, but frankly I don't want to write "backend-ish" code in Dart. There's some projects to be able to build UIs in Flutter and have processing done by a separate language that all gets bundled as one, but they're mostly hobby projects.
We have a library of now thousands of books, history, science, any many other topics. The internet I remember as a kid had lots of information but today's internet indeed seems fruitless when I search for anything.
Look, I'm not saying C++ will go away. I agree with you the whole "X will be the Y killer" arguments are nonsense.

I used to like C++, and just don't care about it any more. It can stay, and I'm sure it makes people happy to use it if that's all they know. It's just that it mostly made me miserable—even though I reached for it for years.

Right now people have more choices, some of which you mentioned. Is Go a better choice than C++ for some projects? Absolutely! Can it be worse? Absolutely! Theses things depend on so many things.

Same goes for Java, and Rust, and TypeScript, Haskell.

The whole "C++ can do everything those languages can do" is just a nonsensical argument. C can do everything C++ can, so what? I can come up with more ludicrous examples of that statement too.

Tl;Dr if C++ tickles someone the right way: I'm happy for them to use it. But shunning any conversation about PL advancements because alternatives have them and C++ doesn't is immature and unproductive.
I've been told by folks who work on infra there that they need to file requests to even talk to the previous owners of code if that person has moved to a diff role. So I don't think it's just for unannounced products.
What about signing in to apps which often uses a phone # and email? Also, betting on Tor is like betting there there are no 0-day exploits in browsers or Tor's network. Not a bet I would make.
I just got an error "Network response is not OK" so it must be hugged to death.
Totally describes what I do.

Last couple jobs have been heavily legacy C++ in the energy sector.

Lots of maintenance, but also opportunities to overhaul and build new objects.

Funnest project right now is porting some supercool Science code to cuda and getting about a 30x speed up.
Watch this video: https://youtu.be/watch?v=IQtB4KSzSyY

This is not about fuel theft but a related crime called fuel smuggling where they buy subsidized gasoline and then illegally export it to neighboring countries (the government bans this to prevent exactly this kind of arbitrage). If you watch the video they actually follow along with a fuel smuggler, pay bribes (only $1-2 each) at several checkpoints, and just proceed as usual. The checkpoints exist just to facilitate bribe collection! Later in the video they mention that if you go frequently enough you can get some kind of pass or placard on your car so that you only have to pay once per month. This kind of bribery at every level of government does not exist in any first world country. Yes, politicians in most first world countries take campaign contributions from big companies but that is way different than quid pro quo bribery schemes where padded contracts are literally doled out based on who gives a bigger bribe. If you offered food inspectors in America or Australia $500 to ignore violations some might say OK but most would say fuck off. I'm not saying this kind of thing is inherent to Nigeria either -- rampant bribery existed in every major city in America in the 1800 and early 1900s but basically went away due to a persistent effort by good-government reformers, Protestants, and aggressive prosecutors. I don't know about Australia specifically but it seems most countries that are not corrupt today have taken a similar path.
Indeed, as a solo developer, Flutter is a godsend to be competitive with others in the market who already have integrations with a bunch of platforms.
People get used as an analogy, but in reality it'd just be a multimedia problem solving system that could learn from its own attempts. If this system communicated with you like a person it'd only be because it was programmed to convert some machine state into colloquial text from the perspective of an imaginary person. The interior experience leading to that expression is most likely completely different from that of a person.

Consider that these machines have been designed to do the right thing automatically with high probability. Perhaps for the machine, the process of computing according to rules is enjoyable. Being "turned on" could be both literal and figurative.
Everytime I read something negative about WordPress it's about the developer experience - why is no one focusing on the fact it's actually pretty good for non-technical website owners?
Ask HN: Does anyone have a solution to the Netflix password crackdown?
"To ensure uninterrupted access to Netflix, connect to the Wi-Fi at your primary location, open the Netflix app or website, and watch something at least once every 31 days. This creates a trusted device so you can watch Netflix, even when you’re away from your primary location,"
I'm not convinced that a plausible pseudonym is more privacy preserving than something that's obviously just made up. But it's not bad advice in general to post personal stuff on social media and blogs under a pseudonym if you want to be controversial.
As a counter example, I have been largely anonymous online and offline for awhile; yes, aware it is nearly impossible to be completely anonymous, that’s fine, largely a “hobby” for me.

Very direct about it, and yes, some people completely shut you out once you tell them, but vast majority don’t; while my opinion, those who do aren’t people I am interested in knowing. Very similar prior to me being largely anonymous, people would ask me what I did, I would respond saying I did nothing, which at the time was true and did not feel the need to make something up. Oddly, discovered their response almost immediately told me a lot about who they are as a person; they might think I am: cool, on-the-run, lying, nomad, spy, wealthy, homeless, etc.

As for making personas, long ago I tried that, though now it to me feels like lying, especially in context of establishing long term relationships. That said, with personas I created, other than generic names, I would keep them true to myself, though never complete representations of myself. In doing so discovered that the variety of personas rarely played a factor in people engaging me, but it did appear to make a difference if I just happened to contact them randomly in close proximity to them having free time.

All and all, being anonymous really is not that hard. Not even something at this point I spend lot of time thinking about.
> I thought those start at $1500/mo?

I wasn't able to get them to size something down under high-$4,000/m, when I looked at this a couple years ago. They acted like I was being annoying just for thinking there might exist any option between $200 and $5,000.

We ended up somewhere else that was much cheaper for the actual service we needed. Every other company in this space I talked to was happy to come up with a plan that fit our needs and didn't include stuff we didn't need, plus their (negotiated, not public) outbound transfer rates were in every case cheaper than what CloudFlare's sales team offered us. They'd even offer high-touch onboarding help in that sub-$5k/m range (I didn't ask, they just offered)

I think our spending's actually over $5k/m many months, now, but it'd be even higher at CF since the best rate on transfer they offered us wasn't great. I gather the actual customer demo they want is big, complex enterprises that need tunnels between multiple physical networks, oddball proxying set-ups, and stuff like that. That's not us, so they weren't a good fit—but what's weird is their self-serve plans look like they're trying to court use cases closer to ours, while they have no decent options for smoothly sizing up past that.
Absolute anonymity may be impossible (it's not, actually, but it is prohibitively difficult and you have to be highly motivated to have it), but useful anonymity is absolutely attainable.

The key thing is -- who do you want to be anonymous with?
> Does this person stubbornly insist on being right, even if they are wrong?

Actually ChatGPT will almost always change tune if you tell it that it is wrong. That's because it is a stochastic parrot and that's an "unlikely" event if you actually got the answer right. But we'll see if this gets updated/broken too.
I've been having this argument over the past few days with some friends/acquaintances in a discord server. I just keep getting told that it's all just 'sensationalist' reactions to new tech. Some of them are quite gung-ho on the 'progress' and never stop to question what it's doing to our humanity and what it means to be human.

I personally think the internet inherently devalues the humanity of interactions - even on voice chat on Discord or some other service. There's something missing from what we get in person that we're losing out on, and I think that's part of why the internet is, generally, a cesspool (doubly so with anonymity thrown in). But we can't escape -- go to a concert, for instance, and how many people are actually paying attention versus just capturing the moment to prove they were there and share it on Snap/Insta?

Like you, I fear we're going a bad way...and they're all just "I can't wait to see how this changes things!" without ever seeing to stop and seriously question things I feel. Their arguments seem to come down to "Well, it's perfect connection for me and I think it's neat"...but then they complain about being depressed and not getting out and doing anything. Discord and the internet isn't a substitution for IRL, and we're fixing to take people assuming it is to the extreme with this new tech. A reckoning is coming, I fear.
I used to be a die-hard C++ dev. Started learning when I was 13, loved it. Later I ran my gamedev company [0] for 10 years, released 18 titles across Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android - which required writing my own STL-like library, because when I started this the S in STL was aspirational (in particular, VS6 was terrible). I later wrote some C++ at Google.

But now... I don't even recognize the language anymore. The syntax looks alien and clunky. I've also gotten used to writing Java and Python with IntelliJ and PyCharm respectively, to the point that writing C++ feels painful now.

I don't like this. I wish I could find the joy of C++ again (I also like high-paying jobs). Any suggestions of books / courses / tutorials to learn modern C++?

[0] http://www.mysterystudio.com
No, the ability to JIT is not per framework (I'm unsure how that would work?), it's per process. Using JSC doesn't give you a JIT - now the JSC interpreter is very fast, so it's possible claims that they "need JIT" are incorrect (back when I worked on JSC it was a common belief from people that the JITs were magic fairy dust, and so would come in to anything with a data-less assumption that a JIT was needed), it's also possible that "react native" is using wkwebview in which case the content would be running in a separate web content process with a jit.
Sorry I was referring to the mobile apps not the web experience.
> Imagine you had a dog…

I used to have a dog.

When I had to get rid of her I ended up in the VA mental health ward for ten days because I tried to shoot myself in the head, not completely because of the dog (becoming homeless helped a lot) but I’m pretty sure it was a significant contribution.

To top it off if you take “a dog” to the pound it’s free but if you take “your dog” down there it costs $80 so the poor little thing lost her name because I didn’t have $80 so she was “this dog wandering around the neighborhood I found”.

One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was get rid of that dog and I’ve done some pretty hard things in my life.

Tell me more about your coworkers being out of work for a couple months before finding that next job.
Can confirm: I made VP at Merrill Lynch at 28 I think. It was complete BS; my resume literally says "Vice President (I have no idea why we were all VPs either)"
I'll note my own experience, that Spotify and Apple Music both struggle to find me latin reggaeton outside a small subset of popular artists, and my first couple searches with this tool have found me so much music I've never heard before that matches exactly the 'vibe' I want to hear, and is introducing me to different-but-related sounds and artists I couldn't have found on my own.

I agree with the other commenter - this is huge for me. Please, do whatever you need to do to monetize this so it never goes away. I would love to pay you for this.
> I can see some apps needing to be native (ex: using AR/ML libraries where you need to squeeze everything out of the phone)

I agree but all that's needed there is an escape hatch with some way for the non-native interface to interact with the native code.
Now no one will believe my real name is Gill Bates.
Ah yes... I'm Skimmington Harborough, Esq., I come from a family that made its fortune in philanthropy generations ago.

This seems like a pretty straightforward mechanism for covert operatives, to generate a believable (and memorizable) cover that pulls attention away and maintains coherence.

That said, as someone who prizes ethical behavior, it's not possible to practice this and remain wholly honest without some sort of ethical loophole like "character work for entertainment only". A persona requires misrepresentation, which is not the same as de facto anonymity.

So, while I love the write-up, I don't think it's saying what they think it's saying.
IIRC the thing that turned me away from Firefox most recently was the "Pocket" spam on the front page. I vaguely recall that you couldn't customize it, and the content that was pushed had a strong ideological bent that I just didn't want to have to deal with every time I opened my browser. I might be misremembering some of the details; it's been a few years.

I tried Safari, Brave, etc as well but they all had usability issues in one form or another. I didn't really want to settle with Chrome, but it has been the least grating for me personally.
GitHub CEO on why open source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act
When you write C++ you have to know that you don't know the language.

If you think you know the language - you are aiming that shotgun right at your foot.

C++'s attempts to modernize usually mean adding features with maintaining backwards compatibility. It's like adding new paint to a bucket of brown paint - things never really get better.

I think the percent of programmers who can keep the language in their head all the time is very low.

There are minefields everywhere.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/map/operator_at
If you try to search for something in a map - and its not there - it adds it for you. If you want it to error you have to use at
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/map/at

That is just in the very well engineered standard library. What kind of code is in your company's repos? What do programmers need to keep in their heads?

Writing good C++ requires good testing, good tools, good education, good colleagues and a quasi green-field because legacy C++ is segfault...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7wLYzRJt3s
Apple surpasses 2B active devices
Scientists discover new form of ice
I am curious how often others actually use a general search engine and what their searches are. I probably only search (using duck duck go) two or three times a week. This week it was for:

1. A very specific error message nodejs was giving me on one platform about ssl. I usually end up doing site:stackoverflow.com

2. A firmware upgrade for an NVR system (hunting through the manufacturer's website was futile, so I did a search site site:manufacturer.com)

And in both of these cases, while I was using ddg, I was only using it as an index into a specific site, rather than searching the internet.

Other things that I search for, I tend to go to a more direct search engine. If I want to know about a thing/person/event, I just search wikipedia. If I am looking up a band, I just search metal-archives or bandcamp. For movies/cast, straight to imdb. For computer products, straight to newegg. For news, I go straight to my preferred new sources. For Elixir questions, straight to elixir forums. Restaurants, straight to maps.

So, what is it everyone is actually using Google (or other general search engines) for?
Aside from not sharing passwords?
> DriftDB is a real-time data backend that runs on the edge.

What does "on the edge" mean in this context? Can I just run the server part on my own infrastructure? What if I have multiple pods for redundancy, and client web connections might get connected randomly to any of those pods? How would the pods all share state between each other?
I've worked at two companies where people pooled vacation time for sick co-workers who had already been granted extended leave time by the company way past the company norm when they got cancer. If that is not an act of friendship what is it? I've worked on a team where we scheduled our production schedule and the company their release schedule for a year around making sure a co-worker could go back to their country of origin for a couple of months. This was neither a technically irreplicable nor senior individual but they were valued because they were part of our team. When I had kids my coworkers surprised me with a ton of baby clothes. Those people were definitely my friends and we definitely had each others backs. I've been to more work friend's weddings than any other weddings.

I burned out and crashed and burned, but it was more about me finding my self worth in work and the need to be superman and get that recognition and then later to keep funding a lifestyle that I again has substituted as my value and self worth.
https://youtube.com/@ksfrecords has some chill surf records on display (CS:S). They make surf_ny_advance look trivial.
I tried it, it's quite snappy compared to Electron, I assume because it's AOT compiled.
FWIW most of the folks who work with C++ in the financial industry are not really "messing with people's money" except in the sense of trying to exploit market inefficiencies to take it. In a typical quant hedge fund no actual money changes hands; instead, the C++ parts are there to perform analytics extremely quickly, which then feeds into an execution engine (usually also in C++, or sometimes Rust or assembly) that's sending trades to the exchange. And they're usually trading their own capital or a small set of very wealthy limited partners.

The retail financial industry, the folks like Fidelity and Vanguard that manage money for ordinary people or folks like Bloomberg that supply data for this, largely runs on Java. There are fewer foot-guns here, and you really don't want a security vulnerability that loses your customer's funds or creates an inaccurate statement.
Is impeler going to affect (in good way) the performance/latency on desktop too? (I think it's mostly for iOS now, right)?
> and biologics stay at these 6-figure costs

High healthcare cost is the entire reason we pay for health insurance. If treatments were cheaper, UNH would not be worth half a trillion dollars.

Put another way, this is exactly what UNH signed up for. They actively lobby against efforts to reduce healthcare costs at the expense of their profits, which largely derive from amortizing the risk that some of their customers will have treatments too expensive for them to afford.

As an analogy, a home insurer doesn't get sympathy when they try to dodge rebuilding costs after a fire or other disaster reduces their profits. The insurer explicitly signed up for the job of paying for the rebuilds, and that was not contingent on the cost of the hypothetical future rebuilds.

They have the scale to influence healthcare costs through means other than denying claims. And they have the financial heft to (for example) buy makers of expensive niche treatments if they dislike other market participants capturing healthcare dollars.

TL;DR; this is a problem entirely of UNH's own making, for which they are well compensated by the markets. Regulators should not allow them to operate in our regulated markets in this manner.
At least five of those are me
It’s absolutely disgusting that healthcare is so tied to whether one can work or not. “Oh, you can still work, so you don’t need this”. Fuck right off.
Only if you correct a wrong answer. If you "correct" a right answer ("I don't think that's right") then it gives an even worse answer. So be careful when correcting.
> but most US farmers don't do that

Why?

Is it not cost-effective?
Today? Go watch it, it might still be in cinemas, it's a fantastic movie.

(Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of Tom Cruise's movies, especially the Mission:Impossible franchise)
Show HN: IHaveNoIdeasForAClockName – A “accurate” clock
Agreed you need someone dedicated a minimum 1/2 to full headcount to run a backup tape backup system - particularly the first six months when you are getting all your routines in place (if can drop down to a minimum 8-10 hour/week time commitment once things are running smoothly - but obvious can scale up to many many headcount if you have a lot of data and a lot of systems being backed up). You purchase a Tape Library with sufficient drives / slots to support your data volume, you decide on tape software, you set up a pickup schedule with Iron Mountain or whoever will pick up (and return) your tapes, set up up your schedule of fulls / diffs rotation. There are three tricky and time consuming elements that require a lot of knowledge and dedicated time - #1 making sure you have a consistent snapshot and backup of the snapshots and RESTORE process for all your systems. Someone needs to test/verify roughly quarterly test restores (very time consuming and annoying but critical). And, the one thing that very few people do, but is also important - doing a “Black Start” - in which your primary backup site (with the robot, and software, and systems) are lost and you have to bootstrap, from scratch everything.

So, yeah - virtual tape library, while obviously having downsides, is massively useful for a small enterprise.
Not sure about him, my use case is the piece of hardware I can buy without being afraid of your company dying and shutting down servers or my internet not working.