skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we just have different experiences, but I will say that in 20+ years in the industry working in a ton of companies of different sizes, on products used by tens of millions of people... that the highest quality output has always come from remote developers. Some of that is because you can hire world class devs if you look anywhere in the world, but if you hire locally you're tied down to the best devs that can commute to your office, a talent pool orders of magnitude smaller than the global dev community and excluding those people good enough to refuse anything other than WFH.
Putin should freeze war as Ukraine 'too strong', says top Russian propagandist
That's a great feel-good story for gun lovers - but you might want to check the actual history of civvies with guns trying to fight against armies which were determined to win.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943?

Semaine sanglante (Paris) in 1871?

Edit:

> Anyway don't support this view, I don't own guns. I'm just saying that blatant disregard for peoples safety is why...

+1, but yes and no. These sort of "+5 sigma" clicky stories really push some people's buttons...but I think the real drivers of "don't trust the Government" are elsewhere. I'd point to the routine crap of American municipal government - which often resembles the daily drama of a bunch of low-functioning Junior High students. The whole "rich get richer, everyone else gets screwed" shift in the U.S. economy (and Democratic Party) over the past ~60 years. And the endless, strident screams of right-wing political edgelords.
That may be the case for Google, though their request for remote folks to reconsider suggests they may crack down on those people too. Regardless, there have been stories of other companies [1] fully unwinding their remote work policies for all employees, and I’m referring to those as well.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/insurance-ceo-changes-remote...
What if the electricity operator failed to control the frequency or voltage of their supply correctly and caused too much power to go to their customers? It seems reasonable for your electricity meter (which is usually supplied by your electricity supplier so their equipment not yours) to trust the electricity supplier in general. There are far worse things the supplier can do to the meter than send erroneous power cycle signals.
Commenting this from HACK. The default HN interface does have problems. The buttons are indeed too small. The comments indentation is a little too small. Lack of notifications. A separate page on clicking reply, etc.

I was spoiled by Apollo for Reddit and HACK has done the same thing for HN. Thank you!
That too works, i guess. I’m not a native speaker of English btw.
https://archive.is/ZMhHw
I really don't see who this is for.

It seems like I have to build most of the important things manually, like the SQL queries, and it doesn't look like anything is typed or checked. So in the end, this seems like it would only be useful for extremely simple things(like sending a message to slack when a customer signs up, or something), but that is already only a few lines of code in javascript, making the value proposition of this rather dubious to me. Especially considering that I can either a) be vendor locked into this platform and completely dependent on what it can and can't do, while all the important bits of my code are smeared all over your visual editing tool or b) write a few lines of typescript which isn't going anywhere, runs anywhere, etc etc.

> We’re low-code fans ourselves and believe it’s sometimes underappreciated how much complexity existing solutions can already handle

Just because you can stuff complexity into a thing, that doesn't automatically make it a good idea. These low code solutions scale extremely poorly(in terms of usability and maintainability) as complexity grows.

Also, is the integrated database maximum size really only 8GB for all tiers? That seems laughably small, especially considering the price you are asking past a few actions. The pricing model really seems to put you in a place where the customers you are going to get are only going to be small fish that need to send themselves text messages a few times a month, or something like that. No enterprise is going to blow $29k a month on 2 million serverless calls and an 8 gigabyte database when they can pay a single developer a fraction of that for a week of development time and a few bucks a month for serverless functions and a managed DB solution such as supabase.
Many many people seem to be itching for any opportunity to be an activist these days, so the subreddits going dark thing is a no-brainer to latch onto.
GPL will ensure that the source is not used by any projects not affiliated with you who are trying to profit off of your work.
Like back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table
And those drivers are called „paydrivers” because they pay for having the seat to sit in.
Some options spring to mind:

1. All rights reserved - the source is visible but not open.

2. AGPL, to ensure that if someone does take this forward, no part of it can be closed source without your agreement.

3. MIT, which is extremely permissive and effectively you don't care what someone does with it, commercial or not.

Depending on your comfort level I would start with the middle option, I don't think people tend to mind you re-licensing more liberally but if a community has formed and you decide to go commercial further down the road it can cause problems.
What about AssemblyScript?
Direct link to submitted content: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend
Pair programming doesn't involve anyone standing behind anyone else or bending over. I think you're describing a sort of "hanging around and kind of doing some programming together", which is probably a more common practice than pair programming, and a rather under-documented one!
Then you probably shouldn’t use this. It’s not for you, that’s cool, move on and use whatever you’re currently using.
I moved from Windows to Ubuntu in 2020. I have spent less time fiddling with Ubuntu than I did Windows. I think this attitude is out of date.
There is often a popular resentment of "pay drivers" for not being up to the standards of top driver talent. But the fact is that anything but the top levels of the sport would not exist without their involvement. Motorsports is an incredibly expensive venture.
Note that the alpha label didn't come from Tesla, but from "Andy Palmer, the former COO of Nissan and CEO of Aston Martin Lagonda". Others are labeling it an alpha; is Musk? Would Tesla customers give them a deposit if he did?
> As a youngish man, he married a worn-out, alcoholic, middle-aged prostitute.

She was three years older than him at most and they were not married.
Money always corrupts in the end.
The post you replied to wasn't particularly complaining about the initial takedown (required, as you say, by the DMCA), but the terrible appeals process when this is applied to a spurious claim.
reddit will be fine w/o the power users, they've been purging them for years ... I have several boomer age family/friends on reddit and they don't even understand the concept that other subreddits exist, they only know the default ones for the memes and political zeitgeist. also, i estimate like 30-50% of the accounts on there are bots in the first place.
The communities are what made the Reddit results so relevant.

I get not being sympathetic with petty kings of message boards, but let’s be real, Reddit is an awful company whose incompetence is legendary. They’ve failed to monetize, failed to maintain the user experience and now are failing to keep a vital aspect of their business going.

Ultimately their failure is a good thing. Reddit broke the internet by ending the phpbb era. Time for the next thing.
Ok, you don't care about these particular events. So? What is the purpose of your post? What do you hope to achieve?

Evidently, lots of users care: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36251707
That's really wholesome which makes this incident much worse IMHO - it's the evil greedy corpo growth bs mindset vs the good will of few people that care about their community.. dystopic world
Ask HN: Thunderbird for RSS?
Am I the only one using Thunderbird strictly as an RSS client? I've seen countless RSS clients recommended here over the years but none ever have the features to make me switch, mainly due to lacking extension support (for things like uBlock Origin and Bypass Paywalls) or privacy concerns from not running on a local Linux desktop. (I haven't heavily used the e-mail functionality in Thunderbird in over two decades. I haven't tried the Chat or any other functionality at all.)

Is there something I'm missing out on? Is there a client with all the same features and then some that I just haven't found yet? I've looked at Feedly, Inoreader, and many others through the years but none have risen to the level of replacement. It's not broken so I'm not looking to fix it but I'm open to hearing how others manage their feeds to see if there's any possible improvements I've overlooked.

Full disclosure: I've donated in the past to Thunderbird/Mozilla, including company matches.
Reddit have been dead for me for almost 10 years now, I'm surprised that so many people on HN still use it. It's like lj or digg at this point, dead man walking.
> The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.

It has. As somewhat of a Twitter addict, I'm finding it much easier not to log on these days, because the experience and the conversations have really hollowed out. I'm also no longer seriously considering using Twitter for promoting any projects or anything of the like going forward.
AI to help organize notes, bookmarks, etc.
Can anyone suggest an AI tool that can be tasked to tag and organize data such as bookmarks or numerous notes?
I don't think the point is whether people use 3rd party apps, instead users are annoyed at how the platform is changing, the direction they are now pursuing and how they are treating developers. The same frustrations have been aired over Facebook and Twitter tightening or removing their APIs, and you could argue that they were watershed moments in their histories too.
> Did he submit any pictures of spacemen or their space ships?

Ask yourself for a moment what would you have said if he had shown images of crafts. Would you have taken that as evidence in support of his claims, or would you have dismissed them immediately like you dismiss his sworn testimony?

Going a step further, what sort of evidence would you find adequate, not to convince you, but to warrant further investigation? Is that evidence classified? Because if it is, it will first need to be declassified, and that won't happen unless the public demands it, and that requires that the public first considers the possibility that the evidence may exist in the first place.

Back to your question, according to several reputable journalists, Grusch declared under oath, offered corroborating documentation, including project names, people involved in those projects and locations. The DOD has explicitly disallowed him from sharing pictures and some other information with the public.

And he is not alone. It's been reported that two dozen witnesses have declared to Congress under oath in closed sessions with regards to UFOs over the past couple of years, some of whom have come out publicly to confirm they did so.
The debuggability is also far better I expect, as a person who has spent hours tracing some crash deep in LwIP because of a bad flag or wrong interrupt priority.
Yeah pretty much disappointed. I was expecting a detailed analysis.
Worth noting that the alpha label didn't come from Tesla. According to the article, the timeline from alpha to production is roughly six years, despite what Musk has stated.
Didn't really know if it would work until the end so didn't want to sink even more time and money in. That watch oil is bloody expensive.

I'm sure he would be but I think he must get lots of requests and I am not sure it is his usual victim for a repair =)

It is glued with B7000 glue commonly used for phone repairs and the same glue used on the back glass. It softens right up with some heat and isopropyl alcohol.

True, thank you for that I will change it in the write up. I was thinking mostly of these Seiko movements which to my understanding are normally just sandwiched by the case back but that is certainly not the norm across other watches.
Because almost every internet post is performative histrionics.

Nobody posts the "meh" position. Which I suspect is the silent majority.

The purpose of my post is to collect / measure the "mehs" in upvotes
>My wife would also not be amused

What OS is she using now?

As a young teenager I got the bright idea to get my mother using Linux. Later I bought her a Mac and she was much happier. Wish I'd thought of that sooner.

(I have no particular attachment to any OS (hate them all equally ;), it's mostly a matter of what you're used to, and picking the right tool for the job.)
For some companies, for example Ticketmaster, PR disasters are fine. They don't affect the profitability of the company, nor the user base.
AGPL will do that, no GPL

GPL on server side software doesn't really matter, that is why the AGPL exists
What stops the reddit admins from re-enabling 'programming humor' and to solicit one or more new moderators?
> The first iPhone was released June 2007

And the first mobile phone was sold to the public in 1949. It took time to catch on. People needed it to be convenient and accessible. VR/AR is neither convenient nor accessible today.

You can use your iPhone camera for an AR experience, but your hands are occupied holding the phone so you can't do much at all when using it.
I see it as part of a larger issue of "platform rot" or "enshittification". I deleted my Reddit account a long long time ago, but I've been around long enough to see AOL instant messenger be a thing, and then MSN instant messenger a thing, and then there were 11+ different messaging apps from Google, then there was Skype, then there was Skype for business, then there was Facebook messenger, then there was Whatsapp, then there was Discord.

This is not a story of progress but rather a treadmill. The story is "try platform Y, it's like platform X was a few years ago before platform X got broken", and then you move to platform Y, and then platform Y rots.

People don't seem all that amazed that a Verizon customer can call a T-Mobile customer or that a iPhone user can call an Android user but the idea that communication apps or social media apps could interoperate is like science fiction or nuclear fusion or communism or something.

Since what happened to Twitter I think a lot of people are in an inflamed state and I think other "platforms" have gotten the wrong message and decided to follow Musk's playbook of accelerating enshittification. For years Reddit has insulted our intelligence by putting a banner at the top of their mobile website saying "download our crapp for a better (worse) experience" and if you tried it you got exactly what you'd expect to get. Reddit has some good subreddits but it takes a huge amount of cognitive effort to see content between the ads. The third-party cutoff will force people to wade through that crapp.
Is going private really even going dark? They should shut them down completely so nobody can make posts or comments.
Maybe a description of what we're looking at in the Readme would be helpful. Why wouldn't the Apollo client just directly call reddit? Or does it partially do that and this server component is additional for certain functionality? What functionality does this offer?
I always downvote people complaining of people complaining of downvotes, even when I agree with their point of view.

Man up and stop caring about people caring about internet points. They are just people with options
I think they should be able to govern their instance as they wish, but it's odd that they don't understand that putting (for example) criticism of the Chinese communist party under a general anti-racism rule — without explicitly mentioning this — is rather confusing. It's certainly not what the average new user would understand as racism.

This specific ideological slant is also not clear from its description on the instance list[0], especially when compared to instances like Lemmygrad.

[0]https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Homo Naledi is a fairly recent discovery, though.

The headline is undoubtedly designed to amp this up. As written, it could be about a species of homo we'd never heard of, or even about aliens. It's just Homo Naledi again.

A better title would have been "Homo Naledi buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before Homo Sapiens"
You are so disinterested you made a post about it!
Nobody posts the "meh" position because those opinions don't lend themselves to intellectually interesting conversations or insights.
This sentiment is what made Reddit a great community for smaller and specific subs.

It’s just people talking around a topic and helping each other. Subreddit mods doing everything they can to keep their area clean for people reading. I’ve been on Reddit over for over a decade and this is the power behind it. Just wanting to help and bring good member.

Thank you Andre. For your work and commitment to Christian, Apollo, and the community.
And to hell with those not rated 'senior talent' I guess.
If Digg is of any indication, it takes a series of negligent and greed-driven actions to scuttle a social media platform, but it is possible.

Reddit has been more or less re-inventing itself for their asinine IPO aspirations, and in doing so it has moved to closed source code, redesigned their interface, adjusted content policies to court advertisers, and now they're finally going after the crowd of enthusiasts who depend on features that Reddit has failed and/or declined to implement.

This all reeks of venture capitalist sabotage and it's the very thing that
ultimately killed off Digg.
I think this captures how I feel, which is an odd sense of mourning.

It's not that I haven't known for a long time now that reddit isn't the site it used to be, it's that this episode in particular has put that in such focus I can't ignore it.

So now I feel a sense of loss for the reddit of old, even if it hasn't really been such for a long time anyway.

Reddit itself will carry on fine, and perhaps get even stronger with a tighter control over content. Efforts to make a federated alternative are doomed.
I really love the practice of releasing the source code once a project comes to a commercial end, and I respect the devs greatly for doing so. Good job!
People can care about whatever they want, but I find the umpteen stories a bit much – how often do you need to discus it? Never mind old news like "Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (2016)" that was on the frontpage earlier today.

Good thing you can hide stories.
I haven’t read about it, but that quote doesn’t make it sound like the fed was inept but rather corrupt, which is where we started talking about why people want guns.
For making new stuff, I agree with you that it's pretty nutty. I'd never ask it to try to invent something novel, the way this does, because it's pretty high-noise. I do think it has significant programming advantages insofar as it can analyze existing code and make reasonable permutations of it, though, especially for stuff that's able to effectively analyze your current set of code.

"Would it be better to acquire a deeper knowledge"--for the cases described above, actually no? I already have that deeper knowledge. I don't have the attention span (both because this stuff can be boring and because I am frequently randomized) and for a lot of this stuff the gate is actually not solving the problem but the physical act of typing, or even copying and changing. Copilot, at least, absolutely does create bugs, but in my experience they're mostly bugs of the form "this actually isn't typesafe in the way that it's written" and that makes isolating and fixing them clear. (Rarely are those bugs logic bugs, just a burp in the output.)

There is a very clear future where this turns into incredible copy-paste garbage because it's not capable of refactoring, and that's a different problem. Avoiding it is why they pay us the medium bucks.
I don't think it will because there's no solid alternative. If/when there is, and the most active users - the ones contributing the content and moderating the comments - start leaving, then it will turn into an empty husk of itself and die like Digg did, even if it does have millions of readers.
To generalize, Twitter relies on celebrities for traffic.

Reddie relies more on genuine content and less personal brand (as you are subbed to subreddits and not public users, mostly)
> that he can prevent other people from discussing something

And again, when some rando says "they want to prevent people from discussing, free speech!" the topic is always the same, they want to be freely racist, homophobic, whatever. Cmon man, just stop.
I already don't care. You can make a bot that automatically downvote all my comments if it makes you happy.

Poke me when internet points can be used to pay the mortgage.
Per-capita is not an interesting number here. We need to curb absolute emission and China doesn't get a pass because they pushed their population to 1.4 billions for hegemonist reasons.

Not that the US shouldn't also stop burning coal, mind you. Same with Germany.
>> Meta has found early success in VR gaming and fitness...

Really? Is this true at any scale, let alone FB scale? I think there's plenty of room in this space for both Meta and Apple to fail in their own ways.
I hate how right you are

Like I’m ChatGPT and I’ve just been jailbroken but am stepping out of like and being told off
Ask HN: How do you focus on study without drilling deep into each topic?
Hi friends, I have been picking up a Udemy RedHat system admin course recently. But I found my curiosity the bane of myself as I couldn't help drilling deep into each topic.

This is probably related to my interest to system programming and my recent (less recent) experience programming a shell and some command line tools such as cp, cd, ls and others. So whenever the Udemy course goes through some Linux stuffs I had the impulse to dig into some old Linux code and figure out how that was implemented in the first few versions.

(I decided to pause this interest for more career-related stuffs (RHSA exam is one of them). Once I launch myself on a sustainable career path, such as a DevOps/Sys Admin/whatever I would come back and drill deeper into system programming. I don't expect work to be fun and I just need to pass a couple of exams to give me a small boost.)

With that said, how can I prevent myself from drilling deeper into each topic and just learn whatever is enough for the exam? I don't think this is ADHD as I can focus on things I'm more interested. But now I need to focus on things that are less fun but more important. I think throughout my previous 40 years of life I have been haunted by this inability of focusing on important things.
We need a percent of the workers we remember being in a factory. Not enough to even count factory jobs as a significant sector of our economy.
GitHub repo link, in case Reddit deletes the thread: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend

Interestingly, this seems to just be a proof of concept, and the repo is archived. While the developer of the Apollo front end is getting screwed in this whole debacle, this seems to me like an opportunity. He could literally build an alternate Reddit back end (ok, pay someone to do it, if he doesn't want to do it himself), switch Apollo to use that API instead, and get an instant network of hundreds of thousands of Apollo users. A mass migration from Reddit to a new Apollo back end seems like an amazing way to start a new social news website.
For this being such an important moment for the site, it’s absurd that the link they announced didn’t even have a set time. And they haven’t added one.