skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a company that tried to start an engineering blog. That blog still exists, but is written entirely by the marketing department.

The problem was that the engineers are very, very busy doing their jobs. Writing blog entries was just more work on top of their existing workload, and that additional work was nothing but a loss. It didn't improve the product or development process in any way.
Or, just set the expiration date to 1970-01-01.
I really like the subtle animations in the UI. What do you use for the front-end/back-end tech stack?
Yep, this is definitely just speculation, but I think this is it. Code/queries that worked fine at small load for private subs just doesn't work at scale when tons of subs are private.
You missed the point. I was asking if a group that hated orthodox religious groups would be considered a hate group. You are addressing whether religious groups can be hate groups.
It's not just fat. It's large and tall people that struggle as well. Your knees hitting the back of the seat isn't a good way to travel either.
They could have changed their API or keys to require an adserve API included and given the app makers time to adapt to the new setup.

Premium users would only see the ads from Reddit, where non-premium would also have seen ads from the app maker.

It would have increased the ads shown to users, added more money into reddit's pocket, and increased the liklihood of users paying cash for the platform while pissing off fewer people.
Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
Hey HN,

I'm trying to install some old (german) Win 98 / 32 bit games for kids, but unfortunately they cannot be installed on modern operating systems. I already tried:

Not working:
- Dosbox (windows is required, I tried all tricks I found)
- Windows 7 or greater (even with compatibility mode)
- Wine on Linux (installer crash)

The only way I could get them to work (see references) is to install a Virtual Machine running Windows 98 SE, but on my wife's Windows 10 notebook this did not work (Virtual Box crashed).

Is there any better way, that I did not find?

References:

https://archive.org/details/windows-98se-vmdk

https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Windows_98_Second_Edition_Virtual_Machine_VMware_WinWorld

https://archive.org/details/Windows98vdi

https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x/releases/
You can write shit code in any language. That's why teams have code reviews.
> I don’t think the third parties costs Reddit money

What is this based on? All of the third party clients that I've used don't show reddit ads, so as long as I'm using the client, it's a cost sink for reddit. I don't contribute content.
From your experience with it, what do you think about the fatigue factor, either visually or just neck strain? From all accounts it’s quite heavy.
because thats not the way debate works. you dont get to make a(n absurd) claim and then demand the other person disprove it with data across 100% of the spectrum.
To make it even funnier, just remind yourself that Softbank raised all this money to accelerate the development of the singularity, which will happen just 15 years from now (according to softbank). Just imagine the chain of thinking that links that to pizza.
I don't know how their system works, sorry. And whether they have 100% globe coverage.
I hear your point, but I think in some ways the network effect is intrinsically linked to the capabilities of the platform, they are kind of like two sides of the same coin. Consider a platform like discord where the quality and capabilities of the software product have allowed many massive communities to be built because of the beautiful design (for its niche) and the empowering community features. Platforms like teamspeak and ventrillo had the network effect but were eventually crushed by discord because of the product's capabilities.
> Never sign XML

"XML" is ambiguous. You have to understand what exactly you're signing, which the average notary or whatever doesn't know. And you have to know what you're verifying, which is equally difficult.

Office documents are (extremely complicated) XML; so it's hardly surprising that they adopted a signature scheme that involves signing XML. But this sounds cowboyish; along the lines of "No reputable security expert was harmed in the creation of this signature scheme".
Above the privacy concerns that MS captures your data that they can have their hands on quick and loose and the way they please their terrible record of ruining long living basic functions is a second reson not to go for laptops with Windows, not trusting it for reliabile functionality and handling any private data of mine. Having a completely isolated separate computer for company data on Windows that belongs to the company - they seem to feel easy about handing over all confidential data to them to store and manage, so I do not need to worry there.
That really sounds crazy!
Thank you for the response. On the sites I used, it seemed like they funnel you to EV - probably because they're more expensive. I'll look into DV certs.
Right, I think they will eventually come out with a non-Pro device eventually... and price is only one factor in adoption.

They could be signalling that they only want a small number of users for these things.

> it couldn’t possibly be the case that you get a trillion dollars by being stupid, right?

... I mean, the fossil fuel industry likes to think it's smart but what it's doing is incredibly stupid. I'm not sure Apple got to a trillion dollars on merit alone.
Latency matters much less than people think in many cases; especially if it's mostly a static site.

Page load times are almost always dominated by the megabytes of images and javascript that everyone seems to include now.
Maybe you should automatically cross post top posts from your favorite reddit subs and maybe HN... Just to have a bit of content
Pi-Hole and PiVPN [0] is a great setup for DNS filtering on-the-go. The setup for PiVPN makes it foolproof as well.

When my Pi stopped working and I couldn’t find a new one, I gave up and moved to NextDNS [1] and have been very happy.

[0] https://www.pivpn.io/
[1] https://nextdns.io/
Everyone that was right about WMDs got it right because literally no physical evidence was ever given to the public. It was clear as day to anyone skeptical. Let's stop trying to rewrite history.
I agree, thats why I didn't say 'wealthy' but 'never work a day in their lives', there's a big difference
I agree the keyboard will remain as the best text input device but I'm pretty confident that eye tracking will be categorically better than a mouse/trackpad. I'll expect that eye tracking solutions for normal monitors will also become more mainstream once people get used to it in the Vision Pro and want to use it elsewhere.
Users become lifelong converts and demand organizations convert until they have to give Linus money to fix problems.

(25% /s)
Just patched the server - I opened up free account interactions last minute, seems post-creation was omitted in my sweep.

Post creation should be working now on free accounts. Thank you for the detailed reports of issues you faced!
https://archive.is/t55MU
Enthusiasts will be asking to get access, while professionals will be paid to come and build.
No source code= black box you can't trust.
What's your read on these submissions and related comments?

Why Tildes May Not Be The Best Place To Migrate To. https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1473jeh...

A Word of Caution: I Was Just Banned From Tildes https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/147qyno...
It's easy to make yourself ugly if you wish so. Just wear weird clothes.
Why doesn't it happen?

I meal prep for all my meals. All my food is measured out and counted beforehand.

I started exchanging regular soda for zero sugar soda and did not change a single thing about my diet otherwise.
Ah, I didn't know that! It seems like they're only there for compatibility and not in new documents(?)

Either way, it seems like fighting yesterday's battle.
I have to admit their UX and UI are superior among all fediverse apps.
Cost or demand is not the issue for Apple it's the supply chain.

Right now it can't fulfil a $5000 product let along a $1000 one.

So they will need a dramatic ramp up across their partners before they even consider a consumer SKU.
In which idlewords basically cites the plot of "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson... :-)
What would you have asked Carmack on Fridman’s show (with Fridman’s audience) if you were Fridman?
Its funny you mention that. I was helping with a windows laptop. I swear using edge to download chromium and firefox, the browser didn't stop me, but put a bar at the top saying how I should give "Edge" a try for my browsing needs.

It was a little startling, realizing the browser is watching the url and that someone had to write code for that scenario.

there is it, was not remembering wrong:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22813733/microsoft-window...
I guess this geoengineering has left the ozone stable.
>>> Having the cheapest possible flights is not a civilization goal we should be aspiring to

But everyone does have the same body type. They are just not all the same size. What you're saying is basically that people who are disadvantaged by their size should be given priority over those who are disadvantaged by being poor.

I would like to live in a world where people who are unusually big because of genetics or a genuine disability or medical condition or whatever can have the same experience as everyone else at the same price. And if that was truly the cause, we wouldn't be hearing about this. Airlines would just eat the cost and avoid the controversy. We're hearing about this because it's a massive epidemic in the West, brought on by lifestyle, and the airlines can't afford to assume that overweightness is an anomaly any longer.
Thank you! A lot of sweat went into those. The frontend is pure vanilla js, and all of those animations are hand coded.

Backend is in go.

Source is here: https://github.com/jjcm/nonio
It would be easy for app developers to quickly port their app to non.io.
Heavily disagree with that first part; I have never worked at a company where the juniors learned by watching a senior do his job over his shoulder. They learned by absorbing information over time, doing work, going through code reviews, looking at architecture diagrams, etc. Anything else was done mostly over screen sharing even before COVID.

The same is the case at my current company, and the new juniors have had zero troubles with learning. Why? Because all of that can be done remotely.

You only need to learn by watching if you are engaging in the physical world, and software itself is not physical at all, so there is never a reason to do anything in "real life" unless your software happens to be operating a robot or other physical device of some kind. There are endless wonderful cheap or free tools to enable everything that was previously in the physical world to be done remotely now, and if a company and it's employees can't use them right then it is a mix of organizational and personal failings.
It's true though, the device is clearly intentionally overbuilt, it's not like Apple is adding some huge arbitrary markup.
The same way Tesla started out by selling a Roadster before working on mass market models
So each user puts a dollar a month into upvote cash. I think i upvote ~10 things per day on Reddit. I use Reddit most days, so say 250 things a month. Given the same pattern of behaviour, each one of my upvotes is worth 0.4 cents.

A post getting 1000 upvotes earns $4. That's already quite a lot of upvotes, enough to get on the first page of a reasonably big sub. Posts on r/all (today, which may be abnormal) are at 10-50k, so would earn $40-$200.

$200 would be nice to have! But these don't seem like prizes that would motivate residents of first-world countries, considering that you have to have one of the most-upvoted posts on the whole site to win them.
> Do you want a 100 page install guide or a fully automated install script

Is there an example that actually happens? A system requiring 100 pages of documentation just for installing is not getting done in a single script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
Oof, I clicked one of those posts and immediately lost all back-button functionality to an endless stream of history events.
Or ever again? I deleted Apollo from my phone last night, and I haven't had a bookmark for their awful website in years. Any future visits would be misclicks, just like birdsite.
Same here. Looking at the list of topics, it hits a lot of my interests and isn't 100% focused on tech. My contact details are on my website in my profile.
I sent an email with a few sentences about how I found out about Tildes and what it means to me and a discussion I wanted to participate in and got an invite in less than 12 hours.

Despite having about 10% of the karma of the highest karma HN users I am a bit of a nobody, I mean Klout thought my expertise on “white people” was enough to earn me a one year subscription to the Red Bulletin.
Please don't take this criticism harshly:

You say that you've been working on this for 4 years, but there's no content here. Have you not been using it yourself for 4 years? Where is the content that you and your friends have been posting?
This is your opinion and I would suggest not a very popular opinion at that. I imagine the vast majority of the world can look at the number of violent crimes trending down over time and use that as a data point to rank eras. Similarly extreme poverty rate since the industrial revolution has drastically fallen. Another metric that I imagine the extreme vast majority of the world would find a useful metric in ranking eras. There are plenty of other metrics to rank eras that make plenty of sense if you look for them, and why shouldn't we?

Is it even possible to make progress if we're not defining what progress looks like? Is progress such a ludicrous goal for the human race? If progress is a reasonable goal and you can't make progress without defining what progress looks like then it's necessary for progress to have metrics that can be used to rank eras.
When COVID hit, the WHO had a pandemic plan in place (written in 2016). Organizations often do this so that when an emergency happens, they can use the decisions made with cooler heads rather than trying to react to a rapidly changing landscape... at least until new, solid evidence emerges.

The WHO did the opposite of its pandemic plan. They failed to follow best practices and did so without any evidence for it.

The best evidence that the current WHO is not to be trusted... is the old WHO.
Same. Seems to need "special characters" in the password, even though I got a green check mark when putting in a long/strong password with no special chars.

No information in the error feedback, just a red X.

As a side note, I'm tired of websites deciding that a password is not strong enough simply because it does not contain enough random subsclasses of basic ACSII characters.
Do you have any source for the part about the vendor? Searching for a bit just gave me a ton of articles about the failed announcement in general.
So far it’s looking like VW and Hyundai/Kia may be left out in the cold, especially if there’s no adapter made for NACS/CCS for those brands (GM/Ford are getting some made so they’ll be fine).
I've spent enough time [Edit: on HN] to remember App.net¹ which was launched with similar fanfare but was shut down after few painful years of trying to find a PMF. The lesson I learned from that saga was HN might not be the best place to validate your product. We're too smart to diss even good ideas like DropBox.

Go and talk to your potential customers and I hope the App.net story gives you some inspiration.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372985

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723
I'm trying my best to name real-life organizations that match my real-life experience here, and you're seemingly trying to come up with hypothetical examples that may or may not have any relevance to the real world.

Could you give me an example of these organizations that are giving you such trouble in classifying hate group vs not-hate group?

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Like, who exactly are you trying to describe? Are you calling Militant Atheists a hate group (or a candidate for hate groups?) The Satanic Temple?

I'm certainly aware of militant atheist groups if that's where you're trying to go. All of them are "anti-religion", but I wouldn't call any of them a hate group. As a Catholic myself, I've had to deal with their anti-religion and anti-Christian bias. But I've never felt personally threatened, or physically threatened by them.
DevHour: Personal blockchain for hours of my time
That's a pretty bold statement. There are millions of people for whom 20k€ is chump change. I'd be surprised if those installations are not counted at least in thousands.
American bread certainly does go moldy, but the sugar absorbs moisture and keeps the bread softer longer.

That being said, I'd much rather they used less. At this point it's pretty hard to buy a hamburger bun around here [SF] that doesn't taste like a brioche to me.
You're not making a like for like comparison. OCED has the US at 78% and France at 81%

https://data.oecd.org/emp/labour-force-participation-rate.ht...
I'm not worried about the non-techies being tricked into thinking .com is an executable, I doubt they even know its possible. They almost certainly know about .zips
Yeah there's some intensity in those door announcements for sure.

Sounds like the kind of intonation you get from being in a recording studio having your diction of four words picked apart so much they stop being words and suddenly you can't even say them in a neutral tone. "clipped vowel on 'right'" "emphasize 'door'" "nice long vowel on 'open'" and then you end up with... whatever that was.
At the moment life is somewhat enjoyable. Unless you're living downwind from an enormous wildfire (or next to one).
Oh we know how it works. Science was bought out by Big industry a long time ago and is as much of a religion as Christianity
No, but package delivery is a much larger part of the economy today than it was 26 years ago. Many more businesses today depend upon UPS for delivery of parts.
There are no “Zelda clones” of compatible quality and intrigue.
On the Mac the new Little Snitch Mini is really nice for this:

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/index.html

Sure, you could manage /etc/hosts manually, but Little Snitch Mini has a nice interface for managing blocklists, auto-updates them, and has nice visualization, and you can also manage blocks per app.
will this also allow future EVs to supercharge (charge quickly) at the current Tesla charging stations?

if so, that makes me happy
> The Nazis can be identified as a Hate Group. They followed the Fascist ideology (among many other ideologies).

But the Nazis, as an organization, no longer exist. They used to control a country and have a government. Nazi ideology may still exist but the Furher is dead.

> Planned Parenthood can be identified as a group. They don't seem to be a "hate group" however.

So this is the other problem. If you want to claim they're a hate group you point to age as a protected class, and then you end up with everyone shouting at each other because whether that's true or not turns on the very point of contention. In particular, you now have to make a censorship decision where the "accused hate group" only doesn't get censored if the decisionmaker agrees with their ideology. That's... bad.

> Lets cut to the chase. Do you want to call #BLM or #MeToo a hate group?

I want not to have censorship, and I find a good way of doing this is to insist that censorship decisions be made on principled basis. Because when people realize that the rules they're proposing would also be applied to people they like, they stop liking those rules.
How does this benefit Tesla? Are they receiving royalty for each NACS shipped?
That's an interesting idea, I would expect microwaves to be practical in zero-g, but a pressure cooker might be trickier, my naive intuition is that the contents wouldn't stay on the bottom of the pot to be heated, and would also float into the valve?
David Pogue Reviews Apple Vision Pro
New York Times-owned sports news site The Athletic lays off 4%
>“People have talked about technical debt for a long time, and now we have a brand new credit card here that is going to allow us to accumulate technical debt in ways we were never able to do before,” said Armando Solar-Lezama, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I think there is a risk of accumulating lots of very shoddy code written by a machine,” he said, adding that companies will have to rethink methodologies around how they can work in tandem with the new tools’ capabilities to avoid that.

I agree, it's very concerning that the opacity of ML models is now leaking into large codebases and making them potentially even less comprehensible.
Nothing in there would be regulating them, just more transparency so users can see who gets banned and whether or not they want to view deleted comments.

I'd probably turn off deleted comments in a r/games subreddit but would 100% have them on for a political subreddit for example.
I just created a new account using the free tier, and then afterwards decided I would like to play.

I went to my profile, clicked on "view financials", but when I press "Change Subscription Amount" the page just freezes. Why won't you let me give you my money?

Having a look in the console... Every time I press the "Change Subscription Amount" button there is a 500 API error from https://api.non.io/stripe/subscription and this is printed: {error: 'no customer for the user'}
Does anyone have any updates on Mike Burgess (from winhelp2002.mvps.org)? He used to keep my go-to hosts file, but his health seems to have declined in the last few years. I would like to know if he is still around and if there is currently any method to donate or support him. Any news would be greatly appreciated.
>In a REAL capitalistic economy, a small shipping provider would have raised the capital immediately to capitalize on the strikes, advertised their services to UPSs customers and eaten the company away.

In the real world it takes weeks if not months to purchase a delivery vehicle. There are no delivery van lots that you go to in order to browse a wide variety of Morgan Olson and Utilimaster vans and then plop down a million dollars for 20 of them, not that 20 of them would allow you to run a parcel shipping service. You need thousands. Which means a production run at a manufacturer who is already booked through next year.

Hell, it would take weeks just to figure out WHERE to advertise much less actually inking deals, unless you like throwing money away.

It doesn't matter if you apparate a trillion dollars, time is immovable. It took a decade of conceptualizing and two years of actualizing to start FedEx.

If a rationally-acting rational actor rationalizes ten quadrillion dollars of gold into his pocket, it doesn't matter one fucking bit.

They can't buy the facilities, systems, equipment, and experience needed to do shit. They can't use their iron capitalist will to pour concrete faster.

This is one, of many, fundamental blind spot concerning reality that capitalists or pseudo-capitalists used to working in the fake online venture capitalist world have.
Yes but that is a very limited third button. You cannot do chording (e.g. left+middle buttons together) using that approach. Some specialized applications use chording.

Edit: spelling because phone.
How do you create the name for a website by trying to tell someone how to get to it over the phone? Doesn't the DNS entry have to exist first?