skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clerk has some pretty detailed documentation that is worth looking over: https://book.clerk.vision

Emmy and Clojure2d have also adopted clerk for their docs with impressive results:
https://clojure2d.github.io/clojure2d/docs/notebooks/noteboo...

https://emmy.mentat.org
I own some IPv4 space and get constant spam from these companies with pitches like "monetize your IP addresses". It's funny how upset they get when you respond and use the word "botnet" to describe their operation, or suggest that the traffic they generate is illegitimate.
The problem is that mixed office/remote is the worst of both worlds.

I think that companies have to choose a model, then employees will choose companies based on this criteria.
Skimmed it and I don't see anything about Nord making their users into proxies, second link is questionable (since its deleted and you linked to an archive)
> There are countless reasons why a house might be sitting empty for a period of time.

The point is that there are very few good reasons. Public policy should have as its core goal that housing is used for homes.
But his job is programming. He is very proud of his C skills. If you listen to him, it crashed because C is intrinsically bad (it is difficult yes), but I guess it was also such a bad codebase that rewriting it made sense.

He also holds a grudge against me for having dared to rewrite a sacred C library he wrote (that was a constant source of segfault and I rewrote in 1 afternoon).
From an office, I could just email "sensitive data" to someone on a remote beach in Thailand.
With knowledge workers isn't there like... an end result? I usually know who on my team will get stuff done vs who will struggle with a task for days on end. Whether the person is working 4 hours a day or 12 who cares about anything beyond the output and impact they have.

I guess it feels too meritocratic? I used to work in grocery and while stocking some people could shelve 30+ boxes of product an hour while others slowly put up 10. Is it fair to pay both those people the same hourly rate when their output is so disparate? It feels bizarre to me in retrospect that being able to "own" the 8 hours of someones life is more important than them actually achieving something during that time.
I always thought nord seemed incredibly sketchy. Thanks for the confirmation.
> Why aren't people paid a full time salary for the work they're expected to do instead of the time they sit at a desk? It's a question I genuinely struggle with.

Because it's hard to quantify what's expected of someone.

It's much easier to just count the time they're working, so that's what we're doing.
What do you expect from some "journalists" perpetually angry that their industry is dying? Honestly can't wait for outrage publications to die and leave professionals like Reuters, AP, Financial Times, Bloomberg, etc., to remain.
Anecdote to the pharma comment, I recently looked up what happened with the CW because it felt like the network was falling into a pit recently. It turns out the network got "trimmed down for aquisition" which got swooped up by a cable providers. Apparently the average viewer of CW on terrestrial cable is 58!? (Taken from Wikipedia for what it's worth). If 58 is the average viewer for CW, just how old people are trending for less youth oriented networks. I makes a lot more sense to see a bunch of drug commercials (with their very high ad rates) shoved down your throat.
I don't think that term is meant to be interpreted so literally as to mean only editors.
Would love to read your blog post if you're willing to share.
this is not the culture human beings should support or tolerate at their workplace
Jellyfish appears to be a much newer and smaller project.
They're afraid of the enshittification of content.
The Conet Project
The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four (later five) CD set of recordings of numbers stations and noise stations released by Redial-Discs beginning in 1997. Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with deployed spies. The collection of recordings is primarily the work of Irdial-Discs founder Akin Fernandez, who began recording the transmissions of numbers stations in 1992.[1] The original 4 CD set was released in 1997 and reissued in 2013 with an additional 5th CD.[2]

The recordings have been sampled in various artistic projects, most famously in the 2001 film Vanilla Sky and Wilco’s 2001 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. In keeping with its “free music” policy, the label made the entire collection available for free to download as a collection of MP3 files (along with a PDF version of the included booklet).[3] Redial-Discs has since discontinued the hosting of said files, but still provides links to alternative active hosts.[4]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project
Employees can slack off at work just as effectively as they can at home, they just can't have quite as much fun while doing it.

The only incentive for quality work is a quality working environment, quality product to work on, and quality people to work with.
Question: What does Twilio do with the profit it does make off those bad actors once it discovers they are bad actors?

Probably my top issue with companies like Google which make a ton of money off of crime is... they keep the money from the crime! That's a perverse incentive to at least do a poor job preventing it.

I remember visiting the Twilio offices when it was still tiny during a Google Glass related thing. I still have the T-shirt.
We aren’t talking about PaaS or infrastructure. Kubernetes and infra is a very small part of the puzzle
>Nah, that’s just semantics at this point.

You talking about the green checkmark?
Islam is related because I see people all the time not believing that the believers actually believe. This was what I objected to in top comment.
That's more of a past issue. Look into the growth of the haredi population.[1] Soon, Israel will have more ultra-orthodox than Arabs.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-population-growing-twic...
even thoug i dont know u. for me i relate in this way. i love to start things, motivate others, and dream big. however, at some point though it makes me sad, i feel like the idea is better off in other peoples hands. i struggle to focus and .... just want to start new things and motivate new ppl. i dont do startups for this reason but actually you writing this blogpost makes me feel maybe there is a place for me. to get the ball rolling and then leave it to people who are good at being consistent and seeing things through, but maybe less at starting and gathering motivation in the early stages. everyone has their own strengths and pitfalls. each end is a new beginning and i am sure after this tough breakup u will have learned a lot and find a new wonderful thing in ur life! =) all the best!
Effective Altruism might be great, but I'm not convinced that it's a one-size-fits-all approach to solving the problem of what someone actually desires. In fact, doing what one feels one "should" do or what other people might appreciate is a great way to avoid discovering what one actually wants.
When I saw that treasury login form with the onscreen keyboard you had to click, I was absolutely flabbergasted. Thankfully they've now done away with it.
> Aside from its link to Oxylabs, Tesonet also advertises itself as a creator and investor of a number of online services, including NordVPN, Hostinger and others.

Where else would they get the 100 million users?
Utilization is hard to measure or proove. What if someone uses a house as his furniture storage?
I have kids.

The amount of time saved by not having to commute is easily less dystopian than any video calls if I can spend it with my family instead of sitting alone in a huge metal box for (unpaid) hours every week.
Very far down the list considering most companies employ remote management software that can immediately lock and wipe a machine.

Not to mention the legal ramifications. If your company IP is so critical that the legal consequences are not enough, you probably have other controls in place and it isn’t just sitting on an employee’s laptop.
Spectral Contexts in Go
From whitehouse.gov [1] The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency — the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.

I could see another charismatic actor [2] winning a presidential race but it will have to be one that meets the above criteria. It happened recently in Ukraine. It's happened in the US Ronald Reagan. The best candidates I have seen were all comedians but unfortunately they are smart enough to not want the job.

Perhaps Arnold could be appointed as Secretary of Defense. [3]

[1] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-governm...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Def...
I have a probably silly question:

Has anybody ever made a mirror of Reddit? Like something somebody could use with Kiwix?
> Why aren't people paid a full time salary for the work they're expected to do instead of the time they sit at a desk? It's a question I genuinely struggle with.

Turns out just being present is a substantial part of what many (most?) employees are paid for. Participation and quality of contributions are optimizations once that bare minimum is attained...

What do you think school is conditioning everyone to do anyways? Get up early and show up, follow instructions, every. day.
Only tangentially related—and I know the odds are low that you worked on this personally—but I want to give sincere thanks for the stuff you guys have shared via Twilio Labs. The netlify-okta-auth package in particular was exactly what I needed to complete a recent project, and the documentation it came with was nearly perfect.
It has nothing to do with greedy capitalists. I don’t want anyone scraping my site at all. I don’t charge anything for it.
You know honestly I can’t be sure 100%, but that is what I was always taught in my “English as a language of law” class. I hesitate a little bc there’s always the possibility that I misremembered.

That said, my memory is that it came from before the French, during the trial by combat days, where the wealthy could appoint someone to go on their behalf.

Another datapoint for this is that a legal title that still exists today is esquire. However a “squire” is also the assistant to the knight who fights in the tournament.

It’s totally possible that I’m mistaken about parts of this, especially the pre or post French use of the word, but I also think that a lot this knowledge is fairly esoteric and not captures well, even in today’s age, outside of experts. Not to cast shade on etymology.com at all. Just that it is a possibility.

I see a lot of Ancient Greek/Roman stuff that comes up that’s either wrong or just naive, so. Idk.

Glad that you think it’s interesting though! I have a book club if anyone’s interested https://r33d.org

We just started reading history of the Peloponnesian war by Thucydides :)
What does any of this have to do with "streaming"? Aren't they just talking about the entertainment industry in general?
The bosses making those decisions live close to offices. Can’t see it making sense otherwise.
What happens with the content if posted on an instance that shuts down? Will it be kept alive by other instances?
I've been WFH for the better part of a decade, the revisiting of this since the pandemic has been outright exhausting
Core sectors and manufacturing seem to be intact, it's only IT and services such as banking which are facing the slack?
Link to Recording: https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...

People can make up their own mind if they think the Dev was trying to blackmail Reddit or not.
> the problem of making the form easy to understand (does it use language that’s easy to understand? omit fields they already have the answers to?)

Great feedback, thanks!

You are right, I basically just said "we should have TCP/IP for government forms", without explaining what would happen next if we had that kind of reliable and universal infrastructure. I just added the part below:

# The Golden Age of Forms
So far I've described a new infrastructure that could underlie all government forms worldwide. But the revolutionary part would happen next.

On top of this infrastructure, people could build new tools to make it fantastically easy for citizens to interact with government forms. For example, a citizen could have a program on their personal computer that keeps a copy of every possible Specification for every government form in the world. The program could save their information securely and locally. The citizen could then use this program to complete and submit any government form in seconds. They would never have to enter the same information twice, because the program would have all the Specifications and would know how to map the fields accurately. Imagine if autocomplete were perfect and worked on every form. Documentation could be great because everyone building forms would be relying and contributing to the universal Specification Language. The common infrastructure would enable strong network effects where when form builders improve one form they'd improve many. Private enterprises could also leverage the Specification Language and read and write forms in the same vernacular to bring the benefits of this system beyond citizenship to all organizational interactions.
I'm not sure why I as an engineer would not want more focus on security, testing, documentation and reliability. It's by far not the worst that a company can become
I have a lot of experience with GraphQL and I love it. It saves a ton of development time.

However, for those who wonder what the disadvantages are, here are some. They are from real world production experience and they are not what people usually claim wrongly (like graphql would be harder to secure/version, ...)

No, some real pain points are:

1. Lack of a Map-type. There is no native type to return a list/array of objects but not a map with unique keys or even a set instead of a list. You can fallback to "convention" or custom types (like plain json) but it sucks.

2. Uploading big files (in chunks) is much more tricky than expected

3. There are union-types for the returned data. For example, I can query for an animal and get either a cat or a dolphin and if I use typescript or another capable language then the compiler will tell me that. But I cannot send such a request to the server, saying "here I send you an animal, the data is this ...". The server will have to provide a separate query/endpoint per animal. Very very annoying.

4. While graphql is awesome when it comes to batching requests, what it is not so awesome at is to improve performance by allowing the server to return the part of the data is already resolved. So while reducing the number http requests, now the previous slowest http request will become the bottleneck for all. This means the page might load subjectively faster because some parts are rendered later than possible. There is work going on here (like @defer) but it's not fully spec'd and also the solution doesn't work for some cases

There are more points but this gives you some idea of the ACTUAL problems. Otherwise, from development and setup time over maintenance, analytics, versioning/deprecation, tooling and so on, graphql is much better than your standard REST api in my opinion.
How we work and get more effective at working is more of an issue than something being inherently wrong with working remote, hybrid, or in person.

I’ve worked remote for a very long time including cycles in and out of it.

Some remote work principles come and go and others remain mandatory but are often ignored.

Primarily, people are not as good communicators as they imagine themselves to be and don’t dedicate a great deal of effort to improving constantly. This is in person, online and remote.

Underdeveloped communication skills play themselves out through attempting to over communicate for hybrid work but the core competency is not where it needs to be. One test is if someone can’t explain a slide deck using only a voice call, do they know the material at all?

Doing hybrid/distributed work well requires a clean slate in terms of space design both at office and home, and technology that elevates communication to the point where it’s invisible. Since that’s rare, working with what’s in place at a company and will take work if both parties to be willing to do it.

Employees also have to realize a pandemic created many of the nascent remote/hybrid practices and there is a lot of room for improvement.

Since most places will never invest or obsess enough over both deputizing and empowering their folks to have an unstoppable environment both at home and work, most are doomed to fail at it.

Generally, startups work at a quicker pace from the very start at one table, until enough is in place to start leaving the building and bring back insights. Some ideas will not need this as a must but also not be their full potential.

Startups are more than features and software development ceremony. In many cases it’s establishing a new way tech will work for and care for users.

Edit: grammar and clarity.
Friends are friends and business is business. If you get it confused, you will stay confused while the world moves on. I noticed most people are confused. You serve for your paycheck and then you are forgotten. They don't ask you what you spent the money on. Your reward is the package they gave you. Best to make friends in areas of life where that is the goal.
Expensive Bullshit at Scale
loved the "dumb monty hall" problem, and inspired me to create this "stupid birthday paradox".

"In an event for twins, How many people should attend so that the likelihood of finding two people with the same birthday is over 50%"

the slightest tweaks to the standard problem narratives trips up these stochastic parrots.
AI: The Worst-Case Scenario
On my phone so it's hard to check, but Gmail's ctrl and shift clicks work really well and is intuitive to me. I'm shocked they wouldn't use the same mechanics everywhere.

Best example: Gmail is one of the only webapps I'll ctrl click a few items at the top of the list, ctrl click a few in the middle, and then shift click to the bottom and it works exactly how I'd expect - everything stays selected and the shift+click selects from your previous click to the next item. I think it gets wonky if you change directions but I can't imagine how I'd expect ctrl+click item 1, 2, 9, 10, then shift click on 4 would work.
Isn't the answer simply full disk encryption and a policy about logging in? The laptop is probably a financial write-off in any case.
MIT engineers develop a Jell-O-like electrode
There are enterprise solutions for device management and access that solve this problem. Additionally, someone wanting to do such things would have already been building up that sensitive data and it wouldn't matter what happens when you fire them.
I have definitely noticed and been frustrated by what you're calling out here. There always has to be something to work on, even if that thing might invalidate a significant amount of previous effort or cause regression. As a developer myself, I guess it is good for me, because it means job security. And maybe that's why there's always something to be added or changed or re-created on the products I've helped develop - to ensure all the individual contributors have something to keep them busy. But it definitely is frustrating that it seems like an app being called "done" is extremely rare nowadays. Though I suppose developers didn't really have the choice to continue development indefinitely back before the internet allowed "miscellaneous bug fixes and feature updates" patches to be pushed weekly.

Edit: I just noticed who I was replying to. Thanks for your work on Cydia and in the iOS jailbraking scene at large. I have lots of fond memories jailbraking and installing all kinds of weird tweaks on my iPhone 4 back in the day.
It’s beyond time to reimagine the workplace

Given the global nature of labor, as well as the ability to envision new ways of working the only barrier to these changes are entrenched powers

The only viable and ethical pathway I see going forward is re-organizing globally as cooperatives and union workplaces. I see no other way to rebalance our economic system to prioritize the growth of everybody.

However, this has always been the most existential, largest fight in human history, and that means that individuals as laborers need to actively collectivize
It's not "well-known"- because your links don't say what you're claiming they do, and this is a conspiracy theory that's been shut down on here a thousand times before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22532682

NordVPN used residential proxies at one point to enable access to Disney+ and other streaming services; that's a world apart from hijacking end-user connections.

They've got an open source client. Where's the code that's turning end users into endpoints?

https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux
> While the lawsuit names Lithuania-based Teso LT, UAB as a defendant rather than “Tesonet”, this is as a result of a corporate restructuring several years ago. Aside from its link to Oxylabs, Tesonet also advertises itself as a creator and investor of a number of online services, including NordVPN, Hostinger and others.[0]

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/judge-orders-mediation-after-...
The htmx library emulates what would be possible if browsers supported gets/posts on other html elements like buttons. It’s a library because no browser supports this natively.
So, useless for the one thing LLMs are actually properly grounded? Sounds like a self-inflicted wound.
It takes being an actual manager who can evaluate the work being done and progress towards a goal instead of “who’s in the office for how long” assuming that an hour in the office is an hour worked
'remote work' requires expressly documenting and writing things out. This is what companies have _said_ they wanted since forever. (Probably to in theory make employees more fungible.) Done well, this promotes clarity and consistency.

The water cooler chat model, that tends to lead to other outcomes. Maybe the core goal does see some innovation, but documenting that becomes much harder.

There are also detractions to the everyone together models. Anyone with kids _will_ bring the latest mutations of colds into work. They'll vector out of daycare and schools through the parents and infect everyone in the office. Frequent Fliers might also have a similar effect based on their sheer exposure. Allowing WFH isolates these fault domains and minimizes the spread.
Yeah I saw that part but it does not mean they are using the users from NordVPN for Oxylabs, there's nothing explicitly showing so.
The main advantage of Jellyfin is that it can transcode on-the-fly, which is important if you want to share with friends and family that have slower or metered internet.

But the unfortunate flipside is it seems like the best clients (so far) do not support transcoding very well, they want to direct stream.
If two computers modify their initially different programs to match inputs and outputs - I would say it is synchronicity. The key difference with just two running copies of the same program is the ability to observe behavior of each other and modify it accordingly.
Even if they did nothing wrong imagine the sound of the world’s tiniest violin playing for the couple who bought up housing stock to turn it into a short term rental, then realized they might have to rent it to regular people or sell it for a profit.

Also when you commit fraud on a platform (even a little tiny fraud) you might get banned.
> mismanagement

this might come as a shock, but a few hundred powertripping übermods aren't really an indicator for the state of reddit as a businesss.

They threatened to break their mop, and the custodians immediately surrendered