skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also grew up largely without alcohol anywhere in sight. To the extent that as a child I perceived bars and beer gardens as mildly threatening - my family never went there, so I didn't understand why some people were so loud.

With that out of the way:

> Whether it’s work outing or friends gathering, I just pass if it’s supposed to be in a pub.

There's a selection of non-alcoholic drinks in every bar nowadays. You don't really have to limit your social life like that just because you don't drink alcohol, unless you're trying to make some kind of point.
It’s weird how macs don’t come with a GUI for managing system services. Windows does.. that being said the number of times I’ve had to mess with system services on mac can probably be counted with a few fingers…
You can get an OBD2 diagnostic device on Amazon for $20
HN never fails to deliver someone who really sounds like they know what they're talking about. Internet doesn't really corroborate these numbers afaict but hey
That is on iOS, on MacOS they allow other browsers and respect the systemwide defaults.

Personally I use Linux unless forced to use something else by my employer.
On a ship you are surrounded in a salty fluid. In fact, amniotic fluid is said to "smell like the sea" and I can confirm that it does.
Do you have any suggestions for those severely lacking on how they could acquire the needed mathematical background?
Because the cost of fraud is far too low and it's now factored into business plans. And no executive at FedEx will go to jail for this. When you can break the law for less than the profits you get for breaking the law, that's just got business sense.
Thought loops and general anxiety over making decisions is quite common for me. Having an alcoholic drink generally calms my mind for a bit, but I don't like to overdo it and think of it as a sort of "medication." I do enjoy being able to let my guard down a bit and sit with a clear head, though.
You're going to need to show me charts with strength of signal being diminished by "proper" clouds before I'll even remotely come to thinking this isn't just FUD. So, no, I don't understand him, and yes, if this is the premise I do not agree with it.
It was even a D3 thing already, remember the RMAH ? The main reason why (almost) all ActiBlizz games are online only is to make cheating harder. (They are particularly victims of their own success here, less popular games have it easier.
It's too bad there's a shit load of money behind not raising the corporate income tax.
How is that a pivot? The only way they made money in search was by advertising.
But how can I trust “the community”? I don’t know them. I don’t know their capabilities, nor do I have any say in what they check: whether it’s complete, or accurate; whether the software has been compromised since the last time the community checked; or whether they did the checking they said at all.
The book "Fiber Fueled" by Will Bulsiewicz is an excellent source of information regarding the gut microbiota and its importance. I highly recommend it.
“I stress, this is the euro area. It does not change my suggestion on the role of interest rates, which are a peculiarly UK phenomenon.”

A strange remark. I understand that the ECB interest rate is a little behind the curve but I don't see how that renders "interest rates...a peculiarly UK phenomenon". They're rising everywhere, and are higher than they have been since the financial crisis, and the BoE's 5% is less than the USA and many other countries.
> ... but that product had terrible support and documentation. So they decided to provide documentation and support services for it, charging customers $360 to solve their issues. However, they faced two problems: First, their documentation was so good that customers rarely needed to call them...

Interesting to see how documentation & support are such pain points to sell enterprise software, and yet how few companies manage to differentiate themselves by making truly great documentation & support experiences. Stripe is another good example
> Then you have the likes of TikTok who have meetings late into almost every evening and blame it on the time zone difference between USA and China, when they could have planned better, drawn lines, and have more reasonably-planned meeting times that fit both time zones

The only difference between TikTok and older fast growing consumer tech companies (Google, Facebook et al) is that their headquarters are not in the USA, so west coast employees are exposed to this. I remember seeing someone I used to work with at FB complain about this, and I smiled as this person used to try to put meetings in my calendar at 9pm on a Friday.

I'm totally agreed with you in principle, but just pointing out that this isn't a new phenomenon that TikTok invented (though I hear they are pretty bad).
There's so much more than just the engine, though. I'm dealing with a bunch of aging issues on a car right now. A lot of this stuff won't even show for a few years down the road.

* Shocks and struts wear out

* Catalytic converters are a semi-wear item

* In winter states that use salt, rust absolutely destroys things. I've had the exhaust system rust through on all of my vehicles (simply happens with age).

* Seat cushions, steering wheel, and other high touch surfaces wear. Likely not an issue _now_, but means a few years down the road, these things will be broken.

* Engine accessories - belts, starters, alternators, pumps, etc. Everything is just a bit closer to it's failure point.

----

Most of these issues aren't particularly expensive on their own, but they add up. Further, your expected maintenance is wildly different.
> Frosgren seems like a newb

She co-authored Accelerate: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno... . She is also currently at Microsoft Research and was previously at Google and GitHub. This may be a hot take you disagree with, but she's no newbie.

I took her point to be "make sure anything you build is a lot better than anything you can buy, because there are a lot of unexpected expenses in building".
and then stagnation

That's a good thing. People figured out how to do more with less, and make it compatible cross-browser too.
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiona

> What is considered personal information and sensitive personal information under the CCPA?

> Personal information is information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with you or your household. For example, it could include your name, social security number, email address, records of products purchased, internet browsing history, geolocation data, fingerprints, and inferences from other personal information that could create a profile about your preferences and characteristics.

> What is not considered personal information under the CCPA?

> Personal information does not include publicly available information that is from federal, state, or local government records, such as professional licenses and public real estate/property records. The definition of publicly available information also includes information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media, or certain information disclosed by a consumer and made available if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience.

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I would draw attention to the final parts of that second quote.

> The definition of publicly available information also includes information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media, or certain information disclosed by a consumer and made available if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience.

By posting to HN, I suspect that people would have a reasonable basis to believe that the information was made to the public on widely distributed media without restriction to a specific audience. In that case, its publicity available information and thus not subject to "remove all my comments."

I could be wrong (I'm not a lawyer) and if you believe I am wrong and believe that HN was in violation of this, it would be an opportunity to find a lawyer who agrees with you to make the demand and escalate it as appropriate.
Assuming that crowd isn't mostly the crowd that's already left over the API and nsfw issues, as well as the general unpleasant attitude the CEO has toward the user base. Lemmy sure has gotten a lot more traffic in the last few weeks.
This appears to be a duplicate of a recent post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36400465
Most Mastodon instances openly ban views they don't like based on "find another instance if you don't like". Other social media also does this but to a lesser degree.
The decentralisation also makes it so most places are horrible echo chambers with zero moderation oversight.

Sure, I can find an instance which mostly agrees with my views but I don't find much value in "preaching to the choir"...
Virtually all apps do this and some like Google Chat and Facebook Messenger do not even allow you to change browser.
Musk's biographer on his 'demon mode’: It's hard to watch but gets stuff done
Better yet, the paper on which the blog post is based: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/06/23/Eur...
>When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society?

When were we not there?
In response to all the people who are talking about the lifecycle of services, or independent deployments, wouldn’t something like small talk essentially do this?

It’s super old tech but that doesn’t mean that what’s new is automatically better. And in this case something like small talk sort of seems like it’s from the future when compared to the hodgepodge of tools that are sort of all duck taped together that form the basis of modern infrastructure.

I think in a way our ideas as modern developers have been held back by the present day status quo. In a large way that’s in part because it’s many of our jobs to build these systems.

Sorry, I know it’s a bit of a rant, and I don’t mean any offense at all. I’ve worked on platform before, so maybe I’m projecting, but I really do think it’s good or even necessary to question the present day wisdom.
Co-author means they could have been carried. I have worked at those companies and they were not meritocracies. I’ll add “if you are inexperienced” to that quote and agree wholeheartedly.
I stopped reading in the first paragraph.

> Redditors are staging blackouts.

The implication that the Reddit blackouts are related to recent AI advances is ridiculous. The embedded link also makes no mention of AI.

I dislike this kind of disingenuous clickbait. It's not worth my time to keep reading.

In a way I should thank them for the early red flag. This way I don't need to waste my time on the whole article.
Source? You may very well be correct but I would like to see a source for such a claim.
Semi-related anecdote regarding this. This won’t happen with UPS delivery vans, as they have them custom made and scrap them at end of life.

I assume for trademark purposes, among other things.
This is not defending it, but the annoying situation is that I am finding myself sometimes forced to use Chrome.

I don't use it as my primary browser and it I use it at an absolute minimum, but more and more I see popups of being unsupported in Firefox or needing a critical plugin for a workflow at work.

I do worry that we are seeing a repeat of that situation, a bit different but the same idea. A browser having too much control and shaping things their way.
Yeah, just read it directly from the ghouls at IMF: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inf...
Relevant bit for those curious:

> Is BillaBear Open Source?

> No. BillaBear is released under the source-available license Business Source License. You can find it in the license.md. This is the same license as used by Sentry, CoackroachDB, and many more.

> After 3-years from the release date of a version, it will then become open-source.
Mods extend the life of games, which means you aren't buying new games. I've don't think mods will ever be part of the cloud gaming scene. Cloud is the ultimate DRM. Need people to buy the new version of the game, even if it is worse? Remove old game from servers so they can't play it anymore.
Or one of the other small independents that won't work with sites that have drunk the Goog-Aid, but will be perfectly fine and even preferable on the rest of the document web, and even some of the interactive ones (old-school forums and the like.)
I wonder what would happen if every single web user decided to use an ad-blocker? Would the internet just, shut down because no one could make money anymore? Or would they figure it out like the record industry did when they couldn't sell physical discs anymore?

Let's find out.
That's true, I would not be against making some streets bike-only.

> I don’t think there’s anything particular about e-bikes that attracts reckless people compared to trucks or motorcycles.

I would disagree with this. The people who are reckless are working - they are doing deliveries and trying to get as many jobs in as they can.
Glad I uninstalled Windows and use Ubuntu on all my computers
>The engine rebuilds are usually around $10k same as a refurbished engine

What's the difference between a rebuilt engine and a refurbished engine?
Yes! I'm noticing this. My battery used to last about 18 hours, right now I'm lucky to get 12. Hopefully it gets resolved soon.
Most people would rather criticize than actually look for goodness.
> thoughts make your head hurt

This is a bit uncharitable. People only have so much capacity and interests.

Constantly analyzing the parts of life you don’t care about is exhausting.

For example: Most people would be absolutely crushed if they had to manage my disability the way I do. For me, it’s second nature. That doesn’t make neurotypical people less.

We’re the weird ones who enjoy being curious about a broad set of topics rather than just one or two. The curiosity that is so much a part of us is not necessary for much of life. We just can’t imagine living any other way.
It seems to grossly underestimate my upload bandwidth!
> When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society?

If you judge society by the worst headlines and stories from social media then it’s going to seem very bad

You have to consider that news and social media only talk about the extreme stories. It’s not representative of normal
Wolfi is for running inside the container instead of on a VM or bare metal host. They're complementary - you'd run something like Clear Linux to boot up into a container host, then run this inside the containers.
Yep, exactly. The more I read and it seems that these huge incumbents were all building in a blue ocean market.

Have you ever found any useful guides for bootstrapping in competitive markets?

It seems based on indie hacker building a personal founder brand is the only viable method for low customer acquisition.
Agree.

Mods / dang perhaps there is value in changing the submission to link to the original content?
I mostly base my sense of someone's authority on their commitment to logic and readiness to embrace evolving knowledge. By your standard, if someone could live for thousands of years, they might persist in holding the outdated belief that matter is composed of fire, air, water, and earth. Too much stability is dangerous.
By making web standards so complex only well-funded corporate efforts can maintain a browser, we've insured browsers represent corporate interests ahead of user interests.

We must cut this Gordian knot while still can. Some combination of public funding for browser development, and making web domain names (a public good) contingent on website content following web standards, that will slowly get made simpler [1]. Perhaps the corporate browsers should be forced to display a scary red warning for incompatible websites, even if the browser is able to render them (like Google does if it whimsically decides a website is phishing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470078).

Just like we forbid radio jamming, polluting the web should be restricted, if we want to maintain some semblance of usability.

As for the API itself.. it is interesting how ads based on website content aren't even considered. If something as blunt and expensive as a poster next to a highway is viable, why do we let Google lie to us that only surveillance-based advertising can fund the web?

[1] Old content gets to follow the standards of when it was published.
Also Internet connection issues playing Hardcore that can't be solved by playing offline any more.
> ~1.5 years ago it was totally racist and xenophobic to think a lab escape in Wuhan could be a viable source of the pandemic.

To the extent that it was true then (taking saalweachter's comment in mind), it's still true now.

> ~15 years ago being queer was something you should be quiet about.

"Queer" is a very broad term, which also includes trans- men and women, drag queens, and so-called "Don't Say Gay" bills which make it more difficult to bring up many queer issues now than it was 5 years ago.

Members of ACT UP in the 1980s certainly did not believe that being queer was something you should be quiet about.

> ~10 years ago a language supporting simple asynchronous paradigms, static and cross compilation was a "waste of time".

I remember people being enthusiastic about Go, which came out more than 10 years ago and fits that description.

> ~30 years ago OOP was the only acceptable and superior paradigm.

Not true. In 1994 Stroustroup wrote:

] One reason often given for learning Smalltalk is that it is ‘‘pure’’ and thus forces people to think and program ‘‘object-oriented.’’ I will not go into the discussion of ‘‘purity’’ beyond mentioning that I think that a general-purpose programming language ought to and can support more than one programming style (paradigm). - https://archive.org/details/designevolutiono0000stro/page/17...

and

] The fundamental reason for the size of C++ is that it supports more than one way of writing programs, more than one programming paradigm. From one point of view, C++ is really three languages in one: - A C-like language (supporting low-level programming); - An Ada-like language (supporting abstract data type techniques); - A Simula-like language (supporting object-oriented programming) - https://archive.org/details/designevolutiono0000stro/page/19...

> ~45 years ago psychology was equivalent to voodoo.

What? I don't remember it that way either.

I really don't think viewers of "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972-1978) were expected to view Robert "Bob" Hartley, Chicago psychologist, as a voodoo practitioner.
Staying in the Arena
I think they assumed that the liquid in the shampoo bottle contained cocaine (some new magic smuggling method), and then sent it off for lab testing. He was detained awaiting test results.

The question is if the field test used is specific enough to rise to the level of arresting/detaining someone.
TL;DR it's:
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It is likely written by some copywriter. That person believes in nothing, they are simply performing a task that has been assigned to them.
Yes. There is a similar product called Amphetamine now.
It can, although having just received it this morning, it definitely changes first and asks you to roll it back afterwards, rather than being opt-in. It's still obnoxious.
Shitty behavior isn't excusable just because there's a setting to disable it.
Get off my lawn! No really, it's protected by sharks with friggin lasers on their heads.
So how do I make my websites break their shiny new targeted-advertising API?
The concept of instances is already too much friction, and will surface beyond the initial "choosing an instance" issue.

What happens when your chosen instance shuts down because of lack of funding, or gets pwned because of an admin careless with security, or the admin is a malicious actor and starts messing around, or there is some (whether justified or not) inter-instance drama and as a result yours is getting cut off from the rest of the network?

Instances shouldn't be a thing. They are not a thing in conventional social media platforms the fediverse is trying to displace, and those conventional social media platforms displaced the earlier iteration of the fediverse aka forums and websites because most people don't want the extra friction and overhead of maintaining a server and having mostly-isolated communities.

Non-ActivityPub implementations such as Nostr actually have a better chance at displacing conventional social media because "instances" aren't a thing; the network isn't balkanized and clients are in charge (so inter-instance drama isn't a thing) of fetching content and choosing which content to display, with relays acting in the background and mostly being replaceable (cryptography ensures relays can't actually tamper with any content).
I was just talking to a friend last night about how I didn’t know of any good off the shelf solutions for this sort of thing in the Node ecosystem like Laravel Spark. But it looks like this is also built in PHP. Is it headless- where the person implements their own UI and simply hits the REST api? It could probably work if it’s just a container.

I’m in a position where I need to build something like this, but there’s still a lot of things I haven’t dealt with. The thing I’m building could potentially have thousands of different custom subscription plans - can this accommodate that?

Also, how tightly coupled to Stripe is it? My other concern is that Stripe shuts down accounts so whatever solution I settle on, I’m looking for a “dumb pipe” approach where the vast majority of things are handled by the software and the payment processor can be replaced quickly.

Also I tried to go to your user documentation and got a 403 forbidden error.
It’s always been this way. Hell, the entire tech industry is this way. No one is innocent, and society is generally fine with it. What might be new is the fact that you hear so much more about it now because of the internet. What was once just local news before is now easily amplified.

Society hasn’t so much as changed as we’ve become more aware of all of the issues. And to top it all off, a lot of people want to go back to that again. Because ignorance is bliss.
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Seeing the same thing from the inside. Both mega corps I've worked for over the past 5 years have this issue.
I break the law on my bike a lot more than my car, but I don't ride an ebike on the sidewalk where pedestrians are. That's what I'm talking about.

I run stop signs on my bike all the time (like at 4 way stops) - I don't think this is very dangerous if you do it properly. Obviously I slow down to like a few MPH and can stop quickly if I see a car/someone crossing the street/whatever.
We only know that “buyer hooked it up to his computer and said [something]” - how does that strengthen an argument for (or against) right to repair, exactly?
Highly rated by Amazon reviews and ratings? Yeah, that's reliable information that is highly protected from abuse and fraud. /s
It's not. The title is about the default behavior. Being able to manually change it in an ad-hoc manner, not in the default os settings, confirms the title is correct.
They usually believe some of it, because they're spin doctors not idiots.

Edge is pretty OK, good even compared to Firefox's speed issues and Chrome being Chrome.
Asking this in a friendly manner, but don't you feel bad that something you created was taken essentially for free by a corporation and monetized? Money isn't everything, but I would think it fair for the creator to receive their share