skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on industry, maturity of team (tenure on that project).

I’ve worked on teams that have exactly your experience. I’ve worked on others where they could just never hit the mark. Skills and experiences seemed equivalent. There didn’t seem to be a magic bullet reason, just a whole series of reasonable explanations.
I don't think "the majority" matter, in the context of what parent commenter is talking about. I generally subscribe to the idea of Eternal September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September), where "the majority" is the root cause of the problems.

The early web was not great because capitalism didn't exist and corporations were nicer back then, etc. The early web was great because it was a subculture, driven by a niche population that was more technically savvy and prone to create rather than just consume. Today's web is poor because it is now the mainstream culture, it is driven by a wide population of casual, unsophisticated users that are prone to consume content only and are therefore best served by walled gardens.

As the casual consumer web grew, the early maker web's signal got increasingly lost in the noise. There are still interesting blogs out there, but they are harder to find and attract less engagement because even those of us from the spirit of that original web now spend so much time on platforms like Reddit (and even HN) instead.

Even if you want to produce novel content, you really HAVE to engage with the entrenched closed platforms in order to reach any audience at all now. And therefore there's little way to discriminate, if you want to attract a community of early-web minded people while avoiding the mass normies. Most attempts that try this either fizzle out altogether, or inadvertently take a wrong turn into culture wars, instead attracting alt-right trolls who think the problem with the web is too many political progressives now.

I think it is a pointless goal to try to change the entire mainstream Internet. To somehow change 2020's normies into 1990's geeks. I think the only feasible goal, and only necessary goal, is to carve out space for that geek community to thrive as a subculture once again. Honestly, "the web" itself may be an inappropriate platform for this. It may only be possible with something new that requires some technical savvy and friction in order to access, to discourage all the phone users from venturing in.
Or force you to make an account and opt-in to their metrics instead of using your devices locally-only after years. Looking at you, Phillips Hue.
Alleged Agile purists and Scrum Masters with a MEDIUMTEXT worth of Alliance certifications in their email signature who prattle endlessly about SWAGs, cone of uncertainty, “it’s _just_ an estimation”, tee shirt sizes, etc. will corner you with a demand to give the number of days it will take to do x with no necessary details or requirements, make you play planning poker with some other equally bewildered chump, ignore that and write whatever number they already had in their head into the roadmap which will be several months short of your guestimation, and then chastise you and your team for not delivering what they wanted even sooner than that, and before you’re even done they start “knowledge transfer” and “switching to maintenance mode” so they can whisk you off to another equally fucked project; get ready for it.

It’s one big partially dysfunctional cargo cult where your toughest career problems are less frequently technical but political, interpersonal, and organizational.
I find it very ironic that this is the top post given the centralized nature of this site.
Yes. I made a toy version of this, it's an extension that adds e2ee to your chat websites by hooking into the send button, and the "add message to local list" function.
Then why did she make that statement?
Also there is Impromptu[0], a live coding Scheme. This is my favorite piece written in it[1]. The guy behind Impromptu created Extempore[2].

[0]: http://impromptu.moso.com.au/index.html

[1]: https://vimeo.com/2579694

[2]: https://extemporelang.github.io/
> What we need is a social-first internet

* blood pressure intensifies *

> where every piece of content is associated with an actual human and people query for content through their social graph

I do think that latter part is an interesting idea, modulo performance questions and echo-chamber concerns. Also, what about providing anonymity to oppressed peoples?

Perhaps for my last point above, we could have bifurcated services, where the user explicitly knows if they are operating in verified space or anon space.
and this, exactly, is why I scoffed when I read the headline touting wikipedia as the "last good place" on the internet. It's become a defender of hegemonic status quo narratives.

I read wikipedia articles about phenomena my academic discipline is involved with and I keep thinking, "why do they still push that as true? This is ridiculous" about every time I log in.

But it serves hegemonic knowledge production,so it's in there, and we now know the effort the US government is making to make sure its viewpoint gets shown as "true". It's disgusting at times.
A Tale of EDR Bypass Methods
My pleasure, hope it's helpful.

Yes—on the last point it won't reduce any but might help increase your "win" ability for the chargebacks that do slip through.
Perhaps in general, but if the problem here is "I don't want a corporation to have access to when my garage door is open or closed" I can't fathom how "Give another corporation access to my entire network to troubleshoot my VPN and LAN configuration of my devices" is the solution?
It's virtually certain this is good old propaganda
Show HN: Self Sport – Had crap self esteem due to an imbalanced life, made this
I'm not a developer (or designer) by trade but have always wanted to make something like this. Over the past year, around having a baby and the day-job, I've been learning to code and figuring things out. Today, Self Sport goes live in the app store.

It's the worst kind of app. It's something I needed, I knew would help me, and I guessed may help others. Its focus is on helping drive a stronger sense of self, and a richer life.

--- Summary --

Self Sport is lifestyle tracker that functions somewhat like a journal, but more incrementally and short form similar to tweets. It uses a social ‘feed’ feature to allow users to get inspiration for various parts of their lives (fitness, love life, friends, family, goals, etc.) from the community’s activity, while avoiding other social features (following, likes, comments, etc.) to mitigate the negative sides of social posting.

iPhone only for now. Launched today.

Would love to chat about it with you all.
I don't know if it can be fixed. Maybe we can slow the deterioration but we might be beyond the tipping point. The internet I joined 25 years ago is long gone and it's never coming back. It's partly a technological problem and a resource problem but it's also larger scale problem with our values.
> - stay humble. you are inherently no better than the guy who cleans the floors, even if you are paid more

The guy that cleans the floors is doing a useful job, and doing a better job of it than I could do.

The other programmers on the other hand...
It is- that's why it's often attacked.

It's not perfect but Wikipedia is an accomplishment and treasure compared to all the walled gardens and extractive BS everywhere.
Whats wrong with writing RFC?
Having written Unity, Godot, Unity DOTs, Bevy, an obscure ECS engine called kivent, and even rolled a java engine from scratch at one point I somewhat disagree with this statement.

When people think of overhead, they might be thinking of the jankiness of Unity DOTs and it's lacklustre ECS integration with a preexisting editor designed for Unity's Gameobjects world.

The truth is, an engine built with ECS from the outset has ergonomics that go beyond merely writing better multithreaded code. It truly enforces composition over inheritance when done right. Overwatch is an example of a game written using ECS that generally doesn't have hundreds of thousands of entities bouncing around
My point was the insurance company might be taking the heat for denying payment for the claim. For example, the lawyer in the article was 67 years old, and presumably had a Medicare plan sold by BlueCross BlueShield Louisiana (BCBSLA).

Was it BCBSLA that chooses to use Elevance for reviewing claims and the guidelines for those claims? Or does the federal government dictate using Elevance? And are there varying federal government standards for different insured populations?

I have not researched it thoroughly, but I can envision a situation where BCBSLA sells the government a “fall guy” role, and the government (taxpayers) save money by telling BCBSLA to use a more restrictive formulary or prior authorization criteria for certain populations.
Dammit, why didn't I know about this?
In general, I always have the feeling I'm not aware of great applications out there, and I confirm this sensation every time I find them, like now!

How do you all stay tune of the great apps out there?
I disagree about the clean code. It’s what defines engineering vs ‘mere development’.

Spending time on design up front and doing the smallest thing that could possibly work allowed you to move very quickly later.

THAT gets noticed by management, and if you preach it long enough they buy in.

Clean code is nothing more than just making sure a code base is fully consistent in its structure, self similar, or crystalline in its structure. Basically no cowboys or egos allowed: everyone writes things in the same manner and style, so everyone can understand it. It takes a lot of maturity from devs to do this and a lot of code reviews.

I first saw this coding technique on a medical codebase that tested drug interactions, and later on a very much ununamed defense code base.

Whatever the standards are ends up being s bit arbitrary, the actual value is ‘everyone does one thing’.
Ted Nelson's vision (in "Dream Machines") was strongly focused on micro-transactions for this reason.
The Supreme Court appears poised to rein in its worst decision on guns
I find Cal Newport quite repetitive. He has some good ideas, I'm sure - but his recent book "Digital Minimalism" was a disappointing read. It was very much a rehash of Deep Work in simpler terms with some portion of the book dedicated to discussing the Amish and Mennonites.

Several parts of the book felt very disjointed. One such part of the book discussed a colleague of his, whose entire name he kept repeating every other sentence. In contrast to other section of the book, where he only stated their first name a couple of times. Then parts meandered into segments about Solitude that just felt out of place. It just felt tenuous.

This book could have easily been just a series of essays. In fact, essays probably would have reached a bigger audience - but you can't cash on previous successes and make bank that way.
I actually read that he is enjoying his job and has a healthy attitude.
Maybe a blockchain-based chat protocol, where there is a cost to posting? That's a pretty steep barrier to entry.
Spirit is very hit or miss depending on the route. I flew from Orlando to Pensacola and back three times in two weeks earlier this year and was delayed an average of 3 hours every single flight. The reported cause of the delay was "aircraft maintenance" although in two cases the aircraft had been at the airport overnight. The pilot explained to us during announcements that sometimes they skip longer maintenance when planes are there overnight.

Otherwise, I've had okay experiences with Spirit prior to this year but I won't be flying with them again since it is shorter to drive than suffer their constant delays.
Preventing Problems with Generated Files
I wonder if all the toxicity is just a reflection of people's state of mind. Just seems to be a lot more anger and sadness online in the late 2010s early 2020s than there ever was before.

There just seems to be a lot of lonely and depressed people out there, and unfortunately they often time they seem to congregate to wallow in each other's depressive thought loops. It's hard enough to escape from the gravity well of depression when you're alone in reinforcing the darkness. Can't even imagine what getting stuck into one of those quagmires might be like.
Taking a much higher level of perspective on the issue, I don't know if people complain in the way that it matters. I mean sure they complain, but internet usage globally is up by a lot and it keeps going up, even as we discover some issues with over-use on our health. So yeah people complain but the internet, even as it is today, is I think by any metric the most loved technology available worldwide.

If the internet was getting way worse in practice wouldn't a bunch of people start using somethng else and new user rates decreasing? By all metrics the internet is the best it ever was and keeps being super useful for everyone.
Sorry to hear that. What was the loophole?
Not everyone needs to be passionate about the day job. Being present, competent, and reliable is enough. I’d personally go on to say that it’s risky to put too much emotional investment into something you don’t own/control.

I prefer to invest my passion in things outside of my day job. Working is fine, but it’s a means to an end to fuel more meaningful things. We don’t live to work.
Socialism has nothing to do with 'government capture'; it only concerns itself with worker ownership over the means of production.
> there is a campaign to push wikipedia as a constructivist paradise.

There is also (I think) a campaign to destroy Wikipedia so that we are forced to use for-profit enshittified resources.
I would register and subscribe to this if I could just have Facebook with no suggested/algorithmic content nor any other tricks designed to encourage "engagement".
Ad hominem usually demonstrates you know that you’re wrong.

I am not the one arguing that a computer has thoughts, feelings and intent as you are here. It is you that is deliberately attempting to misunderstand through ignorance, lies, and insult.
I suggest people read the full decision from the ombudsman: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/176658

It shows what an absolute bureaucratic mess it all is.
As a newcomer to Rust (specifically Async/Threads) why are their multiple runtimes and thus different code for embedded async/threads between desktop and embedded ? I know it isn't in the standard library, so things just happened, but there is still no clear winner that does it all ?

How can we make code be portable (e.g node.js like) between embedded and other platforms if they differ so much?
This reminds me of efforts I've been a part of to open source libraries and others bits of code at companies large and small. The reality is that most employment contracts consider the employee's considered made for hire, meaning that ownership rights, in whole or large part, are given to the employer. Publishing works carries both risk and a cost to ensure the right works are published under the appropriate terms, and expending this effort is only in the interest of the company as a means of retention (and, ironically, letting your workers display their talent can easily work against retention).

> Over 90% of the studio work I've made over my career is locked away forever

Speaking as a developer, my "locked away" rate is probably >99.9% on a line-by-line basis. Glad to see the concept artists faring better, I suppose.
After 30 years in the job, I say that the poster you're responding to is just realistic. I love my job. I love what I do, but it's worth remembering that it's just a job. There is so much more to life.
I've been taking a look recently at Centsible and planning to try it out.
It's similar to the YNAB methodology, only on android or ios for now, but honestly that's what i've been looking for. It doesn't have all the fancy features that other apps have, but probably that's why it is much cheaper as well.
Copilot looks pretty good, but it's ios only so I wasn't able to try it out.
I don’t understand how the MyQ app has such a high rating in the App Store. 4.8, 1.5M reviews. It’s so bare bones, no shortcut support, (obviously) no HomeKit, no widget, literally nothing to make the use easier or more convenient.

To make things even worse, first position above you devices is an ad (for their other devices) and it periodically suggests that I connect it to Amazon so some random people delivering packages have the power to enter my home.

Genuine question, how?????
I love programming but can’t drink the koolaid.

I haven’t found a company yet that meets my energy. All I get is people “excited” to be working for their company because they are “changing” the world. It’s marketing vomit.

To be honest I would prefer to have few million dollars in investments and not to work for anyone at all. No arbitrary deadlines, no corporate ladder, no politics.

I just want to write some code, build some servers and play with things. Maybe make something that benefits people in general.
Absolutely. It would also be possible for them to create a local API that home assistant can call over the local network. The real problem is that the company just doesn't care.
Yes, sorry what I meant was opposite to the reason that started this thread (to ensure review participation)
TL;DR: Parent is first asserting that “______ is just a construct” people are trying to make Wikipedia a “______ is just a construct”-opedia.

Then the rest seems just a construct-ed rant.

Where's this coming from?

The paper examines "institutional" change of Wikipedia, showing how its content transformed over time from lending credence to fringe theories to actively debunking them.

This transformation occurred due to the ambiguity of Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View" (NPOV) guideline, which was open to different interpretations.

There were two camps of editors - the "Anti-Fringe" camp pushed for firmly anti-pseudoscience interpretations of NPOV, while the "Pro-Fringe" camp pushed for more neutrality towards fringe theories.

Early disputes over NPOV were frequently resolved in favor of the Anti-Fringe camp, empowering them while demoralizing the Pro-Fringe camp.

The Pro-Fringe editors gradually exited Wikipedia over time, leaving the Anti-Fringe camp with more power to reinterpret NPOV in an anti-fringe manner.

The paper suggests similar dynamics may drive change in other groups like political parties, social movements, bureaucracies, etc. Losers choose to leave rather than keep fighting uphill battles.

Neither the paper, nor the rant, mention one hypothesis for why academia's paradoxically groupthink radicalism may have an outsized or disproportionate influence on Wikipedia: the evergreen activity from teachers everywhere assigning "edit a Wikipedia article" to each new class of haven't yet experienced the real world students and the self-selecting cohort of those who see an outlet for an introverted form of activism that then persists for perhaps a decade among a subset.
and then you're still the product, They're just charging everyone they can get their grubby hands on.
> So as a result of this we get, for example, articles like this one on Dana Rivers, who murdered in cold blood a lesbian couple and their son: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rivers. He is described as "she" and "her" throughout the article, despite this actually being the crime of a man.

In this case, isn't the crime more important than what she chooses to identify as? I'm all for prosecuting a murder, but bringing gender politics into it feels strange and unwarranted.
> Chamberlain and Overhead Door Company (owned by a Japanese door company).

Sidenote but in Europe many architects pick Hörmann:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6rmann

I've got this both here (apartment in a building) and in another country at my vacation house. I've even got the same remote control in both (EU) countries.

They've got their own home automation system too but I'm not using it. I know there are people just opening the box containing the motor and screwing (no need to solder AIUI) some open home-automation thinggamagic into them.

They're compatible with cars having "homelink" too (buttons in your car which you can configure to act as this or that remote control).

> it had a battery backup

Oh that is sweet for...

I remember the "fun" of having electricity down (black out in the entire rural area) and needing to hurry up to go pick my kid at school... I wasn't familiar with garage doors openers and black out meant no WiFi and no 4G (black out was obviously affecting 4G too: don't know why but everytime we had that black out, we'd have no 4G either). Anyway I ended up removing a safety wire on the garage door, to then remove a bolt, then used a rope and a pulley of sort to create leverage to be able to lift up the wide sectional door.

There probably was a simple way but I was in a hurry.

Fixing the mess was fun too: it involved watching YouTube vids and talking with my brother on the phone (he's familiar with these) to understand how to "clip" the motor again on the belt (or whatever that is called) and how to have the door close at the correct spot (at first there was a big gap!).
Plenty of assumptions there. There is nothing to say that correctness is a function of size or homogeneity. The claim is cause for concern in itself.
> Some people were saying it’s not legal and it would go away quickly, but it’s still there and it might be legal.

It took 5 years for Facebook's blatant GDPR infringement to be addressed, so give it another 5 years and we might finally see a binding decision on this.
The solution seems pretty clear - buy a 3rd party opener OR use a different vendor that does play nice.

I have a meross garage door opener that uses homelink (a standard that virtually ever garage door opener supports) to open/close the garage door with a sensor on the top of the door to detect when it's open and closed. It was $49. That's cheaper than myQ addons for chamberlain. It works with google home, ifttt and home assistant. (I have reminders set if the door is open for more than X minutes and if it is still open after a certain time of day).

Having to have "yet another app" (myQ) installed just to use a garage door is pretty ridiculous - if you're a power user you should understand the folly of using unofficial integrations and as an unofficial integration provider you should know you're walking on ice.
US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
1) Home Assistant is not an officially sanctioned option by the devices and will run into technical issues regardless whether it's cloud hosted or not (as seen by the very post we're all commenting on).

2) Even if the above were not true, at that point you're back to an internet enabled smart home device system, and now we're simply picking which vendor to trust over the other. But in both cases, the option for the vendor to collect telemetry data about your usage of the products exists.

There is really no viable way for the typical consumer to be able to both have a good product experience for something like this, and to prevent a cloud vendor from having access to their data. Unless I'm missing something obvious.
We are a small company. I don't use pirated software. I like on-premise software over cloud solutions. Adobe and Zoom ae the only cloud solutions we use. Zoom is obviously. But I look on how to get rid of Adobe, while Adobe Stock has no real competition as the bought Fotolia, which we used before.
That's mostly because all that empty office space looks bad and it's worth nothing now.
>Every bit of content has a POV

Every bit of content has multiple POVs, and when you continuously present only the POVs associated with one part of the political spectrum, that's an avoidable bias.

>They do as good a job as anybody at it.

Actual encyclopedias do a much better job of it.
No. Stackoverflow is, after Wikipedia, the most sane place on the internet. We have our gripes of course, but there really is no contest here.