skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timothy Snyder calls this pattern of motivated thinking "politics of inevitability".

At first you think everything's fine so you don't have to do anything. Then when it's no longer possible to lie to yourself about that you immediately switch to "can't do anything anyway" so you can continue doing nothing.

His main example was the "end of history" when dealing with autocracies around the world. At first we thought they will solve itself because we're on the winning side of the history. Then we immediately switched to "nothing can be done".

Anything to avoid taking responsibility.
Let's not forget that Palestinians elected Hamas in 2006 [0] in what is largely considered a fair election*. And if anything, Israel's interference would have been against Hamas (see Wikipedia link).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative...

* There are some caveats to "fair" in this case, which is why I linked to the Wikipedia article. But it is by and large considered a legitimate democratic process.
The one simple trick to avoid here is to not be "an artist". Unless you make it big the only thing you're getting out of Spotify and Apple is possibly the easy of distributing a link to your music.

I know a minor band with a few 10's of thousands of Spotify plays and they make 10x more money out of Bandcamp and gigs than they do out of streaming services. And they can't live off that so have day jobs anyway.
Deployment can be as easy and as complicated as you like it. Nobody took away an option to upload a single html file via SFTP.
Makes sense, I get hallucinations in English too.
Yeah TouchWiz was horrible. OneUI is lovely and way better than native Google IMO. My S8 really became a much better phone with that update. Unfortunately it was also its last :'(

For browser I'm Firefox all the way though!
Wow, just wow. Calling someone a sucker for taking a job, without considering anything else.

What about the top of the crop who live around the corner and prefer office over WFH for a clear separation between work and personal life?
It is not paid to another company (ehm, Mozilla), or it doesn’t live from advertisements (almost everybody else). You pay for its services the old-fashioned way, with your money.
Idea: Online stores could provide shipped orders in a form of checklist
Checklisted order summary can help check delivered items, especially on large orders.

I've got my delivery recently and to check if I've got everything I have to either export order list to some app and check items I pick from package (first-picked-first-checked-out), or take all them out and go through the list line by line and check if I have this item (and put item aside)
Some examples:

* Loss of trust, loss of openness. Someone kept leaking TGIF presentations to the media, so TGIF turned into contentless corpspeak and dodging of any hard questions. Someone kept leaking internal docs, so new docs now are locked down to specific teams or divisions instead of being readable company-wide.

* Attempts to start some lucrative but morally questionable projects (like the CBP contract or the China reengagement) that many employees felt went against "don't be evil".

* Cost cutting everywhere. Putting more work on fewer, burned out people. Desk hoteling in some places. No hardware refreshes. Very limited travel. And of course, cancelling or downsizing some fun but experimental projects.

* The pointlessly insulting way the 2023 layoffs were handled - e.g. cutting the laid off people off from all corp network access, even their email, without warning.
Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034951
Oh nice, good old kremlin brainwash again. Something that happened 70 years ago while also forgetting what russians did here at the same time, mass deportations, murder, rape justifies everything.

russia still doing that now is completely fine.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdhsPQEX0AALM9H?format=jpg&name=...
The federal government doesn't pay for anything, the citizens do
Yes! Some of my favorite memories with my pops involved him saying "I don't know, let's figure it out".

E.g.:

Me: "dad can we make lava?"

Dad: "I don't know, it has to be really hot"

Me: "We have a torch, thats really hot, will that work?"

Dad: "I don't know, go find a rock I'll get the torch"

20 minutes of heating a rock later

Me: "I don't think this is gonna work, its not even glowing yet"

Dad: "yeah you're probably right. wanna see something cool tho?"

Me: "Yeah"

* Dad puts the rock in the "safety bucket" of water we had there in case somethigng caught on fire. It steams and hisses and the water gets hot *

Me: "COOL!"

Other good memories include failed attempts to fix broken toys, the time we went on a quest but failed to locate the source of a stream, the rainy day we went fishing in a drainage ditch (where there would never be fish), and so on.
WFH is an invention equal to washingmachine + dishwasher where 2h each day is not being lost anymore by unproductive activity. With plenty of externalities on top of the lost time.

If (only as a test excercise) for 5 years we mandated the employer to bare the commute cost we would quickly see if RTO / WFH makes more economical sense.
S-LoRA: Serving Thousands of Models from One GPU for Fun and Profit
The joke is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
5G is junk for household internet.
I had the very same idea after the browser update! Well done :)
I would also like to know the answer. Would it be a good idea for the company to keep _encrypted_ backups on their machines/HDDs? Not a laptop somewhere, but something just a bit more involved.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Is the longest grammatically correct sentence in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
No, the ruling is that they have to pay the commission within 7 days of a subscription/payment occurring via a link in an app distributed on the app store.

There's no way around it. The only way around it is if the user naturally finds/discovers the link to subscribe to a service via another method outside of the app itself. If the act of subscribing happened via clicking a link in the app, the commission must be paid.
The Failed Promise of Independent Election Mapmaking
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014642
I’d still use Spotify since Apple Music is such a bad app.
That keyboard (and trackpoint) is begging to be touched. I'll guess it's a thinkpad k/b.

I do love vintage gear, but as a daily diriver, the rest of the machine looks, um, very vintage. Check those bezels! Though the LCD is barely visible anyway.
I despise these AI generated SEO blogs ruining the internet.

And I know people who “work” on this. They just ChatGPT prompt some shit, long posts, and paste it in. Sure its “relevant” but all reads like those recipe blogs and just repeats the same thing.

I use DDG/Brave search, but it may only be a matter of time.
By getting good at testing. I worked on a project with a 100% coverage requirement for a few years, and it forced me to learn how to test things that I normally wouldn't bother with. It also forced me to deal with the consequences of maintaining my tests.

I've discovered that the usual buckets used to categorize tests (unit, integration, etc) can mislead people into writing tests that make refactors painful/impossible. If you test each "unit" in isolation, then you limit your ability to change how the units interact (even if the user-facing behavior isn't changing at all.) You end up needing to change/rewrite the tests for each "unit".

Instead of units, I think about supported interfaces and tricky dependencies. Ideally, I'd test using the user-facing interface. That way, the test only changes if the user-facing (supported) behavior changes. Then I swap out any tricky dependencies (mainly slow/nondeterministic operations) for fakes/stubs/mocks. In the end, the tests look like "integration" tests, but they fit into your CI pipeline in the same place unit tests would.

This testing strategy makes me much faster and more effective. I can start writing tests before I've worked out how I'll organize the components. And if I change my mind halfway through, I don't need to rewrite any tests. If done right, those tests can survive years of refactoring with little maintenance.

There's more to good testing and being a great programmer than this, of course. But this is the lesson that has had the biggest impact on my "greatness" at programming.
I like the chevy tahoe callback - I'm assuming that's a reference to the chevy dealership that used an LLM and had people doing prompt tricks to get the chatbot to offer them a chevy tahoe for $1.

The specificity in your writing above "to make this more concrete" about how it works was also helpful for understanding the product.
From the site:

How does Photino work?

Photino is a collection of packages that can be used for different platforms and technologies. The different packages use Photino.Native as their base package. Photino.Native is a C++ (and Objective-C) wrapper around the OS’s built-in Chromium or WebKit-based browser control in it. On Windows it uses the Chromium Edge based WebView2 control, on macOS it uses Safari’s WKWebView and on Linux it uses WebKitGTK+ 2. The Photino.Native package is compiled for each platform and distributed via NuGet.

Using the native browser control reduces the overall footprint of a Photino application since there is no need to bundle WebKit in the application. Photino is cross-platform because the application communicates with the wrapper in exactly the same way on any OS. This means developers only need one code base for all desktop platforms.

While we’re concentrating on using Photino with .NET, it could be used to build Web UIs for desktop applications written in any language, like C++, Go, Rust, Java, Objective-C and others!
It's easy for Apple Music to pay double the royalties when it doesn't have to pay a 30% cut to a 3rd party. It doesn't have to pay one on Apple's Store, and I doubt it pays one on Google's.
How exactly do you test memories in mice?
I have been SO Medicaid-pilled by this event
They do pump water out and back into the locks from neighboring storage. There is a limit to the minimum amount of water that you can use, though, since the potential energy to raise the ship comes from the loss of water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvclVcesEE&t=338s
If working from home for all the jobs that do not require physical presence (building a building on a location for example) was a right by law, I can imagine centralisation in big cities reversing and a lot of interesting smaller communities starting to flourish more. Which in my opinion is a great thing.
Mario Maker. Pretty much full stop. After that, Scratch has some good facilities to make games, as well. But starting at low level dev kits is just not where you want to be.
Commission sends requests for information to 17 Large Online Platforms
That doesn't even make any sense.

Lawyers make money on these lawsuits.

There have been massive class action lawsuits that don't even target people per se, such as the oil spill payout.
>This is what Microsoft will always lack: taste and style.

They alwawys lacked an authoritarian UX and design chief, like their own Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive who, for better or worse, would be the only one with the final verdict on what the corporate design of all products should look like and what is allowed to ship.

Microsoft is too fragmented, everyone of its products is basically a totally separate company with its own design language.
They don’t think about what it’s like for young people to onboard.

You don’t know the culture. You don’t know anyone. Your questions are the “useless interruptions” people say they’re happy they get to ignore.

It’s very obvious that this is not a sustainable approach for most companies. Some companies will get remote culture right and get access to a niche of the employee market.

Overall, things will shift back to in person quickly. Look at startups at top VCs.
Imagine if google had just developed a proper iMessage competitor in 2012, and made it a cornerstone product like gmail. We probably would actually have a competitive smartphone landscape in the US today.
The free market still has rules, it's not a complete anarchy. Regulators can often be incompetent or make rulings that distort the market, which is a problem in itself. What we should aim for is a market which is free within boundaries, with the aim of the boundaries to increase competition, if we can assume that competition equals good things for everyone.
The next iOS update will make it harder to break into your iPhone
I have been told by the artist (Jonathan Scott, the Doleful Lions) that this article, perhaps even the entire site, it AI created:

https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-the-rat...

Fuck this new web.
There are mixers for most anything tho. Including bitcoin.
Respecting both is much better than respecting only the latter.
Reviewing New Vienna-Hamburg Nightjet Sleeper Train
You can get _40gbits_ of IP transit for $2000/month now. Not 1gbps for $1000/month. At list price.

I get there is more to it than just transit. But VPC has loads of additional costs for NAT etc. Same with cloudfront.

Cloudflare can basically give everyone virtually unlimited free bandwidth on their S3 equivalent.

It's so preposterous to think that this reflects real cost that I find it funny, I didn't mean to be obnoxious.
https://archive.ph/HVcQD
Is it 37 GB with these new 1/3rd of previously unknown passwords hashes added?

So basically: did that DB grow from about 27 GB to 37 GB in the last few days?
Apple tries to convince people it isn't a brand, but a lifestyle or an identity. So if you identify as part of this lifestyle, you must love Apple, or you don't love yourself. Some take it a step further and hate Apple's competitors. Perhaps this is related...
There's a server side implementation FB offers developers to circumvent some privacy restrictions now being enforced by browsers which doesn't have all the features of the clientside version but is their current workaround. It will improve privacy slightly, but some websites are still gathering as much information about you as possible over the course of a session to try and build demographic information and remarket to you.
For the exact same reason I started using MacOS Mail app with gmail, but I am realising now that it doesn’t download “all” the emails unfortunately. Lieer looks like a good option, thank you.
One path to Bing's rise would be students who want school help, but don't want to pay for a ChatGPT subscription.
If they go to the browser themself - without clicking a link in the app - to subscribe, then no commission has to be paid. However, if they clicked a link from within the app itself to subscribe then they must pay the commission, even if the payment eventually happened from within a browser.

In other words, no matter how the subscription/payment happened, if it originated from within the app (whether via a link to an external site or via apples payment system) you must pay a commision.
I don't get it, who thought it was ever anonymous?

Bitcoin has a public ledger by design. It has never been anonymous, it is only pseudonymous.
I am 100% in the remote work camp, but I agree with you. Every company has the right to make the choice that works for them... whether empirically driven or not, it is their prerogative to choose. But they do then need to hire the people for whom that choice works. And as people looking for work, we need to accept that some companies are non-viable for us because of the choices they make.

The friction we're seeing now is that we're still recovering from a pandemic that forced everyone remote whether it works for them or not. So this idea of remote vs. office being a core strategic decision as a company grows is fairly new. We are all still learning how to navigate the options.
TikTok Coins Calculator
Nicole is great, and someone who is a fantastic resource for all the cool ways people use the software!

Her and a bunch of others are active on the Obsidian discord, and from the TTRPG specific Obsidian group, they released a fantastic resource in:
https://obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/Obsidian+TTRPG+Tutorials/...

It has a lot there, and not every DM needs everything in here. However, I love this resource as another way to understand all the different things you could do with and without plugins.
Trifecta Technology
Not really. If something stops being convenient for me or a poor ROI I will stop using it. Hence why I now no longer use Amazon or any TV streaming services.

I don't have to participate in a market.
So with 1.5 Billion active iPhones, you think the only app store that powers them does not have any overhead?
just looking at the comments, I don't think I can even bring myself to read the post.
People think youre a pussy thats why you got downvoted. but I agree with your spirit though. We should minimize commute time.

I too prefer a voluntary 20 minute walk over a mandatory one. Then my brain can be aimed at what I value, not work.
I used to work in a restaurant where the thing that held the knives was agnostic about which direction the blade faced. It's quite beneficial to know which direction the knife is facing when grabbing it, so we wanted to establish a standard. There was a lengthy discussion about which was better, we picked one, then we had to train the rest of the staff and remember to tell new hires. And people still forgot, so having a standard was pointless.

If the knife storage had been opinionated, we would have expended no effort and achieved consistency. The choice of direction was essentially arbitrary, but making a choice and sticking to it was valuable.
Why not a banner that just says "Save 30% Subscribe to Premium on Our Website"

With no link.
Developer: Makes software with a unique value proposition of "there are no configurations, it is what it is".

Random user: Your software is unacceptable; add an option to my favorite subjective preference!

I wonder, are those people trolling?
You may need a DOCSIS 3.1 compatible modem to reach advertised speeds.

Yes, you should get a new modem. Make sure it is DOCSIS 3.1 compatible. The SB8200 would be a good choice.
> Is Apple paying for their engineering staff, data centers and streaming bandwidth? No.

Is Spotify paying for artists’ session musicians, recording studio, or musical instruments? No.

> Once someone purchases Spotify, Apple just pushes app updated, a microscopic fraction of the cost of running Spotify.

How much work does Spotify do to publish an individual song?
The Narcissist's Prayer

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

by Dayna Craig
I don't think it's hate speech or climate change denial to say things like:

- developed countries have gone through a period when they developed massively with basically zero care for the environment. Now they demand that countries that are currently under development can do so only with the current standards for environment protection and thus at a much higher cost.

- a lot of policies put the responsibility of climate protection on the back of poor average Joe. Not only you must take the bus and I drive home in my >100k electric car but I want you to pay 10% of said car.

Now I understand that the situation is critical and we can not afford to still do what we did in the past. Drastic measures are required. But how about we have the rich bare the costs for once?
Out of curiosity, do you think it's more untraceable than BTC? And is it not at the entry and exit points that these things are traceable?
If someone tells you defaults don't matter, they are lying to you.
Heck, plenty of websites today run directly out of S3.
Why is it banditry.. you can opt out of going to the website. I think you're not looking at the alternative objectively..

Ads are pure brain rot that just make society worse while providing virtually nothing useful to "the user"
I've been debating on responding here and well you can see my decision has been made. The caveat is that this response is also biased on my personal experience so your milage may vary.

But for anyone reading this who is adjacent to a close friend or relative or even a stranger that is experience traumatic loss the grieving process is a messy thing. No one experiences it the same way. Second-hand grief is similar.

So rather than "try to fix it" by saying anything, say nothing, and just be present. Just sit. That says more than words. And if you can't be there, notes of "You are on my mind" are good too.

There is no fixing grief, only going through it.
I've tried Kagi, Brave and DDG for extended periods and ultimately their results are even worse in most cases and leave you going "hmm, I wonder what Google would give me".

It's the enshitification of the entire internet, not just Google unfortunately.
Wow, I did not know that! Thank you!
I mean they put out Llama and Llama 2 which kind of kickstarted the whole “open” LLM world.
Young people don't wanna be on the platform if their parents and grandparents are on it. Once those people got on Facebook the young moved to Instagram -> Snapchat -> Tiktok.

Instagram is interesting because it seems to have staying power in the face of Tiktok. Mainly just thirst traps and content stolen and ripped off of tiktok so not sure how long term it really is.

>The decline of Facebook seems to me to be related to the feed pushing crap people don't care about and competition from Instagram, TikTok amd whatever.

There is plenty of that on the other platforms you mentioned.
We won’t forget despite them wishing we would.
Fact is the scientific community lost a lot of trust in the last few years they had worked hard to earn.
On what does Spotify charge this? Do they sell music now? I was under the impression that they paid out by track streams
So why is there not some hard-to-ignore feedback (like stick shaking) whenever this dual input occurs?
What are the seminal database management systems everyone should know about?
I've bought my fair share of cheap do-dads from Ali Express over the years. All I can say is good luck trying to understand Chinese pirates.
That's like the Buick strategy.

I don't think I'd ever get one of the premium brand cars new (e.g. Acura, Lexus, Mercury, etc.) but the premium you pay for a premium brand is a lot less in a used car than a new car. Also an older premium car is going to more technically up to date than an older entry level car.
Those who won't read walls of text would be well advised to retain someone who will, whenever they sign an important contract.
I hope and pray that the whole family and everyone his life has touched gets some closure. What you shared broke probably many of us but somewhat was one of the most strengthening things I've ever read.

Thank you. I don't know you, but I love you.
Exactly this. A routine surgery to deal with a treatable congenital condition. One in a million events happen to somebody.
Seriously, I'm surprised at how many devs haven't seen DuckDuckGo's bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

I use them all the time for work. !mdn for MDN, !dnab for .NET, !npm for NPM, !py3 for Python3 docs, !debman for Debian Manpages, !w for Wikipedia, !a for Amazon, !g for Google when you really need it.

I'm not affiliated with DDG; I just really, really love it.
it's got some downsides - but so does the alternative. Have you considered the harmful effects of advertisement on society? I think people's cellphone warming up a bit is a smaller price to pay
For news?
Facebook Employee Handbook
DataDreamer: Image Dataset Generation for Vision Models
More like a balancing rock statue in an area that can have earthquakes