skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to quit my smartphone and have looked at options like Lite Phone to replace it. The only issue is my smartphone is now my GPS, my payment method, my home lighting controller, my car/house key, and my health tracker. Plus, was a convenient way to keep tabs on work messages.

Half a decade ago I eliminated all my social media. Then about a year ago I started by removing work email and messaging from my phone.The next step will be having a designated spot for it to stay while I'm home.

I don't know if I will ever revert back to having a thick wallet and a pocket full of keys, but maybe someday I can evolve to look at the smartphone as a utilitarian device without the addictive qualities.

Now to get back to scrolling on Hacker News.
In short, Moskva no worky.

From the 10 February 2022 readiness report

– Four of six generators needed repair; two were emergency use only.

– S-300F Fort [SA-N-6] director illuminator nonfunctional

– Both Osa-MA [SA-N-4] directors nonfunctional

– One AK-630 Gatling guns nonfunctional; others unable to load without manual process.

– All (3) MR-123 directors for AK-630 limited function.

Before we get all cocksure of ourselves over here on the USN side, we should probably stop to consider how incredibly down readiness rates have been on our own surface fleet. Between the dysfunctional surface fleet culture, the GWoT madness, government shutdowns, and a complete inability to find sailors who know how to work a mouse, the manpower problem is also, now, beyond critical. Wasn't too long ago we were apparently ramming everything with a navigation light and a destination somewhere in SEA. It's not unrealistic to see a Moskva in our own future, if we're not careful (and maybe stop drinking our own Rah-Rah-USA-Always-Wins koolaid).
Has there been any vaguely reliable suggestion about their planned approach? An entire vehicle? Retrofitting existing vehicles? A layer that is licensed to auto partners? A new category of vehicle?
I purchased these for my wife years ago, they’re excellent.
> Serving malware is a criminal act and you can block it, but you're also not usually going to CNN.com and expecting them to download a crypto miner on your hardware. You are, however, expecting advertisements, hence why you're using an adblocker.

I absolutely expect CNN, Google, and any other website to serve me malware. You can find many historical examples of the largest ad networks serving up malware on just about any site in existence. So that is actually the primary reason why I use adblockers, and blocking the visual noise is just a nice side effect.

How should I legally/ethically block this malware without using a broad ad blocker? AFAIK there's no way for me to know ahead of time when and on what site malware will be served.

I'm sorry if you think I'm painting in strokes that are too broad -- I'm trying to understand your viewpoint here. I would also like to be clear that I do think copyright infringement is a thing, and in your example of "pay me $1 and you can view my art," viewing the work and not paying is ethically dubious and probably could be considered copyright infringement in most jurisdictions. I just vehemently object to it being called "stealing" as you've done here.
Sounds like Snowflake or perhaps Palantir
Too bad for them. I would assume that getting a royalty off my streaming of something earns them more money than my piracy of something, but I guess they don't want my money.
Why are America's suburbs failing?
I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. This is not formal legal advice etc. etc.

You should re-read your employment contract, and any other official company terms and conditions of employment. Some employers do say that you can't have a side hustle, or maybe they just prohibit certain kinds of side hustle. Others say that you just need to inform them if you have one. Others say nothing about side hustles.

You'll probably want to create an LLC for your side hustle. If you get a lawyer to help you set up the LLC, then it wouldn't hurt to ask them about any laws you should be aware of. The cost of a real lawyer's advice could save you a lot of money and trouble in the long run.
Wow, this is a great explainer. I think you captured most of it. The other things others have highlighted is that when it came out in 1979, and many fans read it, there was no internet to speak of, definitely no WWW or YouTube, and these ideas were not as easily accessible as they're now. So for many this book might well have been the first encounter with many of the themes, thus mind-blowing.
Very very few companies do. At least they were honest in this case. Not a fan, they were positioned to be leaders not laggers in solutioning.
shocking that this house is $5M; it's in the middle of nowhere! about an hour from Birmingham and 1.5hrs from Huntsville.
Similarly every browser should have the capability to report to sites that the user has notifications enabled when they actually don’t to end those annoying in-site “pre-prompts” which bait you into saying no to the pre-prompts so they can try to ask you again later, rather than just deal with the fact that the user denied permission with the browser-level prompt and isn’t interested.
Fun fact: 50% of printings of GEB have the pages all blank. This is rarely noticed.
https://archive.is/20240203075723/https://www.ft.com/content...
I really like your article I agree with your point that extensions are tools for extend current software functionalities and see beyond the creators...
Currently Im working on a Gmail and Outlook extension for email called Mailverse that add superpowers to the current email clients.
Increasing healthspan is for all intents and purposes highly similar, barring actually raising the hard limit.
So I have put two inquires of my local country but they didn't shown up
You must have signed an employment contract when you accepted your job offer, and you should have been given a copy. If not, just ask for a copy. You don't need to say why.
> “I've seen writers invent plenty of ways of keeping from writing, but these pants are a disaster for Cleaver."

Beautiful
The internet being free was a 90s cyberpunk ideal. Those ideas were not very well thought out to say the least.
This is the first time younger (<15 years experience) have seen a 'bad' outlook for programmers. Ask the older guys - they'll tell you, it happens every 10-15 years and bounces back within a year or two. Also - from what I'm seeing, there's still a lot of places hiring, its just not as fast/easy as it was before.

If you currently have a job - just keep racking up the experience, maybe pick up some 'in demand' new tech, and remember - it will get better :-) (PS - personally, I wouldn't go with 'AI' atm - by the time you have enough background to get a job in it, I'm guessing the market will be flooded...but thats just a feeling)
> useless with shakes or drinks that take a long time to finish

I wonder how the ancients drank liquids, before the invention of the straw.
Paywall unless you use incognito
Or any of these https://www.facebook.com/share/p/LX368H4xbRFfodfF
Because they love making movies, and can find other ways to get people to pay them for their labor rather than for copies of the movie. This is already happening today.
Pirates are better archivists than any media company. The effort put in to meticulous curation of content libraries on private trackers is really incredible.
I mean, ignorance is bliss, right?
This is correct. Kick is just a front for bringing lifetime gamblers into Stake. That's only reason they were willing to pay xQc $100M for a two-year non-exclusive contract.
Taking the JIT philosophy a little too far I see.
The blue collar folks in my family are still shot in their 60s. My parents had cushy office jobs but are doing their darndest to die in their 70s (extremely sedentary and medically obese)
> you need to learn not to apply broad brush strokes to a large community. It’s a you problem.

Ridiculous, it’s not their problem, it’s a vegan community problem. Let’s not pretend that it’s not a well earned reputation. The noise those zealots create within the community is so unusual and loud that you simply do not find that type of holier than thou condemnation behavior from literally any other diet’s adherents.

I have had people bark at me from a sidewalk for enjoying a steak but I have never had someone bark at me from a sidewalk for enjoying a salad.

I have seen people on HN send comment after comment on the evils of eating meat, but have yet to see anyone claim that eating vegetables is an evil act.

If you don’t like the reputation, start policing your own.
Building Your Own "ChatGPT" with Gradio
I can't relate to that kind of dilemma. I don't want to pay for multiple services, but I also would not get much value from juggling them for what little I care to watch. I might in some instance be interested in just one or two shows, in which case I can sign up to watch then cancel.

Streaming is still easy, just more expensive.
Do people really want to quit their smartphone? I certainly don’t. It connects me to people, provides information, and lets me capture information when I want to. I do not feel overwhelmed by it. I do restrict notifications to specific apps and people. The rest, I check on a couple of times a day. Why would I want to quit?
They do sell extra batteries. $199.
Yes! OP is far more clever than me. I used to think I was a smart person but it takes regular reminders like that to assure me I'm average at best!
Legacy CLIs No More
I wish people wouldn't parrot the "it's not a solved problem" line. There are an abundance of solutions: take your pick.
Really good write up
I don’t see any scenario where Apple doesn’t own the UX. They’re certainly not going to leave that to legacy automakers any more than they left the mobile UX to legacy phone makers. Maybe they buy a startup automaker like they bought PA Semi to jumpstart Apple Silicon.
It relies on images, typography, and the arrangement of things. I'd say a physical book or PDF would work best.
> There is LeechBlock for browsers.

Right, there’s plenty of extensions, paid and non paid for users. But what I said was:

> It also needs to be a default functionality of browsers.
Hard agree. This article makes good points but I feel like Poetry just simplifies so much of it and makes it so much less manual. We’ve used it at $DAYJOB for months and it’s been awesome. In the same sense as the article — it’s been sufficiently boring to rarely be the source of problems, and when it is, it’s almost always our fault rather than a design flaw in Poetry.
That would be great! Nothing specific, but it would be nice to have feature if ever implemented.
You didn’t mention the evap heater. What could LG have done differently to fix your fridge to factory spec?
> Customizability is important enough that it may be worth prioritizing it over security in some cases.

100% this. It should at least be acknowledged that "security" often means less options for the user.
Microsoft Edge Doesn't Suck
As HN: Ideas on how to split Scrum team
I have a 'too large' (26) team consisting of front-end, back-end and iOS devs, DevOps, QA, scrum masters and POs all working on single application. I cannot figure out a logical split that makes sense.
> I did no such thing, I was putting the argument into logical form[1]. When you do that you express the original argument in specifically semantic terms. I've been saying the same thing since the beginning, piracy is stealing, and by stealing I mean experiencing their work without paying. Putting it into specific terms is not changing my meaning.

I understand logical fallacies, and my point is that your original argument as stated way up the thread is materially different from the one you put into logical form. So you don't get to accuse me of a logical fallacy when you're referring to an argument that you haven't articulated yet.

> In regards to your webpage example, websites have a common expectation of loading to the home page for viewing for free. If you have a website that was not explicit about the requirement for payment before the user went on it, then no it's not the same thing, and in fact there's not even a contract with going to a website so there's no legal basis for your example either.

I'm not sure if you have specific legal experience in this area but all of these claims are questionable to me; my understanding is that most of these things have little if any legal precedent and are a grey area at best. I'd be interested to see sources for these claims, since as I said, I don't know too much about this.
Child of the 90s – Internet Explorer [video]
Still being sold @ https://www.amigaforever.com/
I'm in camp "I would rather gulp it right from the glass", which seems like a better stance anyway. But I heard that some people really need straw, and if I'm in that position I'll 100% ask for the plastic one everytime.

Then again if only <1% of people use plastic than it used be, we're already winning very much.
I've not been following most of this thread of conversation, but this reply jumped out at me so let me throw my hat into the ring here.

I live in the US, but my mother went to what is known as a boarding school for native americans. They were beaten and raped, my mother got married at 15 just to get away from it all.

They would do things like lock the kids outside during the winter just for using their native language.

So while I don't know the specifics of this case, I also don't find it at all surprising.

And what makes it worse is that the man who ran that school got a humanitarian award years later. I remember it because it was announced a few weeks before one of our family reunions (I have a huge family, grandmother had 19 children) and the anger amongst all of the older family members was palpable. This man raped my mother.

I recently attended the funeral of an aunt (roughly 3 years ago) and met a woman who told me she tried to do research on the specific school my family went to. They've torn the school down and apparently you can hardly find any documentation on the school itself. The woman told me when she started trying to dig deeper into it she started getting death threats.

People who don't believe this kind of stuff happens don't live in reality (charmed life). I grew up hearing stories of them putting kids into communal showers, telling them to soap up, and then inspecting them. If they weren't white enough they'd get strapped while under the water.

I could go on and on with the stories I grew up with (not just from my mother either).
It's a Tumblr blog theme, so it just has some quirks. https://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com
I was never in the "heavy smartphone users" category, but one thing I found that nonetheless shrank my usage significantly was switching to the "Niagara" launcher app (Android). If you are somebody that doesn't want to keep getting "sucked" into your phone, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
They could earn their money by not actively pissing off their customers. The streaming industry proved that consumers prefer paying for convenient streaming over messing around with privacy.

For some reason, they feel they need to burn their own industry down in order to prove that people prefer piracy (or not watching) over inconvenient streaming setups. Is anyone really surprised by the current outcome?
Gabe's stance was established over a decade ago; I think it's been long enough that we can add Music streaming to bolster that argument, because so many people don't really consider piracy there either. The price isn't outrageous, all the content is there when you search for it, and ads are non-existant. Piracy has been left for the truly frugal (sharing accounts, public trackers) or the die-hards (private trackers or similar).
One of my favorite parts of this was actually the peripheral material he sent the Klein bottle with. A packing slip, invoice, a list of "quality assurance" checkboxes, all brimming with math jokes.
Or Tuck Everlasting maybe
Conceptually, yes, the CIWS could have been effective against the missile the struck the Moskva.

The US had a similar incident, back in '87, with the frigate USS Stark. It was struck by two Exocet missiles launched by an Iraqi fighter during the Iran-Iraq war. The Stark was in international waters, and the attack was unprovoked. Bluntly, the ship was not expecting the attack, and was unprepared for it. While it was equipped with the CIWS, it was in standby mode. Also, the Stark mounted a single unit in the center of the ship, facing aft. As I recall the missiles actually struck the forward quarter of the ship. Even if the CIWS was enabled, I believe they would have had to turn the ship for it to engage the missiles.

As for the Moskva, let me qualify I have no support whatsoever for what Russia is doing. That said, I do have a base level of respect for fighting forces, and the people who staff them and stand the line.

I was shocked to hear about the Moskva. There's no reason those missiles should have struck that ship. That ship is particularly designed, much like our cruisers, to defeat threats such as those missiles. For the US Navy, a prime role for our cruisers is to defend not just themselves, but a fleet role. In simple terms, the cruisers are there to protect the carriers, and are bristling with systems and sensors designed for that task from several threats.

The Moskva was similar to that role. The CIWS is the "last resort". The CIWS is for when missiles penetrate the other layers of defenses in place, including things like the combat air patrol, air-to-air missiles, etc. The CIWS is a "last mile" defense.

The Moskva had layers as well. It should have taken several missiles to penetrate what the Moskva could have utilized.

Obviously, being in the West, I do not hear flattering things about the Russian forces, their state of readiness, training, morale, etc., etc. Based on that knowledge, and the fact that the Moskva was lost, it's clear to me that that ship should not have been where it was. Here was a high level ship of war, in a war zone, not as a spectator, but as a participant, and it was not ready for that attack. That ship and her crew were not qualified to be there, not prepared to be there, and those service people deserved better.

The Russian navy failed that crew, and they should not have been in harms way like that. The Ukrainian attack should have failed utterly. It shouldn't have even been close.

The Stark was very embarrassing, and there are many critics of the modern US Navy. The Stark, however, was completely surprised, they weren't a combatant, they weren't posturing, the Stark was in the area.

The Moskva should not have been surprised. They clearly did not anticipate the attack (as I understand it, everyone was surprised the Ukrainians had this capability), but it's not really clear if the ship was prepared and capable even if they did. There's stories that even after it was struck, the crew did not perform well and contributed to the loss of the ship.
You know it doesn't have to be like this right? I'm fine with the vision pro and the quest 3 existing. This discussion only happened because you refused to acknowledge what is obviously true.
If nothing else, basic logs of everything an extension does should be kept so that technically knowledgable users can take a look at the logs periodically (and maybe have them watched automatically by tools) to make sure everything checks out.
People don’t want to quit smartphones, they want to quit what’s in them and that can be hard. Sometimes you just have apps that are a time sink. You can obviously delete them and call it a day, but sometimes you want to keep it around for a small use case, but then want to limit your usage to a minimum, which can be hard because these apps are literally designed to make you spend as much time on them as possible.
I think a lot of people will now go and benchmark queries only to report back disappointed with results.

Trying to build generalized search engine for the modern internet that will come close to Google/Bing would require a "tech megaproject" level of investment and commitment. Most likely only to end up with the same optimizations and architecture as existing big-search and the very similar level of experience.

I think it's a better direction to build a search based on more limited amount of topic-based data and focus on great match engine within, then - just aggregate the relevant ones together. Far more maintainable also on the crawling part. I can use google/bing to find the Honda dealership or read keyboard reviews, or get 50 most useful unix commands.

I also wonder if with the rise of LLMs, while it still may not be feasible in such large scale production environment, those can serve as guides/agents to also improve the query itself and not the results of the query, for example - a chat-like search where user answers shift the relevancy metrics for returned documents. This would fit perfectly for smaller but open source, customizable and thematic search.

That being said. I think it's great that project as such pop up more often. (Phind.com was also on my radar this year)
This is one of the hills to climb when learning a lisp. Seasoned lispers don't edit text, or traverse text; they edit and traverse lisp forms (AST nodes). In my experience, vim/neovim work very well for this, due to their notion of "text objects". With a couple of plugins, text objects end up aligned directly with the lisp AST, but even better is that the AST is visual and tangible, since it's encoded in the text.

It makes sense to benefit from this sort of thinking in other languages, but this is just another reminder, to me, of the beauty of lisps.

A fun language idea would be to take the exact semantics of an existing language, like C++, and encode them within a lisp, losslessly. I suspect it would end up quite verbose. However, add in a macro system and then you can start building a DSL around the original language, keeping all the same underlying semantics.
> I absolutely expect CNN, Google, and any other website to serve me malware. You can find many historical examples of the largest ad networks serving up malware on just about any site in existence.

I would love to see a source of a large company like CNN knowingly serving malware in the guise of ads. I've never heard of that but I'm all ears; I feel like it would be big news if CNN knowingly put a crypto miner on your device.

> How should I legally/ethically block this malware without using a broad ad blocker?

I don't know but also now you're committing a fallacy known as "Irrelevant conclusion". Yes, there's a genuine question on how you can block malware without depriving website owners of their ad revenue, however it's irrelevant to the original argument of whether blocking ads is stealing (which we've somehow come to from a piracy argument but whatever). The argument becomes "Is blocking ads stealing when some of them give me malware", but that's separate from "Is blocking ads stealing".

Alternatively you might be trying to argue "but I block ads because some of them give me malware" which can be an appeal to pity[2], but I don't think you're trying to go that far.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_conclusion
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_pity
Pocket full of keys? Sounds like a recipe for pain. Carabiner!
I'm using "Freedom", which locks my Mac and iPhone and includes apps and websites and I think blocks notifications. I don't use it as much as I should, but I think it does the things you said? Not "default functionality" though.
id love to connect with you. mind dropping your linkedin or email?
It seems like there must be quite a lot to this, BUT. I also think that there is some reinforcement of false beliefs that tend to prop up inequality. Like the idea that anyone who can't save money must just not be able to make good decisions or is just cognitively inferior.

Some of this is Social Darwinism.