skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Megaphones are trying to keep the shouts for themselves"

This is such a silly concept. Users and 'influencers' use social media as megaphones, and they ll easily give their data to e.g. openAI if they ask for it. Social media have no moat there
Maintaining the global temperature within a certain range also seems important to the survival of human society, but we seem to be deadset on cranking up the thermostat regardless of the consequences. I suppose whatever will be, will be, but almost no aspect of modern life feels particularly rational; having children included. It's post-modernism all the way down, and if you want to have kids for whatever reason, then have them. If not, then don't. But I suspect very few people consider the perpetuation of society as high on the list of reasons to have them; that's too abstract while being woken up at 2AM is anything but abstract.
The rich are just fine, it's the middle class that's getting squeezed out. We used to pass programs to make it easier for the middle class to have kids. But the liberation of Black people in America has caused so much racial resentment that the rich were able to exploit it to make us think we were fighting over scarce resources in the richest nation in history... meanwhile we have billionaires quietly and not so quietly tilting the playing field in their favor. As racism towards Black people declined somewhat, we're being sold another racist lie that illegal immigrants are the reason America is ill...
For a time I was able to pull triple body weight, and that was with a bar stiff as hell with very little whip. It was indeed an amazing feeling!
I’m paying a coffee a month for masto.host to do it for me. Great little service.
Ask HN: Where are your manually(!) curated lists of bookmarks?
Pinboard, Raindrop, ArchiveBox, hand-written HTML, whatever.

Would you like to show your collection?
Great art. This other thing he built is totally different, but just as fun to look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jyNIWsRvI

I love engineers who make art so much.
And yet what is Switzerland’s birth rate? 1.46 is better than South Korea, but not as good as the USA’s 1.64.

> If a society wants healthy familles it can choose to have them.

So what is Switzerland doing wrong that it needs to fix so it can do better than the USA at least?
> The flaw of password managers is that you don’t know the passwords you’re using for your sites. That is, if the data was lost, you’d have to do an account recovery, which for some sites is fine, for others it can be a nightmare though.

It's typically a 5-minute process, which I know because services regularly force password resets quite often.

> …I don’t trust a cloud service to keep the data secure.

Fair enough, there are definitely shady SaaS vendors. My password manager is a SaaS with a long history (2006), which has no access to my account passwords or Secret Keys and could not reset or recover them for me if I asked. I'm personally satisfied with that.

Have you considered the benefits? For example, I know I currently have 1,161 account logins on various sites/services, 278 of which have "fantastic" passwords, and 144 which have "fair" passwords that I should really go back and update (surely from my pre-password-manager days). I know there are 5 accounts that now support 2FA, and many more which now support passkeys. I know when I've last used each so I can easily close old accounts, which I gradually do.

That kind of awareness/security hygiene enablement would be tough (if not impossible) to replicate manually.
How to use Nix to install software on macOS
Is this really true? Reading [1] they say:

> Forgot Password: If you enable it, users are able to reset their credentials if they forget their password or lose their OTP generator. Go to the Realm Settings left menu item, and click on the Login tab. Switch on the Forgot Password switch.

[1]: https://wjw465150.gitbooks.io/keycloak-documentation/content...
The issue with Keycloak is that it’s been around a while and has gone through a ton of changes. While it started as a JBOSS project, its usefulness as an IdP shines in on-prem cluster auth. However, that’s where I would stop. I implemented Keycloak at scale on AWS ECS for a Fortune 500 department and it was unholy war for 1,000 years getting it to cluster properly. DNS discovery didn’t work right. Cluster discovery was over UDP (which didn’t work in our cloud environments). Stateful login on one server was missing from the others so dumb load balancing was off the table - sticky sessions was the only way. While it’s easy to docker run Keycloak and plug it in like Auth0, it’s like buying a 1996 Ford F-150 with 250,000 miles. It runs. It works. But Jesus is it a maintenance madonna.
I pay for YouTube premium and Nebula which both let me download videos. I use it to save videos for when I travel. I also sometimes live off grid with a Starlink and I'll download videos so I can turn Starlink off to save power.
Very cool! I'd like to see one of these made into a permanent sculpture, where the battery is removed and energy is provided via the contact plate itself.
Perplexity.AI [for anybody wondering]

I have been using DDG for years, and Perplexity for one year.

*.google.com [etc.] are all blacklisted on my personal DNS host, as unnecessary relics of past two decades.
Does anyone really believe that an AI based on Reddit or Twitter/X data would somehow be more superior than other AI's? Or that it would somehow provide a snarky competitive advantage included with other data? I don't see it.
I was wondering quote often about data possesion. It is their software. It sits on their servers. They convert and maintain it. Do i own my data? Currently - of course I do not. They do with it whatever they want. They sell it to whom they want.

I have option only to not use their service.
How does ours work?
To everyone going on about animal learning... Just a reminder that this has pretty much nothing to do with animal learning.

The real interesting parts is, A) rapid simulation that just works when loaded into a real quadrotor and B) that the NN is generating the PWM pulses! Eliminating all those separate control systems into a NN is an interesting leap.
X is in maintenance mode. All new development happens around Wayland. It makes complete sense for GTK to focus on Wayland. COSMIC, MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie, and Pantheon are all shipping at least some support for Wayland.

What features and options of GTK have been eroded by GNOME?

Do you really think XFCE, MATE, and Mint have resources to maintain a GTK fork? Why don't you maintain the GTK fork? GTK maintenance is partially paid for by Red Hat and Endless, among a few other organizations.

I think it is really interesting how every time GNOME and GTK get mentioned on this site, you are quick to post negative comments.
OAuth with OpenID Connect and being able to add apps and clients to a realm was its saving grace and the only reason we kept it around.
Thank you, and no this is not sealioning. Every thing I found was related to abortion in some way, which is a little more nuanced than just general access to contraceptives like condoms or birth control pills. GP (who I asked the question to) seems to agree with me that abortion isn't quite the same as "contraceptives":

> Conservatives love the idea of limiting access to contraception and abortion

It's obvious that Conservatives are mostly against abortion, but what about contraception in general? Are there some non-fringe Conservatives that are coming out in favor of legal restrictions on condoms or birth control pills or similar?
I've got to say, that doesn't sound like a very good solution.

How are people who aren't already part of the community supposed to know what a stable, robust instance is?

And self-hosting is all very well, but if I wanted to join a community comprised exclusively of greybeard unix sysadmins, I'd use IRC :)
Do you use abbaddon or the official client?
Why are you on Hacker News instead of practicing your software engineering skills? -50 points for Griffindor!
So, with cargodest does the cargo change from a bus to a train?

And without cargodest, what is the point of OpenTTD? I honestly struggle to understand this game if passengers appear randomly and pay the full price to go wherever you like to take them.
There’s more than just a bare price tag here though.

It’s also about risk. In developed societies, it’s still somewhat reasonable (though this is starting to wane) for a couple with dual incomes to be able to establish themselves well enough that the risk of being put out on the street is minimal. Once even a single kid enters the picture however, this changes; the required income level for both parents to both provide the desired quality of care for the child and achieve reasonable insurance against financial disaster is quite high and well above the earning potential of a huge percentage (probably the majority) of the population. How much the parents are willing to sacrifice has little bearing on this.

The impoverished aren’t as affected by this because they’re already living on knife’s edge, and having kids won’t change that much. A poorer population boosts birthrates but making people poorer is not how nations should go about fixing their population problems.

Aside from that, I feel that it’s a mischaracterization to pose giving up on who a person had been prior to becoming a parent (career goals, etc) as “small”. It’s anything but minor and among the biggest course changes a person can make, and in a well functioning society one shouldn’t need to choose between the two — one should be able to continue to pursue their goals mostly unencumbered and be a parent, and the only reason this isn’t possible now I believe comes down to the benefits of the vast productivity improvements of the past several decades only being reaped by a select few at the top.
Black Death led to a great leap in productivity, freed the serfs, and eventually led to the renaissance.
This is what you'd need:

https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TDK-InvenSense/ICM-20948...
> The solution is to run your own Mastodon instance

The problem is that Mastodon isn't really great for single-user instances (hassle to upgrade, slurps resources for breakfast, etc) but there are plenty of other ActivityPub-compatible software that is great for single-user usage, like Pleroma, Micro.blog, Akkoma and more.
> I will never put all my passwords into some black box […]. I have all my passwords written down in a sheet of paper slightly obfuscated to make them pretty much worthless even if someone found them (actually I have multiple copies, stored in multiple places).

Is this satire?
Kudos for the great documentation.
As the designer of the 8080 and Z80, that kind of makes Faggin the father of the brain of the Game Boy.

And I wasn’t aware so many Intel processors were developed in Israel.

I feel like if we walked down the entire supply chain and design lineage of a device like the Game Boy, we’d see a wonderful collaboration of people from many regions across time. All contributing to keep me quiet on long car rides.
Supercharging Your Rust Static Executables with Mimalloc
Sure, although I wonder how often anyone is actually looking at single passwords, rather than just pushing tons of them through automated systems.
I’ve always wanted this, amazing!! Thanks for making it.
That list has three examples, but to be clear for others: Nearly every satellite has reaction wheels. There are literally tens of thousands of reaction wheels in orbit.
It is infamously astroturfed to the maximum and has been for over a decade. Nowadays not just for future landfill items but also politics.

And by selling the data to LLMers its fate is sealed.
How is a thousand dollars "useless"? I'll take it if you don't want it. Again, the point is to make having children less expensive, not to hire people to have kids.

There's room for argument for what the right kind and amount of public assistance for child rearing should be. But blanket statements like "useless" (or no "solution in sight" upthread) seem ridiculous. Clearly there's useful aid for parents in the modern US.
Funnily enough, the last few years of my Google usage, one of my most-popular search restraints was `site:reddit.com` [because reddit's own search feature has been TERRIBLE for over a decade], regardless of topic [technical, or not].

Last summer, I finally added reddit to my DNS blacklist, too.
I think author gets many things wrong.

As for location, the motivation is stated here, and in my opinion, it really makes sense: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensat...
Imagine they would pay Bay Area salaries everywhere including Philippines or Ukraine. People there would be in "golden handcuffs" and burn out instead of changing job when it's time to go. This would produce terrible results for both the company and people.
And of course, if they chose to pay some kind of world-median salaries, then they wouldn't hire people in California or London at all.

There are other controversial things said about product managers being unneeded, and that the company shouldn't have more than 100 developer for a product.

I think it's pretty clear that the author is a great autonomous engineer who would be happy and very successful in a (relatively) small startup. Maybe if not for the tax rule changes waiting, he would have left the company earlier, and would write a happy article about his experience there.

This gets us back to the location-based rates again by the way:). Imagine how difficult it would be for the author to leave the company if in addition to stocks, he would have had $300k compensation in Amsterdam.
>However someone's location is a poor indicator for talent potential?

No it's not? If this were true, then economic hubs wouldn't exist. If someone is talented in field it's likely they will move to an economic hub that has jobs for their talents. If I wanted to open a trading firm I'd likely find the most capable candidates in Chicago, because thats where most of the jobs are today. There are certainly capable hires in Idaho, but how much time should a company spend looking for a needles in haystacks?
> I've been told before in HN that Mastodon's solution is non-existent for these situations.

What are you worried about losing? You can download everything if it's a concern. Honestly though, the concern you're raising is non-existent on every platform, because the others only have a single instance.
No, USA doesn't violently suppress Orban or Fritz.
Can someone explain the reason for the massive font-size on the website?
The existence and uptime of gitlab.com is essential to the company's customer acquisition. If gitlab.com goes offline for an extended period of time (due to database size issues or anything else), it's a huge hit to the reputation of their brand. This will directly affect their bottom line even if it isn't the main direct source of their revenue.

And again, what's the alternative? If you offer a successful user-generated content platform, eventually you must shard. User-generated content only grows over time, it never shrinks, and at some point you exceed the maximum amount of storage that can be attached to a single server. And long before that point, you encounter horrendous operational headaches, such as full backups taking longer than 24 hours to make (let alone restore from).

It's also conceivably possible that their largest on-prem customers would be interested in sharding their self-hosted installations, so theoretically this could be a valuable high-cost enterprise feature.
Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS
We need to get the guy who made this one and Tony Rosenthal together, unfortunately, however, Tony is dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rosenthal
I wonder what the cheapest possible build for something like this is, if you loosen enough constraints - let's say, if we allow it to be externally powered, and agree that size doesn't matter.

Would it be cheaper (and/or safer) to build a larger one, allowing for larger-but-slower flywheels? Could you make one out of a couple of scrap bicycles?
Have to agree, the 'dot com bust' was around 25 years ago, bubble started somewhere 1998-1999.
> libraries and schools barely having enough funding

Probably because they are public and government responsibility.

> I don't really trust the average Joe to know "what really matters".

Average Joe live paycheck to paycheck. It doesn't have disposable income.
Would be fun to try and low-cost it. I can already imagine replacing the aluminum face parts with laser-cut acrylic. It also sounds like the motors are another expensive part that likely can be low-costed.

The stainless steel flywheels though..... No ideas.
see also https://eusprig.org/
I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.
Generally just curious about what others a bit more knowledgeable in this field than me might think.
We (tech professionals) really need to be hosting things like vaultwarden for our extended family. That is what I do, and have had good success.

I even keep my vaultwarden on a private network and have an always on wireguard vpn on all my family's devices.
Maybe a nightcap isn't a good idea, but a glass of wine with dinner isn't even going to be detectable in your body by the time you go to sleep.
If the pencil can be very short, just put this cube on top of it.
I never knew Endless was funding GTK development. The last time I heard about Endless OS was years ago.
Yeah, but this is kind of orthogonal to what you and I do.

I felt pretty good over the past few weeks after finally starting to learn React on the side, and building something that some of my friends are going to use. Sure, it doesn't have the "whoa" factor, but it also didn't cost $2500 to build (not including the years [decades?]) spent learning.
I wouldn't say this other project is totally different. In fact, he can probably easily combine the two!
Why is this downvoted? What's wrong about it?
Agreed, especially about OSes not being consistent themselves. Even Apple dropped the ball with macOS being a mix of old Cocoa, SwiftUI-isms, and iPadOS transplants.

I think third there's also a third reason: flat design. It used to be nearly impossible to make custom UIs look as polished as the native ones with all their complex gradients and pixel-perfect bevelled edges. Now developers can use anything that can render a rectangle.
It's either Spring, or Java EE's way (together with the new Jakarta EE paradigm, which is actually pretty cool if you ask me). I've seen the latter a lot more in the enterprise sphere.
Data autonomy. How do we get across to people that there's real value in owning your data - controlling it, hosting it, not just being someone else's product.

Why should we not take the broadest possible view? You own your likes, your comments, your amazon order history, your dental xrays, your histology reports, everything. One way to incentivize data consumers and processors would be to make them liable for mishandling, make the data so radioactive that they don't even want to hold onto it.
What about a coin that always lands on its edge?
S.F. home sales hit a record low in 2023. Here's why
This would be a good innovation, IF they didn’t use the space saved to add more rows of seats.
Uvalde ? Who's on the hook there?
The case you cited is not about whether the employees or people in general should have access to contraception. It's about whether an employer has to pay for it as part of their health benefits. That's quite a bit more nuanced than you've made it out to be.

I think an employer like Hobby Lobby doing that is gross, but it's not as simple as you've made it sound.
Isn't it more likely that idea got abandoned because a failure of the balancing system would be catastrophic?
It would be fun if the LEDs changed or did something special based on the rotation.. :o
I remember seeing his M&M sorting machine several years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceGlMV4sHnk
I feel like this is a common misconception about having kids, that your life somehow ends, and you have to give up everything you care about in favor of them. We’ve been traveling with our kids since the first was 4 months old, and it’s been great fun introducing them to our hobbies, and doing them with them. Seeing them pick this stuff up and in some ways surpass us is incredibly gratifying.
> But somehow it's OK to pay a person less based on their location?

At the end of the day, it winds up being a choice between

- Pay someone based on their location - People in lower COL areas complain, but are (in theory) being paid an amount with the same buying power as someone in a higher COL area (being paid me) [1]

- Pay the same regardless of location - People lower COL areas are making more buying power, but people in higher COL won't even work for you; because it's not realistic to pay the higher COL amount to everyone [2]

There's no solution that makes everyone happy.

[1] Not really true, since it doesn't account for a lot of factors; such as retirement savings, etc.

[2] Not strictly true but, if you pay the higher COL amount to everyone, then you can hire fewer people for the same amount of money.
This is exactly underground Atlanta. They raised the ground level and built the new city on top of the old. The old storefronts and businesses are still there. About 1/8th of it is publicly open, but there's a ton more that's closed off and is just trains driving under the city.
I haven't noticed any additional latency, but my workload isn't particularly latency critical (I do sometimes game in the 144hz display and it's as smooth as it was before I got the KVM). They don't have a 3-computer version afaik so you'd need to go with this one probably: https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/14-display-port...
Replace "delivered value" with "expected delivered value" and the argument goes through mutatis mutandis. Of course there are uncertainties in the value of unrealized work, but the company is paying because they think the expected value of the work is higher than what they are paying in wages.
Yeah, the first reaction to "we should believe that loud aliens exist, as that’s our most robust explanation for why humans have appeared so early" should be "sorry, but that's not how explanation, loudness, or existing work."

The most robust explanation for why we're here now is that unlikely things happen all the time, and we only think that's weird because of anthropic bias.
> I think this is the most pedantic discussion I ever participated

That's the point of the "No vehicles in the park" game! People interpret rules differently - some skew pedantic, others are more "spirit of the law" types, but to varying extents - which is why for any 2 random people, the chances of agreeing on 100% of scenarios is vastly less than 50%
Love the font but wish you'd share your custom algorithm. I've designed a number of pixel fonts in the past I'd love to convert to strokes in this way. Any chance you'd release a little conversion kit?
> Mail (physical means of communicating in writing and print) and email (connecting two people with digital signal) are similar but not a great comparison when comparing consumption of natural gas.

What?

You are missing the point. We're talking about "markets" not the specific "tech/substitutes." It could be any technology disruption. Such disruption doesn't mean the prior status quo IN THE MARKET was inefficient. The tech shock just resets equilibrium.

Further, your explanation is circular, and I propose it has to do with muddling terminology and concepts.

Here's one inconsistency. Either the markets didn't exist (You said they need to be "created."), or they did exist, but a pipeline connecting them was too expensive.

> Technology literally created additional markets

> it would have been possible to pipeline gas from AU to markets across the ocean, but it didn’t make economic sense