skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All the consequences of my dna leaking seem so extremely theoretical and unlikely that I’m willing to take the risk in exchange for a few minutes of fun reading a report about where my ancestors came from.

That's one of the things I've found odd about these discussions. Most of the concern seems to be about very theoretical things that we don't see in reality. On the other hand, the actual harm I'm seeing from mass surveillance is the fact that social media mobs often come through someone's life and try - often successfully - to ruin them.

The way things currently stand, the fact that I'm unable to delete Hacker News comments is much more of a threat than sending my DNA to 23andMe.
I didn't mean to imply anything about Matt Levine or his financial well-being. I'm all about supporting people who I believe in, and personally I appreciate uos writing.

I'm less in favor of propping up inefficient organizations as a byproduct. Bloomberg is a bit sus at this point, I'm not clear on whether the top has your and my best interests at heart.
Absolutely it does—China's belt and road project is marketed as "the new silk road" very intentionally.
RT is in the mainline kernel now. Run with threaded_irqs, all interrupt handlers become preemptable (by default).
nd nglsh spkrs cn ndrstnd nglsh wtht wrttn vwls.

Easy to understand for a fluent speaker, but a learner might struggle.

We saw back when we had keypad phones, the youth would write "txt" speak because it was faster to type with 10 digits. I'm pretty sure there was a decline in literacy rate around this time, the youth struggled with spelling because they wrote rarely, but texted frequently. Smartphones fixed that problem, because they provide the full keyboard and auto-correct.

My guess is, if you took the tones out of pinyin, then a generation or two later there would be less literacy. Children would struggle to add the tones even though they know how to speak the word. Writing already contains far less information than speech. Over several more generations, the speech could even change because the written word has lost the tonal information. Compared to the past, we read far more, speak less, and write even less, and most writing has been replaced by typing.
I'm in the camp of "if I can't build it, then it's not open source" so https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/d314f3ebba9e7... is a good start, but there is no .../f/flutter.rb although there is https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=flutt... but I haven't been soaking in the AUR ecosystem long enough to be able to port it to Homebrew

All those words to say that if there was a .github/workflow/release.yml showing the steps required to cook a release artifact that would be the best(?) documentation since it is kind of like a Dockerfile in that it's computer executable but mostly human readable

I don't mean to poo-poo all the "supply chain security" effort, but you have to recognize that right now it's "trust me, bro" since https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/27c351ccb59fb... does check the sha256, and good for them, but gives me no way to trace back to any file in https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/3.24.4
You could put quotes around the first line to make it clear you're joking or being sarcastic. I was pretty taken aback by someone seemingly actually saying that, at first! :`D
All of them do...?

Great aesthetic, too.
Essentially most consumers just didn't care about quality and preferred the lower price over the higher quality product. That seems like normal consumer choice. The people didn't get poorer all of a sudden when the corporate breadmakers came along - the people simply decided they would prefer to get an inferior product at a lower price.

The reality is most people don't want to spend more money for higher quality goods. Or, if they do, it's on a limited set of goods based on personal preference.
The term “psychological safety” has been around since the 1950s. It’s well defined and understood by people who study these things. There’s nothing wrong with the term.
They are indeed fascinating ideas. But they are so fascinating and so challenging that they deserve (much) better investigation than what Langer appears to have managed so far. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and all that.
Not a hijack - the domain expired. It's showing a parking page from the registrar.

whois Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod https://icann.org/epp#autoRenewPeriod
this so much.

but flutter was probably sold internally as a trojan into ios dev experience. the carrot was multiplatform... and to sell it they needed to at least market that it was "true multiplatform" with native look. which is ironic since they go out of their way to make it pain to build to both in the same app
Or it could save you. Cameras being ubiquitous kept this guy from being wrongly convicted of murder[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/29/larry-d...
>Serving up food you didn't even cook isn't an intensely difficult or skilled job.

Then it should be easy to automate, but the best I've seen is a conveyor belt or a box on top of a roomba.
In reality it's a very skilled job, it's just that most everyone is capable of doing it.
And "fair" is any wage were you can live and increase the quality of your life over time as much as your work has increased the quality of others.
I created something similar in emacs for markdown [1,2]. The real feature needed is to connect to ipython, so images etc can be embedded into the markdown file as a image link. Don't know how to do this.

[1] https://gist.github.com/abdullahkhalids/83055b1abbd2cdf2416a...

[2] Yes, I know about org-mode and I do use it.
> A new 12MP Center Stage camera makes video calls even more engaging, perfectly centering users and those around them in the frame, even when moving around.

For WFH, do you have a sense of what's potentially in-frame?

In the video, the active frame expands automatically to include additional people -- showing parts of the background that it didn't initially.

(Time to update the videoconf skills of not including messy kitchen doorway in frame, and of SOs estimating whether they can walk past out of the camera's field of view.)
Is that somewhat biased? - I assume the number of people using Firefox has a quite big overlap with people using ad&tracking blockers, which block many statistic sites. (Website operators may log user agent which will be somewhat accurate still)
At schools with a broad range of majors, you often find a Calculus for X majors class. Mostly for majors where they need to have some exposure to Calculus, and may need to find slopes and areas under curves and such, but are not expected to do any further math courses, and so don't need to really hold all those symbolic concepts in their head for too long. And anyway, since you can't have Calculus and Arithmetic in your head at once, and they'll be better served with Arithmetic, best not to have them integrate by hand too many times.
Developing Kidneys from Scratch
Then there's also the "rat-race" aspect.

If you're focused on teaching, building or caring instead of test scores, conversions and profits, you're going to lose customers and opportunities.

Parents choose schools with better test scores, not schools with better teaching. Customers use products with better conversions; this is literally what the word "conversions" means.

If you focus on making your employees happy instead of making your customers happy, you'll quickly find that your employees have no more customers to serve. You will be outcompeted by other companies in the great rat race.

This is why most of the companies we have now are the way they are. It's not because all CEOs are evil, it's because the non-evil ones can't survive.
That's an extreme upper range for specific strains under ideal conditions which you aren't likely to achieve as a simple consumer.

It's certainly very easy to stay under this limit if you're growing at home. It's difficult to cross that threshold accidentally, for sure.
Most useful standards did not originate from standards bodies. The standards bodies just formalized what already had buy-in from the significant players.
If you want to learn more about MSFT during Ballmer era, i highly recommend the acquired podcast:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft-volume-ii

They come to the same conclusion as Dan - that Ballmer did a ton of things right and he was actually a much better CEO than the credit he's given today.

Part 1 of the podcast focuses on Bill Gates' era - both episodes are super engaging, the research and preparation they do is remarkably good.
nonsense. bed much larger than eg rivian r1t, decent range, fast charging, a fucking 240V outlet and 3 120v outlets, durable af exterior etc
>If this additional service were provided during your patronage, would that warrant a tip even though interaction was at a register?

Sounds like a convenience for everyone involved. Maybe they should have tipped him?
"is pretty neat, but it only got that way because thousands of people put millions of hours into building add-ons and hosting services to make it blossom into what it is today."

Insert Twitter, Reddit, Digg, MySpace, etc... at the beginning of that quote. The people who own the social networks rarely give a shit about the users once they hit critical mass. And the owners will eventually burn it down or enshitify it beyond recognition.
> As a user, I want common UI controls to look and behave the same way across all web sites.

That ship has sailed. (and I wish it had not)

> Everyone's site looks and feels inconsistent with every other site.

Somehow, this model won. Most people muddle through and figure it all out...
This is also true of being a doctor, practicing law, growing fruit, programming computers, driving a cab, creating art, making music, running a car wash, and crab fishing.
It took a long time to train myself to ship at the 80% mark and simply walk away to let it germinate. Over time, you cultivate a garden of nearly-done projects that are all ripe for expansion or rewrite.
The responsibility is already on the customer. It shouldn’t be, and restaurants should have to pay their workers minimum wage. But it isn’t that way, and stiffing service workers isn’t the way to fix it.
For anyone who's read the book and played the game, a question. I have done neither but bought both last year for a rainy weekend's fun. Anybody have strong feelings about which I should start with?
Baristas in Norway get paid far more than here in the USA except in the fanciest of coffee shops. Tip culture is simply a part of the restaurant scene here, while I don’t agree with it, I don’t see hurting the baristas/waitstaff as an option either. I may not give exorbitant tips, but I give a reasonable 10-15%
>I recently talked to Callum Williams, senior economics editor at The Economist, about why Americans are so much richer than Europeans. Two of the answers are the productivity of big tech and flexible labor markets

https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1850564972046172229

As a Danish person I don't agree with the "flexible labor market" thing. However the thing about big (tech) companies being economic powerhouses and a force of good seems increasingly true. A lot of people really need to rethink "big companies bad" and what we consider a monopoly in 2024.

That is also why the next US government, led by JD "breakup big tech" Vance can be an once in a generation opportunity for Europe to build giant economic tech powerhouses.
Name the “wildly successful” standards you are thinking of and then look into the history of them. You’ll find one or maybe two major players that pushed it initially.
Actually I believe it did break the world but we haven't noticed yet.
I'm sorry, but if you don't know how to solve x+1=7, you don't actually understand maths.
> We can also contract Jews to IDF and perhaps discuss how they kill 10x more than Hamas by most accounts.

Why is killing more of the enemy a "bad thing"?

> The killing is the extreme behaviour.

Yes. However, you fail to offer an alternative. Israel left Gaza, Israel made attempts to form a Palestinian state. Palestinians had the opportunity to end the cycle and Israel made that step...

Last time Israel left Gaza Hamas took over. It killed MANY Palestinians then started preparing for war, building rockets, tunnels etc. Israel didn't return to Gaza and tried to limit retaliation. That clearly didn't work.

> The insidious cause is the constant slow creeping pushing out of the other, the dispossesions and land captures that continue unabated.

This I actually agree with. I think the settlements in the west bank, especially the deep ones are a huge mistake. Guess what enables them...

> Some see it. Other refuse to acknowledge it.

Goes both ways sir. What do you expect Israel to do?

I wish the current conflict wasn't as violent. I wish more planning was given for "the next day". I wish Israel worked with the Palestinian authority and used this as an opportunity for that. I wish it would clear the deep settlements in the west bank instead of expanding them.

Unfortunately, Israel has a terrible government and Hamas/Iran knew that when they initiated Oct 7th. I hope that after this is all over Israel would elect a more reasonable government. It would probably still be very right-wing since violence tends to push people in that direction, but hopefully it would be reasonable. A right-wing government cleared settlements in Gaza, made peace with Egypt etc. So everything is possible.
> So you seem to think that simply because of his wealth he should have been tipping you?

No. But it's funny that he, of all people, didn't. It's the juxtaposition of wealth and frugality that are amusing.

> are you trying to say that in Seattle at the time tipping baristas was literally a well-established norm?

Yes. Without a doubt. But the norm was to tip infrequently, and not everyone did it. Those that did tipped once a week or 1x/2x a month. And it was usually just their change, significantly less than 10%.

> I can't imagine any baristas finding it odd to the point of mentioning if a patron, even a repeat patron, never put money in the jars

No one blinked an eye at the regulars who didn't tip. It wasn't a concern. The only exception is when it was a famous billionaire. It's notable.

> why you'd feel the need to cast aspersions on him

How so? I shared an objective observation. And I made clear that there was no ill will. Not even the slightest bit upset.

I feel like a lot of commenters are working through their own issues with tipping that surfaced with this light hearted story. Tipflation sucks, I get it. But this story isn't that.
There are so many official lies that you cant have big news outlets anymore. Almost everyone is tired of at least one of the lies but if you are honest about all of if the news outlet wont survive.
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… the more environmentally sound and morally coherent people?
Wealth is unevenly distributed.

> Average net worth is higher than median (at $1,059,470 vs. $192,084, respectively) ... (2023)

Reference: https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentiles/
Oh damn, that escalated quickly. Nice! How is that 51nb board? I totally forgot they were a thing. I have many ThinkPads but unfortunately am at the cap of coreboot-able (X230)... It's sadly getting to the point where the web, of all things, is gradually creeping out of reach.
i avoid contributing to flutter because it feels like a google soon to be abandoned project.

hacks like not accepting tabs in any tools and using space indentation wrong on top of it. tools ignore parameters like port numbers just so it works better for Android studio very specific use case while bringing pain to any ci pipeline, etc.
If the point of the policy is to make the society less dependent on drugs, this makes sense. It's difficult to outlaw what has been once legalized, so constraining the consumption by high taxes make sense while keeping the other drugs illegal.
Thank you for the first comment and sorry for the broken formatting. I just improved it.

The existing solutions are tailored for website analytics and built around concepts like page views, clicks, sessions, etc. Some of them allow sending arbitrary events, but users still need to solve CLI-specific problems like reliable and non-blocking event delivery, user uniqueness, consent collection, and others.

I'd be happy to hear about people's experiences with using these platforms for CLI analytics.
Have you ever written your own? Definitely worth it even just for fun.
this right here is an example of a terminally online person who feed their algorithm the wrong way :as just a bit of sleuthing reveals how wrong the statement is ◡̈
I smell workers comp payments!
He could fill it with top 10 amazon product articles.
Please don't do religious flamewar (or any flamewar) on HN.
Ever since the release of the M1, the number of Android users who now use Macbooks as their laptop has sharply increased. Even moreso for work purposes.
That’s the same argument for using calculators in the past 30 years and ChatGPT in the last few years. At some point, we lose far more than we gain by “technology our way around” our early development.

Why bother having campfires when we have portable space heaters? Heck, why bother camping at all if we have a nice comfortable space at home? More generally, why do any of the things that connect us to our past?

Personally, I think it’s important to learn by doing and then provide a “here is how we made that easier, and now you know why” type of foundation. Perhaps better is having people develop versions of those solutions for themselves so we don’t just expect someone else to solve all of our problems.
Sharing an iPad feels weird to me. Denmark middle class chiming in
I don't know about Japan but in France at least there is some minimum threshold to prevent totally unserious random people from running. For example when I lived in France during the 2007 presidential election you needed 500 elected officials (mayors etc.) to vouch that you are a serious candidate. This threshold meant that there were 12 official candidates, unlike the hundreds in US elections, but those 12 were treated equally.
What does analyst have to do with anything? Intel can still be a buy even if it's failed because it's either very cheap or there's the possibility of geopolitics or acquisitions. In fact being failed sometimes makes it even easier to buy.

It's obviously failed even beyond the massive share loss in the semi industry. It's stock price is down 60% since 2018 (not even a particularly interesting year), and its value is now literally lower than its book price. That's when you know everyone agrees it's a piece of junk.
M.2 devices save space on a PCB: yes, the connector itself takes some room, but the alternative is sticking all those chips on the PCB itself, and those chips take up more space (just look at any M.2 NVMe drive). The M.2 form factor is moving those things off the main PCB, and onto a daughterboard that usually sits directly on top of it and parallel to it.

The idea that a PCB gets larger with an M.2 slot is truly insane.
Please do write about it in extensive detail, I'd love to read! collect.metadat@gmail <3
> most privacy intrusions are carefully combined with some reward or convenience

...ie people are making a conscious choice based on what they value?
*most notable thing HN finds worth mentioning I think
The linked story is part of the online version[0] of a Baen anthology, _The World Turned Upside Down_, being a collection of stories that formed the imaginations of the two editors, Erik Flint[1] and David Drake[2]. The site seems to have been created in 2004, and for some reason is sprinkled with nonstandard characters and primitive formatting, which is a shame.

The list of stories in the contents[3] is indeed wonderful. I instantly recognize and remember "The Menace from Earth", "Black Destroyer", "A Pail of Air", "Who Goes There" (the original from which _The Thing_ and many other productions derived) and others.

[0] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___0.htm

[3] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747_toc.htm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Flint

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake
> Your engineers want to do that

This is not true, I can confidently say, most of the time. Engineers generally want to build software they think is a good trade off between fulfilling the spec and not being too hard to build.

This does not generally translate to good software. It’s not a detriment of character or anything like that. They’re just lazy like most people are
Jobs’ Apple would’ve moved the Magic Keyboard USB-C port to the bottom of the keyboard today just to watch people whine online.
> I’d put “person who makes sure WhatsApp verification codes work” on that list.

Thanks! That part of my job really wasn't too hard though, once I got things in order; but it was the easiest part of my job to describe. Just a lot of debugging from sparse data, and trying to get things to work a smidge better, because smidges here and there add up. It really helped to have a great customer service team that bubbled up usable information from users.

Debugging things from sparse data gets you involved in a lot of different systems though... That and I told people I worked at an ISP in the before times, so guess who got to fight with sendmail, and guess who got to own our Domain accounts and DNS accounts and guess who got to get x.509 certificates, and who had to fight with Google Apps to make mandatory 2fa usable, etc. Basically everything without a person and server adjacent got me. :P

Anyway, I've moved on (replaced by a team of three on the SMS stuff amyway, much better bus factor) and am semi-retired and no longer in any critical path, which is a lot less stress.
because you're comparing it wrong!

in your mind, ssl won't leak anything. and non ssl leaks everything.

make a list of everything you can infer without a cert looking on a ssl connection. then add on top of that all the things people with the cert or control over CAs can see and make a list of them all

when you're done you notice ssl is not perfect as you think and the extra request and no cache compound all that.
Agreed.

We try to use browsers standard features whenever possible. Despite looking into using the built-in validation, it's never been worthwhile. Too many gotchas, and we end up using a library to be able to easily support more complex checks anyway.

Furthermore, using a library opens up, in some cases, the possibility of sharing some of the validation code between front and backend.

In particular this article seems to work around one of the issues with `useLayoutEffect`. Not something that should be done lightly.
I used vision models to help me win at Age Of Empires 2
Useful Growth Frameworks
I hope this is gpt generated and you didnt spend your own time writing that.
its fine. a couple early failures get fixed as production ramps, as usual, and itll become a best selling ev, as usual.
Ask HN: There is an open-source alternative to almost any SaaS, what do you use?
Buffer, SproutSocial -> Postiz

Lokalise, Crowdin -> Tolgee

Shopify -> MedusaJS

Typeform -> Formbricks

Auth0 -> Hanko, Stack-auth

Retool -> ToolJet

Courier -> Novu

Launchdarkly -> Flipt, Unleash

Mixpanel -> Posthog

Bitly -> Dub

Notion -> Appflowy

Zoom -> Jitsi

Jira -> Plane

Airtable -> NocoDB

Vercel -> Coolify, Taubyte

Heroku -> Dokku

Firebase -> Pocketbase / Appwrite / Supabase

Shopify -> Prestashop

Slack -> Mattermost

Salesforce CRM -> ERPNext

Dropbox -> NextCloud

Mailchimp -> Mautic

Trello -> Wekan

Docusign -> Documenso

Calendly -> Cal

Datadog -> Prometheus

Google Analytics -> Plausible, Fathom

Zapier -> n8n

Algolia -> Trieve, Melisearch

Mint -> Maybe

Intercom -> Chatwoot

What am I missing?
Are you remembering Windows Mobile? That sucked, but Windows Phone did not (and was famously built by a totally different team). But it was too little, too late.