skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once paid for a Plex share that initially was very convenient. Some free stream sites can be very slow and constant buffering. The plex share had high bandwidth connection and a huge library with content from basically all major streaming services at a great price so it was an easy buy. Plex started cracking down hard and it would disconnect way too often and require the guy setting it back up again which could take a half hour or a half a day so I ended up moving on.

I was paying for netflix until my kids could no longer watch from my house and my exwife's house. After that nonsense I just taught my kids how to find stuff for free.

I used to pirate all my games but now pay for all of it. I am trying to rack my head around why I stopped with games but having a hard time thinking of what made me change. For PC I just think it probably is risky running pirated software that may be malicious. For things like the switch well I have a older switch that can be fully modded but haven't due to not having the time to fully research all the ins and outs and not wanting my kids switch to be banned or something.
> Let’s not forget that basically every graphical IDE on the planet has an integrated terminal emulator, and for good reason

*cries in Xcode
About a year ago, I experimented with this. I was collecting links throughout the month and then posted an article with all the links accompanied by a “personal comment” for each.

I kept up with that for about 5 months and then abandoned the effort. It was a lot of work and it didn’t feel very rewarding. The writing itself wasn’t as fun as crafting an article and the resulting posts didn’t get any traction.

Wondering how others that do this feel, and whether blog readers might see these types of entries as “blog spam” or not.
I am on the spectrum and Yoga helps me a lot to get grounded.

I thought it is just a personal thing and was afraid I would be ridiculed if I said it helps, even in support groups.

I am not alone, nice to know.
I'd write to my representatives about it.
US-based A. Zildjian Co bought Istanbul-based K. Zildjian Co in 1968 - where Mikael, who married into the family, worked.

So this is arguably the original company.
I still desperately want to know the current (scientific) state of wearing a mask. On the one side we have people that say 'our bodies need to learn again to fight against viruses' and the other side which wants you to put on a mask even if you have the smallest sign of a common cold. - Though, I do understand the fear of people who have/had long covid, MCFS or do know people who have, but I don't know what conclusion to draw for myelf out of this. Gladly nothing happened to myself. I don't even know if I ever had covid. At least I never had a positive test and I did quite a bit of them. Maybe I just have a lucky immune system (or a good one because I dont fear getting sick and run into all sorts of viruses?)

I myself tend to lean towards the first group, but also recognize that masks during covid might have been a good thing. At least in the beginning when we didn't know what we can expect.

So does anyone have any literature on how good masks are, if we should be wearing them and if so, when we should?
> In fact, I never consented for anyone to access my server. Just because it has an IP address, does not make it a public service.

If you don't take any steps to make it clear that it's not public, like an auth wall or putting pages on unguessable paths, then it is public, because that is what everyone expects.

Just like you if you have a storefront, if the door is unlocked you'd expect people to just come in and no one would take you seriously if you complain that people keep coming in if you don't somehow make it clear that they're not supposed to.
The developer of iTerm2 has a thankless job to be sure, but the reality is that when you build this kind of software you have a certain responsibility to be thoughtful and cautious and not indirectly cause harm to others. Security vulnerabilities like this can cause actual harm, so it's understandable that people see someone fail to live up to the responsibility and they get mad.

There aren't easy solutions to having responsibility. All you can do is live up to it, which sometimes means you need to apply rigor and processes that make hacking less fun, or that you need to make compromises you don't like.

"to think other projects couldn't have issues is just naive" is the wrong way to look at it. You should evaluate the processes that lead to the binary (or source tarball) that you're running on your machine. Is every commit/PR being reviewed by someone other than the author? By multiple someones, ideally? Do they run automated test suites before shipping?
The idea that iTerm is noticeably slow is hilarious.

If you buy a base model grandma level MacBook Air it can play Cyberpunk 2077 without breaking a sweat and somehow terminal performance is an issue.

And if all I cared about was raw performance I’d be using vim instead of VSCode. But raw performance isn’t what makes me productive.
That is the entire point.

Money removes unhappiness and raises you to a baseline, but after that it doesn't provide extra happiness in and of it self.
You are catching a lot of flak for this, but there is one thing you are right about. If you make tens of millions of dollars, and can't figure out what to do with those resources, you shouldn't be calling your coworkers NPCs. You're the NPC.

I truly mean this in an entirely non-judgemental way. I wish the author luck in achieving his dream of becoming high agency rather than simply high freedom. I wish it for everyone who wants it.
>At large, covid was never dangerous to children and (healthy) (non-senior) adults.

We didn't know that in the first place though. We expected it, but I shared the sentiment of better be safe then sorry. At least for 2020. I think after that it got handled extremly badly. I can only speak of germany from personal experience though. While I still can understand _some_ of the decissions made by politics, I think they were communicated very very bad and not discussed openly
Yeah, you can turn off the setting that makes it so turning wifi off actually does that instead of leaving it on but telling you and your apps that it's off.

I could live with that, but what really chafes my bits is how your apps can't get so much as an NMEA string without you turning the creepy tracking telemetry that pipes data on all the SSIDs and Bluetooth beacons around you back to the mothership back on. And having Location turned off breaks many apps for no good reason.
In spite of the rediculous level of precautions society had taken, over a million Americans still died to COVID. Keep in mind at the time the proper procedure to treat COVID was unknown, there was no vaccine which dramatically reduced the risk, and more aggressive and successful treatments such as using antibodies didn't exist either. COVID was without doubt dangerous in the early days of the pandemic.
I think some are missing the actual point here:
Why does a software/hardware/driver concerned with drawing need to know what wifi-networks are available?
That is tantamount to surveillance.
An absolute no-go.
> at least 1000 people died from COVID-19 each week, 75% of them in the United States

Unless that percentage is an artifact of more accurate reporting in the US, I am now even more disappointed in the state of US health care and public health.
Kagi also has an occasionally delightful small web index: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web. It’s nicely integrated into their search results too.
I agree about the response. From a Bayesian perspective, our priors were that society would respond better, and that the pandemic wouldn't be politicized (much.)

Something I find of interest is the set of all conjectures whose Bayesian probability estimates would be significantly revised in light of this discrepancy.
So don't normalise manufacturer locking. We're not going to prevent the bad thing from happening by arguing against the hardware that enables the bad thing - we're going to need to argue against the bad thing.
(Obligatory HN pedantry: arguably unrelated, but now I'll try to help anyway because this is quite common.)

Bluetooth is pretty low power, but without the TV in the way, that range should be no problem at all. Problem is that a lot can block it physically and drown it out in RF noise.

Most TV's probably have a thin, but solid aluminum plate in them for structure that could indeed block BLE and be causing the issue. Ironically, this is one RF case where metal studs would actually be helpful.

For comparison, I fly a paramotor and use Sena Bluetooth mesh for comms, and just our heads at any distance are enough to block it if we're on the wrong side of each other. Motorcyclists on the other hand don't often have this issue since there's other vehicles and stuff to bounce their signals around.

What might help if that's the issue is something reflective like foil mounted somewhere that can see both the controller and the GTV device. I'd also try to make the reflector slightly/roughly parabolic-ish (kinda shallow as to not make aiming difficult) pointed at the GTV device. You can hide the reflector behind and/or point it through anything RF transparent like wood or plastic.

Another possibility is other 2.4ghz noise— You could try turning down 2.4ghz transmit power on your AP as a possible quick fix. Of course if you haven't, make sure anything that can be on 5ghz, is.

Edit: Note that a reflector will also reflect noise sources at the GTV device.

I've also had issues with poorly shielded HDMI interfering with 2.4ghz in close proximity, so even just jostling things around behind the TV a little or using your best shielded HDMI cables there could help some.

Debugging RF can be tricky and frustrating, but I hope one of these tips helps either you or maybe a passer-by one day. :)

Happy new year!
Yeah, I also kind of like coding in SQL, with PL/SQL being my favourite extension language, which is kind of heresy in HN, but whatever.
It seemed entirely appropriate and exactly on point from my PoV:

On 24 March, Western Australia closed its borders to the rest of Australia, and on 1 April, the state implemented borders between regions in the state.

By mid-April 2020, the state had eliminated community transmission of COVID-19, becoming one of the few places in the world to do so.

Elsewhere (the UK and US in particular) looked like a total clusterf*ck.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Western_A...

and: https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-the-premier...
Societies have made the poor better off by preventing people from becoming too wealthy, though. Specifically, I'm thinking of the very high high-end tax rates that were common 60 years ago.
How out of touch that you think 60 million would not do any good. You could change so many lives for the better.
In the long run I don't think it's the death count that matters.

Every time one of these goes endemic, the immune systems of all future humans get a slightly heavier burden to bear. The effect of all those passengers adds up. We'll eventually have a make or break moment and fail because we're in a viral haze and not thinking clearly. It's worth learning from the past so we can forestall that moment as long as possible.

I don't think that means more isolation. I think it means more thinking about the ecology of zoonotic diseases. Less contact with risky organisms, maybe we change our diet or where we decide to build, etc.
This is provably untrue disinformation.
Would anyone pay for this? Could anyone realistically make a business out of this?
You write as if disease communicability isn’t a thing. If every healthy adult gets infected with Covid it’s no big deal, right? Except who will work in hospitals, nursing homes, and grocery stores? Those are all places full of old people who can get easily harmed by this disease.

There’s no magic solution to pandemics, only a choice between bad options. “Fuck it, let all the old people die off” never struck me as a reasonable option.
My advice is to look at studies done before 2020 when it became political. My research suggests that, while masks probably do something, it's very hard to measure the exact impacts. The prevailing wisdom before 2020 was that masking the public for viruses didn't do anything. For medical professionals, very strict masking protocols were needed to get any assurance of safety.
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No, all the patch notes say is “I learned from my mistake and ripped out all the logging code”.

That’s not actually a postmortem of a list of process changes. Nothing about how WIP changes made it through into a code release nor in how such mistakes will be prevented in the future. There’s a much richer discussion of options in this thread of things people do to prevent things like this. For example, reading environment variables from a file that’s gitignored so that you never accidentally commit something and you don’t need to mutate code to do a config change.

He may indeed have learned from his mistakes, but I’m pointing out the flaw of assuming every mistake was treated as a learning opportunity, especially when no real evidence exists to suggest that.
Pixel phones run song identification constantly now. They have a local database of the top 1000 (?) most popular songs. It has negligible impact on battery life.

Not saying I agree that 'phones are listening to show us ads', but technically we have the capability for that to happen (sampling audio every X intervals and matching against a local database of keywords)
cool, a garden index! love that they included an RSS feed too (https://blogscroll.com/index.xml) - i'm sticking that in my feed reader immediately. it sounds nice to have a few random new digital garden sites to peruse once in awhile.
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I tried WezTerm recently but I unfortunately could not type backslashes on an ISO keyboard. There were other minor annoyances such as new tabs always opening on the last directory I was at and not my home directory (this was something that could be configured, but I never managed to do it). Ultimately, it was the problem with the backslashes that drove me back to iTerm.

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/4051
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Here's an idea!

The biggest challenge I see - the economy is about to be transformed dramatically. AI systems may replace much or all of cognitive labor, and soon afterwards manual labor via robotics. Labor displacement, inequality, hupercapitalism, you name it.

We have no good theses on how to handle this transition, or the role of governments in making sure this goes well for people. We need economic policies and strategies to improve human outcomes post-transition.

If you don't care about money, I can't think of anything more impactful than this work. Ping me @ Convergence Analysis if it's of interest
I’ve long been of the opinion that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Between the NPC comment and breaking up with his girlfriend, I’d say he has a long way to go, if he ever gets there at all. Hope he does.
There's two decades worth of countless conversations on Reddit alone that would be buried into nothingness but instead ML has revived all that activity as useful data. ML is definitely a great way to bring back utility for a lot of old and unused data.
Italians also got into cymbal-making during the 20th century, the upshot of which was apparently that some of the post-WWII British cymbals branded as "Zyn" were made by Italian POWs (or maybe ex-POWs?)
Well some people actually do believe in giving credit to the person who helped them make an informed purchase. I have gone into a store and had a worker spend like 20 minutes showing me things. I wasn't ready to buy but when I was and came back I had another worker try and help me but said to them the other worker spend a lot of time helping the other day I would like to buy it through them and was sorry.
You can literally plug your last sentence directly into Google and get good information.
Great work showcasing SQL’s versatility!
Now install Linux on it.
I remember discovering minifeed.net not too long ago here on HN. Cool project! I like how you show related posts from other blogs when viewing an item. It's nice for discovering new blogs.
Out of interest, from a US point of view since I'm not there, is this going to end up as a relatively damp squib in the very near future now we have access to 5G and all the competition there.

Last year I was able to abandon completely my broadband provider and now have two sims, one for a home router and one for a mobile router with pretty much unlimited data.

There is so much competition in the 5G mobile space that the ability of these older closed market providers over cable/fiber is surely going to be a thing of the past very soon and thus the need to enforce legal neutrality will fade?
> I still desperately want to know the current (scientific) state of wearing a mask.

100% agreed.

We wore masks pretty religiously (definitely when it was mandated, often when it wasn’t for a while).

Several months ago, our household got COVID, one persons at a time. We always quarantined in a room, and wore a mask for the limited time we left quarantine.

A couple months ago, my mom tested positive, while living with three others. No one ever wore a mask or quarantined, only keeping a distance. Nobody else ended up with it.

Very anecdotal and not scientific at all, but it’s these and other similar anecdotes that make it very hard to understand the impact masks have on spreading/not spreading the virus.
>For medical professionals, very strict masking protocols were needed to get any assurance of safety.

That's a very good point. As I understood it, even if we ignore the people that don't cover their nose, you have to be very careful when putting one on, to get the desired protection. Most people just don't care enough about it. Also use them to often, yada yada yada...
> But no one complains and it lets them ship faster

I think we’re past even that point by now. Not only the code we ship now is slow, it’s also harder to build and maintain, and expensive to run. I have no idea how we got here to be honest.
I think it right to base the assessment of whether it is a walled garden on how easy it is for outsiders to access, and how easy it is to leave and take your community.

For viewing, I think you are doing well - your own domain name, which you can host where you like, and which currently doesn't impose many restrictions on who can view without signing up to anything.

But part of your community engagement is about having the community submit changes to you. And having that via GitHub is a walled garden - you can't make a PR without a GitHub account - or even search the code. And they say you are only allowed one free account - so one identity only - and I've heard credible reports they actively enforce it by IP matching etc..., and ban people if they suspect them of having two accounts.

Moving off GitHub isn't always that easy - you'd need to retrieve all your PRs, but then the problem is people who have GitHub accounts to engage with you would need to migrate their method of engagement.

So GitHub is absolutely a walled garden, and if you have a public GitHub, it is part of how you engage with your community.

Walled gardens do have the benefit of more people being in them - there is some barrier to entry to signing up on a random Gitea or Forgejo instance - but then you are beholden to the policies of the walled garden.
The fact that several people have mentioned your public image might deter them from hiring you should raise some serious concerns. Instead of getting defensive and stubborn, take a moment to reflect. This could explain why you're not receiving callbacks. Insisting that you're right and everyone else is wrong isn't helping you.

Given how competitive the job market is right now, you have a PR issue. It's important to take a deep breath and recognize that people are trying to offer you objective advice.

If you're not willing to improve your public profile, you can't expect to receive interest.

Have you ever had a friend in a terrible relationship, where everyone can see how bad it is except for them? You have a problem with your public image. If you don't think it accurately portrays you, then clean it up. From your post, it seems like you're involved in really interesting projects—why sabotage your good deeds?

Deleting your LinkedIn profile seems a bit extreme. You should be creating it in a very polished way. All you need is one job to come from it or to catch the eye of one recruiter.

You have to play the game. That sucks, but the freewheeling days seem to be over. Play the game or accept you are making the rock you're pushing uphill heavier.
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This thread reminded me to make my annual donation to iTerm2's developer, who does a pretty amazing job keeping iTerm MacOS compliant and up to date.
I have a different take. Most people in corporate jobs are NPCs, me included. I don’t mind it. My meaning and purpose is the family I’m trying to support. If that means things at work are on autopilot so be it. It’s just a matter of priorities.

So yeah - it’s fine to call me an NPC. I just have my priorities figured out better than the author.
A vuln every 7-8 years is "a string of unique and extremely bad vulns"?

I use iTerm2, mostly because that's what I'm used to: I installed it on my first Mac years ago when Terminal.app was really bad. I'm willing to switch to another terminal, but I don't see yet how iTerm2 is so much worse than the competition security-wise.

(I also don't understand the general animosity towards an opensource project with one developer doing all the work for 15 years.)
I skimmed the article but did not find my question answered: what's the current view on whether the political and social response was properly done?
In my experience, pro marks last a long time. Personally, I really liked the Matt Halpern signature sticks (feels like a 2B but plays like a 5B). At the end of the day, it's how you hit the cymbals. If you hit with a sweeping motion away from the blade of the cymbal, then your sticks will last a lot longer and your cymbals will be less prone to cracking as well.

If you're interested in more unique sounds from cymbals, Meinl makes some great stuff.
Something similar happened to me with backpack zippers. It convinced me the phone is listening and serving me ads despite the technical explanations that it isn't.

I was walking to work and my backpack zipper broke getting off the elevator. When I got to my cube I set my phone on the desk and said to my coworker, "damn, my backpack zipper just broke!" 45 minutes later I was in a meeting and checked my phone and backpack zipper ads appear. I had never googled backpack zippers before, never seen backpack zipper ads.
Literally the only proceeding thing before getting these was was telling my coworker that mine had just broken.
But it is. Scrolling in neovim is noticably slower on iTerm2. This makes it cumbersome to use. Even if it doesn't prevent me from inputting the keystrokes any faster, if it is cumbersome to use, it will make me work slower.