skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like you are wanting to argue on some specifics. I probably won't be able to give you what you are looking for.

With me, it had to do with the languages I wrote (C and Perl), that required CGI to publish. CGI did fine, but it's fairly primitive. Just another system text pipe (which, TBH, is pretty much what is going on, under a Webserver).

But for most folks, CGI is unapproachable. That's what PHP gives people. It was so easy to use, that anyone that could edit an HTML file, could also write powerful programs in PHP. It was integrated into the Webserver, not the system (as far as the user was concerned).

At the time I first encountered PHP, ColdFusion was an industry standard for that kind of thing, but it was a commercial product, locked to a single vendor. PHP gave hosting companies a fairly simple package (for free) they could compile into their Webserver, that would give their customers that power.

Nerds have no issue, using things like CGI, but most folks aren't nerds, and we sometimes have a real hard time, understanding that. Nerds that do, often become rich.
Even Google is plagued by spam, I've tried all sorts of search techniques and alternative engines but I feel like the only solution seems to be doing things manually. I was already starting to block things by myself but I thought it'd be more productive to make the list public and try crowdsourcing. Even now, searching "how to partition a hard disk" would often drive you to low-effort sites telling you to use their software.

> Unfortunately, this kind of blocklist is highly subjective. This list blocks MSN.com! That's hardly what I would have chosen.

It's definitely a bit opinionated, but it's open to discussion - you can create an unblock request issue (if you care enough to do so, of course!). The reason I blocked MSN is that it just re-hosts articles from other websites, so I'd rather see the official source than be tricked into Microsoft's site which is very annoying, like how it opens another article if you scroll too fast down.
Pfft, didn't you check their website?

https://cleanlabelproject.org/the-best-worst-protein-powder-...

Oh... the "worst protein powders" section is just a link to:

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/nutrition-healthy-eat...

I wouldn't be surprised if they have zero data and it's just a money grab for their "certification badge".
Yet hackers would be outside shouting and banging the doors, demanding to be let in to have the free poison, writing five hundred miles of comments about why they should not pay.
The formula for success is more basic than that.

Make people watch more YouTube.

Crazy videos might become passe or burn people out, at which point the 'formula' will change, but the underlying reality is the same. It's a paperclip maximizer. To succeed at YouTube make people watch more YouTube.
Honestly, like they published every single statistic, except the actual offenders.

If it’s such an important mission for them, then why not publish the offenders?
But would managers accept that most programmers be idle most of the time?

Case in point: "Only 30% of the ants do 70% of the work." https://blog.thefabulous.co/idle-time-productivity-lesson-an...
Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators
I'm guessing the Netherlands.
It's interesting how this is happening in software engineering YouTube content as well. It seems like things like "go sucks rust is great! Now rust sucks and zig is great!!" get way more views since it is basically clickbait for nerds.

It's too bad that nuanced discussion doesn't do too well on social media.
> is YouTube's algorithm good enough to itself pick up on this new market

Something I find interesting is that there are good channels producing very high quality (non-extreme or non-intense) content for many interests on YouTube and they coexist with the hyperbolic large channels. I suppose that they make less money, but they do so without a large production crew. I think the algorithm is supporting both types of content (content for myriad mindless viewers, and content for the fewer discerning viewers) and accommodates both scales.
Good post! I think the gradual transition you were able to do from salary -> consulting -> software products is very important and not the norm (mainly being able to keep part of your salary while doing some consulting on the side). The only people I've seen able to do that are VPs or C-suite.

I'm below those rungs. So I'm quitting my job to go "all in" on the consulting. (But I've been prepping and will make sure things line up so I can hit the ground running.)

All of this is to say, I think that transition either during or after salary work is the super important part that I see everyone gloss over.

My goal is to make a fraction of my salary with consulting for the first couple years, focus just on that, and eventually shift my focus to software products.
So basically since when cable TV came into mainstream existence.
I find the ideas of Baudrillard really accurate in describing some parts of modern life, but to be honest I feel like he just saying random stuff when I tried to read one of his book. It's so metaphorical and abstract it's very difficult to understand what exactly he is saying.
I've been on Firefox Dev Edition for Mac for the last 4 years I think, and I can't remember more than 1 or 2 websites that didn't work correctly on it. It's been flawless, more battery and memory efficient than Chrome, less finicky and problematic than Safari, and with all the extensions that I need.

I seriously don't see any disadvantage in picking Firefox over Chrome. I still have Chrome around if any website requires it specifically, but I haven't launched it in ages.

There were a few Chrome extensions that weren't there on Firefox [1] [2] but I fixed that _easily_ by getting the crx file, unpacking it, then adding the https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill to the extension to make it cross-browser.

It's easy enough to make an extension work on both Firefox and Chrome, I've done it myself with SideHN (https://github.com/alin23/sidehn), but I guess Firefox is not really in the mind of Chrome extension devs.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anchor-headings/lgg...

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xpath-helper/hgimno...
Proton is giving $150,000, the rest is from the people buying raffle tickets.
I'm a senior person who looks after content protection and anti-piracy at a major streaming company.

The idealism of those who want to see the demise of DRM doesn't actually hold up in the face of reality. Even when we remove restrictions and give global access to content, for free, pirates don't give up. One of the reasons is that many pirate sites get ad revenue, piracy is a business for many folk and they get the benefit of not paying for the most expensive part. They also don't have legal/regulatory compliance, taxes and will often operate their infrastructure using stolen credit cards or accounts (we can see this).

Then you have people who are selling legitimately and trying to provide the best service for customers, but who have to pay for the content, competing with people who don't have any such responsibilities. So, customers take the cheap deal.

Some folk are also under the assumption that streaming services are money grabbing. Except when you actually look, most streaming services are running at a loss, or barely profitable.

I'm just working to protect our company and reduce losses, ultimately I am not preventing people getting access to fresh food or water. I am protecting premium goods from being illegitimately exploited and protecting the jobs of my colleagues when we're already under significant cost pressures.

One reason I post about these things on the internet is in the hope that one day we might have a constructive dialogue about how to balance freedoms AND enable commerce. But at the moment we have extremism, libertarian ideals against company lawyers.
This isnt a scientific report, its an advertisement for "clean label evaluated" products. ostensibly those brands that are most engaged with the clean label organization are featured with their logo at the end of the PDF.

you arent supposed to glean enough independent information from this PDF to make an informed decision about anything except the clean label group (that they are good.)
Sure, hiring is hard but the factors you mention are rare, and teams are extremely motivated to fill vacancies.
I find that going into your history and removing offending videos that seem to be driving the algorithm is more effective than using the "not interested" option on newly recommended videos
Requiring the vaccine wasn’t “requiring experimental gene therapy” since we had, and continue to have, old school style vaccines for COVID.

I know plenty of people that didn’t want to risk the newer stuff, but understood the collective issue of getting to herd immunity and took the normal version of the vaccine. To me this was very straightforward logic.
This is what I call meta advice.

He makes most of the money now from persuading others starting a passive income side gig, for which he coincidentally has a starter pack to sale. While this might be a reliable income, it is in no means a template for other people to start a successful passive income business with a working business idea.
I don't buy it. Posting data measurements would be even more objective than reviewing products yet scathing product reviews aren't litigated, so where is this hunch coming from?

Can you post examples of litigation from revealing measurements of branded food products? It doesn't seem to stop anyone from posting heavy metal content in chocolate bar brands.
Peter Sellers also had this problem; in his case, it was a problem with his personality (or lack of one) rather than something acting did to him.
and I think "literally" abuse is a sympton of that
It's an expression from economics. Do you disagree that societies reproduce themselves?

We're living in a world system where almost all societies are based on the idea that one class of people has a right to the labour of almost all the rest. I'm not sure why you suggest furthering it is a solution to our current predicaments.
Have yet to be convinced that staff eng is worth it. Seems like it is [project] management by another name and placed at the top of the IC ladder so as to suggest that maybe, just maybe, you'll get time to actually write code.
> Oh... the "worst protein powders" section is just a link to:

> https://www.consumerreports.org/health/nutrition-healthy-eat...

paywalled.
Isn't this essentially a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675538 ?
For making factual statements? In CA? On a matter of public concern? That suit gets dismissed in days.
Just ask the candidate whether if they have contributed to relevant large open-source projects in the language you are looking for. If not, then give them a hard leetcode question.

All you have to do for this hard Leetcode puzzle is to ask the candidate to complete it in Rust.

ChatGPT will struggle to help the candidate as it generates garbage.

After they have completed it then for the second technical interview, question the candidate around how they came up with the solution step by step to show if they really understand both the language and algorithm used to solve the puzzle.

This rigorously filters out 95% of frauds and impostors whilst targeting the best and brightest (really).

Job done.
AFAICT, current tech industry culture is most like what I understood of the '80s stereotype of Wall Street bro culture: sociopathic unchecked-greed that will do whatever it can get away with.

I'm not saying this to complain, but to suggest a risk of what might come next.

So far, they've run wild, and taken over computers, the Internet, AI, and information technology in general.

What happens when there's a disruptive breakthrough in medical care, and the exploiters rush in with the same thinking?

Right now, one of the few firewalls against that might be that doctors generally have traditions of ethics, and some stature to hold their ground and influence things.

Earlier Internet didn't have the same formalized ethical traditions, but had a lot of very smart people people who had altruistic intentions, as well as suspicion of those who'd attempt to twist online potential. All those ethical people were pretty much swept away in a funding gold rush, suddenly with little to no influence over it.

(Google did grab some of those people, because Google said the right words, so the altruistic techies thought it was their people, but look what eventually happened even there.)

Just like virtually every IoT product and Web site violates every user, what happens if a medical gold rush (say, some kind of implant, or transformative process) means that what we thought was a bulwark of ethical practitioners, is easily bulldozed over, by investment money and culture. And then everyone's body is violated by the newly unchecked industry-wide socipathy, with no alternatives to even live?
The PR guys have arrived.
That's fair. What kind of rough edges did you find? I think I'm OK without any Google services, because I can simply keep another phone just for those and banks/trading platforms.
I think Citus only does sharding not replication. You can use it together with Patroni though.
Reading this, it feels much more like "using coding skills to make income". It's a great description of one person's journey, but "work hard for a decade, continue to work at a healthy lighter pace after" isn't really passive income in my mind.

And I'm not sure it beats, e.g., work hard and save hard at tech company for a decade, then use the invested surplus as passive income to work lightly thereafter. At least, not in the general case.
Exploring the Potential of LLM Agents as Dungeon Masters in Tabletop RPGs
I'm glad the reporters did the due-diligence to uncover that they had a prior beef with him. My reading is it appears "evidence" was made-up to get him kicked out a second time. Now the matter is in state court, so it seems like he has a strong case to prove to a disinterested judge or a jury with a functional brain that ChatGPT doesn't leave any form of signature and there's no deterministic method to distinguish human-generated text from that created by an LLM.
My setup is similar to yours, but I also distribute my most important data in compressed (<5GB) encrypted backups to several free-tier cloud storage accounts. I could restore it by copying one key and running one script.

I lost faith in most paid operators. Whoops, this thing that absolutely can happen to home users and we're supposed to protect them from now actually happened to us and we were not prepared. We're so sorry!

Nah. Give me access to 5-15 cloud storage accounts, I'll handle it myself. Have done so for years.
What about Zuckerberg's track record on tech progress makes you think a claim like that is worth taking seriously?
Gotta pay the bills somehow, apparently.
The worst cases in debugging are the ones where the mental model behind the code is wrong and, in those cases, "throw it away" is the way out.

Those cases are highly seductive because the code seems to work 98% and you'd think it is another 2% to get it working but you never get to the end of the 2%, it is like pushing a bubble around under a rug. (Many of today's LLM enthusiasts will, after they "pay their dues", will wind up sounding like me)

This is documented in https://www.amazon.com/Friends-High-Places-W-Livingston/dp/0... and takes its worst form when you've got an improperly designed database that has been in production for some time and cannot be 100% correctly migrated to a correct database structure.
40 working hours per week it's an anachronism. We should have been doing far less hours.

We are in the computing era (plus robotics), not in the 19th century.
You're right. My caveat not exactly accurate but I wanted to point out where DisTrO might comes in and why it's relevant here.

I mean it reduces the communication overhead by more orders than DiLoCo.
The great thing about meritocracies is how the people already in power get to decide what "merit" means.
It comes to no surprise to me when just today i had to deal with developers on reddit being surgically implanted that unions are bad, when they have an effect on wealth inequality. this was just a rant only partially related to the post
But come on, that's been going on for literally centuries.
I think children actually have a huge negative impact on quality of life if you aren’t rich and if anything that impact is still underemphasized
There is no amount of lead that's considered safe for consumption. Anything that's not zero is bad for you, doesn't matter what dirt or whatever has in it.
Looking for Feedback: Vegan/Vegetarian Takeaway Delivery Service
Sifting thorugh menus to find the veggie options can be frustrating.

Why not isolate all menus to just the veggie options on a separate platform.

Obvious benefits like convenience, more accurate reviews for veggie options and, more broadly, this reduces the barriers to entry for those looking to make the switch.

Interested to hear your thoughts
yes but NTFS is bad enough that no one needs to be told how bad it is.
The more I learn about successful people, the more I realize that being an office drone with a satisfactory salary is where I want to stay.
> We apparently get enough protein due daily consumption and the avg sporty person doesn't need protein powder.

I don't know what that means. The amount of protein people get varies dramatically. Chicken is a remarkably efficient way to get protein. Greek yogurt is also pretty good.

If you haven't measured your protein intake (with an app like myfitnesspal) you should try it.

I always thought I was a pretty knowledgable person when it came to nutrition and my eating habits competely changed when I bothered to look up the calorie and macro count of everything I ate. I also dropped 40 pounds and put on a lot of muscle.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
I think the key word is “comprehensive”. There are definitely federal regulations of heavy metals in food products.

See:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

https://www.compliancegate.com/heavy-metal-regulations-unite...
Your diagrams have some flaws too. ZFS has a variable stripe size. Let’s say you have a 10 disk raid-z2 vdev that is ashift=12 for 4K columns. If you have a 4K file, 1 data block and 2 parity blocks will be written. Even if you expand the raid-z vdev, there is no savings to be had from the new data:parity ratio. Now, let’s assume that you have a 72K file. Here, you have 18 data blocks and 6 parity blocks. You would benefit from rewriting this to use the new data:parity ratio. In this case, you would only need 4 parity blocks. ZFS does not rewrite it as part of the expansion, however.

There are already good diagrams in your links, so I will refrain from drawing my own with ASCII. Also, ZFS will vary which columns get parity, which is why the slides you linked have the parity at pseudo-random locations. It was not a quirk of the slide’s author. The data is really laid out that way.
Donut Lab's New Motor Brings Power to the Wheel Hub
There is a straight line through 70s Falwell, 90s Limbaugh, tea party, to MAGA. All fueled by a self-reinforcing rage machine.
Plot twist: The real 'Great Resignation' was top managers resigning from their responsibility to build good workplace culture.
Agree, and the biggest chunk of this is housing and healthcare. Can you imagine a world where there is guaranteed basic housing and healthcare. Yet, all governments will do everything and anything but not ensure these two things. No matter how much money or taxes they are sitting on.
It's impressive and interesting, I guess in terms of performance, it's quite big, 80 qps feels quite huge!!

For such thing of mine, it's more than enough I guess.

Would it be a bad idea to use multiple sqlite files, isolating things per domains? Feels like something possible and interesting?
I called myself a Semiotics Engineer for 4 years, but the title didn't catch. I did domain analysis, logical model creation, concrete model creation in XML/OWL/KML, model review and improvement, semantic reasoning-based system design/implementation, and message system design/implementation. This was before the rise of ML.
The ants know what to do and we don't.
Sure, but do you see one of the primary reasons why there is such ignorance? Because to acknowledge that there were (or are) great, powerful, complex, sophisticated, organized cultures in parts of the world before European colonization happened undercuts one of the central myths that European colonization has wanted to tell about itself - that it, and it alone, was responsible for bring all those attributes to the parts of the world it touched.

Our ignorance of the cultures (positive and negative) in parts of the world where colonization did not happen is motivated by something less pernicious - people are parochial, and European culture in particular took a fairly strong stance that despite knowledge of the civilizations along (e.g.) the silk road, they were of no particular significance since they didn't have (Jesus|Bach|Newton|Galileo|etc.)

You ask "to what end?" I would say the end has multiple components. One is that history rhymes and so if you want to understand the future better, understanding the past better will often help with that. Another is that cultures themselves carry the past forward for amazingly long periods - the English have still not really abandoned the Norman conquest of 1066 as a socio-structural signifier even though it was nearly 1000 years ago. The Hopi still have many stories of things that occured in their world 600-1200 years. If these historical stories are inaccurate, a culture is doing itself no favors carrying them forward. And similarly, a culture that carries such a story as a tale about injustice is not done any favors by being told "ah, fuhgedaboutit".
The way I read it, Gizmodo cannot tell whether those jobs are fake or just never filled. How could anyone tell from outside ? The visible fact is that no-one is hired for those jobs.
> You grow plants in dirt. Guess what happens? They take up a little bit of lead.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2016/02/02/risk-of-lead-pois...

This study disputes this except for root vegetables.
It’s completely infeasible, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see significant movements inside individual companies or small groups of large companies.
>Fuck the current job market I'm moving to china.

I hope you enjoy a 6 day work week.
They changed the definition of 'literally' to fit the modern meaning. You can no longer call it abuse now as the misuse fits the new definition.

See definition 2 here:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/literal...
How Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups
I pay for YouTube Premium. I'm thankful that it exists. I still get sponsored segments in the middle of my videos (from the content creators themselves). I haven't (yet) installed SponsorBlock -- currently, I have no plans to, but I do fast-forward to skip those commercials in the middle of the videos.

I pay for Amazon Prime, and they've started showing me preroll ads on my streaming content. I also still get sponsored product recommendations in my search list.

I pay for Kagi search. Thankfully, this area is still relatively clean.
This is basically a "get out of jail free" card for lifetime for a tiny fraction of the profit it made them.

So the hush money the SEC wanted is lower then expected, and price of stock should go up.
Aside from AI zirp and pandemic I think gen z has also made a big difference.

Even though everyone is rolling their eyes at what they’re saying / doing it does seem to have shifted the equivalent of the Overton window. It’s made it more socially acceptable to speak up about the pointlessness of corporate life
It's criminal that they did not include a list
Wow, so the music stops when I do something else because the site developer wants me to download their app, so they detect a switch and turn off the video? Diabolical.

I'll have to try out that extension.