skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not making any claims about how level the playing field is, or whether there ought to be limits to political ad spending in order to create a more balanced conversation.

I'm arguing that being able to choose to eliminate political advertising entirely is antidemocratic. That's not balance -- it's deeply unbalanced.
Same. I'm at 7680x2160 pixels but over two 24 inch screens at 60hz. Once you get used to it you won't go back.
> I'd say the key thing here is getting rid of the guilt: I've agreed with myself that as long as I never exceed the accumulated pomodoro budget, I can spend it without feeling bad about not working.

I found this to be a key factor. I can enjoy myself as long as there are no matters unresolved.

>(EDIT: Well, the third big trick, one which lets me keep anxiety down, is that I keep running journals - both personal and work - and I dump my train of thoughts straight into them whenever I start feeling even slightly anxious or confused. I almost never read them again, but the act of going through my thoughts in writing calms me down, and lets me pinpoint the sources of anxiety.)

Reminds me of "getting things done"
GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Sue Big Tech Companies Censoring Political Speech
> The fact that Facebook appears to be running their platform with this principle is in no way inconsistent with the statement "They actively want their users to be free to consume what they want, even if others think that’s bad for them."

What the hell are you talking about, "running it consistently with this principle?" Facebook is very much a platform that restricts free speech.

They even restrict political speech. Unless it comes from a political campaign. So, no, as an individual, you don't even have the option to present your own arguments.
Not to take away from your point, but Doom was actually written on a NeXTstation and cross-compiled for PCs, so at a minimum they were using 1120x832 resolution (2 bit greyscale).
I'm a little bit confused by that whole discussion. Keys are not people. Nor are branches. Bank cards. Hard drives. It seems perfectly fine to have a master/slave relationship between components. I don't quite get how that impacts anyone. Intelligent lifeforms obviously shouldn't be treated as slaves, but that doesn't seem to be what this is about; merely a matter of terminology?

Painters can be masters, carpenters and all kinds of other artists and craftsmen too. Are they no longer masters of their crafts because the word is somehow "not inclusive"? It's not. And it shouldn't be. It takes word to be a master crafter.

What about BDSM, should subs and doms no longer refer to their counterparts as master/mistress & slave?

Apparently this is a controversial issue in some places, and I don't understand why. Maybe HN isn't the best place to gain that understanding, but then maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised?
1440p144hz seems to be the sweet spot that real world single graphics cards can max out on.
The new CX generation from LG comes with a 48" model which may fit people better and supports variable rate refresh which is good for gaming as some cards and consoles can support it.

Living with a C9 65" as my main television, not computer monitor, while I acknowledge the picture quality is incomparable from my point of view I am in the camp of that for a general work computer screen it would be best to wait for micro LED technology to spread. OLED still suffers the risk of burn in but this is mostly from fixed elements where the screen is level on for days if not years. Still not worth the degradation that will come as most elements are fixed and always on display with Mac OS.

So for the most part a well lit IPS display will serve users just fine these days and reserve OLED for the living room.
One vector is if you pay in the app, Apple gets its cut.

Platforms that are "mobile first" are at a disadvantage (I'm not sure what Hey's split is).

But in your list, a desktop web UI is primary, and billing can happen there without addition costs. If a company wants to offer payment natively and via an iOS app, Apple gets their 30% on the mobile payments.
My impression is that in Germany (and lots of other European countries) people just directly send money via SEPA. Usually that's free and all you need is the IBAN number of the recipient. And with banks that participate in SEPA Instant a transfer doesn't take longer than a few seconds.
I was thinking about a 4k, but i'm not sure I will know how to get everything to run at 2x scale, on both windows and linux.

Is this hard to do? Caveats?
ublock or ublock origin?
Awesome! I’m sorry I came off as wanting a FAANG person. I don’t care about that.

What I DO need is someone familiar with data engineering, full stack web dev, startups, and managing people/projects.

I’ve posted jobs on Indeed and others - no luck! Any tactics for finding and getting into conversation with these folks?
5k 27" imacs have been out for a few years now, but the screen is a pretty significant chunk of the cost.
Even if "only for the election", nobody pays for political advertisements when an election isn't near. The disinformation problem won't go away in 2024.
This is the same company that said that it "won't encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement"[1]. I'd stay away.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23399924
Sometimes conservatives even agree on the problems set, but disagree with the proposed solutions. That isn't just obstructionism. If you actually care about solving problem X, then a "solution" that won't actually help isn't useful. Opposing the proposed solution doesn't mean that you don't care about problem X, or that you're part of the problem, or that you hate those who suffer under X, or whatever. It may mean that you think the proposed solution won't work, and that pouring all our time, energy, and money into that solution isn't the answer.
> to bring their boot down to enforce a more consistent user experience by any means necessary. If that means playing hardball with developers then so be it.

As a consumer, no. I want both options, but I don’t want my phone choice to force some development team to be under the barrel of a gun
“the average amount of money that the eight Ivy League schools received annually over that time period — $4.31 billion — exceeds the amount of money received by 16 of the 50 states.”

Fund those with few resources or create new ones away from the Ivies. You can’t democratize the Ivies but you can give a lot more people a better education. The status quo is that the Ivies have their cake and eat it too.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/04/ivy-league-tax-report
Yeah, for some reason these are all coming from "gaming" monitor makers. I think the last one is trying to conjure up a "pro" vibe with the hood, but yes - these are definitely tacky.

Acer, Asus, et al. tend to just remarket OEM technology with relatively little value-add. I suspect these are all built on the same panel, but I could be wrong.
The people that have some savings are currently treating this like a mini-vacation, and they are about to wake up to a cruel, cruel reality soon. Ironically, these are the same people that are criticizing the rioting of starving or fearful-of-starving people in the same city. I wonder if they'll make the connection when they get to that point. Nah, they'll probably just embrace fascism. It's comforting to blame someone else, instead of looking down at your own hands to ask, "what have I wrought and defended"?
I've also worked in the UK, and that was my takeaway too.

In the UK there is this "pessimistic honesty" whereas in the US everyone tries to maintain a positive veneer, even when things are going south and letting more people in could help.

I find the "looks over substance" thing makes management in the US categorically worse from both ends, but obviously a pessimistic outlook has its limitations/problems too (particularly when things are going well).

But the older I get, the more I see that most management decisions aren't based on facts/logic/reason, and instead most people just shoot from the hip and then figure out facts/logic/reason that fit whatever decision they were going to make anyway (or "Confirmation Bias" as they call it).

For example late last year the CEO decided Telecommuting was banned. Why? They themselves don't know and or cannot articulate it. Something about productivity/communications? They read an article? Then COVID happened, and they had to re-spin which made similarly as little sense. Now they're re-spinning again to get everyone back in the office/re-ban telecommuting, all with little justification or explanation.
For the trackpad I agree, but definitely not for the keyboard. And apple was late(!) to hires screens and to hidpi and now has lower res and density than the competition (e.g. 16:10 better 4k on dell xps or 3:2 screens with MS and others).

Also, apple had TN screens forever when the similarly priced competition had higher res IPS screens.
Because usually a pointer is stored in memory in exactly the same way as the things it points to.

Another useful feature of this abstraction is that if you open a box and find a number you don't know whether it's a pointer to another box or whether the number means something else. This demonstrates how, at least in C, your types aren't stored in memory along with the values and you need something else to tell you how to interpret the value you find at an address.
I suspect the best way to fix email is to replace it with something new entirely. Hey is not allowing imports from other services, so initially the experience will get a boost from starting everyone at "inbox zero". This is the same way closet organization systems look so effective, because you always start with an empty closet.

One major improvement email needs will have to happen on the sender side, and that is to send structured data instead of blobs of text. Every email that comes out of a CRM or database, or is template driven already has structured data for things like invoices amounts, locations, phone numbers, etc. This should be marked up with microdata or something so that it can be captured and indexed by the recipient automatically. How nice would it be to be able to search every invoice you've received over the last year? Or to trigger workflows based on that data?
Concerning the smoothing, I presume this is macOS’s glyph dilation. pcwalton reverse engineered it in order to replicate it in Pathfinder (so that it can render text exactly like Core Text does), concluding that the glyph dilation is “min(vec2(0.3px), vec2(0.015125, 0.0121) * S) where S is the font size in px” (https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/918991457532354560). Fun times.

Trouble is, people then get used to macOS’s font rendering, so that (a) they don’t want to turn it off, because it’s different from what they’re used to, and (b) start designing for it. I’m convinced this is a large part of the reason why people deploy so many websites with body text at weight 300 rather than 400, because macOS makes that tolerable because it makes it bolder. Meanwhile people using other operating systems that obey what the font said are left with unpleasantly thin text.
I agree, I mixed up BoA with Goldman.

Instead should have mentioned his investment in Goldman--not BoA--during the financial crisis, which he did counting on the bailout that was passed shortly after.

I don't believe it's too much of a leap to conclude that back in 2008 it was as close as possible to a joint effort between BRK/Goldman/the-financial-powers-that-be to minimize the total obligation GS would have to the Treasury from TARP funds.

Read somewhere the TARP investment was repaid 8 months later by GS with 23% interest, whereas they repurchased BRK's preferred stock for a 10% premium in 2011. BRK's warrant redemption in 2013 is another story, but easier for GS to account for long term.
Curious to know your experience with PHP. Do share.
4K is affordable if you're fine with a basic screen. I got a 32 inch 4K monitor (ET322QK) for $290 on a previous black Friday.
I bemoan the fact that there are so few 16:10's on the market and nothing high resolution. 16:10 is such a great aspect-ratio and the extra vertical screen real-estate is very useful when programming.

It is interesting to see some laptops move off of 16:9 to 16:10 or 3:2. This gives me hope that we'll see new/better 16:10 panels.
to reinforce your point, while I can appreciate more pixels, per display or per inch, I appreciate more being able to pick up a 1366x768 laptop and be productive and not feeling like I need to whine, complain, or write supercilious blog posts.
Awesome news. If you haven't done startup school, I'd highly recommend it. We got paired with lots of people from our local city (which surprised me since I didn't know there was this much activity around here).

Seriously startup school is great. Cannot recommend participating enough.

And also: do it no matter what stage you are at. Full disclosure: the project that our team was working has been put on hold by us[1] (and going through SuS helped us realize we might be chasing the wrong thing), BUT the experience of going through it pushed me towards working much harder on a project which had previously just been on autopilot.

[1]We'll probably pick it back up eventually.
Thanks for the suggestion, the npm package name is actually github-actions-builder, only the cli name is called gab
That "works on my machine" comment in particular is flippant and definitely degrades a complex discussion in my opinion.

The project name is a pun on a science fiction movie, if the (unpaid) maintainer does not want to change it for compatibility reasons, that's entirely understandable. People should donate money or contribute substantial code effort towards the name change if they care enough.
I like generics but I find that it is often best to start out writing a version which is not generic (i.e. explicitly only support usize or something) then make it generic after that version is written. As a side benefit, I find that this forces me to really think about if it should actually be generic or not. One time I was writing a small Datalog engine in Rust and was initially going to make it take in generic atoms. However, I ended up deciding after going through the above process that I could just use u64 identities and just store a one to one map from the actual atoms to u64 and keep the implementation simpler.

I agree with the sentiment that it is very easy to overuse genetics though there are scenarios where they are very useful.
Chess has definitely become an esport. Interestingly, blitz and bullet game formats are forcing themselves into upper classes of the chess world, defying long standing denigration as not being "real chess," because the watching public enjoys that format..and it can be legitimately exciting. The recent IM not a GM championship hosted by chess.com, GM Hess, and GM Narodotsky was fantastic entertainment...especially as I am a dedicated viewer of IM John Bartholomew, who blew his competition away.
That's not the argument I made.

A healthy democracy needs to have places for democratic discussion. Not all places need to be for it -- that would be terrible. But some places.

Today, those places are mainly TV news/commentary, newspaper/magazine reporting and analysis, and Facebook+Twitter. Each of them have different strengths and weaknesses.

Eliminating any of them for political speech would be a huge loss. To expand beyond them (into your home and refrigerator), you'd have to make an argument that it served a purpose that wasn't already served by the three domains I already mentioned. Which I don't see an argument for.

You're posing a "slippery slope" argument here, but I don't think that applies.
Wow. He was right. I just changed my 15 inch Macbook Pro scaling away from default and WOW the text is clear. I also just turned my second monitor onto 144hz and WOW the animations are fast. My work from home setup just got significantly better.
Even in that case, in certain jurisdictions you are required to send the money to the government in a process called 'escheatment'. If the person comes back looking for their money after that point then they have to go to the state and prove that it is theirs in order to get it returned.
i have a 4k 27" paired with a thinkpad. On ubuntu with gnome there is a huge performance dip on x11 with fractional scaling turned on. So i use this at 1x with font scaling of 1.25x.
Staying on Top of ML Model and Data Drift
I DON'T WANT IT.
Zoom is evil.

Also, fun note - just noticed Eric Yuan posted that and also created Zoom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan

Eric S. Yuan (Chinese: 袁征; pinyin: Yuán Zhēng; born 1970) is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, and the CEO and founder of Zoom Video Communications, of which he owns 22%.

No wonder why they have to play party with CCP.
I don't know. Text is important to me, but high refresh rate is much more.

Even scrolling text or dragging windows around at >120 Hz is a game changer. Going back to the MBP display gives me instant headache until I re-adapt. It's hard to describe, it's like all of a sudden everything has a very distracting input lag.

Now I just need to wait for a 4k 144Hz IPS that can be driven via MBP (or just get what's on the market and run eGPU)
Initial expectations: we expected Startup School to be very popular with founders, and in the long term also hopefully encourage more founders to apply to YC's core program. It modestly exceeded our expectations on the former (we've seen over 100k users sign up in the last two years), and has vastly exceeded expectations on the latter. Concretely, in the latest YC core batch 44% of founders are Startup School alums. That's a far higher percentage than we were expecting at this point!

In 2030: no idea! Directionally though, I'd like to migrate all the "scalable" parts of YC (1-to-many lectures/writing, investor/founder matching, community, accountability) to Startup School where they'll be freely available to everyone, while leaving the unscalable parts (eg. 1-to-1 advice with partners, big checks) in the core program.
The "Manager Tools Basics" podcast was not only helpful to me when I was looking to get into management but also taught me practical ways in which I could make my manager's job easier -- which is good because I decided against a life in management after getting a taste of it.

https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics
As in the Plague of Justinian (541BC), the Black Death (1347), the Great Plague of London (1665), Cholera - (1800-), Smallpox (430BC) ,Spanish Flu (1918), Malaria (1600), & Typhus (430BC). COVID-19 can pay tribute to modern transport for its, what we hope will be, fairly short reign. Bacteria and viruses are part of life on Earth along with us. Sometimes they win local and somewhat wider supremacy over humanity and mostly they don't over a longer time span. If pandemics are caused by destruction of nature then it follows - if we don't destroy nature, we won't get pandemics. Simple solution from a single causative agent! Does anyone believe that?
To me by far the best thing is to have an enduring, joyful, worthwhile, good purpose in life, that drives everything else (including maintaining one's health, balance etc), about which I have written a lot at my simple site (no JS etc): http://lukecall.net for example http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854588981.html

Also, some related prior discussions. Note that this is an attempt at collecting useful comments that could relate, NOT at an insinuation that the OP is lazy, a procrastinator, or other. But some comments were good, like finding balance, direction, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23072333 ("Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help (gist.github.com)")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22919697 ("ask hn: how do i overcome mental laziness?")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124489 ("Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time (bbc.com")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22096571 ("Ask HN: I don't want to be a worker any more I want to be a professional")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20930439 ("how do you keep your programming motivation up?")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903886 "Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project? "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777976 "ask hn: how do you stay disciplined in the long run?"

(And I have, actually, put a lot at my web site, like, for finding a family-like community almost wherever you go, search this page for "no one has to be alone": http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581716.html .)

For what it may be worth.
I have two of them and I sure like the 16:10 aspect. I recently bought a refurb Dell UP3017 30" at 2560 x 1600/60 and I love the thing.
I think this is too little too late, mine (and many other's) opinion on them has been tarnished.

Good for them, but it's still going to be an uphill battle imo.
Nice, and I agree, I'm definately guilty of going to the comments before I read the actual post. This might get me back to reddit maybe. But I also think that webrings actually could serve as a mechanism to "aggregate" more timeless info that don't fit in the blog format. Like collections of legacy manuals and binaries, the history of army radio equipment, things like that.
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> The C language has more than one way of accessing arrays. Other languages don't.

Like this?

procedure ArrayDemo;
var
data : array [1..20] of Integer;
ptr : ^Integer;
i : Integer;

begin
ptr := @data[low(data)];
for i:=low(data) to high(data) do
begin
WriteLn(ptr^);
ptr := ptr + Sizeof(Integer)
end
end;
Big brother still watching you.
I think it's the same business model as 1Password costing $36/year as opposed to KeePass being free, or paying for Dropbox vs setting up your own FTP server, or even paying for an iPhone/Mac when Android/PC is cheaper, but the UX or specific features work better for you. For some people that's worth paying for.
The image quality upgrade from HD to 4K is pretty massive. I still have a few 1200 and 1080 displays around and they look like shit compared to my main display. You can't fight time and the market forever.
Great PR move by Hey. Not sure there's much more to it, tho. He's basically saying "yeah, we broke the rules - but they're doing it too!", just like a driver caught speeding tries to point out that red Corvette that the cops didn't pull over 5 minutes ago.
India: Human Rights Defenders Targeted by a Coordinated Spyware Operation
You're right (even with `gcc --std=c99 --pedantic`, which surprised me!) I should have said that the compiler won't be able to type-check the arguments and return value.
Tell HN: Yet Another Triplebyte Fuckup
They just sent yesterday an email to 141 users using "To" instead of "Bcc", with the subject "Mistaken email about Triplebyte FastTrack status". Basically exposing both email addresses, and the fact that those people were interviewing with them.
I have a hard time using three monitors effectively, so that in the end they are distracting for me. Probably you need some particular personality tics to make proper use of them.
>What do they want Google to do?

I don't know about "them" but I want Google to stop tracking me and building a secret profile of intimate and politically sensitive information on my person. Full God damn stop. I take as many steps as I can but even not using Google's services is no guarantee of protection and leaving the internet behind completely is not practical if you wish to succeed in modern society.

Adtech is the cancer that is forming the foundation for unprecedented human rights abuses. Look at the state of the country, imagine what either political extreme would do with access to even a fraction of the data that platforms like Google and Facebook collect. A wet dream shared by every dictator in history, from Stalin to Hitler to Mao.

I did not consent.