skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a lot of old school liberals

It's kind of funny to hear DLC/Clintonian Third Wayists described as “old-school liberals”, since when they rose to dominance “liberal” in American politics meant about what “progressive” is used for now and they were very much associated with the conservative wing of the Democratic Party, with an economic policy that synced up so well with that of the Republican Party that the period between their rise and the sharp rightward jump of the Republican Party that was a response to the resulting shift of the left edge of the Overton Window became known as the “neoliberal consensus” period in economic policy.

The real old-school liberals are the progressives.
Financial systems are political, though. To not realize that while working on a product like Coinbase would be very short sighted.
I was already convinced by your earlier tio.run example, but I'm still a bit baffled by the page saying The / operator is defined only for the Decimal, Single, and Double data types.
Acquired is definitely one of the better tech podcasts out there. Been listening since season one, lots of good lessons learned but also super entertaining and fun.
You've misrepresented the quote, and in the process invalidated your whole point.

The original quote is diplomacy is war by other means. And it had very specific connotations to explicitly adversarial political relationships. Politics is much larger than diplomacy, and indeed as Aristotle concluded there is nothing in a society that is not politics.
In general, you need agents to navigate complex systems with which you have little familiarity.

Given the 21st century air travel features navigating complex automated systems designed to gaslight you into giving them interest-free loans, it seems like an agent is exactly what is called for.

I expect the value of SME-assistance in a number of areas is going to increase, not shrink.
A car hitting a wall will come to a full stop eventually without applying the brake. Not a great metric.
The JS module system is actually better suited for this.

And ultimately HTML imports don't solve any of the cross-package import issues that JS modules are still trying to solve.
The reason Amazon doesn't stop counterfeiters from selling on their marketplace is because Amazon makes money from counterfeiters selling on their marketplace.

Why does Amazon not let you select "counterfeit item" when making a return? I mean what the hell good are all those ML researchers if they can't even get the input data because I'm not able to mark something as counterfeit? Garbage in garbage out.

Amazon has long since moved from the "value creation" to the "value extraction" phase of being a growth-obsessed company. Fuck Amazon.
Pixel 5
> Try many things once to figure out what you want to do twice.

For some reason, that was the line that stuck with me the most.

Now, the only real skill I have is in software development, but fortunately there are a lot of things to try in software development, so I can give that suggestion a try run.
> Talented employees who select to move to a different city instead, less hungry for their hard worked money.

That's one framing. Another framing is that the taxes I pay were never "my" money to begin with.

To answer your broader question, I'm not going to argue against a hypothetical. If you've seen places where the local area is a highly desirable place but whose economy is flagging because of high taxes, I'm happy to dive in more. But in general, people want to live in Seattle even if it means chipping in a little more. Founders want to start here because there's talent here.
Oh I think it will. And analog FM works in many places around the globe, including the US.

They should do well with that thing.
Nest Audio
NXP doesn't sell direct to consumers. Their site doesn't list the part as discontinued, though, so I'd assume that NXP still have some stock of the part. (How old that stock is, on the other hand, is a good question. I wouldn't be surprised if it's many years old.)
>But I know a lot of VERY smart people who wouldn’t sign up for that workplace.

Sure, that's the trade-off.

In a vacuum we all want to "make the world a better place". Does cancelling academics who appear on Joe Rogan's podcast "make the world a better place"? Does having a coworker cancelled or fired because of a stupid joke "make the world a better place"? I don't know; I don't think so.

On the other hand, I think there should be internal political discussion regarding policy at a place like Facebook.

What are the politics relevant to your job? It's not easy to answer.
Great to hear from someone who also built this themselves!

As far as flexibility beyond 11 columns: I'd love to know your use case.

We do support additional metadata on each activity with what we call enrichment tables.

Some events are going to need more metadata -- a page view would want to have the actual page, the five UTM parameters, referrer, etc, which is more than the 3 fields of metadata we store on the activity stream.

So we also support creating additional tables to add metadata to each activity. Each row requires a unique activity id and its timestamp and can an unlimited number of additional columns.

We'll then automatically join that table into the activity stream when queries need it.
> the OP1 is basically standard equipment for most modern bedroom to indie producers.

That's going a little far. The thing with music gear is that if you look for people using it, you see it everywhere. But you don't see people not using it. You can't easily google "albums recorded without using an OP-1" and get useful results. So that gives you a very skewed impression about how popular any given tool is.

I'd be surprised if more than 1% of indie releases in the past few years used an OP-1. Heck, it's be surprised if more than 10% used any hardware synth, much less a quirky boutique one like the OP-1.
Sorry for the meta hijacking, but now that we're here, HN developers: Please penalize comments that jump the queue by responding to the top comment. There are frequently topics with hundreds of comments, where almost all are replies to the first comment, or the first comment of that comment, ad inifinitum.

Reddit does it right by auto-folding comment trees once they reach a certain depth vs. upvotes.
> he wants to separate his engineering work from politics

So did Wernher von Braun. I've intentionally selected the most extreme example that came to mind readily to illustrate the point: designing rockets for the Nazis to be built by slaves and used to carry bombs to kill civilians has moral and political implications. It's reasonable to judge von Braun for knowingly participating in atrocities even if his only interest was in rocket science. It's not possible to separate the engineering from the politics.

Cryptocurrency has political consequences, though they're not as obvious as those of ballistic missiles. For a company to work on cryptocurrency trading and pretend to be apolitical is disingenuous because if the company is successful, its actions will have a political impact. I'm inclined to think that anyone engaging in acts with political consequences should be proactive about what those consequences will be. Most technological change comes with the potential for political consequences.

Of course, there's engineering work that's less political. Making incremental improvements to the efficiency of widely-used infrastructure is usually fairly neutral; it's good for everyone, but doesn't really change the balance of power.
You’d have to be a fool to believe the numbers coming out of China, there’s also been a great increase in suicides and job losses (especially in countries like Thailand and the Philippines).

But you’re right, we have a million deaths that can directly be linked to the Wuhan Virus.
>failing to protect the elderly at our care facilities

This right here is the main reason for a high death count here in the U.S. too.

Who would have thought that sending viral patients into nursing homes would have disastrous effects, right? Our politicized medicine obviously did not think through something so obvious, in 2020 nonetheless.
To add on how do you teach adults to have a curious mind.
3D Pinball can at least run on modern windows, literally just copy-paste from Windows XP and it will run.

They don't make software like they used to! /s
I would buy lots of childrens books and read aloud when possible. If you can make reading a natural activity your kid will benefit greatly later on.
This is what I hear: he says white supremacists should be “totally condemned” which is as harsh as an indictment from a 6 year old. And then proceeds to say that the media treated them unfairly, and the “other side” was worse because they dressed in black and used riot gear.

If you say a group should be condemned but then proceed to justify their actions it’s barely a slap on the wrist, and coming from the president the lack of a strong response is actually a form of encouragement.
With the way these companies advertise, they make it seem like a silver bullet for internet anonymity. Almost every YouTube video I've seen recently seems to have one as a sponsor, and I am sure they are picking up many non-technical customers.

I don't think users of NordVPN, ExpressVPN, MullvadVPN et al. are as sophisticated as you think.
Is there no irony in your parallel with Wahhabism to social justice activists?

The people who put money above all are their own form of extremist. I guess it is normalized to the point of being a non consideration, meanwhile the planet burns.
I previously read about what happened to you guys Re: Sidecar (my sympathies), so congrats on making this pivot to adding Windows support! This should be a huge market!

I'm curious – did you have to change the hardware dongle much, or is this mostly a software stack rewrite to support Windows?
It’s a shit show. Can’t trace packets either via wireshark on the host and tcpdump doesn’t work on the guest. I’ve gone back to virtualbox and eviscerated WSL. Another total waste of my life.
Microsoft code has bugs in privacy relevant code? Next you gonna tell me DDG and Brave are honeypots?

What a surprising coincidence.
caniuse statistics say that ES2015 module support has reached something like 92% of browsers:

https://caniuse.com/es6-module
That is not the definition of conservatism, and a limit on discussion is not implicitly for anything. It's your own subjective interpretation if you think it's for the status quo.

This isn't complicated. For example: People may be on both sides of climate change, but not discussing it in the workplace doesn't mean the company is for or against anything. Apply this to any other topic that has nothing to do with the business.
Gaseous tritium being significantly lighter than air tends to end up in the upper atmosphere not contaminate the local environment. As it’s beta decay you could have a glass glass jar of the stuff on your desk for years without issue.

Unlike fission power plants there isn’t going to be years worth of the stuff on site. For one thing 5% of the stuff decays sitting around so you want a tight loop of production to consumption. Further, the reactor is holding low density plasma so there is very little inside at any one time.
My traffic hitting Cloudflare does NOT go through an AWS IP. It is still my home IP address.

My DNS request to request the site is through the AWS DNS in my VPC.

When I hit the same sites without VPN, and thus use my local DNS resolver on my network, no issue.

The only thing going over AWS is the DNS resolution.
I don't think that's true, plenty of security conscious but not particularly tech savvy people use a VPN with Windows.

Using WSL2 though... you kind of have to be tech savvy to do use it, and those people are probably willing to work around the issue.
Chromecast with Google TV
What are you even talking about?

1. I didn't write EU, I wrote Northern-European countries.

2. While true, it isn't a fact supporting your point. The main reasons for the lack of minimum wage laws are because of high degree of unionisation and the widespread use of collective bargaining agreements.
Judge's opinion [1]:

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Walled gardens have existed for 4 decades. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony all had/have them. “What Apple is doing is not much different … they created a platform.”

“The 30% of what you complain seems to be the industry rate, right? Steam charges 30%. Microsoft: 30% … If you go to consoles: PlayStation, Xbox Nintendo all charged 30%. Physical stores: GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart all charge 30%. Apple and Google charged 30%. It’s all 30%, and you just want to gloss over it. You don’t want to address it,” Judge Gonzalez Rogers says

--- end quote ---

[1] Quoted from https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/28/tech/apple-fortnite-epic-...
Fully agree with the author.

My biggest complaint about web components is that I don’t see a lot of advantages over using React, Svelte, or some other JS library. The author hints at this: if I’m already committing to a big JS build process, why wouldn’t I reach for one of these more ergonomic JS tools? Warm fuzzies for trying to use open standards isn’t enough to convince most people to switch away from more popular JS solutions.
Raising rents in Seattle are also the result of deliberate actions took by the city to discourage building.
Representatives of both parties last night in the first debate both agreed that masks are much more than theatre.

Representatives of both parties last night in the first debate both agreed that covid is the cause of death either directly or by exacerbating comorbidities.
Only three metadata fields or can you have more?
Legally they can't even use those, React does a totally blackbox reimplementation
This post is needlessly snarky, but I don't disagree with the basic premise.

Here's what killed web components: lack of native databinding on the web. That's the reason the standard is useless without JS. Any modular, dynamic, modern UI requires databinding, which means it's going to bring in a framework anyway, which means that self-contained widgets are all going to bring in their own frameworks, which means that instead of one large framework on the page you have five or six, all of them stitched together through rickety HTML-attribute APIs and custom value-parsing strategies because HTML attributes are just strings.

I fail to grasp why databinding hasn't made it into a web standard yet. The web has a long tradition of feeling out features in the JS world before adopting the successful ones into the platform. jQuery turned into querySelector() and fetch(), CommonJS modules blazed the trail that led to ES modules, etc. And this next paradigm is more than ready to get standardized. Not only would it make the dream of web components possible, it would eliminate the need for a whole lot of the JavaScript out there and even make UIs faster, since reactivity logic would be implemented natively.

It's such an obvious, ubiquitous improvement to the web that I can only assume there's some fundamental implementation roadblock I'm missing.
De-Skewing Documents with Hydra
>Of course you can just configure OpenVPN inside WSL2 and also run a VPN on the desktop but that's tunnels in tunnels and that way madness and network issues lies.

It's tunnels, all the way down :-)
+1 to this, how can help cultivate curiosity for a willing adult participant
> BTW: This lady has a Masters from MIT. She def knows her way around things.

Moreso than that, Lea is near the end of a Ph.D. in David Karger's group, an expert on CSS, and overall amazing researcher and developer for the web.
Compared to analog FM, in the US, adoption has been slow.

When they run ADS on the HD streams, we will know it is much closer.

Some regions are almost there. Many are not.
I also believe that every citizen has certain roles and responsibilities in a democracy(voting for instance). However, the workplace is not exactly a democracy. The only thing that I will definitely participate is in the work that I am getting paid for. All other endeavors of the company should be voluntary. If the company is directly or indirectly forcing these on me, then I will consider it as a breach of my agreement with the company.
Google Launch Event Stream
Ninja, a new build system inspired from Chromium (2011)
there is a telltale signature for compiler bugs:

1) your test suite works over several revisions of the compiler

2) after you upgrade, suddenly one test fails (especially if it's out of hundreds)

2a) you can isolate the minimum condition and it really leaves your head scratching

3) rewriting the code in a slightly different way makes it pass

The time I found a compiler bug it was because of an optimization that missed a corner case that I just happened to be using.
How is it goal post moving? They have one of the highest death per capita in the world from Coronavirus. It's roughly equal to Italy's. To say it hasn't been a total failure doesn't mean it's something to emulate.

>We can't meaningfully compare other statistics like total deaths and economic impacts until the pandemic has run its course.

We can. Otherwise you wouldn't do anything differently at any time.
Keeping my dumb 1080p 60" plasma LG forever.

Basic cable box (used rarely), roku, and PS4 provide plenty of "smarts" for me.
Google’s new Nest Audio smart speaker
That's right. Flex and bison is required, but no perl. No idea where that notion came from.
Because we're in a tech bubble. These valuations are absurd.
Sure, you can blame them both. Like many things multiple parties are responsible for the issue. But one group, in this case, is tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) inviting the other into the US to participate in the illegal job market. So, at least from my perspective, that puts a larger portion of the blame on the employers. They're also (along with enforcement agencies, again focusing on the employers) the only ones in a position to meaningful reduce the illegal job market.

Actually fine these businesses, threaten them with being shutdown and actually shut the worst offenders down. They're probably in violation of quite a few labor and tax laws as well, beyond just the issue of who they hire.
Would you consider something like the Shield TV open source? There are some proprietary drivers, for things like Dolby Vision I think, but probably as open as you can get. [1] Or you could certainly set up a Pi / NUC to run Linux and Plex to have more control.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source
I’m using a Lenovo Thinkpad T495s at the moment as a laptop. The screen isn’t retina grade but it’s cheap and it works perfectly and the keyboard is excellent.
I have no idea what your example means.

As far as speech codes, they seem very mild. I would not even call it an inconvenience. Are people mad that certain phrases are now considered slurs and not welcome in polite society?

Ex. it is no longer appropriate to call someone a "retard," even in jest. Is this a problem?

I'm still not understanding the meat of the objection to "PC".
Google Pixel 4a with 5G
Using WSL should be a very last resort anyway. Just use Linux straight on your hardware if you have a choice and ditch Windows.
I agree, BTW.

We could have had a much quicker, cheaper system.

Then there is the whole artificial highs above about 8khz thing...
Doesn't surprise me.

What else are you going to use? Batch? Python certainly hadn't caught on yet in the late 90's when XP was being written.

In 2013 when I was interning for a company making an audio driver for Windows, we used Perl to run our builds. While I hate Perl, it does make it real easy to run an executable and analyze its output.
> If UBI advocates believe their country should give, e.g. hundreds of dollars a month to the over 1 billion people in Africa

Hello straw man argument.

UBI advocates do not advocate that.

However I apologies for not being clear enough.

What I have in mind is that your own country (wherever it is) contains "non-citizens" and "citizens", and for some of them it's a bureaucratic lottery which category they are in. It is not a fair or humane system within the country itself.

And therefore UBI for citizens means UBI for some people living (some their entire lives) in the country get support and others do not.

It would execerbate the non-level playing field economically by raising prices for those lucky to be in the "citizen" group and increasing hardship for those not lucky to be in it, who have no realistic choice but to continue living as they do.

Which is obviously against the stated purpose of UBI, to dissolve bureaucratic drivers of poverty within a country or administrative region and ensure everyone gets a basic level of safety.

After all, everyone there is subject to the laws, economy, and at the moment pandemic, and they are in principle supposedly protected by the police and law and civil systems. It's hypocritical that they are governed by almost every facet of the system, but we would then design an "ultimate" survival safety net and say "you are governed and affected by everything in the system, except not the safety net".

If you are in the USA, consider "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

It is widely agreed that the USA's Declaration of Independence is there to be a guiding, strong principle to govern the lives of the people of the USA, overriding ordinary law and ordinary politically-motivated systems in the country, and that it was not intended to govern everywhere else on the planet.

It does not, however, say "all men [actually we mean some according to a bureaucratic tick-box] are created equal..."

If you don't think people who failed the citizen-lottery living in a country should be subject to its most basic economic survival safety net, yet they are required to be subject to all the other systems... Then that safety net is what it is, but it defeats the entire point of universality if it is not held up there along with other universal driving forces of the country such as human rights, declaration of independence, rule of law, etc.
It is that thing we are seeing a slow adoption of in the US :D
Devil's advocate: this is true. The people buying this icon pack, and the people who spend time on software customization in general, are a negligible subset of iPhone users. If you're making an app that aims for the lowest common denominator, options should be a low priority and well hidden once they're added.

If you're targeting a segment that likes options it's a different story.
> Yet without implementing any major controls, with significantly less social distancing among the population, without significant mask usage, the outbreak seems to have slowed substantially.

Are you saying that social distancing wasn't mandated by the government or that people didn't choose to do it all? Because there is an obvious potential explanation that once people started dying, Swedes chose to social distance on their own without being told to do so.
It has existed for a while and has been ramping up more and more over the last decade. I'm probably one of a small handful of people I know who listen to/care about HD Radio in their cars or their home stereos. Even decently technical people I know are still often surprised to find out about digital subchannels available on the radios they already have, whenever they actually have an HD Radio.

Its been nearly two decades since HD Radio was chosen as the standard in the US, and yet in 2018 still nearly half of the new cars sold had only regular analog radios. Nearly 20 years and HD Radio was only on less than a fifth of all cars on the road.
http://www.insideradio.com/more-than-half-of-new-cars-now-eq...