skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say also geographic. Japan/Philippines have gas stoves vs electric simply because it is cheaper, reliable and not every house in the Philippines has electricity...

Ye olde grand cities new stock of apartments has gas, so Chicago, NYC, simply because it's already wired and can be cheaper than electricity in winter.
> employers also realize they can have employees work from home.

I think it's even worse than that. Once they realize that you're working from home, why wouldn't they hire someone much cheaper abroad?

I hope I'm wrong but I think in less than 5 years people will regret this WFH thing.
> There has been a lot of discussion recently about how young people’s familiarity with Elvis or even the Beatles is dwindling

10 years ago my wife and I went to a cafe after Ringo’s concert. We met there her university classmate with boyfriend, excitedly we told them “We are coming from the Ringo’s concert! Did you go?”, they asked “Who is Ringo?”
One of the life-forming experiences for me.
Ask HN: Why does an article critical of Paul Graham get removed?
I just saw this article (https://antipodes.substack.com/paul-graham-is-not-a-public-intellectual) that has now been removed from HN and also the Substack page shows a 404.

I read through the article, and while critical of Paul Graham, it wasn't out of line or insulting or something.

I'm also surprised that it got removed from Substack (which is a YC company) - not sure why the author himself would have removed it?

What's happening?

Edit: Yes, it looks like the author removed it from Substack: https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/1336033522327445504?s=20

But still worries me that it was flagged down on HN.
Link? Will live to take a look
isnt it counter intuitive to want a 'nicer' place for cheap?

people of PA pay property tax and huge amounts of parcel taxes. they pay massive amounts as parcel tax and bonds to run their schools. you dont know because you dont own property there. they also built infrastructure, the roads and schools and have public utilities that is run by the city of PA itself. a rarity in the bay area. and that makes them sustainable and greener than most bay area cities. and they did this before silicon valley moved in and new residents want to change the city they built.

palo alto existed before start up boom began. people who live there are invested. people who rent have no vested interest in the cities. one day, they'd work here and pick up and move to nyc or austin or utah the next year.

you dont demolish and rebuild your home everytime a guest drops by, do you? you set up a couch and make them comfortable. it's still your home and not the guests', right? same thing. the new tech crowd did nothing to build PA. it is rich of people who own no property, havent set roots, havent raised their families and built infrastructure to demand that those who have been doing that for decades pay more taxes. renters dont pay tax. property owners do. if they pay more taxes, dont you think it will be passed down as higher rent making the whole area more and more unaffordable?

why does anyone think they can walk into the obviously most desirable zipcode and deserve to own a home there when people who have been living there for decades are asked to pay more to accomodate the newbies? sounds like colonisation/gentrification. if it happens in oakland, people wouldn back off. because it's palo alto, the residents are villains?
NortonLifeLock acquires Avira in $360M all-cash deal
If you have insurance, yeah, they’ll take care of everything for you. But if you didn’t buy insurance for your container, imagine getting a letter that says “your container arrived safely, but you have to pay an extra $1,000 because some other peoples’ didn’t. Oh, also, that’s only an estimate that you have to pay a deposit on, it could take months to sort everything out and get an actual total.”
Can you explain that "UEFI thing"? There was a listing on ebay recently where the guy was selling his i7 8700+mobo+ram combo way under price because he said he couldn't run windows at all, only linux. It seemed so weird but google was not helping too much. What happened that you "bricked" it or was it factory setting?
Thanks for reading!

I absolutely agree with all of the exceptions you listed. I'm totally in support of comments when they're used judiciously.

To add a bit of context, a tendency I've noticed when I encourage people to answer questions with the code is that they think that means "add a comment in case anyone else has this question," when really what I want them to think is, "rewrite the logic so nobody else has this question. If that's not possible, add a comment." In other words, a comment should be the last resort for explaining code rather than the first line of defense.
Payment networks now support the Payment Account Reference standard, which will map any virtual account number to an underlying funding account. Does privacy.com pay out of its own bank account? If not, this part of their value proposition is mostly privacy theatre.
>and the real estate market.

I'm not sure this will even be the case, depending on your perspective. Yes, we appear to be seeing a correction in commercial class A office space in major metros - but I'd argue that was a long time coming regardless. We may see a correction in residential real estate in those same major metros, but out here in rural America we're seeing an influx of people looking for better value than they were getting in coastal cities and it's driving our markets upward.
https://javascript.info/ninja-code hah this is a great read :)
> For some reason HN has this bizarre view of the world where it's full of pyschopaths out there to exploit developers.

That's myopia, really. The world is not full of psychopaths to exploit developers. It's just unreasonably well stocked up with psychopaths. And they do what they do best: exploit everyone around them.

Those with their hands on purse strings simply reward them.
Given the US stopped denying the were behind Stuxnet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet) this seems more than plausible.

Given that history of using technical means to sabotage Iranian nuclear program, this seems probable.
nVidia is in the process of acquiring ARM; I could see them marrying their GPU design skill with an ARM CPU to make a very compelling SoC.
That's easy. `b` stands for file
It's not Chrome specific though.
I always thought the Oracle problem was a variation of the Regular Expressions problem:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Oracle." Now they have two problems.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...
I'm aware of 0 including cryptocurrency but I'm sure you already knew that haha.
Is there any reason the Mac Pro couldn't or shouldn't combine an SoC with upgradable components?

So you get a certain baseline level of specs, but also have the opportunity to tack on a beefier GPU (which may or may not use UMA), additional slower memory, additional slower storage, maybe even additional CPUs, etc.
This essay (and the one it links to) provided tremendous insight to me as a HN reader and should not have been marked dead, even if it’s about PG. None of us are beyond reproach, even the founder of this site/company.
A man who found Forrest Fenn's treasure wanted to remain anonymous
Nah, but here's the content. You'll have to add your own clip art hastily pulled from google image search:

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What’s the point?

Architecture documents are for you, not for everyone else

* Adds structure to chaos
* Makes feedback progressive rather than regressive
* You get to tell people to “Read The Friendly Manual”

---

But there’s so much boilerplate!

So don’t fill out the useless parts...

* Delete sections that aren’t relevant
* If there’s a better format, just do it that way
* Complain to <template owner> if the template is silly

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The requirements are too ill-defined to write down

I’m sure writing code will solve the problem then. /sarcasm

* This is exactly why architecture documents are helpful
* Just barf out some bad requirements and ask for feedback
* If no one has any ideas, we’ve got bigger problems

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I’m the one writing the code, back off!

Software engineers are experts about everything and tend to have opinions.

* Enumerate alternative approaches and politely explain why they are dumb
* Detail out the chosen approach
* When in doubt, write out function signatures

---

When is enough enough?

When it starts to feel passive aggressive

* Writing code without an architecture doc is speculative
* “Wasting” 30 minutes on a doc can save hours in a PR
* I’ve never regretted writing an architecture document

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Super Fun Activity Time

Whatever you’re currently working on, write an architecture doc for it.

(If you already have one, quit wasting time and go write code!)

You have 15 minutes!
What Zen3 in a laptop can compete with the M1?
I always went to schools that are considered "bad" (including community college and undergrad!), so I'm genuinely curious as to what goes into these judgements.
From TFA:

> The Lindholm Island project, which is intended to house 100 or so rejected asylum seekers who have been convicted of crimes and served their sentences but cannot be deported for various reasons, is explicitly designed to create a less welcoming atmosphere than the facility that currently holds those with a similar “tolerated stay” status.

Emphasis:

> 100 or so rejected asylum seekers who have been convicted of crimes and served their sentences but cannot be deported for various reasons

Going to European States because they have social welfare systems and then committing crimes knowing the punishments are most likely not as severe as in their home countries is unacceptable and should lead to them being automatically thrown out of the country. Unfortunately their home countries in most cases don't want to accept them back or the migrants have "lost" their passports/documentation before coming to the EU thus there's no country to deport convicted criminals back to.

For the record, I as a Western/Central European have nothing against immigrants, as long as they come here to work/study/lead law-abiding lives like it's been done for decades. However coming here for no other reason than to be an eternal drag on the social benefit system and then on top of that committing crimes?

IMHO that minority (from TFA ~100 out of thousands for Denmark) of immigrants is not and should not be welcome in any country.
This should be included in a "How to Make Your Code Reviewee Fall in Love with You" companion article, if one doesn't exist yet.
Seems to have been removed
With AI Nobody Knows You're a Dog
How much higher can Tesla stock go?
How much higher can tesla stock go? What sort of future are tesla bull envisioning, that is not already priced into the stock? A world in which tesla dominates the car and energy market? How how potential growth is there that justifies it going up so much?

This is not like the 90s tech bubble, in which stocks quickly fizzed, such as Microsoft, InfoSpace, Oracle, MicroStrategy, or Cisco, but tesla's gains are much bigger percentage-wise and will hold, whereas 90s tech stocks lost 90% of their value by 2003. I do not foresee a similar collapse for Tesla. Tesla def. seems to have something special going for it. Maybe tesla is the company laying the infrastructure for our future intergalactic type 3 civilization, in which case its potential value is as limitless as humanity. Same for Amazon, which many also in 2010-2016 also predicted would crash but never did.
>because how else do you explain a historically significant economic boom reducing the quality of life for a highly developed region

The new world wealth basically funded a(nother) couple hundred years of war in Europe.

There's a big blurry zone between incompetence and ideological motivation when it comes to bad policy and squandering resources. If you and everyone around you have a moral compass the points toward invading Britain is it really incompetence to try and pull it off? If you and everyone around you have a moral compass that points towards banning apartment buildings and legalizing petty theft then is it really incompetence to try and pull it off? When you're competently trying to do stupid things it's not incompetence, it's just plain old bad values.
>the S&P 500 will be substantially lower than it is today.

I'm curious - are you speaking speculatively here or do you have reasons why you believe that will be the case?
There is causal link and explanation. This is not just statistical inference.
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>> Last year, we announced ElectionGuard, our free and open-source technology to make elections more secure and, for the first time, to enable people to verify their votes were counted and not altered.

They need to do a port of MindGuard (https://zapatopi.net/mindguard/) from Amiga and Linux to Windows.

By porting MindGuard to Windows and incorporating it into the OS, they would help to prevent all of the crazy conspiracy theories and nutjob political activists from becoming popular.

Free, fair, and transparent elections are essential, but without clear minds and wise judgment to make the right choices, the elections are far less effective.
>> the Bay Area
>> libertarian paradise

> What a strange notion. San Francisco has some of the most paternalistic laws in the US

Not sure if you are aware but the Bay area is much bigger than just San Francisco. San Francisco isn't even the biggest city.

There are very libertarian subcultures of the broader Bay Area, including in San Francisco, but most notably among the wealthy and business owners of Silicon Valley.
Just as Japan is about to dump a million ton (or more?) of radioactive water (from Fukushima) into the ocean.
If you set up a separate bike store, steal my bikes--which I spent my own money to create--from my store, and and give it away for free, then yes, you are a thief.

If you set up a separate bike store AND make a bike with your own time and energy and money, and give it away for free, good luck on your business.

p.s.

I am a heavy user of Bittorrent myself and appreciate the technology (I'm sure most people on HN have done illegal downloads), but I at least acknowledge what I am doing is technically stealing. The only reason I'm not going to jail is because it's technically and economically not easy to enforce it. Just because I'm not going to jail doesn't mean it's not stealing. Stealing is stealing.

All I'm saying is people who do illegal downloads should at least understand what they are doing is technically a theft and don't feel so entitled for stealing from other people. I sincerely hope there are better ways to incentivize creators who spend their time and energy producing their intellectual property to the world.
> Surely in the end it just adds complexity and fragmentation of the ecosystem?

Lol. I switched to TS from pure JS a couple years ago and could never imagine going back. I am so much more productive in TS than JS:

1. Typeahead is crucial, and even when just working on my own projects it makes me much faster.

2. Refactoring is a scary nightmare in pure JS, but so much easier with TS.

3. I have yet to see any sizable, multi-person pure JS project not become an incomprehensible nightmare after a couple years. TS makes large codebases much easier to maintain.

There are other reasons.

If anything, the consolidation onto TS from previous competing type systems for JS (e.g. I think Flow is dead for all intents and purposes, and I've seen a number of projects migrate onto TS from Flow) results in less fragmentation.
It seems ok until someone in your family is diagnosed with a chronic health condition...
The urban vs. rural culture war in politics has little to do with inherent value and everything to do with resource allocation in an government system that allocates highly leveraged influence to the individuals on one side.
Great news! Very quickly done, which kind-of makes me suspicious... One thing I did already observe is that I was able to send a message to a closed Gitter room via my Matrix account, although I couldn't see other people's messages.
This is good analysis, but there's some other effect I'm unable to put my finger on.

The iPad is at least an order of magnitude better than comparable netbooks (though chromebooks, depending on manufacturer, can be competitive thanks mainly to ChromeOS's reduced footprint). So even though the margins are high, the perceived quality, regardless of raw benchmarks, is still something. It's not just marketing to me to say the marriage of software and hardware is unique. (Gruber's observation about NSObject alloc's being a lot faster on Apple Silicon, for instance).

Now that I think about it, honestly Google is the only other company playing by these rules... ie pixelbook, pixel phone, etc. But they're much earlier in the evolution, and have less upstream control in software (especially since Fuchsia seems to be somewhat lower priority than before, though this is second hand knowledge).
Yes and no. Depends on the frequencies, whether the pin is driving a load, and intended to radiate.
It would also depend on who Privacy.com shares the link between you and your pseudonyms with. Their ToS/privacy policy mention third party identity verification and fraud prevention but it's not really clear what that means and if it entails de-anonymizing pseudonyms towards payment intermediaries.
Not to mention that there have been research into making bioplastics[0]. Though they currently aren't as good as petroleum plastics, a push for more research and using blends can significantly reduce that dependence even more. Every step forward is still movement forward. Yes, we should be moving faster, but moving forward is better than not moving at all (or moving backwards). At the end of the day we won't be able to stop all CO2 production, but we should be able to achieve sustainable levels.

People often forget that the problem isn't producing CO2, the problem is producing too much CO2. If we have sequestration techniques (natural or man made) you can produce as much CO2 as you want as long as you have sustainable levels (which currently we need negative net production).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
I think it's a mistake to believe that being part of an office culture somehow makes you more valuable. You could still be quickly cut by a company focused on the bottom line.
Combinators: A 100-Year Celebration [video]
Description from video:

100 years after combinators were first presented, Stephen Wolfram shows how the computational paradigm moves closer to the idea of combinators through a series of examples and an eye to the future.
This tweet [1], seems less like an ultimatum and more of asking for an explanation, which management does not seem willing to provide.

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334900391302098944
Types of dark patterns – Dark patterns hall of shame
Could that be written

const task2then3 = async () => task3(await task2());
const [result1, result3] = await Promise.all([task1(), task2then3()])
Why would other employees be knowledgeable in the employment relationship between someone and a company? Unless the employees are in the direct management chain, or HR or something, aren't they just parroting what Timnit is claiming?
The ecosystem of a multitude of various chat apps is daunting and confusing. I've been finding that I'm spending more time talking and thinking about chat programs rather than actually doing anything valuable. It's kind of like how ham radio operators almost exclusively talk about ham radio on ham radio (when not talking about weather and personal ailments, lol).
>Ah. Not read Shannon himself, so wasn't aware he used his own special definition of surprise.

You must have missed it then...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

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

https://plus.maths.org/content/information-surprise

>I'm still not buying that definition of surprise...

You don't have to "buy it". I am just telling you that it's the definition used by every person who knows what a bit is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
> "I hate the smooth glass electric stoves, if a pan is even slightly warped it won't work."

I had this issue and ended up replacing my set of cheap and cheerfull, thin-ish and slightly warped pans with heavy, thick stainless steel ones that hopefully don't have a tendency to warp. So far so good.
Unless you're suggesting some kind of conspiracy, the author most likely changed their mind and deleted it from their substack...
These are in entirely different classes of unlikely.

What's more, you've shown that you know enough about cryptocurrencies that you know this.

You are arguing in bad faith.
Multi-party video conferencing is way more complicated than anything VS Code does.
If someone says "if you don't fix this thing I will look for work elsewhere" that doesn't mean that you can say "I accept your resignation." If you want that person gone immediately, you have to fire them.
"Poor fit" is an ironic choice of words.

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

Fundamentally statistics is Information theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy#H...
Take Control of Your Kubernetes Clusters
Fun. What is interesting to me is that my work computer just got unannounced update that included MS Teams pop up. I get that my IT team dropped the ball by just allowing this to show willy nilly, but I don't think we can take MS off the hook for installing, promoting their own solution in user's face ( along with telling me snip tool is moving away, resetting all file associations, and making pdf default to IE.. ).

Whatever happened to user agency?
If something being illegal is enough to solve your problem, then why do you need blockchain?
SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states
Hey, Mr. Licensing Man

Rent a song to me

It's your IP

And culture isn't free no more

(Fun fact: Bob Dylan's prolific songwriting career was started by playing "open source" music)
What don't you like about try/catch? I find the opposite true, the .then/.catch is more confusing.
Not really possible for many of us as we don't have the rights to distribute all the code.

Wouldn't make much sense from a commercial pov
Don't panic! Don't worry! China is more than willing to pick up the ocean destroying slack from these 14 nations! They're already doing around 80% of the damage, how could they not just do a bit more?
A local government is only as good as its people. It's people squandered it, though forcing egregious zoning regulations that's leading to the exodus. They claimed profits to the point where it damaged their ability to collect further profits.
That is a dangerous game though: some weeks there are two winners and then the expected value goes negative even though the total payout is more than the cost of buying one of each ticket.
>Ubuntu 'certified' compatibility

That certification is edging on snakeoil(or dare I say bullshit) at this point.
Pretty much any laptop with integrated graphics(no nvidia) and no fancy rare hardware parts will run most distros with a recent kernel perfectly.
> They'll sell neural engine

Is there even an API to take advantage of that yet? It looks like an impressive DSP but without an API, then that stuff is locked to Apple-only software / hardware.

> video coding acceleration

Is that really better than another 96-threads that you'd get with a 64-core Threadripper Pro? The thread-deficit of 32-core Apple vs 64-core/128-thread Threadripper is going to be pretty apparent.

When you have another +96 threads available, I'm not sure if "video coding acceleration" is even needed. Just run that in software.
It’s in part old money lobbying to keep their properties out of the shade. Not even joking, I think it’s really that petty. There is a huge negative NIMBY force in this city
I've been using Barkeeper's Friend to clean mine since we started. It seems quite effective, though impossible to get it back to absolute pristine condition.