skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are problems in the United States but I do believe Facebook is accelerating the polarization significantly. We have widespread belief in voter fraud based on no hard evidence. This was simply not even conceivable 4 years ago. Just because there's a fire burning already doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to those who pour gasoline on it.
To DJ at them.
I'm not the OP, but lots of people felt like that was the moment when Keybase "jumped the shark".

At first I thought it was weird and off-mission, too, but then I learned more about the particular cryptocurrency they affiliated themselves with: https://www.stellar.org

It made more sense then. Stellar XLM and the mission of the Stellar Foundation seemed more in line with the altruistic (though perhaps naive, hence this whole topic) motivations that Keybase publicly espoused. Although, obviously, it did not pan out in the end as far as Keybase is concerned.

I still pay my kid's allowance in the XLM cryptocurrency I got from their "spacedrop" promo though :-D
Also bipolar person here. I gravitated toward consulting because it allows me the freedom to make my own accommodations. I have actually worked for huge consulting companies and currently work for a mid-size one. I also don’t drink caffeine or alcohol on account of said bipolar.

I don’t come out and say that I’m bipolar, but I do make it known that I have chronic mental health stuff that I need space to deal with sometimes. I also have hypomanic periods where I’m incredibly productive, and I think that helps smooth over relations with co-workers and bosses because when I’m good, I’m really good. When I’m bad I need space to sort it out and clear expectations of what I need to get done from a work standpoint.

Consulting works well because you kind of manage your own time, work is delivered in teams (at least in my world,) and if you can manage your client relationships well it smooths over a lot of bumps. If you work for a good company that gives you space to be a flawed human, you can make it work.

The pandemic has actually helped quite a lot; I no longer have pressure to go hang out with a bunch of people drinking when all I want to do is sleep. As long as I show up to meetings and communicate about what I can and can’t do it works out for me.
All about the patents, baby.
I’m the parent of a young child and I definitely feel some sort of internal pressure to be all babies all the time. I feel pretty guilty leaving him with anyone other than my wife. All I can think to myself is whether what I’m doing is really worth it compared to spending time with the baby.
My hope is (for occupations that can accommodate it) that all work remains at home. There are multitudes of pros and marginal downsides in my eyes.
There's no bunks where it requires that?
> Freedom at times kinda looks a lot more like selfishness.

It very much does. I think that one of the great philosophical debates that's never really been resolved is the moral quandary between individualism and collectivism. Individual freedom, at it's most fundamental level, is the freedom to do what is good for yourself, rather than being forced to do what is good for your community. It is the freedom to make the moral choice of what "good" is for yourself. In many many ways, freedom /is/ selfishness. It's not clear to me that this is a bad thing, except at the extremes. It's clear that the "best" society would be one that finds a balance, but that is very hard to do.
He was probably the DJ.
I've never understood this... Why not just ban dirty imports and offshore manufacturing? Prices will go up, but at least the money is kept in the economy.
Now we're getting into what shade of black did they use territory.
It's the latter, you can hook the AirPods up to the AppleTV and hear the audio of whatever's playing, but you don't get the spatial audio experience.
Trump’s Plan to Gut the Civil Service
I believe online interaction can be a mild substitute for real interaction, even through a forum like this, but it requires that it be the same people interacting (and for the interaction to be pleasant). Me writing this here isn't to you, person I am responding to, but to anyone who reads it. It lacks the building of interpersonal camaraderie until we have direct, frequent, and multiple interactions.
You think the problem is a lack of education or understanding? I don't think so, it's something else - being left behind, feeling unheard of, destitute, incapable of changing the situation no matter how you vote. Then people start breaking away from the official story and invent their own explanations, and why would they have solidarity with the mainstream society when it betrayed them? Better to vote in an antagonistic way and muddle the waters because this system is corrupt in their eyes.
> Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?

To successfully suspend and resume a laptop, BIOS/UEFI and all drivers in the system, e.g. GPU, network, audio, USB, must have perfectly working power management code, a single bug in a driver is enough to prevent the entire system from sleeping.

> [...] I've had Macs and PCs which don't seem to suffer from the same issue.

Macs and PCs are fully tested by the vendor with all driver issues fixed before they are shipped - if they can't wake up, it's vendor's problem. On the other hand, if a laptop does not offer explicit Linux support, they are not tested at all. Linux developers are left on their own to figure it out. Worse, for some types of hardware, documentation is often lacking or nonexistent (OEMs have internal support from all device vendors). By saying "on their own", I really mean it - I've personally diagnosed and fixed a driver issue in the Linux kernel for my laptop, despite not being a kernel developer. If you have a popular machine, someone else will eventually fix it. But if you have an unique machine, sometimes there's really nobody that would do it for you.

By far, the most notorious suspended/wakeup problem I've ever encountered was on a Windows tablet. Once the machine is suspended (ACPI S3), it's impossible to wakeup the machine again. After a long thread in the Linux bugzilla, ultimately the problem was identified - a developer disassembled the ACPI DSDT from BIOS, and discovered this scandal.

Device (PWRB)
{
/*
* Power Button Device.
* _PRW: Power Resources for Wake.
*/
Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0C0C")
Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
{
Return (Package (0x02)
{
0x00,
0x00
})
}
}

Yes, it means what you think it meant, even if you don't speak ACPI.

power_button_wakeup() {
return 0;
}

There's literally no code in BIOS to wakeup the system from ACPI S3, the only instruction is "return 0", it's not implemented at all!

Why does it work in Windows then? In Windows, it uses Microsoft InstantGo (ConnectedStandy) - a proprietary Microsoft standby mode with network connection (to allow smartphone-like "push notification"). The vendor decided that implementing industry standards are not necessary - you only need to implement Microsoft - and simultaneously, they also decided that, rather than simply saying ACPI S3 is not supported, you should define a broken ACPI S3 just to screw up everyone who is not using Microsoft Windows.
Remember, using a loop is not a sin! (And I would hate us to get to the point where loops are automatically considered kindergarten code)
Nice, does this work with Outlook?
> Taxing income is perverse and disincentivizes work.

No, it isn't.

OTOH, taxing labor income at higher rates than generic income (because payroll taxes) which in turn is taxed at higher rates than long-term capital gains (because preferential rates for the latter) and non-earned income through inheritances and gifts up through very large amounts (because of the large exemptions amounts in the inheritance and gift tax system) is, OTOH, perverse and disincentivizes offering employment (not work so much, because in either case people who need to work do if they can and people who can afford not to are less likely to; but by driving up the cost of employment at any given post-tax wage it reduces the quantity of work that it is profitable for employers to purchase in the market and thereby depresses employment.)

Fairer and simpler to tax income as income (and thus, make all of it qualifying for the kind of programs currently funded by payroll taxes, too), with perhaps much smaller inheritance and gift exemptions and the ability to freely recognize income for tax purposes in advance of realization and also to defer tax recognition of windfall income over a period of years to deal with irregular, norepeatable income like the long term gains for most of the working and middle class (but also certain patterns of other income like income from creative works that take an extended period of time but then payoff disproportionately shortly after completion.)
I'd definitely consider companies like ASUS, MSI, etc. to be big players.
Yes correct. Right now, we are query-ing projects hosted on Github, but will be expanding to our source control system in the near future.
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True, but we are not talking about 100% of the over 60 crowd. We're talking about maybe 65% give or take. There were opportunities for people to expand their perspectives. Many took those opportunities, most did not, and as the evidence mounted over the decades, the rate at which those generations shifted their opinions was embarrassingly slow (and came at a tremendous cost of human suffering, while conferring them no benefit).
We have preschools where they have close friends, tons of activities etc. it's not that bad.
Vulnerabilities in Verifone and Ingenico PoS Devices
Makes me feel better in a way. By age 60 it won’t matter much whether I had kids or not. Time spent with them per day equals, like, one TV episode. So I’m happy to see that my partner and my self will continue to be more important by that metric.
I'm not defending the nuclear family, but I don't think our primitive past says anything about what's "optimal". For example, human life expectancy is much longer now. I'd much rather be a modern person with modern technology and medicine than a hunter-gatherer. Evolution != good. It's just history, and history is often ugly.
>I switched to brave 4 months ago after trying all the available ones (Chrome - memory and power hog

Are you sure you're not experiencing placebo effect and/or confirmation bias? Brave and Chrome use the same underlying rendering engine, so the performance and memory usage should be the same.
Selenium IDE uses a Chrome or Firefox extension to record your actions, but they're rewriting it to be an Electron app. I'm not sure about the status of that rewrite though.

But the benefits we have vs. what you experienced with Selenium IDE is:

- Instead of using an extension to record your actions, there's nothing to install to use Reflect. We spin up an instrumented browser inside a virtual machine and screenshare that with you within our web app. It records your actions and translates those actions into a repeatable test automatically.

- Since we have complete control of the test environment, we can do cool things like make recording file uploads really easy or present a nice workflow for getting coverage of visual regressions via screenshot testing.

- Our recorder is more accurate :)

- For every test you run within Reflect, you get a video synced up to the steps in your test, along with console and network logs from the test run.

- Instead of emitting Selenium code that you then maintain like a normal code-based testing tool, we are completely no-code meaning that even updating a test is completely codeless. So for example if you need to make bigger changes to an existing test, we expose a way to re-record only the portions of the test you want to change, and keep the rest as-is.
Ah, so this is just anticipatory fear-mongering, that thing some people who get off on fantasizing about bad things happening do.

Got it.
I had completely forgotten about A/UX, what a blast from the past. Has A/UX gotten any recent open-source attention?
> If you're broke, it may very well make sense to clean your house yourself even if someone else is willing to do it for $1/hour and you make $20/hour.

Unlikely.

I could clean instead of spending $1/hour... or I could spend $1/hour and then use that extra free time figuring out how to improve my skills (and thus earning potential) or find a better job that pays more (thus better leveraging my existing earning potential) or even just to recharge (and thus be able to work harder - earning future raises in the process as my hard work is noticed.) These aren't as direct and immediate as literally being able to immediately work more hours as a freelance contractor, but are no less invalid a means of improving my profits in the long run, even if it means more short term debt.

I'm certain I could drum up extra work or self improvement for myself that has a higher return on investment than $1/hour now. I very strongly suspect most people who earn $20/hour or more can. Borrow a mower! Offer to clean other people's houses for $2/hour! Then, after an hour of cleaning someone else's house instead of your own, you'll be out the same amount of work but have pocketed an extra $1 in the process!

A valid point is raised here: Just because you've profited in extra free time, doesn't mean you'll convert said free time into additional $$$ at your job's hourly rate. You might earn less. However, you might earn more over the long term, by investing in your future in a way that results in compounding profits. A broke college student might reasonably still end up spending $1/hour on a cleaner, so they can have more time to study! Even if that means more debt, and even if their current unpaid internship pays them $0/hour!
> submitting sick days without notice

Who the hell knows when they're going to be sick? I've never heard of such a thing.
My issue with plastic for construction of bodies for higher-end products (be it synths, headphones, computers, etc.) is that they are... Soft, they get scratched easily (most of them at least, I know a few types that are scratch-resistant), they show wear and tear in a much more unpleasant way than metal, glass or wood.

It's a hugely important material but I can't imagine ever perceiving plastics, even the higher grade and durable ones, to a premium feeling. I don't associate that with brittleness but more with aesthetics and touch feel.
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I was forced to take a COBAL & z/OS course during college.
And I was pretty good at it.
Local bank wanted to make sure it had a steady supply of COBAL programmers.

I hate COBAL a lot, and incidentally for many of the same reasons I hate Java.
I tend to agree actually, and would go a step further and suggest that citizenship should be a requirement to vote in any election, and that persons born in the US should not be granted citizenship without being able to pass the citizenship test.

I'm less comfortable granting people a bid based on general knowledge and intelligence though, I think the uninterested citizenry is a far larger problem than the uneducated citizenry.
I think I'm with you on the general notion that this time doesn't generally hold a candle to "real" interactive conversation, but you put it at "more than a week of HN interactions" so there is some value here, which I do find interesting, if ultimately negligible/useless.
As an individual I often wonder if my contributions are meaningful. The author says, “individual performance is best left for individual contributors to measure in themselves and each other.” How can individuals possibly measure their own performance if it can’t be measured externally?
I don't think you understand what "rent seeking" actually means.

The NIMBY'ism of preventing new housing is the very definition of rent seeking. By legally locking in, the existing owners prevent others from entering the market due to artificially constrained supply. Airbnb doesn't create the demand; they are just a marketplace and one of many.
The time for desktop-apps is now
I wonder how this data changes in Asian countries. I would expect the end section (time spend in later years) to be vastly different, although that may be changing.
I've bought a number of them over the years. Refurbished last-generation Thinkpads are generally on the order of $400-$500.
China is highly dependent on the EU and the US for trade. The EU is the biggest trading bloc in the world. The EU has a lot of leverage.

The problem is that China trivially buys off a single member state to nix things like this from happening, as the EU must agree unanimously on these matters.
You might be thinking of the most recent AVX-512 extensions which had significant power management complications delaying adoption. Many common programs have optimized SIMD paths because GPU computing is significantly more complicated and the setup overhead makes it slower for uses which don’t process tons of data - one of the interesting points about the M1 is that the unified memory design avoids the overhead of copying data between the CPU and GPU.
The list captures projects written in the Java language, not for Java ecosystem. See why it is critical here - https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/wiki/Bazel-Users
There have been two Republican senators willing to admit Biden won the election - the entire rest of the party doesn’t find an election they lost legitimate. Republican congressman in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and several other states are attempting to introduce legislation that would force states to overturn free and fair elections, while their supporters phone in bomb threats to ballot counting centers and democratic headquarters, and their TV stations continue to pump out propaganda with no basis in reality. This is also the same party that has seen notable success in radicalizing young white men to commit terrorist acts. Oh, and republicans are closing polling places in Georgia, because too many black people voted.

When looking at the situation, it’s hard for me to see how you feel it’s only a tiny minority of trump followers, as opposed to the entirety of the Republican Party - especially when the leadership of the party on down is pushing full steam ahead in a single coordinated effort.

It’s especially hard for me to understand how you think this is normal and healthy for a democracy, and why being alarmed is “fear-mongering” and “exaggeration”.

I think an honest acknowledgement of the current political situation would find you are trying to downplay the situation and threat that sabotaging democracy represents.
I don't believe you. This is a community that recompiles kernels for imaginary performance increases. Who would forgo practical increases in speed.

And when someone says "seconds" the implication is that its at max around 5-9 seconds. I would be pretty pissed if a application that took "seconds" to boot actually took 59 seconds.
The same mentality is widespread in photography, heavier metal construction (even though often just exterior shell and interior is polycarbonate) and weight are associated with quality and longevity. But it's starting to change as more lenses are exclusively made from "engineered plastics" - a marketing term to make these new lenses sound better.

OTOH, those robust lenses from the 50s to early 80s survived until today and are often still used and adapted on modern mirrorless cameras.
Continuing user here, thanks for keeping the option to have the free plan! Congratulations for launching!
Yes, I think promoting people who DO NOT complain is problematic.

There is no right way to deal with this other than to listen to complains and figure out what it is.

One way of thinking about complaining is that it is a form of feedback. As a manager, you don't want to silence people giving you feedback, frankly, this is about as stupid thing as you can do.

Better way to deal with complaints is to educate on what kind of complaints are productive and what kinds are destructive.

For example, I try (not always succeed) to restrict to myself to only complain about things that I am ready to solve if somebody tells me "go ahead, fix it".
HD 25s are amazing, especially because every part is replaceable and can be easily ordered.
On VSCode, I like to use the Polacode extension [0]

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Indeed, this is a common position on the Left. Unfortunately, free trade orthodoxy is pretty strong still so even pricing in of externalities is politically verboten.
It doesn't have to be related to his philosophical output to be interesting, and we don't have to reduce Wittgenstein to his philosophical output (though this blurb in the exhibit tries to relate it to his philosophy, it doesn't specify details of what the effect of his teaching experience on it was).

I do find it interesting to see the contents of an old dictionary designed to be relevant to children in rural Austria transposed to a modern American setting, though I don't know how much that's played up. The dictionary IIRC contained a lot of dialect words also (though other than Eichkätzchen I didn't see so many in the photographs). I also kinda like the drawings. I think this direction would've been better than trying to relate it to his philosophical output, but ah well.

Another missed opportunity seemingly absent from the art is that he was not the world's kindest teacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidbauer_incident

> The Haidbauer incident, known in Austria as Der Vorfall Haidbauer, took place in April 1926 when Josef Haidbauer, an 11-year-old schoolboy in Otterthal, Austria, reportedly collapsed unconscious after being hit on the head during class by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.[1]

I guess the more I think about it the more I come around to your assessment that the engagement isn't so deep as it could be...

(Though, all that said, I do actually kinda like the drawings!)
Tell your boss your goals and make a plan with them to get there.
Not a dude! A 'pa' would be better :)
> Soviets killed only white Europeans

Why would you think that? Where do you come from?

USSR insurrection were from their southern borders. If i remember something from highschool, those are not white europeans, but mostly Turkomongols and Tatars. The USSR integrated most of Transoxiana, and and financed conversion to atheism, how could this possibly end well?
> Confederate flags aren't national flags

That's a really poignant statement.

I genuinely believe that some people consider the Confederate flag a symbol of the true United States, which was betrayed by the North. And while they lost the civil war, they were still in the right. For these people, the Confederate flag is a symbol of resistance to an oppressive nation state, and flying it is no more "racist" than it would be for someone to fly the flag of Tibet.

And obviously, some other people associate the Confederate flag with institutional slavery.

That's why I think we need to discuss the fact that these policies tacitly involve choices about:

(a) Which groups can and cannot be offended.

(b) Given the large variety of associations that different people can have regarding a particular symbol, which of those many associations are given primacy?
> economically from a weak position

Why is being an importer a weaker economic position than being the exporter? Honestly, I think the exporter is the weaker position and there's economic research to agree with that.
> I am somewhat disappointed that we associate weight with quality.

To the point that Beats headphones seemed to have random bits of decorative metal added to it simply to increase the weight and make it feel more "premium":

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-took-apart-some-beats-head...

https://medium.com/@BenEinstein/how-it-s-made-series-yup-our...