skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm lucky enough to be working from home -- though in the office I had an adjustable desk, which I definitely miss. Being able to fine-tune the height was very nice. I tend to end up working on my laptop keyboard anyway, at the dining room table or whatever, just to switch things up even though it's hard on my hands; the Moonlander is pretty portable though, so I can take that upstairs or to whatever table I'm at. My work computer is a MacBook so it's definitely doable with the laptop!

The other thing I didn't think to mention is that I've used a variety of wrist and arm braces to varying effects -- the one I like best offers mild wrist support and also stabilizes the thumb joint, which was giving me trouble. However, if I get a lot of ulnar neuropathy bothering my pinkie and ring finger, I've an immobilizing elbow brace to sleep in which tends to help as well.

Anecdotally, that thumb joint (I think it's the CNC joint or something like that) gets very unhappy with me when I text on my phone too much, so it's not just computer usage that causes problems!
I don't want this to happen, but as this continues over the next couple of decades, people are going to start thinking about Robespierre and start building guillotines.

CEO productivity hasn't increased a single bit in the last 100 years, and worker productivity has increased a lot. For our efforts, we have to return to our offices after asking to continue to work from home and after proving that telecommuting en masse works just fine. With a perfect performance evaluation we get raises that are less than inflation. And worst of all, CEOs and other executive pay increases dramatically each and every year.

At some point a critical number of people are going to notice this happening. I already see people talking about it in a few online communities.

I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but generally, the worse things get, the worse the outcome will be.
I think that the turnaround time is less important for the really small jets they are considering.
I had the same issue and for me it was about "Topics" I followed (e.g., computer programming). They were surfacing nonsensical self-absorbed tweets so I unfollowed these topics, and since then, my feed is a lot better.
Yea, competition doesn't work when there are market failures. There is no competition is the us healthcare market because pricing is opaque and consumers have very limited information compared to doctors. Natural monopolies like wired internet can't have competition either.

I don't see how satellite internet falls victim to such egregious market failures.
I am amazed, that it is always CEOs catching the heat and not football players, or pop stars who earn even "more undeserved" millions.
Or someone isn't looking out the front windscreen to worry about climate change looming ahead...
"Energy from the Sun" is not just "energy from solar power." It includes wind and biomass as well. Biomass is probably the most efficient way to sequester carbon. So, yes, it is accounted for.

Put another way: you can't use fossil fuels to sequester carbon, and nuclear is a drop in the bucket. So, guess where the energy necessary to do it comes from?
"Rockefeller's wealth was ~420 billion (inflation adjusted) at its peak."

Dumb question. Why do people use inflation? Like Rockefeller would take the cash and put in a %2.5 account for 100 years? He probably would have put it in an investment at minimum gaining %7-10 account for 100 years - giving him multiple trillions.
I think this is a valid criticism, but seeing as that we've replaced church with ... nothing, I still find it difficult to imagine that my vision of society would be worse than the one we're living in.

The truth is that despite decades of trying, the secular regular get-together groups for people without any unifying interests or socioeconomic status have utterly failed.

For most people, church is the only place they're going to be exposed to others that may share absolutely no interests with them and be of widely different socioeconomic status and yet still be acquaintances.

Our neighborhoods are segregated by socioeconomic class and increasingly, by profession. Our 'clubs' are non-existent, and where they do exist, cater to special interests and hobbies.

We need something that works, not something that is perfect. I still maintain that church, temple, mosque, etc is the best thing.
>I'm not sure what your situation is but I know Americans that have gone through an intermediate country

It's possible, sure. But the risk of arbitrary detention would make it impossible to enjoy. The state department currently lists Iran as "Level 4: Do not travel", and suggests you have a will in order if you do [0]. There was a brief moment towards the end of the Obama era where it seemed things may have been thawing, but with the Soleimani assassination I don't have much hope for the future in that regard.

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
> radical green agenda

What is this radical green agenda that you identify? I'm not disputing that exists, I'm certainly part of it, and I intend to continue leaning into it. I'm just curious how it looks from the outside.
> "Iron, however, presented a much greater challenge. With a melting point of 2800 degrees, no fire could be made in antiquity capable of reducing it to liquid form."

Are there any notes from experimentors in antiquity trying to build the hottest fire in the world, capable of reduing Iron to liquid?
This is the individualistic take.

The person you're responding to is referring to how societies worked since time immemorial, prior to the advent of such strong individualism.
...or intended, yes
Your comment is a humblebrag. :(

My parents modeled and explicitly taught me a judgmental mindset. It became my worst fault. Can you feel the judgement in this comment? Thanks, Dad & Mom.
I mostly agree with this sentiment - with the added note that there is significant value in 'going deep' on a small subset of those papers. In my opinion, best bang for the buck there is to focus on the well known and impactful papers in that domain. I think there are big benefits to really digging into what makes a particular solution work, and how the authors really 'prove out' the full idea in the paper.
Well this already happened and we're still using it, but it's called ARPAnet.

Instead of building a hypertext website they could finance an ARPA-E program to develop new federated content publishing protocols. Then have the Department of Energy build out and maintain the initial cloud infrastructure as a public utility.

Any user files stored on network slices have the same legal and privacy protections as mail held at the United States Post Office, and people are free to store encrypted files using whatever encryption scheme they want in the same way that they are free to send pages of gibberish through the mail.

If DoE builds out a cloud network then DoD could also lease a portion of the infrastructure for JEDI.
I think high speed rail is compelling because of the speed and accessibility (which if built right -- looking at Japan) becomes an easy option for commute and transport between cities that is vastly more accessible than airports (Narita airport is FAR from Tokyo central)

The security check in, long ticket lines, etc. are all byproducts of security theater that has come through and honestly in the US, with TSA Pre, I'm pretty sure I spend more time sitting at the gate than ANY other process (check in, 5 min, security, 5 min, walking to gate, 5 min, sitting at gate waiting for boarding, 40 min)

100% agree that the ability to walk straight into a train, find your seat through multiple doors (even the wrong car) feels pretty good.
I have this hope that in a few hundred years when we look back at this stage of history, and in particular look back at this absurd level of economic inequality, it will seem about as silly as having kings or emperors be the basis of our political systems. Not in the sense that it does not make sense historically, but in the sense that it is utterly archaic and obviously both irrational and unfair, and will never again be the case.
This is the wrong mental model entirely unless your rocket launch is directly vertical and instantaneous.
WhatsApp enables multi-device capability
The company I worked for had these in their London office. Bonus inaccessibility points - the button was located below the fire alarm button, out of easy reach for 6' folks.

Predicting the outcome of this is trivially easy.
Oh, finally. Who knows, maybe we'll soon get rid of stories in WhatsApp, too!
https://twitter.com/danpriceseattle/status/14143790013349765...

>Remember kids: if you study hard, get good grades, go to a good college, get a job, work hard, never take a sick day, live within your means and do what you're told ... then one day your boss might go to space

It would be nice if we could use some of the unimaginable wealth of these CEOs to improve society, but enough people still believe in the myth of Horatio Alger that we choose not to tax billionaires because we somehow think it will discourage people from becoming billionaires.
I had the same issue, here is what worked for me:

- Vertical mouse (I got the Logitech one)

- Smaller keyboard so i don't have to spread too much around the desk

- Chair with arm-rest so my elbows are always on the same level as the desk

- I keep a hand grip strengthener to exercise while sitting at the desk

- Communicated with my team that sometimes I'll be in pain and would prefer a call rather than typing long messages on slack
Rust has a steeper learning curve than C++, which offers a on-ramp from C
If society collapses, ETFs have no value.
This thread is the perfect example of why you should mostly ignore internet “outrage”. Some people disappointed because they liked the new (previous) design. Others bemoaning aspects of the new (beta 3) design. Others who have never used either bitching based on a couple of screenshots. You can’t please…anyone.
Shrödinger’s Coin
It's like getting debt. You start spending, and never end doing so, because the future you will be rich and will be able to pay it. And you keep saying that you will get rich "any time soon" but expend your time spending even more and suffering the consequences of your debt. Maybe your future you will never be rich, because it won't be trivial, and worse, it will be even harder to become rich if you have to deal with the consequences of your ever-increasing spending.

There was always a solution, or at least a mitigation, that was stop spending or limit how much you do. It will hurt, be harmful, will affect your life, but not as much as the consequences of becoming poor and with a gigantic debt.

Predicting when unstable complex systems will fall is not easy, even more when those systems are very complex. You can perceive the instability, that some sections seems to be falling apart, but maybe you can't put an exact moment of when it will happen. But that it doesn't happen the next cycle doesn't mean that it never will.
What are the widest and narrowest residential streets in San Francisco?
The searchable digital record is the key difference. Statements out loud to one or more people are often: A) tailored to that audience, B) carry much more context than a piece of text on a screen, and C) are a way of growing and exploring new ideas without the commitment of recording them to an easily searchable record for the rest of time. The long-term ramifications of saying something stupid in a conversation that isn't recorded are far less severe than they would be if every word you said was recorded and searchable forever.

A tweet is really more like submitting an article to a publication of record with your name and face attached to it. But, the ease with which twitter allows people to post makes it seem more like an ephemeral conversation. Anyone who has been burned by a stupid joke tweet from 10 years ago learned that lesson the hard way.
It's the TOS.

When you agree to it, you are entering into a contract with that company. In exchange for agreeing to their terms, you get access to their services.
And this is the great thing about threaded comments — everyone who wants to follow the pedantic branch of conversation can do so without derailing the others (though this ideal is frequently thwarted by bad UX).

Of course, it's nice when the pedants are self-aware, as is the case here, and acknowledge the pedantry of their tangent.

Normalize polite pedantry!
"These executives argued that Facebook should selectively disclose its own data in the form of carefully curated reports, rather than handing outsiders the tools to discover it themselves. Team Selective Disclosure won, and CrowdTangle and its supporters lost."

Anyone who has worked with data knows that you can torture the data show anything you want. Disappointing given all the talk from Zuck and team about taking disinformation seriously.
>most people don't use twitter [imagining?] themselves giving a rehearsed speech in a public square, merely as a way to share their amusing thoughts to the planet for some immediate validation

and there's the problem.

like any tool, speech is dangerous if you don't respect its power and follow some basic safety rules.
Thanks. Added some Piketty to my Audible queue.
I agree. I'm staring at the use-cases for sharing and don't understand what this does any better than tmux/tmate

If I want to save a session, I use tmux. If I want to share that session, I use tmate.

I can also self-host tmate on my own machines which makes it even more attractive.

I think some of the session stuff is nice, but it's not for me.
> a macro can do almost anything

A program can do almost anything; that's the result of internal Turing completeness, plus unfettered external platform access. Macros do not cause this. A program can do anything using nothing but functions.

Macros are supposed to be used when they organize some particular anything in a way that makes it easier to understand and maintain (or even more performant) compared to the best available macro-free approach.

Everything can be abused: control structures, data structures, functions, variables, ...
They are probably still going to be relatively good, just be sure to avoid margin debt, options, etc, play it safe and expect lower returns.
> Same way that when you open a store you can't pick and choose your customers.

The same way a store can't kick someone out who's running around saying racial slurs to everyone?

The same way the New York Times is required to print every letter to the editor that is sent to them?

The store example doesn't hold up at all for a number of reasons and online communities have had extra legal standards since the beginning of the internet.
You can pick and choose your customers in the US at least?

There’s a carve out of protections against discriminating based on membership in a protected class, but you can totally decide to get up one day and not provide service to anyone whose ever worn a hat for instance
The link goes to a copy of the pdf linked here. There is also an excellent podcast but the pdf seems most suitable for HN.

https://www.grant-williams.com/podcast/the-grant-williams-po...

Very very good summary of the state of affairs of Tether, featuring a fraud investigator who has been investigating them.
There’s that saying “to truly love someone you have to be willing to let them go”.

Which is really really hard.

Raising my kids is my purpose. But when they’re adults they will make their own decisions about our relationship as equals.

Anything less would be conditional love: I appear to only love them conditioned on something. Like keeping me from being lonely or fulfilling me in some way. Thats not their job.
> Is there a full list of active services provided by Google (or other big tech) somewhere?

I'm only aware of the opposite: https://killedbygoogle.com/
C++ and Rust are not competing languages. In many instances, they actually compliment each other pretty well. Rust offers native interop for C++ code, but the cost of running it is that it's labelled "unsafe" and doesn't offer any of the memory safety that truly "safe" Rust code offers (duh). With that being said though, most of the infrastructure that C++ left behind is perfectly usable in Rust. With that in mind, the "15 year plan" for Rust is to work alongside C++, giving developers a safer, oftentimes easier option for writing performant code.

Rust isn't the anything killer, Rust is Rust. That's why it's so special; it's really in a league of it's own.
Save Data, Save the World
They're talking about Alinejad, Assange isn't an American.
In terms of recall and query speed, the vector search library at the core of Pinecone is on par with Faiss. But Pinecone is a distributed, managed service, like Elasticsearch on AWS, and not just a vector search library. That makes it tough to do a fair comparison with Faiss or any other vector search library for that matter.

For instance:

Every query from Pinecone has a slight network overhead, as described in this article. Although it's negligible in production, especially with batched queries, Faiss will always appear faster on local GPUs. And yet...

People are pushing 10,000+ QPS with Pinecone because they can just set `replicas=200`, watch throughput scale linearly with each replica without affecting recall, and carry one with their day.

You can do that with Faiss if you have an unhealthy obsession with Kubernetes and distributed systems (like we do :P), but then you'd just be building another Pinecone or Elasticsearch.

We considered doing a comparison and then thought maybe "managed services scale better than self-hosted libraries" doesn't need explaining.
> My parents told me early on "I'm not your friend" and has since then always felt that I should be obligated toward them because they're my parents.

My parents told me the same when I was young. It wasn't until about age 25 that the dynamic between us radically changed. There is a fine line to cross between being a primary caregiver and being an onlooker to someone's life. If you were a parent for 18 years it is understandable to have some "growing pains" associated with transitioning to a new type of relationship with your kids but it certainly is doable, even if it takes a while. I still seek advice from my parents (and they me) but it does not have the affect of authority as it did in childhood.
> Also, your children's property was your property:

Isn't that still the case today until the child is past the age of majority?

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10DWClP7NA
Vine was an American social networking short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long, looping video clips. It was founded in June 2012; American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, before its official release on January 24, 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
Isn't that the million dollar question (or probably billion now).

Theoretically, the Ts & Cs cover everything but clearly you cannot reasonably mitigate risk on the basis that the "supplier told me that it wouldn't happen".

You have a (sometimes legal) requirement to do due diligence and at least decide what additional controls you can have to help with compliance and what your BC/DR process is if everything really goes south.

Realistically, I don't really see AWS or Azure etc. being able to promise that their systems can never be hacked/broken. On the other hand, the assumption that doing things on-prem removes this risk is naiive since we can make just as many cock-ups even if we work for the company. Anyone ever forgotten to setup a firewall or vpn properly?

True story: When I worked at a security company, the sales team wanted to demo a digital camera-over-IP system and the IT Manager told them not to use our internal network. They ignored him and plugged it in, flooding the network with packets that took down the computers and phones for about 30 minutes until we worked out what had happened. That was inconvenient but imagine if they had plugged in something much worse "because sales"
Knowing the meme environment is a part of the subject area knowledge :)

I mean, understanding a bit about CPU architectures and chip production processes is needed to e.g. choose between INTC and AMD, and some knowledge about cell structures and mRNA is needed to decide whether to invest in MRNA. This knowledge is important, on top of understanding the balance sheet.
Users flagged both of them.

If you see an A which goes one way and B which goes another way, don't forget randomness as a possible explanation—it's actually the leading factor.

Not all political submissions are off topic on HN, but most are. Many past explanations of how we approach this question are at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
> Not too much significant has happened over then past decade

That's a bold statement, and IMO a very incorrect one. You just can't see it right now because you're too close.

Electric cars, batteries, and solar power in general have taken off. Autonomous driving draws ever closer.

Covid has changed work culture, education, and lifestyles the world over, probably permanently. And mRNA tech could revolutionize healthcare.

SpaceX made great strides in making launches cheaper.

FAANG became a thing. Social media really came into its own, meaningfully affecting the real world at scale.

The Trump presidency set the world on a radically different course, on issues such as climate change, the West's relationship with China and Russia, and NATO.

Gay marriage became legal in a slew of countries.

This is just the stuff I can recall off the top of my head.
As an American working in tech, I know there are other tech folks on Twitter, but it feels like it's primarily used by celebrities, politicians, academics, and journalists.
In what way is this interesting?

Is it making the average worker poorer?

Or somehow more miserable (barring base jealousy)?
I love this post and the approach. It’s worked for me during my life on lots of things.
That addresses the cultural differences and not the structural differences, which is what the comment was talking about.
Maybe Apple designers tend to test on 32-inch Pro Display XDRs.
It’s such a shame that the rule makers do not see that if the system does not benefit the majority then they will be desperate enough to expand the rule set with violent acts and ultimately bring it down.

French Revolution is definitely a display of lack of freedom followed by the rule of absolute power.
Totally different case, totally different country, but FYI : France this week condemned Google for not reaching an agreement with newspapers. 500M€. They have 2 months to negotiate more earnestly, failing that they will get a further fine of 900k€ / day. Until they reach an agreement.
"They caved to censoring things that were reasonable"

I'd argue that much of their censorship was not reasonable at all. None of it was illegal. Mostly just differences of opinion. My "information" is your "misinformation".
Yes. Safari 13/14 had the larger Address Bar design change, but at least they kept the Tab Bar slim. The new "walked back" design is now a thicker / taller Tab Bar.

I really wish I could use Full Screen Safari with only the Tab Bar and not Address Bar. But this isn't an option, and Full Screen Safari has weird rendering bug and performance issues.
As an example, some people consider GOTO statements to be harmful.
This is lower than recent historical numbers, isn't it? From what I've seen, it was >300 for a few periods over the past 20 years.

Generally speaking, this is why I try to work/shop/bank with co-ops, credit unions, mutual insurances, and other not-for-profits.
Or you could clone HN with a single-threaded UI.
In Sweden I don’t know anybody who doesn’t store their eggs in the fridge.

Edit: in stores I’d say it’s 50/50 if they’re refrigerated or not
You still need some sort of a computer at home to use your cloud PC. And guess what, most people will still buy a PC once they estimate the pricing. Not worth it, world today is full of crappy ideas that don't actually work.