skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is binary, there are just a lot more binary decisions than we often tote around. It’s a great model for academic and scientific work but not for society.

Thank the powers that be who push statistical analysis as being the “one path” to truth.

The mathematicians who first defined our statistical tools warned about using them to run society, as they are all designed with a certain amount of loss of precision.

When it comes to running a society, applying statistical models to people means rounding people off to make a choice work. Human biology works on adapting agency to the most common inputs; currently we are fine with man made behavior of treating each other like rounding errors.

This meme we can just statistically carve up wealth held by a minority is a huge joke of a cultural effort; as you can see here you are berating the efforts of one of the minority we protect as being pathological.

For starters, what real obligation is there scientifically to believe that Zuckerberg is that wealthy?

Oh that’s right; their experts who built their systems that train our biology to stay addicted to them, using scientific theory of biology to manufacture consent.
If you moved the same installation between different motherboards, the decay happened alarmingly fast. After 2 or 3, you're lucky if it doesn't bluescreen every hour or two.
Sending text messages from a Raspberry Pi with Nerves
>I always wonder at how criminals that otherwise might seem movie-like masterminds are caught as a result of mundane mistakes and outright stupid moves like this.

I think the same when you watch TV shows like Dateline. Yet the clearance rate for homicides in the US is below 60%. And I doubt that 40% are all master minds.
I wonder how hard would be to port it to linux. Maybe dxvk may help?

Also, latest version is from 2016, so it looks like software that doesn't brings any money is finally open source because there is no hope to make any in the future. I'm sorry for them but glad they open sourced it. Would love if outcomes like this happened more often.
I think organisations like DoD and schools should be force to give it to the pool if they aren't using significant part of those addresses.
Yes it does destroy them efficiently, it unfolds them (so no more prion effect) and also aggregate them so they can't circulate.
Several states ban the sale of high end desktop computers over power consumption
How to Literally Reinvent Yourself with Adah Parris
When asked about what they would choose between a FAANG job, a consulting job and a startup position in college. The general sentiment was

> it seems to me like getting one of those big companies on your resume early is a way to have a stamp of approval on your talent level that is hard to get otherwise. Plus I think it gives you the best connections for the future.

I found this very weird, might be because I'm on a completely opposite career path(Working on a startup and not really focusing on getting internships). Since when did tech become so elitist?
Similar to doing ctrl+s five times in a row on a document, this pattern leads to the new anxiety driven UX of right clicking a link and carefully selecting “open in new tab”.
I think this is the key part of the article: "Every time a state introduces a bill, Apple hires the most expensive lobbyists in the state to try to stop it, and they were successful...".

Corporate lobbying groups funded by large corporations exert massive control and influence over the US government at the state and federal level. They often write large sections of the bills that are ultimately passed and they fund the campaigns of the politicians they are attempting to influence and often provide them with jobs once their political careers are over. Regulatory capture is very much alive and well. As long as lobbyists have so much influence politicians will continue to use groups like family farmers and individual soldiers as political / advertising illusions while pumping money into the groups belonging to the men behind the curtain, massive corporate farms and defense contractors. This plays out over most large industries, tech included.
Ask HN: Overcoming visa issues when moving the family abroad, working remotely
My girlfriend and I would like to spend one or two years living abroad with our eight-year-old in an English-speaking country (we live in Sweden). I attended third grade in California when my father did his post-doc, and I was fluent in English when I came back. I would like to do the same for my kid.

I work remotely for my own SaaS business and my girlfriend is planning on studying remotely when we're away. As neither one of us will technically work in the country we move to, very few countries appear to offer visas suitable for us. The United Kingdom, for instance, offers both Start-up and Innovator visas (https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas), but neither is suitable, as you need to establish a business in the UK.

Most digital nomads appear to travel on tourist visas, and move before they expire. That isn't an option for us, as we plan for our child to attend public school for one or two complete school years.

(My son's English skills are not strong, but I didn't speak a word of English when I started third grade in the US. I was thrown in the deep end, but adapted quickly -- I started speaking imperfect English after four or five months in the US. My son is already bilingual and if anything, I would expect him to do better than I did.)

There appear to be countries that welcome digital nomads, with dedicated visas for remote workers available. However, most of these countries outside the European Union appear to be small island nations -- many in the Caribbean -- which don't appeal to us.

Thankfully, the EU allows for free movement of people, meaning that we can move to another EU country with no legal issues whatsoever (and no red tape to wade through). Now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, that only leaves Ireland, given that we're only interested in English-speaking countries. (There's also Malta, but English appears to be playing second fiddle to Maltese.)

My conclusion is thus that our only option, really, is to move to Ireland. Is this a correct assessment?
This pretty much sums up my sentiment as well. I think people should comment their disagreement instead of downvote. Others can then upvote the response, but at least dialogue can remain open.

I've actually considered using a screenname like commentdontdownvote lol.
Part of this is their capability of processing image posts and giving it a text description. For example Facebook will look at a jpeg of an old man with some text on it and use image recognition to actually determine a description of "photo of old man saying 'top text bottom text'". I've seen these descriptions appear in the page and they're pretty impressive accuracy-wise. Beyond that, comparing posts for similarity is likely mundane stuff like who wrote it, associated words, the type of people that engage, and how.
The political element is hugely overblown as the training is mostly limited to mid-level cadres and in the areas of Managerial Economics and Public Administration. There's a reason why they are called the "Mayors' Class". It's also a top down policy, not the popular view.
Just got an Orbi WiFi setup. Great hardware but v6 was disabled by default and enabling it is under “advanced.” This is a fairly new product in 2021. ISP supplies it no problem.
I think you can read the statement through a charitable or uncharitable lens - the uncharitable way is "throw 30 engineers at a problem and it'll get faster"

However, in the context of the other comments the GP made, I interpreted it as, "You can have a larger team with a properly built system with usability and maintainability, with good separation of concerns, and speed things up that way, but we have a smaller team and so bubble serves us well by allowing us to get things done quickly".

> I have serious doubts about this 'no code' movement.

I think the GP was pretty transparent about what it is good for and what it is not - I think the "wordpress for apps" is a good description. Wordpress is great for a particular class of problem, and then when you get to a certain level of complexity, you end up throwing it out and rewriting it, or putting so much on top of/around it that it is unrecognizable.
Nobody is talking about a pandemic here. The risk is for people working directly on those materials (and people eating them eventually, but that would be a edge case).
This! I was doing some work with a colleague and he was showing off some bash knowledge. I know a bit but my experience is limited since my last job was a Windows a shop.

We did a bunch of stuff with “xargs”. He said it was the one misunderstood command. One of the cool things was the ability to parallelize the work with a simple -P flag.

You do a find, make sure to use the -print0 flag, pipe it into xargs and use the -0 option then run a command over all the files. If you add -P it magically becomes parallel.
Tips for Building Large Scale Vue.js 3 Applications
No, it is not only about scaling or gluing different languages. Some other aspects that microservices can help with:

Reliability. There is a chance that one microservice crash looping does not bring the whole system down. This would not be an advantage if languages were better at isolating failures but they aren't.

Independent release cycles. It is good to be able to upgrade only one service. For example if something goes wrong, you roll back only one service. You also have a smaller code base to debug.

Runaway resource consumption. A memory leak or a logs explosion only affects one service. This arguably is a version of "scales independently".

Above stuff is from my experience at Google. YMMV. I can imagine that a badly designed microservice architecture does not bring these benefits.
It makes you give more money to your cloud provider as it is less efficient.
A person with extremely mainstream views suggests that the mainstream should be able to bury opinions that do not align with theirs. Oh my, how surprising.
I think management induced agile/standups are there to produce this outcome. If your boss wants to see/hear daily updates, they don't want to see daily reports of non-progress.

Developers who don't get that intuitively quickly learn it when they get the wrong type of questions after the wrong type of updates.

Tail wagging the dog.
This wasn't Vegas, this was Tahoe. My grandparents owned a home there not long after this happened, and I remember there being a lot of talk about it. But when this happened I was just a kid. This also wasn't long after Mount St. Helen blew up. My parents and I lived in Carson City at the time. I remember the ash falling. At first I thought it was snow! There was no ash from the Harvey's explosion though. It wasn't that big :p
> With proper servicing such equipment lasts a really long time.

> Nowadays such equipment attracts a premium simply because it is so simple and can be serviced by the owner for many simple things.

The comment is about how old, well-maintained equipment is simple and attracts a premium.

The manufacturers are coupling "locked down" tractors with... you know, tractors. If there are competitively produced tractors without the restrictions on owner maintenance, they will sell better, but if that market doesn't exist, the farmers cannot simply vote with their wallets. The complexity of the modern tractors does make it a difficult market for new entrants, so the existing ones own the market, and choose some of the restrictions.

It's not a simple problem - modern systems are complex, and so it's not trivial to ensure it's repairable without sophisticated tools and knowledge, but it's still a problem worth examining.
I think Americans don't give enough attention to the bi-party system as an important cause for the current political divide, and increasingly, civil divide.

My hypothesis is that a two-party system creates the divide because it encourages such a powerful "us vs them" feeling. I've never seen such disdain or hatred towards people on the other side of the political spectrum as in the US. I'm from continental Europe and that divide there is much less present. And I think it's because we have so many different parties, that the "us vs them" feeling isn't so powerful.

Sure, social media and the completely politicized media landscape exacerbate the issue. But I think the root cause is the two-party political system.
When the equal signs aren't aligned I first have to search where the symbol is on a given line to identify the left and right side. When the assignments are aligned it's obvious at a glance.

I guess it's different between people, I personally find it noticeably slower and more difficult to read like that. Blank lines inbetween don't help because it's about horizontal alignment.
It's just "Enterprise Software Development" which is stuck in the Dark Ages, always has been, always will be. All the progress, and generally "cool stuff" happens elsewhere (in research labs in the 70s, on home computers in the 80's, in PC games and hardware in the 90's, on game consoles in the 00's and so on...). It's just not obvious today that many startups are also trapped in "Enterprise Hell", because they want to be the next Amazon or Google. All IMHO of course and probably slightly exaggerated.
Yeah, I've still got phones from 12 years ago. I upgrade, hang on to it thinking I'll give it away to someone (if it still works), or just toss it in a drawer and forget about it until I move. Then I run into it a year later, think for five seconds about bringing it to the electronics recycling place, and promptly forget about it for another year, because driving to the recycling place is a pain in the ass.
Ask HN: Robinhood expected to go public tomorrow.. Would you buy?
Hi HN community,

Would be glad to hear your thoughts on pros and cons of buying Robinhood's shares.

Many thanks.
It's also a way to apply peer pressure.
Don't need a HOA for that, just a functioning governement. At least in my country, if your house gets bad enough, you get fined until it gets fixed.
This is the inevitable and foreseeable result of the scarcity of IPv4 addresses, and it perversely discourages IPv6 adoption. Once something has a cost, it has the potential to become revenue generating, and once that happens the incentive for companies changes to preserving the revenue stream. At that point, why would they make the effort to provide a free alternative?
> gluing everything together enables more compact, durable designs

Maybe a tiiiiiiiny bit more compact, but definitely not more durable. Frame.work can apparently produce easily serviceable, rather thin designs of laptops that are even modular (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k). This is way thinner than my 2008 era HP and thinner than my 2021 era Lenovo.

As far as phones go, the PCBs are a tiny part of the phone (The cpu, ram, storage combined are less than 1/2 of the phone surface area and probably less than 1/4 of the volume) so gluing them together doesn't even get you much. You might get a _small_ bit by soldering in the battery in the sense that you then don't need a "box" for the removable battery, but that is a small amount of space compared to the battery itself.
Yes it's bad. Only boring agreeable normies get the up vote's necessary to get downvote privs, then they do their school marm routine, exercising their petty tyranny.
Hetzner is a spammer / scammer hell hole. I didn't even realize they had clean ip addresses. Anyone spin up an instance recently and test deliverability?
I’ve been using HN for a few years now, mostly lurking but commenting every now and then, and I’m creeping up to the downvote privilege threshold. (I think it’s 500, not 400.) I wouldn’t describe myself as “someone who says lots of things other people like to upvote,” I think it’s more “someone who says little things over many years and some people have upvoted them here and there.” In other words, for what it’s worth, I don’t think that your description of HN matches everyone’s experience, and not everyone with downvote ability is the same type of person.
The above comment is idiotic, yes, but so is this response by France.

She cut herself while cleaning a blade, something that doesn't seem so wildly uncommon that an entire nation should stop research on an entire class of diseases because of it.
The Dangers of Dimethylmercury
I haven’t heard that new catchphrase to date.

There’s an old joke about the Network OSI layer: What are layers 8 and 9? Political and Financial.

I think the context with things like that refer to internal business politics and having diplomatic conversations versus State or National Politics.

Avoid religion and politics in general seems like solid advice as it’s too emotionally charged for most people to discuss purely logically. (Also, there are too many x factors and most politicians are relatively short term (speaking of USA here).
Does anyone have experience in testing "data science workflows". I made up that term because I can't think of anything better to call it. For example, a programmer starts off with some business requirements (that would be written by a business analyst) that might cover rules on which customers should receive marketing newsletters. By SQL wrangling a few different databases using some pretty complicated logic, the programmer arrives at a list of customers that they feel satisfies the business analyst's requirements. Would a tester test that the programmer's code "works" by "unit testing" or should a tester have the knowledge and skills to build their own "independent version" of what the programmer has built and compare results?
I'm the same way. My iPad is smaller, lighter, has cellular so I can get in generally everywhere. The battery (before my M1 Macbook Pro) lasted much longer, and didn't put out heat. It also had my movies for the plane. So it was killing two birds with one stone.
This is truly insane.
> Short aside: this is why a bartender can kick you out of the bar for any reason. That reason is that you were drunk.

I never understood this.

You serve someone until they're too drunk to deal with and kick them to the street where they'll likely get arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct.

Why not give them some water and let them wait it out? OP said himself 95% of people understand and only 5% get a little rowdy after they've been cut off. The 95% should at least be given a hour and some water, not kicked out.
> Avoid political threads. Everyone is talking pass each other, and you will not convince anyone. Upvote grey comments if they are not offensive or very wrong, and run away before you get angry and want to start downvoting everyone.

I upvote everyone on this bases. In reddit for example, If I sort by controversial more often than not it just someone with an equally dumb or smart but different opinion.

Discussing stuff in the Internet is difficult, and requieres a very good moderation, something that IMO HN does a good job, for what I've seen.

Reddit is the wild west of subs, there are good and bad mods, but once a sub becomes too popular it's just impossible to avoid vote brigading.

I've also been administrator for a number of forums, and it's basically volunteering job. If you're not paid or getting a profit from it it's very hard to justify the work and the headaches that require to moderate a community.

In fact that's the main reason I've closed or sold the communities I had. In the end, there's not a lot of people who is willing to have reasonable and educated discussions, and nobody can do it all the time, so IDK, hope someone else has the energy, I don't.

From the communities I had, there's only one left. It has not a lot of users, yet I need time and energy to learn programming while I keep going to my current job and juggle with my life, so I'll probably experiment with it to automate moderation in some way, hopelly not making it miserable for the users.
that's because there are very few masterminds on the other side of the fence.

The idea of a detective as per cop movies are romanticised, a lot of them are doing bare minimum and are as dumb as the criminals.
Product Market Fit dictates a startup's success. The code quality or the latest tech frameworks are not the key aspects. I know of companies with low-code / no-code approaches who have made it big.

You like the food from a particular restaurant. Does it really matter to you as a customer, if the chefs were home trained or went to a culinary institute, whether they wing it or follow detailed standardized recipes?
I remember these days, and they were pretty ridiculous. One time I was playing Quake in middle school, talking some smack. Someone didn't like it and threatened to crash my computer. I didn't believe it. "Oh yeah, do it!" And they did. Got my IP from the server (the server listed users and their IPs) and bada-bing: BSOD! I was floored. I don't remember the exact Windows 95 exploit, but it was a staple for a while. It was nice when firewalls came out and you could at least have something between you and the Internet.
> Using parts of services that aren't "genuine" can void your warranty.

Not in the United States it can't. Nor can making repairs or modifications, unless the manufacturer can provide proof that your actions were what caused the issue you're asking to be corrected under warranty.
Get current cryptocurrency price with Slack or Discord command
example:

/fusebot coin doge
/fusebot coin btc

Code:

https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot/blob/main/samples/coin

Install:

https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot#installing-fusebot
the marketplace becomes full of speculators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I'm for right to repair, my point was about how it plays out in the "publics" eyes, not techies eyes.

But the issue I personally have with "firmware write enable" switches is that the ave person doesn't want to mess about with then every time there is an update and bootloader locks are still locks you often have to seek the permisson of the vendor to unlock OR they get disabled once you need "unsupported access" and not re-enabled (sometimes, re-enabling them disables what ever you needed it disabled for in the first place so you can't re-enable it).

One of the criticisms of Windows XP was that lots of "ave joes" just ignored Windows Updates, so even though MS released patches for bugs you could still find plently of vulnerable systems, after all your ave joe just wants to "get on with it" when they are using their computer. Putting in hinderances for the "avg joe" will (imo) only lead to fewer devices taking up firmware updates.

However a) we are talking about farm gear, so its not like its your "avg joe" using them, plently of farmers are used to getting it fixed, even if its just a bodge so they can get their job done b) if the bootloaders/firmware switch still allows updates from "a trusted source" while locked then it doesn't hinder auto-updates and allows the techies of the world to play outside the sandbox.
For sure!!! Would do that using their app! 2theMoon!
they are adults - why does someone else have to protect them from the consequences of their own choices?
Since I'm using Hetzner Cloud for my hobby cluster, this is as good a kick as any to start moving that stuff to ipv6.

(Although there's no mention whether HCloud ipv4 pricing is actually affected by those changes)
everything is political

Can't stand this phrase that literally came out of nowhere. People will try and justify it with walls of text about the oppressed, blah blah, when it's just an excuse for them to chide you about why you're wrong and why this issue intersects with their politics.
Referential transparency fits in your head
It's generally a good idea to deploy CGNAT alongside IPv6, because that's what will eventually make IPv6 more useful than IPv4.
I'm not sure how the visa situation is, but Estonia is pretty darn friendly to digital nomads with their eResidency system. Might be worth looking into.

It also might be worth considering other education options. Sure, public school can be helpful for language acquisition, but it surely isn't the only option.