skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I get from it as well. Ignore all externalities, rip and tear until you have extracted everything you can. Apparently good for making some money, and pretty bad for humans.
True, people's willingness to work tends to correlate with income very well. Today it's the richest members of society that work the most.

In my opinion people got it backwards. Hard work doesn't result in high incomes. High incomes result in hard work.
I believe it is the norm, but nobody talks about the ones that are operating successfully. You only hear about the ones that end in shootouts with the feds.
Invasion of Aliens has come true
My kid is going to love this. It isn’t often you find something like this that immediately makes you dig in and play. Thanks for sharing!
I like using Hy for these use cases. Because it gives you access to all of the Python module ecosystem while staying in a Lisp-like language.
I just quit a relatively convenient and well paid job as a Java webapp backend consultant, just couldn't do it anymore.

The thing is, there are PLENTY of jobs right now, but most of them are so dumbed down and meaningless that any ignorant fool can perform them, and ignorant fools are cheap to hire and easy to take advantage of.

My current strategy is aiming further down the stack, closer to the hardware, embedded stuff; which hopefully means less ignorant fools to deal with and more interesting problems to solve.
If you have to run Windows install Windows 10 LTSC. You can get a stripped down version with no ads and no store. It's the way windows should be out of the box.
The Algorithm has determined that sugar and sausage are at odds with a good and wholesome society so has shifted the production resources to the new Soma Pharmaceuticals production facility, thank you for your support in these new and exciting times.
The thing I really like about HN's commenting system is that it's explicitly designed to discourage flamewars -- the way heavily downvoted comments end up "dead" means that "edgy" content is quickly buried.

Contrast that to Facebook or Twitter, where only positive signals exist, and the entire system is designed to surface "edgy" content as much as possible (because it gets the most engagement!)
> "Employees in tech might win this tug of war due to shortages."

If that's the case, employees should have won the argument against open plan offices too. But that didn't happen?
If personal ownership of the whole or part of a corporation is possible, and that this ownership can be traded or sold, the existence of multi-billionaires follows rather directly. "Not allowing" billionaires to exist essentially amounts to dispossessing founders from their company whenever it starts getting successful enough.

I'm not necessarily against that, mind you, but it's important to see that such a policy would have wide-ranging effects on the stewardship of many companies, and to think it through: if the result of the law is to force founders to sell off most of their stake to other capitalists in order to spread their "wealth", their companies could become even more immoral or exploitative as a result. I think it might be better to simply nationalize something like 0.5% of every company every year, but that may also have unforeseen consequences.
GDP is sharply tied to energy utilization.

Productivity is tied to energy utilization efficiency.

Our timelines would be a lot different had we built 10x the number of nuclear plants in the west, as we would either have a large GDP gain, or an over abundance of energy to use for surplus manufacturing during a crisis.
I appreciate not agreeing with a claim of divinity in that it is unfalsible, but to claim something is false without offering evidence is just as much a naked assertion as the original claim.

As to the relevance of the imperial family in Japanese society the fact that they are being discussed is a variety of relevance if only in the same manner as reality television or professional sports. For some reason the story of the Babel fish comes to mind.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35681-now-it-is-such-a-biza...
> grade book system being exposed

In our high school they didn't expose the gradebook in that you could get in and change it, but we were able to see everyone else's grades. Teachers would post grades for their class and "obscure" it by posting it with the student ID (you were only supposed to know your own) next to the grade. But when the posted, the entire list was still in alphabetical order so it wasn't hard to figure out everyone's grade and student ID.

And the cherry on top of this was that all the students' passwords were their student ID.
The Decline of Django
You can tear out some of the stuff (sse support, web sockets) and shrink it ~2k. Do away with the events mechanism and extension points, knock down the configuration options, drop IE support and probably get it down to around 6 or 7k.

It could certainly be smaller, but to support things like CSS transitions and so forth it takes some code. I've tried to keep the power-to-weight ratio high by creating a rich events model and extensions mechanism to take pressure off the core library. My goal was to keep it under 10k, but I couldn't do it (I may pull SSE and WebSocket support out to try to tuck it under 10k again.)

On the other hand, compare it with the average image on a website, and 11k isn't bad.
Wow, I can’t believe this gem is hidden and it isn’t a part of the FAQ or guidelines. Thanks for surfacing this jacquesm!
You’re pretty close to the 2A03 used in the NES, wonder if you could get that to work? I doubt the pin out is the same as the 6502 though.
"What’s also apparent from her vantage point is that supply uncertainties, disruptions, and inflationary forces are here for the foreseeable future, perhaps into 2023. But how things play out this month, one of two peak seasons each year for goods, will be crucial in determining how long these shortages last and which companies are able to adapt." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-16/supply-ch...
@dang - big thanks for all you do to help keep this site relatively sane, civil, thoughtful, and relentlessly curious. Having moderated online communities before I know it’s not easy, but you do it better than any moderator I’ve yet seen. Big kudos, big respect, and big thanks.
Yeah until Chinese wage went relatively high + trade war started + US stubbornly refused to remove tariffs.
I agree! I guess it's a good thing then that I did not write anywhere that we should only teach the scientific method :-)

I made a statement about the argument (and title) of the article we are commenting, it doesn't automatically assert that everything else I'm not mentioning is not important/valid or should not be done at all.
> Android takes snapshots (screenshots) of apps as soon as you switch to another app.

For the interested, here's info on where those are stored: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/172913/where-doe...
Keep reading to dang's second level comment. It's even better than the first, and I thought the first was great. He put words to an intellectual journey I traveled as a poster here on this forum and didn't even realize it.

Also,

> If that's too strong a metaphor

I see what you did there!
CANSPAM defines it by describing the opt-in and opt-out nature of the messages.

What he did is upload a mailing list manually, rather than curate one with a service. This manual practice makes it almost impossible to guarantee that valid unsub requests have been honored, among other things. In this particular case, he admits accidentally including bounce out addresses.

That's why good email services make it difficult to upload 100k addresses and call it a day.

Additionally, permission to email someone with app notifications is not permission to send them bulk.
I could see, "what proportion of your own money/your family's money" might work, but only with some cap on that money. I'm fairly sure I spent a larger proportion of my own & my family's money than any of George W. Bush, Chelsea Clinton, or Jared Kushner.

Being granted the opportunity to go to school for free used to be called a scholarship, I think.
What CISOs Get Wrong About Connected Device Security (and Why You Should Care)
Ditto. Social disapproval seems to actually work here. Piss off too many people and you disappear.
It's also great in that the same piece of wood can be more or less flammable given environment. Social media is a like change in climatic conditions leading to less rain and more evaporation.
This sketchiness began a lot earlier. For example on mobile Firefox, the new tab screen has had suggestions from Pocket for a long time. It always felt weird to me that the browser wasn’t just strictly utilitarian. Then there’s all the actions that show Mozilla is injecting politics into their products and services. For example creating an official extension that censors disagreeable speech (https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-introduces-extension-that-...) while banning one that enables free speech (https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...). Or calling for “more than deplatforming”, which is disturbing and feels like early warning of a future where your browser manufacturer may decide what websites you can and can’t visit (https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...). Unsurprisingly they’re also against decentralized tech for predictable reasons (https://reclaimthenet.org/mozilla-turns-its-attention-to-cen...).

We already have powerful masters in Apple and Google. If Mozilla is trying to be more of the same then I might as well use Safari and Chrome. There’s no differentiating advantage to using Mozilla’s products as they stray from their original mission. If anyone has better suggestions for a browser I would love to hear them.
I recommend learning multi variable calculus and linear algebra. You can take courses online for free. Personally, I didn’t really understand what was going on until I refreshed my math.

It won’t make you an ML expert, but it’s like the difference between knowing how to write a sort function vs. only knowing how to call a sort function. Ideally, you understand both. Not saying you need to understand how every sort function works internally and write a proof for it… but a basic understanding is helpful.
Absolutely not. If you're ever in Calgary, take a walk along Macleod trail near the Chinook centre. The sidewalks are filled with face-height street signage in the walkway, the sidewalks randomly venture between vehicle lanes, they'll sometimes just end, there are pedestrian road crossings without markings or signage, etc. It's one of the most unpleasant built environments I've ever encountered, up there with polluted Soviet mining cities.
I believe they’re replying to GP’s assertment to stop using smartphones.

> If you don't want to spend time on a smartphone, don't spend time on a smartphone.
I thought I clicked the wrong thing at first. In case an explanation helps: this is another comment thread where dang (HN's moderator) has a long and deep conversation about HN and why it is the way it is.
I live in Canada and at one point I was seeing several of these these "Crossover For Work" posts on LinkedIn every week. For everything from junior dev to VP of software engineering (!). They always seemed kind of suspicious, especially the part where they apparently teach you how to not write any bugs.
Oh I was thinking the opposite. I work between Monday and Friday, that’s a closed boundary. I have between 5 and 10 oranges, another closed boundary.
Ok, the guy with the prosthetic arm wasn't Han Solo, it was his pal Luke, but yeah, still, nice pun!
>Atheism relies on its own assumptions though like the existence of logic and the ability of the human mind to rationally analyze evidence, both of which have to be taken on faith

This really isn't the place for this discussion, but I can see evidence that at least suggests something that looks like logic or rational thought exists. The ability of people to seem to be able to do simple arithmetic is evidence for both. I don't need faith in it, I'm aware the world could exist with both things being an illusion.

The existence of God is something that it's nearly impossible to even imagine what external evidence for it would truly be. It relies solely on internal faith.

That said, I don't like the wholesale write off of faith as "delusions to make you happy." Just because I can't understand it doesn't necessarily make it rubbish.
You are usually required to pay taxes when you buy high price items. Sales tax, etc.

In NYC, if you buy a condo that is worth more than 1MM, you have to pay a "mansion tax". etc
Windows 11 is a free upgrade for anyone who has Windows 10, so having paid for Windows 10 Pro doesn't really give anyone a right to be angry.
>Literally every year at this time...

At the risk of being pedantic, your 2020 link is from April 27th, 2019 link is from January 29th, and your 2016 link is from January 6th. Only two of five - 2017/18 - are from this time of year.
> same footprint and pinout as the original 6502

I like this idea. This may bring a new level of repairability for devices whose chips will, one day, no longer be manufactured.
Embedded Toolbox: Connect IoT PoCs in Four Minutes Flat
The most insightful part is probably the 2nd to last paragraph of dang’s 2nd comment (the very long one) about trying to disambiguate your own intention in writing.

However, it’s not particularly easy to always disambiguate your intention in writing a comment. Writing too long of a comment and saying the same things multiple time just ends up with people skipping the latter part and arguing with you anyway. So I guess there should be the other half of the equation: if you can’t be bother to try to assume the commenter is talking in good faith, and spending (may be tens of minutes) understanding him, then just walk away and don’t flame back :-)

Asking sincere questions or making naive point is always suspiciously similar to being sarcasm or disingenuous, but when I don’t know something, I really can’t do better wording.
Use Chromium. Use Vanadium.
Drew Batman in the Animated Series style. Kept getting a cat and Deadpool in the Flashdance pose. Cool, but still has a ways to go.
I don't think anyone is surprised, but they're worried about the scale. Amazon encompasses more of the ecommerce market (approaching the majority of all ecommerce) than any individual retailer covers brick-and-mortar, by a large margin. IIRC even Walmart is only ~15% of physical retail, Amazon is >40% all ecommerce.

Personally I think all store-brands should be stopped. These companies should have to choose between being the marketplace or being the product and should have to diverge if they're both.
>it was all about "this is the last version of Windows!"

Supposedly that isn't something Microsoft actually said. A "random member of the press" started that.
Great comment by @dang downstream in that thread. I missed it the first time around. Thanks @jackquesm!

My little bit to add here, for what it's worth. (I've been here since the first few months or so). Good conversations don't have to involve a back-and-forth with your ideas always being involved. In huge groups of people, many times I find it good enough to try to add something useful to the discussion, provide a link for more depth if necessary, and then shut the hell up. It's not the "me" show.

I post stuff I've created all of the time here that doesn't get traction. As the old saying goes, thems the breaks, kid. Every now and then some oddball thing I've said or posted will take off, and that's a pretty cool feeling, but I learned not to chase that feeling. Instead just try to be a decent and respectful participant and delete more content before you hit the "send" button than you actually post. The rest of it is pretty much effectively random. (Insert discussion here about how some folks have such a good reputation that it doesn't matter. I don't like it. Many of them don't like it. But it is what it is)
Your (liability) car insurance is to protect your financial situation by paying the other person.
Remember when Walmart got caught doing this, and then they tried to counter with the Made In USA ad campaign? They don't even bother any more though.
I got tired of BS Guides For Startups so I made the one I always wanted
And I mean that makes sense, because it's the shell changes that feel half finished.
Epic already tried it once by not offering Fortnite in the Play Store, instead making directions on how to sideload APKs on Android.

I guess it didn't work that well since they went on the Play Store anyways and then sued Google for making their life so hard.
In other words: Ignorance is bliss.
Thanks! I'm definitely suspicious of Plaid, after reading that they not only login to verify you, but also harvest all of your transaction history - there was at least one HN discussion on it, but I don't have it handy. In any case, ill give Gemini a look!
Honestly, I’m here because I want to hear from people smarter than me (on certain subjects) what they think on those subjects, and in so doing maybe I’ll become a little more smart. I do not care what those people think about me thinking about their discourse, quite the contrary, I wish they’d state their opinions/facts like I wasn’t even reading. The same goes for me, of course, I really don’t care how my opinions/statements are received by those reading them, they might be seen as true, false, or a combination of the two, but I do not really care what impression they (the statements made by me) leave on the persons reading them.

Of course, I’m writing all these assuming the discourse is quite neutral, i.e. that it doesn’t involve personal attacks or the like.
Sure, I don't disagree. But, you know, my post contained a little bit of a payload; I wasn't saying you need to be celibate.
Footstool. Pen and paper for long form note taking. A marker for whiteboarding. That's it.
> ‘Shouldn't we vaccinate, wear masks and social distance if only to help the elderly and "unhealthy"?’

you’re nakedly appealing to emotion here, and baiting for an inflexible, naïve answer. that’s a despicable kind of rhetorical move that doesn’t serve to push our collective understanding forward, but rather attempts to coerce and strives for conformity. it’s diametrically opposed to the point made by the linked nature article.

if the question was, “should we take measures to protect the elderly and unhealthy, who are at elevated risk?”, then ‘yes’ is an easy response (and embedded in my previous comment), because that both invites collaboration and admits a variety of potential measures, without ego or mediopolitical posturing. more importantly, it doesn’t presuppose that everyone must be coerced to vaccinate, to wear masks illogically, and to lock down randomly to achieve that objective.
There are fewer than 20k such pharmacies, for 3k counties in the US. So fewer than 7 per county. It's safe to say they are gone for good.

Also, consider the fact that at least 40% of the population lives within 100 miles of a coast, perhaps more.

https://fortune.com/2021/04/29/independent-owned-small-pharm...
This. So much this. I hate seeing unpopular opinions. Anyone who doesn't agree with the majority should be hidden from view on every website tbh.
I upgraded an 11 year old laptop (1st gen Intel Core, no UEFI, no TPM) no problem.

It's unsupported but works just fine. The trick on how to do it is embarrassingly simple. Just download both the Windows 10 and Windows 11 ISOs, replace the "install.wim" in the Windows 10 ISO with the one from the Windows 11 ISO (it's conveniently the same file name) and run the setup.

The upgrade works just fine since the Windows 10 installer doesn't check for supported hardware, TPM or secure boot.

Really goes to show how all that TPM, secure boot and CPU support business is just a marketing ploy to increase hardware sales...
In a store there is only one vendor: the store.

For third party sales Amazon insists that they are not the vendor. It's not the same thing.
Another group I'm in calls it an inflamed amygdala.
What flagging achieves in many cases is nothing more than turning this site into an echo chamber. One can choose to throw the baby out with the bath water, but let’s not pretend that’s the best approach. It’s a bunch of people nodding at one another all the time.
How much money indie game Curious Expedition 1 made (2015-2020)
As someone who has actually written (albeit following a tutorial, for a hobby project) a working non-UEFI bootloader, and having done a lot of experimentation with dual-booting, manipulating disk images, etc.:

I find it hard to believe dropping legacy boot support saves hundreds of megabytes of any data in the OS, let alone source code. (If anything, the UEFI code is orders of magnitude larger / closer to that size, than legacy boot support.)

I could believe that dropping legacy boot support drops a lot of complexity and arcane, old code that's no longer as well-understood. However the actual footprint of that code can't be large. The boot sector is only 512 bytes, then you chain to a secondary and maybe tertiary step in the boot but those are measured in kilobytes or megabytes, hardly hundreds of megabytes (compiled).

But the fact is once the boot process has completed there's no longer any reason to refer back to any of the stuff that happened during the legacy boot while the operating system is running normally; by that point how the boot was accomplished is a non-issue. So it's not like, for example, supporting outdated/obscure hardware where you have to keep a bunch of drivers around.
Those organisations have gotten so big, they've branched out and are now multi-national. They have been quite successful. I hear their biggest competitor is called RICO.
Why can't they make side-loading work the same way loading custom ROMs used to work on Android - very impractical setup phase, but allows for ultimate freedom to those who need it?
You just need to have the setup be impractical enough for the layperson so that those who don't understand how to protect themselves don't stumble into a situation where they have to.
Don't create a false dichotomy here. Also, most of people I know of don't side-load apps onto their Android devices, and it's still a shitshow security wise. Don't conflate side-loading with bad security.

I find it ridiculous that to run a bit of iOS code I have to spend hours chasing down someone with access to authorize my signing keys. It's a fruit company laptop using a fruit company IDE and a fruit company mobile device, yet I still have to jump through all of these hoops to run my own code on devices that I own?
>Contrast that to Facebook or Twitter, where only positive signals exist, and the entire system is designed to surface "edgy" content as much as possible (because it gets the most engagement!)

But that's the same system used for link submissions? you can upvote them but not downvote them.
The argument about users being forced to sideload apps by their school (effectively spyware) is a good one. This has become a real issue during remote learning.

Ultimately, if Apple keeps insisting on digging in their heels on the supracompetitive 30% commission, then governments will have to act with a broad brush and allow sideloading as a way to force competition.
Nobody sane would, but this taskbar rewrite was started for Windows 10x and that was the modus operandi for it. Then during yet another fundamental internal change in direction it got foisted on the desktop OS, and then they got told to ship it six months before it was finished, so we've ended up with this mess.
Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call
One problem with the Atari 400/800 computers is that they have the ability to use any part of the 64k address space as frame buffer. You might ran zero page on the FPGA and any ROM from a cartridge to get some performance boost though.