skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you post OS stats as well please, if you have them?

From my own posts which made it to the front-page, I remember that non-mobile users were predominantly on Macs, with Linux far behind and Windows being tiny. I don't remember the exact numbers though; and I'd also love to hear the Android/iOS breakup.
As a professor, I think the actions of The University of Florida are abhorrent. I would never want to work in an environment that kowtows to politics. There are enough political considerations within a University, but having to deal with state politics as well? Count me out.

At the same time, he doesn’t have tenure? So they are actually fully within their rights to do this, and really no one should be surprised.

But here is my question: the prosecutors couldn’t find any tenured professors to help them in their lawsuit? Because the University can’t say anything to them about it; a tenured (full, not typically associate) professor has the right to use the name of their institution without their permission. It seems to me to be an expert witness, one would desire the use of the UoF credentials.
Reminder that attorneys for both sides are allowed to bring their experts. The process itself is not biased toward either side.

> Its an open secret that right leaning opinions are taboo across academia

Not in the South, they aren't.

> If the subject is politically polarized then I am inclined to agree

Does this apply to police testimony as well? Courts use their testimony all the time, and it's certainly politically polarized much of the time.
That doesn't justify the post I was replying to at all...
Most countries, including EU nations, ban mail-in voting minus exceptions like living abroad, these laws being passed because of discovered fraud in elections.

Election integrity is the difference between democracy and a one-party state. Every citizen should be bending over backwards to make sure our elections dont have sources of fraud.
5.3.3 Apps may not use in-app purchase to purchase credit or currency for use in conjunction with real money gaming of any kind, and may not enable people to purchase lottery or raffle tickets or initiate fund transfers in the app.
Depends on the degree and the duration. If the local slaughter house has to shut down because of Covid and steaks triple in price, does it really make sense to indicate that inflation is ~50% (number made up) over my basket of goods? Or does it make sense to acknowledge that I’ll shift over to chicken or no meat for a few weeks until prices return?

Similarly, if the price of beef permanently puts it out of reach for my family, then I absolutely would call foul on substituting it from my basket of goods. That would be inflation, and excluding beef would be gaming the system.

The problem is that determining between these cases is very hard to do in the moment, and only becomes obvious in hindsight.
> I wonder if growing seasons have been extended too.

You are correct. This has been known already 24 years ago:

https://www.nature.com/articles/386698a0
This is if you optimize for money.

If you optimize for happiness, the decision process can be wildly different.
The forces behind burnout don't decrease just by operating as a senior.
Check netduino.
Angular: Is TrackBy Necessary with NgFor?
I'm horrible at designing UI too. That's simply not the job of building modern interfaces across multi-disciplinary teams.

I care far, far more about data-structures, eventual-consistency, data-design, and types than CSS and divs.

These days getting the design to look nice is my two-hour reward for nine days of data-stitching hell, writing backend-for-frontend lambda functions, and negotiating API contracts that actually support the product I've been asked to build.

We need to stop assuming that just because a programmer works on client code, that they are in any way less capable that a programmer that works on server code. My point stands: It's absolutely toxic to collaboration, which is the key to success.
Serving on an editorial board for a prestigious journal is a career stepping stone just like publishing in that journal is a stepping stone earlier in your career. Asking the editorial board to resign has similar problems as telling PhD students to simply not publish in those journals.
Self-hosted open-source free webmail clients
If you'd flipped any graphics flags in about:config, system reboot was probably overkill (unless you'd updated system drivers too).

Most likely just needed to restart Firefox. But glad you got it working.

And yeah, both Chrome and Firefox on Linux can be rather finicky with graphics cards due to high levels of unreliability in the past. Although the situation has improved over time.
If you like this, you'll love Tower.

https://www.git-tower.com/mac
Hot Streaks in Your Career Don’t Happen by Accident
I don't think negative comments are obnoxious. I vastly prefer them to being a naive fan of everything. I believe this negativity is just being realistic and isn't a result of an inflated ego or insecurity. Reality is that people are often handed a bad deal and it is endemic in the tech industry by now.

There is a difference to saying no to everything of course, but part of the negativity in tech is that it is earned.
Banks Tried to Kill Crypto and Failed. Now They’re Embracing It (Slowly)
How additive manufacturing is changing packaging and PCB design
I opened that link thinking "it's going to be jumping spiders, isn't it?"
> Don't take ORM optimizations for granted.

I've been bitten many a time by this.

I'd even go as far to say if you don't know how to write SQL that does the same thing your ORM framework is doing, you're setting yourself up for a lot of pain later when you do something non-trivial.
Is the data for north Africa absent or is this the data?
Sure: https://halgir.fo/godi-halt-kjaft/

It's in Faroese, which isn't supported by Google Translate. Good luck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By that logic, anything going on in Columbia is equally American.
Making one of these myself showed me exactly how many hours I was wasting on social media that I could have been spending on something I actually enjoyed.
Remap Caps Lock to Control
I think the point is that even if OP can sustain themselves, leaving before having a new job lined up will likely negatively impact their chances for their next job. So unless they can sustain themselves indefinitely (unlikely, else why would they have a job now), lining up a new job before leaving seems like good advice.
Transferred to the working class, but from where? From people with savings, but not people who own assets. So this is a redistribution between the lower castes, not from the higher to the lower caste.

I know the official inflation numbers for the past decade were small, but this highly depends on what you put in your basket. The rise of stocks, real estate, education and health over the past decade shows that inflation was there all the time. Therefore I do not see why low inflation would increase the wealth gap.

The wealth gap always increases without external disruptions (world wars, strong government) because the return on capital is higher than the growth of the economy as a whole.
Hourglass Hierarchical Transformer Model Outperforms Transformer Baselines
Don't consultants typically set a rate, rather than negotiate raises?
I Tried GitHub Copilot
Digging into that Pokémon Go architecture
Please no. Would be the most nickel and diming cloud in existence.
Its when a reply gets more likes and retweets than the main post (tweet).
>Tech literacy isn’t using a CLI. Get over yourself.

Unnecessarily hostile. We need less of this.
Because Facebook is now a social network used mostly by people from 40 to 70. They aren't trendy anymore, and most of the Facebook-related press headlines in the past 5 years have been about privacy or advertisement scandals. They are in desperate need for some good PR if they want to restore their brand name.
If schools have become as much political institutions as educational institutions -- and there's little doubt about that -- why do they get public money at all?

The real conflict of interest here is politicians spending your money for their political goals.
The user should probably get a hardware wallet if the user has a huge amount of cryptocurrencies worth millions. It's no surprise that scammers and phishers are doing their best to do their absolute best to get hands-on some cryptos. Also, ramp up the 2FA, so there's an extra layer of security and notify you if there's something wrong.
I really hope he isn’t successful.
And there's no shortage of tenured professors who resent their employer but stick around because tenure.
Any statements made in writing could end up being admitted as evidence. Since OP might have to prove that what they stated was factual or that they had reason to believe it was factual, they should exercise utmost caution in their correspondence. What is beneficial and what is not is almost impossible to evaluate for a "non-lawyer". People are often naive when it comes to the legal process and end up dumbfounded when the opposing party twists their every word.

Amendment to my original comment: It just crossed my mind that the federal law against unfair competition (UWG) could also be applicable.
resilience to dropping servers is one. (sort of hand-in-hand with auto-scaling, both imply dynamic sizing of server pool)
Cannot prove it unless the victim was in a state that allows one party consent audio recording and was recording audio. Although Florida is the only southern state that requires all party consent for recording audio, and I presume the previous poster was talking about Texas.
Smartphones have solved the recording audio problem, so presumably it would have been possible.
Neh. Even if you can sustain yourself, better to look for jobs while you have a job. Companies will think they can give you a lower offer if you aren't currently employed. Sure you can negotiate up, but better to start with a better hand.
And local trends vary a ton. You can find gas that’s $1 cheaper or more expensive just by shopping around.
Interator invalidation can be easily caught with debug builds.

Not every C++ application needs to win microbenchmarks when using hash tables.
This isn't about studying and going through it once - you have to study it, go through it with most companies you interview with, and then re-study it once you've not done it in your job for a while.

It isn't about putting in the effort. It's that even after you've provably put in the effort, they still don't believe that you've put in the effort, and so they constantly test you to make sure that you've put in the effort.
The odd part is removing equipment after the fact is the most expensive way to reduce the risk. If one were serious about it governments should be reintroducing industrial investment policies encouraging investments over longer then 1-3yr time spans.
Not understanding what the abstraction is for or what it is abstracting can be problematic when the abstraction breaks.

Wrong abstractions and too much abstraction can definitely both also be very bad.
It's super frustrating when people take a phrase, change its meaning by removing it from context, and then nitpick it.

That the choices are ones you don't like doesn't mean they aren't choices. The people who live in Munger all did so voluntarily, meaning that they're going to be the people who were most likely to be ok with Munger's limitations.
There is no software to speak of on this website. It’s more like what I’d expect from a cult recruitment site.
Tell that to my Windows 10 install, because it's displaying a hodge-dodge of non-uniformly scaled bullshit.

Solved would mean I'm not hacking a scaling factor into the perforce config file to get its window to match the rest of the UI. Solved would mean that Windows handled it for everything drawing windows.
Isn't this simply Second Life writ somewhat larger?
> The metaverse will have unprecedented interoperability.
> This means being able to bring a Fortnite skin into Minecraft and vice versa

For the life of me, I can't understand why this is important. Nobody cares about this. I don't want to move skins around. Besides, if there's a digital marketplace, people will create their own duplicates of any 3D asset.

Just look at VRChat.

Zero value.

> The metaverse will have a fully functioning economy.

"You wouldn't download a car."

I can see pay to play, commissioned 3D asset work, etc., but ultimately most things digital can be replicated and copied cheaply.

> There will be no cap on concurrent users.

Even so, kids will still be telling each other to join their customized private Minecraft servers.

A system without rules and moderation allows communities to grow in their own ways.

The best metaverse platform will have a downloadable, moddable client and server that lets people spin up their own instances.
It is astonishing to me that you are taking the position to censor scientific findings. Ironically, your attitude is science denial. You are fighting "science denial" with science denial of your own.
So who would buy apple stock at current prices and hold for the next ten years?

Outside of Apple as a foundational company - current valuations, would anyone buy and hold?
Until you happen to do modern Windows with WinUI/UWP in C++, as not all APIs are exposed to .NET.
This may be how it works at large companies or places with more complicated accounting practices, but my department simply has a payroll budget and when we want to make a hire we argue for it and the budget is increased. Raises and bonuses are distributed out of the yearly budget increase.
Upwork does 20% for first $500, then 10% up to $10k, then 5% more than $10k, but it's per client. So I figured 7% flat rate isn't bad.
Looks very cool! Why did you choose divs for the project as opposed to canvas?
There's still some issues if you have multiple monitors with different display scalings, but they have just about solved that too.
Nonsense. That's like claiming the CPI should include the price of gold bars or mutual fund shares. You completely missed the point of the CPI. It has nothing to do with building wealth.

CPI is heavily weighted toward necessities like food, energy, education, and health care. You would know that if you bothered to read the documentation.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/methods-overview.htm
Same here, and I wonder if the abduction of the two Mikes and the totally-unrelated Meng affair had the same impact on Americans as it did for us.
How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
CSS is the f*cking reason I stay as far away as possible from web frontend.

The whole page took maybe a few hours to make, but I gave up horizontally aligning text on the cells after 30 or so minutes wasted on it.
Except everyone young still uses Instagram
Google/Facebook/Twitter ads, got featured on ProductHunt and HN launch
Even if they're 70 I'm not sure any 12 year old (in 1963) can meaningfully interpret or comment on the job market.
I think it was around 1 gigaton of CO2 caused by humans for every 40 gigatons of CO2 caused naturally, which is about 2.5% of total CO2 emissions every year.
Ah, the Nordics. What we are seeing is the result of the collapse of the family. First the village church, then the extended family, lately the nuclear family. Of course once people are completely and utterly atomized all gender roles are lost and people pick up some cooking out of necessity. No, it's not healthy.

> According to People in the EU, a new publication from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, Denmark boasts by far the highest proportion of single-person households of any country in the European Union, at 45%. Finland, the country with the next highest share, has only 40.8%. In the UK it is 30.6%. In Spain, 23.2%.

> According to figures from Statistics Denmark, the phenomenon of alene-kultur, as the Danes call it, has been on the march for decades, with the proportion of Danes living alone rising by 42% since 1986.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/20/city-of-borgen...

> Around 47% of households have just one occupant – typically a child-free, single adult.

https://www.flashpack.com/us/relationships/sweden-solo-livin...

PS. We might have inadvertently HN-effect the prior link, it was simply a reasonably looking description of the 1850-1930 household lifestyle.
If the CO2 levels stay this high for the next 100 years (and no new excess emissions are generated) we will be having excess food growth and plant growth and wildlife growth for many decades.

This is a win. It might counter the narrative for emissions control, but if also tells us that the medicine is in our system.
Do the raw numbers take into account adblockers?
I find ConnectwiseScreenconnect works well, but there is a pretty noticeable delay.

The best remote experience I have had with macOS is using the built in VNC, but not with a standard client. Using the Remotix client provides a great experience. It's $50.

I have also heard that NoMachine for macOS works really well, but I have not tried it.
As I was watching their 'keynote' I couldn't help but wonder about the many companies that took a similar approach and then died. Spending a ton of money on something doesn't make it automatically successful. [1]

In fact, history has shown the opposite to be true.

Take Facebook itself for example, it succeeded, not because it poured Billions into building its social network. Mark built something small, for a small market. Reached a monopoly quickly, then expanded to the next market. One after the other.

Google, Apple, Airbnb, Stripe, none became the giants they are because they spent billions on a grand vision.

Even if you look at established companies like Apple, and how they launched their first iPhone.

I've worked with tons of startups, helping them with UI/UX design. So usually in their early stages and get to see how they go from prototype to success or failure. [2]

Can 100% confirm that YC's advice of building something small for a small audience and then slowly grow that is the best advice to increase your chances of success.

Facebook should know this.

So I understand it's my observation vs Billions of dollars and a lot of very smart people who're working on it.

But History says this won't work.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/magic-leap-announces-layof...

[2] https://fairpixels.pro
Ask HN: Why most developers are not contributing to BSD systems?
BSDs are really great operating systems but why less developers are interested in them despite them being very modular and easily customizable?
Gross.

If anything, the more I have become ensconced in the internet the more I have begun to appreciate the physical world. My mental health must be wired to require actual trees, sunshine, birds, walks in the neighborhood....

Like a library, I want my internet to be there when I want it, but I don't want to live in it.
Hacker News: 3.7%

School (10 grades): 3.82%
You don’t have to put everything on your resume. Leave and leave the current job off of your resume.
I cannot spend less than 15 minutes on the toilet when I’m pooping. It’s a universal law.
For many people being unemployed is not a happy place. Not everyone can get a good SWE job in a week depending on location, skills, relationships, etc
It also isn't actually happening! I have yet to see anybody give a technical explanation of how the "metaverse" enables this.
Reader 2.5 released – a Python feed reader library
> I'm not sure why you think Creditors would consistently underestimate inflation. Maybe they do, but why would they?

Hard to predict, in general. Would you have predicted we’d be looking at 5% inflation right now, three years ago? We haven’t seen inflation like this in decades.

> That hurts debtors.

Only if they have variable-rate loans.

The broader point here is that it’s creditors (and the wealthy) who bemoan inflation the most because it means their rents are going to be worth less.
This was more interesting than I thought. Nice to see someone with a slightly positive take on the metaverse that has taken the time to break it down thoughtfully.
Tuning Haskell RTS for Kubernetes, Part 2
One of projects I was called to help some time ago set up a service with over a thousand servers. They reached out to help improve the performance because in their opinion the network and network filesystem were too slow.

They invested incredible amount of time in learning technology and scaling their application but forgot about need to learn fundamentals -- data structures and efficiency.

Fast forward 1,5 years, the application as I left it ran on a single server using about 10% of its capacity. A second server is just a hot standby backup.

The service went literally from being able to process tens of transactions to a hundred thousand transactions per second on a single node.

More than that, we threw away most of the exotic technology that was used there -- greatly improving team productivity. The implementation is simpler than ever with layers upon layers of microservices replaced with regular method calls and a lot of infrastructure basically removed without a need to replace it with anything.

People who do not learn from history (fundamentals) are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Sadly, a good DBA would be able to give you information on these things, but the DBA like system admins is a fading "not needed" position. I know HN hates stored procedures, but having an application use stored procedures instead of on-the-fly queries allows a team to do the proper optimizations. Databases evolve with use and added records, and few teams devote resources to stay ahead of the changes.
notTheAuth is a pedophile! What are you going to do to fight this? Maybe it's just not something worth pursuing?
You know what would be nice? HN stats! Active users (daily, monthly, etc.), how many posts a user checks on avg., how many comments per user, how many submissions per user, top commenters, top etc. etc. etc., breakdown per OS more etc. etc. etc. :)

@HN, what do you think?
Hmm good point (it does not). Codeamigo uses Plausible, which is blocked by adblockers.
Why bother? If you are a senior, you have the choice of working at places that don't have these problems.
There are a few like that, that would be double purpose: this, and HN, Habr, reading books, and Coding 4 Fun being 50/50 chilling/education.

Also as another comment mentions most of pooping after 6yo coincided with some sort of reading, but they still have separate entries.
Might be nice to have an easy tool to scan files and whitelist characters from specific alphabets, because in most international teams I think you'll have a common language for comments, and so I think it's unlikely that you'll need say European and Indic and Chinese characters in one code base. Except the one pain point I can see - @author annotations in the source code, if you have an international team you might end up with a variety of scripts in that field, in my mind that's something that can be lived without, but I can imagine some people being sensitive about that.
And cache RAM moved on-chip.
I agree with the general sentiment of your post. There is an undeniable national security interest in maintaining control over telecommunications backbones.

> There is a reason China and Russia both have their own GPS alternative.

As does the EU (ie Galileo).

> There is probably no good reason to distrust Huawei.

Here I disagree. Chinese companies are extensions of the state and tools for domestic and foreign policy to a degree that Western companies simply aren't. China's massive censorship policy doesn't exactly instill confidence in the principles of openness or independence either for either the Chinese government or the companies that enable these policies.
Since when is the Net TS dead?
There’s a real risk that voter ID laws could bar more legitimate voters than illegitimate. If you feel there were, say, 1000 fraudulent votes but that voter ID legislation would prevent 10000 legitimate votes, would that be an acceptable trade off? I say no. And from what I have read in the past the ratio is far worse.