skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I seriously recommend cracking open a history book

It wouldn't contradict me. From what I can surmise from your illustrious prose you... didnt either?

>But a good hallmark of the envy-based religion

It is odd that you are seemingly assigning an envy based religious motivation to American post war economic policy (e.g. 98% income tax rates).

>Like 10 families paid those rates

Hence my use of the term "ceilinged" - an indulgent metaphor that I would hope an erudite student of history would interpret as "that which one can not go above".

>Absolutely. And when the politics of envy

....post war economic policy?

>leads to bad outcomes

Like... the creation of the middle class? Exceptional growth? What were the Bad Outcomes of the 1950s with its 98% income tax rates you are warning us of? Help me understand.

I guess what you're saying is that this "politics of envy" risks destroying that which is not only benign, but necessary?
Also with various package installer you can sub in all your favorite linux versions of things. I have l.env file that aliases them all to linux equivalent commands.
My M1 Air gets a ton of abuse and I don't see any abnormal perf issues. There was a super annoying bug where the laptop would crash when I closed the lid with a bluetooth mouse connected, but that's it. I'm still on Big Sur, maybe Monterey is buggy.
> The data in support of this is massive, and quite certain.

Continues without providing data.
Rule #1 on new mac hardware: wait til the 2nd generation!
Because the "linux" versions tend to have more features and better help output? I've never seen anyone install Linux and be like "damn, I wish my coreutils were more obtuse" and install a bunch of non-GNU stuff. Like, I get that Linux is just another unix and the GNU userland isn't somehow more legit than others, but it's not like people are intentionally getting inconvenienced just to be annoying.
While I did later briefly live in Waco, those were after my BBS days. I was running the board in Beaumont (called Pilot's Hanger).

I was aware of TENET in those days, but the Unix shell was still a couple years away from my radar. A lot of the boards were run on OS/2 (since it could run Windows apps, and had much better multitasking than Windows 3.11) or Amiga back then.
So what is “the metaverse,” exactly?
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Since we all seem to be sharing that we don't have issues with our OSs, I've never had much issue with any NT based Windows systems. I've had bad hardware that once replaced improved reliability, but generally speaking I can go months without reboots. (except for those corporate forced updates for security reasons, but those exist on every platform, so I don't consider that an issue)
I love products like Basecamp and this, with one-price, and an opinionated workflow. It's like having a consultant built in with the tool: here's the right way to do it! We know better than you because this is what we do all day.
Back in the day when Pentium machines started appearing, lots of cases still had the turbo button but it wasn't connected.
For tags I use meta data, which are included as mapped text at the extreme end of many media formats. For example ID3 data on MP3 files.

I have found this incredibly helpful for MP3s because I have thousands of them and there are many similar names. Windows Explorer provides columns for this data in its detailed file system view (not by default) which is incredibly helpful and trivial to customize.

For everything else folders are enough. I have hundreds of movies on a hard disk and yet folders are enough. When I do need more the data I want is generated by the file system: last modified, file size, and so forth.

What improves file usability the most for me is network access by meta data. For example Windows Explorer and OSX Finder are nice but I would rather have the exact same interface on the same local machine for a bunch of remote machines regardless of their file system or operating system. Then copy to a different machine is just drag and drop from one window onto another in an application that looks like some local OS, that windowing interface needs to allow sorting and filtering and search by meta data just like Windows Explorer. Having an application that does this for me has been great.
Not that I disagree with your main point, but in the interest of useless internet quibbling, India isn't armed with (very much) US tech and they have had a couple violent border clashes with China in recent years.
I haven’t had any issues. I sometimes run two VMs at a time on my 13” MBP with 16GB RAM and although the memory usage is almost maxed most of the time it’s been running fine.
I heard about udacity on the radio and by chance picked Intro to python and then CS253. I still have a little Twitter app running on GEE. Mind was blown. Great courses, shame CS253 has not been kept and updated.

I particularly remember the story in the course of him having a list of all his users usernames and passwords unhased on his laptop and it was stolen. He said he was embarrassed and emailed them all to let them know. Lesson was to hash passwords. Cant remember if that was for reddit all some other project he did.
Show HN: 90+ Remote companies hiring mobile developers from Europe
I posted this because of all the discussions about whether you can actually use ML to estimate property values, and whether Zillow's failure as an iBuyer is a critique of the field in general or just a sign that Zillow sucks at it.

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Incidentally here's some related research papers I dug up trying to figure out what the latest state of the art in land and real estate assessment methods are:

High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States (from https://placeslab.org/publications/)
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29577

Land value capture in policy and practice:
https://doczz.com.br/doc/287148/land-value-capture-in-policy...

Land value appraisal using statistical methods:
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/213061/1/FORLand-201...

Development of an Innovative Land Valuation Model (iLVM) for Mass Appraisal Application in Sub-Urban Areas Using AHP: An Integration of Theoretical and Practical Appraoches:
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133731

Use of Spatial Analysis Methods in Land Appraisal; Konya Example:
https://www.isites.info/PastConferences/ISITES2017/ISITES201...

Automating the land valuation process carried out in land consolidation schemes:
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018...

Land value tax in the context of sustainable urban development and assessment. part II - analysis of land valuation techniques: The case of Vilnius.
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.3846/ijspm.2010.13

Fuzzy expert system for land valuation in land consolidation processes
https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/324144

Land valuation in support of responsible land consolidation on Ghana's rural customary lands.
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1080/00396265.2018.146...
I personally haven’t been able to find another laptop with the same battery life, design, trackpad, and screen quality of mac hardware.

I bought an M1 max laptop and I’m almost tempted to go back to my Linux machine because of several issues I have with macOS. There are things that are by design like mandatory animation delays for things like switching spaces and going in/out of fullscreen, which are borderline dealbreakers for me given how often I do those things. And there are also things I suspect are either bugs or straight up performance lapses, such as scrolling through text in a terminal at 4k being slow if you have ligatures enabled.

I could go on, but I think it’s a perfectly valid sentiment (regardless of whether or not they were venting) to wish for mac hardware with a Linux OS.
I love Bear with it’s 1+ hiearchical tags per note. It’s the perfect combination of both worlds for me. Would encourage the author to check it out (if it’s any different).
oh, Adverse, now we're talkin. :-D

i was just thinking -- i feel stupid - got played - fakebook put the 'metaverse' term out here and we all ate it up, then they surprised us with the new name, 'Meta', so they 'own' the term/new world, and i don't want them to own it.

in part b/c i think it's going to be stupendously successful, and i don't want to answer to Lord Zuck any more than i already do.
You’re just arguing at this point. The scores I’m talking about are not arbitrary, there are a few standardized measures used in social presence research to attempt to make apples to apples comparisons between communications tools attempting to compete with f2f. The point is that the scores people give are literally asking users to convey their feeling that the experience met the baseline of face to face, or not, along various dimensions. You sound like you have an axe to grind, and aren’t actually looking to understand anything new here.
Librarians have been classifying the world's knowledge since forever, and they developed faceted classification systems (Ranganathan, 1933) to deal with these issues.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321840994_Ranganath...

A notable one that hierarchies embed the point of view of the classifier, e.g. the Dewy Decimal's ridiculous classifications of religions (codes 200–299), making minute distinctions like 285 (Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational), 286 (Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Adventist), then putting all non-Christian religions under a handful of afterthought headings 292–299: 294 for Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikkhism and other religions of Indian origin, 295 for Zoroastrianism and its descendants, 296 for Judaism, 297 for Islam and Bahaism lumped together, and 299 for New Age.

Unfortunately, most of us do not have access to the services of a librarian to develop a taxonomy that corresponds to our own point of view then classify our files accordingly, which is why simple hierarchical taxonomies have endured and faceted ones seldom beyond specialized applications like Digital Asset Management.
i’ve seen at least two cloud services using akka for a component that required long-lived stateful connection management. while i think both ended up being successful because of akka, it required retrofitting a lot of libraries that already existed to fit the actor paradigm, as well as requiring at least one person who really understood akka.

id also say some decisions around akka monitoring and how that has related to lightbends monetization makes it more difficult than it should be to build observability around the internals of akka, ex. emitting metrics on actor queue depth.
Look, I only have anecdotes to offer, but based on my experience, you are simply wrong.

It might be a different place, a different market from yours, etc. But at least here (and I've verified this anecdote with numerous people), many people who have very high experience levels simply can't code, at all. Or at least, can't do it given the coding task we give them (2 hours with a computer and full internet access, to do a few tasks in Python).

I'm not saying that people are lying on their resumes - just that supposed experience in an impressive sounding company doesn't necessarily translate to real world coding ability.
I appreciate the author sharing his views, especially because he does a good job of distilling them. If cryptocurrencies are truly novel, however, it's not clear that one should be able to draw a direct analogy to an existing product. That they don't 100% resemble money, or commodities, or stock, or art, isn't necessarily a problem.

My argument for owning Eth is that it's like buying real estate (yes, I'm making another loose analogy). Why does a person invest in land? Because they expect something to flourish in the vicinity of their land, and they'll be able to capture some of that increased productivity in the form of rent (or appreciation).

Ethereum is a programmable ledger, and Eth is its unit of capital. A programmable ledger is a tool that can be used to create things like a money supply the author describes. The next question here is "why would someone prefer to use an analogous system created on Ethereum over whatever exists today" and that answer can be some combination of transparency, usability, and legitimacy. If we want something like the elastic-supply currency the author describes, we can create one for ourselves. We can do so without providing limitless power to a centralized authority (i.e. the Fed). To some, the resulting currency will be more legitimate as a result. (checkout Rai or Liquity for examples of elastic/"algorithmic" stablecoins on Ethereum).

In this view, today's value of Eth is largely speculative. On the other hand, this gives a way to fund development. New protocols like the ones I mentioned are able to capture the value they create only because there's already so much $ in this ecosystem, and that money's eager to pay a 0.1% fee for the benefit of this new product.

There's a lot of circular activity going on, sure. Deflationary rewards, leverage, etc. If you haven't seen an 80% drop in crypto yet, be ready for it (seriously). But as long as the influx in capital facilitates some level of actual new products -- as it does appear to me to be doing -- then what really is the issue here? Maybe we can be satisfied in viewing it as a rather complicated machine for capital allocation? My biggest worry is that impending 80% drop: crypto is notorious for its volatility, but still each bull run draws in newcomers who think we're past all the drops and find themselves surprised when they lose 80%.
I don't have any specific advice, but just want to say good luck. My mom just became a board certified psychiatrist at 60 after going through all of med school and residency. Before that she was a priest in the episcopal church. Making career changes late in life is hard but doable. You can do it!
Both Legacy Edge and the current Edge also support Windows High Contrast Mode (WHCM) as does Firefox.

Also with Firefox, on any platform, you can go into the settings, Colors, and set "Override the colors specified by the page with your selections above" to Always. It won't change the colors to the ones actual WHCM users use but that doesn't matter, you can't know what colors they've set and they could be anything.

Edit: If you leave the Firefox setting on "Only with High Contrast themes," the colors will also be overridden on a Mac with "Increase contrast" set. Technically, this is inaccurate, it's acting as if `forced-colors: active` is true on the system when the "Increase contrast" setting really maps to `prefers-contrast: more`. But macOS doesn't yet have an option to convey `forced-colors: active` so Firefox's choice is probably for the best for now.
What I didn't see in the docs that would be of great interest is benchmarks for Deno in Cloudflare workers versus vanilla Node.
The big deal about cost was that in the 80s phone calls were charged by the minute for anything beyond a very small local areas (even across town might be per-minute, for some towns).

So unless you happened to have a BBS within a local dialing range, it became very expensive very fast due to phone company bill. For me at the time there was only one BBS within "local long distance" range (IIRC about 25c/minute) but it didn't have much content. Every interesting BBS I read about was over $1/min long distance charges away.

This kept me out of the BBS scene through all of the 80s. By the late 80s I got real Internet access through university, so didn't pay attention to BBSs after that. I did briefly play with BBS in the mid 90s when I was living in an area where I could call into several ones for free, but by then it was the decline of the era anyway.
Looks right to me. A green and white plastic spider catcher. What do you see?
I'm not even sure what an interview that is not a discussion would look like and even less sure it would provide value, especially when it comes to technical talent. There's far too much time spent on validating "can this person do X that they claim they do." That can be easily tested or validated with reference checks. What is hard is knowing if an interviewee knows when to do X, when to do Y, and can they coordinate with teams A and B to get it done.
Bluetooth is, while still huge, tiny in comparison to the GSM specs. I've actually read the whole thing, although not in complete detail --- just out of interest; it's similar to WiFi (802.11).

The GSM specs aren't even available in a single document. It's split into dozens of pieces. My estimate would be in the tens of thousands of pages in total.
GNOME keeps making absurdly bad decisions about pretty much everything, and wantonly removing features that even average desktop users expect.

For example, you need an extension to enable putting files/icons on the desktop (!?!?!). And the APIs for GNOME extensions are constantly changing, so the extensions are constantly breaking. Not to mention, the extensions are written in JavaScript and if they crash, the entire shell crashes. It's absolutely insane.

It seems like they want to lock down the UI to customization even more than MacOS and Windows do. I see GNOME as basically a dead end at this point.
I think this "metaverse" concept is going to turn into yet another VRChat clone and flop. Sansar is a great example, made by Linden Lab. The problem I see is that it fails to have a demand for it to exist. There will not be an emergent userbase that will flock to it. There's already alternatives. VRChat, NeosVR, Sansar, and others I'm not even aware of. Anyone with VR already knows of VRChat, or isn't the type to care or be interested. So my question is this: How is it going to be an effective VRChat killer? How is it going to make people switch from a massively established community and virtual world that's known and enjoyed by so many people? How is it going to compete as a (probably) VR-Only against a platform (VRChat) that allows both pancake (flat monitor) and VR modes?

I feel like the concept is pure hype with a trivial amount of userbase interest (at best). They're late to the party. I don't see it as anything except a failure in waiting. Secondlife is still holding up to this day, since its creation in 2003. Try and figure out why SecondLife is still around and you may see why I see no future for this "metaverse". The only way to bring users is to have users and content, and the only way to bring content is to have users, and they don't have the users. I don't know a single person who is looking forward to it. Of all the social chat groups I am in, it's come up in only one, and the overwhelming response was just pure negativity about it sounding dumb, being a waste of money, and a failure in the making.
Carlsen even plays the improved Bongcloud against Andrew Tang [1], #6 in the bullet ratings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6Zl1jNWYQ

[2] https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/bullet
It doesn’t matter as it applies the same either way.
Yeah, it's the wrong question, and thus a distraction from getting the problem solved. Instead they should have asked "Do you support a tax on the top 1% of polluters, which is paid as a dividend to the bottom 99%?"

I suppose that might have the unintended consequence / cobra effect of making people want the top 1% to pollute more, so they get a bigger dividend payment, but, on the other hand, I don't think that the top 1% care about what the rest of us want, so their only incentive will be to reduce their tax burden.
What's the difference in goals between this and Rosetta code

http://www.rosettacode.org/
I’m on the same boat. Using an intel Mac provided by work. Had an M1 MacBook Pro until a few months ago, and it was great at several things(fast, responsive, quiet, and great battery life) at the cost of crippled Docker use(I needed local docker at that time).

I feel like many many engineers like me would easily get a reliable laptop with MacBook Pro like specs. The problem is that simply does not exist.

Excellent hidpi display.

Ryzen 5000 series CPU with its low power draw.

Good build quality.

Reliable support system.

Non weird components such that a recent release of popular Linux distribution would “just work” without needing manual tweaks.

In my experience, you get 3/5 in the above list at best. Framework laptop hits several of those points but misses out on Ryzen. Another contender on my list is ASUS 14 OLED with Ryzen - I’m worried about their support system though.
This is zero sum thinking. In other words, Amazon stock going up doesn't make anyone else worse off, but it does make Jeff Bezos richer.
I saw this recently primarily with Firefox and (presumably?) Firefox may have been updated to fix the issue because it is thankfully not happening anymore.

When it did happen though, it seemed ludicrous: that a single app could in a matter of literally minutes start burning through gigabytes of memory, to the point where the entire system seems to freeze with no option except to kill Firefox (and everything it may be doing) to continue. And, like the author, I had started keeping Activity Monitor open so I could pre-kill Firefox at a point when I knew it would probably start to be pushing it.

It never feels good to baby-sit a machine. It feels even worse when it’s an expensive new machine. And it means that the operating system is failing at its most basic task (arguably the entire point of having an operating system) — to manage resources well.
I don't think thats true anymore, unless you become a partner at a large law firm (very unlikely even for top grads) or are a very specialized surgeon (extremely difficult job) most FAANG level senior developers will out earn you and work far less. Might be true of banking but idk
are you sure the word pyramid scheme is actually accurate?
I'm not following. Dependencies can be nested, so you cannot assume that a dependency by a given name can be satisfied by a previously loaded dependency by the same name. Which means you still need as many serial roundtrips as there are depth levels, whether you parse in parallel or not.

Sure, you can cut down on the delay introduced by the parsing, but 10 depth levels over a 100ms connection is still going to take a second to fetch, because you simply can't know the N+1th dependency until you have at least completed the Nth roundtrip.
That's sort of what I'm driving at. I would note that anarcho-capitalists are not pro social hierarchy which is a central belief in right wing political philosophy. Murray Rothbard described the ideology as being neither of the left nor fo the right, basically saying that self ownership is incompatible with both traditions.

Notwithstanding Thiel isn't and anarcho-capitalist, he seems in practice to be almost a neoconservative. He describes himself as a "conservative libertarian", but has wrapped himself up in the war state and the surveillance industry, both of which are HIGHLY at odds with any kind of libertarianism. Thiel is much more like Liz Cheney than say Ron Paul.
Or Linux users are self-righteously declaring their way is the only way...
Laser weapons: US Army to test most powerful ever built next year
One of the more bizarre things we'd found in MySQL 5.something was that accidentally creating two identical indexes significantly slowed down queries that used it.

I wouldn't be surprised if you hit some sort of similar strange bug.
This is usually called "embrace, extend, extinguish".
My favorite memory of the BBS days was stumbling across an “elite” BBS full of warez and txt manuals like the jolly roger cookbook. In order to get access you needed to be voted in by others. How does a 10 year old know anyone to get voted in? Well, messing around at the “front door” of this BBS got me to realize that new users were still able to login with limited status. However, one thing they could do was vote on other new users. Boom, I created 3 fake accounts to vote my real account in ;)
German Inflation Still Unstoppable