skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this just requires the right wrappers/UX and greasing from hardware manufacturers.

There was another thread in the last day or two about someone asking where to get a dumb TV. In that discussion it became clear to me that there's already mesh networks all over the place without people realizing it, or if there's not, there could be. The only difference is it's being used by Amazon, Samsung et al to connect their devices and talk about you than to enable you to do something on a peer-to-peer service. I'm not saying it's easy, or that it could happen, but it seems like if peoples' routers or IoT hubs or whatever came with P2P stuff in the box with an easy UX it could move things along?

I generally think IoT/home security hubs/smarthome hubs etc are plagued by vendor lock-in, and I wouldn't be surprised if someday it got dropped in favor of something more standard. At that point I could see P2P maybe coming baked in? Not sure.

Twitter is basically RSS for the masses, cloud is just remote servers for the masses, I suspect decentralized/P2P for the masses is just a UX problem too.

Lots of things happen in steps too, from more hardcore tech crowds to the general population. Email was once the realm of college students and defense people only, and the web was a curiosity.
They're not fifty years behind, they're a bit over a decade behind. And they're pacing to catch up two years of lag every ten years.
The only thing that prevents some ergonomic keyboards from becoming mainstream is the price. Low price is the only great thing about standard keyboards.
I imagine they can read the text parts with a screen reader. Doubt this is any different than adding an image anywhere else
Hey folks! The 404s are because we were planning on actually publishing this a bit later today, but it seems like folks noticed the CNAME entry. Happy to talk about it more, though obviously it'll be easier to see details once things are fully open.

EDIT: blog post is up: https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility and the GitHub should be open.

EDIT 2: The HN story now points to this blog post, thanks mods!
If your goal is to become a multi-billionaire then sure, you need to take way more risk. But I'd wager that this is not most people's goal. If your goal is to accumulate enough wealth to have a safe retirement portfolio then you don't need to take the large risk for the large potential maximum benefit.
To a peon? Absofrickinglutely.
Sure as an individual, but a movie studio would absolutely go after a company that is in the business of indexing, hosting and serving clips from their movies.

I suspect this is why Giphy got that license. And I bet it comes with some terms like allowing studios to remove GIFs they don't like, etc..
I think you're describing a fallacy known as the Appeal to Novelty:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty
Meta is free to entirely pull out of the UK market if it wants to ignore the ruling. Any country is free to say "if you want to operate here, you must do X" but how onerous X can be before the company concerned pulls out, will depend on the market importance of that country. I doubt that Meta would obey an equivalent order by Liechtenstein.
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Certainly not ride it to the grocery store. Why do golfers by golf clubs? Not for the grocery store. And yachts aren't routinely used for sailing to the office either. The big lure of the enthusiast bike is doing things because you can. In a good year I can do rides for hundreds of kilometers in a day, I certainly wouldn't want to do that on my omafiets (which is just fine for anything <5km). 2020 was the first year in ages that I haven't crossed the Alps at least once. And sure, you don't need a bike costing 10k for that, in fact as it happens the bike I prefer for those occasions is the cheapest of the enthusiast bikes that I own, but that's beside the point. How many people do you own that drive a car that costs 10000 more than the cheapest car that would be perfectly adequate for the driving they do? Chances are most of them don't even consider themselves car enthusiasts!
>> But the hardware-based networks of the past are fundamentally different than the internet, a software-based network.

This struck a nerve. The internet is most certainly hardware based. While distributed databases are great, there is an extraordinary system of hardware that will always need to be produced, maintained, and powered to keep such databases operational.
It's not a random government across the world. Facebook does business in the UK market, has an office and personnel in the UK, and has customers in the UK.
It doesn't change things. There were federated alternatives to most centralized sites you see today. I remember Mastodon for Twitter, I'm sure there are more. The point is that web3 is not adding anything new here. We could always have gone to federated environments, but turns out it's more complicated than it seems and people don't care too much about what's inside as long as it works.
I love this. I actually think making a tiny redis is way more ambitious than a SQL database. It looks like you have a good start!

Two articles that really opened my eyes are:

A Beginner’s Guide to the True Order of SQL Operations: https://blog.jooq.org/a-beginners-guide-to-the-true-order-of...

Set Theory: the Method To Database Madness: https://medium.com/basecs/set-theory-the-method-to-database-...
I think this is neat. It’s probably not always useful for everything, but definitely very cool for many kinds of apps, nice work!
"Basically, we can be casually racist with each other, because it's between equals. Americans can't, because it's between two groups, one of which used to inflict horrible human rights abuses over the other."

I really enjoy the guilty/shame we put upon White Christians about slavery.

Even being the *OnlY* people who fought to end the slavery.

Black merchants/kings? Jesuit Company (Converted Jews), Islamic republics, etc.

All did not care about slavery.

But then these pesky White Christians came and said NO to slavery.

I hope they learn the lesson and be more cultural aware in future.

"It is not slavery it is their society..."

And keep themselves out of helping people.
NBA basket-ball is the Best
And he didn't mention a change in conversions - which would be far more convincing.
Exactly. Sit down at an old typewriter, with its 45-degree-sloped keyboard, 2" key travel, and tendency to jam any time you press two keys at once, and tell me that's not a Model T to a modern mechanical keyboard's Mercedes.
It really doesn't matter where you're based, it matters where your market is and who controls it (or at least access to it). If they don't sell, they could be barred from doing business in the UK.
LinkedIn sucks until it doesn't. That is, when someone other than a recruiter -- say someone who is connected to you through your broader social network, reaches out to you. That's when it's useful.

The "news feed" -- insipid at best. The farms of recruiters -- not super useful, I already have a job at a FAANG and I'm not looking to switch to a different flavour.

But the social network, which has been there for 15 years and kept me in touch with all sorts of professional contacts? Gold.
AWS launches Karpenter, an open source autoscaler for Kubernetes clusters
It is an amazing OS, https://blackberry.qnx.com/en
>New research shows that 44 million workers—or 28.2%—were self-employed at some point during a given week in 2019.

Much of it depends on how they define self employed. "Contract Work" doesn't count as self employed for the government.

>Those figures appear to go against other surveys showing huge growth in contract work, which is transforming the U.S. labor market. A survey conducted in December by NPR/Marist found that contract work makes up 20 percent or more of the U.S. workforce.

>Why the seemingly large discrepancy?

>Many point to the government's methodology. The Labor Department, for example, did not include people who augment their income through contract work
I think the point is that it autoplays and gives you a very quick rundown on the specifics of the feature/pricing. The way they're using gifs in the demo, it doesn't look like controls would make sense, but I think the message of this article is more about providing meaningful information about services and pricing than the gifs themselves.
Fair use is not a global concept.
Printing Shellz
This plays out clearly in the hyper-free trade bloc that is the EU, where different countries end up specialising in particular stages of the production of meat, for example.
Same. I actually had like 20 recruiters on LinkedIn I talked to, and a few of those got to late stage interviews, but Hired has the advantage that those reaching out to me already sort of agreed to the compensation I posted, instead of me having to ask and recruiters being elusive on LinkedIn.

Also almost everyone on LinkedIn had ~20% lower salary ranges they were offering than what I asking for on Hired, which was just a little higher than what Hired recommended after I took their short skills survey, so I think LinkedIn just has a bunch of recruiters stuck with offering low salaries for their clients and trying their damnedest for you not to notice.
A few HN people reached out to me about finding a job in the last few months. Here's what I normally tell them:

- Yes LinkedIn is useful, but not in the way that you think. The job application function in particular seems to be a black hole. I've never heard of anyone even hearing back from any employer, and I did try it a few times myself as well. What it does do is it tells you who to get in touch with to try to get a job. Certain recruiters have the current vacancies, and you can see who they are. Talk to them directly, either by chat or by phone, and get your USPs in there immediately.

- Indeed, monster, etc I don't know much about, most of the financial jobs I look at aren't going to be there. I did use efinancial, but there the strategy is the same. Don't submit your CV, find the person who is listing the role, get a hold of them.

- Generally independent recruiters seem to be the best source of leads. They get paid for placements, so they're always calling with suggestions. It's frustrating if you aren't the right profile, because they want an immediate sellable candidate, but if you are the right person, they can open doors that normally are just total blanks.

- LinkedIn is where you find all those recruiters. Whatever your specialty is, there's a recruiter for you. Go and find them, talk to them, see what they have. Don't forget to cater for the buzzword bingo, the recs will search for common tech terms.

- I also cultivate longer relationships with recruiters. A coffee now and again is not such a bad time sink, and you hear a lot about who is doing what through the recruitment people. Sometimes they phone me and ask actual technical questions, like "how does this trade work", and they feed it back to their network.
Sure, meta can refuse. Not sure what a regulator can do... to the part of facebook that's operating outside the UK. But at least in theory, any business they do within the UK could be shut down. Sure, they could still provide social networking services, those you won't be able to block. But selling ads or such? Only if you're willing to abide by the local regulations as a company. I mean, in theory at least...
https://media0.giphy.com/media/DwrnYsZCXspu8/giphy.gif?cid=7...
That sounds like a people problem that will manifest in all sorts of terrible ways and not really an indictment of code complexity metrics.
Rollermouse and other similar bar mice solves this for me perfectly. Trackpoint gives me too much hand strain if used +7 hours a day.
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Being rational all the time isn't going to do you any favors
do we call this sector authZ as zee or zed? I can't tell now which side of the atlantic has enough weight to decide.
Luckily there is an easy fix. But It's nice to see someone who cares about others being upvoted on hn, a rare thing.
Get dumbell, hold in your hand at your side and let it roll down your fingers, now curl your fingers up and lift the dumbell with your fingers. Do this until it burns. You will never have carple tunnel now. I've done this since I was a teen, and never developed hand issues. Been typing daily since 8 years old.
Many years ago I tried Super Lube® Multi-Purpose Synthetic Lubricant for locks exposed to weather 24x7, including one that spends 3 months a year buried in snow, and it is far superior to WD-40, as in multiple years of smooth operation without further maintenance. I might clean a lock with WD-40, but i am always going to lubricate outdoor locks with Super Lube. I have no idea if it works so well because of the base oils or the teflon additive or the combination, but it is really good stuff. This summer I used it to rehab my rusted grindy 38 year old Swing-A-Way can opener, which is now butter smooth, and to fix a seized outdoor A/C condenser fan. For both I had no direct access to the bearings and had to flood Super Lube down the shafts. Worked amazingly well.
LBJ's domestic programs were overshadowed by the Vietnam War. Vietnam would unfortunately come to dominate his legacy. Some of his big domestic successes were: Medicare, Medicaid, War on Poverty, and the Civil Rights Act. I would argue he was the last "common man" Democrat. He also grew up dirt poor.

https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/domestic-affair...

Historians are doubtful that had JFK lived, the US involvement in Vietnam would be much different. It's interesting that history gives him a pass since he also escalated the war as well.

https://bostonreview.net/articles/galbraith-exit-strategy-vi...

LBJ recorded most of his phone conversations for historical record. They are pretty interesting.

https://www.discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/telecon
To be clear, that sentence refers to the sum total of the things in the previous sentence, not just the bit about C. And it's "a lot of the attack surface" and not "guarantee" for a reason. We don't believe that simply being written in Rust makes things automatically safe or secure.

There is some unsafe Rust and some inline assembly, yes. I imagine a lot less than folks may think.
Considering ISP's have been fleecing taxpayers and government programs intended to fund better infrastructure installation by dumping that money into lawyers to entangle competitors/lobbyists to fight municipal broadband initiatives/executive bonuses over the years; I have difficulty seeing how one more paying customer or revenue streams is going to make this tiger change its stripes.
people running their own X is a solution (or means) to a problem, not the problem (or ends) itself. The issue is control.

The problem is lock in. Running proprietary software still has the problem, even on your own hardware. The idea is to have everything run to spec/protocol, with mechanisms preventing customised behaviour - the issue is similar to the problems within bit-torrent wrt custom clients not behaving correct i.e. not maintaining ratio, which meant there needed to be a decentralised mechanism for managing this across-network.

The idea is it doesn't matter so much who runs the software or what they run - the network protocol maintains the peace.
Binding Caps Lock to Control helps with that. It's still far from ideal, but it is at least no longer actively terrible.
Him, Jack Cassidy, and Patrick McGoohan.
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Sure, but a screen reader picking up on alt text won't convey the same amount of information as the visual would. Neither would an embedded movie.

But, that's all just begging the question: what is the practical, accessible alternative that does serve the needs of the blind and visually impaired?
The analogy is not accurate because old mechanical keyboards are awesome.
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> people who like to see things happen immediately

Our modern culture and lifestyle cultivates a desire for instant gratification in ways that make rigorous study of math and theory incredibly hard for most people who don't have the guiding structure of a math degree programme to counter-balance these forces.
If it’s a greenfield/saas/crud project? 99% of the time choose Postgres. It will hit nearly any use case.

You can always refactor if the project is a huge success and could benefit from a more obscure db.
It doesn't need to link any symbols, but I believe it does need to do relocations if the code isn't PIC, and to relocate the task's statically allocated RAM.
I think you need to take a second look at Solid. It isn't subject to the same "rules of hooks" as React so hooks are really just functions that return reactive units. You could argue writable and readable are just hooks for creating stores. It's reactivity is fairly similar to Svelte from there. There are stylistic choices with Solid choosing a function style and Svelte abstracting that with proxies and allowing a mutation style but otherwise how the reactivity works is close.

I do agree that Marko is quite promising. I think quite a few sites that need server rendered markup and progressively enhanced features could be implemented more simply in Marko than the equivalent solutions with React, Svelte or anything else.
I've considered going to ergonomics and/or dvorak and such but is it really going to help? I need a better desk, better chair, better posture.

You know what we need to do instead? Brain computer interface. Remove the whole keyboard and mouse altogether.
> Meritocracy is a fallacious idea exactly because it ignores social context.

This is just a war of semantics: I'm using it as a distinct abstract idea, you are implying it must be an all encompassing model of society. As an analogy, would you say we should ban seatbelts because they ignore the fact that some people drink and drive and still cause death and destruction despite seatbelts?

Literally all i'm saying is that meritocracy is a part of equality just like seatbelts are a part of safety, and not a panacea... to be accompanied by other mechanisms.

Can you imagine a world where we do not reward people for improving themselves and becoming more useful? How is that not part of equality.
>I'm actually convinced that single payer healthcare doesn't exist because companies lobby against it.

I suspect big companies also lobby against allowing individuals to purchase health insurance with pre tax dollars if you are employed by a small company that does not offer health insurance.

Similar to why an employee can save $20.5k of pre tax earnings per year if they work for an employer that offers 401k benefits, and an employee that works for an employer that does not offer 401k benefits can save $6k of pre tax earnings, IF they earn less than $68k per year.

And I have never heard either a Democrat or "small government" Republican address this glaring piece of corruption.

The cherry on top is that the legislation Democrats' are trying to push through right now gets rid of the backdoor Roth which allows people to save $6k in a tax advantaged Roth IRA if they are not eligible for IRAs, claiming that this is a benefit for the rich. But even the Democrats do not seem to want to touch the $20.5k (employee) or $61k (employer + employee) 401k limit, which benefits even richer people working for richer companies.
Newswire: Coinbase founder says Stripe founder is a good guy. People not convinced.
Over hundred year old typewriter keys suck.
Very skeptical of this take. If it were the case you would expect most or all rich people to be using ergonomic keyboards, since even an expensive keyboard would easily be affordable to them. Yet when I look at the folks who work at my office (none of whom make less than $200k/y), fewer than 15% have non-standard keyboards.

I think the real issue is that for most people, ergonomic keyboards do not offer a real benefit.
> One of the main problems of today’s keyboard designs — including alternative layouts — is the fixed key labeling.

In linux you can redefine the keys.
Hasura is fantastic. While they don’t manage Postgres they do give you a one click deploy to Heroku.

Overall it’s a fantastic tool
I remember one of the documentaries he was openly talking about how he locked out competitors when at atari. He did it by buying up fab space in any company that could make something for a competitor.
I wonder if the attributes of Hubris and similar systems -- real-time, lack of dynamism -- will become "ideal attractors" for developers not working in problem domains where these things are absolutely required, especially as the backlash against the complexity at higher layers of the software stack continues to grow. In other words, I wonder if a sizable number of developers will convince themselves that they need an embedded RTOS like Hubris for a project where Linux running on an off-the-shelf SBC (or even PC) would work well enough.
I think the commenter you are replying to meant 2TB after 3 or 4 months. If so, I’m guessing that sounds more reasonable
They were probably also sourcing their state from the events. However most of their problems come from sharing the events between the modules/services which is not a part of Event Sourcing.
I found my current job via passive presence on linkedin .
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This is somewhat fair, but changing layouts is a simple command space in Linux and Mac. So not that hard to do.
If below 133% of the U.S. federal poverty level, they are eligible for Medicaid, which does not require payment of premiums.

edit: s/medicare/medicaid/
This doesn't appear to be true. https://www.androidcentral.com/apple-may-have-ditched-encryp...
Burned my modified Atari OSs into switchable eeprom boards, built the 256k memory expansions for the XL series, and made a kit for builders at the user groups. Still have them, all original 400,800, several XLs, and hundreds of games. Moved to the Amiga where it was so very much advanced, having admin'ing the SGI (4D/440), a MicroVAX II, Suns, and helped with Evans and Sutherland workstation. Spent a lot of time in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mt. View, as well as haunting out the old Atari buildings and all the prototype junk that ended up at the surplus stores..
That's a pretty funny way to frame it "the real value of this historical artifact is in the fact that it was the father of this other historical artifact that I personally like/prefer".

You could just as easily say the Atari 2600, which Jay Miner also worked on, only has value in that respect, but you'd also be wrong.

Yeah the Amiga was pretty cool. But so were lots of other things.

They were great machines in their own right.
So much of TikTok seems firmly in what might be considered the uncanny valley. Lots of just slightly speed up footage, advanced (but not perfect) tts, and video effects and filters are everywhere. I think we might just be getting better at tuning out the imperfections than anything else.

Something to think about is what would you ten years ago think of that video? Would your brain smooth over the imperfections like you do today, or would it jump out and be nearly unwatchable?
It's LinkedIn over all others
YMMV.

Personally, you would have to pry my Bitnami images out of my cold dead hands.. there is just no way my team of 2 can do anywhere near as good.
Glad to see rollermouse named. Is my answer for this case, as well.
I've used Hired to find my last 3 jobs. Other than that, job listings on LinkedIn and Glassdoor are useful.
But sometimes you need to sell your company because simply you do not have enough resources to fulfill your mission and vision.
Don't swear. Place bets instead. That way, it's more expensive to be wrong which is a much better lesson to learn.
We also need to get rid of caps lock.
"we should finally redesign the computer keyboard"

Bullshit. If you want to try, go ahead and try. But it's not like it's a bad interface. Keyboard is still the best interface for speed we have come up with. Until someone comes up with something else that is objectively better, it's not time to redesign anything.