skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is an 'optimum' level for technology of all kinds, below that you really want more and it is clear that there is room for improvement. But once the optimum has been reached any further additions will degrade the experience.

Examples:

Car controls:

pre: direct taps and gauges plumbed into engine parts and such, real switches and levers.
optimum: does what it should, not more, not less, more reliable than the old stuff, easy to fix and relatively cheap to fabricate
too much: touchscreens. For everything.

(ICE) Car electronics:

pre: carburettors, bad winter starts, bad fuel consumption, pollution
optimum: EFI, highly reliable, aftermarket parts interchangeable between brands
too much: DRM on everything, parts won't even fit same model a year older, are ridiculously expensive and unreliable to boot

TV:

pre: two channels, black and white, bad image quality, crappy small screens
optimum: 20 channels or so, in a way already more than you can consume, good quality color image, fairly easy to see screens (say, up to 3' across).
too much: wall-to-wall screens that intrude on your privacy every chance they can, inability to build up your own collection of content (DRM), pay *for ever* for the same stuff
way too much: youtube.

CPUs:

pre: 8 bits, too slow for many applications, nice and better than an abacus though
optimum: 1990s OS, very little eye candy, just enough to take the edge off, fast, and enough horsepower to do meaningful work
too much: 2020 OS, nothing but eye candy, reduced functionality, telemetry, spyware, forced updates that are just as likely to improve things as they are to leave you stranded

and so on, you get the idea.

Technology has and always will have a place in my life. But my car is a 1997 model that doesn't phone home to the factory, has buttons instead of menus, my phone is a Nokia, and so on. Technology is my slave, not my master.
But it would probably hit demand for cars as people will be less quick to take out loans.
Carry cash and leave your smartphone off and your payment cards at home (this is what I do). A lot of these systems fail open if you say "sorry, I don't have a SIM card in my phone" or "my service is shut off" or "I don't have a credit card".

You also make it easier for the next person.
should it be on a per school basis? or universal across a nation?
What do you mean by "covid bubbles"?
What do you think the intent of a strike is?

Is holding up every car that enters or leaves the work premise not considered an intent to harm the operations of the company?

Is resfuing to do your job, slowing the overall production of the company, not considered harmful to the company?

What is the intent of the striking worker who airs their grievences on signs and media?

Striking, by nature, has the intent of causing grief/headache/slowed business/etc., in order to make demands heard.
Encapsulated CSS: The Key to Composable Layouts
This exactly. I haven't written enough Go to be really annoyed by the more subtle things in the post, but it'd really be nice if they could come up with some syntax sugar for that kind of like Rust's ? helper.

Maybe the Go ? is allowed within any function whose last return value is an error on any function call whose last return value is also an error. Call it with ? at the end and accept all but the last return value. At runtime, if the err is not nil, then it returns from the function, supplying the err value and nil for any other return values.
> Also living closer to work simply doesn’t work the housing just isn’t there

The OP was specifically recommending adding such housing:

> Isn't a 'quick fix', but legalizing the production of various shapes and sizes of housing would help a lot of people, especially long term.

The reason the housing isn't there is because massive parts of our cities are zones to prohibit building dense housing, or housing+commercial together.
Touch controls. I hate that I cannot turn off my hob in dim light as I have to see which of five barely visible areas I am to touch.
Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists
I've been using Poetry exclusively for the past few years. I had a couple small problems with it early on, but lately I haven't run into any issues.
I agree. It reminds me a lot of XXE attacks on XML. You wouldn't expect parsing an XML file to open arbitrary network connections, would you? The spec says an XML parser should do that. A lot of parsers used to have that feature turned on by default, although I think by now most folks have wised up.
Algo-paranoia.

Every time I interact with a remotely "clever" system, I keep thinking how my input will feed some machine. How fast do I scroll, what is in my viewport. What do I listen to and when. Is this an A/B test? Will something I do on a whim affect that machine to predict something incredibly stupid tomorrow?

It only became obvious recently, as I was readying an actual, physical book. The relief to realise that the publisher won't optimise the font based on how fast I turn the pages. And the disgust at that aspect of tech.

And to what end?
Cell phones and mobile devices in general have always been disposable items

Only if you define "always" as post-2010.

Cell phones were for a very long time considered long-term purchases, along the lines of washing machines and refrigerators. It was only when they became fashion accessories and certain companies started relying on pushing out new models every year for no reason other than to boost the balance sheet that they became "disposable."

You're right about the recycling, though. We need more places to recycle e-waste.

I was surprised a couple of years ago when I wanted to recycle an old PowerBook. I assumed that every Apple Store would take used gear. But it turned out that none of the Apple Stores near me would take it. I'd have to drive it four hours away to another city in order for it to be recycled.
You should look into how they calculate the numbers haha, it’s comical. They send letters to homeowners and ask them “How much do you think you could rent your house for?”

There’s no need for this idiocy I’m sure one of you could scrape the Zillow website in an afternoon and come up with something better.
> This is nonsense that opens up the possibility to justify pretty much any kind of abuse or atrocity.

Hilarious. Do you think there’s big judge in the sky that determines what’s good and bad? There is only human conscience, and powerful people who decide to enforce their conscience.

> If the international order was actually rules-based it would have been safeguarded by international institutions, not by a single capricious superpower.

If there’s an international institution that can enforce rules, then that institution is the capricious superpower, and woe betide those that mess with that institution.
What if working as a developer in crypto is a nightmare?
Housing prices are affected by more factors than just inflation…
tldr tldr (Since your version is for people who already understand undergraduate math, this version is for people who already understand upper-level undergraduate/graduate math):

If you try to use a product of 3 rotation matrices that represent rotations around fixed axes to represent rotations in 3D, there will inevitably be gimbal lock because there cannot exist a covering map from a product of 3 circles to SO(3). (Gimbal lock happens at the points where the map locally fails to be a covering map)

SU(2) is the universal cover of SO(3). The unit quaternions are a faithful representation of SU(2). Conveniently, the double cover map from SU(2) to SO(3) is dead simple in this representation: a unit quaternion q in SU(2) act on a purely imaginary quaternion (thought of as a vector in R^3) by conjugation. This is the formula you wrote.

Since it is a covering map, there is no gimbal lock.

Edited to fix explanation.
Kind of like the unemployment figure...
My life is as close to advertising free as possible. The only thing that I can't really do much about is advertising signs by the roadside, but other than that it isn't a problem.
Assuming you're looking for quaint walkable towns (and not stressing over the fact that they're surrounded by miles of car-dependent suburbs and rural areas), you can find them anywhere and everywhere. Most small/medium sized towns on the east coast have a historic/old town that is like this, for example in Virginia state:

Culpeper, VA [0] (passenger railroad station right in downtown that connects to all the big cities on the east coast)

Warrenton, VA [1] (Ridiculously good downtown restaurant scene, whenever I go there there always seems to be some festival or market happening)

Staunton, VA [2] (Beautiful area surrounded by some of the largest tracts of public land in the eastern US)

Fredericksburg, VA [3] (tons of interesting history here)

Charlottesville, VA [4] (look at that pedestrian-only shopping street a block away!)

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4731207,-77.9962447,3a,75y,1...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7131072,-77.7940715,3a,60y,2...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.1496218,-79.0715993,3a,75y,1...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3031279,-77.460567,3a,75y,16...

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.031349,-78.4795003,3a,60y,20...
It sets precedent. One guy today, more tomorrow.
I'm not sure why that would be "breaking news". It's been a constant story.
You can patch it back up by replacing utility with something specific, although at the cost of its mysterious air. Let's say that the smart kid will... cure cancer if he's in the suburbs, but become a drug kingpin if he grows up in the city.
My rent is down hundreds of dollars year over year as is it for most people I know.
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And future charitable organizations are going to be turning down a lot more donations. You can't de-platform somebody who hasn't been platformed. And somebody demanding an "anti-deplatforming" clause has just given you a heads-up that they're doing something that would make you think twice about giving them your platform in the first place.

That'll suck for organizations that need the money. But it'll suck less than being seen as a way of burnishing a person's bad reputation or easing their guilty conscience.
I basically don’t encounter any ads in my day-to-day life, digital or physical. I have no TV, and use uBlock Origin (including annoyances lists) on laptop and phone. I live in a tiny rural town so that practically the only advertising posters within a 35km radius are first-party advertising on two or three Telstra public phone booths, and in the decent-sized towns 40km away in either direction there’s barely any more. The nearest billboard ads of any sort would be over a hundred kilometres away, in Horsham, Ballarat or Bendigo, and not much at that.

When I go down to the big smoke (Melbourne) I find the prevalence of billboards, side-of-bus ads, &c. physically distressing—and then they make it worse by using screens for them so they can change their contents, make them glary, &c. and it’s just awful. And it becomes ever more and more intrusive; Melbourne’s trains used to be safe spaces, then they put billboards on the platforms, then scrolling billboards, then ads in the carriages, then animated billboards on the platforms, then billboards with speakers on the platforms, and I wonder just what they’ll come up with next. I really dislike the city. There’s a reason I moved out into the country.

As for television ads, ugh! Maybe once every year or two I happen to be in the same room as a television that’s turned on, and how anyone can stand to watch the stuff when such ads are part of it, I don’t know. Maybe if you grow up with it you don’t realise quite how obnoxious it is?

I have concluded that display advertising is just fundamentally bad and that our society would be better if it were outright banned in all its forms. I would even sympathise with vigilantes that went round demolishing and vandalising billboards on principle.
This is what so many people forget -- he almost surely (but frankly, even the contrary wouldn't surprise me any more) didn't start out as a Russian agent but most certainly became one.
Students learn plenty of critical thinking skills by the time they graduate from high school.

People aren't vulnerable to misinformation because of a lack of education, they embrace information (true or false) because it backs up what they believe.

You can teach critical thinking, but you can't make people use it in the way you want.
Inflation must be transitory unless it moves into wages.

If prices increase 5-6% per year without similar wage increases demand drops naturally and prices fall.
Kiss My Assange, Biden
Leases are typically renewed yearly, but is there reason to believe that the start/end date of leases wouldn't be roughly equally distributed by month? They're not all going to renew tomorrow.

That said, the difference in rents and home values is disconcerting.
This can definitely be one reason but I find your cherry picking very disingenuous.

His disclosures have shown a consistent bias to damage the Democrats, support the Republicans, Trump, and the Putin regime. He also endangered the lives of multiple assets by revealing their names and locations.

It's a lot more nuanced than you portray it.
Honestly, almost everything. More and more i want to see it all torn down for the multiple reasons like those you outlined.
1. Information hoarding, distraction and FOMO

The Internet has generated in me an habit of information hoarding. At the beginning I would bookmark useful information and then take notes on paper of the useful things; with the passing of time distraction has started to creep in: more and more useless information, more and more FOMO.

2. Omnipresence of tech and privacy concerns

An increasing number of actions require emails to get done, this rises privacy concerns. When I was 14 enrolling in high-school meant filling a form in pen and paper and bring it to the administrative office. 11 years later, my sister needed an email and personal information on the net. I really don't like it.

3. Affliction due to envy

I haven't used social media since I was 19 but HN and reddit are not really better: there are a lot of thing that I just wish I could forget and fill me with envy that I would have never felt if I had never read about that particular thing. It is obviously irrational being envious of something that you didn't event wanted in the first place, but the irrationality of that feeling do not make it less real and painful. Sometimes I do a 30 day diet and I do not visit HN or reddit, but the feelings never really go away.

4. Ephemerality

I still have some books passed by my great-grandmother belonging to my great-grandfather during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. I still have all my books from middle- and high-school. These required passive maintenance: just put them on the shelves far from fire and done. On the other hand I've lost entire years of data (photos, books, notes) during a single incident that rendered my physical back-ups useless.
Might be (hopefully) sooner; Biden is from a Georgist-like town: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden,_Delaware

> founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price
What if misinformation leaks into the class room? ex. creationism

The problem is fractal in nature,
it's the same at any scale.

Having critical thinking is better than not, but even experts in one field aren't always eligible to do expert level analysis in another field. Further it doesn't solve the problem that bullshit can be made faster than it can be reviewed.

Having a trusted authority is essential for truth.
Yeah, "for some reason" is a good summary of many Go decisions.

Rust has both (traits are somewhat like interfaces) and I don't feel like it's too painful, though using the trait type in function signatures is a lot more involved than in Go, and I still don't fully understand all the nuances. But the complexity isn't because of any overlap between traits and sum types.
A COVID bubble is a group of individuals that are trying to limit their chances of contracting COVID by restricting contact with others outside the bubble, but within the bubble there are no restrictions.
I don't know. I guess that's subjective. I would personally rather work on code with much less abstraction.

All of the Java codebases I've worked with, that have 20 levels of hierarchy to 'clean up' the code bases and make it easier to edit, turn into giant balls of spaghetti at some point.
> People with mortgages have been making out like bandits for decades, and have recently locked in historically low interest rates that leverage their economic gains even further.

Depends on jurisdiction. Canada's housing market has most of the same problems as the US's, but you can't really lock in low interest rates for longer than five years - so if you raise interest rates, you leave people five years from now underwater and having to renew for the next two decades at high rates.
Yes, and these two aren't the same. (Young) kids have zero purchasing power, but like I said, Minecraft and Roblox are the behemoths they are because they are good at making kids convince their parents to spend money - that's the exact same point you just made, right?
What kind of toy keyboard are you making?

You can also consider Tone.js which is a synthesizer. Also, I like the sound of https://github.com/PencilCode/musical.js

Those two above will allow you to make a simple website toy piano.

If you are making a command line app, you can record the samples from GarageBand if you have a Mac.

There are other cool command line options. If you're interested, let me know.
I remember reading somewhere that only accounts for new contracts. Rents usually only increase when negotiating new leases or extending existing ones close to expiration. So the majority of renters are not paying that much more.
GPS in everything, and 2-20 giant, unaccountable corporations knowing where you are at all times, when you go anywhere else, where you go, who with, and how often. The overall loss of privacy with regards to simple day to day comings and goings. (We also as a society have not yet had to contend with the fact that this information is available at any time to the state without a warrant or probable cause, an unprecedented shift of power. I hope it works out okay, but having seen the USSR and DDR and CCP, I fear it will not.)

Now, several multinationals and governments know which day of the week I like to go out to eat, or who my FWBs are, and the locations of all of the places I sleep. It's nobody's business, but now it's in everybody's databases (even if I turn my own phone off, unless I avoid human contact entirely).
I don't think "misinformation" is as clear cut as we think it is. For any subject with more than the most trivial complexity there are always multiple ways to view the information.

We could say, "Man stabbed another person in the neck. That man is bad", but what if the stabbing in the neck was for a tracheostomy? Now apply this to even more complex situations.

I think it really comes down to a statement like "there is no truth there is only consensus". How much in this world is objectively true? And before you answer that go back in history and look at what we used to think was objectively true and it turned out not to be.
>that any probative value of the information Manning leaked was overshadowed by the indiscriminate way in which it was done.

Shouldn't you be pushing for the prosecution of the Guardian journalist that published the encryption keys then? Not Assange who actively worked to get both press and government help to ensure safe disclosure.
What apartments list for is not the same as what people are actually paying for housing.
> Um. Is high hazard and death ratio for obese people something that needed explaining?

Some people might argue that convincing people to not get fat is much lower hanging fruit than transforming every democracy into an authoritarian apartheid state for effects that are well below any statistical significance threshold.
Isn’t a court ruling an opinion and not fact? Is it necessary to oppose one opinion not with another but a fact?
You're right, it's entirely informed by what I see unions doing in my workplace today.
> you absolutely do not have the right to break into systems of national security and release arbitrary information

These are two very different things. Is Assange suspected of doing the first? The second I wonder how it can be a crime if it is a non-US citizen doing it on non-US soil.
Appeal to authority isn't going to change the fact that this isn't a "money supply" problem.

The inflation fear is what is driving up the bitcoin prices which in turn is driving up the chip demand. This inflation is partly a supply chain latency issue and partly hysteria driven
I've had that problem as well. The one thing that helped was getting rid of all social networking on the phone. That means no apps and I don't even log in to HN on the phone.
"You can also look for "sound fonts""

Good suggestion. Though, searching soundfont, would be more efficient perhaps?
In short... One should not assume the powers-that-be provide tools freely to disassemble the powers-that-be. "For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," as the quote goes.
I have no interest in knowing that I am a unit in an 8 billion sample (going on 10 billions).

You read it as a texbook notion in school, but it's the internet which makes you internalize it.

All the stuff you care about and are enthusiast about you'll find people who put your skills and level in that particular field to shame.

And you don't even have to be looking for such info because it's shoved right in your face.

The most talented person (or perceived as talented) in a field monopolizes all the discussion in that particular field. So as you try to learn about the field you are met with all sorts of devote followers and bootlickers.
Is there any evidence this is true? For example, of the unfilled jobs today, what proportion of them were filled by immigrants vs. US citizens 2 years ago?
How do you guys normally handle pay reviews? Curious how each company operates..
I know the saying is that if you don't get a raise AT LEAST on par with inflation, you are taking a cut, but at what point do you take this to employer?
The DOS approach means that glob expansion must be consistently implemented by each and every utility and since that is impossible it is inconsistent across tools.

Unix/Linux takes the view that the shell is responsible for interpreting parameter expansion, and that once expanded, those parameters are then handed off to the invoked command. Yes, there are edge-cases, but they are the same edge cases for each command. There's only one set of knowledge to internalise.

(I began that internalisation some 35 years ago and am tremendously grateful that much of the knowledge has been cumulative rather than substituting for earlier methods. The areas I consistently have the greatest challenges are those in which behaviours or methods have changed (in cases multiple times) over the years and/or decades. Especially for tools which are seldom used.

The bash shell isn't fully consistent, I'll grant. But it's also what I'm using much of the day, every day for interactions, and even its inconsistencies become hardwired over time.