skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you are talking about social inequality (a zero sum game) vs poverty (a non zero sum game)

The idea that no one was expected to own cell phones so they didn’t enrich our lives is clearly false.

Can apply this to any technological advance. So for eg. in the 1800s no one expected you to own a car. So the invention and subsequent technology driven deflation of car prices didn’t make everyone’s lives better.
Great write up on a project to ramp up on all things NFTs.
I don’t think it’s extreme to expect a company that fraudulently claimed their product wasn’t addictive to compensate states for the harm that misrepresentation caused.
>There is a way out of this conundrum and it is absolutely not to double down on traditional gender role

In my comment I touched on traditional gender roles vs egalitarianism. I too agree that we should absolutely not revert the changes. But one must admit that the traditional gender roles had an appropriate balance.

>or to throw our hands in the air and say "it's evolution!".

That's difficult to change though. The bell is ringing and there's no unringing.

>That way is to embrace and encourage sex work, to be open to non-monogamy and other non-traditional arrangements, deprogram ourselves from all of our subtle and not-so-subtle slut-shaming, stop pretending the naked body is illegal and sex is bad or dirty, stop dramatizing and fear-mongering over the impact of STDs, and just generally embrace a broader, vaster and more open perspective on sex and romance and intimacy.

Very long sentence lol. The majority of the world criminalizes sex work as well as even porn. Yet ironically those places are also far worse off. Japan is clearly a prime example.

STDs are certainly a complicated subject. Each individually represent a small percentage of risk but together isnt addition, it's multiplication of risk. It's compounding interest as it were.

I think we are looking at it incorrectly. This is outside real control, in fact efforts to control will always result in the opposite result as expected. This is kind of something jordan peterson goes over, in an attempt to fix gender inequality has resulted in greater gender inequality.

We likely can only measure and monitor what's happening. Where does this balance go now that the balance broke. Men are going to benefit greatly here. Is that what we want? Is that a good thing? I suspect not.
I agree with you. When I said laptop, I assumed the monitoring of whatever signals go through it. I would hope that no one would suggest monitoring of external environment at my place.

For example, teams/zoom call? Go nuts. Screen shots of laptop screen. Go for it. Chat. Fine. Listening in to me jacking off to dwarf porn? Not cool.

I still see it as mostly useless. And I am saying this as a person, who worked at a place that had 'bathroom break' policy. The most annoying thing about it.. it was used as a tool to get rid of people management did not like.
For those in the EU (geoblocked): https://web.archive.org/web/20211217004434/https://www.purdu...
In its original formulation, the extended release oxycontin could be easily crushed without losing much potency. Other opiates have long had measures to combat this; fentanyl, for example, is frequently prescribed in patch form; extended-release morphine turns to an unusable gel if you crush it.

Purdue's sales practices are important, yes, but the impact all this has had on pain patients is severe; attitudes like "why is fentanyl legal" and the comment that started this thread are hurting people with real medical needs.
Okay, so how does it compare to Shopify? If I sell coffee beans, what’s my situation for cost of transaction (including conversion into the currency I need to pay my bills), ease of use for customers, transaction speed, difficulty of doing my taxes, etc.? If this is better, that should be easy to quantify.
I think that it's an illusion for developers (or any creative for that matter) to be productive for most of the time we spend on work.

However large or small the actual number is, and what exactly being productive means - I don't know.

I also believe that not your life revolving around other things apart from development is a good thing.
At the risk of repeating comments, welcome to Unicode Hell. And possibly to cross platform development :)

Also, just because Chrome feels faster and logs you into your google account without permission, it doesn't mean you shouldn't support alternative browsers. Do not only test your website in Chrome. It may get ignored as not working by non chrome users.

P.S.: I use Firefox, not Safari.
could make for some awkward zoom meetings
I guess I'll have to keep pursuing my education within the EU.
I’ve found peace by focusing on life outside of my own head.

If you spend your day all busy and stressed out about computer things and then go home and spend all your time on more intellectual or virtual entertainment then your brain is fully primed to work more on those things.

My advice is to disconnect and focus on relationships and people.
Implicit imports on the global namespaces? What do you mean?

Case insensitivity is somewhat complex topic in Nim, as there are some places where the case actually matters, plus there are some more rules for equivalence of identifiers (related to `_` IIRC). In any case, it was never a problem for me in practice; nimsuggest works quite well.
I'm not using employer provided DNS servers either haha
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-us...
I've been using nim for a few years. I wouldn't have made either design choice (i always do qualified imports, it's just a few extra characters of typing). That said, there is a reason these superficial things always come up in HN threads. If you haven't used a language before, syntax is the only thing you can talk about. It's the equivalent of low effort political banter and the dopamine hit you get from junk food or watching a tiktok. These things melted away after my first 30 minutes with the language, and that's about when the real work began.
Have been an AWS user by default since launch. Basically try to muddle through, have had some good experiences (RDS, S3, EC2, Amplify hosting) and some frustrating moments where I threw up my hands (other parts of Amplify, doing custom stuff with Route 53).

Now I'm using Firebase and Google Cloud Storage on a new project, and I've generally found the UIs to be clearer and better-organized than AWS, and the documentation more accessible and easier to understand.

These GCloud tools really do feel tailored with the average hacker in mind, something I often don't find at AWS.

UI/docwise, AWS kind of expects you to to come to the mountain, not the other way around.

As an example, getting Firebase Auth up and running was worlds easier than Amplify Auth, which I flailed helplessly at and gave up on.

Curious to learn more about GCloud, see if the rest of it is this good.
Robots: Mechanical fish scares invasive species so badly it cannot breed
I guess not tracking their users just wasn't an acceptable compromise. I wish eu google would just drop results like this.
This is the better option. I used to have a separate laptop just for one client and it was a pain in the ass. What happens when it gets damaged? They could charge you for the repair. Not worth the hassle of keeping track of it, lugging it around everywhere, keeping it charged & updated. Definitely a pain in the ass. Just do a cloud VM that the client owns with VPN access to the client's network. These are common now with Amazon Workspaces.
The age, sex, and marital status of the person selling a bootleg CD is irrelevant to its legality, as is the selling price.
Oh, thank you! I just updated the Docusaurus config and it's good now.
If it helps, I have a couple decades experience as a systems programmer and I find it hard to understand how to interface my code with JS. Web dev with its constantly shifting frameworks is baffling to me.
Complete with modern indulgences.
> B&H - general electronics, tax-free

B&H has been collecting sales tax for about two years now. Still a great place to get electronics from though.
Covid-19: Runny nose, headache, and fatigue are commonest symptoms of omicron
As you've aged, what's your most sincere personal fear that perhaps haunts you?
Purdue would give them kickbacks, vacations, etc. as part of their marketing outreach. It's not like the doctors made commission on every pill
> To stop at

Who said anything about stopping? Building a better, healthier society is a massive undertaking, and people are engaged in doing that.

In the meantime, we're also making the world a bit safer.
I have a dedicated laptop for a client that is in a room of my basement. I remote into it from my personal machine whenever I do work for them. Works very well!
I have written toy programs in Nim and Crystal, and the Nim experience is much more polished.

The Nim compiler is as fast as the Crystal compiler is slow!

I think Crystal is more enjoyable to use, personally. I am not a Ruby programmer, but Crystal just somehow feels fun to use. Nim by contrast feels very utilitarian, and frankly more practical.

I found the Nim language documentation better than Crystal, the Crystal standard library docs are just as good as Nim.

Nim overall feels like an "early 1.0-ish" language. Crystal feels like they went to 1.0 m too early. I would probably consider using Nim in a medium-sized application for work, whereas I wouldn't feel comfortable with Crystal for more than a personal hobby project.

They do have some things in common (macros, C interop, static types), but aren't really similar languages. I used to lump them together in my head as "those two new languages", but I don't anymore after trying them both.

If you are checking out new-ish languages, I hear Kotlin has some good design decisions that people appreciate (but that the tooling is pretty bad outside of Jetbrains IDEs).
Housing supply (NIMBYism by landlords) has not kept up with population growth and immigration in most dense cities. There is also the massive increase in multiple houses bought and left empty by the rich which are ghost houses. Healthcare will go up because that is regulated by politicians who do their best to raise prices for vested interests. The 2003 law passed by Republicans to prevent the government from even negotiating drug prices with Big Pharma is an example. You can’t even do parallel imports of drugs from say Europe. The number of doctors is restricted by the AMA and they even do the guidelines on how well they should be compensated. Educatlon is a third party payment “scam” where there is no incentive to restrict your costs, and there is every incentive to spend money on non-academic activities like massively bloated football programs and bureaucracies.

We reap what we sow.
A quick web search suggests that it's nothing to be concerned about.

https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa...
I’ve never liked the BOFH stories, even when I first encountered them in the early 90s I never thought they were particularly funny, and as I’ve since become a more experienced sysadmin I’ve actually come to despise them and the attitude they symbolize. Sure, the stories are parodies and written in an exaggerated manner, but the underlying humor seems to be saying “Isn’t this what we all really think? Isn’t this how we would all wish we could behave?”, which is an attitude I find deplorable.

I’ve elaborated about this here in the past, first here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10320829#10322378

and later here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16724962#16725937

(Note: this entire comment is a repost from four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086)
The global playing field is extremely competitive. It's so competitive in fact, that the best people rarely win. Nowadays, the winners are usually selected among those who are good in a conventional way and not among those who are exceptional. The winners are 'selected' top-down because it's usually rich and powerful people who decide who the winners are going to be.

You think Pablo Picasso was the best artist of his time? Probably not. He was picked by a bunch of rich, powerful people... Had they chosen to spend millions of dollars on the works of a different artist, that other artist would now be famous and nobody would know who Picasso is. It's also why almost all famous artists knew each other or had some social connection; it's mostly about social networking with rich, powerful people - Talent is secondary. It's the same in every industry where the quality of output cannot be easily or objectively measured.

Unfortunately, software development ability is very hard to measure. It can take years to properly evaluate someone's ability. Also, to rub salt into the wound, coders who are good at solving puzzles and other short-term problems are often regarded as better than those who are able to solve long-term problems (e.g. through good software architecture)... Even though the second one is far more valuable economically. It just takes a lot more time to prove that someone is a good coder in the long run so this leaves more room for choosing winners arbitrarily (for example; arbitrarily using 'short-term puzzle-solving ability under time pressure' as the criteria for deciding who should get jobs).

So basically, don't beat yourself up if you're not 'chosen'. It could mean that you're mediocre but it could also mean that you're exceptional beyond the grasp of powerful incumbents. Think Galileo and the Catholic Church.
Two custom React hooks
There's no difference. The origins of the "Jews rule the world" meme was a massive over-representation in powerful jobs like finance. How is it hurtful and terrible to say it about Jews but when it's about men it's just objective and a problem. A problem! Incredibly tone deaf - you're implying that there should be some sort of ... solution.

The point of studying history is to learn generalizable lessons from it. That sort of hyper-specific take is simply failing to learn from it.
Solana blockchain would be appropriate for your grid transfer as it can function in that time frame. You can also just do things asynchronously client side.

NFT data is not comprehensive and doesn't include all subsets of that market, most of it is collectors markets.

The Play 2 Earn space has nothing to do with collectors markets. This is analogous to saying Fortnite players grinding for characters skins are providing a forecast into the baseball trading card market.

The verified Bored Ape Yacht Club is the only Bored Ape collection to care about. This seems like the worst example for you to pick, since that collection is still under high demand? Asking prices being met, recently sold prices being the same price?

https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub?search[sortA...

Also your post is lacking an example of illegality and its relation to prevalence in the sector
As said before, most people are "nobodies". A small number people just happen to be both brilliant enough and be at the right place at the right time with some luck involved to strike some type of more famous success for example, and also happen to have all the time in their hands to do just their one passion.

I used to compare myself to others all the time, thinking about who did what by what age etc., but in reality it's just useless and fake. It used to be that maybe you compared yourself to the other kid at school who was good at something. Now you compare yourself to somebody who made it famous on the internet who's like the "best in the world" at something. Makes comparisons like that horrible for your mental health. These days I'm just happy to have decently paying job so I can pay my taxes, which mostly contribute to many good things in my country, meaning I can still be a positive force.
They were (and are) and, to an increasing degree, you are not.
i haven’t tested, but does yt-dlp play nicely with mpv the same way the original does?
That's simply not true.

There is no "Sysadmin School" the only way to learn is through experience. The only way you get experience is to do things.

That's why we don't fire people if they make $1,000,000 mistakes, because those are very expensive lessons and that is a large investment in a persons education.

If you only make $1,000,000 mistakes and you keep making the same ones, then it's time to talk safety nets.
Desjardins data breach: Class action lawsuit agreement reaches $201M
Whats so special about this?
I think life is better today than it was in 1970. You must consider that the 1970s started about 25 years after the United States bombed the bejeezus out of every single major industrial center in the world. America made "the best cars in the world" at a time when factories in Stuttgart, Munich, and Ingolstadt were lying in ruble--and with the world's top scientists, engineers, artists, designers, and architects pouring into the country. The American middle class saw a rapid rise in their wealth and standard of living during this time. An inexperienced worker could walk into a factory job in the US and enjoy a very high level of affluence relative both to their skill and the rest of the world. This state of affairs completely broke down in the 1970s and economic progress in the US after this time has been of an entirely different flavor.

To take 1950-1970 as an example of "the way things ought to be" is highly unrealistic.

Workers in the US are still making more, much much more in most cases, than their counterparts in other countries.
Ever thought it might be a carrot to dangle to ICs "look at them yo-yos! that's the way to do it! if you work hard and stay in this company, you could be able to enjoy 2-hour week work, too! No need to break away and start a start-up or anything that risky"
Yes, and no. In both cases it can be still something of a lottery. In particular, I think you may find good management at small companies too, and I know you can find coasting incompetent managers at huge companies.
Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year
>What am I supposed to read out of this that supports your argument?

Which country is having its territorial sovereignty threatened by the encroachment of hostile states strategically positioning nuclear weapons within strike distance? Which country actually belongs in the region, and which are setting up remote bases from which to operate, far, far from home?

If you don't think NATO aggression is a reality that Russia must deal with, there's not much point in further discussion. Only one side in this argument has a long history of committing war crimes and further crimes against humanity, for the last twenty years ..

>doesn't respect treaties, agreements

This is the biggest problem that Russia has with NATO and its puppet states: they don't respect treaties or agreements. Lets next discuss the Minsk Protocol and what Ukraine has done to render its participation utterly useless and not worthy of any respect, whatsoever ...

>NATO .. don't overstep our boundaries

That horse has left the barn, long ago. It is very clear to those of us that live in the region that NATO is willing to step all over the sovereignty of other nations in an attempt to encircle Russia. Your trust in NATO is clearly either a) uninformed, or b) utterly misguided.

>Exercise on the Ukrainian border

.. on the RUSSIAN side of the border. Nothing at all wrong with that, one bit.

> sending advanced gear to troublemakers

ahem It is the USA actively arming Ukrainian fascists, yo.

> meddling like USA > also occupying

Not at anywhere near the scale of the USA, sir. And if you think this is equivalent, then good day to you - we have nothing else to discuss.

The USA is the #1 violator of human rights and committer of war crimes in the world today. Your attention would be better directed towards the calls for justice for America's war crimes victims and the imprisonment of its numerous war criminals.

Only then can the West find the moral authority to do anything about Russia's perceived acts.

Until then, these arguments are specious at best, or facetious in whole.
SIMD Powered Common Lisp (SBCL) Beats Rust
> And then we come to the other elephant in the room: why are real wages flat?

A lot of it is because workers are doing less. They may be working just as hard, or maybe even harder. They are doing tasks that enable more production. But they are doing less. And many fewer people are required to do it.

More people do the last mile of work that can’t be automated, requiring 0 skill, and little thought. Low end jobs still used to require a fair bit of expertise, but are now dead ends.

Performance in many of these jobs is upper bounded at just showing up and doing it. It’s not even a rat race.

tl;dr low skill labor supply outstrips low skill labor demand.
Absolutely correct. Poor education.
I'd like to believe that all these bad practices will eventually result in their reputation going down and then losing significant market share.

However, I'm afraid our discussion here is far removed from the average consumer. I bet that the merchant info was made harder to find because so few people ever clicked it.

For most products I now prefer other sources where possible. However, the convenience still drives me there for many purchases. At the same time it anecdotally feels like I see more Amazon trucks come by my neighborhood. I'm sure most people fall into a spaces where they don't care enough and it's just too convenient to so in Amazon. Their great shipping and return logistics also make up for a lot. Their deliveries are so much faster and reliable than most competitors. I can order from a great vendor, but if they ship via FedEx it will take forever to get here and frequently the delivery date just changes to "pending" for weeks. This had never hairnet with Amazon. It might be fake, but I know when I get it and when it's ten stops away. If it's crap, I can drop it off without envelope or box next time I buy my groceries at Jeff's/Whole Foods.

It's shitty and maybe even offensive but so convenient.
Quality of life is pretty subjective but US life expectancy rose from about 70 to 79 between 1970 and today.
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
—Zen Shin
if only you could make a new set of those...

a lot of developers have separate everything

this can be bad when encountering the recruiters and hiring managers that still look at github activity as clout, but these days you still have to pass the technical interview no matter how much clout you have so I wouldn't worry about it
> Since no alternative has presented itself, every time I revisit wasm-pack I’m pained by new potholes that have risen due to neglect

I've had open PRs for a year now:
https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/pull/937
https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/pull/1089

Very straight forward changes. Emailed Ashley about helping with wasm-pack, no response (in response to https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/issues/928)

Updates to wasm-bindgen shouldn't require a change to wasm-pack. It should expose ways to pass arbitrary flags down

While having a webpack plugin is nice, I since gave up on wasm-pack & added a build-wasm to my package.json's scripts: https://github.com/serprex/openEtG/commit/9997fb098d168920bb...

This way if someone wants to contribute to openetg they don't need to install my wasm-pack fork. Ideally wasm-pack-plugin would skip wasm-pack & use wasm-bindgen directly

I do hope wasm-bindgen is able to be adequately resourced. It's a pleasure to program wasm modules in Rust
Original youtube-dl got throttled by youtube, dlp currently doesn't. Can't work out from the release notes if this is fixed.