skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're baffled by the idea that most people can live their life by not working, I would suggest skipping directly to the "Network participants: participate-to-earn" for a quick explanation. The idea is basically just a proper redistribution of benefits. That's a bit weird to me since most people in networks are consumers, not creators, and consumers don't really create value, so we show them ads to create value. Maybe the future is about giving to people a bit of the money they generate while watching ads? But aren't those people already getting something by participating in this network for free? For example, if you watch a youtube video with sponsored content, the value you get from watching the sponsorship is the youtube video itself. Maybe it's about distributing the surplus?

Anyways, this confirms again that the crypto/web3/DAO space is not for me. All of that stuff moves way too fast. Donald Knuth said about email: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.". Crypto is making me realise that my role in life may be to be on the bottom of things.
Society and the world at large doesn't revolve around individuals. Despite not having had any major health expenditures myself (for now), I have absolutely no problem with supporting a system that allows for those less fortunate to not have to worry about it, among other things. Frankly, anything else is simply barbaric.
btw, I believe the term "architecture astronauts" was coined by Joel Spolsky in 2001 or earlier:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
Thank you. The modes of speech are indeed the class of things I was thinking about in terms of "types of thoughts". I'm interested in classifications up and down the stack, and high level categories like Narrative vs Rhetorical are useful.
Potentially dumb question - how do people even find these things???
I remember speaking to an engineering statistics (IIRC) professor once, who said that no one had ever gotten an 'A' in his class. (Presumably, the final grades were curved like yours.) He said it proudly. I considered asking him if he was teaching basket-weaving or underwater archaeology to his statistics students.

I heard a story from an academic coordinator once, of an instructor who had been hired for a required CS computer architecture class because he was a friend of the department chairman. He was an electrical engineer, which made some sense, but then students started showing up in the coordinator's office crying and trying to drop the class well after the last drop date. It seemed he thought CS undergraduates were supposed to be the same as electrical engineering grad students, and wanted to fail the entire class. (He did not, nor did he get hired for further classes. After many years, though, his friend was the department chairman again and hired him as a tenured professor and the department's external relations coordinator. This is part of the reason I did not go into academia.)

Many instructors are just stinking bad. Many aren't, and manage to tie together both interesting lectures and more active assignments. But the bad ones do leave marks.
> Don't think in terms of money. Think in terms of the economy of stuff (both goods and services). There's 20% less stuff produced. That's 20% less stuff available to consume.

You're assuming linear productivity per hour worked, which is a silly assumption. Productivity per hour worked is obviously going to go up when you reduce labor supply, because, uhh:

- Data clearly shows people are more productive per hour the fewer hours they work, and,

- Presumably businesses not every unit of labor that a business employs enjoys the same return on investment. If the business moves from being able to buy 1000 units of labor to 990 units, they are not going to choose average ROI 10 units of labor to remove.

- You're assuming that having the overtime threshold kick in 20% sooner (I favor 36 hours, BTW, not 32) results in 20% fewer hours worked. This seems silly.

> And, "closer to historic balances"? Historic when? 1950?

Productivity and wages tracked at about the same growth rate from 1920 to 1970. Since then, wages have stagnated but productivity has grown significantly. This has reversed in the last year or so, but it's not clear how much is transient and in any case it is not enough to make up all the lost ground.
Fascinating! Would you be willing to share more context about this? Did the compensation seem commensurate with the work you put in? How feasible does it seem to generate a steady income this way?
That's also against the site guidelines, and actually worse than the GP provocation I replied to, because two piling on is already the seed of a mob. We don't want that dynamic on HN at all. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
they want to mechanical-turk the whole world.

bitnikel-and-dimed.
> The happiness and productivity of current and next gen programmers and data scientists are relying Julia's success.

I'm a big Julia fan, but "relying [on]" seems like an overstatement - "would be enhanced by" is as far as I'd be willing to go. Let's be honest, Julia is great, but in the unlikely unfortunate event that it crashed and burned, a lot of would be saddened, but we'll move on and improve the ecosystem in other ways. (And trust me, as an ex-Perl guy, I know a lot about moving on from languages.)

Not that any of these Twitter drama should affect Julia in any case, and it isn't likely to.
Is there another way to view the full article? I'm only seeing the first paragraph with no errors or popovers, and I'm not about to disable uBlock for medium.
Rainbow Plane
Unless you’re in the right lane, you are the one in the wrong. You can be pulled over in most US states for driving slower than surrounding traffic.
okay so i'm not sure how accurate any of this is since it's overlaying sun angles over a photo that is very likely not taken from a 90deg overhead angle to the bomber... and the scale of the image may be distorted a little...

I discovered on google earth that the image was taken May 16th.

I used this site http://shadowcalculator.eu/#/lat/39.02397754136213/lng/-93.6... to draw a fence around the bomber and defined the "structure" to be an arbitrarily tall height until the sun angle lined up.

Then I lowered the height until the sun angle touched the location of the shadow and I came to an altitude of 1100ft / 335.28m (rough height of the "structure")
It was fun but not terribly efficient. I can see it growing with things like Gitcoin for open source projects with treasuries. Saying this I’ve found it far quicker to get freelance work with crypto than more corporate gigs. Last corporate job I had for a one-off task took weeks to figure out how best to pay from a US client to a UK account!
Yes, exactly. If you need to be able to control what goes to the display and take that away from the OS, you need a hardware I/O device.

OS notifications and alerts are just examples of any number of things that could be displayed that are unwanted. In situations where something like that makes the setup "unusable", you have to have a hardware I/O device. There's not another option.
We don't have an explicit plugin for Bluetooth yet, but it is possible as you can add custom code inside the platform! That way, you can still use FlutterFlow even if one or two small features you need aren't explicitly supported yet.
> Do the actual microbes emit CO2 or is some of that carbon used in replication

Yes
Thanks for your feedback! The reason we don't have this yet is only because we're a small team, but we're growing and will definitely have NGO/non-profit discounts!
You can find a list of satellites here: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database

According to the image on Google maps it was taken by Maxar. Maxar appears to have a few satellites, looks like 5 in geostationary orbit (~35,700km), 3 at about 400km and 1 at about 500km.
Ask HN: What is the randomest book you've ever read? (that you'd recommend)
MakerDAO achieved a (mostly) autonomous peg of a crypto asset with the US dollar. I think that's pretty notable.
> A real, non-sad coup would have sent the military in there to support the crazies, or at the very least, a quasi-organized counterforce which could set up some defensible position. Instead, we got maniacs looting the speaker's podium.

That's not the only way to succeed. Occupying the Capitol alone would indeed not have done anything.

If they had managed to prevent the certification of the vote, however, and thrown the question to the House, that's success. (unlike usual votes, the one for this is one-vote-per-state in the House, yes US democracy is organized fucking cray-cray).
FWIW, depending on the satellite (this one is probably WorldView 3), there usually more like ~6-7 channels in the visible.

It makes for easier top-of-atmosphere correction, and can be useful for things other than pretty pictures.
Wishful thinking with no basis in reality. If we couldn’t use coal, we would cut down and burn trees unsustainably long before we magically manage to invent renewable energy tech without all the benefits of modern infrastructure.

> There's really no reason to use fossil fuels.

Except for the critical dependence on them in almost every aspect of the economy sure.

> If we had to ration it to the bare essentials we'd be able to get away with using only 5% of the energy we currently use.

And how exactly are supposed to organize society into this perfectly energy constrained system?
From 2011-2015 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and I read the vast majority (if not all) of the NY Times' excellent "Disunion" series on the war.

What struck me most was that at the onset of fighting, virtually everyone on both sides could agree on one thing: there was not going to be a prolonged conflict, because the other side had no real reason to fight. To a Northerner, it seemed ridiculous that working-class Southerners would die so a handful of planters could keep slaves. To a Southerner, it seemed ridiculous that any white Northerner would die to free Black slaves that had legally been born into bondage. Paradoxically, these beliefs seemed to be instrumental in driving the war, as both sides believed the other would come to their senses and lay down arms any day now.

I do believe this is a danger that we face today, where the belief that civil war is impossible keeps driving us toward it.
It's like a libertarian fever dream.
Typically I am in the right-most lane. I was taught during drivers education that the left lane is for passing and that you should move back over to the right-most lane whenever possible, especially if you’re a “slow moving” vehicle.

But there are drivers who weave through traffic whenever they see an opening and those are the ones who appear to be angriest when they’re behind me in the right-most lane because they were impatient in the other lanes.
Speedy Web Compiler – a fast TypeScript/JavaScript compiler
> What happens when the screen needs to turn back on? Does it freeze for 1-3 seconds?

No, it takes around 200ms for it to turn back on.

> Shutting certain backlights to raise the contrast between the dark side of the screen and the lit side.

Ah, no, there are no sections in this one, the whole backlight turns off and on.
That's fair. If the question is "would I use Tailwind primarily for layouts and little else" then the answer would be "no". I would definitely use CSS variables along with grid or flexbox, because its essentially the same end with less complexity.

I would also point out that Tailwind only makes sense to me when I'm also breaking up each individual UI element like cards or buttons into reusable components, either using a reactive framework like React or Vue, or a server-side template system. I'm not sure the maintainability of Tailwind survives with more monolithic HTML pages.
We're allow-listing domains for any educational institutions that's not on our list. Thanks for sending that link, we'll take a look!
I don't think it's unique to them

"Here" (Eastern EU) almost all software people I know did change / are changing / strongly consider changing jobs

various experience level, various industries, various salary expectations.
It is embarrassing that developers [also designers and other creatives in gaming] are the core of any tech company, but very few companies actually value them accordingly. This is especially true in the gaming industry. Most companies start with great talent, but then more and more middle management comes in. Managers hire more managers so they can become senior managers. Non functional bloat starts coming in the form of sales, marketing, “strategy and ops” etc. Not saying they don’t add value, but they get hired and rewarded way more than the value they add and ultimately drown the company.
I think this has been debunked? Just look at Sweden as an counter example or Israel.

I believe it’s just the lack of massive capital and the power law of VC investments. Start 1000s companies with smart people and a tiny fraction will get insanely big.

We’re starting to see this in Europe too now.
Glad to be part of both, your life and this project's life. Together we prevail. LOL.
Couldn't agree more, disappointing to see this kind of crap here
It's also about about techies jumping jobs for more money, not just leaving the industry entirely. It is US-centric and not limited to tech.

https://www.recruiter.com/i/no-post-pandemic-the-great-job-e...

But I'd also say the common wisdom in US tech is to jump jobs every couple of years for a raise anyway, so losing 1/4 of engineers per year seems in line with expectations.
What really hurts the USA more than student debt is the explosion in University inefficiency, 1950-2020. My dad started a top-10 university professorship job in 1956 and there were 10 faculty for every admin person. Today it's f*cking 1:1. There is an explosion of centers of excellence and staff researchers and overhead people that contribute to the 5% annual inflation in college costs for the last 30 years.

If we would destroy all these leeches and bureaucratic red tape then we wouldn't need these student loans and the poor students wouldn't be so enslaved by our new form of 20Y indentured servitude - the useless college degree!
From a sibling thread:

EDIT: As far as I know, the best long-term answer here is for apps that present visuals full screen to "capture" the external display for exclusive use using an API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/14562...), but that's not super common right now.

Sounds like it's totally possible for the software to have full control over the output if it wants to, this only affects software that runs in a "standard" fullscreen mode without explicitly taking full control over the output.
In most graduate programs, grades are meaningless---what matters is that dissertation at the end.
> You heard me right: The official explanation on how to upgrade to Elementary OS 6 is to back up your stuff and do a full reinstall.

You're acting as if this is some kind of massive and unprecedented inconvenience, but this is Linux, where users routinely recommend to one another that they try a different distro to solve application problems. By comparison, what you brought up is pretty tame.
Is there a way to subscribe to comments? I'd love to see the result of this idea but am not savvy enough to spin it up myself very easily
The 3rd person view of this in my mind is hilarious.
My SO and I are pretty frugal. We both are "jeans and t-shirts" kind of people. I bulk buy t-shirts so they're like $3US each, for example. I do have a polo or two for occasions. We are both senior eng and we live on less than one income. We give away most of the other income because that brings us joy. Our home is paid for (as are our vehicles, etc - we are completely debt free), but we continue to pay a mortgage, car payment, etc. to ourselves so that we are constantly saving for the next one. This helps keep our spending in check because every single dollar has a job. We don't want for anything really because "stuff" just weighs us down; it's a burden. That being said, we aren't extreme. We both love to read, so we never deny ourselves the books we want to read. We love traveling, so we don't deny ourselves that either. But what we don't do is buy a Porsche because Ted down the road bought one. If that's how he wants to spend his money, that's his business, but we don't desire those things.
No it's not.
Enable by default. Provide a way to disable for those who need it, done.

It's just not apple's way to think users might want to do things differently.
I think they mean that devs are leaving companies in higher numbers, not leaving the industry as a whole.
I wonder what the hack-the-planet l0pht-era cypherpunks of the 90s would think of them, even the 'small core group of people quietly toiling away'. I bet they would think they were a bunch of moonboy sell-outs. Pardon the digression, but I just think it's such a shame that this hustle has co-oped a word that used to actually mean something to people.

edit: Partially containing my bile
Thank you! I did notice the regional discount, which I really appreciate (not sure if it's based on PPPs, but it's refreshing to see from LatAm).
Getting stuck behind a string of these is an exercise in patience.
At this point one of our few chances is the investigation in the House being done well and the media reporting it well. Neither one is a given, I'm especially pessimistic about the latter.
> Given my mental model of centralization vs. decentralization, I think it's more productive to think about the boundary: how much decentralization do we need? If there's too little, then software will stagnate from lack of competition; if there's too much, then it'll stagnate from lack of coordination. So we want to figure out where the sweet spot is.

This is a static view. A dynamic view would recognize that systems have a lifetime and tend to go through centralize and then disintegrate. Decentralization often exists prior to centralization. Catch systems on the rise.
I'm a new supervisor and my direct reports are workaholics
Maybe it is meant to be more people changing companies now? I don't see people leaving IT industry either.
If a governance councils acceptance is required it defeats the purpose of a DAO to begin with
I am unaware of any definition of the phrase "public service" which requires physical fitness or masculinity. We are not talking about military service here.

The dictionary definition I pulled up quickly is:

1. Employment within a governmental system
2. A service performed for the benefit of the public

I cannot imagine how #2 could be any more inclusive than it already is.
If anything, the current definition is overbroad, to where almost anything could be spun as public service.
I just recently saw someone posting on LinkedIn that 500k for a Senior Engineer role was too low.

Half a fucking million.

All good European engineers are leaving to USA. And I would too.
How are plastics different than other un-metabolizeable (?) substances (dirt) that organisms have been accidentally ingesting since time immemorial?

Some are probably toxic, but so are naturally occurring heavy metals, etc.
There’s lots of projects on Gitcoin that you can apply for that pay well but because of their design it’s a race to finish, which I don’t really enjoy. Compensation-wise, crypto as a domain pays very competitively! The DAO work was pretty good - fixed rate, fixed scope, normally bite sized chunks like adding an api endpoint to an open source project :)
I dunno, theme of the thread seems to be pretty unanimous.
So how is your current project different?

It feels like you're jumping on trends when they have existed for years already without bringing anything new to the table. That'll never get you anywhere.
Not unclear or impolite at all. I appreciate the thoughtful response.

> What makes plastic something with a negative potential?

The human perception of it (bad aesthetics and contamination of water being the most concerning).

> I don't really see any advantage of introducing additional beings

I'm not positing God as a being nor a question of what's advantageous. It's an admission that we can't explain everything and the hole is God-shaped (again, IMO). We can observe quite a bit and form hypotheses/conclusions, but we can't go produce a perfect copy of Earth—we don't know how. Our best solution to a "backup Earth" at this point is to terraform Mars which is just manipulating an existing reality we didn't create. My general point being: something of superior intelligence had to produce the reality we're living in (irrespective of the form that intelligence takes).
I'd say the section of the Constitution defining the structure of the Senate is pretty high up there. Or perhaps the laws that define most Congressional elections as First-past-the-post method instead of something failing fewer voting system criteria.

But, headlines have to catch attention, even if it's a boldly foolish and false claim on its face.
I've been using Elementary OS since 0.3 as my main OS at work (Higher Education IT) and it's my favorite distro. The lack of Ayatana indicators is annoying, but overall, the polish and look/feel of their desktop environment is really nice and has only gotten better with each version.
Please do not cross into personal attack on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's really no point. A few high sensitivity assets are lower resolution, but any state actor that wants very high resolution shots of military facilities already has it and on a quicker update cadence than google maps allows.
I agree the stock market has positive skew but in your career you will have enough bets to smooth out the effects of betting on a single stock. Additionally, you're not really making the same bet as an equity investor because your bet has optionality. Your downside is capped at less than a year in loss earnings because if the stock goes down and the company cannot bring you back up to market rate you just switch companies. If the stock goes up, you enjoy 4 years of above market compensation before getting reset to market rate.
As a long time Linux user, theming was always a sore point. It never was point and click, some programs would theme partially, or none at all. I'd welcome theme abolishing in Gnome, to offer a boring but predictable experience to casual users.

I currently used KDE btw, because I like customization, but I would install a boring but predictable Gnome for casual users that want to try Linux.
It's purposely missing. Crypto proponents believe they can use the technology to change the world without any coordinated human interaction. It is a political movement with no politics.
Poor people.
Congrats on your launch. Have you taken any steps to help app developers using this tool make their apps accessible with a screen reader, e.g. prompting them to add text labels to image buttons?
I'm not being combative and you're (I'm guessing purposely) leaving out parts of my statements to try and argue a point I've never made. I know my experience isn't universal but, by definition, if people are saying that a dot in the corner of the display makes their setup "unusable" then their setup has always been unusable because the OS has access to put things on their display at any time.

If the computers came from the clients, then the clients didn't care whether something might pop-up on accident. There's literally no way for someone on the production side to prevent that with a computer that they don't know the ins-and-outs of so it cannot be an issue so that's not the type of situation that I'm talking about.

I'm only talking about the people who are saying that this dot makes a Macbook "unusable" for the purpose of display. That's 100% not true and anyone that needs that level of precision, as a professional, uses dedicated I/O hardware to keep exactly that from happening.