skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, learning (imitating?) how not to imitate from a listicle that itself cites advice from a compendium of books and sources.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Seemingly it's easy to reach the middle class, or even upgrade into upper middle class (assuming you started with middle class parents). But then there's this big gap.

And people in the middle are squeezed from the both sides.
You’re floating on a boat in the ocean. Do you want to be in a boat that is sinking, and requires you to bail water every day, or one that is naturally buoyant?

“Oh, if you don’t have to bail water to keep from drowning you’ll just sit there in the ocean not doing anything.”

No. You can go where you want, without worry.

“But I like bailing water, it gives me purpose, I want to do this forever!”

That’s nice, I like fixing leaks, just in case.
> I don’t believe that the Netherlands has inherited these ideas from the USA. In fact, NL invented capitalism and stock markets.

Of course, I'm aware that NL invented stock markets and pioneered a lot of ideas behind modern capitalism. That wasn't where I was going with it.

Not to turn this into some weird anti-pissing contest of "my country is worse than yours," but, if you look at the numbers, the US fares worse than NL on:

Gini coefficient [0]: US 41.4 vs NL 28.1

Global social mobility index [1]: US 70.4 vs NL 82.4

Human development index [2]: US 0.92 vs NL 0.944

Now, I don't think capitalism is the best system for maximizing any of the above, but, if you look at the tables, it's pretty clear that the Nordic model of capitalism is basically as good as capitalism gets. When you look at some of the things that go into these indices, other than stuff like "GDP per capita," it's pretty clear why: having a strong safety net and other social programs for workers makes people better off.

If nothing else, reducing the consequences of failure from "total personal and financial ruin" to something more manageable is more likely to encourage people to take chances that may or may not pay off. That's what economic freedom really is. That's also the part of capitalism the US didn't pick up, so, that's what I was getting at when I was saying that the US invented those issues. Again, not to get into an anti-pissing contest, but, that's why the US recently got compared to Jurassic Park [3] on here. I don't see anybody comparing NL to a land where dinosaurs will eat you if you're not always vigilant.

> Every Dutchie I speak to about the inequality here, loves comparing themselves to the USA memes. It’s that whataboutism and the ignorance that bothers me.

I'm not sure what you mean here, but I'd like to know. Are you just saying that people you talk to are saying what I said, but without the facts and figures?

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[0]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coef...

[1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/social-mo...

[2]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-co...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29656668
Just quick perspective check: Facebook and Google are high bars to set for yourself. With some hyperbole we could say that’s like saying you’ve been paying the guitar for 40 years but neither the Beatles nor Stones would hire you.
You could have a great and lucrative career playing guitar for, like, the Pretenders or something.
Vermont outlawed billboards decades ago. It’s already happened.
Consumer reports rankings:
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/consumer-reports-lexus-makes-th...
5G is under 3GPP release 17 now [1] which includes many new features than 4G as release 8 [2]. 5G is much more than just changes in speed.

[1] https://www.3gpp.org/release-17

[2] https://www.3gpp.org/technologies/keywords-acronyms/98-lte
A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages
I am the opposite - I can crank out work in the morning, but not so much after lunch. So I embrace it - I do deep work in the morning, and encourage meetings after lunch. I likewise encourage my team to figure out when they are effective, and work the hours that are best for them.

I'd encourage the same thing for you -- stop trying so hard to make mornings happen. Live your own life in the mornings, then work the hours that are best for you. Especially with WFH, why force yourself into someone else's schedule. Communicate with your team, pick some good meetings time where you'll all be available, and work whenever you like.
Based on a quick scan, none of these studies back up the OP's claim. All these studies show is that long covid exists, but nobody disputes that.
A portable idris2 implementation of TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 protocol
The engine on a $120k car also costs north of $20k to replace with an new OEM engine. The battery in a $30k EV costs a lot less than $20k to replace.
> 5G covers what 4G does as well IIRC. The really high frequency stuff is only what makes the news.

Right, right, the really high frequency stuff is what we're talking about. It's confusing that they stick so many things under the same label. The parts of "5G" that are just 4G with better radios and algorithms are useful but also not so contentious. But for that you wouldn't need more towers at closer intervals.

> Also the advantage of 5G as far as I'm concerned is being able to connect things (possibly in a mesh?)

And now we're talking about a third thing.

It could actually be quite useful to open up more unlicensed spectrum for things like this -- if nothing else so we could get better Wi-Fi to hook up to the fiber.

But that's a different thing than having Verizon install a cellular tower on the end of every street corner for high frequency cellular 5G and then not having them come the rest of the way with the fiber into your house, which still seems like some kind of a bad joke.
React is not only 5.3kb because that’s not the only piece you will need to actually use it. Check out the bundle of CRA for a real-world example.

I agree with the general sentiment though. I think the issue is that it’s easy to just import the whole npm registry in a bundle and ship it — and it’s too hard to trim it down.

For you a 2MB bundle is ok, but for me it’s taking 30 seconds to open this site and I’m standing here. That’s not ok.

Frameworks like Next.js provide a sane base for this; Most others don’t.
2. Worked in electronics. Been in, and out of Shenzhen since 2009
People don't get climate period.

I was rather surprised to find out that my parents get a snow storm every year in late February or early March that dumps 1-3 inches of snow that takes several days to melt. They live not 40 minutes from La Jolla, a city in Southern California known for year round perfect weather.

They're barely at 3,000 feet elevation and as far as I know, the snow line in the Sierra Nevada mountains, even further north, is over twice that [1]. The nearest town a few miles away and a few hundred feet lower receives no snow whatsoever so we've been completely puzzled by the phenomenon. The funny thing is, I can't find any information about it online - it seems to be a very localized phenomenon in a sparsely populated exurban neighborhood and the locals just shrug about it.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/11/899/html
"To learn more about [anti-memetic counter-culture] my website and be notified when we release new content sign up here."

OK.

I'm going with Mark Fisher on this one. This is absolutely generic and unoriginal cut-and-paste Californian lifestyle advice trying to package itself as something deeper - which is something generic and unoriginal Californian lifestyle advice always does, as part of its own branding™.

But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?

I'm pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn't be part of it.

But what would?
What initial data?
Exactly. Technocrats are just oligarchs branding themselves as smarter than everybody else.
When the RIAA (and by extension music streaming services) went after youtube-dl I decided to orchestrate my media consumption a lot differently. I started to collect tapes and cds again. Same goes for movies.

My rational is that David Bowie isn't collecting those streaming royalties anyway and his estate is getting 0.0005 cents per play so isn't it better to own a physical copy and not line the pockets of lawyers who think they can go around dictating FOSS projects?

Honestly it's kind of fun too. Ripping your collection to FLAC and setting up a samba share is a nice Sunday afternoon project.

The writing is on the wall, this will only get worse.
This is YouTube's PR piece to explain away the change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI
All sense of meaning, purpose, and satisfaction stems from our own minds. I found deep meaning and purpose in being a busboy and sometimes I still miss it. I had a friend and coworker who felt the same way. I had other coworkers who hated the job and just did it to earn some money (often, but not always, for college).

It's easy to understand why someone might feel a strong sense of meaning and purpose if they win an Olympic gold; but they could also be miserable and generally dissatisfied with life.

Any prejudice we have about how someone should feel if they are doing a particular job is just our own interpretation of how we would feel doing the job; but there isn't anything inherent in any of these jobs that gives meaning or purpose. (I also think people confuse being satisfied with the perks of a job—say fame or fortune—with meaning and purpose and satisfaction with the job itself.)
As an African I have always wondered how Sub Saharan Africa got left so far behind in terms of technology. One of my lay mans theories based on listening to older folk and the new maps showing just how big Africa is compared to other continents[1]. You can fit the US, Asia and most of Europe into Africa. Listening to older folk there were lots of migrations. If you had dispute with someone you just took your people and went off to find another spot to live. I theorize that we largely avoided wars therefore there was no need to innovate. Off course there are other things at play but I agree with you when you have to fight to survive in wars you put aside your differences as a country and you get to see true innovation. Its my theory.

[1]https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-true-size-of-africa/
>There is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.

That's such a useless statement that even were it true, it proves the parent's point. That moral judgement doesn't lead us closer to a world without capitalism. Go to any haven of anti-capitalism and ask for a link to the manual they have for getting from HERE to THERE. Not even a theory on how to dismantle what we have.

FWIW personally I think capitalism is the worst system, other than all the others. Rein it in, set principles in stone for what we expect and demand from our system, but markets shouldn't magically disappear because we've lost control once.
I'd guess it's somehow related to their "sudo mode": https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
As Prices Rise, Biden Turns to Antitrust Enforcers
Just parlay your law stuff into some cushy lawtech gig.
It's not that I'm trying to come up with a novel design, I already have.

I've spoken with many plasma physicists about the idea. Some actually look at it without dismissing it. The ones that understand it all say that it's either beyond their expertise, or that it needs more study, but so far nobody else seems to want to study it.

Where does that leave me? Building it myself without much outside help. I've simulated it to my satisfaction, I've been issued a patent on it, and I'm currently buying parts to build a prototype.

It's honestly a bit of a curse. I wish someone would really help me put a nail in its coffin, but as long as it has a possibility of working I have to be the advocate for it. The cost to humanity of losing a viable fusion reactor are too high for me to give up on it.

My gut feeling is that NOBODY has a reactor that really works yet. Many of these efforts might be in the same boat I am, but keep up a better exterior.

As they used to say, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", well my current feeling is that tokamaks are the IBM of fusion. They're a crutch for people who are after easy money working on something safe.
You’d think so, but that’s already happening — taxes will be used and already are used, to subsidize water. Everyone is already paying more, but it’s not a direct correlation. This is part of the issues related to subsidizing resources.

Further, only a few companies and families control the water rights. Many of those farmers purchased the water rights and water once used returns to the soil in many cases (plus evaporation, but that’s being reduced constantly with improved irrigation)
Most people can't afford that shit anyway yet they still manage to experience life.
Well, ultimately it's about the advice here. If someone asks you how to achieve financial independence and you tell them to just make half a mil working at FAANG, your advice is going to get filed under the "no shit" folder. I also don't quite follow how the author claims to have achieved financial independence while relying on a $600K/yr salary from Amazon. This isn't the type of content folks usually expect. I think for most people it'll be about using their salaries to their potential via smart investing and compounding, while focusing their free time on generating alternative streams of income which will supplement their existing salary. I think this is the foundation of most "financial independence" stories. With that said, I do think that the article is very inspirational to most engineers on here. I'm a fellow immigrant who has achieved a bit in my life in the US, but not nearly as much in terms of salary. I'm still grateful and very content knowing that the ceiling is as high as I pretty much want it to be.
you can find many such articles on the talk page at htmx:

https://htmx.org/talk

in this article we respond to specific criticisms of MPAs in terms of htmx, as it is a response to Mr Harris's talk
> ... Everyone starts driving giant vehicles. That should get our energy consumption up enough for Type 1.

That sounds like optimizing for KPI to me, in which case we'll be doing it wrong.

The only way to arrive there naturally is to have more efficient ways of generating energy (fusion, renewable, etc).

> ... advanced civilization may decide not to use all the energy it theoretically could

Energy generation & consumption (which are both tied to future prices, etc) always appear to be a game-theoretical optimization at geopolitcal and social-economical scales. Even in the current days (eg gazprom, nato, etc.)

When we reach Type 1, we would have greatly reduced the cost of energy (resource-cost and enviromental-impact wise) and global economy will become more intervined and convoluted. The social-cultural implication would be fascinating too. Many existing status quos will crumble as the cost-to-transform skyrockets [1]. (Also: eg perhaps that's when crypto finally makes sense and become stable?)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28331939
Just fix your mind on another Maria who isn't here, and tell the truth about her.
Hopefully culture will evolve so that this aggressive mind violence will be as evident as physical violence.
You're right: they're perfectly fine. This whole thing is FUD from someone... just not sure who yet. My understanding is this band has been used for Europe for a few years already.
Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

John Carreyrou the journalist first to break the scandal of the blood-testing company Theranos, podcast covering the trial of CEO Elizabeth Holmes.

https://www.threeuncannyfour.com/show/bad-blood/

Hanselminutes

Scott Hanselman's podcast has many interesting guests covering a myriad of subjects.

https://hanselminutes.com/
> even though the email didn't leave their network at all.

FYI gmail treats all of its children equally. Mail from one Google user to another is subject to the exact same treatment as mail received via SMTP (and, indeed, Gmail sends traffic to itself over SMTP). If you study the headers of messages in Gmail, you can form a picture of how they allocate and use the virtual IPs.
Vocation is your own sense of purpose, you don't need to be the best at X to have X as vocation at all. What you need is that you can contribute something special to X, and anyone that dedicates their working life to some purpose definitely can.
It unfortunately does not describe how long the surveyed people were unemployed for which would be interesting to know. Thanks for the relevant link & data.
Not to mention vastly higher power consumption.

In an age of increased awareness around climate change, it's fairly mind-boggling that 5G is being pushed so hard, given the questionable value of the benefits it brings.
What's a good way to monitor a self-hosted mail server? I can easily set up uptimerobot.com or similar and get alerted if my website fails, whether it's a DNS, IP, firewall, nginx, TLS^, application, or database issue. Is there a way to check my mail server and get alerted if it is not accepting emails for some reason?

^: uptimerobot.com specifically doesn't warn you if your site works but is using an expired certificate, be careful there
Threats are prosecuted as intent to commit another crime, not ‘u said a naughty word.’ That’s why slogans such as “kill all men” would never lead to legal conviction in the US (they might in the UK!)

More importantly, the laws in this article are not about threats. Myself nor any freedom of conscious supporters I know of would claim verbal intent to commit a crime should be protected from legal consequence.

So unless you can name any, this is not only off topic but also a straw man.
Better: Just don’t get legally married and don’t live in a common law state. Prenups aren’t enforceable. Judges can throw them out and ignore them whenever they feel. I don’t plan to ever get married due to these factors.

Another option for the drugs thing is to never do drugs or drink alcohol. I haven’t ever done any and I’ve managed to avoid addiction my entire life. I still have fun - I am actually considered the fun and lively person of many friend groups.
It's a faulty analogy. VHS/Betamax was important because we don't want two popular formats for distributing consumer content.

Any team can choose Kubernetes, VMs, serverless or what-have-you without much trouble. We don't want to have competing solutions that solve the same more narrow deployment goals. Kubernetes is winning its area, so in a way Kubernetes is Betamax as it was superior to VHS technically.
TFW Patents are literally supposed to be there so you put out the blueprints but get protections for it.

Secret patents are an overreach of IP laws.
The churn rate of current software development practice is quite rapid. When you took several years off, you "fell out of the job market". In effect, you need to reboot your skill & tool set to make current.

In addition, you must reboot your interviewing skills. I've been a professional software interviewer (600+ interviews) and have seen most very experienced software developers do quite poorly during interviews. The interview skills required for FAANG-like companies and startups alike are very different from the skills required to work as a typical software engineer.

The interview is the gateway to getting the job. As such, good or great interview skills (i.e. algorithms, data structures, time & space complexity) are a pre-requisite to getting a job.

I hope that the above advice is useful and helpful.
The Battle for Wesnoth

https://www.wesnoth.org/

> The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

> Explore the world of Wesnoth and take part in its many adventures! Embark on a desperate quest to reclaim your rightful throne... Flee the Lich Lords to a new home across the sea... Delve into the darkest depths of the earth to craft a jewel of fire itself... Defend your kingdom against the ravaging hordes of a foul necromancer... Or lead a straggly band of survivors across the blazing sands to confront an unseen evil.

> The choice is up to you...
I agree as well.

SPAs might be the right approach for specific applications that are actually applications (e.g. text editors, Jupyter notebooks, chat and other web apps) but more generally the web is designed from the ground up to work well with separate pages representing separate resources.
Ad based services have empowered the poor at the expense of the rich who would gladly pay more to hide ads where the poor gladly trade ads for free or reduced price services.

If getting rid of ads means the poor will be worse off why do so many well intentioned people support this position?
It's not like the other side is without fault. Why criticize "5G" when you want to criticize a specific vendor of networking equipment and the problem has nothing to do with 5G itself?
Did they confirm the offer _during_ your interview?

If yes, then it was a dick move and you definitely dodged a bullet.

I'm asking because I know of some cases where the salary range was listed in the job posting, but after talking to the candidate, the company decided to offer them a number that was below the lower bound, saying that the level of the candidate not enough compared to what they had in mind when they were posting the job.
There are tons of scams online these days, and I love exposing them.

Please keep up the great work. That is a very worthy battle and will save people a lot of frustration and money.

I plan to get 3 of the Hysolis portable units. Last I checked they didn't have the external battery available as an option yet so I've been holding out. I'm also hoping they have custom shipping options because Amazon uses UPS and they track snow into their trucks which isn't great for electronics. That inverter is heavy so it will be on the floor of the truck for sure.
He's at Amazon, so the base salary doesn't exceed 185k (and probably 160k).
0-5 days per year
I started with Mandrake and Red Hat, moved to Slackware, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mint, and landed on Fedora about 12 years ago. That's my "solid, no-frets, no-hassle, Linux OS". But a lot of people want Ubuntu, Arch, or one of their variants, because they solve some problem that the user perceives, better than one of the other distros.

The variety of choice that we have available is one of the greatest strengths of OSes built around the Linux kernel.
+1 on this. Code some project on a pro bono basis using the latest tech, then use that as your ticket.
my food stop are at trees (persimmons, oranges), and yea cycling so enjoyable when there's no traffic
Which Dostoevsky book?
I just came back home to Europe after a month long stay in a village in Africa, I was baffled by how oppressing the amount of advertisement is in Western cities. It's the first thing I noticed when I got back. It never really occurred to me before that, but now I see it everywhere and it's sickening. Especially most of it is for low-quality/unhealthy products. I developed a particular hate for attention grabbing digital advertising displays.

The anti-billboard movement, adopted by a few cities such as Geneva[0], is a good step towards less visual pollution.

[0] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/directdemocracy/geneva-z%C3%A9r...
The odds of the emails going through AWS, GCE, or Azure infrastructure in one form or another is probably pretty damn high even if you host your own SMTP service.
The Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) Game
Computers Doing the Right Thing
Right, and the presence of H1Bs in a company serves as a threat to the regular workers, so it pays off even in secondary subservience.