skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pandemic has changed a lot about life, doors that were previously shut are now open. People's previous lifestyles have gone away and in some cases are not coming back. Many doors have been opened through remote work that were previously closed. For both good and bad, social pressure has been removed for most activities as both a motivator and a detterent.

This leaves many open questions around what one is intrinsicly motivated to do.
In fact, there is a lot of money in supplements, lots of which aren’t FDA regulated to even work.
There's Affinity [0] which is competition for Adobe. No Linux client though.

[0]: https://affinity.serif.com/
I used to feel mostly the same about all programming languages out there, all I could see was flaws. Then I started designing my own languages and was forced to admit that flaws are inevitable, and every time you start over again trying to fix them new ones emerge as a consequence of the changes. Better to appreciate the strengths of each language.

The same mindset can be applied to anything including other people; no one is perfect, better to appreciate the aspects you like. That doesn't mean allowing others to treat you badly, just not focusing on imperfections.

And once you do, magic happens, because you will automatically stop focusing on your own imperfections as well which is a much nicer way to live. That doesn't mean stop improving, just not beating yourself up for being what you are.
I’m picking out two statements that seem questionable. The rest of what you say, I am in agreement with.

> Tesla does not have a special advantage over other car makers.

This seems like the least accurate of your statements. Tesla has a very different engineering culture to other car makers and a very different outlook on what it is trying to achieve. Culture is impossible to replicate.

This is very similar to the advantage Apple had in early 2000s, and is very real.

> Historically innovation has almost always come from small companies.

Does it? What makes you say this? It’s hard to think of examples.
...even though the options are; I voted "yes" and "no"
"I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee" ©
To add to that you simply can’t escape physics…

A 200W solar panel with 20% conversion efficiency needs a 1000W of solar radiation hitting it to produce that much, most of it would be converted into heat, that’s roughly the average for an area just under 1 sq/m in size.

Thermals are a big problem for solar panels and I’m not sure how that would work with thinner panels.

I also don’t see how you’ll power a drone with solar panels regarding how much they weight the surface area seems not to be sufficient even if the panels would be 80-90% efficient.
As it is there is no effective privacy online without resorting to tor or vpn and even that is not 100% certain.

If people were invisible in real life do you think shoplifting and violent crimes would increase or decrease? Sometimes too much privacy is a bad thing.

Maybe laws that limited the radius online tracking in space and time would be effective at balancing privacy desires with transaction logging.
> Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor

That's unusually candid. Usually it's phrased as some variation of "Black, Latino, Native American, Indian, Pacific Islander, or other minoritized* group", to avoid the bluntness of "non-white".

*Since whites are already a minority in many US states, notably California [1], and are on track to become a minority in the US overall, "minority" is being phased out in favor of "minoritized", "historically marginalized", and other flexible descriptors that can be relied on to exclude whites.

[1] Non-Hispanic whites decreased from about 76.3 - 78% of the state's population in 1970 to 36.6%% in 2018. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
Not particularly thought-provoking or insightful.

Though it would be nice if IR/geopolitical thinkers finally incorporated (pun intended) corporations into their lenses.

The nation state fell into decline around the time the corporate trading companies came into being.

Digital technologies have simply side-stepped states "getting their fill" via tariffs, taxes, and such.

Supra-national organizations/NGOs "solve" international problems only in name. They're mostly there for the power-hungry to fill the power-vacuum in a new domain.

My disjointed thoughts.
I went through similar realizations and have had another:

- My intellect is isolating me, but it's not my fault and it also is not the fault of people around me. Not any more than it is either my fault or the average person's fault that I need a stepstool in my kitchen since it's not designed for me. (I'm quite short). Being very intelligent is like being very tall in that it's falling to one side of the distribution curve and human society/life is going to be designed for the average person. As shitty a measure as IQ is, having a 140 IQ is kind of like being 7 and a half feet tall: Nothing is wrong with you, but good luck.

Basically, that my intellect is isolating not because I am superior to the other apes, but because any personal characteristic that puts me on one end of the bell curve when it comes to experiences is going to be isolating. I also feel very isolated due to my homosexuality and my MS, and in some similar ways: They all involve experiences that influence me in foundational ways that most people cannot understand and never will.
This is pushing it as far as "talk", but more of a presentation.

The Ugly, Dangerous, and Inefficient Stroads found all over the US & Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ORzNZUeUHAM
It's becoming pretty standard to use UUIDs over integers now. That provides more architectural flexibility
It’s pretty easy to understand when you realize Americans don’t like eachother. If we liked living together we wouldn’t be so car centric, it’s not like the cars built the cities for us. And we keep getting worse. Small towns I drive through now are full of angry people who seem to want to be left alone. It’s incredibly sad.

We are a selfish and community-less people that enjoy the frontier and adventure more than quaint small towns where people have to get along.

There are advantages but in the long run I hate it. And yes I’ve lived everywhere in America. The few that like the more euro model have to pay a 10x premium to live in SF or NYC.
The exact opposite is as bad. Spend all the money for cars, entertainment and fun and your elderly days will be miserable. In addition to health and maybe movement problems you will have trouble to afford medicine, rent or an elderly care and you will be eating cheap junk food. Don't forget that average life expectancy is rising...
Many people are down in the dumps around the holidays and that's without the added stress of a pandemic.
> Lots of modern laptops don’t even properly support S3 sleep properly (looking at you dell) and want to be able to hibernate to save power.

"modern standby" is such a scam and shit show.

And completely opposite that, I was a bit shocked how aggressive modern macos (at least on M1 machines) are at hibernating, I have had to get used to `caffeinate` long-running process because on battery if that's not in use as soon as the screen turns off the machine stops doing anything, even with "low power mode" disabled.

I expect there's a pmset somewhere to change that (as there is an option in the UI when on power adapter), but with the battery life of the new devices I've kinda stopped plugging it in (even at my desk).
can't wait until I get a bill for $500 because my kid sent an e-mail to bill gates
Both yes and no.

These technologies undermine authority but strengthen authoritarianism.

It will bring trouble to authorities and consensus that are not very authoritarian (e.g:EU vs Brexit, the polarization of politics leading to populism, gridlock and inaction in some democratic countries, the increase in brain drain from less developed countries, etc).

But, OTOH, very authoritarian regimes are clearly very capable of taming the internet (e.g: Russia, China) and harnessing it for their own propaganda and control.
As somebody who got tricked into drinking way too much baijiu last night by a Beijinger I'm really enjoying this read so far. She had a lot of the same thoughts and observations. I find it all super fascinating.
considering that there are about 300 million native Bengali speaking people in the world (mostly in Bangladesh, and West Bengal which is a state in India).
Except that I already agreed with the article before you commented [0], so it isn't Whataboutism. (You clearly knew due to your own reply to my comment). [1] Somehow, you thought I brought up the subject, or didn't I just simply agree with the parent comment too?

Seems like you rushed to comment towards the wrong person.

> ...than cryptocurrencies which are a highly speculative.

How can a regulated stablecoin like USDP or USDC, or even CBDCs sitting on a cryptocurrency technology like XRPL or the Stellar Network etc. be 'highly speculative'?

I hope you haven't shown your 'bias' and targeted me, instead of the parent comment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759242

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759347
Yes, that is what the OP of the thread said, I've read it. Version numbers can be numbers if you want, and plan them to be. Which is the case here, its not a string fit into a 32 bit integer, its actually an integer. But they didn't think to check the max size which would only fit in an unsigned. Its an odd choice on their part, but certainly would have worked.
Kindred spirit discovery at scale

Imagine every human having a huge group of contacts who GET THEM exactly

Big data used not for targeted ads but for targeted social structure
> the rest of us also have the right to protect ourselves from them

How does your right to protect yourself lead to a right to exclude someone else from society?
If it's not a float or integer, it's a string.
> It's a productive activity [..]

It’s a profitable activity. There’s a difference there.
I read this and wondered who this fascinating person must be, what terribly interesting subjects they must be interested in, and was disappointed to discover it’s just ordinary business stuff.
This is great news. I think Vim9Script is an excellent language. Just the fact that it will help speedup existing scripts is going to been a boom for Vim usage and plugin development.
The article is behind a paywall and I have no clue how to bypass the WSJ paywall, printfrindly trick doesn't work. However, the video at the top, towards the end, is decent (first half till 2:00 is explaining dif between pub and priv cloud)
Pretty slick.

It extends the post[0] from a year-ish ago with read-only sqlite on a static server with a tiny backend that allows writes.

I am going to have to take a closer look at some point:

https://github.com/ansiwave/wavecore/search?q=sqlite

[0] https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
I'm working on a few projects, from one/two days to platforms.

The first is OS and is a simple nodeJS environment to deploy applications via lambda and express quickly. Sort of like nestJS except less decorators and more functional (https://vramework.io/). I already know of a few other colleagues that rolled their own propriety versions of this to support enterprise and cloud deployments so decided to OS it.

The other OS project is a strongly typed postgres/mysql driver. The idea is to generate typescript definitions directly from postgres (https://github.com/vramework/schemats) and then have a think layer ontop of pg-node that gives you strongly typed queries (https://github.com/vramework/postgres-typed).

An open-source project I spent a few years on the core team is https://deepstream.io/, a realtime-server that allows you to mix and match multiple streaming protocols (mqtt/websocket/others) and allow those clients to talk to each other using pub-sub and records. I'm not longer working for it but wanted to give it a shout out!

On a non OS project, I have been working on an immersive audio platform for a while now. The main goal is to allow users to pick and choose how audio books progress, and also have a live session mode which allows users to record their pulse / answer questions and a few other metrics and associate it with sentences. I pretty much built and deployed all of it but require some advice/brainstorming on how to proceed now. I built it to satisfy an itch when I was practicing shamanism during the first lockdown when I was in-between contracts / taking time off (enjamon.com)

I also want to build a simple web-pages strategy game based around eco-education, but don't have the bandwidth . If anyone is interested in mixing together gamification and eco-village building might be a fun conversion to bounce ideas!

All the OS projects above were used to support my personal/a couple professional projects over the last few years.

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So your theory is that sellers weren’t greedy before?
But there are rare software that model it (eg. GPS systems famously have to account for it) - so I think it is a textbook definition of a nitpick.
Advertising is a result of capital markets applied to search. That's why, as a consumer, you can't buy and use a search engine directly, unless you are a developer with a lot of extra time on your hands.

Without search, nothing can be found. With it, we still have to crawl things, somehow. Maybe with AI? :)

As for microtransactions, we technically have a way to pay with Bitcoin using Lightning and 402 responses: https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture
Most tripcodes on 4chan are relatively recognizable, since they are combined with the names: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard
I was told that the Nvidia Tesla cards are easier to buy.
I wrote a toy Ada compiler for my master's thesis. It's a very fun language. I miss using it. I was attracted to Python because of exception handling which I learned from Ada.
isnt working with integers generally faster than working with strings? that might be why some ppl store phone numbers and zip codes as int
Effort and luck of circumstance are both on a spectrum. It's rare to become wealthy simply with extremes of either diligence or luck.

Regardless, the unlucky can generally do better by being diligent versus not being diligent. It's the part you can control.
As a Missourian, it's honestly embarrassing and increases my distaste for the land where I grew up and still live.
This very much depends on the protocol. Microsoft loves XML and and if the update package has an XML manifest with update information attached to it, it's very well a string that gets serialized to a number. The same applies to JSON and other text-based formats.
No reason you should use it. But your characterization of the general content is unfair.

There are millions of positive, thoughtful people using it for things other than "being awful". I follow a bunch of people in the ADHD and autism communities and get a ton out of hearing what their lives are like and how they're dealing with things. I also follow a bunch of academics so I get to hear a lot about niche topics from people who are world-class experts.

Twitter will show you whatever it thinks you want. If you follow a lot of awful people and engage with a lot of awful stuff, it will make sure you get plenty of it. But if you switch to the "latest tweets" view and are careful about who you follow, you can get a lot out of it.

Also, as somebody who used to have severe self esteem issues, I really encourage you to find a therapist you like and respect to work on that. They, plus the underlying issues, can make almost anything unenjoyable. As long as we have biases toward seeing ourselves negatively, anything that invites us to be ourselves will feel negative.

Edit: Fresh from the top of my timeline, here's an example of the sort of positive niche content from the ADHD/autism communities, a discussion of experiences with medications for ADHD: https://twitter.com/HolSmale/status/1477308561256558595
As of the last time I checked (6 mos. ago) there is still no supported managemenrt solution for Exchange Online without local Exchange if you migrated to Exchange Online via a hybrid migration.

Some people just modify AD attributes directly to get around having an on-prem Exchange install but that's not officially supported.
It may fit some older definition of "social media," but the definition that it would fit as "social media" is so broad as to cover most of the internet anymore, including blogs with comment sections and forums.

The line I draw, personally, to distinguish "harmful social media" from the rest of the web, is per-user algorithmic feeds optimized, by default, for "engagement." That's the mark of a surveillance capitalism extraction beast, and that sort of thing is well demonstrated to be absolute poison to humans.

Hacker News (and to an extent reddit, though they're trying to get away from this as far as I can tell, and the algorithmic front page certainly doesn't qualify) have a single consistent "global state." If I'm logged in to HN, I see the same global state as other people do, and as a logged out user sees (subject to a few tweaks like seeing dead/flagged content, which I can't do logged out - but again, I believe everyone with that setting turned on sees the same thing).

It's not trying to reorder the front page to engage me - it's simply a global state that can be modified by the bulk aggregate of user interaction, or moderator interaction, and that's reflected to all users.

It also lacks the "bottomless bowl" endless scrolling style interface that encourages endless scrolling looking for something interesting. You can see other pages, but the standard view is top 30, and then you have to take a concrete action to see other stuff, not just scroll. It encourages a quick skim of the top stuff to see what's interesting, and then going to do something else because it's not going to change that rapidly. In terms of UI design, that's quite respectful to user attention, and is consistent with "HN tries to be useful, not to extract all the behavioral surplus it possibly can from as many users as possible." It is what it is, take it or leave it.

The upvote/downvote system is prone to some harms, but HN tries to avoid most of that by keeping the vote views invisible to everyone else - you have to evaluate the comments by their text, not by what other people think of them (though the more insightful stuff tends to filter to the top, as it should). I would like an option to hide your own responses in the settings (similar to the "I need to work" delay option), but there's a small Chrome extension that does that - Hacker News Demetricifier or something along those lines.

So while you can argue that it's "social media" by some definition, it's absolutely nowhere near the same design or motivations as the human-toxic systems we also call "social media." YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter being the worst. I understand TikTok is pretty bad as well, but I'm not in any way familiar with that system.
It must be frustrating to propose a bunch of ideas, cultivate and advocate for them, only to never see them acknowledged or accepted by the standards committee over the course of years.

That being said - let's get real about this. Simply coming up with a bunch of ideas for improvements is not enough. Neither is being vocal about it on Twitter, or giving talks at a convention. Gaining the community's support and acknowledgment is key here.

That you feel something is an "improvement" doesn't mean others see it that way. Same for "faults" and "imperfections". This isn't the community's fault, or Bjarne's.

This is the reality of working in a team. On a language used by millions of engineers around the world, which powers every facet of our modern society.
It is easy to get lost in the woods of it. Economist and BBC and other UK based journals do a bad job of addressing south asian topics as they think they understand and they don't .

The point and problem is not any <community> specifically . All the communities exhibit clanish closed minded discriminatory mentality

You mention Farsi companies and as a group of people. Even into 21st century TATA went with family and Farsi first with Cyrus Mistry(6th generation!) before finally going to professional management. Every Farsi and other family lead companies in other communities are all like this. Very few indian companies are professionally managed.

It is just not in work either As a group farsi people are extremely closed and really like to only marry internally even Gujarati jains who perhaps are closest have hard time intermarrying.

Almost every community in India does this a lot and that is discriminatory and bad.

It should not matter what color my skin is, what my surname is, or who my great grandfather was.
I still prefer kakoune, and using sh as scripting language for it's simplicity.
This is not a breaking change. Everything that works on Vim8 script will continue to work. The new scripting language will provide extensions that you can use to get better speed.

> I would have loved for Vim to also adopt Lua

Vim has supported Lua for a long time. Anyone who wants to really use Lua for Vim plugins already has the option of doing so.
Vulkan is terrible to get started with. It's not so much a learning curve as a learning electric fence.

DirectX11 was a remarkably friendly API to learn.
Semi-relevant: "Practical time machines" (ironically, written by MS engineer from another department)

https://textslashplain.com/2021/10/01/practical-time-machine...
> The central government has delineated around a hundred million people to each of these megaregions and charged them to drive future growth.

Can someone explain what this means? What does this governmental "charge" look like? Is it just a zoning thing, or is it more personal?
I’d you’re using Google’s public timeservers you’re also using leap second smearing.

https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Thanks for creating this. I'm not sure its going to work for my purposes but I like that you can add custom properties (Structured Data) to tasks. Ill install it and check it out. I have been looking for something to replace my todo list app "Alarmed" which is on the IOS but has not been updated in awhile and concerned with it be abandonware soon. The think I need most is group tasks into specific catagories and setting recurring reminders for my list of to-dos as I constantly need to be continuously reminded if tasks.
Thinking slowly and only in a simple way.
I have met brilliant people who do crazy things due to strange behavior patterns and emotional problem but that's different to being dumb.
I want to demonstrate the advantages of capability based security in actual examples that people can use. I'd like to have one as my daily driver.

I'm willing to commit to reading and constructively commenting on projects in this thread.
The 2nd link has later data. Housing is an arbitrary metric (home ownership is only one aspect of class; it's very us specific - renting is far more normalized in other places; there may be unrelated shifts towards renting, e.g. for millennials supposedly leaving suburbs for the cities), and even with that the article doesn't even quantity a problem - it just points at some expensive cities, and some potential issues, while showing median income is still easily enough to buy a median house, etc. There's no metric according to which middle class is becoming poorer over any reasonable term in it.

And any very recent change was probably caused by pandemic and reaction to it, not a part of some trend.. to revert it, we should stop doing what we were doing for the past year or two :)

Btw iirc price to income ratio in the us is also one of the lowest in developed countries, or on par.

Long term, I think the thinning middle class narrative is closer to being merely humanities grads complaining that they cannot afford to live in NYC and SF, than to any real issue ;)
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