skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> essentially nothing has happened since 1992.

Oh yeah, the web changed nothing. /s

> No major nation has had a revolution.

You are disrespecting Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine, Turkey... and of course Yugoslavia, which started breaking up in 1991 (Fukuyama started his ramblings in 1989) and didn't end until 2001 - if you can consider the current fragile peace an end, which it really isn't. Plus, most South American countries continue to "tweak" their constitutions every few years, one way or the other. And if you go to Africa, well, have I got news for you...

> There have been no major wars between nation-states.

The US literally invaded and occupied two sovereign countries since then, in both cases continuing major operations for more than a decade. But if we consider "nation-states" only Western states or superpowers, there has been no such war in the 30 years before 1992 either. That's because conventional "top-quality" nation-state conflicts have been made impractical by nuclear weapons and MAD, well before 1992. What we have now is asymmetrical warfare (superpower vs minnow) or proxy warfare. That doesn't mean these conflicts don't make history or don't change things significantly - they very much do.

> No ideologies of note have arisen or been cast down.

The techno-utopianism that the internet generated is an ideology in itself, and the backlash has only just started. Same for conspiracy-theorism as a way of life, climate change, identity politics... just because they don't make people wear the same shirt and march in the streets, it doesn't mean they are not deeply-ideological movements. You can argue that they were "invented" before 1992, but 1) inevitably these things take time, 2) they didn't really have that much traction until the '00s.

> Nothing historical has happened

That's such a sheltered viewpoint. I'm sure quite a few people in Yemen, Syria, Venezuela, Brazil, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Ukraine, Tunisia, Lybia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Rwanda, Sudan, Chad, Congo, Somalia, Algeria, Liberia, Mali, etc etc, would have something to say.

History is very much grinding all around us, it's just a question of whether we actually want to look at it or we'd rather pretend it didn't exist.
On the joy of seeing people succeed
I'm noticing a sad trend recently.

* This article is one instance.

* Within the past 24 hours there was a Hacker News submission "Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29928873 )

* Combine this with the sudden appearance of subreddit "Antiwork".

Are people depressed or anxious because of covid, or what's wrong?

Trying to be a better person every day, in combination with the wonder of creativity and building, is what made the internet interesting in the early days. Who are these people who are turning communities into sad opposites of these values?
Do you have examples of Graph DBs that could embedded in a static site as easily as SQLite?
Well, that was a nice read. Now I'm going to go cook lunch on the woodstove. To me, not everything is about safety and health; some things are about what my family likes. We like to work together cutting wood and stacking it for the winter. We like the feel of wood heat. My kids are proud that they can cook on an appliance most people never even attempt. We like the feeling of a tie to the past, that we're doing tasks our great-great grandparents would recognize.

I think we as a society are over-prioritizing personal safety. I cringe whenever a business sends me a notification saying, "Your safety is our #1 priority!" and proceeds to explain why I won't be allowed to do yet another thing I am accustomed to do. My safety isn't my #1 priority, and I certainly don't want the companies I do business with to decide how safe I have to be. I'd rather live the way I want to live, and I'm not really bothered if my happiness cuts ten years off my life; I'd prefer seventy years of living to eighty years of not dying.
that will always be the case for anything off chain. the question is do oracles and well constructed systems provide better data than what we have access to today
The root cause is an open argument but I think one of the causes is that you get a demonstrably lower quality of employee because the pay can't be negotiated, and it's pegged so far below market it's insulting. The salary you mentioned is half that of the median developer salary in the US. If you can get into FAANG as a new grad you're looking at 1.5-2x the median. I'm not super familiar with UW's scaling system but I have to go to what appears to be the top level (ES10?) to get anything approaching a reasonable salary, and it's still less than entry level FAANG.

I used to contract for state government. They used contractors for all the "real development" because the developers on state payroll making $40k/yr were wholly unqualified to write any code. So they paid a contracting firm $80/hr to get someone making $100k/yr to come in and do it while the state employees managed the project and supervised the contractors.

If the government could just negotiate individual salaries for developers, they could pay them twice as much, fire the contractors, and get the work done for roughly the same quality, and cheaper.
I dunno, traditional payment processors have gotten away with 1-2% charges in order to mitigate that kind of problem. I think Apple/Google are entitled to up-to a 5% cut to keep the lights on, but everything after that... it's a stretch. The big issue though (as many others have noted) is that there is no alternative. You have no opportunity to compete with Apple in this space, and that's what pisses off a lot of people. Normally, a competitive market is what ensures that those kinds of taxes stay reasonably low. Without anyone to compete with, Apple can set their own prices.
Thanks, appreciate the link.
> Why should China reduce their emissions?

Because, according to your chart, they are the greatest emitter. If they don't reduce that's bad.

> Per capita emissions of USA is way higher than that of China despite China bearing the brunt of manufacturing.

Per capita emissions are dropping in the US already, but they are increasing in China.

> Isn't it hypocritical to have developed through the 19th and 20th century by polluting the atmosphere but then accuse China when it their turn to develop?

No, it would be hypocritical to claim that the technological development achieved by western countries (emitting CO₂ as a side-effect) didn't help China.
another market pops up. opensea is just reading on-chain data, just like everyone else.
Maybe something along the lines of what Vuzix is doing? It will probably have an app store, so I think they’ll start off with games and navigation, maybe some education and let the market fill in other applications.
Safari 14 had this nasty IndexedDB bug last year: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226547 and I had to add https://github.com/jakearchibald/safari-14-idb-fix to all my sites using IndexedDB. Now this. Why the hell are they messing with IndexedDB?

Last IDB shitstorm was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27509206.
I assume that they want very specific salary information, i.e. what Bob makes on Integrations vs what Susan also makes on Integrations vs just what people seem to make at SDE II.
Here by "remove trust" I didn't mean "trust-less assurance that voting is correct", I meant "you have no reason to trust that the system recorded your vote correctly".

A basic problem with electronic & cryptographic voting systems is that it is impossible for a non-expert to convince themselves that the system is working correctly. In-person paper voting has this property by virtue of the simplicity of the system and the ability for regular people to observe it's working. This also normally includes members of all political parties participating in the vote, giving a high degree of confidence that either (a) the voting was correct, or (b) the parties you voted for are colluding, so the result is meaningless anyway.
I'm not quite sure I'd interchange heretical with controversial as you've done here. It doesn't really sound right.

You have kneeling at a sports game and talking about a probable lab leak that killed millions in the same list of examples.

Personally the word heresy should be reserved for religious contraries or at least when an extreme is needing to be denoted.

It was forbidden or taboo to talk about the lab leaky. It was controversial for players to bring politics into sports. I'd view controversial as a lesser as you could still speak dissent.

If one view is "heretical", generally the other side wouldn't be "heretical" as well. Which is what you get if you interchange controversial. It was controversial to be against kneeling in football as well. It wasn't controversial to be against the lab leak censor, because you couldn't talk about it at all.
Virtually any market with slight differences in each product.
Rapid Antigen Test - Common examples of RATs or RADTs include:

COVID-19-testing-related rapid tests

Rapid strep tests (for streptococcal antigens)

Rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) (for influenza virus antigens)

Malaria antigen detection tests (for Plasmodium antigens)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_antigen_test>
My issue is not the pans, it's using duty cycle to control the amount of energy added. I can't effectively pan fry anything without using cast iron or enough(read: too much) oil to retain some heat mass, because either it gets too hot and past the smoke point of the oil or too low and the food will cool off between heating cycles. The other slight annoyance is coil whine.

Absolutely unmatched for boiling water, and I'm very happy using it with a cast iron dutch oven for slow cooking and soups or stews.
“India never should have been in this position. The government is currently engaged in international disputes over vaccine waivers and intellectual property rights, while a horrific and record-setting surge of COVID-19 cases continues to devastate its population. The country’s recent vaccine policies — opening vaccination for all above the age of 18 while reeling under severe shortage…”

May 17th, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/17/22440292/vaccine-waivers-...
This isn't a question. It's an argument disguised as a series of questions.

Nevertheless, the answer to the title's question is: we'll all be living in abject poverty while you're yelling "told you so"
Loot boxes in video games is another modern big one, which is particularly abhorrent because its primary prey is children.
How is this not a P1 thing in the iOS/iPadOS/macOS/security teams at Apple? Seriously? Bare minimum, why didn't they let people know about this? We know the whole "we care about privacy" thing is marketing fluff now but holy F this is just unacceptable.

And this kind of an issue is exactly why Apple needs to stop screwing around and do the following things ASAP:

1. Decouple Safari from the OS so that it can be updated independently to fix critical issues like this and deploy to all customers quickly

2. Let other browser engines on the platform for fuck's sake!
I wholeheartedly agree that people can't agree on what "unit test" means precisely, either (even though I think your specific examples are a bit disingenuous). In particular, classical and London-school / mockist TDD have rather different definitions of it.

That's why it's important to have a well-rounded test strategy with different types of tests that have different purposes, instead of using some blanket approaches.
This doesn't really have anything to do with IndexedDB being about databases.
Oh sure, but it's very common to have a minor leak in your home and be relatively unaware.

Just by nature of natural gas service existing you're being exposed to leaks by your municipality. It's better to be rid of it entirely. Washington DC, for example, has over 5,000 leaks. Boston leaks ~50,000 tons a year.

I suspect 50 years from now natural gas will be remembered as fondly as leaded gasoline is today.
Surely crypto has always been zero-sum? People put their money into the pot, and then take it out at different times, in proportion equal to when they originally put their money in.
Just use nitter.net
IIRC, the loophole gave Apple the right to bill you afterwards for the use of their services. I don't know if that means they tally the 30% and come back to collect later, or just pass the direct charges of hosting onto you, but in any case I doubt Apple would be ballsy enough to try that outside the United States.
Sounds like regular day trading has similar issues too?
Personally I really enjoy doing analog photography. As the feedback loop is very long, technique is important. Also, since the number of pictures is limited, I always have to ask myself the question: is there actually a picture here?
Sure all inductions jobs will use duty cycling (pulse width modulation if we’re getting technical). But that doesn’t determine responsiveness.

With a resistive hob (ceramic hob is the industry name) you’re relying on a large lump of stone (hence the name ceramic hob) to be a heat store and even out the elements lumpy power output. Problem with this approach is that it takes forever for the stone to heat up and cool down, so the hob is slow to respond.

With an induction hob, your heating pan directly with a electromagnetic field, the only thermal mass in the entire system is the pan. The hob can instantly change its power output, because its not relying on a stone to store energy, and thus has zero thermal mass.

So induction hob react at the speed of your pan, you have lightweight pan, then the pan temperature will change almost instantly. You got a heavy cast iron pan, then the pan will take a little longer to shed the extra heat.

FYI: If the hob glows when heating, it’s not induction. It’s a ceramic hob. Ceramic hobs are crap and give induction hobs a really bad name because the look the same when off. You can only tell if an induction hob is, if there’s a pan on top. They’re incapable of creating heat without a pan on top.
> They said something that I thought was clear: you need file locks with read() and write().

You need _synchronization_. Not necessarily one of mmap() or file locks.
What is the name for that pattern, where any conspiracy theory, no matter how outlandish, sooner or later always ends up proven as true?
I did not buy a gift card, just used a debit card to upload money to my gift card balance (this was deemed suspicious by amazon).

But at this point having this transaction go through is not a priority, only to have my account unlocked.

I do not have an AWS account. Surprisingly I'm still signed into my account on my amazon android app, as well as audible on my phone, but can't sign in on web, and customer service tells me my account is on hold.
Awareness is self-perpetuating. That definitely makes it a superpower.
It is not only insecure, but not specific enough on several aspects of the protocol, leading to implementation problems. It also doesn't do any error correction beyond TCP.

It is quite fast, however, compared to SFTP/SSH.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
Sending the kids in to search for their own balloons sounds like a (poor) sorting algorithm

Haha true, I think that was the lesson. But sending kids to search for anyone's balloon and then assign it to the correct person seemed to be more efficient.
It drives me crazy too. I think iPhone portrait mode has really rough results but people seem to use it. Honestly most DSLR bokeh photos were bad ten years ago too. (for different reasons)

Take a look at Google image results for "bokeh". These are not exactly Kubrick-tier bokeh. https://www.google.com/search?q=bokeh&sxsrf=AOaemvIRaTBieq-l...

ie hobbyists have very low standards.
Thank you for such a thorough book...

This book does discuss autossh [1] which I came to know about recently while setting up my dynamic home ip (w/ CG-NAT) as the exit node in a wireguard network to overcome geo-restrictions on streaming services when traveling... :p

autossh [1] is such a simple and useful utility, wish I had known about it earlier when any connection changes in VPN/WiFi used to break my ssh tunnels to the corporate network during development...

If you're a frequent user of ssh tunnels, do check out autossh... ;)

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh
correct, SFTP uses FTP over SSH
If you really think the other parties have an idea of what to do with "every other issue" you haven't been looking at politics in the past 20 years.
How can the question be answered without first defining "heretical"?

TFA seems to use the term to mean "mainstream" or "popular"?

I'm sure it doesn't mean "sanctioned by the Catholic Church", which is the meaning I had associated with that term before thinking about it.
Bad timing, MIDI 2.0 has been officially published (almost exactly) 2 years ago.

https://www.midi.org/specifications/midi-2-0-specifications
I grew fungi for a living at my previous job. They will grow in any shape you like as long as they have food and substrate.

The lower levels will get less radiation though.

https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/greensulate---fungus-base...
A competitor you can shut down at any time by asking isn't much of a competitor.
The reason is that employers are not communicating with each other, competing effectively. Instead of granting raises, they would rather see someone quit, then gradually (or not gradually) raise their offerings and train a new person. It makes no sense because they still have to pay a higher salary and now they have to train someone, but that’s corporate America for you.
In my experience such improvements often stuck in backlog until removed. Someone added them because they are “nice to do”. But later person changed team or was buried under other work.
It's clearly you who is not understanding how shorting with options works, since the downside is limited and NOT unlimited as you wrongly claim.

Buying puts for let's say $500 let's you short a stock, now if the stock moves up, you can lose 100% ( if it doesn't come down within expiry ) but you can't lose a single cent more than that. One way to have unlimited downside is naked shorting.
Although she says the same thing in all 3 languages, unlike most politicians.
Couldn't the same information be used by companies to signal each other and collude on price setting.

For example they may start paying the same just based on a job class, which isn't a favorable outcome.
Take a look at TermKit - https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

Long abandoned but I’d love something like this. Someone I know tried to revive it but Node has changed so much that they gave up.

I would donate to an effort to revive it.
Ansel Adams and the New Topographics are meant to be seen in a museum. Or at least in a book. Definitely not on Instagram.
> indicates to me that these bleeding-heart humanitarians don't think of Africans as fully human.

That's an interesting take but I think that's been the case for a few hundred years now. It won't miraculously go away, even though these attempts are well intentioned if somewhat misguided.
Strange, most people prefer more information to less. Employees knowing more leads to them better able to negotiate (not just arrive at higher numbers initially, but clearly know what skills they need to better negotiate the next time). Unless they're being treated unfairly, there's no downside.

Those people who were paid a few hundred dollars less - why were they paid less?
I think it would work well if installing web apps as PWAs, with the PWAs’ webviews being sandboxed and backed by their own entirely separate storage, cookies, etc, was what enabled persistent features. It would eliminate several types of fingerprinting in one fell swoop.
I joke that the number of photos I take is inversely proportional to the expense of my camera system. I shoot most of my photos on my iPhone these days. I sometimes use my Fuji mirrorless system that I have a few lenses for if I want to be a little more serious on a trip--or I'm taking photos for an event, and I have a Full-frame Canon with both very wide and very long glass that I rarely use these days.
/me slaps erwincoumans around with a large trout
> I don’t understand people’s obsession with plastic vs metal lenses.

It's an issue with perceived quality. So much of the inner workings of things have been replaced with plastic, usually not for the better. When you spend as much money on lenses these days, you don't expect them to cheap out on a small ring.

Also, not all plastic is made equal. I have two lenses made in the last 20 years that have plastic that is starting to deteriorate and become sticky. It's a real shame as those lenses still work and do their job.
Another big market for dslrs is studio photography. I haven’t come across speedlite/studio strobes that can sync with a phone (tbh I haven’t looked either!)

A pro camera with a speedlite pointed at a white ceiling world produce amazing indoor pics everytime, unlike a phone which would be dependent on ambient light quality.
Seriously fuck the BBC and their Cookie Consent prompt, do they really expect me to manually untick every single vendor?
I've always liked the idea of getting into politics to solve your issue than getting out to let the next one in.
I would add: make the line protocol coming in transmit key-up and key-down events -- not only full keypress events. Thus let modifiers be handled on the receiving end.

Or at least as one perhaps-modal option.
I agree with you that it's an exceptionally self-serving way of approaching the subject.
The question is: does the legal framework override the results of the smart contracts and blockchain records? If so, you don't need the crypto. If the crypto cannot be overriden by the legal framework, you don't need the legal framework. Pure redundancy.
Consider the balloon arrangement as a permutation, where balloons every balloon has a person and every person has a balloon.
If you know the permutation, then you can invert it to send each balloon to its person.

You're assuming it's easier to find people than balloons, otherwise you don't know the permutation. If several people share a name, you need multiple passes.

I used a form of this, where every processor in an array wanted to request something from another processor in some permutation. If they all know the permutation, then you can skip the request part and send the reply directly to the one who wants it.
Interesting. In most European countries, as an employee of the state, you are (generally) paid by role/tenure. This is not the case in WA?
sorry - i keep asking this question - how can you tell if value was created? how is value different from price?
You should also read "Bullshit Jobs" book. The very purposelessness of this system and the exploitation killed every ounce of creativity from many individuals.

Antiwork is not fueled by lazy people - there's nothing wrong with that subreddit or this movement in general.

Life just got dull and boring and the routine of being a purposeful pushed people to their limits because at the same time, they see a pandemic and the planet's destruction via climate change.

And we support to support this?

Trying to be a better person every day, wonder of creativity and building got destroyed by modern capitalism.
Why wouldn't the string_view constructor be inlined and get the same treatment?
Maybe the future of space travel are living spaceships. Some kind of crustaceans with outer shell, living main body, and human crew inside. Something between fungi, animal, and plant even.