skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got it I see what you mean. In my mind though, the real innovation in web3 is native ability to move money around, and turing complete (ish) programmability. Comparisons to social networks seems like apples and oranges.

It’s not a product that needs to be marketed to end users. Think AWS not Amazon.com. The people building products on it will do the marketing.
> sad trend recently
> Who are these people who are turning communities into sad opposites of these values?

it's not about sad versus happy, but "doing" versus "being". And it's not a multiple choice test. Just you cannot ignore the other polarity.
A magic drainpipe is a 30 year old lens and is still optically excellent and performant.
> routing around the central locus of control that serve as gatekeepers to keep people down

Huh? Routing around? You are advocating for the "central locus of control that serve as gatekeepers to keep people down". You don't eliminate that by "routing around" it. You eliminate it by organization, education and then agitation around it. Advocating that people unhappy with this scurry about trying to "route around" their central locus of control is exactly what they want.
Crypto does not require any such action. Likewise no dogmatic crypto skeptic like yourself will ever tell you you are early. Stay poor.
Note this is in the EU, not the USA, so consumer protection is a lot higher.

If the NYT tried this here, I'd just revoke access from my bank account, assuming they even had any. There is probably also a law specifying how to unsubscribe, but I can't tell how it works in the Netherlands.

UPDATE: Thinking this through, it allows us to put a monetary value on consumer protection. Much of what the apple 30% tax gives you as a consumer is built into law. So assuming a more reasonable cost of say 5%, small time devs get a loss of 25% of income because of the state of payments and consumer protection in the USA. You can haggle over percentages, but there is a cost.
That’s not loophole. That’s common sense.
yeah! We should all get together and do a bunch of free work so the big companies can leverage it without having to pay. Who's with me!

hmm, maybe I'm a pessimistic misanthrope.
Funny that one of your sources (the NPR one) is exactly the same as my graph. Other than that, it's full of qualitative statements that give an impression the data doesn't support ("For decades, the number of women in computer science grew faster than the number of men, but then we get to 1984.").

Yes, it was growing faster, but it never got close to parity.

In fact, the graph in your flowingdata.com reference IS my graph.
> I've not heard of a job name/title/role that accurately represents this sort of work, even though companies generally seem to like it, if I can somehow get through their application process.

I think you will find that generalists are valued in extremely small orgs like startups, skunk works, spin-offs, and the like. Titles, when accurate, are likely to be vague (eg. Founding Employee). As organizations grow, roles tend to specialize, and generalists are undervalued, but reliable long term career success still tends to accrue to folks that have t-shaped[0] skill sets that allow them to be extremely productive in their area of specialization, and extremely effective at collaborating with other specialists across the organization.

You seem to be getting dismissed as a dilettante, though it is being couched in terms of your expertise in whatever the person you're talking to doesn't feel qualified to assess, or whatever they aren't looking for in the role they are seeking to fill.

There is, however, more than one way to specialize over the course of a career other than your role in an organization per-se. For example, you can develop domain expertise in an industry (finance, healthcare, legal, telecom, entertainment, retail, agriculture), market (eg. regional VARs, enterprise software, small businesses), delivery model (SaaS, information products, durable goods), or product/service category (content management systems, adtech, databases, business intelligence). Don't go crazy with combining these into something too hyper-specific, obviously.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
A related classic: In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
>That's the low end of the market basically. It's no different than picking up a cheap compact camera a few decades ago.

It's quite different, market-wise, as in that today that "end of the market" it's 80% smartphones, and the previous "low end of the market" for compacts is as good as dead (and even a big part of the enthusiasts that bought cheaper DSLRs in the 00s and 10s is now content with just a smartphone).
Basically X11 2.0 in effect. Though I'm sure someone can point out substantial ways they are different, e.g. the new compositor model.

Things are supposed to be a bit more secure and extensible, and it's mature enough now that I've been using it for my daily life with little to no problems for a couple years.

Read this for a better description: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
You’re right, I realize now that cog doesn’t process an input template but the actual output file, modifying it in place. Perhaps that why it took so long to gain popularity: that fact seems somewhat non-obvious from the documentation. Even the examples on a cursory glance are not obviously not templates. At least to me.

Re-reading the docs I realize that sure enough, they say very clearly what it does. But I think it just doesn’t click immediately.

Now that get it, I have a few problems coming to mind that I can solve with cog that I didn’t have a great solution to before. So I’m jumping on the bandwagon.
While your first observation is good your conclusion is jumping the gun as people arent using it in a derogatory way.

Its more like “African American” which is just as contrived of a term made around 40 years ago simply as an attempt to make amorphous representation for an unrelated group of people that have been in the United States for a long time, in the absence of another distinguishing term specifically for slave descendants that have no relation to Africa or any other country. A couple influencers chose that term and everyone can tell it does not make sense as a grouping mechanism for other people or all black people in the US or anywhere.

Latinx is an… attempt… at similar amorphous representation as US English is becoming ungendered while simultaneously trying to use shorthand for a greater population than just latinos.
Spotify can release him from that arrangement.
Yes, I believe this is correct. I also noticed this in the source. A choice seems to have been made to use a curated list of more friendly-ish solution words.
Just letting you know Ace of Spades is a great motorhead song.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(song)
One way to help these people is to assume the best intentions and provide support for them, even if it's just verbal or emotional support.

There are definitely always going to be the "fuck all work give me free stuff" folks, but I think it's important not to let their presence detract from the overall movement. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good and all that.
> thinking that UFOs are of alien origin ... is now presented with a straight face by former presidents and CIA heads, so it is not heretical any more.

I believe this is referring to Obama's semi-recent admission that we've captured aerial footage of phenomena that the government can't explain. Some officials, but not all, have convinced themselves: therefore aliens.

But "therefore aliens" is just the "fun" answer. It's not the rational answer. There are many other more likely explanations, all too boring to be click-bait-worthy, and therefore news of these explanations spreads slower.
I guess there's no more 'time' because it can happen anytime on any fexpr due to any reason.
> 440% cheaper than S3 per GB.

However the author thinks percentages work.... They are not right.
> Anyone interested in using old protocols should check out Project Gemini.

The Gemini protocol is 13 months old.
I'm the exact target market for a book like this, and the goal is build something cool and useful while deepening my elixir skills at the same time. You could of course hack something together much quicker/easier/cheaper but in the process you don't learn Nerves, don't get to exercise your Phoenix and general Elixir skills. You don't get to play with TimescaleDB, and you don't get the supreme enjoyment that comes from stepping back to view/use a magnificent piece of art that you built yourself.

This is the world I want to live in, one in which I spend more time than is needed to craft a beautiful product (inside/code and outside/ui), where I don't have to sacrifice quality for time and accumulate tech debt so I can rush to market. I've accepted that I'll probably never have a professional job where quality is more important than speed, and where beauty is more important than scrum ceremony, so books and projects like this are where I satisfy the innate need for elegance, while also building something I've wanted for a long time (a very hackable and very open weather station).

Also without a doubt the skills learned here will make me a much better developer for the day job and side gigs (where I use Elixir/Phoenix quite a bit). If I use python and GNU plot, there's no deepening or broadening of the skillset and knowledge that I want to use.

This post is already pretty long but I wanted to add that the "stop the madness" post actually resonated with me a lot (even if I disagree with some of the conclusions). If you want the madness to stop, learning Elixir/Phoenix is actually a great way to do that. You can crank out simple solutions very easily. The JS world is finally coming back around to the idea that there's great value in SSR, and Phoenix makes that easy and a joy, and with LiveView you really can replace a lot of SPAs, especially those where realtime interactivity is needed (such as chat apps). There's still an important place for a SPA for PWAs and/or offline functionality, but so few applications have that anyway.
Home cooking might be a minor climate change issue, but home heating isn't. In Metro Vancouver 26% of total CO2 emissions come from home heating.

Accordingly Metro Vancouver wants to get people to stop heating their homes and water with gas.

If people think they "need" gas stoves that can be a barrier to moving them toward electric heating. If they "need" gas for the stove, might as well heat with it too.

Creating greater understanding of the health risks of gas ranges and that induction stoves are just as good if not better is good in helping make people more comfortable with the idea of shifting to electric next time they need to replace a main component of their heating system.
It's worth knowing that the name you chose for something is used in something (midly) related - being aware let's you disambiguate if/when the need arises. I was not suggesting a name change.

That said - please don't turn HN into reddit. Joke chains detract and distract from the topic
Rogan is doing this because it makes money and in his mind, there's nothing unethical taking advantage of people who want to listen to conspiracy theories and questionable medical advice. There are a lot of people out there who don't really care, as long as their pockets are lined and they can go to their walled mansion.
It is funny to see comments like these in this thread. After the events of the last few years, I guess Americans are finding out what it is like to be Indian on the internet and having to defend every piece of crazy news about the country. Note, I am not advocating for news like this to not be published, just remember that countries without even a semblance of a free press are going to report a lot fewer of these.
Reminded me of a song from Brazilian singer Raul Seixas "O conto do sábio chinês" (a tale about the wise Chinese)[0]. I stopped to actively search about the meaning / sources of many of his songs and let the dots connected naturally.

Today one more line has formed.

[0] https://youtu.be/9Co4ORFSBlQ
Show HN: Open-source weightlifting tracker app with built-in scripting language
> That sounds a lot like a macro

Yes, with fexprs, functions can serve as (runtime-evaluated) macros. REBOL used this (though they aren't call fexprs in REBOL) so that its functions could also serve the role of Lisp macros, and it was pretty awesome. It’s too bad that REBOL became such a dead end for nontechnical reasons.
That's rubbish. I'm the same customer in the US where wait staff are severly underpaid where I treat the staff with respect and gratitude where tips are expected as I am when I travel abroad with the same respect and gratitude to the staff where tips are not expected.

Making of a better customer is as simple as not being an asshole.
> Can't you also have a situation where value is a lost and there is a net loss in wealth?

For sure. If you had invested in Japanese stock market at its peak in 1989, you'd still be down more than 30 years later.
Genetic Programming:Evolution of Mona Lisa
Crypto is growing twice as fast as the Internet grew in the late 90's.[0] Let's assume history rhymes. There will be a massive crash in a few years time. Everyone will say "I told you so." Then all the crypto kids will be laughing to the DEX as the world catches up to them in the next two decades.

What if blockchains are the best way to conduct personal finance? Digital and physical ownership? What if blockchains are the best way to conduct Big Finance? That's quite a large market, maybe even the largest market there is to conduct. Wouldn't crypto naturally be adopted then? The comparative advantage would make it a "no brainer." It seems to me stranger that we would live in a world where the business of money was perfected in the late 20th century. Do you really think bank transfers are going to take 2 days to clear in the year 2100?

[0] https://jjo.media/articles/cryptocurrency-vs-internet-adopti...
Yes. But their data is not coming from every employee out there. I believe their data are largely self-reported so perhaps biased toward the slice of people proud enough of their salary to report it? You also have to trust that they verify the salary reports somehow, which they say they do.

I’d like to see an anonymized dump straight from one or more of the big payroll companies. I think I’d find that a little more believable.
MercuryOS – A speculative reimagining of current operating system paradigms
Do you have evidence for this? I feel it would be difficult to orchestrate collusion across thousands of private companies especially during our current skilled labor shortage.
What you think is important is seldom actually important to the powers that be.

Underrated point. People should reflect on whether the powers that be might actually know what they are doing. Not always and everywhere, but be open to the possibility.
>Shouldn't you compare with modern entry-level DSLRs?

Not if the quality of those older entry-level DSLRs was already good enough for most people, and even good enough to win photo awards, print and hang in galleries in many cases.

>Otherwise of course, you are possibly skipping all technological improvements that DSLR cameras might have received over time.

Considering the above, who cares, if their current phones already do a fine job as far as they are concerned?

In 2000-2005-up to around 2010 or so, the era of "potato camera phones", that wasn't yet the case, so casual Joes and Janes still bought the entry-level DSLRs of the time.
This is a deep space, lots of challenges and subtleties and lots of ways to make mistakes to cost the business and can cost you your job. Highly recommend getting clearance to engage a consultant to
at minimum outline the solution domain for you, which you can either implement or have them implement then you can learn and maintain.
Google? Or Alphabet?

I don't understand why Facebooks rebrand should be honored when we just ignore Googles.
Perhaps because you're gradually learning to distinguish what's style and what's substance?
NFT enthusiasts are claiming that if you buy this form of NFT skin in one game you will be able to take the NFT with you to other games and wear the same skin in all games. Because the ownership of the NFT exists outside of the game ecosystem and therefore the digital purchase isn't just for in-game assets.

Which obviously isn't how game assets work and buying an NFT of a cosmetic item doesn't mean it will transfer to other games at all.
Yes. Even if the company isn't selling the stocks directly, you're paying early stage investors, who provided investment some point in the past.
NYT offers a subscription that can be purchased outside the US (I'm a subscriber to NYT cooking living in the UK), and to the best of my understanding you're still required to call even outside the US.
No injuries reported, but communication is intermittent.

https://news.yahoo.com/tonga-issues-tsunami-warning-undersea...

> There were no immediate reports of injuries or the extent of the damage because all internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40 p.m. local time — about 10 minutes after problems began, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.

> Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva, Fiji, which presumably was damaged. The company that manages that connection, Southern Cross Cable Network, could not immediately be reached for comment.

There are social media posts of the tsunami though which I believe are from Tonga. So folks at the shoreline were presumably fine enough to record and post video somehow.

Tsunami: https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1482331481607311360

Eruption: https://youtu.be/Eu8V_WADjCw

I’d be worried about anyone on an airplane near there, but I guess it’s not a highly trafficked route.
Will WADA live up to the ideals of sport and ban Russia from the Olympics?
By not using a screen dslrs have 3x or more the battery life of a given mirrorless camera.
It's curious how rationalist blogs often rapidly devolve into far right comment sections.
Apple’s tight-fisted control of browser engines on iOS leads to worse security and privacy for the whole platform.
Maybe they could do a software update that rotates the dish if connectivity drops, or a least give the owner the option of remotely turning on a dish rotate function.
The closed set of types describes how each pass in a compiler pipeline tends to build an intermediate representation of some sort, analyze/modify it, and then output it to the next stage. The IR is closed in that it is not open for everyone to extend willy-nilly. It is this property that makes it even possible to analyze and manipulate in a sound manner.

In a sense, compilers literally build a bunch of linguistic 'worlds' within their pipeline, each one emphasizing something different.
>There is exactly one reason for the two-party situation in the US.

Fair enough! You are, of course, exactly right. But, the reasons for still having first past the post voting are arguably less clear. Many nations have reformed their first past the post voting systems while the US (along with some other countries) remains stuck.
Someone telling you what to do is not inherently authoritarian. Your claim is over the top.

For example, roads have enforced speed limits. Those are typically set in a technocratic way: traffic engineers look at surrounding conditions, design constraints of the road itself etc and set a number. That process is subject to oversight (which can be wrong or right) that provides some democratic accountability. Building codes are another good example.

It’s generally better to go along with such rules as a form of delegated decision making and expertise. And when you are freed from having to make a decision on every little thing (do I believe the label of the provenance of these eggs?) you can go forward to, you know, live your life.
Plastic will also always be superior to metal in weight, and functionality is all over the map: good lens (for ones purpose) dwarfs enclosure material for that.

It wouldn't be hard to pair you with someone mad at their old-school lens for helicoid play who has no complaints about their plastic. Especially in the last decade, it's not a useful filter, just one of many factors to consider in selecting gear.
Another one of those weird Wikipedia trip articles that starts out rambling in a way that would never pass the “no original research” test today, then hits you out of the blue in the last paragraph with a matter-of-fact statement.
I think they are trying to facebookifying (for the lack of better word) their interface. The trade off here is that user engagement lost due to bulky js is covered by the increase in user engagement due to flashy web features. user engagement is corporate double speak for user addiction.
It's true, but it points up the way anti-science obstructionism has made ordinary disagreement impossible.

The Audubon society has a legitimate point to make. They should be overruled, by popular democratic consent, but they should be able to make their point and be heard first.

Instead, misinformation means that progress is only made when the environmental movement forces itself to be absolutely unified. Ordinary differences of opinion can't take place in the face of widely supported falsehoods about facts.

Democracy is hardened against small amounts of misinformation for the same reason it's a tolerable way of resolving differences of opinion. But it is brittle when there is too much outright onslaught against basic information, supported by a large minority.

I don't know what to tell them. I wish we could have ordinary democratic discussion of the best way to handle climate change. Instead we're still trying to convince a political majority that it's even a real thing.
Ok, I get that. In that case, it would be fantastic if someone created professional lenses for smart phones. The nearest I’ve seen are nowhere near the capabilities for telephoto.
Thanks for the follow-up on the article. Agreed on mechanics vs feel. Although to some degree they are tied together, two games can have the same mechanics but one end up missing the "magic sauce" that made the other great.
Most Reliable PC Hardware of 2021 – Puget Systems
Popular in Austria, certain parts of Germany and Switzerland, based on what I have seen. Probably applies to whole of western Europe as well. The progressive tax rates we have here really discourage from working overtime.
Anything that starts with a lie is fundamentally not ethical
Does anyone have ideas for Firefox on mobile? It looks like OP add-on isn't supported on Android Firefox.
A glance at any dictionary will show a plethora of words that have multiple incompatible definitions. Some, like cleave, are even their own antonym. Nevertheless each sense of the word is well defined.

The issue isn’t a lack of well-definedness, but rather one of confusion.
Yeah I’m not sure how many products hit their target date before they were announced.

Kinda sounds like development as usual.
Tsunami Advisory After Tonga Volcanic Eruption
Why limit your theory to blockchain? “Craze” in general seems to be limbic in nature, but that’s common knowledge, isn’t it?
It is not "either or." Defense in depth suggests applying several imperfect measures that together provide better defense than any individual approach along.
Cookie dialogs are set up that way because they know people will agree. A website I visit regularly (and have a subscription for, soundonsound.com), had a very easy cookie dialog. But no longer. Now you must accept their cookies (it’s quite a lot, really). One can only guess why.
They are saying less of their budget goes to equipment when creating the art they sell for a living.
If you want to learn DSP, GNU Radio is the way to go. It has audio sources and sinks, so you can try out things and hear / see (using the scope sink) the results in real time.

It was really interesting to play with negative frequencies and get a better handle on it than the math alone would have ever given me.