skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're too hung up on the Hawaii example, so I'll clarify again - it'd be exactly the same scenario if the Confederacy run away to it and stayed there while assimilating the local population. They didn't, so it's not the same.

As for the stance, the US officially recognises the PRC's claim over Taiwan. The rest of the world recognises the PRC as the one and only China, and nobody recognises Taiwan as an independent country. Which means that either Taiwan doesn't exist, or is within the PRC for everyone de jure.

I'm sorry, but.. i don't even know how to respond to the last bit. I give you examples of China taking back lands they were deprived of for decades by foreign imperialists ( Hong Kong and co), and your response to this is that China is the imperialist warmonger in that situation? What were they to do, leave their territory partitioned by foreign colonialists? When France took back Alsace-Lorraine, or when Turkey fought against the Sevres treaty, was that an imperialist act? (The rest of what France was doing, and a lot of what China is doing today are very much imperialist, but liberating your own lands from a foreign imperialist power is... not imperialism)
> Carriers didn’t make battleships obsolete, missiles did.

> Missiles are the only reason big guns aren’t a thing any more.

Missiles were the final nail in the coffin for battleships, sure, but missiles reliable enough to hit another ship or land target from over-the-horizon didn't come about till over a decade after carriers obsoleted battleships.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Dec 1941 took out the entire US surface fleet except its carriers. Then half a year later in June 1942, those 3 carriers destroyed the 4 lead carriers of the Japanese combined task force heading for Midway.

The remaining Japanese fleet was faced with a decision to continue the attack on Midway and the US carriers with only battleships/cruisers/frigates/destroyers and no carriers of their own, or to cut their losses and retreat. They retreated, because there was a real risk they could lose all the rest of their fleet even against three weakened US carriers and Midway base's decimated air wing.

That was the moment when carriers proved they were just next level compared to other surface combatants, obsoleted battleships forever, and Naval doctrine began re-orienting around battlegroups with a carrier at the center and surrounding ships providing anti-sub and later anti-missile defense.
Get a tally counter and count every time you have an urge to scroll, watch another video, or refresh Reddit. Write a daily log of your counter. Every time you feel the urge, pause for 10 seconds and then consciously decide if you want to do that or not. It’s a lot of work at the beginning but I guarantee you’ll get your attention back.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like at least the good part of software development industry is taking advantage over young engineers, letting them hope for the better future, but making work long hours with less than averge compensation.
For someone who is finding holes in the OP’s reasoning, unfortunately, your linked post and statements lack rigor.

“ Average College grads make more money over their lifetime, period.”

There are huge selection effects in play. It is true that even after controlling for these effects, college has economic value. But the statement about making more money isn’t the right framing at all. There’s a whole chapter on this in the book called “Mastering metrics”. You might want to pick that up - it’s a coffee-table book for the quantitative-minded person.
This comment contains no information other than an ego boost for yourself, AFAICT.
Just as you can go too hard on getting sucked into social media and other vices, you can definitely over-optimise your time and turn into a robot as well.

Maybe it's important for your sanity to spend two hours a day reading Wikipedia articles about the Wehrmacht or playing Age of Empires 2. Then again, maybe it's not. But approaching your habits from an overly logical, optimisation-focused point of view will destroy your soul. You are a biologically-evolved animal; not an intellectual abstraction.
> DNS at the moment over 53/UDP is manageable and malleable.

As for that malleable part... You always trust the networks you're on? Because my ISP, in the US, will inject JS into an insecure page load when I'm at 80% of my monthly data cap - I can only assume they're sniffing anything and everything in the clear. It's 2022, we shouldn't consider insecure transports viable. Zero trust, cliche or otherwise.
Open Source benefits anyone because they can pay some one else to provide reliable, professional support.

It benefits everyone because if the original developers stop supporting it anyone can pay some one else to support it.

It benefits all because we can decide to fork, or pay some one else to fork, the software and customize it to our needs.
I joined a meetup group and started prepping and giving talks. I also have been working on my personal website, as well as a hobby project, https://dotbun.com
Serverless Collaborative Hierarchical Todo App in 200 LoC
Are there any specific ideas introduced in this essay that are relevant today?

While essay describes some true algorithms (like wavelet compression), they are not invented by Lanier nor they need any of his "surface" stuff to be used. And Lanier's predictions, like the whole "phenotropic software" ideas, seem completely academic, for example:

> When one module connects to another, it would use the same techniques a biomimetic robot would use to get around in the messy, unpredictable physical world.

I think Daniel Dennet's comment sums it very well:

> he's doing exactly the thing he chastises the early AI community for doing: getting starry-eyed about a toy model that might—might—scale up and might not. There are a few interesting ideas in his ramblings, but it's his job to clean them up and present them in some sort of proper marching order, not ours. Until he does this, there's nothing to reply to.
Upgrading, not updating.
Programming is Not Fun (2014)
> The ideal system, IMO, would be one where anyone can get a name, no one can "hoard" names, and all names are of equal value.

I’m immediately reminded of Tor .onion names, though those aren’t exactly user-friendly…
Gates: Once the omicron variant passes, Covid will be more like the seasonal flu
You can't become a doctor without going med and there are many other degrees like that however for like Physics, maths, CS etc... collage is rather like a big club in its ways and it is not for everybody. Rather it is for very few people actually. In countries like mine people go to collage because job quality is seriously low. It is ridicules that in first comment someone complaints about forklift jobs pays as much as first year teacher. That is really what needed so the people who shouldn't be a teacher doesn't go to collage for economical reasons so people who should be a teachers become a teacher.
The important sentence:

> Despite rare cases of myocarditis, the benefit-risk assessment for COVID-19 vaccination shows a favorable balance for all age and sex groups; therefore, COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for everyone ≥12 years of age.
And what about all the 40-50 year olds who are on SSA disability because of 20-30 years of manual labor?
But the fines are getting very significant, and major types of violations are awarded with fines ( so other violators might see that and stop, or at least when they get caught the ruling will be faster due to precedents).
I've seen Senior Engineers who probably make $300K+ steal and bring home whole pizza pies from "Pizza Night For Late Workers". It doesn't matter how much you make, if they are fundamentally dishonest and see $100 sitting on the floor they're going to take it.

EDIT: Correction--engineers, didn't actually see managers do it.
There's no easy answer. The freedom of choice is beautiful and part of why I use Linux but an ecosystem can become polluted and drive away new users.

I don't know what else to say. I'm describing the landscape as I see it.

I do disagree that KDE or Gnome are stuck, I thought Gnome 40 was a nice refresh. It's evolved quite a bit from the Gnome 2 of Red Hat Linux that I used as a youngster.
AFAIK macOS doesn't have namespaces/jails/zones so it would be near-impossible to build native Docker for macOS.
Is being a legislator a full time job in the US? As in, you are legally not allowed to also have another job?

(It isn't in my country. You can be a pilot, an actor or an engineer and still be a legislator)
I completely agree! The legislative capture of bad decisions is far more dangerous than them "stealing" from wallstreet.
That question is a non-sequitur. But to give you a type of answer, most of libadwaita came out of Purism.
Well, you can at least get UT1: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-se...
>The price for iOS distribution is determined by Apple; whether that price is a good value is determined by market forces. Again, it seems that it is indeed a great deal, because vast (and silent majority) of developers accept it.

The famous monopoly cases (e.g. Standard oil or Bell system) also had tons of customers, that's what happens when demand is rather inelastic. If you want to say that artificially inflated prices due to e.g. a monopoly can still be a good deal because people are still willing to buy it, then we shouldn't be content with just good deals because they still cause harm to society overall by not being pareto efficient. Apple can't charge the rate they do purely by the strength of their distribution service - it's the device base that is the real value and only by anti-competitive measures can they keep the price up.

>But it is not. You can reach your user via Web or if they are mobile via Android or Windows phone.

What if Apple also decided that every transaction made through their browser had to give them a cut? The situation doesn't fundamentally change (you could still just offer your app to android/desktop users), but I think it's pretty clear that this would be anti-competitive. They might not have a monopoly on smartphones/devices, but they have such a large share that boycotting them isn't really an option.

Users are also currently funneled into apps due to how web is limited in functionality as determined by Apple. e.g. if your app needs long term local storage you now need an 'real' app because Apple changed it so that web app local storage gets cleared on the regular. Windows phone has also been dead for years now.
GoFundMe to Acquire Classy: More than $20B in donations raised combined
Nice! Managed to shave off a couple of bytes:

setInterval("l=loopTapApp;b=l.getBallAngle();[a,c]=l.arc;b+6>a&b-6<c&&l.tap(new Event(1))")
If it can't live without systemd, find something else that can.
I noticed the 404 as well.

Looks like he’s not using ipfs any more and is using Go hosted on Replit with CF in front..

https://youtu.be/3qFqnuqIcm8
Counterfeit KN95 respirators
Thanks for the note :) yeah it was a really quick hack -- it only looks professional thanks to mvp.css[0]!

[0]: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/
It won't change until people learn how to write better requirements, which means it will probably never change.

Software development in practice is rarely about how to build a thing, but very much about what to build.

And I have yet to see an outsourced shop that's good at solving that problem. (Sadly)
Another history channel I follow had their videos mass de-monetized and age restricted. It was purely educational nothing about the channel is remotely controversial.

I am convinced YT is deliberately doing this to push out small content creators and replace them with corporate content creators that are fleeing the sinking ship that is cable TV.
My condolences to the colleague RIP. Sounds like he lived a valued and actualized life.
The guidelines require us to be civil to each other. They do not require me to generous or to assume good faith of Handshake. I believe Handshake is a crock, you do not. I'm not impugning you (as you did me); you are not Handshake, or, as far as I know, any of its founders. It is fine for us to disagree. I have the better of the two arguments and am very comfortable leaving it there.
Thank you! ++
If you hire some people to take down tools to bypass copyright, they'll go try to do that, whether it's really a good idea or not.

Honestly, they're probably targeting it because it's easy to find with the Google searches they're trying.
I have worked for a time with credit card terminal applications.

We used BER-TLV throughout the system extensively, where it was needed as well as where it wasn't.

I have implemented complete parsers/serializers, data structures using TLV, transactional database where data was stored as TLV documents. EMV is built on top of BER-TLV, SSL used it, as well as ISO-8583 messages transmitted data encoded with BER-TLV. Communication with the PIN Pad was built on it. We kept configuration as BER-TLV documents.

I have been able to parse hex representation in my head.

I really liked the standard. It is nice, flexible and very efficient. Easy to parse, can be parsed reliably and safely in statically allocated memory.

To those who think this is ancient history and it should be dropped -- do you think that might just be because you don't actually know it or maybe you just think it is old and so it must be bad?
SAME. If they were into offering 2FA I could happily retire this little hack :)

I was a bit worried that what I was doing was against the spirit of HN (HN is very much not a social site in that way, and I think they strive not to be), but if they ever choose to add native 2FA I'll be over the moon.
I can’t understand how designers can work on the browser

It’s an horrible UX. No surprise it come out in these times where user interfaces are html documents masked as inconsistent UI.
This is really exciting. My team is trying to move off Confluence in favor of storing more documentation and design artifacts in GitHub. This will help make that more possible.
Bandcamp seems to be a reasonable way for supporting artists, at least by the er... end users of the music.

eg: https://gunshipmusic.bandcamp.com
"Which is more likely?" is a hint that one choice obviously has probability near 1, and the other as near zero as makes no difference.
When my wife and I lived in Brooklyn, her optometrist's name was Dr. Vivien Vu and her dentist's name was Dr. Samantha Ifill (I kid you not -- look them up). I haven't read the paper yet, but my theory is simply that when a name matches the person's job we notice it; all the other times when it doesn't match we don't notice.
I didn't know this was a thing. Google chose that ad placement? Does it vary from viewer to viewer (eg. does your page look different than mine?).

How much is the per-view income from a site that does that? This explains why a lot of crappy sites look like that - handing over control to google to maximize ad revenue income causes google algos to optimize to some maxima of low-denominator quality. Who would intentionally place full-screen ads, after all!?
I'm of the firm opinion that residential tradespeople are the Law of Lemons at this point. If they were better: they'd be doing commercial.

Consequently, if you find someone who doesn't do commercial, beware.

Exception: someone over the age of 55 who continues doing skilled work as a "pro-hobby."
Normal Bunnings locations have a drive-thru area for people picking up bulk or oversized goods, and there would have to be a cargo dock to actually get stuff into the store - how is this handled at your location?
That's what jumped out at me as well. If you have 99 full time employees and $999,999.00 in total revenue, you are violating labor laws somewhere, guaranteed.
When I was just out of school 20ish years ago, I wanted to take my CS degree to an application development position. I got hired, but it was more of a technical Product/BA/QA role, not writing code. I did the job as asked, learned the systems, contributed value, etc - but I was also young and stupid. I complained about my role to anyone who would listen. I wanted to be a developer. Most team members encouraged me to stick it out, my time would come, or rolled their eyes. Or both.

At a team outing a few months in, I had too much to drink and approached the Tech Lead to complain about it. He looked at me square in the eyes and (basically) shouted - "There are hundreds of low and medium severity bugs in the bug database, go fix one then come talk to me! Better yet, fix a bunch and I'll come talk to you!"

(It worked, I was an app dev 3 months later.)
Yikes sorry to hear that. I thought the restrictions were bad in my neck of the woods but that is much more difficult
All the discussion about how much Senators and Representatives should be paid and whether it leads to bribery misses the most important moral point, which is:

They are in a position to influence stocks, and hence must be barred from owning them, other than in a blind trust.

It's the same moral principle as "Judges must recuse themselves from cases in which they have a financial interest."

We want them to vote on regulating Big Tech based on their understanding of the issues and their constituents' desires, not on their holdings of Big Tech stocks. Yes, I know that's naïve and there are campaign contributions to think of, but that's a separate topic of law.

Discussing whether they get "enough" to live on also misses the fact that they're not doing it for living expenses -- they're doing it to get rich.
There's a particular video I wanted to watch yesterday that I only remembered the title and that I loved it a decade ago. After 20 minutes of searching I found it was deleted, and the only way I could watch it was a random archive.org snapshot of the YouTube page.

First thing I did was download it and upload it somewhere else.
This reminds me of a video game I played as a kid. Opening Night. You could create plays, dialog, etc and have your characters act for you. You could just choose where they walked and then had a bunch of emotes they could do.

So fun to be so creative making plays!
wow thats awesome! I feel like that's a dream. Creating interesting content and getting recognized for it.

Care to share a link? I'd love to check it out :) Always looking for interesting technical blogs.
Let natural selection do it’s job if they’re that stupid to drink hydrochloric acid or anything else that’s not supposed to be ingested. Seriously, why do we continually have to be responsible for other people’s (referring to people old enough to know better here) stupidity or and/or lack of common sense? It’s too simple NOT to do something because some else did it. Looking at you Tide Pod idiots. Can we please stop coddling the world now.
I don't see how increasing the salary of a politician would prevent them from taking money for their _campaign_ given campaigns spend millions of dollars and not $174k

This whole salary debate is pointless when there is a "cost of staying in power"
Back when I ran slackware, it was pretty easy. You installed packages from the disk sets and the packages had the files they needed. It kept track of which packages wrote out which file in some text file so on removing a package it would know if removing the file was safe.

If I found software that didn't have a package, I would compile it. When I got more advanced, I'd create slack packages for the software. Since I'd compiled it on my system, dependencies were already met. I don't remember for sure, but I believe that the tools to build autoconf software were something in the core package set.
>Also gnome is so flawed in so many ways from leaking memory due to unfixable mismatch between js and compiled code, to nonsensical handling of multiple desktops, to add-ons that both rely on monkey patching your desktop due to lack of addon api and can with a single crash kill your whole session, to hostility towards themeing, to ugly header bars, to hostility towards support for non gnome desktops.

Most of these issues are just bugs, not issues with some vision. The gnome people I've talked to want them fixed and want help with fixing them. But I get that it's lot easier to complain on hacker news than it is to fix architectural issues in a large codebase.
This is bizarre. I’ve had managers that used to bring donuts on their own dime for the whole team. Are you sure they’re stealing or just taking home a left over pizza?
I really like the Control System Bootcamp videos by Prof. Steve Brunton on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN...

Good book's to accompany the videos are:
- linear systems theory by Joao Hespanha (has some MATLAB code)
- Linear state-space control systems by Willams and Lawrence (has some MATLAB code)
- Control system design by Bernard Friedland (20 usd dover paperback available)
- Data-Driven Science & Engineering by Steve Brunton (video guy above) and Kutz

Some other interesting books:
- Control system engineering: design and implementation using ARM Cortex-M Micro-controllers (some MATLAB and C code)
- Linear Feedback Control: analysis and design with MATLAB by Xue, Chen and Atherton (MATLAB, obviously)

...a lot basic MATLAB control system functions are also available in Octave, Scilab, Python, and Julia packages
I imagine this is self actualization on maslows hierarchy of needs?
Project Cybersyn and the Origins of the Big Data Nation (2014)
I’d be in favor of allowing them to put their money in blind trusts and withdraw them tax free after 10 years. It would encourage them to adopt measures that help the nation gain long term advantages, not short term
Artists make most of their money from touring and merchandise. It's the labels that benefit off of their copyright-given monopoly.
GP's idea is extreme but Salary has nothing to go with corruption.

Politicians take money not to enrich their lifestyle, but to spend on getting elected/re-elected
“Marketing” in this context means producing products. It is not the same as advertising. In most companies the remit of marketing is very broad and would easily cover the store where products are sold.

Having said that, I do agree that Apple has succumbed to some very insidious self-made incentives to not address problems that are hurting their customers and throwing Apple in a bad light. It seems very short sighted.
Just beginning... since 1979.

https://m.youtube.com/c/thisoldhouse
Agree, although the right thing to do helps in specific applications but not so much in the general case. You're very often stuck with other people's MIBs / specs and encoders, trying to make sense of what a) they're allowed to put on the wire and b) what they actually do and under what circumstances.
> Skilled trades pay better than most bachelor's degree track jobs.

My startup is trying to help this in the flooring industry. At https://gocarrera.com we have made a platform for contractors to connect to companies and vice versa. We will roll out a feature shortly for people unfamiliar with the industry to be and to find add join other contractor teams to help them get started in the industry. It's really exciting and pretty shocking how complex the industry is.
All you need to know about Securities Laws and Crypto
Not going to shed tears at a.out's passing. ELF is infinitely better.
Why does so much news coverage insist on dividing the Court into "liberal" and "conservative" justices?

It's almost as if the media thinks there's not enough partisanship in the legislative and executive branches, so they need to inject a red vs. blue narrative to the doings of the Supreme Court.

Doesn't SCOTUS typically decide cases more based on technical legal criteria than partisan ideology?
The turbopumps on the Saturn V first stage make about the same power as an aircraft carrier, over 200MW. Civilian electric power plants that make this much power are called "medium sized" and can power about 100,000 homes.

That's not the power output of the rocket (which someone quoted below). That's the power required to move the fuel and oxidizer into the rocket engines. Pumping the same amount of liquid can move a 100,000 ton floating city across the ocean at 40mph.