skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this as the author viewing media through a very modern (and deformed) lens: that books, TVs and movies should have a message and that message should be correct and proper for the current dogma. The idea of a story not conveying some kind of appropriate (usually left wing) morality is totally alien to them. I’ve seen this more and more - younger people seeing older movies like Scott Pilgrim (to take an example) and seem alternately aghast or baffled that the protagonist isn’t a paragon of politically correct virtue. “What am I supposed to take away from this?” is the typical refrain (or a variant of it). They’re utterly confused by the idea of characters not conforming to political and ideological stereotypes. It’s caused this winnowing of acceptable tropes and themes and frankly made most modern media extremely frustrating to consume.

You can really see it starkly when you consume non-western media. Not that other cultures don’t have their own tropes and orthodoxy, but the narrow range of the western codex becomes starkly apparent. You keep subconsciously expecting characters or stories to fall into their western political ruts and it’s startling when they don’t.
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> How can you be broke as a senior software engineer?

Housing and taxes are both expensive.
Good questions, thanks for asking.

For context, I am considering moving back to the US.
Why would you need that in a runtime context ?
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#z...
A pretty typical big government project to me. Lot's of power centers pulling in different directions, little focus on actual needs.

Space X does better work in part because it can make its own decisions and focus on long term goals.
I lived in Kreuzburg when it began gentrifying. I lived near the Kotti. I liked the area and have a love/hate relationship with Berlin. May Day in Kreuzburg was interesting. I got an appointment to see a dermatologist in Berlin in one day. I had no German health insurance or travel insurance. The whole thing, including medication, cost me around 30 euros. Their health system is much more sane than ours. In summer go to the lakes in the eastern part of the city. You’ll see whole families stripping in front of everyone and going for a swim. Definitely a different experience. Good luck!
They must be exceptionally wealthy to afford said treatment with no insurance coverage. If you're wealthy, it doesn't matter what the system is because you can just go to a different country to get treatment, that's the same for people in the US.

I have a roommate who hasn't had health care most of his adult life because the cost is so high and the fact that most low-end jobs don't offer any. But fuck him I guess.
I think iPhones get 6-7 years of support. I believe the new Pixel 6's are up to 5 years.
This varies too much by individual. For me, the difference would almost entirely built upon where you live. Things like healthcare are already included in my job.

This is assuming I get paid the same but somethings just differ a little. If I was paid market rates in Europe - I’d be probably get $200K+ less than I do now and that’s not insignificant…
Honestly, Google needs really needs to do better. Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295639/samsung-galaxy-d.... And frankly, how hard/expensive would it be to support these devices for far longer? Google is a massive company, and I see little reason why that can't employ a team of devs backporting patches to older phones. Current versions of Windows and Linux run happily on decades-old hardware, so a phone should at least be able to get patches for known security issues for a decade. Dev resources would be far better spent on this than yet another hamfisted attempt to build a messenger app that they'll kill in a couple years anyway.
I don't think either side owes the other anything. But that goes both ways and it can mean losing half your staff in a year for a business and training workers who have no loyalty to your business.
> A number of vaccines are already required for school children.

To the best of my knowledge all the vaccines on the required list are fully FDA approved. COVID-19 one has a lesser "FDA emergency authorization".
> There’s a social contract with the citizenry that doesn’t exist in Communist countries - adhere to the constitution or be kicked out of power in future elections

I am thankful for that difference. That said, recent political events in the U.S. have shown how much of that 'contract' is just convention.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does Topics differ from FLoC in that regard? It seems like Topics will also be in-browser, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding.
I'm also Australian+American+European and I have to agree with this and your original post.

People replying to you (Americans?) seem to take great offense to your (harsh) criticism of America but it's largely on the mark. The US has many good things going for it but they mostly have to do with having a lot of money/power, trying to get a lot of money/power or being ideologically way off to the right.

I don't know what you dislike about Australian culture but for me it's the parochial nature of the place along with the smugness combined with the cultural cringe. It does indeed have a great quality of life as long as you enjoy beer, sports and the beach. You'll find the most interesting Australians are elsewhere in the world. To give it due credit it is a country with massive immigration (30% of residents were born overseas) where people by and large get on very well with each other.
I experimented with modafinil for a week once. Early on, it seemed great—I was productive and had a good mood. By the end of the week, I really didn't feel any different from baseline, and it was exacerbating my bad habit of clenching my jaw during focused work, leading to soreness in my face by the end of the day. I did not perceive the benefits to be enough to continue.
You could probably just split the word up with random gibberish letters in between. Easy enough to write and takes time to figure it out if there's any pattern.
We made a messenger bot that turn your tweets into Tiktoks, Reels and YT Shorts
I think a temporary injunction was reasonable given the severity of theracares claims. They said ascension did something illegal and as a result, lots of 3rd party individuals will die. Taking a weekend to review and weigh the arguments from each side is what I would want to do. Remember that judges are human too and need time to review the relevant laws and think
For sure. I'm still wrapping my head around the tech, but they're saying Decentralized Proof of Stake which sounds like it theoretically takes care of sharding, PoS et al.

FWIW, I'm strongly convinced that Richard Heart is not a scammer, inasmuch as I do believe his intent is not to make himself rich (which I believe he already is) but to "make the best cryptocurrency." Whether it works or ends up that way is, of course, another story. Dogecoin being perhaps the best example of "what the creator wants might not matter."

(Compare to Elon Musk, who is obviously screwing around with crypto to make himself richer.)
It's frustrating. I've seen anti malware software pick up anything that has a file name in Mandarin as malware. I used to use a great little program called Clover which was basically File Explorer for Windows but it allowed tabs. I stopped using it after a while because anti malware kept flagging it. Did it have malware? Maybe! I couldnt really get a good answer and I figured having tabs in file explorer isnt worth it.
Just gonna add to the chorus of "this is really easy to say when you're still in good health." You'll care when it goes bad. I had ten screws put in my spine and two discs removed a few years back, which has the unfortunate side effect of putting more strain on my hips and making them very stiff. I got lazy midway through the pandemic and totally stopped lifting for 15 months. I got a little fat, but only a little, and that wasn't really a big deal. But it destroyed my hips. They got unbelievably stiff, almost nonstop daily pain, at one point I could barely even keep having sex with my wife because the positions hurt so much.

As soon as I started squatting again, all that hip pain was instantly gone, literally the next day. I'm not even talking extreme effort here. Two days a week, nowhere near a heavy weight. Just squatting at all, and so much of a quality of life boost I was missing out on for no reason, just sheer laziness and apathy.

Sometimes it's worth it to do something you don't enjoy at least a few hours a week, to make all of the rest of your life more enjoyable in return.
Elon Musk Urges McDonald’s to Accept Dogecoin for Payment
I just scp the whole database to my local machine and use "db Browser for SQLite" (a mac app) :)

Would love to hear if there are other server-based db browsers for SQLite, though.
> Looking through the various dystopian fics, films, whatever, they all started as someone's utopia.

Exactly! This is always what happens when people have more loyalty to an ideology than to humans.
My understanding is that the bottom of the wage scale have seen the biggest gains, in real terms (https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/inflation-wages-low-income-wo...). Its the middle and upper middle class that are being made (a little) poorer by inflation. A fine trade-off imo. And given the asymmetry of the risks policy makers faced (great depression vs higher than average inflation), they wisely went with the risk of inflation.

And its not clear that US federal spending is causing the inflation. Month-on-month, the trajectory has been remarkably similar between US, UK and EU.

https://econbrowser.com/archives/2022/01/inflation-us-vs-eur...

Update:
I think some people's views of this are skewed by the prices in the places they live. It's worth while doing the comparison of what can be bought for about 1.4 million, in Roanoke:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15-Cardinal-Rd-SE-Roanoke...

and in Los Angeles:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2495-Butler-Ave-Los-Angel...
The Californian Ideology (1996)
Maybe to build custom proxies with the same API.
Is "the math stuff" all the optimizations being performed e.g. vectorizing multiplication?

Not trying to sound dismissive here but the core math the post is working with is actually a pretty straightforward matrix multiplication.

The bulk of the discussion focuses on optimizing the execution of that straightforward multiplication algorithm [triple-nested for loop; O(n^3)] rather than making algorithmic/mathematic optimizations.

And again, specific questions are easier to answer. :)
> You're not talking to the median income folks in the US if you come to HN, I would guess.

True, I think there probably is another geographical difference here.

Whenever salaries are discussed on HN there appears to be one or two zeros difference compared to the median salary over here for similar jobs - only as a casual observation, I can't be sure (i.e we get paid significantly less). If it's true, I suspect this is because of the differences in income threshold for a decent standard of living, and because of certain aspects that are mostly decoupled from salary such as social health care.

Another resulting difference then, might be that on average workers of tech jobs in the EU are more likely to rub elbows with and be more relatable to people of "less prestigious" jobs - which I think is probably a good thing - I feel like I'm about to be accused of being a socialist though :P
It doesn’t take long as a system administrator to become certain that printers are working against you. By and large they have user hostile hardware and software.
Nah. The tools of persuasion applied to climate change denial are far, far too powerful. If people haven't been convinced already, no fictional depiction is going to move them.

Climate change is a tiny piece of a much larger cultural war. The battle lines of that culture war are falling almost identically with COVID, and that's a problem with much more direct and visible consequences.

I know David Attenborough credits Star Trek IV with saving the whales, but nobody was ever against saving whales. They just didn't care. In the case of climate, people actively do not want the climate problem solved -- they consider it a deliberate hoax being perpetrated on them, and even measures that improve their lives are rejected as being totalitarian.

It would be great if artists of some sort could change that. The propaganda that convinced them otherwise is, itself, a form of art. But they've got a huge thumb on their side of the scale: the law always favors inaction, and it takes only a moderate-sized minority to prevent anything to help. It doesn't matter how aware everybody else is if collective action is impossible.
Yeah I re-read it 3-something times and I have no idea what's going on here. Here's what I took away

- Most Sci Fi is too dystopian

- Project Heiroglyph forced authors to be techno optimist and it didn't go anywhere

- Authors must deal with human malfeasance (isn't that just the dystopian fiction that he is against)

- ???

- Profit?
Apple now is managing to give 7 years of support for iPhones, so that’s a good number to aim for.
I’ve recently started a new personal project and I’m using Deno. I’m really happy with it as my main complaint about typescript currently is the transpile process slows down development when you’re used to all the bells and whistles of modern JavaScript. Things like hot reloading take 3x as long.
At this point the only safe bet is S-series Samsung which are part of their enterprise program.

Nokia wad okay-ish for a while but I don't think I would buy one today.
This less politics and religion in workplace statement is due to the general disinterest in both, not because we stop discussing controversial topics.
The issue with mail is that it is supposed to be a reliable service where people can contact you on a multi-year or multi-decade span.

Sure it is fun to self host mail in your Raspberry in the garage. But for many people the reliability of standard providers is a necessity. And that's even without accounting the anti spam filters
Its SQLite so you would just copy the file and download it to a local machine for analysis through any number of tools. Presumably your setup would already be doing this as a form of backing up the data periodically.
This is not a helpful attitude.

I have plenty of issues with Google's posture on privacy, but I don't expect them to steal credentials for other services, drain my bank account, blackmail me based on personal information, or any such thing. Conflating the two removes a lot of much needed nuance from the discussion.
IMHO quite generous by them, in my former companies you skipped the raise talk if you joined less than 9 months ago. Makes sense, because you just negotiated your salary on entry.
Google commited to five years of security updates for the Pixel 6. It was one of their big selling points for the device.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en-G...
Thankfully not something I, a civilian, in a gun-free society have to think about.
What can't we just compile BLAS to WASM? Isn't this the point of WASM?
Germany and the US have very similar levels of foreign-born populations.[1] Austria has a much larger muslim minority as a share of the population than the US, and the same goes for Germany.[2] While US politics are certainly more divisive, it is hard for me to see how it is more diverse.[3]

Fully absent from your consideration is the fact that both Austria and Germany are part of the EU, a project in diversity maybe only outdone by the indian federal state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country

[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_G...
Sorry, I think you misunderstood. This is installing both types of card in the same computer: one for desktop/Wayland (AMD), and the other for ML/CUDA (Nvidia).
Beware simple narratives. They almost always lie.
I believe using a headless service on Kubernetes is the right way to build node discovery and auto-clustering on that system, but I'm interested in learning about other approaches.
As this article aptly demonstrates every time a phone is bought it is an opportunity to leave an ecosystem.

The manufacturer cannot guarantee that that the phone sold to a consumer will be replaced with a phone from the same company. So it's definitely within the interest of the company to support the phones for longer to keep consumers in the ecosystem.

Pretty sure that's the whole point of pixel 6.
Techno-optimism? He clearly hasn't read The Expanse, Dune, or Red Rising series (all recommended by the way :)).

Honestly I think Sci-Fi is honestly more pessimistic in general than optimistic.
> You can't escape this

You can. Use a "dumb"phone.

Funny how "dumb"phones are better at reliability. No need for updates, and battery lasts for more than a week.

Funny how they still offer replaceable batteries, even though they cost a fraction of "smart"phones.

To avoid financing the software-planned-obsolescence empire, you can use a combination of cheap second-hand "smart"phones for maps and chat apps that are important for you, and a dumb phone for reliable stuff like alarms, calls, and SMS.
I'm guessing here, but you're probably American taking offense to someone being frank and direct in their communications. It's a cultural difference.
I kept my OG Pixel for 5 years and had the battery replaced twice (2.5 years and ~4 years in). It worked fine until the last moment when it just died on me (like, absolutely bricked).

I stopped getting software updates after 3 years but the hardware continued to be very capable until the very end. The battery was expected to degrade after some time, and the phone didn't feel as snappy with modern apps, but it was perfectly fine as a phone.

I'm now on a Pixel 5 and expect to go through something similar. It is absurd to me that people switch phones every 2-3 years (or even annually).
Isn't that what comment sections are? /s ;)
> I tried to write a measured review on Amazon explaining the problem, but Amazon rejected the review.

This facet of the Big Tech censorship problem hardly ever gets any attention, but it's no less bad than YouTube and Twitter censoring their political opponents.
Yes indeed! Even though it's only been a month I keep posting about it in HN threads about SQLite and people keep going "wow I never thought about that!"
My guess is that it was because their revenue relatively remained flat whilst R&D expenses inflated as they always do with more and more advanced SoCs and processors.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1132064/arm-quarterly-ne...

If ARM was only about the instruction set and high level IP it wouldn’t be an issue but they develop full designs and those are the ones that get implemented by most users.

Considering the exponential growth in ARM processors and SoCs in mobile devices and IOT/IOE devices since SoftBank acquired ARM it’s really a mystery tbh on how the hell they mismanaged them so badly that they didn’t managed to capitalize on an exponentially growing TAM.

They kinda flatlined before that too but at least they had a steady growth rate in the years prior to the acquisition.

Something went wrong somewhere.
Once you realize that it's a completely sandboxed environment that works on any platform, it's a lot more impressive.
I absolutely agree that's what it sounds like. Nevertheless, I'm primarily investing* in Hex / Pulse / PulseX.

*No, I'm not putting in any money that I can't afford to lose, what are you, crazy? :)
No. It is literal. Tap water is generally healthy in Europe.
> music player daemon

I use it for like 15 years now. No other player is that versatile.

Client/Server, very stable, small resource footprint.

Recently I used mpd to play audiobooks and live radio streams on my headless server. MPD uses icecast to make the stream available in my local network so I can use chromecast and/or google assistants to listen to the streams. Its more or less running transparent in the background and iam very glad I found this solution.
I would not be surprised if apple was forced to implement a backdoor for these devices seeing their potential. Same goes for the Starlink satellites.
How Do FAANG Companies Think About Recruiting?
> Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead poisoning.

>What can we do to reduce this?

I just love this template of framing important issues:

Step 1: Imply like there isn't anyone respinsible for a problem, as if it is a natural phenomenon, inspite huge corporate interests being the driving force of the problem.

Step 2: Imply that "we" are all together against this evil (although "we" includes the people that cause the evil) and also imply that "we" the common public has some form of power to actually enforce change on such a matter.

Step 3: Propose a solution that just happens to favour some corporate interests antithetical to the ones that cause the problem and imply that "we" all want this, right? Because what is happening right now is bad, so we are all onboard with your solution.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, makes complete sense.

I suppose that means that for projects such as python-wasm [0] that are porting other language runtimes to WASM they will have to go the Asyncify route for CF Workers with all the overhead that entails?

From the looks of it they don't think asyncifying Python will be possible in the near to medium term [1].

0: https://github.com/ethanhs/python-wasm

1: https://github.com/ethanhs/python-wasm/issues/12
I usually try to leave the Magit praising to others in these threads but in this case I would have found it hard to resist. Glad others have already taken care of it. ;P
> I've started noting sites that I trust when looking for reviews and recommendations and always go there first.

I normally look into Reddit & YouTube for such reviews because it is always people who have the authentic experience with it. Often I would find people responding to reviews in the comments and it helps to get a different perspective on the products. If it didn't have it, then I go on my trusted review sites.
> Doing what they always do, stealing without repercussions from innovators around the world.

The US invented this practice, we didn't respect the IP of other countries until we started generating significant amounts of our own. China even stole this idea!
Love sharex. The gif feature, region capture, image editor etc makes life a breeze.
gmusicbrowser (combined with Ex Falso for more extensive tagging) has replaced foobar2000 for me, and I _think_ that these days I like it even better than I ever liked foobar2000 - but maybe that's just the long years making my memories of its greatness somewhat hazy...
Those don't run on Linux, but they're basically the same.

On Windows, Flameshot's installer is 40+ Mb, while Greenshot is 1.8 Mb. ShareX's installer started small, but has grown steadily up tp 7 Mb. I know installer size is not equivalent to performance, but on limited machines I stick to Greenshot, which works well for my use cases.
It's the classes.

Roblox sells classes as a type of tech education after school activity, where they teach kids to build stuff in their game engine. Parents like it because they are often worried that regular school curriculums don't prepare their kids for a tech centric economy. HOWEVER, the material for these classes are entirely un-subtle about the prospect of making money.

Even worse, the game will guide you to spend in game currency advertising your game.

It's using the same dynamic as a multilevel marketing scheme on children.

Disgusting
They're not that expensive, and if a senior software engineer can't put a roof on top of themselves while paying taxes, how can anyone expect a school teacher or a nurse to do so?