skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get a lot lighter:

"It was all a dream," or, "It's all in their head," are easy fan theories to attach to works of fiction because that's what actually happened. The creator of the fiction imagined it in their brain. You can trivially apply it to any fiction without any creativity.

More complicated fan theories rely on the content itself, and thus are going to change from work to work. So people hear "It's all in their head," more.
That's probably a good option for someone who writes for Vice or you and I, but for the average user that's pretty unfeasible. I think even with this knowledge, the point of the article still stands.
Not parent, but part-time PhDs aren't entirely uncommon (at least in the UK, where I am) and I'm currently supervising one.

There are two major difficulties and one major advantage over the full-time version. The advantage is that you can work, so students aren't dependent on external funding or an ever-shortening runway of their own funds. This isn't a small thing. On the other side, though, it doubles the length of an already lengthy process (do people really want to be spending 7-10 years of all of their spare time unpaid and lonely?) and increases the chance the the candidate will drop out (in that they keep an alternative on-hand, rather than burning their employment bridges to do it full-time). Given how hard the PhD process can be, simply saying 'sod that' is always a temptation.

Anyway, it'll depend on the supervisor and the university. Some have policies against it, others are happy to consider.
One of the answers to the Fermi problem is that 'advanced' species fall victim to navel gazing.

This is a theme in Accelerando by Charlie Stross where mankind (mostly) gives up on exploring the stars because it can't look away from the fascinating firehose of precessing simulacra close to the sun. It also turns up in the H.P.L.D. (Highest Possible Level of Development) that turn up in the story Altruizine: A True Account of How Bonhomius the Hermetic Hermit Tried to Bring About Universal Happiness, and What Came of It from Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad.

Specifically, many of us see NFTs as a 'circle jerk' in which people 'possess' things to impress other true believers. The NFT enthusiast is not looking inwards, and not looking to the stars, but rather lives with a crowd suspended in a mirror. It's a cultural form, like the reddit meme, that is an odd hybrid of autistic and neurotypical thought that is accessible to both, has the weaknesses of both, and causes some of us to despair for the future.

(I got a physics PhD too but dropped out and, lately, I see sociology + psychology + literature to be a lot more 'real')
As far as I can tell /r/antiwork originally meant just that. Then it evolved into what it is today.
Okay, fair-- I guess I just think it's important to be clear that although most Americans choose to live in sprawling places, if you're newly arriving at the US, it's not strictly necessary. Many, many immigrants choose walkable places, since getting a drivers license, car, etc. are expensive and inconvenient startup costs.

I don't at all disagree that most of the US is not walkable. Both these things can be true at the same time, but I felt the literal statement of the parent comment was incorrect, so I corrected it.
You can post on r/MechMarket or ask the creator here https://southpawdesign.net/collections/all if he will make one for you. Then you can ask on r/ergoMechKeyboard

I think for wireless you better look at ZMK instead. (Kinesis are coming up with a new split wireless model this year, but probably outside your budget).
I'm USian by birth, my parents were both born and raised in Germany, and my partner is Canadian. I've spent most of my life in NW (lower-48) USA and far-western Canada.

As a median middle-class person, Canada is pretty clearly the winner. Significantly less economic precarity, lots of mostly (cough Canada Post) well-run public services, and a somewhat self-fulfilling prophecy that government can make people's lives better.

As a median HN reader, it's a little bit more of a mixed bag:

The pay for software development work in the US is probably about double in terms of PPP versus Canada.

The fact that the US is a much bigger market means that a lot of apps/consumer goods/services are available in the US months or years before they launch in Canada. For online orders, delivery is faster, prices are cheaper, and the selection is better in the US.

Lastly, and this is kind of specific to the Greater Vancouver/Victoria area, but you pretty much have to be part of the 1% to afford a nice house in any moderately interesting city. I think a lot of this has to do with having the mildest weather in Canada and the geographic constraints of the mountains and waterways (along with being fucked up in pretty much all the same ways as the US real-estate market). That said, in Canada the 1% isn't comically out of reach for a moderately prosperous software nerd.

My biggest gripe with the US is the overall sense of incuriosity. Say what you will about American Exceptionalism, if you answer every question of "why don't we <do thing> like <country that does it way better than us>?" with "because we're different", rather than asking if we could try to emulate the way that <country> does <thing>, it leads to a lot of unnecessary stagnation. If the US can at some point get over itself, it probably has a lot of opportunity for catch-up growth.
Blogstatic user here too. It's so nice and simple. It removes all the obstacles (or excuses) to writing. Very convenient if you just want to focus on writing, and not have to deal with maintaining your blog. It's also super fast!
Yes, but I can also put MS Word .docx files 'in a git repo', and diff them with MS Word proprietary version control. That's not good enough for use at work, in a software project among software engineers who don't need or necessarily want no/low-code; and it's not what I want in personal 'home automation' use either, which is where I gather it's perhaps most popular and how I discovered it - and probably most of that audience does want no/low-code and doesn't know 'what a git is', but, you know, I'm a SE, I know what git is, I like it, can't bare the idea of having anything like HA outside of its control.
they objectively are? I think it's lazier to think nothing can be done about it
The residual radioactivity decays at the same rate, but there's also more of it (roughly proportional to weapon yield). Since modern weapons yield much more energy than the bombs of 1945 they also yield much more radioactivity. Further, surface or ground-penetrating attacks against military targets would tend to rain out much more of the radioactive material locally than the relatively high altitude airburst strikes of 1945. The Japanese targets would have probably suffered fewer casualties but would have had a more persistent radioactive contamination problem if the 1945 bombs had been configured to explode on hitting the ground instead of in the air.

You might expect that modern weapons would have lower yields of radioactive fission products since they all incorporate fusion and don't rely on fission alone. And it's true that the US and USSR (and perhaps other nations) successfully developed thermonuclear weapons that produced over 95% of their energy from fusion, which doesn't create radioactive fission products. This was in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

This is an amazing recently published article about the cleanest American device ever tested:

"Ripple: An Investigation of the World’s Most Advanced
High-Yield Thermonuclear Weapon Design"

https://web.archive.org/web/20210616194950id_/https://waterm...

However, devices like that described above were too large for submarine launched missiles. The most effective way to make small, light, efficient warheads for submarine launched missiles is to use the fusion reaction's fast neutrons to fission additional uranium in the tamper around the fusion fuel. So modern submarine launched thermonuclear weapons develop about half of their explosive yield from fission, with corresponding generation of radioactive fission products.

https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-typical-thermonuclear-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/rstpnj/i...
> my health isn't that important to me

There's a saying: "health has many wishes, illness only one". You will miss your health when it's gone.
Thanks for the info. 5-10ms seems great, and a real plus for user experience. As you said, cold starts seem to be a killer, especially if you're trying to optimize the slowest requests.
The table appears to be “quite levels” which are not the same as “we aren’t employing you” levels.

I suspect both are up higher than they were in 2019.
Im not sure how much it will cost, and I don't think its fully released yet but the new Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro is roughly in this area.

ZMK rather than QMK though, checked price (not sure if final) but the model with the open firmware was $439 for their initial run.
> "master repository" had to go.

It had to go? Certainly not gone from git itself, Github or most other Git hosting services.

If someone creates a bug report on your project about virtue-signalling word changes and you give it credibility, it doesn't mean the original word went away from the lexicon.
> Much, much higher salaries - like 2-3x higher than Western Europe _before_ income tax!

Where does this number come from? Assuming SWE, a senior SWE in Europe will generally take around 80/120k € (non-FAANG). 2-3x means a range of 180/400k $, which is not common even in the USA.
I'm not the OP nor am I sure about the specific answer to your question, but an iPhone will alert you if there's an airtag that's following you around which doesn't belong to you. In other words, if someone is tracking you it will alert you. There is also an app for Android that does the same.
Plus countless other options which all work for Pixel devices. It's why I bought Google hardware, to install a custom ROM.
just curious - why are you moving away from stripe?
TBF, a lot of that hasn’t really died out in niche music communities even though it might appear to be. Still widely prevalent in the metal scene at least with people moving to Reddit and Facebook as they age and stop being able to maintain forum software
> Let's say I want to interactively plot some complicated function without slowing down the rest. Can I do this in WebAssembly now?

Yep, with a Web Worker for the secondary thread. However the environment is still young and its' difficult to use heavy computation libraries. Besides for some reason SIMD instructions are present only for 128 bit units (2 doubles or 4 floats). Another problem is no matter what to do it is a layer over the hardware, so it will be slower than specialized machine code (if what you do is not in the JS API)
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What made you decide to move to Iceland? It's not a very common choice for most of the immigrants.
Hey, Alexa, please tell me what random devices in my house are connecting to the internets?

<waits for answer>

Hey, Roomba, did you download the latest firmware yet? Great! Now go clean the dining room, I have a top-secret meeting in there in 10 minutes.

Hey, Alexa, set the dining room lights to "top-secret meeting" mode.
Depending on how DIY you want to be you can possibly source all the parts yourself to save on (third party) labor costs.
From handwired to fabbing open source PCB to asking a third party to assemble one for you.
I recently discovered Shottr [1] (Mac only), but very happy... like their innovative masking tool.

[1] https://shottr.cc/
Python will never have block expression, given how limited lambda is already, so that's not a concern.
> It's clear there is a very low incidence of fraud.

No, because we don't know how much fraud people got away with.
> Sony makes their phones in Thailand, speakers/headsets in Malaysia. Panasonic produces a lot of consumer electronics in Malaysia. Samsung makes some of their phones in Vietnam, and the high-end ones in Korea. Their fridges are also made in Thailand/Korea. Google makes their Nest line of products in Thailand/Vietnam now. Some Netgear Arlo products are made in Indonesia, (some?) Netgear switches are made in Thailand.

Made/Manufactured/Assembled in X country doesn't mean not using Made/Manufactured/Assembled parts from Y country in the process. Take the Cisco router manufactured in Thailand. Out of the thousands of individual components on the circuit boards, not a single IC within it was manufactured in China?
Yes, it can happen that we can't figure out why the fence is there. I think we must pragmatically amend the dictate of Chesterton to be something like: make a reasonable effort to know why the fence is there.

Then we would still notice the difference between two kinds of reformer: those who don't know (and don't care) why an institution is the way it is and those who are reasonably curious about what the institution was for, how it worked, and so on, even as they recognize a need for reform.
My family and I left at the end of 2019. I left for a number of reasons, but the biggest is I don't want my son to not have a life, and instead just have work and high stress. And, even if he won the work lottery and ends up at a tech company I don't want to live in a place where I look at the kids on my block and know their life is just a future of never ending work/stress with no vacation or community that helps them when they get sick.

- Where do you live?

Portugal (although we spent the first year in Spain).

- What's the biggest sacrifice you had to make (i.e. pay, housing, friends, etc.)

I have one good friend in the town I used to live in the USA, I miss hanging out with him. (I work remote so not much else)

- What have you gained?
Everything.

My family has a high quality of life in every way. One of our biggest complaints is that in the USA it is super hard to make friends as everyone is super stressed, doesn't go to parks, and work long hours. Within months of moving to both Spain and then Portugal we have made great friends (even in small town Portugal). It is mind blowing how much happier this has made my wife.

The health care is amazing, I cry a little every time I use it. I have a chronic condition that I need to keep an eye on... and to be able to have a doctor read my chart before I come in and who answers all my questions is just mind blowing. In the USA I tried to pay for two sessions just so they would talk to me... and I couldn't even get that. They just rush me out without explaining anything.

I biked in the states a little, but had too many close calls in a college town and avoided roads. Here I use the bike lanes all the time, and do 1,00+ km long bike tours.

The work life balance is better and people are less stressed overall. No place is perfect, but overall labor has paid time off and gets to have a life even if they are working minimum wage.
My mental image until I looked it up was around the size of a dog. No, I don't know why
The simple answer is because they can and people still accept the positions.

Why would they pay you twice as much when you accepted half?
Talk about generalizing things! You know very little about me and my little joke with using “shit hole” country is hardly a problem the country faces or is in any way perpetuating partisan divides. It’s ok to call out hypocrisy when one sees it. This is especially so when it involves our leaders.

Before you criticize everyone and everything else, take a look at your own behavior and see if there's anything you can do to mitigate harm at your scale.

I haven’t criticized everyone or everything else. I criticized the U.S. for being as wealthy as it is and being in the state it is in. It’s not a good look for you to complain about overgeneralizing and then write the above overgeneralization.

My presidential voting record:

George Bush 1992

Bob Dole 1996

Green Party 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012

Donald Trump 2016
Google sued in US over 'deceptive' location tracking
You wouldn't know it if you only followed mainstream media. I think the corruption of media has been the downfall of our society.
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That is something I was looking for.
Tried Hasura before but was bogged down on:

- How to deploy it myself.

- What authentication should I use.

Seems that Nhost solves these rather nice! Excited to see how it evolves...
To DNA? as in cancers?

Pls send some studies, very interesting.
Covid-19 vaccines don't prevent infection, and it is impossible to achieve herd immunity with them. These are facts, and they are relevant to the comment I was originally replying on.
They don't evolve at all though. Jack cheats on his wife to be with basically no repercussions and Miles never gets over his ex. It even becomes such an issue with his life he drinks his "crown jewel" wine out of a styrofoam cup because he sees no future.
How do open-source communities work?
What about Clementine [https://www.clementine-player.org/]? I used to love Amarok, so been using Clementine on Linux for the last few months.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/f5h3d6/s...
Isn't there an IQ gap between poor people and wealthy? Isn't a large chunck of that attributable to healthcare, nutricion, schooling, stress, pollution, etc, etc.?

Aren't those same factors going to show up in racial differences?
Performance Counters I’d Like to See – Part II
> If you only have one: en-tab.

Funny you should say that, because on one of my computers, the NIC's "predictable" name is just "p1p1" for some reason.
> One possible solution is to flash a custom ROM.

Honestly, that's way too much trouble to actually be a solution. Custom ROMs should be a hobbyist thing for people who want to spend their time tinkering with their phone, not a way to support a not-very-old device.
Let's say I want to interactively plot some complicated function without slowing down the rest

If you can draw your plot in a shader then you can do it in WebGL very easily. You'd only need to update the input uniforms and everything else would happen on the GPU.
I share this experience. I come back and check on it every few months. It continues to baffle me what their priorities are. VIM support but extensions can't even BUILD or RUN.

I love the idea of a native macOS IDE, but it seems like this will never be something I can actually use productively or ever recommend to anyone. Would happy to be proven wrong.
I haven't tested this, but maybe it will serve you as a starting point.

Throw this script into $PATH (let's say into ~/.local/bin/diff-fmt):

#!/bin/bash
exec delta <(gofmt "$1") <(gofmt "$2")

here I'm using delta as the difftool: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

and then, once:

$ git config --global interactive.diffFilter diff-fmt
It's not horrible at all, you're totally right; American society is much more stratified on wealth than the EU is.

You have to understand though, when I travel to the EU, my personal quality of life drops, because of that fact. I understand why, and I don't think any less of the EU because of it (I want to live there someday), but if you're lucky enough to be marginally wealthy in the US, it's a whole different experience, and a lot of HN users will fall into that "fairly wealthy minority".

You're not talking to the median income folks in the US if you come to HN, I would guess. But we don't have to lift a finger to get to experience all the best parts of the US, without many/any of the downsides.
I see code without purpose all the time. I have some colleagues who seem to believe that they should assign `null` to class fields when disposing an object. And no, the object will not be recycled, and never was.
Past thread discussing the topic-based idea when it was first floated by a member of Google’s Privacy Sandbox team
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210507
It was always a security risk because google has always been spying on you…nobody is forcing you to buy android phones.
Xandikos, but it only supports single user last I checked. Radicale and others. There is a list of Cal and CardDav software on Wikipedia.
You might be surprised how much stuff you miss on HN. At least I am, and there can't be many people who monitor it more than I do (at least I hope there aren't! as I'm paid to). If you look at the front page links on past days (https://news.ycombinator.com/front, linked as 'past' in the top bar), you'll see that there are a lot of significant front page stories in a day. You need to click "More" at the bottom at least once or twice to see them all.

It's actually kind of a shocking exercise to do, because it brings home how there is no "real" HN - we all think we're seeing "the" front page, but it's a Heraclitus (Heraclitian?) river.

> doesn't some stories with a 5-600 hundred upvotes linger on the front page for days?

That should be very rare. The software downweights any story that has been on the front page for more than 15 hours, unless we specifically tell it not to (which we might do if the community was particularly enjoying it). If the upvotes are massive enough, a story can linger on the front page despite that penalty, but then moderators will notice it and push it below the front page.

> do you have time to explain why I can find a <700 points story here the next day but not this one?

I have time, but I don't understand the question!
After a few rounds of this, developers basically join a company with a plan to leave as soon as they become reasonably productive.
Not the person you’re replying to, but

I’ve been running MIAB (mailinabox) for business and personal since 2016. I haven’t seen any major issues with deliverability but YMMV. You have to register with all the feedback loops. Once you do, you get feedback when something you send gets marked as spam. Spam on MIAB is handled with postgrey and with spamassasin. It’s pretty good, although I’ve had recent issues with spam coming from gmail and hotmail. I’ve also customized some of the config to bounce Microsoft Sharepoint and Google Docs since neither companies control spam coming from their networks.
It's more like - they let kids play, and those playing kids make stuff other kids like.

It's like letting kids play with LEGO, and then being able to share their creations online (which is a thing). LEGO is not an empire built on child labor. It's an empire built because kids like playing with LEGO.

Roblox is no different. Calling it "child labor" with all the bad connotations that go along with it is simply designed to grab headlines or spread fear mongering.

That kids can make money, which not all kids want at the ages Roblox is really popular, is a plus. If I could have sold LEGO designs as a kid I would have loved it.

It also lets kids learn a lot of entrepreneurial skills if they have that bent, which I view as a massive plus.
I think my own question is something of a trap; in order to answer it, Americans would need a single, definable culture, and just about half of us have one. Just ask the right half.
I don't get the need to bag on the Shuttle program here. The Shuttle was designed nearly 50 years ago with drastically different requirements and stakeholders.
I think this is an illustrative example of how abstract ideas like "systemic oppression" can compete with their original concrete meanings for attention. I see it a lot in business, too - buzzwords that become detrimental anti-concepts after acquiring an existence separate from what they referred to.
What are you referring to? Source?
I started at a company in mid January, and they did annual reviews in June/July. After review, I 'merited' a 4% raise. But... because I'd only been there since January, they prorated the 4% raise to 2%. I never quite understood their logic, but also didn't stay through the end of the year.

EDIT: this was... 2004/2005 era.
FWIW, here is Peter's account on Hydrogen. I have not been able to find a public email address.

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=profile;u=84