skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I tend to notice about this is how easily people seem to fall on both sides of this fence (pun slightly intended). People can be annoyed that a change broke their workflow (why didn't anyone bother to find out if this was in use), while simultaneously pushing to change other things without applying Chesterton's Fence (we should just do ... to solve this problem).

Like so many logical constructs, it really just seems to exist so we can apply it when we are frustrated, not in our day to day decision making.
Anecdotally I know several people who retired in the last couple of years. One who had been working past their planned retirement date but had been coasting on inertia and a few who moved their timeline up to retire a little early. (Though some of them still seem to do part-time consulting.) Apparently there are also fewer immigrant workers due to immigration changes during the Trump administration and the pandemic.[1]

It’s not surprising that a shrinking labor force (relative to demand) causes ripple effects. As good positions open up it triggers a musical chairs cascade as everyone else trades up for better jobs. When the music stops it seems pretty obvious that the lowest-paid and/or worst jobs are the ones that will be empty.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1063104262/immigrant-workers-...
Eastern Europe.
This doesn’t sound like it preserves privacy at all — hashes of interest will still be catalogued and monitored.
Pricing and pricing only. The flat fee is one of the biggest killers. $0.30/per makes it near impossible to offer certain features and 2.9% is decently high (and that's before you turn on any other services). Instead I'm able to get ~2% (varies by card, some are higher, some are lower, but I'm just paying the interchange fee + a small percent to the processor) and zero flat fee on the transaction.

EDIT: Just to expand on what I'm doing, it's software for food festivals where people pre-load their accounts with money and then spend it at the vendors. It means we only need in-person CC terminals in a few places and vendors can use their smart phones to charge someone's account. It also means all transactions go though our software and the festival can take it's cut. Without this vendors would provide.... creative records of how much they sold (festival takes X% so if the vendor can hide some sales it can keep 100% of those sales). Because of this there isn't a ton of room for more percentages/flat-fees to be taken out. If someone wants to buy something and needs 1 more dollar in their account then we give up over 30% to Stripe. Even on a $5 charge we give up close to 9%. If I can get rid of the flat fee we could do a number of things like just linking a card and charging it on the fly with every purchase instead of first loading money onto your account. I'd be killed with fees if I did that with Stripe since we are talking about $2/3/5 items (it's a food festival, the portions/prices are small so you can try a bunch of things). Also things like "auto-reload if your account dips below $X", with Stripe I'd need to make the reload amount minimum decently high to avoid taking a bath in fees.
It's hit or miss, I have had a number of Nexus and Pixel devices and haven't had any issues.
I tried to set Nextcloud up with Collabora a while ago with docker. The connection was not obvious and had many issues with SSL, networking and DNS. The examples they provide still need a lot of tweaking. Setting up the right Traefik labels was also a big trial and error.

Performance on document editing was a little laggy as well. Its really noticeable when your cursor lags behind what you type.

I'd love if the great folks over at NextCloud could focus on the following, which would really ease adoption:

* A polished, extensive example of a deployment in docker with all the bells and whistles (Collabora, cron, backups)
* An env var / config file way to link and setup collabora with nextcloud. No more installing from a gui and typing in endpoints. Please let me config manage this as code!
* a more polished initial setup wizard. I remember getting errors trying to specify all the env vars needed to set up the database. It wasn't obvious what was missing.
* A polished config for common proxies. Traefik is the obvious choice for docker I think.

I don't want this to come across wrong, I think the Nextcloud project is great! I feel like they could add a little time to the things mentioned above and give it a fantastic on-boarding experience.
I loved "Mark I Eyeball"
i'm running the counterfactual simulation and i agree :)
Author here if anyone has questions about IBM System/360 computers :-)
My brother resigned from his job and got another one in 6 months and doubled his income.
How long should they provide software updates for? 3-years? 5-years? 10-years? What would be an acceptable cut off date for providing updates? I wouldn't expect companies to provide updates for their old hardware forever, but what would be an acceptable date that will benefit both consumers and the company itself.
>Unless you routinely destroy your phone within two or three years, there’s no justification from a sustainability perspective to keep using Android phones. Of course, Apple is only good by comparison, as it also manufactures devices that are difficult to repair with an artificially short shelf life. It just happens to have a longer shelf life than Google.

Most of the iPhone users I see are using a phone they purchased within the past three years. Does the average iPhone get used for longer than the average Pixel?
Other hardware companies tend to have even worse update policies...
Relevant comic: https://www.butajape.com/comic/sci-fi-predictions/

Make sure you read the description too.
"EdgeDB is an open-source object-relational database built on top of PostgreSQL. The goal of EdgeDB is to empower its users to build safe and efficient software with less effort."
Did anyone else read this article and still not really get the point the author is trying to make? Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed or finished a sci fi novel last night that ended with a little too much like Bruce Willis Saves The Day.

Stephenson, who he calls out, actually worked at Blue Origin in the early days trying to come up with and design alternative fuel/rocket ideas. Did they work? No. But he's utterly practical with his idea of what Sci Fi ideas actually get manifested into our world. It's the ones that will make someone enough money for it to be worth it.
It was updated in homebrew yesterday[1]. Your homebrew package index is probably just out of date. Run `brew update` to update all formulae.

11:15:43 ~ brew info git
git: stable 2.35.0 (bottled), HEAD
Distributed revision control system
https://git-scm.com
/usr/local/Cellar/git/2.34.1 (1,513 files, 42.7MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2021-11-30 at 14:52:55
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/git.rb
License: GPL-2.0-only
...

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
You're talking about consequences of regular flu. I'm talking about consequences of covid.
Show HN: Glove80 on Kickstarter-500 iterations to make split contoured keyboards
Cog – A Free and Open Source Audio Player for macOS
If someone doesn’t want to defund the police then I don’t see how they can “agree with the general spirit” unless they want to defund the police. It’s in the name. You can equivocate about anything else but not that. Same for anti-work.

I suppose you identified the potential problem here: people inferring that “defund the police” doesn’t actually mean “defund the police” and ascribing softer, feel-good intentions which aren’t there.
Nora Volkow, the director of NIDA, an agency of NIH working on drugs and addiction, has like a 100 papers on cocaine.

Idk why people are so surprised. Even iv DMT has been funded and officially researched some time around 90s
I'm thinking more about just casually writing it down e.g. in an email or FB post - the word for this day was "MROEN" - where the reader could decode MROEN easily, but just knowing MROEN wouldn't leak information. And this is more an abstract question than something with a practical use case.
Don’t create a straw man. Nobody here is arguing against the vaccine. As I’ve said elsewhere it’s an absolute miracle and I am fully boosted and have been since I became eligible for the booster.

The argument was whether or not the health authorities are messaging things in a way that is both honest and transparent. The person you are replying to is arguing that they literally “moved the goalposts” of the intent of vaccines all-up to better align with real-world effectiveness. The argument is that the CDC again shot itself in the foot by making a sneaky edit that didn’t need to be made. Of course the goal of a vaccine is to provide immunity. Why change the wording? Just because the current approved vaccines don’t provide perfect sterilizing immunity doesn’t mean that that isn’t the intent. The edit makes it seem like they are changing to goal to make ambition match reality.

Fauci admitting he downplayed masks to make sure doctors had supplied is another such erosion of trust. Yes his cause was noble and yes he may have helped in the immediate term secure supplies but he also created the sound bite that anti-mask people rally behind. Caesar’s wife must be beyond suspicion.

My overall thesis is that public health officials have been treating the population like children since day one. A mix of not trusting the people with real data (cloth masks are minimally effective, vaccines aren’t perfect, children are at a lower risk) and worrying more about messaging than transparency. Another example, being pedantic on what gain of function is. Yes, what the grant proposals were aiming to do may not fit the scientific definition of gain of function but it certainly fits the laymen understanding of the term. So when a layman asks you about it, don’t scoff and try to obfuscate, answer what the layman was essentially asking which was “did the NIH in any way fund research that could have resulted in a virus that is better suited to infect humans”. And Fauci is smart enough to know that that is what was being asked. But instead he argued semantics while FOIA emails showed he knew exactly what the concerns were.

If you act untrustworthy don’t be surprised when people don’t trust you, even if it what are saying is true now.
Lyon.

I think the biggest shock was just how different classroom French and real-life French is. I studied up to B2.4 level French back in Sydney, and folks just speak so much faster here.

Also, the food is significantly higher quality than back home (even the supermarket processed crap)
In Florida, six-year-old children live in tents:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/florida-affordable-h...

I get it that Floridians don't want a nanny state, but this kind of thing is why the below-median lifestyle in the state looks like a shithole from a European POV.

The fact that the 1% is so well-off makes the picture look even worse.
Very interesting, but it's also a twitter summary of a random reddit post, so I'm thinking this is unlikely to be true.
One thing I love about being in other countries is the combination of appreciating political stances I would never adopt at home, such as Hungary’s land immigration policies, or having complete apathy to the politics as the history and incentive to bother disappears.
Testing Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake laptop CPUs: Many cores make light work
This quote nails on the head what is wrong with the USA "Because I'm wealthy". Being wealthy at the cost of providing a good society for everyone is what is wrong with America. We could have a society where people have a safety net and work/life balance, and also have wealthy people.

I grew up in Fayetteville AR watching my family struggle at multiple times... especially over health care emergencies. Ultimately this led me to leave the country. I'd recommend you take a look around your city / state and look at the damage we are doing to people who have less than us.
The last time I bought a Google-branded phone, they cut support after only 18 months. I’ll never buy a Google hardware product ever again.
I'm middle-aged, greying and Scottish and I've moved both ways: from the UK to the US west coast (Seattle), where I have lived for the last 13 years, and am in the process of moving back to Scotland. I suspect I'm older than most of you (46); and I am married and have a teenage daughter. Nonetheless, here's my take:

Gains you'll get in Europe/UK:
- much safer, more stable society for raising a family;
- lots of history and culture (if you like that, I do);
- much better public education, public transportation and public health systems;
- much better work/life balance (35 hour work week and 6 weeks vacation);
- a broadening of your perspective of life (Americans tend to be rather insular);

Sacrifices of leaving the US:
- massive pay cut and much, much higher taxes;
This means your net pay will be significantly lower than the US West coast. I am taking a 35% reduction in income;
- if you work for a big tech company, their centre of gravity will be the West coast and so you may miss out on some project/career opportunities (this varies from team to team of course);

So, as you can see, from my perspective, having lived on both sides of the pond for decades, the only sacrifices of leaving the US are money related (I don't have any family in the US, though).

My decision to leave the US after 13 years is complex and, as a family man, is heavily motivated by where I think I can offer my daughter the best start in life. We want her to have a quality, classical education in a safe environment. For us, that means returning to Scotland and sacrificing the money of the West coast.

In addition, I have accrued enough wealth over my 26 year career to be financially secure (not rich, though) e.g., I own, with no mortgage, properties in the US and in Scotland. So, being older makes it slightly easier to sacrifice the massive (overpaid?) salaries of the West coast. If I were a young, single twenty-something again, perhaps I would optimise for the money. It's a tough decision.

A side note to counter the pay cut: one tech area where the UK is more advanced than the US is finance. There are a lot of interesting FinTech start-ups. Also, working in the City of London typically pays enormously well (better, typically, than a West coast big tech salary + stock package - for people my age, at least). But it's a very high pressured, high stakes environment compared to the campus life of a big tech company.
I'm curious if this is a provable result or an empirical observation?

(Come to think of it, I'm not even sure what's meant by program validity in this context.)
Herpes. The above article just leaves it up to your imagination, but as other articles point out "According to the CDC, this species commonly spreads herpes virus B through saliva, feces or urine."[1]
Which explains why she was given a rabies vaccine and treated with a course of Valacyclovir.

[1] https://www.pahomepage.com/news/danville-woman-concerned-for...
Oh that's fascinating.

I can eat 1000kcal of ground beef and go looking for more, but 200kcal of gummy worms and I'm hoping I never see them again.
An additional and worthwhile addition: Black Lives Matter.

The movement was never ONLY Black Lives Matter, or Cops Lives Don't Matter, or any of the other ways various opponents have decided to interpret the name to justify ignoring the societal criticisms of the protests.

Truth is, words are tough, and the more complex and nuanced a topic gets to be, the more a pity simple phrase or title become impossible to be accurate. Additionally, being provocative has its uses, especially in the early awareness stages of a movement.
This is just not true. The vast majority of hours flown (and fuel burned) are for commercial purposes. These are real money-making enterprises, not some rich persons play thing.
Should it be the worker's duty to constantly be searching for better opportunities and interviewing for new jobs while working - or the employer's duty to provide reasonable CoL raises so employees aren't driven away from the company?
Nice and simple UI, cool!
fyi Your purple "Deploy on AWS" link (https://docs.castled.io/deploying-castled/deploy-on-aws-ec2) at the top of your README yields a 404.
I have a smartphone but most of the notifications are turned off. I follow up and look at stuff when I want to.

I like being able to read or browse the web in boring situations, like standing in lines or in waiting rooms. I don't see the big difference between that and say, reading a book.

I've never gotten or honestly desired a social interaction while waiting in line for something.

Social media and everyone thinking the world cares what they say about everything is the problem, not the smartphone.
> He was discussing Weir in the taxonomy of Project Hieroglyph, which is clear from the full context

I'm reading it as Weir's work doesn't count as science fiction, which goes beyond following Project Hieroglyph's rules:

In fact, The Martian was so modest that it may not have qualified as sci-fi in the first place. Cory Doctorow, another one of Stephenson’s Hieroglyph collaborators, uses the term “design fiction” to refer to works like Weir’s.
Your LA baseline is definitely much different than an average European. It's like how an American/Australian colleague moved to Berlin from Sydney, bought an apartment right in the middle of the city and paid it all in cash.
Same.

What I don't get is that on Amazon I've purchased 10's to 100's of thousands in product (was an early user, business account admin etc). Of all the reviews that SHOULD have credibility, someone who doesn't review a lot and buys a TON of product - you think would be slightly credible?

Instead, for those (few) times I've posted a clearly negative review - gone for whatever reason. If you buy enough from Amazon, especially in last 5 years or so, you got some total absolute trash in there.

"Genuine" Apple products absolutely totally 100% fake trash. How amazon's supply chain thinks these are legit is mind boggling.

I've had such bad luck with "genuine" and "oem" battery replacements I've given up - most of these things are just crap scam stuff.

I'm actually curious how this even happens sometimes, some of the used crap was BADLY used, think of a bunch of electric pencil sharpeners for an office, all "new" that are filled with old pencil shavings, scratches etc etc. Product reviews that when you go back to understand how the piece of trash product got 5 stars you realize the reviews DO NOT EVEN RELATE TO THE PRODUCT you purchased. I mean, how does this even happen?

So you get out the review - hey, this things was garbage, and many of the 5 star reviews were for a knife set it looks like instead of a powerbank. Review rejected :)
The original author can do that. Another author cannot add that functionality later, as a library. The can only define a new kind of dog.
rqlite, the distributed SQLite DB: Designing Autoclustering with Consul and Etcd
I’m a US citizen with a skilled workers visa.

With a skilled workers visa you are eligible to apply for permanent residency after 3 years, and for citizenship after 7 years. Norway does allow duel-citizenship.

If we stay, and continue to learn Norwegian, we could (in theory) have duel citizenship in 4 more years.

I moved to Norway to work for a specific Norwegian employer and already had them lined up before moving to Norway. If you are a software engineer or developer, the market here in Oslo is in demand for skilled professionals.

If you have a valid visa, you have access to all the social benefits here in Norway. It does take a couple of months before you are in the system.

With a skilled workers visa, I also have the flexibility to switch employers (as long as I continue to work as a software engineer/developer) without having to reapply. However, I’m not allowed to freelance or have a side business here in Norway.
You know, I am so bummed Microsoft gave up on a mobile OS. I feel by this time they would've been be a real refreshing alternative to the <expletive>show we have right now.
This thread is filled with folks who are _convinced_ the USA is a shithole because they lived in LA once, or they read too much depressing news.

More for me, I guess.
The difference here is that the slogans you listed are usually euphemisms for something more insidious. Anti-work and defund the police are the exact opposite—deliberately inflammatory slogans that exaggerate (if not outright contradict) their underlying movements.

The former just seem like good politics: "states' rights" allowed slave owners to court people who were worried about "big government" while conveniently ignoring the grave injustice that's actually occurring. The latter seems like good twitter politics; it'll get good engagement for being so inflammatory, but at the end of the day, most people don't actually agree.
> My impression is that the CCP's idea of justice is whatever benefits the CCP.

Of course, there’s no separation of powers in China, the courts are not independent, they are part of the Communist Party of China. Nor is there a constitution that all court decisions must uphold. The only guidestar of the Chinese court system is to keep the CPC in power, and uphold laws passed by the CPC, nothing else.

> This doesn't differ too much from other nations except in degree and in their ability or willingness to hide that fact.

It differs from Constitutional republics where the court system is independent from political parties and mandated to ensure all laws passed by the legislative branch and actions taken by the executive branch do not violate the constitution, regardless which party is in power at the time.

Yes different political parties will try to pack the court when they can, but that pendulum swings back and forth over time. 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. You can see the evidence in how often power changes hands between parties.
Giddy up!
Ads are designed to make you feel unsatisfied and compel you to buy something you most likely don't need to scratch that itch, which is why I block them (also, to alleviate tracking more generally).

If forced to watch ads, I'd take untargeted ones any day.
Mobile devices are great for passively consuming content and recording your surroundings. For the most part, that is not what people are using computers for when they're using computers for work. They need keyboards and full-size displays and the ability to install software that doesn't come from Google's or Apple's walled gardens.

Heck, mobile devices might make it worse by keeping you constantly connected, receiving work calls, e-mails, Slack notifications, all reminding you to stop doing physical activity and get back to your desk. They might also make it worse by the fact that you can passively consume content from them. It's not like you can just walk around or go for a run while watching episodes of your favorite show on your phone. You need to watch the road in front of you, which means you need to stop moving to watch something, which you can now do from anywhere instead of only when you're on your couch.
I think it comes down to an ability for a company to recruit. They can't recruit someone in SF with a salary based on rural Canada's cost of living. The justification is that it's in the company's best interest to reduce costs as much as it's in yours to get top dollar.

A somewhat parallel example is whenever someone tries getting a car repaired or plumbing work done. They may all charge their own flat rate for labor but they almost always exorbitantly overcharge for parts. Why? Because if everyone else does it, they can too. It's money on the table they would be missing out on otherwise. It's an infuriating situation (I was charged $30 for 2 $4 gaskets on my repair yesterday) but it's a pattern that's been quite commonplace.
Think logically about what you just wrote... Masks can and do in fact limit the total spread/infections.