skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to USA after studies and then I moved back to Poland. I live in the capital Warsaw, Poland.

One of the best decision in my life.

GAINED: Took advantage of having social network in both ecosystem. I went from engineer to director and growing office to 80 FTE. Being able to relocate can boost your career by many years and I was able to mix best of both worlds.

I like walkable and bike-able cities. High quality of food. Real estate prices and quality is so much better as well opportunity for geo-arbitrage. Plenty of green comparing to plagued by drought and fires California. I do not experience homeless people, do not see people taking drugs or car break-ins as in SG.

I feel also I add way more to ecosystem and helped way more people along the way.

WHAT I SACRIFED: California nature is unbelievable good and diverse. What in Europe will take long trips, in California you got it all in driving distance. Startup ecosystem and concentration of talent was top-notch pre-covid. I love forward thinking and level of intellectual debates. Customer service is way better as well as Mexican food.
SF author here: I was invited to participate in Project Hieroglyph and declined to do so, because the explicit remit was essentially to write panglossian techno-optimism rather than downbeat realist-mode depictions of our more likely futures.

Attacking a propaganda exercise for being propaganda seems, well, a trifle spurious ...!

(Also: essay falls into the classic pitfall of assuming that a genre of fiction has to be didactic and educational. Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell might have declared that to be their intentions, but both of them were propagandists for their own peculiar ideological shibboleths, and they don't speak for the field as a whole. Oh, and Campbell died 50 years ago.)
> people self censor more now

Some do, I'm sure, and I guess someone who posts normal stuff under their name and insane stuff under a pseudonym probably counts as "self-censoring," in a sense.

I don't see how this can be true overall, though. Ten years ago, the time the grandparent poster mentioned, was about when I was realizing that even though the election was over, people I'd known all my life weren't going to stop posting (under their own names) racist Obama memes on Facebook or Twitter, implicitly daring the still-sane people to call them on it. Things haven't improved notably since then. It's not something I think about a lot but my sentiment about internet dialogue over the past decade is definitely not hey, look at all the self-censorship going on. People are clearly concerned with how their comments will be perceived in the future.
> Because I'm wealthy, I can afford all of the things you get for free in Germany without it negatively affecting my way of life, which probably helps substantially, but that's part of America too.

As an outsider, this looks like the biggest problem in the US. The EU is no utopia, but standards of living, environment and way of life is pretty good for the "not-wealthy". In the US, it looks like you can also have a pretty damn good standard of living with a nice environment... but only if you are in the fairly wealthy minority. Which perhaps explains why there is such a focus on unobtainable "prosperity", to make it to the "other side".

Even if I can afford it, that concept of society doesn't appeal to me at all, it feels pseudo-elitist based on something that is mostly dictated by random opportunity - sorry if that sounds horrible.
I generally find Safari’s performance better than other browsers. Also, every mainstream JS runtime is multithreaded. There are limitations on what can be shared between threads, but you can optimize a lot despite those limitations (including using WASM on the web, and native extensions/FFI on Node/Deno).
A year back when we started to built Castled, this technology which syncs data from cloud warehouses to your operational tools did not have a name. The term "Reverse ETL" became popular somewhere in the beginning of 2021. We used this term, since we know that the data community knows this technology by this name now.

But my personal take is that "Reverse ETL" is still a new technology in the sense that it completes the modern data stack, which is built around cloud data warehouses.
"There’s no justification for snobbery of pure over applied work." is such an important point. The most gratifying, impactful work I've done in my career has been applied work.

The growth bit at the end is the most important one, in my opinion. In graduate school, an ecology professor of mine noted that for a field at steady state, the number of PhD students a R1 institution PI could expect to follow them on that path was 1. For a field doubling in size, it was...2.

I've approached my lab trying to be mindful of that.
Interesting, maybe there are two factors at play - In coming to my conclusion I was thinking about a common fan theory that Harry Potter would voluntarily die at the end of the series, which would certainly be a departure from how he was introduced as the 'boy who lived'. But your analysis makes a fair bit of sense in the context of plenty of other fan theories I've come across...
I'm currently looking for a split, wireless ( bluetooth or not ), QMK compatible firmware keyboard that doesn't cost over $300. Or alternatively, an existing one that has an alternative open firmware option.

It seems like something that checks all of these boxes just isn't available.
Yeah something happened to me like that with Germans in Vienna at a station.

I knocked over a beggar’s drink and he yelled, and I was apologizing (like in a “my bad, bro”) and was going to give him a few euro coins, and my friends were pulling me away like this was the most absurd thing!

He wasn't dangerous and was very glad I stopped. Even if it was a ploy by always having a drink on the sidewalk to be knocked over, I was going to use the change on drugs too and still would because i had more change.
> Why can a gun license be used as valid id, but a state college id cannot? College students tend to vote for Democrats. Gun owners tend to vote Republican.

That's quite the conspiracy theory. Here's a more reasonable explanation: the identity verification that you go through to get a college ID is way more lax than it is to get a gun license or basically any other government-issued ID.
Exactly, I asked my manager for raise to match market rate. I received meh in response. It was great motivator to start job search. I don't blame her though. It is just how it is, ignore employees while chasing birds in bush lol
Things get reposted all the time, is there something particularly odious about Chesterton's Fence?
If anyone here liked the movie (which was great), the book is even better! There are a lot of funny scenes that didnt make it to the movie like when the two characters get shot at by some local hunting wild hogs at night + more sex.
Yes.

Technically Soft Bank still owns 49% of arm-china subsidiary, and they could theoretically take control back... but the belligerent CEO of arm-china has supposedly setup private security forces barring access to the facilities, and there is something about a legal seal. So far Soft Bank has opted not to escalate the situation any further. There is of course a lot more to the story.
There's a saying “never let a good crisis go to waste” and I suspect many elites are taking that saying to heart.

On the surface they are complaining but I suspect many are using this as an opportunity to make changes that they've wanted to make for a long time but couldn't for various reasons. Mainly because elites tend to play game of thrones in their respective organizations and it wasn't politically favorable to make certain changes before covid.
So the same way all the other countries developed technical skills that can support entire economies then.
Chrome is all-in on strict process isolation as their Spectre defense. Given the web platform that they need to support, they don't really have another choice -- precise timers and threads, as well as many other ad hoc timing mechanisms, were already part of the platform before Spectre hit. Using process for everything is pretty costly, though, to the point that they have to make some compromises which are open to attack: https://www.spookjs.com/

In Cloudflare Workers, process isolation for every worker isn't practical -- if we had to do that then we'd only be able to offer real "edge compute" to a small number of big enterprises with deep pockets, rather than at prices affordable to everyone. Our fundamental difficulty is that we need a single machine to be able to support thousands of running applications where each app may only get a small trickle of traffic, so that we can deploy every application to every one of our edge locations. It's like if you always had 10,000 tabs open in Chrome.

Instead our strategy is to stack a lot of different mitigations that make attacks slower, until the point where they are too slow to be remotely useful[0]. One part of the strategy is a novel defense we designed with researchers at TU Graz called Dynamic Process Isolation[1], in which we use hardware performance counters to detect execution patterns indicative of an attack and move those workers into private processes. For that strategy to work, though, we first need to slow down attacks enough to give ourselves a chance to detect the patterns -- and that requires disallowing precise timers or anything that could be used as a precise timer, such as multiple threads with shared memory. Luckily, we were thinking about timing attacks from the very start of the project (even before Spectre was known), so we were able to avoid ever putting these into the platform in the first place.

In general I think threads are not as important on servers because distributing work across machines is more powerful anyway. We're trying to create a platform where that is really easy.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/spectre-research-with-tu-graz/
Put some effort in your CV (no misaligned stuff, profile pictures upside down, self-evalulation of skills with all the stars filled), but most importantly, don't lie.

Everything else is secondary, IMHO.

Oh yes, I can't stand those European CV templates, but that's just personal opinion. I'd rather read one CV formatted with one of those ugly templates than one with one of the issues mentioned above.
I think you missed the point of the Weir mention. The author wasn't taking a swipe at Weir (in the way that many sci-fi snobs do). He was discussing Weir in the taxonomy of Project Hieroglyph, which is clear from the full context:

> 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. But whatever you call it, The Martian’s space-hackery certainly couldn’t have inspired anyone “to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale.”

The author is saying that Weir's Martian lacks a hieroglyph, which is to say that its problems are too narrow, too local, too provincial. It's missing inspiration on a "heroic scale."
Obligatory related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
I didn't say they supported making it illegal. I said they supported restrictions on the current level of permissibility:

https://news.yahoo.com/poll-most-americans-support-abortion-...

> In fact, a majority of pro-choice respondents said they would limit abortion to the first three months of pregnancy, the so-called hard cases, or not at all
I try to read these polemics to uncover the seams of my own techno-optimistic worldview.

This one, I think, centers around the idea that technological solutions don’t solve social problems (which has merit).

But at least superficially, I don’t understand why the author polemicizes against technological solutions for technological problems, and seems to argue that (unspecified) social solutions for technological problems are more appropriate.

On a deeper level, and more subjectively, I suspect that polemics like these are motivated by frustration about our relative powerlessness over social problems, as compared to the effectiveness of solving technological problems with technology.
It feels fundamentally wrong that my employer cares at all about where I live when determining my 100% remote salary.

Can anyone offer me rational arguments for why they shouldn’t just pay people based on what they offer the job rather than where they choose to live?

Because it makes me salty to be paid half of what a colleague does because I’m in rural Canada and not San Francisco.
This is really not true outside of extreme non-weight class strength athletes. I'm 6'2" and would need to hit 195 lbs before 25 BMI, which is where "overweight" starts. That's roughly Chris Evans at peak Captain American shape. How many people in any randomly selected group do you think are really more muscular than Captain America and that accounts for why their BMI is high? I'd need to be 234 to hit 30 and qualify as "obese." At that point, you're barely short of peak Arnold Schwarzenegger, which is not achievable without getting fat unless you're taking a lot of anabolic steroids.

And yes, heavyweight boxing champs and NFL linebackers do it, but it just goes to show what a joke PED testing is in most pro sports leagues.
Even without the dressings, they tend to be loaded with items like meat, cheese, bacon, and croutons. The lettuce is a nutritional non-entity -- at best, a way of getting some extra water into you.

Salads can be pretty good, if they're loaded with vegetables. You can get those at places that specialize in salad, and maybe even Subway. But the "side salads" that you get at fast food restaurants, while better than a burger and fries, aren't very good.

As you say, personal choice. But a decent diet consists of avoiding fast food restaurants most of the time. If you have to, make the the best choice you can, but be aware that lettuce isn't magic health food.
> Belgium requires people carry id with them all the time. Does that mean the US should be like Belgium and require everyone carry id?

There's places in the US where you need to bring an ID and your vaccine card everywhere. If we're not willing to require ID to vote, then we should definitely ban that.

> Most of those countries have a national id system. Why wouldn't that be a prerequisite for the US?

Why aren't you counting any of passport books, passport cards, or REAL ID-compliant IDs (which are finally available nationwide) as national IDs?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220125170849/https://www.wnep....
One possible solution is to flash a custom ROM.
The author is dumping his Pixel 3 and seems to be very concerned about wasting hardware.

If only he knew about CalyxOS:

> If you have a Pixel 3 or newer, you can install CalyxOS on your own device.

https://calyxos.org
If they have an architecture license, they can make their own implementations of the ISA.

Certainly, they may choose to derive their implementations from ARM's designs (or use them wholesale), but the license allows them to make their own.

That said, in the mobile space, AIUI only Apple and ARM are nowadays developing their own implementations. In the HPC space, there are others (Fujitsu, Marvell, etc).

(ARM also sells more limited licenses which only allow their cores to be used.)
If the military-funded project creates $1M worth of value using $1B of funds, the unfunded project is objectively better.
This is great. I noticed however that they mention that getting kicked off of Google (which apparently is happening *A LOT* now, as nearly every day there's been multiple HN posts stating they have been locked out) - and this is the (much needed) thrust towards self hosting these services.

However, I noticed they left out making a mail solution. This is important and shows just how enormous of an opportunity there is in this space to make a quick, easy simple, self hosted mail solution.

Any protonmail-like self hosted *simple* solutions out there?
A 1% raise seems insulting imo.
I was going to write exactly this. Florida is the proverbial city on a hill for its progressive crime transparency policies. I'm tired of the ignorant fools giving it a bad name because they're going to drag down a very healthy policy with them.

I'm convinced that other states and countries try to smear Florida because they're terrified what would happen if they themselves had the bravery to commit to Florida's level of governmental transparency.

https://uwf.edu/go/legal-and-consumer-info/florida-sunshine-...
Wouldn't it be better to do that before committing? Or by using a hook?

Since diff is used to make patches it could ruin things I imagine..
Black voters joined the Democratic Party during the FDR era because, despite the party’s segregationist wing, they benefited from FDR’s economic policies: https://www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons/pdf/African_Americans_an...

> Over time, African Americans received assistance from these programs, in part, due to greater intervention from Washington. The New Deal offered a degree and level of support to African Americans that differed markedly from past administrations. While segregation and discrimination was prominent in the local administration of relief programs, this reality ran counter to the administration’s official policy. National policy was difficult to enforce at the local level, particularly in the South, leading many African Americans to feel excluded from relief programs. Nonetheless, the administration sought to ensure that the programs were implemented fairly, which, for African Americans, represented a drastic break from the status quo.

Recall that, at the time of FDR, the south, where most Black people lived, was far behind the north and Midwest. The median income in southern states was half that of the northern and Midwestern states. That’s a bigger gap than exists today between white people and Black people. Black people and poor southern whites were at odds over civil rights, but had a mutual interest in redistributing wealth from populous northeast and Midwestern states to the rural south.

That was what Democrats has always been able to offer Black people that Republicans ideologically cannot: robust intervention from a big government to alleviate economic inequalities. In that respect the Democratic Party of Woodrow Wilson is no different than the Democratic Party of Joe Biden.
> It's a rabbit hole

This is my issue. I really want a mechanical keyboard, but the amount of choice is insane, and the price difference between different ones are insane.

Sadly these days it's hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to products.

All of this, and I have very basic requirements too (at least I think so). 70% keyboard layout, needs to be somewhat quiet, and I don't really want to pay an arm and a leg. Is there not a website where I can filter from many different keyboards so I can short-list what suits me best? I've not found any. The only places where I've been able to find quality information are Reddit and other similar communities, but they contain a barage of information and it's hard to find anything useful.

edit: I'd really like to not have to build it myself.
I agree. It's still a really neat project though.
> The right answer is a solid rebuttal, facts, science, and a debate.

Is it? Because all evidence suggests that rationality does not work against irrational people.
You can make it. But it is debt until retirement situation. Which is often not very convenient to lock yourself to.

We have a housing crisis also here in Europe.
I can't reply to everyone so thanks to you for your replies.

My take is that for simple stuff I don't need classes. An example is I'm writing a simple GUI calculator for my brother who's a stone mason. It's a stone calculator that accepts quality, height, width, length measurements in mm and output a tables with volume costs in either metres or feet cubed.

I could model it as a job classes that accepts a stone list class, and customer name, cubed cost, tax, parameters. And methods to get total costs, taxes etc.

The stone list class is a list of stone classes. Each stone class has quality, height, width, length parameters and methods to get cost, get taxes, etc.

But all I do is store the measurements in a list, each list (stone) is stored in another list, and I iterate. Calculations are done on adding a stone, or when you recalculate the whole list. I know it's not big, complicated, or impressive example but for me it was easier to implement it classless.
And sweeping von Braun's Nazi complicity under the rug while others were hanging from the gallows at Nuremberg.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I had a Nexus 6P and after that experience I promised myself that I will never buy a Google hardware device ever again. The company has the wrong mentality regarding its handsets and how to take care of the customers who buy them.
a lot of polish tech folks go there for Jan-Feb to hide from the winter. Although the climate is nice, I always perceived this place as a temporary hideout for most europeans.
I think the critical difference is that a gut reno to eliminate the actual source of low IQ is significantly more feasible than swiftly eradicating most of the other issues that contribute to oppression. Identifying low-hanging fruit is a good quick win, so long as it doesn't weaken broader efforts.
While I agree with you about the race issue, I do not think the idea of leftist ideology applies here as both sides are opportunistic such as your analogy.
I was a long time reader of antiwork because of the former, and ended up leaving because of the latter. These days it’s absolutely reeking with stupendously bad takes about employment law and workers rights that in most cases aren’t actual laws and aren’t actual issues of “workers rights” just “shitty communication between functioning adults”.

But that’s a story as common as blue skies and chirping birds: once your favorite sub-Reddit gets big enough…it starts to stink.
My favorite thing about those countries is how American taxpayers sent American soldiers to stop violent wars and an actual genocide there within your lifetime.

Did you go visit Srebrenica when you were there?
Here are the 6 unemployment figures, as reported by BLS...
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

U-3 is the figure most commonly reported. U-4,5,6 start to add in various groups of under-employed or discouraged workers. All of those figures are approaching pre-COVID levels and approaching the lows we saw in 2000. We also see U-6 closer to U-3 now than at many points in previous years (as the economy crashes, U-6 tends to get further away from U-3 as workers are forced into part-time or underemployment situations).

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate
I was eventually forced to upgrade my iPad because the YouTube app stopped working due to a required update that was unavailable for my device. Several others such as banking apps stopped working before that.

Before that I had to ditch my otherwise perfectly fine OnePlus phone for similar reasons. I went with a Nokia because they promised several years of Android updates, so we'll see how that pans out.

Quite annoying.
Yes, I've also always felt there must be ways to extract more data from a moving clip, precisely because of the effect he explains, but then it seems that just superimposing the images doesn't actually extract that information, at least not all of it.

But I wonder how to actually do it, do you have concrete ideas for a simple algorithm?
brew edit git

That should open this in your editor:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...

Change the url and sha256, then

brew install git

(This is from memory; I'm not in front of a shell, but I think it's correct.)