skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is definitely not true now as poor people get the overcrowding as well, not to mention that I'm too lazy to see if this class line is actually true.

But more to the point, this person would have been biased. Like today, poor people had some trouble affording the dentist. They would have seen more rich than poor in other words. Like today, good teeth would have been a sign you were wealthy - depending on which country you live in (For example, Brazil has an excellent national dentistry program, and folks tend to go to the dentist regularly as it is cheap-to-free)
> I have my iPhone XR since 3.5 years and I don't need to change it at least for a couple of years, if the battery stays alive

That is how it should be.
>Laravel commercialization model is "give us sufficient money and you'll barely have to write any code."

I actually think this is a good direction. Working its way backward to Low-Code.
they don't make them obsolete, but they do make them less important.

Without these functions people probably have more media queries with min-width min-height max-width max-height, with them maybe one or two without media queries is needed.
I wholeheartedly agree with the author that holding all your state within one system has massive benefits. As soon as you have to make your state cross process boundaries yourself, you are going to have a much more difficult time and are exposing yourself to a much larger problem space.

> If we were to need search, we’d use Postgres’ full text search instead of ElasticSearch.

I think this is significantly easier said than done, I don’t really consider those two pieces of tech equivalent. Postgres FTS is pretty good, but I don’t think it really can do a lot of the stuff ES can do well.
What is the difference between democracy and hybrid regime?

Even though I don't like polish government, I really don't think the country is not democratic (but if course all depends on the definitions). I would even argue that many western countries are less democratic after seeing for example some videos from protests in the Netherlands[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/VICeJG_bayg
Same things every time
- longer battery
- faster chip
- better camera
Back in the "old" days (a couple of years ago) you could buy the base model and insert the 1tb MicroSD card from your old phone into the new one.
What percent of top tech companies were funded by multiple millions in personal or family money? We're on YC's website, which invests $500k in startups ($125k until just recently). I thought most startups were venture funded.
like the Masonic lodges?

Or how about any of the various modern fitness fads. Crossfit, for example.
> Uhm, if I remember correctly the UK removed an elected prime minister of Australia

The UK did not, the Governor-General of Australia did. (The Governor-General is the practical head of state, though the Queen of Australia is the formal head of state; removal of a government in response to loss of supply, which had occurred in Australia in 1975, is not irregular in Westminster-style systems whether the head of state of is a monarch acting directly, a monarch acting through an agent like the GG, or elected.)

The UK (both the government and the monarch as monarch of the UK) hadn't had authority (even ceremonial) over Australia for around 4 decades in 1975.
But everything should be served on / and rendered with JS!
No. You didn't open the web page. The pen also now fits inside the phone.
Jon Appleton (Jan. 4, 1939 – Jan. 30, 2022)
Did Emily Howell actually pass a turing test? It's sounds very "generated" to me.
Yes, democracy is cumbersome but I don't see any better alternatives. You could argue that Singapore is doing great without them being a democracy but it has it's fair share of problems and it's not for everybody.

Do you have any alternatives in mind?
Anybody read the Shoup one yet ? How is it ? I know as much about computational number theory as a chimp knows about computer science.
In fact, something like modern Philips Xenium would be nice to have. Their last feature phone was able to keep the charge for two weeks or even more. A perfect addition to any smartphone. Sadly, they stopped to make new models.
And this process repeats itself in the small. Even abstract paintings are made in stages, by artists stepping back, and seeing which areas they are happy with and which areas need more work.
Even if you make the distinction, "female" describes sex, not gender. So the acronym "AFAB" is a bit internally contradictory if you remember that it was created in order to underline the distinction. Then again, these days more often I see people denying the existence of sex, and replacing it with gender altogether, so maybe it's not that surprising after all.
Ask HN: Who else does not trust the search in GitHub?
> full text content of Moby Dick serialized as JSON

Reminds me of when YouTube added a new comment system, but didn't specify a max length, and rendered the full text by default. People were spamming the Bible in comments.
Linux itself is niche in the consumer space (not counting Android, Steam Deck and such)... fully-libre distros are ultra-niche. An average user migrating to Linux is very unlikely to even come across them, so most of the arguments made in the article don't apply in practice. As for technically aware users, again, nothing stops them from nuking their Parabola install and replacing it with Ubuntu in less time than it would take to write this article.

Let niche projects be. They serve people who seek them out. They don't aspire for the general case, and this rant is misplaced. Seems to be motivated by Stallman hate, frankly.
I think it's ok that some products mature and the evolution of the form factor gradually slows down. Remember when Apple tried to make a slight change to macbooks and introduced touchbars? Some things are almost better untouched.

If you want a totally different form factor, you are welcome to try out Samsung's foldable phone. They are quite impressive.
> But I don’t think it’s really a gender thing, I think it’s a power and money thing. That is, I don’t think mainly white, rich and powerful men set out to disadvantage other men. I think they were more focused on advantaging themselves to the exclusion of everyone else.

> What I find interesting isn’t so much why men are doing poorly. Why are women doing better in certain areas?

You answered you own question. The """men in power""" spend more time helping women like them than helping men different from them (in terms of money and power).
Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
All of these complaints correspond to deliberate tradeoffs, and while they are correct, the negatives are entirely kffset by the positives.

Doing too much? Well it does a lot, but it does it in one place instead of having each daemon or script do it in their own peculiar, non standard way.

Complexity? The configuration files are deterministic, regular, well documented. Contrast with init scripts.

Reinventing the wheel? Well the old wheel was not quite fit for purpose any more. Gradual evolution only gets you so far, sometimes you do need a clean break even though most clean breaks end up being a failure.

Compatibility with BSD? You may care, I just don't. Not saying it's wrong to care about it, but it's irrelevant for most users.
If you're into embedded control Ada is a pretty good choice.

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/10/why-ada-is-the-language-you-...

"Today, software written in Ada forms the backbone of not only military hardware, but also commercial projects like avionics and air-traffic control systems. Ada code controls rockets like the Ariane 4 and 5, many satellites, and countless other systems where small glitches can have major consequences."

Here is a hobbyist example:
https://www.hackster.io/ankurverma608/running-a-finite-state...
a userland dom that's not pathetically crawlingly stupidly slow sounds great! awesome to see this.
So instead of making things better you think lowering the standards is a solution?

Just another data point showing that democracy and morals are backsliding fast.
and labs are incapable of combining naturally sourced mutations.
Ethnically and culturally the residents of St Barth are definitely Europeans. French people who moved to another part of France.

People born there? French kids of French parents.

If St Barth had different demographics, there might be a more meaningful debate to be had about this. It’s not exactly the melting pot you might expect from an old colony.
I did catch myself stop watching YT series like "here's another bigger monitor" or whatever. Idk we all have our thing I guess. I was getting sucked into camera gear for a bit.
> Even if you make the distinction, "female" describes sex, not gender

Sex is a multidimensional spectrum. "Sex" categories are, in fact, genders--social constructs.
PinePhone: Trying out a Linux-based smartphone
what kind of work do you do in Japan?
I learn Turbo Pascal before Turbo C (about 2 decades ago, in high school).
Both used the same procedural programming approach. It was a really easy switch.

Trying to learn Haskell after C++, on the other side, was difficult for me.
Well, that technically works, but it's unusable. And you would have to do that for every site that requires age verification.

It's not really oauth 2 either, even though it re-uses bits of it. There is no "flow"!
seriously, how are Hungary and Poland ranked higher than Romania?
In the sense that some people treat it as perfect, yes. But, as they say, it's the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried.
Personally, I think it's merely increased individualism, exasperated by globalism.

You can still exercise your democratic right in the UK, Brexit being a good example, which was both unsupported by any meanstream party and a totally unexpected outcome. The Tories are in power because the previous iteration of the Labour party was simply a joke.

If you mean to say we're going backwards because you don't like such events, then personally I think that's something else.
Full text, rest in peace Jon:

Dear Dartmouth Music Community,

We write to share the sad news that Professor Emeritus Jon Appleton passed away on Sunday, January 30, in White River Junction, VT. The cause of death was leukemia.

Jon was a member of the Music Department from 1967 until 2009, retiring as the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music. A composer with broad interests in classical, folk, popular, and film music, he was best known as a pioneer in the field of electro-acoustic music. Jon founded Dartmouth's Bregman Electronic Music Studio in 1967, with support from President John G. Kemeny and Gerald Bregman '54. It was one of the first such studios at an American university, attracting many visiting composers from around the world, and it remains a hub of sonic experimentation today. In 1989, Jon founded the Music Department's Master's Program in Electroacoustic Music (now Digital Musics) with composer David Evan Jones. Close to 100 students have since graduated from the program.

In the 1970s, Jon collaborated with engineers Syd Alonso and Cameron Jones at the Thayer School of Engineering to develop the Synclavier, the first commercially-available digital musical instrument, which was widely used in film soundtracks and pop music albums of the 1980s, including Michael Jackson's Thriller, Paul Simon's Hearts and Bones, and Frank Zappa's Jazz from Hell. Jon released more than 20 albums of electronic music during his career, including Human Music (1970), a collaboration with jazz trumpeter and Dartmouth faculty member Don Cherry. In 2003 Jon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.

A longtime resident of Hartford, Vermont, Jon maintained friendships with many of his former students and colleagues. At the time of his death, he was editing his autobiography, titled "Human Music." His manuscripts, papers and recordings are archived at the Rauner Library and the Dartmouth Digital Library Program.

See:
http://www.appletonjon.com/
http://www.dramonline.org/composers/appleton-jon
https://www.library.dartmouth.edu/digital/digital-collection...
Don't use it then.
I've always had a strange interview experiences.

Straight out of university, failed the first one, they had a better candidate, but they called me a few weeks later and made a role for me.
Was here for 18 month's.

Second one was odd, had flown to another city looking for an apartment and had several viewings booked, had applied to several jobs in the weeks beforehand and had several screener calls.
Got a call a few minutes after landing, said I was in the city and could pop around for a face to face, had to navigate an unfamiliar city and transport system, arrived a few minutes late to interview. Had no recollection of the company and told them so, they had to remind me. Had my laptop with me and some files and was able to talk them through some work etc. Interview went well. On the way back to the station the phone me to come back and sign a contract. Was here for 4 years.

Third role, a friend recommended to their employer. At interview one of the recruiters was also working with another company and instead recommend me to that company.
Several reschedules later due to flu on their and my end, had an interview and a small task, a week later had the they offered me the position.
Was here for 4 years.

Fourth role, recruiter game me a call and I went along for the ride... screening calls were fine, interview had a few odd questions but was offered and still here 4 years later.
Yes, but at the same time it’s similar to the issues of the Texan abortion changes and “3rd party enforcement” as a side step around the problem. Google aren’t allowed to discriminate, but are they required to build their systems to prevent the discrimination of 3rd parties who come along, flag videos and by proxy train the algorithms that automatically flag other similar content? Is it legal to compel them to build their systems this way? Do user moderation/flagging count as “content” for the purposes of safe harbour legislation and thus protect Google from consequences regarding users “uploading” it while simultaneously not displaying it to anyone but the user that flagged it also preventing any possible takedown claim or other legal action against inappropriate/malicious flagging/moderation data?

This is Google, they have “fight Larry Ellison in court for a decade” levels of Legal team money. Taking the issue to court would basically be a decade long fight that would need help from someone like the ACLU that knows ahead of time the case will drag on to the Supreme Court and knows what that really means and how to handle that.
The scrolling on the page is so bad. Not only it is highjacked and much slower than my normal schrolling, but halfway through the page the scrolling changes speed and accelerates... Seriously wtf
Why Safari does not need any protection from Chromium
Literally in the same boat, down to the phone model. I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and give up on the jack.
The brainwashed majority of this board is amazing. The previous comment here is true and people judge, from their leather sofas, thousands of kilometers away, a culture as well as a country without knowing the least bit of history about them outside of mainstream media.

In a political context, we can't have political discourse that doesn't align with the Western fantasy? How far have you fallen. Freedom, free speech and all those slogans are just a disgusting lie.

For those who downvoted it and reported it are invited to turn off their TVs and read Time Immemorial. A book written about the recent (decades) history of the region. With quotes and sources cited at the end of it. Ranging from UN, public announcements and other documents.

For example, absolutely everyone ignores the fact that the region of Palestine includes Jordan. A country 4 times the size of Israel with much less populace. When they shriek Palestinians, no one thinks of Jordanians. Strange? Nah, brainwashed.
In Israel, 20% of the population are Arabs. 20% of parliament members are Arabs. Arabs are exempt from the mandatory 2-3 years military service. Arabs receive a special scholarship to universities, regardless of their SAT score. No wonder the heads of hospital departments and country's top doctors are Arabs. Yet, the west is somehow convinced there's apartheid here. Successful propaganda is successful.

You must understand there are over 7 billion people on this earth and most are different than you. In addition, it isn't a defacto rule that everyone alive in 2022 is civilized, will not lie and let you live. Something that the West assumes like some knee jerk reaction.

A small anecdote - my colleague is Arab, works as a DevOps engineer, makes 150k USD a year, had an onboarding bonus of 40k in stocks and receives a "top up" additional stocks every 6 months after 2 years. How much do you make compared to the "oppressed"?

Anyway, ignore your ego and finish that book.
Shutdown: Schedule Shut Down, Complete! (attributable to Cal Newport)
I did analysis on a complex embedded real-time, safety-critical C and Ada codebase some years back, and was surprised to end up respecting the language after seeing it shine in that use case. Really changed my perspective.

Edit: The language itself never get in the way of comprehension. It was extremely easy to read and understand code written in it. After a while I barely noticed whether I was looking at C code or Ada code.
Checking which bands they operate in is also important, at least when I last bought one.
That would be easier to address. There are obviously issues that the submitter wants to tease out. I am not sure "ego" is a good place to start.
LA: Spent about two weeks in LA, don't remember having any significantly deep and meaningful conversations. They're probably all stuck in traffic.

Seattle: people are just like Europeans. Except Europeans have excellent food and are great company as soon as you pump some liquor into them.

In Europe fun time = alcohol time. This rule is observed very strictly.

Seattle manages to be glum post-ethanol.

Miami: Why would I go to Miami?
It's insane. I just got my self a new PC with top of the line specs (without a new GFX card, getting that when prices come down) for around 2k that will last me 10 years. But a phone I purchase for almost the same price will last me maybe 2-3 years until the battery is toast and I start having software issues.

People justify it by the fact that you use your phone all day, ever day but I would say I use my PC way more than my phone.
People were way more beautiful then IMO. Nothing is hidden, you see so much in each of their faces. Nothing is fake. I love it.
Disclaimer: I Am Not A Pilot.

Speculation: maybe they both got TCAS advisories [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
We had one at home from early 1980's. It was bought by my dad's business, it came home weekends and he taught himself to program. He used to create job schedules and pricing estimates and I got to do the data entry!

Dad seriously considered changing career (from electrical engineering), but mom couldn't be convinced that it would pay! Dad stayed in electrical engineering and did alright. But it got me into computers - copying programs onto TRS-80 and then Apple II with CP/M and dbase.
I think there are some people with missing teeth, they look grubbier - everyone seems to be struggling, I don't think we are seeing privileged people.

But what is also interesting to me is that there weren't any wonky faces, lopsided smiles, droopy eyes.
A normal vacuum will also defragment page contents, see PageRepairFragmentation()[1], which is called during normal vacuum from lazy_vacuum_page().

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f...
Unfortunately, no mention of any new Dex mode improvements.

Dex mode is the desktop mode of Samsung phones. Connect it to a monitor via USB-C and you'll have a full desktop experience. Samsung has been improving Dex mode steadily since the S8 (maybe earlier?), it's already gotten pretty good and deserves more attention.

I really hope 4K video output is now supported. That would make it a viable replacement for my work laptop.
> Musk has, but he's South African.

Musk is a US citizen and he did all of this in the US. The point is about the opportunity provided by the country, not about where you were raised.
“I used to admire the West. I used to think it was a just and meritocratic society. I used to think it must be wonderful to live in a country where anybody could criticize the government. [...] Now I think if you are Chinese then it doesn’t matter how good you are at your job—because you are tried by nationality,” she said. “I’ve now realized that the Western democracy is hypocritical, and that much of its media is driven by lies, prejudices, and politics.”

Yes.
Democracy doesn't work well when you're realistically only given only two options to vote for (or two and a half in the UK), and the bulk of the media is owned by a small group of extremely rich people who use their media empire to push their world view.

For a better functioning democracy we'd need to break up media monopolies to help democracy thrive on a variety of viewpoints instead of just two, and we'd need more options of people or parties to vote for.

But even still, do you think the UK would be functioning better if it was a straight up dictatorship? Looking at dictatorships around the world, it seems unlikely.

Even a very broken cruddy democracy is better than the alternative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203095 - the time when this particular link to Weir's story created biggest discussion; also one user posted it 7 times since 2016
Like it did on my Galaxy Note ten years ago! Consumer tech is now just like fashion - moving in circles.
As an ex-Soviet teenager I loved reading Forbes in the early 90s. Thomas Sowell was my jam. The business success stories were so addicting.

It was the time when their advertising slogans were: "Meet Michael Dell. He started reading Forbes at 19".

So obviously I wanted success by association.

As time moved on (and I moved away from Randism) I read Forbes less and less. I noticed that online standards were much looser than print.

What really shocked me when the local (Easter European) print edition of Forbes had a glowing article about a disgraced kleptocrats wife. It was so obviously paid for and below any standards of journalism.

So I started thinking whether my early positive opinions of Forbes were somewhat clouded by my youth.

EDIT: It seems only New Yorker has stayed true to its quality. That is the articles do not try to outrage you and give respectable space to multiple viewpoints. As in after reading an article about fracking in a small town you would not be gathering pitchforks nor wishing for a private market solution. Just mild and considerate.