skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citizen scientists do make discoveries - we often discover NEO's, comets and supernova to assist scientists who have limited capacity - I've seen some great work here and lots of technology + telescope convergence of being able to scan thousands of plate solves a night using GPU to find near earth objects. This part of citizen science is doing well...

but astrophotography, it used to be able the wonder of capturing it - regardless if you prefer visual with your eye or assisted seeing with a camera. There used to be a aura of DIY - find a camera, adapt it, take some photos, share them, have people say good job.

Now its really about memes, trolling and who can get the most Instagram's.. and that's kind of depressing.

The people doing citizen science are way outnumbered by the vocal ones comparing their debt, their investment and their preference of equipment as a superiority complex and social media feeds into that and supports it with the algo favoring the controversy and the fights

It was a bitter sweet day to sell off my remote observatory and get my nights back...

but the passion for the heavens is still there

however, that "eyepiece vs a camera" thing is very much part of the problem with the hobby... it just shouldn't matter.
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i feel so blessed not having severe headaches, i get normal ones from time to time but nothing debilitating. Watching the movie Pi and then reading about cluster headaches on wikipedia scared the crap out of me.
It's easy to find counter-examples of both non-technologists who who work hard and are rich and people, and technologists who work hard and are poor, but that doesn't disprove that there are, as OP observed, a huge segment people in society who do work much harder and are paid much less than your typical technologist.

Years ago I did an internship in an emergency room to gain a certain medical qualification, and there I saw first hand people who worked much, much harder than I for much less pay. And they are saving lives while I write useless enterprise bloatware. Feeling that there might be something wrong with this dynamic is not a sign of a superiority complex, it's a sign of empathy and humility.

That the root comment was a GPT-3 generated post was the most charitable interpretation. The other is that it's some kind of flamebait.
Clicked several times on that button and this is what I've got:

- Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers

- 12 Useful Tools for DevOps

- Simplest alternative IDs with Rails

- How do I update my website using the iPad

- Certified Blockchain Professional - Module 03: Blockchain Mining

- Principles for the Metaverse

- Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5

- Is Agility Related to Commitment? – Money Flows Part II

Is the "IndieWeb" basically just English-written personal blogs from HN folks now? I'd have hoped to find a bit more of a diverse landscape.
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> Do you have an explanation for why the increased price of gasoline won’t just infect prices for all the goods and services which depend on it?

It will, but the price of oil has already dropped substantially from the recent peak, and probably will continue to do so.
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That doesn't sound like quite the same thing. This finding seems to suggest that the memories are compressed from the get-go. Where you are describing why memories get more compressed over time, I think.
But, if one criminal always gets away, I think many criminals will use that as a justification to commit atrocities.

That's why fair assessment is required. And, I personally think US & UK have no rights to teach other about humanity. They are currently pointing atrocities in China to forward their political agenda, not for humanitarian cause. Countries like Sweden & Switzerland are in better position to lecture other other countries regarding peace & harmony.
DDD seeming as an extension to OOP is no co-incidence. An intro page[0] for author Eric Evans shows:

> Eric Evans is the author of “Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in Software,” Addison-Wesley 2004.

> Since the early 1990s, he has worked on many projects developing large business systems with objects with many different approaches and many different outcomes. The book is a synthesis of that experience. It presents a system of modeling and design techniques that successful teams have used to align complex software systems with business needs and to keep projects agile as systems grow large.

[0] https://nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/speaker/eric_evans
Is that just the first floor or is every floor like that? I can't find pictures of what the interiors of the apartments look like.
> I don't care what they think about me.

Fair enough.

> I just feel bad that they might lack respect

Might? You certainly don't respect them.
>If we put Iraqis in prison because of their religion and ethnicity, there would have been millions locked up

Oh, but you only put there those that you didn't kill in the first place. China, on the other hand, isn't exterminating those people up front.
The L3Harris turrets are almost definitely restricted by ITAR. They’re a US company.

Some of my IR imaging equipment is made by them. Elbit is the other leader in that industry.
Banking is pretty desperate for talent, probably because no one wants to suffer the complexity of the problem domain. I showed someone the models we use to track a customer implementation and they thought we were insane for even thinking this is a good business to be in.

Because the problem domain of banking sucks so much, the tooling is necessarily simple and "unsexy". We like things that fit into a single VM/folder and can be built in 1 click. Anything more complex than this is almost certainly going to fail by default under the combined weight of unnecessary technical complexity and vast (and necessary) business requirements.

It took us until the 3rd year of integration with one of our banking customers before someone in IT even gave enough of a shit to naturally ask the question "so what language/framework/technique did you write <product name> in?" Obviously, we are required to disclose this in legal materials prior to implementing our product, but our customer sees "Microsoft" and rubber-stamps it without much drama. No one else gives a shit about the tech after this phase of the project (which lasts approximately 1 phone call).
You should get exactly that. It might take a few seconds as I try to find the RSS feed right away... Just try submitting again, it will tell you if the link is already in the submissions.
While I'm at it... One thing I find annoying in Excel is that it's rather tedious to reference an absolute cell ($B$2) vs a relative cell (C3), especially when I need to reference a handful of each.

The way I work, it would have been better to mark a cell itself as being a "constant" or "input parameter", so that when I reference the cell it is treated as an absolute reference when pasting.

That is, if I reference cell B2 in a formula and paste that formula in a different cell, it is B2 itself that determines if it's a relative or absolute reference, not the way I typed it in the formula.

It's not a huge deal, but it would be one of those nice things that makes life more enjoyable.
Indeed, it's like saying "the CPU used 16 Wh of energy, executed 1 billion MOV instructions and 2 billion ADD instructions for both these two tasks, thus the algorithm it ran must be identical".
Replying on my own comment - I just want to add that if one truly avoids smartphones and social media... if one sticks to things like IRC, basic email and snail mail... if one avoids laptops and sticks with large, immobile desktop computers... very little value is lost, and so much of the old magic is still right there at your fingertips!

The cool of the culture died with smartphones and social media for me, but my love for the magic of software and hardware has not waned.
> Limiting the production of oil in any sense is going to increase the price.

That's a fallacy. If you limit the production, then you have less oil. The fact that the price increase is due to competing, individual, interests.

If you limit the production, limit the demand too. Doing it with the price is the worst possible way to do it because speculation turns on...
My answer: once technology became part of the establishment and technologists were assimilated into corporations to code the future digital enslavement of our peers for money. What's cool about slavery and no privacy, even if you are rich?
Yeah, I haven't seen a paper menu in months. Everyone does QR code menus now. I hate them.
Big changes in caffeine consumption (either way) always give me a very bad headache.
A classic non-prog method was to link C:\CON\CON in a chat room, it made Windows 95/98 bluescreen.
Actually, trains in most cases. The last mile is trucks, but the backbone of America is our world class rail system.
Presumably the windmills would be domestic and not foreign.
> then maybe don't call yourself a "charity"

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable organization registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. [0]

We can quibble over whether we think they're doing work in the best way, but by authoritative definitions they are a charity.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Foundation#Foun...
My faith in polls took a massive, massive hit after recent elections and political cycles. Also the US had a political regime point at 30-40% approval ratings and said "those people want it so we're doing it." Seemingly turning any poll into a pretext for any political changes.

Sorry, but, until something changes in the world of polls dramatically I have to underweight their importance.
I 100% agree, but is there anything that can be done if you aren’t a big holder?
0.5 ms is 500 times longer than the comment above, though
> A post about Chinese torture camps makes an impression that torture camps are exclusively a Chinese thing.

No it doesn't.

> It would be fair to mention other countries involved in similar behavior.

That would be exceedingly impractical. Must every discussion anything contain mention of every thing someone things is similar? No of course not, that's pure distraction.

How fair do you think it is to the Uyghurs that any discussion of their plight must turn into an obsessive digression about the US?
Interesting, thanks for both the corrections. Curious, but do you know if there anyone still using Mali outside the ARM-licensed family at this point? I guess there haven't been many new entries to the mobile market for so long the GPU pairings seem natural, now...
The 11 months old version is opensourcenand nice. The current version is for customers only. That is their current business strategy to fulfill nthe KDEnagreement, while trying to survive as business, which seems to be tough for them.
You will starve as people refuse to provide you food, or allow you to use collective infrastructure, unless you leave. Your property will then become collective property.
The core inflation tells you that this is more than a fluke in energy prices.

I would say it is due to loose monetary and fiscal policies (duh).

Maybe we are in for a 70es rerun; and the 70es inflation spiral didn't really end until Paul Volker, Thatcher, and Reagan changed the economic policies.

Also stopping the inflation spiral helped bankrupt the Soviets who were a great benifitter of the rising commodity prices ... just a hint.
Honestly I am confused by the reactions here -- everyone wants FREE and GREAT and also calls the company management bad names? Some say that danger is not in the path forward, but instead the arrows shot in the back from behind (!) I see that here.. People that have only written mobile, ever, complaining that mobile is not what they expected; people want cross-platform, pixel perfect AND free-no-money and somehow this company employees people ? and etcetera .. suffocating, petty really..
Quite a lot of people are starting to say that measuring inflation with a single number is like measuring the temperature of the whole US with a single number - "today the temperature in US is 81 F".
I would be reluctant to refer to a team of 20 developers working on 1 game for 3-ish years full-time as 'indie'.

That being said, supergiant is a rare gem. Shows how effective lean organizations with narrow concerns can be without needing to be abusive.
There are several causes of death that are responsible for 500+ deaths per day in the US

In the case of things like car crashes, there's a significant benefit of using cars that means we choose to tolerate deaths as part of the cost of having easy access to transport. The same is true of many things that kill people. The utility of the cause of the deaths means the cost is accepted.

I don't think there's a strong argument in favor of the usefulness of Covid.
Unfortunatly, it's currently heavily biased towards the HN crowd because of the sources I used to initially seed the list.
They literally could not, because they're within US legal jurisdiction (being physically in the US), emergency powers can be used when life or liberty at threatened to keep them operating while the disputes are resolved likely through the courts.
There were even hijacked AOL keywords with warez. The internal site builder had a simplistic BBS forum type thing, I remember one of those being used to link files. Very convenient!
Ask HN: How do you hedge against inflation?
You've got the wrong impression of what is "boring" tech. A setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter isn't boring, it's frustrating. Saying doing things the old way is boring, is like saying sending your wife out to carry water from the well in a jar on her head is boring. We've got running water now, that has nothing to do with double-digit YOY growth, it has to do with actually reliably and comfortably deploying and maintaining our infrastructure by leveraging modern technologies like Kubernetes.

I don't know how old you are, but now that I have running water I think to my old and boring setup I cringe at how much work it was to replace or add to an existing cluster, or to replicate it for testing out new features. How out of date the software was, and how easy it would be for an APT to exploit some known-for-years vulnerability in a transitive software dependency.

I wish I could afford an SRE in my current startup, but the fact that we can run a decently reliable setup that's easy to keep up to date, expand and modify is thanks to all of that web scale technology trickling down to us small fish.

And why not use borg for backups? We still do run Debian (or Ubuntu, but same diff), if it's good it's good.
Has nature taught us how to slow aging?
Huge amounts of venture capital poured into a million nonsense ideas. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but even if a tiny fraction of those startups changes the world, there will be lots of others that are completely nonsensical, or lame, or cargo cult, or clueless, ultimately producing useless products with teams of people who either don't care or can't deliver.
Given how much noise the latter group produces, it's no wonder that startups aren't cool anymore. Most of them are incredibly lame, as are the people who run them, who previously went into the prestige career routes of management consultancy and investment banking.

Everyone is a rapper these days, everyone is a rockstar these days, so no-one is.

Edit: Truly disruptive technology will never stop being cool and magical. But there's another clue - even the word disruptive is cringe these days, because it's been abused by the aforementioned horde of muppets.
Has Germany seen the same rise in young people adopting strongly entrenched positions on racial identity politics and not tolerating a diversity of opinion? E.g are undergraduates trying to ban speakers they disagree with? Can a person under the age of 40 voice agreement with a traditional feminist like JK Rowling without being socially and professionally ostracized?
> The tech industry is absolutely the most benevolent force for good these last few decades

I'm not sure I agree with that. You might be right, but it is definitely souring as companies get better at turning out daily lives into a consumerist panopticon.

It feels like every single piece of tech I might want to buy and bring into my house nowadays wants to spy on me. Or rather is spying on me.

A basic tv that I only ever use to play games on, wants to show me advertising. It wants to spy on the games I play and the shows I stream and show me ads. How sick is that? That's certainly not a benevolent good, by any measure.

Maybe we're at a crossroads where we could choose to be better, or choose to make more money. I think we passed the crossroad a while back and we're at least partway down the ugly path of tech. Maybe it's not too late to turn back.
mIRC scripting was/is incredibly underrated, and was used for so much more than chat bots, as well. Among other things made easy, it provided a method of accessing raw sockets that allowed for basic IP spoofing, which was a boon for all sorts of inventive and mischievous behavior.
He never got to make it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City

https://franklloydwright.org/revisiting-frank-lloyd-wrights-...
There was that time I got COVID-19 (around 10 Jan 2021) and guessed that I was probably the median person to get sick from it.

I thought it was an egoistic assumption but of all the egoistic assumptions it's assuming that I'm completely ordinary as opposed to be special. (Or am I special because I'm exactly ordinary?)
That isn't something schools can buy several hundred of (with a stable platform) and not worry about electrical testing liability etc. Which is the main intended use case of the Pi.
Hard in the era of resume driven development.
Even better was that if you looked at the logs it would show the hidden credentials for dialing in. You could copy those and create your own dial up connection without using the app at all
As someone suffering from Aphantasia [0] (I don't have mental imagery at all) and I've been telling people for the longest time that this is how I relate to the world. I summarize things. Even my mother's face. A post by a Facebook engineer [1] felt like a good way to understand it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

[1] https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/medic...
Please, tell us all the FOIA equivalent in China, and the laws protecting freedom of the press to promulgate that data.
> Why is it a conspiracy to suggest actual inflation is far above and beyond what is reported by the Feds

The conspiracy is that it’s treated as a conspiracy. Local inflation varies wildly [1]. In official statistics. And inflation is personal, dependent on your basket of goods and services. There is no market evidence that inflation is endemic, but the market is frequently wrong.

> so well off that they are not able to see the rapid rise in prices

Many on this forum have equity holdings and/or in-demand jobs. Those make one somewhat inflation tolerant.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic. The story of the making of the atomic bomb is one of the most interesting stories of all history in my opinion. The smartest minds ever to live on this planet decided and agreed it was of the greatest urgency to do what they did and no sane person would argue otherwise.

The single greatest night of destruction in Japan during the war was not either of the nukes but the fire bombing of Tokyo. If the Americans didn’t make the nukes, at some point someone else would have. That’s the beauty (and interesting thing) about technology - it’s inevitable. You really can’t pick and choose. You can slow it down sure but never fully stop it.

If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann” then I will recommend “The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes.
Slightly off-topic (but related to your comment) - do you know of any company or organization that's truly for public welfare? Or, any VC that cares more about society than a super-high rate of return where such a society-focused company can be launched/funded?
You don’t seem to be identifying the same trends; you just seem to be voicing your left wing sympathies.
I suggest you read my longer root level comment on this post. It'll help you understand how the actions of a president can affect oil futures.
The main reason I don't use Safari on the Mac is that all extensions (including ad-blockers) require an AppleID (because they have to come from the Apple App store), and I don't want to be forced to tie my laptop to any online account.

If the DDG browser has as built-in good-enough ad-browser, I'll probably try it. Though I doubt it has any practical advantages over Firefox/Edge + uBlock Origin, which I'm using now.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. This by far the fastest way to get warez back in the day!
> Yeah, I'm with you there - but I don't think most employers are like that.

The leadership at my employer talks big about how much they care about their employees, and indeed, the vacation and benefits are very good. Yet even in the face of record profits they gave me a 1.5% raise this year, despite the 8.5% inflation. I'll believe that they'd pass benefits package savings onto me when I see it.
That's gorgeous, thank you for sharing. It's a bit silly to say, but I'm not sure I knew what a hallway could be before seeing that picture.
Another was abusing certain attributes like setting the font size to 99…99 or an element with a very large width
Credit Card numbers start with a BIN (Bank Identification Number) that is 6 or 8 digits. The first digit of the BIN is the MII (Major Industry Identifier). The MII of 0 is indeed valid, but seems to be reserved for use by the committee managing the spec? In any case, it's perfectly valid to have a CC# starting with a 0.
I think the ineffectiveness comes from the lack of gravitas such problems have on the public psyche. We now feel that it is "over", so we relax instead of buckling down and asking ourselves "how can we make the next time this happens not such a shitshow?". Luckily, there are organs within the government that do keep at least some focus on it. The problem is getting public and political attention to not chase whatever shiny Hollywood is doing or the Strawman of the Week is being put forth instead.

However, I have far more trust in these government organs at doing something effective than leaving it to "the market" which will just always be distracted by money instead of "taking one for the team" and focusing on the hard problems "just in case".
> Oh, our country is "too big". Oh my god, stop.

I wouldn't gloss over this, the US presides over 330 million people across 3.8 million square miles, whereas the Netherlands has 17 million people across 16,000 square miles. This size and diversity of the US is a significant contributor to the national political dynamics IMO.
I won't argue with that. The US has vastly improved in that regard over the last 70 years (or however far you want to go back), or the West in general, and could be considered ahead in many ways. However, if you want to put yourself on that high ground, it always comes across rather weird if you add overly specific inb4's. And actually, I think "well at least we can openly call out our government for having done fucked up shit even though nobody in charge will get prosecuted" is kinda rather a sad state of affairs too.

As a side node/regarding initial topic, I also really dislike the quick jump to "whataboutism" to try and kill off any form of discussion that draws parallels and comparisons with other countries (or, to anything else more generally). Because this is unfortunately how it mostly gets used today.
No, I meant this particular planet. If you travel aboard a ship going that fast, the time dilation would ensure it would just take a bit under a year.

For everyone else it would take longer than 558 years of course.