skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it seems like in the US today, the divide is spread across the entire country.

Personally I don't think the divide is as large as we think it is, I think it's just a result of social media skewing what is "popular".

If you have 100 people, 80 are moderates, 10 have stronger political views, and the other 10 have extreme political views. Social media algorithms will almost always promote the content from those 10 because it gets the most shares and the world will seem like it's filled with those 10 folks.
Similarly, I know a handful of people who got their start writing mIRC scripts
The problem is you will also want job security. The answer is to look in a company that is not tech. Lots of companies that have tech in the background, where it’s needed but not driving revenue. However even in that scenario there is a risk that the job could be cut because software wants to eat everything, move everything to a service oriented architecture or automate, or do the same thing using new buzzwords. So you need to look at a lot of parameters score you jump in.
Because it became corporate. It's a standard career path now. MIT -> FAANG internships -> FAANG - start a youtube channel talking about why you quit FAANG.
That's only if you won't/can't comply with the LGPLv3
Depends what you mean by “semantics” and “pointless”
I remember I used to have headaches on holidays. It was frustrating. I was ok at work but not when I had free time.

Then I realized I drank a lot of water at work but not enough at home.

The relief was pretty quick after drinking. Now I always have a 2l refillable bottle by my desk.

Also leaving caffeine made me more energetic through the day. I don't need that sip of coffee to be able to function and if I'm tired for whatever reason, if I drink a coffe now I really feel the effects and keeps me awake and alert.
> America has been at war with itself for 2 years

It has been longer than two years. Prior to the pandemic we were subject to a wave of blatantly divisive rhetoric that seemed intent on driving us to civil war. The 'post-truth' era hit us hard for years before COVID-19 showed up and became just another weapon toward that end.

Yeah, we're tired of it. It is difficult to care anymore, honestly. A lot of Americans are going to die, a lot of them are going to be economically ruined, everything that made this country worth anything is going to be dismantled by fascism and plutocracy, and you know what? I think we've earned it.
At this point, anything but many workspaces and automatic tiling feels like a toy implementation of windows to me. OS X doesn't do better than dwm.
Neat project and will plan to kick the tires. I like the workflow and especially the cleanup aspect for a tool such as this.
Anyway you're following a good trail. It drives me nuts that conventional parsing tools only work in one direction and can just barely comprehend why it is (people who write compilers really care about speed.)
They can go even faster, but it's not as efficient.
That is exactly my argument against Test Driven Development.
A lot of the companies that do/did this potentially no-longer do it themselves.

E.g. years ago a company might have run their own LAMP stack to host a website or a small online store or whatever.

But in this age of SaaS it is easier for these smaller shops to just use something like Wix or Shopify to handle it for them, complete with fancy wysiwyg editors etc.

I used to get requests to "add payments" or something to websites I used to help out with so that they could basically do an online shop. At the time I actively rejected those requests as there were huge headaches around things like PCI compliance and the like. Fast forward a decade or more and with GDPR and Cookie laws etc it is a total non-brainer to use a hosted service where they handle all of this, rather than spin up your own ecommerce solution.

It does not make sense to roll your own unless you have a large engineering team, at which point you move beyond some random thing running in some random data center somewhere.

Of course not everything online is ecommerce or CMS-oriented - there will be niche and custom stuff that is not handled well by SaaS offerings.
Have you tried psilocybin? The research seems promising.
An HTM layer is one feedforward layer in a Heirarchical Temporal Memory network. See for example https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00083 which trains one-layer HTM models. See for example https://timallanwheeler.com/blog/2022/01/09/hierarchical-tem... for a more approachable blog post about the same topic
> Where

On LinkedIn.

This is the best answer that you will get.
There will always be reasoning for the bailouts. "We can't let the banks fail because that means they'll stop giving out loans to small businesses and homeowners." There was reasoning in 2008. The difference is now there's no expectation of them paying it back. It's not a loan, its just sitting on the balance sheet of the Fed. Banks may buy them back later, but its always at an advantage since its completely voluntary.

There were additional measures for direct payments and loans for small businesses. This was very targeted to prop up the balance sheet of large banks.

You see shady stuff like this all the time. Is there a reason mortgage rates are pushing 5% but savings accounts at places like Bank of America are paying literally 0.01%?
This is cool! I read almost all my web content via RSS - I’d love an RSS feed of random posts from these sources, just to get a daily sample and see what’s worth following.
That or TI-83 calculator applications. Now it seems to be Discord bots.
Isn't it a false dichotomy? To say that we have to prepare rather than prevent? I don't think there's a fixed budget for action here -- while you can say that to some degree, resources uses for prevention would take away from preparing, and vice versa, it's far from a 100% tradeoff. If we completely stopped doing anything to prevent climate change, most of that saved effort would not therefore go into preparing for the effects, it would just be spent on other things.

And international travel becoming more expensive is probably true. To the degree that international travel is emissions-heavy, it needs to slow down and stop. But if you change the markets, other things may change. We may shift more to slower style travel like energy-efficient airship cruises powered by hydrogen, or invest heavily into ethanol to the point where airline travel becomes less expensive again. And maybe I'm wrong, and it will never again be as cheap as it was in the era of fossil fuels. But we have to get to carbon neutral -- if that comes earlier because we invent efficient carbon capture, great, but I really think that ending our use of fossil fuels is going to be vital.

And maybe I'm weird, but I am perfectly happy with my own carbon use being taxed to solve this problem. I really don't want it to be a class warfare issue -- we absolutely should do what we can to make it easier on people who will be hit the hardest, those with low income who have jobs that require a lot of car travel, for example.
A timely article for me. I rarely if ever get headaches and even then are minor enough not to need any pain relievers. The past 4 days though, I woke with a headache that was distracting enough through the day that only subsided by late afternoon. Today is the fist day I woke without a headache. I think the greatest change of conditions is that a yearlong major project just ended and that I'm much more relaxed, probably consuming less coffee throughout the day, but sleeping poorly, and not feeling exhausted or very close to it.
Just about the time of arrival of node_modules, why?
> Over many years, there has never been a release of that piece of hardware that was supported by a mainline kernel. Neither Linux nor any other of the *BSDs.

I think the stuff does get mainline support over time, though? That's no different from what goes on in x86 land, where installing Linux on cutting edge hardware is always painful in some ways and some stuff can even take years to get properly supported. (I'm especially thinking of Intel's mobile platforms from quite a few years back.)
- Use Chromium

- Add Ublock Origin

- git clone git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters, copy the file for chrome as /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh and chmod +x it.
If the same key could be integrated into video stream, we could have a way to avoid deep fakes?

Is the video manipulated? Calculate the hash/key, and use a public key lookup for RPi to verify.

To avoid hacking of the key, embed every camera with a unique private key.
> What monitor, mouse, and keyboard did not work with mac?

The monitor was an MSI Optix MAG321CQR (32", 1440p, 144hz). The text on it was blurry and pixellated as hell. It turns out that Apple has removed previously existing scaling functionality that would have made it work. So I had to upgrade
to a 4k monitor to get around it. I would assume it's because they don't want to compete with cheaper monitors. The text was very sharp on Windows. I tried every single trick you could imagine to get it working.
The speakers were from Logitech. I don't remember the name of them since I gave them away when I bought new ones. The mouse is a vertical ergonomic mouse from a lesser known brand, same with the keyboard.

> Most of the complaints makes it sound like you aren't actually trying to do everything the "Apple way", rather wishing macOS way worked like what you're used to and comfortable with from Windows.

Which complaint? How should I do it then? Please tell me because I'm dying to know. There is no way to turn off mouse acceleration or to get my scroll wheel working without a third party app. I can't snap or organize my windows without a third party app. Minimizing windows fucks me over when using voice control software (which I need due to RSI). Switching between windows from the same app is a pain in the ass, because it requires more clicks, which literally equals more pain for me. Folder content is not organized by default, do you suggest I just let it be messy, the way Apple wants it to be? Trying to click on desktop icons that are super small is a pain in the ass, because you have to click exactly on the icons for it to register. And so on.
Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#...

> U.S. control of Guantánamo Bay came about through the end of the Spanish-American war and the Platt Amendment. This amendment was initiated in 1903 and outlined seven conditions for the U.S. withdrawal from Cuba. The United States intervened at the end of the Spanish-American War, taking credit for Cuban independence from Spain. The Platt Amendment was an amendment to the Cuban constitution that supposedly gave Cuba sovereignty, however it included conditions that allowed for U.S. intervention and the ability for the United States to lease or buy lands in order to establish naval bases. The U.S. was allowed to create up to four naval bases on the island of Cuba, but only ever built one, at Guantánamo Bay. The Platt Amendment was repealed in 1934, which is why the Cuban government considers the U.S. occupation of Guantánamo Bay illegal.

"conditions for the U.S. withdrawal from Cuba" = military force. "perpetual lease" my ass.
Just checking you're aware that dead keys for all Portuguese diacritics are available in the UK PC layout - alt+e (´), alt+n (˜), alt+\ (`), alt+c (ç), alt+i (ˆ)

Because I never went back to the Portuguese layout after finding those key combinations.
Quite a few of the following options would give a 386SX from 1992 a run for its money in terms of raw computing power:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/embedded-microcon...

To compete with a high end 486 desktop from 1992 you might have to pay a bit more than $1, particularly if you want floating point.
To add a counterpoint - it seems to me the main reason the democrats are antigun is that is where most of their funding comes from. When you take money from Bloomberg or Soros you agree to be antigun. This is not something that is controversial to say, Bloomberg and Soros are very proud of it. They directly inject vast sums of money into local elections to force in anti-gun candidates, and they have been very successful at it.

Despite your own personal viewpoints guns are very popular in the United States among both parties.
“The ability to entertain multiple, seemingly contradictory thoughts at once is a good skill I think.”

Unfortunately large portions of the populace see this as being phony. You must be a red or blue team person, being “people without a tribe” is itself a heresy because by not conforming to this idiotic false dichotomy denies the simpletons and partisans their fallacious little world views. Socrates died in vein, I suppose.
> you cannot change an organization by leaving it

If anything, removing yourself from its workforce it's one of the most impactful things you can do!
On a Windows machine you need iTunes to sync music and transfer files according to the docs. (You don’t need to use the iTunes store, but you do need the app to sync music). It’s been a while since I’ve used a windows machine of my own.

I doubt it works on Linux unless maybe it works with WINE.
My bet — and IANAL — is that a corporate lawyer looks at the idea and sees no benefit, but an unknown, probably small, increase in potential liability. In that case why would they approve it? They're not evil, particularly, but they are analyzing the situation in terms of risk and benefit. Societal benefit doesn't make their list.
It also depends on how boring you want to get. Any company with a mainframe will have a large amount of 'boring' tech stack, even if it is paired with newer offerings. The core might be RPG or COBOL, but there's usually a layer of newer languages around it that has had time to crystalize.

For historical reasons, this is also heavily tied to the adoption of EDI. So I'd start looking for boring tech stacks in areas that have EDI documents associated with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X12_Document_List
>Local/regional companies outside of tier 1 cities. Before the pandemic they only hired locally and their salaries were good for the US but 1/3 to 1/2 of salaries in NYC and SF. Companies that were bootstrapped within an hour or two of Philly, Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, Sacramento, you get the picture.

This. There are thousands of great "Tier 3" (not FAANG, not Fortune 500, but still large) companies out there in the US that will pay $100k-$200k with great benefits, 9-5 culture, and good job security. The SV startup world is pretty irrelevant at this point with the shift to remote IMO.
That looks like an "AZERTY International", with no advantage over the Portuguese layout for programming, and no advantage over "US International" for typing languages other than French. It does look like an improvement over traditional AZERTY!

My choice is "US International with AltGr deadkeys". The deadkey behaviour in simple "US International" is very annoying for programming: you have to double-tap every key that could be an accent, such as single quotes or backquotes.
Ceramic toilet weighs maybe 20kg and costs $300. It is also huge. Can't imagine anyone stealing a ceramic toilet of all things. If anything, people coming from rural areas have much better grip of what physical things really worth than us megapolis dwellers.
Eben Upton
I don't want to use K8s. But I also don't want to use a manually setup rack in a random DC.

Back in the day when we had to hire a guy to go down to the cage every day to repair yet another faulty machine, we would have given our left arm for the ability to magically spin up a new VM of any size with a baked image by just running an API call. It's freakin' magic.

I also love, love, love plain Fargate. Not as stupidly complicated as K8s, but I can still run containers without ever thinking about managing hosts. Just keep my containers up to date, push new ones, and trigger a deploy. Never have to "upgrade my cluster to keep from using EOL versions" or "migrate ingress to a new API version" or some other ridiculous thing. It just works, and all I have to think about is my app/container.
I think the one of the most interesting and overlooked stories about the AOL era, is how the warez scene used bots and AOL's mail system to host every piece of pirated content for years.

Similar to IRC channels with bots that provided lists of available content and used DCC to transfer compressed files in small chunks -- these were still the days of 9600-56k, so transfers larger than floppies were often doomed to fail -- AOL private rooms would be filled with bots that would respond to requests and send files. The difference being that the AOL bots would email a list of available content, which could be a paginated list across multiple emails, or results for a specific search query. Then you would type another command into the chat to request a specific file or release, and the bot would forward you a series of emails with <1.4MB attachments (the maximum size at the time), already stored on AOL servers and ready to download at whatever speed your modem could handle.

It took AOL a long time to catch on to this, and even then, they couldn't keep up with the sheer number of fake accounts being created -- or, as the article points out, accounts made with phished credit cards, of which there were hundreds of thousands floating around and a never-ending supply of new ones as AOL's userbase grew. They effectively hosted the warez scene throughout the 90s, until residential broadband became available and 10-100mbps was common in places like Sweden and Singapore, at which point the scene shifted to IRC and self-hosted top sites (i.e. private FTPs).

It was a remarkably simple solution to a hosting problem, and the folks who organized it all will never get enough credit for their contribution toward creating a generation of graphics experts, for example, who couldn't afford the crazy prices of Photoshop or 3ds Max, but were able to use pirated copies to develop those skills and turn them into careers.
ESP8266/32 is slightly over a $1 but still within the spirit of “more like $1 micro”.

Confining more strictly to $1.00, STM32F030F4P6 (48MHz 32-bit M0) is in spitting distance to a 386 or 20MHz 68030 for some workloads. (50 MHz 486-DX2 was introduced in ‘92, but the typical desktop PC of 1992 was much lower spec.)
But before mortgages were common, people had to buy houses 100% upfront if they were to own them.
"You have 20 seconds to compile."
> And Docker/Kubernetes (where everything depends on access to random GitHub URLs)

Where is this true? I'd say this ecosystem is more dependent upon Docker Hub et al.
Unclear if it would be positive or negative though, as caffeine is a vasodilatador and mood elevator (and commonly used to treat headaches). At the same time it can increase stress, which would cause a headache.
7 in 12k is way less than the rate you'd expect in the overall population. It's 0.5 in 1000 people. The US' overall death rate was 8.8 per 1000 in 2020.
This one is definitely a nostalgia blast. As a 15 year old kid, it was very empowering to discover what you could do to programmatically bypass rules that were apparently in place for everyone else to adhere to.
How exactly? It's not like the only other option is "always assume bad faith".

Since reality is a bit more complex, I think such things should be decided on a case by case basis. I've seen plenty of both extremes here on HN, and tons of unknowns
I think it's clear avoiding the park, in retrospect, was unnecessary. I'm just describing the feeling at the time, which I believe was shared by the vast majority of people for at least those first few weeks. I could be wrong though.
My point was that even if electric is completely useless for long haul trucking, that doesn't mean that electric trucks don't have a bright future.
Industries that actually run the world and won't be disrupted by whatever VC-funded "Uber of X" whose business model is ultimately a Ponzi scheme. Think banking, engineering firms like Schneider/ABB, tools that are actually used in hospitals, etc. Look for major industry players that provide the backbone of basic infrastructure that you probably never heard of because they're too busy growing at a clip of 2% per year at $2B profit and don't need to crow. And of course the companies that support them
So the menubar is worthless? Because the fullscreen mode kills it. Or is it some mental gymnastics in saying that it's a waste of space to only look at one thing?

Otherwise what you describe sounds like, basically every floating window system ever.
My Year of Not Buying Books
Building a cross-platform UI with support for theming, layouts, accessibility, high-DPI, internationalization, and lots of targets is brutally soul-crushingly hard. It involves a ton of the sort of work that is absolutely not fun and that therefore programmers have to be paid to do.

How would you propose funding such a thing?

Or would you like to volunteer to spend every waking moment of your life fixing bugs like "your layout manager misaligns buttons by 1-2 pixels but only on my system when the moon is full or on 64-bit CPUs in the Northern hemisphere while using Arabic languages."

That's what working with UI/UX is like, especially if you support... well... really anything other than native macOS on systems sold by Apple in the last 4 years only. It's why FOSS has never crossed over into the mainstream in any meaningful way. Making software is fun. Making it polished, pretty, and usable is a house of pain. Doing that across platforms is a journey into the lower circles of hell.

Electron is heavily subsidized by Google (and others) via Chromium. It's also a much more bloated user-unfriendly resource hog than Qt. But we use it because paying for quality software is unthinkable. Now off to Starbucks to buy another $12 coffee drink.
Show HN: A simple r/place clone
The dynamics you describe are real, especially on the big social-media utilities like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. "Boo outgroup" is the easiest thing to sell in the attention economy, the louder and more viciously, the better.

But "building an audience" is a different than building credibility, trust, and respect. If you just aim for the most eyeballs, you find yourself vulnerable to what some people call audience capture, where your audience controls you, rather than the other way around.

For example, Trump has a huge audience, but that didn't stop an audience from booing him when he recommended getting vaccinated. [0]

The best most of us can hope for, if we're careful, is influence on a small group of people.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-booed-al...
source: https://github.com/filippofinke/place