skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I didn't pick "70" randomly.
They were building pretty spiffy stuff 100 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor...
Pretty hard to price negative effects of noise pollution into fuel prices though, since it includes long term health, as well as property values and other things with massive confounders.
My opinion (having worked for one those companies the OP talks about) is it’s easy to be benevolent and generous when you face no real competition, profits grow year over year and everyone is fat and happy.

You never have to lay anyone off, pay raises come regularly, no huge pressure to perform, management gets big bonuses and shareholders watch the stock rise.

See the big US automakers in their hay day.

But when competition heats up, other companies take you business and profit growth has to be fought for, anything and everything is on the table.

The companies back then were never really loyal, they just never had the need to be ruthless, but they certainly would have been.
Recently landed my first role I'm actually excited about, but previously it has been a true Decade of Confetti.
I actually don't know a single young person who died from Covid over the pandemic but I know a few who committed suicide and a couple more who attempted it.
No, no, don't worry: Windows is the problem.
Isn’t it right that there’s barely any hardware at all out there that can run fully foss?
Of we train them, they might leave.

But what if we don't train them and they stay?
That's just how short options with arguments work in getopt POSIX land: '-oARG' is equivalent to '-o' 'ARG' just like '--option=ARG' is equivalent to '--option' 'ARG' (for GNU long options). This means that you cannot chain any other short options after one with an (optional) argument but otherwise does not cause any problems.
There are literally none. I've followed enough of the discourse on this to have verified this. Any valid critique is simply hand waved as Sinophobia.
Increased atmospheric pressure?
As long as the US can’t be held accountable, neither will China. Simple as that. China’s abuses flourish amid a global economic order that the United States of America has a stranglehold on.

Why does China not “enjoy” the same kinds of sanctions as the Russia? Because we live in a world without justice where the demand for open (not free!) markets and the flow of goods to the metropol.

And if you support out present system, you should acknowledge that things are exactly as they should be.
It might be worth noting that in the US, "middle class" is used in the same way as "working class" is used in the UK i.e. blue collar, non-professionals.
No one have ever said that human rights abuses of any kind are okay.

Still, since "the west" uses tools such as illegal detention camps, blacksite prisons, etc to its advantage -- NOT using the same tools by everyone else would put them in a disadvantage.
> I'd be okay if the US simply stopped invading some countries or toppling random governments every 5 years.

Me too, not sure what that has to do with anything.

> Many people of the rest of the world wish for the responsible US politicians to be put away. I hope the American perpetrators find similar ends.

ok? Not sure where that fits in though.

> Its an awful kind of mockery to see the US displaying themselves as the hand of justice in the Xinjiang situation. I wish countries like the Netherlands or Switzerland would do it instead, their hands are much, much cleaner.

If you consider doing nothing at all about bad things happening clean, then sure. Also, your diction leads me to believe you are Chinese yourself, so maybe a little bias?

> This is the same kind of mockery as having Saudi Arabia on the UN panel for womens rights.

The US doesn't have over a million people in a concentration camp right now, so I don't see the similarity.
Who is celebrating the Iraq war?
The media and politicians are saying it's over because mid-terms are approaching and lockdowns are extremely unpopular (they destroy businesses, jobs, lives, etc).

The measures were always driven by polling numbers and political sentiment alone. Many of the measures had absolutely no basis in science (wearing a mask in a restaurant then sitting down and taking it off is pure political ideology with zero basis in scientific reality).
Lots of schools here in Sweden give them out to students. That being said, I don't think I've seen an adult spending their own money on one for themselves.
> They are extremely space-constrained

Yeah and the amount of space is not really anything specific to the train. You can vary the amount of space in planes, buses and cars as well, and the price will follow, just as in trains.

There is no reason why space is "cheaper" in a train really, it's only the scheduling of few trips that make more space available, if you have more trips on the tracks, similar to a road, space becomes constrained, like you see in subway trains.
Yes this is proving the point of whataboutism.
The real question should be - did using this headline save this article from being not read at all?
You lucky lucky person. What are your symptoms of a hangover if you don't get headaches?
> Welfare also destroyed the family unit (especially in the black community).

You sure it wasn't selective enforcement of the War on Drugs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_war_on_drugs) and the criminal justice system in general (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/racial-dispariti...), and redlining (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining)?
I realize it's the opposite of what this site is about, but the greatest enjoyment I've gotten from HN was always from discussions about non-technical, everyday life stuff where things get surprisingly deep. Two posts that stood out to me in recent memory were

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30161578, a discussion about the hardships of becoming a farmer. I especially liked dpatru's comment: "The natural state of man is poverty.[..]".

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038139, a discussion about the diamond industry. Linked is a comment thread about a guy buying a synthetic diamond for his wife and the ensuing trouble. There were numerous quality discussions about social interactions and psychological differences between the sexes. A salient meta comment by akarma: "[..]it's like you expect all women in your life to be like many people on HN — hyper-rational, utilitarian devs who would never want a mined diamond because a cheaper artificial one with better clarity exists[..]"
You're really missing the point. The JRE podcast has very few straight up politicians as guests. But it does frequently have guests who express leftist views as part of a broader conversation about other topics. For example Oliver Stone or Meghan Murphy or Ben Burgis or Andrew Dessler.

This is why the show resonates with a lot of listeners who are themselves moderates and don't buy into the fake news narrative about an irreconcilable political divide.
you're just creating your own inner narrative
> the visual losses for Russia alone are staggering

You realize you are also being fed Propaganda?
No, it doesn't. It has the phrase "enemy force" in one place. "Air raid" appears many times though.
To be fair to Clang, the -arguments are inherited from GCC for compatibility (which perhaps inherited them from other CCs) and then extended from there in the most consistent way possible. Similarily, clang-cl supports cl.exe-style flags for drop-in compatibility.
What annoys me (unreasonably) is when the website then blames me by saying something like "You entered an invalid phone number." No, the phone number I entered is perfectly valid, it's that your crappy software can't parse it! <bangs head on table repeatedly>
Oh come on. Right under Apple in that chart is ASUS with a 20% growth rate.

And anyway, Mac sales are a small fraction of Apple’s total sales.
> We seem to be experiencing diminishing returns on tech for the past few years. More tech is no longer necessarily better.

I don't think that's true. It might be true for the richest people in the world, but there are still lots of people in the world that lack tech, either because it hasn't reached them or because it hasn't been developed yet.
Working with UTF8, UTF16 and UTF32 Characters in C++ and Emojis as Well
I used to get migraines when I was younger. Stopped mid-20's.

I think it must be hormonal/stress related
When I was very young, I suffered from chronic headaches. I used to just sit in class with my head on the desk feeling completely miserable. Doctors suggested this was likely due to sinus problems. My nose was completely stuffed up all the time. After going to a few specialists, nothing ever really came of it, but I did eventually just grow out of it.

However, I continued to get these really nasty migraines from time to time throughout most of my life. It would typically happen maybe once a month at most, but it was almost always on a Sunday. I would wake up and my head would not hurt, but I immediately knew it was coming because things just didn't feel quite right. As the day goes on, I would start to feel nauseous and my head would slowly get worse. By evening I could barely move, and basically just had to lay in a completely dark and silent room, hoping I would eventually fall asleep. Typically waking up the next day with still some after-effect of it. I found a few things that helped a little, such as going outside and getting fresh air, but nothing that would cure it.

As I've gotten older, that pretty much never happens anymore - maybe once every year at most. I can't think of anything that actually changed, it just stopped being a problem.
I only disagree mildly; it's a matter of calling the 'start' of a sigmoid curve.

Already among the earliest apps on the app store, there was evidence of the bad incentives (eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich 2008 or https://ifartmobile.com/ifart-debuts-the-worlds-first-fartin... 2009).

Within a couple years of the App Store I remember all manner of Crazy Frog garbage had flooded tech.
Inside the Apple II
With the highly mobile nature of society, the federal government should mostly be about ensuring the application/protection of federal rights through the country. Then the local can set the laws that work best for them.

The tough part is that additional laws restricting actions tend to interfere with the laws preserving freedoms. So the two tend to be at odds with each other and result in circuitous and controversial judicial reasoning to determine if the restriction violates a right or freedom.
most people who buy a Mac were going to buy it anyway

I don't know. I know several people who where completely unimpressed and uninterested in an Intel Mac that now own an M1 Mac. I'm certainly one of them.
> The KDE foundation agreement is the only reason they still release Qt as open source

And the KDE foundation is the only thing putting QT on the map. They wouldn't dare break the agreement, unless they want to burn their company to the ground.
I cannot get out of ESP-01. I have dozens from Alibaba for 1€, and all problems are solvable with external CMOS components, which work quite well on 3V logic levels.

This particular device is extremely useful, much more than I ever imagined: https://github.com/timonoko/Wifi-remote-control
Completionism isn't necessarily equated with achievement.Samuel Johnson claimed never to have finished a book.
Disrespect is not minor.
Frontier – An advance market commitment to accelerate carbon removal
didn't think so
This feels a little... Too convenient. Would love to see an analysis that covers all confounders.

That is, I'm sympathetic to the idea that a lot of what we did was probably not super helpful. I'm less inclined to believe that a counterfactual world had fewer deaths. Seems more likely that, while we could have protected nursing homes better, most everything else was likely to look very similar to how it did.

I mean, I get the butterfly flapping a wing argument. But in general, large things moving in a direction tend to arrive where they are headed.
I'd say if you're not spending one day a month you're doing something wrong. Namely, you're not testing your back ups and disaster recovery often enough.
> Limiting food price increases prevents farmers from making money.

Correct. Which is why subsidies for both production and overproduction are the second pillar of this.

Because by the time there's a food shortage, you can't sit around for a year, waiting for farmers to adjust to market conditions and increase output. Food isn't a cloud instance that you can spin up on demand.
I would say with introduction of social media and increase of mobile users. Censorship of Big Tech and most of the social media just leave me disapointed in humanity.

Also there are hardly any revolutionary/significant improvements in hardware, we still use crappy baterries as 10 years ago, they are just larger, I'm still waiting for graphene baterries.

There are no new useful/interesting devices since capacitive touchscreen smartphone, one could actually say we are going backwards with horrible devices like electric scooters/hoverboards and all these companies litering public space with their rental business which has nothing to do with sharing.

And don't get me started on military drones and military dogs, so we can be under even bigger control.

I think I should read again Unabombers manifesto after many years, it's more relevant than ever.
Could we use this to launch radioactive waste into space at higher speeds than what’s needed to remain in orbit?
Quarkus 2.8.0.Final Released
I would think that it scales, but that effectively practicing "highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication" is very difficult, and requires a lot of practice and honesty.

It starts with not assuming bad faith from the other side.

Trying to adapt your communication strategy depending on the profile of the other side is not really "good faith". The goal is to train _ourselves_ to look at reality in a less biased, personal way.
Wanting to max out every opportunities precisely tends to distort reality.
I used to have a post code like W1F 9XX. That was fun
The tact most free/foss apps take is to not sign the application and users just have to set their permissions for the app accordingly.

You can also charge for signed binaries to cover your costs.
There are legit issues, and wedge issues aren’t necessarily bullshit.

But the right-wing playbook is the same everywhere, frame these issues in a way to maximize fear and link that fear to nostalgia of a better past. In the US guns are big. In Russia there’s an appeal to the bygone Soviet era where all Russian speakers were under one flag.

In the US, the gun argument is the most transparent. Gun marketers evoke (mostly bullshit) memories of how great great grandpa fed the family shooting turkeys with his flintlock, then fought some redcoats for freedom. Then they hard pivot to why you need a concealed carry pistol to stop wild Mexicans from raping your daughter. It’s a really effective argument because it links the gun, crime, immigration, abortion, etc. Then after you spend this money, the liberals are gonna take your guns, so buy more.

The more moderate side is a different kind of coalition driven by different goals and ideas. Black and Hispanic voters are socially conservative, and don’t care about LGBT issues. Progressive voters care about everything, but the get out the vote machines are more moderate.
I feel like this is a good place to put the PSA that modern headache treatments have gotten really good, the CGRP drugs for migraine prevention are miraculous for some people and the triptans for migraine treatment can be a reliable stop-button for a migraine that would otherwise take you out for a day.
> Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable.

I'm going to focus on this, because to some extent this is a real problem. But it's also one that can be worked on.

The thing to keep in mind is that most startups are solving problems that a small number of people can handle in a small amount of time. 3-5 people in less than a year for a pre-A MVP sort of project, 50-100 in 2-5 years with funding before you need to have it cracking.

Now think back to every geek's first or third love, the history of physics. Back in the golden age of experimental physics, the guys all of our units were named after were making their discoveries solo using a length of wire and a homemade battery or a handmade telescope. Now, we have hundreds or thousands of researchers collaborating on nation-spanning super colliders or telescope arrays.

Why? Because anything that two people in a garage lab could figure out has already been figured out.

1990's Google was proof-of-concepted by a team of two. But to build a 2020's search engine you need teams of hundreds, if not thousands. Some of your favorite video games of the 80's were the work of, if not one person, a team you could fit in a small room. Modern flagship games have more people working on hair physics.

As time goes on in any field, the easy problems get solved, and it takes more and more people to do interesting work. Raising the bar like that makes it hard for start-ups, with their limited funding and head count, to compete.

But in tech, unlike physics, hope is not lost for new golden ages: new tech comes along and changes what one developer can do.

Take games -- sure, flagship games might have hundreds of developers, but we're in a golden age of indie games, in no small part because modern frameworks and distribution have come together to let small houses do more than they could before while reaching more customers than they previously could.

If you want to promote more startups doing more interesting things, that is the lever to push on. What technologies are too expensive for a small team to develop, that they could use as a springboard? How could you make it easier for tech startups to get paid?
Yeah but all that sequestered carbon is now in the atmosphere with your 'offset' emissions while everything still looks good on paper.
People literally are citizens of both their states and the country as a whole. For better our worse, the USA was intentionally structured that way with dual sovereignty.
The known causes of electricity (2019)
You kind of made my point. Not as many people are "locked in a factory 80 hours a week" that is driven by technology (which includes hardware tech).

When a new car manufacturing plant opens and says they will create 250 jobs that is far less than it was 20-30 years ago when a new plant opened. Robotic manufacturing, software, etc. have driven that. Pick any industry and technology will have driven some jobs out of it.
All of those games you've mentioned are at least 5 years old now, many coming up to a decade old if you count their early access.

There was a golden age of indie gaming 5-10 years ago, but it does feel like that has passed somewhat.
That doesn’t make any sense at all. Apple didn’t sell an up-to-date display for years. It’s only recently that they introduced the Pro Display XDR and the Studio Display. Before the XDR, there was only the LoDPI Thunderbolt Display from 2011.
Mac sales haven’t been declining by any noticeable amount in the last 20 years, but I suppose growth from 2014-2019 may have been close to flat.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...
Oh so if it’s just for ssh then you can boot without the raspi-firmware part?

Are there images without it?
An annoying side effect is that the (closed) "core OS" that the Pi runs on, ThreadX, is owned since 2019 by... Microsoft !

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

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-rasp...

Note that the above is specific for the Pi 3 - the Pi 4, for instance, doesn't have the issue of a ridiculously undersized power connector (2.5W minimum standard for up to 13 W demand !!)
Do you have to be a neoliberal to think the way those protests were organized with the hand signals was ridiculously silly?

Great, income inequality, important subject to tackle. Are we going to get creative, involve serious people, suggest intelligent chang-- oh, you're flashing signs at each other aimlessly for days on end.

Cool.
I think it's really difficult to average 200-250 km/h over 1,000 km with a train. I would guess the trains that average that speed would be much shorter trips.
For some reason I feel the need to weigh in here. I love photography and astronomy but I see no point in mixing the two. We just spent $10 billion to send a fabulous camera and lens into the L2 Lagrange point. Not to mention the over 30 year old Hubble which no amateur has any hope of matching despite decades of advancements in amateur tech (and to be fair to the amateurs, they can do remarkably better than their peers of 30 years ago). But I already spent my money (in tax dollar form) on the best scientists in the world to go and take pretty pictures which also sometimes provide great scientific input.

If people enjoy astrophotography then that's fine, but the most magical part of Astronomy to me is seeing Saturn (easily the visual crown jewel of our solar system) through the telescope with my own eyes and realizing that it really is hanging out there in the sky for all to see.
Are we swinging away from general-purpose CPUs?
I feel like this problem really boils down to the fact that now that you are older, you know too much.

Getting a wireless router for the first time was a religious experience for my household. Now I know exactly how it works and what will improve/worsen its service area and reception and it is decidedly less magical.

One of the worst parts of growing up in the tech industry is that very few things are able to surprise you anymore.
Could you explain what you mean by no one understanding thermodynamics? As in Maxwell, Einstein, Wiener, and so on - none of them understood thermodynamics? I think at stake here is what you mean by understanding.

And what is a 'pragmatic scientist'? Someone who doesn't take interest in the reasons things are as they are, but only operatively that they are as they are?
Also let’s talk about how investors just discovered housing as an asset class and are buying up all the houses.
Very few note taking apps, maybe zero, that are good, not electron, work on Linux, support darkmode, also work well if I need to jot something down on mobile. I find I'm almost always better off with the free tier of dropbox.
anything with a browser can run apple music.
Those are not exactly factory workers housing though.
The CIA shills come out of the woodwork for these ones.
You need to learn to separate the ideas from the author. A work either has ideological merit or it does not. If he wrote the paper, it had merit, and then he murdered people, that does not change the writing at all. It has the same merit that it had before. Your learning information about the man who wrote the ideas should not have any effect on your assessment of its validity.

Nearly every great thinker and writer you can name from before a certain year owned slaves or wanted to.
1) A huge chunk of what we know as "software development" amounts to translating solved problems -they were previously solved with pen and paper, and a calculator- into code.

2) Tech is a bit like food. Nutritious food is often perceived as being boring to eat. Profitable software is often perceived as being boring to develop and consume.

3) The elephant in the room is that commercial software tends to run into the same issues: coupled code, slow queries, bad stack choices, etc. Tech debt is endemic in the SaaS world.

As a consequence, there is a high probability you will run into the same problems again and again regardless of switching from some NLP SaaS to a bleeding edge fintech (just an example of two distant exciting fields). And usually you won't be empowered to solve those issues unless you are a staff engineer or above.