skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that do-gooders who have a "Great New Idea" for how to make society better are 1000x more dangerous than any type of drug ever invented. People drunk on alcohol mostly fall asleep harmlessly. People drunk on power and how awesome their own ideas are launch prison-industrial complexes, dystopian enforcement schemes, wars, genocides, etc.

It may be an even worse drug. People on drugs mostly have some awareness that their ideas aren't very good. But for those drunk on power, the fact that their same great idea has already been tried and led to total disaster is no cause for concern at all. You see, they're obviously smarter and better than the last batch of power-addicts who tried that, so they'll do it right this time. Heaven help us if we ever discovered a chemical intoxicant that was capable of making people that deluded.
IMO Chapo was banned as a misguided attempt at balance for banning /r/The_Donald, though it's not like they weren't an unruly bunch. Calls for violence weren't exactly unheard of there, ironic or not.

The rest of those are just banning discussions of illegal activity. Seems like a reasonable policy to me.
Please don't post fake questions and anecdotes with a link to your site somewhere in the middle. This kind of post are usual in other sites, but it makes people here angry and make them flag your post.

Just make a direct post to your site like in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31039657 with a clear title like "Instaminutes: Summarize Meetings into Actionable Points" (I dropped "30 minutes" and "6" to make it shorter, but feel free to fix my proposal or use other tag line. Perhaps add "transcriptions" somewhere so it's clear that it's a voice to text tool.)

Add in the other thread a comment explaining that you are the founder/owner/main-developer/cto/whatever and that you'd like to answer questions.
Ask HN: I'm turning 50. Do I still have a career in IT as IC?
My 50th birthday is near now and I'm enjoying my career in IT as an individual contributor (IC) as much as the first day. I love learning and love problem solving. I love creating systems with a group of intelligent fellow devs.

But can I still jump companies easily ? Will startups take me in? Do FAANGs hire such old ICs?

I'll try anyways, but I'm curious about your perception and experience.

Thanks.
You can also run a simple rest API on the machine hosting the sqlite DB and access it from other machines. I've found that works fairly well.

Clients -> Internet -> API -> sqlite
> most likely it will bring them all closer together.

You are right, in that this will most likely be the short-term action. NATO / EU will be more tightly bound to the US out of necessity. But necessity does not engender gratitude and goodwill - usually it precipitates resentment and struggle. That is why in the long term, I predict poor relations between NATO / EU.

Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.
I strongly agree with the sentiment in the article, but the comma in the title seems misplaced.

Edit: I think there's just a typo on the HN title. The original title showing on the website is "It's Still Stupidly, Ridiculously Difficult to Buy a 'Dumb' TV" which is perfectly grammatical.
Surprise ! Different people have different expectations.
* no need to install and configure OS

* No need to install and configure web server

* No need to setup firewall

* No need to main and patch above components every day

* No need to upgrade the OS every few months/years

I have not used mercurial in close to a decade, but from what I can remember you could push to a git server from the mercurial client.
> Take my dad for instance - a quite profilic and famous mid level artist. It’s coming to the point where not much people remember him. And when my siblings pass on that will be that.

Why not say his name here, to give him a bit more memory?

> 50 years from now children will be asking who was Van Gogh.

This seems a strange cut-off. Van Gogh is an artist who died 130 years ago; why should the next 50 years be the ones that forget him? There are plenty of artists today whom we remember from earlier than 200 years ago.
That's only a reasonable comparison to make, if there are no other options. If there are other options, which is clearly the case, you have to compare to those.

A refugee crisis isn't all that bad by the way. Politically it's a problem but economically a 2016 scale refugee crisis every year would be quite good for Germany. Germany needs huge amounts of people, especially people working in trades, to do the work necessary to switch heat pumps, install solar, build more housing etc. They have to come from somewhere and demographics means they have to come from a massive increase in immigration.
In what way do your arguments not also apply to cocaine?
Just read the responses. Everyone is disagreeing with the top comments (how did they become the top comments?)
> there is nothing inherent in the nature of being a landlord that implies offering such services.

I get what you're saying, but it reads like sophistry. Yes, _technically_, a landlord, can delegate all services. In practice, there's no single "tenant" who would do anything remotely capital-intensive, like fixing a roof. They just up-and-leave.

> owner-residents

It's called home-ownership. It's expensive for a reason, and the fact that parts of the housing stock are for rent, and there's a middle-man, is not it.

> the landlord acting as a middleman

Many people do not have the wherewithal and look for a middleman. Young, seniors, people on the move, rich people who have no emotional attachment to a house, ...

The fact that Blackrock owns single family homes is due to an unfortunate combination of zoning, tax-structure, job concentration, ... creating the unique conditions that makes single family homes an attractive investment. Not because there's inherently something "extractive" about landlording.

(I guess, in core Adam Smith terms, there is a case, the way he frames "rent" as distinct from capital and labor, but it's a theoretical framework, and much of it still stemmed from the feudal legacy in Europe, where landlords had divine and aristocratic rights to family property. And in any case, it's not the same as "rent", the check Americans write every month, which usually has a large labor component).

I find speculation much more parasitic, and it's precisely that which land tax tries to address.
Huxley Saga
Interesting series of comics (physical and digital)
Cash spent on an activity does not reflect the time that it takes, doubly so if you were able to reduce the administrative layers involved in eg health insurance.
Not really, of course it depends, but IF the actual heat diffusion system is compatible (fan-coils or under floor) it can be pretty much "swap one unit with another", at least for single units.

Still, to give you a single datapoint, I just replaced on a unit a small gas heater with a heat pump and it was really a "swap one unit with the other", still a few issues came out:

1) the cost of the unit, even considering that it doubles as air conditioning/refreshing was only affordable because of some government subsidies (think of 6-7,000 Euro compared to 2,000 Euro for a gas heater and 2,500 Euro for a more traditional conditioning unit)

2) for some reasons, the heat pump is much slower in heating, the net result (in my specific case) is that the unit needs to be kept slightly heated on weekends (it is a small shop that closes saturday and sunday) otherwise when it opens on monday it will take forever to reach a suitable temperature.

Besides, from an infrastructure point of view, if many people change from gas to electrical (though gas powered heat pumps do exist, BTW) the local increase of consumption from the grid needs to be taken into account.
We can still do that under a land value tax system. Property managers are good; the argument being made here is that a "house" is really two assets: the land, and the capital of the building itself. The latter is a depreciating asset, the former doesn't behave like capital at all, because, among other reasons, it can't be produced.

Property managers receive a return on their labor (services to their tenants) and their investments of capital (maintenance and improvements to the building).

Conventional landlords are a mixture of property managers and "pure" landlords. A "pure" landlord makes money only off of gatekeeping access to the land.

The fact that it is entirely possible for a landlord to outsource property management to a 3rd party and still have a profitable venture is a telling sign. In a land value tax system, you would only be able to profit from property management, not from "pure" landlordism of holding a scarce asset nobody can make and waiting for it to go up in value or collecting rent to let people access it.

I was interviewed by Jerusalem in the piece and have written an in-depth series with many citations from the empirical literature about this subject:
www.gameofrent.com
If you're in the Atlanta area, we have the PATH foundation which helps create and maintain most of the rail-to-trails in our area!

https://www.pathfoundation.org/our-trails
I mean the buffer with a shell that opens when you type:

:term

I remember vanilla vim doing some weird stuff, like leaving the buffer open even though I've exited the shell, requiring me to close it manually. I don't know if it's been fixed since.
Sounds like it was a smooth migration. Good to hear that because in this precise moment I'm adding SQLite support to Mapless [1] (PostgreSQL had support already [2]) so people can do these kind of smooth transitions in their Smalltalk apps.

[1] https://github.com/sebastianconcept/Mapless

[2] https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/article/mapless-is-online-ag...
Time To Engage – Digital assets for the banking C-suite
Zelensky can't possibly control what another country does, how is it his fault that another country unilaterally decided to invade theirs?

This is just straight up victim blaming.
Diversity initiatives in tech have a strong bottoms-up component from a subset of employees. "Self interest" isn't really the point.

One motivator is societal good and fairness to ensure that great opportunities are as equally available as possible, and that nobody avoids or leaves the industry due to their race or gender.

The other is making sure you have more demographic variation that can make a better product for more people. A classic example is avoiding gaffs in ML models based on skin color. All else equal, the more representative your employees are of your target user base, the more likely someone is to raise the right questions early. This is especially true for consumer tech where engineers are part of the process of deciding what gets built, but also true in cases like thinking about ML fairness.
Precisely this, kitted-out vim in the hands of someone experienced is a force multiplier but it's uh, 'late-game'. VSCode and the like take absolutely minimal brainpower and experience for near-enough similar gains (for most users, I would say).

I say this as someone who uses both the editors I mention depending on context.
Do the females float better, possibly preventing them to be buried quickly?
because reddit is a for-profit business and if it can wrestle search from Google obviously it will. In a broader sense the internet is moving away from its protocol nature to vertically integrated firms and you can expect this fragmentation of search in many places.
This thread is amazingly good. Yishan’s observation is on the spot:

All my left-wing woke friends are CONVINCED that the social media platforms uphold the white supremacist misogynistic patriarchy, and they have plenty of screenshots and evidence of times when the platform has made enforcement decisions unfairly against innocuous things they've said, and let far more egregious sexist/racist violations by the other side pass.

Woke friends: it's true, right? You have LOTS of examples.

All my alt/center-right/libertarian friends are CONVINCED the social media platforms uphold the woke BLM/Marxist/LGBTQ agenda and they ALSO have plenty of screenshots and evidence of times when the platforms have made enforcement decisions unfair against them for innocuous things they've said merely questioning (in good faith) the woke orthodoxy, and let far more egregious violations by the other side stand. Right-wingers and libertarians: it's true, right? You can remember PLENTY of examples.

Some interesting conclusion too:
“They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.”
There's 0 configuring. It's as simple as installing one of the many LSP clients, like ALE, that will automatically detect and start a language server for you with the right arguments.
> I am wondering, are there any organizations that actively scan and archive books, even if they don't share them because of copyright laws? Amazon is almost a monopoly when it comes to books, and we cannot rely on it to preserve the books for the next 50+ years, and not every purchased copy is guaranteed to be around by then.

The University of Michigan and Google Books have something like this, at least for the UM library: https://publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu/key-issues/google-set... . I can't find much about whether it stopped completely, or just went quiet, after the lawsuits.
Is this true? I run ~15 miles a week, play pickup basketball 2x a week, and lift weights 3x a week. My oxygen levels can vary 2-5% depending on circadian rhythm at rest. When doing these breathing exercises, I can stabilize it at higher levels. That's at least my experience with it.
Last encounter with Sun's commercial version of Solaris: 1995 - running on SPARCstation
r/watchpeopledie, despite the horrible name it is a very "educational" sub that helped me become painfully aware of my mortality and in many cases helped me become much more aware of my surroundings when I cross the streets, when I'm around elevators and big machinery and so on.
The economics doesnt work.

You still need to build a rocket and waste it.

One Starship launch can reusably launch like 150tons of fuel.

Compare that to 1500 SpinLaunches.

There is no way for this to be even remotly economical.
> All my alt/center-right/libertarian friends ... have plenty of screenshots and evidence of times when the platforms have made enforcement decisions unfair against them for innocuous things they've said merely questioning (in good faith) the woke orthodoxy

Whenever I see vague complaints like this, I'm reminded of a twitter user I once encountered. He was conservative, and he was complaining about how the left controlled all of the media and social media, censoring people for arbitrary actions and disallowing speech they didn't agree with, banning people for the most trivial of things. He waxed lyrical about how nobody should let them have this power, how we should resist them at every turn, about the freedom denied to him and those like him.

As I read more, and got more context, it became increasingly clear that he was talking about not being allowed to call people the n-word. (I also found him in the first place in the Emmet Till trend, complaining that it was trending.) What's innocent and acceptable for one group can be unacceptable and offensive for another group, and sometimes the second group has a much better point than the first.
Agreed. My TV went out 3 days before the Super Bowl. Within an hour of it going out I jumped on Amazon and easily ordered a dumb TV that was delivered before the Super Bowl.

Amazon had many options with varying levels of dumbness. I ordered a Sceptre.
Copying from the other comment:

I remember vanilla vim doing some weird stuff, like leaving the buffer open even though I've exited the shell, requiring me to close it manually. I don't know if it's been fixed since.
A Warsaw pact country does not really mean one of 15 post-Soviet countries.
Sure , but that all those years of work are not of creating new stuff, there is a lot of work on just modifying existing code and not breaking stuff.

You do not need to get all Linux features at start, I would focus on the server stuff, support the popular server hardware and popular server work so filesystems and networking. I would hope some competent developers would write a new kernel from scratch then getting 10% of some Linux rustiffied. When you edit shit you need to make sure not break shit, so you are limited, you move slow and you have to implement backwards compatibility. Amazon,Google,Facebook could work on this if they care for security but probably using VMs is cheaper for them.
Taking into account the current situation, you should be OK. I am not sure about FAANG, but with other companies, they are, at least in my home country, desperate to find IT talent.
"This has less to do with misogyny"

WTF?

The arbitrary, common and accepted bigotry of women in 2022 is beyond pale.

Even arbitrary deaths of animals, must be due to:

"Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women."

Thankfully the author Sabrina Imbler, was able to realize that it wasn't mostly misogyny, but something else.

I mean, misogyny being a key component, obviously? Because everything is?

I read that as a tongue-in-cheek bit at first but after reading it several times, I don't think it is.

How can any academic maintain any kind of credibility with this kind of rubbish?

Why would anyone read past the first paragraph where an academic literally used a term denoting 'hatred of women' to be a possible reasoning of animal behaviour?

I can't wait for someone to try this on me so I can enjoy early retirement after a nice, giant lawsuit.
If you save up money and buy a house to rent and your mortgage/interest/tax payment is 1100$ you will be charging 1100$, adding in a % to make sure that any routine maintenance and future renovation costs are covered.

If property taxes are raised and my mortgage/interest/tax payment are now 1350$ you will raise rent accordingly unless you are running a charity or expect a roof to repair itself. I don't need a theoretical analysis from a game developer who has to imagine himself as a landlord as I have personally owned rental property before, have known people who have owned rental property and rented property before.
> browsing /r/all/gilded

These days that awards are free, that's just a list of popular things, not a list of cool things. The major subreddits can have a selfie posted that gets a dozen awards.
Historically, Russian nukes tended to fail by disabling fail safes and self-arming. It took joint efforts with the US in the 90s to find(!) and disable the faulty ones.

I'm surprised none have gone off, frankly.
And we lack actual shamanic centers where we can do this stuff safely, where the dose is exact and you know what you're getting, and you can have guides to help you through the trip if things start feeling sketchy. And we could even have people on standby to administer anti-psychotic medicine in-case you have adverse reactions and need to calm down quickly before you do something stupid. The illegality of these substances is illegal in itself!
This is why I enjoyed the "tape over mouth" tip by nestor. I was a mouth breather and would not feel very rested because of it. When breathing through nose only, I felt so refreshed as if I got more oxygen.
It's a weekend of learning for a tool that you use your entire life. Any computer scientist should realize the power of amortization.
The problems on the Joint Strike Fighter program were caused more by flawed analysis of costs and military requirements than by outright corruption. Very little funding was stolen, and not many individuals have gotten personally wealthy from the program. Lockheed-Martin is now delivering an F-35 Block 4 product that, despite a few remaining minor flaws, substantially meets the customers' requirements. It's just that what the customers thought they wanted back in 1996 no longer aligns with what they actually need today.
The article says the treatment focuses on increased speech intelligibility. Speech, depending on how you define it, can occupy a fairly narrow range of the audio spectrum that humans can perceive.

My hearing loss is mostly on the high end (10-12K and above) and impedes my ability to hear speech in noisy environments. More troubling has been the inability to enjoy music/sound in those upper ranges, resulting in the music lacking a certain sparkle and brilliance.

I hope this therapy regenerates hair cells across the entire spectrum.
One thing to take into account is the flexibility of already having a VM over the touted CDN/jamstack workflow.

I think of it in terms of marginal cost. What is the cost of spinning up another site in a CDN/jamstack workflow? Not too bad if it's also static. What about spinning up another service like a database? Or not even leaving the HTTP space, what about a non-static site? I like having the flexibility of say hacking together a RSS aggregator in a weekend and throwing it onto my VPS behind my already running reverse proxy.

(Oh and it's a "free" VPN if you are already paying for the VPS for another reason.)
The law should be consistent, clear and applied to everyone.
If US leaders were not tried for Iraq, French weren't tried for Lybia, Saudis weren't tried for Yemen, Israel weren't tried for Palestine, but suddenly Russia should be destroyed for Ukraine, it's not the law.
> This seems not so much as an argument for office vs remote work but an argument that pandemics are bad. I think a lot of people who didn't work remote before the pandemic have the wrong impression about what working remotely is actually like.

That's exactly what some of us said would happen at the beginning of the pandemic. There were a large minority of people complaining about remote work and questioning how anyone could do it. But the pandemic was not a typical remote work/work from home situation. People were forced into it. You couldn't bug out to the library to get a change of view. You couldn't meet up for drinks or coffee to get even a bare minimum of face to face. Some of us who had been remote working for a long time predicted this anti-remote work backlash specifically because of this.
Baseload: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...
What Elon Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ promises miss: Governments
> If anything, they’ve never been commonly acquired; only the wealthy ever had the space for passion in their lives.

It is how people look back at the past and think that their life would be better in past times. They assume that either the lives of the well off were fairly normal or that they would be one of the well off.
One of these days I really need to sit down and commit to learning to use Vim at this level. I always use Vim when I'm editing from a terminal but generally stick with VSCode or the Jetbrains family of IDEs for any real coding projects.

I've just never gotten around to learning vim in a more advanced way than edit, replace, copy paste, skip to line and search.

Any good suggestions on where to start? I looked at Spacevim but that seems to just throw everything at you.
My last remote company had quarterly offsites, and sponsored at least a conference of your choice per year if you wanted to go to it. My current remote company hasn’t had many offsites (covid + clients in healthcare) but hires aggressively and pays significantly above market. Also spares almost no expense on employees. It’s hard to compare like for like though. How much of any company’s actions can be attributed to budget savings from cutting physical offices, as opposed to any number of other variables: decisions from leadership, market strategy, or quality of last funding round? It’s hard to isolate just the one cause, but it might be worth gathering that aggregate data to see if patterns exist.