skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RSS was better. You could mark feed items as read and save time. Feeds that do not implement mark as read are an waste of time.
It technically isn't, as economic value is subjective and has no limiting constraints. We can't magically create more resources, but we can use the ones we have ever more efficiently.
Every time I negotiate a job offer I use something like "two hundred and sixty two thousand and seven hundred dollars as my final figure" or "You'd need to increase that compensation by at least nineteen thousand four hundred dollars."

The precise number indicates confidence in my research and it gets past the other person's resistance point. They focus on the weird number rather the actual round amount. "And four hundred dollars? laughs I'm sure we can do that."

This is also a stronger negotiation tactic than asking for the whole amount. They offer 180k but you really want 210k? "To make me feel comfortable I'd need to see that number adjusted by thirty four thousand and six hundred dollars."

I am on the fence about numbers that are alliterative. They sound good, but they let people latch on to the sound which you don't want. You want them focused on the smaller number and get them to say "yes" to that, because then their brain won't let them say "no" after they've thought about it. In their mind, they are committed to that course of action then.

Also works for buying anything that you have to haggle over, like antiques, like the glass fronted antique cabinets we want. Four of them. $11,200 in total according to the ticket price. "Would you be willing to throw in all four for $8,760?" Slaps hand on desk as I say the final number. Sold! Lowest they could go was $10,500 just moments before.

Works every time, ninety percent of the time.
The SimH emulator has long been able to run OpenVMS VAX.

There are probably free Alpha emulators by now, but the VAX version has been running on PCs for a long, long time, and it's what people know.

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
You might have a 1440p monitor that you sit far enough away from that you want things scaled to sizes that would be used on 1080p. The best way to do this on OSX is to use SwitchResX (product in the blog/website) to run things at hi-DPI 1080p (4K) and then scale back down to 1440p. Just scaling up from non hi-DPI 1080 looks bad.
Not going to list them here but I suggest you go and do some research of the side effects and risks from actual medical research not HN users.

For me it ended in a few days in hospital.
and frankly looks like shit on 4K 27" displays

Could you explain? We have three different 4K 27" screens around the house and for me the five options between Larger text and More space in Display Preferences are completely fine? I pick the size I want and the fonts are completely crisp? If you want to select resolutions, you can hold the Option key and click the Scaled radio button and you can select concrete resolutions.

May experience with Linux has been the opposite. Integer scaling works well (assuming that the toolkit of an application supports it), but once you use fractional scaling (even on GNOME on Wayland), a lot of CPU cycles are burnt for rendering, and many non-GNOME applications will be rendered at a lower DPI and scaled up and everything is blurry. I had a ThinkPad with a 1080p 14" screen and an external 4k 27" screen. Both were practically unusable. With the native resolution everything is too small, with 2x scaling everything is too big, and with 1.5-1.75 scaling, many applications are blurry. I ended up using the native resolution and scaling up the font size. At least text was not too small or to big, but a lot of widgets were tiny and barely usable.

In Windows the options themselves are fine, but there are too many legacy apps that do not support scaling and just look blurry :(. And with plugging/unplugging of an external screen, Windows was often not able to put windows back in the right places.

HiDPI scaling was one of the long list of issues that made be go back to macOS after using a ThinkPad with Windows and Linux for 7 months a year ago.
Your "industrial crapware" survived for 14 years with basically no maintenance. Most software today can't even go a week without bugs.

I think VB6 let you create some incredibly powerful, stable, useful programs, and everything you've done since has taken you further away from this ideal state.

People can modify some entries at the top of a text script and run it in the interpreter.

That is significantly harder for most people than just clicking on buttons.
True to an extent--meaning mostly true in practice.

You can mutate the Git data if you chose to using commands like "filter-branch". "filter-branch" isn't used frequently, since it causes issues with every up/down-stream replica if the data has been pushed/pulled, but it is possible. But, even some commonly used commands like "amend", "rebase", and "squash" cause limited data mutations which are broadly considered appropriate and useful.
Morals and principles don't mean much without rules and authority behind them.

The genius and nasty aspect of Boy Scouts is that they integrated with other institutions. So they got to inherit the authority of the sponsoring institution, but they also inherited the negative and had a bias to look away from things. They also tended to be tight with local law enforcement, and alot of sexual abuse was never dealt with because of those informal relationships.

In my mind, this stuff isn't a political issue. My original point was that today, every one of these organizations requires that people in contact with children get background checked and have some level of training. That's not perfect, but at least known abusers are kept out. I don't care about political bullshit - whatever you believe whatever TV you watch, your children should never get molested.
Google’s cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on popularity of crypto
It isn't their code, it's the company's code.
I have always been motivated mostly by the stack I use and especially the complexity of the thing I build. I don't really care if anyone wants it. My most exciting job was a failed startup but to this day I can brag about the kind of system we built. It's probably easier for frontend developers to care about actual users.
I don’t know all the specifics of the interaction that happened here, but the hard truth is that if you aren’t eventually expecting this to happen to your business - regardless of the space you are in - you aren’t being realistic about the nature of competition in SaaS.

Plaid has enjoyed years of life without much direct competition. My hunch is that few other businesses were interested in the space because it feels inherently fragile, and Plaid has had the benefit from having spent years doing a lot of sausage making.

The inevitable dynamics of competition are finally catching up to them. In established corners of SaaS a vendor with a unique idea barely gets 6 months before their competitors have replicated anything that shows signs of product market fit. Not saying it doesn’t sting, but that’s reality.
https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/will-us-and-e... (although there is some question about whether this is comparing apples to apples.)

South Korea's costs seem to have been related to corruption. That will work until the first accident, and as long as people aren't going to jail (as they did in S. Korea.)
HN doesn't have sub-reddits
You can still have less successful businesses failing (trees dying) without entering a recession (forest fire). Nice analogy but I don't think it proves that recessions are necessary.
I've been using AppCleaner to do this for years. It's free and works well.

https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
> Take a look at this.

I repeat: client-side caching is not a problem, even with GraphQL.

The technical problems regarding GraphQL's blockers to caching lies in server-side caching.

For server-side caching, the only answer that GraphQL offers is to use primary keys, hand-wave a lot, and hope that your GraphQL implementation did some sort of optimization to handle that corner case by caching results.

Don't take my word for it. It's really that bad.

https://graphql.org/learn/caching/
let me recommend

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Effic...

on this topic. Tim Bray's writing is always worth reading, but I think he's really valuable on this specifically.
He simply didn't want to license his modifications under the terms required by Microsoft.
> Why would the Fed want 5% nominal rates for 30+ years?

This is a strawman. I said nothing about the Fed wanting 5% rates.

I'm simply saying rates are not going to be higher for a LONG period of time because - if you look at the math - a sustained period of high interest rates with our current public debt to GDP means that public spending would have to fall dramatically (which would crush GDP in itself - a negative feedback loop).

Substitute 5 for any non-negative number, and you'll see that any number higher than 0 LONG TERM means a cut to public spending.

You multiply the increase by ~3.5x (to include effects from state & local governments) and then you multiply by ~4x (because taxes aren't 100% of GDP - their ~25%).

A 1% LONG TERM increase in interest rates means a ~14% reduction in public spending (with the same tax burden).

The US Federal Government is already spending about ~14% of GDP on SS, Medicare, Medicade, and Debt Service. Considering that our tax revenues is only ~17.6% of GDP. Good luck cutting spending by 14%. Let alone 2x or 3x that.
Have a read of this, it's a first-hand account of a detransitioner who says that Littman's description of ROGD fit her to a tee: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name

She was captured by the ideology as a teenager and took testosterone for a year and a half before realising what had happened to her. And there are many others just like her.

I urge you to be more open-minded about this issue, and not baselessly accuse others of lies and misinformation, just for disagreeing with your opinion and having concerns about how children are being so negatively affected by this trend.
I agree on tutoring, but those resources are heavily gated by socioeconomic status. As such, many pockets of the population can't simply choose to adopt those strategies. Certainly those who can do so aught to, but our educational system would need reforming before if it's to be done without leaving a large part of the population behind.
To clarify HiDPI is allowed in high bandwidth requirement cases and disallowed in low bandwidth requirement cases not the other way around.
Scientists made a laser beam shaped like a photorealistic cat
Show HN: An Absurdly Compatible Website
Hey all, I was inspired by the other thread to make a quick video demo of what an Absurdly Compatible Website may look like when implemented.

This one does have some JavaScript, but degrades gracefully and supports text-mode browsers, no-JS browsing, and all the classics like IE3 and NN3 and Lynx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-_yr31biGM

Kudos to anyone who can name all the browsers used in the demo, I think it's more than 20 different ones :)

You can also check out the site live at http://RocketScience.click or https://RocketScience.click, at least until it's hugged.

The framework for this is a static-dynamic hybrid site generator with full transparency and decentralizability, which I'm just preparing for this weekend's MIT Bitcoin Expo, so please let me know if you find any issues.

Code is on GitHub: https://www.github.com/gulkily/RocketScience
TL;DR -

> Former Citigroup executive James Tromans will lead the new Google group that will build services to help developers construct Web3 applications.

> Early efforts could include better management of blockchain nodes and software for exploring blockchain data in third-party applications.

Does this signal they don't have a clear vision beyond "$$$"? Usually secrecy is acceptable, but seems ill-advised in the vaporware space that is crypto and "web3".
Canonical Form of Rotated and Color Swapped Rubik's Cube
So I was given an interview question, and I am extremely confused by their response. I'm not going to give away their details (if you know, you know), but the problem is interesting.

Let's say you have a standard Rubik's cube with White facing Up, Green facing Front, Red facing Right, and Yellow, Blue, and Orange opposite those colors in the same order (I.E. Blue opposite Green, Red - Orange, White - Yellow).

Say you wanted to write a database that contained solutions to the every possible state the cube could be in (solved state, top rotated once, top rotated twice, etc.). I understand that there are 24 unique ways you could rotate this cube to bring it back into a canonical form to avoid all possible cases.

Now let's say you allow non-standard colors (I.E. Red could be opposite White, Blue opposite Yellow, and on and on).

My understanding is that permuting the colors of the cube amongst the six posible colors is kinda of a one way function and there is no way to really undo it.

Hence, if you change whatever cube you are given with any possible color scheme into one where you replace whatever color is up with White, the front with Green, and so on, you essentially solve the problem of finding a canonical form.

The other engineers contest that it is possible and that you should permute all the colors first, and then try to rotate it into a canonical form from there.

Am I missing something, or is this like a trick question problem to befuddle engineers?

I tried reaching out to them but they won't get back to me with the "solution".
The tiny little notepad2 window on my otherwise perfect 200% scaled windows laptop says otherwise. Windows HiDPI has been a constant shit show for me.
> It didn't look like the famous one, at least to me.

You're not alone in thinking that. The article says the sculpture might actually be Pompey, not Drusus Germanicus. Evidently there's no name written on it, so it was probably catalogued as Drusus Germanicus because somebody thought it looked like the Drusus Germanicus, but they may well have been wrong.

> Even if it were the famous one, he was, in fact, in Germany, yes?

He certainly was. As far as I'm concerned, Germany is a perfectly fitting place for a sculpture of Drusus Germanicus.

My main point here is you can't assume a Roman was from the place they were named after. They might have been, or might not have been. Generally speaking, it's not even a given that a person named Germanicus was ever in Germania nor had any ancestry from Germania. The son of Drusus Germanicus was the Germanicus, the most famous Germanicus. The Germanicus to whom you can refer with the name Germanicus alone. The Germanicus inherited that name from his father Drusus. Complicating the matter, the Germanicus then went on to lead numerous military campaigns in Germania as his father did before him, but he already had the name Germanicus as a child, inherited from his father Drusus. There are actually a whole slew of Romans with the name Germanicus and many of them likely never set foot in Germania. Emperor Claudius (brother of the Germanicus and son of Drusus Germanicus) had the name Germanicus as well, but he was probably never in Germania. Nero and Caligula were also named Germanicus. A ton of Romans were.
Both Jonathan Blow and Casey Muratori have a history of being toxic and dismissive in their own right. I can’t really fault Microsoft here because of how argumentative and arrogant Casey has acted in the past. And Jonathan should have stayed out of this whole thing.
Thanks, but I'm not looking for an API, I'm looking for a database. Something I can query with simple command line tools.
Links here for the clicking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-_yr31biGM

http://RocketScience.click

https://RocketScience.click

https://www.github.com/gulkily/RocketScience
I think most people would like if they could be productive 24/7 (or more realistically, consistently productive during their waking hours), but I think there is some amount of "waking rest" that humans need, or at least that modern human existence makes it hard to avoid.

This same post could have been written 30 years ago, but it would be about mindlessly switching channels on the TV, watching vapid sitcoms interrupted by a handful of commercials you've seen dozens of times.

Maybe before that people would read the local fish-wrap newspaper or same stupid book they've read dozens of times.
What do you make of the data that from Ontario.
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data?fbclid=1

The vaccinated are getting infected at same or higher rates. (3rd graph)

Walgreens also shows the vaccinated testing positive now at much higher rates too (3rd page):

https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.j...

And if you look at the ICU numbers of Ontario, the indicator most touted as being proof the vaccine saves lives. The ratio of the ICU patients of the vaccinated/unvaccinated has been growing significantly.

If there is an advantage to being vaccinated. The numbers of the ICU unvaccinated patients are so small, 30 unvaccinated ICU cases per 15 million (Ontario Population) it would really be error prone to extrapolate to the general population from them. For example, it could easily be that 30 people out of a population 15 million are terminally ill with weeks to live, can't or won't take the vaccine then catch covid while being in the Hospital. This has no bearing on how a normal healthy person from the general population would react to COVID.

Ontario doesn't release data on death rates, so we don't know if the unvaccinated die at the same rate once in ICU. They probably don't.

If there is an advantage to being vaccinated at preventing death in absolute terms, it's tiny. The risk of dying from COVID is very small at this point to begin with.
Google's core competency is ads. Any time you click a search result, it's a failure: Google wanted you to click the ad above it.
The The or Adam and the Ants or Bananarama?

I always wanted to start a Yello cover band called Purple, just to perform a song called "Oh No!"

Mmmmm, Ugly... More ugly... Such a bad time... A really bad time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g
> John is the fifth hammer.

I didn't know what this meant. Apparently there is a legend that Pythagoras discovered harmony accidentally by overhearing four hammers working. Upon closer inspection of the forge, he also heard a fifth hammer that was discordant to the other four, so he discarded it.

Search "Pythagorean Hammers" for multiple shaky retellings that don't always include the fifth hammer, and a book named after it.
I adore Hasura and have used it pretty extensively for over a year.

That being said, the biggest thing I desire from it is the ability to do group by aggregations.

Any time I have to do this I have to go through the tedious process of writing a function which is really annoying.

I wish to avoid having to break into raw SQL as much as possible when using a tool such as Hasura.
If you were looking to geek out over zero to sixty times as if they matter you are not the intended audience of this article. You really were completely off base expecting the article to indulge you. It appears in Financial Times, not Road and Track or something.
>>> Any attempt to fix this broken system will mean an economic depression.

That summarized it. In the meantime, I minimize what I contribute in taxes and am going to stand back and observe the chaos.
These are all edge case, for more complicated cases you could still hire an agent. Think of it like the current tax situation in the US. 90% of people use turbo tax and H&R Block, but the rest have to hire an accountant.

If I know how much houses go for in my neighborhood, and know what I want, I should be make an offer on a house without an agent. If you are getting a mortgage it is going to have to be appraised anyway, so no one is going to get terribly screwed over. You could also get an inspection to point any red flags.

The current situation you basically have to have two agents involved which is silly, especially if the buyer and seller can reach an agreement by themselves.
Converting your vanilla JavaScript app to TypeScript
Conceptually, yes. But type definitions are exported by declarative lines in the same code that runs. Basically the schema is imperative code that runs actual validations, the tRPC methodology simply looks at the inferred types from that code to enforce consistency between client and server rather than parsing an actual static schema artifact (e.g. a .gql file).
Wait...really? Do you have any links to where I can read more about this?
That would be a significant effort. These are complex and nuanced issues. Would it suffice for me to simply say that you raise good points and silence implies consent?
Seems I can't read it because they detected "unusual activity from my computer". It's probably just the anti-tracking feature in my browser.
Ford's New Ad Pokes Fun at Elon Musk's Loud Mouth and Thin Skin
Many VC firms ban side investing. Yuri Milner’s DST encourages it
Yes, Google has tricked a massive army of people into doing free work for one of the most profitable companies in the world. Things like "Google Local Guides" give people a gold star (and maybe a pair of branded socks) for doing unpaid labor. It's kinda hilarious, but also sad.

I imagine there are Google executives in a room somewhere laughing their full heads off every time they think about how there are people who do free work for Google who think they are making the world a better place or something.
Compress: Optimized Go Compression Packages
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement and Fired Brick Hut
A lot of people think "profit motive" when something they think should work doesn't. This is especially true with Apple.

(I mean at a distant-enough remove, sure, everything any company does is for profit. But seeing a locked door and assuming it must be to support a ticket vendor ignores a universe of other explanations.)
Not hard to do, just hard to do well.

The evidence shows that most writers of VB apps neither predicted errors nor found these error situations in testing.

So exactly like the current Javascript ecosystem then?
> the federal reserve could not reach its target 2% inflation a year from 2008 until 2021

This is an excellent point. Between January 2012 and January 2022, CPI-U grew at 2.2% annually [1][a].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/consumerpricei...

[a] (281.148 / 226.665) ^ (1 / 10) - 1
Direct Link to the material: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UdzGsdgsg10&feature=youtu.be
Big Andian bug.
Yes. I've been saying that for nuclear to survive in the US, up front costs have to be cut at least by a factor of 3. This is going to be tough. NuScale's SMR doesn't appear to be able to do this.

If we start seeing CO2 taxes here, the way forward will be displacing gas using increased renewables, and if there are enough times where gas goes to zero then adding storage to serve that. Getting to 100% will require additional storage (and likely hydrogen), but even before that the environment will become quite hostile to new NPPs.
One general counter is that groups like the Gates Foundation that work in countries with sub-functioning governments do a certain amount of good in the short term by bypassing the government... But they are complicit in keeping governments sub-functioning, corrupt, not accountable to people, etc.
Exactly. This is one reason I inherently distrust all closed-loop systems.
Question as title is linkbait.
If the ask was 645K and the seller got a bid of 700K would they counter higher? As a buyer I'd tell them to fuck off.