skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a poor kid in WV, where I'd be the first in my family to attend college, I had no idea how any of this worked, so when the DeVry salesman showed up at my school and got pointed to me (I was self taught on computers, writing rudimentary programs, and I made a web page for the marching band, which got me in the school newspaper (it was 1998)), I was a sucker for the spiel. He glanced at my torn-open computer case, hard-wired into a cabinet stereo, with printouts on the wall, and told me that I belonged at DeVry, where I'd be surrounded by people like myself, and I bought it hook, line, and sinker.

I went to DeVry Columbus, and it took me a couple of semesters before I figured out the scam. Expose the students to as many languages as possible; give them an incredibly wide array of the shallowest experiences, so that when they graduated, they could say to potential employers, "yes, I've had experience with that".

Had I finished, I would have taken courses in Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, and Cobol. I would have had zero (0) classes on algorithms or data structures. No discrete math. I quit in my third semester when we had spent our 4th or 5th week fine-tuning printf output for an ATM simulator.

I had a tech support job at a call center farm when I left, so I just kept on with that. Used it to get another tech support job at a mom and pop ISP. I was made a sysadmin there, and eventually left to be a sysadmin at a fintech startup because they happened to use the same distro I did (Slackware, weirdly enough). Left there, and through my network of connections, got a job at Northeastern University in Boston, even though I still didn't have a degree (that took some negotiating on my and my boss's part). Stayed there for a few years and loved it, but got an interview at a private aerospace firm in 2015, and got hired there as an IT Systems Administrator, again, without a degree. After 4 years, they promoted me to IT Systems Engineer, and then to Senior, then to Lead. Now I help run one of the coolest ISPs in the world.

I'm very very fortunate that I've spent my career trying extremely hard to get better at whatever it was that I was doing at the time. I really wish I had made a better choice of college early on, because I feel like I could have ended up where I am faster, and be better at it than I am, but I'm grateful I've had the chances I have, and the help where I've gotten it. But it hasn't been easy, and a better college could have made a big difference.
You don't need to load the branch in Retool to see the diff. The diff/PR can be viewed on your Source Control provider like GitHub. It's a structured yaml file with information on the changes.

See what a PR looks like in GitHub: https://try.retool.com/hubfs/example%20PR%20in%20GitHub.png
While not a cure-all, try Ashwaghanda. It lowers cortisol levels.

> How do I avoid becoming mentally trapped in the workplace mindset?

Think about starting your own business, or at least find a job where you have a greater degree of freedom, or perhaps where you feel you have more of an impact.
HUD defines the "poverty line" for a family of four qualifying for low income housing in the Bay Area as $118k. That's not taking into account the car payments, vacations, and personal debts. If your definition of a living wage is a six-figure annual salary or close to it, then I have a bridge to sell you.
> it always started with executives, who never acknowledged their role in the problem or did anything to fix it

Wow I see a lot of executive hate on HN. Sure some is probably deserved, but I have seen a lot projects and companies (after being brought in as a consultant to fix) where the technologists had a pretty clear business vision given to them and were left to their own devices with good budgets, platform, and process freedom fail miserably due to team dysfunction and all too often—incompetence.
DoQ uses the DoT port, so I assume he'll approve of it; his objection to DoH was that it's designed to blend in with HTTPS traffic, and is difficult for network operators to filter.

Regardless of what the standard says, though, this is going to end up running over 443/udp from browsers, or it's not really going to run anywhere at all.
many successful projects and businesses can directly attribute their success to choosing and using python, in contrast to your unsubstantiated opinions.

you are shouting into the void, and looking foolish while doing so.
I don't really get the love that approval voting gets.

Approval voting requires the voter to decide whether or not to approve the lesser of two evils. It seems to me that this isn't a simple question it depends on the odds of different outcomes, level of preference between two evils, etc. To me that seems like it would make voting harder for most people, and politicians would absolutely be trying to mislead people about the appropriate strategies for who to approve and not approve.
Apple TV [macOS app] does't show video on secondary display
Just talked with someone in the concrete business.

There is a national shortage of Portland cement (imports restricted, new plants regulated out) and high quality flyash (these people got it from a place that used to ash from coal burning).

That can't help house prices...
Isn’t that because you converted your ETH to ETH2 for staking? They are pretty clear ETH2 cannot be transferred or traded, and it’s because the ETH2 network isn’t ready yet, not some sinister plan of theirs.
But still up at least 400-500% if you bought any time up until COVID hit. ;)
Every action requires waiting. Its so frustrating. Open the app, spinner. Click themostat, spinner. Change the temperature, spinner. Its so frustrating. I use Home Assistant now as my primary home control app.
Uhm… no Rule of Law then?
Real assets aren't inherently more valuable than digital ones. I've spent much more on digital assets in my life than on physical assets. Cosmetics in video games are much more valuable to me than like clothes in real life. To me buying physical stuff is mostly a waste of money.

The USA army could be dissolved and the economy could switch to use something else. Of course these events have a low probability of happening but if someone wants to say something else doesn't have a floor because demand could dry up you can't say something else does have a floor even though demand could dry up just the same.
> What the fuck happened to just TELLING THEM!?

People don't say anything. They use the software, and then when features are deprecated they come screaming for you to continue supporting it. It's a waste of resources if they have to create an 'RFC' for every time they want to deprecate a feature due to development workload, when they could just have it report usage of features within the app. It's literally just how many people use specific features in the code they're writing; they're not watching what you type, they're not uploading a log of window titles like early blizzard anticheat software[0]. If you don't want them to be able to make informed decisions about the software they write you shouldn't use it, just create your own and send out a yearly/quarterly survey asking people to tell you what features they use, and see just how many people respond (hint: 30% of users is an unlikely best case scenario for external surveys[1]); hopefully that sample is good enough to drive decision on what features you stop supporting and what features to focus on.

0: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/10/new-gaming-feature-spy...

1: https://peoplepulse.com/resources/useful-articles/survey-res....
Crypto Investors Are Likely Paying Less Than Half the Taxes They Owe
I got so frustrated with eye glasses that never had the correct prescription that I purchased an optometrist kit off Amazon for $200
I had spent over 10,000 at various eye doctors.

Helped me figure out what was going on. ( unstable prescription)
Sure, the flare gas sites that are (or arent) connected to the grid are exactly a case where bitcoin mining is taking from no other use, and actually reducing very quantifiable pollution

There are likely several gigawatts of this kind of energy in north america and the amount of energy used this way and for mining in total will continue to increase without causing more pollution

This is due completely to market forces as well, which is worth saying because more mining will migrate to this without it being some altruistic response to environmental outcry
Energy is most definitely not fungible. The availability of energy and demand for energy can vary by greatly location. For it to be fungible, energy would need to be free to transport, or demand for energy would need to be location insensitive.

Bitcoin actually does a lot of good things here because it is location insensitive. For stranded energy, say methane flare gas, there is not an economical way to use the energy of this gas because transport is too expensive and demand is too far away. In this way, the bitcoin mining is consuming energy that wouldn't actually otherwise be marketable. It is also greatly reducing greenhouse emissions without demand for the energy, the methane would be burned, which has much worse emissions than when consumed in a generator.
It… works. I'm typing this comment from a machine running the new FOSS drivers like a champ on KDE Plasma. Not that it is perfectly stable, but it definitely works.
>But many creative types I know have used at least one if not both. We are not the intended market.

I have an art degree.
I always thought of it as separated by a slash.

Ass/clown.
All those ... 50 bytes or whatever it is, yes.

If you want to pick a fight about bandwidth waste, start with spam, not this.
If it wasn't enough that animal fats taste much better, it's also the healthier option.
> as a software dev you know that soft anonymous telemetry of how a user use what you do is very valuable to make decision on how to make things....

No, actually, on account of being a software dev, I know that telemetry is actively counterproductive when making decisions on how to make things. It makes your decisions more wrong, not less.
Lawyers concerned in-house code may become virally GPL licensed (I think, it has been a while since I had insight into MS inner workings).
Same sort of thing as many/most companies won't allow their employees to look at patents.
The Erlang programming language is AFAIK the only programming language used in production that does what Alan Kay is talking about. So it is probably the only Object Oriented programming language used in production today.
> The only google products I still use are search, gmail and google maps. That's it. The same as in 2005.

Never stopped to think about it, but you are right.
Ok, I missed it. What's replacing it?

Agile, for me, has been a nightmare as an engineer. Long hours to finish promised work. Shitty code and technical debt from me as a result.

I really hope there's something better for software development.
Why is it fat-ass or dumb-ass, and not fat+ass and dumb+ass ?
The OP said "Republicans in power today". You provided a link of legislations from 10 plus years ago most of which didn't even go anywhere.
While this particular event doesn’t mean much, if you are heavily invested in crypto you should be anything but calm.

If you are big into an altcoin, prepare for that to go up in smoke the next few months.

If you hold a lot of Bitcoin, make peace with it losing over 75% of value in the next few months. It’s going back to pre-covid levels at best.
> I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Instagram for his portfolio and Whatsapp for communication. As I'm old and curmudgeonly I wanted an email address, and when I got it, it's the one that came free with his phone.

And work in anything international and this is essentially it. Want to find a smoothie shop in a beach town in Mexico? Instagram/FB + WhatsApp...thats it.
I don't really know what this is decrying, but this was very well written.
> until it isn’t the very best city anymore because everybody moved there.

Wat. Cities are not parties that get diluted with lame people.

London and Paris grew large and rich in comparison to their respective countries.

To the extent there is an equilibrium at play, it is a power law. There is no rotating most popular city, not withstanding what people think about San Francisco. Density wins, and the winners keep on winning absent some sort of disaster.

I'm sorry, but this seems like a classic example of pulling out some Hobbesian cynicism as a calling card for classy sober thinking...but in this case it's dead wrong.
In my experience it's often not the case that "everyone involved" knows these things. Quite the contrary actually. Many times I'd been the guy to tap someone on the shoulder (remotely of course) to say hey that's really not something we can do.
Exactly. Also it's different when you are talking to one person vs 1000s of people. Even when it is obvious, 0.1% of readers will read it just a little to quickly and get confused. Given that "/s" makes it more obvious, the intentional omission of it is intentionally requiring more effort of the readers.

There are times and places when one might want to make the readers work harder, but HN comments doesn't seem to qualify.
ATC communication recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDwzNtDMlA
Is it worse in that respect than regular "pick-one, winner-take-all" voting? Ironically, it might be the lesser evil.
Dotcom bubble friends. BITO ETF at the top to unload VC capital onto a bag holding public.
A big absurdity I sense here. I'm talking about Solana here, btw.

* Considering the money flying around Solana and its heavy dependency on BPF, $100k payout per vuln is reasonable.

* Considering the money flying around Solana and its heavy dependency on BPF, 2 major vulns with a fuzzer over a weekend is 100% unacceptable. If it was a usual startup, I would not be concerning, but, this is a blockchain that handles tons of money. It's such a complete failure of technical leadership.

* Note that bounty will not always solve the problem. If the vuln could be exploited for profit, Solana would've been already doomed.
All three times (2015, 2019, 2020) the Kazakh government tried this the cert was blocked in major browsers.
> come and go at all times of night

I don't see this as an issue unless they are being obnoxiously loud. Lots of people work night shifts or attend late night events.
In March, a number of technologies that were growing quickly on W3techs suddenly went flat or declining (Shopify and WordPress are examples). Others experienced a sudden surge (Squarespace, Wix).

I suspect W3techs is rolling out a change in their methodology.
For the non-dev user, Gutenberg takes longer and is more fiddly to do what the old editor used to do, breaks a lot of old themes/plugins, and makes it harder and harder to use the old editor/themes/and similar.

For the developer, WordPress used to be really easy to make add-ons for and customize. Now you need to know React to get the most of of WordPress, and if you're going to go through the trouble to get good with React, what are you going to do, use it to maintain WordPress sites or go get paid more to do React development?

Gutenberg and the changes associated with it do make a better site — but people didn't want a better site, they wanted a better WordPress.
yaaaaaaaaawn
The same thing happened with cars. A half century who, anyone with a bit of an interest used to be able to understand pretty much everything going on under the hood of a car of the era. Today no one person fully understands the symphony between all the mechanical, hardware, and suffocate systems in a given brand new vehicle.

As technology matures, the underlying systems that drive it increase in complexity, but the user experience improves and simplifies. A mechanical pocket watch is much more complex than an hourglass or sundial, but vastly more useful.
This is the result of the way we've been lending money. Before 2008 you could easily get a loan for constructing new houses so many people did. Now new families can only get a loan for existing houses, this necessarily constrained supply and I would argue is the primary driver in the housing crunch.

Bring back land loans and the problem will solve itself.
I wonder if this release will meet the hacker's definition of open source in this case. People like that have a habit of changing the goal lines.
Isn't baby formula vestige of the marketing era of "breastfeeding is harmful to kids"?

Why is baby formula use still so widespread? I understand that some women have twins and triplets, some others have health issues... but the use seems way too widespread than that.

I hope this helps a lot of parents who don't need it realize that they don't... and hope some of those who do need it can switch over to cow's milk.
Transfer rates for Stanford has been extremely low historically: 42 admits out of 1,959 applicants in 2016 (https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/selection/profile16.htm...). I believe Caltech is even lower (single digits) as they only matriculate 250 freshmen every year. I certainly won’t count on getting admitted to either of those colleges as a transfer student even if you get straight As.
Bottom of the article tells me I shouldn't have been able to see this yet, especially here (edit: right... timezones... nevermind):

> If you're reading this before the 12th, welcome to an experiment! I've been wondering about how to make some of my posts Patreon exclusive for a week. This post was published for my patrons on the 5th of May. Please don't share this link around on social media until the 12th, but privately sharing it is okay.
Uh, thanks for the link, but better if you'd just spell it out so it can be examined and responded to here. I'm not going to respond to a link.

> There basically is no evidence of a natural origin.

Except, I suppose, for the mountains of historical evidence that every virus ever had natural origins in people in close proximity to animals, exactly like the Wuhan Fish Market, where all of the first infections were found in proximity and not across the river near the Wuhan lab, and that in the last 80 years there have been a dozens and dozens of serious lab leaks of virulent and contagious agents that have never even led to an outbreak, let alone a global pandemic.

So circumstantial evidence just isn't going to cut any mustard here. There was talk of a smoking gun... I suppose it was just talk, because it appears the actual smoking gun is the Wuhan Fish Market.
I possess neither the analytical skills nor the required stomach for doing this. But it's 45 days into Q2 and crypto is falling apart. If retail traders disappeared from Robinhood, I can only imagine it will be worse in crypto, given that there are fewer traders and some coins, in certain cases, suffered total losses, which hasn't happened in (many, or any) stocks.

As a greedy but fearful person, I will rejoice in the fact that I declined to interview with them for massive compensation (~900k) which was mostly paid out in stock. That would have been now about ~370k.
That actually does sound kinda impossible, 98% of their crypto is in secured cold storage, and it’s spread across distinct coins and different wallets.

I’m not saying it’s risk free, but what exchange or broker is? Does anyone else match Coinbase for security? Gemini seems at best equivalent.
I already think property taxes are immoral, in that they tax unrealized value in perpetuity.

I’m paying $2k more in property taxes this year because a bunch of very wealthy out-of-state home owners have decided they want to live here, and have driven up prices to an extreme.

I’m not going to be convinced that I should be ruinously taxed on the unrealized value of my land in order to force me to develop it according to the whims of whatever entity we entrust to socially engineer land-use.
Could be. I just assumed squawk. (121.5 is the universal emergency VHF audio comm frequency.)
There are plenty of crypto exchanges that only deal with crypto. Or only have on/off ramps for some local currency that isn't really practical for people outside of that one country.

Bitprime allowed people in NZ to easily transfer value in and out of those exchanges. Or directly into a wallet for other services (i.e. buying NFTs or paying ransomware), or to hoddle.
That's likely due to the Voting Rights act which requires what they call majority-minority districts. It prohibits redistricting to disempower racial minorities. It's another complication in the whole gerrymandering debate that makes it a lot harder to solve, because it requires districts that will look gerrymandered in a lot of cases.
The Rise and Fall of Canada's Cannabis Industry [audio]
Did they publish cost estimates?
> (like adding online ordering, inventory management, etc.) you are better off finding other, better suited options.

What better suited options? And why are they better for someone's small business or intention to sell a few products?

To be fair, the "online ordering" part is handled by services such as Paypal and Stripe. Wordpress is not doing the heavy lifting. Inventory is just a bunch of products sitting in the database. I'm not sure it's fair to describe this as "pushing beyond the bounds of a blogging platform". At the end of the day, you get a new item in the Wordpress admin "products". Click that, add products, enter prices.

Is it ideal? No. But what platform is that is affordable and predictable?
Speaking as an abstainer from all things Meta, that's depressing.
I'll leave this here: https://youtu.be/rQmqVVmMB3k
Did something change with this recently? Or was there other new news about it?
EU Commission Chat Control official proposal documents
> only realistic option for true cross platform UIs that run everywhere

Depending on your needs, Livecode has you covered. https://livecode.com

Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux. Delivers on all three, plus iOS and Android. The underlying language is patterned after HyperTalk and people either love it or hate it, but I haven't seen any other tool where you can open the new installation and within 2 minutes deliver single-file executables for three platforms. (Disclosure: I build a developer tool for Livecode)
this sounds somewhat similar to the only treatment that works for me when i get poison ivy: very hot water right up to the edge of what i can stand. The overload dramatically reduces the itching for several hours.
Where open-source projects and contributors come to find each another
With an updated copy and a bit more information, I'm still looking to validate this idea against some OSS founders.

If that is you, please take 2 minutes of your time and check out:

https://lookingforpullrequests.carrd.co/

Thanks!
This proposal would force device manufacturers to run csam hashes and other content detectors filters on users' devices, right?
Generally OTC desks are useful for large purchases. Let's say you want to acquire $100 million in Bitcoin - you could go to Coinbase and just do it, but you'd drastically move the market, have a really obvious candlestick, and an observant third party could look for large movements from Coinbase and potentially track your holdings / de-anonymize you.

An OTC desk can be setup to spread the buy over several days / months, buy across markets, and optimize for best price execution. It's not necessarily a huge business, but a lot of businesses and high net worth individuals will use these types of services instead of trying to learn the skills themselves.
I tried the nogil branch out a couple of weeks ago, after running into a GIL issue with some of my code. I used the Docker image they provide.

It worked! I was stunned at how easy and effective it was. My page load time dropped from 77ms to 47ms when I ran some of the code in parallel.

I wrote some notes on that here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/6/weeknotes/#nogil