skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had low latency input and smooth animation 30 years ago. The latency and lag of modern user interfaces is all in the layers and layers of software. It's especially noticeable when you look at like NES games and the like, they ran at 50 or 60 FPS (depending on PAL or NTSC) and typically had zero input lag (unless there was some sprite limit being exceeded). Modern games at 50 FPS are so sluggish you feel like you've downed a full bottle of wine or something. The difference is the time it takes to render a frame today, which can be 100ms or more, especially when the GPU is struggling.

But what I meant was like pixel density and so on. My screen is a lot higher resolution than it was 20 years ago, but it doesn't actually display much more information as my ability to actually resolve fine details has if anything worsened with the years. My screen is farther away and my font size higher, that's the big difference.
Ah, reminds me of the slashdot of my youth!
Integration is as easy as clicking "install app" on your Github Repo :) though you'd still have to spend some time configuring rules on our settings page if you want to fine-tune advanced settings.

Re other companies: internal devX challenges that crop up while scaling eng teams seems to be a class of problems that isn't strictly CI or source control or deployment infra, though adjacent to a lot of such tools... Maybe that's why?
I have a Nokia 7.2 with an extra button on the side. Not sure if it classifies as a PTT button.

But by default it was assigned to the Voice Assistant. Which I hated because an accidental press was a waste of time.

Once that association was removed I was relieved. It now does nothing.
Check out PlanetScale [0] (if you use MySQL). Their hobby tier is free and very generous. If you get to the point of needing more, $30/mo isn't bad for what you get. It's way better than Aurora Serverless V1 or V2 which I was super excited for but turned out to not be worth it all. It failed scaling so much that I had to crank it up before an event or it would never find a good "migration point" or whatever they called it. Aurora Serverless' marketing is straight lies and their pricing is opposite of what I think of when I hear "serverless", $45/mo per DB if you want a single instance in V1 or 0.5 of one in V2. At least V1 allowed you to scale to 0, they removed that in V2.

[0] https://planetscale.com/
Rebel Inc. a political/military simulation from the creator of Plague Inc
And those who believe in the Constitution.
> Gordon in the Rise and Fall of American Growth

A fantastic book!

But give it up. You tried but you can't explain that argument in a few paragraphs in a social network. That's a level of intelligence that is simply not possible here.

Just look at the answers you got. You (and Gordon) talk about changes in the fundamental, in the daily routines of everyday life, in the organization of life, cities and markets. However almost all answers here completely miss that point and go: "but product X is so much better now!".

They'd need to read Gordon's book to grasp it.
High end tends to be equity heavy, and equity has dropped in value massively this year. Not sure how common it is to issue refresher grants of RSUs to top up the total comp.
S22. Whereby the 22 is a year designation. Not sure what there is to trademark here?! The letter 'S' ?
> Look to the 2000 (Tech Bubble Burst) recession. In that one, the bottom dropped out of the tech market. Web designers were especially hard hit.

I wonder if it's gonna be mobile app designers/devs this time round?
Asymptotic burnout, homeostatic awakening: possible solution to Fermi paradox?
To explain this more clearly: what I'm trying to say is that the different parts of the software industry seem more like a bimodal distribution than a smooth one. If you think broadly of the extremes in software jobs (say, "fresh college grads making $250k+ to use cutting-edge frameworks to build a 'doordash for pet food' app" on the one hand, and "SE3s making $120k to add features to a jankety legacy application that gets manually deployed once every three months" on the other), thinking of those as separate industries is a more useful mental model than thinking of them as two ends of the same industry.

I thought this was relevant because one is more recession-proof than the other, but that's hardly the only way that they're different. So my point probably came across muddled because I was referring to a larger distinction in the industry without describing it very well.
It's not very complicated. The target is very large and slow, while the missile is very fast. I've done the math a few years ago, but with consumer-level optics you could easily search a 40km diameter area for a 300m sized optics in seconds from a distance of 300km.

Beyond that, you can use datalinks with a satellite (carriers are visible all the way from geostationary orbit), as well as two different types of targeting sensors on the missile, presumably optics+radar (which the Chinese seem to be doing), and obtain a very robust targeting solution.

The TASM was retired because it's really just a worse Harpoon in everything except payload. It wasn't worth putting too much work into it. It's also 10x slower than a DF-26, and speed helps a lot with targeting. Also, the TASM was pretty easy to shoot down since it was big, slow, and not very maneuvrable.
What Is Science? Allan Savory
> The insanely profitable and influential 2001 film paved the way for Dreamworks Animation and its strategy of using thinly-veiled (if veiled at all) “adult jokes” and cultural references as its movie fuel.

So like cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s and every decade since?

> These ain’t your daddy’s cartoons

Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat are centenarians at this point, with Looney Tunes at their tails...
Considering every animal sleeps on a daily basis, I would say “turning it on and off again” pertains to maintaining the stability of complex state-based systems.
This is a strange choice, since nobody has actually tried to get a book-banning and book-burning campaign going against that book.

There are lots and lots of "banned" books, but this is not one of them.
And making sweeping statements about Democrats. Regardless of any political takes, that's potentially tens of millions of people who could take offense, including those most active about electric vehicles and solar panels.
Sandy hook happened again today.
Politically speaking, Binance is too tied to China.

Business-wise, Binance made its fame by shitting on Ethereum and its developers, and then copying every innovation they could while completely eliminating all the valuable aspects of decentralization. The Binance Chain is not really decentralized, which means that they can censor participants or revert transactions. They kept all the bad parts of blockchain tech, but none of the ethics.
wait, you have hired people to post with your HN account?

(YC-Founders take notes)
I dont think it follows either, but at least when you cook from scratch you have control over how much stuff is washed before you use it. That's not the case for more processed food.

I'm not suggesting processed food necessarily uses poorly washed vegetables, just that its out of one's control - it certainly strikes me as possible that industrial scale processes might do a better job at removing chemical residues than a typical home cook giving store bought produce a quick rinse.
C# is 22 going on 5.
Heat pump and AC unit are two names for the same thing.
loom' pricing is $8/person/month .
Descript pricing is $12, $24/person/month .
Do they sustainable price?
As it is now common to shut down subsystems for reasons of power optimization, this sort of approach may be becoming an accidentally autonomous architecture.
But humans are still limited. Until we accelerate our evolution, we'll be stuck at the speed of glaciers in terms of our potential.
> Weirdly i feel like there’s no really good, singular American equivalent

What about The Whitest Kids U Know? For some reason they remind me a lot of the Kids in the Hall, and not just because both have "kids" in their names. There's the absurdist humor, but I also think they even physically resemble the other troupe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whitest_Kids_U%27_Know

Example skit: "Happier And With Your Mouth Open" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwjmUWh-ymo)

Then there is the absolutely fabulous Key & Peele, I can lose hours just watching random sketches on YouTube. But they don't resemble the Kids in the Hall at all.
This is a tough market. It will be difficult to find opportunities but if you do find an opportunity, it's more likely to be a good one.

The downside of a tech boom is that there is too much easy money floating around some companies and this causes industry standards decline. The workplace becomes political; it feels chaotic and non-meritocratic. It's easy to lose passion for your work when nobody can recognize its value and nobody cares about things like efficiency and maintainability.

I'm a senior developer with 15+ years of experience and I've recently had to accept a 2 month contract for almost half my normal pay to build a new system from scratch. Unfortunately, when experienced, highly productive developers are willing to take such huge pay cuts, it pushes all the less experienced devs out of the market completely.

I would recommend trying to join a startup or a small company (or start your own on the side). Find tech companies whose customers produce real, obvious economic value. For example; the business' main customers are in farming, mining, construction, manufacturing...

The past decade in tech has been fueled by low interest rates and massive money printing and has mostly been about zero-sum activities like surveillance and manipulation... IMO this should start to change now.
Total comp has likely come down, not salaries.

If a significant part of your comp is in stock, then yeah, that portion of your pay is down potentially 70% or more in six months (Netflix). There’s probably some employees at FAANG that are negative on their equity.
Whoa, anime is real!
If you have the means, it's nice.

Where is this mythical $45/mo. 10gbps fiber connect?
I can't tell if this is good or bad. =)

Most of my queries are super simple and most of the load is an update statement on a primary key column.
I remember seeing years ago a python library called BitGlitter which did the same thing. It would convert any file to a image or video. You could then upload the file yourself. https://pypi.org/project/BitGlitter/
Fair enough, though convection microwaves are a real improvement. Traditional microwaves meanwhile cost about 1/10th as much as an 80’s microwave which is noticeable in it’s own way.
They mean total comp, which is probably true since lots of people include their stock price appreciation when they talk about their total comp.
Alternate view, they actually just like violence. Their highest ideal is being a threat to people who disagree with them (or children)
ERC721 is a great example. A group of people defined an open source standard, and then a variety of clients began to support and build on top of it. It is now a multi billion dollar industry shaking up the art world.

If you think you can write a better spec for a transferable non-fungible record of ownership, like a domain name asset, that works across any EVM blockchain, go for it. It’s an open system, hence why other specs like ERC1155 exist and find traction to meet different needs.

These kinds of open source and decentralized standards and protocols is also what gave us the web. It is valuable to have a system that is built on open protocols rather than a closed and highly permissioned infrastructure.
None, unless you think that people are somehow able to side-step this problem in a way that a computer can't mimic.
A persistent and significant portion of the nation believes that firearms are an integral defense against tyranny and promised right from the constitutional amendments.
Interest rates have changed how easy money is, now unit economics has to work and the blitzscale and monopolize model doesn't have the capital to fuel itself

That's why classic blue chips are up and all the creative accounting, exotic pricing, complex funny money stuff is crashing hard. Anything that's not super easy to understand is doing terrible.

Look at who's up over the past 6 months. Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's, Coca Cola, Coors, General Mills, Campbell Soup, Eli Lilly - companies with solid conventional reliable products and not a bunch of adventurous moon shots. Even PayPal, which is normally a pretty "safe" tech company is -60% YTD.
Part of the issue is that the US government keeps fucking with their bank accounts, making it difficult to have 100% of their reserves in plain old cash deposits.
I think tptacek is referring to the article was written by Kurt and Chris, not the HN comments
^^ likely a more accurate opinion than mine -- I've been a recluse for ~18mo
I'd go a step further and say that binding arbitration clauses between employers and their employees probably shouldn't be allowed in general. Employer/employee disputes will frequently touch upon labor law, and should be heard by a court familiar with the relevant statutes -- not by a private-sector arbitrator.
> It's at least 4X, often more.

i'd say, often 2X, sometimes more.

4x would be a case of being drastically underpaid.
> performs about the same as MS Word did on a 486 with a floppy

Except (gdocs for comparison) I now can:

1. Effortlessly access the doc on multiple devices, wherever there is cell or WiFi.
2. See a visual history of every change I've ever made to the doc.
3. Collaborate with many other people in real time.
4. Easily incorporate images, tables, drawings, and other files.
5. Compare documents.
6. Use other character sets and emoji.
7. Add, have others add, and review comments.

I'm sure there's more. I don't remember everything about how primitive things were 30 years ago.
Actually there's a worm/larva that can eat styrofoam, not sure whether this is a great link, but:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/beetle-larvae-can...
Don't see why i was down-voted, my statement was objective facts. Republicans consistently block firearm safety bills. Democrats are the only party working to change the status quo where 2nd-graders get mass murdered on a regular basis
This sounds interesting, I popped the key cap off that button and also the print-screen button since I was amassing a sizable collection of accidental desktop screenshots!

Edit: It's not in the K2 manual but there is a shortcut, FN + L + lightbulb key that works to lock it -

https://www.keychron.com/pages/k2-user-manual

https://keychronsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052...
I have felt that for some time we are headed for a market over saturation situation like the 80's when everyone got Electrical Engineering degrees, and then it all collapsed. I know lots of people who have quit other careers to go the BootCamp route to get in on the movement. I've worried for some time this can't be sustainable.
I remember a talk from a Michigan State professor at one Pycon a ways back that taught Python for their intro to CS. What I remember is that for the first time ever, he had people call him after the class and wanted to switch majors.

I think Scheme is awesome as long as it's not your first language, but I think if Scheme is your first introduction to CS particularly in college, it can be pretty brutal depending upon the instructor. I think a lot of higher learning institutions were trying to copy MIT's use of SICP for their intro courses.
I agree. May he with the biggest propaganda machine win! /s

There is obviously a massive problem with modern disinformation tactics, to the point that if you deny it, I presume you have an agenda to sell. There are most definitely terrible things that should not be legal to knowingly include in search results, ever (yes, actually, do think about the children, etc). So all reasonable people already accept that some things should be censored, as a moral and legal obligation. The correct solution is not as simple as unfettered libertarianism would have you believe.

Thus, agree or disagree with that action, I cannot reach the conclusion that they have somehow broken an inviolable code, especially since all algorithms include publishing choices anyways.
Anyone having experience with contabo.com? I've got a couple of VPS there and so far pretty happy but didn't yet have any more involved interaction with the team or support to fully judge. No managed DBs but object storage as well.
Mine. Kevin McDonald’s expressions crack me up.

https://youtu.be/zAAiSHSPk_w
I'm currently reading Digital Minimalism from Cal Newton and have started preparing for a 30-day digital declutter. So I was really excited to read this title and immediately disappointed after clicking - the Cat phone has a web browser. If you have access to the entirety of the internet in your pocket, it is hard to limit yourself and no little trick or hack is going to actually help - in my experience.

I'll go ahead and take advantage of this post to ask, what do other digital minimalists on HN use for their phone? I'm looking for something with messages, maps, a camera, and WhatsApp with no access to a browser or an app store. The most difficult item on that list is definitely WhatsApp. Unfortunately, if you travel a lot (which I do) it's not really optional. Outside of North America, EVERYTHING happens on WhatsApp. I've started looking into custom Android ROMS but that feels like an extreme step for what must be a common problem?
I dropped out of school in 1999, and got laid off in 2001 at the start of that recession. I couldn't get a job in 2001 or 2002, so I went back to school and got scholarships to live off of, and graduated in 2003. Recession was still ongoing but I got lucky and had a friend from the first job help me get a job, but other than that, I wasn't getting a lot of interviews.

I had friends who were getting hired and then laid off just a few weeks later. One guy lucked out and got hired and fired with severance before his start date.

Job searching during a recession isn't fun. Going back to school with scholarships, if you can get them, is a good stopgap. You'll get money to live as well as extra education to make a stronger application when the recession ends.

Otherwise, work your network. Find friends who were lucky enough to get jobs and ask for referrals. Work on open source projects and try to make friends with the senior people on the project, who might like your work and get you a job.
Having seen >1mil EUR of machinery stop because of a quick fix to python code done without special editor and thus resulting in having one #\Space less in one line, I would say Python is the language that requires special tools - not Lisp.

Worst case, you can align your parens vertically, like many AutoLISP programmers did when their only tool was Notepad or EDIT.COM. And usually incorrect parens result in code blowing up at build time, not runtime. Counting parentheses is definitely easier than counting whitespace.

If anything, Lisp just happens to be language with community that embraced quite advanced editor enhancements before many other languages got invented, and thus lisper's baseline expectations might be bigger than other developers'
Scaleway, although they're EU-only atm the price is right for my use case.
If unlimited firearms was what the founders wanted, I think they would have said so. they didn't
"Before a computing system starts running, it’s in a fixed initial state. At startup, it executes its initialization sequence, which transitions the system from the initial state to a useful working state:"

LOL etc
A reputation for drives that fail faster than their competitors will definitely effect them!
To better understand why we can't just load a snapshot of the "desired" memory state directly from a cached image, we have to understand what the OS actually does during it's initialization.

One of the main responsibilities of the OS is to manage hardware resources. During init, kernel drivers and modules perform health checks and determine availability and status of hardware resources, peripherals, I/O, etc. Since lots of things could go wrong with the various hardware components, at anytime, this process should be performed during each system boot.
The hardware world was doing fuzzing about a decade before the software world was, though they called it coverage-directed constrained random simulation: generate test vectors in a way that you cover more of the design.
Have you looked at planetscale.
Children and a teacher were killed at an elementary school in Texas
I have that paper printed out on my desk :) Won't pretend I understand it 100% but it taught me a lot about distributed systems.
In 2001 I had a friend get a job and then get fired with severance before his start date!
Uvalde Elementary is the 30th shooting at a K-12 this year. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/us/uvalde-texas-elementary-sc...

Steve Kerr's speech today https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/ux46gj/steve_kerr_give...
Personally I try to turn GPS off as much as possible but I also frequently consult it even for routes that I know well. And come on, maps are excellent, there's no garbage there. Last weekend I was frustrated that Google was unaware of a road reroute but that is leaps and bounds ahead of the days of paper maps. Yeah, there's a lot of garbage on the Internet but it's also remarkably easy to find high-quality information.

The change over even 10 years ago is also really dramatic for how I use public transit, since I not only know where I am but where the vehicles I'm planning on getting into are so I can reroute that way. It's only in the past 5 years or so that the data has gotten reliable enough that I trust it to use in that way.
People knew how AI worked when AI meant “graph search.” But now solving chess is not AI and linear (and nonlinear) regression is…
Our experience was nothing but bad with Contabo VPS. Poor uptime and support.
Can we please talk about how the new intro is able to reproduce the feel of the original?

The music really sells it a lot.

Watching the old intro beckons nostalgia for the 1990s and a simpler time. It felt like it just didn’t exist anymore in the current day. Yet, the new intro brings the same feeling for 2020s.

I’ve watched it over and over to catch small details that help build the feeling. Things I’ve noticed:

- Obviously both were shot on 8 mm (minus film grain lost in the transfer-to-tape in the original version).

- Peoples’ expressions seem genuine and candid

- The new intro starts anachronistic but, through indirect exposition, eases you into the fact that it’s modern day. You don’t see modern objects until the fourth or fifth shot of the intro (Mitsubishi Outlander car, bike trailers, dogs in bike trailers, longboards, etc).

Anything else I’m missing?
You're starting to get it.

A government-backed crypto currency would come with a wallet. The central bank becomes both the issuer of money as well as host your account. This makes other banks largely obsolete.

Assuming it to be the main and only currency, transaction privacy fully ends. Transaction blocking and censorship would be the push of a button, pretty much your entire digital existence and access to things can be wiped out at will. Given that the majority of the world lives in an authoritarian regime, not at all a far-fetched scenario.

Money would also be programmable. The central bank can apply its monetary policy directly to your wallet. Stimulus money. Interest rates based on your behavior. The blocking of purchasing particular categories of products. Anything, really.
> But the main advantage -- it's less labor to install.

Another huge advantage is you can easily do plastic pipe plumbing yourself. You just need one clamping tool, that costs less than one hour of plumbing labour would cost. Plumbing with copper piping or steel pipes requires way more time, skill, and expensive tools.

PVC drain pipes are also simple to install correctly: a tape measure, a saw, and some PVC solvent cement is all you need for simple jobs.