skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So now you buy into Russian propaganda instead of political science. Interesting.

There is a difference between believing propaganda and drawing conclusions from the fact that the propaganda exists.

As an example, imagine that there is a guy called Hitler, who writes a book saying "Jews are trying to destroy the world, but I am going to save the world by destroying them". If you read the book and conclude "this Hitler guy is going to save the world", you are believing the propaganda. If you read the book and conclude "this Hitler guy seems to hate Jews", you are drawing a conclusion. In both cases you have read the book and came to a conclusion, but the process was quite different.

Similarly, if a guy called Putin writes a book saying "Ukrainians are not a real nation, they are actually a part of my nation and it's a shame that they have a separate country", then if you conclude "the Ukrainians are not a real nation", you are believing the propaganda, but if you conclude "this Putin guy will probably try to annex Ukraine", you are drawing a conclusion.

Anyway, it's not just the book, it's also the fact that Russian tanks were already approaching Kiev (before they ran out of gas, and were destroyed or stolen by tractors), the news articles celebrating the capture of Kiev that were written in advance and accidentally published, etc. A large part of reality would need to be different to make "actually, Putin never wanted to conquer Ukraine" a plausible hypothesis.
definitely, but I like to think most people here are more self-aware or are less extreme about shouting down others. the heavy-hivemind topics always have a couple of good "woah there..." meta comments, and unlike reddit, they don't get buried and disappeared for the most part.
Believing that these agendas exist simply because they are evil people is reductionist. For example, my parents wholly support private schools because they believe that public education will strip students of their cultural identity and religious beliefs. They aren't evil. Devos and R's respond to those fears to get elected.

The belief itself is probably based on the fact that college grads are extremely likely to have the "other party's" politics. And, that is true because (partly) the higher education system has become quite uniform and (apparently) seeks to squash dissenting opinions among the teaching ranks. How many professors are conservative or openly religious? I suspect those positions are viewed as defacto disqualifications by most on the left.

I recommend everyone read Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. He discusses with nuance and much persuasiveness the importance of returning political representation to higher education. I see it all very differently now.
Many large city centers in Europe already restrict or outright ban commuter cars.
Is the time ripe for a porn startup?
"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."--J. M. Keynes
the level of effort is determined by how deep in the stack you are.
if you make a new JS framework every single browser will run it, if you make a new web scripting language good luck getting support from even one browser
We have vast transient encampments across north America, particularly the west that are riddled with violent and petty crimes, substance abuse and serious mental illness.

Oh, that's what you call ... poverty. Being homeless gives you a strong incentive to do drugs 'cause they dull the misery. The homeless often wind-up mentally ill because they're systematically prevented from getting sufficient sleep as well miserable and isolated.
No, my point is that these encampments are so bad that they shouldn't be allowed anywhere. (I'm talking about the big encampments with 5+ tents or RVs, not 1 dude with a sleeping bag.)
Is it possible that the following tuples exist in some database?

(mail1, phone)
(mail2, phone)

If the answer is yes, someone probably resolved your email address based on your telephone number.
I really can't tell what the intent is supposed to be, but from scouting around the source it's a BSD licensed POSIX-ish OS written in clean-looking C++ from scratch. There is a nascent Objective-C(++) runtime but no ObjC example code that I could find.

I'm not sure why one would write a new OS in C++ in 2021/2022, but the source is quite easy to read, looks easy to contribute to if one is so inclined.
Video of an Apple-1 computer (1976)
Yeah, that's fair. I frequently agree with what he's saying, but he tends to say it in an abrasive way that won't make him friends or convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him. And maybe that's part of why there are all of these comments where people are like "I don't understand why people would hate Drew!" I think people tend to forget how obnoxious such comments are if they agree with the content, and that's part of how Drew became a divisive figure with so many fans and haters.
This link definitely has some useful stuff. DBML and tbls specifically look very promising. ERAlchemy is also great.

Thanks!
Douglas MacArthur on Duty, Honor, Country
https://archive.ph/UcuqL
The newest IPCC report (Aug 2021) is rather apocalyptic even in the best-case scenarios that are not happening currently. And their worst-case scenarios do not include possible feedback loops.
By that same argument, you could say that a free market economy is eugenics.
Depends.
There's a bunch of providers (eg Yodlee) that ask for bank credentials (previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655712)
Akoya in US and most European providers use real bank APIs.
React is also pushing in the 'edge computing' direction with Suspense and with major libs like Next implementing the idea of "server components".
Looks like I struck a nerve
Frontend is the entry level field for all those people who were not developers but wanted a slice of the salary pie. Designers, architect, lawyers. I've seen everything.

I know a few React engineers in my company who can make components and be productive - but they don't know JavaScript and they get stuck when something is slightly different from what they're expecting.

Similarly I'm mentoring a few engineers who started with react and are trying to learn backend and other languages.

Being the field where all the least developer figures start means you'll have tons of people, tons of visibility, tons of cargo culting and tons of crap being built just to make you look cooler.
I'm guilty of this as well, I have my frontend framework on GitHub and it's quite useless - even if it's a nice idea.

Of course nobody bothers to maintain stuff and everything is trying to make money on their junior devs fanboys.
You have vast transient encampments some places (Fresno, the desert, etc) because the homeless are moved from one place to another and sometimes an encampment gets established and so takes a lot of people a lot of place - but usually the homeless are invisible, yes.

Edit: not that the alienation of modern society isn't also a factor but people unable to meet their costs of living (especially rent) is factor that should always be mentioned with any description of the mood of today. Plenty of people don't want to die but being pushed into death by circumstances - the subject of the article, in fact.
>Similarly, most laptops and desktop computers come with Windows preinstalled due to manufacturer deals, much like how most Android variations come with adware and other garbage. Nobody wants it, but nobody (at a certain price point), has any alternatives.

I hear this a lot, but I don't think it's the primary reason why Desktop Linux has negligible market share (neither does Linus, FWIW). Plenty of people build their own PCs, or have a custom PC built for them by a friend/independent shop, and even amongst these enthusiasts Linux use is rare.

The main problem, at least in my experience as a user, is the fact that Desktop Linux is janky to use. Unless you have the time and patience to learn about all the subsystems and fix the issues that keep cropping up, you're going to want to just spend the money on an OS that "just works". OSX is obviously the best in this regard, but modern Windows with automatic driver installs comes pretty damn close.

(As a developer, the fact that there's no universally agreed-upon standards make it a pain in the arse to support too.)

>Nobody's going to have good UX or fancy onboarding if they can barely find enough resources to keep the project going and fix all of the bugs, as well as handle the technological churn of keeping dependencies up to date etc.

IMO, the main issue with open-source isn't actually finding developers (people love working on OSS) but doing the kind of boring, rigorous QA that you'll see in a commercial firm. Nobody's going to volunteer to reproduce specific edge cases in a printer driver, so it sits broken for decades.
Predicting that massive spending will lead to inflation isn't that same as predicting the market itself. There's correlation but It's not 100%.
You would think if anyone understood the problem of eWaste it would be Sen Laird. From his Bio:

"Laird served as a member of the State Integrated Waste Management Board from 2008 to 2009 and taught state environmental policy at University of California Santa Cruz."
It's not the American Way (tm) to have congress force this. Let The Markets Decide (c)

Yet, now, we have Farmework laptop and OEM parts for Apple products. We're better in those ways, but worse in others, for sure.

I only hope soon these concepts catch on. The image of small car repair shops working on teslas both scares and inspires me. Or the future of a handyman with a laptop to debug a washing machine both infurates me and gives me hope.
> Fashion must change for the sake of change. To more easily support these frequent changes, more libraries get invented to make doing new things easier.

The frontend "ecosystem" libraries discussed in the article are also subject to a fashion hype cycle, independently of UI/UX design trends. A lot of them don't actually make anything easier, or don't make rapid design iteration easier at least.
Plaid does the opposite. It scrapes using your banks credentials.
Tether was invented because crypto couldn't find legitimate outflows through traditional banking institutions. So, converting to fiat was impossible.

Tether and other stable coins came along and said: we'll keep $1 USD for every token we have, so you don't need to cash out your crypto as fiat to see how much it's worth — just trade it for a stable coin!

So, Bitcoin isn't actually worth $30k+, it's worth $30k+ in stable coins because that's what it's traded in. It's only connection to fiat is stable coins.

if ($1 !== $1) // i.e. Tether is a scam that's not fully backed
All crypto will experience a MASSIVE crash

The first wave of the massive crash will be due to a loss of confidence in stable coins, the second wave will be a massive panic at not being able to get out of the market fast enough because there's not enough liquidity, and the third
wave will be structural problems revealing themselves because most crypto platforms/ecosystems are codependent on each other (massive cross-investments, promissory notes, shared accounts, weird accounting practices, and tons of leveraged bets).

When the fiat inflows stop and instead try to reverse, it's going to be wild.
Looks like a top-down directive to me. Just look at the lightbulb cartel.

From an engineering perspective, some designs simply don't make any sense if not for planned obsolescence: on a quite famous printer brand, the printer stops working after X pages printed [1]. You can fix that with soldering and chip reprogramming, but it may or may not be trivial. In the end, warranty is really short and is void the minute you open the product to see its guts, so it's not exactly for safety reasons.

Some people blame planned obsolescence on the consumer, but in fact that's just blame shifting. The truth is rent-seeking, at the expense of the environment.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/4a965dc0-f27c-11db-a454-000b5df10...
Two (2) cases of people with a very rare and badly understood disease (severe reaction to pollution) chose assisted suicide because couldn't find a place to accommodate their very special needs.

Hence, "Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death"...

This click baiting is just grotesque.
dragonflycache sounds reasonable.
> Swedish way wins again

I have no idea what you're talking about. The facts totally contradict your comment, which is unfortunately typical of the way Swedes and the Swedish authorities have tried to rewrite the actual outcomes at every stage of the pandemic.

Sweden was hit by a historically severe RS-virus wave in the autumn of 2021[0].

Here's a deepL translation of one section of the citation below:

"In the 2021-2022 season, Sweden has been hit by a historically severe epidemic. Paediatric care in several parts of the country has reported a strained situation. The peak of the spread of infection usually reaches its highest levels in March, but already in the summer of 2021 many cases were reported to the Public Health Agency."

[0]https://www.sanofi.se/sv/om-oss/rs-rapporten
Actually we already see apartments going up at the edges of some cities, because of a combo of these factors making it tough to do otherwise. However, I also found that in Winnipeg, condo owners pay the same property taxes as a detached homeowner in a brand new cul-de-sac. For a $330k cad condo (probably not going to get much higher in price later) you pay $4k in annual property taxes on top of your condo fees and mortgage. That's an entire month of food if you ate out every single day. Meanwhile in Vancouver, the same type of place literally costs $1m in a less desirable area, but you pay only ~2k in property taxes, which contributes to fund 58% of the city's operating budget, and the city is able to improve over time.

Same zoning problems though
I suppose because of io_uring?

It does sound like extendible hashing might have downsides in some scenarios also.
UW;DR

Underwater; didn't read
I don't think they're gleeful, they just deeply believe that we need to reject capitalism and/or embrace some sort of global technocratic governance, and see the threat of climate catastrophe as the most-plausible mechanism that such a change would come about.
rip, am lazy bum
Official reports are of a overwhelming correlation of LACK OF vaccination and OCCURRENCE OF hospitalization and death.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e2.htm <- read the second heading "What is added by this report?

During December 2020–July 2021, COVID-19 vaccine recipients had lower rates of non–COVID-19 mortality than did unvaccinated persons after adjusting for age, sex, race and ethnicity, and study site."
Asking sincerely because this take is surprising to me: which specs are you referring to?

From my perspective—started front end, gradually went full stack, spent several years fully back end, dove back in a couple years ago—quite a lot of the APIs introduced in the period I was fully back end (and since) are excellent and vastly improve both development experience and the ability to deliver a better user experience.

I’m not saying your take is wrong necessarily, I just don’t immediately relate to it and I’m curious what specifically you find objectionable.
Meanwhile, PhD students in the UK: https://imgflip.com/i/6i0u84
Those Thieving Image Farms
Introduction to Apache Airflow (2020)
Ugh. I'm not sure you remember the article correctly.

This is kind of the problem with his writing in general; it has a Rashomon quality. In this particular post, he expresses an admirable sentiment (devs shouldn't be responsible for packaging, users need to take more responsibility for their distro) and then fails to consider any of the practical problems with his approach (What if devs want users to use their software? Users and maintainers generally don't give a shit about your software). Yet with his usual DeVault-ian flourish, he concludes that he's solved all the intractable problems of software distribution.

Spoiler alert: He hasn't.
If you think the Twitter mobs are bad in the US you should see what their equivalent in China is like.
What's the story on vixra? The blurb reads:

> An alternative archive of 38972 e-prints in Science, Mathematics & Other Scholarly Areas serving the whole scientific community

The few paper titles I looked at had an odd vibe to them. Is this like 'Conservapedia'?
But if they prevent some people from redeeming, some of those people will go to exchanges and sell for other coins, putting further pressure on the price.

If Tether wants to maintain the peg they have to keep letting people redeem as long as there's more sellers than buyers.
It has to do with at what percentile of wary and being good drivers we think we are. Also abduction is not the only risk for children.

I believe that often than not people do the right thing, if it something done in mass there is a reason for it and it is just hard to pin point the reason.

There can be social reasons for it, also we don't know if there is some implicit higher chances of getting abducted for kids who get drove to school. Like them walking to school will increase the chance of them abducted.
I've used Apache Arrow before[1]; in-memory columnar storage. We did some AI/ML stuff with data gathered from social network APIs, but you can probably do a ton of things.

[1] https://arrow.apache.org/
No, they're right. It sounds like you're inexperienced with the tooling and should spend some more time with it. That's not even a criticism, just a truth.

Take this:

> These things typically produce tens of thousands of lines just to add simple libraries.

If you're ending up with a bundle that's thousands of lines long, you've done something wrong. My team use esbuild to bundle code for AWS Lambdas and usually end up with minified code under a couple of kilobytes (though admittedly the bulkier stuff sits in a Lambda layer - since, you know, bundling everything under the sun would be stupid).
A New Study Explores Why the Gym Can Be a Covid-19 Spreading Hotspot
And since when was RISC-V retro? Calling RISC-V fantasy might be accurate. I fail to see how everyone shifting to an open ISA benefits the people. Saves chip designers a dollar on licensing sure. But the RTL is still closed for most RISC-V that gets tape out. So you have no clue what it’s doing. “open”. Sure.
Technically, a traditional optimizer is an SQL compiler.
Yes, this is a common sight outside many major cities. You end up with mid rise or high rise buildings randomly dotted around the burbs. It’s good that this housing exists, but because it’s not concentrated in the core, it doesn’t lead to the best possible outcomes. It’s hard to make the transit system work when housing and jobs are scattered around. You end up with lower-income workers commuting from an apartment over an hour away.
The identification of dinosaurs as dragons is a common theory but I believe the historical evidence for it is extremely sparse. Still, it is really strange to me that dinosaur bones were only officially discovered in 1841.
> dissolved copper

You would think that dissolved copper would have some recovery value, given the price of copper.

I am reminded of the waste from silver halide photographic processing, which at one point was just dumped into rivers (an unfortunate amount went into the Great Lakes); when the price of silver increased, suddenly it became worthwhile to recover the silver rather than let it go down the literal drain.
>void the minute you open the product

That's not legal (in the US). https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/11/601582169...
I currently use Mint by Intuit. I hate the new UI, the constant ads, and the amount of trust I have to give them (with my bank credentials). I would love to self-host something else that can auto-import all of my transactions. I'll have to check out Saltedge and Nordigen. I might also write my own Plaid API integration. Just as much trust though...

Open banking data APIs sounds like an easy win for regulators, but probably the Intuit lobby would oppose that.
The article starts off with an outdated take on the space:

"We all know the meme: by the time you’ve learned one front-end technology, another three have just been released. Also, that one you just learned? It’s deprecated."

Maybe it's because the article is 4 years old. I just don't think it's true anymore. Ok there's React and Vue and others, but that's fine. It's basically the same tech, but they have DX/cosmetic differences. It's not like we're still arguing whether or not VDOM is a good thing.

That said, the "Imagine being a junior developer" section sounds spot on still. Maybe it's because those articles that use dogmatic arguments to recommend inferior technologies are still on the internet, and they are not going anywhere.
GDPR might be busted, but there's no technical reason we can't prevent companies from spying on us for their own profit.
I think this phenomenon is part of the reason it's difficult to form friendships as adults. The shared context that the article mentions requires a lot of time around your circle of people, just "hanging out". It's tough to make that time as an adult with a career, family, etc.

This may be why college friendships can be so strong – often a lot of time is spent living and working around friends by default, without needing to schedule it.
I have tested many pdf software but nothing comes close to xournal when you want to annotate and draw on a pdf.
Considering Atlassian have dodged corporate tax for years, it's nice to see that money being put to good use.
I often wonder what the CEO and investors of Juicero actually felt when the video of the ease to self-squeeze was released. I can't imagine that level of just instantly knowing everything you've worked on is absolutely fucked and there can be absolutely no recovery or hope for it.
Sure. And yet I believe social media is contributing to your mistrust, as many of these events occurred in the past. If you are indeed Canadian, then I suggest you read David McLaughlin's article in the Globe today and reflect on his thinking.

Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-trust-th...
It seems like someone or something has crashed the demo.

It outputs an error log.

Whoops! An error occurred.
Unfortunately, this error was not recoverable :(. Firefly III broke. The error is:

Could not save preference: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'data' at row 1 (SQL: update `preferences` set `data` = [{"ip":"00.000.00.00","time":"2022-05-30 20:02:06","notified":false},{"ip":"00.000.00.00","time":"2022-05-30 20:02:10","notified":false},{"ip":"00.000.00.00","time":"2022-05-30 20:02:15","notified":false},{"ip":"00.000.00.00","time":"2022-05-30 20:02:16","notified":false},
...

My IP was in the list.

Let's just say it is hard to trust a piece of software with my financial data after this.

(I changed all the IP addresses for 00.000.00.00 to preserve some anonymity.)
Yup. I hate it
Presumably, most of the performance benefit comes from using linux io_uring, which limits it to using recent linux kernels.

Of course, it is also possible there are situations where it doesn't perform as well.
Not to mention the companion mobile apps that companies like YNAB provide. It’d be nice to have something self-hosted and hackable, but my spouse won’t want to use it unless the mobile app is good
Yea, it really is a no-brainer for a modest QoL improvement, unless you have objections to the privacy implications. I'm really just losing tolerance for this tendency to only express dumb, low-dimensional opinions that are so heavily detached from reality, like the GP comment's claim that they can't comprehend it having nonzero value to someone's workflows.

I wonder if it's the same dynamic that's contributing tk the polarization of political discourse: the structure of information flow in the social media era rewards being punchy, simplistic, and hysterical. The incentives feel inescapable for the masses of people out there that are too hollow to hold beliefs or engage with reality in any meaningful way.