skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first reading these sentiments felt like I had stepped into some sort of horrible satire, but now I'm starting to think that maybe this is just how it is. Does the average US citizen really think this way?
As all car analogies, this is bad. It's more like "instead of building a space probe to explore the solar system, let's build a thousand cars to explore the grass patch in a thousand directions".

Big science projects such as the LHC go very far and very deep in the very fabric of reality. Instead of building a thousand cars, it'd be a good idea to still build the next space probe while, at the same time, use what we learned building the previous one to build a couple cars to explore in different directions.
or we go forward out of the cave we are living in now, believing we are so advanced that we are at the peak of civilization, while we still pray a non existent being for health and create energy by making giant holes in the ground that give us goo that then we set on fire.

Doesn't sound so advanced to me...
That's debatable, but in all cases domain name fees is certainly not "rent" in the traditional sense. At least most registries cannot by law/contract take your domain away from you as long as you keep paying your dues. Of course the same applies for rent depending on your local housing regulations: the difference is you cannot undergo serious modifications in an apartment you rent, but you can modify whatever you want in your domain zone. In that sense, domain names are closer to "ownership" than to "rent".

Moreover, as was previously mentioned, domain name fees were previously introduced as administrative fees, not rent. It's a very modern invention that domains should be a profitable field.
All NHS prescription drugs are free in the UK. Some people have to pay prescription fee (currently £9.35 per item) but diabetics get an exemption for that too (for all NHS prescriptions).

The price you see is the cost to the NHS, not the patient.
Just say you can weaponize the black holes formed in the LHC and you'll never run out of funding again.
Coil.com are doing something similar, you pay a subscription to them, and they send microtransactions to the site/user whose content you're consuming.
Since the site is the one that made the title, they are inconsistent in how they describe the services.

One way to define a distinction is to look at liability and legal standing. Do users under eu.org have any rights, and if there is abuse, how much legal liability do eu.org have? To take an example, HN users can be kicked out of here at the whims of ycombinator. TLD's usually don't do that and generally require a court decisions before a persons domain can be taken away (assuming fees have been paid).
> It added 6 megabits of RAM. The order of magnitude is forgetting to divide by 8.

Ack dang it. You're right. Though even at 8Mb it's still significantly greater than the GP's estimations.

> And the SNES-CD that they were talking about only added a 256KB ram bank onto a main memory of 128KB.

The SNES CD was cancelled with only one known prototype made. One could speculate whether those specifications would have made it to the final console or not had the project continued but it would be pure speculation. So I don't think it's all that constructive to compare the SNES CD with the Sega CD.
> But these colliders are so expensive

The LHC has been in operation for about 12-14 years, and has been a "thing" from planning onwards for almost 40. It's cost $9B, split between a huge list of countries.

Estimates of waste in the US medical system range from around $500B-$2T annualy. The lower end of that scale would support starting a new, fully funded, project of a similar scale for every state in the US every single year.

At a multi-national, multi-decade scale I just don't think it's actually that much money.

> all for the sake of discovering a tiny subatomic particle that we have no way of using

There are few ways I'd look at this.

One is that fundamental science can bleed into regular use over time, look at lasers. IIRC they had no clear use when invented, but are now absolutely key to so much. While the LHC had a headline goal (at least publicly) it's not just discovering one thing, it's a large tool to test fundamental physics.

Another is that this money and work doesn't go nowhere. People are paid to work on big complex problems, building and designing magnets, detectors, computing systems, software for analysis, etc. A lot of that is not going to be entirely custom, and at the very least supports companies & the supply chain for newer advanced technology. NASA I think occasionally puts out some lists of things that derived from their work.

Beyond that, I think there's value in getting a lot of people in a lot of countries to work together on a broadly non-political goal.
Lol, what a scam, 4 day work week but you have to be in the office.

I live close to Shoreditch but preparation time and travel both ways is easily 2 hours a day (for some of my colleagues that would be 3+ hours a day).

If you went from working from home 100% 5 days a week to working from the office 100% 4 days a week results in the exact same amount of time, except you remove all the monetary savings from working from home (~100GBP in travel alone).

No thank you.
This seems a very poor effort.

A huge increase in system requirements for modest changes.

Stage Manager is hopeless. Like I have no idea what they were thinking.

Metal continues to fiddle while developers for MacOS abandon it and the platform at scale.

Meanwhile there's still no snapping for useful window management, virtualisation is an afterthought, there's still no Windows story for the M1/M2, the M1/M2 has terrible monitor support, the UI padding is still too high and there's no coherent gaming story (because that requires Apple to swallow their pride and accept Vulcan, or even better to built a Proton-esque compatibility layer and fix the core missing Metal features that make such a thing difficult today).
I've realised why it is, and it's because they're disowning the responsibility of what they're saying. the second you state a concept in quotes, it's as if it's not your concept and you do not have to back it up

I don't see this as a personal problem
Sure, but Guido put a pre-condition on GIL removal years ago that it must not cause single-threaded code to suffer a performance penalty.

So Sam came up with a way to ensure that (on balance, if not in every example), we could have same-or-better performance and no GIL. Awesome!

But now we're getting the performance boosts without the GIL removal, and so in the next release, the GIL removal will cause a performance regression unless we can somehow find more performance boosts. It feels like this could just happen forever.
So what's the problem then?

Are you somehow thinking that if you have a web server serving HTTP traffic on a server, you need a different A record to connect to it with SSH? Because that is very much not how it works.
DeFi and DAO projects targeted for regulation under leaked US draft bill
> For sheer beauty, study math.

I wish. I wonder what proportion of people reading your post don't see or feel the beauty in it. I think you need a special and probably quite rare 'sixth sense' to perceive it.
How many tabs do you have open? I have absolutely zero problems running Chrome with 52 tabs and multiple other apps (and mostly electron based). Obviously this is not enough RAM to not use swap, but I don't experience any slowdown.
We can't even live sustainably on the planet we evolved to thrive on for millions of years and people think we'll just terraform a whole or planet/solar system/galaxy...
My self-diagnosis doesn't come from this alone.
But you might be right, I constantly feel like I have not achieved enough.
> I'm now wishing I put zero down on my last car, because it's looking like my loan is way cheaper than inflation is going to be over the life of the loan.

Would you have invested that money in something that is currently growing at least as fast as inflation?
When you accidentally lose it (by losing your private keys), it will be impossible for anyone else to get it back for you. In a sense, this will prove to you that you did really own it and no-one else did.
Many websites just fail to load/work when an adblocker is enabled. Sometimes it's subtle like pressing a button does nothing, other times it's just a white page because React fails to initialise.
That was a small part of my argument. That you have to concentrate on that in this way shows that you don't really have any arguments yourself.
> Personal gripe here, but I find it a bit annoying when websites think they have to do all their graph colors using brand colors only. ... It's surely not impossible to find a larger range of more diverse colors that look nice and don't clash with the brand/layout colors. Just relax that branding requirement a little bit, and you can get way more readable graphs.

To be fair, the algorithm in the article is doing exactly that, expanding the palette into colors compatible with it that go along well.
eu.org is a public suffix (check the list), which means that every domain below it is treated as it's own seperate security context. Meaning cookies are not shared between domain-a.eu.org and domain-b.eu.org.

If they weren't on the public suffix list, cookies would be shared.

This also affect a myriad of other contexts that the browser applies against the public suffix list.
It's Apple, necessity isn't their design language
Technically "com." or even just "." could include a A record with a website. However browsers tend to strip the last "." and treat empty or names without "." in them as search terms.

There exist people who disapprove of this behavior.
That, or it's worth spending $100 billion on meaningless make work for smart people so we don't invent what comes after nuclear weapons.
Exactly. “Agile”, efficiency-over-everything, etc won’t save this planet.
Yes, with FEX-Emu
By this argument Linus Torvalds would be responsible for everything from child porn to drug marketplaces to nuclear weapons.
>I’m increasingly convinced banking IT is one of the trades of software.

Banks an Insurance have just really bad marketing, but fraud-detection (aka ML.."AI"), analytics..it's all really interesting, and if you have a good manager who shields you from the internal-wannabe-politicians you can produce software that you can be really proud of (enough time to test/plan etc).

And hell, Mainframes are such a interesting field no one talks about (but one could learn some really good lessons).
That's not how it works.

If you lose your only iPhone, you lose the keys. Using your face is different device does not get you access to your old keys.
If there's no duty to consider potential harm when releasing tools, then why would there be a duty to avoid criticising people who release them?
Yes, they did that because they did what everybody in that position would do: pick the argument that is most likely to find sympathy with a jury.

Also: note that the degree to which everything is labeled 'speech' is fairly uniquely American.
I use two note taking apps, Obsidian and Nebo, each for their own use case.

Obsidian has everything your needs are, you can setup syncthing to sync your notes across multiple devices. Everything is a .md file and organized using folders and it has great plugin support. Though ability to publish from inside the app is locked behind a subscription. You can always use pandoc to just convert the md files, there probably are some plugins that try to do that. Also i love how lightweight it is.

Second is Nebo, Nebo is for handwritten notes usecase. This isn't something many people really have a usecase for, But Nebo has AWESOME handwriting -> searchable text conversion, specially for Math! And publishing things is as a easy as clicking publish. And it has google drive/drop integration for sync (I'd rather use syncthing but the android app doesn't expose the stored files).
I really like the debate around this. Everything from "humans are just organic machines" all the way to "we are really special" climaxing at panpsychism.

I am personally on the "we are not that special" part of the spectrum. I wander, what about the rest of HN crowd?
I think it would be pretty easy to explain how everyone converged on the same system. If you continually optimise for the best arrangement, everyone is going to end up on pretty much the same thing.
> I grew up being pretty clear on the distinction between purchasing a book in a bookshop and borrowing a book from the school or public library.

Very good point that proves "ownership" means different things: private property under capitalism is different from a common/public property such as a book from a library. For most of history, land was not "owned" by anyone. See also "enclosure of the commons" for some reading on the topic.

Use-based "ownership" (personal belongings) is not "private property" (a religious belief that prevents people from using a resource that could benefit them such as empty dwellings), and is not "collective property" (shared resource managed by a community), and is not "public domain" (shared abundant resources such as air or water in some regions). All of these approaches can be considered forms of ownership/property, but they vary wildly in principles and applications.
I opted for monday off when i worked 4 days a week, i tried wednesdays a few times but didn't like it as much

I preferred the large block of time off, I found that I enjoyed Friday-Sunday more knowing I had a bonus day on Monday to relax - I could really pack in stuff over the weekend without worrying about being exhausted back at work. And I found the Wednesday off just felt... wasted. Nobody else was free, nobody really wants to do things on Wednesday, and I wasn't tired enough to want a day of doing nothing.
Minimum wages: new EU law will promote statutory minimum wages
Free Will, Illustrated
> I'm pretty sure the gradient of all input-to-output curves becomes negative at some point, and don't see any reason why that point should be exactly 40 hours a week

Tbf, it's the 4 day workweek advocates explicitly making the claim that everyone's output curves become negative on the fifth day such that 32hr output ~= 40 hrs output.

Legal restrictions on working hours weren't put in place with the assumption that firms no longer being able to demand 80 hours from their employees couldn't possibly lose any output as a result. That was done because governments decided 80 hour weeks were unreasonable.
The vast majority of software developers spend their days mapping database tables to web UI's in some way or another.
You don't need any CS or math for that and from experience I can say that most of them don't have this knowledge either.

It's not that those jobs are without challenges but they are in other area's, such as requirements gathering and project management.
Engineers automating themselves. This is why we should be kinda scared of software innovation stagnating. If we don't work on innovation we don't really have a purpose and a job.
Not the OP, but this is a good example.

ISS wasn't useless, but its successor should be much cheaper. We absolutely need to find ways how to do space research more efficiently, otherwise it will stay a luxury of the richest nations.

Fortunately, at the very least, launch costs to orbit are dropping and we may hope for further drops in the future - if Starship works as intended.
When it's so bad on the front end, just imagine how awful it is on the back end.
Indeed, and I think it's important to show those prices because otherwise you'll find people saying "It's not free you still have to pay loads through taxes".

So I find it best to ignore that and show them that the whole system is still only paying a tiny fraction of what they're paying.
> Most of the repos have five to ten stars each, but if you open them up they are basically the same people over and over starring all the repos.

As a datapoint, this happens in a few of my repos. There's really nothing interesting in some of them (homework assignments from when I was in college), but there are a couple of profiles who star almost all my repos. I don't know them in real life, don't know where they came from.
It's possible to have daycare/school workers working 4 day weeks but still have daycare/school be open 5 days a week
gmail just loaded in 1-2s for me.
It’s not a zero sum game though. Europe could pay for all of these projects. That would be even better, don’t you agree?
I heard of some news in that area, but the breakthroughs I heard of where fusion related and at MIT:

https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusio...

From what I can tell it's really is ground breaking, significant changes, well ahead of the normal projections for improved magnets. Literally with a single technology that allows magnet to be 40 times smaller. The easy to produce superconducting tape of arbitrary length is likely to find interesting applications as well.

Sure, like all research, practical fusion is not guaranteed, but it does look promising, and real progress has been made, and not just the "few % better this year" that might lead to real progress in a decade or a few centuries.

However Fusion is just an example, imagine 100 $1B projects, doesn't it seem likely for humanity to learn more from those then some particle that is hard to produce, last for a billionth of a second, and makes some models more likely and other models less likely? Maybe help with cancer, medicine, energy production, AI, space travel, faster computers, improving food production, mitigating global warning, energy storage or similar?
To boost the president popularity and his party. Major elections happened three days later.
For those (like me) who couldn't go a day without seeing a dozen articles about skeuomorphism just a few years ago. I'm here for you.

(I don't mean to detract from the parent comment, which is helpfully defining an unintuitive term, I'm just happy to see the conversation has moved on!)
I was very pro home-office (and even Anti-Office) before and during the pandemic. Now that restrictions are more or less gone, I'm glad to be working in the office again.

Being in the office for the first time in my career showed me that there are definitely upsides, especially when you get along with your team really well.

Though 100% mandatory office time is BS.
What's it currently doing with that money? I guess we could get rid of funding healthcare and trying to help people out of poverty so that a small number of people get to use a very expensive toy...

You know what would be an awesome big science project that would immeasurably improve future people's lives? Sequencing all genes and using that data provide free embryo selection services to everyone who wants to be a parent.

Would probably cost the same as that giant particle smasher and but unlike the giant ring it would pay for itself in a generation.
"A normally functioning democracy can basically invent as much money as it needs to"

Sure. For some time period and amount of money, indeed. What happens once this limit is reached and people stop trusting that money?

Currency collapses are nasty. Look at Weimar Germany after WWI.
That's actually the heritage of JSX!

XHP was launched in 2010 (https://www.facebook.com/notes/10158791323777200/)

The first version of FaxJs (the precursor to React) was launched in 2011, being directly inspired from XHP (https://github.com/jordwalke/FaxJs)

React was made in 2012 by the same person who made FaxJs, taking the best ideas from FaxJs and creating React.

So yeah, JSX actually comes from the idea of XHP :)
You say it is not machine-readable, but it comes with an XML representation of the PDF embedded in the PDF (so that you can re-upload it later to edit it). I'd say that is plenty readable.

> [...] it gives zero clues on the creativity of the candidate.

I wasn't going to tailor my CV to your company anyway (and I haven't met a single human being in my field that does). At least this way you can be sure it is readable and contains relevant information.

> [...] creating a document is a skill that is a must have in our field.

Which should be done with latex, or at the very least another standardised markup language. Not anything which might remotely approach "creative" (i.e. indesign or photoshop).

> If the CV isn't structured, contains spelling mistakes (yes, really) or shows you have no clue on how to use a text-processing software, then it's already a negative point for said candidate (IMHO).

You are essentially pre-selecting for people that share your cultural background. That makes this (IMHO) a racist hiring policy. You should always look at why you feel certain indicators are good indicators. And what you might be missing out on by weighing them as you do.
> That's debatable,

No, not really, it's just definitionally false.

> A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, or national),[2] and tax compliance refers to policy actions and individual behaviour aimed at ensuring that taxpayers are paying the right amount of tax at the right time and securing the correct tax allowances and tax reliefs.[3] The first known taxation took place in Ancient Egypt around 3000–2800 BC.[4] A failure to pay in a timely manner (non-compliance), along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law. Taxes consist of direct or indirect taxes and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent.

> At least most registries cannot by law/contract take your domain away from you as long as you keep paying your dues

Any contract can be written that way and none of them are tax.
(Original title was too long, so I tried to cobble one together from sentences from the article. Just now noticed that it says "Minimum wages" twice...)

For an example of what the effects of this would be, Dutch news mentions [1] that the requirement of minimum wage being at least 50% of the mean wage and 60% of the median would bump the Dutch minimum wage from €10.48 to €14.

Additionally, 80% of a country's workers will need to be under a collective bargaining agreement.

EU countries will have two years to implement this into their national laws.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2431710-voorlopig-akkoord-over-nieuwe...
More generically, I think there's a big difference between releasing proof of concepts, and fully weaponized tools. While the latter is also usable by red teams, it also gives attackers (who often wouldn't have the resources to build the same) the weapons they need.

Personally, I like when people release proof of concepts, and hate it when they release weaponized tools. Especially when I inevitably end up reading reports where APT groups are using those tools.
There are already projects like Handshake, ENS, Unstoppable domains that try to do this. Honestly I like the need for renewal fees for domains personally, since it means you can't just buy a domain once and squat on it forever.
I think one problem is that there is the mathematical concept of monad and the programming pattern monad. On abstract level they are the same, but in practice and for illustrative purposes they are not.
I just spilled my coffee, thanks XD
thats looking really promising, thank you very mutch
In all seriousness, what use is it? How has it improved people's lives?
Dark Sky has been incredibly accurate for me in the UK (I've tested this daily as I need minute-level accuracy for weather daily over a large area).

I really hope they integrate it into default weather well, in a way that it remains unchanged to current forecasts from Dark Sky.
I’d argue there is a moral imperative to create and release tools like this as free and open source software so that anyone has access to them and can choose whether to use them, rather than only sophisticated and well resourced adversaries.

IMO the creators should feel good about their actions, even if they feel bad or apprehensive about the direction of the world because this technology exists at all.