skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s actually possible to be against virtue signaling in and of itself.

Changing your profile picture to “support” some cause has been ridiculed for years. Starving children don’t care what color your profile picture is, and it’s hypocritical to say you're a supporter when changing your profile picture is the most you’re actually willing to do, even if you have the means to give a dollar, or 5 minutes of your time, you choose not to. It’s hypocritical, and pretty selfish imo.

Or the idea that we all need to public state our beliefs at all times and ideologically walk around with flags on our forehead of every cause we are for. App Icons are in support of the idea that we all need to public state our beliefs at all times. There’s been growing backlash against that. I think people find it annoying anti social behavior.

Anti Virtue signaling as a topic has been growing tremendously over the past 10 years.
Transactor (for its time) was amazing. I bought it off the rack, and as soon as I found a new one, the rest of the world went away for a couple of days. Fondly recall most the issues about hacking the CPU in the 1541 floppy drive. I needed that and an Epyx Fast Load (5x faster! disassembler!) ... and that's all.
Thank you Holland, Germany, and Austria for doing your part to mitigate climate change.
I’ve had the same experience reporting bugs every single time. You never ever get a response and simple bugs languish for literal years with no action. Eventually, they sometimes get fixed after years and you wonder if your report had any connection to it whatsoever. It definitely adds to the “Apple doesn’t give a damn about users or software quality” impression I have gotten more and more over the years
Heaviside is buried near where I live. Minus the talent I empathize with his journey somewhat so I should really go and pay him a visit.
Could you explain this comment a little more?

What does "handling reconciliation rather than delegating" mean here?
I had no idea sports brassieres had such a long storied history; are regular brassieres just as old(er) or are those relatively new?

The mosaics look like bandeaux bras.
Or at least in my experience using pskill from the Sysinternals Suite, even if you kill a process (at least on earlier versions of Windows), it would not do the same as a SIGKILL (as in "tear down the process, don't wait for it whatsoever"), and would otherwise hang or be waiting for something else.
You cannot have a measure of consciousness in the same way that you cannot have a measure of anger. You can only possibly see its effects, and maybe not even that. But you can experience it.
Wouldn't've thought of that. Seems like a good way to raise awareness around campaign season.
Severless.com framework has lots of plugins that allow local emulation of AWS services like S3, dynamodb, rds, etc. that your application will be using. It also helps with running debugging remote lambdas and deploying them. There's also SAM.

If you are going serverless, one of these toolkits makes it a lot easier.
> If. We don't know 'if'. A BTC black-hole being cheaper than bitcoin is not that surprising.

Your theory doesn't match reality. GBTC was trading at a premium a few months ago.

I personally believe GBTC is just able to predict the future direction of BTC. It is easier, and more convenient, for most people to speculate upon the value of BTC using GBTC. When the market thought it was going up, it bought GBTC at a premium. Now that the market thinks it is going down, it sells GBTC at a discount.

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GBTC, as a basket of BTC, is more open and honest than using pseudo-baskets, like MicroStrategy, to speculate upon the price of cryptocurrencies.

The general stock market wants to play speculation games, with GBTC, BITI, MicroStrategy, and maybe even Tesla a little bit (sure there is a car company attached but everyone knows Tesla has a large BTC holding).
We tell our daughter what the acceptable limits are. Sometimes she pushes or breaks those limits. We talk to her about it, take away privileges for a bit, and then resume. She is 8 and addicted to her Kindle 3 but so far so good.
This is packed full of odd arguments -

> Crypto is successful at being money. If you don't believe me, then I'm happy to sell you the laptop I'm writing this on for 1,000 ETH instead of 1,000 USD.

How about 1000 kilos of gold? Or 1000 1 Carat Diamonds? Does that make diamonds good money?

> Right now, you can take out a loan without involving a bank from one of the many crypto lending protocols.

Yes, but you over-collateralise that loan, swapping tokens around to do so. It doesn't look a lot like lending, it looks more like obfuscation of naive/fraudulent claims of productivity mixed with a game of musical chairs. And right now loan platforms in the crypto space are in all sorts of trouble. Look at "Solend" which appears to have suffered from a large token-holder taking out loans as a way to exit a cryptocurrency that was traded too thinly to cash out directly.

Multiple DeFi lending platforms are mid-collapse, right now.

I really agree with this -

> In other words, crypto's use case is the one that it claims: decentralization.

It's just that that use-case is far less universal, useful or desirable than we have been lead to believe by the cryptocurrency hype factory. For the most part nobody cares, the people putting money into cryptocurrency just want somewhere to gamble, the people not into that aspect are not lining up to use the products of this space, because of that promise. And in many cases (irreversible payments with no oversight!) it's actively bad.

> "after 13 years, there are still no use cases for crypto" is not a rational fact

How about "after 13 years there are still no use cases for crypto that aren't done better without the crypto aspect, or aren't just fucking stupid to begin with?"

Because sure, there are some things you can do with blockchains and smart contracts, but honestly, why the hell would you?
All I know about Nextdoor I’ve learned from The Neighborhood Listen. Hilarious podcast starring Paul F Tompkins where they do sketches based on real nextdoor posts.
Yeah I don't do these. I only do on-sites if I have a clear desire to work for the company. At the place I'm working at now, I did not do an onsite. At the place I was at previously, it was clear they were giving me an offer before I did the onsite, since the onsite was basically a 'get-to-know-you' thing. That's fine. On-sites serve a purpose of making sure you're not making a terrible decision. I actually made the decision this time to do two on-sites which is rare. This was because I had colleagues from previous positions at both locations and I honestly wanted to get a good sense.

However, one company was just really weird, so I learned that at the on-site. even though they wanted me... I said no. So in terms of preventing mistakes, on-sites are great. But, I'm not doing a 4 hour interview before any offer is made, or a clear indication of interest.
Lately, the only metric I've been using to decide if I want to work at a company is "is the team competent"?

If I get a vibe that too many people are, for lack of a better word, dumb assholes, I just won't take the offer.
That's fair and usually all you need, but here are two reasons I still find my script useful:

* The commits are made on a not checked-out branch. This means `git diff` and my editor continue to show me my changes compared to the last "proper" commit.

* The fine-grained commits created with `git snap` are retained by default since they aren't meant to be squashed.
I got really sick playing wolfenstein in the early 1990's. After about three hours of play I threw up and had to lay down for the rest of the day. I was skeptical of doom when it came out, but the combination of a new computer and whatever work they did to speed up the rendering loop made it one of those games that I played for 15+ hour binges for a year or two at doom parties.

In the late 1990's I was part of an early VR motion sickness study at my uni, and I lasted about 20 mins before I refused to go any further, because I just wanted to get out before I threw up again.

So a couple years ago I was trying out all the new VR setups with the shorter head tracking->frame improvements, and I'm here to tell you I still get radically sick in any first person VR setup. 3rd person (moss, witchblood) i'm fine and can play for hours. But there is something about 1st person perspectives and i'm feeling it within a couple mins and I simply won't push myself to the point of throwing up again, its really miserable, its like being sea sick without the ability to stare at the horizon and feel better, or get quick relief upon return to dry land. It takes at least as long as I was immersed in it before I start feeling normal again.

PS: I also hate 24FPS movies, I find them really jerky even in a dark theater, with an actual projector. Especially pans just drive me bonkers, so maybe it was all the doom training/etc but I have a very low tolerance to low FPS video/games/etc.
What about Sister.

Frigyes Karinthy, a very famous Hungarian author active roughly 1910-1935 rightly famous for his humorous writing. He is also often billed as a translator -- this, however, is not quite true. His son, much later, in 1981, confessed he had a mentally ill sister, Emilia -- as an example, she used to put buttered toast in her handbag as is -- who nonetheless was a translator genius. She spoke 15-20 languages and she was capable of such feats as typing text in Russian dictated in Spanish. It was she who made the rough translations and Frigyes rewrote these in his style. This, for example, resulted in Winnie The Pooh becoming a cult classic book in Hungarian, much beloved by every Hungarian child (and let me quietly note: adult too) -- and it only resembles Milne's original passingly. Aside from the few sentences this son told the grandson in 1981 we know nothing of her. There are no photos, no records, nothing. Nonetheless the textual evidence is extremely compelling -- it was a longstanding mystery how could Karinthy translate Milne and Wells when he didn't speak English well.

(Tangential note: there's nothing in English Wikipedia about this. Obviously not. And I'd rather gnaw off my arm than try to fix anything there ever again. I tried once.)
I tried the Android TV App to watch HBO max though (in a different country vs the subscription's host country) and the HBO app did not even load (not even the splash screen). I had no such problems with some other VPN providers (although to be frank some other VPN providers fail in a different way).
> what would you be flossing out in the morning upon waking?

Bacterial colonies.
Yeah, I tried to be as fair as possible with the energy consumption comparisons, inflating and rounding up for the r-pi and couching all statements about paper as "this is going to be the max".

IDK if, without an in depth study, there's a better way to to figure out wH per piece of paper. My inclination is the cost based method I used will end up being in the same order of magnitude. Obviously, I can't prove that.

The reason I think it'll be pretty close is paper is, for the most part, highly mechanized so the cost of human labor will be somewhat low. Further, profit margins are (I'm assuming) somewhat low (lots of competition). So, pull those two things and what are you looking at? Mostly shipping and processing costs which go pretty much directly to the power used to produce a piece of paper.
Thanks!

But:

> Harbinger households tend to be white, suburban and headed by older, less-educated single parents.

Ouch...

> I thought Apple was cool in the 90s and that Microsoft was on to something in the 00s

It's not on my shelf of bad decisions anymore, but in '95 I though I was making the best possible purchase when I bought a Mac 6100 DOS Compatible... A Mac with a daughterboard that had a 486DX2 which ran MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 and later Win95. (I paid $1200AUD for 3 8MB SIMMs for that, so the DOS board didn't;t have to share RAM with the Mac...)
Excellent article for once.

Another one is decentralized compute.

AWS pioneered taking unused compute and commoditizing it. Well, there is a lot of unused compute in the world and building ways to take advantage of it is part of what I see 'web3' as being about.

PoW mining, however "wasteful", is still a great example of allowing anyone to effectively participate in the validation of transactions and getting rewarded for doing so. If you think of miners as a business, the 'customers' for miners are people submitting transactions, yet these business don't actually 'know' their customer at all. That's web3 decentralization (not silly NFTs).

Protocols like Akash allow anyone to effectively run K8S on their own infrastructure and get paid to do so... all the while, decentralizing the compute away from central locations like AWS / GCP. I personally find that concept fascinating and super cool.
People have contributed bindings for Vue, Svelte, and Solid so far. I’m not sure what state they are in though. React is definitely the most mature binding.
I once applied somewhere that had a 20 minute pre interview test thing. They rejected me after the test but gave me $50 free credit for their service (sticker printing). I was reasonably pleased with the stack of stickers I received.
it's not technically required to function properly, just listed as a prerequisite since several glyphs require a nerd font :) you can go ahead and think of it as optional if you'd like.
Phil here, I run the RetroStrange TV channel. We’ve seen hundreds but not sustained over time. Average currently 2-15 viewers at a time. I’d love a stress test.
I moved to the EU from the US for this reason. Slight pay cut, but no regrets at all.
Three days. Three interviews. Three offers. Three short, brief chats about the problem. Done.
My wife doesn't work. I sleep with our older daughter. My wife and baby co-sleep. Babies sleep much better when they're nursing, but it does mean my wife gets more interrupted sleep, which is made up for by the amount of sleep she gets each night, which is much more than me.

This arrangement works for our marriage. We made a conscious decision early on to not both work.
"Anti-union is anti—labor; to say otherwise is to be ignorant of the history of labor in the USA during the 20th century."

Actually, to say that anti-union is anti-labour is actually to be ignorant of history of labour in the USA.

Unions came into existence to give 'some power' to workers with none, but they can definitely take 'most' of the power in many cases and drive a lot of activity to inefficiency or otherwise.

If I were King, I'd probably encourage retail sector and fast food unions, especially Wallmart/Amazon, at the same time dissolve public sector and auto unions.

And completely overhaul doctor and nurse unions.

Construction needs standards and guilds, but not unions.
https://www.amazon.com/TCL-Unlocked-Smartphone-Triple-Camera...

looks decent
Speed Matters, but It Isn’t Everything
This process reoccurs for a reason. Understanding that helps mitigate the loss, and possibly also helps new companies avoid the problem.

Basically it happens when people start needing money for life, and that need becomes more pressing than idealism.

Consider the start of your career, maybe you came from school or college, probably you had _very_ low money needs. You may have had subsidised living (living with parents, student loans etc.). You live in a world where money isn't as important, you have no obligations, you are as idealistic as you'll ever be.

At this point your world is "open source" - everything should be free, make the world a better place. It's not hard to find like-minded people, join companies with like-minded founders.

But life happens. You have expenses. Relationships, kids, obligations. If you have employees you have to make payroll. Some might call it "growth" - some might call it "growing up" - really its just discovering (and losing) some of those subsidies you took for granted.

Crucially it happens at different rates for different people. So inevitably there's friction - this isn't the company I joined - and so on.

It's hard for employees to understand the pressures that come with being an employer. Pressures that lead to decisions an employer would rather not have to make. Pressure to make payroll. Pressure to somehow make it work. Seeing the car park and realise the number of people dependant on making that work.

To an employee every decision looks like maximising profit. And in some companies that is true. In others its about maximising income, income to pay everyone, income to keep the lights on, income to build reserves to weather the storms.

Employees have the luxury of quietly looking elsewhere. Once they're set then can simply leave. Employers don't have that luxury.

Unions, especially unions belonging to one specific business, not industry wide, are not a bad thing. But a seat at the table means understanding the responsibility of that table - and the need to satisfy the needs of all, not just your own. I've seen unions be a huge asset, I've seen them destroy factories and industries.

Yes companies pivot from open source all the time, because yes they need to "capture" value - because at some point costs, and life, catch up and unfortunately "giving it away for free" doesn't really pay the bills.
Because one (animal agriculture) emits way more carbon than it captures. That's what the article discusses - people trying to make a source of meat-like protein that emits no or negative carbon into the atmosphere.
Censorship is a tool of moderation. It doesn’t have to be the only one.
'Gamers Nexus' (gamersnexus.net) is striving to deliver reliable impartial consumer advice for Computer stuff. Unlike LTT (unless something changed and Linus started hiring people who know what they are doing) GN is leaning heavily on industry best practices instead of 'this feels good' opinions:

We Bought Apple's Old Acoustic Testing Mini-Chamber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97ot-gXXVw

This Thing is Huge: Fan Tester Setup, Install, & Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRcG1xE3xs
There is something worse than what Casey experienced.

I filed a feedback on the Contacts API that you can't add a piece of information to a contact card. Literally. You can only read the entire card, set stuff on it (not ALL the stuff, just some random subset!) and then write it. What happens to all the data you can't set and can't read?

REMOVED

This means their Contacts API, if used to add any information, leads to data loss.

The reply? "Works as designed". I explained to them that this is catastrophic data loss and that how it was designed isn't really relevant. Still got "works as designed".
For me it's Supernatural [1]. It's a bit expensive ($15/month, paid annually), but it's worth every cent. It has the same polish of Peloton (with instructors, curated musical set, decent mobile app companion, etc), with the advantage that it gets your brain laser focused on what you're doing (as opposed to any other form of exercise, where I put my headphones on and tune out on a podcast, YT video or something).

It's similar to the feeling I get when I'm coding and in the flow: time stops, and I can't think of anything else. And this is coming from someone who always hated exercise, so it has been a pretty fantastic experience so far (~1 year). But YMMV.

ps: if interested, I have 4 free guest passes (it gives you 30 days free trial, instead of the normal 7). Email in my profile.

pps: strongly recommend Quest2 with extended battery (or counterweight [2]), so the weight is more evenly distributed in your head. I had some neck pain at first, until I replaced by the elite strap with extra battery.

[1] https://www.getsupernatural.com/

[2] https://vrbalance.net/
I was also permanently banned from Instagram a few months ago. I received the same email and sent them my photo. Never heard back.

No idea what the reason for the ban was. I had never posted anything, had followed a few dozen people and would check out their posts occasionally.

Who knows? The IG account was linked to my FB account which I've been a more active user of for over a decade. This pretty much ended my desire to interact with FB since who knows if a mystery ban is on the way for that account too.

Zuck had a good run /shrug
Last time I tried to use Feedback Assistant, it was basically impossible to report an issue with the Apple Music app on my Android phone. Scrolling was totally broken in both Chrome and Firefox, so I couldn't scroll through the list of things to file a bug against and find the right one.

(I don't know if that bug still exists because now for some reasons apple won't let me access Feedback Assistant unless I give them the CVC from my credit card and my phone number to "verify my account"
Sure, I could potentially do this on the weekend, but would still require work. For religious reasons, I do not work on Sunday and I make no exceptions. Sunday is for socializing with family and friends and doing nothing.
Point well taken; I mixed up “democratic” and “governmental” in my reply.

In any case: I think my broader point of “conservatives have plenty of power” is pretty reasonable. I’m not sure I agree with your implication that it’s more dangerous to make fun of liberals.

If by that you mean “I wish to make fun of liberals and their values but then still remained gainfully employed by a company that claims to adhere to those values”, then sure I guess you have a point.

But in the same fashion I highly doubt I could get a job at the Heritage Foundation, you know? Tribalism doesn’t necessarily have a direct relationship to power.
Why isn’t the salary posted in the ad?

Many companies don’t do this but it could be something to set yourself apart.

We used to do takehomes but now we let the candidate choose if they want to do a take home or do a pair programming session in the interview.
I just blocked their domain entirely.
Kudos to the author for prioritizing of ethical and moral concerns.
As far as most people are concerned, it may as well be magic. It certainly doesn’t lend itself to understanding in the general sense. We must explore wholeheartedly and with integrity to even begin at comprehending the possibilities of connecting with it.

Even rocks and dead sticks have it. Some of us know how it works. I don’t claim to know, but I know more about it now than I did, let us say, some years ago. So it is like learning most any other complex thing, it is done over time. It can’t be replicated because it cannot be contained, and it is too expansive to be emulated or cloned with any sufficiency to have any substantial meaning.
Those arguments are directed at all tech that is bad, not just your pet technologies. They encompass all possible flaws of a thing.

1. It has negative externalities.
2. It's too expensive.
3. It's not an improvement/doesn't work.

The fascinating thing is that people see these criticisms and it counterintuitively bolsters their confidence that their tech is special, because things that turned out to be special were also criticized.

1) The number of crap things or even actively destructive things that have been criticized on these same not-so-narrow grounds are far more than the number of things that turned out to be good that got criticized. Why? Because there are far fewer good ideas than bad ones, and the bad ones get criticized more (at least on average.)

2) Not only are the listed three the only ways to criticize things, but everything is going to be criticized eventually. So, the mere presence of criticism can't be evidence of anything because everything gets criticized.
When they first launched a few months ago it was all Flow, and then it was quickly converted to Typescript. I think they still ship the Flow types too.