skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As dang is shadowbanning people, I cannot agree with many of the popular sentiments expressed.

I think shadowbanning is unjust, and if is someone is violating the rules nonstop they should be made aware of it through notice and an actual ban.
Start burying fiber and erecting towers.
Most people don't know how to evaluate a market and are more short-sighted than they want to admit to themselves. It's reflected within entrepreneurship too, with ~50 percent failure within 5 years.

Seattle: Severely limited land area mass surrounded by water with robust business sector. Single-family homes will become rarer across time with local pushes to develop multi-family domiciles. And, if you buy waterfront, your security increases substantially.

Colorado Springs: Mountains impede development slightly with large military presence, but you can build suburban developments for as far as the eye can see in most directions.

Prior to a slowdown, people see prices increasing and apply it too strongly to future results. But, one of these areas will be far more insulated from price fluctuations than the other.
> I think the issue is much less shiny/matte and much more high-res/low-res.

I definitely wish it were easier to get a matte+high-res combo.
Hey, sorry the landing page is a little unclear.

You gain access with the email you use to purchase (the buy button is all the way at the bottom, which I could with improving its location). Thanks for letting me know!
>Further still I think many people's wages have kept pace with inflation.

Inflation:
243,000/177,000-1=37%

House:
274,000/177,000-1=54%

In 2007 the yearly wage for a 22-29 year old was 20,000 pounds, in 2021 it was 26,000:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/802196/full-time-annual-...

26,000/20.000-1= 30%

If you try with an higher income, let's say 30-39, respectively 26,000 and 33,000

33,000/26,000-1= 27%

I think we can say that average houses have appeciated almost double average wages in these 15 years, which is the essence of the crazyness about houses being not affordable to most, and - as you said - it's not like in 2007 houses were cheap, data for a longer period show even more how young people then could actually buy a house and now it has become impossible:

https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/browse?from=1990-...
I like big chunky but rounded fonts so Hack has served me well now for the better part of a decade.
Low effort comment, but, wow. This article is a super thorough version of the shower thought that, biology is a lot cooler once you reframe it as the study of naturally occurring self-replicators.
"The medium is the message." Twitter-like systems are prone to failure modes: emotionally unpleasant or intellectually barren interactions.

So how do you foster civilized online communication? This is primarily a social problem, not a technical one, although the structure of a system (like the Fediverse) is defined by technology.

The two online forums I know of personally that are pleasant and productive (HN and Permies.com) both have strong and consistent moderation by small, highly-dedicated teams, which then fosters a self-reinforcing culture that values, protects, and promotes norms of civil interaction. Interestingly, both were started by "big men"* (Paul Graham and Paul Wheaton, respectively) who rapidly gathered a critical mass of community. They also both have an entrepreneurial aspect. HN is paired with YC, of course, and Wheaton runs a kind of Permaculture incubator in Montana.

- - - -

*Big man

> A big man is a highly influential individual in a tribe, especially in Melanesia and Polynesia. Such a person may not have formal tribal or other authority (through for instance material possessions, or inheritance of rights), but can maintain recognition through skilled persuasion and wisdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_man_(anthropology)
Gold will stay safer over very long periods of time. We don’t even know if P≠NP
don’t be silly; of course they can.

if you don’t believe a word you say, you just mutate state as needed to suits your needs.

if this seems unjust: good, do your part to do something about it.
Lenovo news was just a click bait which meant nothing. You can install FOSS OS as well as 5 years ago.
The employees are shareholders. Engineers get astound $10k of stock every year.

And protecting the company from those who would wring short term profits from it at the cost of long term trust and viability is a good thing. Always will be.
And it's everywhere. I tend to drop in "Courier Prime Code" as it is a little sharper and easier to read.
You can get drunk without realizing your drinking alcohol which means it’s more complicated than simple observation and expectation.

Keep trying to cover all the edge cases and you can end up with a god like collective unconscious that just happens to simulate the physical laws the way we currently expect even before humanity was aware of them. Which is undetectable dragon in your garage territory.
I think what is described here comes down to the fact that we don't have much (any?) _deep_ understanding of biology. The most concrete aspects of biology are observations. For example, anatomy is very well understood because it's essentially observations of structures within living organisms, as field it has been relatively stable for a long time, hence there are well-established methods for teaching anatomy.

There's a huge gap between the fundamental units of biology (biochemistry) and the resulting emergent behaviour (living things). We don't have a good bottom-up system to predict the emergent behaviour so we're mostly left with observing from the top down and poking/prodding sub-systems, hoping to gain some insight.

When so much of biology is observation without deep insight, it shouldn't be a surprise that biology is difficult to teach, and even more difficult to find beauty in for new students.
This read ok to me until the red flag about a worker wanting to have a set day off. If you're trying to build a remote culture with trust, that attitude should be exactly what you're looking for - straight up honest boundaries stated at the beginning when everyone can back out. This is way better than people having to prove their deservedness for time off or some other bullshit, or conversely, having them pretend to work while sneaking in time off. If the company has a problem with that, then I'd say they are trying to do this from the wrong head space, and yeah, it's not going to go well.

If I got a bad reaction from a potential employer over an honest conversation on what my and their expectations should be, I'd be out and on to the next.
My point is he can pay more because he believes he's going to make much more in the future. There is a downturn but most people suffer downturns through life and hold through them. It's just childish to back out now but I would expect that from him.

His views really don't matter. Nothing happened to Facebook and nothing will. People will just continue fighting (tweeting).
they are all in the protondb
I wonder if there are more or less Elisp/Lisp programmers in the world than Rust programmers nowadays.
Error recovery in nom is left as a very obtuse exercise to the reader. Custom error reporting is difficult at best. That stuff is supposed to be better in chumsky; I don’t know if it actually is.

However, for my own parser which is currently written in nom, my current plan is to port it over to tree-sitter. Its error recovery is completely automatic, and a fair sight better than anything I have time to do by hand.
I suspect most biology majors would be plenty interested in these topics. The barrier tends to be the foundational knowledge they have to get through, like statistics and organic chemistry.

I presume the author now has that foundation, so it's unsurprisingly much easier to approach.
FBI and MI5 leaders give unprecedented joint warning on Chinese spying
"compiled solution, coded in Nim to increase performance" ...

"Catwalk operates about 1700 times faster than, and uses about 8 % of the RAM of, a Python reference-based compression and comparison tool in current use for outbreak detection."
When I started college, I majored in Electrical Engineering because I was ready to swear on a stack of Bibles that there wasn't even a modest income that could have been made in the 1980 and beyond as a programmer, the thing I really wanted to be. Reality showed me otherwise. ;-)

I've enjoyed programming, being a system administrator (now called DevOps), and being a machinist (making gears). You're a tool maker and user, as are we all... there are many types of tools to make or use.

Artist, as others have said... there's really no limit.
not necessary. You can have income growth without inflation.

Any time income growth is higher than inflation, you can buy more goods with your income

This is why people can buy more goods and services in 2022 than in 1 AD.

If income growth always lead to equal currency devaluation, economic development would be impossible.

In growing economies, income growth exceeds inflation rate. If the value of a purchase tracks income and not inflation, the real value goes up.

In the USA, real GDP per capita (adjusted for inflation) has increased 30+% since 2020.[1]

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
I used to work a job where we did a follow-the-sun model, so not only do I not drive, I'm not even in the US - but I did answer a US 877-number for part of the day.

We'd get one or two of these calls per month. I don't think there's a chance in hell these are targeted - randomly dialling 877 numbers in the hopes that one will be answered by a human instead of another robot has to be a complete crapshoot.
Did you read the letter sent? That argument is one of several arguments.
It “works”, but not really well enough for general use. There’s a project called Asahi Linux dedicated to getting it to work, and it does run, but a lot of peripheral hardware (Bluetooth, accelerated graphics) is still not supported.

I’m not aware of any distribution other than Asahi (which is based on Arch) that can boot at all.
*interactive paid course. That should be disclosed above the fold, methinks.
Seeing how @dang handles trolls, delicate topics and inflamed egos just made me accept the fact that I will never be such a patient person; I truly appreciate how extraordinary their work is.
interesting article and one i resonate with personally.

But one things sticks out: the author complains about his text editor taking enormous sums of memory. I sympathise, truly, but obviously this text editor is doing something more than just displaying text that necessitates the ram consumption.

Maybe things are leaking like crazy, but the author isn't using the built-in MacOS text editor, so I wonder what internal costs we attribute to useful tools.

I usually get more bent out of shape about software that I'm forced to run, like Teams, Slack and the progressively heavy Web. (with chrome as a de-facto requirement).

For text editing, there's trade-offs but at least they're yours to make. You can go very far with nvim (and neovide) with almost no memory consumption, but you wont get the nice UI elements.
End-to-end encryption’s central role in modern self-defense
If it works for you, it's right.
Buy enough politicians to capture the ability to own and operate a monopoly telco run as a coop/utility. Put engineering talent in leadership roles, setting the necessary culture. Everything else is access to capital and effective execution of physical infra buildout and O&M (“the easy part”).
WHat an arrogant slogan :D
I mean, if it's capable of handling the traffic, is there any reason to upgrade?
Agree. It’s a shame the Linux community is so set in its ways. All I really want is decent, grown-up looking Arch Linux laptop with reasonable battery life and performance that boots to CLI and has retina resolution (>200ppi). People imagine retina must be all about graphics, but for me it’s 90% for sharp text. It doubles the amount of time I can use a computer before my brain starts flagging. I use a MacBook Pro because of retina. I wish the rest of the industry would get their shit together, it’s like they have a huge collective blind spot. It’s bizarre to me that PPI is almost never listed on spec sheets and I have to calculate it myself to find out if the screen is going to make my eyes and brain hurt. And they almost all fall short. Outside Apple, high PPI seems to be limited to ‘gamer’ laptops with flashing multicoloured lights for overgrown children. I wish someone would just make a decent plain aluminium laptop with a sharp screen. End rant. Sorry.
https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

And ”What works” section.
They never really expanded close to enough. People didn't want to be roaming when they went to the cottage or camping or whatever and even then the urban areas served were still too concentrated and small.

I think had they focused on southern Ontario or BC and expanded from there rather than aiming to hit the all the big metros first they might have done better.
It's also a world first problem
Changing mouse acceleration settings is one I ran into, there was no option in the UI at all and google searches brought up config file edits that went completely over my head. I think it was on either Pop or Fedora KDE.

In windows it will come up by typing 'mouse' into start.
You probably have the salary such that you can fund this endeavor better than someone without such a salary. Other than that when it comes to setting up an algorithmic trading setup you’re probably golden there, too.

But otherwise you’re no better off than anyone else and like Bostonian says on the average day traders don’t outperform and in fact usually lose their money. :shrug:
My XPS 15 9570 happily lasts 10+ hours, even though it's already few years old now. Running Arch with nouveau and nvidia card disabled
Not really related to the OP, but is there any scientific proof behind the whole industry of supplements? We have lived thousands of years without, even currently most people live without, and AFAIK we don’t give supplements to other species. It’s hard for me to think it’s not all snake oil.

Some even seem outright dangerous. One my girlfriend takes recommends 2 tablets per day (of Vitamin D I think) which equates 1000% of the daily recommended amount…
That is my understanding. A good example is a light switch. if you hold a switch in the middle between on and off, you don't know which way it will snap unless you know which way the switch was moved to get to the middle.
Sentences that apparently mark cognitive distortion:
"The quality of our product is not acceptable yet.",
"I won't go to this meeting, because I feel nauseous.",
"Children should go to school."

I can't say I agree.
Introducing Meta Accounts
Maybe the language itself supports a better technical foundation. I am skeptical about the Rust library ecosystem.
Usenet could be (was!) pretty toxic

Forums could be pretty toxic

IRC could be pretty toxic

How many more channels of communication do I need to list? They can all be toxic.

The fediverse is no different.

"The Fediverse is an environment optimized for flame wars."

So how - practically - do you create an environment that is not so optimized?
It's all software really. Most people would be fine without Adobe or Microsoft Office or Google Docs. We don't need to train kids with GitHub, Sibelius or Dorico, the list goes on. Concepts don't require application-specific training and the FOSS options are largely good enough if not better than the proprietary competitors.
> was taken aback by the number of AWS constructs it uses.

That's a feature. It's designed to herd you into total dependence on AWS cloud.
Not with the current state of the UI frameworks, not really.
Vim has visual block mode for multi cursor which you can enter with ctrl-v
Only if you subsidize it below the expected value of return.

Market rates are very different. There are a host of middle men making massive profits on loans. This is why there is an industry around it.

If you offer non-profit loans at break even cost, this is much lower than a company with higher overhead and a profit margin
The main appeal for me is it just works how I want it to work with little to no tweaking.
Money, power, control.

Defund schools and create horrible working and learning conditions for those who stay. Create a problem and then say you are the only one who knows how to fix it. Prey on peoples’s fear, especially fear for their children. Sow mistrust and bigotry in their communities.

Unfortunately far, far too many in power who actively and intentionally do not have the best interests of students at heart.

“There should be no such thing as ‘good schools’ and ‘bad schools.’ All schools should be great.” shouldn’t be be a controversial opinion, but every time I’ve brought it up people get uncomfortable because parents now how precarious their child’s education can be. They’ve seen what has happened in other schools and they don’t want anything bad to happen to their child’s education. So even if things could be better, they fear change and anything that could rock the boat because they don’t won’t it to get worse. And they aren’t wrong to be afraid: how many times has a politician promised to fix education and it turns out the fix is something like one more layer of standardized testing, or cutting art classes, honors classes, special education services to “focus on the fundamentals” while class sizes balloon and the money from those cut classes and services just goes poof?
emotion prevents you from making proper choice

look for an EDITOR, segregation is not needed
> if you don’t believe a word you say, you just mutate state when it suits you.

I am pro choice, but am entirely convinced that many many pro lifers are entirely sincere. If you think they are just holding that position out of convenience, I can see why you would interpret it as malicious. But that misinterpretation causes unnecessary hate and conflict.
Former nurse at startup Cerebral says they handed out medicines like 'candy'
Obviously currently the AI models are limited in power. We are a few breakthrough short of low-power AI systems that can compete with the brain in all aspects.
I use my desktop because I like a 24" screen and full size keyboard, plus I don't have to think about battery levels. My desktop is old enough that even a cheap laptop has similar computing power so that's not personally why I go to my desktop anymore.
The state of GUIs in Rust is atrocious right now. Tbh my biggest hope is that Qt works well with Rust, I can really see a bright future there.
Yep, the working class as effectively been abandoned by the RepubliCratic duopoly that infests American politics.

It used to be that if you worked hard, and put in your time, you could retire and have a well deserved pension. Now the kids are lucky to have a 401k with matching that won't come close. They'll never be able to retire.

Never forget that programmers aren't, for the most part, the working class.
It does if you want your article about it to be on the front page of Hacker News. I could see it mattering if you want to be a part of the community supporting an editor in Rust, because you think it offers great potential to be more stable than an editor in another language — but the author makes it clear that they want an editor which is stable right now.
> I wanted to conjure models I could play with in my hand. I wanted a museum where I could walk around inside the epithelium during an immune response. I wanted to put ideas into physical space, like on a pinboard—TLRs go here, with the other innate armament; CD4+ T cells are there, in the adaptive world—but I wanted it to be as searchable, copy-pasteable, shareable, and composable as text.

VR anyone?
Looking forward to that desktop success.
Pretty sure that's how squircles are supposed to be mathematically implemented—at least in the option based on superellipses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle
> PG thinks "few people" grasp how much effort dang expends, when in reality, a whole class of people working in customer service roles expend roughly the same amount of effort.

PG didn’t say that no one expends more effort than dang, he said that few people grasp the effort expended in moderating HN
Starlink could also provide new backbone
Just returned from the beach where my friend noticed a parent carrying a baby totally exposed to the bright sun. He said (to me) that baby should be covered up and I said I'll let you go and tell its parent then.

He decided not to
I believe if it's a legit emergency, then no. If they find you obviously were clowning around, yes.

Most SAR teams are not dedicated to SAR, but do other tasks (firefighting, soldiering, etc) so SAR operations kinda fall under training.
Linux and its ecosystem is under the most aggressive EEE cycle from Microsoft in its history. Just look at wsl, github, python,...
I believe the official term is accessory dwelling unit. You'll have to check your local zoning regulations on the rules and regulations for those. Yes there are companies that specialize in building those.
This links to a YouTube video by Texas GOP which shows the surrounding discussion and context of adding "Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice." to the party platform for 2022. The relevant procedural context starts 10 minutes in and last 15 minutes.
Ah, that is not clear. It should say "account not found" at least instead of "invalid email."
Your right twitter might just be incompetent and not keep that data, but this would be one of the most basic forms of data you need for analysis when your entire revenue model relies on that statistic.
Had Microsoft taken POSIX support on Windows NT more seriously, Linux wouldn't have mattered.

As proven by hordes of UNIX developers using macOS and WSL.
LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor
Thanks for sharing the YouTube link! That was a great watch
I find it too busy, truth be told. Colours pull my eyes in too many directions when I'm trying to read code.

It started because I'm picky when it comes to colour schemes. I'd find one or two things that annoy me and I don't personally have the imagination to fix it, so I'll try to find something else. Or I would get bored of a particular colour scheme and go hunting for something new and fresh.

Removing it took a bit to get used to but now I can't stand going back.

I don't personally subscribe to the Rob Pike idea that syntax highlighting is for babies or whatever, to each their own.
I don't believe that there is any comparable hardware to the M* macbooks right now, linux or not.
That’s easy to misunderstand. And if humans have trouble with it, then I won’t blame the poor AI.

Getting an AI to ask clarifying questions would be useful, of course…
Is there a modern and impressive desktop Qt application?
I worked on some proprietary thing (not a laptop) and mid seven figures sounds about right for just the motherboard, case, etc.

Our thing was more custom than the framework, but mid seven figures sounds like a steal. Does that include making Linux be reliable on it? (5 engineers total on the EE/mechanical/industrial engineering and SW bringup teams * 4 year product lifespan is mid seven figures, just for salary. That doesn't include facilities, HW budget, stock, etc)

I've never used a framework, but I assume suspend resume is reliable, it can sleep for a week, the GPU works, sound card doesn't pop/crackle, etc, etc... That stuff is hard to get right over time as distros get updated, which is why the above team needs to stick around over time (hopefully while they make version N+1).
They did but editors tend to temper their journalists and keep them from going off the deep end of the pool.

So yes, they had agendas too but they were kept from going into wild Pravda as well as The Enquirer territory.
Local McDonald's franchise owner gives 21 scholarships to student employees
I'd make sure you have a damn good lawyer.