skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all of those items cited the context and purpose of the claim matter, and when those are considered the reactions were reasonable, albeit with varying touches of the knee-jerkiness defensiveness that can happen in response to some clearly naive person jumping to a totally unsupported conclusion and want to make life alter choices about it simply because they like the outcome.

I.e. For Covid origins back in the day there wasn't a lot of info available to make any conclusions, but a lot of people acted like if the thing had leaked out of a lab we could just blame china and somehow that would mean we could go back to normal and also absolve the trump admin of any mismanaged response.

Then with vaccines, they've always been clearly and obviously a net benefit versus remaining unvaxxed yet antivaxxers grab on to any report of rare or mild side effects and act like it's worse than the virus. And they question all the studies that show the vaccine is okay, yet trust poor trash studies on 46 people about horse dewormer.

It's truly amazing to watch this stuff happen in real time, the knots people will contort themselves into, and the myopic analysis they'll swallow just because they wish something something was true.
> (Unless you're in far-east Menlo)

Unless they're in far-east Menlo or like 99.99999% of the rest of the world. While bay area folks are certainly heavily-represented here, the commenters come from all corners of the globe.
> Academia is running out of ways to convince people in that trap. Evolve already. I believe academia as we know it, is in stiff decline and the problems in CS are exarcerbated because of the faster reality of software.

That’s just CS you are talking about, getting into an emerging field that is very important like Material Informatics would be veeeery hard without an academic setting. Even with CS… honesty I still disagree that academia doesn’t have a purpose or value. Just reading a good research papers recently, one of my favorite recent topics being new ways to discover spy cameras using smartphones. Also some of our greatest minds have received a lot of benefits from an academic environments. I understand bachelor degrees from a lot of places are overpriced and I agree that those seem like a trap and the value might be questionable.

> Any degree, by the time you have it, might be deprecated or eroded to the point is pointless.

My degree cost me out of pocket about ~$5k for my tuition. I stayed in state and my state had a program that paid for tuition if you made above 2.3 GPA in high school. That gave me new friends, sports clubs to join, and understanding of subjects early on that I still use today like psychology and finance. Not to mention my CS degree has paid me back in dividends and I still use knowledge from it today. I have maaany friends in the same boat as me.

> Education has to go the tutorial way or it will continue to decline.

Sounds like a version of tutorial hell potentially but on the job training has its place. AI, ML, game theory, cryptography, quantum computing, probabilistic methods, the list goes on for sincere that would take a significant amount of dedication to match the amount of understanding that a rigorous course with problem sets can give you in self study.
Why Humans Have Kids
There's obviously a non-zero chance that Musk walks away without paying $1B.
Look, I don't want to come off as judgemental, but it really wasn't funny. He was genuinely afraid of bees, perhaps bordering on a phobia. Whether that's a "rational" fear or not isn't important (although the epipen/adrenaline makes it sound like it's quite rational; people can die from bee strings), people have all kinds of fears and they almost never find practical jokes about them "funny". Even worse, you put him in the extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing situation where the entire office was laughing at him over it. It sounds like an absolutely horrible situation for him.

"What do you expect out of hiring people in their early 20s?" is a lame excuse. A 11-year old? Sure. A 21-year old should know better. We all make errors in judgement, but this really was a spectacular error, and some "official" response was entirely warranted.
The author's argument was immediately diminished the moment it became obvious they had something to sell.
Assume quantum computers become mainstream or any other technological evolution? crazy to imagine I know, but that has been the tendency.
Thanks, that's actually rather inspiring.
I'm still struggling to graduate from undergrad, due to Corona this is my 10th semester.

I spent more than two years for mathematical analysis as well as linear algebra, because the professor in charge of the course was different every year, I had to re-identify the symbols used by the professor, otherwise I would have had a hard time understanding the questions in the assignments and exams.

I also know that there are many quality online resources such as 3b1b or MIT linalg, but I don't have enough time to watch them during the semester, because I'm already tired of dealing with the deadline of my weekly assignments. In particular, I often encounter situations where I have to do the work of two people by myself, because homework partner is unreachable or withdraw from the course, and I cannot find a new partner.

In a sense these are very contradictory.
Given the general 2020 media climate of hyping any random problems which could be attributed to "the pandemic," I feel like there would be at least one article from that period mentioning that women were experiencing menstruation changes before the vaccine rollout in early 2021.
Been following this project for a while. There's a reason why it's making waves in developer circles - You get a simple to use Python developer experience with a powerful distributed data processing framework that scales to enormous workloads. Plus its battle tested since it relies on Timely Dataflow under the hood.
The American dream was historically a question of upward social mobility both for you from your parents and your children from you. It’s very much a question of economic, social, and political gain. It stood in stark contrast to countries people immigrated from with extremely limited mobility across generations.

In that context it’s clear America is failing due to shrinking social mobility.
From the same site...

Potatoes Can Help You Lose Weight — Unless You're Making These 4 Mistakes

https://www.livestrong.com/article/457522-are-potatoes-good-...
Phone lines, DSL, ADSL
Exactly. Parent meant copper home phone lines (at least ADSL could run there, not as good but still).
Dissecting Microsoft’s proposed policy to ban commercial open source apps
You don't think a popular open source project fits within this niche?
I think another great counterpoint to dogmatic incrementalism is Gary Bernhardt's classic talk "A Whole New World": https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
JS is terribly messy. There's like 5,000 ways to do the same thing and no one right way. Every framework and transpiler tries to reinvent the wheel, and now we have a highway with like forty thousand types of carts, each with their own wheels.

The require() stuff has fallen out of fashion as projects move to the ESM import style. React is battling it out with Vue and Svelte and HTML Web Components and native server-side components. It will keep changing very quickly for a while... no stability is in sight.

But if you're just coming back and you don't have to support legacy projects, just start with a new Next.js project and it will configure everything for you with sane defaults. It takes care of a lot of the mess you see in JS today.

If you're planning on rolling your own buildchain... eh... good luck.

For simpler sites you might not need any framework or toolchain at all. ECMAscript is pretty good since ES6, or you can use React without a toolchain too.

But yeah, it's a mess, especially if you have any experience with languages that aren't so... insane.
The goalposts should move every decade or two!

25 down is getting restrictive, and 3 up is very much not enough these days.

You also have so many cable companies offering tiny upload amounts and hiding the numbers, in non-rural areas. They need more pressure to reallocate/upgrade frequencies.
The article mentioned scrolling. Do you get smooth scrolling with that approach, when the child window is conceptually embedded into a scrollable view? I guess you should, because the traditional Windows controls are technically all windows (HWND), but I wonder.
It's all solvable, as other countries example shows.
Bit of a hot take, but I basically expect that most new Rust GUI projects will be written in Tauri before long.

It works on multiple platforms, and is flexible, and it's easier to find off the shelf pieces due to the web technology involved, and it's lighter than Electron. It's a no-brainer for me (and others, I think) if I'm starting a new GUI desktop project.
in case this helps you, the described effect is gone with JavaScript disabled. If these kinds of effects tend to annoy you a lot, you might want to consider a JS-whitelisting browser addon, I've had good experiences with one.
I would not undersell the late middle ages. It was a complex society with sophisticated economics and social structures. Just to pick one example European warfare was highly organized by the late 1400s and enabled them to found huge empires overseas.
If a keyword is here, generally, it means there is a use for it. Feel free not to use it, but it is generally a better idea to try to understand why it is there before calling it a mistake.

Here, it goes well with what is called "offensive programming", a take on "defensive programming". Here the idea is that you crash as soon as something unexpected happen. It is a bug, fix it instead of trying to recover from something you don't understand. It is actually common in embedded software, if something is wrong, stop execution and wait for the watchdog to trigger a restart.
Do you say the same thing to people in real life?
If you were to tell me curated domains is just a bootstrapping method and as the search engine evolves it will change, fine

This makes me think of a possible approach. Curate a giant set of domains that almost exclusively host high quality content. Crawl said domains. Use all of the crawled data as a training set to create a model with which to ascertain the quality of random Web pages from other domains. Then spider everything and run it against the model.
I don't think it's simply "customer service costs money". They have plenty of money and the profit margins to throw more money at it.

In startups, the CEO will usually step in to do customer service. As it grows, the level of someone doing CS goes down gradually, to business managers, then CS specialists, then the public. I think it's more about humility.

The quality of customers also goes down as a business grows bigger.
Not who you replied to but I’m currently listening to Ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Other books by him I’ve enjoyed are 2312, set in the solar system in the year 2312, and then of course the Mars trilogy.
> Cynical people may think of it as a semi-old-fashioned model, but I couldn't disagree more.

I think it's beautiful for one parent to set aside more time for raising children. The part that's old-fashioned is the assumption that this person will be the mother. Your comment makes it sound like full-time mothers and part-time fathers are still very uncommon.
With how slowly these proposals roll out, 100/20 won't be enough. As others said, there is a lack of both competition and pricing to worry about too.

In a major tech hub like San Francisco, where I live, it's possible to get 1gb/1gb in some areas for under $90, but which those are isn't consistent nor wide spread. Home cell coverage at 100/20 is spotty at best, and there is only one flat rate vendor (T-Mobile Home, no Verizon Home yet). For those outside of the Bay Area exurbs, I can only imagine the horrors of Comcast/Xfinity or only DSL people must deal with.

Looking forward, the FCC is assuming that people are just watching Netflix, Tiktok, and making angry Karen posts on Nextdoor. We're not sure where web3 will lead, and how much bandwidth will that take: Distributed file systems/data privacy? Fast crypto transactions? Metaverse/VR/AR glasses/contacts? And what about latency?

1000/500 should be the FCC goal.
A decade ago Harvard Extension School's ALM in Software Engineering was a good match for what I was looking for as a self taught programmer with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in another field. There was a good blend of computer science fundamentals along with classes in modern (but not necessarily trendy) technologies. At the time it was also fairly inexpensive relative to other comparable options.

Programs vary widely, but if you can find one with a degree plan that aligns well with your goals it can be valuable. While there are definitely ways to learn everything on your own, I've found the credential helpful as a foot note to a track record demonstrating skills.

My biggest recommendation would be to work on a Master's degree part time in order to be able to do "real" work while studying. A Master's degree with 4 years of real world software engineering experience is going to be so much more valuable than a Master's degree from two years of just focusing on school.
Not really.

Given it’s not even ready for release either.

The best you could have hoped for is a GitHub link, but GitHub isn’t being crawled right now.

So I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Your expectations for an alpha level software that wasn’t supposed to be announced is far too high.
I'm sure it's also connected to incentives to bring 'broadband' to 'unserved communities'. Now, CenturyLink can get a new incentive to let my sync rate float up a smidge. Or, maybe they'll decide since it doesn't qualify for broadband that they'll just bow out, it's not like they enjoy being a phone company anyway.
Something like this, but that supports emacs, vi, and wordstar keybindings would I think be a pretty powerful tool for creative writers. Though as someone who writes code and non-fiction I can only speculate.
Somewhere in there was MCGA too. I still remember very cool stuff on the 8086 Amstrad PC 1640 that had an EGA card. You had to do palette magic and it was hard to do any animation, but I think games like Xenon 2 and Prince of Persia did a good job of it.
It's really not that hard. The hard part is getting invited to the good ones. The lower quality private trackers regulary have public invites though, and a good ratio on them lets you apply to the good private ones.

Once you have an invite, all you need is a computer with space and an internet connection. Download a bunch of popular new or older large freeleech torrents and seed for a month. For best outcomes, pay $10 for a seedbox and let it do it - usually faster bandwidth and less hassle.

Total time investment is 1-4 hours, + $10 for a seedbox if you want to accelerate/simplify things.
I'm largely thinking about why the Industrial Revolution couldn't be cooked up during, like, the Roman period despite there being many places with a similar set of ingredients.

My point isn't that England was first or best at these things, but the chronology of these things coming first was essential for the puzzle pieces coming together.
Are the only healthcare professionals you know in psych wards? Dark humor and "dehumanize"-ing patients is standard coping for nurses, doctors, and basically anyone else who deals with the physically and mentally ill. That doesn't mean that they don't have empathy for them and understand that there's a fundamental disconnect between societal norms and their behavior.

The person I replied to posted a laundry list of complaints about when those damn homeless jerks made them uncomfortable after saying they are so hard to empathize with. It's so whiny and disconnected from the actual hardships that caused these people to behave this way. Why can't they just be clean and polite and normal?
Nice approach to a portfolio website. It does explain the rationale behind the projects you worked on. This indeed a good approach.

I think that for many developers, their personal website is the one place where they get to explore their personal taste in web design and software development. This probably explains why the sites are graphic heavy. Putting up text is after all not very challenging to to do.
I agree with the sentiment that justifying your existence every 24 hours isn't an effective use of anyone's time. Perhaps "standup" wasn't the right word. But in general, verbal communication/meetings/etc. was the gist.
Great read!

Reminded me of tucupi, which has been popular for longer, and also causes a numbing sensation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucupi
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The problem, in the USA for most people, is Comcast.

Downspeed hardly matters. It's been plenty for decades. Upload speed has stagnated. I uploaded as fast in 2003 as I do now in 2022. And as others have said, it's not so much about 1 fast provider as many providers and choice. In my comcast monopoly my plan started at $60/mo in 2011 and without any changes on my end and no change in my upload speed that price has increased to it's current $105/mo. In addition to the price increases they've implemented a new system of total data transfer limits ((up/down)+internal overhead) meaning even if I could have a faster connection it'd mean nothing if I used it in the first week and then got hit with multiple $10 overage "fees".

But I don't have a choice. It doesn't matter how good, or bad, Comcast is. They're the only game in town.
I assume regulation would set the price. AFAIK that's what we did with copper when we created CLECs.
> Instead of trying to decide whether a GUI toolkit is native or not, I recommend asking a set of more precise questions:
>
> * Does text look like the platform native text?
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> * To what extent does the app support preferences set at the system level?
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> * What subset of expected text control functionality is provided?
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> * Complex text rendering including BiDi
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> * Support for keyboard layouts including “dead key” for alphabetic scripts
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> * Keyboard shortcuts according to platform human interface guidelines
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> * Input Method Editor
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> * Color emoji rendering and use of platform emoji picker
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> * Copy-paste (clipboard)
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> * Drag and drop
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> * Spelling and grammar correction
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> * Accessibility (including reading the text aloud)
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> If a toolkit does well on all these axes, then I don’t think it much matters it’s built with “native” technology; that’s basically internal details. That said, it’s also very hard to hit all these points if there is a huge stack of non-native abstractions in the way.

This is it! Browsers handle all of this. It's a ton of work. Many many gui kits start with just ASCII and really don't realize how deep the rabbit hole is for making all of this work.

And as always, if you haven't read them

https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/
I bought a 1st gen Freewrite back when it was the Hemingwrite on Kickstarter, I'm pretty embarrassed to say. I still haven't forgiven myself.

I've wasted waaay too much thought on that thing: why won't the founders just release an API like they originally promised, why did they delete the entire Freewrite forum full of many complaints right before a new model was released, why... and here I am... sucked in again, whining... publicly. Jeez.

Anyone out there thinking of buying one these things, my gentle suggestion is don't. Really just don't. I'll let you borrow all my wasted time so that you don't have to waste yours.

The most gracious thing I can say is that wasting my precious time and hard-earned cash on a Freewrite taught me a very important lesson... do not be seduced by slick marketing and a new device to solve what is at its heart a self-discipline problem.

On a positive note, it got me into exploring the dead art of writing on actual typewriters. A typewriter is a good deal more useful than a Freewrite, version control on the page for example. I can edit and rewrite with a pen. Good times.

I'm a professional screenwriter and often use a typewriter for first drafts or when I'm super stuck on something or procrastinating on a hard deadline. It's a good way to get things moving. I OCR the pages into emacs and fountain-mode to rewrite until the inevitable time comes when production needs the script in Final Draft... which is a sad moment, but so it goes.

I took an unfortunate road filled with regret that led to way of working that I love. So there's that.
Presidents, like leaders in business or the military, realize that they don't have the current experience, situational knowledge, or training necessary to dictate details on the ground. Therefore, they dictate high-level foreign policy, political, and strategic military goals and delegate the strategic and tactical details to the military leaders who have the appropriate knowledge to carry them out. Occasionally, they get involved in specific tactical decisions, like authorizing politically sensitive actions (e.g., the Bin Laden raid).

You would not expect the CEO of a large multi-national company to manage all of the details of every department within their company. When you combine all 5 of the armed forces together, it's far more complex than any company on earth, and managing the military is not the President's only responsibility.

The President's direction of the military is also bound, to some degree, by the Legislative and Judicial branches of the government. For example, they can't declare war on a country unilaterally. But those restrictions, while important, are not particularly constraintaining at a day-to-day level. The President has wide latitude to direct the military as they see fit. That includings projecting military power as deterrents against hostile foreign powers or engaging in short-term, small-scale offensive operations abroad.

So, no, Presidents aren't going to the front lines and directing troops like kings of old. That went out of fashion around the time of Napoleon. But good business leaders don't micromanage their workers and departmental details, either. They realize, hopefully, that doing so would do more harm than good.
I am not sure any of this is accurate since you can directly on-ramp to L2s and also purchase L1 and L2 assets off-chain.

An L2 like zk-rollup - assuming the protocol is implemented correctly - has same security guarantees as Ethereum since the validity proof is posted to L1. Most of them include an escape hatch, a L1 function that lets users withdraw funds in a permissionless way.

Ethereum can certainly theoretically scale to millions of users and a far higher order of magnitude than VISA. It presents an open source, verifiable, and permissionless alternative with better programmability and cryptographic primitives. Regarding privacy: see zk proof based L2s such as Aztec.
I think the web really killed the idea of "native" widgets. I think the rise of web apps just got everyone used to the idea that controls are just going to look different everywhere. Even on macOS, practically every app I use has a very distinct look and set of widgets (vscode, photoshop, blender, spotify -- two of those are electron, but even the non-electron stuff doesn't look very much like a "mac" app anymore). And in windows, microsoft really killed it themselves by constantly updating their own apps with non-standard widgets that everyone else wanted to clone (I remember the longest time it seemed like the only new things of note in every new version of ms office was how the toolbars looked). I suppose it's not a terrible thing, but I do kinda miss the days of windows 2000 and classic macos where the platform had a (somewhat) uniform look and feel.