skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do wish iPhones could use alternate browser engines and bypass the Apple 30% cut, but the fact I'm having to click through one of those stupid cookie dialogs on this page just leaves the bad taste in my mouth of how much the EU regulation screwed up the internet the last time they made a change like this.

Not saying I want tracking cookies everywhere, but they should have just made tracking cookies illegal outright, rather than legal if people agree meaning I have to dismiss thousands of cookie dialogs a year.

Because they were incompetent in writing their legislation, they doomed us to cookie dialogs for the rest of my life.
> I'm also annoyed that the EU produces effectively 0 innovative tech, and subsequently has very suppressed tech salaries, but is so ready to regulate the American companies that make the world go 'round

Because its almost impossible to compete?
These companies have so many resources, its impossible for any local competitor to compete.
Amazon can just crash the prices till the competition dies, Google can just not allow YouTube on it, Facebook will exist because of the network it has.

What the EU is doing is what is needed to happen long ago.
These companies are not currently successful because they offer the best experience or the best innovativtion, they are successful because they crush anyone else.

For example WhatsApp has many many better alternatives, which have better features and better privacy, but it still the #1 because of the monopoly it has on communication.

What the EU did here is smart, they didn't outright ban WhatsApp, or funded a direct competitor.
They forced them to play fair, to stop the monopolistic behavior and force them to compete on features, rather than succeeding only because my familly is on WhatsApp.

The same thing applies to Apple, which forces to everyone to use its crappy, intentionally handicapped browser engine.

And also forcing everyone to use its payment services while taking percentage of the profits and not even allowing you to increase the prices to cover their percentage!, this is absolutely outreagous and finally something is being done about it.
Streetcars are always less mobile buses. You can do everything you suggest for buses and get the same benefits plus everything that being a bus offers you.
On-call is meant to be for rare emergencies. If you're getting paged outside of work hours on each 1 week shift then something is wrong. It should in no way be equivalent to 168 hours of work.
What you are arguing is that, "The fact that their rhetoric doesn't agree with the take means that the take has no validity."

This form of argument is always available, and always meaningless. For example Russian rhetoric is that they are fighting Nazis, and not that they are attempting genocide. That doesn't change that they are attempting genocide.

In the case of Republicans, we have a group of mostly older white men. Most of whom agree with a set of cultural values around family, marriage and so on. For example in polls, Republicans are over 1.5 times more likely than Democrats to say that women should stay home and not work. It is no surprise that Republicans are far less likely to support programs to give women access to child care for the purpose of working. Republicans are generally opposed to abortion. Republicans are far less willing to accept that unmarried women should enjoy sexual freedom, cohabit without marriage, and so on.

Republicans will cite a variety of sources for these positions, such as the Bible. But what it adds up to is that Republicans broadly support traditional patriarchal positions about the role of women, while opposing social changes and policies that most women would like, and feel gives them more freedom to live their lives as they will.

It is not horribly unreasonable to describe this as, "patriarchal Republicans oppress women again." No matter how much that does not fit the stories that Republicans tell about themselves.
Apple is not even close to a monopoly, especially in Europe, where they have less than a third of the mobile market. That said, the rest of the market is divided up between several different Android phone companies, so Apple is in fact the largest single mobile vendor in the EU (Samsung is neck and neck with them though, and may have overtaken them since I last checked).

So from a regulatory standpoint, Apple is the problem child even if it isn't a monopoly. The EU sees a third of its phone-using population as being "captured" by a uncompetitive foreign corporation that is far more restrictive and locked down than any of its competitors. Apple has also tenaciously resisted any attempts to open its platform by citing user security as a reason for its draconian level of control over the iPhone platform, so it became necessary for the EU to resort to powerful big-guns legislation to act. Well the big guns are here, and I don't think Apple's "user security" defense is going to be aegis enough against them.
The web audio platform has approaches that purport to work around this [0]. We'll see how that pans out (no pun intended).

[0] For example: https://web.dev/audio-scheduling/
That's how it works for flu shots too, so I don't see the issue
That has been my suggestion, too; seeing is believing.
If you go back past the 1950s-1960s TV era to the early 20th century, there's quite a bit of the dark and gritty stuff. The movie "Metropolis" (1927, Fritz Lang) is a fairly dystopian work, for example. A lot of popular writing from that era has a similar flavor. By that measure, the 50s and 60s were an unhealthy aberration, a one-sided positivity culture similar in style to fascist and communist propaganda regimes that never mentioned the negative aspects of those systems.

I personally like William Gibson's take on this, from Gernsback Continuum:

> "But the couple in front of me lived in it, and they frightened me. They were the children of Dialta Downes's '80s-that-wasn't; they were Heirs to the Dream. They were white, blond, and they probably had blue eyes. They were American. Dialta had said that the Future had come to America first, but had finally passed it by. But not here, in the heart of the Dream. Here, we'd gone on and on, in a dream logic that knew nothing of pollution, the finite bounds of fossil fuel, or foreign wars it was possible to lose. They were smug, happy, and utterly content with themselves and their world. And in the Dream, it was their world."

> "Behind me, the illuminated city: Searchlights swept the sky for the sheer joy of it. I imagined them thronging the plazas of white marble, orderly and alert, their bright eyes shining with enthusiasm for their floodlit avenues and silver cars. It had all the sinister fruitiness of Hitler Youth propaganda."
Americans love feeling like they're about to be rich (all 300+ million of us), thus unions are bad because they redistribute power to the poor.
> There hasn’t been an “assault rifle” used in a school shooting for decades. “Assault rifles” are highly regulated— it’s nearly impossible to own one.

Respectfully, aren't these definitions just semantics about firing capability?

My understanding is the mass-shooter weapon of choice, the AR-15 is semi-automatic-only (ie not an assault rifle [0]) as they do not have select-fire capability, meaning the capability of a weapon to be adjusted to fire in semi-automatic, multi-short burst, and/or automatic firing mode. Semi-automatic fire means that one shot is fired upon each depression of the trigger. [1]

Regardless of firing capability, there is "overwhelming evidence that the AR-15 could bring more firepower to bear than the M14" [2] battle rifle [3].

This evidence is borne out in our schools [4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle

[1] http://www.weaponslaw.org/glossary/selective-fire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#M16

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_rifle

[4] https://archive.ph/IJKT6
Good tools help a lot, by that I mean frameworks and libraries, e.g. for CSS.
Chess puzzles always have one solution. I don't know how this game was picked but the solution to this particular puzzle is the only solution. There are certainly other moves that could be played in this position but they are all losing as far as I can tell. Assuming every position from every game chosen is like this it sort of makes sense but as someone who does a lot of chess puzzles I don't see how this is much different from just normally doing chess puzzles.
Ask HN: Is it worth it to audio-read Designing Data Intensive Applications?
Hi HN,

I recently saw that this book was available on Audible. I prefer audio-reading books these days to prevent straining my eyes. But I was afraid if I would be missing out on any diagrams etc from the physical book if I opt for the audio version.

Has anyone gone through the audio version of the book? Would you recommend it?
Same, Covid wasn’t that bad, certainly nothing to close the economy and schools for. It is very survivable, the vaccines shouldn’t have never been recommended for anyone except elderly and high risk individuals.
I think everyone has a 'higher' ambition in the sense of "this is what I like to do". Even people in shitty situations have things they would rather be doing than working their job.

I agree that only people born with privilege think that supporting yourself while only doing what you want is a viable option, but that is kinda my point.
It's obviously the car. Otherwise you would have heard of this problem well before now.
"I think depression is really caused by X, and anti-depressants are really just a placebo"

It's tough to quantify the efficacy of AD's, especially given the differences in individual neurochemistry, but claiming they don't work at all, or that depression isn't even real, is plain ignorant.

Everyone should be forced to watch Dr. Sapolsky's lecture before commenting on depression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
American pop culture has nearly transitioned entirely from entertainment into agitprop. The pervasive unhappiness is by design.
I remember McDonalds workers striking and a post about how their CEO makes ~1300x their salary. I looked up our dual CEO salary and together they were making like ~2000x our salaries.
I was told by a psychiatrist that I respect that one day in the future we may look back on psychiatry of today like we look at blood-letting and lobotomies of the past.
Two possible outcomes of Mozilla losing Google's funding: Maybe Firefox evaporates away to nothing, 0% market share, and now Google loses the fig-leaf covering their browser monopoly. Or maybe Mozilla loses their ineffectual but greedy leadership, allowing people who believe in the mission to step into those roles.

I think Google prefers the status quo to either of those scenarios. They prefer it to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, for that is how much they pay to perpetuate it.
In 2010 or 2011 solar capacity was increased by 10GW in one year. We are currently at about 70GW, so it would take 7 years at the 2010 rate - one would assume that with much more efficient panels available today, the first doubling could be easily done in 5 years and obviously we might try much harder today than we did back then, when it was not critical yet. I wouldn't see why we couldn't do 20 GW/year today and more in the future.
Going to renewables certainly is a 90/10 style problem, but as we are very much pressed for time, we should push for the 90 quickly first and then tackle the rest. And if we hit 20GW/year solar buildup and also have strong wind buildups, we might quickly have enough to just use power2gas and the existing infrastructure to bridge the gaps in the supply. And of course, some amount of importing is acceptable too. If Arabia and northern Africa build up large hydrogen plants, we should buy that too. Helps achieving our goals quicker, gives those regions important income. But of course, we shouldn't make us so much dependant on a single suppler any more as we did with gas.

What other ways would we have to achieve this goal in short notice?
>Because it requires the devotion of Apple's resources to supporting non-Apple things.

Oh no, one of the richest companies on the planet might have to spend a tiny bit more on making things better for everyone.

The absolute horror!
And the world will continue turning just like it had for the last 50 years of us having general purpose computers without an American at Apple telling us what we're allowed to do with our products.
> We're fighting fragile complexity of too many tools ducktaped together by ducktaping more tools to the whole setup. Again and again and again.

You’ve brought up three relevant points:
1. The tools are software, which strength and weakness is being easy to change.
2. The tools rely on abstraction, which strength and weakness is summarizing/hiding complexity.
3. Communication between publishers/consumers of these tools is hard.

Armchair-coaching I now come up with at least three solutions:
1. Re the weakness of #3: ensure when an issue is found at one layer, communication happens to maintainers of all other layers up and down.
2. Re the weakness of #2: collapse the layers – analyze dependencies and don’t go past more than x number of abstractions.
3. Re the weakness of #1: don’t use software.
i use it to clone my work badge onto the chip in my hand... and to have all my amiibos in a nice easy portable package for switch gaming on the go.

haven't explored anything else
It is illegal in the US to vet potential employees based on religion.
I think this is one of the most interesting points, " A study conducted by the Economic Innovation Group and commissioned by Tulsa Remote concluded that for every two people the program brings to the city, one new job is created.

By contrast, when an office moves to a town, every new high-wage tech job creates an estimated five more jobs in sectors including healthcare, education and service, according to research by economist Enrico Moretti. That’s because those deals involve not only people but the money that goes into building and maintaining facilities, paying commercial property taxes and more."

*edit to include links to the research below as they weren't linked in the copy/paste

https://eig.org/tulsa-remote/
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-multiplier-effect-of...
GDPR is good, just needs reinforcement. The way things like the nutrition score are done is just bad so.
Affected would have been more correct.

"Affected means that something was influenced or changed (e.g. the lyrics affected him).

Effected means that something was brought about or facilitated (e.g. she effected the proposed changes)."

It's definitely a subtle change, and, similarly, affect and effect tend to be mixed up as well

- from https://prowritingaid.com/affected-vs-effected#:~:text=To%20....

I will also recommend the book Uncovering The Logic of English, which is primarily aimed at native (American) English speakers but has several nods to English-as-a-second-language lessons.

Cheers!
Signed, an American who was corrected by his father quite often and now has an ear for these things.
Ask black and queer people how golden the 50's were. Or women.

It was a culture that "valued" long-term relationships to the extent that they were Ok with the relationship completely destroying individuals. And it had an implicit nod to at least men seeking release value outside the relationship, as long as it was discreet.

It had a large amount of mind-alterning drugs - alcohol. Barbiturates. Valium. The latter two prescribed excessively if you deviated in any way from the norm. It was OK with performing lobotomies on people to have them perform within norm.

There were almost no news except what was officially approved. You'd mostly lose contact with friends who moved more than a few miles away - long distance contact through mail is hard.

Housework was hard manual labor, because there were little affordable tools. (They were just starting to become normal). In terms of performing arts, it was a wasteland because the vast majority of cities didn't have the size to support art scenes.

I could go on. But what I'd really like to say is: Both the picture you paint, and the one I paint, are likely overemphasizing certain characteristics. In that, we generalize way too much. Happiness is individual, not cultural. Culture is tribal, not general. And more importantly, culture is what we make of it - and so imagining where to go from here very much becomes "where do you want it to go, and what can you do about that"
Of course it's hard to do, but that doesn't change the fact that getting rid of most guns is clearly and obviously the way to significantly reduce the amount of gun violence in the US. Contesting this is too silly to take seriously, like an alcoholic saying "I know I've been fired from my last three jobs for showing up drunk, but we have lots of other avenues to address this..."

And just because it's difficult doesn't mean it's impossible. If one side can stack the Supreme Court with people who suddenly realize there's no constitutional right to privacy, the other side can find some judges to suddenly notice the "well-regulated militia" part of the second amendment, and act accordingly.
There's a pollution aspect to be considered as well. Soft rubber tires are more polluting. Would using summer/winter tires change things? Yes you'd pay the tax on 2 pairs of tires but your wear/replacement interval would be prolonged on both sets wouldn't it?
I believe that replacement is Logback [1] + SLF4J, according to the intro section on Wikipedia's log4j article [2]

[1] https://logback.qos.ch/reasonsToSwitch.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j
See https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/ . Plenty of vulnerabilities. Just different ones
I have 3 BT headphone things. They are all paired to both my mac and my iPhone. Something changed recently. If paired to my mac two out of the three play on hold beeps whenever my Google Meet meeting is muted. Or, and this is really annoying, if my computer happens to transition through some sort of sleep state in the other room. So, if I have them on at night and unless I remembered to disconnect my computer at the end of the work day, I am woken up in the middle of the night with random on hold beeps until I get up, go to the other room, and disconnect the computer.

On top of that they both of course randomly activate Siri in my iPhone (despite me setting Siri to only activate if I press the side button) and they both auto play the same random song.
Daily I very much doubt because it’s not like most people were commuting to work. Would you sometimes see them, sure, but people also had a belief system that would have done more to justify the social order, and it would probably be limited to provincial elites for most.
EU asks member states to start rationing gas
Except value you generate is not a good metric for salary.

If I have an employee that generates 100M a year, but I have boundless applicants that can perform that same task then the unfortunate reality is that person is not that valuable.
This whole "you aren't a real <x> unless you suffer through <y>" is just as unhealthy for authors as it is for programmers. Just because someone isn't grinding out leetcode on their lunchbreak or novellas on flights doesn't mean they don't have a genuine love and passion for the underlying art. Sanderson is an exceptional author, emphasis on exceptional. Most people would burn out at the pace he sets.
I do not regret doing something beneficial for my health, the health of my family, and the health of society at large, no.

Who would regret it, unless they are in the small percentage of ppl who had side effects?
This is an article about clinical depression, not 'unhappiness'. While distress can result in clinical depression, they aren't at all the same thing. One gets better if the stressor is removed, the other does not.
Before the direct reply, I remember Judge Jackson. The ruling in the trial was quite hard hitting and many people were expecting something like the Bell System breakup. Likely three components, Operating Systems, Office, Dev Tools.

Back to working on Linux.

There's something to what you are saying. But it may partly be culture shock going from full IDEs to command line oriented projects.

I did some work with Visual Studio with C++ and liked it. Of course, the Windows API is so complicated you need as much help as you can get. Also a tiny bit of Visual Basic, which I found very quick to get things done with.

There are tools for Linux, of course.

For the Java folks, Eclipse runs on Linux.

For Python, the PyCharm IDE is pretty good.

Qt has visual tools that run on Linux.

VS Code runs on Linux.
>I can’t see their working conditions being genuinely terrible or unsafe, or the pay being that unfair.

Can I ask what you are basing this assumption on?
Incident response at Stripe
Given the recent European land war and the general performance of one of our main military rivals in said war I think it's possible this was actually planned for awhile and the recruit problem is just a convenient excuse
And many apps don't work without Apple iOS being present on device and many apps don't work without Windows being present on device, etc.

Play Services are core OS API just like Apple services are.
Oh, I've got problems pairing my Android phone to my car.

Well, not "pairing", but like 4 out of 5 times, the phone thinks it's outputting to the car's bluetooth, but is actually playing out of the phone speaker, and doesn't start outputting to the car until I switch the output from bluetooth to phone speaker and back again. And for some reason the Spotify app never implemented the thingie that lets you switch outputs, so I have to switch to a podcast app, do this little dance (treating my wife and kid to a little snippet of podcast), and then go to Spotify and play music.
I never really realized that I react in a similar way until you put it into words.
Thank you, that is a very interesting take. I've always played with the idea of pivoting into the security industry because playing hack the box and the like is something I do in my free time and enjoy. Maybe I'll just do some bug bounties or something for fun instead. I think it's a bit different in Europe though at least anecdotally there seems to be more code audit and the like (more product security) instead of pen testing (more network/infrastructure security).
What is considered alternative/rock these days? I followed alternative rock in the 00's, and then the indie rock scene through the early 2010s, but it seems like rock in general has dropped off significantly. I'd be happy to be wrong though. Russian post-punk (Molchat Doma) is the only "new" thing I've been familiarized with, and it does seem pretty depressing (not that I can understand the lyrics though). As for the aughts being so depressing, I'd imagine the popularity of the emo scene was a big factor in that.
There's no precedent for this because you don't see this happen in Android en mass
I wonder, is this device powerful enough to process music audio? It'll make for a great handheld music player if you ask me :P
You are forgetting a very important thing: the ever-increasing power of misplaced technology - once upon a time ability for damage equaled to a rock or a stick, today...

The "great responsibility" that should have accompanied the "great power" is dwarfed. Wisdom should needingly¹ increase more than power - of course this is not how things go.

(¹I cannot find the term for the modality: not "deontically", not "absiologically"... The idea is "X, or you are in trouble".)

So, "in the times of yore, civilization was falling apart". Today, it is with boosted damages.
> It also starts to bother me quite a bit when we go from treating everyone equal before the law to creating certain requirements based on other factors.

Like tax brackets? Treating big things exactly the same as small things seems ideological, not rational.
Some of the greatest hits are missing specifically because Lord was a repeat violator of the Brown Act, the "sunshine law" of California.
Ridiculous but very consistent throughout history.