skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's three cultural artefacts:

1. American ethos really instills the notion of 'Follow your passion' as a dogma.

Life is complicated, and shit happens, but for americans that genuinely means you failed. (I see this a lot when I try to discuss homelessness and social protection in the US).

2. Follow up from that, 'everyone is special' or 'destined for great things' is a constant movie theme

3. Americans _really_ peg a lot of their self-worth to work.

Without fail all the americans I have met open the conversation with 'So, what do you do?' as if how I will be judged is wholy pegged on where I am on the totem pole and how much they can infer income from my occupation. You have made the person as an individual undissociable from the worker as a contributor to someone else's wealth or the gold standard of the self-made man.
It even can output HDMI https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI
> Yes, taxes are really high, but that includes a generous retirement pension

Are the France state pensions that much higher than in the US? Average US social security pension is around $1700 per month IIRC.
I worked on Videotex systems in Holland (and basically deprecated it in 2001). At the time it was the profitable part of the ISP it was part of, largely due to the "pink" services it offered via paid dial-in numbers (0.25 Eurocents per minute). Later a web version of Videotex was created which basically emulated the Videotex screen in a http frame. Its services were quickly taken over by the Internet.
But what did they see as the answer to social problems? Changes to government policies, or divine judgement in the afterlife and at the end of the world?

Rather than being a religion of the poor and downtrodden, early Christianity spread primarily among the middle and upper classes - and while it encouraged charity, and personal decisions to voluntarily renounce wealth, it never presented that as mandatory for its followers - if it had, it would never had succeeded as it did.
That's the thing. It's not a meme. It's a joke, that rings true.

It works fine for me.

Not for him. Same package, nearly identical laptops, different outcomes.

And I as newcomer to Python, there are like four (pip, venv, brew, conda) cli APIs that I had to learn just to get working on some Python file.
At the end of the day your decision not to vaccinate is potentially putting other workers at risk so that's why its not being tolerated. If you find an employer that is willing to slack off on mandates, they are probably going to be slacking off on a lot of other employee protections that you'd like to have in your favor.
> with no additional money
I have the opposite feelings about menthols; I can't stand them. Whenever I smoke a menthol I feel like I'm smoking a toothbrush.

I'm a full time smoker, but I'll turn down a menthol if offered one. I'd rather suffer through nicotine cravings than subject myself to a Colgate coffin nail.
I didn't say 'encourage' it.

In my opinion, it's just uninteresting. journalists make bad figurative word choices in technical articles every day. Lots of repetitive HN comments labouring the fact make for much less interesting threads.
If you made a 0.8mm board you don't even need a usb-c connector as the board fits into the cable.

Supposedly this works great (havent tried myself though)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Documentation is sooo oldfashioned. Instant action for satisfaction!
They were more than somewhat effective. That said, they absolutely helped me frame the marketing effort.

You want to DM me on Twitter? I'll send it to you @jasonstrimpel or email jason.strimpel [at] gmail [dot] com.
I have a problem with the MacBook butterfly keyboard, but it was during pandemic and it would have been extremely difficult to get it repaired (no Apple stories were open).

Warranty is now expired, is it still possible to get it repaired without out-of-pocket expenses?
A bit like stage coaches swapping horses at each inn along the way.

I don’t think tugs though can operate in anything above fairly calm waters.
Growing up with home computers DID give you a different mindset about computers. Sooner or later you realize that you can make this machine do anything you want it do do. And it was quite simple to get started.

No way you'll get this same mindset with modern smartphones.
Maybe I'm different but I get a personal trainer because it makes me have to go workout due to social pressure. I don't get a personal trainer because I want to have the best form.

I can just watch Youtube personal trainer videos otherwise.
Weird Fiction, Cosmic Horror, the Cthulhu Mythos
Schema Therapy
It sees this was never on HN, which is surprising, given how much psychological, wellbeing related content is on HN.

After almost two years of (net) work which took me more than a decade (interrupted), I can finally say that I am thorough and this works and highly recommended. There are a lot of disorders that I thought I had but ultimately it seems that all of these are my coping mechanisms that worked when I was a child but drags me down as an adult.
Hopefully someone finds this helpful.
How long were you on and what made you go off it? Four months in I’m feeling better now but I don’t think I want to take it forever
Hey,
I'm the blog author.
Cloudflare does not use a managed Kafka service, we run it ourselves. I have shared your interest in a blog post describing the challenges of running Kafka at scale with a Kafka team, so hopefully they will write about it soon!
>no one would be using them if they didn't feel there is a serious purulente in their lives.

You are playing into the argument, people often don't have a choice to avoid a depression inducing environment, they only have the choice of using drugs or not.
Yeah I looked at the date when I read that headline. Surprisingly not an April fool's post.
It's never the concept that's hard. It's the execution.
Firstly Mozilla is never going to switch to Chromium engine because it'd indicate giving up most of what makes it unique. Second to redo all their unique features would take a number of years, particularly all the privacy aspects that the Tor Browser relies on. Compare it to Brave for example, they've had years to work on their browser and it's not got any of the aforementioned Firefox features and a fraction of the privacy ones.
You need third party cookies even if is shared with anyone who has the link. This is not about authentication.
I hope it sticks for you. For me it wore off completely after only three weeks.
Some of the FAANGs are also building self driving cars.
My AirPods Pro are likely the only Bluetooth device I've seen that's not only easy to pair but also works every time without fail. The other day they actually did fail though, but that was because of massive interference of 2.4GHz that made nothing work. Can't really blame Bluetooth for that.
I tend to think that our disconnection from the nature causes depression to humans. We have come so far from our natural living conditions that we fall ill to depression and other diseases. Another aspect is the lack of physical work that is very unnatural for us. We sit in cubicles (or at home office nowadays), use our brains and fingers to do work and at best hit the gym few times a week. After which we eat our stomach full and entertain us with things that were invented during last generation. Life certainly is safer and better for us, but it's making us unhappy. We live like medieval royals and like them we suffer mental illnesses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mentally_ill_monarchs).
Small Performance Cues
> Raising pay ratchets up inflation

Studies on local minimum wages (such as Seattle's aggressive ratcheting) suggest that low-end wage increases have negligible effects on inflation.

This has a pretty obvious basis when you consider that the 1% and especially the 0.1% have an overwhelming majority all the money in the economy.
This uses accompaniment styles from Yamaha arranger keyboards, which have been around for ages. It's a much simpler format (really just a special kind of MIDI file) than the BIAB one, and more open. This project has details: https://github.com/bures/sff2-tools . There's a site that's popular with users of Yamaha keyboards, www.jososoft.dk , that has tons of styles in various genres.

I messed around with JJazzLab a few months ago, and, while I did encounter some annoying MIDI problems involving the drum patches, I liked it enough that I wrote myself a script to import a song from another program, Impro-Visor, for auditioning in JJazzLab. It's a lot easier to use than Band in a Box.
If you’re a Mr. Beast level big deal I’m sure somebody from YouTube will actually look into the matter.

This is of most impact to channels big enough for somebody to treat it as a full time job, but not so big that it will ever be worth YouTube’s time to provide them any level of service.
From the moment it can interact with the underlying operating system? C++ doesn't specify any GUI framework as a part of the standard, and yet people manage to write GUI apps. Rust should have the same capabilities of calling into the OS, but GUI apps seem to be slow to appear there - it may be because it's still early days, or because Rust isn't super pleasant to write GUI apps in.
Well, less code means less bugs, but go nuts. I'm just saying that the database is part of the stack. You wouldn't avoid Ruby features "just in case we stop using Ruby" - so why would we avoid using database features? It's up to you how best to assemble the features from your stack.

There is a reason we avoided database features in the 90's, which was to avoid database vendor lock-in. This was almost entirely a financial decision - you didn't want to be at the mercy of a vendor who could 10x the license fees and put you out of business, so you needed to have leverage over the vendor, and you needed to be able to credibly say you could change databases -- and in fact this exact scenario actually happened to me.

But that kind of behaviour is not really needed any more, and there's no need to avoid the great database features that systems like PG provide. In my experience, using database primitives to implement features tends to perform much faster (10x - 100x) and more consistently than the equivalent implementations higher up the stack.
> And here's the million dollar idea, to verify you'd need to destructively inspect your chips at EOL to verify you haven't been screwed over. Anyone wants to start a business?

it only protects against backdoor injection by the fab (or the company that produces your masks)

And there are other solutions such as logic-locking.

The idea of logic-locking is to add XOR gates (or a more complex type of gate) to the circuit on well-chosen logic paths. To make the circuit behave correctly, it's required to know the value to be sent to each inserted XOR.
These values may be generated by an RNG circuit that is seeded by a secret key.

At manufacturing time the key is kept secret, so it's not possible for the fab to reverse engineer your circuit logic to introduce a backdoor.

Once production is complete, the key is loaded into circuits for sale
I've been thinking about something email-based. Once a week your device sends a email to your peers and they reply with their updates.
Why are there so many twitter threads on HN? Especially this one doesn't provide any context or sources. It reminds me of the time newspapers warned of global cooling with records of coldest days ever measured. Now the hottest days are used for the exact same effect even though its the same statistical lie. Articles about how no one wants to work anymore can also be replaced with any arbitrary metric that's usefull for politicians and newspapers.

Again, I would agree that days are getting hotter and wages are very depressed. But I dont like twitter threads or hearsay
Indeed. And I can't help but notice that every discussion is rife with people singing the praises of psychedelics, but TMS is never, ever mentioned. If people were genuinely interested in alternatives to SSRIs for the sake of efficacy, you'd think an FDA-approved, non-pharmaceutical, non-invasive treatment would come up at least once.
Lego StarWars 75338 Ambush on Ferrix, you may be blindsided by how much fun it's
Some jobs would just disappear. No one is going to pay a greeter at Walmart $50 an hour.
No point disabling them now due to Total Cookie Protection by the way. All 3rd-party cookies are isolated to the 1st-party domain they're obtained from.
> I have yet to meet a depressed person or almost any person who couldn’t use more community.

Depression is known to cause this. Yes, it’s not that simple. But this reasoning is extremely dubious.

> The people I know who overcame depression all did the following: worked out, improved sleep patterns, joined some activities.

All the people I know who graduated high school got married and had children. Maybe we should encourage people to get married and have children to increase the graduation rate!

Sarcasm aside, this reasoning is just beyond dubious. Do you know what the symptoms of depression are? Are you familiar with the very basics of what depression is? All of the things that you described that people overcame are actual symptoms of depression.

Or maybe to abuse another analogy—everyone I know who got over chicken pox stopped getting those pustules. That doesn’t make “stop getting pustules” actionable advice!
Stop making product management even harder
People constantly shout how property values would go down if people could afford homes.
"falsehoods programmers believe about users #2": they read button labels and dialog box text.
That post is 3 years old, the company is almost twice as old now as it was then, how are they doing today?

But it's a good peak into the mind of GH - not the cosiest of people to hang out with perhaps, considering how intent he is on bashing competitors, but also a really good hacker. I'm kinda shocked he didn't raise more than 8.1m, way more has been spent on less promising minds, especially during the heydays of the late 2010's.
>During fast food chain Chipotle’s first-quarter earnings call, finance chief Jack Hartung said that his customers had shown “very little resistance” to price increases.

This is one of the examples cited in the article.

Eh... if there's little resistance, this is exactly why inflation is here - because people have more money than supply. Any reasonable, for-profit business, would raise prices to maximize their profits.
I tend to use words for their exact definitions. So don't be shy to precisely pinpoint the exact part I showed any sign of intolerance, I am curious.

Intolerance: lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one's own

Because the only person here who has a problem with the opinions of others is the one who is trying hard to educate others without being solicited to do so.

Name calling others is a pretty weak strategy to appear tolerant.
... or git merge / git pull (but not git rebase) ...
OP probably has a small AC unit with a pipe that you send out of the window. We don't have proper AC over here in most houses, because it's normally only hot a few weeks out of the whole year.
Also, to expand on that in a different way: Most businesses require real up-front investment and significant time to operate, so failing even once means at best losing all your seed money and at worst going broke.
Similar Marlboro trying to market cigarettes to women so that they could be equal to men.
I prefer death.
What about knowledge work? Employees in the tech, finance and any desk job industry aren't performing their job using an ipad or phone.

Wouldn't the tech industry have an incentive to also encourage a continuous supply of skilled labour that can use a pc effectively?
It's funny how HN always complains about every status page.

I think Google Cloud has one of the only status pages that is always up to date and very forthcoming in giving as much detail as possible. Personally I couldn't ask for more.
Makes sense. It's just way outside my wheelhouse so I can't imagine taking a 500+ million dollar gamble on, well, anything.
Carrier-grade (i.e. critical) network equipment should be rated for 40C ambient air and then up to 55C for some short length of time (3 days??) to allow for air conditioning failure. This is what we design and test for. Cheap stuff, including Google's software solutions running on 'commodity hardware', won't handle that. You get what you pay for.
I find VMs and permacomputing to be contradictory.
‘Stray’ – the videogame where you play as a cat – is breaking the internet
One advice: for any of these topics take a tutorial directed at language X and implement the solution in language Y. This will prevent you from mindlessly copying the code and will force you to understand what you are doing.
If your property has 3 phase power, chances are your single phase breakers are just on some random phase (picked by your electrician) ie phase 1.

Because phase 1 is picked so often, they actually rotate the phases at the street ie switch 1 2 3 with 3 1 2 to avoid having ie 300% more load on phase 1 and having the grid just die.
> Yeah an unregulated and uncontrolled consumption of a poorly dosed hallucinogenic is totally better than a double-blind study of SSRI/SNRI.

Frankly, it could be and we’d have no way of knowing with the “rigor” we put through pharmacological stories, if your goal is effectiveness.

That the entire field of psychology is sort of In conflict over the mechanisms, validity, and treatment models of trauma and dissociation, which frequently underly depression and anxiety symptoms.
>It’s like worrying about dying from a terrorist attack or a plane crash in France.

The aviation sector is one of the most regulated on earth and has extreme safety standards for exactly this reason: we don't want to crash.

Societies also implemented security measures after terrorist attacks. Especially after Bataclan in France.

These are extremely rare events because we take measures to prevent them.
I'm not sure how anyone can believe this after seeing Android. Google's modus operandi is to make the open core less and less functional over time after everyone has migrated to it, and then put the useful stuff into their proprietary version (Google Pixel, Google Chrome).
Recreate JWST images in tweet sized programs running on BBCMicroBot
Is that a difficult question, or is there some trick portion of it that we'll fall under if we answer?

Just give the bike back, pay any damages, if it's gone, then pay the value of the bike, some jail time, community service, any/all of the above. This is not a hard problem: people are behaving like children, taking what is not theirs and breaking social agreements/boundaries. So treat them like children and do the adult equivalent of "get a spanking and say sorry, so you know not to do it again.".
You don't even have to directly deal with water rights. The state could easily make it completely impractical to farm with onerous regulation and taxes - something liberal states love to do in general.
How Penguins Beat the Heat and Went South
I hope LE audio will fix that
Why is your prior that the US should be doing better than third-world countries?

Where did I claim it should be seen as a great accomplishment?
For all the french nerds on HN, there is a pretty nice TV show called « 3615 Monique ». The directing is heavily inspired by « The Social Network » but a bit more goofy at times. Of course, the whole plot is about students bootstrapping their own « pink » service…
I remember when a rouge employee of a client went ahead to do stupid deletions on students' and staff data, soft delete saved the day and made us some money.
That’s my understanding and feeling as well. Psychiatric medication imo should be used to help stabilize for psychological work, not create a new chemical baseline.
> Come hang out in Southeast Portland for a few days and you'll gather what I'm referring to.

I live in Portland by PSU. I used to live in inner SE off Belmont. You’re 100% talking out your ass. I would put money you don’t talk to anyone OR as others have said are only talking to those living on the street. You’re manipulating things to fit your narrative it’s gross. Please stop.

The subset of people you’re attempting to identify are by and large suffering from mental illness and/or abuse. They don’t need you to misrepresent them and portray them as lazy, bourgeois, and/or unwilling to work. It’s completely disgusting behavior to do so and you should feel shame.
The author of Lisp Curse had no experience with Lisp even in solo work, let alone in a team of two or more people.

It's purely made up stuff.
All of this is true. What’s your point?
Take a look at the maximum pension payment (which you'd get as a programmer in the US making more than > $147,000 per year) between France and the US.

France: €1,714 ($1,714 USD) per month in 2022 [1]

US: $3,345 per month for someone who files at full retirement age [2]

[1] https://www.cleiss.fr/docs/regimes/regime_france/an_3.html

[2] https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-an...
I do find it a frustrating technology. As the article says, pairing can be quite hit and miss.

I generally have to search how to pair devices when I have to set it up on a new device, even for devices I've had for years! They're all different, and it can be unreliable.

I have read that it suffers the interoperability issues because the spec is complex with many optional bits in it, although I don't know how true that is.
I've not had problems with bluetooth for years.

Printers on the other hand, never seem to work smoothly. How?
Talk about normalisation of deviance!

I've read that more children have died of gunshot wounds this year than police officers have died in the line of duty.[1]

Granted, there are probably more school children at school than there are police at work on any given day, so ... of course children are more likely to be shot at a school?

But then again, here in Australia we have reasonable gun control after that mass schooling in Tasmania all those years ago ... and the country still turned to shit ... so?

While were here, anyone else got any arguments no one would intentionally make?

1. https://en.as.com/latest_news/more-children-have-died-in-sch...
It doesn't help no, but I think there are far bigger problems than that in the way of cycle commuting in most cities.
> Like wait a day or month even.

He did wait. Tom Lord died about a month ago.
So many governments, agencies, orgs, etc, are getting caught with their pants down with changing climate bringing more extreme weather conditions, because capitalism favors maximizing profit and considering tolerances too wide as an expense.

It's cathartic seeing the capitalists lack of foresight burn them time again, but also sad, knowing the response to this will be just buying slightly better HVAC and other systems, which will be globally sourced no doubt and burn carbon to produce and probably damage some ecosystems in the resource gathering process. Then when temperatures get even hotter its time to buy new systems etc.

Once again capitalism favors this outcome, because it allows multiple sales opportunities over time with the potential to increase monetization at every one, versus buying one system that can handle wider temperature swings and being done with it potentially forever if its made to be repairable/upgradeable. Even if you invented such a thing and sold it out of your garage, GE or whoever your competitors would be would ensure you have difficulty sourcing necessary parts or coming to market or getting word out to your potential customer base. Investors you need to afford to grow under these conditions would expect you to play the game and start cutting costs and engage in the rat race, or be replaced.

It's going to be hard to work our way out of climate change with the degenerate, consumptive nature of capitalism mining the planet while sucking resources from the wider economy where this salvation is to be invented, to the top that will always be able to afford to hole up and hide away from whatever disasters befall the working people.