skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The volume control issues on IG are crazy. Having to mute and unmute everything is painful, I think TikTok wins a bit for just playing everything at whatever device volume is set at, but some content is manipulated to be loud, and some is low volume, it may even be an engagement algorithm driving that to keep people focused on the app.

I also think with a lot of people on anti-work time these days, within these companies they may be having a hard time finding staff to manage the development issues, bugs and features may not get fixed any time soon simply because of that alone.
When I have a choice, I always use Gather Town and never use Zoom. You can use GT as you use Zoom, and it has many more features that aren't often useful, but when they are useful, they are indispensable. Add to that the ability to have embedded whiteboards, and an easy way to navigate between different conversation groups, I really don't know why anyone would choose Zoom.

Other video chat platforms are available, but for ad hoc 1-1 meetings, or especially for larger gatherings where people want adaptive sub-groups, or "webinar"-type meetings, Gather Town does it for me every time.
> While that is true, the opposite is equally true. Advertisers pay top dollar for instantly recognized voices, which are countless in number.

People recognize the voice, but they don't put a name to it. And that's the thing about Wikipedia, or the Internet in general: you need a textual handle onto something to be able to find it. Even if I recognize a voice actor, I can't search them "by their voice"; I have to figure out how to name something they appeared in, and then search for that.

And advertisements don't have (viewer-visible) names either! So how do I even search for the ad, other than by struggling to describe what happened in it? (This is much of why commercials are "lost media": there's no explicit name to use as a Schelling point to gather people onto the same forum post looking for it.)
I’m all for healthy free lunches for poor kids. Is it really necessary to give free meals to all Palo Alto kids independent of financial status? https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/06/19/palo-alto-uni...
Researchers Ask Intel Agencies to Target Spyware Vendors
> an encyclopaedia that ..

Wikipedia has the loosest standard of inclusion among any encyclopedia ever existed, not sure why that's depressing.
PayPal updates the expiration date and charges $1 for that without notifying you first.
"It is fine to print money at will", maybe some words from the ex vice president that bought the printing company that print the cash.

Literally, he bought that.
Not that anyone with wealth and some sense was letting their kids eat that goop.
That's definitely one of the more complicated problems. One way we've considered approaching it is to allow customers to attach metadata to resources they manage via Warrant and allow them to query (or search) against this metadata. This obviously has its trade-offs (requires duplicating/syncing of data with Warrant), so we're still exploring solutions.
I can't help but conclude that this is too little too late. R&D isn't the problem, which is what this bill seems more focused on. The ability to produce affordable chips domestically at affordable prices is the actual problem. North America's first priority isn't access to bleeding edge tech.

> The bill also includes about $100 billion in authorizations over five years for programs such as expanding the National Science Foundation’s work and establishing regional technology hubs to support start-ups in areas of the country that haven’t traditionally drawn big funding for tech.

I can only imagine how bureaucratic the process for accessing those funds will be. More likely, Medium Tech and even Big Tech will be the ones who feed from that trough because they're the only ones willing or able to cut through the red tape.
In my mind's eye, I picture his ideal society as being some sort of giant human factory farm where we are all living in little pods and eating bugs.

You still have freedom here. Comrade even though you cannot leave, you still have freedom here in your utilitarian pod. (clean luxury pods require too much energy and are outlawed). You have the freedom to consume media from either one of the state sanctioned media information channels. you also have the freedom to choose the green paste or the brown paste for dinner. Unfortunately our biosensors indicate You may be feeling some depression and anger lately, in an attempt to limit the fallout and spread of your toxic negativity to other residents your communication privileges have been revoked and you will be issued medication mixed into your meals until The behavior and bio sensors indicate positive levels. Though our efforts have been unable to stop climate change, further sacrifice is still necessary to minimize more environmental harm. have a blessed day!
Creators aren’t happy either. I have 107K followers for dev and learn to code content and the last few months have been a roller coaster.

There’s about 50 to 100 of us devs with that size of following on IG and we all see the same thing time and time again which is that the algorithm moves and you have to change your content style to see what it wants. The messaging and content stays the same but it needs to be packaged in whatever way the IG algorithm wants to push at that moment.

IG is scared of TikTok but rather than accepting that platforms can be different and that’s ok they’ve decided to force a move to basically copy them but without a guiding strategy - it’s baffling.
Also called tall poppy syndrome
Having started to read the "breakdown" I'm unsure I want to listen to the podcast.

Any chance of a tldr for that? The linked blog is too purile for my taste.
I don't think it really is better for your hiring reputation - if it were people would clearly know companies that gave great feedback, but honestly no one ever says "Oh I really like _company_, because they give great post interview feedback"
More pork for their cronies and donor class buddies. Much like the pandemic aid such as the PPP I’m sure fractions of a dollar actually make it into anything of use.
My experience is that the rich kids mostly bring food, because the cafeteria food is terrible.
The Peer Review Crisis
People who use the phrase “red-state cousin-humpers” are generally pretty stupid, but I’ll go ahead and try to explain it.

The context of this discussion was large populations that might sustain a social network. Implying that people who engage in incest in states that have a majority of Republican voters in recent elections would be a large enough population to sustain a social network is obviously laughable in the literal sense (incest rates are minuscule). So that leaves the implication that a much larger population of “cousin-humpers” does exist and the association with “red-state” implies that cousin humping correlates with political views.
Internal free market mechanics with macro somewhat controlled by regulation. Sort of like a commercial Hunger Games.
Sure, but he gave himself until 2030 to prove the metaverse.
In 2013, Senator Harry Reid did it for federal judges (and not supreme court judges). At the time, McConnell told them that if they killed the filibuster for federal judges, he would kill it for supreme court justices. In 2017, he followed through on his promise, the orange fool appointed 3 justices, and now Roe v. Wade has been overturned.

It would not be crazy to link the overturning of Roe to the 2013 decision of Harry Reid to invoke the "nuclear option." It appears to have led to an era of unprecedented judicial activism.

I doubt that getting a few extra progressive federal judicial nominees through was worth those supreme court seats. For now, it seems that enough of the Senate has learned their lesson about removing the filibuster.
These skills will get you far at any company. But there are a lot of places where the bar to hop is lower.
The answers are suprisingly easy. And the people to blame are obvious. There's little nuance to be had and no "historical context" is needed beyond "it's been fucked for a while because spending has been fucked for a while".

If you want to choose to believe that this is an "us vs greedy capitalists/the opposition/whatever" problem, that Argentina's problem is highly complex, multi-layered, too hard to deal with, and that the devil is in the details like the government tells people to believe on the TV, don't be surprised or angry by the results.

I've also never implied the solution is to let "some businessmen" run the country, and in fact implied that clearly not to be the case with my statement on Macri's government. Argentina is in such a dire state of emergency that it matters none if it's a right-wing, left-wing or whatever kind of government that's running the show because given basic competent human beings willing to fix the country that kind of "detail" only matters once you have surplus money to expend and you have to decide what to do with it. There's only one way out of this and it's to fix the budget by cutting spending to reasonable levels in one go, do away with inflationary practices, and make it possible for productive people to produce without having to worry about arcane tax rules. And again, tax-wise it's not so much the tax rate that matters (although in the short term it does, because Argentina has fucked over investors time and again and needs to do a lot to seduce money back in) as it is the amount and complexity of the tax system that leads people to evade them.

There are many political situations where information is scarce and there's room for honest discussion. In this one, there is none. I just hope that the only person stating basic truths over there looking and acting like a clown doesn't ruin your chances of not becoming another Venezuela.
Most political things don't generate huge amounts of platform advertising money probably on TikTok... The autopilot ad revenue is easy for them to make on political content as well because right now, there's only a few different aspects competing with each other... It's likely that a lot of users don't primarily go to TikTok for political content, it's primarily music and social influencer based as well... This is why TikTok allows users to avoid political content, it's not a "cash cow" niche for them.
look for professional help, period. Your symptoms sound like you might be developing depression.
You do realize that people are being whisked door to door in an urban environment today, right? And not just by Waymo but Cruise as well. Sure it's small scale at the moment and not available to the average person, but it's happening.
> Ever heard of secret services? Even the FBI has admitted they had undercover agents among the participants.

Ok so then they were considered to be a legitimate threat?

> So what? It would never have lasted more than a day until security or the army took over.

The history of domestic standoffs does not support this claim.

> There was no risk at all of a coup d'etat or something.

The military was deliberately held back from responding. There absolutely was a risk and this is exactly how such an attempt would look.
What would be the issue with just having your stuff delivered then?

And yeah every rule needs exceptions, of course there should be ways to rent cars for special occasion, I am just against general private car ownership for most people.

Edit: General private car ownership of people living in the cities that is
The US was on the gold standard from 1882 to 1933. Recessions from that time:

* 1882-1885 recession (not totally fair; gold standard policies hadn’t had time to cause this)

* 1887-1888 recession

* 1890-1891 recession

* Panic of 1893

* Panic of 1896

* 1899-1900 recession

* 1902-1904 recession

* Panic of 1907

* Panic of 1910-1911

* 1913-1914 recession

* Post-WW1 recession (1918-1919)

* Depression of 1920-1921

* 1923-1924 recession

* 1926-1927 recession

* The Great Depression

We were on a mixed system from 1933 until the end of Bretton Woods. We’ve had seven recessions since then (vs 15 over a similar time span), and one of the big ones (1973-1975) was clearly driven by decisions made while operating on a gold standard.

(It’s a different story if inflation is the only metric you about at all - while it was more volatile it was also lower on average)
Discussion on this from 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112411
I went to a public elementary school in New York state in the early 2000s, and only kids who needed free or reduced school lunch prices got it. The rest of us paid $1.75.
From what I've seen, the key to keeping pages up on Wikipedia is to have a lot of verifiable references & citations. If you do this like you're writing a college paper, rogue editors have much less power. Challenges to their reverts & deletions are also more likely to succeed.

A good example of this is the article for the unloved Honda Ridgeline pickup. Jalopnik did an article about how the Wikipedia page for it is astonishingly detailed and (exhaustively) referenced.

https://jalopnik.com/the-story-behind-the-honda-ridgelines-w...
The idea behind it is not to embarrass the poor kids who need the free lunch by making lunch just free.
Didn't get a ton of points when it was last posted but this "Taiwan is now Arrakis" post seems even more timely now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576242
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? The state is supposed to pass laws that represent the will of its constituents. If the majority of the people living in the state are opposed to such a program, then they shouldn't have such a program. The scope of the federal government is supposed to be for coordinating cross-state stuff that states alone can't decide for themselves.
> are your ground rules and team values always open for debate

Yes including asynchronous e.g. on a chat channel, and synchronous e.g. during a retrospective.

> on Friday afternoon when all your services have gone belly up

Yes. For example some teams choose a way-of-working for emergencies that uses the abbreviation "ANC" for the priority order of Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. If there is an emergency,then the team focuses first on keeping the system running, second on figuring out where to go and how to get there, and third on talking. Afterward, then the team does a causal analysis e.g. postmortem or after-incident report, including fielding any ways-of-working areas that came up in the channels because of the emergency.

> when someone new (a vendor say, or an intern) violates those ground rules and values do you shut them down with some variant of "we don't do that here" like "you have violated the ground rules"?

Yes. For example there are sometimes fast-moving high-urgency multi-team meetings that include many new people who don't know about ways-of-working. We open the meeting by saying e.g. "This meeting's moderator is Alice." then Alice quickly explains the ways-of-working: one person talks at a time; debate the issue not the person; focus on the agenda not side tasks; call a timeout if something important is amiss; etc."

> Are your ground rules explicitly enumerated somewhere and all team members familiar with them in enough specific detail to know whether or not something violates them?

Yes, such as using docs, or wikis, or README files, etc.

You can see many of the public ones in the repo at https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ways-of-working where there are a bunch of them collected across many teams.

If there's anything in the repo that you believe can be improved, or clarified, or grown, then I welcome constructive criticism. Likewise if you have opinions of different ways to handle team values, or skip them, I'm interested in knowing what you think.
History won't look fondly on us for the absolute laughingstock of a policy it is at the highest levels of power. "Look even back in 2025, people were a bunch of monkeys with nuclear weapons. Look how they would decide on policy."
I don't see there's a difference. Say they lowered the speed limit, making driving at current top speed illegal. You could say that speed's not illegal, it just needs modifying, but that would seem a strange point to make.
That's crazy! If that happened in a movie I'd think the writers were being lazy.
Yes! I've done exactly the same and had the same results, its just not worth going through a long exchange of emails and then having to be rude and ghosting them in the end.
that will be necessary to adapt movies to contemporary ideas of politcal correctness.
Maybe it was designed in the states and contracted to China for fabrication?
Doing it for everyone makes management simpler. I suspect it leads to better academic performance, too.
Well, that's kind of the point. I haven't seen Chrome crash in years and I use those plugins and a lot more on desktop. On Android I had the same stable fast experience as on desktop (and it wasn't even using ublock to filter 90% of the internet on Android). Chrome just seems a lot more stable and no slowdowns where I have to just close it. Sometimes the keyboard stops working on data entry with firefox. I have none of those problems when I switch back to Chrome. Maybe it's plugin support issues or maybe it's older-phone issues, but there are definitely issues that I don't have on Chrome using the same hardware.
I sometimes wonder how much of this objection to SQLite is purely technical, and how much is due to the fact that Dr. Richard Hipp would not exactly be a great "cultural fit" at places like the New York Times or Mozilla.
Sorry to hear that friend. Stay strong.
Worked in defense so I have thoughts.

Warning: it's a slow moving business. Lots of subcontractors do cool stuff with modern tech stacks but the bigger companies--think BAE--are dinosaurs.

Defense touches a lot of different aspects of life. GPS came out of the US Air Force and is being maintained by Space Force (I think, might still be Air Force). DARPA funding has been critical for the development of modern robotic limbs. The Missile Defense Agency exists to protect North American airspace from bad things that explode that could come flying over the arctic. Satellite operations—communications, orbit analysis, making sure they don't get hit by debris—is a big area and only getting bigger.

So there's a lot of aspects of the defense industry that are a lot more about defending people than killing people.

There's also lots of opportunity to do work where you would work on weapons or military intelligence. Most weapons development today is about making weapons smaller and more precise to limit the number of innocent people harmed. There's lot of work in the intelligence field trying to quickly and accurate identify targets via satellite images or signals intelligence or videos posted on Telegram and Twitter to more accurately assess threats and capabilities and potential targets.

Joining the defense industry doesn't mean that you have to work on any project they give you. I'm very clear that I won't do anything for the Saudi's because of what they've done in Yemen and vocally opposed projects my past companies have done that I found disagreeable. My security clearance goes with me if I resign so defense companies want me happy cause I ain't easily replaceable. If you see something unethical, there are people who'll listen if you speak up
> Why does everyone end up on fandom

Fandom dot com is a commercial venture started by Jimmy Wales. Inferences are left as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah, I know it's tacky to reference an MCU show, but Wandavision's defining line was

"what is grief but love persevering?"

which kind of implies the sad inverse -- that once we pick ourselves up and carry on, it necessarily means that the love isn't persevering quite so hard.
You probably want a cloud LB at least for SSL termination, but Nginx can centralize and simplify your ingress management quite a bit.
I had a quick look at the TOPIX total return index and it looks plausible (not sure there is a total return version of the Nikkei 225).
I'm on the original, round dish, not the rectangular new one. I wonder whether this can be done on the round dish, as that one used even more power.
If you want to make the sound more authentic, paws/claws on the floor would do a lot. It makes it sound like the dog is present in the immediate environment.
"nobody is compelled to buy anything from them"? Really? How are you going to get to work when your work only pays you enough to live 10+ miles away and there's no public transit (i.e. the vast, vast majority of people in the US)? Or should they just not have a job (and thus no shelter or food either)?

The free market is not free. It's a myth. It's a lie.

(And before you say Tesla or some other electric car, remember that they are a luxury and priced as such, not to mention that most Americans can't even charge them at home.)
I also found the second and third options unnecessarily noisy. Though, I'm not surprised with the obvious syntax warts being proposed considering the disaster that is `globalThis`.

I do hope the first choice is the one used as it is the most reasonable while working around existing CSS parsing rules.
> It's too difficult to curb demand for things like food and housing if the population is growing

Currently population might look like it's growing but in fact things are going the opposite way since most countries have much fewer young people than before which yields also fewer young people in the future, according to Peter Zeihan.
I can't seem to find this subreddit. Do you have a link?
I hope we get off our asses and replace them with either more nuclear sources or renewables (if practical).

I am really disheartened by the trend of politicians and environmental orgs shutting down nuclear plants with the public justification being to replace them with renewables and then just building natural gas turbines instead (looking at you California).
It's an empirical question about every method of recruiting. Making a bad hire can cost a company dearly. If there was some obviously better way of doing it, wouldn't companies do that?

Avoiding expensive lawsuits is likely another reason for leetcode gates.
This is a shallow analysis. You can’t just look at the price tag, you need to think about the value too (more generally, the ROI).

A $10 coffee can be too expensive while a $1000 MacBook is really cheap.

I’m not making any particular claims about the free school meals program, just noting that this argument doesn’t hold water as it stands.

Semiconductor manufacturing is of military and geopolitical significance so it makes a lot of sense that the government is willing to spend big here.
I don't think the American public cares too much about products which cause cancer. Certainly not enough to punish companies from a sales standpoint. Johnson & Johnson have known for decades that they sold talc powder contaminated with asbestos and was killing people, but consumers never punished them for it. You can't even tell by looking at a graph of the last 5 years of JNJ stock when this news came out and were fined for it. It didn't make a dent. They won't even pay the fine. They spun up a new company to own the liability and are declaring it bankrupt instead. They *STILL* sell asbestos talc powder outside the US and Canada.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...
These are apples and oranges. Snapshot isolation is a consistency guarantee, STM is a concurrency control mechanism. STM can be used to provide snapshot isolation (or stronger guarantees such as linearizability).
It should be pretty obvious at this point that the man has no shame.
> You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes

The main point from the writing fits right along with what I consider the main point of mindfulness and meditation practice.

Everything that arises, also passes away.

Highly suggest people try out the practice through guided intro courses. There are tons of benefits, but even just realizing and witnessing how all types thoughts, feelings, emotions that come up will go away is alone worth the time.