skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can say that the governments are going to take care of them in the short term and you're probably right. It's unlikely that (m)any people are going to freeze to death, but it's still going to result in countless days, weeks, even months of uncertainty and anxiety for those people. There will be a toll.

Even with subsides and a social support net, we're still kicking the can down the road. The bill WILL come due and it's going to hit those who are poor and "lower middle class" the hardest, as always.

People are increasingly in need of food donations and financial support with skyrocketing energy prices. Similarly, donations have decreased and every charity in my country is running thin on resources. Elderly and other vulnerable populations are especially at risk here as they might not have the resources to even reach out for help and follow through any bureaucracy.

I don't support Russia, I hope they lose and dissolve into irrelevance, but I take a serious issue with the often-repeated viewpoint that brushes all of this suffering aside like it's not a big deal, only to claim that we are all too happy to lower the thermostat by 3 degrees and take some kind of collective stance that will meaningfully contribute to destruction of Russia.

The suffering is greater than most people are willing to admit, meanwhile its effectiveness is questionable at best. I simply don't believe that energy imports from Russia are what's keeping the war going in any meaningful fashion, something that we could easily change if we just stopped importing their gas.

I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but so far I've only seen handwavy explanations that don't amount to anything more than "every little bit probably helps".
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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While this is true, I thought it was the easiest example to give to others. I think we're all aware that people are pretty terrible at estimating future rewards/costs and there's plenty of studies that do show this.
The problem is a hierarchical, deferential culture. Ex-UK countries that have been successful have thrown that yoke off - India is currently struggling to do so - and moved to a model less concerned with status and offense. Bureaucracy is great for running an empire, terrible for fostering startups.

This is the same reason the hinterlands are so neglected and Ireland hates the English so much, by the way. The caste/Eton-focused system means that power will always be concentrated in London, and newcomers are not welcome. One day it will crumble, but that day has yet to come.
Weird to link to the raw troff. One you install 9front or plan 9, you run mk in /sys/doc to render into readable ps/pdf/html documents.
Damn that's really interesting thanks for sharing. Do you have like an authorative link on this paradox?

I've been getting by on like 80$/month hetzner servers (Like ancient 10 year old pizza box machines) for my businesses for a long while. Never did the cloud thing, I can run like three or four websites on one of those bad boys. I guess stuff like AWS makes sense if your computational workload happens in bursts or whatever? But 80$/month overhead costs are like nothing, I spend more than that on a good night out level.
You also get lower quality pickles.
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It's the best electron app I've ever used. It's so much faster than anything else I've seen use electron.
Redfin over paying for houses seems to be good for homeowners though. If they can't sell them then they'll have to reduce the prices eventually to match the market.

The only loser here seems to be Redfin.
It's not even exclusive to developing nations. For example, Portugal tends to side with China.
Generally agree, but I do have to bristle with the "huge losers" sentiment. The fact that furries/weebs have a strong visibility in the professional software/IT space should be a signal that those people aren't losers, and are in fact doing quite well for themselves. And if you're in the industry, then you need to do yourself a favor and remove that label from yourself.

What you call a "flagrantly display", I call a typical, progressive break from meaningless social conventions. People like cute drawings and post them on their websites, so what? And I think it provides good visibility to those communities to demonstrate the skilled and creative people that inhabit it.
Now you can see which California jobs pay you enough to afford living there! Big news for all the CEO's out there.
But it... does not. It only has one L.
We're having issues as well
Nah the screenshot started it. Someone posted a similar one to /g and the responses said that it was an esoteric secret that womens socks and underwear made you a better programmer.

Memes ensued
Yea, in my home we have extremely high prices for homes and the only thing my family can do is rent a house owned by family. We can't find a house to rent on the real market (this house is semi-broken-down and normally wouldn't be rented to anyone), and we certainly can't afford to buy, so I guess we'll live here until we inherit a home from family or maybe get kicked out by my wife's cousin once he inherits this one!
>See - people even rejected great design like buttons when they first came out! It just takes time to get used to new designs!

Still don't like your hamburger menu. Sorry not sorry.
Thanks, open source AND it has WIP limits =)
> trauma from sex work is no worse than trauma people face on the front lines, yet one is acceptable and one's not. That's a somewhat arbitrary construct.

Thank you for distilling this.
I don't believe they're on a payroll. They don't need to be. They were carefully courted as true believers in their ideological cause. They believe in the votes they cast.

And that's actually much more reliable than paying them. People who can be bought can be out-bid. True believers will do it for nothing except the right to make their ideology the law of the land.
It most certainly is used that way by the new generation
The fourth example is just plain bad. I challenge you to find a single wartime leader that hasn't downplayed their losses. You are being deeply disingenuous if you think Putin means literally zero Russian soldiers have died. It's wartime morale management 101. Literally everyone does it, including your favorite world leaders.

What I'm really after is if you have any evidence of Putin (or Lavrov, now that you mention him) lying on the scale of "Saddam is gonna nuke the West" or "NATO will not expand one inch eastward". Or has Putin ever openly boasted about his lying prowess, as fmr Secretary Pompeo and fmr Ambassador McFaul did recently? These would be convincing examples.
If you enjoy the status quo on tobacco, the people you have to thank for it are strong, dedicated anti-smoking advocates who think smoking is absolutely their business and would happily ban it if that were politically feasible. It used to be that smoking was celebrated and as a consequence happened everywhere. Stepping into a restaurant, bar, or airplane meant breathing in clouds of cigarette smoke. Smokers at the time would argue, quite passionately, that because their vices are none of your business it's unfair to try and drive smoking out of public life.

I'm torn on whether it should be completely illegal, because I've seen some kinda persuasive arguments in the direction of decriminalization. In particular, you don't want people who do sex work to feel like they can't get help without going to jail. But I'm confident that "ban it all" is much closer to the truth than "none of our business".
Microsoft will buy them. Penpot will be absorbed into Microsoft Office 365 Design Studio and Taiga will be absorbed into Microsoft Project Management for Teams.
> It is not like there is a good chance Amazon (or Microsoft or Google for that matter) will suddenly pull a significant price hike or another move out of step with other vendors.

I feel like a variety of other circumstances can come to pass, which would negatively affect business continuity, here's what a lazy search turned up:

"My Google Cloud was suspended too" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571055
"Google suspended our domain out of the blue" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32798368
"Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912
"AWS account was permanently closed because it was suspended for 90 days" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31571538
(probably happens with Azure and other smaller platforms as well, e.g. Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway and so on)

That said, most people won't care to put in the work for a multi-cloud/cloud-agnostic setup, since most projects just aren't as important to warrant that much effort. And the ones that are can probably also just talk with the cloud providers through some representative anyways due to spending $$$.

I'd argue that it's good to build on common standards, like OCI containers and the wire protocol of some common DBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB: so that you can replicate certain parts of what a managed service does in a container locally, for development and testing. In most cases it won't matter that the managed cloud offering has some clever engineering underneath it and scales better, as long as you can check whether your SQL executes as it should and none of your seeded/anonymized test data breaks.

I actually had this project with Oracle DB that ran horribly when the instance was remote and you really couldn't do migrations well without breaking things for anyone using it, because the apps using it were written in a way where hundreds if not thousands of SQL queries were done just to load some data to display a page. Which is passable (if you don't care) when the DB is running in the same data centre as the apps, but absolutely horrible when these many smaller SQL queries have the full network round trip between them, especially when the app initializes data sequentially (N+1 problem). Ergo, the only way to work with something like that is to setup a local database (e.g. Oracle XE) and work with it, after importing a baseline migration/doing automated migrations.

The same largely applies to any other DB with sub par application architectures, as well as many other services (e.g. MinIO/Zenko instead of S3, so you don't need to actually upload 100 MB files to test whether attachment logic in your app works, if you can run them locally).

As for software that should be compatible with multiple DBMSes: sometimes it makes sense (e.g. something that could be used by your customers in a self-hosted setup across numerous different setups, like Zabbix or Nextcloud), but most of the time it would negatively impact how easy it is to develop code for your app (e.g. having to rely on ORM and their abstractions like JPQL) and testing everything would usually take more effort.
It seems like one of the options is to leak some of the negotiation details to the media.
I have no idea, but they could avoid that by posting a salary range that includes when they want to hire people who are overqualified.
Technology seems to create more arms races than solutions to problems these days.
I think the difference is that I usually don't notice usernames, unless I want to check if the same person wrote two comments. In this sense, they are just opaque identifiers, or a trivial identity that doesn't express anything in itself. An online identity is something more, because it usually comes with a personality, an image, a history. To me it isn't even that something is being hidden, rather that a lesser version of oneself (merely virtual) is being overvalued. This argument could be extended to people who might base their online Instagram/TikTok/etc. persona on that of their real life, but glorify it beyond recognition, while at the same time reducing its being to digital communication.
I did check this to make sure I was still living in a sane universe, Firefox doesn't use Blink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
This is true.

As much as I hate "both sides" discourse[0], it's interesting that I see the same memes in both right and left contexts - I wonder of a creation of a "second language" to discuss divisive politics is enough of a force to spread it, or of it is intentional coopting of another sides language to dilute it.

E: [0] HN is not the place for the rest of my feelings on this. Both sides aren't the same is enough to suffice here.
You are clearly bias. Calling any of them a rapist shows that. None of the justices have any court cases even against them for rape. At least 2 were accused of rape, but that is far from being a rapist. If all that it takes is an accusation then fine. You raped me. That means you are a rapist now. Please make sure you are added to the sex offenders list.
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I wasn't referring to the OP, however I've seen other blogs that have it and I feel that it takes away from the actual content.
Until the VCs turn the screws and they don't anymore.
> To the example, why recommend replacing a list with a tuple when it is about to be iterated through?

My understanding is that tuples are always more efficient and preferred unless mutability is needed.
Tone policing women is so on-brand for the HN bros, great job.
Would be nice if they could update their status dashboard.
Building your own semiconductor fab with good yelds that are profitable is monumentally more complex than all of those things combined. Why do you think only Intel and Samsung are the ones left at the cutting edge anf even they are struggling to keep up with TSMC?

If you think Apple can just buy their way into fab success, you don't understand the complexities of semiconductor manufacturing.
> I’m a regular trichromat

Do you mean you have tested for usual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichromacy and showed that you see all shades people usually see, or have you definitely tested for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy ?
Stamp duty is on top of property tax.

Stamp duty is paid when you buy something.

After you bought it, yes, you have to pay a yearly property tax in many places in the world.
Great, points! I agree that it could be quicker.

I wasn’t so sure about including the second step before creating the Demo, but that was sort of my safety so people don’t “accidentally” create it.

And, overall it could be less steps for sure.

Thank you so much for this feedback.
Non-profits aren't usually governed by their workers. They're usually governed by an elected or appointed board.

What I'm describing is a system in which all businesses become what are currently known as "worker cooperatives". In that system, if management produces conditions that the workers don't like, the workers vote management out.

I'm not aware of any worker cooperatives that have unionized, though I believe Mondragon (one of the biggest, oldest, and most successful worker cooperatives) does have what amounts to a multicameral system with one of the councils filling the roll of the union in advocating for line workers. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
How does electric aviation compare with biofuel-based combustion? Doesn't the state of technology require a quantum leap for it to be viable at scale? Something about energy density of battery systems.

I think the idea is really neat, but are we focusing too much capital and talent on something that should really be solved with, say, rail systems?
> I have always been able to pass the challenge eventually

It's still completely unusable on Tor. It hangs forever.
> “Moral degeneracy” is a problem (in their view) because of the associated harms

You're assuming the social conservative subscribes to a consequential ethics system. But a social conservative subscribing to deontological ethics is more likely, particularly if they're a religious social conservative.
I also can't really take this seriously. Maybe I'm ignorant of something to the Go ecosystem that makes this relevant, but this seems truly bizarre.

The "answer" microservice says: "Instant answers to any question" / "Ask a question and get an instant answer". Okay? Like, is this a service that I would have to back with my own knowledgebase? In which case this is just a service that accepts questions and serves answers? Why would this need its own service then?

The "address" microservice says: "Lookup UK addresses by postcode. Simply provide a valid postcode and get a full list of addresses". Why is this not called "uk-address" then? Or can it be modified for arbitrary locations? Does it handle when new addresses are created? Can it do validation?

How much demand is there for a "joke" microservice? And I think it shows a lack of professionalism to seed such a microservice with something like this: https://github.com/micro/services/blob/master/joke/examples....
No -- the old Lisp machines were inspired by Smalltalk! A complete environment with persistent heap images was one of the innovations brought by Xerox PARC's Smalltalk research.
Still WIP. We're not yet at a million useful procs.
To add a datapoint, a company I worked at budgeted developer time at ~700euro/day. However almost no one made more than 300€/day. The rest came from office space, your manager’s salary, laptop, extra benefits, heating, consultants to tell your managers what you already know, idk what else.

In the US salaries are a lot higher so in that context I can see 300-500$/day be realistic.

Really surprised me… Always made me wonder if all that money was being spent well
Here's a TL;DR (I'm an amateur with interest in neuroscience - I have no creds and this is my personal, non-specific interpretation of the important parts - please feel free to correct me on anything I may have misinterpreted or how this explanation could be improved):
There's a circuit that's fed, in an event-based manner, analog, ultrasonic data from sensors (data is filtered in a few ways first). The circuit has resistive memory which is basically non-volatile RAM. The RRAM modules can store weights, and block/allow inputs depending on its mode. The circuitry also involves LIF (Leaky integrate and fire) neurons which translate the amplitude of voltage into frequency (higher amplitude -> higher frequency @ same amplitude). Processed waves from the ultrasonic sensors are interpreted as degrees away and distance (with a relatively small error margin, on quite low energy compared to the same task on a microprocessor).
A bit of a meta comment, but a lot of people are calling Hossenfelder "crack potty" or "ranty" and I just don't get that at all reading this post or the many before. She seems upset yes from the abuse she's received, but that seems understandable. I don't understand how people feel she is so combative unless you already disagree with her.
> Pretty sure Firefox uses Chrome as its toolchain these days.

It does not.

There is no shared code between Firefox and Chrome. They use completely different rendering engines with independent histories (Chrome uses Blink originated from WebKit originated from KHTML, Firefox uses Gecko originated from Netscape originated from Mosaic).

The only shared component is that Firefox utilizes public APIs for Google SafeBrowsing.

Disclaimer: ex-Mozillian
1. The listed pay range can be any size. So they could put any number they want for the top end for overqualified applicants.

2. They can create a new position at any time with a higher range and offer you that position.
If that's the case, you definitely shouldn't be using email. :-)
That won't work in your best interest. Would be like being a citizen of The Matrix, seeing something suspicious that only agents can do, and opting for staying willfully ignorant about it, or even boycott its investigation.

That's exactly what the people in Plato's Cave did.

How ironic is that?
As an outsider, I still don't understand what this all hints at.

That the current Danish government was behind this to win the elections as the safer bet against Russian aggression?

That the US is behind this to justify a US base in Bornholm island?

How does the timing of explosions fit into all this? Specifically the Norway Poland pipeline coming online and Russian threats to NATO (implying nuclear weapons to defend occupied Ukrainian territories isn't a bluff).
I read only a few lines then saw this comment and went back for the rest and changed my vote. So I did fall for this one. Thanks for the assist.
Not bad. Arrows are unpractical, probably vim stuff (jkhl) would be much easier.
There was an article that trended a few months back too about CC "Attribution trolls". (I can't find it in a quick search, sorry, but I can paraphrase.) There's a legal "bug" in the Attribution clauses of early CC licenses that basically says that the copyright owner gets to dictate how the Attribution must read down to detailed specifics in wording and formatting. They post to WikiCommons as CC licensed under specific old versions of CC and rely on the fact that most people don't copy and paste the attribution strings verbatim to troll for licensing fees.

(So, watch out for CC licenses older than 4.0 for that.)
The EU is a Vasal of the USA. The EU is completely dependent on USA for Military protection.

Germany cut itself off from Russian gas before securing an alternate source is pure Vasalage.
Coincidentally that's two months in a row of a us-west-2 outage on the 4th Wednesday of the month. See you all back here on Oct 26?
Wouldn't this make hiring foreign (remote) workers more appealing to US companies, and so being worse for US workers? (At least middle/upper middle workers)?
I would rather be told that I can't remove postings from my BBS (due to content, rather than storage issues, say) than be told that I'm liable for the content.

The threat of making ISP's liable for content is, by far, worse.

"What, I can't delete stuff from the forum I run? Geez."

"Wait, so that means I'm not liable for it? Phew, actually!"

"Oh, and so that means I don't have to police the forum content to comply with laws? Fantastic news: less uncompensated work for me!"
Lambda is returning 502 errors in US-West for me as well.
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I agree with this sentiment. This is very inappropriate considering how children can consume C as a gateway language to memory unsafety.
> Honest politicians told voters what they'd do, the voters voted for it, the politicians did it, and the result is bad.

When did voters have an opportunity to vote for it? The previous prime minister was pushed out and replaced. There’s no General Election in that process so the new direction of government wasn’t put to a vote.
For curiosity: how are they sorted? Are hiragana/katakana symbols considered equivalent?
It would be interesting to see articles like this for various common elements of UI widget toolkits, which I guess kind of mix metaphors in that some of them (buttons, sliders) evoke electromechanical devices while others (checkboxes, text boxes) evoke paper forms.
I don't know. Maybe? Depends on what you mean.
one would assume substantial remote work would be slightly better for the planet, as well.