skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA in this case is called "The Unamendable Constitution", which has some bearing on the way that changes in the relationship between the federal government, the states and the constitution have come to pass. I personally would prefer amendments that codified the current role of the federal government (and probably expanded it even further). But no such amendment process is feasibly within reach, and consequently, the evolution of US society has taken place largely outside the constitutional amendment process.

> A small federal government ensures that what the people of one state want has absolutely zero effect on any other state.

This is ridiculous oversimplification. The people of the states move, they travel, they do business, they have family and friends, across state lines. They also dump waste, use water, pollute the air, kill the wildlife .. across state lines. Recently, procurement of health care across state lines has also become a matter of increased necessity, thanks to the decisions of some states.

> A large central government is costly, ineffective and overbearing.

and is also the only thing that can provide an effective counterweight to interstate and transnational corporate power.

At the big picture level, I think you're fundamentally missing that the context that provided most of the reasons for the original existence of states at all has morphed so dramatically that continuing to insist that the only true conception of the USA is as a rather limited aggregation of states is just denying both time and reality.

We had a civil war to deny some of the people in some of the states the opportunity to hold others as slaves and/or leave the union. When the disagreements between states reaches certain levels on some issues, it is not possible for the union to continue unchanged. Those disagreements will lead either to war or dis-union. That was true long before the federal government expanded as it has in the C20, back when we were much closer to the loose aggregation that you seem to prefer.
Handle ergonomics aside, because scissors aren't required to have ergonomic handles, you really want the nearer blade on the bottom so you can see exactly where the cut will be. A nearer top blade would overhang and obstruct the view of the cut line.

People talking about causing the paper to fold are either describing how they have subconsciously tilted the scissors to be able to see where they are cutting or the fact that many but not all scissors have handle shapes that curve wrong if held in the wrong hand so they end up holding those specific scissors oddly, which means that the scissors are no longer slicing perpendicular to the paper.

But handle curvature is not a requirement of scissors, just a characteristic of some of them.

If the scissors don't have ergonomically sloped handles, an ambidextrous person can comfortably cut with either hand if they don't look at what they're doing.
Why do you think there is a dilapidated health care system today, if not due to the inaction of yesterday?

Why do you think we have inflation, housing crises and environmental catastrophe today, if not for the short sightedness and selfishness of those who came before us?

Your position appears to be one of self centered convenience, the exact same mindset that has prevented any solutions in the past.

You are literally proposing we do nothing because it will impact you. Well, at some point, we won't even have a choice: we will have our backs against the wall, with the costs of our inaction limiting our choices.
This is the dumbest "recession" because it comes on the dumbest asset pump.

The S&P is still up 13% from pre-pandemic. That's slightly below historic the historic average, but nothing to be alarmed about.

Home prices are still WAAAAAAY above historic averages. Even if they drop 20%, they'll still be way up.

The only people that will get hosed are speculators.

You didn't "lose" money if you lost "unrealized gains".
While Apple Music is annoying to use, the Spotify app is even worse for me. Audio quality is also markedly worse — I have verified my hunch with a double-blind side-by-side test. Spotify is now way too expensive for what they offer and the only noteworthy integration they offer is Sonos.

I'm entirely with you that even if I was a Spotify subscriber, I don't want their podcasts and audiobooks. In separate apps, optimized for use-case, covered by the same subscription, maybe. Forcing all those fundamentally different media formats through one UI and funnel is just wrong.
thank you, will do
Also, the climate helps.

We have 25C in Bilbao. >30C expected at the weekend.

We usually get UK weather on Fall, and it didn't rain in weeks...

No chilly-windy Winters, but the "alternative" we are living on looks far worse.
Panic Nova 10 moves to Tree-Sitter
Omit the word "else" from your first paragraph. This isn't "doing something about it" either. This is just a different way of pretending to do something about it.
He’s smart. Working remote is tough to do well and many business cultures still struggle with it. I have managed interns in a fully remote environment, and it takes a lot of effort to do well.

There’s a lot to be learned in the first year just through shadowing, which can happen organically if you can just look over someone’s shoulder, but it might not happen if people explicitly need to add you on a Teams call
Analytics on Appsmith
For anyone building on Appsmith, what do you use for analytics? Could be Plausible I hear but can't find anything on it. Appreciate it.
Don't forget to cancel Venmo as well, if you have it.
I've never really understood (said like I've spent much time thinking about it!) why wrong-handed scissors are so difficult/impossible to use. We must angle them slightly, sub-consciously, w.r.t. our standing vertical (out of the plane projected forward from our figure)?
Where are you based if you are paying five cents? Here in Germany, I pay 10 times
that much.
+1 to a version which works in a VPC in a public cloud. This is starting to become table stakes for some large enterprise products.
Western people are more likely to care about it than other art.
XSS to Full RCE in VSCode via Jupyter Notebook Support
See how @lucacarettoni leveraged newly public bugs and techniques, along with (un)fortunate design choices to elevate an XSS discovered by @justinsteven into a full-blown RCE in VSCode, via its support for Jupyter Notebook.
> My review is complete opposite of yours

Have you tried other devices? The remarkable is about bottom of the barrel, with its only good point being a low latency.

For everything else, you'd be better served by a Sony Digital Paper or a Fujitsu Quaderno, and their latency is low enough to not bother me

> I don't mind occasionally starting it back up

Something that's not stable/trustworthy can't be my notetaking device
Vote for constitutional judges then. Like Clarence Thomas. He doesn’t give a flying $&! what people wants.

He votes what the constitution says.
Key words: "properly managed".
> A state's senators should be representing those settled views.

why? how is this superior to the alternatives?
Hacker news is not target audience of that action.
> She told me they expected to burn people out in 1-2 years and weren't going to compete with companies offering 50-100% raises.

I remember a manager at an SV startup we were working with, tell me, essentially, the same thing.

They burned their engineers out. Many were H1Bs. Worked sick hours, In the couple of years we worked with them, they had, probably, a 75% turnover. Their managers shrugged. I would have been fired, if my team had had that kind of turnover.

But I totally understand what is happening with Exxon. That kind of problem starts at the top.

And there is some crazy tech, used in oil companies. My mother was a geologist, and she was using crazy tech, back in the 1950s, for prospecting.
my what?
oh yeah, I'm left handed and right handed scissors just don't cut anything when I use my left hand, they just fold the paper
I use `match` like this a lot now, often with PHP 8.1's enums[1]. It makes it easy to write clean dynamic accessors, without all the extra blocks required with multiple `if` branches:

/** Check the status of this Task instance. */
public function status(): Status
{
return match (true) {
$this->inProgress() || $this->isInReview() => Status::Started,
$this->isApproved() || $this->isRejected() => Status::Finished,
default => Status::Planned,
};
}

[1] https://stitcher.io/blog/php-enums
Those who are patient and invest with us will end up being rewarded
The oil prices that went negative were actually futures, not spot prices.
Do "most" posters at HN work at FAANG or in adtech? There's a lot of those people here for sure, but I can't believe they're anything close to the majority.
Russia is a very effective use of implied terror to impact diplomatic changes.

They know quite well if any Western-own company infrastructure in space is hit by russian military that will lead to a very uncomfortable escalation.
How hard is it to get accepted? I have written a toy JVM without a GC, only interpreter, but I don’t feel qualified, and I am afraid of blowing my chance (is there some limit on how often can one apply?). I’m working on adding a templated interpreter+GC version next, afterwards I might have a bit more confidence.
God I hate to say it, but Bitcoin fixes this (with the Lightning Network).
https://lightning.network/

I am not a Maxi, but Jesus what other options are there?
Project Farm did a jeans test

https://youtu.be/sU6Y1FH6Ssk
Yes. When you close scissors, you use your grip to push the blades together perpendicular to the direction of travel. This makes the blades closer to each other so they slice.

You probably do this without thinking about it due to practice, but if you watch little kids try to use scissors, they'll sometimes end up with the paper just turning sideways and folding flat between the blades.

If you use the correct handed scissors, your natural grasp will cause this to happen fairly easily. If you use the wrong handed scissors, you have to push your thumb away from your palm at the same time you bring it closer to your fingers. Unnatural and uncomfortable.
They’d have to drive the cost down to barely above minimally viable real costs and scale larger than debeers to accommodate the induced demand of dirt cheap diamonds proliferating through the market. Swarovski/cz/generic translucent stone market’s would also be crushed by this.
Happy to engage if you state the evidentiary bar that would change your mind.
The only thing that’ll make me do is badger the folks at Tidal and other streaming co’s to create a proper alternative to Spotify Connect that works on my Yamaha hardware.
The companies that are going to hit hardest are going to be in stuff like commercial real estate. That's where people have been flipping loans over at 1% interest rates in order to survive, living on the margin. As rates go up their debt service balloons and they'll no longer be able to survive given their vacancy rates.

That'll spill over into losses for the financial sector, possibly a CMBS meltdown and a financial crisis, which will spill over into the real economy.

All the job losses in housing and real estate and the hit to the financial sector will result in unemployed people who are no longer buying stuff so you'll see a contraction in everything consumption related. That'll lead to much lower ad buys, so that'll hit the ad companies. They'll all layoff staff which acts as a positive feedback loop.

Right now mostly we're just seeing companies whose CEOs see this coming down the pike who are laying off some staff early and trying to position better for the recession.

It isn't correct to say that e.g. Google's business is reliant on them flipping over loans cheaply, but they are certainly dependent upon other businesses in the economy being able to flip over loans cheaply.
I've been wanting this for a long time. Any way I could get it as a live updating widget for my Android home screen?
Thanks a lot for the comment Fiahil!

All of this is in our roadmap so we are glad to hear that we are on the right track. However we would love to know more about your last point. If you can email us to andres@movinglake.com and edgar@movinglake.com so we can discuss it, we would greatly appreciate it!
Like I said in my comment, the "business side of things" (i.e. the infrastructure to support ads, spying, control) are what makes it non-trivial. You can't use "making money is hard" as an argument against me saying that it's so cheap a hobbyist could do it for fun.

Hosting a forum that gets the traffic Reddit does at higher availability than Reddit does (Reddit returns error pages all the time) is absolutely trivial on modern hardware (except for images/videos, as I said). I've known several people that have unmetered connections/servers in datacenters as a hobby.

The entire history of every text post/comment ever on that site could fit on 2-3 SSDs now. The traffic is nothing. It doesn't take a lot to host a site that can fit on one computer with plenty of room to spare.
> Your point about the numbers being fudged makes intuitive sense, and almost feels obvious, however...

I can confirm that point on a small scale; it's something I repeatedly mentioned on HN for years. I used to work literally next desk to a small social media marketing agency, that spun out of the company I was employed by. I knew the people running that agency, I got to see how they work, even read and commented on the reports they sent to customers.

It was as GP described, with a twist - the people working in said agency weren't exactly good with numbers. They understood, however, the idea that a graph going up and to the right is good. Despite the numbers having little connection to reality, they wrote reports that highlighted how successful their campaigns were. Those reports were read by customers equally proficient in mathematics, and similarly good at tracking sales on their own side. Bottomline: money changed hands, both sides were happy, the whole thing was still completely untethered from reality.
Producing that amount of heat with gas would still be better than using electricity.
This is really cool. Free explore is really immersive. The guided tour would be better if the movement was on rails instead of glitching through walls though.
This is so cool. I went to the pyramids last Xmas for the firs time. Great project. Sincerely.
I never much point in them as a kid. I'm left handed and I found it harder to use left handed scissors in my left hand than using right handed scissors in my right hand.
TikTok, Boom
A while back I had the pleasure of working on a system that generated large-ish (up to ~800x600, but typically low fps) personalized gifs at the rate of hundreds or sometimes thousands per second. It was fun balancing the various constraints, like encoding/flushing raw frames ASAP to keep latency and memory usage down, but also trying to do as many transparency tricks and size optimizations as possible without being allowed a second pass. (no global color tables, etc)
I didn’t want to learn it in 1999 either, but choices were limited.
In a real app you'd definitely want to mute based on losing focus.
Just because a person does not have an effective means of doing something about a problem, does not justify bizarre antics. If a person does not have anything useful they can do, ... well, don't do something crazy just because you feel stuck.
Also, often you don't need more info. Like in some contexts, dividebyzero...you have all you need.
Ineffective and ridiculous protest is still a form of protest. In the absence of other options, it's better than doing nothing at all.
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and It Will Hurt
> I'm generally not a fan of the EU mandating technical decisions

How do you feel about California mandating emissions standards for vehicles?
Ask HN: Tipps for establishing feedback culture (task allocation and growth)
I work in a small startup and really like working there.

However, we are lacking when it comes to feedback. Who gets to work on what is often not a team decision and there is no process to get feedback on how to improve soft and hard skills.

I know that establishing such a culture from scratch can be tough, but I would like to try anyone - for both my own and everyone else's gain.

What are your tipps and experiences for similar situations?
I'm in favor for websites being paid what they ask for.

The problem with ads is that people don't want to pay with their attention and personal data.

Another problem with ads is that website owners can not directly set a price, and they cannot set the price above a certain threshold where ads simply don't work anymore. It doesn't scale.
Luckily, LNG ships can simply be parked at sea until prices rise again, same for oil tankers. Pipelines going into almost full storage don't have that luxury.
No body needed stinky html in emails in the first place.

Business people and designers forced engineers to implement all this BS all over our tech over last 3 decades and now everything looks like a f-ing american theme park.

Because god forbid idi... I mean ... business people couldn't send emails with differently colored words and 5 variations of font size in the same paragraph, and put company logo at the bottom. How would they COMMUNICATE without it? :D
Are you saying power tools have a standard battery interface? That you could use batteries from any brand with any tool?

That has not been my experience.
Yes.

I don't want to touch anything associated with Oracle, because that company is predatory.

Ask companies whose employees made the mistake of installing VirtualBox plus the extension...
Let's get even weirder and leave finite dimensions behind. The set of sequences of complex numbers z_n such that the infinite sum from i = 1 to infinity of |z_i|^2 converges.
Seems like it came down after 2007 and 2000 highs at similar levels. But who knows, maybe US government will leave it high. Maybe they will bring it back down to juice asset prices. Maybe the parameters of the world have changed to not allow that.
Stop washing them every time after you wear them.
> Canada just refunds people whatever they collect in carbon taxes at the end of the year

This is a very clever system which I have to admit sounds like a great idea, I was talking about things like carbon credit markets.

> Anyone who thinks you should emit less carbon understands that making carbon more expensive

This is not the case, it's likely (and to the point of OP) that making carbon more expensive in location A just acts as an indirect subsidy of carbon emissions in location C. In other words, if you make 1 KG of carbon more in location A, that will often make it economical to perform the same work in location C (still releasing at least 1KG of carbon) and then ship the result back to A releasing another KG of carbon. Worse, the more of something that is used in a certain place the cheaper that thing can become. A carbon tax in location A might make it economical to build a (or a larger) pipeline to move natural gas to location C, and then you get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox where carbon emissions increase much more in location C than they were reduced in location A.
But only requires 1% increase in revenue to sort out.
I've used the same system for about 8 years. I have a folder of Markdown files labeled "diary"; in that folder are files named YYYY-MM-DD.md. I use these files as a daily scratchpad, recording what needs to be done, what I accomplished, and notes from meetings, conversations, etc.

I originally created this system when I was using vimwiki, but it is compatible with Obsidian's Daily Notes feature too (a big advantage to using A Folder of Markdown Files as a knowledge base). In fact, the two can share a diary without undue effort.

Obsidian does charge for sync, but you don't have to use their sync service. You can sync yourself using syncthing, dropbox, or whatever you like. I use git to sync, with the obsidian-git plugin[1].

[1] https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git
One aspect I find interesting about HN is that most of the posters there are involved in adtech, data-gathering, FAANGs, or adjacent businesses, whilst reaping very high rewards for their troubles.

That seems quite a strong statement. Has there been some sort of survey that motivated it?

(Full disclosure: I've been here a long time. I make my living from building tech. I have no interest in doing that kind of work for any employer at any price, nor in running my own business interests that way. I'm well aware that this probably leaves lots of money on the table in both cases and I have absolutely no problem with that. And my cognitive dissonance can look at itself in the mirror just fine when it wakes up in the morning before browsing an adblocked version of the web over breakfast.)
And just in time for MagSafe's return...the iPhone will go to USB-C! Of course, you can still charge a Mac over USB-C — it's just not as much of a unification as it seems.
> Basically, GDPR kneecapped the entire business model of everyone but Wikipedia

GDPR did no such thing. There are thousands, if not millions, of businesses operating online that _actually sell goods and services for money_ and GDPR did nothing to stop those.

On top of all that, you can still show ads while being GDPR compliant. Just not slurp-every-piece-of-data type ads.
Not that it matters, but just for conversation's sake I value my HOA primarily for property value reasons. Once my kids are out of school and I don't care about things like school zones or parks I will be moving to more rural areas without an HOA for similar reasons to why you dislike HOAs so much.
>> existing industry standards appear to suffice

>reminder: lightning came first

Lightning was never a standard.
Likely somebody made a payment with a stolen credit card.
My jeans wear out in the rear (where my bike seat is). Can anybody a brand that doesn’t (or lasts pretty long)?
You can clean out a USB-C with a toothpick too, I did mine a few months ago when the connections got flakey and I got a ton of fluff out and now cables click in (which I forgot was supposed to happen).
Schema Registry Explained
Hola, solo para comentar que hay un pequeño error en la traducción, dice "tostar" la aplicación, cuando debería decir "testar".
Su aplicación podría funcionar para pequeñas o micro empresas...?... Algún ejemplo...?
Gracias.
Reflections on my relationship with social media
So a podcast with an ATOM feed isn't a podcast? It needs a feed, sure, but not necessarily RSS.
I have a feeling that "everyone" is a few blog posts and a niche. I don't know anyone doing this with their production services, nor have I seen any sizeable businesses doing this.