skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Democrat party... are consistently better organized, more presentable, better funded, more advanced psychological operations, better connected, and more coherent than their Republican counterparts

In the US? Are you serious?

- The Federalist Society is a decades long conservative/Republican effort to stack the courts. It worked. There is no liberal/Democrat parallel that comes even close in terms of scope and/or effectiveness.

- For decades Republicans worked to stack state legislatures with their people, and they gerrymandered aggressively once in control so that they could keep it. It worked. You get oddities like Austin (famously liberal city) with only 1 or 2 of 5 state reps being democrat. Or states like Minnesota (edit: maybe Wisconsin… I can’t recall) that (until this week) voted consistently for Democrats in statewide races but had a Republican-majority state legislature. There has been no liberal/Democrat parallel that comes even close in terms of scope and/or effectiveness.

- The Koch brothers for decades led many initiatives to support Republican causes with money and infrastructure. They moved away from the Republican Party with trump in the lead, but there are a ton of folks like the Kochs who are looking for a new figurehead to stand behind. There has been no liberal/Democrat parallel that comes even close in terms of scope and/or effectiveness.

Meanwhile…

- Democrats can’t nominate better candidates than Hillary or Biden when much more electable candidates were available, mainly due to the periphery of the party insisting on getting their (very non-centrist, very non-electable) candidate or they just don’t vote. Hence Trump winning an election in 2016 and almost winning an election in 2020, both of which should have been slam dunks for Democrats even with the electoral college being what it is.

- You get congressional Democrats who play nice when they are in control, then get completely taken advantage of when they are not in control. Mitch McConnell is the master of this type of abuse. There are many reasons for this, but one clear one is a lack of unity in the Democratic voting bloc. Republicans are much more consistent at executing “win at all costs” congressional strategies than Democrats are.

Note that I wish the above were not true — I am embarrassed by the current state of politics in my country — but I see the reality for what it is.
> birth rates have collapsed ... Between this and climate catastrophy

No, it's the other way around.

Lowering birth rates is the very best thing we can do to ensure sustainability.
> it just really feels like there shouldn't be that many additional features. A couple more of emphasis options, a couple less ways to do the same thing

There was a language like that once, it was called HTML. It had very basic set of features initially, but then someone needed text to blink, someone needed to display videos, someone needed to send forms, someone needed to use it to play games and here we are today, and it's not done yet. If it was implemented today, you will get exactly same result in near future, because everyone's "small set of features" together adds to infinity.
> If the Queen had tried to do the same thing in the UK, Parliament would immediately remove the Crown from power.

That's very far-fetched. MPs take an oath of loyalty to the monarch on taking their seat. The entire House of Lords hold their positions wholly by the grace of some monarch or other. Without an electoral mandate, it's inconceivable that Parliament would dismiss the monarchy.

Yeah, I know, it's happened once or twice before; but the last time was 400 years ago, and the world has changed.
Pinboard has been rock solid for me? This is one of those HN topics like the phone numbers in Signal or the error handling in Go (two other perennially doomed projects) that just won't ever die. It's too bad that the whole thread here is a referendum on the health of Pinboard's development practices, rather than a discussion of the article, which is pretty solid and interesting.
bitrot is real.

Is it comparable to actual food rot or the one way transformation of fossil fuels into energy?

No.
Well if you're working there every day and so are they, one would hope they're not a stranger anymore :) Also, no one's stopping you from bringing your laptop to the bathroom if you're worried the person you asked is going to steal it. I've personally never been in a restaurant or co-working space where I didn't feel comfortable asking a stranger to watch my stuff, but perhaps we frequent different places.

It's one of those things where you just need to flex some social and observational muscles, remember your priors, and make a decision.

What can you discern about the person you're asking? What kind of trends or aggregates can you use to decide if this is the kind of person who's going to steal your stuff? Are you in a nice part of Manhattan, or are you in the Tenderloin? Lots of factors, naturally. It's the kind of thing you have to decide for yourself in the moment, but I'd hope most people intelligent enough to be reading this have the social awareness to know when it makes sense to put your trust in strangers like that.
Well, in one of my jobs I worked with a front-end developer to shift from "cloned code" to "using common libraries/functions". There was a macho "how many lines are YOU responsible for" ethos, and we laughed that we were so negative that we'd never be winning on this metric. Maybe if EM did abs(#lines code) would handle such refactoring?

And as many others have pointed out again and again - the only one who gives a sh*t about your career path is you. Yeah, maybe some friends and family, but it's your ass so take care of it. Be known, and ideally be known as somebody who's ok to work with and gets sh*t done.
That’s doubly frustrating with the american culture of “declare your girlfriend to HR”. There’s both a problem with dating AND not being allowed to date at the workplace.
Probably due to IP transfers between regions.

The original /8 was assigned to ARIN (which handles IP addresses in the US), and then later a more specific subnet (like a /16) was transferred to RIPE (which handles the European region).

So while the big block is correctly shown as North America, the smaller ones shouldn't be.
Is it short sighted? Or is it adaptable and doing the right thing given the situation?

Technical debt isn’t absolutely evil and sometimes the interest rate is good enough to take on debt.

Like preventing people from going hungry in exchange for extra pollution for a season.
Spotify and Google Begin Rolling Out User Choice Billing
This comment really strikes a chord with me. Some days, I’m way more productive, others not so much.

What I do love is eliminating the commute time. That is time I’ve been able to utilize in other ways that really contribute to my mental well being.

Walking the kids to school (instead of driving), walking the dog, exercise, catch up on chores or errands, etc.

That is probably my favorite aspect of working from home.

I do miss those serendipitous interactions with coworkers. And Zoom fatigue is real. (I’m just waiting for the day when Zoom alerts your manager that the Zoom window is not the active window on your machine)
This is an article about Go, not an article comparing Go to Rust. I'd say the same thing if the roles were reversed: don't start language debates. They spread like kudzu and choke everything else out of the threads.
Ah man, i hate this. It also used to (may still) randomly end the loop in the playlist and kick you to some suggested video instead. Absolutely awful UX
I'll add the book 'Make' be Pieter Levels as a short, no-nonsense, no-fluff, 'guide' to shipping an idea to the public quickly.
Recently they have iOS YouTube (or some A/B test of it) automatically opening shorts on full screen when you launch the app. Totally obnoxious.
If you need more accuracy than NTP by itself can give you, then you have specialized needs and you need to understand those needs very well, as no general solution is likely to work for you. that said, there is a protocol for it, PTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
Not? I'm confused who you're saying does call pizzas 'pies' (or 'pizza pies') then?

I assure you some Americans certainly do, wherever they got it from, 'American' or not. I've only been exposed to it via American film/TV, including food shows - most recently Somebody Feed Phil in Chicago.

I've never heard it in the UK. I'd be surprised to learn that Italians call them something else too that in other contexts translates as 'pie', but I'm not sure how relevant that would be anyway.
I don't know whether you mean "do you support colonialism in Antarctica" or "do you agree with me that this is colonialism" so I'll just state what I think pretty clearly: I think that cutting the continent up like a cake and setting up these bases is already pretty bad. Allowing the people who are working there to cast a ballot doesn't make it any worse or better.
Yes. It works great.
Doing the double slit experiment at home
The Secret Lives of Millionaire Tech Engineers Who 'Rest and Vest'
I didn't realize companies are charities now. A couple makes a private and typically self-serving decision to have children, therefore we ought to pay them more regardless of performance.
Something like this could (should?) perhaps be handled by governmental "remedy" service, a small insurance/tax against everyone that the judges can use to award remedy without forcing the defendant to pay.
Coworking spaces existed before WeWork

I think more municipalities should get into coworking spaces. Not everyone I needs full incubator support; they just need a place to work.

The State of Washington used to have coworking stations set up in the wide, mostly empty hallways of the convention center in Seattle. Comfy chairs, electrical outlets, a reliable location, and fast wifi is all some people need to get their company off the ground.
You have really loose definitions of advertising. At any rate I’ll say it again, advertising had no effect on me trying or continuing to drink coke. I’m not sure why you’re demanding to be right here on something so simple.
This is why job hopping is so popular. You can get a phat raise by jumping ship every 2 years. You negotiate by getting a new job.
What OS are you on? Running postgres on Linux is as trivial as it gets, and for Windows they have a nice installer. Or just use docker.
My favorite entrepreneur read this past year was Minimalist Entrepreneur from Sahil.
Youtube shorts is an abomination as well.
yt-dlp --flat-playlist --extractor-args youtubetab:approximate_date "https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling" --print "%(upload_date)s %(id)s" 1> out.txt && sort out.txt

Takes longer if you want precise dates:

yt-dlp --simulate "https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling" --print "%(upload_date)s %(id)s" 1> out.txt && sort out.txt
Are you aware of Ruby?
And why wouldn't you want to have both?
I will download this extension in a heartbeat
> But we will mostly decarbonize our economies by the end of this century.

Unfortunately unless we completely decarbonize by the middle of the century, we'll reach catastrophic levels of global warming (>3 degrees warming, likely leading to the polar ice caps melting and significant ocean level rises, especially at the equator).
Chrony would inherit AWS’s skew, which may or may not match chrony’s skew. (But maybe incorrectly because chrony does not expect the length of a second to suddenly change by about 11 ppm.)

Chrony configured to not skew will obviously skew anyway.
It seems that the link was placed in the second-chance pool by a moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

What's the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
How to Build a Social Network
>You pay for value.

There is a ceiling - the company pays what it thinks it can get away with, you accept pay according to what you can get. It's almost never according to the monetary value you provide.
Maintaining a contract with a company is not advertising. It was simply matter of convenience. I could have easily been taken to taco bell and my first soda would’ve been a pepsi.

Coke does not pay to be in fast food restaurants. It’s the other way around. This would be the weirdest form of free advertising, but I think people are using that term very loosely in this thread.

Except when I watch broadcast TV and some TV shows with products embedded, I do not see ads. But the first time I had a coke was long before adblockers existed.
This is sort of tangential, but it doesn’t match what I’ve seen at all. Democratic Party voters are notoriously flaky, turnout is a constant struggle. Every election starts with a struggle between the progressive and centrist branches. The Democratic Party generally represents a larger chunk of the populace than the Republican Party but turns that into middling electoral success (which doesn’t seem to indicate much organization), has failed to block the Supreme Court from becoming a partisan Republican institution, and manages to barely pass like 1 big law per president.
Why every thread in HN speak shit about Frontend developers? Like if BE is any better, most of them still use Java which is has bad memory and cpu performance, and unlike FE, BE have options (any native, GC-free language). Pretty sure 99% Java developers dont have any idea how the JVM works and 99,99% how to tune for better performance, they just move to the next shiny JVM implementation (omg Graalvm) and call it a day.
European Remote is an alternative for most of the US-centric directories out there.
It's focused on the details essential for the tech crowd, without the fluff.
The aim is to help you to find a new team directly, without middlemen.

Also, I'm launching the job alerts feature soon, feel free to subscribe!
Do you mean The Little Go Book?

https://www.openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/
She has thousands of dogs named in her honor now - that makes me smile.
Minor correction but consumer game consoles tend to cap out at 220 watts, and even for PCs 600-700 watts is on the higher end.
> In fact, the equations used to determine how intensely sunlight would be focused by a magnifying glass are the same equations used to determine how a canyon would focus wave energy, he says.

For those curious, the concept in physics is intensity [0], essentially power per unit area. Can be used to describe all sorts of waves, including ocean waves.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity_(physics)
> 2. Demographic decline per se is not in the interest of the state or society.

Are we facing underpopulation?!
The ending the loop thing is why I disabled autoplay. (I use a music playlist a lot when programming or gaming.)
>Almost always they include the same amenities (coffee, snacks, drinks), but it is in a boring office building or in another company's office build-out that they have no need for.

There's a difference between the high and low quality versions of any amenities. I have learned some time ago that increased misery is not worth saving a relatively small amount of money. So I strongly prefer at least the decent versions of amenities such as coffee, conference rooms, natural light, desks, chairs, bathrooms, HVAC, etc.
I saw Tim Ferriss do a presentation at Google Campus once.

He was there for about 4 hours, so of course, somebody asked what he'd be doing with the rest of his week since he'd finished working.

He said those kind of events aren't work since he enjoys them.
There is also the option of winding down energy consumption - we produce so much useless crap for no particular reason anyway.
Or how about the 3:30 AM follow up alert letting you know the child was found and is fine.
Yeah, definitely. A few really good recommendations are actually in the quotes by the founders in the same article.
Sodium-sulfur batteries are made of two very abundant elements, where the other active elements are mostly aluminum oxides and the structural elements are iron and carbon.

Hydrogen is hard to store, but there is sufficient space for satisfying most of our needs by itself. Hydrogen generators are also mostly made of iron, carbon, and aluminum, or alternatively a lot of organic chemicals and aluminum.

Pumped hydro has some problems to compete on the open market, but it also can satisfy most of our storage requirements by itself. Pumped hydro systems are made mostly of steel.

What kinds of resources do you expect we to run out of?
See footnote 4. I would quote it except it's pretty long and full of links, and an edit, which HN "formatting" would make confusing.
I keep hearing that a problem with solar is that it doesn't work at night. So I can see that as a (solvable) problem for industry, but for personal life?

This idea that you need to have your lights on all night is rather recent. For a very very long time people survived by following the natural rythms of daylight. Some people even think this is healthier, and suggest special apps to adjust screen brightness to follow natural light patterns.

A good fridge/freezer should hold its cold overnight, especially if you aren't snacking at midnight.

So while it might be true that your current lifestyle is based on 24/7 electricity, but what makes that lifestyle sacrosanct? You'll probably change it over the next few years anyway, and odds are it is different today than it was 5 years ago.
I loved soulseek. Finding someone with interesting tastes and browsing their collection was great - found some artists I still love to this day that way, like Bogdan Racyinski (you don't turn down an album called Samurai Math Beats) and the Dresden Dolls.
1. That’s what I’m saying. So-called “virtue signaling” appears strongest online, where it is least relevant, large pseudo-anonymous shout boxes like twitter and FB comments and news article comments. As you mention, most people need group identity. If I have group identity with leftists or whatever then of course I’m going to assert their values even on twitter where nobody is reading my tweets because I’m not famous. So it’s not virtue signaling to a nonexistent reader, it’s asserting a genuinely held belief (vis a vis their believed “membership” as a leftist).

By the virtue signaling thesis, you should see “signaling” most commonly in-person, over email, over text, etc. after all, if virtue signaling isn’t done with your identity, to others who know you, then it’s accomplishing nothing.

my lived experience is exactly the opposite of the virtue signaling thesis, with the exception of corporations (“pride” ads and such, marketing built to signal to popular sentiment)

2. Sorry I really have no idea. As a person in the younger generation without faith, I wasn’t raised going to church, so I can’t really relate. For me there is no “replaced” valued; faith was never present
GrapheneOS is a very nice mobile OS - I use it on multiple devices and its my top pick for android ROMs. Some thoughts:

1. They're the only ROM project that actually focuses on improving application level safety. This is a bigger deal than a lot of people realise.

2. They offer installation remote attestation - again, worth using if you can.

3. Lots of drama with Calyx and GrapheneOS which is very hard to familiarise with. This is because the discourse is often deleted (this is the policy of the Graphene OS chatrooms) and so it is difficult to verify claims without pointing to another instance of deleted comments/purported harassment. If you can help it, I recommend to just try ignore the whole thing until they start screenshotting the actual harassment.

4. A lot of people talk about Graphene having worse performance than a lot of other ROMs but this is actually counter to my own experience. Graphene is consistently the fastest ROM I have used.

5. You may see people kick up a shit about how Graphene uses sandboxed play store and how that's a bad thing somehow. If you are worried, keep in mind you can still use Aurora if you want your install to be anonymised (but frankly I am not sure what the extent of the changes that Aurora makes). Similarly F-Droid is available, but is super weird about how they sign apps.

6. There are a LOT of updates. This is a good thing but it can throw you off if you're coming from another ROM.
You actually did, the hateful rhetoric from the right tells all anybody needs to know. If you think hateful rhetoric comes from the right then you are the problem.
Did they keep this feature for people who do in fact subscribe to their music premium thingy? That would be the logical approach to add another reason to subscribe. But I guess they provide an alternative way to do that for music and didn't think about the video use case. Sloppy...

(Disclosure/clarification for those who know from other comments that I once worked at Google: I never worked for them in any YouTube-related role, have no inside information on this, and haven't worked at Google at all for over 7 years now. Definitely not speaking for them here.)
Would certainly rather pay $8 for this than for a verified twitter account. Nice work!
The target market for YouTube isn't people looking for information or good content. It's people going into a trance-like state infinitely scrolling and being guided by their nose by the YouTube algorithm, inflating YouTube ad view numbers and making them money.
> The fact that a software shop down the road from me pays peanuts when I'm looking for work with companies in other countries that otherwise pay their staff very well isn't important IMO and IME.

Of course it's important. It means you will, all other things being equal, go for the employer that pays the best rate. And that will drag your local wage up, or it might cause the local shop to close down because they can't pay well enough.

In general I keep seeing people very much like being paid a good salary, but not understanding the one thing that puts their salary high (or low): competition from other employers, and from other employees. Other employees lower it; other employers raise it. The fact that employers think they don't have to pay SF salaries globally is the same mechanism that created SF salaries in the first place.
Very few other crimes have such a low rate of action let alone conviction.
This might be fixed by NTPv5; the proposed draft RFC I looked at (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mlichvar-ntp-ntpv5/05...) has a flag to specify whether or not the server is using leap smear.
Cool, it's been a while so maybe I'll give it another try
I heard a quote once "quality of life is determined by how much energy you can waste"
>I hate dealing with this aspect of my job. Everybody just wants wants wants and act like children when they don't get.

I go to work everyday for one reason: to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. All three things being nearly equal, my goal is to extract as much money for my labor as possible as long as my job choice doesn’t make me hate my life
Well, that feature is broken (not to mention the feature discussed in the title: it was outright removed): I regularly, when watching a series of videos all titled "Series Name: Part X", get Parts 7, 8, 9, 2 and 14 as recommendations in the sidebar after watching Part 6. Amusingly, even if all those videos are actually part of an existing and properly sorted playlist, it still happens if I don't play it as a part of that playlist (that is, if I remove "&list=ZZZ&index=5" from the URL)! What a brilliant technology.
I think you could view SparkSQL with catalyst optimizer as a DB.
For example, I use my SIM embedded digital signature on my mobile phone. Being able to verify that it’s not altered with, and being able to verify this state with a remote secure entity sounds nice.

Assuming you can select/provide the baseline state to be verified against, I fail to see how this is harmful.

Of course this can be used to force “desired configuration” on anyone, but this is a social problem rather than technical.