skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America is not “on the right track”

We had a half baked coup attempt in 2020.

People are polarizing in ways that weren't around only a few years ago.

The congressional deficit has ballooned to unsustainable levels. Our annual interest payments are ~400B/yr.

Social Security is projected to default next decade.

We’re back to fighting proxy wars with the Russians, which the supposedly progressive author presents as a positive!

We’ve destroyed South America and the Middle East in pursuit of our strategic goals.

I hope we don’t provoke china into a war over Taiwan…

I love my country but shit is seriously fucked up right now.
Pretty sure Section 230 of the CDA shields Apple from liability when it comes to what apps users create and share via Apple's App Store platform.

The truth is that the App Store lock-in is about securing Apple's moneyhose, and user "security" is an afterthought.
Scooters in Paris Are at a Crossroads
I wasn’t saying any of it was credible or not credible. I was saying it is unknowable and basically thread hijacking with a random point unrelated to the meat of TFA.

I could have written “the account claims she volunteered” and perhaps my comment would have made more sense.

Edit:
This is applying:
Our cultural values and context to:
A translation of:
A person’s (how credible?) account who was:
From a long time ago and:
Of a different culture than ours and was:
Observing yet a third culture which was alien to him
I put my name on the wait list a few days ago, haven’t heard from them yet. I prefer to pay for services I use.
> dough conditioner

most commercial dough conditioners could be eaten entirely by themselves with no ill effect outside of tasting kinda of gross.

They're mainly small amounts of vitamin c, citric acid to lower ph, and amylase enzymes extracted from malt -- the same stuff that makes your bread or beer. In fact most liquor and beer manufactures use alpha amylase or glucoamylase in some form, extracted and powered or natural.
And when you miss a payment, what do they repo?
Functioning as it should is good.

The thing to consider here is, do you consider yourself an average user? Most of us here would not care if they didn't have firefox or chrome as their default browser, to myself it's practically meaningless apart from win98 days setting some near useless lump as the default to catch auto activating BS, but to ordinary folk they can get weird ideas they have to use it ... IIRC M$ went to a little bit of trouble to stop people easily making firefox the default browser, and some internal links are edge only without a really good work around. I don't see them going to all that trouble unless there's a slight benefit.
agree with your comment.
i'm using alpine with django and it's is really nice.
some very small sites are using it in production like Vimeo (link:https://vimeo.com/customers/enterprise)
I think that's a generic response it gives when it's overloaded. I usually just use you.com's search. But every once in a while I'll ask it to make summary tables of stuff. Oftentimes you'd need to fact check the results, but depending on the query you can get some strikingly good answers and clarifications.

It feels like what you get when you slap a REPL onto a search engine.
"Q: Why bother? You can’t make a new browser engine without billions of dollars and hundreds of staff.

Sure you can. Don’t listen to armchair defeatists who never worked on a browser."

-Ladybird FAQ
Degrading and disabling by default separate search bar (don't remember what exactly was removed, it was a long time ago)

Degrading Uglybar (address bar), some functionality was cut, last searches are not displayed and replaced with pinned sites. UI of Uglybar was changed a lot and made gigantic and also just a little bit moving so that cursor selected text by 2-3 characters to the side. After a year of shouting and FF team demonstrating exemplary asshole attitude on r/firefox some of the UI only changes were toned down, not completely though. And functional changes remained.

Removal of some compatibility with older extensions.

URL trimming in Uglybar, thankfully that's can be re-enabled for now. (I consider this anti-consumer, just like Google's attempts to push centralized AMP on us).
Do these antibiotics and their metabolites stay in the meat post slaughter and make their way into the food supply?
This is exactly what I struggle a lot with. I just want JavaScript with simple type checking. TypeScript goes way overboard. I also hate TypeScript decorators. I've seen that grossly abused in codebases that just drive my insane.
How does one end a violent regime? What do you do when the regime can just shoot anyone that disagrees?
> paper gains like ownership stakes in foreign companies and hyper inflated real estate “mask” the losses experienced by most people

Paper gains and real estate holdings/transactions are not part of GDP.
Liu Cixin manages to write a great sci-fi trilogy with an interesting global plot without pissing of the chines communist party - that's what I find really impressive.
I never posted anything to facebook. I deleted my accounts 5 years ago during all the Cambridge Analytica stories.

I honestly couldn't stand it before. I saw so much crap from "friends" that I wasn't interested in. My real friends never posted anything interesting because we already had private group chats or emails for anything funny or controversial. If I want to discuss religion or politics then I want to discuss it in a smaller group not on a public forum where random people I don't know that well try to get in a cheap shot.

I realized that stupid facebook posts and the ads were there to make me angry and interact with the platform.

I never bothered with twitter. Never made an account and only go there when I follow a link from another site. It just seems like a horrible way to communicate with such short sentences. The top comments always seem to be racist, sexist, or both and the inability to downvote makes me just leave the platform rather than interact with anyone there.

Instagram has turned into 3 ads for every post from a friend. Everyone else said the same thing and we all stopped posting there.

I've never looked at tiktok.

Now I have 2 Slack groups with friends and 2 Whatsapp groups. At least for now there are no ads there.

I love reddit because it is anonymous and I am the one who decides which subreddits to follow rather than some algorithm feeding me crap. I subscribe to about 200 subreddits and most of them are niche interests. I only spend about 5 minutes a day on the "popular" or "all" pages these days while I spend over an hour going through pages of my own subreddits that I love.

I like interacting with people in real life, my friends online, and random people online but I want to choose what I see.

As for all the losing your posts and pics, back it up first. I've got 100TB of data with photos older than me and files from 1991.
Btw you can use it for cheap using this GUI: https://dall-e.sonnet.io/
Denying the legitimacy election is something both parties do now. With regular frequency. There was plenty of it in the 2000 election with Bush v. Gore. Its perfectly reasonable given we do not have auditable elections.
The odd thing about high capacity SD cards in general is that they are generally used as fixed storage. I have a 256 GB card that I put into a 11" laptop when I bought it and I haven't seen it since. I haven't used a CF or SD card like a floppy since storage hit 4 GB.

If you were a still or video photographer, you would likely be using CF or SD cards like floppies every day still.

(Some of this has been changing with WiFi capable cameras and video cameras with USB-C ports for SSD's etc but SD cards are still very much A Thing for photographers)
> I have come to a realization that I don't really enjoy Software Engineering(& the processes that it comes with) but I do love programming & solving problems.

I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.

Some software companies can turn even the simplest tasks into a grueling series of processes, endless meetings, and joint work across a big number of “stakeholders”. These companies will take the joy and productivity out of programming and replace it with a series of rituals and set of language that people use to go through the motions every week so they can collect paychecks.

Start interviewing around. Talk to your network. Find a company that values programming and real productivity but discourages unnecessary meetings and process. You will be much happier. There is no escaping the fact that you’ll have to work on legacy code, document your work, and meet with people some times. However, it doesn’t have to be a miserable process-filled slog.
I've not tried it but intuitively I'd expect it to slide about as well as other very hard things of the same shape.
If you were to get your hands on a QMK/VIA-powered keyboard, you could tweak the firmware for your own Fn+(anything) to map to Vol+, Vol-. Not the same, but you could have this 'under your fingertips' at all times.

I tried this a while ago, but never used it much. I end up leaving my system volume at predictable levels most of the time, and ended up rebinding my arrow cluster's extra layer for Prev/Next song, which got much more use.
> [sic] average household debt has pushed the national total to $16.5 trillion, a 7.65 percent increase from a year before.

Meanwhile, the inflation numbers for Nov 2022 and Dec 2022 were 7.1% and 6.5%, so in real terms things haven’t likely changed much..
Sometimes sports interviews can be memorable like

- I’m just here so I won’t get fined.

- It’s only game, why you heff to be mad?

- They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
So are you going to be protesting against the democratic party for doing so in 2016?
Telling the masses that your political opponents used fraud to get elected is far beyond the scope of reasonable questions. Undermining the systems of government to benefit your personal power is totalitarian.
>Is the hot/weird Covid car market doing better by now?

Not really, at least in Canada.

I've been shopping for a compact commuter for a couple of months. I'll use my Honda experience as an example: late model (2019-2021) are selling for the price of brand new Civics. However, you can't get a new Civic, since the local dealership is getting a trickle at unknown cadence. My dealer said they are getting FOUR this quarter, and they were already spoken for.

I had similar experience at Hyundai, and the Toyota lot has nothing. It's still wild. Meanwhile, financing rates are over 8% on used cars, with stellar credit.
This shows that you have never dealt with companies in 3rd world countries. When money is tight, which is always in those countries, there is not a cheap-enough price that you can make them pay. They want the benefit of the product but they do nit want to pay anything for it.
So, a free trial version in those places, will turn into a perpetual "free" trial. Same for "no proof needed" student/academic versions.
Unfortunately for the original poster, there is no solution to such a situation. Especially considering, they do nit want to spend an arm and a leg on legal enforcement, for a measly few thousand dollars worth of licensing fees.
The only solution I can see for this kind of problem is to design the product to run purely online, leaving nothing more than a UI on the customers' hardware, but since the product is out, there is no way to put that cat back into the bag. May be they should consider future, enhanced versions of their software to run online only.
Ha, I'd say rearchitecting is fun and incident response is not fun.

I think there are parts of the process that people enjoy over others and that's based on many factors, personality, company culture, managers, coworkers, process and tooling, etc.

You don't have to enjoy every aspect of it. Just like enjoying cooking, and not enjoying doing the dishes.

The important part is being professional, doing what's asked, not being negative about it, and look for opportunities to improve that part of it.
> People are polarizing in ways that weren't around only a few years ago.

This one gets me the worst. America's political landscape is forever changed.
1. Political discourse between sides is so aggressive that morals, the truth, etc, are trumped by 'Who cares? My team is winning.'
2. Congressional cooperation has fallen to levels where the entirety of the government is incapable of making simple, easy decisions, and even when they do, it must help a talking point.
3. This divide has spread outwards into other branches of government in such a way that breaks the entire intent of checks and balances. At this point, the Supreme court is just doing a congressional party's bidding. This seems like 'balance' to other branches but it actually limits the ability for the supreme court to make impartial choices and means that a regime change in congress/ president will fully eliminate checks and balance. The government will answer to a party's bidding rather than the constitution or people.
4. A majority of people in one party no longer trust the electoral system while a majority in the other party see signs that the game is rigged against them (Gerrymandering). This causes a general feeling of 'We lost because of X, not because of us.'

But finally, to me, the worst item...

5. Politics in America are now about feeling right and 'winning' rather than promises and goals. This was always in the background and any marketer will tell you this is how human minds work...but this change accelerates the rest. It doesn't matter what policy is passed or how it plays out, as long as 'I feel right.' Politics now realize that success is a 'sick burn' or a 'scary claim about "them"', not actual improvement of the country. Why? One of these is publicity and moves individual donations...it helps get you elected. It fires up your base because it is way easier to sell negative emotions ("I hate them", "They are going to kill america, we have to save it") rather than positive ("Our government is doing good things.")

This means you need puppets, people in your party for their party to hate and people in their party for your party to hate. Alas, you get Trump, AOC, McConnell, Pelosi, Gatez. Each party knows this agreement is fantastic, or has learned it at least. Why? Because if, say, the GOP did not have a 'them' it would be impossible to sell.
Just because you are financing, doesn’t mean you are buying things with money you don’t have, only financially illiterate people of a particularly dim nature would say that.

There are plenty of reasons to delay paying for things as much as possible, especially if the financing has zero cost. Say you bought a new £800 stand mixer on Black Friday. Splitting the costs in 3 allows you to deploy the funds elsewhere, such as investing in an index fund, buying bonds or put into a CD account or anything productive to offset some of the cost or if you are lucky, cover it. A dollar today is not the same as a dollar tomorrow.

Another common reason for that is to stretch your credit limit without affecting your credit score. Say your credit card has a £30k credit limit. There is an expensive 4-5 figure gift you want to buy for your girlfriend for Christmas or take an expensive holiday to some exotic location. You can afford it, but it’s going to cost a few months’ salary and a dip in your credit score. You can pay for your purchase with BNPL without leaving you nothing at the end of the next few months and have no impact on your credit score.

BNPL is a great financial buffer for everyone, as long as you have some baseline discipline to pay off what you owe.
I haven't quite reached this level yet with the keyboard hobby, but reading this post feels a bit like looking into my future. I've soldered together a few kits designed by others and have been itching to try my hand at designing my own layout fully from scratch. Not that I need it, I'm quite happy with my current stable of keyboards, but because I think it would be a fun way to learn more about electronics.

In case anyone is interested, there are also people who hand-wire keyboards. This lets you explore funky custom layouts without having to learn the circuit design and manufacturing side. I came across this pretty detailed guide recently. https://www.crackedthecode.co/a-complete-guide-to-building-a...
totally, and most significantly: without having to shuffle a table off to another app to then be graphed. I definitely see high value in this for when you are doing adhoc analysis of some data (such as logs) and want to see the items which stand out. It's easier to recognize some patterns visually for sure. sort/uniq -c/awk are great, but when measuring things relative to other things, visualizations are powerful for humans.
I attended a prestigious university. You could pretty much do what you liked (including nothing) for the three years and the degree was awarded for 30 hours of exams in a single week. In the exam room you couldn't copy work or pay someone else to do it or consult a chatbot. You knew the subject or you didn't. So you don't have to change the teaching. You could change the examining.
Yes, I’m sure there are many positive uses as well, I just have a hard time seeing how that’s not going to be outweighed by the bad given the current environment. There’s going to need to be some sort of social/cultural/technological adaptation when the negative starts hitting with force to curb it towards positive uses. People need to start thinking about mitigation strategies now.
Twitter to increase 280 character limit to 4k
A different take...
Pylling the air might be a symptom if compulsive thoughts, makes with action.
These thoughts are deep and come to you in situations of being not busy.
Maybe the inner thoughts are related to not being connected to your emotions?
There is hope, but i suppose we need to talk some more
Yeah - 100%. I have pulled this off successfully with some crazy household names in tech. I really value some of those random emails - I go back and read them from time to time.

People are often really chill and kind about answering questions and love to help people who take a genuine interest in their work!
"If Vim magically tripled the speed at which I'm able to edit text, I doubt it would have a noticeable impact on my overall productivity."

It's an Amdahl's law thing. Even if you drop my typing time down to zero, it wouldn't affect much. That said, multiplying my typing time by 10 would be a hit.

I consider being bottlenecked on my raw ability to type to be a huge red flag. I'm doing something wrong unless I have a very specific reason to be so bottlenecked, like I'm momentarily just doing data entry with no ability to simplify the process. (Unusual, but it does happen; for a micro example, typing out all of some enumeration's value can bottleneck on raw typing speed if there's more than a couple of them and I happen to be able to instantly and correctly name them all.) Must be missing an abstraction or something.
Do you know any old people? My family is 24 hours Fox news, my wife's is 24 hour CNN, I can't say that either has a rosy view of where the country is going. Both would be considered well-off. Everyone else (especially the working poor) is too busy to listen to that noise.
No-one could foresee an end to number goes up.

Except all those who realize that when the supply of greater fools runs out, the only way is down...
100x, at least.

The chances of a successful exit are vanishingly small, but like winning the lottery, you still hear about them, sometimes!!

You'll get commenters here on HN that say "I had a successful exit..." but there are orders of magnitude more people who have signed completely worthless contracts.

Even if you do have a successful exit, your payout should not be just a few times your missing salary. You won't get that money for years, and if you do, it comes with a whole host of headaches.
I’ve worked in this industry and the underwriting is actually significantly better than most cc companies
I'm not familiar with how they do that, can you expound on it?
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RE: Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun

In that case I suggest finding a commercially-backed, open source project which you are passionate about. You can have best of both worlds - plenty of bugs and community interaction, all while also making a living out of it.
>Beyond a certain level of wealth, the numerical value of one's compensation becomes effectively meaningless.

Depends on your lifestyle inflation. Even for the high earners in the US, 49 million per year is FIRE money, but if you're used to the life of an oil sheikh with luxury clothing, jewelry, art, exotic private parties, dozens of rare supercars, private jets and yachts, McMansions/penthouses in London, Paris, Geneva, NY, Tokyo, etc., some private island where it's nice and warm, and also want to leave a similar lifestyle for your kids and their kids and their kids' kids, then 49 million per year is basically poverty money.
For me personally it took 2 months to "fully" adjust (meaning I can type without looking at the keyboard but every now and then I make a typo and need to correct it). I used this -> https://www.keybr.com/ almost every day. You can just set preferred layout without actually changing your keyboard's settings and it have very nice "teaching" sessions.
Tbh I don't notice a huge difference, its more comfortable but sometimes I have a brain lag when I need to type on my phone since its on qwerty. Ergo layouts tends to be worse on mobile (because ergo usually have common letters close to each other and its not very cool on a small screen, qwerty is suprisingly one o f the best for smartphone's 2 thumb style)
It definitely solves some problems but I don't think it is the best bang for the buck. A lot of problems are solved with annoying json/yaml, those fire and forget stuff, barely need updates. Idk, I'd love some venn diagram of all problems Cue aims to solve, and also have some notes on some part of circle (problems) that are solved by more lightweight or better tools.
This is why it's great to have a loose framework for admin tools from the very start - I usually use Django so I almost get this for free.

Building an authenticated admin UI for something is a lot of work.

Adding a "see most recent orders" page to an existing admin UI can take just a few minutes, once that framework is in place.
Weird how hard you've bought into the right-wing narratives
Yes, but it is in their interest to monetize this.
Many people I talked with are fully willing to pay for it after it goes behind a paywall. OpenAI improved the user experience of their Playground with ChatGPT and not so many people taking out the wallet for DALL-E 2. It is fair to mention that the free alternatives of DALL-E 2 are equally capable, if not better.
>> 5 people on a system that has about 40 users

Gosh, that is expensive software!
I have not tried it yet but I think https://unpoly.com/ is also a nice addition. I am thinking about trying it out in a project that I have in mind.
they change and break. Frequently.

Any notable examples? (apart from that “force everyone ESM overnight because we feel like” movement)
I'm pretty confident that it is intentionally not about the characters. People are so used to stories where specific characters are individual saviors of everyone else, but I don't think that is the purpose of the characters in this story. There just needs to be characters to help guide the story and have a lens to view the world through, but who they are and what they want is not the purpose of the book.

It's more about the collective response of humanity to situations and any individuals perspective is not that important.

This was one of the things that I actually really enjoyed about this series. I really don't think a book that is as grandiose as this where the entire world, solar system and universe are at stake can have an individual savior like a super man.
Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star in donut shape