skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint, I think context matters the _least_.

I've read a lot of business writing where the writer's mindset is clearly:I am writing for business, therefore I must sound business-like. Lots of "in terms of", "for the purpose of", "ideation", "develop needs", "affect change", "going forward". From what I hear and from what little I've read, a similar overwrought voice has developed in academia too.

I've fallen into this trap before, partially to "fit in" and partially because it's hard to simplify. But many famous business communicators -- Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett come to mind -- show that clarity is more effective than sounding like the context.
And lock mechanisms. This doesn't help me find a knife with a flipper and a button lock.
Presumably that would lead to also banning https and encrypted traffic entirely. It's trivial to set up a VPN that looks just like https traffic.
China is far ahead on that curve, and so far nobody is burning data centers or closes bank accounts.
Part of SBF's defense is that he also sent the exact same message at the same time by email. If true, then he's just super delusional. If false, yeah, it sounds a lot like tampering.
He or she didn't mean that burning of these fuels is pointless, it was a response to a poster suggesting to pointlessly burn these fuels in order to stimulate the economy.
If there's a TV series I want to watch on Netflix, and I watch it in the span of 4 months, I pay $68 for that one TV series. Is that great value?

Maybe Netflix is a good value if your primary goal is to have an endless stream of content to watch and you don't really care what it is. But if you watch TV less frequently, it's absolutely terrible value. And if you want to choose what series to watch rather than which streaming service to watch, the constant switching between streaming services is terribly tedious, and another source of increased cost if your interests don't change perfectly aligned with billing periods.
Are you kidding with these sources? Perhaps next you will go to Greenpeace for their opinion on the F-35?

Both of these are groups which exist to oppose any kind of military spending, neither of them have any relevant expertise.
It would take a lot of pain to overcome the tendency to "Blame the EU for the UK's decisions". This line of thinking is encouraged by politicians and tabloid media.
Yep but what if that is the idea?
Surprised that Finland quotes VAT (value added tax) in its costs. Isn't that the Finnish government paying tax to themselves?
Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April
He's not an "almost incel"? Sure seems like it. Did he spend a lot of money on hookers or something?
Sure, but I think in this case they're promising the shield will always win. It's other people that might develop AIs that aren't detectable this way.

(Actually, OpenAI has said they're trying other ways of making GPT output even more detectable, like watermarking it through specific word choices.)
> so are IP addresses, despite the fact that people do not have IP addresses

And car registration numbers and passport numbers and street addresses are also personal identifiable information despite the fact that people does not have those either. Just like IP addresses. This is a good thing.

> Personal data is not defined in terms of the context in which it appears

This is a good thing because it closes a dozen loopholes and allows good-faith actors to remain on the right side of the law without much effort.

> if you have someone's personal data and you are told to stop processing it, you must stop processing it. But storage, erasure and transmission are all classed as processing, and it's logically impossible not to do at least one of these things

This just shows a poor understanding of the law, or you are just hand-waving things you have no knowledge about. This is not how the GDPR works. At all.
An unlettered colleague 'engineer' doesn't really bother me, but my electricity supplier or dishwasher manufacturer sending one out...
A generous interpretation would be: when making policy decisions we should maximize the happiness of many people, not specific individuals.
To go further off topic, it was the Pacific not the Atlantic. Also, landfall was in French Polynesia, so not really crossed either.
Sounds exactly like Trump, minus the difference in the type of image they try to project
Happy to be be proven wrong as I haven't used this specific service, but the quality of Zoho mail-related offerings is so laughingly bad that I wouldn't touch any of their other products.
If you use Jupyter, check out JupySQL. It allows you to break down long queries in multiple cells so you can test them individually: https://jupysql.ploomber.io/en/latest/compose.html (Disclosure: my team develops JupySQL)
Thanks, good advice on making it look like mine. Sounds simple, but hadn’t even crossed my mind. I use macOS as my daily driver, so many distros have a similar look and feel.
Strategies to reduce unhealthy smartphone usage
A corner is still a corner. The vast majority of people don't care about corners, whether they are illuminated or not.
I really dig some of the voices here, they are really well done.
> Digital natives have more and more been shown to be digital illiterates.

Very interesting.

Your observation might be a generality.

I keep thinking of Marshall McLuhan, Neal Postman, and other media critics. How were they so prescient and clear-eyed about the sociology of broadcast and cable television? While the following generation was so oblivious once that those mediums were established?

Ditto the early critics of social media, like Clay Shirky.

The best folk theory that I've come up with is that a fish doesn't know anything about water.
It is, but especially high memory ones, and presumably it's loaded on a bunch of them since it supports simultaneous queries.
> Or on the diplomatic table. While I agree it is a good thing to send Ukraine all we reasonably can, it is a nonzero probability Putin gets into hot water and ousted - bad health, pissed-off bureaucracy, domestic protests once he's forced to conscript people in central (ethnic) Russia.

Ukraine being a part of Russia is a mainstream opinion in Russia. It's a core part of Russian propaganda abroad and has been so since the 1800s (Novorossya).

I'm not saying it's impossible, but a new leader will adopt many of the nationalist tropes.

Russia completely leaving occupied territories, especially Crimea, diplomatically, will be extremely hard to do.

And Ukraine without Crimea will always be exposed. It's too easy to choke off their maritime access without it.
Speaking about images, please try to add multiple photos for each knife to show every angle.
Great site, thanks for your effort.
> How much of this was down to practicality, though? Being able to pick and choose the best gear from each side?

I'm not an expert on cold war Finland, but my understanding is that Finland was threading a very fine needle between not provoking the USSR (see Prague 1968) while still maintaining relations with the West in order to not be seen as being part of the Soviet sphere of influence (which, again, can be seen as form of insurance against a Soviet annexation). Foreign trade, and in particular major arms deals, were VERY politicised, and I'd imagine there would be a need for very strong differences in military/technical capabilities to override the political considerations in any particular deal.
Art today is definitely and absolutely still made with love and passion. Films like Everything Everywhere All At Once (or the recent episode of The Last Of Us) take a popular concept or franchise and make it their own. Fanfiction is still at crazy levels, thanks to websites like AO3. The book industry still has outstanding popular modern works which stand on their own and refuse to let genre define them. (Becky Chambers is my favourite for this, with her hygge scifi). There's also a whole host of internet culture - lots of tumblr tags and subreddits - that are actively filled with sharing, passion and community, not for good art that sells, but something that lifts the spirit in its own weird way.

Anecdotes aside, at least for independent artists it may be economical effects that constrain passion and make projects feel so for-profit. Which have always been a thing, unfortunately. Given technology, maybe there is so much art to consume that making art requires forgoing distraction and the general worry that the art will be bad (which is nonsense, because some art simply has a limited audience).

In today's era, stuff like EU art grants [0] can do some good, although I have the feeling that patronage-per-capita is considerably lower than it was in the past; it would be an interesting metric to look at and try best to increase.

[0]: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/funding/cultureu-funding-guide
There is a mis-perception in your statement, in that :

1. "techies" are some uniform block of people.

2. "techies" as a whole were at any point an anti-mainstream counterculture.

Many/most techies throughout history have been employed by the rich and powerful - individuals, private corporations, government institutions, religious institutions (if we go back far enough). So, the extent to which they are part of a counter-culture is through a critical evaluation of their own roles. There are also "independent" techies, of course - but those too often from well-off social strata and do not have much of a mind to subvert dominant culture on the social level (as opposed to in their personal habits).

... and I personally can't read the article since the corporate firewall I'm behind is blocking it, so that's kind of ironic :-(
I think there never was stronger counterculture than today

I disagree. Can you expand on your claim?

YouTube and TikTok are not countercultural, even if some users are using those platforms for genuine countercultural creative acts. By definition, a social media "influencer" with millions of followers is not countercultural.
Which competitors? The J-20 or SU-57? Yeah, I wonder why those wouldn't be selected.
These chips are too simple and too cheap for that. We are talking about controller chips that are sold for a few dollars, 20 years old designs and produced in the millions.

On the other hand, the Qualcomm special order soc mentioned in the article, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a back door in that.
How often something needs to be serviced is a different question to how much it costs each time you do.

The installation cost of a battery storage system, spread over the lifetime of that system, is a bit less than the the cost of a nuclear plant spread over the lifetime of the nuclear plant.

Adding to that number the cost of a renewable power supply to charge that battery, spread over the lifetime of the power supply, makes it swings and roundabouts.
My client recently moved from GitLab (self hosted - many teams had their own isolated server) to GitHub.com and managing access for the thousands of developers has been a small headache. We were encouraged to use our personal GitHub accounts instead of making new ones.

They are promoting "internal open source", yet due to a wild variety of permissions, colleagues can't fork to their own space or push a branch for a PR. Chasing the repo owners or at least someone with authority to grant permission is rarely worth the hassle.
I see the counter culture over the last few years as the less obnoxious elements of the alt-right/conservative and centrist/"classic liberal" in their opposition to the overreach and oppression by the "liberal"/left especially in their domination of big tech and classic media.

However, as the recognition of that unpleasant latter tendency has become mainstream and everybody and her grandma now knows what "woke" means, I can see a new counter, hopefully genuinely less partisan and not tipped the other (ie right wing) way as the old guard is kicked out (as we have seen with Twitter etc).
Show me the offers. I have worked as embedded dev some time ago, and my job offer feed keeps sending me embedded opportunities. I'm making significantly more doing JS + React
The nearby university already does this.

It... It sometimes works. It depends a LOT on the instructor.

Should also note: it only really works when all your lecturers share some information about workloads...
Even the intention won't get any traction though - even if enacted defiance would be so widespread, if not total, (16 year olds no longer able to digitally communicate, come on) that it would be retracted or at least irrelevant.
It's a well known phenomenon that when cops don't like the people in the office of prosecutor, DA, or other similar positions the police will cease enforcing laws so they can shout about how crime is on the rise in order to get their way.
From the lede:

> which have blocked traffic and hampered emergency services

Like, if the only stats that matter are road accidents, the obvious thing would be to just ban all motorised vehicles. A slightly more nuanced view is perhaps required.
"Better a child should die than live bereft of subculture"
https://open.spotify.com/track/16EDqZeb9duwbe6SZGHkUy?si=b8b...
For sure, there are a lot of applications for this kind of platform. We're very happy with the initial feedback we've received, definitely validates our concept. Thanks for checking us out!
There's a lot more fragmentation.
The few common grounds, the most popular music, 'content creators', ideas and current events get amplified by news sites relying on ads, algorithms seeking maximum engagement.

It's hard to promote a fringe issue in a wide content channel and there's a lack of everything in between fringe and mainstream.
IMHO, this is simply born of the new age of surveillance: an internet that never forgets, tracks you unless you take excessive inconveniences to avoid it, and cheap cameras everywhere. Not only is creating counterculture hard to do for fear of reprisal, but also consuming it.
> Anyway, you know it's completely wild when their official help site points you to switch to Shift-JIS compatiblity mode on a fresh install of Windows 11 :)

Oh dear. I just skimmed that. The bit where it tells you to turn off the beta UTF-8 support made me particularly sad.

(A good part of the blame lies with Microsoft of course - why are these legacy locale and encoding settings still system-wide?)
And they would be right too.

I’m not a doom and gloom/end days kind of guy, but there is no reason to believe society and cultures always improve.
To be fair, most of his equipment was under recall before it even shipped from the Acme factory.
An attractive option, or a reasonable certainty?
Citation for your pancreatic cancer claim? I am skeptical, or perhaps we have different definitions of better.
I'm pretty sure I've been existing in a number of counter-cultures for the last decade or two. These have been either linked to my identity or physical location, I couldn't have properly experienced them through consuming media on the subject. Certainly all required an active choice and/or lifestyle change on my part.

Maybe people mean something else by counter-culture, but here are examples from my life:

- Freelancing/contracting, and actively living substantially below my means. This has given me free time in a way that really changed my view on the world and allowed me to be around other people who were not in the 9-5 working world.

- Sexuality & ENM, plus living in a large city. There is a huge non-obvious culture of LQBTQIA people in this culture which often have very different outlooks on life to the mainstream.

- Communal living. Living in a warehouse with people from very different walks of life. I was exposed to so many fascinating ideas and people this way. It was a truly magical time of my life in which I also played a part in supporting the queer/ENM sub-culture of my city.

- Buying land and living off grid. There is a whole sub-culture of people doing this, both online and (more importantly) physically around me.

So I think counter-culture is available but – having written the above – I'm not sure if I am agreeing and disagreeing with the OP. On one hand it exists, but on the other hand I'm saying that it is very hard to access without making material changes to one's life.
> can land and depart with regular roads

This is worth way less than it sounds like. Building runways is cheap.

> The Gripen is basically designed for Finland by virtue of being designed for Sweden

Sweden wanting to prop up their domestic industry does not mean that Gripen is the best fighter jet for Sweden.
Yes. Replacing a battery is exactly as hard as building a nuclear reactor. Frequency of replacing parts is precisely the only thing related to cost.
The Glass Onion comes to mind.

- "It's so dumb - it's brilliant!"

- "No! It's just DUMB!"
This company seems reckless. A few years ago they also damaged a 50,000 year-old structure used by Indigenous Peoples.
>You're trying to refute that claim with a single data point about one year, which isn't sufficient to refute a trend.

Below the list a graph showing the ratings over a 20 year period is provided. It shows C++ declining until about ~2017 but recently starting rising again.
This is why we can't have real intellectual discussions on HN: assholes like this projecting and defaming. Nothing of your claim is true.
If I read correctly, ASML is the only major company that China still depends on? With the right amount of investment, China will shortly have an alternative, you know. Its not irreplaceable, nor does it require reverse eng.
And be held responsible when implementing spyware, tracking and emission defeat devices?

That would be the day HN starts a revolt.
It's not a physical necessity but it is the economic reality. I don't think the people at Canonical, specifically, should be blamed for the fact that we live in a capitalist society.
No, the counterculture is actually thriving. But many people just don't understand it yet, because of how, well, counter it is to their ideas about culture: its roots are now in conservatism. It currently seems to be cool and edgy amongst the kids to be alt right in pretty much exactly the same way that it was cool and edgy to be very liberal in the 60s.

I'm not saying I agree with or subscribe to the tenets of conservatism (I don't). But it's a natural process for the pendulum to swing as society advances. Liberal counterculture "won" and went completely mainstream. Which is great! Gay marriage is legal, we care about sustainability, and so on. But every system has gaps and blind spots, and movements which oppose the incumbent mainstream are, by definition, not liberal counterculture.

Some touchpoints - President Obama's failure to penalize banks in the Great Recession. One percenters and the new cathedral. Joe Rogan. The intellectual dark web (Jordan Peterson et al). The red pill. The alt right.

I feel many of the above are often stupid, but in the same way that there were a lot of stupid 60s counterculture movements. It doesn't invalidate the fact that valid ideas exist within both. Also, they aren't using your signaling channels. For example, music doesn't seem to be a relevant cultural rallying point any more.
This author must have missed the 2017-2021 presidential term in the US. There are some very strong differences of opinion out there, and they have a significant impact on the nature and direction of creative work. There is without doubt a strong counter-cultural push brewing up from the world of podcasts too which will probably herald a golden age of intelligent mass political debate (clearing a truly low historical bar).
What are the great creative works you identify with the alt-right? I know lots of great leftist artists, musicians, etc. but I don't see alt-righters making a lot of daring indie cinema for instance.
So the author realized he is consuming only the mainstream culture and concluded anything other is too hard to notice, therefore not a counterculture?
Having your own vehicle is an enormous benefit in quality of life, why would anybody want to take that away? Why should we then eat nice food when we can survive on dull rations? There is so much more to the use of personal vehicles than just "transportation needs", but yes - some places build their infrastructure too much catering to cars.

The best way to beat traffic right now without having to wait for anybody else to change is to get a motorcycle - if the climate where you live permits.
Project Enable – The Diné-English Biology Dictionary
This is probably the best advice
We apply the overall same strategy (individual DB for each test created from a template).

Our whole test suite (integration + unit tests) takes ~80 seconds to run for ~800 integration tests (each with their own DB) and 300 unit tests. And that's on my dev laptop (T14s, cpu: i7-1185G7) without much optimization (mainly fsync = off in postgresql.conf).

In fact, I just ran a quick test, and just putting the DB on a tmpfs cuts that time to ~40 seconds.

So overall 0.1 to 0.05 second per test on average, same ballpark as parent (and it's kind of an over estimation actually since we have a dozen or so of slow tests taking 5 to 10 seconds).

Note that the tests are run in parallel however.
My discover weekly used to be great, but at some point it broke and started suggesting me finnish, dutch and german music. Despite me always skipping them in the discover weekly.
There's a bit more to it than that. Identifying with my ideas makes challenging them stressful, yes, but debate changes a potential eustress into distress. A dialectic where we're trying to leverage different initial perspectives to both arrive at a better understanding of the truth feel like I'm risking something valuable to win something more valuable. It's stressful but exhilarating. A debate just feels like I'm protecting something of value from someone who brings nothing of value to the interaction. Because I assign value to ideas, debate feels inherently destructive and negative-sum.
Works with games quite often, it seems.

I guess the enormity of the challenge is modulated several factors, including if you are trying to invent an entirely new product category, implementing a solution to known problem for lot of users, or "just" creating a new title in an established genre.
We can, don't have them on hand though. There's still a huge number of houses with B or lower ratings, so I only if you're looking at new builds do you have to count plusses ;)
> Purely algorithmic feeds work for TikTok because people want to shut their brains off when they use the app.

I and many like me are actively engaging our brains while we use TikTok. We are intentional about training the algorithm through all the various signals and use it to bring us the content we want to discover. Personally, I would never use it with my brain shut off.
Tangential, but it appears this submission has been pushed off the front page despite being only 2 hours old with 184 points, which seems unusual?
Working less is the purpose of the economy.
You'll still have to accept an hour or so of elevated humidity. I prefer not to.
Referred to in a news report as being 'like looking for a needle in a haystack', but with the convenience that the needle is detectable at quite a distance (10s of metres), assuming it hasn't fallen down a crack or been covered by something.
Wilsonville, Oregon could do well with one, too! Now that Fry's Electronics is gone.
> If software dev had been licensed and regulated this way we’d have only a tiny fraction of what we have now in terms of languages, OSes, tooling, etc.

It's starting to sound like a very good idea.

> There are specific areas where it makes sense but doing it broadly will just halt all innovation.

Or speed it by focusing efforts on well designed software.
YouTube and TikTok are not counterculture but they are the platforms where counterculture happens.

> a social media "influencer" with millions of followers is not countercultural.

A social media "influencer" could be more important to a younger audience than other mediums, meaning this is the "culture" they will try to counter.

Edit: narrowed it down a little.
Stewart Butterfield comes to mind, founded Flickr and then Slack.