skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neoliberalism is a late 20th Century reactionary response in economic ideology against the continued progressive development of the modern mixed economy which generally replaced more pure capitalism from the mid-20th century.

It is neither in itself an economic system, nor is it particularly responsible for prosperity (its responsible mainly for austerity).
The market will never produce below market rate housing.

If you want below market rate housing, it has to be subsidized.

As is the case here...try to find a $99/night rack rate hotel room in Mountain View.

Here, Google is subsidizing well paid workers, not ordinary working poor or even low wage employees of its cleaning contractors.
Use https://controlplane.com - you'll get multiple regions and ultra low cost and fun user experience.
A non compliant website wouldn’t be indexed as well.
Yes, and I meant to imply that the alien thing is a hoax, but the UFOs are real tech. Obviously. Come on!
HN karma/1000 is a good proxy for GitHub stars so you just need the repo.
I'm worried about this and feel like "vim" as actively maintained software probably also died today.
Good morning I hate git

All of my co-workers use git GUIs.

I use the CLI, not out of love for it, but because git is so needlessly complex and arcane that I'm scared to use GUIs. For every other tool, I prefer to use GUIs, but they're simple enough that I don't get surprised and there's no major consequences (such as making me spend 2 hours researching a solution) if there's an issue. Not so with git. Git has an awful CLI. It's needlessly complex for 99.999% of projects.

I write in Evernote notebooks as a learning journal and also a personal knowledge base (howto guides, troubleshooting guide, snippets, etc). Every note is written for a good reason, there's no meaningless info in it.

Here is the number of notes in my git notebook, along with a few others for comparison:

-git: 55 notes

-Linux: 200 notes

-C++: 130 notes

It's insane that git occupies so much mental space considering it's a single-purpose tool.

I truly wish it was never created, or at least never caught on, we might have another decentralized VCS dominating the space with an interface written for normal people.

If anyone other than Linus Torvalds had written it, we would all be using something else. If midwit geeks weren't so vain and wanted to feel cool for using the same VCS as the Linux kernel, we could've been using something else. (No, I can't choose to use something else, the dominant winner affects you whether you like it or not, same as IE6 and Chrome.)
The aliens are a hoax! Come on! How is everyone so gullible that that is how you interpret me?
I will likely use some form of vim as my editor for the entirety of my professional life. Wish I could say I wrote software that would be used for an entire person’s lifetime. RIP Bram, you did good.
>To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft.

FWIW, I think this is a much stronger argument against the existence of aliens than “they don’t fit with our current understanding of physics (which is known to be incomplete anyway)”.
This link is impossible to read on mobile, can't even scroll

Edit, actually it's a full screen ad that's really difficult to get around
Next step, those browsers are declared illegal and users got to jail
Well said. Where I work, the only people who talk about languages and compare languages are the people who are language nerds, who know many languages and are learning/discovering new languages. Most people just chug along with whatever their job requires and provides -- the default IDEs and other tools with default settings. They may not even know the latest syntaxes/features in the language they use every day.
Yes, yes, this person gets it. Thank you.
I always just new tab -> type. Navigating to wikipedia first is a drag.
> and the number of people who have spent that much time purely in their spare time (i.e. not as part of their job, like Torvalds or van Rossum) is smaller still.

I agree, but the fact that there's a non-zero amount of people doing it shouldn't be overlooked. For example maintainer of qutebrowser (who also happen to be in pytest core team) and apart from a teaching job at an university a couple of months per year, he's working full time on OSS. The main characteristics they share (at least those I met) seem to be a deep love for the craft, a deep love for people, and be virtually unfazed by the amount of money they can make if they weren't doing that.
RIP Bram
Damn. Rest in peace. Thank you for your hard work on my favourite editor. All the best to his loved ones.
That one is clearly rotating. Magnetic levitation with a rotating field is not too difficult (you can get levitating flower pots as cheap novelty toys) but the sample in the new video appears fully static.

Edit: relevant Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin-stabilized_magnetic_levit...
yeah usually it bothers me, but in this case it frames the content quite nicely
Afraid to point this out, less people get the idea to enforce web integrity at the ISP level, like some of the efforts against music piracy / torrenting.
Checking in on troubles with dark matter
[1]: https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt

Oops
It’s not magic, it’s a psyop, the aliens are fake, and y’all are gullible fools.
RIP. I started using Vim on Slackware iirc. Haven’t stopped.

I checked out various other clones back in the day — vim was way better afaict.

PS: A major reason I use Vim rather than Emacs is that the arrow keys worked in Vim but not emacs. On Slackware. No I don’t use the ijkl keys to move in Vim. :) :) #blubvimmer
RIP Bram and thank you. I use VIM every day.
I am pretty sure the original materials also had to be sand blasted then shop primed. Raw steel material usually comes without any protection and stays outside for a long time.
> Cars shaped human society, governments and urban plans to be heavily dependent on roads and all the car assistance economy. Think Houston/Los Angeles vs. Copenhagen/Amsterdam.

Copenhagen and Amsterdam were well on their way to becoming as car dependent as any other American city. It's not just that those cities were built before the car, it's that at some point they decided to stop shaping their city for the car.
weak and strong forces are mediated by particles that have mass and therefore their force falls off basically exponentially, as exp(-m*r)
it's not really the same as decaying in extra dimensions, because in that case the force law would look something like 1/r^(n-1)
Love vim
You can interpret it as pettiness or just a humorous remark said with a smile.
Yes and no. The “poor” may very little to no income tax. But the poor pay sales tax on almost everything they buy and that’s a flat 7-12% and so is really regressive. Although this is skipped for items paid for with government food assistance (eg, SNAP).

And if you’re working poor (ie making $20k/year) you’re paying 7.5% in payroll taxes to cover social security and Medicare. This is also flat and so regressive.

You certainly pay less percentage and less absolute taxes than the rich, but it’s still something.

The challenge is that it’s hard to reduce these taxes any lower. Unless you want to change social security to a straight income redistribution program and not the pretend pension it is now and do something like the first $50k isn’t taxed and 10x the taxes on people from 50-200k (currently only 0-168k is taxed but almost half of people only make 50k so taking off the bottom drastically reduces tax revenue).

Or you could remove sales tax on people who make less than $20k but that’s hard to monitor properly and rebates don’t help much with day to day needs.

Tl:dr; the poor pay taxes, but not that much.
That mega man clone is great. The movement feels exactly how I remember mega man 3 feeling. You absolutely nailed it. I also appreciate how you've set up the code, with the build script being written in zig. I checked the code out, compiled it, ran the web server and bam! It just worked. It doesn't seem like that should be a big deal, but competence is such an exotic bird in these woods that I appreciate it whenever I see it.
Why do you not think so..... what if the internet was patented? What if copper was patented?
Good for whom? Good for me? No. Good for totalitarians and their bootlickers? yes.
Entity Resolution Challenges
star trek vs star wars is the clear distinction for me.

Not sure I agree with the premise that star trek has elements of science fantasy because the idea of humanity working together flawlessly is unrealistic. I mean he is right it is unrealistic, but by that token any fiction piece is technically "fantasy".
This kind of ignores the fact that there are real differences between languages. Anyone who has programmed in a few languages knows that. For instance, consider the pain of setting up projects in Python or C++ to that of Go or Rust.

Clearly intrinsic quality is a factor, and likelihood of being a greenfield project is a factor too.
Related:

https://jonathanhaidt.com/

https://righteousmind.com/
Kind of sucks when you're on a flight and have to pick between charging the phone and listening to the movie.
I agree that it is definitely Science Fantasy. All of humanities memories somehow encoded in DNA and interstellar space travel from taking too many drugs. It also has force fields and anti gravity.
The fact it was a direct influence for Star Wars is more evidence that they belong in the same category.
None of those matter, IMO.

A flight ticket itself may be ephemeral, but the plane and the fuel are not. Overpaying for convenience becomes oversupply for convenience, which at the scale of "everyone gets it" requires massive overproduction.

Houses will indeed always have a "location location location" premium; but the dynamics of this also changes if everyone has far more economic power — $900k is currently enough to commute by private plane, opening up many small places that are currently too out-of-the-way to get such attention, though I don't have any idea if that can actually scale given airport capacities and densities.
>took his science and technology very seriously

>he didn't put fictional technology in his stories

Aka hard sci-fi.
I know they took a hit on advertising, but hasn’t the daily active user count of Twitter increased since the acquisition?
Bram wrote the only bit of software that never let me down once. RIP. You've done good to the world.
That is extremely cool. I'd love to have a walk though if how this works.
Recommend switching to Firefox on mobile. uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are available on Firefox Mobile as add-ons.
They do, and it's progressive, but the trick is so do the rich because they make all their money on capital gains and that's a lower rate. It's really the middle class to honest small business owner level that gets hosed on income taxes, make enough money to pay a good bit of taxes but not enough to have exotic tax shelters and the really creative accountants.
You should probably add that it is your company ;)
Yeah agree. The world becomes a bleak place if people are not allowed to joke around a bit, especially harmless jokes as those.
Imagining Blind Willie Johnson's Dark was the Night playing in background while Voyager drifting through the infinite interstellar void, reaching further humanity has ever reached, still gives me goosebumps to this day.
The submarine he was inspired by never went deeper than 10 meters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Plongeur. It's still science fiction even if the speculative technology is based on very solid real-world evidence - that just makes it hard sci-fi.
> Do you have some difficulty in interactions?

No.

I do have 40+ years of observing commenters on internet forums assuming unknowns are male by default.

Maybe think about that?
The poor pay taxes through sales and payroll taxes, so it’s not just income tax, I think it’s a fairly safe assumption that it represents a larger share of their income than it does to rich people.

Most billionaires don’t even earn money from a salary, but instead from lower taxed capital gains.

But reducing the argument to rich vs.
poor also misses out how unfair the tax system is to the middle class of wage earners in the US.
I sure hope the Archangel-class ships in the Hyperion cantos are Science Fantasy :’)
Why would you want to change a password?

One obvious reason is a data breach. But are they so common to be of concern?

I have a dead simple tool to generate secure scrypt hash and encode it to letters+digits+symbols.

And I do not remember my counter / rules. Whenever I need a password, I just use the default parameters, if the password fails - I could just increase counter few times until it succeeds.

Let's be real, if a service gets 5+ data breaches in less than a decade - it should be avoided.
So Rusts future is to be hated. That'll be fun to watch.

I think a missing bit critique is that a lot of the 'hated' langs are ones that started out forging a very opinionated style of doing things. Think java and classes for OOP.
Its a Pro Publica story anyway, that link should have been posted.

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel...
Lol no. Poor heads of households pay less income taxes, but regressive taxes always target them. Hell, most states even extract fees from benefit payments!

Why? You can easily compel compliance and there are millions more poor people tha. rich people. The way laws are structured today, the marginal dollar costs a lot to extract from a billionaire.
Okay! I’m not here to tell anyone what to eat, so all I can say is I don’t have an opinion on that.
That’s just magic by another name. You believe in magic to assuage your fears and help with a world that can feel too nuanced and complex. Simple answers soothe. That’s something humans have been doing for a long, long time. If it helps, great!
There ought to be a way to force the camera hardware to use a lower resolution.
> So you don't vote either?

Actually, no. I'm in NYC so there's no point unless NY even begins to approach becoming purple, at least as long as the EC remains in place.

> It's impact on the environment individually is tiny. But it also impacts the market and other eaters (voters).

People are not going to go vegan though. Even if they were to consider it, it still wouldn't overall make a big difference unless industries changed.
Though iOS is, out of the box, more private than stock (non-AOSP) Android, nothing compares to a custom ROM. You can even debloat android and disable play services, if you don't want to risk bricking your device, or if there aren't any custom ROMs available.

Of course, the average Joe wouldn't do that, but I guess most people on HN are quite tech savvy.
Seems to frame political division as mainly a type of class struggle dictated by education. Implying that any lack of sufficient leftness corresponds directly to a lack of education.
That's a Brahmin accent, and it's completely dead. Maybe a couple of old ladies at the Athenaeum talk like that.
blackr, if you'd allow a small plug: we develop https://jetpack.io/devbox for this very scenario.

Devbox will give you the same project environment (packages, env-vars) on your work and home laptop. It leverages nix, and uses your native file-system avoiding the overhead and complexity of using Docker.
Wasn't it a movie?
I'm not sure how you got that impression from my comment.

But for the sake of argument, I'm saying "complect" is neither simple *nor* easy. It's obviously not easy since it's unfamiliar. But nor is it simple, or to be really precise, no simpler than alternatives, since it doesn't conceptually improve on plain words and phrases like "complicate", "intertwine", "mix up", "separate", "tease apart", etc. It adds nothing, really.

Your comment kind of highlights some of the errors many take away from "Simple Made Easy": that ease is in opposition to simplicity and/or that they are completely orthogonal.
Thanks, will check it out.

Well „need“ of course it a bit ambiguous. „It would make our life substantially easier if we had 99.99%“ would pretty much summarize it :)
In the case of US users and Tor, the situation is more complicated. The US military encourages Tor use because it helps to mask their own traffic (Tor was developed by the US Navy for this purpose, after all). It's unclear who would prevail in a political struggle between the copyright cartels and the military.
Revived, then.
Perhaps unrelated, but I wonder who these mentors were in the case of people like da Vinci, Socrates, Archimedes, Newton et al. They must have had some adults who guided them toward what they're known for. It seems absurd to believe that they just happened to grow up like that. It's as if everybody today, once you skim the "Early Life" section, it turns out had something fantastic, like a mother who was a Fields medalist, or uncle who invented this or that. The more that I see, the more I'm of the opinion that "genius" is simply:

1. effort, usually from youth, that nobody knows about so it appears to be innate

2. the effort is motivated and guided by some mentor(s), usually people with serious qualifications, like your Fields medalist uncle deciding to take you under his wing, after you said "math is fun :D" one time at 7 years old when he told you his job was "to do math :)" upon you asking him as children like to do, and turn you into a Fields-winning adult

This reminds me of those people who pretend they're a genius because they can guess the day of the week if you give them a date, when the reality is that anybody can learn to do that because it's just an algorithm[1] that you can calculate in your head and practice to the point that you come off as if you have a photographic memory or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
With a field moving as quickly as AI right now, you should probably take any predictions over what it will be able to do and not do with a big grain of salt, especially if they are made for any timespan greater than the very near term future (months? weeks? That term will itself get shorter and shorter as time goes on).

Very few people, including the author of this study most likely, predicted a few years ago where AI would be today. That should tell you something.
Do you want CMYK? help Inkscape to implement it for the next version 1.4 [video]
This is an idea I've preached for a while now. Software requirements, goals, deadlines- all that stuff can be planned. Even the architecture can be sketched out. But, for any sophisticated piece of software, you'll never get the actual code right the first time. If you think it's right, dig deeper. Find everything that's wrong with it, and do it again with those problems fixed. Great software and great art have one thing in common: the best version is never the first.
There's a book on the computers used at NASA from the beginning through to when it was written - late 80s, I think. Whole thing is available online [1]

It has a chapter titled "Voyager - The Flying Computer Center". [2] It gives a high-level overview of the computers and software. Three different processors, each dual redundant. 18 and 16 bit machines. Comparable to early 1970s minicomputers.

There's a good talk about the computers on the Voyagers available online here. [3]

As far as I know, beyond what's available between those two sources, very little otherwise is available publicly on the computer hardware itself - no detailed architecture descriptions, instruction sets, electronics details, etc. And no software listings. Though if I had to guess the 18-bit machines are a lot like - but not the same as - the OBP/AOP/NSSC series [4].

A bit of Voyager trivia: the computers were reprogrammed in-flight to give new abilities the Voyagers didn't have at launch, such as new image compression algorithms to allow more images to be returned than originally anticipated.

[1] https://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html

[2] https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSSC-1
RIP Bram the Legend.
People here may also be interested to see this analysis of the state of SQL:2011 "temporal table" feature adoption: https://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2019/08/sql2011-surve...

I don't think much has really changed since, and I'm not sure Postgres is any closer to addressing this natively (although there have been extensions, e.g. https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal).
This answers a question I had when they first announced the problem: how did they know it was 2 degrees off? Answer: because it was their mistake that threw it off, so they knew precisely where it was pointing.
Internet creators are pretty disposable. There’s more than anyone can possibly keep track of, new ones every week, and last year’s models are already obsolete. Few people become ‘superstars’ without doing some work for it. Are these ‘creators’ building a body of work that will sustain them in the long run?
When I was a PhD student, I switched to a MBP because I had more interesting things to solder (and code, analyze, write, etc). I wanted something that just worked and keeping it that way would be someone else’s problem.

“Sex” definitely didn’t enter into it!
US Navy sailors charged with stealing secret info for China
Actually, https://controlplane.com provides 99.999% availability SLA. The reason it is able to do so is because it distributes your containerized workloads across multiple regions on multiple clouds (you pick the regions and clouds). You can have a single region or 200 regions - with the same effort. It then charges you by the millicore (1,000th of a vCPU core) for exactly what your app uses. It gives you metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, secrets management, service discovery, auto-TLS and you can trivially use your own domain name. You get the power of the hyper-scalers with the ease of use of Heroku. The best part is that it lets you mix-n-match ALL/ANY service from any cloud in your code without you having to deal with credentials! Meaning you can use S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Big Query, Big Table, Cosmos DB, etc. - across AWS, GCP and Azure and you can even run your code on-premises or on ANY providers such as Linode, Hetzner, Contabo, Equinix, Oracle, etc. In short - it is the "non-toy" way to run your code when failure is not an option, but at a ridiculously low cost.
Thank you Bram!
Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts
How do you know he is belittling a former student?
Seems like people who are taller are going to replace me. And post about it on their socials
It’s more that the system itself is designed with the assumption of a super fast SSD, so it keeps way more in both ram and swap longer because it can swap fast enough to not be bottlenecked.

So almost no matter how much ram you get, in multi-application day to day workflows it’ll still use swap sometimes just because it can.

If your workflow involves something like giant objects in python or huge data structures that need to be in ram for performance, then you need the ram. But for use cases like 2,000 browser tabs plus photoshop plus Lightroom plus ten electron apps, mac osx “feels” like it has way more ram than an equivalent windows machine.
Another HN post on cement+carbon as capacitor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951089
I'm looking forward to X becoming half the world's financial system. It'll be fast, secure, no scams, cheap and very reliable.
They prefer that you think that. There's nothing about a 3.5mm jack that prevents it being waterproof.

It does prevent millions of people buying Earpods, however.
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