skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My view is that climate change is a lost cause, so instead I'm focusing on adaptation to the new normal.

I hate this attitude. You may be doing everything possible as an individual to prevent further climate change, but the majority of people I hear spouting this attitude do not.

It's based on the premise that there will actually be some sort of "new normal" that is worth surviving for. The ongoing impact of our actions is indeterminable - we could end up with something so inconceivably bad that all your adaptation efforts are pointless, or that you simply cannot live a life of any value when compared to the early 21st century.

Also, it smacks of "F*ck you, I've got mine". You assume that the impact of climate change are survivable, apparent by the fact that you want to focus on adaptation, but this attitude ignores the fact that there are billions of other people on the planet. Maybe climate change can be survived by us in our situation with all our first world advantages, but there are millions, possibly billions, who don't have that choice.

Focus on adaptation for all you like, but please don't forget that prevention is greater than cure and that it's not too late.
LTSB user here: I had zero trouble installing VS and other software on it.
Relating to the article, it was the most painful install I've ever had to deal with, precisely because of Windows Update
History: https://www.filfre.net/2017/05/an-independent-interplay-take...
We are well OT but it is interesting to hear the different experiences with Gmail spam filter. I never look there except for curiosity. False positives are extremely rare...for me.
If only the world had worked out this way. In the meantime, let's build a distributed social network to impoverish FAANG.
Government is, however, accountable (generally) inways private corps aren't.

The list of corporate abuses up through straight violence and mass murder is long and deep.

This response also pointedly omits the prospects for (and, yes, pitfalls of) regulation.
DOWN VOTE DOWN VOTE DOWN VOTE DOWN VOTE, BANNED.
Wait, so if I've paid the subscription fee for 2 years I get the one at the start of the subscription period?

Some lag from the latest version seems fair, e.g. 6 months before the latest major version is perpetual...
As someone who's in the same boat (Late twenties. Moved to a country where I don't know anyone. "Discovered" that most people already have friends, and they don't materialise spontaneously as they used to at uni.), your comment resonates with me.

What do you think is required to bond at these things? I've done a couple of after-work activities in an attempt to socialise, but I haven't struck gold yet. (At cooking class, people seem more interested in catching their train, than socialising afterwards.)

It's occurred to me that any out of hours activity just has far less social exposure than what I'm used to. For example, at school you'd sit next to someone for 8 hours a day. To get the same kind of exposure from a weekly 1 or 2-hour class would take 1 or two months!

I'm wondering if you have any thoughts about which aspects helped bridge this in your case. A deep, shared interest in Esperanto? Luck? Nothing in particular?
- News

Best TV and radio channels across the globe are government channels, funded by tax.

- content creators on youtube & twitch

99,99% dispensable trash.

- music

Music funded by ads???

- search

The only point that holds in your list. Could perfectly be funded by ISPs as part of our Internet subscription.

- blogs & websites with tutorials

No need for funding. Cost to setup is zero (provided by ISP) or close to zero (basic hosting or domain name registering).
MMM has done a blog post covering the issue of how long it takes to save for early [or not] retirement at a spread of savings rates.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

Under his assumptions, to retire in 20 years takes a savings rate of around 44%.
You're being downvoted but my work with a state government frightened me. It was amazing how many contractors are building castles of crap and then protecting them so that they can make an exorbitant living off of the teat of the taxpayer - and I'm about as liberal as one gets - AND this was at the state level.
Maybe it's possible to create a sort of tiered system. The latest news and top stories are always free, but the detailed analysis and exposes (the stuff that usually wins awards) require a subscription. On the more local news level, maybe require a subscription to read the restaurant reviews or something.

I'm not going to pretend that this is the end all solution. But both the open web and journalism cannot survive in the present state. We have to adapt.
This is fabulous:

After retiring, Ms. Bloom agreed to move to a senior residence mainly because “she wanted to find a good bridge game,” said Ms. Bornstein, a retired social worker.

To scout them out, and finally to move into one on the Upper West Side, she insisted on taking the subway, Ms. Bornstein said.
Ouch. And they later sold for $9.2 million. I sure have some questions about what they spent the money on.
VPN Reviews and Free VPN Comparison Charts for 2018
Finger still has some use; you can take any running job from https://zuul.openstack.org, extract the uuid and

finger uuid@zuul.openstack.org

and it will stream the job logs to you. Most of the code in

https://git.zuul-ci.org/cgit/zuul/tree/zuul/lib/fingergw.py
Getting a green card and going back to work in China...As a employee, it'll really hurt you financially as you will pay taxes in both countries, and neither of them has low tax rates.
https://www.amazon.ca/Becoming-Supple-Leopard-2nd-Performanc...
Wow, I never knew this! I will definitely be doing it now. Does anyone happen to know if this will overwrite this new learning setting?
The problem with advice like this, which could be summed as “don’t use the snoo” or “avoid white noise” is the null hypothesis is worse than the mild application of your advice. The result is parents are over tired all the time and are worse parents at all other times.
The net loss, including all offsets, has been 1 million.
> CL also has unhygienic macros, non-lispy loop grossness, lots of cruft, lots of poorly named functions that are named two different ways in two different places, and generally reeks of the 70s.

That's all true enough; I believe that non-hygienic macros are a vital capability of a programming language (and Common Lisp being a Lisp-n makes them much less of a problem), and that LOOP is okay. I don't mind the cruft much: it's a mostly-backwards-compatible language, and backwards-compatibility is important; it's why Lisp code from the 80s can still run now, almost 40 years later.

I don't hate Scheme, really: it's a very neat little language. But it's completely unsuited for production work on large systems, which are what I'm interested in. Case in point: call/cc. It's nifty, really cool and absolutely has no place in any production system — it's ultimately just a very-lightly-structured GOTO.
A piece of folk wisdom I picked up along the way was you often end up needing a "Behavior a" and an "Event a" that fires when the Behavior changes. The reason I switched from dabbling-with-reactive-banana to dabbling-with-reflex is exactly that I needed "Dynamic"s.The semantics for Behavior require that it doesn't appear to change value until the frame has finished updating, so you either need to keep an Event around that fires the "new value" in the current frame or use a more powerful library.

Remark: Event is a Monoid or a Semigroup only when the contained value is either a Semigroup. The most useful combining ability comes from Behavior's Applicative instance.
>Regarding traffic - it is really sad that in the epicenter of tech

That people still sit in traffic for hours so that they can sit in front of their laptops all day in a germ-farm office and poop next to their coworkers.

It's dance monkey mentality. It's living in the past.
This reminds me so much of “Gryzzl” on Parks and Rec.

“We just want to learn everything about you, collect all your data and watch everything you do”
It's kind of like a membership to a club. You can see some of the symbols on various websites.

People and companies pay to be a member of these clubs. Basically, it's saying that no one is going to step on each other's toes. Not being a member would make things hard for you to do business.

This obviously isn't universal to all industries. As far as I know there are no written legal codes, so it's basically an example of self-policing a la libertarianism, where you pay to play and follow the rules.
Don't they do that anyway as part of the static fire tests and when a launch is aborted?
Thank you for the dialog. So I think it's fair to say we have not properly addressed the local fallout of globalism in the US (by doing any of the things you suggest) which is likely in part why we're seeing a call for protectionist stances on international trade, and very possibly the reason Trump is sitting in office.

Similar to you, I'd be curious what people are doing to underwrite human rights via trade deals so we globally don't regress to the mean, but that's a topic for another time. If underwriting human rights became expensive or a requirement in certain states in theory it impacts the free market...
What? Am I doing my math wrong? Photoshop upgrades were always $199. Photoshop subscriptions are $239 a year. So upgrading every 3 year is $199 vs paying a subscription for 3 year is $747. How is paying nearly 3x keeping money in your business?
It's fine that this thread turned into a software subscription debate, but there's one thing troubling, very troubling, around the news subscription model:

These paywalls are blocking information about current events and one can argue that a society has an interest in keeping its population up to date on local and world events. Now, if all the reliable media will appeal mostly to people with means, what exactly are we expecting to happen?
I block video content distribution sites at the source, via my router.

Ditching Chrome is another excellent and recommended option.
It's hard to imagine that TCO for NetApp + Gitlab is less than Github or some other hosted solution.
Substitute in some housework for the commute and that's basically my day.

Some nights we decide to use our "couples time" for reading, and that's nice but also doesn't happen too often because we do actually need some time to talk to each other as well. :)
You're in luck. You get the version 12 months before the subscription ended, so the version released before the 1 year mark.
Curious as to the reasoning behind your theory?

I'm not disagreeing, I honestly am not knowledgeable or well-read enough to decisively agree or disagree, but the rationale behind why semiconductors would have saved the USSR from its demise sounds fascinating
> The market that they're aiming for is only a few launches a year'

In 1958, the chairman of IBM stated 'I think there is a world market for about five computers'.

He wasn't wrong, because back then computers were extraordinarily expensive and occupied entire buildings. There was maybe a worldwide market of about 5 of those kinds of computers.

What happened though was that due to technological advances, computers became cheaper, smaller, more efficient and more reliable and it drastically changed the entire market, and now almost everyone has a computer in their pocket.

The market for rocket launches will also significantly take off if SpaceX can bring the cost down and the reliability up.
(I hope you are not talking about Visual Studio Code which is a an entirely different product.)

I've tried Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition on Windows 10 LTSB a few months ago and it never worked. Good to hear it worked for you.
This does highlight the fact that before the internet, you paid for your news. TV or Newspaper.
And how many such regulations that only add on "rounding errors" to the cost of creating housing exist?
they are way way more expensive now. I only upgraded every other version so $199 every 4 years or $50 a year. current Photoshop subscriptions is $239 a year or nearly 5x the price
Can you compare yourself to other OSM services then? I've only glanced at them but I know they exist and am curious how your market research may have led you to creating a new product.
Do we really have to pander to people who can’t find a play button?

How do these people function at crosswalks or in elevators?
I used to do reliability analyses for a large aerospace contractor, I may have some insights. The stuff I worked on was not HSF (Human Space Flight) just automated sats and the like. Each and every single part is spoken for and tallied. Each resistor on a PCB, each explosive bolt, each screw and panel. All of it has a lifetime curve, typically a Bathtub plot, to an extreme degree. Resistors were tested in vast batches, over vast I-V ranges, in hard radiation and vacuum, in vibe, for long periods. You calculate it all out. Something approaching the far upper reaches of the expected 'black swans' is tested and the part is proofed against it. Our stuff was just comms and the like, granted, but even then, the expected lifetime of each satellite was fairly well known out to about 20 years in orbit. A typical figure for a 15 year mission was a 75% chance of it making it the whole way, including launch. It's checked to an extreme degree. I've had people come back and correct an un-dotted 'i' symbol in a handwritten notebook. Really.

HSF is easily 100x higher tolerances.

Some stuff, you have to live with, some stuff (like the panels and the o-rings) is too far fetched for even NASA to think up beforehand. And if you've ever been to The Cape, you know they will never forgive themselves. They try their very best to think it all up. They really really do. NASA may be full of brains, but damned if they aren't all real heroes there on the ground. Those folk have heart more than anything else.

Per Aspera Ad Astra does not fucking cut it.
One of my fav books, that story about him being in Germany with a friend and his son, and watching this young kid scream over the edge of a dropoff really hit something for me. There is something in us with that energy and we shouldn't ignore it.
From child: "They just took the default provisioning profile which is the same as a end user install of Pro".

So the problem is that "Professional" should never include crapware and adverts.

I don't mind being charged from Professional (in fact we always upgrade non-test Windows installs).

I definitely mind having to treat a clean Windows Professional install like a cheap laptop install.
Edible Arrangements; ugh! I call them Botulism Bouquet. Let’s see how much surface area we can create with melons.
A 1950s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail
41 Things You Should Say “No” to to Become the Person You Want to Be
This is why I don't have sympathy for chronically poor people in developed countries. Apart from serious disabilities, most poor people actually have high incomes but can't stop spending money every day on luxuries to entertain themselves.
I've had moments with teams where everything is just connected and everything works, every person has latched onto something, we don't talk, the next pass goes perfectly and the next one. It is like being part of something bigger than yourself. Everyone is in the zone and all makes sense.

I've got no idea on the war thing, but it is something truly magical that I will treasure for the times it did happen.
That seems like a pretty significant government overreach. Forcing solar panels on every house just doesn't make sense, and I think people should have the freedom to chose whether or not they want them. Its fine to add incentives, but forcing them seems extremely especially when there are houses in very shady areas that will not benefit much from solar panels.
What if I'm hit by a bus and killed the day before I retire?
So I tried to explore the site as a firefox user, this is the type of stuff I get: Big warning and messages to install Google Chrome [1][2] without even then attempting to give it a shot in firefox for some demos from what I can tell (I may be mistaken, perhaps firefox is breaking still).

Given the impressive amount of work they put into the site, it's unfortunate a few lines of feature detection and polyfills weren't placed in there, because maybe then this could be a `sed -i /install google chrome/install Firefox/` fixup.

(I say that on the presumption that firefox is now able to handle the multimedia stuff which has been my personal experience with it, though not quite at the same level as the artist, just some pitch shifts and hand rolled synth stuff).

1: https://imgur.com/a/4rMgv7g
2: https://imgur.com/a/j90myrD
Most of the word I'd like to use doesn't fly here.

But what part of "No, never" does Google not understand?

Nuke Chrome, Android, Youtube, and Web search.
Vancouver residents embrace ‘collective housing’ in face of real-estate woes
>- content creators on youtube & twitch

>99,99% dispensable trash.

Yes, the thousands of tutorials/guides and content that people enjoy watching is trash. Everything that I don't find agreeable is trash.

>No need for funding. Cost to setup is zero (provided by ISP) or close to zero (basic hosting or domain name registering).

Yes, no need to give people money for work they do.

Do you have any respect for the work that goes into the content you read and or watch every day? Or do you think people should just be content volunteering their effort for no reward?

>The only point that holds in your list. Could perfectly be funded by ISPs as part of our Internet subscription.

Yes. Perfectly. Let's just tack on another $50 a month. Or are you actually suggesting that ISPs should just do it out of their good will?
Does he have a blog or an interview somewhere? I would love to read that!
Not sure what your point is here -- A chance of reaching the future means you shouldn't plan for the future at all, even though statistically most people do survive to retirement age?
There are a lot of 'you' statements in there that sound more like they probably are 'I' statements. Alot of what is written is not true for me. I've made friends at work that I hang out with outside of work and I do hobbies and exercise with new people. No one's stopping anyone from living a life like the one you described though.
Show HN: DevStuffs: Some useful tools for developers
POGS is complete
my parents have always been frugal and wise with their money. My dad lost his job at age 51 and couldn't find another job so he retired. His last salary, in 1981, was 30K a year. But he's good at the stock market. My mom says they've never touched the principal.

In addition, tax laws are written to benefit those who earn without working. The first $75k in qualified dividends is tax free. In 2017 he grossed about $120k, $80k in qualified dividends. With deductions, etc... his federal tax bill was $2k. And no social security. With their expenses about $50k, it compounds rather quickly. He's now 86.
Is this technically "insider trading" in as much as she had privileged information to inform her buys, which were not general market exposed?

I think not, they were personal buys from her line bosses, but I'm scratching my head a bit, if this would have been ethical had the buys being made in the office been for clients, and not her direct employers personal benefit.
One perfect example of a shitty conversion to subscription is the adobe suite.
PS: trying to test Edge 17 today. 3 hours later I have found many critical bugs...

1. Edge in tablet mode, portrait, on low end tablet: you can't get to the far right hand side of your web page. Happens on major sites. (Scroll bar at bottom of <body> is missing right hand arrow - showing that it is an Edge bug).

2. Pressing keys trying to get screen shot: Goes into voice mode. You can't get into Settings to turn it off (Start | Settings doesn't work with touch).

3. Voice mode - cannot shut down laptop by swiping down.

4. So turned off using long press and got blue screen.

This is junk.
Could that work? I'm wondering aloud.
Thanks for that, I can see these things would be useful - but are they a 'killer app'? Like it seems a lot of work to figure out the abstraction to build the monad, when I don't really need to do this, cause I only have to do this one thing. Or are there a bunch of monads people have already figured out? and I can say when I strike this problem I can use this monad write a few lines of code and go home? Maybe thats the goal? I can see technically its interesting but I can't see a really good reason to spend a lot of time learning this (and I am curious about them). Or are these tools for compiler writers and they'll filter down to us mere mortals? Like Swift can define types as optionals, which sort of looks like the Maybe in haskell (to me any way).

Edit: Like I started out as a C programmer, and then objects came along and I could see that would be useful because it localised the namespace among other things, then generics came along and they were instantly useful, languages have a lot of functional operations like first class functions and they're useful. Like all these things seemed obvious that they'd help write good code, Monads I just can't see why they're good - you've given a couple of examples and they seem useful, though they're not things I can't do with other language constructs, perhaps not as elegantly. I'm wondering if I'm missing something huge? :-)
25th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winning Entries
I use some of these tools from various sites almost everyday, so I wanted to put them all in one place during my bank holiday weekend. Please share your comment/suggestion.

I am thinking of making the source open, if people think it'd be useful.
The $199 upgrades were only after the initial PS purchase price of $699. The PS-only subscription is $9.99 a month. The $239 a year one "Includes 100GB of cloud storage, your own portfolio website, premium fonts, and social media tools". It is way cheaper now unless you go 5+ years without upgrades.
> If the sublime folk offered a “bug fix only” monthly subscription, I’d buy that. My grandfather went through a half day’s paycheck of tooling a month on his own dime. I figure bug fixes are the software equivalent of sharpening chisels, buying new bits, surfacing a mill, etc.

Except bits don't rot?
There are hundreds (thousands?) of commercial content-heavy websites that continually track engagement metrics and A/B test design differences all the time, and virtually every single one of them has chosen to bet their collective livelihoods on richer and more interactive media.
I had a friend who once told me that once you have kids socializing is easy by the nature of getting the kids out and meeting up with other parents. I have found this to ring true since having our first. We have met other parents through daycare, mutual parenting groups, and other distant relationships. Having a kid also makes this inherent struggle a bonding exercise for new friendships as you learn to rely or at least sympathize with each other.

Also, no one is ever stuck. On your time for self care you have to make an effort. This is a lesson you simply have to learn. I know I have.
The advice that's stuck in my head for building up a social group is: Schedule an event of your own choosing. Advertise it when you go to other events. Something that is easy to get to, undemanding, and not costly or highly exclusive(e.g. board game night, Wednesday night coffee at Starbucks). Let people you meet and want to be friends with know about it. Hold the event. Nobody shows up the first time - that's fine. And some crowds will never be receptive but you can't tell them what's good for them. Just keep holding it regularly on a strict schedule and letting folks know and eventually your circle appears. Then you can repeat this process, if you want, to filter the group down. It can swing quickly between empty and full calendar since time is actually relatively scarce.
Stopping by unannounced just to chit chat is much more common outside of the States. I think here there is much more a expectation of hosting.