skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the line: money doesn't buy happiness.

Yes, money sitting in my bank account doesn't make me happy.

However, my Porsche makes me quite happy. The townhouse I lived in brought me peace on the weekends. Buying plane tickets to wherever on a whim makes me happy. Buying nice clothes and wearing them makes me happy. Spending money to further my knowledge just because makes me happy.
This is obviously speculation, but development does not require direct access for a pivot to production. CI-Systems might be reachable from dev and I often see CI-Systems that are less well secured than prod. Pivoting from an owned CI to a prod system is often comparatively easy: inject code in the next build, the artifact is implicitly trusted (hey, it’s from a known-good source) and bang! Prod owned. Or developers expose their ssh keys via agents to dev systems, the same key works for prod and you might be in.

I share your curiosity :)
No surprise there. Feeling secure is one of the basic needs of people. It’s much easier to take risks if you have a fallback and don’t lose Berührung when things go wrong
Who gets to decide what's ignorant? What if I'm being sensible about what's ignorant, but I can't predict how society will feel in the future?
General Magic is still one of my favorite logos. Its a great example of the "playfulness" that was common in (or at least commonly branded in) software business in the 90s.
Hipster Antitrust is basically how antitrust used to function before Bork. Just about the same time when income inequality really started to accelerate
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> It's simple. Don't say ignorant things on the internet, especially when it's tied into your real life identity.

Kind of like saying “People who go to prison just shouldn’t commit crimes.” I don’t believe in making a case equivalence here.

Being publicly prosecuted has just as much to do with “who” you are as “what” you did. I’m personally not fine with this distinction.
One thing that I think too many people forget is: you actually want to be spied by China (change with any relevant country) rather than by your own country because your own country is much more likely interested by you than China! I always try to choose hardware or services in countries that are not mine for that reason.

For my children, I chose mail adresses in India (zoho.com) because I am french; not that I trust India more than France but because being spied by India will certainly be less harmful for French citizens than being spied by some European country. I will myself never use a French service or app.

I really laugh when I see my country releasing some new "trustful" services for French citizens: maybe it is true but I have very little to win (not being spied by a country that does not care about me anyway) and too much to lose (if a country is about to annoy you it will certainly be yours).

If I were a chinese citizen I would certainly not use Chinese products for the very same reason, but an American citizen should be more confident in using such services than in using american ones! Why do American people want to be spied by the very single country they really have to fear?
> Basically, the bad folks always ruin it for the docile rest of us.

To some extent, yes. But those who want to normalize and justify their drinking also wish to absolve alcohol of all association with these things even though alcohol absolutely increases their incidence.

You see the same bias in people who want to believe that drinking moderately is healthier than abstaining. There's nothing actually supporting this, but the few flawed studies that show some minor benefit get published over and over in the news because it's what people want to hear. In reality once you filter out people who abstain specifically because of their health, all cause mortality goes up with any level of drinking.
> At what point does Amazon get broken up?

They'd have to violate the law. As it stands, they're not engaging in anti-competitive activity. Simply being better at something than your competition isn't anti-competitive.

> Seems like we're heading to a dystopian future where megacorps own you in every sense.

Literally every business that Amazon has entered has improved my life. Books are cheaper with an enormously larger selection available. Prime Video offers alternative to Netflix. AWS has revolutionized the software industry.

Don't get me wrong -- Amazon is in it for Amazon, and I think Jeff Bezo's can be an asshole. But the reason they get my money year after year is that they do such a great job.
> Both workers and companies want what's good for them, that's not so much 'selfish'.

When it's at the expense of the other party, that literally is what "selfish" means.
A SI byte would comprise of 10 bits.
I still love how OmniWeb can do vertical tabs. I wish Safari had an option for it.
How similar is Aldi and Lidl? There is only Lidl here where I live. They seem very similar conceptually.

What are the tangible differences, which one do you prefer?
I think it may be more appropriate to treat them like Big Asbestos. All it should take is them knowingly handing our private messages in full to other corporations. They were not a party to these messages, they were a network service provider.

This actually happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/facebook-...

Regardless of what may or may not be on the TOS, that's federal wiretapping. Fuck you, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Wait for the civil lawsuits afterwards - there will be a lot of them. A TOS does not override federal law.

The fact that this hasn't happened is a testament to regulatory capture, and to the federal government wanting to use this capacity for themselves to wiretap citizens. Both of these are jumping way out of their lane to invade your right to privacy. You should be at their door with torches and pitchforks.
> I often dislike autoformatter output too, but then I remember that while no-one likes what the autoformatter does to their code, everyone likes what the autoformatter does to their coworkers' code, and then I chill out about it.

I'm completely indifferent to autoformatters turning my coworkers' code from one perfectly readable format into another. The "problem" they solve is a ridiculous thing to worry about. Having a standard is not important, it's petty.

What I do dislike is having to fight the autoformatter because for some reason some teams use different settings. I dislike autoformatters turning code into something that is objectively harder to read -- sometimes it's not a matter of taste. Even when they work, I dislike even a second on something that only satisfies other peoples' pettiness.
I also dislike git blame being useless because someone reformatted all the code for no good reason.
I'd argue that isn't ethical either. Commonplace and unethical are unfortunately not mutually exclusive.
Alternatively, you use a fraction of the preposterous technological gains society reaps from the last century to guarantee housing to everyone regardless of means.

Plenty of evidence shows solving homelessness is as simple as housing the homeless - from there, those that can work almost always get jobs, and those that can't use less drugs and commit substantially less crime.
LA and SD also have affordable housing problems. They aren't as pronounced as the Bay Area, but it's still an issue.
https://opensource.com/article/19/2/how-does-rootless-podman...

Podman and cri-o.
Interesting. Even as an experienced web scraper, it would have never occurred to me to use Lynx.
Hello, my name is Steve and I'm addicted to Facebook.

It has been 3 months since I deactivated my account.

Kidding aside (I'm not really kidding) In my last year using facebook, I was aware of all the privacy shenanigans, and I saw news articles every day about things like cambridge analytica. None of that mattered. But the thing that actually got me to deactivate my account was realizing that it was all performant. I couldn't keep myself from signaling in every post and comment I made - and I would recognize my own signaling and it drove me crazy. Conveniently, I started a new job in February and couldn't bear being distracted all the time by whatever nonsense was happening there.

Do I miss it? I miss seeing the posts by about 1% (literally) of my facebook friends. Every time something neat or interesting happens I think about posting it on facebook, but I don't. And I do think it has made a big difference at work.
For awhile I lived in a city with both an Aldi and a Trader Joes. Over all I prefer Trader Joes, but Aldi had some cheap products I liked. And it was a nice surprise when I found some random household item I needed.
Personally I reserve the unalienable right to change my mind. What do you do when you’re wrong?
I did not realize you can monetize a facebook page.
> Banqiao Dam failure

I can't believe I'd never heard of this tragedy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

> According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, approximately 26,000 people died in the province from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected. Unofficial estimates of the number of people killed by the disaster have run as high as 230,000 people
I always find it surprising I keep needing to point this out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19913036
Not really - we've just settled into an equilibrium where our heads are as large as possible with an ""acceptable"" death rate of maternal and child death and injury from the process.

(I'm reminded of one of the plot items in the Vorkosigan saga, the great feminist space opera series, which has decantable artificial wombs - the ultimate labour-saving invention.)
> It's not subjective.

Oh, please. You may have some rationale that makes a certain kind of sense, but clearly a lot of others don't care, or value other things. So ... subjective.
Yes, but the niche providers flourish when the market is good, but they're the first to get killed off when it's bad. The post-2008 economic collapse saw mass consolidation in the industry as smaller players either went bankrupt or got bought up by competitors.

There's also a big difference between asset-owning and non-asset-owning carriers.

You can start a logistics company with very little capital--just licensing, bonding, and insurance. In that case, you're basically a travel agent for freight. Some of these agents have grown into very large companies, however, because they help big customers allocate freight across many asset-owning carriers and mitigate their risks, and they handle dealing with international customs and compliance regimes. They're like an outsourced supply chain operations department.

In air and ocean, the niche asset-owning carriers generally have some statutory protection. A good example is Jones Act carriers--there's a law called the Jones Act that requires that only American flagged carriers can transport freight between any two American ocean ports. That means there are only a couple of ocean shipping companies that are allowed to go to places like Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and Puerto Rico.
Money is not sufficient on its own to buy happiness if you have more deep-seated issues in your life. At least that‘s what I‘ve always taken the quote to mean.
>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It destroys intellectual curiosity, which the site exists for.”

Half the posts on 'hacker' 'news' are for inciting political/ideological battles, including this article. It has nothing to do with the guidelines for what types of articles should be posted on 'hacker' 'news'. Or did you selectively choose to ignore those?
This phenomenon exists in Phoenix / Tempe as well. Most likely due to weather [as noted below] and relatively high population
Chat is just as async as email or any online communication platform - there's no obligation to respond immediately, and you can disable notifications for as long as you please.
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You don't understand it because the mental model as presented by the statement is too simple.

Money can make LOTS of people VERY happy, up to a certain point. Supposedly after 80k$, after you've been relieved of basic stresses like rent and finding food, more money will make you less happy per increment.

If you are an unhappy person with a minimum of 80k$, then the bottleneck to your happiness is not money.

Merely more money doesn't make ALL people happy ALL the time.
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Saw the movie at showing at the computer history museum. Highly recommended.
In my area, it's a loonie for a cart at the discount supermarkets.
Yeah those sorts of things come in to research, but there are FOSS and other out of copyright sources. If you're doing it commercially you'd need a license.
Shouldn't that be burglarize? Except of course that in British English it would just be burgle.
My father — who ended up at Unisys after HPE moved away from support (and was previously with Compaq via the Digital acquisition) — says it's unlikely, at least to start.
I think the line is intended to mean that hoarding money at the expense of the rest of your life isn't a good way to live.

Work life balance and all that.
Can someone explain what the point of deleting a purchase is? The email is still there, the data is still there... how is this affecting what Google does with your data?
Agreed. I read about half way through and the op still hadn't made his/her point. Too much set up for too small a conclusion.
You can easily delete purchases here:

https://myaccount.google.com/payments-and-subscriptions

However, I have a feeling that removing your Google history doesn't actually remove it, just prevents you from seeing it.
Next level. Of course I never thought of any of this because none of it is obvious. No just kidding, it is obvious. Get this, I stand by what I'm saying despite the complications you introduced and that I am already aware of.

Call it what you want. Concentration camps, Prison, Drug Rehab, mental hospitals, Gulag. It's all been done, and is being done. There's a lot of negative connotation to it but it is what is. If criminals need to go to jail to make society better so be it. If homeless people need to be forced into rehabilitation for 30 days to make society better so be it.

Rights be damned. I'd give up the right to sleep, piss and shit on public streets in the blink of an eye if that meant living in a better society. Look at Singapore, you sell cocaine? Death penalty.

What's going to pay for it? My taxes and the 25 million being given away to homeless people for free so they can buy more drugs (see CAAP). Seriously the amount of bearuacracy in this country is insane. If I pay 100,000 in taxes only $5 has any impact because it costs 95,000 just to get to funnel money through all the politics and corruption.

A jail is the same thing as a concentration camp. Using the word concentration camp in place of jail is a political and manipulative attack. Historically, the places America labeled as Concentration camps were places where America placed innocent Japanese citizens into prison and is very different from what I am suggesting here. Being of Japanese origin I find it offensive that you would use such a racist tactic.
We have both here in Germany. I prefer the Lidl products, but Aldi isn't bad either.
> At the beginning of the current tech boom, it seemed that “old” San Francisco—activists, artists, immigrants—might continue to set the terms of the city, as it grudgingly acclimated to, and resisted, the influx of entrepreneurs and tech workers.

It's funny that someone who embraces the immigrant culture of San Francisco, is so anti-immigration when other people also want to immigrate to San Francisco in search of higher wages and a better life.
"Does anyone else find the term "Deep Work" to be pretentious?"

I don't. It's a description of the work they're doing, not themselves. There's a bit more to it. In the book of the same name (Deep Work), he talks about how the kind of work you can do when you can get away from the distractions creates value beyond the same amount of time spread around those distractions.

Deep work: "professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate" (Cal Newport)

focus: "to concentrate attention or effort" (Merriam-Webster)

Do you feel like they are self important because they were turning you away or declining invitations so they could focus, or because they are essentially describing their work as having high value?
Yeah, it is really strange. When it comes to trucking, the vast majority of the industry is individuals or very small companies with a handful of trucks. I would have though the benefits of scale would cause mass consolidation, but that isn't the case so far.
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Yesterday a coworker had an issue where ASAN wasn't finding a std::vector out of bounds error. It turns out the code doing the deference was in libc++, which was not ASAN instrumented even though his program was. Valgrind found the error right away. They're all great tools with their own pros and cons. If you have the testing infrastructure, use all of them.
New $14 esp32 VGA/mouse/keyboard/VT100 computer capable of running micropython
The machine has 8MB PSRAM so it can run micropython: https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro.html

Videos of it in action:

Network terminal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5c27-y5tm4&t=154s

Collision detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OPSq4HhDE

Double buffering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQcIiWQCJw

Space Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL8J7tjxeXA

Video modes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urp0rPukjzE&t=7s

Github repo: https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL

Link to buy the machine: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/TTGO-VGA32-V1-1-Controller-PS-2-Mouse-And-Keyboard-Controller-Graphics-Library-Game-Engine-And/33014937190.html
I would assume that switching team tooling would have a social credit cost/risk. Didn't see that mentioned in the article. People don't want to appear incompetent if the new thing doesn't work out. It has to be really good. Maybe it has to have a certain momentum on personal projects...
Mac user here. Of that list, the only one I don't consider superfluous or an outright bug is Quicklook.
Nostalgia is a powerful driving force. I'm convinced Nostalgia, more than fear or hope is what got Trump elected, and why he'll win again. People seem to be desperate to always want to return to 'how things were'. It's fascinating.
And a plea not to build and "change the city's character"
NFS is increasingly becoming an access protocol, to speak to $whatever through some sort of proxy/gateway. $whatever might be Gluster (for which I'm still a maintainer), Ceph, EFS, etc. It's nice because clients are everywhere, they're maintained by someone else, and you can update your own stuff as much as you like without landing in the swamp of updating client software. The people who do maintain those clients - I know a few - deserve our thanks.
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>The system doesn't try to keep poor people poor or uneducated.

The system doesn't have motives. Individual behavior can give rise to systemic oppression with no top level design goals needed.

If we take a look at Black people specifically:

Black sounding last names are half as likely to receive callbacks for job interviews. Black people are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and receive longer sentences for committing the same crimes as White people. It's harder for Black people to find housing. Its even harder for them to rent vacation properties.

Black children even receive harsher punishments for the same infractions in elementary school.

All of these things put together mean that yes, they are systemically oppressed, and the system is currently keeping them poorer and less educated. Exceptional individuals will overcome this oppression, but reinforcing feedback loops ensure that if something isn't done to break the cycle, it will continue, and as a class Black people will always be at a disadvantage.
Right! And she laments old obsolete buildings being torn down to make way for apartment projects.
Not really, you can't tell where all the fingers are from a wrist-mounted accelerometer. Wacom tablets are, I thought, capacitive touch?

This is a lot closer to a Magic Leap in terms of gesture recognition usage, although that's a different technology again - IR camera like a Kinect.
Some real life details from the U.S:

"Street pickpockets generally work in teams, known as whiz mobs or wire mobs. The “steer” chooses the victim, who is referred to generically as the “mark,” the “vic,” or the “chump,” but can also be categorized into various subspecies, among them “Mr. Bates” (businessman) and “pappy” (senior citizen). The “stall,” or “stick,” maneuvers the mark into position and holds him there, distracting his attention, perhaps by stumbling in his path, asking him for directions, or spilling something on him. The “shade” blocks the mark’s view of what’s about to happen, either with his body or with an object such as a newspaper. And the “tool” (also known as the “wire,” the “dip,” or the “mechanic”) lifts his wallet and hands it off to the “duke man,” who hustles away, leaving the rest of the mob clean."

If I counted correctly, the described team has five members. For that kind of action it could be an optimum, otherwise it wouldn't be a typical example.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/a-pickpockets-...

In the article there's a reference to "a paperback, published in 1964, called “Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Patterns,” by David W. Maurer, a professor of English who devoted his life to the study of raffish subcultures, before apparently killing himself, in 1981."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Maurer

"David Warren Maurer (April 12, 1906 – June 11, 1981) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville from 1937 to 1972, and an author of numerous studies of the language of the American underworld."

Thanks to the modern technology if you're interested in that topic you can find today various CCTV footage of such acts on the YouTube. What's fascinating is how everything happens so "easily" in the real life that even when you try to watch carefully you'd initially miss all the actors until the video points to them or until you replay the video. It's almost like a famous gorilla in the basketball game, but happening continuously on the streets and in the shops.
I can't help but notice that all the people saying they have similiar symptoms in non-CA cities are mentioning cities that are popular places for people moving out of CA to go to and cities where there is a lot of complaining about the newcomers enacting the kind of public policy that gave CA it's problem. I know this is just correlation and doesn't mean anything by itself but I can't help but notice it.
I haven't been working in supercomputing for 25 years any more and my first reaction to the headline was "Oh, Cray does still exist?". But obviously my intuition wasn't too wrong, the surprise should have more been "Oh, the Cray name does still exist", but that's of course not an equally big surprise.
HVDC means you can literally be a thousand miles from the power plant. That's distance from the Hoover Dam to Kansas City. There's literally nowhere in America beyond the range of a viable hydro plant.