skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings on discussing problems with "generations"; its so broad and imprecise that it feels meaningless. However, I can accept that it has some value when discussing broad social effects.

I agree with Jobs; Gen X and further back generations, as groups, raped the planet for short-term economic growth. They aren't the first or last group to do so, but they did do it. My generation, I.e. gen Z, is looking at an abnormally bleak future. Yes, the past generations had the Cold War and possible Nuclear Armageddon. And while the Cold War is dead, possible Nuclear Armageddon is still very much alive. We also face, for the first time in US history, the likelihood that we will die poorer than our parents. We also face the fact that our middle age will come with practically certain catastrophic climate change. Any one of these problems is significant on a global scale, but their collective force is even more crippling.

All these problems exist because of the collective decisions of past generations; thats what every present is. WW1 was a product of dumb alliances and treaties made decades before. And it wasn't the generation that decided on the treaties that were butchered on the Somme, it was their children. And as a group, I believe that they are soaked in the blood of their children. However, I will agree that blaming generations is at best unproductive and at worst needlessly divisive. Yes, the actions of past generations create the wars and disasters of today, but that is a simple fact of societies. Blaming a generation hides the specific culprits behind specific problems. We should blame the Tobacco lobby for the death of millions, we should blame oil companies for crippling greener alternatives for decades, we should blame the Military-Industrial complex for chaining America to eternal wars just to make an easy buck.

This was more rambly than I intended, so I hope it still has some value.
So you're not using Google search, either, I assume? Just curious because while I absolutely understand your aversion torwards Google, I do think it's more sensible sometimes to strike a good balance between privacy concerns and comfort/laziness than to completely sacrifice one for the other.
Whoops, I think I intended to write ~1969 to get it to 50 years (and was using a different estimator) but regardless of exact measure, the trend is clear: "Millionaire" has been undergoing continual debasement ever since it was coined around the 1820s, and means objectively different things within different generations.
Whenever I try to delete old Facebook posts, I just get indefinite loading bar. Shrugs Seems like a well tested feature. /s (or maybe my posts are just stored in ice).
I don't think that closed kitchens are going to be making a return any time soon. If anything,
the "mess kitchen" trend the author described just seems to be a way for very wealthy people to keep their open concept while having a classier alternative to the classic garage-fridge setup for overflow.

As for all the concerns about noise making it hard to watch TV - on the rare occasions that it's a problem, I usually just turn captions on (which I usually keep on anyhow because I just find them helpful).

The one space I do wish was standard in more homes though is a small office or library space. I would gladly replace most dining spaces (I don't even own a table to eat at) with a little corner room with doors and shelving on the walls.
That's what I'm talking about. Think of the recommender model as your own personal neural net that is trained, over time, to show you videos it thinks you might like. It is not capable of telling you which videos you watched, because it is not a database or list of watched videos, but it is instead a classifier that predicts what you probably want to watch.
You're talking about changing the supply side of the equation, which isn't inherently a bad idea, but the demand side of the equation is driven by a job market that often doesn't have time to properly vet candidates and would RATHER use signals because they're faster. So you'd have to find a way not to eliminate the signaling, but rather to more closely align the signals with reality.
Is Tailscale building a logging product?
Would you be willing to be treated by a Doctor without a medical license or be represented by an attorney who hasn’t taken or passed the bar exam?
A couple weeks ago an automatic Mac OS update removed my (I presume, symlinked-) /usr/include directory. I use CLion not XCode, so this move broke my build, through no fault of my own, with little to go on as to what suddenly had gone wrong. A possible fix would be to install the commandline developer tools, except those were already installed and the installer refuses to run again to repair it.

This is a specific example of a regular occurrence; the details differ each time. I compare developing a personal project on Mac OS to be like getting cut off and run off the road by a luxury SUV: "Did you do that because you didn't know I was there, or did you do that deliberately?"
alternate title:

“A meaningless number of no real consequence might carry a different value that still doesn’t matter.”
Without a lot of thought or research I have no idea what Guix is! Even the website - https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ - offers the reader no real clue about what it is.. Is it a unix distribution, linux distribution, graphics environment, window manager, ux app development framework - who knows! :-) ... please everyone remember to write decent copy for your projects - you have to market open source too.
I wasn't implying that things were bad in Australia in this case, just that the credit for this net idea could be better given to a specific person or organisation.

I.e., there's no "Australia" program to install these nets, as far as I know.
App Engine for SAP Hybris Commerce
The thing I'm skeptical about is the claim that this would have rendered a large part of the continent uninhabitable. The Stack Exchange discussion is interesting but (as you say) doesn't really bear on that.
Fridge depth is useful for storing large objects like a 24 pack of water. The trick is keeping them mostly empty otherwise food will rot before you eat it.
Perfection is an interesting one. It states:

> “A perfect interface is one which is impossible to use incorrectly, even by accident.”

It illustrates the point by showing how a non-expert can build a complex model from well-designed parts without even knowing what the end result should look like.

But then later:

> "... Even an ugly, rickety shed would be more useful than a hypothetical, flawless pagoda."

Documentation represents the compromise between a perfect interface and shipping pressure. The gap can be minimized but never eliminated.
I switched to Fastmail a while back and it has worked perfectly. I still use Gmail's calendar but someday I may use Fastmail's calendar.
DIY Cron and Continuous Delivery on GKE
systemd was aimed at the problems with Upstart rather than the problems with van Smoorenburg rc. van Smooreburg rc had already been superseded for its creators. Fedora was using Upstart.

The problems with van Smoorenburg rc are widely acknowledged, however, and motivated the creation of Upstart, finit, init-ng, and many other softwares; indeed, the problems of System 3/5 init/rc, which van Smoorenburg rc began as a clone of, similarly motivated the creation of the SAF in AT&T Unix System 5 release 4, the Solaris SMF, and the AIX SRC. There is a history of superseding them that goes back for decades. It is clearly wrong to claim that they are without problem. They've been recognized as problematic and people have been replacing them since before Linux was invented.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/system-5-rc-problems.html

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html

* https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
Is there a list of features? Or can I assume it implements the same features as colorls?
http://thecodelesscode.com/contents

Koans that cover the whole of software development.
Same with older developer videos. There is some fantastic material that is not outdated (GCD stuff from 2011 for example) but that remains unavailable from Apple as far as I can tell... you have to know someone who has a copy. I would like to be wrong about this; someone please let me know if I am.
Vice tries to turn the page by making content for others
I have noticed that internally, there is usually a good ettiquette with only marking incidents with urgent severity if they are truly urgent. Since what goes around comes around, nobody wants to set a precedent for unnecessarily making people work extra/get up in the middle of the night to fix something. And if you "own" an incident and know that it's not urgent (for example, some team in Asia producing non-prod analytics reporting creates an "urgent" incident that wakes you up because their data is ingesting slowly) you are ok with downgrading the severity and going back to bed.

Your system sounds like a good system to me for more customer-vendor types of situations. My issue with certain support contracts is that no matter what severity your issue truly is, you will get routed to a "support engineer" who will waste your time asking you whether you've tried turning it off and back on again / whether a 10% of the time transient issue is infrequent enough to mark the issue resolved, etc. It would be so nice if there were technical PMs or capable engineers who could actually forward real, breaking issues to on call engineers.

There is a certain large, well known big data company whose main product I will never recommend again due to my terrible bug/support experience with them. No triaging whatsoever and a terrible lack of skills among their employees
Oh man, this has been suuuuch a pet peeve of mine.

There is so much buried, incomplete or otherwise missing documentation on Apple's side, and every time anyone complains about Electron and wonders why nobody wants to build native apps anymore... this is a huge factor why. Meanwhile, any Cocoa devs on Twitter scoff at this stuff being difficult to find and learn.

It goes deeper than this, too - there's a litany of Apple dev forum threads that Google has half-spidered and are behind a login screen. Or the fact that some of the release notes for point releases of macOS will have crucial details that you'd otherwise miss - just a few months ago I learned that watching the mouse in a specific way can completely disable smooth scrolling.

I dislike Marzipan, personally, but I wouldn't be surprised if a huge motivating factor for the project is the fact that parts of AppKit require wizardry on a dwindling level. I've had developers from Apple lament this to me in person, too, and nobody ever seems to have a clear reason why it's such a clusterf...
The state is negatively positioned; it has poor-to-no feedback with regard to the personal outcomes of its implementations. Parents and students do, on an ongoing and daily basis. The idea that I "pretended" that this was anyone else's argument but my own seems completely absurd.

While I'm glad you're able to infer implications, it would be wonderful if you could take it a step further to find that an argument cannot be true if a necessary premises is false. That's not bad faith, that's logic.
I would speculate that they have built systems in a way that it would not matter what any user does. any edits to a already existing post probably just append
MS are able to maintain a browser engine, it just isn't worth them to do it when IE compatibility is an afterthought for a great many sites. Maintaining a fork of Blink would be a lot more worthwhile.
> It goes against the common stereotype saying that it's totally fine to boast one's wealth in the US, whereas Europeans are more shy regarding money matters. This isn't my experience.

Up until the early 2000's, this was the case in the US.
Antisemitism?

Show me the most antisemitic thing Corbyn has ever done.

These slurs on his character are spread by newspapers and TV but when you look into them there's nothing there. If you can't give me an example, please consider that you might have 'been had'.

Your statements about tankies and Sanders are beyond incoherent. I really have no idea how to talk with you if you think Corbyn's base is entirely 'tankies' and Sanders is the most left candidate ever seen.

Your 'point' about their ideological coherence says more about you than anyone else.
> Have an external firm that will try to break your systems

This is by far the most important one, and in fact, I would argue that having external code or design audit would be incredibly useful as well.

I work in a regulated area and it is amazing how well we do the things that are audited compared to the things that are not. In fact, all our systems are neatly divided into those that get audited and those that don't specifically so that we can apply all our higher standards to the audited ones. It is also important to recognise how empowering it is especially for less senior staff to be able to reference an standard or guideline and the point out that a flaw is vulnerable to discovery by audit.
On the other hand, if you have a choice of whether to do it according to code or not, wouldn't you rather pick the one that's legal? Or, if you judge it not worth it, at least be aware of it?
Absolutely correct. Keep in mind if recruiters reach out to you while you’re employed you have a stronger negotiating position.

I think it’s a lot easier to get stock vs cash increase.
Does that do anything against bitflips/rot? I feel like for any real use I should have checksums/scrub available.
50% better than on internet and they do not have my data.
Extendable Version Manager with Support for Python, Ruby, Node, Elixir and More
Two reasons I think this is not the way to go:

First, the cost would be insane. A century of monthly MRIs is 1200 scans per person, or 1.2B scans to finish your hypothetical dataset. We pay about $US 550/hr for scanner time, using a research scanner that's subsidized (i.e., we're just covering costs, not making a profit). The article doesn't say how long the scan is. You can burn as much scanner time as you want chasing resolution/quality, but an hour seems reasonable. That comes out to $660B, which is...a lot, and we haven't even paid staff yet!

Second, we have sorta tried this already. There's a massive neuroscience project to scan tons of brains called the Human Connectome Project. They have 1200 subjects, some scanned multiple times, behavioral measures, health outcomes, the works....

People have certainly found stuff in the data (I'm using some of it right now), but it hasn't lead to wild breakthroughs. There's a ongoing debate about whether this money would have been better spent on hypothesis-driven research instead.
"Free" unless you have insurance, which they will then happily overbill ad infinitum. I'm a Gulf War vet, and enrolled at the VA for healthcare. My private insurance (BC/BS) has reimbursed the VA for every single thing they have done for me.

The evidence for "gulf war syndrome" is underwhelming, but that is a long discussion. The specific diagnoses that can be accepted as service connected by the VA in relation to Gulf War service are all 'mystery diseases', like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Likewise, the links between Agent Orange and actual human illness 30-40 years later is ... tenuous. The "National Academy of Sciences" has found such links more likely than not for multiple conditions (diabetes, coronary atherosclerosis, multiple myeloma, etc) but the science backing these findings are a bit tenuous - "more likely than not" is not typically the standard of evidence required for a 'scientific finding'. But the VA is trying to 'do the right thing' and that may cost taxpayers $$$$$, but so it goes!
First, there's no reason for me to buy the device. I already own one (the one my doctor gave me), and I have no need for a 2nd (yet).

So... why did I buy it from my doctor at first? Well, because the doctor said I needed one. I setup an appointment with the nurse, who then gave me the device. A week later, I got a bill for $1000. Shocked at the price of the device, I ended up doing research. $500 is the cheapest I could find it in the USA, and if I include doctor fees + nurse fees, it is "reasonable" that they would mark it up a few hundred dollars above that.

In any case, I already "bought" the device before I realized. So I don't think I really have any choice aside from paying the bill.

I'll try to buy it straight from Germany in the future. But I didn't even know the name of the device until after I got it from the nurse.

I'm kinda new to this whole doctor / taking care of my health thing. But I'm just sharing my experience with everyone, so maybe other people can learn from my mistakes.

My general presumption was that my insurance company would be improving the cost-efficacy of the overall system. Apparently not however. Now, its just a $1000, and now I'm over my yearly deductible, so I've basically got free health-care for the rest of the year because of this. (So I don't consider this a big financial mistake, even if it cost $1000. Its more proof that the insurance company is slacking in its job of efficiently pricing these medical devices I'm using...)
There is also a variant where you sing out the actual name of the characters rather than just the sound
Only if somebody complains, I expect, e.g., a DMCA takedown from the publisher. You could also have your account banned as a repeat copyright infringer, which I suppose would be a bonus in this case.

I'd advise against it though, at least in the USA, due to the commercial value of the Harry Potter novels, and the penalties for infringement.
but what would that help anyway?
Running Elasticsearch on K8s storing 16TB of compressed logs across 6 data nodes and ~4600 shards.

We're a really happy ES customer. We've on ESv6 at the moment and it's been running amazingly for us. We've halved our storage and running costs by moving from 5 to 6.

We've always been a licensed customer and they are in front of AWS with their features (we run our k8s stack on AWS though :) )
Not GP, but Gary Bernhardt is the guy who gave the classic "Wat" [0] and "Birth and Death of JavaScript" [1] talks, and some searching turns up "pretzel colon" as the "&:" operator in Ruby [2]. I assume he's mentioned it in a screencast or something, but I wasn't able to find it.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

[2] https://technology.customink.com/blog/2015/06/08/ruby-pretze...
Roy Underhill is so damn good. I guess I thought I'm the only person that used to watch that show.
yea, and brazil is extermely messed up along with most of the others. not really proving much here, hombre.
I second the others advice. It's good. This is what I do:

I just find a bar or dance club I like, then I keep going by myself, or with friends. Doesn't matter. Make it a habit to get a drink, spend a little time there. Do whatever you want. Have fun.

If you're by yourself, people will usually talk to you first.

After a few times you go there, the regulars will know your face, you'll know them too, and conversation will flow quite easily.

"Hey I've seen you before. What's your name?" That's all it takes.

Another thing you can do, especially for travelers, is just pick up smoking. Marijuana, nicotine, doesn't matter. Go outside, find a spot where other people are smoking, ask if you can sit there. Say hi and ask everybodys name.

If its lack of confidence, just remember that we all act like idiots all the time, no one is perfect, and everyone is drunk. People like to meet people.

I have weirder ideas about this. I believe all conversation is telephatic. When we walk into a room, we sort of just know who is going to become a friend, who isn't, all that. If you feel someone is cool, just say hi. That person likely feels the exact same way even if they don't know why.

When we walk into a bar, we sort of just know we are going to go back. That it's going to become our place.
I find myself only watching the cars shows that are pure amateur affairs.

The instant that there's money involved (or Motortrend TV) it gets awful. I could give a rip about some pro shop putting together a $200k Camaro in about 22 minutes...usually artificial deadlines and all.
ToME is fantastic, GPL licensed, and you can play it on Guix. I can't see how to link directly, but search for "tome" on https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/T/page/3/
You can switch npm, pyenv and rbenv/rvm to asdf now. It’s pretty nice. Having one tool handle all the versioning is great and jetbrains supports it out of the box.
What would (1) look like in the context of education? What exactly do you mean by externalities?

Otherwise yes, I agree that the ideal solution would be to provide compelling alternatives at lower cost. The issue is, we've seen this fail already in education. MOOCs attempted to democratize elite education, but instead increased the entrenchment of those institutions. In software, bootcamps and the like have also failed to dislodge the prominence of signalling. Indeed, if there's anything the past decade has shown, it's the increased availability of information, and the increased democratization of resources, have only increased the value of signalling. The market itself has become so skewed, so incredibly inelastic (to cost in general), that competition is becoming nearly impossible.
How did ES 6 reduce your operation costs by 50%? Same CPU, disk & network bandwidth?
It seems very large portion of yacht cost is interior installation. Printing might lead to all sort of safety, maintenance, performance and comfort advantages that you can’t achieve with normal manual labour.

I’m guessing some sort of hybrid approach could win.
Why Google's $400 Pixel 3a convinced me to never again buy a $1000 smartphone
They do all kinds of houses, but simple jobs go quick so there's not much to put on TV. Sometimes they'll follow 2 or more jobs concurrently, one of which might be relatively straight-forward.
You're technically right. They were only there illegally and under false pretenses to investigate Assange. There was never any evidence they were framing him.
Look, if you really are extremely happy hang onto this job for dear life.

But if no one else will tell you, I will. This is a dead end job. It only takes a quick moment of someone noticing what you are up to (and frankly I'm shocked that your moonlighting isn't against your job agreement) for you to be out of work. Once that happens you are going to have to dance to tell a decent story of the value you added at this gig.

If this were me, I'd be _running_ for the exits.
Liquid fuel rocket engines sometimes could be planned to work under the plastic deformation stresses, not elastic stresses. Given that their life-cycle is measured in seconds, such an approach - which brings some admirable weight savings - could produce results.
Cars are mass produced, yachts are much less so.
Assigning cost works too. "On your current support plan, we include 2 urgent tickets per month, after which they will be handled at 'high' severity. For $X you can purchase more"
I've noticed a lot of command line utilities are being rewritten in Rust. Is there a reason for this?
> it breaks down quickly under UV radiation

That's mostly a myth. I have plenty of PLA parts exposed to regular sunlight for over a year and they are fine.
Beautiful strat. If you want to go one step above, tell the person asking you to make their task your new #1 priority to negotiate with the person who owns your current #1 priority and then get back to you when they manage to convince the other stakeholder to secede their priority.

9 times out of 10 they realize that it is a waste of time leading nowhere and agree to being your priority #2. The remaining 1 out of 10 times, they successfully manage to convince the other person that their task is more important, and now you have a new #1 priority. 10 out of 10 times you win, because you didn’t have to fight anyone just to keep your sanity.