skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been lucky enough to be able to work and live in several countries around the world. One thing in common I noticed in all these places is that guys and girls don't have time and don't want to commit to a stable long relation. They invest pretty much themselves and their time in their career, traveling , parties, dogs, cats and bitcoins :) !

The mantra is to get rich and retire at 40 years old! Travel the world and have fun.

By the time they are somewhat satisfied with theirs status they have reached ~35 years old. At that point is more difficult to find a person and accept to share your life and habits with them.

They are so used to live their own lives that they have extremely hard time compromising any part of it.

I think the society has (wrongly) evolved towards an individualist model at the expenses of families.

I have noticed that people have been more and more intolerant to family flying with kids. It is hard to find kids friendly restaurants, hotels and resorts.
People invite you to parties and kids are always not welcome. Not to mention also the additional cost associated with having a family.

But you know what ? I am so happy every day when I come home and my kids run towards me and we play and have fun. I and my wife coudln't be happier!

A piece of advice, stop running, take time off and think about your life beyond work and money. Traveling is fun but is way more fun and interesting when you can share it with some one you care about, like your family!
There's an opposite political argument that the decline of the family, especially among the poor, was due to government benefits replacing the need to maintain social networks and interdependent families. In the 1800s and early 1900s, at the height of the industrial revolution and in the absence of any welfare state, poor Americans of every ethnicity had incredibly close-knit communities and extended families.

Life was harder, but you could lean on friends, family, and congregation. That's where the classic trope of rich people being lonely and surrounded by fake acquaintances while poor people have authentic community comes from. Maybe now that every level of society is relatively richer we're all that much lonelier.
> So if by asking me to "turn in" you are asking me to forsake my own engineering values for purposes of your comfort, well, no, I'm afraid that isn't going to happen.

Of course I'm not suggesting that you forsake your values. I'm sure anyone who has followed you for any amount of time knows that will never happen. There is no stronger advocate for the principles upon which your work is based, and your fervor and commitment is extremely admirable.

My suggestion is merely that it's perhaps time to acknowledge that the market is not going to adopt illumos in a major way. An outflow of that is considering the possibility that the considerable engineering resources at your command may be better deployed in attempting to instill and carry forth the same crucial, badly-needed principles and values into projects that have more realistic prospects, to the extent possible, rather than remaining 1000% committed to a lost cause, where the principles and values will flare out in obscurity. "If a tree falls in the forest..."

illumos is an immense contribution to our collective engineering heritage and I entertain no illusion that it should be totally iced. Personally I would consider it a glorious resurgence to see it more widely adopted, and to see it become the basis of a new generation of systems. SmartOS is simply a joy compared to the train wreck that passes for systems management in today's mainstream, and I sincerely hope that the wheels turn to make it a more viable option. The ongoing open-source contributions of the faithful volunteer keepers of the flame will be invaluable in leaving that possibility open.

While there is no doubt that illumos's open-source heritage ensures it will live on, we must be realistic and admit that for all practical intents and purposes, the sun has set on the project's general commercial viability (at least for the time being -- the thing about sunsets is, they're followed by sunrises).

The question I pose is whether your advocacy may be more effective in bringing the values and contributions of yourself and your team in force to more active venues, than by continuing to toil in the last fleeting fragments of the twilight of Solaris's commercial viability.

I personally know many young engineers who admire your talks but have no exposure to the actual process of working with you directly. What would change if they got that? Would there be a Cantrill Youth? What's the likelihood of passing on that flame within illumos v. expanding your horizons to other groups?
This view was a major building block of civilization for thousands of years. Weird how willingly people throw it away these days and then wonder why family is collapsing and mental illness is widespread and increasing
Congrats to the team at Looker!
The best talk I gave on this wasn’t recorded (and had another section on the details of the new MBUF struct that mmacy came up with), but here are a few pointers for the time being:

https://youtu.be/La4ekkKbM5o

https://github.com/joyent/freebsd/tree/projects/VPC

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/SeanChittenden/freebsd-vpc...
I believe that's the syntax for enabling a parsing mode. I think it just changed from #! to #? (to allow a nim bash shebang).

Obviously, the yikes is gone now. It was always an experimental feature, so IMO the fear of it was overblown, but it is a pretty scary idea for a feature.
> It's like the "Thanksgiving arguments" are engineered precisely to create a rift between generations.

Isolation is a self-perpetuating thing. People hate going home for Thanksgiving and arguing with their relatives because they don't actually know their relatives (their own fault) and they don't belong at home anymore (also their own fault). They isolate themselves, then become indignant when the result is disconnection and conflict. It's absurd.

They're all brainwashed by capital into thinking there should be no negative consequences from following the path that maximizes career success. The idea that we can leave our homes, chase money, and live separate lives without destroying our relationships is the greatest enemy of the traditional family.
Given his track record one can assume that Craig Wright is lying in just about everything he says. The rest is not evidence; looks more like a list of coincidences.

People have been desperate to find Satoshi. Like you said, a lot of people want this to be true.
Came here to post this
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I think you misunderstand cities and that they are surrounded by suburbs where the bulk of the population lives.
Hmm you might be readier to start that partner/ family phase than you think ;)
That was beautiful, thank you.
Rise up over that bs. Something is wrong with the world, not with you.
Add to that corporations with more power than governments (Facebook,Amazon,Google), and that the eco-systems around us are being pushed to their breaking points. I think people don't think we're in a cyberpunk novel because the world isn't bathed in neon lights.
This isn't a DigitalOcean option (I don't think anyways, I've never seen it), but on AWS/GCloud/Azure you can absolutely exchange money in order to get faster support SLAs, or even AWS solutions experts hanging out in your slack channel.

Of course, people who don't have money are forced to deal with greater hardships, yet that's always been a footnote to "regardless of who you were, you could start exchanging money".
My life is currently more chaotic and exhausting than ever, with three young daughters and a wife in the house with me. There's not much time for doing things because I want to do them. I sometimes think about the man who was my favorite uncle growing up. He's nearly 80 now, never married, no kids. Did whatever he wanted in his 30s and 40s (and 50s and 60s for that matter) I'm sure. My mom and her sister go stay with him for a week every year.

Not saying that I couldn't end up alone at his age, but I'd like to think my kids will be around some. My mom told me once that when their mother died she (my grandmother) told my mom "Take care of your brother. He doesn't have anyone who loves him more than anyone else." Even without putting it that way, I've never regretted the chaotic, noisy, exhausting life (of sacrifice?
Yeah I think so) that I've chosen.
Interestingly, the photo of his Congo passport shows his date of birth as December 12, 1982. But, the article and Wikipedia states his date of birth as December 12, 1972.
I own a Jeep. That thing keeps increasing in value massively on a yearly basis...

/just add up everything I spend on it...
Hindsight is always 20/20, sure. But there were many points along the way where Germany could have been stopped dead. Their taking back the demilitarized Rhineland (a large industrial zone) was a gamble on Germany's part.

There is a lesson to be learned from the pre-WW2 history. That lesson is - never give in to an aggressor. They only view diplomacy as weakness. Stalin, Hitler, Putin - they're all the same.

And we're making the same mistakes with Russia now: Georgia, Ukraine.
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Not saying that it's the most important thing one can do, but it's at least as important as making money for other people as some career schmuck. Which is what most work outside the home boils down to.
Time is a big enemy. Your aggressive cancer scenario is ludicrous in a part of the body so near the lymphatic system. Everything is done stat once you have positive scan. Ive known people who have positive imaging one week and full mastectomy the next week and chemo shortly after. Not trying to be rude, but I think you have no clue what you’re talking about and how more biopsies is always going to be better than more cases breast cancer spreading which is what will happen under a wait and see approach
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Is there any evidence that substandard generic drugs are causing real harm to patients? I'm sure that there are all sorts of dodgy pills ending up in unregistered pharmacies in the developing world, but do people in countries with functioning regulatory systems really need to worry about foreign-manufactured generics?
I'll buy that book when you write it.
Adopt a dog. Go to the park twice a day. You’ll feel amazing.
What high profile product has Amazon killed - besides the Fire phone.
Last time I asked this question, the reasoning was that there are non-rational (i.e. emotional, legal) reasons why an apparent lump on an MRI has to get addressed, so the only acceptable point to say "don't operate" lies at the point where the doctor decides whether or not to test. Apparently, doctors get exactly one chance to say no.
Do you not have a mirror copy of everything somewhere else? Or is that not possible in your case?
Hal was in the dorm room next to mine at Caltech. It's just like him to be Satoshi. Hal was a great guy, wicked smart even for Caltech, and his sense of humor fits right in with being the anonymous creator. I have no idea about the other two fellows, but my money's on Hal just because I want it to have been him!
Take for example a comment from this very thread: "Feminism has brought about a lot of changes, but I don't think we can lay this one at the feet of women trying to escape their compulsory reliance on unreliable, selfish, and inconsiderate men."

How should we take a step back and listen more carefully to this? How are we to interpret that other than as an attack on all men?
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Feminism is surely related, but I’m not sure if it is a cause or a consequence (or maybe both?) to the decline of family.

An important factor to consider is the nature and place of work: Men used to inherit their families business or work in the same town. Big families and relatives lived close to each other, so women could use help from other women in the family for child rearing and house chores. Nowadays you have to move to capitals/big cities to find work which deprived women from the assistance they found in extended families. I think this had an impact on gender roles and the increase of feminism and nuclear families.
$60,000 a year is HOUSEHOLD income. In more than half of households there are at least two earners. This perctange rises when you look at median income households.

The typical median income household is where both parents make around $30k–which is right around minimum wage. If you, as an single individual, are making $60,000 you have about TWICE as much money as the average, middle income American.

I don't think you realize just how poor the average "middle class" person is.
I may be wrong, but it sounds like an allusion to some other story, which is probably quite painful.
There are numerous examples of Tetris clones out there that have not been targeted by the IP holders.
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing
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We do know how it will play out. Like all evolutionarily maladaptive traits, this one will decline in prevalence over the space of a few generations.
> As in failing to recognize you as a person in some way?

...no. As in being rude.

"Nickel and diming", for lack of a better term, is very widely considered rude.
I don't think so. Google has announced it would be coming to more phones and devices in the future and they consistently say "tablets" instead of ChromeOS tablets. It's a service, it would be silly to ignore literally a billion possible customers (or whatever the iOS numbers are now).
Well, yes and no. Presumably the low-tech version of this scenario was walking through your neighborhood and having your neighbors eyeball you themselves (say, after their dog barked at you). Now they've just handed the barking and eyeballing off to robots, who will record a 10-second clip of you, which the homeowners will never bother to view.
The problem with Szabo is that nobody was able to locate any sort of code written by Szabo - ie, he doesn't seem to know how to program and the first version of Bitcoin is way beyond noob-level - crypto, GUI, distributed networking, ...
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> Does Unwalled.Garden automatically pin the content of people you follow, so that their stuff stays online if they aren't?

It gets saved locally so you can access it when they're offline. It'll also be possible to instruct your pinning service to seed it on your behalf.

> I didn't understand "We also use a second “private” dat for records which should be kept off the network".

I'll talk more about this in the future as Beaker 0.9 is closer to release. We basically are creating a filesystem with a root dat (which is private). Your public dat will then be "mounted" to it at /public so it feels like one unified FS. The structure will look something like this:

/
/.data/.unwalled.garden/* <- private records
/public
/public/.data/.unwalled.garden/* <- public records

> How is reader privacy and DHT coming along with this ecosystem?

At this stage, I'm pretty sure we're going to need to use proxies to solve this. We're open to using an anonymity protocol like Tor but still uncertain about the tradeoffs.
You mean, a totally self-centered outlook on life leaves you lonely? Who knew?
> The feelings of “you’re a white male and you work in tech and you are wealthy you are a SATAN” is just becoming too much :(

This is why "It's okay to be white" is a serious message, not just "a meme" or "trolling". Because, really, it is okay. You're not doing anything wrong! Don't let anyone BS you otherwise.
Yes! Sorry, I meant the SR-71.
Feminism is not solely focused on females, it includes trying to fight the negative impact of gender roles on males as well.
> take a breath and invest time in an infrastructure that can't be destroyed by a single rogue algorithm

As in? You can have your own cage, but somebody will have a cable that connects to the hardware you own. If they pull that cable because a single rogue algorithm told them that you're most likely abusing their service, that's it.
Yeah, to be honest, I would like to elaborate more but I don't want my account banned. Best we can do is hint at our opinions and hope that it fosters some thought and debate
To continue with the theme of people paying for things in this area: My wife still buys travel books for cities. Books are definitely not my favourite medium and I would definitely consider paying for the information online.
sorry, my superpowers are secret
I completely agree with everything you said. I do not donate as much of my time or money as you, but I feel completely the same.

And then when people wonder why there is a rise of white nationalism, you have to ask are they paying attention? We are getting alienated from society by force, then when we form our own inner group somehow that is also wrong.

I feel more and more white males are being pushed into a right wing extreme position, thus social justice warriors and left wing extremists are making their own boogeyman.
Have you heard about transgenerational stress inheritance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_stress_inher...

We are also still learning about the gut-brain axis. The human microbiome is inheritable, and many modern practices (infant formula, C-sections, antibiotics, processed foods) having detrimental effects.

What's worse is humans seem to have an instinctive trend of self-isolation in the face of psychological distress, which worsens the condition.

Add the inevitable downstream effects of climate change (economic uncertainty if not another world war)... and, yeah, it's bleak.
Can you define what you see as the debate here?
FB foundation to manage its cryptocurrency. Members to pay $10M for node license
Local backups? A few hard drives and a fiber connection can be cheap. Slow to restore, but not "killed my business" slow
Do you know how to ride a bike? It's summer and I am sure there are a ton of casual (i.e. non-racing/fitness groups) bike groups that ride around regularly.

Unlike sports or gyms there's a lot more hanging around and chatting, plus you can end up with new destinations. Meanwhile the exercise gives you endorphins.

In my similar sized city there's enough cyclists that there are many different "scenes" depending on what you are looking for, but many overlap so that you'll almost always have a familiar face at one.

Riding a bike for transportation also lets you feel a little more human getting around your city. You may run into people you know.
Based on some rough, early estimates the input lag with Stadia is incredibly impressive. I originally thought it would never work for many types of games like you say but now I'm reserving judgement. It's not impossible at least.
Yeah, support by social media seems to be trend now; those who are loudest and have the largest online followings get support by shouting at companies on Twitter, everyone else is just basically told to pound sand.

Then again, it's not just support for services. Even abuse reports seem to be taken a lot more seriously it's some online 'influencer' at the receiving end rather than an average Joe.
I think having kids is scientifically proven to make you unhappy and greatly increase your stress levels. It’s no wonder people just put off having kids until they can, or pass on having them altogether.
I don't usually complain about downvote... but seriously? Someone really thinks it's OK to have signs in all of miles, metres and yards?!
Go to a different volunteer place. This one sounds kinda fun by assholes.
Yes!

And eye witness testimony is often terrible. It's disappointing that circumstantial evidence gets such a bad rap.

Very unlikely things happen all the time. But beyond a certain level of unlikeliness, combined with a strong motive, it has to be enough.

And of course in practice everyone gets this because cases are decided every day by this implicit understanding.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you
find a trout in the milk.

-- Henry David Thoreau
Write.as and its self-hosted WriteFreely seems to be making some progress. They added ActivityPub support, so you even get the network effects.
> To hit 1% in income, you need to make about 750K a year.

Source? Looks like the cutoff is just 300k a year. A pretty large fraction of developers at big companies like Google and Facebook should get above that in their lifetime.

https://dqydj.com/top-one-percent-united-states/
Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!
That doesn’t explain one high profile product that was killed that was universally loved - Google Reader.

But from the writeup, it doesn’t seem like this product was a failure.
I would also like to see them cancel SS7 links that are being abused for caller-id and SMS text message spoofing.
Hecks yeah! I bike around East Bay Path, Blackstone River Path, I also love to ride around the Boulevard on the East Side.

What kind of music are you into? I play piano, a buddy of mine is into guitar and Linnstrument. We may be having a board game night tonight actually, been looking forward to it, LMK if you want to stop by.
Not sure if you were somehow subtly referencing this, but...

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ― Douglas Adams
I'm not sure I follow. You buy your games like you would with any console. It's just the console is "in the cloud" and you only pay the monthly subscription if you want the higher quality stream and the occasional free game (think PS Plus).

How would an ad supported version fit into that model? I thought it was a fantastic model!
Well, I'll take your word on it. There's zero chance I'm going to spend the next 4 years battling with CSS in an attempt to prove otherwise ;)
I didn't reference sadness as a moral projection but rather out of empathy as some of these friends will share fears, doubts, and regrets from time to time. If a woman (or man) doesn't want to be a parent, then more power to them and we should all support that.
That is the most fundamental question.

Why does anything exist at all?

Conceptually, this question persist across all the big bangs, collapses, multi universes, or any other conception science has made informed conjectures about, doesn't require time, sequences, or cause and effect These are all processes suppose there is some underlying construct / process / force / structure. But nothing, not even the concept of nothing, not even ideas, maths, shadows on a cave wall.

It is unknowable.
I'm going to start sounding like a broken record, but I find it peculiar this project claims RSS didn't go far enough, then it creates a short-circuited implementation when the actual went-very-far progression for decentralized information, something like RSS-XML-FOAF-RDF-Linked-Data-Solid, uses well established and open ended schemas for much more than this project's basics. With decentralized identifiers (DIDs), it will work on blockchains too. Fine, make a million different decentralized systems, but why not just use LD in a basic way so it's not just creating more fragmentation?

In following Solid, I've noticed a lot of decentralized projects are interested and adapting to its approach.
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I had this problem a few years ago but I think all my friends reached the realization at the same time as me so now we hang out all the time.

That plus MDMA every now and then and going to shows with my friends has pretty much dealt with my last few issues with socialization.
Also check out processing.org.