skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freakanomics did an interesting podcast about the same theory, what they called the "no oney left to blame" hypothesis.

>DUBNER: The most compelling explanation of suicide I’ve ever heard about — discussed with the fellow who promulgates it — because we don’t really know that much about suicide, because it’s taboo, the research is very distant and so on. But he calls it the “no-one-left-to-blame” theory. Which is that if you have problems in life, but you’ve got a toxic environment or a nasty government, you can always imagine that life will get a lot better. But if you’re surrounded by happy, shiny people and you’re not happy and shiny, it can be — so can you talk about that notion in a place that’s so happy?

WIKING: Yeah. So there is a term, “the happiness-suicide paradox,” that talks about exactly that — that it might be more difficult to be unhappy in an otherwise happy society. If everybody around you feels that life is great, that are oh-so-happy, and you yourself feel unhappy, then that could create a stronger contrast and maybe you start to blame yourself. And more developed countries have reduced the reasons why we should be unhappy. You know, eliminate poverty, have eliminated lack of education — then if I have all these opportunities, why am I still unhappy? We start to internalize that cause and blame ourselves.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/happiness/
The file you linked is 200KB.

OTCC is <4KB. It's admittedly using tiny names to squeeze under a size limit, but even when you correct for that it's a lot smaller.

(Edit: At the time of submission the link went to https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/Linux%20Bootst... with a description of "World's Smallest C Compiler")
> A developer with 10 years of varied experience can usually do just as well as someone with 20 years of experience

As a developer with 20 years experience ... I'm a lot better at what I do than I was ten years ago. Better at seeing how it relates to the business I'm working with, more productive in ways that are not just LoC.

I'd be OK if I can sustain my current income... but I'd still like to take the step to being more of a consultant. I'm dancing on the edges of it now, between contractor and consultant.
This is more like “rich westerners chasing FOMO feels”.

I have a hard time supporting politically that we owe deference to a minority experiencing shallow novelty and calling them life dreams, given the externalized costs foisted on society as a whole.

There are peaks closer and the difference in sensory experience is marginal.

This is just “more money than I can spend so I’ll shovel it a little at everything.” Which is politically indefensible given how society is manipulated to enable it.
they have a well documented history of releasing selectively edited videos
Quadcopter pet project https://github.com/castis/currant

One for running Retropie https://emulationstation.org/gettingstarted.html#install_rpi....

Next one is for playing with https://www.zoneminder.com/
Agreed... Mongo also works well for denormalizing data structures into something that renders faster to the browser. A single key/document->json->get->parse-> render is much faster than a query across many joins and/or sub-queries.

As an aside, if you're doing it anyway, it's also a good point to dump to .json.gz in S3 (or similar) as a secondary backup system.
The solution is pretty simple: stop buying stuff from amazon 'because of the convenience'.
Yet Another Block-Styled Wysiwyg with Cool UI
Well, yes, in that no one has lived forever yet. :) But that he has established a substantial research foundation and normalized a subject that was virtually fringe science a few decades ago is tremendous success in itself.
Noted venture capitalist Peter Thiel agrees that Silicon Valley / Bay Area is no longer the best location for startups due to high real estate costs.

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/peter...
Bringing Big Bandwidth to Large Enterprises
Yes, that, and credit cards also have +30 days of float essentially built in. So when you run into billing errors or fraud you have time for it to unwind itself / you won't have actively lost money until you need to settle up.
It's not just media, but the education system as well. More educated people are significantly more, not less likely to fail Intellectual-Turing-Tests about people with opposing views. i.e. far from increasing openness to experience, education itself is functioning much like indoctrination into a fundamentalist religion! The effect starts already at a High-School level and becomes worse and worse as educational attainment rises:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/republican...

If this doesn't scare the s--t out of you, I don't know what would.
This is not just some internet uplink, it’s the national emergency number. And on top of that, they sent the wrong phone number with the NL Alert.

Whatever the post-mortem will say, if the national emergency number goes down, it’s a huge fuck-up. People will die because of this.
In almost all industries you start out doing low level technical stuff and then over time transition to working with people. An analyst at a management consultancy, a bank or a hedge fund spends his time looking at balance sheets or excel, whereas partners go to meetings and dinners with clients.

In a word, you make more money by transitioning from hard skills to soft, and since most developers are unwilling or unable to do this their salaries will plateau.

But compared to the financial industry, and probably law, developers can count themselves lucky. Those industries work on an “up or out” principle, sticking around for 20 years as an analyst simply isn’t an option, no matter how good you are.
I tend to find that Venmo is a bit redundant in the UK - feature-wise, I'm not sure that it does anything that the standard bank mobile apps can't do?
(There's a standard person-to-person via mobile number payments system that most banks support & integrate into their apps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paym)).
SSH/IRC client for a VT420.
In addition non-negligible sources of particulates are tyres and brakes wearing down.
Yes that is the size of the source code with comments, the binary is less than 15KB
For me this is the money quote:

“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”

-- Jen Gennai, Google employee and Head of Responsible Innovation

I am against breaking up Google and against Trump, but this is the best argument in favor breaking up Google that I've read.
Well... Most of us are likely to wait for the owner in situ or other ways.Anyway I will not by email.
SF does this in a big way for the ordinary family that lost a job or suffered a health emergency and then got evicted because housing is hella expensive in SF. That's what much of the $241M goes to.

The homeless people that you see crowding Civic Center BART or the Tenderloin or the Mission are generally not people that want housing - they're addicts, or mentally ill, or veterans suffering from PTSD, or just rebel against the strictures of modern society. You can't force them into housing without involuntarily committing them, which is what cities generally did in the 50s and 60s. That's definitely not laissez-faire, and has its own moral issues.
Fantastic. Congratulations to the Elixir team!

Something striking from the release announcement:

> As mentioned earlier, releases was the last planned feature for Elixir. We don’t have any major user-facing feature in the works nor planned.

Part of me is a little alarmed—no one wants a language to stagnate. José makes it clear that this doesn't mean it's the last version:

> Of course, it does not mean that v1.9 is the last Elixir version. We will continue releasing shipping new releases every 6 months with enhancements, bug fixes and improvements.

Elixir is remarkably extensible. When I was first getting acquainted with the language finding macros with all the expressive ability of a LISP blew my mind. Making powerful macros a core part of the language meant that the language could grow. That in my mind is the most important part of any language's long-term viability.

Fantastic work all who contributed. Thank you for making a fast, functional, and fun language to work with!
I think that goes a little too far.

I don't trust them very much as an entity, I think they are kind of seedy and 'slant' their findings, no doubt.

But there is materiality in their revelations.

It's a 'noisy channel' so to speak, but there's 'materiality' in the noise.
The rate of growth is slowing? What derivative is that?

>> In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.
I had just finished work on an asterisk system when the issue hit. I was so frustrated that I couldn't find the issue.

... Until I checked the news and found out that things weren't working for anyone.

Quickly put the customer onto the secondary fallback line, and now they're actually happy with me ;-)
A lot of folks have said "pihole". I have a linux server at home that does my DNS and a bunch of other stuff. I also have a pi3 still in the box.

Would there be an advantage to me running pihole on the pi3 instead of on my linux server?
I have 5 or more in my house, some bought, some inherited. One of them runs pi-hole. I'm in the middle of setting up octopi for a new 3d printer on another one. Two of the others are pi zeros (no wireless), no plan for those any time soon. I also have one of the older models, RCA video output instead of HDMI. I'm not sure I'll ever find a use for that one.
I'm using a Raspberry Pi (Gen 1, Model B I think) to run a smart mirror. It pulls up my daily commute, news headlines, weather, and calendar. I take no credit for the software (https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror)

I also had one connected to my Motorola LapDock back in 2012 to run a portable raspbian laptop. It worked surprisingly well.
"[..]only have the goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less."

I believe the "size" refers to the binary size of the compiler.
"server side rendering", cool, I was doing that in 1995
Project veritas has repeatedly shown itself to be untrustworthy, but if the commentary they have appeared to capture in this case is accurate, it is a disgraceful embarrassment for google if not actually illegal. I am betting she'll be fired over this.
I automatically backup all of my tweets to a google sheet that I then download periodically. I don't necessarily do it for the reason that you gave, but that's definitely a reason to to something like this.
Yes the last time I checked this was the case. Most western cities are clean enough that cycling is still a net-win.
> Changing your email address is no small hassle

I moved my addresses over to my own domain (lyndsysimon.com) many years ago, way back when I was still using gmail as my provider. I've since switched a couple of times, and have never had to change my address.

These days I use Protonmail. I like it for what it is, and it checks all of my "privacy" boxes, but the search functionality leaves much to be desired. I understand the technical limitations that constrain that, but I still wish there were more options.
Why Should You Drink Only Filtered Water? – Universe LOL
The linked source indicates the complexity of this test. I'm sure plenty of flippers take advantage of 1031, even if they sometimes are challenged by the IRS.
Mine drives an LED pixel frame in my living room: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIgFP9dhkPZ/
Is there a benefit to personally tracking flights instead of querying 3rd parties?
Ask HN: Anyone with experience using Amazon FSx for Lustre?
https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre/

We would like to evaluate using it for prolonged periods, i.e. 24/7 online, but according to Amazon - "Amazon FSx is ideal for HPC workloads because it provides a file system that’s optimized for the performance and costs of short-lived, high-performance workloads, with file system access across thousands of EC2 instances.".

Anyone with experience of using it in production - is the uptime good enough for long running workloads? What is 'short-lived' exactly? Can you supply some real world numbers for the availability and/or downtime of the service in production?

Thanks!
A fascinating article. Reminds you that backups are useless unless you verify you can restore the data.
In a typical bank, AML is not part of the CFO responsibility (instead directly subordinate to CEO), and no sane bank will have a CFO whose experience is chiefly AML.
I don't see why, its just neat to have a little dedicated device next to your router IMO.
Some people flower early, some late.

I'd suggest based on empirical evidence most people in the tech world are more apt to flower later. So for some, their peak was at high school or college - for most of us, I suspect its early to mid thirties.
I understand the sentiment, Oracle is a terrible company and I don't like it either. But at this point we have the OpenJDK and you can use the JVM without caring about Oracle at all.
Of course there are times (such as encrypt/decrypt requirement) where using predictable paths as keys, and encrypted json as values can be easier. Also, a K/V store can easily have the underlying system swapped out... replace with Mongo/Redis/PostgreSQL/RocksDB/LevelDB ... you keep your app interface the same at a higher level, and swap out the lower layer as needed for a given environment.
I really feel sad for these sherpas that have to work as care givers for these unprepared losers from the west (most of them seem to be) that just want to impress their kin back home.

I suggest the book "Into Thin Air" (and the movie version "Everest") if you want to know more about how the commercial side of Everest climbing works (and about a really sad tragedy).
I believe it might be possible to use VideoCore VI for crypto acceleration.

I think it would be pretty tricky to get LUKS to use it, though. At least writing a kernel module, but most likely LUKS patch would be required. You'd probably have to choose between 3D acceleration and full disk encryption.

Looks like VideoCore VI is getting some compute shader support:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/anholt/mesa/tree/v3d-cs/src/g...
> and had no other sources of income or money

That is part of the issue though. It wasn't that long ago that that was true of most people (90s is pushing it a bit, but before?).

These days a lot of people are DINK, and you're competing with those. So not only you have to index the salary for inflation, you have to consider that you're competing with people who don't have a bunch of kids, and whom's spouse also brings in a salary.

So (not a real calculation, but just to make a point) assume the spouse would make the same amount of money and the kids are taking half of it, the DINK equivalent of income available for housing is now inflation + 4x that.

If the norm back then was:
1 income, multiple kids.

Now you have
- 1 income, 1 or more kids (essentially screwed)
- 1 income, no kids
- 2 incomes, 1 or more kids
- 2 income, no kids (so far beyond the first case that the former can't come close to competing).

Its also why if you are in the later camp and something happens (you lose your job or get sick and get a divorce), you're completely fucked.
That's more obviously an assumption failure though - the copy-paster has assumed that the top hit or similar-looking thing is going to work, without properly understanding it and modifying it as necessary.
Have any of you done something with machine learning on rpi? Like face recognition or some fun robot. I'm looking at rpi4+google coral and it seems impressive enough to run interesting projects.
Humble video of Stewart Butterfield demonstrating Glitch (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuSxwPwSyEQ
A significant percentage of people who come across an obstacle to their planned method of suicide will never try again. They are not intended to go elsewhere.
N26 is also known to not help you when you're a fraud victim (https://heise.de/-4355970). And they're currently on a watchlist because they usually fail to prevent money laundering (https://heise.de/-4429143).
> This sentence from the article makes it sound like the software made the emissions be under the limit all the time.

The use of the word “pass” leads me to assume that it’s referring to levels when being tested

> ...would PASS emissions limits imposed by the US.

(Emphasis added by me)
I'd like to add to this.

For people who burn out in high school, that's usually your first experience with it. The first time is always the worst, whether it happens in high school, college, or on the job.

Once you've already burned out once in high school, twice in college (once before and once after switching your major), and hit your breaking point at a job or two (regardless of whether you switch jobs, or careers, or just take a long vacation, or just spend six months kind of just putting in time at your job before you're ready to really try again) ... well, burning out still sucks, but you kind of get used to it, you know how to deal with it, and you know that eventually you're going to pick yourself up again.

But man, that first time, you really feel like a failure, like you're never going to amount to anything, and like you'll never be able to try again.
Pihole and tvheadend
I know this isn't terribly helpful to you, but I have never had any problems with using or upgrading Pi Hole. I have been running mine for a few years now, and everything has been smooth and error-free.
A bunch:
- Ubiquiti network controller, Pi Hole
- Temperature controller to knit an ancient hydronic in floor heater and a new-ish mini split together to act in unison. Pings local national weather stations to get more accurate data than I care to replicate at my home.
- Octoprint for my 3d printer
- 4x for a hobby project stitching together video from multiple cameras
I expect that to be a part of this initiative. It would not make sense to do otherwise.
If the breakup does happen, the internet will become a brand new place, but if it doesn't happen, Google creates Skynet for real.

Kidding, but it is interesting to think about what would happen if the breakup does or doesn't happen.
Perhaps the purpose of the spinner is to delete the data they've already collected?

Are you still being "tracked" if all copies of the data are destroyed?
there is a site called crimeflare that can explain it as well as it can be explained.
At probably a naive glance it seems related to anonymity. Would tying identity to online posts increase this trust? What if you had to insert your National ID Card to comment in some feedback forums?

I remember YouTube tried this and failed due to pushback.

What's the driver of this clickbait/instant gratification/hot take culture that's developing? Is it just ads?
I was a consultant and ran IT security years ago at a company that was bought in a hostile takeover for ~$1B which was a significant premium in order to get some expertise for a special market they didn't have in house. One of the first things the purchaser did was tell the acquired company that they needed to change all their SKUs to match the corporate standard. At least some management at the purchaser knew that the acquired company used SKUs to track batches so they could detect, track and troubleshoot manufacturing and design defects, but apparently thought that standardization was more important. That was far from their only bad decision but within 5 years they'd run their 1B investment down to just the residual value of the IP about 100M. Fitting things into a procrustean bed (standardization) isn't always a good business strategy and inventory management in particular can be more complicated than it looks.
And use candidates to your job offers so they do free marketing campaigns for you. Basically.

To be honest, fuck Revolut, so use them with little money.

Something is not right with these freaks.
Enjoys. Try to do in F# many of the workflows VB.NET is capable of.
It was bought with the intention of using it as an emulator for old games, but it just sits unused in a closet.
The median listing price in Boise is $349,900 (https://www.zillow.com/boise-id/home-values/); Reno, $438,250 (https://www.zillow.com/reno-nv/home-values/; median selling price, $356,700). Cleveland's median listing price is $82,500.

Reno's listing price $231/ft^2 up from $151/ft^2 five years ago, but keep in mind that Reno was rather badly hit by 2008: median sales prices for 2br homes peaked at about $284,000 in 2006, bottomed at about $75,000 in 2011, and are currently back up to $271,000 (https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Reno-Nevada/market-trends...).
Twilio Alternative
twilio alternative

https://textita.com
> It's a bad idea to let companies create their own top level domains

Why? I would love to have an open DNS system not controlled by some registrars, and by a body which dictates that .paris is fine, but .hdjdhduh is not (except for a huge cost)
Not at all. I run the service in a VM on a windows server.
One account I have heard from nurses in Geritology is the apparent importance of "will to live" - they have witnessed many times death following them psychologically giving up.

There could be some chicken vs egg factor (do they lose the will from health being hopeless or does their health decline with their psychological state influencing immune system, and to what extent?). That or spurious human pattern recognition (superstition) but it is possible that there is some literal survivalship bias.
I use it as a visualization server for my research!
Someone downvoted you, but ,you are, indeed, correct in you assessment. This is the depressing reality.
We will be left with worthless dangling pointers to our memories.
What is this comment intended to mock?
This sounds so cool.
> Yes, that’s the idea, but who’s going to enforce it?

In theory, people are supposed to be suing the companies that do this, right?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do releases fit into the deployment story with containers so prevalent these days? (As in why is this a benefit when you can just package code into a single container to ship it?) Is it that it works with hot code updates? Or it’s a more Erlang-sanctioned way of deploying code?
2 sounds amazing
i wonder if this will increase BMWs reliability. BMWs, like many of the German brands, don't age well at all and start to have a lot of problems after 10 years. But with electrification, there should be less that can go wrong, in theory at least.
Tax is irrelevant if you are an employee in your own Croatian company. The paycheck is yours to choose and you can pay the company income to yourself (12% or 18% tax, depending on the amount). Yeah, you lose the social benefits of the future but have more money to save.

Companies here do not mind paying to your business for services because it is cheaper for them too, and as a tech worker, all the benefits of an employer are not that important.
Every investigative journo program selectively edits their interviews.

If you see some 'behind the scenes' from 60 minutes, CBC, BBC ... it's all edited to elicit the 'prime moments' and often in the favour of the narrative they're trying to present.

I suggest Vertias is definitely worse, I think they are seedy, I don't trust it outright, but there's unavoidably real material there.

So - low journalistic standards, but sometimes access to key information.
You are wrong. It is quite well established that blocking a specific method of suicide can prevent people from trying. What you say is true in a technical sense but is completely ignorant of the actual ways that humans behave.