skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just this summer, I read a book by Josef Pieper called "Leisure: the Basis of Culture" that is a response to what he calls the tyrannical culture of "total work". He begins the book with a bit history and a bit of etymology. For example, the word school comes from the Latin scola which in term comes from the Greek skole, both mean "leisure". Indeed, neither the Greeks nor the Romans had a word for work that wasn't the negation of a word meaning "leisure" (e.g., the Greek a-scolia and the Latin neg-otium, hyphens added for emphasis). This identification of leisure with school (as classically understood) is the source of the term "liberal arts" (artes liberales), that is, arts free from practical purpose, as opposed to the "servile work" (artes serviles). These can be related to theoria and praxis, respectively.

Pieper distinguishes leisure from idleness or amusement which, for the man of total work, are the same. Leisure is not aimed at sensual indulgence but rather contemplative, receptive encounter with the world, with being. Here he distinguishes between intellectus and ratio, or a purely receptive intellection versus discursive thinking. Man, of course, needs to work. Pieper does not deny the need and proper value of work, but he rejects the primacy of work or work for work's sake. He is drawing attention to the superiority of contemplation to work.

In any case, I recommend the book.
Travel is peanuts compared to children. Yes travel, no children. Seems like a good compromise.
Maybe this is just indoctrination from living in a capitalist society, but I'm not sure I'd like retirement. Or at least I'm not sure it'd make me happy. Sure I'd love to take short breaks, i.e. sabbaticals, but I'd ideally like to be working in some capacity on something meaningful.

And it does feel like this movement is all about delaying purpose until you have enough money. And having seen up close people who got a late start, it's not fantastic. For instance, take the dude who's trying to become a screenwriter in his 40's. He's gonna be around a bunch of 20 somethings, quite a few of whom have degrees in film, who are willing to stay up late, grind out screenplays and hustle like hell for a career in film. Will he do that?
Of all the pitfalls how can the text replace preprocessor be the hard part? Just apply the preprocessor on any input before the rest of the processing.

The project looks kinda cool. I wonder if I could hack it for "real time feedback" of c code in Eclipse some how.
It didn't look like a particular fault of anyone. Building a viable AR headset is a Tony Stark type of affair. The complexity is on par to AV.
cyphar made a lot of comments here on usage of mount namespaces and pivot_root.
Fun fact: In Turkey People used to retire by 38 if they start working at 18 years old. There were 20 years of work requirement, no minimum age requirement.

Now ageism is rampant, finding a job after 30 gets hard, after 40 very hard, after 50 almost impossible and millions of people who "came to age" after that ridiculous system was fixed demand retirement at their 40's. No one questions if putting age limit to vacancies are O.K., they demand their tight to retire at 40(now most approach their 50s though, as this is going on for many years).

I had a friend at high school whose father retired at 40 but he was well off by that time(had his own business), so he simply handed his ATM card to his son to use. It felt quite unfair since my parents were set to retire after their 60s, working their asses because they are immigrants and did not catch the window for sweet retirement. It's different than having a friend with rich parents.

In my mind, retirement should happen about the same age for every healthy person. Otherwise, it creates morale issues because the whole retirement concept is based on the idea that people age. When you do not retire due to age, you are simply a leech on society. It is different from being rich, rich people continue to contribute to society until they retire.
14.8% seems to be the real figure for Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany
I feel like I've noticed a shift in apparent motivation between 2014 and now. I remember a lot of people talking about doing it as a side gig or whatever in the past, but now I hear a lot about drivers working 8+hr shifts, sleeping in their cars between shifts, commuting from 1-3hr away to drive in SF, etc.
Seems to me Uber is trying to pitch itself as a subcontracting company that just happens to utilize it's dispatch and subcontracting infrastructure for ride hailing.

Which still makes their claim indirectionist bullshit. Their subcontracting involved investment in building up fleets of vehicles, leasing them to their "contractors", and creates a situation identical in every way that matters to operating as a taxi company. The potential or intent to try to port their business methodology elsewhere does not detract from the fact traffic engineers now have to take them into account when planning out infrastructure.

This is the type of regulation flaunting that has fueled the coming backlash against SaaS providers that supply the logistical infrastructure to make something happen, but hide behind a shield from liability because the actual performer of the task is a "standalone free agent".
That’d put a different spin on things
That's fine if you want to compile or interpret the program for a particular set of definitions. It's not so good if you want to manipulate the program text as a structured object.
Exponential growth is like that
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The article points out another successfully hit target was the Patriot search radar. The fiberglass airframe indicated in your link supports that capability. Autopilot code is as mentioned elsewhere open source. Scary stuff
Of course, if the crypto advocates win, then Portugal, Spain, Germany, and everyone else will be in a "currency union"...
> If anything, holding the same dollar will lead you to purchase more goods at a higher quality than before as the market develops and expands - a higher purchasing power.

AKA, a risk-free return on your uninvested, idle, capital that nobody owes you. The poor tend not to have much savings, by definition, which means that all this win goes to the already wealthy. Your argument is simply that your dollars should be worth more later because you got your dollar first. That's not a good reason, IMO.

> If anything, I can't see a justification to allow the public's money to decrease in value over time.

Let's say you decide it should be worth the same amount forever. Fine, that still requires printing new money. All you're arguing now is the magnitude.
They also took the money before having to reimburse the tickets, so it acted as taking in a short term loan.
Do the big CL option MMs keep positions open over the weekend?
May comment was not directed at the 200k but the 30 and 35k quoted.
I'm never a fan of this, but on this page the visualization was so compelling I didn't even notice. That's a good bar to set for anyone thinking of stealing our scrollbars. I think a component of it, is that the part that hijacked the scroll bar is really the money shot of the article.
To keep the water out. The roof covering was made out of lead, instead of copper or wood shingles.
I think the main problem is to make "a few million" first.

Or rather, if you had "a few million" to put into index funds, why bother doing that instead of living in a cheaper area that your few million would take you a lot further?
Given a cure (not a "maintenance" drug), companies would "sell the hell out of" that product until there were no more customers; then the market would collapse and the corporation would go bankrupt. The medical market is slightly more "graceful" in that new customers enter the market each generation.

This is not "popular narrative", it's established economic reality for any good that can be either rented or sold.

Compare selling vs renting a software package. Once a market is saturated no more sales can be made and the seller's company will likely collapse. In contrast, a renter collects each year until the software is superceded (but can add improvements each year to postpone that) or no longer useful.

I once worked for a company that sold a software package for a one-time (large) purchase fee plus a trivial annual maintenance fee. The employees walked the halls puzzling "What happens when we sell our last package?". Answer: company saw the light and tried to change from a purchase model to a rental model. All customers revolted and some threatened to sue (for software support ad infinitum). The company collapsed. Luckily I was gone by then.

And yes, the MBAs are responsible largely: they do good b/c they can tell you what business model to use to achieve your goals. Few industries are more concerned about how to make money than the pharmaceutical industry:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=business+models+for+pharmaceutical...

But we also need corporations that are willing to develop true cures instead of "managements". Most MBA's aren't interested in that; maybe government can help by providing better incentives.
How about we not relitigate all of monetary policy in a thread about Facebook? This isn't productive; it's a gigantic, pointless digression.
Interesting. Examples?
all-in-one is a brand. there is no real all-in-one.
For contrast: I also had a biking accident, broke my right leg in six places, pretty complex breaks too. Seven hours of operations and a lot of effort to get back to normal which more or less worked. Total cost: $500 or so in deductibles, not a cent more. I still have half an Ikea in my right leg on account of this little trip for my health, still debating whether to have it removed or not, which will be free because it is related to the original accident.

That story is disgusting, what I find really shocking is that apparently if you get the media interested suddenly your bill evaporates.
Why don't you respond with 'you will, I won't' and see what sort of response you get? While I don't want to promote disharmony at the dinner table, your grandfather's gloom at his looming mortality is no excuse for endorsing the diminution of your life expectancy. That said, such frankness might well result in him allocating any legacy away from you in his will.
Facebook would already make the situation into 2 competing entities, as the state will always be the other.
Agreed 100%.

Which implies the employers should also be screened - are they 100% remote, or just allow remote workers? Do they really know how to work remotely, or are they new at this? Do they do occasional gatherings of remote people? Is it world-wide remote, or "in-our-time-zone" remote? Are you truly free to live anywhere you want, or do you need permission to move to a state that doesn't already have an employee in that jurisdiction?

These are all potential deal-breakers for remote professionals, so I'd expect some employer screening to gather answers such as these. I wouldn't exclude companies from the site based on the answers, but I'd absolutely tell potential candidates the answers so we can self-screen out of the ones that don't match needs.
So that link writes:

"Iran has supplied drone technology to the Houthis fighting the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, a panel of experts reported in January 2018 to the United Nations Security Council.

United Nations investigators say the Houthis have since obtained a more advanced drone than those cited in that report, with a range of 930 miles, The Associated Press reported."

So it's not clear if the source of the recent, more advanced drones is the same as the previous ones that the UNSC reported.

Or am I missing something else from the article?
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The drone doesn't need 1000km rage, you just need a pickup and a few people to get somewhat close.
I don't think we've had long enough to since China changed its waste acceptance standards to be sure of the long-term ramifications.
I was working in a small startup in Germany. I think our boss was around 40. He didn't want developer older than 38 :D We were just above 30 at that time.
need some DRM in there so those pirate wild mosquitoes can't misuse our proprietary genes
Admittedly I don’t have a resource to site. A quick google is easy to find all sorts of ways that the pharma industry has performed with their interests taking precedence over patients (eg price gouging, selectively publishing research). But, yes it’s proving to be a little hard to find specific details that show the industry prioritizes research that yields long term use drugs over cures.

To counter your point the existence of short term (& high cost) drugs doesn’t contradict that research prioritizes medications that maximize profit not patient lifestyle.
« However, it was already known from previous laboratory experiments that a small proportion of about three to four percent of OX513A descendants can reach adulthood; the scientists had assumed that those would be too weak to reproduce. »

Ugh! This release should never have passed review.
I expect llvm/clang to dominate over the long term (10 years from now)
Thank you, I did misread that part.
>The poor tend not to have much savings, by definition, which means that all this win goes to the already wealthy.

This is not true - saving rates were higher in the past before irresponsible monetary policy took over after the erosion of the gold standard.

>Your argument is simply that your dollars should be worth more later because you got your dollar first.

This is exactly what happens in an inflationary monetary regime, althought the difference is that the distribution of purchasing power increases is not homogenous in an economy rather it is concentrated on those who are either politically or economically well-connected, usually asset holders.

>Your argument is simply that your dollars should be worth more later because you got your dollar first.

How about not controlling the value of money and instead letting it reflect the general purchasing power in an economy?
That's all great, but we're not talking about software, and you haven't addressed your parent poster's point in the slightest.

Of course someone could prioritize "management". That's not interesting. Interesting is the question whether they actually do, and you cannot argue that from first principles, philosophy-style. You need observations, news reportings, whatever. But facts, not "I could imagine...".
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Changing a button was just one example. How about this? https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1166700686467166208
Was trying to get the info, but unfortunately no clue.
M&A team which one was responsible in time the deal was made - already gone.(
Or Kissinger's aphorism that (I'm paraphrasing a bit here), "the military loses if it doesn't win, while the rebels win if they don't lose."
New Zealand to receive first ever floating solar
Right, a technically private institution which is built on capital of all EU member states and tightly knit into the complex web of EU entities is literally the same thing as a social media giant who denies even conducting business at scale in Germany or France to dodge taxes and comes freshly out of manipulating the US elections for profit.

Germany is not perfect, neither in ideology nor in execution. Neither is the EZB or the EU, for that matter. But this is just bad faith arguing.
There's no safe level of lead, the symptoms start at nothing at 0.0ug/dL and increase proportionally.
One of the earliest advocates in this game was Mr. Money Moustache[1] who spelled out the arithmetic of "save half what you earn until you can live on your savings" back in 2011 or so. Very entertaining writer in the contrarian vein.

[1] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com
How do they know how far the drone flew? Could be just Lawrence of Arabia on a camel crossing the desert and launching from outside the compound wall for all anyone knows.
...anyone who has an adblocker won't know the site is bad. >_>
For URLs and searches I can highlight, right click, go. Even faster than pasting into an address bar. Copying commands is quite rare for me. But okay!
My wife had a bad climbing accident in Glencoe a few years back and was rescued by the local mountain rescue team working in conjunction with an RAF helicopter and taken to Fort William hospital.

The only thing we were left with was the suggestion from the (awesome) nurse to "Come back to Fort William, but don't come back here!"...
I only played RTS for single player. That is also how I started playing it since Dune II in 1993 as my first (I bought and played C&C, RA, WC2, WC3 when they were released).

What happened is that players have become better, better, better. Same as in WoW. It is due to documentation and theorycrafting being more widely available.

That, and the MOBA genre, is what happened to RTS. Multi-player game is also more difficult to pirate, and allows for a cash shop due to vanity items. Means RIP single player. And multi-player RTS is very competitive ie. not casual-friendly. It is not forgiving either.
> Germany is obviously somewhat keen on letting single entities get control of everything, as the EU is in many ways an extension primarily of Germany, and the closest entity I'm aware of that could be said to be doing just that.

I'm not sure a union with a democratically elected parliament is comparable to a social media corporation which answers to its shareholders?
The shady billionaire can continue brainwashing you even after you paid $30 a month, right?

In my opinion, the main difference between the bad journalism that used to exist before, and the utterly horrible journalism that exists now, is that previously people treated the newspaper as a whole, and now they share articles on social networks separately.

Why does it make a difference? Because when you have a package of 20 articles, and you understand that 3 of them are complete bullshit (because they are about a topic you know something about), you become less likely to trust the remaining 17 articles even if you see nothing wrong about them (because they are about topics you know little about). When a bad article can ruin your impression of the entire newspaper, the newspaper has an incentive to avoid at least the most obvious nonsense.

The same mechanism mostly doesn't work online. People share one article at a time. You won't share it if you understand that it is nonsense. But the fact that some other article on the same online newspaper is obvious nonsense won't stop you from sharing this specific article. On paper, those articles are part of the same thing; online, each of them lives a separate life. (Actually, an online company such as Gawker can split their content among multiple websites, to further avoid bad impression from one article hurting the remaining ones.)

Perhaps paying for online newspapers could return this perception of a newspaper as a package. (Assuming there would be no deals like "pay $100 a month, and get access to these five newspapers".) Maybe.
I'm working on a c++ webserver too.

I don't want to over engineer it, so I don't write a wrapper for file descriptor.

I studied lwan, for inspiration. I too see it has some abstraction layers. I think it is mainly for cross-compiling on different platforms, it needs to abstract the socket, event, io APIs.

My project is linux only. So I want to stay simple.
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Look up FatFIRE, I think people on HN would be more aligned with that philosophy rather than regular FIRE.
It comes from bright, talented SWEs who do not, bless their hearts, understand that IT Operations is an entire profession unto its own, and not merely the grunt-work they are forced to do while working as interns or juniors.
That's great for super large builds, but the point of this is to deal with "I have one file I want to compile which is taking 30 seconds to compile, and I only have like three files to compile, so it would be awesome if I could use all of the cores on my laptop to do this compile and get it down to 10 seconds or something".
My father died when he was 36. I was 11 years old at the time. I am the complete opposite to these people. I believe life is for living, now, not later, because who knows even if you'll get there.

I always had the 36 figure in my head: "I will enjoy life as much as possible to 36 and then calm down". Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) I have trained my brain to enjoy life to its fullest as much as possible, I can't snap out of it.

I suspect that these people who forego living to put cash to one side with the premise that in the future they'll be able to live the good life will find they are mentally unable to make that switch too.

I am now 44 and can say that my 20s were amazing, my 30s even better (because I understood myself much more), my 40s have been pretty good, but it's clear I am slowing down a touch - the motivations to live every moment are fighting with the slight loss in energy as I age.

Why anybody would think it makes sense to put the best years of their lives (in terms of physical fitness) to one side in the promise of some later payoff is beyond me.
Really good read. Thanks for sharing with us
Seems like you know something others don’t. Maybe you should build this?
When will we stop pretending like silver bullet solutions exist and that we can tamper with natural systems like this without introducing impactful unintended consequences?

We've repeatedly observed that what happens in the lab has little to do with what happens in nature, yet we ignore this lesson routinely and dangerously.

Does science have a learning disorder? Could it be, in part, a lack of humility?
Iran! Of course let's mainly blame Iran, not KSA or the Western powers enabling them, this is an in depth analysis indeed.
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I seriously doubt your claim, and whether you know anything about basics of electronics engineering.

You can dissipate kilowatts of RF energy just with structural components of a UAV, so physically frying a UAV is completely out of the question.

Near all of aviation composites come with some copper or aluminium mesh exactly for EMI, and lighting strike protection these days.

And for protecting antenna inputs, there are god knows how much circuits even a high schoolers can do.
Interesting how few still have a working website.
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> with the new USB-C docks, and very few problems.

I can also claim that I have "very few" problem with the thes docks, as long as I don't use them. After the initial (repeated) problem I've just learned not to hot plug anything in their USB ports, but only directly in the notebook (somehow hot plugging in the dock always results in the confusion of some level of OS -- no idea why). Then, they do work as the power supply and the monitor drivr... until you have to turn the computer off an on again. Then they still behave quite randomly. Sometimes they don't show the picture. Sometimes they block somewhere. Some strange "resets" happen even as the OS is fully booted and waits for my input. Note I keep the firmware updates to the latest version.

So yes, the users learned to say "it works" if they find any workaround that lets them do something without interruption, and then, "oh I never turn my computer off anyway" or "oh I never use the trackpad anyway, I use the mouse" etc. E.g. one of my colleagues typically keeps his setup turned on and plugged in without plugging in anything for at least a month, so he simply sees the problems less often. But when I do observe what happens when he plugs something or turns the computer on, the same story.