skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then I sit with a hopelessly old system I dare not to touch because I dread the day I have to do that kernel update or that one update that pulls in a new libc, leading to an upgrade orgy. I have seen that plenty of times.

This nonsense is why stable and LTS releases were introduced in the first place.

If I'm faced with a major upgrade of an LTS system, I usually choose to reinstall from scratch, shedding packages I haven't needed for a long time with it. But that happens every couple years or so.

If you're okay with hitting the forums now and then to find out why your desktop has been behaving oddly the last two weeks, rolling is your thing. You won't have to break in your new dist-upgraded or freshly installed system for like two weeks.

If you don't want to play lottery every time you hit enter for that update or if you're a business where you can't afford possibly breaking all your laptops for some security update, stable is your only option.

It's "choose the best tool for the job" I guess.
I was going to say the same thing (so I will). The rule is just always use "$@" and then you have only one case to reason about and it is what you want 99.99% of the time anyways.
I was wondering about this today. How granular are the 'zones' used for these alerts? Is it just by political boundary? For something like Pickering, it would be useful to have a more geographical zone -- including parts of the US. Could the alert be sent out and limited to cell towers within a selected zone? Is the current system using tower location?
Hmmm, that makes sense to me for offline / not real time analysis, but I'd be interested to know how that would affect things in real time. I guess using some sort of DRC/limiter could be used to attempt to "normalize" the incoming audio
That would require exponential amounts of binaries.
As a guy trying to build something while still in Uni I'd have to name most episodes of the indiehackers podcast. It's incredibly valuable for me to listen to established "normal" founders telling their story. It feels like I'm at a table with them.

One of the best ones was the one with the hotjar founder David Darmanin: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/036-david-darmanin-of-h...

It proves that failing at previous projects doesn't mean that you are a failure yourself.

I'm from southern Germany and the startup scene here is basically non-existent. So listening to indiehackers is sort of like a replacement for other meetups.
it's acutely uncomfortable to have an article in one's face that comes from an opposing sector

There are plenty of respected neo/conservative outlets (or as Quillette calls itself, "centrist"); I don't think this framing is right.

The Economist gets onto the front page of HN frequently, and they're the first to admit they're in the center of the spectrum.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/02/...

The Wall Street Journal does as well, and they not only are openly conservative, but also controlled by the same man who runs FOX News.

Quillette, however, seems to be based on airing rage-bait. If you look at the front page of it, there are two types of article: first-person storytelling using deliberately inflammatory and confrontational wording and structure, and articles on trends that use the same, covered elsewhere less-controversially.

There are thousands of outlets covering the beats that Quillette does, including many outlets on the same side as Quillette, and most of those outlets don't get the same outrage that Quillette does, because Quillette's concern seems to lie with working social media outrage into mass viewership.

When headlines are filled with phrases like "Brave New World" and "the Decline of Excellence" and article previews stuffed with things like "manufactured rape crisis," it's apparent that they're aiming for outrage marketing rather than articles that can stand on their own merits.

While I'm not sure what the solution is, I think editorializing the titles of certain Quillette articles might help.
It is indeed a vicious cycle.
I think what you've done is very beautiful and I hope you'll accept some feedback with equanimity.

You haven't made a language here, you have implemented one. That language is mathematical "Nota"tion.

You've implemented it incorrectly, because mathematical notation is case sensitive. A doesn't mean a, any more than it means α.

It is, of course, your project, and your sense of aesthetics which must ultimately be satisfied. I hope you will consider what I and others are trying to communicate to you, because I would use this, if it weren't broken from my perspective.
>if Uber disappeared tomorrow, society would be moderately inconvenienced, but little else

If you inconvenience 100 million people by costing them 15 minutes more a day, or a few dollars more for lack of competition, then the cost per person may be low, but the cost altogether will be high.

This is the essential problem I see with the articles, they say so many jobs are useless, but often they're useful but only a small part of what is visible.
Yes. Nix runs on FreeBSD so first step is cross compile pure stdenv with BSD libc. Next step is native builds and kernel. Final step is make NixOS work with multiple init systems. Shouldn't be too bad!
I would add that people have noted that the Pacific Garbage Patch is large and has a low density of plastic. I assume that ocean also has a relatively low density of fish altogether but industrial fishing is able to catch a pretty large proportion of these at this point (with beneficial and problem consequences). With plastic not trying to flee and fish moving, it doesn't seems a-priori impossible to create a device that would just skim a large portion of the plastic off.

Of course, unless the world's nation change their policies, this will be moot and environmental destruction generally will accelerate given our present politics. But shitting on this particular project hardly seems a useful way to force this absolutely necessary general change.
Somewhat related but I feel really sad that IPv6 is so slow to be adopted.

IPv4 scarcity is going to increase centralization as it’s going to cost more than ever to even operate an AS.

It’s pretty much going to be impossible to run an AS as an individual too for the same reason as a /24, the smallest block that you can pretty much announce on the Internet already sells for 5k+.
I think this is an important innovation to drastically improve the efficiency for construction
Reminder to check out this amazing, heroic story of this man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Both are useful I'd say. Imagine a plug-in for your IDE that performs the static analysis and catches the syntax errors and some trivial semantic errors (typos in some field's name for instance) each time you save the file. I definitely find value in such a tool.
> ...limiting overall liability to the property value alone

LLCs don't limit liability resulting from negligence, malpractice, or other personal wrongdoing, which may be germane in a lawsuit over something besides unpaid debts.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr...
A/B testing prices is an existing practice (though one that has the potential to upset customers, should they find out). You can also test different pricing hypothesis in different markets. But I think this is most common when there’s little competition in a market/segment. In a competitive market, you already have a lot of information to base pricing decisions on (what do my competitors charge, what are their margins, what pricing changes have they made in the past...)
First commit was in 2015 https://github.com/erikpukinskis/web-element/commit/237a7381... so I have been through a few versions!

Happy to answer questions about the ideas behind it. TL;DR it's just old school JavaScript functions, and that kind of made the design decisions for me. I really hate Babel and WebPack and all that. I don't think there's anything asynchronous so I didn't really have to address the ES6 question.

Would be happy to add patches to support people's preferred build systems though. I don't use 'em but if you point me in a direction, I am happy to improve my packaging.

P.S. It gets a bit tastier when you start using it with https://www.npmjs.com/package/function-call
Although they wrote "episodes" in their title, the OP then listed two podcasts as examples to start the discussion ( Invest Like the Best https://investlikethebest.libsyn.com/ , and FYI https://open.spotify.com/show/0xOdWuktBQKWCv2mlVjizn ). As such, it seems quite a stretch to conclude they want us to limit our responses to specific episodes of podcasts.
> I cannot have a $100k bill to pay, it'd destroy everything I have.

Welcome to US healthcare. Happens daily! :)
We also don't want to waste time writing and testing and reviewing n solutions to the same problem, risking the same set of mistakes each time.
What kind of alert boundaries are there? Presumably radiation doesn't follow political boundaries.
It's also my favorite episode of The Outer Limits reboot...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667957/
A few questions: I have been writing a book (about cryptography[1]) and have done very light advertising for now (even though the book is available in early access).

Is there something that I should really be doing while I’m writing the book? And not after?

[1]: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...
When I read the first sentence, I thought of the country. For those not familiar with the Terry Gilliam science fiction film from the, it’s worth clarifying that Brazil is the name of a film: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
I feel like the truncation is fine, but too short at the moment. On mobile at least, it’s 25 characters, which isn’t enough space for me to figure out what the episode is about half the time
It is unfair to good-faith commenters who care about HN and its community to allow the site to play host to articles that will generate outrageous horrible threads, so that people like 'geofft feel obligated to write 1,000 words in response to this stupid article, or 'evgen 300 to respond to a comment about male IQ. You know that's essentially what Quillette does to this site, and you could trivially stop it from happening, and you can see clearly from Quillette's history on HN that it would be no loss to block it entirely.

Whatever the opposite of Quillette is, it doesn't belong here either. The problem isn't about discomfort with exposure to the opposing sector. It's about bad-faith content generating bad-faith threads that make demands on good commenters who could make better contributions elsewhere on HN.

Please reconsider.
At that time, financial security did not exist at all (or almost). There was no social safety net, no food stamps, no tax to redistribute. There was no reason to envision there will ever be different.
If you ever have worked at a failed startup than you had a “bullshit” job. Bullshit jobs aren’t all bad, they are necessary hypotheses in the productivity market. The problem with them comes when institutions invert their competency hierarchy (this can happen shockingly fast, just ask an ex-Yahoo employee) and lose their ability to excise the bullshit. Bullshit jobs easily become institutionalized. It is all about managing risk. By the time an organization has a bunch of bullshit jobs the people that could tell management who is who are all long gone.
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No, I only ran Ubuntu a few times. My worst breakages were on debian (generally testing). I remember the mysql packages completely killing my apt as well as grub updates wreaking havoc as two individual examples.
Correction: "Visual IPv4 Subnet Calculator"
Also not to forget a middle manager may want the feeling of power, which they could derive from having more people below them.

Humans aren't rational.
I think it's also reasonable to use in ssh and I believe su, which are commands that expect a single string as their inner command parameter.
The productive like the people who do slave labor in China to produce all of our gadgets?
I've been in a car when four cell phones started blaring, and it definitely startled the shit out of me. I'm sure people have crashed as a result.

I fully expect to see a "killed by amber alert" news story, because it just seems inevitable.
Related, the longer your shell script gets, the greater potential for accumulated foot-guns. When you finally do the rewrite, will you be bug-compatible? And once discovered, will you be confident on which side the bug lies?
do they explain the irony of using youtube as a medium for explicating this concept? I'll have to give it a watch in veg mode sometime.
Is this like "I can do an organic chemistry doctorate program through discovery channel reruns of tiger-vs-tarantula fight to the death or whatever dumbed down pissing contest passes for a nature program these days versus ever having to crack a textbook" kind of thing?

I really do need to watch this, clearly, to satisfy my curiousity.
> in a couple of years, turn off that support for good.

Make that at least 50 years, if not 100. You have no control over every place where shell scripts are run.
I've got some gaming ones I have on rotation all the time, but the rest I tend to dip in and out if I see something in the show notes/title that looks interesting.
It is true, perfection shall remain elusive. You can't please all of the people all of the time. That said, more equitable systems with far higher qualities in terms of environmental impact, resource consumption and sustainability, as well as fundamental service availability are clearly within reach.

You raise a particularly good point about the overall properties of systems for mass medical care, but people don't live forever. Cancer is one answer. Solutions that reduce or delay post-facto treatment with holistic and pre-emptive approaches (better regulation, better education, better diets/life choices) may be another.
I only go to the theaters rarely (2-3 times a year) but the last one I went to was pretty nice. Online booking so you can choose your seat beforehand and not worry about lining up early to snag a good spot, reclining chairs, low seat density. If I go see another movie at a theater, a reclining chair is a must. This was a newer theater though (opened in the last 5-6 years or so).

Perhaps owners of older theaters that just make good money with how they are now won't bother with upgrades as long as profits are good, but they'll be left behind when newer theaters or older theaters that spend money enhancing the customer experience start getting more audiences.
typo: reins not reigns
"Current" might mean the latest release or the current darcs.net repo with v3 patches, which I can't claim to have followed.
They aren't "ignorant". They just can't admit Donald Trump did something positive. So they engage in logical contortionism like "tax cuts didn't help the middle class" (they did), "low-earner wages aren't growing" (they are), "he will start WW3" (he won't - he's the least militarist president since Jimmy Carter), "low unemployment doesn't matter" (it does - how else do you expect to create upward pressure on wages?), "he's not building a wall" (in spite of total sabotage, the first 100 miles have already been completed).

And that's why he will get re-elected in 2020. The liberal bubble is too strong, and the majority of the US population aren't in it.
What region are you referring to? I’ve lived in the US my whole life and have never encountered an area where “you guys” could not be used in a gender neutral manner.
I think it proves -- or at least suggests -- the opposite of what you think. If we have low unemployment, but a lot of low-end jobs don't pay a living wage and people have to work multiple jobs at greater than 40 hours per week to make ends meet, that points to the work being so low-value that maybe it just doesn't need to be done, or that we'd be better served automating it.

The logical extreme in the opposite direction -- that our technology gets to the point where everything is automated and no one needs to do any kind of work -- suggests that we should be moving toward some form of universal basic income that provides for everyone's survival needs. People who want more than that can become skilled enough to do worthwhile jobs that provide meaningful income.

Obviously this won't be a panacea, and human nature will cause some people to be exploited while others are enriched, but this idea that life's purpose and meaning is just work work work work work is sad and nonsensical.
Why use a typed language like Go at all then?

Types and static compile-time checking catch different types of errors than tests do. I don't know about you, but I am not smart enough to write bug-free code consistently; I can use as much help as I can get.

In any case, it takes quite a bit longer to run my test suite than it does to compile.

Unfortunately, I tried to give it a spin, and it said:

ERROR: sqlvet only supports projects using go modules for now.

Ah well.
indeed! amen! great piece.
> Libav has also been deprecated in Ubuntu long ago, so it's not clear what you refer to

I'm referring to the libav* libraries which are part of the ffmpeg project (not the horribly-named libav fork) - and external debian repos providing updated version of those (due to better codec support in media players, etc) such as debian-multimedia
And salt water intrusion in Monterrey county..Salinas river and Salinas valley is known as the salad bowl. It’s a ticking bomb for salt water intrusion. Already areas around San Juan Bautista have no water..no matter how deep they drill..
Use perl instead.
LVT doesn't have to be progressive to make land hoarding unprofitable. It just needs to be appropriately proportional to land value.
The companion Kernighan and Pike is very good on building full Unix command line utilities. But yes, the platform learning process of getting to hello world can be remarkably hard.
Why not progressive over total wealth or income, as opposed to restricting to just land holdings?
Check out www.podcastnotes.org
Is it? What cleaned up my country's rivers of plastic after many failed projects was a government program of paying for returned plastic bottles. In poor countries (and that's where the most of plastic comes from) you don't really need complex or super-smart automatic systems to do this job as manual work is cheap. Just pay enough for recycled plastic so that it makes a viable source of profit for those in need, and you'll have a massive army of people collecting waste much more diligent than any net or automated system.
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It's another bogeyman red herring. The issue is very straightforward: central planning fails.

Nearly all critical infrastructure in the form of homes (zoning), roads, water, and electricity and related services are centrally planned.

It is almost impossible to do anything outside of a municipality, which didn't used to be the case.

Without this central planning failure it would be impossible to "take advantage" of any market, as home builders would just build homes until the "launderers" run out of cash.
I discovered The Anthropocene Reviewed last year. My favorite review is Tetris: “Tetris is a game about time and space. Time is always speeding up, with blocks falling faster and faster, and space is always filling in. There is no winning, Tetris always ends the same way, no matter how expertly you place the blocks. You play until you die. It takes five minutes to learn Tetris. It’s not grand or ambitious. It’s merely perfect.” — https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...

Special mention for the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
> It doesn't make sense for a theater to have a high-paid techie on staff to handle the small percentage of the time some major technical glitch happens.

Except in cases where there is no fallback for when failures do happen, which was the case in the article. Then having knowledgeable staff makes a lot of sense.

> Instead of the theater hiring technical staff, they can now put that money towards a better overall movie-going experience

Is there any evidence of this happening? Customers' time was wasted and the theater lost money on that showing due to all the refunds that had to be issued.
How Docker Authentication Works: By Documentation, MITM, and Implementation
Perhaps more analogous to employing a minor (without pay). But who is the guardian of the robot who can approve their employment?
FWIW, I'm an American woman who thinks "guys" is masculine.

I don't generally hassle people about such things, but I'm pretty darn sure there are people who are not me who think it is masculine and would hassle people about it.
It’s likely that only a tiny portion of that 80% of women is getting a response from that 10% of men.

Additionally, that’s of women who initiate messages. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most women aren’t going to be initiating.
Some people value privacy but not complete unaccountable anonymity.
At one time, I did think python would replace my bash shell.

Then I tried it. Either I'm an old dog or I was naive.

Both are true, I think.
They know an IP address. But, without a ridiculous amount of work, not my IP address.

But anyway, the thing is that I do know that I'm under surveillance at least some of the time. So I might as well assume that it's all of the time. Because it's hard to know.

And sadly enough, I won't even speak freely with my wife, unless she's turned off her cellphone, or put it in the utility closet or bathroom, with the water running.
bump. also looking for this.
Totally, but now play the same scenario in your head if all the social workers or teachers disappeared tomorrow. Uber would be a societal inconvenience, but losing all of our teachers would be a catastrophe.
An awesome book that does still teach a lot of valuable lessons. Sadly, pretty much the same lessons it taught back when it was written. Maybe more people should actually read it.
The OP lists two examples of podcasts (not episodes) to open the thread. I think you misunderstood their intention.
What is the racial bias encoded in the SAT? Is it possible for a world to exist where an objective test showed different performance for different racial subgroups? I'm not saying we are in this world. But it looks to me that if we were in this world people would just complain that all tests were biased.
> You've set up a straw man.

Hrm... I suppose I have. The parent appears to be using a quote (from Karl Popper) that I've not heard before, so clearly I misread the intended nuance. Now that I'm reading through the philosophical context of that quote, I can see that I overreacted.

Thanks for the clarification; I now have much food for thought to chew on.
Just charge a vacancy tax like Vancouver does.

https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...
My blocker with bitbucket is it requires JS to use the web interface. Otherwise, blank page.
"Check if you have notifications enabled for Slack on your browser's settings"
Reminds me of Foundation
We should simply adopt IPV6.1, where it's just IPV4 with moar bits and adoption will soar.

We can then think if we want some aspects of IPV6.0 also.
"If you are writing a script that is more than 100 lines long, you should probably be writing it in Perl instead."

This is true, especially of Python scripts.
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