skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evergreen browser is a thing, but the idea that everyone can trivially upgrade those browsers is promulgated as true when it's a bit of a myth.

It is sometimes expensive for people to upgrade browsers, called evergreen by developers so they can avoid annoying support expenses for a few percent of people.

I had a phone running a Mozilla browser, which received updates until it didn't any more.

Then the only way to upgrade browser was to purchase a new smartphone.

Unfortunately it was a superb device with no newer replacement, so to upgrade browser I had to downgrade my smartphone for other uses, and pay the cost of an expensive new smartphone despite not really wanting one. But sites saw it as "you are running an old Firefox, you obviously can trivially upgrade".

I still have a perfectly great old Android tablet running an old version of Chrome which cannot be updated. Other than website compatibility, everything on it that it is used for is still working flawlessly. Perfect screen, sound, wifi, memory, battery.

For now, enough sites work on it that I still use it. That can be replaced easily with another tablet, but it is disappointing to have to spend cash and throw away a working product to e-waste, just to replace it with a functionally identical device because of the way the software treadmill works. (It doesn't have to work like that, it's a choice made by developers collectively.)
SpaceX is not publicly traded, so there’s no stock price to use for such an analysis
You might want to check this one:

https://makerlisp.com/
It's not rocket science, they just don't want to solve the problem.

"many of these errors are delivered at request of the site owner" For those, put the site owner's contact method there. Even a physical mailing address, fine by me, I'll send a letter (something a spammer would not do) if it's important enough to me to do so.

"or related to the site not working (404s, 503s" those pages don't deliver a Google CAPTCHA or don't say "You have been blocked". If they can determine whether a page should have a captcha and/or that text, then that if statement can also include showing contact info.
If your city is anything like a typical US city, note that your bus pass costs 3-5 as much as you think you’re paying for it. The rest of the cost is covered by the taxes you are paying. This means that you are paying 70-80% of the public transport’s fare regardless of whether you’re actually using it. If you account for that, it might not change your calculations, because you cannot opt out of the transportation tax anyway, but it should make you think as to why buses are really so attractive after all.
My favorite:

Et situs vi late in isset ab ernit

("dialect" form of "Es sieht aus wie Latein, ist es aber nicht", "It looks like latin, but it isn't")
Unless your commute is >50 miles one-way, there's no need to charge at work unless its incredibly convenient. I use a standard wall plug to charge my Model 3 at home and still I'm back to full in under 12 hours after work. If you want to bring that down to 2 hours, you can get an RV plug or a home EV charger installed.

If there's always an open charger at work, go for it, but I think people still overestimate how often they'll need to charge.
> mIRC

Ha! Never thought I'd hear mIRC described as a top-class client. Unix has irssi, and I'd opine that even Xchat is better than mIRC.

I hadn't though of mIRC in so long. It makes me think back to the days of planning imageboard raids on IRC. They even had a special version of mIRC for imageboard raids called m/i/rc.
>No rational reason to treat their work like some higher command centuries later.

I think the "rational reason" over time really is that no one has come up with better ideas.

My theory is that we look at the past through the filter of a lens, and this lens typically only lets the brightest shine through. Like them or not, Jefferson, Hamilton and Franklin left behind writings that were objectively superior in utility to many of the other founders. If you ever had the misfortune of being obliged to do an analysis of something like the Lincoln-Douglas transcript, you really can see that one set of ideas is so much better thought out than the other. American blacks had numerous leaders, but the reality was that MLK had ideas that were simply objectively superior to many other black american leaders. Throw in the almost Periclean eloquence of most of the guys I highlighted there, and you end up with a bar that's impossibly high to get over. It takes a generational type of steward to meet that kind of a standard.

Which is why, over time, that standard starts to seem like a "higher command".

You can set new standards that are in opposition to the established ones. However, you really would need well thought out ideas. Those ideas would have to grow the segment of people benefiting from the current ideas in a society. Finally, to top all that off, you'd need a steward for those ideas with a fervent commitment to them, an almost Socratic wisdom, and a Periclean eloquence. All these conditions are difficult to meet. In fact, it's only natural that all these conditions will rarely be met simultaneously.

On balance I think this is good. I mean, at the other extreme we'd have the ideas of some user named MonkeyAnal on Youtube being taken as seriously as the ideas of Jefferson. Stability demands Jefferson's ideas carry the weight in that situation. At the same time, it is possible to attack Jefferson's ideas and change the standards he set. You just have to be Lincoln writing to Ripon, and not MonkeyAnal ranting on Youtube. Again, an almost impossibly high bar, I'll grant you that, but at the same time that bar provides certain safeguards.
In the old days, you could either subscribe to a periodical OR go to a newsstand and make a one-time payment for a single issue. E-commerce has not yet figured out an analogous model to let me just read one thing without subscribing. We get "free articles" but no "pay a $1 and read this thing" option.
There have been a few news about EV vans. Also Van conversion have been going for quite a while, you see a few on youtube. I'm surprised nobody have made an EV model already..
Last number I heard was 250K pre-orders in November. That said the pre-order buy in was crazy cheap and just gets you a spot on the waiting list. I spend a fair amount of time in automotive circles though and interest in this truck is big. I'm expecting significant sales.
It didn't. It started Thirty Year War and Hussite Wars.
Kinda like the companies that produce really gross chemicals and make the owner millions, only to become superfund sites that get cleaned up with taxpayer money many years later? :D
One of the greatest things on YouTube.

Defenestration: The Movie

Seven minutes of very short clips from Hollywood movies involving defenestration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tV49vsIXc
Yes, this. An example: I remember a few years (?) ago someone complained on Twitter to Elon about people leaving their cars hooked up to super chargers all day (basically just using the super chargers as parking lots). In less then a week (if I remember correctly) a firmware upgrade was out that imposes an idle charge if you leave your car in the Super charger after it's full. I just can't see any other car company being able to deploy these kind of things on that timescale. Perhaps Tesla just happened to have this feature in the pipeline already and just feature flagged it to "on"? Still something other car companies just can't do.
Try the inverse and let me know how that works out
Keeping in mind, part of the gains are from shorts being squeezed.
making an open source contribution to benefit a big 5 company with deep networking expertise in-house and which also has forked secret versions of mysql and postgres should at least earn me some kind of rebate
Puffins captured on film using sticks as a tool to scratch themselves
In what way? Sign updates, validate signature, and only apply when car is off and at home charging. Maybe some POST/rollback logic even possible. It's not much different than going to a dealer to get ECU flashed.
Yeah it's kinda like the wood companies that gut the rain forests.
Most instances of burnout in my life have come from non-work these days. The company I work for of course doesn't give a shit about this, despite it having a very real effect on my work output.

In 2019, one of my parents tried to meddle in my relationship with my wife, and then took the additional step of nearly ruining our wedding. The additional dozen or so hours per week needed to deal with this (which, by the way, sent me back to my therapist) was overwhelming once sustained for a few months. Oh, also, someone broke into my wife's house and stole a lot of valuable heirlooms, which also caused extra drama in the middle of these two things, which also cost me in lost time, lost sleep, and random interruptions at work.

My performance review for year 2019 was bad. My boss says it was because my Jira card count and code contributions were below X. I let him know of impending catastrophe as best I could the entire year, and adjusted expectations accordingly, but it's clear the org doesn't actually care — so why should he?
Really, just someone with the skill and interest in doing it. Money's no issue unless they want something crazy like $10,000+.
I agree, it seems more likely to me that it operated similarly to the principles that held the Silk Road together. Almost no one did a Marco Polo and went all the way from the Mediterranean to Peking; instead most of the trade was bucket-brigading goods from one market town to the other.
A lot of people have taken a short position and that is driving a lot of this gain. The shorts are getting squeezed bad and have to cover thus further driving up the price. It is a lot harder to make a long term short bet due to the potential of unlimited loss and your shares being recalled.

Tesla has done better than expected with the Model 3 despite overpromising a lot and missing a lot of targets. Actually just last year Elon said he was leasing model 3's now to buy them back for a fleet of robotaxis that will start this year (LOL). But he has the hype and people's attention. It is just hard to time when that cycle will collapse.
So you are saying that the opposite (a long position) is advisable? But that would make the current investors behavior a rational one, right?
Regardless of trade, I never approve of this mentality as the "shit" rarely gets done responsibly or sufficiently, as that cannot be done without fully understanding at least the chosen implementation.

Perfectionism is not required, and can get in the way of professionalism. This is about a minimum amount of responsibility.

(Learning is different though.)
I don't agree. There are many different ways to implement a democracy. The choices aren't "democracy as it currently exists in the US" and "authoritarianism/monarchy/oligarchy/everything else". I also don't think people are voting for the current political architecture, or would be capable of voting for any other.
You will reach your audience best if your tone communicates competence and humility in equal measure.

If you've ever been an athlete you know how much energy you receive from the spectators. The same is true of public speaking, though it doesn't seem like it at first. Even after a few times out you will discover that the audience makes your mind sharper and your talk better. That's why rehearsing your talk to a friend by way of practice often backfires -- that one person can't replicate the energy of a full audience. That's why I do a mental rehearsal rather than speaking it out loud.

Let your enthusiasm be contagious, but don't adopt a gee-whiz "Isn't this amazing" TED talk persona.

Don't aim for JFK gravitas unless you're speaking at a funeral or maybe your daughter's wedding. Watch Pete Buttigieg speak in the Democratic debates. He is overall an excellent speaker and a master of tone.

Be sure to totally master your intro; that will give you confidence and get your audience on board. Remember, they WANT you to succeed because it is almost as painful to listen to a floundering speaker as it is to be a floundering speaker.
> In 2001 William Fischel of Harvard University proposed his “homevoter hypothesis”. The thinking runs that owner-occupiers have an incentive to resist development in their local area, since doing so helps preserve the value of their property.

This is a common sentiment that, I think, misses the point and makes a lot of the discussion around housing costs unproductive.

I'm a homeowner and I've seen the resistance to new construction. The concerns are often

* more traffic

* more students at schools that are already overcrowded

* more noise

* etc.

Also proposals to build more houses often are planned on property that is already occupied. In a nearby area they want to tear down an existing school, in other areas they want to take away open space that is used as walking/running/biking paths.

Now I'm not going to pretend that homeowners are otherwise pure and virtuous and not even slightly concerned about the price of their house. But that's rarely the only concern.

I don't say that to shut discussion down - maybe homeowners are still wrong to have these concerns. Maybe they just need to deal with more traffic and trust that the schools will address overcrowding as needed.

But that conversation never happens. It is _always_ greedy homeowners who worry only about their house price at the expense of everyone else. As long as the conversation is framed that way, I don't think it will ever move forward.
GPA is maybe only relevant if you are very junior or it is the only thing on your resume. No one is going to care at all about your GPA once you are more than a few years into your career
I don't think tldr is a small CLI program unless you already have Node.js installed. :)

And I also don't see why installing that is easier than installing man pages, if appropriately packaged. (I'm not claiming they are currently appropriately packaged, I'm just saying that's what they could have done instead of writing a client.)
I'm a big fan of the folk wisdom that the power of housing as an investment is essentially a self-discipline mind trick. Paying your mortgage feels more urgent than contributing to a brokerage account, withdrawing home equity feels dirtier than withdrawing stock portfolio value, and holding onto your house during a downturn is easier than holding onto your crashing stock portfolio.

Once you know those things, you can rig yourself similar safeguards around other asset classes (automatic payroll contributions, tax sheltered accounts with early withdrawal penalties, etc).
Answer: Our governments printed a shit-ton of money.
Disembowelment you mean?
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Pigs in particular have it pretty bad, in factory farms in general. Ever heard of a gestation crate? Imagine being stuck in a box on a concrete floor forced to look straight ahead for months on end. That's the life of the average pig in today's world.
Do you know if fathom will remain opensource and/or self-hostable ? (https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268)
True, but in sci-hub's case it's even dangerous to rely on the first-party to work reliably.
And then there's Jevons Paradox[0], which notes that higher efficiency leads to greater overall consumption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
The post you’re responding to says “people are irrational and unable to account for costs that are farther in the future,” not “I don’t care about costs that are farther in the future than my own lifetime.”
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> The issue with that is that GP is arguing that this stock's investors continue to behave irrationally.

Can we stop pretending that any part of the market behaves rationnally?

Investors buy a stock because they think there will be someone else to buy it from them at a higher price later, that's it, they don't look further.

Everyone was already complaining about this when $TSLA was at 50$ a share...
This was a horrifying read, to quote:

> Both MongoDB and Elastic are public companies with financial statements showing they are losing nearly $40mln per quarter. Redis Labs just completed a series E where they confirmed they are not cashflow positive let alone profitable, and CockroachDB admits to having only 50 enterprise customers. Combined these four companies have raised nearly a billion dollars in venture capital.

But, the title is misleading. Many pay for database software, sql server costs about 15k USD per core and year iirc.

Title should add: Open Source?
I have yet to see node.js API support from any REPL or shell or vim or tldr, the only option is access it from browser, which is not enough.

https://zealdocs.org is another great source, similar to https://devdocs.io
I guess that's why it is not so easy. Volkswagen is struggling https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/27/vw-id3-ev-software-issue...
This is impressive, but just one meter of dirt covering the surface of the earth is about 1.2 million trillion tons. 30 trillion tons would create a layer about 0.03mm thick. Invisible in a geologic sense.
> The idea that we’re “running out” of resources doesn’t make sense. Resources are and have always been scarce. When something becomes exceedingly rare, people choose to consume less of that resource.

I think looking at this as purely a matter of price is just a way to ignore the problem.

Let's say I happen to own a large supply of a limited resource. I can sell that resource so it's cheap for everyone else, yet in volume, I get very rich.

The problem is that resource will run out at some time in the future. My incentive is to sell it now and make sure that it lasts long enough to build me a nice fat retirement fund. Who cares about people 200 years from now.
Though part of the point of a Tesla is that it requires less service than an ICE vehicle. It doesn't need oil changes and its brakes last basically forever. It lacks belts and gears to wear out. It only has around 20 moving parts all told.

Apparently, non-Tesla EVs are having trouble selling for precisely that reason. Dealers expect to sell the cars with only modest profit, but make revenue on maintenance. EVs require less maintenance, and so the dealers don't feature them.

That's yet another reason Tesla vehicles are good value, and if they can capture a major piece of the $4 trillion yearly car market[1], that makes a $100B valuation seem quite reasonable -- even without a dime of service revenue.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/global/market-research-reports/glo...
On Linux that has been my experience. man pages on Mac are a little better, I've heard the BSDs do better as well.
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React Global State in 5 Minutes with Hooks (UseContext, UseReducer)
This is what I was getting at, honestly. If you look at the supply chain, this pollution is the result of hundreds or thousands of unnecessary "products".
Apart from being an outlier, and a plastic bag ban not being the same as one on plastic (how would that even work?), it's not like the city would be spotless if it wasn't littered with armed men and heavy enforcement.

Poverty means immediacy, and given global markets also struggle heavily with longer-term thinking no one sane would fault those in precarious positions for not giving a shit.

A place riddled with plastic garbage certainly looks worse than one that gathers and burns theirs, but since even power plant incineration with scrubbers etc is inefficient and hardly good for the environment... an actual landfill would be a lot better.

But it does make me wonder why so much Asian plastic ends up in the ocean. Why don't they burn it?
Does Helm 3 really include Tiller as depicted in the illustration?
i bet there is a lot of soy in the water ;'D
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How do you know for sure they are using your program?
One thing Tesla doesn’t have is the lock in that Apple has. If you are using iPhoto, iWatch and iMessage, switching to another manufacturer is hugely disruptive.

I totally agree that Tesla’s software chops are light years ahead.
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This 100%. I'm not going to subscribe to the Economist to read one article every 6 months. I might pay $0.10 to read this particular article though.
As Half-Life 2 itself did not have a developer commentary, I personally recommend checking the book "Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar," and, if you really want to do a deep and lengthy dive into the particulars of HL2's level design, check out Robert Yang's commentary-driven playthrough of HL2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheYcG2T5qw
But the amount of dirt we have to turn over to find the 'good stuff' is maybe orders of magnitude bigger?
>The environment - cities are more environmentally friendly than sprawling suburbs.

I'm not sure that is true, 50% of the world lives in cities but cities produce 70% of the worlds emissions.
Some of us are not buying TSLA today because we like where the company is today. We buying because they like where the company may be in 5 years.
Dating platforms subsist on ads and the sale of user data. Subscription revenues are a tiny proportion of their revenue base.
Trump demands Apple unlock iPhones: ‘They have the keys to so many criminals'
Offer the same product for half the price. Market it free ektor.io or something
Proxying AWS Cognito Login Events with Firefly Semantics Slice
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Your repository had an Apache License up until yesterday, which parts of the License do you feel that is being violated?

It seems he is selling this product as a SaaS, so not necessarily redistributing the software but I could be mistaken.
It was most likely a joke.
Yes, getting beyond the Chinese censors . . . .
They're not just a car company (seriously, that's what investors are betting).

Also, as a car company they are well positioned to take a lot of the market when evs take over and are only worth half of the market leader but executing better on evs.

If you believe we're shifting to evs, battery storage and integrated solar roofs, and automated transport, they could easily grow as large as Apple or Amazon say in the next decade (10x from current price).

Now that's a risky bet but it's certainly possible.
Someone has done a great one though a couple years ago at 1:90~ scale (1.2 meters by .8 meters): https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/7h9f18/lego_internati...

As an AFOL that has done my fair share of MOCs, the thought of that (or at 1:40) hurts my wallet, I did a small Mars base MOC that fit on a single 32x32 baseplate and for the elements I was using to get the habitat shape I wanted I was ended up spending a little north of 95$. I wanted to make a vehicle and a rocket as well but I was looking at another 75-100$ each.

My pretty boring MOC Mars habitat and initial thoughts on how I'd go about attempting a permanent presence on Mars: https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2016/7/29/my-lego-m...

If there's anything you ever want to see in lego, just google "MOC thing/theme" MOC being 'my own creation'. Chances are pretty good that an AFOL (adult fan of lego) has either built it with real elements or at least done it in LEGO Digital Designer or the (arguably) better Studio https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

Also PartDesigner is great for making custom elements and importing into Studio if you don't want to be a purist https://www.bricklink.com/v3/build/partdesigner.page
I've heard this also removes many essential minerals that we get from water?
Mumble / Murmur [1][2] is a nice self hosted alternative to Teamspeak and there are also many public servers. Rock solid, great voice quality, UX is still being refined, not as frictionless as Discord for new users, but I keep one running for family to fall back to. The server is just routing text / voice, so it scales to VERY large numbers of users with little resource usage.

[1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page

[2] - https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble