skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About the only thing that'd make it harder to survive on Earth than on Mars is a planetoid-sized impactor. For anything else a few hardened, isolated bunkers would be a hell of a lot cheaper than colonizing Mars, at least as effective at improving human survivability, and we could start building them today.

Of course I'm rooting for the Martian stuff because it's cool and may be accidentally useful (SpaceX already has been, really) and beats the fuck out of finding new ways to sell crap to people and the other garbage lots of other prominent companies do, but the goal isn't valuable per se, in my opinion.
MIT alumna addresses the world’s mounting plastic waste problem
Exactly right. For this reason, I don't think the article should have chosen middle names as an example. NULL is appropriate if you don't know a person's middle name, but if you know they don't have a middle name, the empty string is better, assuming you're not using Oracle where empty strings are NULL.
This was my first thought as well. It seems these management engine tools have only two uses in the real world: enterprise IT, and various forms of DRM.

Both exist to treat the user as a hostile entity.
Crazy. Seems that a lot of these tools are purchased by single departments and poorly integrated into rest of the org—creating more chaos and thus need for more tools.
Are you talking about the philosophical idea of critical theory? Because I find the internet rotten with it, but probably in a way contrary to your ideological viewpoint (which also makes my critique a critical one, and so round we go). For example, your comment critiques a whole ideological category of people and offers no concrete solution towards action to remedy or alter this viewpoint. You fit into critical theory very well, as do I. Unintentionally or not.

It's probably at best an unproductive line of thought or at worst virtue signalling, so probably not a valuable discussion to have, really.
The problem is that there is no scalable, reliable way to distinguish between "baggage" management and productive management in any large organization. Many have tried to solve that problem and no one has really succeeded. So cutting out management layers tends to indiscriminately eliminate the good with the bad. If you can figure out a better solution then you'll make a fortune as a management consultant.

Lower level employees often think they know which managers are baggage, and sometimes they're right, but often they're not seeing the whole picture. A manager who appears to be baggage from one perspective is sometimes performing crucial activities that are only visible from other perspectives. Management value added often can't be objectively measured but yet it exists all the same.
This new logo design gives me the same boring vibe as the redesigns of a bunch of fashion brands like Burberry and Céline. It’s monochrome, all looking too similar
Except young people don’t vote in nearly the same numbers as older people:

> In 2018, among those age 65 and older, voter turnout was 65 percent for women and 68 percent for men. In contrast, 38 percent of women 18-29 years old voted and 33 percent of men of the same age group voted. [0]

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[0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/04/behind-2018-u...
You are conflating design decisions with craftsmanship.

I would argue that they still pride themselves in the execution of the designs, even if you (and I) disagree with some of the design direction.
that's how exactly it works. We got one Italian Tomato (heirloom, indeterminate) from a neighbor and grew it. It grew 10-12 ft tall and bushy. My wife loved it so much, she saved seeds from couple of tomatoes and next year, we grew only that Tomatoes along with other vegetables. And we grew enough to store for the entire year. We are still eating those tomatoes (Frozen) and hope it will last till our this season tomatoes will start coming.
Reminds me of BMW's nonsensical cup holders
It's sad that you frame this as "whatever problem you want them to work on". As is there should be any doubt.
I love the billboards that say, "better left unread, than dead" Maybe billboards should all go away?
Worker protections exist to ensure that employers don't exploit their position of power to take advantage of their workers. Full stop. Obviously that doesn't apply to the plumber you hired to fix your toilet or the painters the company hired to paint the walls but anytime you have a continuing open ended relationship when you alone provide at least a substantial fraction of the employees total income I have to wonder how on earth the same protections don't apply.

The situations where a contractor relationship applies are plain and obvious. Any time you have to ask if someone is an employee you are probably exploiting the fine line to avoid having to follow the law. Kind of like if you have to ask if you are actually committing fraud you probably are. Depending on which side of the fine line a judge comes down on you may or may not be punished for it but you aren't a better person for it.
This survey did not find that anti-vax had a meaningful impact on vaccination rates. The NBC article is poorly written and misleading.
Ridiculous. I would have left the meeting. Just walked away to my desk and started coding after 3 minutes
Is care of a sick family member "produced" in the same sense?
Lots of the SaaS products we use mean we don't have to hire more employees. So I'm not sure if dollars per employee is a meaningful stat.
I mean that there isn't enough capital to distribute to everyone in the world, not that it's fixed forever. You can grow it. That's my point. It's better to increase capital than redistribute it.

> Investment distributes wealth primarily from the elite to the slightly-less elite.

If you've seen how China changed in the last couple decades, you'd see how this obviously isn't true. Basically all electronics are manufactured in a developing Asian country by the children of subsidence farmers.
The paragraph you linked doesn't conclude to Non-REM though
This guy was literally running SETI@Home on the production billing cluster servers for a multi billion $ telco, and would not stop doing so.

He didn't even work directly for the Telco, but for a consulting place (Accen...). Think of the liability factor for that, when there was a production outage on the cluster. Try proving the software (maxing out cpu, screwing up instruction cache + context switching, etc) wasn't part of the cause. :(
As long as we can all agree to stick to standard time, I will be all for any such motion.

If you want to go to permanent DST, that’s gonna have to be a hard no from me, dawg. I’d rather suffer continued switching of hours than move to permanent DST.
What VCs want founders to know about startup security practices
I think that's the exact kind of persona our president has been trying to pull off.
You would also need an orchestrating layer on top of it.
You can check out how CockroachDB uses special error symbols with goyacc to provide good error messages for SQL passing. It’s a very interesting read really.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/sql...
The government would be creating a market distortion by not allowing companies to spend their money how they see fit and instead redistributing to another sector (the general public).

There would be no growth because the money the people would be spending is the same the government took from the companies in the first place. It's like taking the fat out of a man and feeding it back to him.
> Less produced also shrinks the tax base, so tax rates must be raised to continue to pay for the basic income. Higher taxes would then dissuade more people from working, or leading them also to work less. Now there's more people wanting basic income, so more needs raised......

This works the opposite of that. Everyone always gets the basic income, so there is no "more people wanting", but if the tax base was hypothetically reduced then less revenue would be generated to fund the UBI. At a lower UBI amount, more people would work. It's self-balancing.
Those are known as "vendors" and they're how the government participates in modern subscription models due to how the acquisitions cycle works.
Oh right, I didn't mean to suggest that the criticisms became less valid over time.
I'm not sure how big of a gamble that is. If he gets Starship into orbit he can start getting serious revenue from Starlink. Then he needs to transfer fuel in orbit to send cargo to the moon and mars. At that point he can send people and the return trip after two years will basically be free because some Starships will be returning to Earth anyway. I'm pretty sure he can get enough guinea pigs to commit to a 2-year trip. Then you iterate on the next batch of guinea pigs. Maybe he sends retirees who don't have that much life expectancy anyways.
JavaScript classes: state management v2
If the price is being "gouged" by the manufacturer, doesn't that mean they will ramp up production much faster? The extra money will also help them hedge against the risk of overproduction if the thing fizzles out fast.

Not to mention people are less likely to unnecessarily hoard years worth of supplies and prevent others from using it if it's more expensive.
Have you given Linkerd a try for comparison? Mutual TLS in 0 seconds (it's on by default) and a significantly lighter footprint. Canary traffic via SMI. Etc
Wonder if friction stir welding would be suitable instead?

That seems to be used when very strong + predictable welding is needed.

Not sure if it's generally used for 4mm thick material though.
Shouldn't it be obvious that the people receiving money would become healthier and happier? The question is whether they become healthier and happier enough to offset the cost of making them that way. Are they the best use of that tax money? What's the lifetime return on investment?
Most enterprises don't spend >200k an employee. Do people really believe that is a normal salary?
Sounds like the solution is to have a SaaS tool which shows what other SaaS tools are being accessed by your organization.

Hm how would we make that cost more though if there aren’t that many large organizations
Plain docker (no swarm etc.) for practical purposes resulted in containers that were in weird position when it comes to decoupling from the host OS.

Integration with init system was abysmal. Docker daemon had its own conventions it wanted to follow. Unless you ensure that the state of the docker daemon is deleted on reboot, you could have weird conditions when it tried to handle starting the containers by itself.

A very easy thing to use for developer, a pretty shitty tool (assuming no external wrappers) on server.

One of the greatest joys of k8s for me was always "it abstracts docker away so I don't have to deal with it, and it drops pretty much all broken features of docker"
Pretty much every vegetable seeds bought from store are viable, it just for some vegetables (i.e. bottle guard, okra), store bought vegetables aren't ripe enough and so those seeds won't able to germinate. To germinte the seeds of any vegetables, the fruits has to be matures (some times on the plant, sometimes on the shelf) before seeds become viable to germinate. I don't know a single vegetable that will be sterlite. I know some Mangoes (coming outside of US) do get sterlite and so their seeds won't produce plant even if the seeds are mature.
For disinfecting surfaces at home, you certainly could use denatured alcohol, but diluted bleach is just as good and is dirt cheap.

For cleaning hands, soap and water is more effective than alcohol based sanitizers and also very inexpensive.
I'm a little skeptical of the numbers as they sound out of bounds but I think the trend is clear: fewer people doing more with automation.
The Fight Goes On
Consciousness Studies Show Human, Macaque Brains Flicker Every 4 Seconds
Building a real-time Embeddings Similarity Matching system
Oh yeah, I mean anything you can do automatically you can do manually.

A core benefit of GC is you can have pretty complex memory management techniques that run more or less totally transparently. You can leverage generations (or defragmentation) to keep allocation latency low, etc.
> and so do SPA devs

??? - those usually use the URL bar in my experience.
If you have MBP money and want "4+ fast cores; 32GB of RAM; 15" screen that's very high quality, if not exceeds what I can get on a MBP; 1TB SSD NVM" you could go with the System76 Adder, which has a 4k screen at 15.6 inches. [0]

I have no affiliation with System76 and have never bought one of their products, but I almost bought that one late last year when I was purchasing a laptop.

[0] https://system76.com/laptops/adder
The UNIX Haters Handbook was funny at the time but doesn't make much sense these days unless you understand all the rival hacker groups and cultures that were largely eventually unified under "Free Software" and, later, "Open Source". Even the LISPers have come in from the cold!

Much of this criticism of X was prescient for things to come. Autotools, dependency problems, modularity issues, compatibility, "DLL-hell", etc. Many of these problems don't have solutions today that are orders of magnitude better than then.

On the other hand, one thing that's really holding X back, especially on handhelds, is 'Myth: X is "Device Independent"'.

If the difference between a 75dpi screen and a 100dpi workstation screen was too much, today's "retina" displays really struggle to run a usable X. You're heavily reliant on the toolkits (Qt, GTK, etc) to scale things for you and they mostly understand about font scaling but not about widget scaling.

Lots of distributions that might want to use it, for example Maemo Leste, Ubuntu Touch or Gemian, are having to do a lot of UI work and hand-pick applications for "porting" to the screens and input devices (touch) that they want to use them on.

This means that Linux-on-the-smartphone is not yet in any position to give Android or iOS a run for it's money because it really struggles to effectively leverage its existing app ecosystem.

Even ignoring security models, X struggles to provide even a compelling visual of a vision for handheld devices.

Don't even mention Wayland: that has other economic incentives that are not yet properly aligned for widespread success (including X's app ecosystem ones).
This not universally good, but I would never open a port to a VNC server anyway, encrypted or not. Tunneling a passwordless unencrypted protocol through a SSH tunnel is fine, still.
Fully loaded costs (health benefits, 401k matching, cost of computer, HR business partners, etc.) for an employee are roughly 2x what their salary is. So yeah, 200k is a good estimate.
Considering how the median age of the country at large is 38.2, you just proved the opposite of your intended point. [0]

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[0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/median-age-do...
So does Don Knuth. So does Don Hopkins, the former director of health programs for the Carter Center and spent years leading the effort to eradicate Guinea worm. So devoted to his task, he didn't even give his kids his cell phone number when he traveled to Africa.

I can't speak for the current US President, but there are a lot of people who are perfectly capable of reading email, but for whom the task would distract them from more important uses of their time.
You know what Github markdown really needs? It needs for anchors defined in it to be actual html anchors after interpretation instead of javascript dependent false anchors that don't work without code execution.
I would love to produce my own ClearView.
The assumption is a $100K salary. The other $100K is benefits, management, overhead, etc.
“Then, in 1942, BMW itself linked the propeller to its company symbol” [0]

[0] https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/bmw-logo-meaning-hist...
You mean there are tasks that need to be done, not jobs.

In the case of horse shit, for sure it is better if someone cleans it, but that someone can also be the person that trains or rides the horse.

There isn't an intrinsic need for a job that performs only that task.
I don't know about most enterprises but I'm guessing any given cost per employee includes a lot more than salary.
They forgot "IS NOT DISTINCT FROM", which is, IMHO, the best god damn
operator ever invented. It works like "=", but adequately responds to
NULL:

postgres=# SELECT 1 IS NOT DISTINCT FROM 1;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT NULL IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
I didn't realize that, thank you. It seems I've been severely misinformed in the past about the dangers of different pipe materials for spud guns and rocket motors.
And this is a very misleading summary of the results.

Here are some actual quote from the study:

> Ten respondents moved from unemployment to employment while 32 moved from employment to unemployment. Of the participants who moved from employment to unemployment, 13 (40.6%) enrolled in full-time education during the pilot with the intention of re-entering the labour market later as more qualified workers.

Almost half of people who stopped working did it in order to train for a better job. That's great!

> most of the respondents who were unemployed during the pilot reported experiencing health issues that made it difficult or impossible for them to work.

Receiving BI allowed sick people to not be forced into work to pay for a basic existence? That's great!

Take into account those two factors and almost no able bodied, employable person opted to not work.

Sounds like a success to me.
Wildly overpriced subscription-based products that don't have to be subscription-based at all from the functionality standpoint
Random marble run creator for 3D printers
The article touches on this a bit, but I've always wondered what is defined as life. As noted in this article, source of complex organic compounds on Earth is most likely biological, but on other planets, the odds are pretty low for that. If life is self sustaining complex organics, then I guess the bar is pretty low to find it in the universe.

However, if life is defined as adapting complex organics(evolution), where the errors in replication of cells triggers different combinations then it gets more interesting as that is in a nutshell how life started evolving on Earth.
Backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation
Although this is true on Linux, it's worth noting that this behavior doesn't match the specified behavior of posix_madvise.[1] It was also a subject of Bryan Cantril's hilarious "A crime against common sense" Surge 2015 talk (at ~1:06:50).[2]

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/p...

[2]: https://youtu.be/bg6-LVCHmGM?t=3518
Once working on an important project (and the work went round the clock), Sergei Korolev ordered people to literally wake him up at night if some serious questions or problems surfaced up. His team took that literally, and Korolev was woken up a few times at night. Later he said "you seem to conspired to not let me get some sleep", but nobody was fired[1], and the team still adjusted to a balance between importance of problem visibility and importance of getting rest.

Sorry for no references, writing from memory :) .

[1] Firing in Korolev's team was a whole 'nother story entirely. For example, Korolev used to fire people in the morning only to require them to work extra hard in the same afternoon. The team got used to this feature. In reality, nobody wanted to be fired - people saw the importance of their work.
No, you wouldn't pay for basic income from your taxes. Where did you get that? It's an extra tax that you are currently not paying.
Some things simply won't matter as you age. Climate change will have zero impact if you are going to die in a decade, which wouldn't be an unreasonable estimate among the current presidential candidates. If you aren't personally impacted, no matter how wise you may be, you can't have the same level of empathy for the problem.
it's not that difficult and no need to use pestisides. As long as you grew healthy plant in good soil, they can resist pests. And yes, some times you do get failure, but if you grow enough stuff, some failures won't be noticable given you have other stuff growing. And gardening is also a skill, the more you do, the better you get at it.
Exactly this. Unfortunately, way too often I see execs saying "that's too expensive, we just have to do it manually" instead of using good tool.

Then what happens is somebody making $100+/hour would spend several hours to do the job that would be covered by a tool that costs under $50/month.
https://www.bettercloud.com/
People haven't figured out that "SaaS will liberate you from worrying about IT" is bullshit. All it does is change the types of problems in IT that you have to worry about.
React component to handle swiping on touch
Most of the "You don't need kubernetes" posts should be "you don't need docker".
Or Facebook. Or heck, even Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe if you're in the "wrong" department. I bet even some Apple employees might occasionally feel they work at an advertising company.
It feels like the more meaningful measure would be the change in profit over the change in SaaS utilization.
David Graeber talks about this in his book Bullshit Jobs, which has been discussed here previously. He makes the distinction that a bullshit job is one where both the employer and the employed must both pretend that the job is useful even though both of them know that it is not.

Under this definition, a lot of dirty or otherwise maligned jobs are still essential to society (including stall cleaning, depending on your perspective of how essential having horses is) and are thus not bullshit jobs, but a lot of others (rubber stampers, make workers, flunkies) are bullshit jobs.
That's still very high. Average salary is much lower than $100k in the US. Even among college grads with 10+ years of experience, $100k is still a high-end job paying a high-end salary. It's nowhere near the average.
Probably a bit young.

Kids are v different. One of mine would get bored quick because they move and it messes up her games.

The other would enjoy. We had a robot that took cards and had sine games on it. Both looked that can't remember it's name though
The fully loaded cost of an employee for a business is not the employee's salary.

"The fully-loaded costs of employees are much higher than their salary: exactly how much higher depends on your locality’s laws, your benefits package, and a bunch of other HR administrivia, but a reasonable guesstimate is between 150% and 200% of their salary." -https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
- rip links (at least article's text)

- mark links and comments as seen

- hide seen

- fold comments to only show top level

- favorite links (preferably to a list that is easily dumped in to e.g. pocket with a few buttons for that)
Yeah I've been looking at that.

Looks quite good
Work from home? Things I wish someone had told me before I started
Typical Germany, copy US fads 5 years later...
I had that thought too. Perhaps it’s more effective?
Translation: Companies are pissed that the free software gravy-train is over and how they actually have to start paying for it. This is the way it should have been for the past decade.
Why are space agencies not scrambling to capture this one? It's a 5 ton virgin asteroid, the scientific value must be high.

Also, practicing emergency missions would prepare us for investigation of unusual objects like Oumuamua.
I wish more people would actually use this to wrap their 5'000 lines of console output that they copy paste into a ticket when reporting a bug instead of using markdown "format as code"

Also yes it is a "hack" and not official markdown, but for the use case I mention it has the huge advantage to not make tickets including all the comments excessively long
Yeah just got this for my 6yo, he's enjoying it but v hard for him to build. ... Then the whole needing an unlocked tablet thing.
Surprising that people don't flex to the President's preferred style of communication. If he clearly doesn't want an e-mail, don't send him one.