skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not horribly uncommon to see 20A rated breakers connected to standard 3 prong sockets and people to have gear with these connectors.

Interesting sidenote, I can tell you at least one NFL and two college football stadiums require these cables to use any broadcasting or recording equipment on the sidelines. And countless venues for live music, usually ones wired before the millennium.
I've been working remotely for the last 8 years. I completely agree with you about 8 hours alone being too much. I very rarely tolerate that, even during covid, but that doesn't mean I want to be required to go to my company's office. The alternatives are to work from a co-working space of your choice, a coffee shop, a friend's house, or a park (if you have mobile internet). There are many advantages to these choices: no excessive commute, the ability to spend your days around people you like rather than people who just happen to be your coworkers, the ability to have some variety in your environment, the flexibility to work from wherever is convenient on any given day, being judged by your output rather than how long your ass is in a chair, it's easier to schedule exercise or naps during the day, etc.

During normal times I have a co-working group chat made up of people who have similar interests to me and we meet at different co-working spaces or coffee shops every day to work. The pandemic has made this risky, so now I do work from home for half a day usually and then charge up my laptop and either meet some people at an outdoor coffee shop or grab my bike and go sit under a tree at my favorite park with my hotspot.

Granted, working from home can be isolating without intention, and the pandemic makes it harder, it doesn't have to be that way.
Because it is a hard problem?

Python has easy_install, pip, anaconda and wheel; virtualenv to isolate packages. Node has npm and yarn (is it resolved?). Ruby gem defines version in code, bundler in Gemfile, Gemfile.lock; vendor/, rvm gemset, BUNDLE_PATH to isolate packages. Even developers can't find right answer.

Because it matters?

Package management is the main differentiator, I love pacman, I love PKGBUILD and makepkg.
All I want to do is live with my parents in my hometown. That defines success for me. I worked from home for 3.5 years in a previous job and because of Covid I am getting to live with them again for last 6 months.

It could be a cultural thing but I don’t think anybody in the world can love me as much as they do (possibly my wife and my sisters). Of course we fight at times but that’s just like any other relationship.

I feel pity and anger when I hear of abusive parents here. If you didn’t want a kid you shouldn’t have had one.
But games like Scrabble seem even more pointless than the Spelling bee which is in itself pointless ( making a competition out of memorizing or constructing from memory similar rooted words that one would barely use in any but the most scholarly of arcane academia or in the practice of law, is anything but useful or worthy of one's time ).

A more worthwhile competition would test the participants on their reasoning / logic and turn it into an engaging game. Even gamifying brevity of language is a worthwhile pursuit since so many of todays youth speak so poorly or struggle expressing their thoughts in a coherent and curt manner.

Scrabble and Spelling Bee encourage rote learning and little beyond that. A terrible waste of potential like OP alluded to. Memorizing and parroting, needless to say, is just not a very good use of the human intellect. Its really bad form and speak to the vanity and vainness of the organizers and contestants to have these silly competitions in this day and age.
> What remained the same: healthy people still can't relate very well to people with a mental disorder.

I'm not sure if there exists a such crisp boundary. Lifetime prevalence of mental illness in the US is about 50%. In any given year 25% of the adult US population will have a mental illness. [1]

> That's probably why cancer research gets a multiple in funding of what research into mental disorders gets.

Cancers amounts for 15% of disability claims while mental illness does 10%, that might be one driving factor. (Not saying it is justified). The other one is, unlike cancer, most mental illnesses are explained with a bio-psycho-social model, which is incredibly hard to design comprehensive interventions for, or to get enduring results with one-shot interventions.

We know quite a good deal about how adverse childhood experiences, economic hardships, familial structures etc affect mental health. The problem is there is only so much space for intervention there that doesn't hinge on societal restructuring. Which is why the agency we exercise in response is limited to pharmacotherapy and talk therapy, at least those insurance would pay for.

[1] https://psychcentral.com/blog/cdc-statistics-mental-illness-...
> But why do you have to be able to glean meaning from the phrase alone?

Because it helps me wrap my head around what it is, what it does, and why I should care about it.

And by "me", I more importantly mean a rhetorical "me", i.e. a random layperson who happens to be a politician or someone else with disproportionate power over things like scientific endeavors. More on that in a sec...

> Sure, they could examine the root words [of "polymorphism"] and try to figure it out, but would they be any closer to the actual meaning of the word?

I mean, a little bit, yes. "Poly" = "many", "morph" = "form", "ism" = some kind of state of being, and from that someone could figure out that if something exhibits "polymorphism" it means it has many forms (and this does indeed provide at least some intuitive understanding of e.g. how a function can have many different implementations under the same name, and that implementation being decided by the form of its arguments).

> I don’t think it makes sense to make field-specific jargon accessible to the masses. Instead I think it makes more sense to make it easily researchable and distinct from more commonplace words.

And this is why the masses write off science and "them nerds telling us how the world works" as useless, and in turn why our planet is dying and humanity's decline into stupidity is accelerating. It's precisely why so few people trust science: because they don't understand it, because every effort seems to have been made to make it entirely opaque to anyone without decades of academic background that the vast majority of people cannot afford (schoolwork doesn't put food on the table).

Maybe - just maybe - we could instead try to remove barriers to entry into making STEM some elitist Kool Kids Klub that deems laypeople as unworthy because they don't have the time or energy to memorize the names of a bunch of dead white men, and maybe then we can live in the world we all want: one where science and scientists are taken seriously, and where we don't wait until it's already too late before we even start thinking about addressing a self-induced extinction event.
Does a "low quuality" firearm just jam, or are you risking an explosion?
SBCL compiles lisp code, assembles it in-memory and executes it directly. That's a JIT in my book. It can also dump that code to a file ahead-of-time to be run later—true—even better! More flexibility!
There isn't really anything stopping people from making simple HTML/CSS/JS code, and I think it'd be nice if more people did that. Instead of thinking about how one could grow something, it'd be nice to think about how simple and efficient one can make something.
I think fundamentally it seems very difficult to even send a message to someone. If you have an IM2000 server and you would like to send a message to someone on another IM2000 server: how? They would have to subscribe to your IM2000 server, but how would they know that unless you told them via... what? Not via IM2000, certainly, because that's what you're trying to figure out in the first place!
It's open source ... not free as in freedom.
Changes in agriculture and water availability will absolutely cause wars. Some of the current conflicts already have some muddy influences from climate change.

They'll get more common and the cause-and-effect will become progressively more obvious, though there's rarely any conflict that can be traced to just one cause. The most likely way it'll look for the near future is climate change will put more stress on existing societies, making it more likely for violence to break out.

This is similar to what we are seeing, and will see more obviously in the future with extreme weather events (hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, flooding, etc.). It will be difficult to trace any one in particular to climate change, but they'll become more common on the whole.
I suppose I'm used to apt-based systems, although I don't know if it really makes any difference. So many other distros are based on Debian, but often it seems like a pretty thin layer, perhaps poorly maintained, over Debian itself. Debian seems to have so many more developers, so why not just use it directly.

The rough edges I've found: no automatic updater or security updates in testing, just run apt update/upgrade once a day. An initial problem with the video driver not working because it requires non-free firmware, solution is just to add Debian non-free (it would have been helpful if a warning was given during installation). Firefox/thunderbird still on an old long-term-service release: I've been installing tarballs manually for now.
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> We need to be talking about reducing the world's population

That's going to happen. Look at the table on the right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

Dropping dropping dropping. The global replacement rate is 2.33, soon we'll be below that.
I have had this doubt for a very long time and I feel HN is the right place to possibly get some non-defensive / non-trolls response to it.

I am an Indian and here (I'd say most of Asia) we have a very strong culture of staying with parents, living together and everything. I mean unless absolutely required , kids do not live separately.

What are your views on it, as a westerner? Except the financial angle.
That functioning housing market might have been an anomaly, only lasting a generation or two. Through history it may have been much more common for most people to never be able to afford to own a home.

Anyway, growth is unsustainable: if housing keeps being a good investment for long enough, sooner or later it becomes unaffordable.

I agree it's a real problem, and we may have to get creative looking for solutions.
CSS makes the world go round
Abandoned Luxury Hotels in Yugoslavia with iPhone
Sorry to hear, KVM does not work? I expect problems with virtualbox but KVM, can you share a story please?
> he objected to the use of the term "sexual assault" when referring to statutory rape

As someone who has ever been a teenager at any point in my life, I second this objection. There's plenty of overlap, but those aren't the same thing.
Just use the Red Hat tool chain for everything? How does that end up? Subject to the whims of a few guys. Red Hat itself is better from having to compete.

The use of 'just a chroot' thinking brings all the problems and none of the gains.
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In the US, AK47s are almost all semi-automatic. When you say AK47 are you talking about the original automatic kind?
Offering options anchors the range. Most people will choose the middle of the range, because choosing the low end makes you look foolish, and choosing the high end makes you look greedy. The choice they make has very little to do with the actual value they would accept, more with how they think they will be perceived. The correct way to do it is to just offer an input field, not a multiple choice, because then there is no anchoring.
I don't like how hard they try to hide the fact that you can purchase "gems", even the FAQ page doesn't discuss what you actually need them for. Does anyone who has used this before know if they start getting in the way or becoming more important than actually completing tasks?
Yup! Original fully automatic.
Both chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu are basically instant for me. Chrome is installed without the snap rubbish tho.
No explosion. Just occasional jamming.
I was today years old when I found out. I assumed it just did what it said on the tin: rank (web) pages.
That's the narrative that one side of the ideogical divide went with. The other side blamed deregulation such as the removal of Glass-Steagal
How to Launch Local Product?
There are many [1, 2, 3] (great) lists on where to launch B2C startups. We recently launched an NYC-only (for now!) startup and have been looking for additional places to get traffic. Does anyone have ideas for geographic-location specific places to launch?

If you're curious, our app is Venio - NYC Outdoor Dining. Venio is a video-first app to discover NYC's outdoor dining scene. You can check if out on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/venio-nyc-outdoor-dining/id1524408818?mt=8

[1] https://sizle.io/how-to-maximise-traffic-to-a-bootstrapped-product-hunt-launch/
[2] https://submit.co/?ref=producthunt
[3] https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
Since you bought them during a time of transition, I'd say that's not so bad. If you bought them new now I think it'd be more of a problem. And I am not a vegan that thinks you should just throw them away all of sudden - it's difficult to explain to people since they might see your leather boots and think you're a hypocrite, but better to keep them and wear them since you have them.
DeleteMe [1] from Abine [2] comes to mind.

> We monitor each data broker website for your personal information every three months, providing you with four DeleteMe Privacy Reports per year. [3]

[1] https://joindeleteme.com/

[2] https://abine.com/

[3] https://joindeleteme.com/help/kb/monitor-my-info/
Forgotten weapons, a YouTube channel that documents lesser known guns, has quite a few videos on khyber pass guns
https://youtu.be/rZZTD3w_a5Q
https://youtu.be/n5S_qmBL_KM
https://youtu.be/zTvxFNRLbiw

His videos on "Chinese mystery pistols" are also quite good
> how would they know that unless you told them via... what?

Metadata? It seems for some assumptions one cannot avoid a notion of sending at least metadata?

From the proposal: "All the receiver needs is a brief notification that a message is available."
You would either have to reuse one of the existing representations or modify the union atm.

I'll add a void *as_any to the union eventually which means you're just one level of indirection from supporting any representation without touching the union.
Could a tree help find a decaying corpse nearby?
Git wasn’t invented, it was discovered.
It seems like very few concepts are truly unique. At the very least, they have some relation to other concepts so it would be advantageous to make up a name/word that is similar to an existing concept.
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Yes, confinement by running a current through the plasma is well known. First use was by the ZETA experiment in 1957. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-pinch

The eternal problem in science journalism: a scientist will explain how their machine works, and the journalist will get the impression that they have independently invented each part of the apparatus, with no prior art. The incentives encourage it: the scientist wants to take credit for everything possible, and the journalist wants to report on a maximally new and exciting machine.
Sure. So is Ford.

But back in 1909, it was also the name of the guy who signed the patent. Whose company name was his surname.
chroot is not the same as lxc (linux containers)

You can do very similar, but if it's a gui app, or has specific system dependencies there will be issues to work around.
They're only useful for cosmetic and extra quests and the like. You can just straight up ignore them and not lose out on anything.
I don’t understand why it’s so hard. It’s literally visit chrome website and download the deb file and install...
There is no space race to anywhere.

SpaceX just got the short end of the new Airforce launch contract, ULA got the big end for a rocket that’s never flown and won’t fly for another year. That’s after getting 2/3s as much as Boeing for a NASA crew launch capsule.

If SpaceX ever wants large proportions of federal space launch contracts, they have to start building rocket parts across all 50 states, especially Alabama.
If you have a BSD app that uses an LGPL library, congratulations, your app is now (L)GPL... let alone a differently licensed other library, and now your app can no longer be distributed/licensed.
Because the number of people who disable JavaScript is so low that they are not worth considering when designing something?
This is super common in many countries. Mexico for instance...
pulls out trusty "mov -(pc), -(pc)" to see if it works ....
As a westerner (U.S., Caucasian) I’d say it’s not culturally the same... you’re sort of expected to move out, maybe stay near your parents (same metro)... but no social pressure/shame if you move three time zones away either.

There’s more stigma for living with your parents than not. I guess if you own the house and your parents live with you, that’s fine. But if it’s their house, generally speaking after college “it’s time to leave the nest!“
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Not for people who can afford a cell phone. Let me repeat, a new SE2 costs about 1/4th as much as cell service.
Awesome that is exactly what I wanted to hear, thanks
Yeah... just ignore those people. I appreciate why they say that, but they probably say that about typing in general or something. You do you, and vim will still be your friend at the end of the day.
New species found in the carapace of late cretaceous marine turtle
Just give the childless employees the same amount of time off on condition that they use that time to go and help out in daycare centers, old people's homes, or institutions for the disabled. They'll be racing to sign up, I'm sure.
All you need is a passport or driver’s license and a utility bill with current address dated within 60 days. Most of the time the utility bill can be a “photocopy” and you just change the date or address to what you need. DMV is about the only place that needs an original document and will be familiar with what bills from your area look and feel like (because they most likely live nearby also and routinely handle documents from people in the same area as you).
Decoding the Core Concepts
Like the conversations you have with yourself in the shower, for some people blogging is a chance to win an argument you already lost elsewhere. (Or at least one you wish you didn’t have to keep having every few years, which feels a bit like losing)
I love how long people have been trying to fix ‘broken’ email.
> All the issues you and others list to justify RMS' dismissal are orthogonal to this task.

Where did you get the impression that wazoox considered RMS's dismissal in any way justified or justifiable? The comment you're responding to literally says:

> > I don't remember ever having a disagreement with RMS on any important matter.

Also:

> and I no longer include the "or-later" clause in my GPL software.

I'm embarrassed to admit that this problem didn't occur to me until you pointed it out; thank you; I need to go fix that for my own software.
If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't trust LinkedIn.
I should have added /s
You made your claims, I clearly debunked them. I decline to spend my time to continue your free education any further, unless you put the effort in.
https://www.instantpeoplefinder.com/optout.php goes directly to a 404. Honestly doesn't surprise me, but there's a special place in tech hell for these people.
Much ado about nothing. Is djb or anyone else really pushing for this today?

Email infra is unnecessarily complex and painful to operate yes, but that isn't the big problem today.
If anyone wants to tackle a big problem in email space (even infra problems), they have to start with UX and justify their reasons for redesign from that.
One thing I noticed when hanging around Indian friends in the past is that a lot of what they described as Indian culture has more to do with where a country is in terms of development. A lot of things they called “Indian“ is often just what it was in my country “Norway” during my grand parents generation or earlier.

Staying with parents would be common here too in earlier times. A lot of western individualism grew as society transformed economically and technologically.

As people got a lot fewer children, and children perhaps had to move further for work. Government had to start building out retirement homes as not all old people would have children who could take care of them.

With more prosperity people also often want more independence and over time welfare services get better built out to help both the young and old.

Over time your culture adapts to it. My mom would definitely not want to have me hanging around for long periods of time. But she likes that I bring the family over and stay in weekends and holidays.

I know from Indian friends that you seem way more comfortable about being around a lot of people. As a Norwegian I hate being around too much people for a long time. I need plenty of alone time to feel well.

But it can be too much. This COVID19 pandemic has been hard. I miss people from work. My family. Just walking in a crowded street.
Well, NOTHING about the price of gold is rational. There is no reason it should be a safe haven. That’s pure investment fiction.
Training for what corporate purposes?
The citation is also a hotly written article from 2008. A more objective explanation from recent years would cite a bit of all of it.
The translation.txt file is the contents of the translation ROM which tells the CPU where in the microcode to go for long jumps, calls and EA decoding. The key.txt file has the details of all the mnemonics.

"000" - this is just a line number
"A CD F H J L OPQR U" - these are the actual bits from the ROM.
"R -> tmpb" - this is a move operation (each microcode instruction can do a move as well as something else) copying the value from "R" (a register described by the word length bit and either the R field or the RM field of the modrm byte depending on the direction bit) to "tmpb" (an internal register not accessible from the user-level ISA).
"4 none WB,NX" - a type 4 instruction (bookkeeping) that tells the CPU that the next instruction is the last one in the microcode burst (NX) unless a write back (WB) to memory is needed.
"0100010??.00" - this is the bit pattern by which this line of microcode is addressed. This one means opcodes 0x88-0x8b.
"MOV rm<->r" - a comment added to say what this set of opcodes actually corresponds to x86 assembler, or what it does if it's a subroutine.
I would argue that it's not only deregulation.

It's the fact that we exist in a middle ground between proper regulation and a proper free market. Either of those, and we'd be able to do fine. As it is, we get the downsides of both.