skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impact varies by project and the consumers of that project, so this is really difficult to have absolute rules about and this is a good illustration of well-meaning people disagreeing about the impact of changes.

I'm pretty sure a huge number of Go projects no longer work with earlier Go versions, it's just a question of how far back you go. If you're back at Go 1.10 I'd recommend freezing your dependencies and putting them in your own repo, it's the only way to be sure. Otherwise this is likely to happen to you again as people aren't great about supporting all versions of Go 1.x - it's quite a support burden.

I would note that even the Go language itself has dropped architectures and support for bootstrapping with older Go versions without bumping the major version. I think that's fine. Of course that does break strict semver (oops), but nobody cares because nobody actually expects strict semver in real software. What's important is the impact - it's sometimes ok to remove features if nobody is using them and I've never seen a project use a major version for that. I've also never seen a project bump a major version for a breaking bug fix.

https://golang.org/doc/go1.15#386
Yes, this looks good! Thanks, I'll read about them
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. It seems to me that the buildup of phosphine and methane due to a non-permeable traditional container is what leads to the storage and eventual release of these combustible organics, whereas a hastier decomposition during which the vessel breaks down as well won't lead to enough accumulation to allow visible ignition.
I can't find any cloud providers using the term "core". Azure is using "vCore" and the others are using "vCPU".
You can make the same argument about American news media. Fox News and MSNBC are propaganda machines for their respective political views/parties. I’m not sure what your comment adds to the discussion.
https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

Historically a house in the US cost around 3 times the median annual income. During the housing bubble of 2006 the ratio reached 4.5 - in other words, the median price for a single family home in the United States cost 4.5 times the US median annual household income
There is a large chunk of the US voter population that thinks that even if climate change is real it isn't human driven and therefor totally natural or by God's design.

So of course nothing should be done about it because either it isn't real or it isn't human caused.

This is also the group that often votes single issue or directly against their best interest much like What's the matter with Kansas. Surprisingly, Kansas itself hasn't read that book and seems to repeat history every time the GOP wants less taxes.
Oh the structure has a name, thanks!
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Translate at least seems to have some people ignorant of the alternatives convinced that they have a clearly better product — “no competitors that even come close in terms of quality” when they objectively don’t. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975001
Maybe.

Personally on macOS or iOS I rarely use any of Apple's apps but I imagine I'm in the minority.
On the "juggling multiple unfinished projects" I outgrew this successfully. What it took was to accept accountability. I have a trusted mate that I talk with, and update him on where my current project is at, so I can't just let it slide. We both understand and agree that starting something new can't happen unless we've discussed the previous thing: dropping it is fine, but needing to give a reason first is the difference. This has prevented me from (1/n) assing n things many times, and persisting.
Q&A: Can the UK meet its climate goals without the Wylfa nuclear plant? (2019)
I had the same experience of skulls on mushrooms. The moon seems to induce the strongest hallucinations for me for some reason. I've also seen it sprout wheels and drive down a mountain on acid. On ecstasy I saw perfectly symmetrical flower petals around the moon.
It’s generally more difficult to actually fix something without knowing the cause.
Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible
That's a good one (asking about how they came up with their decision). It helps elucidate their purchasing logic and process.

To elaborate on our last question, it's also a tactic used to help potential customers convince themselves to buy something. Hey (the email app) did this in their prelaunch by asking people who wanted to get on their early launch to email them with reasons why they wanted to be on the list. There's a bit of reverse psychology at play here. Cognitive dissonance must be resolved.
Apple burns developer goodwill with surprise release of iOS 14
A problem with local cemeteries (in the US) is that they require vaults in order to prevent collapse of graves, simply because it's a maintenance headache. You can even leave the bottom open to speed up decomposition, but you still need the vault.

A friend told me that in the past, before concrete vaults were standard, cemetery workers would routinely fill in collapsed graves with soil. Seems like you'd need to do that for this coffin — or even for a wooden coffin without a concrete vault.

I wonder if we could go back to that? Find a middle ground between giving people time to grieve and reusing land once nobody cares anymore. Have a periodic petition to preserve certain graves, but anything over a certain age by default can have its space reused.
Is this something that needs to be limited?
I agree that voting (for the party that accepts climate change) is a helpful step that US citizens can take. But why prove my point by seeking to tear my idea apart? We need more action, not less. Isn't voting and picking up trash in a park better than just voting? Isn't voting, picking up trash in a park, and reducing meat consumption even better?
On that note, I always knew we were the problem, but this reminds me of something I heard that changed the way I thought about it...

If aliens were flying past our planet and saw all of our concrete and deforestation from space, they'd assume we're an unstoppable virus that will destroy the ecosystem if a cure is not found. That perspective hit me in a way, at a scale, that I have never thought about before. We see many of our actions as "development" which tends to have a positive meaning, but from space that same "development" looks like a disease that is overrunning the planet.

A little further out there, but if other intelligent life exists and they saw us as a virus, they might try to cure the planet by eradicating us.
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I am a solo developer. I have built 6-7 projects which fall under Jamstack. I find it that it lessens the complexity, and as a bonus I can sleep much more easily at night knowing that my sites are hosted as static websites.
I quite frankly don't give two shits about what is happening in their home country, and whether or not they are doing anything about it. Because I don't live in it.

If you want to be informed about the world, you aren't going to get there without reading radically different news sources, that don't share a common bias. If all you read is domestic news, your information sources have too much common bias for you to get a clear picture of what is actually happening.
Is forest management, among other things, really that complicated in terms of what one has to do?

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), cites shrubs and live and dead vegetation as <the most important factor> in forest fires, 'being an easily ignitable fuel source that helps spread the flames quickly over vast distances.'

It's worth noting that NASA reports that global fires are down by 25% between 2003 and 2019. In other words, there has been a global decrease in the total number of square kilometers burned each year. Africa 'dominates in terms of the sheer number of fires'.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145421/building-a-l...
You mean the forest fires? Depending on the region, they'll abate either from human intervention or seasonal snow/rain, or a combination.
> but the “you’re” part

Very subtle catch. I meant “you have” but still, I wish I could give you more upvotes.
If only it was this clear cut. Few abusers of children ever face any consequences. The blame is often placed on the victim.
I've only heard good things about that program; if they somehow contributed to this effort, it would be another huge feather in their hat.
Sure, but its been, like, thirty years. The biggest advancement specifically Linux gaming has had in that time is a highly optimized DX interpolation layer from Valve (Proton, an extension of WINE).

The linux community seems to believe that the world will just naturally bias toward open systems given enough time. Maybe Vulcan will own the world in a hundred years; we'll wait it out. But there's no evidence that this is the case. People just want their problems solved; they want working games, or a freakin' powerful office suite, or whatever. That's why Linux succeeded in the server in the first place; it wasn't (mostly) its libre licensing; it was just better at a lot of things, which led software to be written for it, which entrenched its position.

We can solve problems and push for openness at the same time. Linux can have DX and HyperV and whatever, while we still make open solutions better. Vulcan may actually own the gaming world one day; its very good. But I doubt LibreOffice will; Microsoft Office is just too good. Why not try to do both?
I largely disagree with this article, but it is informative and decently reasoned. I think the author is haphazard and inconsistent with where they apply their imagination: fantastically generously when it comes to the police who killed George Floyd, and not at all when it comes to appreciating how much of a difference there may be between how police treat those they value vs. those they don't.
> why bother to learn to manage this?

Even if primarily adopted by existing Microsoft customers familiar with Hyper-V, this would benefit Xen, KVM and any Linux distro running on the same hardware targets.

If a theoretical HHQL motivates OEMs to prove that Linux drivers work in a Hyper-V root partition on new hardware, with driver fixes upstreamed to the Linux mainline kernel, then everyone wins.

There is also ongoing work for nested virtualization, to enable KVM, Xen or Hyper-V to be a bare-metal (L0) or a nested (L1) hypervisor, e.g. in a cloud environment where the bare-metal hypervisor cannot be changed by customers.

These interoperability improvements increase hardware support for hypervisors, which can then compete at multiple architectural layers. Users can choose based on optimization of the HL0-HL1-VM-App stack which works best for their specific workload.
Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate
Most of my sales learning has come from books:

* Competing against luck

* When Coffee & Kale Compete

* Crossing the Chasm

First two books talk about Jobs to be Done. And most importantly who is your customer, someone:

* Pain

* Desire to progress

* Willingness to pay

The other book talks about finding early adopters or pitching to right customer as in the journey of product development.

In the end, early day of sales is more about you/team/likeblity. People will ask about security, money in bank, team size and what not. It will hurt, affect but after those 10 interaction, there will be one guy/team believing in you as you are and want to see you and them succeed.
Is his a final salary or other defined benefits pension?
We might be talking about different budget levels, but to normal people (people who don't have the word 'software' in their job title), 200k in retirement is a lot.

Actually the median 401k balance at retirement is only around 60k, so that alone would quadruple their retirement savings.
I oftentimes see that parroted and I believe it is more slacktivism and politically motivated than anything- "Only my guy can fix everything! All I can do is like his political ads and keep on doing what I do"

For instance, how many times have you observed articles that call out cruise ships as "super polluters". Wouldn't not going on cruises be much more impactful than any sort of negotiated regulation? I believe the individual can absolutely do their part
I just asked it because he asked us to, I trusted him.
We would have to shut down 90% of the pollutants world wide to do anything. Will make the Covid shutdowns look like a long weekend. And even then it might not make a difference if climate change is out of our control. You willing to do that?
This looks very neat. Do you think something like a Jetson Nano would be able to handle inference locally?
All I feel these days is despair. It's hard enough to get people to just wear masks, or not throw parties with active covid infection. I think and feel that we are doomed. I wonder if the polymaths have just given up.
144 lines IRC client on PicoLisp: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?ircClient
Toonify Yourself
> I have noticed that most millenials seem to have completely forgotten the concept of "starter home" and assume that as soon as you turn 25 you should be entitled to a 4 bedroom house with a pool, huge yard, wonderful neighborhood, three-car garage, etc.

"Starter homes" for young people is the stuff that was built 30-40 years ago that hasn't been updated. So they are buying those mcmansions because that's what was built in the 80s-90s-00s. The really nice, older urban areas with housing built before that is way more expensive in absolute dollars.

Smaller is not cheaper in most cases. Smaller is "established" and everyone with money wants to live in those established neighborhoods, not the suburban sprawl 50m from the city center.
Now I want to take those executables apart and see if it does any special handling.
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Sorry for the delayed response--not out of unwillingness, but busy-ness.

Your original response made me think of a few questions, but I think in the end it boiled down to asking what is the goal or purpose of love? Does it dovetail with a goal of maximizing happiness? (It seems to me no--that love can sometimes work towards our personal happiness and other times against it.)

We often use the word love in a multi-faceted way that would be better served by multiple words. The ancient Greeks had (at least?) four words for love that were roughly differentiated by familial love, friendship love, erotic love, and an unconditional love. They varied, I suppose, in goal, expectation, depth or quality of feeling, et c.

It seems like this last love was the sort that the father shows to his son. There is no real hope of reciprocation, nor yet a sort of surface-level happiness—indeed, it would be a very unhappy business for the most part. And yes, I think to your point there is probably some sustaining relationships there, too. At the same time, I expect there was pressure against him: remove life support, your kid's a vegetable, no hope here, et c. This isn't a love-nurturing environment exactly.

I guess what I'd say is that at least in some cases love seems to work against our personal best interest, not for it, and that our happiness sometimes realigns along different boundaries. I.e., that happiness is perhaps more flexible than we might assume at first, and love perhaps a little less flexible?

Again, just some ponderables. Thanks for the comment.
Would packing the coffin with compost and other 'material' tight prevent collapse ?
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>Can you answer the question of "what is a hallucination?" with still fewer assumptions?

Not the OP, but I think google's deep dream provides a nice analog to the process of hallucination that goes on within us on psychedelic drugs. Essentially our brains are wired to detect certain patterns in the world; our neural wiring is isomorphic to the structure found in the world. What these drugs do is increase the excitability of some neural structures, which structures are excited correspond to the kinds of experiences different psychedelics induce. The fact that DMT seems to universally induce encounters with "entities" suggests the areas of the brain that are excited.
ARM: UK-based chip designer sold to US firm Nvidia
People will approach tourists a lot like this in central and south america, but the end game tends to be to take the tourist to an inn or restaurant where they get a commission for taking them.

I've never gone with anyone anywhere but very public spaces. But I actually have found some real gems tucked away off the beaten path this way.
> WW2 was of course a much more trying time but it was followed by massive economic growth for most sectors of the population, I don't see that happening after the pandemic, wealth is just being silo'd and prosperity limited.

I could see it happening, but not in a good way. One (not all that unlikely) scenario is that the economic winners manage to place themselves out of harms way in the pandemic & social unrest that follows, and then everybody else just...dies off. That'd leave all the survivors extremely well off, and everybody else drops out of the population and ends up forgotten.

Globally, WW2 worked this way as well. There was a huge loss of life in Europe, in Russia, in China, in Japan, basically everywhere that the war was actively fought. 2/3 of Europe's Jewish population just died off, up to 20% of Poland and Russia, 8-10% in Southeast Asia, 4% in China. "Most sectors of the population" in the U.S. did well because the war wasn't fought here and we were the last developed nation left standing.
This is a sad but not unexpected development. Given Autodesk's history, one could make an assumption that this is the first step in locking down the application and trying to push more hobbyists toward subscriptions.

Fusion 360 is really powerful and useful tool, I'm just not sure that there are that many personal users that can or will pay the subscription fee for the amount of use they have.
This didn't answer the question at all. People understand renters who lost their jobs can't pay their rent.

The problem is, you can't just say "so don't pay rent" and magically make that OK. That rent money in turn pays for maintenance/upkeep, mortgage payments, property taxes, wages for property managers and repairmen etc. You can't pretend like all land is owned by some king who can just afford to not get rental payments.

If the government doesn't collect property taxes, how do they pay for schools, roads and firefighting next year? If the bank doesn't collect their mortgage payments, they go insolvent and don't have the cash to give you when you try to withdraw from your checking account.

Flipping your final line around, how would the elderly widow relying on renting out her former family home handle receiving no income for a year?
Go go right, go left.
>Why does it matter what the cause is?

Are you being serious? The cause is a key part of choosing the most efficient response. Responses can potentially involve both reactionary measures to climate forcing and reductionary measures trying to reduce forcing. If the cause was, say, the sun getting brighter by 15% for some reason, well we can't just turn down the sun, so while yes we'd having just a much motivation to respond our range of actions would be purely on the reaction side, reducing incoming solar insolation maybe. And that'd further just be bringing things back into the comfortable range we and everything else have been living in.

But since instead the cause is human driven fossil carbon emissions, both different reaction measures and reducing the cause in the first place are possible and important. To take the above example, solar shading would be a bad idea because while yes it'd lower thermal input, it'd also reduce critical wavelengths used by primary producers below normal levels as well. That's a major side effect that's different from if the cause was different. And while we can mess with the sun, we certainly can treat net atmospheric carbon increases as the externality it is.

But if you don't accept greenhouse gas emissions are an externality, why would you support internalizing those costs? If they weren't the cause after all it'd be uneconomic and pointless to go after them.

I mean, I'm genuinely astonished to even be writing this on HN. Like if my "computer broke", well if the cause is a dead SSD that's quite different then a dead mobo or fried PSU or "5 year old knocked a potted plant onto it then 7 year old poured seltzer water on it to clean it off". Would you be saying "what does it matter what the cause was" there?
yes, but that's for the court to decide.
I kind of do this in blog. Each page is assigned an UUID.
Have you looked at Craft? It has headless-mode via a GraphQL API.
Remember not to conflate the loudness and visibility of the idiots with their numbers!
I really like Ghost https://ghost.org/

It's more for prose than ecommerce but it's really pleasant to use and great for headless through its GraphQL interface.

I recently wrote a tutorial on how to use it with Gatsby & AWS serverless infrastructure so that everything is self-hosted but without the overhead of operating servers. https://docs.stackery.io/docs/tutorials/jamstack-ghostgatsby...
Please note that I never selected this random Firefox window. I wasn't even aware that it was open.

The problem is that when I tabbed back to Firefox, all Firefox windows on all monitors were raised.

And if you expect me to Alt-Tab to terminal, and then remember to use a _different_ keyboard shortcut, that is now no longer so short because I need to holt alt, press tab, release tab and keep holding alt while then pressing ` until the window with Hacker News is selected then... no way pal I'm not even going to go there, this is madness!
> I liked the Barney mod for Doom though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvdMzfFNdQ

Barney Splat[1] was a door game for BBSs back in the day.

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/barneysplat
I don't buy it. I mean the entire society is set up this way. If we tried to reduce reliance on others and others systems, are we saying we should all build our own operating systems that are hardened from solar radiation?

About one week ago I woke up to my great uncle knocking on my RV (we live in his driveway temporarily) and he said, the fastest moving fire in CA history is moving toward Paradise again and we need to get ready to evacuate. We had no electricity and so updates were bad. Later he updated us after driving to the top of the hill that the fire was 40 miles away. Later that day I found out he was wrong, it was 10 miles away :P. The sky was red, the world had stopped, everything was hopeless.

I went to gas up the RV, hundreds of people doing the same, all scrambling trying to avoid a repeat of mistakes from 2 years ago. Everything is nuts, no one is calm.

Except the world didn't stop. Mail was delivered in Magalia and Paradise that very day. UPS and Fedex dropped off packages in both cities that very day. The world is actually a lot more robust that we give it credit. Sure, maybe we are constantly 2 minutes to midnight. But maybe, just maybe this modern society can handle pandemics. I know the literature is saying the exact opposite. And maybe in a year we're all going to be starving to death. But if that's the case, then the least of my worries is how many dependencies I have. If anything, if I have more, perhaps we're strengthening our society just a little by paying 5 SAAS companies to keep mine running.

Just tying it back to my fire experience, I depend on daily, so many freaking companies and people, ACTUALLY doing stuff that day, that I don't care that my code is resting on the backs of 4000 developers I haven't met, that haven't touched 90% of that code in 3-4 years anyway.

Not saying I wouldn't enjoy a completely different society, but that's a different essay.