skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the data I've read says they still are and landlords are still holding out for a covid fix (via vaccines I get) and overall rent has only fallen 5 or 6 %
> (1) price doesn't matter to them (or they would have a different phone)

I’m an iPhone user and price matters to me. Status means little to me.

Privacy is my priority and number one reason I use an iPhone. Apple is not an advertising company, and doesn’t make a buck selling my data. FYI my mobile search default is DDG.
I can tell you after I had my attempt, when I returned to rational thought it scared the crap out of me. So when I decided that it was a done deal I took efforts to hide my body. I did not want to be found, I live in a chain of islands and went to a remote island where no one goes. My intent was that I knew that there is a lag time between drugs taking effect and the actual physical death. Anyways, I choose the island because it is not connected via bridge and no one ever goes to it. It was by pure happenstance that a young couple was camping on that island that day.

Anyways, I bring this up because there was systematic planning in my mind. If you find yourself going over the details it's time to raise your hand and tell someone. I did not really give a shit at that point so actually telling someone would have been easy but I also did not want people to thing I was seeking attention.

Anyways, when I came too I was pretty surprised to find that I was still alive and I set about a plan to ensure that I did not attempt again. For about a year, I would envision my daughters walking down the aisle without me, my sons seeing their first born. My wife, experience this all without me and growing old alone. It was enough for me to see the effect and pain my absence would cause other people. For the time, I could not live for myself, but I could live for them. Eventually I learned to live for myself again.

I find myself pretty afraid sometimes.

My contact info is in the profile, I am a complete stranger. Sometimes they are the easiest to talk to. If you ever find yourself at the tipping point, my door is always open, please contact me if you get there.
Was anyone besides me surprised that huge payouts to your family creating massive conflicts of interest are normal? And even acceptable for someone running for office?

In a private company, if you don't disclose such conflicts and recuse yourself from related decisions, you'd be fired immediately. (Though perhaps I'm wrong here if I was wrong about politicians.)
I don't see it. I recently bought a System76 laptop, in honest competition with a comparable (and comparably priced) machine from a huge corporation. I ended up going for S76 based on better battery life and better design, plus the benefits of open firmware and excellent hardware integration with Linux. No regrets. I also got my employer to buy me a S76 desktop at work.

At home, though, I do run a slightly modified old Dell desktop that I bought on Craigslist for basically nothing, and for daily work I much much prefer it to any laptop. So yeah, old desktops and S76 FTW.
Clearly beign silly isn’t appreciated.
This time it really might be different. COVID seems to be leading to structural changes in the demand for commercial real estate.
It’s amazing that people carry on with the trope even after Apple brings out a $400 iPhone.

Not to mention iPhones have received software updates for far longer than anyone else for over a decade and they clearly have the lowest amortized costs.
And a much more modern set of defaults and user affordances.
I'd like to find the marketing genius who invented the term "high-assay low enriched uranium", and buy them a high-energy diet beer.
I think you have to add forestry to to the costs. Lumber tree cultivars grow at fairly predictable rates and varying the dimensions of the finished lumber would mean either much reduced yield or delayed harvesting - more costs per board foot, either way. And then the trucks that transport the logs would have to be modified, and/or loads decreased, sawmill kilns and timber yard storage racks modified...

Ramifications ripple everywhere in an efficient ("optimised") system.
I built my desktop about 3 months ago after 16 years of using a laptop.

It’s great!

I also had fun researching how to get the best deal ~$2,000.
The reporters who wrote the story were so skeptical of what they wrote they didn't add their names to their own story... that they themselves wrote.

That's pretty stupid and unlikely. More likely, people were concerned about the real world ramifications of having their names on the story (e.g. getting killed or harassed).

I understand that this is a talking point but use your brain.
No, really. The author, whose name I can't remember at the moment, complains that X has the server/client roles reversed; that xcalc is a server and the display is a client. The usual defense is that it's "tongue in cheek", but from a networking standpoint it is simply wrong.
That would likely weigh a lot more- the overlapping plastic plus the closure plus the gasket
I do type Jira issue numbers and things quite a lot, I like the numeric keypad. Good for Civilization too.
One of my favourite youtube lawyers (also tech literate), Leonard French, did a review of the case yesterday as a livestream if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZITscblMBA
If you dont have massive repos, then this is the sort of thing that not often a big problem. Also - if you are using things like gitlab runners, you might be in the same AZ and even large repos clones are fast.

And it is impossible to know it all, I like these articles just for the differing ways people work
I did my undergrad CS thesis on this topic and implemented a "power of two choices" load balancing module in NGINX.

When simulating load distribution across servers, two-choices does an outstanding job at keeping things evenly distributed. However, I was unable to observe a meaningful difference between load balancing algorithms when measuring request latency from servers under load.

I think there is still a lot to be gained from exploring two-choices, but coming up with an appropriate strategy for "real-world" performance benchmarking is quite challenging.
A solid core NTR exhaust might even be rather clean. Liquid or gas core NTR, not so much.

And if someone is planning to launch a nuclear salt water rocket inside the atmosphere of an inhabited planet, you certainly have bigger issues to worry about.
You've got this wrong. The ban on publishing personal information from hacks doesn't apply only when it's "absolutely true". It's about the claimed provenance, not the veracity.

If I made a tweet that reads:
"Here's some juicy extracts from jsu32's personal diary, I stole it from their hard drive"
— it would fall under Twitter's policy, regardless of whether I ever stole your hard drive or not.
Maybe there’s a way to tie that in to the transmit coil so you could blow it and activate the circuit by inducing a current wirelessly.
This shows which DNS server performed the recursive query for you, but in more complicated setups it won't be the DNS server your system is pointed to. For example if you're using 1.1.1.1, this will show some other CloudFlare IP.
I sympathise a lot with this post! Git cloning can be shockingly slow.

As a personal anecdote, clones of the Rust repository in CI used to be pretty slow, and on investigating we found out that one key problem was cloning the LLVM submodule (which Rust has a fork of).

In the end we put in place a hack to download the tar.gz of our LLVM repo from github and just copy it in place of the submodule, rather than cloning it. [0]

Also, as a counterpoint to some other comments in this thread - it's really easy to just shrug off CI getting slower. A few minutes here and there adds up. It was only because our CI would hard-fail after 3 hours that the infra team really started digging in (on this and other things) - had we left it, I suspect we might be at around 5 hours by now! Contributors want to do their work, not investigate "what does a git clone really do".

p.s. our first take on this was to have the submodules cloned and stored in the CI cache, then use the rather neat `--reference` flag [1] to grab objects from this local cache when initialising the submodule - incrementally updating the CI cache was way cheaper than recloning each time. Sadly the CI provider wasn't great at handling multi-GB caches, so we went with the approach outlined above.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.47.0/src/ci/init_re...

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/0347ff58230af512c95...
It says answer to, not follows

If the people demand they answer to it, it’s that or off with their heads, usually.

The hard part is getting people to demand they answer.

Lots of cool gadgets and the belief we’re making each other better to dispose of.
I'm not sure this is complacency - this just seems like regular old tech debt. The build takes 40 minutes but everyone has other things to do and there is no time to tend to the debt. Then one day someone has some cycles and discovers a one line change fixes the underlying issue.

I'm sure many engineering projects have similar improvements that just get a ticket/issue opened and never revisited due to the mountain of other seemingly pressing issues. From IPO to the start of the year Pinterest stock price had been trending downwards - I'm sure there was more external pressure to increase profitability than to fix CI build times. The stock has completely turned around since COVID, so I'm sure that changes things
Ask HN: How to Think Clearly?
I tend to think all over the place when it comes to problem solving. It is hard to think step by step or have a clear mental path/logic. How can I overcome this? Thx.
People talk about idempotency, as if it's complicated because it's a 5 syllable word.

if ! which sometool; then
install sometool
fi

That's an idempotent shell script, in all it's simple glory.
If your fans are noisy, buy BIGGER fans.

The larger the diameter of a fan, the lower the RPM it can spin at to move the same amount of air (same cooling capacity) as a small fan. Provided you can put the air where it's needed (e.g. a 1 foot fan can't "focus" air onto a 6 inch radiator) a larger fan will just about always be quieter and more efficient.

Oh, and having a water cooled PC with the radiator and fan inside the PC itself is silly. If you run the pipes outside or into your basement, your PC is almost completely silent, plus the cooling capacity will usually be much, much higher, because not having to cram fans and a radiator into a small enclosure lets you make them bigger and more efficient.
I'll go look again, but last I did I didn't find much [affordable].
I do have an (no longer in production?) APC Smart UPS which can be extended with an external battery, alas vastly overpriced.

Of note, if various online resources are to be believed, you can't just hack and extend the battery capacity for longer run-times as they likely aren't rated for the corresponding higher thermal load.
> For Pinboard alone, we do more than 60K git pulls on business days.

Can anyone explain this? Seems ripe for another 99% improvement even with hundreds of devs.
> Do we seriously believe any government follows it's constitution?

Absolutely. Many do. Look at America and their second amendment: there's no way that would fly today if it wasn't in the constitution. Luckily it is and power hungry politicians have to accept it.

Same with the first amendment. Some of these are even are powerful today than before and I hope the fourth amendment will soon see a renaissance.

> What is the mechanism for redress should it fail to do so?

Courts.

Also it affects politicians directly. There was a petition here to give a mountain on the Finnish border to the Finnish people. Many people advocated for this but in the end it was struck down because politicians aren't even allowed to give away land and they know it.
Imagine if they took the opposite approach. Imagine cities hiring dark pattern UX designers on a commission/revenue sharing basis or with performance bonuses.

Think of the revenue city governments could raise if they combined that with, "If you see something, say something". Portions of the fines could be paid to snitches in the interest of public safety.
Youtube-dl downloads a lot more than from youtube.

I use it a more often on vimeo content embedded in webpages which usually won't play in my browser (presumably due to some privacy settings) than I use it on youtube.
"Microsoft is listed on the RIAA's members page. Neither Google LLC, its Youtube subsidiary, nor parent Alphabet Inc. are. The RIAA are threatening a member for a §1201 violation against a nonmember. That's ... weird."

That a really good point. This request seems ill-considered
Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? It's not FOSS, but it is a pro-level After Effects replacement with much more reasonable terms.
> If I may, the reason you are unimpressed is that you are on the political side that benefited from Twitter's selective bias this time around. Next time you may not be as lucky tho.

You may. I'm on no one's "side", though.
Are you running a browser with multiple tabs, just boggles my mind how that works with 4gb. Are you using a funky light weight window manager. I truly wish to know how you manage it.
I am fairly sure it uses thin packs during a clone usually. Though I checked the docs at https://www.git-scm.com/docs/shallow, and it says:

> There are some unfinished ends of the whole shallow business:

> - maybe we have to force non-thin packs when fetching into a shallow repo (ATM they are forced non-thin).
These smaller linux vendors are at two disadvantages.

One is they don't get the volume.

Second is they don't get kickbacks for bundling an operating system, or other software or make a profit collecting data. This is probably $50 per machine.
Ion thrusters = technical problem. Thermal rocket = fundamentally limited by rocket equation.

With thermal rocket you need huge amounts of reaction mass because it is expelled at slow speeds (it gives little push relative to its mass) and then you need more reaction mass to push that reaction mass and so on. This hugely limits what you can do.

Ion thrusters are largely technical problem of erosion. Current designs have trouble withstanding continuous load because ions hit electrodes and erode them. But there is no physical limitations. Superconducting electromagnets, maybe something else. Somebody hopefully gets a good idea and gets reasonable thrust from ion engine.
Nah, the solution to people getting hacked is not to punish the people who got hacked. Nice try though.
My laptop is festooned with a hub. It covers power, peripherals, HDMI and networking. And that’s all I need. So really not very different to a desktop, except I can also pick it up and take it with me if I want.
You’re right what counts as “nice restaurant” depends a lot on perspective.

So here’s some perspective: My entire home country has 6 Michelin star restaurants. Of those, 1 is in the capital which is the home town I’m comparing above.

SF has 7 restaurants with 3 stars.
it depends. as a low level foot soldier definitely. the higher in rank you are the greater the odds that you can actually get away with it w/o being held accountable
Oh, ok. I imagine you had a stricter interpretation of "universally adopted" then.

If every practical system support them, they are universal enough.
Did not know about nextdns, thank you.

One question popped into my head is how do you trust nextdns? or are you doing something so that you do not need to trust it?
Money is cheap now.
Ask HN: Why is “Open VPN” so aggressive against reading the source code?
So, I was installing "Open VPN" and thought it was an Open-Source VPN server. You can apparently access the source code from they're release tar-balls, as described on [1] their website.

But during the installation process, I noticed a weird [2] license clause that kind of scared me:

3. You agree not to reverse engineer,
decompile, disassemble, modify, translate,
make any attempt to discover the source code
of this software, or create derivative works
from this software.

They're essentially saying you cannot see how this works... which is very worrying for an application that basically funnels ALL network traffic through...

Do you think they're concealing some kind of exploit or tracking software? ... or am I just being paranoid?

[1] https://openvpn.net/source-code/

[2] https://openvpn.net/license/
One thing leads me to lean toward Carlyle's interpretation, which is the mention of Rousseau - he did seem to latch on to people whose reputations have stood some test of time (although in Johnson's case he is responsible for the reputation lasting so maybe it means nothing)

Of course I also wonder, if he was so awful what does it say about Johnson that he tolerated his company. Rousseau comes out looking better for that "Go Away"
I have a similar setup, but the DNS servers are at a hosting facility and I access them from home over a VPN. This avoids the problem of the ISP messing with the DNS responses (e.g. to replace NXDOMAIN with an A record for their own bullshit "not found" page with ads).
If you're looking specifically at something like troubleshooting, look up Root Cause Analysis. It's a great engineering tool.
Try it BACKWARD. Go back from "desired state / end solution" and identify all the obstacles on the way. List possible solution for each obstacle and go back one step to beginning.
2c
I've always thought of "saving the earth" as referring to the millions of intelligent and sensitive non-human lifeforms that we are currently obliterating. But I agree, the earth will continue to have life regardless of what humans do, it just won't include anything we currently know and cherish at the rate we're going.
Much Smarter Manufacturing
> because it's pretty obviously intentionally planted misinformation disguised as news

"misinformation" implies it's false. What's the evidence for this?

I'm as skeptical as anyone about the actual provenance of the information, but to my understanding, nobody in the Biden campaign has so far denied the material's legitimacy.
I know I have certainly left cans of worms close various companies because I knew there was only risk and no reward even though I would have loved to tackle the problem. Fix a major problem working late and weekends and get an attaboy at the weekly conference. Do a good job but introduce a bug that is relatively minor but causes a slight delay in deployment and get on the manager's shit list for the rest of your time there.
"There are bad guys in other threads, but I will not link or provide any evidence at all to support this"

You should reply to those people directly, instead of polluting irrelevant threads with your boogeyman complaints.
This 100% describes me. Desktops are better in every conceivable way, except for the fact that I do most of my computing outside of the office while sitting in my living room with my family. Sure I'm SSHing into a server downstairs a lot, but I'm not willing to hide from my family just because I want to play a game or work on a side project while socializing.
If you found this interesting and want more, then I think this is a good follow up to read next [1]. It takes a similar approach to introducing the code-as-data idea, but uses xml instead of json as an introductory structure.

[1] http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
I completely agree with what you're saying here, but I'm going to just discuss one thing that you said:

> "Nature is IRREPLACEABLE. Once it is dead it is dead forever."

I don't think that's the case. I think you're giving humanity too much credit. If humanity kills itself from overpopulation and overconsumption, the earth will do just fine without us. Even if we harm it as badly as we did with something like the Chernobyl disaster (look how it has bounced back there).

We've only really existed as a species for a tiny amount of time in the earths 4.5b year history and billions of years from now we may not be here, but the earth probably will be.
Going to Mars faster isn't a good idea, but I hope Nuclear Thermal Rockets will develop further so the payload can be greatly increased.
Build on the Moon and launch with a mass driver. Dock with a shuttle on HEO. Easy!
Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui
The response to such stimulus will likely be inflation.
It was obvious and you are dealing with pedants
I'll try and explain the "anti-environmentalist" position as best I can.

Consider climate change. Let's take it as given that climate change is an existental threat to humanity, and that it is caused by carbon dumped into the atmosphere by mankind. If this is true, then we need to leverage the full arsenal of technology available to us to solve the problem.

Nuclear power is a solution we have in-hand, today, to atmospheric carbon.

Of course, it comes with trade-offs. Nuclear waste is a big downside, but nuclear waste is a tiny annoyance compared to a runaway greenhouse effect.

And yet, environmentalists have, for sixty years, fought tooth-and-nail against nuclear power.

This brings me to the point: the track record of environmentalists, and the of green movement, shows that they do not care about the environment, nor do they care about solving real problems with real solutions for real people.

What they do seem to care about is money. Especially taxpayer money, because once you're in, the gravy never stops. Actually solving problems doesn't matter, as long as you look busy and get interviewed on MSNBC and NPR a lot.

The image of the envrionmentalist is of someone who will chain themselves to trees to protest their university building a new parking lot, with lots of pictures for Instagram and the news, but only until the semester break. Instead of organizing transportation and/or walkable housing for other students, thereby eliminating the demand for additional parking.

The opposition by-and-large cares very deeply about the environment. You'd be hard-pressed to find more environmentally-conscious folks than in the hunting and homesteading communities.

But they also believe, from observed behavior, that environmentalists are mostly interested in prolonging the problem while making themselves rich.
Which is probably why non governmental entities should exist to pay for and manage resources like parks not define laws or levy fines.
> Every single thing you've mentioned can be fixed with Xorg/X11.

Then why hasn't it been fixed?

In open source, those who make the code get to make the decisions--for better or for worse.

My personal opinion as to why X11 gets so few contributors--the build system is so terrible that nobody wants to touch it anymore. I suspect they would get a lot more contributors if they changed to something like meson/ninja which doesn't need to recompile the universe to be correct.
Always use desktop when available, better specs = better performance...

I do use a laptop when necessary, on a plane, etc...
Are you just an angry ex Pinterest employee? There is something to learn here and a reminder to pay more attention even when you're knee deep in other tasks. Besides the obvious feature/limitation of git that the author points out.
It's gotta suck to be so critical of free. lol
I'd be with you if the Biden campaign denied the material's legitimacy. So far, at least as far as I'm aware, they haven't.
> It's hard to find a full size bluetooth keyboard.

not only is that hard, it's hard to find a bluetooth keyboard that isn't laggy as heck and doesn't occasionally freeze for a second or five. Or just give up until you re-pair it.

Maybe one of the next 20 that I try...

> How big, you ask? A wall size retina display! I've wanted one for 40 years.

I have always thought, since Digital Research GEM, that the "desktop" in GUIs should be your desk's top. We're nearly there...
In this regard, left-wing extremists dislike freedom as much.