skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an old dinosaur who ended up becoming involved in the blockchain space, this doesn't surprise me at all. I suspect this is a generalizable pattern: a new industry is created and very little of the experience learned in older industries is transferred.
Anyone who treats science as a religion ends up with a pretty terrifying morality.
> I'm considering writing a few blog posts to explain how everything works in more detail!

If you do, I'd love to read them.
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There is no built in admin UI but it's about a 15 minute task to connect up to Forest Admin, which plays like a dream.
> "From my point of view, Linux would never taken off if POSIX had been taken more seriously."

Taking POSIX seriously would have made no sense at the time. Back then, Microsoft seemed in a position to supplant the '70s era UNIX architecture with a more up-to-date '90s era son-of-VMS architecture for servers. Nobody was expecting Linux to come out of the blue, brutally fratricide all the other UNIXes, and take over the server market.
Facebook's take on privacy is also a joke. "Privacy" according to them is privacy from other users, but the concept of privacy from Facebook itself doesn't exist.
The article and comments here matches my observations. There are many ways to be a 10x engineers but basically none of them is about writing better code or solving algorithm problem (outside of a few very specific domains). Writing good code is necessary to be a competent engineer and one need to be competent before becoming 10x, but it’s not a sufficient condition.

Yet this is what almost all companies that are looking for 10x engineers primarily test for during interviews; their ability to write code. Seems to be a mismatch there.
You had a Slackware CD? The old days were when you had a stack of only 20 floppies to install SLS with (of the required ~44 or something), had to download the disk contents at school and carry them home, and some of your floppies ended up having read errors. It took literally days of going back and forth, with your home PC sitting in the installer waiting for the next floppy.
> This point aside, I haven't written anything in 2 years, so it's possible I'm out of shape :)

Not at all, it was a great read! And perhaps, as @eloff mentioned, my own biases might be at work. As an introvert, it's a more significant effort for me to go out there and investigate other people's problems (so pg's point might be more salient).
Oregon decided last year? Year before? That their registration fees were going to be based on efficiency of the vehicle, so the gas burning cars end up paying less to register. I get trying to have EVs pay their fair share, but having to pay more than double what a massively polluting much heavier truck has to pay is kind of a slap in the face. I'd much rather pay per kwh.
Hangs halfway through loading on Safari/Big Sur as well.
Here's an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25096079 The trouble is users don't upvote it so it was little visibility. Compared to the promoted regular https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring posts.
> Who misses the single most time sink in our lives?

Right? I'm having a hard time believing someone loves being forced to waste time twice a day, by increasing the likelihood of being in automotive accidents. Go hop on a bus or ride the train if you miss it that badly.
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> That said - I think the only real answer here is a more thorough overhaul of how you tax road usage. Perhaps it's time to ditch the fuel excise tax entirely, and tax all drivers based on (vehicle weight * kms driven * some constant).

If you want to tax fairly based on road wear, you have to tax by axle weight to the 4th power * distance driven.

That said, there's a pretty simple solution that doesn't send the same "we are punishing EV owners with an extra tax" message: have a road usage tax for everyone, and slightly decrease the fuel tax.

But please, PLEASE, keep most of the fuel tax. Climate change is a real, urgent issue, and everything that encourages change away from fossil fuel should be kept.
Poll: Has HN Become Ideological?
Has the general community that is HN become more adverse to factual comments so as to fit ideology?
It's always been this way!
This comment feels out of left field.

Was I accidentally arguing that tech is more important than a well-lived life?
This is true, but some portion of road maintenance costs is independent from vehicle-caused wear-and-tear on the actual road surface.

A lot it is caused (around here anyway) by water permeating and expanding as it freezes.
Didn’t SQLite say that their lock/unlock process is really fast? Such that it doesn’t really pose a significant drawback.
> but for my use case described above Instagram seemed unsustainable.

Which part?

Another interpretation is, professional athletes don't really enrich your life at all. You have as big a problem with celebrity as you do with a piece of software.
Well yes, and you've just stumbled upon what has driven history of the Internet post-2009. It's a huge contributing factor to the centralization of the Internet.
Can this be installed on AWS EMR clusters?
Honestly I “nerded” it. There’s a bunch of “how to” videos on YouTube plus I was anyway watching a lot of comedy.

The pattern I’ve seen when people start standup seems to go like this ...

Extroverts who are comfortable in front of people tend to try to “wing it” and don’t prepare material.

Introverts (like me) tend to work harder on the material and actually having good jokes. This can be advantageous but you have to put the work in preparing. If you’ve ever done a talk at a conference or otherwise, that probably helps.

What’s interesting about comedy is it seems to exploit a “bug” in the way the human brain works. The most basic form of a standup joke is basically; 1. Create tension for the audience, 2. Release the tension with surprise

... there’s plenty of material online explaining this and I even read somewhere that there are only something like 21 possible joke structures to make a crowd laugh.

What I love about comedy is it’s a craft, much like programming. The goal is to make a room full of people laugh at the same time but there are so many variables that can influence that, there is no single solution to the problem... hence it’s a craft.
Are you ok? I’ve never heard any anyone this thrilled about an ad experience in my life.
Yup. If you're running something this critically important on your domain (i.e. pretty much any business doing 7 figure revenue or more), it'd really behoove you to switch to a registrar that supports registry lock on your domain. Then you're protected by the procedures at two unrelated business entities.
Yeah well back when YouTube started censoring videos suggesting a connection between vitamin D deficiency and covid it became pretty clear times are not particularly changed from Galieo’s.
I might have misunderstood your comment. If so, my apologies for the hot take.
What tradeoffs did you make? In what situations does S3 have better characteristics than HopsFS?
> Nah, it's only an issue now.

It's similar to how the people who would say, "suck it up, buttercup" to people with mental illnesses, are now hand-wringing about mental illnesses exacerbated by measures against COVID. They don't really care, they just found an excuse that sounds good enough to them to rail against something they don't like.
One of the things most amazing about the world is that the activity of human beings spans such a wide range of behavior: we do things that are so stupid that an alien might think we are not even sentient, and then we're capable of doing stuff in science and engineering that is absolutely brilliant.
When I saw my peers out drinking and such, I'm not convinced that paying off their debt make the country stronger.
Here's an alternate version of this jig that looks like some good enhancements. https://youtu.be/2IMDZ2vs8NM
yeah, once we get to 25% adoption (or something) we can talk about how badly EVs are hurting fuel tax revenue. in the meantime, jack up the fuel tax in a planned, regular way, and let the market decide :)
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"made purchases of things that I didn't know about that looked interesting"

Interestingly, that's precisely the reason I hate targeted ads. They just make me buy more things I didn't otherwise need.

I see your main point though, it's nice to give the choice.
> There is nothing, short of full bio-defense suit, that can help in the densely packed Moscow (or any other large Russian city) subway or bus

A mask is very effective and is worn for others, not yourself. At any point in time you might be carrying asymptomatic or not-yet-symptomatic COVID. Your mask prevents your saliva from flying in the air around you, protecting people near you and their parents/susceptible relatives this might get passed on to.

And if it’s against your interest when emergency healthcare can’t help your sick child because they have not enough resources due to COVID patients, then over long term wearing a mask is actually for yourself, too.
I hope that the new mRNA technology the Pfizer and AZ vaccines are based on will help us develop and manufacture more quickly. The delivery mechanism will be well-understood, the pipeline will be there, the limiting factor would still be knowing what to target and screening for safety/efficacy but it should still help.

I hope similar things can be done with rapid antigen/PCR testing equipment.
> I'm an individual, not a group. You have no idea what I believe about Trump's tax returns.

If you tell me that you don’t believe that he will release his tax statement and has been lying to the whole world for 4 years I will apologize.

But from your answer, I believe I was dead on, on my assumption.
Nearlyfreespeech is more of a host than a registrar, but I feel they generally have really good practices and procedures areound security. I certainly trust them more than Godaddy. That said, they don't support a lot of .wacky suffixes other registrars might.
Please, no. This site's relationship with Terry Davis was weirdly fetishistic when he was alive, let's not make an icon out of him after his death.
OpenVPN is very slow. IPSec, ZeroTier, and WireGuard are all quite a bit faster.

Not sure why... probably just not very optimized.
The Average Temperature of the Universe Has Been Getting Hotter and Hotter
If you pay for maintenance from the general budget, you are allowing shipping companies (for example) to externalize cost that they incur on society.

This is generally a bad thing, but very concretely it led to road traffic growing much faster than rail traffic (or canal ship traffic) even in countries with a very dense rail network.
Many orders of magnitude fewer deaths, for one?
I'm not familiar with any evidence of that, but I'd like to point out that Debian unstable has a higher percentage of outdated packages than Arch.

Compare "outdated projects percentage":

- https://repology.org/repository/debian_unstable

- https://repology.org/repository/arch
> ... but has 100X the performance of S3 for file move/rename operations

Isn't rename in S3 effectively a copy-delete operation?
That isn't a bad interview question but certainly not _better_. It's perfectly understandable for some shops to want to filter out people that don't practice fundamentals from time to time. We all have our own predictors of success and they all suck in different ways.
Mozilla stands for less and less of what it did back in University when they first released "Firebird" from reworking the old Netscape/Mozilla source.

I hate that there are only two major web engines now.
It's ironic this is the top comment, since the vibe I got from the post was that people waste way too much time discussing ideological things and not fixing any of the actual problems he encountered as a maintainer.

The thing that's wrong with the Debian project is that ideological stuff doesn't anymore attract talented engineers who are interested in working for free on something dry like package management.
LEM and double-negation elimination is very poor style from a constructive POV, though. If you need to prove something non-constructively, just stick to the negative fragment.
I'm using it in production, but a few situations that I could handle with autolayout constraints seem impossible in SwiftUI. Examples here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/664283
In these 1% cases, I can make things "good enough" by hacking it with SwiftUI. But it bothers me. Sometimes I want to go past "good enough" and reach for "perfect". I could do that with UIKit/AppKit, but with SwiftUI they haven't documented (or created) the layout system to allow it.
Most annoyingly I actually thought I wanted personalized ads, but after giving Google the benefit of doubt for years after the DoubleClick acquisition it is clear to me they are hopeless: the ads mostly aren't targeted to me in any meaningful way.

Facebook on the other hand manages to get my attention with products that matches my interests and budget (software products, photography products etc. I even ended up buying a safety razor that I am very happy with and wouldn't have though about without seeing that ad.)

The irony is that Google should know quite a bit more about me than Facebook does but have been too busy showing me annoying or even insulting ads during the same time.
Would you consider someone a 10x engineer if they can crank out a super-fancy backend service in 1 weekend that nobody wants to pay for or actually use?

In a competitive situation a person might be 10% better but win 10x as often as the next best person. This is often taken to mean they are 10x better however.
I know it sounds like cliché, but actually my B.A. in Psychology and Business Management. Cost met around $12K the whole university studying but gave me much more than I expected regarding understanding myself.
can't be a fleet average though.
I miss you guys working from the office. I transitioned to a laptop-at-the-cafe world years ago and now everywhere I work at is chock full of displaced workers looking for something better than the kitchen table, and has a lot fewer places to sit. At least I'm in the tropics so there's been a a growth in outdoors seating, I can't imagine how crazy I'd be going if I was still in the north.

I've got a decent home studio but getting the heck away from home regularly is really important for staying sane.
How does this differ from Objectivefs?
Curious about your "work in VR" comment - what is your setup?

I have been trying to do this with my Oculus Quest 1 but the resolution just seems to low / rendering quality too poor. I can see the potential for the future though and am very curious if a Quest 2 gets over a significant hump in terms of these problems.
This is what I hope to be for my team as I feel like I'm at least a -3x engineer.
Yup, thanks. Actually thanks for mentioning PayPal again...I had discounted them at first because of the 5% fee but didn't realize their lack of a huge flat add-on actually makes them better for smaller payments.
This project looks interesting. Thank you for taking the (honestly unwarranted) downvote hit to answer questions about it.
Do you mean content or blogging software?
The things you said are a pain (or can’t be done) here is how you do it https://github.com/subzerocloud/postgrest-starter-kit

Specifically, testing the sql side with sql (pgtap) and having your sql code in files that get autoloaded to your dev db when saved. Migrations are autogenerated* with apgdiff and managed with sqitch. The process has it’s rough edges but it makes developing with this kind of stack much easier

* you still have to review the generated migration file and make small adjustments but it allows you to work with many entities at a time in your schema without having to remember to reflect the change in a specific migration file
‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ Foretold Our Era of Grifting
Most of the people I follow are friends with kids. It's how we swap pictures of our kids. The rest of my follows are web comics. I follow a couple of "famous" people, but they are mostly people with compelling content and not vapid influencer content.

My experience seems to be that I see a whole bunch of fresh updates from friends, and then ads. If I'm looking when there are few updates, it's mostly ads. If I see mostly ads I know that I should put the phone down and come back in a few hours. :)
10x definitely has nothing to do with salary in either direction - you can't conflate productivity with salary and expect to make sense of the world we operate in.
FYI: This is an implementation of the game RoboRally, a great game.
Did you consider porting it to mister?
I think this comment makes a pretty clear case for it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25168303

For me personally, the accessibility issues would be with elements used out of their usual role.

For example: When I, blessed with being sighted at this time, but without a mouse, ask my browser to identify the clickable/actionable elements on the page, it mis-identifies both unclickable elements as clickable, and clickable elements as unclickable.

I would call that a serious usability issue. And if I was not sighted, using a screen-reader, I would be very confused indeed by this landing page.

I agree that whether this qualifies as a "huge" usability issue is indeed a matter of opinion. I would certainly argue that it is a huge usability issue.
Ah, disagree, poor argument. That would only apply to the absolute far end of medical circumstances. The vast majority of medical needs cannot bankrupt a millionaire with insurance and using those rare cases to imply that having money doesn't make much difference is disingenuous.

The vast majority of normal circumstances are covered by having a job with medical insurance. And those normal circumstances can ruin people without insurance (e.g. a diabetic without insulin.)
I've run it on all my desktop and laptop computers for 20 years and it's fine. However, the only package I upgrade automatically is Chrome. I do a full upgrade one or twice a year, and in the meantime I only upgrade packages as needed. The whole point of versioned dependencies is that you don't have to adhere to one particular snapshot.

Automatically upgrading every day is not smart, since then you're virtually guaranteed to catch every breaking change. See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_pr...
This is actual Darwinism.
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There's a huge gulf between not understanding opposition to a particular scheme, and thinking the existing scheme is unfair.

I didn't see anything in this article about how it's levied, for one. Are they doing vehicle tracking, as was proposed in places in the US? Certainly I can see opposition to that.

Maybe people driving a Renault Twizy don't think it's fair to pay the same tax per mile as an electric Hummer (whenever that comes out).

All kinds of reasons to be opposed to it.
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It also is in Ireland, but there are valid reasons, such as as replacing an ECU or dash cluster.

Unless auto manufacturers are required to fit much more secure odometers, I can't see them in their current incarnation used as the basis for a tax.
My office was fucking WeWork. Or, as I call it, WePlayPingPong because the environment is not conducive to actual work. I was so glad to WFH, so much more productive, and I'm praying $COMPANY doesn't make us go back to the office when all this shit is over. Although they didn't renew their WePlayPingPong lease, so it might be an improvement, but still.
So many downvotes for such a genuine honest acurate statement. Typical. Thanks newacct583. :)
thanks, that's interesting

I wonder about Librem 5's stability, because at that price point it would be painful to have a device not fit to even be a main driver...

hope both projects prosper
2 things.
First, pretty sure it’s been discussed here previously(edit: and is down thread), but I believe the wear on the road is like the 4th power of the weight.[1] here’s a chart describing it. with that considered, I don’t think it makes sense to even really charge passenger vehicles in the US, when we have huge fleets of 80k pound big rigs on the road(and the limit is uncapped with overweight permits)—charge them.

Second, the problem with tires is that depending on what and where you drive you’ll use them considerably faster. I live a few miles down a very windy chip-sealed[2] road, that I have to drive down any time I go anywhere. As a result(best I can tell) my tires tend to go bald 10k-20k miles early. Chip seal is used because it is cheap, seems regressive that I’d be taxed at a higher rate for a poorer road.

[1] https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipseal
The linked post says "has the same cost as S3", yet on the linked pricing page there's only a "Contact Us" Enterprise plan besides a free one. Am I missing something?
I agree that there's advantages to the user pay system. People are enthusiastic to use a new bridge, less so when they find out that they have to pay a toll to drive over it. Various charges can be used to manage congestion.

In a system where road use is "free" there would need to be significant government discipline to not heed demands of road users for more roads.

Heavy taxes on the purchase of new cars may be a good strategy to dissuade vehicle congestion, with lesser taxes on new EVs and lesser still on used vehicles.
I love all those fonts! Right now I'm using Iosevka Term at Medium weight since I can cram a reasonable amount of code in horizontal space and the style looks very appealing to me.

This is with monitors at around ~130DPI. For regular old 96 DPI monitors I used tewi, a very small bitmap font.

I'm running Linux so most things are rendering on FreeType, here's a screenshot of Iosevka Term with some random youtube-dl code: https://i.imgur.com/qQHmOX2.png
I've only visited the US briefly but those toilet gaps were truly, truly awful
It will use about the same amount of memory when run in a Chrome tab, as that doesn't much differ from the application version (essentially just a bundled Chromium browser). It would save you from running two different Chromium browsers at once, but I don't think the saving is all that significant. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25167153 )
A shift pattern without anyone on call. 3x 8hr shifts in a 24hr day[1], optionally distributed around the planet so that all shifts are working in their local daytime.

[1] Gene Ray understood this.
100% with you on the dedicated room. Locking the door at the end of the working day is vital to me.
There was a strong push to move from Voice to Hangouts. A couple of years ago the speculation was that Voice would be cancelled. See e.g. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3564825/google-voice.h... :

> But then, well, Google...Googled. It let Voice languish for years, without any attention or updates, then awkwardly half-merged it into Hangouts and had it rot away unattended for years. And we all know how the whole Hangouts saga ended (or is still in the process of ending, I guess we should say).

> A few years ago, though, something unexpected happened: Following years of neglect, Google suddenly brought Voice back to life.

You can find discussion of it on HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19022660 :

> Don't get me started. I think my Google Voice / Hangouts account will be deprecated soon, or has been, and will be eliminated, or maybe not. It's not clear. It never is.

> Google voice has been all but deprecated at this point. The form for buying credits has been broken for a year, and calls calls to my google voice number no longer get forwarded to my phone / google hangouts.

Perhaps if you didn't live through all this, you don't get why people find it annoying.