skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A state which was build on blind trust on the state

The former Soviet states and other USSR satellites were not built on trust, they were built on force. You had to act like you trusted the state to avoid the repressive force of the state.

But people did not trust the state at all, much more so than in today's world. Everyone assumed their telephones were listened to. Everyone assumed that the walls had ears. The lies of the state were often obvious, and often discussed with very close friends and close family, and anything that wasn't an obvious lie was thus considered a likely lie anyway.
Right now the dominant doctrine is escalation of force to compliance.

This being the primary tool, coupled with aggressive liability management is why there are so many harmful outcomes.

Training in deescalation techniques as well as more options to hand off problems that are not serious crimes, or are maybe violations, to entities much better equipped to handle them than the criminal justice system is would do us a lot of good.

Escalation is also amplified by militarization. Lots of money there. Maybe there shouldn't be, or it is allocated differently.

No one is seriously debating a lack of police.

A primary goal of defund efforts appears to be getting at the means of control and incentives that have brought us here.

Further, the longer we stay here, ahem, escalating?

Abolitionists garner a stronger case and support. I do not agree with the harder, extreme stance out there, but I also completely understand how compelling it can be.

This, so far, has continued to be escalated. I get it. Admitting failure equates to weakness and loss of legitimacy, but isn't that happening on a large scale anyway?

Police need more options same as ordinary people do.

Those can be found by having a real conversation, and that starts by deescalation all around.
When I lost a few hundred leads
Why can't there be reasonable defaults and also the ability to customize/override on your own box? Profiles can always be used for if you need to use a different environment and want to use the default.
I make use of openat() and friends to safely populate and interact with build environments on disk.

I perform scanning of process tables to kill lingering processes. Go has no functions for that in its standard library. There are some third party libraries for that, but they are all of pretty poor quality. They are slow.
And YouTube took down Jeff Deist's video that brought this to everyone's attention.

https://mises.org/power-market/youtube-attempts-silence-mise...
While there is for sure some challenges with non functional chargers and it can be more challenging to travel with an electric car as you may need to plan a bit , this story is a bit weird.

I'm sure this couple did struggle, but I think it's more than a lack of luck.

The first clue is needing 9 hours to drive 130 miles with a vehicle having more than 250 miles of range and that charge very fast, in an area with plenty of fast chargers.

They said they left Bournemouth with 45miles of range, I looked at the plugshare map and around the Porsche center and there is plenty of fast chargers in the area. Perhaps they were all broken but that's very strange.
Right, they’re the crux of it. It comes down to what OP’s expenses are.
Recognize that "retirement" doesn't necessarily mean "never work again" - but rather that you can be more selective in the work you take.

Also - this is just an observation of mine: Retirement, especially if you're not honing your skills or keeping busy with learning, can be absolutely a killer on your acumen.

I've seen very skilled people enter early retirement, only to quit their profession all-together, instead just focusing on doing...nothing. Or rather, nothing very productive. After a couple of years they just seem more dull, intellectually speaking. Unless you have an iron will and very self-driven, it can be hard to motivate yourself to do something at the same level as when you're employed, or there's lots of risk involved.

It's really no problem if you're in your sixties, and will likely never work again - but retiring at a very young age, there's lots of risk and uncertainty involved. Doesn't mater how well you plan, you could get forced back into employment.

So with that said - I wouldn't retire entirely. Rather, become more selective on the work you take, work part-time on projects. Try to become highly competent in some specialized skill, just to keep yourself up to date and motivated.

As for money:

- Move somewhere cheap
- Invest enough that you'll go in plus after all expenses
- Live frugally. Lifestyle creep is real, and can obliterate retirement savings.

Of course, investments are inherently risky - but speak to some professional about this.
Im worried on how it will go well with colours of issue labels.

Exciting still <3
Simple (but possibly incomplete) answer: store files you don't want to delete on a ZFS filesystem with snapshots.
Amazon is set up to make money when you spend money, not just by tracking you, so of course they would make their platform work without Javascript because you want to maximize the number of browsers people can use to impulse/drunk/Ambien order tons of useless shit from your site.
A good friend of mine is a doctor who is angling hard against the prevailing narrative of COVID. He believes the risks are over represented and the collateral damage is under considered.

We can’t talk about pandemic responses that target those at risk because we can’t discuss the risks that certain people have.

Lockdowns aren’t really working.

Not everyone is equally at risk.

Targeting places instead of populations isn’t strong policy.

And at the current rate, we’re only heading towards mandatory vaccines, of which the risks are not yet understood, and greater social control of our bodies when, perhaps, it’s not warranted.

We can’t say “this is how we beat it” when things are at their worst. There are, in fact, massive profit machines directing our response trajectory.

Intersectionalism has been a controversial social movement, and those who used it the most as a cultural talisman are universalizing the pandemic response. Ironic, and ineffective?
Utah monolith: The mysterious silver monolith in the desert has disappeared
And you’re completely ignoring the fact that they are using these employees who they hired for an actual job as props for diversity brochures. Is that really just a “diversity problem”? To use your employees as token figures? Not every racist act has to be consciously malicious. It at the very least implies it, diversity problem honestly just sounds like a euphemism.
How did you make it. What technology you used to build this. I am amazed. Any github repo to have a look at the codebase.
Thanks
Is being male and white not a factor in your analysis. Just looking statistically at the segment of the demographic which directly correlates with wealth and entrepreneurship paints a different story from your narrative.
I retired last year (albeit with a slightly larger nest egg and a more advanced age than OP - from what I gather).

I bought a property with two apartment units in North Carolina, and got a $200k mortgage (paid $500k at purchase time).

My girlfriend and I live in one unit, while the rent from the other unit (3 bedrooms, kitchen and 1.5 baths) covers mortgage, utilities, taxes, insurance and some of our living expenses (about 10 days of groceries, gym membership and one dine-in/takeout meal).

Rest comes from a variety of investments in bonds, ETFs, and REITs - I withdraw about 1.9% a year (general wisdom is that up to 4% is safe) - actually it was closer to 1.2% last year including two fortnight-long vacations, but up to 3% this year due to the early-year market dip.
You'll want to do some research on FIRE - "Financial Independence Retire Early." There are plenty of resources (someone linked to the main FIRE subreddit but there are others like r/leanfire. Personally I'd also recommend getting started maybe reading _Your Money or Your Life_ (the og FIRE book) and maybe the bogleheads.org wiki to get some more color. Also, the r/financialindependence sub has a basic wiki/faq.

I'd also recommend looking up the "Trinity Study" which gives the guidance of a 3-4% "safe withdrawal rate" - eg, if you should be able to retire if you can keep your cost of living under $40K - there's a lot of bikeshedding about the exact number and various strategies you can use to minimize risk during downturns. Personally, I'd make sure your fixed living expenses are <3% of your net investible so you have some flexibility.

A while back I wrote a short guide for a friend that lays out my personal financial perspective in a bit more detail: https://www.notion.so/lhl/Basic-Financial-Literacy-Guide-386...

Before making any rash decisions, I'd make sure you get your finances sorted (cash buffer, asset allocation sorted, comfort with market volatility, etc), but also think about what you want to do after quitting your current job. One thing that seems to happen a lot is that people quit their job but really haven't thought about what they want to do afterwards. Taking some time off/a sabbatical isn't a bad way to try to figure that out.

If you're in tech and you don't like your current job btw, just find a new one (or better yet, learn to de-stress at your current job - stress is as much a state of mind as extrinsic factors). Good luck!
To all who misread the "Taken by":

It means "Photograph of the monolith taken by Patrick A. Mackie" and not literally taken.
Assuming they're far enough removed from my lived experience, melancholy/lonely settings have always had a comforting/evocative/alluring effect on me. I think anything that's sufficiently distinct from my present reality can act as escapism, even if it's not an alternate reality that I would actually want, per se. It's a weird sort of feeling.
I really want to use Godot in the future because it has amazing 2D features. I hope they will have good HTML5 support with small size, currently HTML5 export is limited and buggy.
We currently use Unity project tiny and cocos creator to create HTML5 games.
That's what I mean. It feels much messier than JSX, where "putting strings together" is a clean first-class citizen.

With SSR, you need some component that's aware of every change, and that triggers those re-renders at sensible times (every render takes server resources). This all feels messy, compared to rendering just-in-time on the client-side.
Same here. My take away from these replies is that I'm not missing anything by sticking with uBlock.
Unless you move to a cheaper country, it isn't enough. Especially if you have no where to live! Housing cost is one of the largest costs you'll have. If you owned your home and gas one mill million, that would be one thing.
If your job is stressful, consider taking a year off, travel, write a novel, write a game, be a beach bum, whatever. Then work for another 8 years and save another million.
Sounds like your next thing is to switch to tubeless tires so you don't have to do that so often
Apple switched to DDR4 when the 2018 Macbook Pros were released which allowed them to support 32 GB of RAM.

The rated battery life of the Macbook Pro didn't change between 2017 and 2018.
I'm building a homestead with a long term (12-15 years) goal of growing a hazel nut orchard. I'm only in year 3 but things are progressing albeit slower than I expected. I hopefully can produce around 2 tons of nuts per acre once the trees are mature and it only requires around 50 hours labour per acre, per year. It is only a small 10 acre orchard which I expect to earn around 30K per year for the raw in shell nuts(field price) before value added processing and marketing. Eventually I would like to build a small commercial kitchen to produce craft butter and brittle that I will market online.

The trees were planted 3 years ago but wont begin producing anything substantial for 4 or 5 more years, until then I have a small layer hen operation with farm gate sales and a small wood working side hustle.

It's a low stress simple life which is enjoyable most of the time and provides me with a lot of spare time to pursue my hobbies.
If my car could passively receive 1 gallon of gas without my presence wherever I park, at a fair price, while I'm going about my business, I most certainly would not turn it down. Even with gas stations everywhere, it's a nuisance to frequent them, especially considering most of my trips don't really require more than 1-2 gallons of gas.

It'd basically eliminate most of my need to ever fill up from empty, that would become an exceptional circumstance on long distance trips.
It has a sequel, with more "action", but the article probably missed the most important part: for some the game evokes memories, and for some – their purified reality. It will be completely alien and boring to outsiders, like this¹ game which is "a bit too real" for Jon from UK.

¹ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMXsIW56sIA 7:54
UI developers tell us how an app should look, never mind how you would like it to appear...

Snap developers tell us they won't let you disable an update on our own systems, never mind if we don't want to update...

It feels almost like there is some arrogance going on nowadays in the industry.

Nowadays, if software is not customizable or if it forces updates, I will look elsewhere for alternatives. It has actually started to inspire me to start some new side projects.
They switched it on the 2018 15-inch and it didn't change the battery life at all.
The only thing I'm wondering is why you felt it necessary to add this strangely patronizing comment. The GP voiced a simple complaint, not an "error report" or a "support request".
I don't follow.

Bazel and make are both text-based languages for describing symbolic, abstract structures. Just like pretty much every other programming language.

Bazel and make both use the same abstract structure, just like pretty much every other build system: a directed graph of build directives and dependencies.
And now we are in agreement :)
Nah we all know global warming is a hoax. /s
I'm an active user of both. To me it's fascinating how this combination is actually more relatable than either of the actual UIs.

Windows start menu bar seems like the simplest conceptual model to understand vs the logical complexity of some apps being pinned and some living on the right side of the dock, in macos.

Same with menus - though menu bars of MacOS are smarter in being always available and more consistent than the chaotic inconsistency of Windows app world, that menu still takes up permanent real estate from my desktop. Which sort of feels like it's permanently taking up my mental space too.

OTOH, macos window decorations also feel like the simplest thing. Relaxing in their almost comic, colorful nature.
> The Salt Lake Tribune's web site, sltrib.com, is unavailable in the European Union.

Looks like it's difficult to remove trackers for some companies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201129061555/https://www.sltri...

(sltrib.com blocks visitors from Europe)
Anyone who runs a couple of VMs or a ton of docker containers is going to run into memory problems.

And that's not an uncommon use-case amongst the developer crowd which has a lot of overlap with HN.
This is actually the core failure of the Linux approach and why they year of the Linux desktop never occurred. Because there is no 1-true approach, developers must support too fragmented of an ecosystem, thus Linux becomes too big a lift to target for software titles.

Similarly the mass market of users care less about pimping their ride (so to speak), as getting their work done. Thus little is gained by rearranging your display or initialization subsystem.

One of the key things I find attractive about MacOS is that design is more than skin deep or an ad-hoc assemblage loosely related libraries. Meaning that visual design, architectural design, APIs, and even silicon co-designed makes for better systems.
The BioVYZR
It’s every K and R bike they’ve make since the 1930s (for the R models), including touring bikes but also the GS (which perhaps is a tourer these days, granted), R Nine T (street/sport), R18 (bobber/cruiser), and R1250R roadster.
If the options from which they could choose were constrained by other factors then they weren't really choices.

Free will implies the ability to choose freely.
>"hypervector" is just a swanky term for very-high-dimensionality vectors, a la "hypersonic", "hypervisor", hyper-encabulator, etc.

Or a la hypercube. Hyper- is an established prefix for describing n-dimensional objects
Get a van! Living on the cheap and exploring is the shit buddy. Come meet me down here in Mexico. Also, make some apps or something. Passive income. Make your own van (way cheaper). Invest when the time is right
I guess this was supposed to be: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/silicon-valleys-dirty-dat...
From a practical stand point, you have written and read 0.0% of the software on your system. You do need to trust someone, otherwise you might as well just swear off using computers.
Pure isopropyl alcohol is not a good disinfectant, and is highly flammable. You need some water, to act as a catalyst.

Also, it doesn't inactivate spores, so you need hydrogen peroxide or something chlorine based as well.[1]

https://blog.gotopac.com/2017/05/15/why-is-70-isopropyl-alco...
It requires less effort to buy a $400 waterbottle holder than to change your diet to loose a couple of kilos.

And you can show off gear, you can't show off weight loss.
This was cool. And goes to show how we never learn...
> I haven’t tried it since starting to use web storage (eg google drive) but used this feature in high school with my original iPhone and iPhone 3g.

Unless you jailbroke your iPhone 2G and 3G that's an impossibility: the iPhone has never officially supported USB Mass Storage mode: it has always only ever officially supported MTP/PTP (and DFU) over USB.
True. Totally unrelated, the example you cite is now fifty years in the past, and occurred in a time when local news still existed.
Another famous McKinsey piece-de-art comes to mind - the work they did for the NYC Dept of Corrections to stem violence at Rikers. Their recommendations were to build a piece of software which they built and delivered but it never worked. The software did all sorts of analytics and tried to pick the prisoners who would benefit from their risk violence reduction program.

Apart from their sordid failures in building and delivering software, it turns out that their data analysis was outright fraud as they cherrypicked the trial inmates, who were low-violence, to show it worked.

This disaster ended up costing NYC 27.5 million. Their recommendations were a dud, the software never worked and violence soared. Ripping NYC for tens of millions and condemning the people with the lowest power - prison inmates - to worse outcomes - that is McKinsey's credo for you.

The thing that baffles me is not that the majority of McKinsey consultants would go along with it but there are almost zero whistleblowers. Shows the power of the firm's narrative and the prestige. My hope is enough of these exposes and the prestige of working at McKinsey will be akin to having worked at Enron or a WorldCom.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-mckins...
Pubmind puts me in the superhuman quadrant. I do low-friction blogging in Ghost, with the text usually forwarded to Hugo for integration into hierarchical documentation pages. A rough drafts blog doesn't need version control, but an evolving documentation site does. Haven't needed to write normal polished blog posts yet — that's more of a marketing thing, and I'm still in alpha and early beta for Cyborganize.

But yeah, the Hugo site is written in Org, and refactored with Treefactor which I wrote in elisp...

https://cyberthal-docs.nfshost.com/pubmind/
Rod Serling at UCLA on political issues (Reagan, Vietnam, Watts, more) (1966)
Could Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby work as an introduction to programming for kids?
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care." --Mandela https://archive.is/ef9eo
Thankfully that's just Twitter and isn't representative of the wider population.
you can autohide them. you can also free up the cognitive burden by using the menu search hotkey.
Beware of the Decentralized Denial of Monoliths
I have a Gates Carbon drive too. It's extremely convenient, but my understanding is that it's lower efficiency compared to a well-mantained chain. Due to the practical challenges of maintaining a steel chain, I think Gates does well and it's a great commuter option.
Thank you for this moment of humour. It was much needed.
I love the detailed timeline
Last Mountain (based out of Saskatchewan, Canada) does exactly this - all of their jams come in 1L mason jars.

Downside is that the label on the jar is hella frustrating to remove. The glue isn’t exactly water soluble.
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring engineers in Amsterdam
In many types of races, cyclists are pretty much constantly changing speed, so the extra inertia matters a fair bit.

Often, races are won and lost in the final dash to the finish line, which is pretty much all about acceleration.
Purdue is a clinical pharma company. They do extensive testing on their molecular candidates both in-vitro and in-vivo. There is no way they would not have known that OxyContin was more addictive. If memory serves me right there was a whistleblower who claimed that Purdue knew and hid the fact from regulators but I might be mistaken.
I think the key here is to use it as a pivot in your life.
Retiring on 1M$ is pretty hard (in the US), but do you really want to retire? Or work on something that matters to you and might be more enjoyable and less stressful.

For example, you could take a couple years to try to build a one-man startup. Working on building an MVP that would resolve a niche problem? You will be less stressed because you would know that in the worst case you can always go back to a comfy engineering job. With 1M$ you already did better than 99% of the people your age.
Amazon hired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slaves without giving them equity https://archive.is/DAn9i
> Europe has largely adopted it,

I'm an avid leerer of other's bikes, and in my long and fruitful bike leering career in Europe, I have seen just one (1) gates drive.
Take a sabbatical for 6-12 months. Travel, do something fun for yourself.

Then re-evaluate.

A lot of people think they want to retire when in reality they want a break.

You can easily live on 50k/year if you don't have a family. That's 20 years if you don't make another penny so you really don't need to do anything. If you don't spontaneously find a way to make money in the next 20 years that you enjoy, something has gone terribly wrong :)
Managing 30 properties - hell, keeping 30 properties occupied - is a nightmare. Unless they’re extremely homogenous, even a property management firm will hesitate to touch that.
Wow yeah you really got me there. Let me check my geek credentials, nope, don’t have any, guess I wasn’t working for Red Hat in 1999. Dang, gee, gosh, you got me kid.

I’ve worked in tech 25 years, worked in academia and published research in peer reviewed journals. I’ve never used tex in anger, and I know anyone who could, could also figure out how to run two binaries with the same name in their environment.

Please, abandon your misdirected dogma, and do some fucking work.
I agree. A big missing link at my organization is a VCS that can make it easier to checkout and operate on only a subset of a large (many GBs) monorepo.

Unfortunately, microsoft had to move away from VFS for Git to some a more limited-in-scope approach: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
>He is still one of the most humble, inspiring, kind, and impactful leaders I have met, and I have been in a room with Elon Musk and his family.

Great story, but this anecdote confused me. Musk is one of the two least humble people I'm aware of, and I certainly wouldn't associate "kind" with him either.