skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider moving the 'LIFE IS' before the last word to make it 'LIFE IS DEATH'.
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Auto suspend on lid close / open is probably the most important feature I can imagine on a laptop.

And people actually expect Linux to win over the desktop crowd when it can’t support even the most basic features consumers expect.
I am breathlessly awaiting MC and VISA to dump Facebook, Instagram and Reddit.

The amount of sex trafficing content there makes pornhub look like a church going virgin.
Are you worried at all about sites abusing the transparency to rank higher, given they would know what to focus on to do so?
I think the overwhelming majority of people who make claims like that are just full of hot air. If the shooting ever started, they'd be hiding indoors with the rest of us. This is one of the reasons I think the scenarios they propose is unlikely. This is nothing new of course, there have always been people willing to talk about extreme grandiose nonsense they'll never do. These people aren't hard to find if you go looking, making it easy for the media to broadcast their prattling to scare everybody else shitless. Scared, people stay tuned during the commercial break to hear the latest up to date news about what horrible things are surely imminent.

A few months ago I had a few friends of either political persuasion telling me there would be a revolution or coup the day after the election. That didn't happen, and I think most are starting to realize it won't happen. By this time next year, when Biden's presidency is well underway, I think many of the people feeling very concerned today will feel foolish in retrospect.
>I don’t think there’s an easy fix for this, and that makes me sad.

I mean, the fix is really straightforward. You prevent the burbs from siphoning tax dollars off the host city they surround so that the high cost of sprawl is placed on them, rather than poorer city-center districts.

Then, you emulate the community and land-use strategies of areas in which the eldest are least displaced. One of the key features of global blue zones is the inclusion of elders in society.

This means opening up a lot of zoning space to mixed medium density residential/commercial zones and designating very generous volumes of family-sized units in high and medium density developments to restrict the optimization of development projects into tiny bachelor accommodation units and ultra-spacious penthouses.
In short, make medium density housing in walkable communities and stop transferring wealth away from those communities.
We have less COVID deaths because of lockdowns and other mitigations so it’s a bit strange to compare the numbers like that.

It’s a bit like arguing against seatbelts because of the current car accident fatality rate.
> noticed stuff being blocked by the left (1st amendment)

Like? (And before you answer, remember that the 1st amendment applies to businesses, too.)

> going after firearm ownership (2nd amendment)

When has either political party "gone after firearm ownership" in any way?

> and a constant attack on all conservatives & their ideals / objectives

That's because their ideals include: - Take away other people's basic rights - Enforce their version of Christianity on everyone - Encourage murder and vigilantism - Overthrow the government
I don’t have know if I have mixed feelings or if I am neutral. I have long rallied against population explosion but I seldom come face to face(online here, as it were) with someone with an actual large family with the same set of parents.

For context: my father was my grandmother’s 14th child at the age of 48. She died at the ripe old age of 93 or 95. I am aware of both the joys a large family can bring as well as the toll it takes on not just the family but also the lion’s share of community resources..that are really meant to be the commons ..that it consumes.

Our family is now spread all over the world. Because most families were similar to mine, it got too too crowded in India. You have to understand that this story began 60-100 years before you started having kids. And India is a lot older than America. So I have the advantage of being IN your preview. A resource crunch can only be resolved by a search for more resources. If the large family was a blessing, it also became the seed of its own destruction.

If you notice..in the USA and on other affluent nations that attract a lot of immigrants, the majority are from countries with a large expanding population. Large families that become more and more unsustainable with each generation. The outflow is due to resources being stretched thinner and thinner.

If in Florida, you are an anomaly, you have hacked the system by capturing more from the commons where others maintain smaller families. But if everyone followed your example, then it would be detrimental.

If you live in a sparsely populated location with sufficient resources and live responsibly to renew most of what can be renewed, then there is a plan. But the country and govt doesn’t have any such plan and if secluded pockets with higher birth rates start running out of resources, they will have to spread out. And the rate of consumption will increase exponentially if their ground resources are already thin(which it’s likely to be)

Because we can’t turn back time, I guess my question to you is if you encourage others to be like you or dissuade them? Alternatively, how do you envision the world if everyone emulated you because it sounds appealing?
Firefox is not the default browser on mobile OSs. 99% of users don’t change the default. Most people don’t know that this is possible, desirable, or an issue.
The claim by the left about 2016 is that there was foreign influence (and potential illegal collusion) in the election. There are fringe elements who claim that there was direct modification of votes, but the mainstream accusations are and were limited to things like advertisement targeting, funding, and potentially sharing of information between foreign actors and campaigns etc.

The mainstream claim by the right in 2020 is that there was widespread voter or election fraud (e.g. people voting multiple times, or people's votes being changed or vote counters not counting votes for a candidate).

There's a reasonable amount of evidence to support the assertions in 2016, including official government sources. There's reasonable amounts of evidence to conclude that many of the same tactics in 2016 were tried in 2020, including official government statements, but may have been less effective (due to awareness by the government, and policy changes by companies like Facebook and Google), and a lack of things like the DNC hack to make a big splash.

There's was no evidence of widespread voter or election fraud in 2016 or in 2020.
Just goto page 2 and add 1 in front of 2 in the url.
Are you talking specifically about cash transactions? Because ebay collects sales tax now.
It's an industry, not a conspiracy.
Sadly the old "It Crept From The Bins" site (a sidebar to the Phoenix New Times page "Jesus Of The Week") seems to be gone, even from the Wayback Machine. They were doing satire and parodies of album art going back to the early 1990s web, and their work was hysterically funny.

Wayback has some snippets of the Jesus Of The Week stuff that caused plenty of exploded heads amongst devout Christians who missed the entire point of the site, which was to hilariously and savagely critique modern artifacts bearing images of Jesus and not that personage.
Ha np. Did you use those to look for full time work or freelance jobs?
Exactly - with inertia, or maybe oblivious. I think it's just a little discombobulating to read about a program I spend so much time using myself being used in ways quite far away from what I know about.

That's a good thing I'm sure; it makes sense that a super-configurable extensible application should be super-configured and extended. But it's a little odd to imagine, perhaps, saying "oh this is Emacs? great" and then finding that you don't actually know how to work it.
Most people in the past had kids because life sucked. We gained from having extra hands on the farm. More kids were better in a world with a relatively high mortality rate.

Your kid doesn't have to live in a utopia to be worth making.
I'm not sure what you're thinking of when you say a "societal reset". I've heard of this as debt forgiveness. No other property is interfered with. I believe it acts as a limit on how carried away, or long term entrenched, a society can get with debt.
I remember using IRC chans when doing coursera moocs, it was fun. See ya there
>meet them where they are.

That's the problem. This is why inclusive laws are so important. We don't have many now, and they're under constant threat.

People in the democratic party are beginning to come to terms with the fact they've had a cancerous brand issue since Bill Clinton, which Hillary further damaged. I don't know what to say of the Republican party who've fallen into lockstep with trumps criminal behavior.

Either we live in a country with laws and punishments for the criminals or we don't. Trump's made it unequivocally clear, on the world stage, that our law enforcement is prohibited from doing much besides abuse the human rights of immigrants (to his bases celebrations no less), round up junkies or put the occasional symbolic head on a spike. In a situation like this I don't believe it's going to be rational discourse that solves these problems. While I'd love to sit down and have rational conversations about politics with people from the other side, I'm afraid that many people are incapable of admitting that they're wrong, at least not before they've tried everything else. It's a movie trope and a saying for a reason.
My friend had her whole house ruined with everything stolen (and then only received a fraction of the cost back because of bad record keeping). I don't think she'll be recommending hosting to anyone.
Elon isn't taking their market share. He's banking on the future and stealing their market cap. What people are missing is that every car company is a fast follower and Elon's head start and subsequent lead is disappearing as Porsche (VW) and others are stealing the limelight and performance ranks. Similar to Apple, Elon is thinking in terms of profitability and long-term strategy and wants to focus on taking that over all else.
I wonder what you define as heavy usage for AirPods. I have 2 pairs, one of which is the first generation and I use only for running. I run almost every day for around an hour. I've had them for around 2 years, probably a bit longer. They still last more than 3 hours per charge. Maybe even 4. Are you using them for 4+ hours a day? Also, is there a way to interrogate them to see how many hours of usage they have or what the remaining battery life is?

Edit: I've had a much tougher time with the Apple Watch I pair with the AirPods while I run. My first one only lasted about 1.5 years before its battery became unusable for running.
Even crude metrics can be useful as a signal to focus attention on a potential problem area. At that point more complex heuristics can be applied.
That is missing the point of my comment. I didn't say that no experimental technology exists. I said that no technology exists where we can point to a chart from which we can conclude that the technology will be ready and economical in a certain number of years if trends continue.
> We took jobs outside the finance industry!

Yup, that's exactly the problem
I like that Amazon says, "People also buy 'Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt' when buying this product." AI recommendation fail.
I believe the “we are at war with COVID” mentality is what Vietnam went with, so yes I think it could have worked here too!
Gotta love the "Customers also viewed these products" section on that page, for example:

"Salt Block Grilling: 70 Recipes for Outdoor Cooking with Himalayan Salt Blocks"
Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters
I'm interested. I'm writing a compiler-interpreter now but my broad compiler-construction chops are spotty and going through this systematically might be useful.
This comment is baffling...

If I get it right, it's saying that Linux is intentionally bad at shutdown / hibernation because that's how its users want it. And users want it because they are better users than other users: they are "professionals", whose computers never sleep.

So, if you are using an OS that actually works as expected, that's just proof that you're an amateur.

(and let's ignore the mention of the lid being closed. Because that would be devastating to this argument)
You can use the expired code by resetting your computer’s clock to the date and time right after the original purchase supposedly.

I haven’t been able to test this because my Nova code was a gift and I have no idea when it was purchased, but if you have the original email with the registration code it’s a possible solution.
Which supports the hypothesis that many people who don't need to be working nevertheless are.
Frankly, I'm not sure how the survey design could have been improved. You can interpret the results as is. The data collector is not trying to generalize to the population of all Emacs users.
That is the future merged company :-)
You need an oxydizer whatever it is. Oxygen is only one oxidizer. Chlorine, fluorine and the other halogens are oxidizers too.
He also confounds costs with prices.

Costs are not a significant factor in the prices of market goods - that is dominated by supply and demand.
If you were to truly believe fraud and impropriety occurred in the election you could rephrase your comment like this.

One faction actively did everything they could to undermine an election through fraud and impropriety, everyone else didn’t.

That is the divide.

This is what gp is talking about, both sides believing they are righteously just while they consume media in their bubbles.
Not everyone who has a job is doing all that much work. Even within a particular company you can have too many people and not enough work.

Of course, one could always create their own work by looking for opportunities to create value for their employer, but IMO it's rarely incentivized.
There is no coup, just some sore losers who aren't going to do shit except get laughed at by a few judges.
I am 100% certain that your 10 year old laptop uses at least two orders of magnitude more power to achieve that.

I'm also not quite sure about the capabilities. A 2014 $150 entry-level phone like the Motorola MotoG G4 has eMMC controller, SD-card interface, two separate camera systems, WiFi, BT, 4G modem, GNSS (GPS/Beidu/GLONASS), USB 2.0 (client), USB OTG (host), accelerometer, gyro, proximity sensor, compass, FM-radio plus the usual stuff (DRAM controller, GPU, audio subsystem, battery controller, etc.).

That's a lot of components that the OS needs to initialise and load drivers for on boot. And all that needs to happen on 1 GB 533MHz LPDDR2 RAM and 4 Cortex A7 cores at 1.2 GHz.

Just to give a point of reference: that's less computing power than a $35 Raspberry Pi 4 and significantly slower memory and storage.

A 10 year old laptop would likely feature a dual core Intel Core i3, i5, or Core i7 with 35W up to 75W TDP clocked at between 2.5GHz and 2.9GHz, dual channel DDR3 memory running at ~530MHz with a 4x multipler (i.e. 2133MHz effective vs 1066MHz on the phone) and your BIOS is most likely set to "fast boot", meaning it'll skip 90% of the hardware initialisation anyway. I also doubt your 10 year old laptop would last that long on a 2070 mAh battery (my own 9 year old model has a ~44000 mAh battery - just for reference).

TL;DR yes, even a vintage muscle car is still faster at 0-100 (or 0-60 if you prefer) than a 5 year old compact car. That shouldn't come as a surprise if you compare the specs.
> I was thinking of specialists within the same specialty disagreeing.

That's a thing too, which I was trying to get at with my comment about fringe specialists. But it's not like every specialty is homogeneous (especially true in something like economics), so decision makers may need to choose between one camp or another of some specialty.

The thing I was arguing against was the now prevalent behavior of dismissing any specialist view that contradicts what you would have done in the first place. Common people should have a say in a democracy, but if that democracy is going to function, those common people need to understand the limits of their knowledge and understanding, which means they need to respect the knowledge and understanding of specialists.

I want to go back to something I forgot to respond to earlier:

>>> A translation of what I expressed above is that common people have common sense and that common sense inoculates us from misinformation. It’s an imperfect response, but effective.

I used to think that too, but I think that's turning out to be far, far less true than anyone would have hoped. That's proven by how prevalent and influential misinformation and disinformation have shown to be. For instance, by the support of totally baseless claims of election fraud by an alarming fraction of Republican party officials [1], which in my view is substantially driven by the influence those claims have on the Republican party base. I say that as someone who's leaned to the right for the past 20 years.

[1] See: "17 Republican Attorneys General Back Trump in Far-Fetched Election Lawsuit" (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/trump-texas-s...) "Two reasons the Texas election case is faulty: flawed legal theory and statistical fallacy." (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/technology/texas-election...)
...what?

The 2015's were incredibly solid machines, I've never heard of an issue like this happening. I still daily my 2015MBP and the thing is an absolute tank where everything just works.

I would literally bet money that your issue is hardware, not software.

Edit: I realize now that this comment could be referring to running Linux on a 2015 MBP, in which case I'm a moron and we can just disregard my comment.
About ~10% of AirBnbs shares were offered in the IPO. So only the shares sold in the IPO "left anything on the table". The other 90% of shareholders still have the option of selling at the higher market price.

Who's the say this wasn't the intended effect - the benefit to the valuation of the 90% of shares still being held is greater than the opportunity cost of the 10% shares sold in the initial IPO?
The only thing in my job that I'm passionate about is my paycheck.

I leave my passion for when I log off the VPN.
> To the best of my understanding, one of the main reason that MSRs have not gone to market is that the salts are so corrosive that containment over the long term is not currently possible.

I've wondered why "long-term" is such a huge criteria. One of the biggest nuclear issues today is using them way past their lifespan because they are so expensive to build.

Let's assume molten-salt is cheaper to build and less dangerous (from a radioactivity point of view). Why not make expendable designs? Make them smaller so the building requirements are easier. Make them easy to remove and replace. Ease up on the restrictions a bit so they can be replaced every 5-10 years instead of decades.

Long-term mass production has tons of advantages. Costs per unit decrease. Defects per unit decrease (this is part of cost per unit usually, but not if a defect gets through inspection). Recycling used units should radically decrease material costs when getting close to peak reactor count (chain of custody paperwork from mine to installation in the nuclear plant is why an otherwise $0.15 screw winds up costing $50-100). Constant employment will build experience over many years and further decrease errors. Once the site design is finalized and enforced, the reactor design can be gradually improved and given the short lifespan, efficiency will increase a minimum of every decade. Likewise, design mistakes (once caught) will only be around a decade at most instead of a half-century like we see today.
The former. People being able to afford more expensive things than I doesn't bother me. Irresponsible/uninformed/ignorant/wasteful consumption bother me, no matter the price bracket.

Especially in a situation as ridiculous as this one, where the alternatives are better in nearly every aspect that matters (except the logo).
The idea of a debt jubilee does not wipe out corporations, it wipes out current outstanding debts only. The idea would be that nobody would loan corporations so much money that they wouldn't be able to pay it back before the debt is wiped out.

Something like that could counter a lot of financial games that are played to the detriment of so many, which is why some societies had things like dept jubilees.
> but up against a company that's been making really good stuff for 40+ years, I'm skeptical.

IPhone was up against some groups with decades of making phones. Tesla is up against companies with literally a century of experience. SpaceX is up against companies that have made rockets for decades. Etc etc etc. I am surprised anyone on HN would be skeptical that a company with billions of dollars of cash at its disposal and world class engineering talent could do a passable job here all because an incumbent has experience. Also, are you suggesting that experience of one set of engineers with mastery of obsolete technologies 40 years ago is somehow a gate that a current company needs to pass through and excel at before they can compete with that company’s current engineers on current technology?
Academia isn’t snuffing anything out.

1) American school education, and college education is amazing. ( if you can afford it). Talk to immigrant parents From other countries for a contra point. Crushing the soul of students isn’t fully installed in America, yet (which brings us to point 2)

2) It’s the economy. At some point, the American economy stopped working as well for blue collar roles as paths to middle class incomes.

The new path required white collar credibility. Humans naturally optimized for this. Which brings us to The fundamental conflict for American education, that gets distorted depending on how you enter the discussion.

3) the American liberal arts system, produced great intellectual output, for an economy where you could pursue both intellectual limits and get a decent paying job. The number of people entering were small, and you could lavish your attention on those pursuits.

It does not work for a majority of America customers/students who simply want credibility when it comes to entering paths to social mobility, and are not interested in a life of intellectual pursuit.

Look, colleges and schools have different problems, but for businesses, a degree has become the basic filter, where it was never meant to be.

Moocs simply don’t have the credibility to fill in the gap, and you can’t make a github or deviantart for roles which don’t have a standardized output.
> even if they mumbled about 'not my President'

more like shouted it at the top of their lungs for 4 years straight

> I would love for you to provide citations and references for your claims that people questioned the validity of the 2016 election

> there was no one claiming that the election was stolen.

I mean, I lived the 2016 election I remember the response of my left leaning friends, and some of them absolutely believed the election was rigged. Some quick googling can dig up lots of articles from 2016:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hillary-clinton-sugg...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/12/16/t...

https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/2016-presidentia...
Slippi is _amazing_. And as a fan, I'm obligated to point out that it was just one heroic developer: Fizzi. Fizzi made Melee playable at IRL speeds over an internet connection, completely coincidentally, just before Covid.