skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Look at the gaming industry, [...] Micropayments are most definitely already a thing, and have been for a while.

They'll do whatever it can to make a penny in this cutthroat industry and especially on mobile, so losing a significant portion on transaction fees is better than nothing to them.

In other industries, it's better to maximize your transactions ROI and reduce them to a minimum, even if it means making the payment a bigger amount that covers a longer subscription period. They'll even offer a promotional rate if you take a yearly subscription instead of monthly.
> It was achieved at untold cost

This is just evidence of what we already know: our current society is unsustainable.

> will be paid by generations to come

I think you're pretty optimistic about how the future will develop given that we have not only just demonstrated our society is unsustainable, but that we are not capable of making serious progress towards a sustainable society.

Large portions of are planet are soon to become uninhabitable by humans. Major disruptions in our food supply are likely not that far off. The idea that we need to get back to "business as usual" means these things are all the more certain.
China's public plans include a semi-permanent base on the Moon. That oughta ruffle some feathers in Congress.

Chinese paper on plant-based life support systems for extended crew stays.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.12.426282v1
If I had known he was literally down the road from me I’d have tried to pay my respects earlier and didn’t catch this in local news at all. It’s not that bad here probably compared to 10 years ago, especially with the VRE train routes to DC and new stuff downtown.
Yeah, the Republican chief-executive of our red/purple county got the boot in 2018 by embracing Trump (despite Larry Hogan winning a decisive victory in the same election). The nationalization of the parties, driven by people attacking each other within the party, is damaging. Other Republicans attack Larry Hogan as a RINO. How could that possibly help the party? On the other side of the aisle, the people I know who wanted to kick Joe Manchin out of the party for compromising on abortion are dead silent now.

I get voting Republican is a non-starter in most blue places, but where are the good-governance Democrats? There are some—I’m thrilled Biden is trying to raise the profile of Keisha Lance Bottoms. There used to be more. Back when Virginia was a red state, we had solid good-governance Democrats like Chuck Robb.

I don’t like to blame the parties, because I think they’re just responding to their incentives. I think there are just so many other battles to fight fixing things and making them work well isn’t a boon for re-election.
https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg
I've seen plenty of chargers at malls and Walgreens and other areas. Usually it's a ChargePoint or blink app, which connects through your phone. One of the local malls subsidizes the electricity and charging is free.
Or.... The media companies just like to have the middle-of-the-road, dont-rock-the-boat-too-much parties who will kowtow to them and give the masses the ILUSION of political choice.
I imagine it's from a popular science fiction novel.
I've recently been on an Adam Curtis binge after watching HyperNormalisation and Century of the Self. I am very keen for this. There's something about his style that just sticks with you. Bonus points for watching while stoned.
Echoing the much-deserved praise you've received here, this is very nicely done. It embodies everything that's right with the web, and none of what isn't.

One small request: a persistent dark mode toggle would be a nice addition.
Like the last space race you just need the military to fund the research under the guise of civilian space exploration.
They are PE binaries... that don't have any actual code, only resources. And there is a flag used with LoadLibraryEx, available since at least Win95, LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE, that tells the system to not attempt to execute code in the file (if present).
Is there? I’ve used both iOS and Android, and pretty much all of my data, pictures, contacts, chat history, etc, sync to some cloud by default.

Perhaps privacy centric individuals who disable the built-in backup systems would have a hard time, but the typical user goes with the defaults most of the time.
I've yet to see a strong political movement on something that actually matters. Everything is half-assed and the major movements all fail. Look at Bernie, the Wall Street bailout, China buying out our mortgages, the war on: Iraq, Afghanistan. And these are just recent memory. The will of the American people has been long controlled. Now they only care what the oligarchs tell them to like unions, universal healthcare, living wages, parental leave, a free internet are either un-capitalistic or communistic.
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Lol, I don't think I can buy a latte for that low of a price anywhere in Switzerland.
Wow I feel like I'm back in 1995 or something. Stupid Intel doubling down on the Pentium! DEC, Sun, and Motorola RISC will extinct them!
I really like their approach and I paid for Flattr for quite a while when it started. But something big needs to push them to the critical adoption rate. On a number of very techy blog posts, I got... 0 from WebMonetization. And that's on best case audience (coming from HN and tech Reddit).
I tried to make the two sentences grammatically correct:

>He underscored that the air loss due to the crack a̶r̶e̶ is insignificant.

>In November, Russian cosmonauts photographed the suspected leak location on the outside of the ISS, but found no hull damage a̶t̶ where the crack is supposed to be.

These seem minor to me, compared with some horrific ad copy that I've seen, which mangled SVO order or used completely inappropriate terms. Articles and plurals are hard for non-native speakers whose mother tongue do not have them (not sure if Russian does or not), and prepositions require memorizing a large number of idioms.
https://blog.aawadia.dev/2021/01/06/upgrading-pg-10-to-12/ wrote a bit about it
Yes, but if you have regulatory requirements for a manual approval (as the parent comment of mine did), then that's the best you can do - everything is continuous except for the approval.
To me open-source fits neatly into Graeber’s idea of “basic communism”.

He notes that all people are basic communists, in the sense that if the need is great enough, and the cost of giving is small enough, all people recognise the correctness of communistic exchange.

Software is incredibly cheap to copy, share, and distribute, and once you’ve built it to solve your problem it can equally serve as a solution to the problems of others. It’s non-exclusionary.

There’s also the sense that open-source software is publicly owned, which is a key feature of socialist societies.
low attenuation fiber optic cables?

https://madeinspace.us/capabilities-and-technology/fiber-opt...

(similar to, but not the same as, zero attenuation fiber optic from the fictional book Artemis by Andy Weir)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_(novel)
"BritBox" is the "iPlayer for the world", but it's not the same content. https://www.britbox.com/
Where I work in Oxford (UK) they have started trialling this approach and seems to be working
This. Thank you for bringing this up. My take:

Thermo-industrial consumer societies don’t need to change. Rather, as you said, we need a system change. We need to swap our current model for something else. The outcome should (and will) be different from a thermo-industrial society — it will be another society altogether. What sort exactly I don’t know yet. But « a systemic problem can only be approached by systemic solutions » seems like a reasonable assumption to make. :)

If we don’t do it ourselves, then the currently overstretched Earth system will just regulate itself, causing pain and suffering. COVID might just be an appetizer of what lies ahead if we don’t realize old ways (more technology, keep the economy growing at all costs, etc, ie things that demand more or too energy or impede resiliency) are very likely to fail the test.

I like how you mentioned the Club of Rome’s report because it was an early work that goes beyond the scope of IPCC (whose role is limited to climate change, which to be clear has a ton of merits in its own right) and presents the problem for what it is: a systemic problem that is riddled with feedback loops and that has deep ties with the roots of our society model as it developed over the 20th century.

I don’t like the idea of a systemic change. It’s uncomfortable, and at first it sounds ludicrous. But if we’re serious and dig into the topic with a critical eye towards our own mental models, that’s a conclusion we reach very soon.
I loved her later works (B5 and Lost), but I will always remember Mira most for Smogovci and other roles when she was much younger. Rest in peace.
I'd probably consider it if it was faster and lighter on resources.
Nah, you can live very comfortably in SFBA on that even now. You’re not going to own the big house in the suburbs or the penthouse apartment, but you’ll still be better off than most people, can have a nice car, go out when you like, have nice clothes and lots of books, etc.
I can only guess that it would be much harder to accomplish than one would imagine. Definitely want a padded room so you dont bang your head, or other parts slamming into sharp objects.
I find it obnoxious that they didn't do this in reaction to the A&A Act.
> I have a theory that there's a constant level of happiness and misery that we experience in most normal situations that really has more to do with who we are than our situation.

This has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
not high paid at all, but delivery jobs are very low stress, at least for uber eats, doordash. I suspect fedex or ups are more stressful as those are always going 45 in a 25.
Now they could commandeer a few Starlink satellites :)
> I eat meat, but if I had to butcher my own meat I'd go vegetarian.

I don't mean to be impolite or judgmental, but I'm wondering if can you share a bit more about how you're able to justify it when someone else is doing the dirty work? I too eat meat, and part of my desire to learn to hunt is to experience the full effect of it, from stalk, to kill, to cleaning, to plate. I've never cleaned anything larger than a redfish, but it's something I'm intensely curious about.
I suppose, although in those cases it seems to be the company collaborating with intelligence agencies rather than having one of their employees forced to go rogue.
Is Finmark able to handle e-commerce companies with both retail / online units, labor attribution, four-wall analysis, etc?
I have never read any serious research that proposes what you are proposing: that climate mitigation is going to cost more than the consequences of failing to mitigate it.

We're on the path to a 4C world by something like 2100. An increase by that much might possibly wipe out the species. If it fall short of that forecast the damage will be far greater.

Not to mention that pandemic shares the same root cause as climate change. Destroying our ecosystem has increased the incident of zoonotic spillover. We'll see more pandemics as we continue on this path. And the costs of these are not separate from the costs of climate change.
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A Primer on How to Work with the Usenet Community (1984)
To me, it's just so odd that people don't seem to understand why we have an ISS. Is the main argument "We've already learned what's needed about life in space, and now we don't need a space station anymore"? That seems absurd.
What the actual...

> Eurasian Lynx is so endangered in UK that is in fact locally extinct. You can't be more endangered than that.

Eurasian Lynx is listed as “Least Concern”. That there aren’t any in Scotland has no bearing on this. This is a bewildering comment.

> Aggressive is relative ... some crap about zebras

It will be _the_ apex predator in the UK. It can bring down a deer. Wild comparisons to Africa and pack animals are bizarre when taking about introducing a new apex predator to a country that hasn’t had a predator of its size or power in centuries.

> some shit about deer

If deer are truly a problem, it turns out they’re pretty easy to shoot, some people enjoy it, and there’s money to be made from dead deer. You could introduce a new disruptive predator, sure. You could also poison the water source, but it’s also a freakin’ terrible solution to a problem with a much simpler solution.
OK, now you just solved a mystery to me
Adoption of nuclear power akin to France, and electrification of transportation (both road and rail) solves most of it.

There's some additional work for things like replacing steam reformation with electrolysis or thermochemical hydrogen production. Decarbonization of air and sea transportation presents a bigger challenge but it's not unsolvable.
Electron is the culprit
I use PuTTY because I'm used to it, and I use a ed25519 key with it without any issues.
I moved there in 1992 from Warrenton, predictably due to misfortune. Couldn't get out of Bobbitt-Land fast enough. Glad it's improved.

Do city cops there still obsess over teen boy genitals? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140709/07330027823/prose...
Because the scientific value is dubious. Most of the experiments tend to be "doing X, but in space" or looking for solutions to medical problems that only occur because you are on the ISS on the first place.
Page faults are the very slow thing. When you boot, your cache is gonna start empty. Maybe it will run faster after it has been running a while. If you have a pretty stable linux machine, you might only re-boot once or twice in a pandemic.

This situation may eventually be improved by some more secure run-time environment(?s) that somehow eliminate the need for hardware to mother hen so many memory accesses, but we might not be so happy to work under such a regime either.
Social media gives tribes a battlefield to fight on and it gives them something to win. At first it was Clicks, Likes, Hearts. Then they figured out how to turn those things into money, and money begets power.

We're not going to find a way to punish a bad actor because the cost of risking the tribe is too great.
That’s not true. In a number of countries they extensively use Hydroxychloroquine which is anti malaria drug and super important especially in Africa. Indian government is very open in using it for covid-19: https://www.newsweek.com/india-promotes-hydroxychloroquine-d... As well as many African countries: https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/djibouti-treating-... https://www.theafricareport.com/26726/coronavirus-recovery-r...
can provide more sources if requested (or just google it)...
The trouble that React has to deal with is that JavaScript lacks good built-in support for pure functions and immutable data. Hooks are an opinionated way to make React work more like FP, and there are still gotchas because of JS’s lack of enforcement.

“Advantageous” does not necessarily mean “easier to learn.” I’d say that for people coming from OOP, FP style is certainly unfamiliar and takes more getting used to. But for a front-end program that must always receive/send data to hand wave some other systems in order to do anything useful, it makes things much, much simpler. A whole class of problems disappears. The closer it gets to (state) => UI the easier it is to reason about and debug.

I still think that Reagent, the Clojurescript wrapper for React, is the best version of React available. All of the state management is handled by CLJS itself, and the language design prevents accidental mutation. You can still mutate things where appropriate, but it is always an intentional choice. A framework like re-frame takes this even further, with similar ideas as Redux but with better language support for and enforcement of the paradigm.
I thought sheep were the culprit here.
For comparison, Windows 98 dark theme:

https://i.imgur.com/jVM9dUA.png
Less land and water, but what about energy? It's extremely foolish and naive to waste the power of the sun.

Solar panels lead to lots of tech trash, e-waste which destroys the environment. Not to mention the buildings themselves and all the electronics required to keep such a farm running.

This kind of over-engineering will simply never work without a fundamental re-understanding of how our world works. It's just such a waste of resources. The "Mercedes" model. Make a really nice car for the first 50k miles, then sell it for $5,000 because each successive year of maintenance costs more than the car is worth.
The title is not really accurate. They shut down the Facebook page for the party, not the party itself. Important distinction.
How about reaching a dying father a few hours faster? A middle class person might judge the extra $5-10k (from savings) worth it.

If SpaceX/energy company deploys a new nuclear power plant (and one day fusion) to provide the energy, why should you care? It's a new energy source and not competing away your personal idea of worthwhile energy use.
Setup a gateway to do this or host your own GitLab. GitHub Pages uses a shared IP. Blocking based on IP would require them to rework their infrastructure.
I second all of these comments. I was on the same team with him (Hi Prabhat, this is Paul D.) and concur that swizzling is a very powerful mechanism. It's definitely a good thing to know about if you're working with Objective-C.
Ask HN: How do I over ageism in tech?
I live and have worked in silicon valley, but have been unemployed since March 2020. I had a few consulting gigs here and there but nothing that pays enough to sustain life here. I have two kids who live in the area with their mother, otherwise I'd move away.

My problem is even with 25 years experience ( removed the first 15 from my resume)...I keep getting denied offers. I work with js for 10 years now, used all the modern frameworks. I don't know what else to do. It seems all the bootcamps have flooded the js market with younger people.

I know I should be a staff or architect by now, but those positions rarely exist from what I've seen for FE. Also I am self taught so when I get the FAANG style "hard core" coding challenges I usually screw up. But even when someone talks to me on the phone they pass. Not even a tech screen.

Today I just got passed up saying they wanted someone with more experience working on teams. smh

I'm 46 btw, and am thinking of a career switch. What career should I persue?
This can be seen when installing an old OS for example. This is as controlled situation as you can get - no background tasks, bare metal operation. Installing XP and updating it to SP2 took half an hour or so. Doing exactly the same thing on a system produced 10 years later... takes a comparable amount of time (slightly improved by SSD write speed)
Where does tylenol fit?
Because cars still have externalities, electrified or not. One just hopes that also increased thee gas tax too so as not to subsidize the ICE cars.
Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?
Have we invented a material that is resistant to these thermal cycles indefinitely, or at least within a range of temperatures of several thousand degrees? I'm never going to have my own Star Destroyer if we continue to use subpar materials.
USSR (well within living memory!) generally preferred to starve its slaves. Prisoners-of-war released back to Russia after WWII were sent to the GULags as deserters -- because how did they survive, without collaborating?

One of Socrates's rants on record is deriding an argument that negligence causing your slave to die should be a crime.
Same for journalist the otherside is jailing. E.g. Julian Assange.
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> Yes redundantly encoding type everywhere in your id will be easier for a specific kind of bug yet you're adding that overhead all the time in both your db mapper and extra bytes everywhere.

I can safe the extra bytes by just removing the '-' from the uuids and using the more compact enconding (base what ever). And at the same time I'll safe countless of debugging hours, because everybody is aligned what kind of ids we are talking about.

> Or we are getting reports of invalid order ID let me run a scan across db's and see if its valid anywhere, oh hey it shows up in persons somebody mixed them up somewhere or no it's just invalid somebody messed up in some other way.

Because you have access to all the DBs and you can easily write a query over all your dbs. That is the naturally assumed.
That may be so, but that doesnt make it any less depressing. Some things cant be run parallel. I cant mail a letter until it is written.
"I have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke" (You can probably guess who tweeted that a while back...)
"Should" is a moral of value judgement but you provide no argument for it.

You could just as easily say: "People aren't pushing themselves anywhere close to their limits. If you look at the extremely obese who eat jars of mayo in one sitting or consume tens of thousands of calories a day it's evident that human limits are far higher than what the average person is willing to endure. For the average person they should probably be eating way more."

What is so intrinsically good about reaching one's limits?
If not being able to use other people’s content for free breaks their business model then maybe the business model is indeed a problem.
> Whose opinions are those? You need to take a lot of decisions.

Making those sorts of decisions is supposed to be what the architect does. It sounds like the author did not do so.
> If you put a human in a room where loud noises are going off, you’ll activate their stress response. If you give the human a button to reduce the volume of the loud noises they’ll be less stressed—regardless of whether they even use the button.

And if you put a person in a large room with no sound dampening, many people eating chips and typing, and no way to escape it while you try and solve programming problems, you'll go crazy.
> ...including permanently higher borrowing costs that will exact a heavy price from future generations ...

Seems unlikely. Nobody makes reference to poor behaviour by someone's father's father when deciding to lend.

And it is already embarrassingly obvious that the US isn't actually going to pay their debts back. The people taking on the loans at the moment have hopefully accounted for that.

Is all this debt bad? Yes. Will it affect the prospects of future generations? Only if it spirals into a war and something spills over into the physical world destructively.
I think they probably could get by with an ipad pro but they could do the same thing on a chromebook for a fraction of the price. The ipad pro is only really worth it if you need the pencil.
I used usenet back in the 90s when I was in college. Good times. I just the other day switched from Gmail to ProtonMail/Thunderbird and saw they still have their news reader working. I signed up for an account $20/year at vipernews.com and am now chatting with people in usenet.

Lot less traffic now then back in the day but it brings back memories.
This plague of object wiring in code is pervasive in the Java world as well. The joy of declarative late binding and decoupled objects at compile time seems to be very lost on the vast majority of programmers.