skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve not seen the word “craft” enough in the comments. You imply it, thanks.
Which incident are you referencing here?
My mom gave me a VHS for my birthday. Wall-E 2.

lol. the sequel....on VHS.
Because dependencies are not perfectly managed / versioned. When you release the end product app, you have 3 options:

- assume that your published version compatibility is correct and let the app fail for some library upgrade in the future

- publish a strict list of dependency versions and keep updating it

- publish a strict list of dependency versions and rely on old versions as long as possible

The first one results in unhappy users, second one in lack of distro packages because you rely on too recent deps, third one either in lack of distro packages because of too old deps or in unhappy users because deps don't work on their new system anymore. There's no way to satisfy everyone unless distributions themselves become aware of multiple levels of package management.
> The aircraft returned to Denver for a safe landing on runway 26 about 23 minutes after departure. The aircraft stopped on the runway for a check by emergency services. Emergency services advised of an active fire within the right hand engine and extinguished the fire a few minutes later.
Recently, I read an article -- Why 'Accidental Americans' Are Desperate to Give Up Their U.S. Citizenship -- https://time.com/5922972/accidental-americans-fatca/
Apple also tends to prefer pushing their users to their closed software ecosystem. Given the likely low demand for passthrough on these devices, I kind of doubt they'll implement it in the foreseeable future.
Neat! Just a note — Germans can have dual citizenship, which doesn't seem to match up with your classification.
Yep, there's an API and import/export.
Does anyone regret going back for another degree in CS?
I have an unrelated degree, BSc Econ, and I love the programming (R, SQL) side of my job as a data analyst. For personal reasons, I'd like to remain working in the public sector, so I can't really transition to a dev role internally without the credential. Data engineer roles don't seem to exist here either. Have to make a decision of whether to resume a second bachelor's in CS in September, or give it up entirely. Can't do part time studies, got an A- in Gregor Kiczales' CPSC 110 course at UBC based on HtDP, which was GREAT, but too stressful while working full time. I'm in my late 20s.

I was spending some time learning Unix on OpenBSD, as well as Vim and Python, and enjoying it. But I can't help feeling I'm wasting my time without the piece of paper, if my goal is to be able to spend my days building software - even if it were maintaining some old crusty old system in Java, I think I'd enjoy it more. And the time I'm spending on that means I'm not spending it on keeping up my skills for my data analyst role, like brushing up on ML (though I'm not really interested in this..) etc.

The problem is, the opportunity cost of going back is hard to stomach. Giving up a decent salary, paying tuition, moving away (3 hrs away or so) from family members after being away from them for so long, it all seems so costly that I'll regret it. However, if I don't go through with it, I think I'd regret that too - that I didn't take the chance to be doing something else for the next 30+ yrs that I'd enjoy more.

So, I could use some advice on a way forward. Is being an excellent dev even feasible if it isn't your day job? And if anyone has gone through something similar, I'd love to hear how it went for you - did you regret going back to school, or not, and why?

For anyone who reads this, thank you for your time.
Yeah I don't know why anyone would choose Quebec if they aren't already fluent in French.
Fix the first bug first. The second bug might be fixed by the first.
I just did this summer. I am raising my granddaughter right now. (Son got sucked into meth, and yeah. Nuff said.)

I am having fun showing her tech. She is 5 and uses touch and buttons well. A family down the road had basically a full kids movie and Disney collection for $20. 50 some odd tapes in respectable condition.

Total steal, and modern sets display the VHS surprisingly well. Seems at least some of the processing helps. Kind of unexpected, but welcome. Totally watchable. I remember it being worse not too long ago.

She loves the VCR. The media is big. She can handle it. Hearing all the little noises and watching it take the tape, or give it back seems interesting to her, and the first time was hilarious!

"Papa, papa, it gave the movie back to me! Do I say thank you? Is it all done now?"

"Yeah baby, put it in the box and you can start another one."

"I don't like rewind" (lol, who does kiddo?)

Another family member has a couple real little ones. When mine moves past this experience, I will take it to them to enjoy.

Overall, a nice 4 head player delivers. (Got that for a song at a yard sale same weekend)

We have some nostalgia associated with many movies first seen on VHS. In my view, VHS looks best on a great analog CRT, but does not look bad on our rando Roku, kid room TV.

I can certainly understand people seeking out titles they can't get otherwise. The whole thing remains enjoyable enough.
The people who are getting these huge bills are the same people who have been benefitting for years from the cheap wholesale prices.

So basically, they have been living with no insurance, and now that they have hit some serious price volatility, they can't afford it.

I'm not sure the best solution for this, but I don't think it should be for the state to just step in and absolve everyone involved.

Obviously, the practice of wholesale billing has to be regulated more strictly. I get the free market intention behind it. Users will be more likely to limit their usage when prices increase. But the problem is that in cases like these winter storms, electricity can mean life or death.

You can't have a truly free market unless we are willing to let people die if they don't have the money.

It's the same reason totally free markets break down with healthcare. If someone chooses not to buy insurance, we are not the kind of country that will turn them away at the hospital and let them die. And if you aren't willing to do that, then that is not a free market.
Thanks for the reminding
As I was reading that I was going through the implementation in my head, totally doable in current tech
The only bio research done after 1969 anyhwere in the US was to find cures, treatments, and the like which is in the link you provided.
It's always an issue of externalizing costs. Everyone wants to do what benefits them in the short term, and have the environment maintained and supported by someone else.

A: Hey, let's build this cool graphical UI and add lots of features to our car.

B: And the cost of maintaining that OS, libs, dependencies for the next 15 years will be paid by whom, exactly?

A: Naw, we'll support for one year only. Maybe two.

B: And when there is a software vuln found in a 10 year old version that would allow an attacker to disable the steering and breaks while the car is moving, you wont issue a recall?

A: recall? This is software! Everything is provided without warranty or fitness of use, haven't you read the EULA? It's in ALL CAPS
Will that actually work?
Opium (as well as many other addictive drugs) are illegal in nearly every country on the planet, so I have a very difficult time pinning this policy decision on racism.
M17 sounds cool, but as near as I can tell you cant just buy some hardware for it. Its still a plug your PC into a generic radio technology (which is fine, but some people just want to spend the money to get a working all in one solution).
It’s not that we’ve done all the on ground science. It’s that we’ve done the simple stuff that you can do given the conditions. Staying longer and doing more complex science are harder engineering problems.

And I’m not saying it’s not worth it... it is. It’s just sometimes learning before you leap is valuable.

Let’s say we spend $3 billion on a Venus lander, and it survives 12 hours. Compare that to just the engineering knowledge that was gained from the Curiosity rovers for the same price operating for 5 years.

On top of which, humans stepping foot on another planet has incredible value in motivating all of humanity to do something greater. That’s certain to happen on Mars first.

Of course I’d love if we did it all together... but you all have to keep calling your Senators to make that happen. :)
Niklaus Wirth was annoyed that no recent computers had drivers for his favorite mouse (a gift from his sabbatical at Xerox), so instead of writing a driver, he built a new computer system (CPU architecture on up) that would talk to it...
I’m surprised your OOP was that high with “good benefits”.

I work outside of tech for a Fortune 500 and my premiums are $1200 per year with a max OOP of $2500.

Unless a plan is grandfathered in, the ACA limits OOP to ~$9k per year.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...
For anyone still playing Alpha 23 be sure to try my Aye Pirates mod. Further updates are still planned through the rest of this year.
> leaving the US and living in Europe but I feel like I'm throwing away an enormous economic opportunity

Check out Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Lichtenstein. These places pay incredibly well and once you factor in the cost of healthcare and general quality of life, the US looks like a bad joke. These three countries’ job market is accessible with a Schengen visa.
At least in my area remaining bookstores tend to do one or more of the following:

- operate a coffee shop, so one can eat/drink a snack while reading

- host in person events to drive foot traffic

- branch into related fields, like selling stationery. Stationery is one of those things people like purchasing in person, because they like unique pretty stationery
Reader mode doesn't seem to work any more on NYT articles.
Mediawiki. That’s a cool idea. How do you organize organize it and how much detail do you enter? For example, if you’re learning Django do you document what you’re doing or is the wiki more for tracking what you’re doing at a higher level?
> We have a several hundred year history in this country of crapping all over Natives and people of color and they tend to be the ones ending up in our prisons for years and years on end on BS excuses

Those problems would mostly go away by just reducing the sentence from years in prison to a small fine. Viewing this as choosing between punishing them with years in prison or making it legal is ignorant.

> You are not a US citizen nor living in the US. But you would like me -- an American citizen who is living in the US and spent many years living in California -- to defer to your personal opinions about how best to manage the problems in my country.

This is a discussion, not me trying to force your country to enact some specific law. If you only discuss with Americans then you are ignorant and ignore the diversity of views and experiences from the rest of the world.
You can also decide to give the money to other computer vendors that actually care about BSD.

I don't know, like Tuxedo,

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/News/OpenBSD-6-3-cu...
I have the same recurring dream a few times a year. I believe for me they started after 9/11.

Add that to the recurring dreams of losing all teeth, going to school only to realize there's a 20 page essay due, dinosaur attacks (inspired by Jurassic Park), and barely missing my school bus (that was just this morning).

Btw I'm 35 now.
It's a soft-paywall, so I'll just assume the article somehow attributes it to "white supremacy" and "racism".
Hours should suffice for hundreds of pages. TFA is much shorter.

If you insist upon having a tl;dr, it has its own: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138/#5a2
We live in a culture that makes zero effort towards teaching memorization techniques. I’m sure if you had a bunch of memory champions play telephone, the end result would be pretty accurate.
Downstream projects that only consume old versions of upstreams projects are deadweights to the upstream. They don't encourage, support, find bugs in, or send patches to the upstreams.

You're making some big assumptions about the motivations of the upstream developers there.

For example, maybe the upstream developers make a useful library and sell it in some form to downstream developers who find it valuable enough to pay. Clearly your upstream developers have motivation in this case, and that motivation is to provide what the downstream developers actually need and will be willing to pay for.

As another example, maybe the upstream developers provide some platform that is how they make their money, and they offer a useful library that enables downstream developers to write software that runs on the their platform. Again, the upstream developers are motivated to provide what the downstream developers actually need.

If the upstream developers are relying on more social motivations, as in parts of the FOSS community for example, then you have a totally different set of incentives. Relying on libraries maintained by developers with those incentives might not be appropriate for downstream projects that require stability and longevity.
Thank you. I still like writing stuff down too. There’s something about it that seems to work better for certain things.
I still have all of my code from '95-'97. Wrote 3D tetris, and a flight simulator among other things.
Yes, but "lead" is not completely wrong either:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-...
It’s a reply to a dead comment about Hindu nationalists.
> it has certainly evolved since the time of Panini, just evolved in a way that doesn't break the rules set up by Panini.

This is important. This constraint alone helps oral traditions a great deal.
When I looked at the list, my first thought was amazement that LibreOffice has no maintainer.

EDIT: Previous HN discussion about LibreOffice's lack of resources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23793942
For personal reasons, I'd like to remain working in the public sector

Being so agreeable is easier in the short-term, as it allows you to avoid making difficult decisions. The cost is your long-term happiness.
I should add that that the mass/energy leaving black holes is way smaller than I assumed (just Hawking Radiation?). Maybe someone with an actual understanding of the topic could chime in.

About the only information about theoretical small black holes was this quote: "But if you happened to turn the Eiffel Tower into a black hole, it would evaporate in only about a day. I don't know why you would, but there you go."[1]

[1]: https://public.nrao.edu/ask/the-life-cycle-of-a-black-hole/
The problem is that markets, controlled or free, are at a level of complexity far beyond our capacity to effectivel control from a top down perspective, there have been countless examples with top down legislation have had unforeseen consequences (or overtly controlled markets in Soviet Union). The idea with free market capitalism is that as much as possible the transactions/pricing between parties should allow for systemic optimisation.

There are two main problems, a) not all transactions are captured appropriately, b) we fuck with the system from a top down perspective so much as to completely undermine the premise of the low level optimisation. Oftentimes it's in relation to (a) that we do (b), in (b) we should be aiming to provide recompense to the side of the hidden transaction via the government; unfortunately the government oversteps here and tries to optimise the system themselves.
It's a PowerPC architecture CPU so from hardware POV it supports virtualization out of the box[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualizat....
The article suggests they didn't - they just used it as an strategic investment.
There is an interesting rebuttal to the option pricing argument by Zvi Bodie [1] (you can view a free copy via Google Scholar), which I don't claim to fully understand. Warren Buffett famously sold 15-year European puts in the S&P 500, FTSE, euro stoxx 50, Nikkei 225 and received premiums of $4.5B. To me, it feels like invoking Black-Scholes in this way, Bodie may be making the error of citing a mathematical formula without satisfying all of its assumptions. Perhaps Black-Scholes works for accurately pricing short-term options, but not for 15-year or higher time horizons that more closely match an average adult working career?

[1] On the risk of stocks in the long run: A note. R Taylor, DJ Brown. Financial Analysts Journal, 1996
It is amazing how much stuff you can compost. In my armchair quarterback opinion compost everything you can and recycle only metal.

If people are pissed about how much stuff they are throwing into the trash... go look at the incredible amount of packaging material that gets thrown out....
Are you suggesting that there's a germane difference between the fly-by-wire FADECs on these two aircraft types?
Technically, by law, return is required for any income over $0.50, no taxes till world wide $12000(US+NonUS) or $107000 Foreign/NonUS income, but still, IRS expects a return filed. In practice, yes, not much problem.
> Does the average person here actually have a NYT subscription?

I'm not sure what kind of answer you expect, unless there happens to be someone on HN who has already surveyed the readership of HN to know their subscription habits.

If you are actually polling, then I'll answer that yes, I do have a subscription. Also, I have never submitted a link.
Musician VHS Head is probably still getting them. He grabs samples from movies and makes music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyKxu27OHU
You can compost food waste paper like paper towels, cardboard takeout boxes, etc... compost makes a lot of sense.
> In general, individual consumers expect sellers to increase the price above the cost of goods in exchange for decreasing the exposure of the consumer to volatility.

Most markets neither have nor want this. If there is a freeze in Florida, the price of oranges goes up. If someone discovers a large new deposit of cobalt, the price of cobalt goes down. If there is a flood in Thailand, the price of hard drives goes up. If a patent expires on a drug, the price of the drug generally goes down.

> I remember something about how gas prices quite reliably go up rapidly and go down very slowly, which doesn't at all reflect a market that's allowed to 'float'.

It's just a reflection of imperfect competition.

If the price they have to pay goes up then they raise prices immediately because there is no point in attracting customers with low prices so that you can sell to them at a loss.

Once wholesale prices come back down, not lowering prices until your competitors do allows you to charge higher margins. But lowering your prices increases your customer volume, so eventually somebody does and then the others have to follow. The fact that this doesn't happen immediately is a reflection of the fact that there are only tens and not thousands of local competitors.
> Lower taxes via relocation and dual taxation agreements

Well. I have a bad news as OP's current country seems be the US.
SolarWinds hackers could be in US government computers for a long time
Me too. I understand what you mean. I'll leave here a classic Stoic passage:

After being told (of his exile), “Your case is being tried in the Senate,” Agrippinus responded:

“Good luck betide! But it is the fifth hour now” (he was in the habit of taking his exercise and then a cold bath at that hour); “let us be off and take our exercise.”

After he had finished his exercise someone came and told him, “You have been condemned.”

“To exile,” says he, “or to death?”

To exile.

“What about my property?”

It has not been confiscated.

“Well then, let us go to Aricia and take our lunch there.”
You must make some sort of plans? I’ve done some backpack traveling and would always have a rough plan that I didn’t follow very well, but I feel the plan helped. I wanted to get to Venice. What would I do when I GOT to Venice?

Meet a cool Australian guy to go out drinking all night and ridE around on these water buses to various places all day wasn’t in the plan.

So I think an outline of a plan you know will change seems to still have value.
I'm just really curious and don't have a dog in this fight against/for ability to do as you will with a product you purchase.

A) a hypothetical device, let's not call it a computer, but similar, exists that asks you politely by means of something like a license not to modify it even though it would be possible to do so pretty easily.

B) another device, this time a hypothetical CPU that is next to impossible to modify with any degree of ease since it requires nanoscale tools.

Why should there be a fundamental difference in a person's ability to modify one of the above, but not the other? Just because the laws of Physics don't allow mere mortals to so (not at least without a highly sophisticated nano fabrication lab) doesn't seem like a very convincing principled answer. Is there a stronger argument?
I think Scully was too generous...A good dismissal that works in conversation but not in text. So here's a more fitting reply: It seems you're just trying to be mean because you're sore other people are "allowed" to think things you disagree with. To you, they're all crazy. And any coherent dissent to your delusion of monopoly on the truth could only be hypocritical. Likewise the only meaning of invoking "open minded." For a guy who has a whole section on his website dedicated to being open-minded you sure crafted a solid, self-contained mental cage for yourself. So I guess my initial comment applies to you too: being scared of other people thinking for themselves and reaching their own conclusions and running from that is the true crackpot. Your opinions shouldn't require the comfort of consensus, instead you should be comfortable reaching them yourself, then you won't need to try to coerce other people into agreeing with you.

I get if you were confused and misinterpreted what I said as judging for others. The distinction is I'm not telling people how they should take it, I'm saying make up your own mind, and don't discourage others from doing the same, nor try to shame them for reaching conclusion different to you. If it still doesn't make sense let me be even more clear. If either of you had just said oh I think it's s** blah blah blah blah this is my opinion, I won't care but when you try to pretend that anyone reaching a different conclusion must be crazy or wrong, and should not read it and not think for themselves, then I push back against that.

I guess you didn't read enough of it to see the obvious connection with this thread. This thread is about a magnetic pole reversal on the Earth and that story is about the effects of a magnetic pole reversal on Earth.

You're clearly sharp but I think it's a mind that's wasted when you limit the scope of your own inquiry by prejudicing yourself and holding contempt above inquiry. Whatever conclusion you reach about this work that can be the only conclusion about your choice here for how you try to pretend that anyone who disagrees with your holy truth must be wrong or crazy.

I feel sad for you to have to hear all this but I didn't push first. I'm just pushing back against what you said... so maybe next time before you open your mouth with something trying to be mean telling other people what to do you'll think a little more first. And that would be better for you and your karma I think. You're free to disagree (with being cool that other people think for themselves) of course, just remember all your choices have consequences.