skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World income inequality is pretty pointless data.

$1 in Niger buys you quite a lot in Niger (the first African country I randomly clicked in the interactive chart at the bottom).

$1 in USA doesn't buy you shit in USA.
Couldn't agree more - most pieces of writing, especially in the workplace, should optimally have a VERY brief summary introduction, and the complete version should be succinct, but not to the point of

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Land in this context is more of a mathematical concept: yes, you can make more land, but the surface of the oblate spheroid that we call "Earth" has a finite surface area, and it's that finite supply that gives land its population-proportional value.

Even if we're willing to stretch into a third dimension, that oblate spheroid has a finite volume, and the overwhelmingly vast majority of it is inaccessible to meaningful possession/occupation; you can only dig so far down or build so far up.
> You can't tell how much battery is left.

One of the most delightful things on my old 2009 MBP is a little button you can press that will show the current battery levels by illuminating up to five otherwise invisible LEDs. These days laptops can hold ages on a battery charge, but back then it was awesome. I’d like them to bring this back.
Vim syntax isn't a "bunch of tricks" though. It's a syntax, with enough consistency that you're able to figure out new commands without looking them up. For example, "d$" cuts from your cursor to the end of the line, and since "y" stands for yank/copy, you can then figure out that "y$" copies from your cursor to the end of the line.

And also, the syntax is shared with other Unix tools like man, less, sed, etc.

I'm not saying Vim is objectively better than Emacs or anything, but the basic commands gg, G, d$, dd, y$, yy, ^, $, and so on really are handy as a tool.

(Also worth noting that the syntax has overlap with Regex, so "^" and "$" are very natural choices for commands that jump to the beginning and end of the current line.)
> If programmer time is more valuable than machine time

This is probably not true in industries such as banking, manufacturing, agriculture, etc. I worked as a field engineer in a food processing plant once, during the peak season for the crop being processed. The plant manager told me that downtime could cost the plant up to a quarter million USD per day.

> Why do we accept that our hardware is unrelaible and then spend so much effort making our software tolerate failure?

From what I understand, the whole point of mainframe design is to tackle the issue that hardware is unreliable. Mainframes feature many hardware redundancies, moreso than a commodity rack server.

> I do not know whether or not mainframes are the right solution, though. I don't really know anything about them. I don't know whether or not the architecture is the correct approach.

Mainframes are designed for throughput, not performance. They are good at things like transaction processing, not machine learning.
There's a good argument for unionizing here. There are few enough COBOL devs that they could demand what they are worth and support it with industrial action.
> If I could go back 30 years, I’d have made more money...

Compared to webdev? I'm very skeptical. The following scenario seems more likely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26431085
I dunno... 17 is kind of an odd number to say in response to a question (unless he always drank exactly 17 beers a day, which would seem equally odd).

But 17 x 12oz = 204 oz = 6033 ml, which is almost exactly 12 x 0.5 liter beers. Which seems more like the sort of thing you'd say, i.e. Q: "How many beers do you drink a day?" A: "About a dozen"
A reminder that stealing and/or leaking information from your employer is a crime, and is also a shitty way to treat your coworkers.
Damn... Today was a good day.
COVID was the first time that someone in our c-suite really had to use the our video chat platform at the time, Webex.

Within two weeks we got Zoom plus MS Teams as a backup. I notice that Webex is really being developed now, and I’m sure the devs are perfectly fine people but Cisco is absolutely mercenary with their resources and the second they think reallocating dev resources will make them more money, they will again leave Webex to rot and die.
I would think that you should be able to just walk to a bank branch and get the address updated on the spot.
https://github.com/tweag/nickel#use-cases
"Eight of the seventeen operating reactors in Germany were permanently shut down following Fukushima. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the nuclear power phase-out, previously scheduled to go offline as late as 2036, would give Germany a competitive advantage in the renewable energy era, stating, "As the first big industrialized nation, we can achieve such a transformation toward efficient and renewable energies, with all the opportunities that brings for exports, developing new technologies and jobs". Merkel also pointed to Japan's "helplessness"—despite being an industrialized, technologically advanced nation—in the face of its nuclear disaster.[9] The nuclear electricity production was primarily replaced with coal electricity production and electricity importing. One study found that the nuclear phase-out caused $12 billion in social costs per year, primarily due to increases in mortality due to exposure to pollution from fossil fuels."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany
Prove math; verify science.
The "energy density" argument against renewables is not even wrong. It's just one big non sequitur.
Why has no one brought up the abysmal search function. If you search for anything further back than 2 weeks good luck or better start scrolling because it's the only way to find it now. It really is a cruel joke especially for the not so tech savy people in our org.
Why’s that
> The idea of a full land-value tax is based on a principle related to universal basic income.

And tangentially: seeking a minimal state that exists solely to collect LVT (and possibly Pigovian and severance taxes) and distribute the proceeds evenly as UBI is the basic idea around geolibertarianism.
Ars [1] has the 2 direct links you will need to opt out. These appear to be missing from the ExtremeTech article.

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/t-mobile-will-te...
I don’t want to derail a very interesting thread but IMHO snooping has a darker connotation than surveilling.
That's cool. If you're just trying to save games or marshal data to and from worker nodes in a BEAM / Hadoop like system, single-language serialization can work. A Python / Node / Ruby client would ultimately bind to the Rust library for that.
> you won't be able to lie

Hmm. What percentage of claims in sworn testimony are intentional lies?
That's literally the essence of the CADT[1] model of software development. Why do a comparatively-small amount of unglamorous work to solve a bug when you can just burn everything down and rewrite it from scratch?

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
No,that would probably preferable; there's a bad GUI too.
1 principle: Make as much money as possible.
People's threat model isn't always some malicious hacker with access to their machines. The vast majority of the time people simply want to be sure that the video conferencing software they deliberately installed on their non-compromised machine isn't accidentally transmitting the sound of them eating lunch to the call they deliberately joined. I'm not sure pushing back on tips about how they can reasonably accomplish that because "software solutions can be hacked!" is particularly helpful.
No it's just the word that the british tend to use for spying. Much like lavatory vs restroom. Ex: Snooper's charter
Those numbers are very impressive. Seems like serious improvements on Windows and Android. I wonder how close the freeze-dried tabs are to the real thing.

For as popular as Chrome is, I'm surprised this post doesn't have any other comments.
> Worst case, I still at least have the option of hiring someone to crack it open and extract the data to import someone else.

Even that worst "single person provider got hit by a bus" case is already somewhat mitigated here - since the software is open source.

I'm guessing she's likely set this up so anyone with physical access and appropriate credentials (which the client has by default) and linux experience, could manage/maintain the RasPi box and/or migrate everything to a self hosted version on a more "regular" linux box.
I went on a date with a Mexican girl who spoke no English. Google translate app worked incredibly well for two-way translation. I mean it was perfect. She had been dependent on it her whole time in the US.
Nuclear is a popular topic on HN. Randomness contains sequences that don't feel random. That's all you need to explain three posts in two weeks.
Good point - I'd forgotten that! But I've never gotten 10+ characters ahead on SSH.
Custom Audio Classification with TensorFlow
Or not, because the law would force them to pay taxes on that ton of land, but maybe something like a $200,000 personal exemption would help.
Mean Average Precision Map for Object Detection
As a Georgia resident...we have Rome, Ga AND Athens Ga so you can take a nice trip through European cities a few hours apart.

And a Gainesville, Ga not to be confused with a Gainesville, Florida.

We also have a Houston County...which is not pronounced the same as Houston, Texas (it is pronounced like house-ten)

Also a Decatur, GA not to be confused with Decatur, Alabama.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
If you want to bust people for petty crimes and not 'terror' it makes more sense with a publicly mandated system I guess.
Cancel culture in a nutshell.

There's a reason we have "innocent until proven guilty" and lots of interlocking checks and balances in the legal system to prevent the mob from lynching people.

Nowadays they can lynch your social life and employment options over a drunken tweet.

How do we fix this?
Wow! I didn't know they made laptops that big!
Those use cases don't require those features.
In Europe, a third party company would have a legal obligation to keep their records accurate.
I don't know about you but I am not currently standing in a literal queue for a vaccine... How is time being wasted?
Renewables don't need rare earths. PV doesn't use them, and wind doesn't require them (there are generators for them that don't use permanent magnets.)
This will save insurance companies some money. I hope it is adopted everywhere. My insurance company paid over $20k for my endo/colonoscopy and those are promoted by doctors for anyone over 50 so I assume this occurs a lot.
Spring Native Beta – compile Spring applications to native images using GraalVM
Organ pedals would work for that. I think typically those just use magnets and reed switches (when connected electronically rather than mechanically).

Not to be confused with reed organs, which usually just have one big pedal that operates the bellows. Though sometimes they also have levers you can push to the side with your knee.
I'm ashamed to say that i didn't bother reading the article. I thought it was current. I deserve those downvotes. As to your idea, in Old England you don't have to even put up with Bangor. Maybe you should consider moving? I might be open to that suggestion:)
There is an absolute focus on safety not just for manned missions. Spaceflight is expensive and any small fuckup can cause a loss of many many millions.
This is politics, who cares about a few people doing bad stuff...

If the shit hits the fan, you want to know the political stance of all the citizens, and who the troublemakers will be, if something large is happening. ...and for that, it's enough to know which political sites they're visiting, even if you don't know the content itself.
Show HN: Find the best movies on Netfilx, Amazon and Hulu
Rideshare banning bad customers means more people will work for them due to less fear of being murdered by crazies. End result, i can get an uber when i want one. Seems like a win for me.
Anything any large organization does is not about absolutes but about increasing or reducing the probability of something in a population. The small few VPNers can be dealt with later.

Also this is done in america for commercial reasons to sell to adtech, like t-mobile recently or comcast for quite a while and probably all the others.
You say that, but telephony used to be obsessed with uptime. These are the people who invented live patching of a running system, after all. Case in point, the #1 ESS telephone switch was designed for less than 2 hours of cumulative downtime over a 40-year service life. In practice, most achieved less than 1 hour. (How many nines is that?)

Which is to say, individual subscriber lines can have all sorts of faults, but they only affect that subscriber. Trunks between offices can fail, but they only affect a certain number of circuits. The central call processing ability, of the switch to react appropriately to lines changing state and numbers being dialed, for calls to be completed if both stations are available, is what had to meet that target.

I was skeptical when I first heard this, so next time I was in an office that still had a #1 (actually a 1A, it had been upgraded in the late 80s), I talked to the switchman for a bit, and he showed me the downtime counter. It's a mechanical thing like an odometer, and once a second when the switch is executing its main loop, it touches a register that keeps the counter from incrementing. If the processor halts or isn't processing calls for some reason, the counter starts counting.

The switch was installed in the mid-70s, and from the moment it took over for its crossbar predecessor, including an in-place processor upgrade, it had logged less than an hour. Most of that came a few seconds at a time when swapping between active processors during software upgrades, he said. At the time (this was around 2002 I think) it was slated to be replaced with a DMS100, but the replacement activity hadn't commenced yet. I don't know what sort of reliability numbers the DMS machines achieve, but they'd do well to match their predecessors.
We're also home to not one, but two Buckheads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead,_Georgia
you should find another name...
Another commenter mentions the setup involves a Pi with an SSD and two USB sticks. It might be configured so you're required to switch usb sticks for consecutive backups, so you'd always have at least your second most recent backup completely offline - or even have the system ensure there's only a backup usb stick instead while the backup is running (and either unmount it of nag you to take it out when the backup is done).
Problem is things that don't flex also don't absorb the energy of earthquakes. Wood is more than strong enough and withstands earthquakes. Same for steel. Not true for brick, which is really a terrible building material, and almost always what people mean when they say we should build of something stronger than wood.
Oh got it! This is actually helpful thank you. I’m usually quick to recognize their code but it was so inundating the last few years I couldn’t keep up.
wow this is so much fun!
> That doesn't mean property rights have no relevance or value simply because of their "artificiality".

It kinda does, actually. Without the existence of a state enforcing said property rights by threat of monopolized violence, any sort of land "ownership" beyond physical occupation is meaningless; there would be nothing stopping someone else from inhabiting "your" land unless you're able and willing to infringe on their rights to life and liberty.

Given that dependence on the state, land "ownership" is naturally subject to its whims.
> Using candy-coated language for such things is as (almost as) harmful as the acts themselves.

'Snooping' isn't candy-coated language in British English, and this is a British article. It's just another way to say surveillance. You're imagining a meaning that isn't there.
You are describing plastic surgery, no?
I waited a long time for something like that...
I'm not going to lie, the assumption that everybody necessarily has career-ending confidences to share with their friends is very strange to me.
My beef is only with literal queues.

Virtual queues have their own issues, but are nowhere near as bad.
Biden Calls for Vaccine Access for All Adults by May 1 in Speech
If you had told him that you needed him to stop answering his phone, you might still be friends.
Please add autoscaling
Imagine disagreeing with The BasedGod about his own word. lol
similarly, the gentlest grade of painter’s masking tape avoids sticky residue too. electrician’s tape isn’t bad either (the black tape is also less conspicuous).
Nice.

Reverse ssh tunnels are a really good way to manage stuff like that.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Daffodil as a Top-Level Project
You need that to go with "also it doesn't add another failure point/upgrading dependencies work before it's needed"
Sometimes. The bank generally will need most of the construction time for their paperwork. Most people need to sell an existing house and that too takes time. So for the most part everyone is setup for the time it takes to build normally .
Bah! I wish Slack had cloned IRC! Slack is more the crappy knock off from the bargain bin at microcenter.
> There are X extensions for shared memory buffers. Client isolation for X could also have been implemented as some kind of extension. With both of those you could solve some issues but it still wouldn't be the same as redesigning the core protocol.

So why redesign the core protocol if the selling points of Wayland can be had without going through all that hassle? What are the true selling points of transitioning to Wayland, if they can be had for far less work?

> Yes this might cause some fragmentation but realistically, has X really helped there? The huge proliferation of clones and forks of various X window managers that are incompatible in various ways is another kind of fragmentation.

There was only ever one dominant X server implementation for the past 30 years (XFree86, then X.org), so yes, I'd say it helped a lot to keep the video/input multiplexing system out of the hands of window manager and desktop environment developers. This ensured that your graphical programs would always work, regardless of what desktop environment or window manager you used, because they all spoke the same protocol and relied on the same reference implementation. A proliferation of Wayland compositors would take all of that away.
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I'm reminded of the Three Body Problem series, where there's this concept of a Black Domain - an area of space in which the speed of light has been reduced drastically. Some civilizations in the setting have reason to deliberately construct these areas of space. (The reasoning behind this might be considered a spoiler, so I'll leave it off.)
Skookum UX
Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit
I recommend reading this article, which includes leaked documents from GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG).

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
I hope one day we are as lackadaisical about deaths from home nuclear as home solar.
I have to wonder what makes these folks so indispensable in a well-oiled machine such as the FAANG+ companies that they need to be so highly compensated. We know they engineer for an incredible level of site reliability, with CI CD/testing to further prevent failure. I doubt that in companies this size any one person is going to have a domain of influence beyond what a pretty competent manager is going to be able to handle. What is it that they know or do that an intermediate engineer can’t, assuming the guardrails are in place? Assuming they leave, is there not a pipeline of incredibly talented people waiting in the wings behind them?
This is not an indictment of wealth or capitalism or anything like that, I’m genuinely curious.
Shotwell's comments are surprising since SpaceX has publicly shown that same interior tank camera view many times on previous webcasts.

I wonder if something was different about the demo mission?
What else would they do? Sign? I think it’s because news requires voice to convey info. They also give up when the video is off.
laughs in Windows 7
Let me guess; your last name is '", 64'?
Factoring in gravitomagnetism could do away with dark matter
The one I typically use with rude, demanding users is:

"Pull requests are always welcome :)"
Agree, & I think now you can order a replacement driving license on their website as long as it is not near its expiry.
yes, I often find PGs essays too wordy and there's a lot of reading to be done for whatever point/s are being made. I often just start skimming to try and see if I can get to the meat of the essay. This one was actually quite short.
Just wait till you loose your phone next time.
> And just how do you intend to enforce that?

You'd think a country with a budget of multiple trillions of dollars a year could afford some fingerprint readers and a SQL database.
Canada doesn't use ZIP+4. Whatever, Breaking Bad should have put this problem to bed.
sorry for bringing this up, but your bio is beautifully poetic. I'm not into that sort of stuff, but i'm currently reevaluating my position. What does it mean, though?
NSW is kind of weird though. They have religious education in government schools which astonishes most Aussies.

Nearly everyone gets their car serviced regularly every 6 to 12 months and they risk being defected if driving with a fault. My guess is a comparison of road safety outcomes between states would show very little benefit as the other states haven't leapt in to follow the example.

I remember paying my SA car rego with laptop over Maccas wifi in Devonport after rolling off the ferry sometime in the naughties. We didn't do it with our phones because they were still potatoes.
Same in New England. There were a few days of below average temperatures, but mostly it's been mild and we've had hardly any snow.
32" monitor? You know you can get a 43" 4k TV that is half-decent for a monitor for 200-300$?

And 8ks are coming... 2000$ for a 65" 8k, but of course the HDMI port support is glacial and grossly overpriced. But a curved 8k 65" for high-dpi will be my next big desktop build.
These options exist to varying degrees. There can be many obstacles to migrations. Very few of these systems can be untangled to migrate a bit at a time though.
I once registered 60 domains just to reproduce bitsquatting.
You laugh, but I had an interview with some airforce people for some scholarship money. Living in Paris France they scheduled me for a phone interview with someone in Paris Texas. Needless to say we missed each other with the timezone difference.
Not really, it's the same amount of work either way considering this doesn't exist yet.
> I paid you $120,000/year for this support contract...

> If I'm playing [sic] for the equivalent of a full time junior developer ...

Equating $120,000/year with a junior developer salary is exactly the kind of tone deaf I see too much of on here[0], but in this instance it plays in favour of your argument.

Depending on exactly where you are in the world - even within the US - $120k might be a much more senior salary, or several developers worth of salaries. It then becomes perhaps even more galling that you're seeing zero service for that outlay.

[0] Yes: I know junior devs in SV might get this but SV is not the world.
Imagine that with emacs: it's easy! Simply double-clutch the "Ctrl" and "Super" pedals while pressing Alt+Shift+T on the keyboard to open a new block context and auto-indent to the correct tab stop. ;)
Hastings once said that someone going to college sharing their credentials with their family at home is fine by him.

Let's apply some common sense, right. If you're a trucker sharing your account with your spouse at home is probably fine. Sharing your account with two dozen trucker buddies and fifteen cousins probably isn't.