skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP was using an acre as a measurement, the 2nd link is in the 200K SEK/acre range, and there are [0] plenty of offers he described.

[0] https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?by=land_area&housing_form_gro...
Try saying that you believe that two-parent households are better for a kid that single-parent households in the presence of anyone who considers themselves social justice oriented or left-wing.
The Goal of Covid-19 Vaccine Tracking Systems
Java 8 → Java 11 → Java 17. Those are the LTS releases. If you want to follow a release cadence similar to Java 5 → Java 6 → Java 7 → Java 8, that's what you'll track.

The intermediate releases can be used to test against, but adopting them too soon often means tackling lots of issues in your dependencies. And updating your application servers to a new major Java version every six months is not something you can do easily coming from older Java versions. It's not impossible, but it may require a different deployment strategy and may not benefit you much over going from LTS to LTS.

I think that there is also an unspoken feeling that the LTS releases are more stable, which again may be due to the libraries you depend on not always being as well tested on the intermediate releases. I think a lot of Java developers burned their fingers on Java 9 and 10 and are now sticking to the LTS releases, but that is just my gut-feeling.
>Emacs speed was good enough 45 years ago

Uh, in the age of the 386 and 4MB of RAM, if you had that setup against a 486 an 8MB, you chose between running X and running Emacs. OFC you could run jmacs perfectly.
Adobe Reader for DOS is not supported, and many of the open source and third party commercial alternatives never supported DOS. What's even more nuanced here is later versions of Adobe Reader are free to download and often distributed by third parties.
A good, and easy, first step would be for states to adopt laws that have the same requirements as Massachusetts. Many companies already comply with their right to repair laws, so it would be relatively quick and easy to comply with the same laws elsewhere.

The second step would be to support MA (or some other state) in adopting even more consumer (and environmentally) friendly right to repair laws, especially for: consumer electronics; automotive; large and small home appliances; and farm equipment. Then everyone else can piggyback on those laws by adopting similar ones themselves.
Gmail, Git, tmux
How to Analyze Contributing Factors Blamelessly
Wow, might be time to finally throw out my copy of Java 6 SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer)
I don't like that thinking. It ignores radical power imbalances.

If I, or a group I'm a part of, controls the majority of the resources, we get to decide allocation of those resources without regard to any other consideration than what we would part with.

So if you go to an area with high unemployment where the businesses only offer at most $5/hr, you can also offer $5/hr even for jobs critical to your business.
https://github.com/sebringrose/fastify-preact-ssr
You don't have to change your seatbelts with the seasons.
"Binsort - sort files by binary similarity": Thanks for the info! Yes, this seems to do something similar to what I implemented, on a file level (not chunk level). It seems to be O(n^2), while my algorithm is O(sort(n)). But having a standalone too is great!

lrzip / rzip use 900 MB a window, which used to be huge at that time it was written (1998?). But nowadays it is considered medium size.
I've actually just stumbled across this quote from Hughes as I was reading the review he wrote[0] of Kendi's book, posted nearby in this thread[1] (though I saw him use this elsewhere, in evidence to Congress, I believe):

> This view commits him to some bizarre conclusions. For example, according to 2017 Census Bureau data, the average Haitian-American earned 68 cents for every dollar earned by the average Nigerian-American. The average French-American earned 70 cents for every dollar earned by the average Russian-American.

[0] https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26477169
Feeling depressed? Just. be. happy.
It's mutual Daniel, many times we would have given up but when we think of the number of projects you have on our site, it's spurs up to work harder. Thank you for your persistence!
And yet here we are decades later still talking about that rant. And it was true too, say what you will about MS, their commitment to supporting their developers is unmatched.
This is the language from the BLM site regarding disrupting the nuclear family. I'm very pro nuclear family. This didn't seem bad to me.

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We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
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If ALL jobs around you are underpaid, maybe it's your work that is not as valuable as you think.

I'm not saying this is fair.
I was re-reading (ok, actually trying to finish yet again) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and I think some of what Pirsig says at the beginning of the book applies here.

Namely, the division between people who just want things to work and hope "somebody" else will step in when a fix is needed, and those who understand the abstraction sometimes leaks, and you need to be able to dig in and at least know how to solve some problems "under the hood". He makes a whole philosophy of "romantics" vs "classics" out of it, but I think that's irrelevant here: what matters is that no-one should be forced to be powerless about the hardware they own.

This is obviously related to the right to repair. Pirsig wasn't thinking of Apple, but he does mention John Deere!
It is on windows. I use win+v all the time.
Definitely not by the average American. Twitter and San Fran/Portland are a small minority of the US.
Meanwhile, somewhere deep in the dark, damp crevasses of Boeing and Lockheed a check is being written to many politicians.
Google Maps when it first came out fits this description, for those who remember MapQuest and the Before Times.

I would also mention flight tracking and package tracking, which felt like sci-fi the first time you used them.
Also discussed by https://phys.org/news/2021-01-camera-virtual-environmental.h...

TLDR: the transmission of video data emits about 61g per gigabyte, which is significant CO2 emission. Therefore, reducing bandwidth utilization should reduce carbon emissions.
There are plenty of languages which have contextually sensitive keywords for that exact reason. C# (a closer peer to Java syntactically) has contextual keywords including "var" and "notnull": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
> An artist isn’t entitled to having their work funded unless someone voluntarily funds it.

Then we simply never get their work. Some people would absolutely continue to create for the fun of it, but they'll remain the minority.

Movies you'd watch in a Theater? Completely gone. Commercially funded TV shows, gone. A vast majority of books, written by full time writers and researchers, gone.

And I'll also posit that most music would go away too. Even the amateurs I know expect to be paid for a gig. Most musicians are not willing to busk for a living.

And, don't forget, software development relies heavily upon Copyright as well (licenses, your work-for-hire, etc).
Seems ancient at this point, but a total game changer at the time. I can actually recall getting my invite in 2006.
Every discussion of Sowell online seems to attract fans of his declaring how brilliant he is. It's a bit strange the sort of hero worship he attracts. Personally, I've never seen it; while he seems like a reasonably smart person, his ideas are simply a mix of standard conservatism and condemnation of the intellectual establishment as he sees it. His views on immigration are uninspiring, the reasons he believes the U.S. is declining are unconvincing to me, and he vocally refuses to believe that climate change in an issue (in my opinion mostly because he is ideologically opposed to proposals to fight climate change).

I think part of the reason a lot of conservatives love him is that his haughty and confident attitude, especially when speaking about other intellectuals, is quite seductive. It's convenient and attractive to think that many of the worlds problems are because of people (mostly liberals) who think they are smarter than they are.
I am an Indian, I struggled to understand Russian and Ukrainian people. After spending an year, I basically speak like them.
Gitlab - Having 12 products in the SDLC space rolled into a single product was a life changing productivity benefit.
Israeli experts discover 2k-year-old Dead Sea scrolls
The consequences of being wrong in the comments section is significantly less, imho. Plus, doctors are paid a lot for their expertise. It's really not about craving certainty. It's a question of a system that disincentivizes thinking through a problem that doesn't slot well into the diagnostic framework taught in medical schools to students selected for their ability to think inside the box, with little requirement, or really, possibility, to be very deep in biochemistry, pharmacology, research science, or a host of other inputs. Oh, and they're often very arrogant.
3.7M output/images/rootfs.tar

sorry, redis on uclibc in under 5mb, and no commits to my repo in 3 years while continuing to build against buildroot/master.
There are legitimate use cases for technology like facial recognition, and I see nothing wrong with using it in that way. Of course society should be cautious about unwarranted uses of such technology. But decrying all uses of it, even legitimate ones, because of a hypothetical "what if someone in the future uses facial recognition to start another holocaust?" is just a slippery slope fallacy.
Showing my age here, heh:

1. Early Ruby on Rails -- Now that MVC/ORM packges are the norm, it's hard to describe how revolutionary the original '15 minute blog' video was. It really felt like a quantum leap for CRUD apps.

2. Uber/Lyft - It has literally remolded the city I live in, by making large areas that are transit-inconvenient more attractive to live in.

3. Linode -- Access to a cheap server that you could spin up/down in a minute with root access was really great, in an era where a server that wasn't just a junk shared host often required months of commitment and started at 100 bucks a month.

4. Google Maps -- Just head and shoulders above mapquest.
Does left-wing include the majority of Biden's base?

Woke twitter is a small minority.
The problem in the US is that many of the pundits on the right know of Sowell but don't know any of his work. They just recognize him as "one of us."

Which has been detrimental to the US right. His books/writings/talks are accessible because he communicates in ways that anyone can understand. There is no word salad, unnecessary jargon, etc.
Well your questions indicated you were more concerned about the money than the original nuclear family statement. My argument regarding the nuclear family stance was and is this:

I wouldn't discredit an entire social movement about demanding equality and fair treatment because of what someone put on a non-profit's website. Further, a statement like "BLM supports disrupting the nuclear" doesn't hold up because that stance has apparently been taken down from the website in question. If it was still on the website, which admittedly I haven't checked, then I can understand taking this more seriously.
Basically there's six month feature releases but every five or six releases there's going to be an LTS release. Most companies use the LTS releases. Next big LTS release is later this year.
Bash was an eye opener after having to deal with CMD for years.
In case you were curious, I've just built out a project that walks through how to set up your own (very crude) SMS to Jekyll blog[0]

[0]: https://writxt.fun/
Agreed. Too bad it seems that email's best days are over now, as email nowadays is mostly for notifications.
> Cheaper to throw in a bunch of panels and replace them after they are scratched by the sand, that to build expensive panels.

Its cheaper to replace a mirror than to replace a PV panel.

The main benefit to solar-thermal is that they're innately offset from the sun by a few hours. In the morning, it takes a few hours to heat up, and then after the sun sets, it takes a few hours to cool down.

During that offset period, the plant continues to generate power. Generating power at 9pm from thermal-residue (at the cost of losing 9am performance) is an acceptable tradeoff, especially when you consider that thermal plants work as a "team" with normal PV panels.

Normal PV panels cannot give 9pm or 10pm power, not without an expensive battery bank (which suddenly makes thermal solar towers cost effective).

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Moving forward: the problem isn't going to be megawatts... its going to be megawatts AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME.

That 7pm to 12pm power is currently served by Natural Gas peaker plants, and will continue to be served by peaker plants for the foreseeable future. After that point, the wind picks up and Wind Energy + Baseload (aka: Nuclear) takes over for the rest of the night.

I know there's a group who believe that solar + batteries can solve the 7pm to 12pm power problem. But I believe that specifically discovering generators for that timeframe (ex: thermal solar towers) would be a superior option compared to giant battery banks.
I mean strike prices are usually unrealistically LOW, as low as they can be without being fraud. There's a whole industry of 409a valuations that is used to legally say "we're selling preferred stock to investors as a 50MM valuation, but the common stock which represents 80% of the company is only worth 2MM". Founders want strike prices to be low because options are free compensation to employees.

The issue is the out-going employees thought that a stake in the business was literally worthless, which turned out not to be true. Very similar to the Blogger story actually.
It's not about changing the phone, it's about making the OEM tools, parts and service information available to independent shops so they can repair a waterproof phone the same way someone at the manufacturer does the same repair.

I suppose if an individual wants to buy an expensive tool to do a single repair that would be available to the individual too, but that's not typically what I would expect when we're talking about cases that involve an expensive tool.

For example, Chevy dealers have to buy a $15,000 lift/harness to lower and service or replace the battery in a chevy volt. In Massachusetts, that harness would be available to independent mechanics and consumers too, but I doubt any consumers actually buy it. However, at least the independent shops can and that means consumers can take it somewhere other than a Chevy dealer if they want.
I posted the same in the parent comment above:

In case you were curious, I've just built out a project that walks through how to set up your own (very crude) SMS to Jekyll blog[0]

[0]: https://writxt.fun/
Social Isolation and the Risk of Investment Fraud
I have a similar personal app
This is insightful.

I wonder how many SaaS products have the advantage of not having to talk to another human being. You don't have to align schedules ("busy signal"), convince them if they don't want to ("yes, I moved a block down, can you redirect the taxi please?"), and sometimes deal with a bad day.
>But if they have 2-3 forms of starch, 2-3 types of vegetables, and 2-3 forms of protein mixed together,

TBF... that sounds pretty diverse.
On MacOS there’s a native shortcut for pasting as plain text:

Option+Shift+Command+V to paste text without any formatting.

https://superuser.com/a/512502
It's additionally concerning that the US has little exposure to China-sourced data. This imbalance where the CCP knows far more about the average American than the US knows about the average Chinese person is deeply concerning. The more that is known, the larger the training data set, the more people can be influenced in ways that suit an openly hostile[0] government.

[0] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20-02832-El...
> Also, teaching is important to learning.

Hear, hear. I didn't really know how to fly until I started teaching people how to do it. I thought I did, but not really. Not deeply.
I will, thanks. Do you happen to have Montreal's email?
Thomas Sowell is a titan. As was his recently deceased best friend and intellectual colleague Walter E. Williams.

The leading public intellectual regarding race in America today is undoubtedly Ibram X. Kendi. His central thesis, that any differing outcomes between racial populations is evidence of racism, is the single topic that Thomas Sowell addressed more than any other. The breadth of his research on this particular topic spans hundreds to thousands of years, across the globe. Sowell has come to the near opposite conclusion, that to expect equal outcomes between populations with different histories, cultures, patterns of behavior, etc, is insane. And then to attribute the entire disparity as evidence of racism is doubly so.

While Sowell is undoubtedly king, if you're interested in other black intellectuals with alternative takes on philosophy to the racial collectivism of critical race theory, Coleman Hughes is the single clearest thinker I have ever heard. John McWhorter, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glenn Loury, Kmele Foster, Jason Riley, Shelby Steele, Carol Swaine, Desi-Rae Campbell, Josephine Mathias, Thomas Chatterton Williams (author of the article above), Zuby, among many others. I think every person on this list would tell you that it's irrelevant that they are black, while understanding that it is an important characteristic they possess while bridging the gap between their own liberal ideologies and the prevailing race-conscious critical race theory, for which their racial identities are paramount.

https://youtu.be/TEBPCOG5RHs?t=66

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIv4L9M1ECU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18tfyp_XgkA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awIcRoDynh0
It is amazing that people are always projecting these ideas of organization so aggressively. Here BLM is portrayed an organization with founding documents that are have important guiding philosophy from which the rest emerges.

Actually looking at the people and what happened shows that there was very little organization involved and what little there was got conjured up late in the game by the most extreme involved players. In reality what happened is that our media intensive culture broadcast a nearly nine minute video of a black man being strangled by a cop and there was a broad visceral reaction against that. So what is really being said here is that a cop strangling a black man isn't that much of a big deal and what really matters is the philosophical positions expounded by the founding documents of the organization that emerged as protests grew. Want to object to cops strangling black men? You better be really slick with your organizational skills and foundational document writing because that is what really matters.
IMHO once you understand it well, even for simple things the Django ORM will drive you nuts. It's just a really limiting design compared to SQLAlchemy's data mapper.
Found this CNET article: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-offer-gigabyte-of-free-e...

They say 2 MB Hotmail, 4 MB Yahoo. Gmail went straight to a gigabyte.
Most people responding here are nitpicking on whether SO’s architecture is the one. I wasn’t trying to imply that at all.

I wanted to drive a point and SO is a good enough example to show that a massive company of the size of SO can run, so can your tiny app.

Don’t scale prematurely. A lot can be done by reasonable vertical scaling.

For one $120k/year Kubernetes infra engineer, you could pay for entire rack of beefy servers.

Obviously YMMV. Discussion about SO and licensing details are distracting.
I like it! Sorry to call older dialects ancient. Being a Fortran programmer is somewhat like being from a red state, I find. I naturally self deprecate (or stick with c++ as appropriate) in front of others.

I used to work on a system that was older than me, but immaculately refactored (to the authors admittedly rare taste) through the years. It had run on all kinds of hardware in the 80s, but was different enough from its predecessor programs that I am not sure what all it ran on - I recall maybe DEC, maybe pdp this and that, maybe a 360?? being mentioned. The guy who led the team that wrote it passed on two years ago now. Man he was a trip! He wasn’t old. He used to smoke, darn it.

Sounds like you had some fun times with the 360! Makes me want to retro-compute a bit.
Actually my phone makes me want to retro compute as well, every time I “type” on it. ;)

Cheers!
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Actually, I remembered: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4101425-a-great-idea-at-...
Generalised Signatures
The beauty of a load balancer ...
+ using Google for search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the results were than AltaVista and Yahoo Search.

+ Google Maps in 2004 and dragging the map interactively around. This was a quantum leap beyond Mapquest's page reload and reset with cumbersome arrow buttons. This was a paradigm shift that let me explore a geography better than any book atlas. I gave away all my atlases

+ MS Window Media Player's ability to cleanly accelerate playback to 2x,3x,4x of audiobooks and tutorial videos for slow speakers. MS Windows 7 had this long before Youtube's player had a 2x playback option.

+ SQLite library : more than 10x improvement since I came from old school of writing custom formats for persisting data. No more dumping memory structs to disk or writing b-trees in C Language from scratch.

+ C++ STL in late 1990s. Instantly reduced need to write custom data structures like linked-lists or in-house string libraries for common tasks

+ VMware in 2000s : more than 10x productivity enhancement because I can play with malware in a virtual software sandbox instead of tediously re-imaging harddrives of air-gapped real physical machines

+ Google Chrome in 2008 : 10x quality-of-life since misbehaving websites crashing don't bring down all the other tabs in my browsing session like Firefox/Opera.

I probably have more than a hundred examples. Some software tech 10x improvements are more diffused. Reddit+HN websites are a much better use of my time than USENET newsgroups. Youtube with recordings of tech conference presentations I can watch at 2x+ is a better used of my time than physically traveling to the site.
I'm very disappoint finding out that the minister of health is just a lobbyist with no medical background. He seems to care a lot about suing people who talk about his villa than doing actual work.
Was Gmail really 10x better than Hotmail?
It turns out that some genocidal ideologies are too hard to let go, we managed with Nazism pretty well but Marxism is taking some time. Cambodia under Pol Pot should have been enough.
If you're doing green field JVM developer and NOT using big frameworks like Spring or an app server it is pretty safe to use the intermediate releases.
Genius Scan. I never used a scanner ever again.
Sorry for my reaction. It is direct result of your assumption about me and my professional expertise. Visual language is the smallest of the problems in design today. Thats why I have a term for todays designers - Decorators. When your role as a designer is limited to visual language - your results are just another "fancy dress" to be thrown away in the next product iteration.