skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mRNA vaccines were approved back in December and yet six months later they've only made enough doses for a couple hundred million people. What evidence do you have that a "war time like effort" could have ramped up production wildly faster than what they achieved? It isn't like there are any unused vaccine factories or production machines just lying around, and there'd certainly be no shortage of eager investors fund increasing capacity faster if that was possible
And as FOIA and declassifications have shown, trusting the government doesn’t work out well for the country. Ignorance is bliss
I don't agree with you that the addiction, need and nicotine + other triggers will remain with me until the end of time.

Deprogramming is part of the process of quitting to smoke. I do now never want to smoke.

First I want to say I don't want you to start smoking again, nor go through something painful. I will admit I have a habit of being negative about things-- so I can't help but to wonder, because you sound so confident.

Would you say that in the time you quit smoking you experienced a time where "The chips were down" so to say? I'm not talking about something small. Im talking things got real real. Cause that's usually when the switch appears.
From what I've read, Japan never had anywhere near the industrial capability to pull any of that off. Even landing troops and maintaining a garrison at all on Midway and the Hawaiian islands would stretch them to the limit - they arguably already didn't have the troops to spare to do that along with their other commitments in their Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere plan.

Taking Hawaii at all is already outlandish, no chance that if they found a way to pull that off, they'd be able to supply it heavily enough to make it an active seaport, patrol the waters to the east aggressively, or carry out attacks against the US West Coast and their land-based defenses at a high enough tempo to impede shipbuilding there. Similarly, maintaining enough spies and subs to track ship sorties and ambushing them at the Panama Canal isn't in the cards for them.

WWII is ultimately a logistics war. Individual battles don't really matter that much, whoever makes the most stuff will win eventually somehow, and whoever is on the other side from them will lose. Japan was way too far behind on industrial capacity to have a chance. Maybe if they managed to pull off their Co-Prosperity Sphere plan without any interference and make the most of it, they'd have the capacity in 40 years. But that's doubtful too, since everyone else in their so-called Co-Prosperity Sphere hated their guts due to horrible occupation practices on the part of the IJA.
Just wanted to add: Xournal (not ++) can also add text and add pictures (like a pic of a signature) too.

Xournal can be installed from the official Debian repository, but not Xournal++ (not yet - it's apparently being worked on).

So Xournal is very convenient for filling in basic forms on Debian and is easier to install.

Xournal++ could be installed on Debian by downloading a .deb, or using snap or flatpak. But not as convenient as installing Xournal via apt-get.

When Xournal++ makes its way into the official Debian repository, I might switch to it.

For now, I'm very happy with Xournal (the original)!
Reminds me of Calhoun's Mouse Utopia experiments: "Other young mice growing into adulthood exhibited an even different type of behavior. Dr. Calhoun called these individuals “the beautiful ones.” Their time was devoted solely to grooming, eating and sleeping. They never involved themselves with others, engaged in sex, nor would they fight. All appeared [outwardly] as a beautiful exhibit of the species with keen, alert eyes and a healthy, well-kept body. These mice, however, could not cope with unusual stimuli. Though they looked inquisitive, they were in fact, very stupid."

https://fee.org/articles/john-b-calhoun-s-mouse-utopia-exper...
Their take accurately recapped events, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Korea
Can't speak from personal insight, but I recommend checking out the Tokyo Llama channel on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ3TEq5SrUuTJuMl1S_4ig (also linked elsewhere in the thread) to see what the experience of buying and fixing up an akiya is really like.

In their case, they had fairly specific location requirements and thus restricted themselves to Ibaraki prefecture. So fairly close to Tokyo (1 hour train ride I believe?), but they paid much more than $500 -- more like $20-30k if I recall. Once you go through the bureaucracy of buying it (making sure it doesn't have a tax lien, etc.), you're basically faced with a falling-down hoarder house that you have to clean out and likely tear down and rebuild completely. Theirs was also a quite large lot and a nice traditional Japanese farmhouse called a minka or kominka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minka). So, not typical of these $500 houses -- those are probably going to be further out from the cities, much smaller lots, and complete teardowns. But do expect to invest significant time and money to get it to a habitable state. And you'll likely need to speak much more than tourist Japanese to deal with the local bureaucracy and builders.

But if you're willing to put in the effort, and you do like the quiet Japanese country life as a getaway, it could well be a good investment. This is pretty much my plan for (semi-)retirement in a few years.
You won't survive 5 seconds in the new Asia dominated 21st century. /s
It continues:

> ... and, more recently, providing a feast for the chapel’s preferred cleaning product, a bacteria called Serratia ficaria SH7.

> “SH7 ate Alessandro,” Monica Bietti, former director of the Medici Chapels Museum, said as she stood in front of the now gleaming tomb, surrounded by Michelangelos, dead Medicis, tourists and an all-woman team of scientists, restorers and historians.
My mom smoked for 30 years, quit and haven’t smoked for around 20 years now.

Says she still gets strong cravings from time to time.
> Why does it actually bother you?

Depends entirely on what the particularly awe inspiring monstrosity is.

Obviously I don’t have any issues with it in a practical sense. It’s just the difference between hanging a nice oil painting and the latest abstract fetish. Some people love it, and others do not.

If it’s on the outside of the house everyone has to enjoy it regardless of whether they want to do so.

While I’m mostly on the side of letting someone do what they want, I think there is a limit.
> That preview close dialog is not something you'd see 20 years

That’s because the application would straight up lose the files without prompting.

Also pretty sure text editors had something similar 50 years back, that’s why you :q! from vim, :q would tell you that you have unsaved buffers (or whatever the lingo is) and refuse.

TFA is literally abusing a crash-resistance feature out of laziness, and will no doubt complain when it fails them. 20 years back we’d all trained ourselves to save with regularity to avoid issues, that feature would be considered manna from the heavens, and tfa absolutely mental.

Completely stupidly too, I must add:

> This is the dialog that I see every time I want to close the Preview app to clear my desktop of all that clutter in a hurry for a video call.

MacOS has a shortcut to minimize all windows! It even has a shortcut to hide all aplications but the current one! You don’t need to close anything to “clear your desktop in a hurry”!
Is it a violation of the non aggression principle to not wear a mask? Or to force someone to wear a mask? As an analogous example.

The connection to property values is a bit ethereal IMO.
The problem with magical solutions like the fragment idea is that they require magic to implement.

Most software can't be bothered to integrate rich paste support (e.g. the way you can paste an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document), and we expect them to implement a complex API to define these fragments in a way where the OS/Spotlight could actually build up that history?

This would be a massive undertaking requiring buy-in from every piece of software before it is even marginally usable. It is a pipe dream (and may even be a nightmare if it were realizable).
I used to smoke. I started smoking while drinking and the reason is that it feels fucking amazing. People don't smoke for no reason. They smoke because it feels good. Really good.

The long-term health consequences don't feel real when you're young. It's easy to dismiss, even if you logically understand the risks.

The expense is not a problem. Utterly unimportant.

The addictive aspect is a subtle beast. It creeps up on you slowly. At first, smoking is a great, fun thing to do every once in a while. It's a great, fun thing to do with friends. Slowly, every once in a while turns into every day. Then, a few times a day. Now you need a cigarette to start the day right. You try to cut back and only then realize you're addicted.
I always did the same thing. It'd be nicer if we could build a social convention of drink breaks instead of smoke breaks, which could sort of bootstrap off of smoke breaks in the way you described.

At first a few people in any given circle would be drinking instead of smoking, and then over time, as more people opt for coffee/tea/water over cigarettes, it gradually becomes normalized to take breaks without having anyone smoke.
you're talking about something completely different, which is fine, but doesn't at all refute what Andreessen is saying
The first rule of ditch digging is to stop digging ditches.

I love my hometown, but it was a slog wading through all the people who ultimately wanted to keep me under their thumb. Many of them so close that I just couldn't see it until a lot of damage had been done. Everyone has feelings of jealousy, whether they are conscious of it or not, and the closer you are, the more likely it is you will be competing over resources, the conflicts of interest are just inherent.

They told me to work hard, but their idea of working hard was often just making the same damn mistake over and over again, as long as no one had to admit they were wrong, as long as authority was respected and hierarchy maintained. Whether your brow is high or low, I think you just have to learn to break free from those people, and learn to think for yourself, because they are everywhere, because it is an intrinsic consequence of social organization.
In a few years, someone will make a post like this for the internet, the YouTube, the reddit or Insta.

Avoid addictions of any kind.
It's true that I bought into the myth, but it's also because I don't care; as not-a-photographer, this seems to do a great job of taking pictures of my baby & dogs, at a resolution at least as good as the screen I look at them on. Anything else is gravy.
It's nice to see advancements like this but I'm not sure that they will come soon enough for climate change. We needed to move on that yesterday. The industrialized countries need to sort out their safer fission options as a stopgap measure, and it's something we can start moving on immediately.
the Japanese leaders who were US-educated (including Konoe and Yamamoto) absolutely knew that attacking the US would steel the Americans' resolve against Japan:

> In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
Where did you hear 46,000mph? I believe 14,000mph was mentioned in the 60 minutes episode. It’s amazing to think that even at 46,000 mph that it is still ~3x slower then a meteor entering the earth’s atmosphere.
Hence why you are seeing the argument made on this thread that those boards should just not exist. There are always going to be people that find some excuse to believe it is their duty to bug the hell out of everyone. "Nobody has a right to bug Tue hell out of anyone" is a time tested solution to this problem.
If you actually want to give back at the intersection of tech and mentoring this is very straightforward. Create or go to a local makerspace, community center, or prison and volunteer to teach people technical or management skills.

This has a few advantages. It doesn't cost anything, you're actually helping people who stand to benefit the most from your knowledge, they will be grateful in return, and you avoid all the wannabe 'elites' who spent their time on clubhouse or plato or what have you.
> Let's say I wanted to add HTTP3 support to my web service - perhaps a NodeJS one, for example. What's that look like right now, practically speaking?

Probably the same as it did/does with HTTP/2 - stick a reverse proxy in front that supports it. I think Nginx and Caddy have experimental support.
Which shortcomings do you mean, specifically?
That's a cute house.
Sorry, meant to reply to you here, but did it there ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350720 ).

In short, Xournal (original, not ++) can add pictures and text too! And it's available via official Debian repository. So it's easier to install in Debian.

Xournal++ is a rewrite of Xournal, and has more features, but I don't want to deal with downloading a .deb or using snap or flatpak. They're working on getting Xournal++ into official Debian repository though, but it's not there yet.

Xournal (original, not ++) is quite good for filling in basic forms on Debian!
> it must be because there is more value being provided

Jesus Christ, it gets so old listening to HN Econ 101 pedants.

No. SV companies pay eng. staff more because FAANG companies pay more - there's hiring competition for eng. staff in SV.

You can easily prove this: tally up the value you provide as an engineer, then ask for a raise. Unless you have some kind of personal relationship with the owners, you just nuked your career at that company. Why? Because if mgmt. caves for you, then they might get inundated with requests from other staff. Your value isn't even considered, unless it's inconsiderable, in which case you will get an out-of-cycle review that you don't really want.

Then just join another company and negotiate yourself a raise. So much simpler.

Which one was easier?
I would also highly recommend PandaNet. They have some really tough players.
Same, my mind started reading in the narrators voice a few sentences in.
This is for signing a document with a "hand" signature, not cryptographically signing it with a cryptographic signature. Besides, if you don't trust in-browser JS then you shouldn't trust any site on the web, e.g. online banking.

That this is running completely locally without any software to install is pretty useful and cool. Your criticism isn't great (IMO borders on concern-trolling) because the alternative is something where the docs go to some centralized SaaS that store everything including your signature for an unknown period of time.
Good writeup. I'd add in there near the end that while Apple spruced up the UX, it was BlackBerry that laid just the right amount more of groundwork to get people on the PC-in-the-phone idea, in certain business circlew of course but that mattered, and then Apple took it to the next level.
One point of interest is that Nikon and Canon, the giants of DSLRs, were very resistant to do mirrorless, even as Sony, Fuji and Olympus went down that way. They are now going into mirrorless big time.

Part of it I guess is that the technology got better, but also oh what an excuse to sell everyone their lenses again! You can use adapters on older lenses, but usually with some (minor) loss of optical quality, and more clunkiness - bit like with dongles I guess! Old DSLR lines are also being phased out, making sure all the pros move sooner or later.

What the article doesn’t mention in full is that there are now new independent makers of lenses. These are often (not always) inferior optically, often don’t have autofocus etc but are much more affordable than branded equivalents.

Interestingly, even there you find they evolve out of cheap and cheerful to quality for a price! Samyang comes to mind first and foremost.
I look at it as running an establishment...

If I'm running a hotel, for example, my valet has to know how to accomodate old cars and new cars, manual and automatic, electric and combustion, and possibly motorcycles and scooters and such...

If someone comes to the front desk, I have to be polite to them no matter what, whether they look dirty or clean, normal or weird, I can't tell them, your appearance is not good enough, or you don't speak the right language to be at my hotel.

I think the idea of telling the user their browser isn't good enough is the same level of rudeness, it's an act of laziness and arrogance to not even try...

And yes, there are so many different browsers and levels of convenience, and if you want the GUEST to have a good experience, you have to accomodate the shortcomings of their own vehicle, which they may have no choice over, or may even enjoy using and have an attachment to...

The thing I've been working on is mentioned in my profile, the live site is only a few days behind my local dev. Here's a short video I just made with you in mind:) 5igA8Zz56NU
I don't know who calls them influencers other than the media. I just know them as social media narcissists.
A vote here against integer/serial PKs, not only because they leak information, but also because they can result in incorrect joins.

IME it's much more often I've quickly made a table with a serial PK and later wished it were uuid; just about never made a uuid and later wished for the compactness or natural clustering of bigint. Maybe for a table of millions and millions of time-ordered events.
Cheapest ones (new) around me are 2k. For the people buying it, yeah, it's a lot of upper class people, but also a lot of people using an ebike to replace a second car, which works out way cheaper in insurance/fuel/maintenance/etc.
I’m sure that’s what they’ve been doing. And it works to some extent. The problem is that often times those elite forces find out there is more money to be made either working with the cartels, or replacing them altogether.
Only if the social construct of ownership is defined that way.
There are obvious flaws in the data and methodology (WTF is a "computer job"?), but one part stood out to me:

> Anyone familiar with Silicon Valley already knows that the city of San Francisco is not considered core to “the valley”.

This hasn't been true for well over a decade now. Newer startups are overwhelmingly headquartered in San Francisco. Lots of holdouts like Facebook have finally given in and opened offices in the city. The biggest signal for this though might be all the VC firms shifting north from Menlo Park/Palo Alto all the way to SoMa.

And their justification:

> Even though computer technology seems antithetical to anything “historical”, there is in fact a Silicon Valley Historical Association. They list the cities of the valley, which does not include SF.

But when you click through to the link (https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/where-is-silicon-val...), it does list San Francisco and chunks of North and East Bay as Silicon Valley.
There's a ritual, an experience. There's something _to do_: I don't understand how you live your day, you just sit at the same desk in the same small apartment all day? No pause? It's like hearing someone prefers an 8 hour movie

Edit: this isn't...an attack...it's a humorous attempt to gat at genuinely how I feel, as a smoker, about people who don't smoke
It reminds me of American Bandstand, MTV summer shows in the 90s, etc. Just aim cameras at teenagers and get paid.
Neat! Are you using `photostructure sync $DIR` to import the new directories after they're copied over?
First few times I felt a little high for a minute but I mostly started because I thought it is cool to smoke. Allen Carr - the guy who wrote the book Easy Way which have helped me and millions of others to kick the habit - has described that smokers smoke to feel the same way as non smokers feel all the time. Nicotine is hell of a drug, it doesn't give you a lot but withdrawals make you anxious and restless, smoking takes those away for some time and that makes you feel smoking is relaxing.
This is the first I’ve heard of them. Can somebody explain what makes these remotes newsworthy, and why they’ll stop functioning in a year?
Same here. I thought I had a good grasp on how I think and why I do what I do and this was a real eye opener. It was freaky that after 300 or so pages I suddenly didn't have to smoke whereas before I tried literally thousand+ times.
> Of yeah, definitely, and Apple makes it far easier than other OS vendors.

Unfortunately, it seems like the Apple Fabric storage system on the M1 laptops broke bootable backups, and it's possible that Apple has no plans to fix this:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/24/apples-moves-poin...
In datamodelling, tables can often be categorized by lifetime. 'Business Relationships' eg. customers, suppliers, products have a fairly long lifetime; whereas 'Business Transactions' are created on a much higher frequency.

I'm generally fairly comfortable using int for business relationships, and bigint (long) for transaction data.

For performance, insertion speed often seems to be dominated by 'commit latency' to sync to the disk; rather than by record size. I would agree that record size affects table scan, but for many datamodels keying may often be a relatively small proportion compared to the size of text fields and other data.

I like to model keyspaces to work for 200 years, for the largest forseeable market growth, times at least a factor of 10 for safety.
Previous discussion 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213304
Sounds good but Wikipedia asks money with pitch ”help keep Wikipedia running”. It’s a lie if the money is diverted to other, how ever commendable, pursuits.
Here it means "extinct in the wild", see the link from the post https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/extinctio...
I absolutely love that AMD is making technology open and cross platform on the GPU end. They don't get enough credit for doing that.
So the next logical step would be to remove L3 cache from the compute chiplet all together? That would let AMD either save money since the chiplet is smaller or add more logic for the same die space.

This could also mean a GPU chiplet on package with compute. Each chiplet gets at least one cache layer. The next few years could be pretty crazy.
How and Why I Built My Own Bellows-Style Dynamic Digital View Camera
Maybe look at places where the police is defunded? Reports that crime skyrockets in such places are plenty to be found.
Related discussion from 8 months ago about rethinking the desktop OS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24783387
People sweat regularly without any noticeable moisture droplets etc. As long as evaporation >= perspiration rate nothing builds up. It’s why a tight watch will often have moisture behind it even though you don’t seem to be sweating.
You still learn those things, whether lemmas or beliefs about the Big Bang, from experience. You don't necessarily have the experience of deriving these things from first principles or from evidence yourself - someone told you, you read it in a book, etc.

How did you know who or what you could trust? Why do you believe in some books and not others? Again, your experience tells you which are more trustworthy. You have experiences that make you trust textbooks and so you trust the information you get by experiencing reading the textbook.

My point is really that it's absurd to claim someone only believes something because of their experience. Everyone believes everything because of their experiences.
If only everyone has been as radically rational back in the 1970's when the greenhouse effect was generally dismissed as an argument for nuclear (fission) power, we would have had a half century head start.