skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How big is your organisation? I know it shouldn’t matter but your CS person would likely have reached out if they’re anything like Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, etc.

I’ve always found government, sensitive customers (banks, payment processors, healthcare) and big spenders get prioritised with phone call notifications.

However with a deprecated product, the financial impact is so minuscule - leadership won’t prioritise this one unless you’re big fish.
CIA plans to move a division to Denver (2005)
> Do scientists actually read what they cite?

No. What are you kidding me. There's like typically over 50 papers referenced in a typical publication, no way I have the time to read all of them carefully
I think anything small volume ends up costing a lot. BTW the traveler reminds me of the original Psion 3.
bad idea. They are just talking about getting rid of annoying cookie banners to "deliver a Brexit dividend for individuals and businesses across the UK". I can easily imagine this law breaking almost all of the web.
In this case, the only reason that it didn't break more widely is because the adults in the room overrode the default KillUserProcesses=yes at the distribution level.

This isn't an argument about whether something "might break in the future", as you so kindly put words into my mouth. This is an argument that I do not trust the systemd developers to make reasonable choices, as they have shown a willingness to break long-standing standards for benefits that are marginal at best.

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075
Continued defense of the decision as January 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023232
For some strange reason, my high school had a subscription to the EPRI journal [1]. For this budding nerd, reading about SCRs the size of hockey pucks, with optical fiber triggering, was quite entertaining.

[1]: https://eprijournal.com/
Sounds like something massively over-engineered and sold to the government by a consultancy. Intel loves this because it puts the client's data in a cage which is locked from the inside, and they must keep buying servers with Intel chips no matter what.
Okay, so, what’s your point? There’s always some crisis in history. You’re moving the goalposts to weird places and leaving out all the boom times in the time periods you mention. Doesn’t seem like a good faith argument to me

Also, the Korean and Vietnamese wars were about fighting communism and imposing Western democracy on the East
Same here. I see a wolf and see a giant puppy.

Evidence of their giant puppy nature:

https://twitter.com/nywolforg/status/1434488985066299395

https://twitter.com/nywolforg/status/1433949290485985280
Your mileage will almost certainly vary.
It changes people in interesting and unpredictable ways. Sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse.
I know people who became much more grounded through their use of psychedelics. Others much less so.
Firebase reduce the number of cold starts with minInstances
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Link to the ol' Economist meets a Physicist conversation:
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

"The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years."
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There's a fundamental political/ideological divide here that's hidden by framing everything in economic jargon.

It's basically like this:

Degrowthers, like e.g. Jason Hickel, generally want a more equal society, perhaps even socialistic, and think that the climate crisis is a blatant proof that capitalism is unsustainable and that to keep trying to save it is basically to prefer go down with the ship than to even try to change course.

On the others side, people like Noah Smith are more in the status-quo lane that most of all want to save capitalism from itself using massive investments in technology etc - but not necessarily any systemic changes.

This naturally have caused these two crowds to throw pretty heated arguments at each other, and certainly not "unbiased objective facts" - if that ever has existed.
Java can be tuned to release freed memory to the OS:

https://www.geekyhacker.com/2019/01/04/jvm-does-not-release-...
> If you think an iPhone requires less raw materials to make than a torch, please go ahead and hand-sculpt one from raw sand.

What a silly assertion. The mere fact you can't create something easily does not mean it does not necessitate less resources to build. The support system an supply chain is huge, but the resources it uses could be quite small if you divide by the number of units produced.

Even so, there are many tools that a smartphone replaces that would have needed in the past a full product just to do a single thing. It can replace a PC, a game console, a tv, a flashlight, a calculator, tons of books, measuring instruments, keys. Many many things that have now moved into one small device. Maybe the resources for a torch are not more than for a iPhone, but adding all the functions it fills, surely, it is more resource efficient than the past alternatives.
Melatonin is not a hormone.
Tips for Successful Long-Term Investing
The Biggest Little CIA Shop You've Never Heard of (2013)
Stacker is hiring across engineering
The Universe is Hostile to Computers: bit flips, cosmic rays, soft errors
It’s not a hormone. It’s an antioxidant.
Can you add feature to view listings just don't show information like company and founder info and make listings available public to view without login/signup.
> Do scientists actually read what they cite?

Yes, but few actually scrutinize the methodology of the studies. Statistics is really hard. It's easier to assume peer reviewers would have rejected the paper if it was bad.
Compare Musk taking questions with one of the engineers. They answer it; he sells a vision.

Vision is how you get the best out of people - colleagues, customers, suppliers, investors. Like Steve Jobs, he loves the best part of his engineers more than they do themselves - how can you not respond to that?
The delta-v from Earth Surface to Low Earth Orbit (beginning of space exploration) is 9km/s.

The delta-v from Earth Surface to Moon is 15km/s.

So basically once you learned to go to space, going to the Moon is "only" 60% harder, even thought the moon is 1000x further away.
Design Patterns, Empathy, and Reading Complex Code
Incompatible Files, Slipping, Office 97 RTM
People are evolutionary agents. Cultures/states/corporations/memes are evolutionary agents. Evolutionary agents inherently compete. Competition drives both progress and inefficiency. The sort of society where someone "who just likes to cut hair decides to cut hair for other people", at useful frequencies, is sadly fundamentally impossible unless you lobotomize everyone and install a hegemonic overlord meme-complex.
Can you do it now?
Nautilus recently had a great article about this state of water in the context of our solar systems ice giants Neptune and Uranus:
http://m.nautil.us/issue/102/hidden-truths/the-planets-with-...
I think the line that really stood out to me is ‘in most of the universe rivers of water and coal are rare and ice XVIII and diamonds are common’
> People who don't deserve to be paid propose things no one wants.
>what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time

Some people around these parts have ardently defended that 100k USD is poverty wage and that having a net worth of 1 million doesn't make you rich.

So I'm inclined to definitely not believe "working class".
I think that falls under the "being a dick" category just a little bit, personally. This isn't donationware, you don't get to only pay if you like the product. There's a description, screenshots, reviews, etc. to determine if you're likely to enjoy the game or not and if you buy it but it just doesn't grab you, I think that's a lot like paying for a sandwich that looks good but turns out is bland and flavorless, it's disappointing sure but I'm not going to demand my money back since I was delivered precisely what was advertised.

Of course, if what they advertise is misleading then that's a different story.
I value and respect your opinion.
https://www.mygroundbiz.us/
Netflix, Facebook, Gitlab, Basecamp, and Buffer Swear by These Workplace Values
Reminds me of cookie banners.
To put things in perspective, an A330 lands at 140 kts, which translates to 236 ft/sec, which means that if the plane had travelled along the runway at 140 kts for 130 milliseconds longer, then they'd have a runway excursion.

Now, they would have decelerated before the malfunction, so maybe a 500 millisecond slower reaction time would have caused the plane to leave the runway. Maybe, 3 second delayed reaction time would have resulted in the plane hitting a building or a wall.

That doesn't sound a robust safety factor to me.
A new OS
As soon as your skin comes in contact with light it destroys the melatonin. Your eye balls aren’t the only thing that respond to light.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying.

However if the threshold for not including a package is that it's 8 lines of code that would rule out using most of the functions in Lodash and Underscore.

If the threshold is not importing code a child could write that would rule out using Babel which was in fact literally written by a child.
Serious question: while I understand making the comparison in Mach number to illustrate the difference in speed, is the speed of sound actually well defined near or above the Karman line?
If you’re ok sharing things externally why self-host at all?
Melatonin, at its normal dose, is over the counter in every single European country i can think of.

Was this comment just a poor excuse to be xenophobic?
Yeah I have a similar experience to GP, a normalization of life value across species. But for me it manifests as a greater respect for life forms I normally take for granted, rather than a loss of respect for human life. I have trouble breaking branches off trees, pulling weeds, killing mosquitos after a trip. I still feel uneasy about it but have justifications to help.

I also see life in superstructures. Stand on a skyscraper rooftop deck and look down at the city. The city is alive. The roads are its arteries, the people its lifeblood.
Wait, you're on Mars too?
Lots of material would go into the production of all the tools it replaces. A programmable calculator, a mobile phone a GameBoy, a music player, my mother’s cook books, etc… combined will likely require more raw materials.
A good tool cannot guarantee good results, but a bad tool can shape its user's behavior in bad ways. The same individual without that tool might have behaved differently. I have seen this in what I call design-by-ticket where all the why and how for a design decision, including design by committee meeting notes, get put in jira tickets.
You could put Cloudflare Access (with Tunnel) in front to shield against exposing the instance directly, I’ve used it in the past for other products that has been good.
Well yes, public wikis are one thing. But before you were talking about protecting internal secrets.
It's trying to run away from inflation. USA and others have been printing outrageous amount of money, huge inflation is coming, sometimes it's already there. Solution is not to build more homes ad infinitum, but to curb the printing and get back to responsible fiscal policy without bailouts.
> Whether or not you agree with all the things people buy, the fact is, most people buy most things because they find them useful

This requires a loose definition of "useful" which includes status signalling, satisfying an impulse to buy things, and so on, to the point it's tautological; every action is useful. I would not attribute the bulk of consumer spending to an expectation of usefulness, otherwise. Among the useful things, people still spend extra to buy pleasure foods, pleasure clothes, pleasure housing, pleasure transportation.

> Ending consumerism, means the end of people doing useful things for each other.

I think if you look at how consumerism is defined, it's apparent we can have the exchange of goods and services without it. Economic systems can exist without consumerism, and existed before it.
And it also requires much less energy and maintenance to be produced and operated. Growth.
Avoid the Startup Stock Options BS
Some people think VPNs are harmful - see the Google BeyondCorp model.
> ... still flying high

Shirley you must be joking!
It's funny that a website called "uxdesign.cc" would use non-linked footnotes, which you cannot even find by scrolling to the bottom of the page since there you'll find a bunch of snippets from different articles.
If you make better things, say a car that costs half of its predecessors then all else being equal you have halved your economic output. The reality is that we use that efficiency to buy more so the price stays the same but cars are twice as big and we buy many more of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
> The banks now will get very little interest on those mortgages

Banks make relative profit on rates. Lower rates usually means the relative profit increases. Then, because as rates fall and prices increase, the volume of mortgages increases.

As long as rates fall, banks win.
I use proton-bridge and a normal email client, although I've never tried to use it with Tor.
In today's news that will make you go "Oh, fuck off!".
This isn't quite right...

In a car which can accelerate up to speed and brake again every 30 seconds while going through a city with a lot of stop lines, the efficiency of the power components really matters.

If you loose 5% in the motors, 5% in the power electronics and 5% in the battery in each direction, then each accelerate-brake cycle is losing you ~30% of the energy you started with. At town speeds, friction and air resistance losses are tiny, so that 30% is probably actually most of the energy you are using!

Add that to the fact that certain motor control techniques such as field weakening involve every Amp of real power that comes from the battery passing many times though the inverter, since there is a higher circulating current between inverter and motor coils.
Production per acre of farmland has increased massively and is still increasing. The size of forests in developed countries has increased substantially.

At the same time the rate of population growth has decreased and is projected to go negative within a few decades.

Sure, lots of things are still getting worse, but "getting worse more slowly" is progress. No reason to get complacent but in my opinion doom sayers do more harm than good by promulgating the nihilistic philosophy that we're all doomed anyways, so fighting our problems doesn't do any good.
For macOS, I use Amethyst, recommended here on HN and works fine without disabling security features.

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
I doubt only the EU consumers will benefit. GDPR was a giant pain in the a for lots of companies (as it should be; if you're collecting data, then that means some responsibility), but ultimately it was a tide that raised all boats if no special effort was undertaken to identify only EU users and deny the benefits to everyone outside that group.
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From my limited knowledge of electronics-in-space, isn't ECC memory a hard requirement to correct for bit flips due to solar radiation/particles? But DDR5 having ECC be standard across the board may make this a non-issue.
It makes the standard 9 to 5, hour long commute, and retire at 65 shtick unpalatable, but we in the West live in a radical society where you can already smoke pot, drive fast cars, play loud music, not start a family, and so on. Part of that is attributable to us living in a post-psychedelic world.
Why Tesla, Apple, Google and Facebook are designing their own chips
Why Did Palantir Technologies Move Its Headquarters from SiliValley to Denver?
UK publishes draft Online Safety Bill
How does the earth's core affect ocean thermodynamics, and consequentially, how does the earth's core affect climate?
Ehh, someone has already done the calculation: https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/

It may be order-of-magnitude worse, but not 3 orders of magnitude (If you look forward to using starship for human transportation)
It’s also such great marketing. I wonder why the Zigbee alliance doesn’t communicate more that it’s used for communication between the rover and the helicopter.
Sometimes one just needs a terminal running remotely. Otherwise, code-server is good enough and works well without much marketing fluff.
> - Hugely more pollution (increased exponentially from 100 years ago as shown in graphs).
- Higher temperatures (climate change, not the same as pollution).

Fair enough

> Worsening infrastructure

If you're claiming that infrastructure 100 years ago was of lesser quality than today, you're living in an alternate reality.

> Lower/flattening productivity increases

False when increases taken in real terms: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RTFPNAUSA632NRUG
It's pretty much a line as straight up as it gets.

> Lower/flattening invention rate

As in? Science is working worse now?

> More surveillance (in fact more, even at solely the state level, than even Stazi had, and with infinite potential for targeted surveillance).

That's hard to judge. Yes, modern states have more potential for surveillance, but they arguably can get away with less abuse than they used to.

> Thining middle class (as opposed to incresing middle class 100 years ago).

Very nice how you take the first derivative.

> Hugely increased inequality.

As much as people love talking about it, 'inequality' is a vague term. Are we talking income or wealth? Worldwide, US or Europe?

Worldwide, inequality has dramatically decreased (both income and wealth). Income inequality in the US is slightly higher than post war, but marginally so. The charts they show you don't have the origin at zero, that's all.

> Crumbling pension systems

In countries that have nationalized pension systems (which aren't actually a bad thing imo), pensions are generally pay-as-you-go. If pension systems are not sustainable it's simply because politicians love using them as the 21st century grain dole: they aren't crumbling for any fundamental reason other than the political unwillingness to do the honest thing and cut benefits.

> 1) use the...
> 2) take...
> 3) when...

I have no axe to grind and absolutely nothing to defend. If 'those treaties' do that, they are wrong. I like talking about concrete, factual statements though, "our society is getting worse" is something that's been said for literally millennia.

> ignore any qualitative metric.

Can you point out some qualitative metric that isn't just "life was better X years ago because I was X years younger?"
Because let's be honest, that's what most "qualitative metrics" boil down to. As imperfect as it might be, data is at least an honest attempt to understand the world.
Some changes are predictable. For instance most people will stop abusing drugs after strong psilocybin trips. See the work of Rolland Griffiths.
Investors are placing big bets on a growing space economy
This is a bad idea.

That said, it's interesting to consider what a good idea would look like, if we imagine a world where age verification does become an inevitable strict requirement.

Is it practical to do this cryptographically on the web, with something technically similar to today's client certificates? Age verification certificate authorities who verify your age, and then issue a private key & certificate pair that says just "the holder is 18+" (and nothing else) such that you then provide this seamlessly to websites as you browse? Without exposing a consistent certificate id that can be used to track you?

That would allow the minimum verification but no more, without leaking personal data or creating any other UX impact.

Such systems are still vulnerable to children actively stealing such certificates from verified adults of course, but so is every other manual verification scheme I've seen proposed, and at least it requires a fair degree of technical acumen to steal.

Again, the UK plan here is a bad idea, but perhaps if this is a likely direction of future legislation then it would be good to get ahead of it with some kind of privacy-preserving alternative, instead of falling into easy but terrible fixes later.
Thats for all the info! Luckily he is getting a lot better. We avoid aproaching him with stick-like things in order to not startle him, so the last time I saw him piss himself was about 7 months ago. The only thing that hasn't improved is his fear of my parents. It's only with them, he even aproaches strangers now. But I guess he'll learn to trust them with time.
Again, interesting, thanks!

I hadn't seen that ElasticSearch ORM either! The more popular one of course is: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-rails

It can be hard to know what open source is out there!
KYC for every single internet service. From Twitter to TikTok it doesn't matter, It was a long time coming folks and now it is going to be a reality. A very terrible idea.

Welcome to the new internet.
Well that was a ridiculous rabbit-hole to go down. No one seems to know complete details, but here are some articles with information: https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-space-toilet-myster..., https://www.slashgear.com/spacex-crew-dragon-for-the-all-civ... (360 degree views while using it!?), https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/spacexs-crew-dragon-to-ge..., https://www.businessinsider.com.au/spacex-crew-dragon-spaces...
Actually helping run this place showed me how skewed this world is. I met many hospitality service owners, small ones mostly and most of them are lucky to take 5-10k profit in a year in total: that while most people I know in software and management get angry when they cannot go on multiple 10k vacations a year...
Seeing color pictures from another planet's surface is one of the things that always fills me with awe.
Didn't it also use Zigbee (for home domotics) as a control protocol?
You're technically correct (which is the best kind of correct!). But I would opine that, if your build system is not hermetic, i.e. you don't inject time and don't prevent access to the external world, you cannot know whether your build is reproducible or not.
Is Europol legitimized to do that? If so, I think there needs to be a discussion because I don't believe they have any mandate whatsoever. It is basically a criminal organisation because there is no accountability.
Could link to the original site?

https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2021_f...