skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of thoughts on this:

* A powerful tool against Pattern 2 (Complexity-related Learned Helplessness) is just cataloguing and quantifying things that cause wasted effort, i.e. a waste snake. Make a channel for it and encourage people to add items like "spent 4 hours reinstalling docker after corporate pushed an update" or "18 people X 2 hrs when the vpn was down" or whatever. Some of them may not be solvable, but quantifying the impact is the first step towards prioritizing a solution (or realizing that the solution isn't worth the effort).

* IME the solution to learned helplessness, somewhat buried at the end, is team autonomy. Self-managing or autonomous teams are the exact opposite of learned helplessness. It's nice to imagine your boss solving your problems with heroics ("Hey guys, I joined the on-call rotation this week and discovered it's terrible so I'm getting rid of it, hooray!") but waiting for that to happen sounds like more helplessness. A more realistic solution is that you solve this the same way you solve your software problems: figure out who the stakeholders are, figure out what problem they have, and devise a better solution.
Why not buy in on Ponzi schemes? It can work out great for you if you get the timing right!
I have read about this. They hope to create a time delayed sonic boom by having the phase of the boom progressively delayed as it is created along the fuselage - this will help with some cancellation as well as delaying the waves path so they arrive spread out in time = thump of delayed arrival versus a crack of 'time on target' wave arrival.
Nasa site https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X59/

Economics ?? Pushing large things faster than sound is energy intensive. Earthonomics - Hydrogen would help
Have you worked at a team outside of Google? I don't think you understand what people mean when they talk about teamwork. Lets take a project you would give to one junior engineer at Google, at a typical large company they would give that to a team of 5 and then they would need to communicate and talk a lot with each other how to get that project done, all that communication disappears when you work like Google does.

> This is what interns and entry-level engineering hires do at Google, with the strong expectation that they move beyond working on unambiguous problems into tackling harder problems with more ambiguous and often conflicting requirements.

Right, they tackle problems on their own, that was my point. They are expected to figure out requirements etc, and ask the questions needed to be asked. That greatly reduces the amount of communication needed compared to the teamwork approach where you split this project up into 10 parts and those are done by different people who go and ask a lot of different questions that then needs to be communicated and then some things were missing so people have to go and ask more things etc.

Communicating with stakeholders and users is very different from communicating with teammates. First and foremost the quantity is much lower, so people who burn out quickly from social interactions can still manage. Lets say a person gets burned out on social interactions after 5 hours a week. That is enough for an hour of meetings a day and then individual work, more than enough to work as a senior engineer at Google (non manager), but that wouldn't be nearly enough to work at most places where you need to communicate a lot just to code.
It must be truely depressing being a Linux FOSS developer when any time you try to make something quality and up to todays standards, the Linux user base whinge and insult you for years.

I have no idea why people still work on gnome/wayland right now. I would have left FOSS entirely if subject to that behaviour.
The irony here is that r/athiesm is super toxic community and was removed from the front page (when such a thing existed) because it was toxic.

There several subreddits with huge value, the Linux gaming, Linux hardware, Linux help, the rust programming etc etc. Local communities I'm involved in such as helping folks with shelter and food.

To be honest I find these comments which way X is fully of children or teens oddly offensive. It's dismissive of not only the reality but people's efforts.
>But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle.

But in this hypothetical welfare future, nobody forces you. You're free to collect your check and do nothing, like everyone else. Your reward for contributing value is, as you say, higher income. That seems perfectly fair to me.
It's mostly that the inbound energy doesn't even reach the reflector. An optical analog (yes, yes, EM true) would be trying to image something well behind a mirror.

"Upward continuation": both gravity and (after certain manipulations) magnetostatic surveys obey Poisson's equation. The characteristic (Green's) function has a 1/R decay. If you will allow me another optical analog, upward continuation is closely analogous to a detailed image being convolved with a 1/R blurring function. That's the heart of why I (roughly) say you can only resolve stuff of characteristic length R by observing/measuring from below a height of R. Higher than R, and the short wavelengths are completely attenuated, and you lose ability to resolve them.
Yeah of course every once in a while you'll get something that's both real and both sucks about Austin and about San Francisco. That's how you get fuel to be able to exaggerate about everything else for a couple more years.
Not sure what the dimensions of the barrel are, but I am a fan of these cheap usb-c to barrel adapters[1]. They have allowed me to ditch the bricks for a couple of older laptops I have kicking around.

1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0831F6Z7N/
Simple but not easy. Difficult to enforce however.

Here goes:

Non-recyclable packaging for food items is illegal as a first step. Other packaging is staged for later. No more than 10 years to implement. No excuses for anything that goes into a home to have non-recyclable packaging after that 10 year changeover.

Fossil fuels can't be sold anymore. Fossils can be used for various long lasting purposes. Not for disposable purposes, eg face masks.

Computers and similar obsolescence landfill items (IoT) must be completely repairable/upgradeable and/or at least realistically reclaimable. No excuses. Companies failing to do this are billed for the existence of the item and must track it like nuclear waste. Think in terms of landfill storage fees.

That's just a start. Good luck.
Not sure what the title is referring to. “6 million pods arriving this march”. Is that a reference to a Kickstarter delivery for solid pod hardware? Is it number of people who have pledged to host pods? How did you end up with this number and why is it significant?
Sounded pretty good until "Joe Rogan is also fantastic" at the end there...
If you don't want to use an appeal to govnerment authority for what you can eat, then don't bring up food regulators if you don't want to take it to its logical conclusion of uselessness. The government approved it, so you don't worry? Why think for yourself when the govnerment can tell you whats good for you? Why do reseach, its approved, you don't have to use that precious brainpower and can happily eat everything the government tells you to.
Getting squeezed is as ideological as a shit sandwich. And just as distasteful.
I mean that Google won't show the results and you also won't actually remember the domain, because it's clever. And in this case, it's a spanish domain so is expected to cater to Spain.

It's not unique, the .cat TLD for Catalonia requires that you serve your content in Catalan, so as to prevent people abusing the obvious appeal of a TLD that in English translates to a cute pet.

.io, .ly and .sh have been victims of this technical imperialism.
Here's an Economist article which breaks down drug harm, and ranks drugs accordingly. The chart shows that in totality, alcohol does more harm than heroin. [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-...
Again, that's stupidly easy. Right is bigger, left is smaller.

If the current node is a leaf, insert left if smaller and right if bigger.

If not a leaf nods, run the method recursively on the left it it's smaller, on the right if it's bigger.

If they asked you to write a self-balancing binary tree it's one thing, but there's nothing tricky about writing a normal ordered binary tree.
I don't think anything bad happens, it just doesn't react to the power button and people mistakenly junk them.

The O2 shouldn't need a PSU capacitor replacement yet.

If you want to give the SCSI disk a better chance, place it flat on a table and rotate rapidly, then stop. You should feel the spindle spin.

Hardware of this era is still quite reliable so I don't think you will have problems.
> Are whole grains a more healthy way to consume carbs?

Yes, more healthy. The less processed it is, the more fiber it has, and the more micronutrients remain. To the degree that you consider carbs to be the problem, though, it's still carbs.
Deracialize the Police
That’s OK, if you’re trying to time the market, let alone based on forum comments, you’re already making bad decisions, so why not compound them
> Or at least culturally, that's how I meant it and what it meant growing up.

Outside of that particular bubble, "wrecking ball" carries inherently destructive connotations. Even in positive usage, I've only seen it used to convey creative destruction.
Show HN: A site I made to train my chess visualization
If you've got a bare-bones, basics, simple desktop-environment then embrace that and tell us!

If you're calling it 'modern' when it everyone can see in two seconds that it isn't then you're just setting up both yourself and us for disappointment.

Don't blame the reaction - blame the preventable mistakes that caused the reaction.
There's a difference between "pointing out that there aren't any interesting dApps" and saying "This is just pathetic". The former is a reasonable point to make while the latter is a bad faith insult.
What impresses me the most in CDE: application builder. In the 90's the "desktop UNIX" had a multi-plaftfom, standardized and (then) modern RAD environment using a multi-plaftfom, standardized and fast programming language.

Extremely functional. The same cannot be said about competitors.
Is it not that they have a lot of people who are involved in buying and selling homes whose services are no longer needed?
you seem to know this website, just out of curiousity, how long has this been existing?
> I shouldn't have to say this but actual competence matters

Why?

Most people are just trying to get by and enjoy life as much as they can.

I spend 40+ hours a week with the people I work with. I'm absolutely going to optimize for working with people I like more than their competence.

99% of us aren't working on life-or-death projects.
Just something I've been hacking on, since I found the existing tools for visualization sort of wanting.
Depends a lot on context, like incentives. If you’ve got a second mortgage invested in the project then I think most would prefer competent over friendly.
So, this is a wizard, basically.
https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Wizard
Our use Firefox and addons and have the best of all worlds.
"Critically, deer-to-deer transmission has been observed in captivity. On Monday, a preprint of a new paper answered some more questions, showing that infection is widespread in a second state, driven both by its spread from humans and deer-to-deer transmission."

The idea that mask-wearing and lockdowns will make this go away, now has to figure out how to get wild animals to wear their mask and avoid socializing.
A lot of nostalgia for an era that didn't exist: “It has never been more difficult to be a software developer than it is today...” and “Everything was so much simpler before..."

SW dev has always been overly complex, long before AWS and the web existed. It's just how we do things in software engineering. Too many choices and lack of physical constraints leads us right to the edge of where things totally fall apart.
Nah. EBM does explain the obesity crisis. We're just eating more.

The average American consumes more than 3,600 calories daily – a 24% increase from 1961, when the average was just 2,880 calories.

And that's just the average.
Yea but why let that get in the way of an ignorant and tired trope?
I keep an eye on the real estate market around me, and the Zestimate is easily 50% too high a lot of the time.
Joe Rogan sits squarely at the intersection of "intelligent and curious people who don't vet their sources particularly well" and "batshit-insane folks looking for confirmation of their abhorrent views".
"Joe Rogan is Gwyneth Paltrow for men" is a spot on analogy I saw recently.

If you want interesting science podcasts, at least do Lex Fridman!
I've really been enjoying using nextdns to block ads.

Brave is supposed to be good, and pays you in some kind of crypto if you enable some ads.
The store stuff on the internet and the…

Wait. What’s the other segment?
But still tracks and gives me a headache setting it up when I could use ungoogled chromium instead which with no effort doesn't track me. Why do you think Brave doesn't track you? Who or what told you that, and why do you believe it doesn't?
> We evolved to do a lot of things we no longer tolerate

Such as?
Why is it strange? Would you rather be concerning yourself with SSL termination and handling files (efficiently thru the kernel) instead of application logic?
How so? Cloudflare R2 targets B2, but technically you're not supposed to use Cloudflare for free B2 egress unless you are on a paid plan.
It's small, but type modifiers on import names is really nice to have. I've had issues with linting in the past complaining about duplicate imports.
I just did the update with about 20 tabs open. They all restored fine but they were sort of "unloaded". That didn't cause any issues for me though.
When Wearing a Mask Covers Up a Social-Anxiety Problem
For everyone other than people on .gov, .mil and .edu campus networks, the internet was dog slow anyway, so fork() and exec() wasn't a problem. Given the low traffic, it was probably also better for overall memory utilization. Memory was more precious than CPU cycles, and fairly limited if you didn't want a lot of swapping.

At the time, most stuff worked like that from inetd. It would listen on lots of ports and fork off the right program for the incoming connection, then that process would exit when it was done. Long running daemons and lots of processes weren't as common.

The common pattern prior to that was people logging in, reading already synced newsgroups, editing stuff, compiling, logging off, etc. Transient processes that went away.
As others have stated, "do-nothing" may have some baggage.

Consider something like "incrementally inclusive" or "eventually complete" or similar.
A lot.

Also on snapchat, facebook dating.
Mosh isn't proof of concept. And it's not not maintained either. It's just "done" (in my opinion).

Not all software needs to continually change. There is the concept of software that does one thing, and does it well.

THAT BEING SAID... if your complaint is regarding the SSH agent forwarding, I might be convinced to maintain a fork with that, and only that problem being addressed. :) That one's personal to me, and I've been meaning to poke at it since... well before it was released to the outside MIT community.
This is just my opinion, but I actually love the Windows 9x aesthetic and to this day I wish Windows 10/11 had support for the Windows Classic interface; back in the days of Windows XP and 7 I always changed the theme from the default to Windows Classic.

While I'm at it, I actually prefer the aesthetic of the classic Mac OS (especially the Platinum theme introduced in Copland and Mac OS 8) to modern versions of macOS, though I am quite fond of the clean, polished Tiger-era Mac OS X aesthetic. I'm also a fan of the NeXT aesthetic and I sometimes use WindowMaker as a lightweight desktop on Linux and FreeBSD installations, though these days I use KDE whenever I need a full-featured desktop for my daily driver (but I'm keeping an eye on helloSystem, a FreeBSD-based operating system that is inspired by Tiger-era Mac OS X: https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/).
Thanks.

> some lawyers believe trademark law may require active policing and enforcement

That's definitely true. Of course we might observe that it sure is convenient that Trademark lawyers believe you should hire more Trademark lawyers... If this is their honest belief then even if it wasn't true they aren't committing fraud since fraud requires dishonesty. So that's nice.
"Iteratively Inclusive Scaffolding Scripts"
Traffic fascinated me - please post a link to that paper
I see serif fonts and 3d everything on a screen and think “where is my Bartles and James wine cooler?”
The Cold War Plan to Build Earth's Largest Telescope
In other news gay blue-anons gather on faggot news to suck each others dick and stab each other in the ass with their third booster shot.
> I never had computer ram ever fail me, ever in my lifetime, have you?

Yes.
I think this might be mostly upside down.

The cartels are not making money off of weed, or even relatively non-addictive psychedelics for which there is limited demand.

The kinds of drugs they distribute, especially since the boom in synthetics are very harmful.

We have an opioid epidemic that is growing rapidly, not unrelated to basic prescription use. This is happening even in places like Canada, where prescriptions are more tightly controlled.

While some highly conscientious slice of the population can handle some recreational use (i.e. a few burning man friends), even among them there are those that will fall (a highly-paid, professional colleague died of an OD), and among the general population large swaths will be immediately consumed by addiction were drugs to be easily available.

Decriminalization may have some positive effect, but if there are any restrictions at all, the Black market will still be enormous, with the 'legal' activity driving demeand for the illegal - probably the worst outcome.

The amount gained in 'taxes' would be a pittance next to the massive public health crisis, or even the lost wages and productivity. I suggest some material % of the population, say 4-10% would be tied up in this activity at least to some extent, with a large cohort of that group being very adversely effected, and many simply deal.

The social costs of widespread opioids/fentanyl, crack and meth would be disastrous. In the long run I think it would be worse than COVID, while it might entail fewer acute casualties, it would be a severe plague on civility that would be very difficult to unroot. If we increased addiction 20x via legalization, and then had to roll back legalization in order to deal with the crises, the 'cartels' that would appear would have 20x the market.

Especially since the advent of much more powerful synthetics which addicts seem to prefer and demand, there's little doubt we have no choice but to keep these things out of the hands of people. It's a game of Supply and Demand and controlling access points, if we really wanted to do it, I think we could.
> No governor will again decide that my tenants don't need to honor their payment agreements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act#Foreclosure_and_evic...
People prefer not working as well :) 95% of people are happy with no work getting done
I think a couple things.

1/ Have a flavor profile that's targeted towards a demographic you can reach. It's a much easier sell if you have access to an initial distribution channel and that demographic understands immediately what it might taste like.

2/ First customers: I started off with a couple friends, and then guessed where else I might find more like them. Kept trying until I found more. Don't start with paying for ads unless you're doing MVP testing pre-product.

3/ Have a unique flavor that they can't get anywhere else, but is legible (by reading the description, they can kinda imagine it). This may be tough, and your best bet is probably testimonies from your friends.

4/ Don't worry about scaling up initially. Take the time to make sure the product is something people actually want. Be skeptical and look for indicators, cuz your friends will lie to your face. Look for what they do, not what they say: spreading by word of mouth, repeat orders, unboxing on social media without you asking. etc. Work out the product kinks while you're small, because small problems also become big problems at scale.

5/ Work out the order fulfillment process and keep iterating on it. I find it really eats up time when I get an order that I'm not expecting to handle. Be organized and keep track of things.
The team lead seems to carry a lot but has a certain "job safety", so no incentive to share the release process.

In fact the team leader is a "hero" who extinguished a fire caused by other department.
You cannot make absurd claims like yours without any source whatsoever. Please link it below.
Judging from the repository it has a lot of commits so i guess it is being developed.

Also the releases seem to have changed convention since CDE 2.3.0 which was made a few years ago[0] and there have been a couple of releases per year since then. My guess is that there is a new maintainer/team behind it.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/files/src/
For a backup service they have too many ifs and gotchas. I’d personally stay as far away from them.

I’d rather want something that charges more and doesn’t offer that gimmicky unlimited storage and gives me unlimited versioning and external media and doesn’t delete anything as long as I’m paying and am within my storage limit. That simple.

That’s why I preferred CrashPlan which had a desktop app much less polished than Backblaze but they were a true backup service.

So Backblaze Personal Backup service is a bullshit wrapped in a sophisticated app. My aversion to them is on the same lines of of those VPN and cloud storage companies (pCloud, Koofr etc) offering lifetime plans.

And that’s an unsustainable rate!! I mean what else is there to be argued. Data hoarder crowd often use them.

Lifetime, unlimited are one word gimmicks which ought to be treated as red flags on giant billboards.
The housing market may or may not take a turn. But this Zillow story is about incompetency. It smells of some non tech person pitching an AI solution. No need to inspect these homes and neighborhoods, the AI will figure it out.
Zillow on it's decision to wind down Zillow Offers, their iBuying operation
Since when is Joe Rogan considered a science podcast!? I've never seen it advertised, or presented, that way.
It might, when it's too late. But it still shouldn't, because better options exist that prevent a disaster in the first place.
> Respecting someone for knowledge, experience and abilities has long-term value in life

Sure but is that fun? You're still laser focused on sucking value and productivity out of everything.

I spend a MASSIVE amount of time with my coworkers (40+ hours a week!). If they're not fun to work with then I'm leaving.
You might enjoy the crash course youtube channel. I found the pace and depth just about right for my own taste.

Episode on metabolism and nutrition: https://youtu.be/fR3NxCR9z2U
Well I sold my house in Massachusetts, moved to California, and bought a new one this year and I definitely think the extreme liquidity of housing made it much easier, plus without the equity I doubt I would have been able to afford it. But yes obviously it’s not favorable for anyone who doesn’t already own.

I do think there is a place for a service like this even in a less frothy market. Like a trade in for a car, there’s definitely some percentage of people willing to accept a deal that is not the top one if it means they can cash out faster and with less hassle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20521902

The good stories are around the middle.