skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other options too. Land reform, for example, would not need to be any more violent than mass evictions.
It's weird that the macOS system UI framework even allows such inconsistencies to slip in. What's the point of using the system UI if it doesn't enforce a common style even for such minor details? I was always under the (perhaps naive) impression that the macOS UI isn't just layers upon layers of dead UI frameworks like on the Windows side and that style changes automatically would carry over to old applications too.
There's a syntax error in the sample code. It should be changed quickly.

> 'chucknorris', // pwned

needs to be

> 'pwned', // chucknorrissed
(!a -> !b) =/=> (a -> b)

Nobody said a job was sufficient to ensure good mental health.
Spy planes over South China Sea likely surveyed nuclear fallout of sub collision
I was trying to say that the claim above me about Tesla wanting to build a "charging monopoly" make no sense whatsoever in the Dutch market.

Furthermore, the few times I've been to a fast charger they were mostly empty or at least not full. Most of the people at my work (who have Tesla's) also rarely visit them because you can charge pretty much everywhere. No need to for a detour if you can just charge at your destination or at home.

Granted, this is still anecdotal, but would Tesla open their superchargers if they didn't have excess capacity? I think probably not, and therefor my theory seems more likely than trying to build a charging monopoly in the country with the most chargers in the EU.
2014/94/EU requires that public charging stations support a common technical standard, ie: CCS.

There is nothing in it that requires Tesla (or any other operator) to make their network available to all makes of vehicle.

However, without an "open" charging network Tesla cannot access government funds for charging network expansion that is available to their competitors.
So when are Apple going to make phones that use the same charging cables as everyone else?
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Your cash position is steadily losing 5% a year to inflation. Probably even more the last year. The discount in the future may be lower than the current price.
Epic pulls plug on Fortnite in China
> a Belgian friend of mine often crossed the streets of Brussels without stopping to look at the traffic, with blind faith they would just stop -- and they did.

In some cities/countries, there's also the fine art of looking without looking like you're looking — some drivers will yeild to you when you have the right of way and they aren't sure you've seen them, but will cut you off if they can tell that you know that they're there.
Rivian plans to price shares up to $62, putting valuation near $55B
That in itself would require a communist revolution.
You’re shifting the argument, which was about financial institutions in functional markets.
I've been burnt out with the current state of work.
I work for a japanese cloud robotics company and have been witness to a great long term idea being plagued by bad management and strategy.

To manage my headspace, have been doing the following

1. Writing.
Realising the value of communication for teams, have been writing up a lot of my learning into a series of documents which talk strategy and decision frameworks for CXOs.
I share with a close-knit group of startup founders and product managers in Bangalore. The problems seems pervasive in Indian startups in their growth stage after their series a. specially with the funding spree and the need for hyper-growth.
So talking to peers and collating knowledge has been the only way to stay sane :)

2. Gardening and hydroponics. Health in general, but the issue of getting good produce for a clean diet has always been a neglected aspect of my life. My wife and I decided we wanted to spend some time disconnected from devices. Gardening just happened and we haven't looked back since.
Its become a routine thing and there is satisfaction in plucking your produce and tending to it.

3. Reviving some of the projects I had worked on in the past but got shelved and opensourcing them.

- Low cost IoT WiFi connected 4 node Energy Monitor + Switch. This was a PCB design + firmware + plus the Backend + Frontend+Analysis service + ML models to detect anomalies as well as predict usage.

- A self hosted algolia alternative for User Docs.
Not really. It just means that a plumber makes 1e-30 of the new money in a given economy (some small amount, point is, it is relative to the money supply). If he gets a raise (not one individually, obviously) that needs to be canceled out with the new money increasing.

The problem being if you get into a circle raise -> more new money -> goto 1 it may be hard to slow it down.

In reality nobody wants money. They want houses, food, education, children, ... each of those also represent a relatively constant fraction of the money supply of an economy. So you can only get a raise by actually doing more work, or in the case of the government jobs, having more hostages/threats (if you fire me X will happen, X being somewhere between a fight over who replaces you, to new elections, to I guess revolution in some extreme cases).

This is not very visible because plumber wages DO change, for example with the number of plumbers available. House prices do change, for example with migration. But wages do not change, in real terms, because of inflation. A raise is a necessity, merely for you to maintain whatever position you have in society. It is not nice, in that it improves your position in society. A house, ownership, maybe stocks and of course innovation improves your position. Raises and inflation are a smokescreen.

I use the term "new money" because "parked money" does not matter. Only money that was involved in some transaction in the recent past actually matters. We can argue about what measure is the best for this, and economists constantly do that, but other than that it's not simply total money, it is not necessary to have an answer for this point.
I doubt they will care whether they are selling energy to you in the form of gasoline or electricity, as long as they make a buck.

It’s like saying telecoms won’t provide internet services because it might eat into SMS and phone call fees. So far that hasn’t been true - where I stay at least.
I think we need to do defense in depth more. There was a funny pic in one of the sysadmin subs about buying firewalls from everyone and putting them in a chain, with each firewall labelled with which nation state compromised it. The joking idea being that sure, the U.S. has backdoors into your Cisco gear, but it you put that behind a Huawei firewall they may not have the backdoors to both, add in a Russian firewall and then an intruder needs all three. Funny but I think not so ridiculous these days if you are paranoid.
Toy companies aren't systematically eroding privacy at every opportunity. A child is not able to understand the implications of using FB.

Hell, outside of technical circles, I doubt most adults are able to truly understand the scope of what FB does!
Spain trows Musicians into jails for criticizing the King...
Your example which is why everyone in this thread has been bending over backwards to emphasize that certain services (like medical ones) should aim for full reliability.

Suppose twitter/reddit/HN shut down for 10 hours a day.
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Why on earth do you want/need that much cash?
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Probably try to get your visa anyway, despite what you've heard.

Do what you can do, and hope for the best.
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fix incentives
Marketing on HN is not cool
this might be the AWS equivalent of Tesla.
It's mostly marketing of aws employees and professionals that built their career around aws price and complexity.

A great idea to be honest, the market willing to overpay for server will probably be able to pay more to you.
Wait till DAI gets backed by real estate bonds.
exactly right. REPL is a key feature for computational scientists. in physics, for example, the value proposition of python was that it provided an open source alternative to matlab (also a REPL based environment) without sacrificing functionality. i believe that the really revolutionary thing with python was that it provided an extremely fertile ground for open source development of numerical methods that far exceeded what was offered on matlab in syntax that resembled pseudo code (much like matlab). julia's value proposition is all of that, plus a much more performant base language with arguably even better syntax
My cash position is short term though. Less than a year for sure.
> Saying that sacrificing uptime is a good thing for achieving a particular goal is a take that's so wildly out of line with what most of the industry believes is refreshing, because it really makes you think. What would the world look like, if instead of being obsessed with SRE we simply assumed or accepted that there will be downtime, and treated it like something perfectly normal.

My bank's website has been down for maintenance for 24h this week-end. And French government website for declaring VAT will be down for a few hours tomorrow.

Many people still consider downtime as normal. It's not trendy to talk about it, but downtime isn't such a big deal. (Going down because you cannot handle your peak load is very bad though)
The “4 per 1000” Initiative
>despite the fact that I have a full time job and family

In another comment you wrote:

>I dropped to 24 hours/week and have a much better life quality now, working 3 days per week.

Still remarkable, so congrats, but full time normally is considered to be 40 hours / week, 5 days per week.
I do every day, smaller bakery (no chain), they don't take cash anymore since COVID.
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> go straight to green energy can they not?

No they cannot.

We cannot even get Switzerland - small, rich, smart, friendly, good infrastructure, top class law, surrounded by mountains and water, etc. etc. to renewables in a decade.
Humankind
I just wonder how much energy does it take to serve content over TLS/SSL. Maybe that's another factor to consider when building a "low tech" website.
This varies tremendously by city/county within Europe. For example, there are some German cities where crossing a road anywhere other than at a marked crossing not only risks a fine but also will earn disapproving looks from other pedestrians (something I haven't encountered in the states, though I'm not ruling out the possibility that it could occur somewhere).
> I wonder if some data center workers received a list of serial numbers that had to fail in the next few days and get decommissioned.

We are talking about dozens of data centers here, thousands of server racks, across half a dozen different companies and geographically spread pretty much all over the US.

Pulling that off would require a massive conspiracy involving hundreds of people, in addition to China being able to manufacture magic super tech that's even too advanced for the US.

> There's no way of knowing.

Sure there is a way of knowing: Show such a server board with such a super spy chip. But as long as we lack such extraordinary evidence such extraordinary claims should be taken with a massive grain of salt and not given the benefit of the doubt.

Particularly when they come out of a government/industrial complex that has a rich history of lying and making up stuff to serve their particular foreign policy narrative.
it hasn't for years afaik
Keep in mind that you can't throw a 60ish mph knuckleball without having the ability to throw a mid 80s fastball
I think "reverse culture shock" covers it somewhat.
I cant speak to atlanta, but the police where I am (rural) and the beat cops (guys walking around) in bigger cities are generally friendly, especially if you are polite.

If the officer in a bigger area isn't a beat cop or stopping for a break, it isn't unreasonable that he was actually busy. Or, he was just a jerk and, like all humans, you'll find those in varying degrees anywhere you go.
If the dashcam shown the driver following too closely and failing to brake in time, I'm not sure a dashcam will help. But sure you can't reverse into someone.
Not yet, but new regulation is coming that forces all new chargers from 2023 onwards to sell to all car.

"The right to build a charger comes with responsibility to service electricity to any EV car."

The EU, and in particularly Germany, is strongly nudging Tesla that, if they do it now, then right now at least they can do it in their own terms, and existing experience can flow into legislation.

If they wait, then they will need to complain with whatever is legislated, and without any experience, they won't have a seat at the table (while other EV charger systems with experience will).
> maybe using static compression could help.

Maybe but that's not a trivial question to answer: the linked article is 236K, gzipping yields 88K (84 at -9, brotly results in 68), so the questions become:

* how much energy does the extra 148K (/ 152 / 168) cost, aka once you've factored in the initial handshake what is the efficiency per byte of the transfer

* how much does decompression cost on the client side

* what is the mix of clients accepting each compression algorithm (and what is the overlap)
Neither of those events were recessions by most definitions. The .com bubble was very specific to one industry.
A PhD is pretty much the minimum to be able to get much of anywhere in biology. In that context it's "don't do a postdoc, you'll never get a tenured position anymore".
Well, UK is not EU anymore.
> * I want them to see the sort of things their parents are interested in

This is one thing smartphones have destroyed and no one ever mentions. From the ouside you can't know what someone is doing when they are on their phone. That's ok when it's strangers in the underground.

But at home 90% of what my wife does is on her phone whether it be reading, watching photos, shopping, ... and to me it's a sort of inaccessible world.
This. Also because if your energy source is solar, who cares if you're using a bit more power to provide extra reliability?

Heck, even just charging a battery with the extra solar power would provide better reliability.

I totally agree on saving power for users given that's a energy cost you pay N times - albeit I'd prefer some better defaults (in terms of colours and fonts).

I guess we need a better, lightweight browser.
EU is currently in the process of making USB-C charging mandatory. Apple is still in denial but they will follow suit eventually, in the EU at least.
Bash is easily more powerful as a programming language than basic, but basic is far more straightforward.

There are a much smaller number of special non-obvious tricks or special syntax to know in basic, while most of bash's features are invoked by arcane special syntax.

It's not necessarily easier to get something done in basic, but it's easier to understand what to do, and easier to read someone else's program and follow what does.

There must be more to it than the features of any language itself too. Many versions of basic are there to play with today, for free, and easy. The computer doesn't just boot to it directly, but I don't think that's all that important for the jump start. I think even getting the first print statement to actually work took a bit more effort for me that it would take today to google "how to program" or something to get to some sort of shell or interpreter prompt.

People are actively funnelled into being only consumers since decades ago.

Or maybe it's the same today as ever. There is no more Heathkit but there are certainly many modern equivelents. Maybe it was only a small percentage of people then who would build a Heathkit then, and a similar percentage today who trawl aliexpress for maker toys.

Maybe one difference is I think there is a lot more use of copyright and warranty or even insurance & liability to prevent people from tinkering. It's been a progressive process getting more common over time and the norm has changed over time. Now, every random thing in your life is presented to you as being a thing you may only use in limited procribed ways. Not only that things no longer come with tool kits and schematics, they are even suing people for growing plants from seeds from food you bought in the store. You may eat the vegetable, not put it into some dirt!

Even if your computer today does have access to a world of programming tools, you have just been trained never to be curious about the possibility in the first place, so it never even occurs to you to even look. Not everyone even has that much curiosity to begin with, and those that do are starved and stunted so it never develops.

And of course if all you have is a phone then forget it.
I've read (and probably written) many a playbook that has dated badly.

In many cases having the playbook was worse than no playbook at all because it drove me down some blind alleys ("oh yeah we stopped using that acccount for X months ago..."). You can often not be certain if it's you who did something wrong or a bug in the playbook, especially if some elements are vague.

In other cases I've written a playbook, somebody else has read it and missed step 4 and we've together spent many hours tracking down the issue in a playbook that ought to take 5 minutes to go through if run consistently. And conversely ive done the same thing - we are all. fallible.

I think even for tasks that are run infrequently code automation can be more cost effective because it can avoid the above scenarios by being executed consistently and failing noisily and obviously.
Looking at my vegan friend who likes having a different processed not-meat each day while I'm having more protein in my bowl of oats, the difference seems to be more about lifestyle. He actively calls himself a vegan and actively seeks vegan things like the processed products and magazines about veganism, whereas I just like oatmeal and we both don't care that both meals are equally vegan.
You haven't actually provided any evidence in any of your responses, just arguments and hypotheticals.
Is there any short form version of something someone can read to get a sense of the value you’re seeing? I followed this conversation with interest, but still find myself unenlightened as to what there is I haven’t understood yet about the space. Whenever I talk to a proponent it seems very theoretical.

There are often analogies to the early internet, but I was alive then and remember some of the early, tangible use cases which had me hooked:

* You can look at Nintendo’s website. It has information about games, which you are currently getting from magazines (my first exposure)

* You can buy books you can’t buy locally (Amazon)

* You can mail a friend from another location, for free (hotmail, gmail)

* You can call a friend in another country, for free (skype)

* You can call a phone in another country, for cheap (skype)

What are some crypto equivalents, today, that would convince someone who is not already invested in crypto that they need to get into crypto to use it?

E.g. saying “you can get a loan of 66% of your Bitcoin holdings!” is a use case for people already in crypto.

I would also exclude stablecoin yields because the risks there are massive, and there exist plenty of investments with high risk and high return in normal land.
> Slowly, methodically, and with minimal user impact.

I am confused. Isn't the article about an individual just randomly deciding to deprecate which and the resulting fallout that impacted all of Debians users?
Where did you read this about some planning to scrap their computer line? Very interested in reading more about this.

Fwiw I do think we'll be seeing new OSes. New lines of thought are still emerging like NixOS which combines infrastructure as code principles to the desktop.
It's interesting but the site design is very poor. It looks fake like pretty much every other content regurgitating site out there
African Union, not African National Congress.

Having spoken to someone involved in the investigation, it really did happen but like anything this politically sensitive it was quickly hushed up to avoid making it more of a diplomatic incident. The AU had tried to prevent the news from leaking in the first place.

That's quite typical for espionage, where unless there's a desire to publicly burn a few bridges countries would rather have it handled quietly through regular diplomatic channels.
It's not even just Linux - way back in the mid 90s there was an agreement among UNIX vendors to use the "LP64" model for 64 bit architectures, and ILP32 was already the de facto standard for 32 bit UNIX-likes, so "long can hold a pointer" is somewhat of a tradition in the POSIXy world.
It really depends, I'm shooting for >10 acres at the moment, but I'd prefer more like 40 with an even mix of timber and agricultural. Chickens, a couple of dairy cows, some grain crops and a substantial vegetable garden, hopefully some fruit trees and grapes.

As far as "need" goes for my goals, probably could get by with 5 acres of agricultural and 5 of timber to have a sustainable firewood and food supply, but that assumes no buffer from your neighbors, which is probably not a good plan.
You're talking about situations of what is essentially a de jure monopoly on a critical need. People sign up for COVID vaccines and file their taxes to avoid being screwed.

In places with competition the customer is the one who decides whether you are screwed. Is downtime from social media or news rather trivial? The business deadliness of downtime is different from the societal deadliness of downtime, but what significance this takes on is up to the customer to say, and the customer develops expectations based on the competition.
Smash them with a rock. If they don't break, the rock isn't heavy enough. If the nut gets smooshed as well as the shell, the rock is too heavy. Iterate until you find the perfect rock and then hold onto it like a sea otter.
Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
There are fewer btc transaction opportunities now as transaction costs have gone up.
This feels a bit like counting the amount of coffee you drink when calculating carbon footprint, or a bit like code golf aiming for 1KB of executable size.

Makes more sense to do the 80/20 approach, 20% of work to get 80% of results sustainability wise and the move on to the next.
When those Ubisoft servers go down for good, the pirated copies of those games will be the ones preserved forever instead of the release ones.