skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except, it's often not even caused by "people" (i.e. consumers) but by businesses and the general growth-above-all-else mindset: If we could produce a widget at half the resource cost and even if there were no demand for twice as many widgets, companies would try to drive up demand for widgets, then produce twice as many widgets - because this is the only way growth can be realized.
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I have big love for PE. I've learnt so much in the process of trying to solve some of these problems. In particular, number theory and data structures are two fields that I have come to love almost entirely because of this website. I did a random selection of the first 200 problems on my own about a decade ago but ran out of steam as the problems got harder.

Recently, however, I introduced it at work as a way of encouraging the team I manage to work collaboratively. We have a fortnightly catch up where we talk through solutions, pick new problems (we have a script that randomly picks an easy, medium and hard problem, which has become an exciting ritual), and then we have an initial discussion about each of the new problems.

It's a good way to foster group work. It's also a great way to introduce people to using version control and pull-requests in a non-scary way!
>Also, is it a thing among "hackers" to write with tons of mistakes?

Most phishing content isn't made by native English speakers. A lot of it has incorrect grammar/spelling or was just generated by Google Translate.
While it’s definitely an open question as to how this comes about, it’s not exclusive to the Altaic languages. For example, you have multiple unrelated Khoisan languages which all have click consonants.
> This is clearly a military oriented startup.

This is good spit balling take, but an bad top comment. I assume on HN if someone says something is for the military it has to be up-voted without thinking?

> specifically engineered satellites that no existing manufacturer knows how to build.

Your consumer phone could be launched fine as is. Most satellites are not different, this is a known problem with a know solution. There is nothing magical here. Electronics are fine.

> It's a fantastic first strike weapon.

No one wants this. North Korea doesn't want this. It means it will get bombed. They want second strike weapons. Obviously all locations this is at will be well know, to test it has to be fired. Rockets you can just put randomly under 200 tents. https://dailyuknews.com/us-news/china-is-spotted-building-a-...

> This is possible but very expensive, you will need huge structural mass to hold what would appear to be thousands of tons of propelant at 1G.

But you are politically happy to test nukes in this when civilians seem scared of propellant blowing up?

This has clear civilian potential. This has limited military potential outside of the crossover with civilian. The economics is questionable, but if it works it'll be a game changer. It's great people are working on this stuff.
I'm also in France, but in a larger city, but what you said still rings true. I prefer older Thinkpads, as if something breaks I can either fix it myself or take it to just about any computer repair shop on earth and they'll have the ability to repair it. Plus they tend to run Debian with ease.
Innovative products by their definition are very different from one another. So a case study into one is not going to reveal much about another. Honest focus groups might be better to reveal what product may catch on.
What about making biosimilars once a drug is discovered and patented, biosimilars can be made that are similar but different enough.
If you're in a former USSR state there's nothing they can do to you.
Modern software simulations are very accurate for conventional VCO-to-VCA-to-VCF type sounds, but struggle with audio frequency modulation of control voltages. Aaron Lanterman includes an example of this in his excellent lecture series on analog synthesis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZz8PJCfK1c&t=452s
It's a good solution to protect NFTs from being copied as well. I expect it to gain traction.
I didn’t load the site so didn’t know it was 1969. I wouldn’t have asked otherwise, sorry.

Pete was the only one with any sort of normal non janitor life expectations before he joined the band. He was getting further education. None of other Beatles were. His life got chaotic because of The Beatles. He ended up being a janitor. Since that likely wouldn’t have happened if the Beatles had never been a part of his life and some Beatles members (Lennon, Harrison to a degree) get kudos and what not for being good guys, is it really that hard to imagine any of them doing almost any thing for him when they became the biggest band of all time a couple years later? Especially with Epstein still trying to help Pete out in the 60s.

Do the right thing could have been almost anything besides what actually happened before 1995. The remarks The Beatles had made in the decade or two that followed were pretty weak. Pete Best was a suicidal janitor.
As the biggest band in the world and of all time, during their peak, they settled a defamation lawsuit with Pete. The Beatles just being honest would have been better than what they did. Do the right thing could have been as simple as being honest and straight forward and doing what a decent person would do in a vacuum. A lot is rectified by 1995 of course.

Wasn’t Aspinall the guy who didn’t acknowledge the half brother as his child for some time? I believe he has flip flopped his wording before for different things. I’m not saying he’s a bad guy, just adding on to how no one in The Beatles inner circle except Epstein seemed to do what I think people would do in a vacuum.

When all of these people are worshipped beyond belief. Most media and reports about them are going to lean heavily in their favor too. Making it even harder to get the real truth on stuff. This fact is going to be known to everyone close to The Beatles.

This isn’t dissimilar to what happened to Snapchat’s or Twitter’s ousted founders (Twitter’s story is the worst one by far and makes The Beatles and Best look like a fairy tale). Those cases are far worse than Facebook’s Eduardo situation. Yet people find Facebook’s relatively minor incident to be a negative reflection of Facebook and Zuckerberg pretty easily. I am not an exception to this. I fall into this same thinking.

Overall, people can have a pretty easy time finding the actions of founder or early people separations like above to be bad. But exceptions or letting people off the hook can happen when I am a fan of or biased for specific people or entities.

I get I rambled and didn’t stay in any lane. So probably not very cohesive. I also hope I didn’t write anything insulting toward you.
That is precisely what C++ does.
It's not that simple.

I'm using pure Arch Linux since ~8 years by know and for me it's the best suited distro.

BUT two times after a kernel update my system didn't boot because of some bug in the kernel. Sure, not a problem for me, I can just boot the recovery system, downgrade the kernel temporary and all is fine (and the bug gets fixed fast).

But still, even the latest stable release of the Linux kernel sometimes has problems (through that where the only problems I ever ran into with the kernel and it was at the vendored-efi<->linux boundary, and now that I think about it it might have been efistub, so maybe not even there kernel).

Anyway I have in general less problems with software not working on arch then I had on ubuntu.
You can't tie the knot in Rust. Tying the knot creates a self referential structure, which creates an ownership loop.
You can do this with URLs. For instance, I have just the feeds page of my RSS reader bookmarked.
What are the consequences to the poor of removing these subsidies in the short term? It reminds me of Chesterton’s fence. It doesn’t feel like a problem of markets, it seems like a problem of will from people in power. What’s the guarantee that the free market will move in a favourable direction with regards to the environment?
From the About page: “ We focus on entrepreneurs who have been left out of the narrative: women, people of color, and those who are geographically outside traditional power centers.” so maybe?
Yes, and the existence of regular sound changes does not prove anything, since the borrowings could have happened in antiquity.
Schools have had the ability to disable devtools in chrome for at least a couple years
Iter uses superconducting magnets. They are the best superconducting magnets that were available when the design was finalized in 1998. Modern ones are much better.
The Paris agreement has not been kept to.

This agreement will not be kept to.

What will happen is climate change will continue, perhaps accelerating a bit more slowly than it would otherwise have done, becoming more and more destructive and harmful, until the situation is so up-front right-now deadly serious that action is finally taken, by which time action will not matter, because of the huge lag between cutting emissions and reduction in the rate of climate change.

What will be needed at that point is geo-engineering, on a global scale. The technology for this does not exist, it will need to be invented, and then cost-reduced, and then deployed on a global scale on a point-blank timescale - like going from zero to manufacturing every single car in the world in five or ten years. I have no hope this will actually work, and it's madness for civilization as we know it, and to avoid the deaths of billions, to depend upon it.
That's fascinating thread, thanks:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/148
Seems to be a useful feature also when you want to use Chromium as Kiosk software.

I honestly don't get why so many commentators are upset. They are using Google Forms for tests. And these tests leak answers through the source code. Schools are not well funded and this setup itself is not very professional. When you can fix this by giving admins such possibilities, why not?

It's not like your Chrome will prevent you from viewing any sources. As you can also read in the article the restriction can be limited to certain URLs. IT ONLY AFFECTS MANAGED ENVIRONMENTS WHERE ADMINS CAN DO MUCH MORE RESTRICITNG THINGS ANYWAY.
Mail order box mattresses are better than I expected. Keep blankets or blinds over the windows. Keep all artificial light as low as possible. Cold rooms seem better to sleep in. Better to sleep with blankets than to sleep without anything and feel hot.
Good points to save money, but I think they are not Japan specific. Almost all cultures teach something similar.
> Is there some sucessor to keybase?

Depends on the use case. E.g. for raw identity proofs https://keyoxide.org works well but it's not as straightforward to use as Keybase.
You don't need a lot of math knowledge for the first 100 problems of Project Euler, but you do need some aptitude and problem solving ability (rather than knowledge per se). I think getting all 100 has to be pretty hard even if you are good at math. The first 20 or so are pretty doable. They get harder after that. I do know of some people who have gotten them all way beyond 100. I lost interest long before that.
It already is, they're still using Nb-Sn superconductors for ITER. The whole project is a manifestation of the sunk costs fallacy.
I think it's fine if a company can control what I do in their property, real or virtual.

The issue (and I wouldn't say this usually) is government. There need to be updated monopoly laws so that that companies with defacto state-level control over what people do cannot exist or are treated as utilities that everyone had a right to.

And government has to stop restricting people from doing stuff in real life, so that we're not pushed into on online dystopia. Importantly, this includes ready ways for everyone to go about their lives and interactions with government without a need for a smart phone, digital ID, or anything similar. Maybe if governments solve the monopoly problem this can be revisited.
I can't speak to your experience, but my bus driver of many years was a cranky old woman that frequently had to yell at kids to knock something off.

I'm not sure if her being cranky was a cause or effect of the yelling.
> All of human history proves you wrong, but this time is the one time we should ignore history right?

Except all the actual scientists are agreeing with GP.

The "tech will save us" mantra seems to come mostly from business types and libertarian pundits, not from the people actually working on those technologies.
I code in a new/unfamiliar language if I want to learn something new about the "art" or "science" of programming and have fun doing it.

I code in an established language if I want to I'm more interesting in solving a specific technical problem.

As for "what if this becomes a serious project?" question, remember that a rewrite always goes faster than the original.
Between this and the Missouri Governor story, how long until using View Source really is considered "hacking" and a violation of actual law?

This is beyond ridiculous and seriously diminishes my overall faith in humanity.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211021/23033847793/misso...
That's a form of garbage collection. :)
ConstitutionDAO: We’re Buying the US Constitution
I should clarify that I am not against recycling of glass. I actively do it (but then I live in Europe.

I agree that we are using sand at an unsustainable rate.

However I am disputing the assertion that the USA recycling its glass will make a material impact on climate change, compared to switching to nuclear/solar/other
Don't disagree but we are already at the stage where we have the technology to solve climate change , what we have is a problem of status quo-ism
Yes and no. Yes in that the technology will be stale and there will be far superior materials science, electronics, etc, by the time it is online.

No, in that its principle purpose is fusion and plasma research. It'll still be able to do science.
University of Austin sounds a lot like a safe space.
I don't think it's possible for a future to enumerate all the references that belong to it. At the very least it's not obvious to me how that's possible to implement, due to the way lifetime subtyping works.
I would say if you take a room full of programmers and select only the ones who managed to do the first 100 PE problems, you'll lose a lot of good ones that way. But all the ones you do select are almost sure to be pretty good, so in that regard it is an effective filter, plus then you get to complain about a lack of candidates and lobby for more tax breaks or whatever.
Spoofing the user agent is probably the first thing these spam bots would do.
So far I thought you were talking about perceived higher risks because of liability in the US which you thought were unwarranted because a bottle that survives refilling would also survive normal handling by customers (+language that deterred from your point which I critized). Now I don’t know what attitude you are talking about.
Note that seven years ago, Helion said they were three years away from energy positive fusion. Today, they say they're... Three years away from energy positive fusion.
Ask HN: Advice for moving on from a failed startup?
Hello HN,

I am in a bit of dilemma. I started a enterprise software startup with a bunch of friends in college, we got a bit of funding and I dropped out. We did couple hundred k in revenue and raised a bit more but eventually we couldn't make it work. For past 2 years feels like I have been in a zombie startup and want to move on.

For people who have been in the same boat, what did you end up doing? As for getting ready to be in the job market again, what kind of positions did you end up applying for?

I am thinking either:

1) Join a seed/series a startup as a developer and grow with them. Pros of this are this is what I know how to do best and love working in small teams

2) Join a more established bigger co. Pros are a more stable position but not sure it will be an environment i will be able to do well in
Recent and related:

Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170886 - Nov 2021 (126 comments)

View-Source in Chromium - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193561 - Nov 2021 (1 comment)
> Eugenics is not only possible, it’s trivial.

If you select for a single, measurable trait, perhaps. We do this all the time, with limited success, in breeding lab test animals, dog breeds and such.

But for survivability eugenics is hard: there are multiple dice rolls each cycle, not just the chromosomal mixing, but environment too, and that adds not just epigemetic change but different environments for which various traits might be temporarily valuable.

You can see this demonstrated by the inbreeding of the royal houses of Europe. They have recognized this too as they have been widening their gene pool for decades.

Even the magic island experiment described from which I extracted that sentence would suffer under that too.

Selective pressure is hard.
Definitely, though some of the AoC challenges are pretty mathy too, or at least benefit from some basic knowledge around combinatorics, factoring, etc.
I worked in Germany for two years and they use dots: 2021.11.13. I really like this and quickly adopted this syntax myself.

(I guess they do it the other way around though: 13.11.2021.)
Lol the Linux kernel is super flakey. But it moves quick enough it gets fixed when it does flake out.
The year is 2030.

Working remote is now the norm, but things are far from normal. An automated warning appears during my morning login.

"Excessive un metaverse time detected, you have lost 15 performance points."

We all knew not to lose pref points as well called them. No one knew how many points you could lose. Some lost 5 and saw their logins disabled within an hour. A friend of mine had lost 100 over a week, yet hadn't been fired. We knew of no way to gain points. I always theorized the points were meaningless and only served as a way to control staffing levels.

What was my job, I was a customer VR consultant. If a customer was on the fence about upgrading to metaverse pro, I was to show them all of it's features.

"Now with Meta24 you never have to take your headset off, it tracks sleep and can even improve it."

I hated the pitch , it was a matter of time before I got reprimanded for not resting enough.

I didn't mind VR, but the system demanded constant connection. The system's logic was you couldn't be ready for a customer unless connected. We had breaks of course, but these had to be scheduled.

Micro disconnects, a disconnect of less than 30 seconds would lose the same amount of points as taking the headset off for 15 minutes.

Yet I tolerated it, at 7pm exactly I was off work.

I flipped a switch, "Work mode disabled, Mr Jones, the usual"

"Sure, I'm always down for Meta sports, invite my mates for a match"

My weekend begins.
i think we offended some sensibilities, friend.

why is this site so hostile? it seems to be populated by people who object to any form of truth being spoken cause it might offend some folks. sad.
Bash is my favorite hammer in the box too :D
This is sickening. The person who landed this "fix" posted about it couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29171599
I totally agree. After 30h of teaching, (depending on the teacher) around 10h to 40h of preparation per week I don't see any room for dealing with shitty software problems. Simple cheap solutions directly benefit the children.
Not OP but why would you want to use rclone crypt with restic if restic already does the encryption for you.
It seems like a lot of fluff.
I had the same Mac. It crashed sometimes -- enough that "save often" was a habit, but I don't remember it being a productivity problem for me. My grade in English went up from B to A because I have always had trouble spelling and MacWrite had spell check. If the machine had a negative impact on my grades at all it was the distraction it caused by me learning Turbo Pascal on the thing. :-)
well I'll install it and see how long it lasts lol.
We don't have the capability to transfer one's knowledge/wisdom/vision to someone else.

Tim Cook can never think like Steve Jobs.

Bassy can never think like Bezos.

Even sons/daughters of great people inherit the kind of thinking the original GOAT did.

Yeah, it's a natural phenomenon, not assumptions.
Mark Zuckerberg is here to tell you: "We can still make it worse"
>> The schools don't have tons of money just sitting around, so the next step is more taxes.

In a world where communities are experimenting with Universal Basic Income (UBI - which I also think is a sorely broken concept) to redistribute excess wealth to citizens just for breathing, I don't understand how the next step towards funding actual work that we need accomplished is to increase taxes.

The existing funding just needs to be channeled better to the right places. So, I think the next step is actually electing/highering better managers of school funding.
Like it or not, this seems like a pretty easy CFAA case. Sending email through a server you're not permitted to access sounds like it would constitute a CFAA violation.
Why has HN become so hostile to differing opinions?
it seems very hostile here nowadays. i took a hiatus for about 10 years and i come back to a hostile place? why?
Or downloading official Model D app made by Moog for $14.99

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimoog-model-d-synthesizer/i...

It sounds amazing.
> who would ever expect 'view-source' to have a blacklist or be controllable by the web page

This is about enterprise policy in a managed environment. It was already able to block a URL - like https://google.com - but not view-source:https://google.com.

Blocking devtools was already possible.
Did you ever look at a Word document made by a non-STEM teacher?
When was the last time the Linux kernel or the gnu utils broke for you?

For me? Can't remember.
https://twitter.com/MacroScope17/

Institutional trading and Bitcoin.
I worked at Pepsi in the 80s when we were still doing glass bottles. There was an entire line of guys that stood there all day and sorted glass bottle by soda. A 24 bottle tray with random bottles was grabbed at the head of the line and as it went down the line you grabbed the bottles for your stack, Pepsi, Mt. Dew, Diet Pepsi, and so on and put them in a 24 bottle tray of just that flavor. Once you had a full pallet of trays you hit a buzzer and fork lift guy would swing by and grab that whole pallet.

This went on all day, every day. If I recall there were 5 or 6 guys on the line plus forklift guy. And life sucked if one guy was sick.

Then, once all the bottles were sorted they were all put on the bottling line and washed, sterilized and refilled with soda.

Plastic did away with a lot of jobs at the bottling plants. Maybe 20 people per plant? Then the lack of a need to wash and refill glass did away with all the "local" plants that were scattered all over the country to just a handful these days.
Dystopian maybe, but think of the great ROI.
Its a single shell command.

restic -r reponame /path-to-files-to-be-backuped

Everything else in the mentioned script is optional stuff for scheduling, removing old backups, etc.
New Delhi closes schools for a week over toxic smog
For a tree to be an effective long-term sequestered of carbon, you have to ensure the tree never burns or decays. Obviously this can be done; you can sink it in anaerobic water or bury it deep in a mineshaft... but just letting forests grow wild doesn't get the job done anymore. Not since the end of the Carboniferous era. New forests don't make new coal deposits, that's a thing of the past.

Trees are still great though, for innumerable other reasons.