skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Seattle anyway, 90% of the homeless are either drug addicts or alcoholics. Becoming one is a choice under your control, not god smiting you.

> Working in software

is a heluva lot better than stoop labor, what people have done for millennia. Every time I work on the yard I'm reminded again at how hard stoop labor is, and how I'm glad to work sitting in a comfy chair in a warm house with the stereo playing in the background. And I can play on HN when waiting for the test suite to run.
I've had M-x emacs-uptime hit nearly 200 days before. It takes a little effort to get used to that style of working, but it's definitely handy once you do. (Also, I

alias ec="emacsclient -n"

in my shell.)
I'm talking about Commonwealth and Tokamak Energy, which use fields quite a bit stronger than ITER, taking advantage of newer superconductors than ITER.

The relevant scaling law is that tokamak energy output goes up with the fourth power of magnetic field strength. According to the presentation I linked, that allows ITER-level output from a reactor a tenth the volume of ITER.

Assuming that works out, a reactor somewhere between those two sizes should get us to commercial levels.
I think Nix is most poised.

If you don’t have a way to do immutable infrastructure, Ansible is still extremely alive.
He should take a few community college classes. They're very cheap and by interacting with people he will regain some perspective on what is considered modern technology and informatics.
Take a breathe...hold....and exhale...now go take another pass at the article, you're far off from it, its basically an answer to the questions you're raising. Then riff on this:

The reply, and article, reference CFS, a public/private initiative by MIT, where the gentlemen whose laws you are referencing had a major breakthrough via a materials science breakthrough that allows the ITER magent you're discussing to be produced a couple orders of magnitude smaller, changing all of the problems.
Asking this question pretty much reveals what you’re going to recommend. Obviously, I’m looking for opinions about: “CCP good, or CCP bad?”
I wrote an essay about this for my AP Chem test in high school. I still remember this question almost 25 years later!
> A job is just how you happen to get them

I happen to enjoy my job very much. I'd feel useless and bored without it.
> 100 years from now, people will recognize the name "Linux Torvalds".

Yeah, and probably exactly like that.
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
Bash has some subtleties around loops that can be frustrating, like the body of your loop _may_ actually be running in a subshell (common when iterating over a file), making it difficult to extract what you want from it.
> Looking across the street every day in California and seeing the homelessness crisis in full swing is an ever present reminder of what this economy and this society can do to you if you slip up for even a second and / or have even a minor run of bad luck. Working in software isn't always easy or fun or fulfilling but its still an incredible privilege to be working in this industry.

I'm a senior software engineer with decades in the industry, but a few years ago I completely burned out, ended up addicted to alcohol, and lost everything.

And when I say lost everything, I mean everything. I ended up in a homeless shelter.

Climbing out from there to get back into the industry was an insane battle. I finally got control over all of it and back on my feet, but I have a new found respect for just being able to keep a roof over my head and pay bills now.

That's all I want. I use my free time to give back to society now.
Not surprising.

If you're a guy, you're gonna be watching people doing work or creating things.

If you're a gal, you're gonna be watching more relationship/people oriented content.

All over the world, men are fascinated with these kinds of activities. I've seen men being fascinated by these things in every country and continent I've ever been on. I guess in Riccione, its more of a tradition to stand a look every day.

I'm a programmer, but I'm watching videos about

Construction, road painting, lawn care, truck driving, metalwork and CNC, factories, farming -- yeah, some relationship stuff too. But in general, that's the differences in genders when it comes to this stuff.

No one should be surprised.
Your submissions sure do all follow a certain theme. A "narrative", if you will.
How many of the most-popular non-game mobile apps are just shells around a mostly web interface. I can think of quite a few.
This is a nice start at standardizing basic IoT device security; other highlights:

- manufacturers must tell customers up front about the lifespan of security patches and updates
- manufacturers must provide a public point of contact for vulnerability disclosure
Nice job on the tech, that's really great.

This problem as described sounds to me a lot like a subjective lack of energy toward the tools and methods one might use to understand themselves or the world around them. I hope that's similar to what you're getting at with the term "loss of perspective".

A quick way to regain energy-footing is to realign with the problems in one's own life. Start from the subjective. Exposing oneself to the rush of fear as one describes what they're currently up against in life. The product ought to be a list.

Then: What tools does one need to take on those problems? What technologies, systems, algorithms, or research may help? Can the tools help define the problem, measure it, or publish about it?

At this point the product ought to look like a list of optional actions, some of which will naturally seem more interesting than others, so some ranking is done.

From here there is an opportunity to tap into the potential energy and dive into something. However in the early stages the risk is in lack of diversification. It will be important for the individual to return to the listing activities later and provide themselves with new energy-building directions and opportunities. Otherwise the same problem can result again without an important meta-lesson learned.

Just an idea for starters, in case it helps. Good luck and way to go.
evilmaid.crypto
> tokens that are used to give attendees a way to prove their record of life experiences.

I swear, if all the crypto people would just take a step back and take a good long look at what they are doing, graphics card prices would be back to normal in 4 weeks.
Alternative title: “All the things that make it so that I can experience typing this into something we call a computer.”
Not here. Take this divisive nonsense somewhere else. [0]

From [0]

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I'd visit London on business in the 80's, the homeless were very much present and visible. The concierge at the hotel told me not to leave the hotel before 6AM (I had jet lag and was headed out for a walk) because I'd be easy meat.
I found Dune hard to get into, although I loved the film.

But I think we're getting into just differences of opinion, so firm handshakes all around.

I'm glad there's more out there to read every day!
That’s a GOP talking point, not science.

The science says the opposite:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/should-you-get-vaccinated-if...

> And even if you have lots of natural immunity, getting vaccinated significantly boosts your chances of staying healthy, according to data published last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency studied more than 7,000 people, and found that unvaccinated people who’d recovered from Covid were five times as likely to catch it again, compared to people who got two doses of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna.

[…]

> Combining vaccination with natural immunity gives you a “hybrid immunity,” which provides even more protection than vaccination alone — sending your antibody levels to “astronomical levels that outpace what you get from two doses of vaccine alone,” Rishi Goel, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told Nature last month.
From the resignation letter:
> We recommend that the broader Rust community and the future Mod Team exercise extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof) claiming to illuminate the situation.

I should have been clear in my comment that it wasn’t about trust in general but just this situation
Sure, but all of these will use way less of us tech people no matter what happens. Once the entire advertising/selling product chain collapses, the tech world is in for a ride.
Do we need Undefined Behavior?
>I'm wondering why we don't start producing mRNA vaccines targeting this other variant now.

People are developing mRNA vaccines for 'flu now. Moderna, Pfizer and Sanofi all have mRNA 'flu vaccines in clinical trials, and there are a bunch more in the pre-clinical stages.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-021-00176-7
I will confess to playing to the choir! A choir usually sings a more complicated tune or at least more enthusiastically than the rest of the congregation in a church. I'm wittering on about Christianity but I'm pretty sure all religions will have a similar saying.

I wish I was more proficient in other languages but I think I am pretty useful in English, which I particularly delight in abusing! That's the thing: you can twiddle around with it and still be intelligible. Twiddle around: It'll work.

English (other languages are available) is very, very flexible and that's one of the reasons why it is currently French ... err the lingua franca. English doesn't just borrow words, it actively goes out and steals them. That sounds a bit suspect but I like to think that we also cherish our ill gotten gains.
You and I clearly have different expectations for "a decent VPS"...

(I have a "One time cost access forever!" VPS, which varies me $9/year "maintenance fees", which I'm happy enough with for the money, but it's definitely "Useful for the price" rather than "decent".)
I have a single POAP I got at a conference, and I do enjoy seeing it in my crypto wallet from time to time. It reminds me of the good times I had at that conference. I stumble upon it more often than the conference badge I keep in my office.

So it's neat. I ignore the over the top marketing, and will collect more in the future if it's practically zero extra effort to do so.
SpaceX has done 130 launches from Falcon 9 demo onward.

This includes 25 Dragon cargo launches (24 successful, and include two COTS demo launches) and 5 crew dragon launches, (two demo, one in-flight abort test, and 2 operational launches). There have been a few unmanned NASA launches.

So, it's not really correct to say NASA is what's holding them up. They have launched a lot of comsats for other companies, defense payloads, smallsats, foreign government launches, and 29 Starlink launches.
New Zealand, at least the South Island, had quite a few when I was there 15 years ago. They are used to pen sheep and also deer, although I’m not sure what kind of deer. They are smaller than deer found in North America, and venison is sold in many supermarkets alongside lamb and other meat products.
> Becoming one is a choice under your control

To an extent. Some people are predisposed to addiction and the poor are much less likely to have the knowledge or support required to recognise or battle addiction.
This explains why YouTube channels like Andrew Camarata's [0] have a million plus subs. Something about watching people work is fascinating.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewCamarata/featured
While I'm generally inclined towards pessimism when it comes to new technology, there is something to be said for when billions of dollars start being invested in a large number of companies chasing the same dream.

One could argue that these funds are being poorly invested, but that begs the question: why now? Why didn't we see this money being 'thrown away' 10, 15, 20 years ago? What's changed that those with the means to make such investments believe that now is the right time to be putting money into long shots?

And so I'm left to have one simple hope: maybe the very rich people have hired people smarter than me to assess if there's a chance in hell this will work. It sure seems like a lot of people suddenly think they can do it.
New coronavirus variant in South Africa raises concern
Cry wolf. Again.
In the US they are mailed to members of Congress.
I really liked fish when I used it but unfortunately the non-compliance with other shells is just too much hassle given the feature set (autocomplete is cool but I always know when I have python3 vs python4), like not being able to just copy paste “export VAR=…” from the web like I have been my whole life.
> His most famous, and most controversial, work was “Iron John,” which made the case that American men had grown soft and feminized.

What a bizarre take on Iron John.

First of all, Iron John is a work of amateur folklorology written in a poetic style. It's an extended meditation on a particular folk tale. As any student of folklore knows, the same folk narratives reappear across many time periods and cultures in different guises. That's part of what makes the field so fascinating. There's no direct reference in Iron John to "American men" or anything like that, although there are mentions of America in the same way that he also refers to medieval Norse culture, Polynesians, etc.

Second, if anything, Iron John is about recovering the divine masculine from the toxic wasteland of caricatured and commercialized masculinity. Bly's work is a complement, not a riposte, to the important work feminist writers have done in recovering the divine feminine. To reduce his work to making a case that men have "grown soft and feminized" is to fall into the same farce that Bly was fighting against.

Bly advocated for men to explore their psyches and deep feelings. Iron John connects men to eternal themes of masculinity through the lens of folk tales. Yes, some of those themes have to do with "traditional masculinity," e.g., being a warrior. But he does so with nuance and care, never by denigrating or attempting to confine women, and always while recognizing men's vulnerability.

If I were to summarize Iron John's main theme, it's that the inner child in men must eventually escape the metaphorical mother to discover the "inner hairy wild man" or "Iron John," which Bly describes as the masculine analogue to the feminine "inner hairy wild woman." It's a story about adolescence at its core. It's not even necessarily about biological sex or cisgendered identity, although Bly doesn't go out of his way to accommodate trans people or other gender expressions. (It's not exactly a work that's aged perfectly well.)

There are valid reasons why one could critique Bly's work. Some polemical claim about American men growing "soft" isn't one of them.

RIP, Mr. Bly.
MediaTek's latest D9000 is pretty cutting edge.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/world-first-tsmc-4nm-chipset...

Should also be more affordable than the Qualcomm equivalent.
If you didn't have to worry about money, you'd have ample time to find fulfilling hobbies to occupy your time.

You could even do all the parts of your job that you enjoy, while skipping all the unpleasant parts of it.
A couple past submissions:

Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807963 - Dec 2015 (26 comments)

Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=738697 - Aug 2009 (1 comment)
Actually watching construction in Italy may seem very interesting. Where else in the world can you watch buildings from 300 A.D. close to classical and gothic architecture combined with modern engineering techniques?
Probably, because most of the time when coding, you think, and do not type. Also you can do so much other stuff in a whole month. It might not really be worth it to spend a month on something, that improves speed of an activity, which is a small fraction of what you do while coding (perhaps it is!). Sure, if you do not plan to improve on other things, then that month might be well spent learning how to type faster/better/more precisely.

I tried to write this without looking at the keyboard, while usually I look every now and then. Worked quite well. I guess it is about forcing the habbit of reassuring yourself of pressing the correct keys to stop. I made lots of typos, but removing and writing again, I could get rid of them.
Bigger fool theory. We don't hear about those who lose everything.
>I don't understand why gas stoves are so popular when you have to pull them to bits and scrub down after every use if you don't want them looking like crap.

Because that literally isn't a concern for almost everyone who has one? I clean mine once a week.
> Appeal to authority is not a logical fallacy, although some people argue that it is.

I mean, it is a logical fallacy. An expert isn't right only because he's an expert, he's right only when the evidence supports his position. Do all experts only make conclusions based on evidence, or do other beliefs factor in? I think the answer is clear, hence the fallacy.
10% of what people? That doesn't match up with any stats that I'm aware of. Unless you mean "it kills up to 10% of people within certain population demographics" which is my point- and it's entirely uninteresting.

I think US public health officials and generally in europe the leadership all pursued the most reasonable path and it's unlikely we could have reduced the overall death load significantly through any intervention short of extreme isolation. It is very unlikely that mainstream science will conclude, in a decade, that we could have taken actions that would have greatly reduced the spread and impact, without also applying highly restrictive rules.
> But: why would a loaf of bread take up much space? The "packaging" there is just a bit of paper, and it has much higher density than most vegetables, I think?

I dont think vegetables are an accurate comparison. By listing bread and cereal, I was thinking specifically of common north american breakfast/lunch foods which are largely starch-based, and quite low density. As comparators I was thinking of dried rice and pasta, which are quite dense when transporting home from the grocery store.

> I.e. a loaf is enough bread for 4 people for a couple days,

I clearly eat a lot more bread than you :) I eat two or three (smallish) loaves a week for just me (often toast+peanut butter for breakfast, sandwich of some variety for lunch, and maybe another slice at some point for a snack)
That’s so cool! Not only you touch type, you also do not need to look at the screen!
I created my own job by starting my own business, which I enjoyed a lot and it paid well.
Producing more is not always an option, sometimes it is not even desirable. Obesity is already a major health hazard throughout much of the First World, and overconsumption in many forms drives our unsustainable stripping of planetary resources.

Consider two people who make violins, where their costs are comparable but one is widely deemed vastly superior to the other. Musicians would be willing to pay a hundred times more for the superior instrument, but the cost plus mandate requires they be sold at roughly the same price. The incentive to achieve this much higher level of skill at violin making is far lower than if we allow willing customers to vote with their wallets.
It's more "why not write scripts?" Actually making use of a shell's control structures is code smell until we have far better shells than we currently do. They're optimized for user interaction, not necessarily anything else.
Qantas to be first airline to reward frequent flyers for being more sustainable
B.1.1 decendant associated with Southern Africa with high of Spike mutations
> Unless you mean "it kills up to 10% of people within certain population demographics" which is my point- and it's entirely uninteresting.

Then I don't think we're going to end up being in agreement. To me the world isn't a science experiment where some outcomes are interesting and others are uninteresting when it comes to the deaths of millions of people. Call me a softie if you wish.
Ansible + Terraform is basically the modern infra stack if you’re not on k8s.
>In Seattle anyway, 90% of the homeless are either drug addicts or alcoholics

That's a big claim to make. Do you have any sources?
It might be a bit distracting, depending on the person. Personally, I am still thinking about stuff and perhaps seeing the image on the screen or another one of some concept in my mind, when I check the keyboard. Sometimes it might even help to not look at that screen for a moment.
When the British colonised India they had an 1,100 mile long hedge to stop salt 'smugglers' (who were really just Indians trying to do their thing while being oppressed)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Hedge-India-Quest-Wonders/dp/...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/colonial-india-british...
No, it's not a logical fallacy. Nor would the fact that experts don't make conclusions purely on evidence mean their citing their statements fallacious.

For any given scientific question, select two populations. One populaton is enriched in subject matter experts, while the other is selected at random. Have them make blind predictions about scientific facts. It is not fallacious to sdtate that the first group's predictions will have a higher posterior probability.
I saw this posted by /u/dom96 on another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29345988.
You can also buy a 3d printed desktop Umarell here: https://www.superstuff.it/prodotto/umarell/?lang=en

Fun!
Past related threads:

The Classic Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23723112 - July 2020 (47 comments)

How to design a good toaster with lessons from the 1940s [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363646 - May 2020 (17 comments)

An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164014 - Oct 2019 (232 comments)

Also slightly related:

Toaster Central: Antique and Vintage Toasters and Waffle Irons - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432144 - Nov 2019 (7 comments)
One interesting thing is that traditionally English hedges were not trimmed, but woven. It was significantly more labor intensive, but resulted in a much stronger barrier.
True, Prot is the man
> Is it still not possible to switch WSL versions for a Linux distro running on Windows Server?

Yeah, on Windows Server WSL2 is explicitly made not accessible.
> get cash flow by borrowing against it

but they'd have to pay interest on that borrowing, and presumably, these interest from borrowings for daily life and consumption is not tax deductible (or only the portion related to an investment expense could be deducted).

Therefore, to pay that interest, they'd either have to borrow even more, or sell some equity to pay. The current taxation scheme encourages this, because if the person's consumption is lower than their wealth's growth, they would want to reinvest their excess, and this is the most efficient way to do so without the state taking away a large portion from taxation.
You picked the wrong numbers in the lotto in March of 1997, so why don’t you keep your opinion to yourself?
Cloudflare's answer to S3 (free egress, cheap storage).
How to tell whether fusion-powered electricity is 10 years away:-

1. Lazard has published a (favourable) preliminary levelised cost of energy assessment for it.

(2. Which implies that there have been convincing demonstrations.)

3. Fusion companies are spending their time on working with regulators and explaining their systems to investors (manufacturing, construction, operation, decommissioning and disposal), and their money on bringing up core systems and assuring the public that it is safe.