skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "federated" reboot of C2 has been mostly a failure. Decentralization was a solution looking for a problem. I hope Ward reverts it back to normal. The real problem was bouncer management (riff-raff policing), something replication and decentralization can't fix because it just replicated riff-riff. Some unfortunate person or thing still had to clean it up by studying and tweezering content.
This is honestly the most original take I've ever seen on handling picky kids, and despite it being sort of in jest I can't help but think there's some potential validity. Kids tend to be pretty easy to manipulate when it comes to food (e.g. "broccoli is tiny trees!"), as long as you can find the fulcrum point from which to pivot the presentation. I hadn't considered the choice/reinforcement aspect of this before, and will keep it in mind as a harmless test concept!
People are fleeing the lockdowns on the coasts. Also, Pelosi and Obama just bought ocean front/an island for 10s of millions, so even they don't believe the seas rising is a threat anytime soon.
Before I started using 1Password I used to do the same thing.
$2.50 labour cost per item seems exaggerated.
If the worker gets ~$10 minimum wage, that means they are making just 4 sandwiches an hour?
In many cases they don't. I'm a PM at FAANG but the process is roughly similar in that you do a generalist interview loop. Most PMs work on consumer products so the questions are commonly stuff like [highly simplified for example purposes] "how would you grow the userbase of a new photo sharing app" or "Which is more important, growth or retention and why?"

I have some colleagues who are career enterprise and infrastructure PMs and they tell me it's very frustrating to have tons of very valuable expertise and then get asked a question about Tik Tok in an interview. I've also heard from SWE friends that they self-identify as a backend/infra engineer to the recruiter, only to show up to the interview and be asked to create a webpage from a mock and some specs. tl;dr FAANG has not figured this out yet.
Depends on how the heat is produced and how comfortable you want to make it, but in round numbers I would expect heating the car in a snowstorm to eat up about half the battery capacity every 24 hours. I still keep emergency blankets and I would run the heater as little as possible.
So knowing that the smoking is very likely to kill them directly doesn't convince them not to smoke, but knowing that they can't get a transplant would? That doesn't make much sense
As of 2018, 16 states in the US spend over $15K per student[1]. The US average is either nearly 13k[1] in 2018 or over 14k[2] in 2017.

Only 3 countries in the OECD spend $15k or more[2].

1: https://ncses.nsf.gov/indicators/states/indicator/public-sch...

2: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
Humans breed like any other animal, not sure why people take offense to pointing out biological processes. Mates get selected based on environmental factors and fitness, and increasingly, social status. In the future, rich girls still won’t marry poor boys.
Yes, and they seem to be mostly anti-war.
> No, this is not true. That's why most people on this site are not logging in through Google. Sites will store their own data, and if you trust them to store that data there’s really no reason to just trust them to store a link to your identity.

You're missing the point. Yes, we don't need oAuth to log into HN. But HN is a site that is over 15 years old, and reflects the technology of its time. Instead, look at the companies YC funds and ask yourself how many of them DON'T have oAuth/SSO of some kind. Reddit is roughly HN's age, and you can see that with the introduction of VC money and profit goals, they've shifted towards discouraging anonymous logins. My 10-year old Reddit account doesn't even have an email associated with it; I doubt that's allowed now.

The old web made by hobbyists having fun and not trying to sell anything is long gone. Even sites like HN are disappearing, and everything IS being monetized, whether we like it or not.
The James Webb Telescope is now super cool (thanks to its new sunshield)
The reason people care about death is that its a clear signal and would likely scale linearly with the harm covid is doing to society.

For instance, more positive tests could be due to testing. Hospitalizations are affected by different policies. I don't even know how you would measure long covid.
Are there really "special screws" that are difficult to deal with these days? Any hardware store carries sets of what used to be obscure security bits. Torx (innie or outie) and hex don't even count as "special".

I had read that the reason for the plastic covers on fancier cars, while partly for appearance and to discourage amateur servicing, also are there for a substantial reduction of engine noise. But I never heard anything about owners not having permission to remove them.

I've speculated that one reason for making it a hassle to service modern cars is that if an owner has been messing with their car, screwed it up, and brings it to the dealer, it's more likely there will be clues that warranty coverage should be denied.
It's the same but a bit different.

Inetd is listening to a port and then for each new connection, spawning a new process, binding stdin/stout to the socket pair. The main issue was that it could lead to system resource exhaustion pretty easily if too many connections were being opened and there were no good ways to control that.

With systemd, the listening socket is only bound by systemd and passed to the service. The service itself is responsible for accepting and handling the new connections. So it has the control on the rate of new connections, and can also more easily share memory. The main advantage of that approach is that as soon as systemd binds the socket, new connections won't be rejected by the system and will be on hold until the service accept() them. So no connection gets dropped, even during a restart. The service itself is still responsible for gracefully shutting down existing connections on SIGTERM.
Web3 login has been working for awhile. I've used uniswap for example and it's a fantastic experience.
One thing I really like about Doctor Who, is the absurd mis-remebered fake histories they make up for our current era. Hilarious!

Puts into perspective how we think about the cultures that came before us.
>> 4% price increase to get to a living wage. Not $15 sandwiches, just $7.28 instead of $7

That only works if the price elasticity is 0 - meaning that a 4% price increase doesn't lead to a decrease in sales. The price elasticity isn't 0. It's close to 1. A 4% price increase leads to close to a 4% drop in sales. Fixed costs stay the same.

Do the math under those assumptions.
Amp-hour ratings only should be adjusted for voltage if a DC-DC converter is used. If the jump starter uses a cheaper linear regulator, the amp-hour ratings remain the same. (The excess energy is discarded as heat.)
A lot of times if your unit won't accept vegetables, there may be less space in it than you think. Data moves into the trash slowly, and if there isn't enough storage, it will reject the veggies. Give it an hour and try again.
I am on the opposite side of this problem. I do my best to hide my wealth (e.g., drive salvage car, cheap clothes, tiny condo, used furnishing etc.) and avoid talking about what I do/did for a living. I do this primarily because of the sentiment you mentioned.

But I wish a younger version of me would have met someone like present day me. I would have concluded, if that seemingly average guy can make it without stepping on anyone's neck and without greed then I would have had more optimism. So it seems wrong to hide my success.

Since I have no advice, may I ask a counter question ? If these are your friends it implies you think they aren't bad people and you are likely similar in many ways. Why are they a source of emotional pain instead of inspiration? Is it because the wealth gap has become so extreme ?
So tax-payers got mooned.
Is a 64MB object size really typical of the usecase most people will be using this for?

I would imagine 1kb objects to be far more common...
Knowledge is power.

To be a great programmer, learn how to get really good at reading and understanding code.

To get good at reading and understanding code, you need to know where to look, and then you need to just start reading it. If something doesn't make sense, figure out why it doesn't make sense until it does make sense.

I know that sounds a bit like "to be good at programming, be good at programming", but there's really no way around it.

Consider your Django example, the "they" in your sentence is actually code:

> they just reload the page

Figure out where that code lives, and read it. Dive into its methods/functions, and follow the flow of inputs/outputs.

A common thing see with both junior and more experienced programmers is their acceptance of "magic". If the libraries they use just work, they don't dig into understanding why. Then when those libraries fail, they feel much the way you do.

But there's no magic. The code is written down or the framework is documented, and knowing how it works (or doesn't) is as simple as reading the code.

I've also learned, having done this for 25 years, that you'll read a lot more code then you'll write. I'd guess that I probably spend 75% of my time reading code. The rest is split between meetings, thinking, and writing code.

This isn't just a thing for programmers to consider either.

Reading code as a programmer is the same as a race car driver knowing about suspension. Or a chef knowing about heat and chemistry. Or a luthier knowing about what wood to use. Driving the car, cooking the food, or assembling the guitar are just a small part of the entire job.
What do you want to be when you grow up?

For me, I want to be happy. Money is part of having a stable life, beyond that is meaningless.

Depression is something I've coped with as long as I remember.

> As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.

Yep, it's unfair. Eeking out my slice of happiness in spite of all the slings and arrows seems almost like an act of rebellion in today's world.

"The path of the righteous is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyrannies of evil."
No.

A better title could have avoided this simple answer.
Humans doing anything perfect consistently is against our nature
Satellite phone subscriptions aren't cheap, but chucking a Baofeng in the car pre-programmed with some repeaters along your route (CHIRP can do this) is free.
I find "the part with the Ark" fascinating. The number of different traditions that have a deluge myth has to make you wonder if there isn't something behind it.

Obviously if you take it very literally, every species on earth in the back of a homemade boat, the entire planet being wiped out, etc - it doesn't stand up very well. But I'd be willing to entertain the possibility that the story is the fossilised remains of an oral tradition that predates the written record - perhaps the loss of lands after the last ice age, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
Fascinating that this has generated so many answers, from so many different perspectives.

Induced demand is a terrible name for the real issue here. Perhaps the "one more lane fallacy" would be better. The "one more lane fallacy" is not universal, it only applies in cities and other densely populated areas.

Imagine you are sitting in a suburban traffic jam, getting slowly more and more annoyed. It's easy to imagine adding marginally more road capacity would put an end to traffic jam. That thought is the 'one more lane fallacy'. That, admittedly attractive, idea is wrong because adding more capacity leaves the traffic jam exactly the same, with more lanes and more cars in them - because of induced demand.

The kicker is that in a densely populated area, there is often no realistic prospect of adding enough road capacity to end traffic jams, simply because of there is not enough space. I suspect that in most cases, road building achieves political support through the expectation of ending traffic jams. Nearly always, this expectation will not be met. This is the essence of the induced demand problem - it is not as obvious as is sometimes made out.

So, even if you are die hard driver, if you want to reduce traffic jams, you should advocate for other people to use transport methods that are more space efficient than driving. Of course, you might want to live in an area dominated by constantly congested roads, in which case, induced demand isn't a problem.
Got 2 already, 10/10 do recommend! Excited to get my booster tomorrow.
Pretty sure it was a joke since if it does collapse he wouldn't have to pay anyway.
I have a distant memory of frequent enough nosebleeds during the dry seasons that the school nurse was worried about me.
Caltech had a requirement for classes in social studies. This was a rather broad category, and included things like language, history, and even accounting. So there wasn't any reason for me to select a useless class.

There were specific required classes that I didn't like, but they weren't useless.

Prerequisites, of course, prevent one from wasting the professor's time from unprepared students.
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NewsBlur is good
It seems like this is a case where science doesn't tell the whole story. The pro-science stance is very numbers-focused, but ignores hard-to-quantify things that really do matter.

People see their kids suffering. Masks do have a cost. Millions of years of evolution say that facial expressions are really important, especially for adolescents. Fear has a cost. And quality of life matters.

Everyone knows this. Even the most pro-lockdown politicians are seen enjoying ordinary life among people. The ones who can't escape are the kids, because the adults tell them what to do 24/7 and punish them instantly when out of compliance.

It doesn't help that we label people who happen to see the real costs to children as some kind of science deniers. You don't have to deny science to realize that other things also matter.

[Edited for clarity.]
Well, people who flaunt their money are simply not that pleasant to be around. My friends and I have varying degrees of financial success but we don't really talk about money related issues much.

If they are your friends, you can tell them about how their stories make you feel. If they don't care, then maybe you need new friends.
This is amazing!

I have ADHD so I often find my self taking a non-linear route to following a recipe: Step 1, Step 3, Step 4, oops! Step 2, now where was I? Is that salt or baking powder in the bowl?
Here is the claim:

“Intel announces the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ family of mobile processors led by the launch of new H-series mobile processors featuring the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-12900HK – the fastest mobile processor ever [1]“

“[1] Based on superior performance of 12th Gen Intel Core i9 12900HK against Intel Core i9 11980HK, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, and Apple M1 Max. Intel processor performance is estimated based on measurements with Intel Reference Validation Platforms. AMD processor performance is estimated based on measurements on a Lenovo Legion R9000K with RTX 3080. Apple M1 Max performance is estimated based on public statement made by Apple on 10/18/2021 and measurements on Apple M1 Max 16” 64GB RAM Model A2485. Best available compilers selected for all processors. Binaries compiled with ICC for Intel/AMD, binaries compiled with Xcode 13.1 for Apple. The metric used is the geometric mean of an n-copy SPECrate run of the C/C++ integer benchmarks in SPEC CPU 2017. See www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex for additional workload and configuration details. Results may vary. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.”
FFS man, less than 1k kids (0-17) have ever died from covid.

Get in line behind gun violence, vehicle accidents, and drowning at the beach.
There are 114 occurrences of the word "fuck" on this page.
- "Is it true that they give out free BMWs in Moscow?"

- "Yes it is true. But it's not in Moscow but in St Petersburg. And it's not BMWs but Ladas. And they don't give it, they steal it"
"For example, instead of an air pipe to allow smooth pouring, there's a separate cap which has to be unscrewed, and then the cap is inevitably lost."

Unfortunately, the propensity to lose the cap IS the design feature - you will likely want to buy another container.

Edward Bernais effectively re-engineered engineering. What is the point of creating something great that works for years? Far better to get people to splash out more often for an inferior item, that is sold in a better way.
Most of us solve that problem by getting a job.
There were and will be several people pushing to buy property, Bitcoin, a particular stock, etc at different points in the past. Investing in things like property makes more sense and somewhat more timeless than things like Bitcoin. But still hard to pick the right influence at the right time. Same for investing in learning a particular skill.

But you make a good point to learn from others' experience and to have more good and consistent influences. And I wish I had some and I had listened to some.
I don't have 2FA for my secondary Gmail accounts. So Google doesn't offer a Google Authenticator app option to use QR exchange to recognize the new device.
Dropbox was “just rsync“ but WAY easier to use for normal people. The iPod was JUST a normal MP3 player with a very easy interface everyone could understand.

Ease of use is EVERYTHING.

At no point does anything described about how web3 works or solves problems sound easier to use than the current system. Logging in with email and a password is easy. Using a Google to sign in is even easier. Apple’s sign in system is ridiculously simple and frictionless.

“Start by finding a chain you like and creating a wallet” is not easy. Do you have to buy coins on the chain? I’ve been seeing a lot of these web3 articles and I truly don’t know. Buying coins is another huge hassle.

“Oh but they’ll already have a wallet.” How? At some point they have to create them. Even if it was easier once they’ve created it (which I dispute), how is that supposed to happen?

If you have an iPhone, you have an Apple account, can do sign in with Apple trivially. If you have an android phone, you have a Google account, you can do sign in with Google trivially. Either way you have an email address, that’s quite easy.

How can you EVER make something simpler than those? I think best case scenario you would be able to match them.

But then you’re back to the problem of why I should switch to the new thing when the current thing works just as well.

I just have a very hard time seeing normal users ever buy into any of this.
I really wish we had stayed in the "this person is an inconsiderate **" intermediate phase.
Something I read that resonates:

"Even if all that happens is that you vanish out of existence into eternal darkness, you'll also vanish from time. Hundreds of billions of years will pass but for the dead it will be instantaneous, the universe can reach the end of its lifespan yet for those now outside of the linear passing of time, it will feel like less than a blink. The universe could begin and end hundreds of trillions of times, but this time scale is nothing to a dead man. Statistically, you're simply bound to pop back into existence no matter how long it takes. Besides, it can't even be that unlikely if you're here now, right?"
I try to buy made in USA products, but in certain categories, even after going out of your way, it is difficult to find. I am selfish in that the place where I live and call home, I'd rather have the middle class earn a good living here than someone working in Bangladesh. No offense meant to the working class in Bangladesh, but I've become quite anti-globalist in last few years. It's not good for the environment, it's not good for local economy and it is not good for... me, to be blunt. I also try to support small biz over big corps since they're selfish themselves - they have no loyalty to the people they serve, they're all global corporations.

I wish Democrats, the party that I vote for, weren't so blood thirsty globalists.
A few past threads:

Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21706429 - Dec 2019 (69 comments)

Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11211682 - March 2016 (21 comments)

Where have you gone, Peter Norton? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7856339 - June 2014 (60 comments)
McSweeneys is amazing. The site hasn't fundamentally changed in years in appearance or tone. If I ever need a laugh, I know mcsweeney's will be there.
Well, if anyone is considering making similar changes to the equipment, in our experience it was very quick to implement with no side effects after about two days.
Given that MinIO seems to be canonical way to add S3 API compatibility to Azure Blob Storage[1], this is not very encouraging.

We have a lot of products that use S3 API and Azure was the only cloud that did not offer that out of the box - at first I could not believe this was the case, because even smaller providers like Linode or Digitalocean offer S3 API compatibility. But then I found the post linked below.

[1] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2017/11/09/s3cmd...
False: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fac...
It's a function of cost of operating a business and the cost of living. With rising rents both in commercial spaces and housing, I would assume it's hard to pay a fair wage. Mom and Pop shops are affected but corporate restauranteurs can weather it.
It's interesting that calculus was independently invented 3 times nearly simultaneously (AFAIK there's a lesser known one). Yet, I don't know any reason for it not to be invented 3 centuries earlier.
Reminds me of a precursor to life insurance, if only I could remember what it was called... Kind of a lottery / pool, all participants paid into it and the last survivor inherited the lot. IIRC.

Come to think of it, reminds me of life insurance: that's also a financial instrument the value of which depends on the lifespan of a specific named person.
I've been looking into Stoic readings lately. Their advice is not "be emotionless"; the "stoic" adjective does not apply to them.

One tool they advise using is negative visualization. Take a minute right now and imagine how things could be worse. Your apartment could have a leak in the roof. You could have to share it with a roommate who steals from you. You could be living on the street.

This is not to say you have no problems. Not at all! But sitting with thoughts about how your life could be worse might help you be happier with your situation. You say you're "at the bottom with nothing". It's easy to think about your life only looking up and seeing how far you have to go; harder to look down and see how far you have come.

Additionally, imagine what the "stunning house" costs them! Not money, specifically, because they have it. But how much must they worry about being broken into. They have to deal with fixing everything that could go wrong, while you can call your landlord and have them fix it -- or even move out!

Be careful not to become too attached to things you can't control. If their expensive house burns down tomorrow, would they be too used to it to rent a smaller place? That's attachment that would make it harder to live.
I remember reading the memoirs of an ICS official (Asok Mitra, not the Marxist economist but the chief census commissioner) around the time of Partition that claimed British leaving was worse for the rural areas at that time because at least they inspected and made sure public services were working.