skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable.

Because "remote learning" is a joke.

I volunteered a bit in a virtual high school classroom. The teacher running it is making a frankly heroic effort to keep her students in the school system at all.

But no one was engaged, cameras were off, students regularly don't show up at all or drop off in the middle of class.

These are comparatively adults compared to younger grades.
More great news. Congratulations to all who have worked on the project.

I understand the reasons for not putting a camera on or near the JWST, but I’m still a little sad that we’ll probably never get to see the thing in situ in all its operational glory.

Maybe one day when it finally expires, we can launch a “sample return” mission to tow it back.
Agreed with your point, but that requires significantly more setup than plugging something into a wall (and significantly more effort than installing a software update). And heat pumps work worst when you need them the most.

None of this justifies making tech-illiterate people mine bitcoin for your own gain, of course.
I've always wanted to try Lisp but the fact that it is dynamically typed has always scared me away (and my experience with dynamically typed languages is the same - they are bug magnets). Rust is my go to and I don't think that will change any time soon.
>Thus saying “People don’t want to run their own servers” is akin to saying “People don’t want to start their own YouTube channel”. Both sentences contain the same amount of statistical bullshit.

The "promise of web3" has been that there are no centralized giants. The problem isn't one of motivation to be a YouTube creator, it's infrastructure. The cost to becoming a YouTube creator is 0 due to centralization. The cost of building YouTube is millions of dollars. Even in the YouTube case - people don't want to run their servers.

Secondly, Mastodon and Tor do not have mainstream appeal, nor are they platforms on which other economies are built. Their comparison to YouTube is absurd.
Lisp is awesome, but I wish more places used regional pricing for online purchases. It's kinda crazy paying 40 dollars for an ebook since it's almost 1/5 of our minimum monthly wage (Brazil)
Is it enabled by default? If yes, criminal charges should be on the table.
A small nitpick: yes, we only needed 1 LHC to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, BUT we made sure to have two experiments (ATLAS and CMS) looking for it. As far as I know, every modern high energy physics accelerator has had two (or more) sister experiments to cross-check each others!

Of course, it is not a perfect analogy, since the two experiments are not replicas. They try to address the same physics cases, but they were designed, built and are operated in a completely independent way.
Y2K22 bug: Microsoft rings in the new year by breaking Exchange servers
This is the comment I came to upvote and agree with.

I am considered a Linux expert in my field but the truth is that I really don't know how systemd internals work well enough to read that review and fully understand it. The review did teach me some things about what Units really are, more than just services and timers, but other than that it was too deep for me.

And yet I work full time with Linux systems, building services on Linux systems for major clients and government contracts.

From my perspective as a user and operator of Linux, systemd has been nothing but good things.
it's mostly lots of code fragments and incrementally building on whatever he's trying to convey, is not like he put a brain dump or a wall of text as per when that phrase is used.

So your comment doesn't ring true in this case imo
I am always pleased to be boarding a 757! I was sad when the front page of the Seattle Times showed one being cut up for scrap.
Take a look at OpenBSD. They managed to sidestep all this drama, and still ship a sane, well-documented init.

If you spend an afternoon installing it and configuring a few network services, you’ll already know most of what there is to know about how init used to work.

It used to be extremely elegant and robust.

The main flaw in the design was that the “service” files were written in a Turing complete language, which meant that distribution maintainers could ship things that were arbitrarily terrible, and many chose to do so.

(Edit: Also, the organizations that somehow couldn’t figure out how to use and maintain traditional init systems were the ones that produced the current generation replacements and pushed them so hard.)
Scientists learn more about enigmatic archaea (2021)
It says it will arrive in 14 days or so at L2.

Right now, it is moving 0.3933km/s which according to Google is 1415.88km/h.
That is pretty fast.

What speed does it need to be at for insertion and steady state?
How long will it be breaking? (If at all, or of it is not already doing it).
Here's a more California oriented list of edible plants that grow in the shade:

* Chilean Guava (Ugni molinae)

* Pineapple Guava (Acca sellowiana)

* Babaco (Vasconcella x)

* Passiflora antioquiensis

* Passiflora "Mission Dolores" (P. antioquiensis x P. parritae)

Here are a few more that only need partial sun in California:

* White Sapote (Casimiroa edulis)

* Cherimoya (Annona cherimola)

* Pakistan / Persian Mulberry (Morus sp.)

* Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)

* Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora)

* Tree Tomato (Solanum betaceum)

* Coffee (Coffea arabica)

* Ginger (Zingiber officinale)

* Turmeric (Curcuma longa)

* Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)
Show HN: Coffee4Creators – Toolbox for Creators
Hello HN community, I would like to invite you to give it a try, and leave any comment or piece of advice that you may think could be of help!

Stage:MVP

The problem is clear: Creators need more tools to monetize audiences of any size.

Our vision: Make it inclusive. Multiple languages and minorities oriented.

Our strategy: Most of the creators we interview, are not ready yet for "NFT's". They want more fun and engaging ways for receiving "support" from their fans.

Now you could describe it as the "perfect mix" between Buymeacoffee and Launchpass

Our roadmap reflects our strategy: closed groups memberships, polls, 1-1 "meet & greet", streaming, short classes, giveaways, podcasting, etc. Solutions offered in diverse platforms, tailormade for creators in Coffee4Creators.com

This is up to today, a side-project. It would be great to get in touch with advisors, potential co-founders, and anyone who has experience in the Creator's economy vertical.

Feel free to reach me at LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinweidemann/ or email martin[at]coffee4creators[dot]com

Have a good one!
One past thread:

A Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design and more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11324746 - March 2016 (40 comments)
I've quit for up to a month at a time here and there. Where I don't fill that hole with a similar diversion and instead one of my productive hobbies, my life indeed becomes much richer. Although, my participation some of those hobbies were very much improved by some of the time spent on 4chan.

Altogether, I intend to quit visiting. Hopefully sooner than later. I 'quit' rather frequently. The best comparison I can make for my compulsive usage is to someone who started smoking before they were 10. I was heavily browsing forums by 8 and 4chan by 12.
> I've learned an absolute ton about computers and networking.

I think that’s the problem. Most people’s goal is not to learn a ton about computers and networking, it’s to accomplish some other task. These days rarely is running your own server the easiest way to accomplish most tasks, even if it is an option. It’s usually easier to use someone else’s server, and into running your own is easier than using someone else’s, most people will continue to do use someone else’s.
> My takeaway from all of this: Vaccines aren't helping. Masks and social distancing aren't helping. Omicron itself might be the biggest help we have.

Vaccines, masks and social distancing helped lessen the impact of the previous variants, in particular with Delta. They got us to Omicron.

However, hospitalizations are the highest they've been of the pandemic in some places and cases are still rising fast. Taking measures to prevent an overwhelmed health system is not hysteria. My uneducated guess is that after this wave burns out we'll be in a place where such measures won't be necessary.
Here's my somewhat selfish take on this:

I will absolutely hate interacting with these COVID kids once they start entering the workforce. The US already has a massive maturity and tribalism problem, and I only see the lack of school and any sort of discipline and structure here reinforce it several-fold. Thankfully, so far I haven't had to manage anyone just out of school.

Add missing 2 years of education (essentially) on top of this and you get a recipe for disaster. I doubt most parents are compensating for these atrocious school conditions in any way.

The only slight positive I can think of that will come of this, is that it may normalize staying home when you are sick and not coming to work. The current generation cares too little about spreading disease at work.
School year in Northern Spain went on as normal with a class intermittently being sent home due to a positive case. Classes were kept in "independent bubbles" and did not mix to ensure better social distancing.

From a parental point of view I don't think there is much more you can do. They just relaxed the rules further to only send home classes for a week if 5 or more kids test positive.

Having the classes have been incredibly good for the kids to be allowed to socialise and keep everyone including parents sane. Considering how low their change of getting seriously ill and how the new variant is spreading I think it will be back to normality in less than two months.
If everything is truly decentralized and there are tons of options, the net value in those options will approach zero because they're all interchangeable. Thus, I agree that decentralization and money cannot be the same goal.
Sequential UUIDs don’t start at 0. They are a 128-bit composite of two integers; a temporal component in the high order bits and a random component in the low order bits.
The saddest thing about it is that they still lead in all the polls. They won't rule after the next election as they can't get along with other political parties, but still have huge support. They polarize the community and that’s their way.
Yep, page got so much noise id rather stab my eyes with an ice pick
Should also be added that Mastodon is fairly heavy weight and designed for many tenants. The way to get participate in the fediverse is no more to run a Mastodon instance anymore than the way to take part in IRC is to run an IRC relay. For better or worse, that's just not how it's designed to work.

This is in fact one of the main reasons I'm not on mastodon, because it's such a pain in the ass to set up, and I don't want to rent my identity on the Internet.

A stark contrast is something like Gemini, where the by far most common model is small self-hosted operations.
This is one of the reasons I sometimes feel like commenting on the internet is like trying to walk through a minefield. Saying something as simple and obviously-hyperbolic as "everyone loves dogs!" can lead to a whole argument about how many people actually hate dogs, distracting from the original topic.

But it can actually get more annoying than that on the internet because accuracy and precision are things. So for example, mentioning a 1TB drive on the internet has the potential for comments to delve into a discussion about marketing and how actually it's not 1TB but XYZ GB.

It just feels exhausting.
We have to play with fire. The alternative is a cashless future in which every transaction is tracked and every person is subject to total financial surveillance. KYC must die.
v8 may be a repo that includes some Python, but there is no reasonable standard by which it is a “Python repo”.
> in most cases it's as expensive, or more expensive, than having someone else do it for you, and requires a huge amount of skill

What is expensive? Hosting from home has a lot of benefits if you’re not behind CGNat and how we used to do things when I was 13. If a 13 year old can figure out port forwarding and DNS I’m fairly certain you can.

I’m aware there are drawbacks but a $5 VPS is not outside the realm of reason if you want an additional level of reliability and are scared people will ddos your line.

Sysadmin skills are so easy these days they’re forcing developers to do it as an additional part of their responsibilities.

Either it’s easy: and everyone should do it.

Or it’s not: and we should start bringing back sysadmins.

Doesn’t cut both ways.
In the 1970s and before getting 100,000 miles on a car was a big deal, you would call all your friends for that, put oil in the engine, drive off in a cloud of blue smoke and 10 minutes latter having crossed that mark return and put more oil in. In the 1980s cars got a lot more reliable and so most don't remember how bad they used to be. Few cars, even old worn out beaters need their oil checked between changes, but it used to be a big deal and not doing it's would destroy your engine fast since it would run out.

So mostly it is pandering to old people, but it is still an expression
There is a reason to not like the green bubbles. They imply that it's SMS, which is unencrypted. That is actually bad.

Of course, people can avoid this by not using iMessage in favor of e.g. Signal, which runs on both Android and iOS.
I'm not following. The vast majority of people in school are younger than 18. I agree with you that it should be fine for most parents to leave an older kid (say 14+?) at home alone.

But again, some kids just want to go to school to get some damn food, regardless of age!
If you turn on Increase Contrast in the accessibility features the green is darker and much nicer.
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Yeah the approach of everyone being remote or no one being remote seems shortsighted.
We're fixating a lot on "people don't want to run their own servers".

People don't care. They want to talk to their friends. Watch videos. See pictures of their grandkids. What they don't want is a lot of fiddly administration tasks with weird jargon they don't understand. Whether there's a server running on their computer or not is immaterial. If it's easy enough to use, it doesn't matter, as long as it lets them do the things they want to do.

Hopefully Web3 reaches the point that there's a 1-click installer, like downloading an app, that does everything you need it to do, so people can enjoy all of the things they want from the web with the benefits of decentralization.
Obvious Plant is 7 years old this week
Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure
> The crypto community has to ask themselves whether they want decentralization or money.

They already decided a long time ago. I don't know how the decision could be made any more clear.

In case you don't get what I'm alluding to: money. They chose the money. They keep choosing the money. They are very likely to always choose the money.

Almost everything in the crypto world with any traction is based on accumulating and flipping assets, or extracting value from those who are.

I think there's a lot of true innovation out there, which may one day serve as the core of the economy. But I think there's almost a bifurcation between work done that furthers that goal and work that is involved in the speculative frenzy. The latter is the vast majority of what's going on. From my vantage point of some distance from the scene, I don't see much overlap.
> Neither China nor New Zealand have implemented anything resembling a successful strategy in anything but the very short-term.

I think New Zealand was free from Covid for maybe 1 year? I wouldn't call that short-term. While many countries were locked down, they were enjoying parties and festivals. If they would've kept themselves isolated from the rest of the world, they'd still be Covid-free.

> In such a scenario, you're correct that spreading in the community will likely be less acute

Yes, so that was the point. Lockdowns work to reduce spreading. We are in agreement.

> , but spread within households will likely be more acute.

Spreading within households would only occur for those households containing an infected person. This wouldn't be a very large percentage of the total households. 2 ~ 4 weeks later those households would've been recovered. A significant reduction would've been achieved. But it would come at great costs. And would only delay the inevitable once everything opens up again.
Looks like new cars account for around 25% of all car sales in the UK[1].

It would seem that of new car sales, 93% are leased[2]

> The percentage of private new car sales financed by FLA members in the twelve months to October 2021 was 93.0%, a similar level to the same period in 2020.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/299841/market-volumes-of...

[2]https://www.fla.org.uk/research/motor-finance/
SMS used to often cost money, even for plans with gigabytes of internet data. iMessage helped break that.
I agree that that might be too far, but the one aspect of being able to audit the source code in a criminal trial makes me want this bill to pass despite that flaw. That is such a big win for justice!
I'm more lamenting crypto's existence than waving the guards over to come shoot people. I don't see how bitcoin can at all be a positive thing on a systemic level when it's primary purpose is financial speculation and scamming (neither of which are materially productive) and its primary cost is massive amounts of CO2. Of course it can be individually beneficial - mass murders are financially beneficial to funeral directors, but I don't think they're good in the general sense. And that's basically how I see crypto advocates - advocating for something immoral because it benefits them financially. Which is about all I expect from libertarians, to be fair.
I suppose I meant it felt silly in the sense that it would probably come across as seeming vague. And I may as well say a few more words. If I had anything specific in mind, it was the possibility that the JWST could find evidence of compounds in the atmospheres of distant planets that made it seem likely that there is life on those planets. Even if that doesn't happen, the fact that it feels like it's even on the table is amazing.

I'm also thinking back to when the Hubble came online and they started releasing the deep field images. And there was this moment where we all realized, "Wow, those things up in the sky that we all casually assumed were stars...many of them are actually galaxies. And all those black spaces in between are full of...more galaxies." Maybe astronomers already knew this; I don't know. But the average person didn't and it was hard to deny once we started seeing those images.

Not sure if it's justified, but I expect similar kinds of moments when the JWST starts collecting its first images.
Omicron is the second most contagious virus in the world. It has the ability to poof out of the labor pool 10% ~ 20% of teachers, aux staff, nurses and doctors for somewhere between a week and a year (long covid), in any given week.

This is the case here in Canada in my sibling's hospital right now, and in my sibling's kid's school.

Omicron also has the ability to overflow hospitals even when they've pre-planned with a solid buffer of excess capacity. Most hospitals here in Canada didn't have any such buffer to begin with. For 2 years they've been run ragged, so today the backlog is worse than ever.

Omicron is a new problem we didn't have to deal with before.

With Flu, you can get away with letting some % of the population get it in any given flu season, because it won't deprive your hospital system (or your school) of 20% of its staff for weeks or months on end.

This is all independent of who does or doesn't end up dying from the virus.
When you observed the world, and found that it is somewhat centralized, to an extend that you'd like to see a change.

Have you figured out why it is centralized in the first place?

Just trying to re-start the process and expect to see a difference? It's going to end the same way.

Because I'm sure centralization is not a Web2.0 property, but a human property. You don't change Web2 to do decentralization, you change humanity.
"I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable."

What about kindergarten? Teaching 20+ students 5-6 years olds through zoom??? - seems like a fools errand. This could be their most important years for learning.

"The pieces attack school officials or teachers but complete ignore the logistics of having so many sick teachers."

Everyone will get covid. Period. Just get it. You might get it once per year - but that is true for the entire human race. Give up on logistics the war is lost.

"We know this surge will die down in 4-6 weeks."

Maybe for this variant? What about the next? Just keep children on zoom?
This type of CBT is great.

But I think there is a big distinction between chemical dependency and other compulsions or addictive behaviors.

And I think the word addiction itself has been kind of coopted by self diagnosing people on the internet for karma and some odd type of self gratitude, if that makes sense; kind of a weird bragging about your supposed addiction to ____ or OCD or ADHD etc.

The author writes "It’s about seeing through the illusion of satisfaction. It’s about realizing you don’t want to be doing it anymore."

Most users don't want to be addicts. Almost no one wants to be dependent on opiates or to have the shakes every morning. Anyone that does hasn't been using long enough yet or probably has other mental health issues that they are trying to patch over themselves with drugs.

We know the satisfaction or other benefits one initially gets from using eventually gets buried deep by all the negatives.

With drugs and alcohol the satisfaction becomes less and less, even when you use more and more.

Drugs are fun & feel good after all. they can 'fix' a huge array of problems in your life.

Until they don't.

Props to anyone who can overcome a chemical dependency on willpower alone and through this type of CBT mental reframing the author talks about.

But for almost all users, especially many of those with untreated underlying issues, it's basically impossible without science based, often medicine supported treatment.

Another book I think is worth reading for a dumbed down summary of addiction is Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction