skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is it - a car's structure just rots away at a certain point if it's being used. It's not a mechanical thing you can refurbish or replace - the car as a whole just starts breaking apart.
I cannot imagine being so addicted to a game that I plan on quitting it "in a couple months."

Thank God I never started dota. Just reading the steam reviews are enough to convince anyone that gaming is a serious public health issue and detriment to society.
After 100 years, you have:

Gen 1: 3

Gen 2: 3 + 9

Gen 3: 3 + 9 + 27

Gen 4: 3 + 9 + 27 + 81

Assuming the Gen 1 lives to 100 and each Gen has 3 kids every 25 years, then at the end you have 120 mouths to feed.

100 years of 4% growth above inflation would be rough 50x so 500M. But that assumes no consumption over the 100 years. Either way the growth of people overcomes the growth of resources over time.
There isn't need for disruption - laser printers are almost always a better choice, people just don't know or aren't willing to spend the upfront prices.
It really is "that bad".

JIRA is not made for humans.
"Slower" is a matter of context. Like with most things, there are trade offs to allow for more concurrency. UUIDs are intended to avoid serialization with ID generation, which makes sense in a federated system. Yes, they take up more space and aren't all neatly ordered, but the trade off works out well for the right kind of systems (FlakeIDs are a better trade off for more contexts). The problem this article is describing is you're getting the worst of both worlds, because you're still serializing in the MySQL database...
I think this article is generally accurate but it doesn't cover all the reasons. My family has been wealthy for over 400 years. The total wealth has kept growing but it was reduced at the individual level because people had too many children. I have over 5000 living relatives which I can trace through my family tree. In spite of this, most of my relatives are relatively well off; the main reason for this IMO is that children did not have access to any of their parent's wealth until they died so each generation got to experience what it's like to start with nothing and, at some point, many struggled to make ends meet and worked simple jobs until their retirement.

That said, some generations do have it easier than others and they quickly tend to lose touch with reality. When you've had a good childhood, you need to experience a disproportionate amount of struggle in adulthood in order to beat reality into your skull. My wife was born in USSR (had a tough life) and she used to make fun of how naive I was whenever I complained about how crooked and messed up things are when you don't have money. She could not believe that I did not see it before. She thought all people from wealthy backgrounds were aware of all the evil that they cause behind the scenes. It turns out that the human mind is really good at forming blind spots when it's convenient.
You're actually triggering two things with this trick.

First, the piece you call out is delayed gratification (ie focusing on the future over the short-term).

But there's a second piece hidden in there, which is identity-orientation. "I'm the type of person who does X". Tying actions to your identity is actually really powerful.
I’ll take contaminated mushrooms and wild boar to climate change and the large scale disease brought on by fossil fuels. Nuclear is much safer, even accounting for these absolute outliers.
The current brakes and fluids are built on the assumption they'll be heavily used and wear out. We're already seeing changes in response to the new situation, e.g. using lighter, less corrosion prone metals so I'd expect to see continual improvements in this over time.

https://www.designnews.com/automotive/lightweight-aluminum-b...
Why is there no open source printer yet? We have the most cool 3d printing rigs, mounting it to some rails etc is not the problem.. Just a black and white printer, nothing fancy..
That’s brilliant, I love it.
Funny story, I once knew a guy who had a very common Irish name (both first and last). He was from California though (born and raised). When it came time to renew his passport, the government mistook him for someone involved in the IRA. He actually had to ship thirty pounds of documentation including as mundane of items as report cards, school id’s, all job paystubs, etc. — basically document his entire life as a US citizen before he finally received approval.
The only development you can't do on Linux is Apple and maybe some Microsoft related stuff
Dockerizing a Programming Language
Also, people in developed nations are having fewer kids. And people are less likely to marry across class lines these days. So the historic trends of dividing wealth up through heirs might be reversed altogether.
> You may not believe this

You may not need to be confrontational...

> there are other ways of versioning software

I'm sure there is. But some features and other improvements sometimes require to deprecate and remove some older features.

Each project will chose its own tradeoff between bringing the improvement faster vs keeping compatibility longer.
That sounds great, and I can’t wait! Car ownership is a massive pain and time suck for me. Finding and paying for parking, insurance, and maintenance are huge costs in terms of both money and time. Not to mention the fact that my car spends 99% of its life doing absolutely nothing while also representing my single biggest depreciating asset, greatest risk to my health, and substantial cost to the environment. I would gladly offload as much of that as I can to the manufacturer in exchange for a monthly subscription that lets me use a car whenever I need (either rental car or ride-sharing model).
I don't know how to put this in a formula, but my observations about my family's wealth disappearing is the following:

Great grandpa had tons of land, dies and leaves it to his children who then left it to their children when they died to split as heritage (so my parent and uncles and their cousins) which they ended up selling and splitting it between around 60 heirs. They bought things that are not really an investment like cars, new furniture, vacations...So all the wealth from my great grandpa has vanished because his great children like to spend money rather than invest.

Edit: typo.
Welcome to the world of “personal finance”, where the numbers are made up and the conclusions don’t matter.
Depends where you are. In Brazil, making enough to live with dignity puts you in top 5%
To my ear, this all sounds like you're saying participation in NFT is performance art, which I hadn't really considered before, but I can kinda make sense of the appeal in that light. It just seems in bad taste to me that a person would claim ownership of someone else's work. But to each their own.
> NFTs are actually the opposite of DRM. They are ownership without exclusivity.

Their is no ownership without exclusivity.

(And NFTs are exclusive; they just happen to currently mostly be used as pointers to non-exclusive items with no other meaning, but there is nothing inherent in the technology restricting them to that use.)
“Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous.”

­— Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight, 2008
No, but none of them do nothing to increase their wealth either. They leverage the opportunity of being born wealthy and use it to increase their wealth in ways that are completely unavailable to lower classes.
Some years ago I was on a Civil Protection Excercise as the IT and Communications Officer. Part of my Gear was a small printer (can't remember which brand). After I set up the laptops for the team I put the cartridges in the printer and the printer told me, that these were the "Setup Cartridges" which were only usable in the first few months after purchase. And that I was supposed to buy normal cartridges to use the printer.

I was able to get a replacement printer from the place where we were staying, but this situation still enrages me to this day. What if this had been a real emergency?
Are you sure? Legally speaking you might be required to delete it then.

https://xkcd.com/488/
Leave your phone at home, print out the material if it’s not already on paper, and go to a library. Also bring a notebook and pen for scaffolding your understanding on paper. Make sure you have nothing you need to do afterwards or that you block out 2x the amount of time you think it will take, so there is no time pressure or need for you to be thinking about the other tasks you will need to get to. When you need to take a break, take it.

And if it doesn’t work out that particular day, that’s fine too. Don’t beat yourself up over it or try to force it. Just re-attempt pretty soon, like “later in the same day” soon, or “the following morning” soon- the key to more steady and fluid accomplishments of lots of little tasks is winnowing down the timeframe for little feedback loops.

tl;dr: you already know everything you think you need to do it :)
They stopped hosting the URL that the blockchain pointed to
> I would appreciate a trigger warning before people use the word

Curious to know what you mean by this. Are you literally asking that people say/write "trigger warning" (or something to that effect) before a certain word is used in an upcoming sentence or do you mean something else?
I’m sorry but to clarify a few points here, Bitcoin “works” technically, and it works as a speculation and black market vehicle. It has not replaced the US dollar. I don’t see people having a need to use it when shopping groceries, paying for concert tickets, etc even when the option to do so is there.

This is precisely the authors point.
I kinda like "Prof. Dr. mult.".

Usually only happens with "Prof. Dr. hc. mult.", but there are exceptions where people hold several "real" doctorates.

Back when I was at university there was one professor who didn't use that convention and had "Prof. Prof. Prof. Dr. rer nat. Dr. Ing." or something similar. That was certainly excessive.
The title is incomprehensible to me. The page itself won't load in my browser. Possibly net problems, or a bad cert.
In the extreme perhaps, but most people day to day won't run into that. There will always be extremists. I really care about what randomly selected people are like. People I will need to depend on for things.
Even though it puts me on the side of agreeing with Google and even wanting them to use their monopoly power, I think when Chrome starts pushing for HTTP/3 and the benefits become clear, middleboxes will be pressured to allow it.
Invertimo – open-source investment bookkeeping and tracking software
I read once some intelligent people still have some process cycles left when working out code and it's uneasing to them so their brains automatically adds another soothing activities to fill the void. For one of my coworker it was either whistling, feet tapping or pen clicking. To the point that another coworker regularly stand up from his chair, walked to him and put a spongy stress ball in his hands. Without saying a word, was funny the first time :D.
I find it interesting that saying "a black spin is needed to push the ratio back towards 50/50" feels like a sensible thing to say. What role do context and framing play?

Consider the first one hundred spins breaking 60 red, 40 black. That is a little odd, but not outrageously so. The ratio is 60/40 = 1.5

Suppose that the next one hundred spins break 50/50. There are no surplus blacks to push the ratio towards 50/50. So what is your intuition? It seems clear enough that the totals are 110 red, 90 black, for a ratio 110/90 = 1.22...

Having imagined the next hundred spins vividly, we are comfortable saying "Unless the surplus reds keep coming, the ratio is going to drift back towards 50/50 all by itself.". There is a striking clash between different "things we might say" seeming sensible, depending on the vividness and detail with which we imagine the situation.
If you're obfuscating, then you should be using a DHT to map surrogate keys to internal keys that are more convenient for use in a MySQL index... or just stop using MySQL.
Well the consequences of a dodgy nuclear plant operator are potentially pretty disastrous (see Japan).

That said, I completely agree that burning lignite is shameful, I would argue that it has nothing to do with nuclear or renewables, it's politics.

Regarding gas, both nuclear and most renewables are not really in the same category as gas in terms of the supply they provide. Gas would be just as necessary if all current goal plants are nuclear (or wind for that matter). It might very well be that gas would allow to reduce CO2 emissions and transition to renewables more quickly than without.
I agree with the geopolitical implications, but Germany is producing lots of things in China and are delivering weapons to Saudi Arabia and now we suddenly take a stance when it comes to gas from Russia? In terms of environmental impact it's still better than developing reserves from fracking.
So PayPal, WorldRemit, M-Pesa, Paytm and Transferwise doesn't fix this already? 13 years and still no progress. I see no coin that is accepted widely that does anything you just proposed that is decentralised.

Your argument is still at cost to the planet and other people's money in this MLM scheme that we cannot deny exists.

Proof of Stake is pointless and defeats the point of decentralisation as many of these coins claim to be with venture capitalists and whales holding most of the coins.

Also most of these blockchains are pretty much beta, just don't work and scale at all. You might as well use the current system instead.

We both can see that DeFi applications are mostly scams [0] leading to people losing their money or having an expensive and pointless refund process when it all goes wrong. [1]

[0] https://rekt.news/

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/24/22800995/constitutiondao...
> Now it's true that they don't get into detail about the estimate

That's one way to put it. I would say they declare it and offer no basis or detail whatsoever!

I agree with your point that stating 70% vs some made up precision is a (small) sign of integrity in conveying uncertainty, as opposed to the parent's comment coming to the opposite conclusion.
The article is an ad for the author's financial advisory services. And yeah, I didn't like it either.
Epson’s more professional line is (was) pretty decent. The cartridges are big and cheap, and they even have a printer line that takes straight ink (ie there’s a tank you top off).

The printers are more expensive though (at least $100 more for the same functionality - which is probably the profit they estimate they’re forgoing on the ink), and the last one I bought was cheap (still going though).

Never buy a consumer grade printer though.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I use started using bookstack when I realized that I wanted a place for long form / long term storage of documents separates from my Notes / To dos. I love it and I deeply appreciate your hard work.

For others that haven't tried it, here's what clicked for me:

- An opinionated hierarchy of Book -> Chapter (Optional) -> Page
- Great search
- WYSIWYG OR Markdown supported
- Great integration into Diagrams.net

I love it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Durian Fruit: Potent Smell but Nutritious
Why would you assume 3 kids for every generation when birth rates are currently below replacement level? Also, add in rich people marrying people of similar socioenomic status, and you end up with quite wealthy families down the line.
Don’t forget money laundering with NFTS and bribing politicians
I was going to start a local meetup called "Out of Cube Experience" that would feature outdoor activities that the typical office-dweller typically wouldn't do but could be fun and/or practical. One planned activity was felling a tree with a chainsaw -- correctly and safely, of course -- and building a Nordic/Swedish Torch was certainly a follow-on possible activity.

(And no, I didn't start the meetup out of liability concerns and insurance being unrealistically expensive.)
The people needing advanced features of Office are a tiny minority
> Their is no ownership without exclusivity.

Why not? Plenty of people own parks and gardens that are open to the public. Art in galleries is all owned by someone but many are free for public viewing. Everyone getting to enjoy the thing while the creator still gets paid sounds like an awesome future to me.
I think the disagreement here is mostly about the meaning of the word 'Elite'. The way I use it I'm thinking more of the most influential 10% than 1%. People who have it better than most citizens, but their position is precarious. So more the democratic party insiders Biden/Harris bullied into tilting the odds against Sanders/Yang/Gabbard than just Biden/Harris themselves. Of course, my theory does require that Biden/Harris spent a long time in the trenches honing their skills in this kind of dominance struggle. If you don't think they thrived in that environment for so long through being better at earlier versions of woke competition I'd be curious what you think the selection mechanism was. Another thing you might not have noticed about Woke Competition is that it's not about being a perfect person or having no skeletons in your closet. One of the presuppositions is that we all have something undeserving about us and need to keep that fact constantly in mind.

I disagree with the idea that even the kind of elites you mean aren't affected though, and I'd point to the example of Andrew Cuomo for evidence. It's very plausible that Andrew Cuomo's calls in the early days of covid cost a number of people their lives, that's all the reason any party would need to remove a prominent member. But when he was removed it was through a set of sexual assault allegations that someone had clearly been sitting on for some time. When infighting did erupt, woke competition was the weapon of choice.

As for my last paragraph, that was in small part assertive optimism, in large part a rhetorical device, and just a touch of sarcasm. People like you after all don't need convincing there's a problem with woke competition, it was addressed to people who buy into it. That woke competition is only intended to divide the underclasses can be easily dismissed as the author hiding from his racial privilege, that it has that effect unintentionally because of unconscious privilege by the rich... the rules of the game practically require believing that.
In theory some weak ECC on top of particularly unreliable storage can still be less reliable than way more reliable storage not employing any ECC, but I also suspect this won't be the case here. However, if the target reliability is only say 2 or 3 times what you had DDR4 without ECC, it is still completely unsuitable for serious applications. And really we should find another name for the internal ECC of DDR5, because the services it provides is completely different from real ECC.
I'd love to chat more about this!

We're a managed cloud infrastructure business (since 2006), and also run our own public cloud.. Reach out to me via nick at mnx io.

At a minimum, I'd be happy to give you some pointers in this space.
But they don't ask about it. They aren't "openly" racist in that way, only secretly racist.

In Holland it was pretty open (as were most social/societal topics).
Everywhere? Even if you only look at energy prices it's probably fairly clear trend, once you start accounting for pollution, climate change, lower peak loads etc. The savings quickly run into Trillions.
Also please stop funding them.

i.e Do not buy an M1 for Linux, this still funds Apple to do more of this shit.
Honestly please stop citing more than a decade old data on renewable energy. It's a highly dynamic sector, and data from the stone age of renewables is completely irrelevant for the discussion.
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Out of interest, does your company support the author via sponsorship or other means?

I’m curious… I wondered what the red tape is like in organisations that use open source projects like this in order to setup a GitHub sponsorship or similar.

In a previous role at a cash-strapped startup I used open source software within my team and have to admit I never arranged any contributions to the OSS projects - though if I had my time again in that role I’d be more mindful about trying to do this. Especially I think when the project is a very small or “one person” team.
Microsoft SQL Server / Azure SQL support sequential UUIDs to solve the index distribution problem: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/newsequ...

It's better than nothing, but one of the values of UUIDs for identifiers is that you can create new ones client-side while offline. These "sequential" UUIDs will fail standard UUID validation because of the byte swapping and, in my experience, when used offline-capable apps, will result in sparse clusters of sequential UUIDs that yield an unpredictable improvement over truly random UUIDs.
What’s the point of this ask? A blockchain’s dataset isn’t arbitrarily editable by its users — there’s a very specific set of actions you can do, which are well defined, that modify the chain in a very structured manner… just as any API sitting in front of a database would do.

Obviously you can modify your local copy of the chain as you wish, even corrupting the data, but if your chain isn’t accepted by the public, your changes don’t mean shit. So you’re really only able to (meaningfully) execute those public-allowed operations
Just use a proxy or Tor
Kinda like Happy Eyeballs, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs
Yeah, the article is focused on what to do about it, not convincing you that it's true.
In the future everyone will be a battery mechanic. Just as dads in the 60’s and 70’s had a garage full of tools. But now they will have soldering stations and ammeters
Look at the graphs.

To me it looks literally exponential until half a year ago.
Can you become a developer without a college degree?
> Maybe BookStack can do fine for a company with a few dozens of employees. But Confluence can handle tens of thousands of employees. So I wouldn't label Bookstack as a Confluence alternative.

Sure, but there are a lot of people within that range up to tens of thousands. I have had some people mention using BookStack within environments towards to tens of thousands (Although it's likely a lesser portion enganged). Just because it may not achieve that one factor does not discount it as an alternative for significant audience.

> Maybe I'm missing something, but BookStack doesn't even have a notion of "teams" only roles. You can't give permission of a file to a user, only to all users who have a certain role.

Yeah, we don't have the word usage of "Teams" but I'm not sure what that'd offer in addition to roles. Role specific permissions can be applied to any of the hierarchy elements (Including upon page content).
Not sure how we are defining wealth here, but for 99% of Americans this is a non-issue given the estate tax exemption of $12m/individual $24m/couples. Perpetual trusts are a boon to the super rich, but doesn’t change the math for everyone else.
Ah, so obvious indeed.
So where can I get into that 4% above inflation investment that is financially secure (ie: low risk of capital loss)?
Half of Europe has undergone serious upheavals in the 20th century, with much of family wealth confiscated, money devalued through inflation etc. The same risks threaten wealth concentration in developing countries.

The U.S. is fairly exceptional in the fact that it is isolated from the world's woe. This stability is what helps you grow.