skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a more flexible maxim would be "buy what lasts". A memory can last, but overpaying for an insta photo op is a fleeting status bump. The skis that let you take spontaneous adventures in with friends might last, but yet another single-use kitchen appliance probably won't. Disposable goods and services attract the most exploitative business models.
Personally I believe travelling the world on a much smaller budget (like lower 5 figures, depending on how many years you travel of course) is more interesting. Instead of big hotels you stay in small guesthouses, more contact to fellow travellers (of that age-group) and contact to the locals.
> passages that do not really add anything to the central message

I really hate that thing where the authors tease you with an interesting story like "Mr X did this really interesting thing" and the third paragraph starts with "Mr X grew up in a nondescript village and now we take a detour to highlight how he grew up that has basically nothing to do with the thing I expected to read about here" ...

Anyway ... I grew up in Germany in the early 80s and my parents were completely normal people ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS

http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/
> You don't have to look far to find people in financial emergencies because the ambulance provider didn't take their insurance or to find people with significant injuries begging a friend to take them to the hospital rather than phoning an ambulance because they are uninsured.

That is a wholly different situation where the patient is making the decision because of a lack of insurance instead of the EMS provider.

And…it’s generally because of ignorance that folks make that decision. They base it on rumor and assumption, where in many cases a simple phone call or two is all it takes to get those large charges decreased significantly. An ambulance provider has zero benefit to them in intentionally creating a bad debt account that will ultimately default.
I just tested, and it's not fixed.
Perhaps it took Microsoft funding to finally cave in and do it, and on their own they would never go for it (judging from their stance all those previous years).
Url changed from https://www.thedrive.com/news/37235/the-torsus-praetorian-4x..., which points to this.
I’m nowhere near 80 but I have health conditions which necessitates regular medical intervention and prescribed medication to keep me alive.

By this logic I should just lay down and die instead of trying to get better??
Reminds me of a comment about books: that the best can elevate you to a higher level of being, some are enjoyable to pass the time, and some are trash that deadens your ability to enjoy better things
> would you expect terminal applications to work with screen readers for example

Can you explain to me any way in which they might not, bearing in mind they're basically text.
The next iteration will be "buy information, not experiences." Industry creates and purchases data. We purchase books (read on Kindles), online courses, and in extreme cases, credentials. Isn't an NFT just 0s and 1s?

Aren't we ultimately just converting material wealth to digital wealth?
Ecto is inspired by LINQ from .NET
Allow me to summarize:

A total bummer for those who didn't want this. A great relief for those who did want this.

Wonder what the expected impact will be, seems like the metric is totally driven on if more people actually get vaccinated and not tied to hospital resources or any other obvious meaningful metric.
I highly recommend Assembly Language and Computer Architecture using C++ and Java by Anthony Dos Reis. This book will teach you a lot of stuff in assembler.
They are stuck with Cold War thinking "it's either Russia or USA". Otherwise I have no idea or an easy answear.
That's definitely not true. While fonts may be the same, colours are definitely not. Many terminals support a very large array of colours. Lots of tools have animations for progress bar, and a shell us no guarantee of being responsive. Anything that displays git statuses in the prompt will take multiple seconds to be ready on a large project, and many will just silently pause while they chug away at whatever they're doing.

In terms of responsiveness, there are plenty of terminal based apps that respond poorly to window resizing (the flickerkng is incredibly frustrating to me), or just don't handle aspect ratio changes at all and clip the ends of lines. Some tui applications don't clear their screen buffer properly on quit so completely break scrolling back the terminal. Many terminals really suck for performance and can really really chug if you accidentally dump a large JSON file to the terminal, for example. That's not responsive at all.
As per the sibling link to Apple's support it's impossible again to remove it without contacting support.

> It sounds like you did some great research on this, and you're right. Customers are no longer able to remove the album on their own. You will need to reach out to Apple Support directly to have the album removed.
If you already know C or C++, I’d recommend checking out Compiler Explorer [1]. It helped me tremendously when learning assembly as I could see how source code translated to assembly, which helped me learn common patterns in assembly, etc.

[1] https://godbolt.org/

Note: It supports more languages than C and C++, but with the exception of Zig, the others will typically have more complicated assembly output.
I always found Guix more appealing, because it uses a programming language that is useful for other things as well (GNU Guile). I really can't stand having to learn a new language for each thing I want to manage.
Molstar: Web-based toolkit for visualisation of large-scale molecular data
This article seems to be making misleading claims. The much better NPR article [1] says that it's those 12 people who are the source of 65% false claims and hoaxes, not 65% of propaganda. One is an idea, the other is content.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...
I can confirm, as a guy, I still wear 20 years old clothes. I only ever buy new ones when the older ones tear and I don't have anything else to replace them with already.
A Step by Step Guide on How to Download a CSV File Using Angular
$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
“It’s okay because it’s not effecting me.”
I think you're right, but in another sense I think the consumerist junk reading is just one segment of the population looking down their nose at another. I'm not sure that a game I quickly become bored with is substantially different from a weekend holiday. They're both things that occupied me for little time, but which I enjoyed for that little time and form positive, if rarely reviewed, memories. I don't go much for fashionable clothing, but I suspect the same is true there.

There are other arguments against disposable goods, but I don't know if they're strictly worse than the experiences that the maxim seeks to replace them with. It's a lot easier to replace a pound of cotton than it is to take a flight's worth of CO2 out of the air.

Edit: rephrased a line.
> Range - So, here’s the thing: Range doesn’t matter. No, really, it doesn’t.

False. Of course range matters and making excuses for the limitations of BEVs lacks ambition.

Claiming range doesn't matter simply fails to consider what it means when the entire fleet is electric. Over-building the fast charging infrastructure to support a national fleet of low range EVs is wasteful.

Longer range means less time at fast chargers and more time slow charging over night. Slow charge infrastructure is much cheaper to build out.

The Lucid Air gets 500 miles highway range:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-re...

Less expensive EVs should aspire to 400 miles range as a minimum.
Every time a feature update happens they show the "get started" (iirc) screen over again. Every time if you just click accept/next without reading it resets your default browser and search engine.
Well, it quickly adds up. How many troops are there in Klintsy specifically (actually on the border), and how many troops are stationed in other places which are considered "near the borders", but actually much farther away? I've seen reports of military build-up in 200 miles from the border, as something next to Ukraine. Do they really have 100,000 personnel in 15 km from Ukraine (actually on the border)? IIRC Klintsy has a military base which they started building in 2016. I'd like to see a detailed analysis, do you have a link? I may be downplaying Putin's insanity.
> But wouldn't the ability to restrict arbitrary changes to a struct still be important?

Typically immutability in C++ is at the interface scope rather than structural, e.g. prefer this

struct MyType {
int x_;

MyType( int x ) : x_( x ) {}
};

void do_the_thing( const MyType& mt ); // mt.x_ = 1; doesn't compile, mt is const

over this

struct MyType {
const int x_;

MyType( int x ) : x_( x ) {}
};

void do_the_thing( MyType mt ); // mt.x_ = 1; doesn't compile, x_ is const
If Machiavelli was so opposed to the unity of Italy he wouldn't have been able to write so comprehensively of the history of Rome.

Also, look at where the horses of St. Mark's Square originally came from. It wasn't Constantinople.
Without the show, we wouldn't understand that a "detectorist" is a person and metal detector is the machine they use.
"underappreciated"... it's the most common "making friends" advice ever.
Meta Sues for Data Scraping; Claim: Banned Users Creating New Accounts = Hacking
The cloud is great for scaling indeed, but a cheap Intel V4 server with 44 cores from Ebay for $2000 can handle a shit ton of traffic too.

If I were building a new business, I would use both cloud and colo. But I do understand that everyone don't have that luxury.
I've seen this movie before... wasn't Microsoft the defendant in an anti-trust case modeled after the exact same situation?

I just setup a Win 10 box at home and have finally started to appreciate some of it, but the Edge hooks are all over the place. I've noticed clicking a help link in one of the settings sidebars will open in Edge regardless of your browser choice. It's also the default PDF reader.
> States are made up of people, so it does matter what people want.

The naivety continues. The biggest protests ever held in multiple countries didn't stop any states from invading Iraq. Both a priori and empirically, almost all inhabitants of almost all states have almost zero say in how they behave in foreign policy. Second of all, this is emergent behavior. States act in their own self-interest using the power that they have to enforce their security, it is their raison d'être. Those that abnegate quickly cease to exist, so by selection bias no alternatives exist for long.
I have a Lamborghini. I don’t drive it to show off. It’s simply been on my vision board since age fifteen. It brings me a great experience every day.
40HEX and 29a computer virus ezines. I can also recommend Ralf Browns Interrupt List for a great reference for BIOS/DOS interrupts (procedures).

Definitely not along the lines of what you're going to be taught, but fun.
When you own things, your benefit from them comes from your experience of them when they are in use. As you increase the number of things in your life, the average utility of them decreases. There are a few counter examples[0], but for most people spending their own private money it follows that rule. Note that this is not the case with average degree of quality, but usually quality costs hit diminishing returns pretty fast (a couple of doublings).

Ok so really what the original argument was saying wasn't the straw man of living like a stoic vs buying a better car or toaster. The original argument was taking time to experience the world is worth the cost compared to the alternative. That it's better to have a Honda instead of a Porsche if it means you had time to travel Europe and Africa for half a year instead.

And I mostly agree with that. I don't mind shelling out the dollars for stuff that really matters like my primary dev machine, or what have you, but I really don't need $500 sweaters, or a luxury car, even though I can afford it. The delta to my own enjoyment just isn't worth it compared to other priorities like travelling or helping someone out.

[0] e.g., horse plus cart is better than two horses or two carts.
"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Paperback-Peter-Thiel/dp/B00...)
and "The Unfair Advantage" by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba (https://www.amazon.com/The-Unfair-Advantage/dp/1788167546/re...) are pretty interesting reads
I think he was commenting on other’s misinterpretation and misapplication of the original point.

He is dead-on.
> As a befuddled onlooker myself, I am surprised that the movements of the Russian military inside its territory must be interpreted by the outside world as an escalation. I understand the nervousness of Ukraine, but not of the US. If Russia invades, then by all means, the West can destroy it economically; but until it does, what is the point of all this saber-rattling?

To bring Russian military movements in spotlight. Otherwise they will manufacture some pretext (stage a provocation or just claim they are defending me (Russian-speaking person) from raging Ukrainian nazis) and will muddy the water with misinformation campaigns. German and French governments will happily accept Russian reasoning because they don't really care about Ukraine and just want their cheap gas to flow. Current media attention makes it much harder for European leaders to just hold some post factum Normandy-format-or-whatever "peace" talks (giving Russia more and more Ukrainian territory in the process) without some level of condemnation from their electorate.

> Just as I don't understand the point of NATO's eastwards expansion, which, in turn, makes the Russians nervous. If the European countries are worried by the military buildup along Russia's western border, surely it must be easy to empathise with the Russian worry about Nato including more Eastern European countries and being able to deploy missiles there, which can be used both defensively and offensively and which puts Moscow within 5-minute reach, or something like that.

This is the narrative that Russia is pushing, but it makes no sense if you think about it for a second. NATO could have accepted Ukraine long ago (they had 7 years to do that even after the last war), if it just wanted to deploy missiles here. It seems like NATO goal is to not accept Ukraine (and Georgia) for as long as possible without stating this straight up (in order not to discourage peoples of these countries from pro-Western course, I guess). In fact, joining NATO was very unpopular in Ukraine until Putin's actions changed that.
When you feel something like that, it is better to do a reality check. There’s no reason to assume current situation is the same as in 1939. Historical traumas are subject for therapy, not basis for political decisions.
Well, I really am not an expert in geopolitics, nor military strategies.

But here is why I think first US and then other Western EU countries are increasingly irritated by what is happening in Rusia near Ukraine borders:

1) First lets understand why EU does not have a proper army? Because a) EU started as an economic alliance and b) because countries in Europe did a lot of damage in the history by fighting each other. So after WW2, even if some countries have armies, in general US assumed the role and used (as entitled) as advantage the protector of Europe. US still has soldiers in Germany, Italy and UK. Please notice I wrote US and not NATO => thus EU cannot protect itself right now, cannot form a proper army so quick (in 1 year lets say) nor I am not sure we should want this. There is a reason why WW2 started in EU.

2) Second, lets understand why US is irritated by Russia's movements. Because allowing Russia to make a stand will just allow more daring moves in the future. This is the beginning of an escalation that we don't know where it will finish. Imagine just economically what does it mean for Europe to get into a recession because of this kind of treats in the future? US will not be shielded by this.

3) Third, if there is even a slight chance that a large scale war might happen then it is better to act quick early. I know that behind our computers we all think a war cannot happen. But it can and it will if we are not fighting against. War is irrational and can happen quickly, it is a devastating and irreversible event. It happened in the history multiple times. So I am all for a disproportionate response to anyone that flexes military muscles. These are muscles that should not be flexed.
Does guix also have any equivalent to patchelf?
You’re right, but off by a few orders of magnitude. Think “need 200, get 2000” warm bodies
There are two major and many smaller desktop environments for Linux. KDE is more like Windows, you could try that. (sudo apt install tasksel; sudo tasksel install kubuntu-full to get a KUbuntu equivalent, or just sudo apt install kde-full for the main things. Though you may well have a colleague already using KDE.)

Unless you need it for the type of work you do, you could disable swap, or reduce it to a small amount.

(I don't have a laptop, so I can't comment on suspend.)
Ask HN: You declined a well known company before it was well known. Why?
The title sounds curt due to character restrictions, so some more context might be helpful:

I'm interested in hearing the stories of people who had the opportunity to work for companies that are well known before they became well known (and it was less obvious they would become well known).

You decided not to take the opportunity. What was your reason?
Google owns Looker and already has this SQL replacement: https://opensource.google/projects/logica
Did the FAA cry wolf on 5G?
Oracle has fantastic budget tools. Not just "you've passed your budget", but "you're forecast to pass your budget in 22 days before the month is up". And you can couple it with quotas to create hard budgets.

AWS has decent tools in this regard, but it pales compared to Oracle. Azure is a product I've never used with any scale (just small projects), but the fact that it actually costs money to setup alerts is gross (and morally reprehensible). Even if it's a trivial amount, that alone just sours the product in my eyes. I mean, already Azure is pretty uncompetitive unless you're running on free credits, as Troy apparently is (purportedly some $13K per year, so unsure what the pitch for donations to cover a bill is about).
Didn't the Roman's bring gold coins 1200 years earlier? Seems a stretch to call it one of England's earliest gold coins.
Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy
uBlock Origin is more than an ad-blocker, it's a general purpose content filter that can be leveraged to hide low-quality content from pages you browse. While the main filter lists can remove mailing list popups and obvious nags, the definition of low-quality content is personal, so one size cannot fit all.

I used to have an ad-hoc script to render and publish a personal uBlock Origin filter list, added to all my browsers. The goal of this project is to enable more people to build such a list custom list to filter out low-quality content and nags. Chose from a list of community-maintained templates, set your options, add your custom rules, and get your personal filter list.

Code and content are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and hosted on https://github.com/xvello/letsblockit. The project is still pretty young and needs more filter templates, and lots of frontend improvements (my last web project was in 2005, this is not my forte). Any feedback is welcome!
The author proves a weak opinion piece that seems to actually reinforce the idea of enabling experiences. Slogans are short but understanding is long & nuanced. People who debate slogans don't debate the underlying intention & meaning behind them.

"Buy experiences, not things" doesn't mean only spending money on experiences that leave no material effects, it means spending money enabling experiences rather than spending money that doesn't. There is no such thing as "thing-like experiences", there are experiences enabled by purchases. Merely purchasing amazing camping gear doesn't provide you an experience, but using it does and that's an experience you've spent money on, not a "thing-like experience". On the other hand, upgrading your phone one version is unlikely to enable the same increase in experiences.
I've grown a now-popular wordpress hoster.

We tried a "secure plan", which, a.o. ran the WP codebase on read-only filesystem (technically: chrooted, so WP could not change its own codebase).

We pitched this with the "professionals" amongst the customers. They liked the idea, but abandoned it nonetheless. Too many themes won't work OOT. Too many plugins write files. Too many features appeared "broken" to their clients. When someone logs in as root, hits the update-button and gets errors, they consider it crap, rather than "proper security practice".

So, while it seems nice in theory, the practice is -unfortunately- not there yet: as long as it is not the de-facto way, but an obscure, unfamiliar way, to run a WP site, people will too often abandone it. A feedback-loop causing it to never become really secure.
I think the strawman here is assuming that an experience needs to be "bought".

What kind of photos/videos do you take with your camera/drone if you don't like traveling/visiting places?

In any case, the author makes the distinction between experience-like things. A camera is a perfect example of an experience-enabling thing. Photography and videography are experiences. I don't think anyone in the "buy experiences not things" crowd would discourage buying a camera, or something like say a surfboard, snowboard, basketball, woodworking tools, raspberry pi, etc since those enable experiences.

On the topic of travel - personally I think it's extremely valuable from a cultural/educational perspective to venture outside of one's city and/or country at least once in one's lifetime. I've spent the last 4 years traveling and living abroad, and while I wouldn't necessary recommend going that hard, I certainly wouldn't trade the experience for anything. Also, experience is more than just buying plane/train tickets and hotel rooms, nor do experiences necessitate travel.
I recommend"Programming from the Ground Up"

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Well I have a thinkpad with a pretty stable setup (except suspend resume, i havent even bothered trying to get that to run well) but on my desktop system

Ryzen 5600x
AMD rx6600xt
MSI B550M pro
Zen Kernel

with 3600mhz XMP Ram and auto overclock settings i get a hard crash once a month with some random MCE hardware errors, bluetooth card spams my dmesg on boot with some errors i cant be bothered to fix, firefox sometimes crashes HARD, totally freezing, games sometimes don't start, today i had a random chromium crash and then i couldnt open nemo (file manager) anymore and when i opened a shell (alacritty with fish shell) the shell wouldnt allow any input. Two reboots later and it was fixed...somehow...

but honestly i dont mind its my toy system/work system from home because its so much faster than my notebooks. If I have to reboot once a day thats stable enough for that newscase
I have several YubiKeys linked to my account. It will decline those as well. It demands that I sign in from Android sometimes, seemingly for no reason.
Yeah, landscape. It was translated to my language (russian) as “album orientation” long ago in winword and I make this mistake from time to time. Portrait sounds like “book-ish orientation” btw. I believe that’s because books are usually portrait-like and albums tend to have wider pages. https://www.google.ru/search?q=%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B...