skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally I'd agree. I refuse to get anything from Lenovo for that reason (and I'm surprised so many linux users are fine with their laptops) but when it comes to cell phones there's no good option, just different degrees of horrible. Your options are basically Apple and Google and anything Google is basically malware designed to collect your personal data. Apple does a little better but is also far more restrictive over what they'll allow you to do and how they'll allow you do it.
Sex with an unattractive woman is better than no sex at all.

A difference between guys born in the 60/70s vs 90/2000s is that we were a lot less picky about the chicks we banged. Not sure what changed in the culture but I don't think the current situation is optimal for anyone.

BTW, I know that I am not speaking for everyone from these age groups but I am comparing boys I grew up with vs my boys who were born between 1990 and 2004.
Looking at it from another side...The whole Direct I/O path looks like a worst can of worms...maybe it's easier to review again fsync :-)

"...The exact semantics of Direct I/O (O_DIRECT) are not well specified. It is not a part of POSIX, or SUS, or any other formal standards specification. The exact meaning of O_DIRECT has historically been negotiated in non-public discussions between powerful enterprise database companies and proprietary Unix systems, and its behaviour has generally been passed down as oral lore rather than as a formal set of requirements and specifications..."

"The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances." -- Linus

https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Clarifying_Direct_IO%...
Undersea cables use steel for strength and additional conductor to power repeaters.

Fiberoptic needs repeaters every couple hundred kilometers, so everything crossing any ocean is actively powered.

The damage to the cable would come from difference in potential at the ends of the cable. The cable might be at the ocean bottom but it could still get fried if you apply high voltage that could kill repeaters. And without those the cable is useless.

Basically, greatly simplifying, in a solar storm any long conductor might be subjected to high potential difference (potential difference == voltage). It does not matter if the middle is exposed but enough of it needs to be exposed at the ends. So a lot will depend on details of how the cable is actually terminated. And it should be possible to engineer it (ie terminations) so that it is safe from a storm.
I'm about to find out. I have a 10+ year old Macbook that was given to me, and is a brick if you try to run Snow Leopard that came in the box. So I've been playing with a variety of weird OS distro's on it.
It's not just you. I have been having similar problems and it just seems to keep getting worse. The other issue I've been having is the precedence of product pages over everything else. Now it seems no matter what I search for I'm bombarded with links to products and low quality product focused blogspam. Also I've noticed search results will change based on what I have recently searched. The same search can yield different results at different times. Google screwed up the one thing it was actually good at. Now Google Search just feels like every other subpar Google knockoff product.
If you’re in the Bay Area I’ll hang out with you
I don't think closing a contract is a permanent thing. You can always reopen it or start a new one if and when the complaints have been addressed. That seems to be what most people have in mind, at least in my experience.
NFT for this use-case provides

- the uncorruptible chain of custody. While it's well known for decades that "just a database" would solve ASCAP/BMI robbing countless artists because "it's too hard to track them down", they're not going to do it. A royalty is meaningless if there's no mechanism to enforce it, and an autonomous one is simply superior. If you're then going to say "but I could do that with XYZ" then now the rhetorical burden is yours to explain to me why it NEVER caught on.

- fractional ownership is a doodad, but a particularly hard doodad to set up, especially alongside a royalty mechanism. Once again "but you can do that with" -- what? A Delaware corp? With specialized technology? Some combination of buggy lambdas on AWS? And _how_ are you going to offer this to artists and still make money?

NFT for royalties just makes sense. It's no wonder it's not making anywhere near the money that art NFTs do -- but that's art: you'd have to look far and wide to find a more contemptible and corrupted marketplace than fine art. It's no wonder they like crypto :)
It'd be awesome if it supported chords so you could firehose multiple letters simultaneously.
What are birds? We just don’t know.
That just shows that they have an adequate PR department. It says nothing about the company's intentions.
I live in Ottawa. There are a lot of protests in the capital, but as protests go they usually:

1. Don't involve too many non-locals; and

2. Don't involve vehicles (ie. everyone's on foot).

The protest has broadened into an anti-mandate message, but it's original purpose of "truckers driving to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates" allowed for a much bigger (and noisier) turnout despite weak local support.

Keep this image in mind: https://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8...
Some suggestions:

* Train for a 10k run and then train for a half marathon.

* Join a local charity and contribute towards your community.

* Join the military and learn new skills while traveling the world.

* Build something with your hands such as modeling or wood working.

* Write. Writing is a skill so no matter what you are writing it will take some practice.

* Get a pet to raise and cherish it. My cats and dogs are among my closest life companions.

* Go back to school and work on a graduate degree.
Sorry, I re-read my comment and noticed it sounds way more aggressive than I intended it to be! I love the little hack actually, but it looks like it's really just a hack ;)
DAOs are a bit fluid, even evasive, in definition but there are plenty out there (e.g. VitaDAO) which essentially function as an alternative organizational structure to traditional corporations. To function outside the crypto space (or really legally at all), they have to at least create shell LLCs which are governed by DAO decisions. Very few DAOs seem to get that far and instead choose to operate in the greyzone. As the space matures, I think we'll start to see a few large corporations which use on-chain voting in place of shareholding meetings. Whether this will otherwise cause any meaningful differences in how companies operate remains to be seen.
This is extremely common. In their 30s, people get married, have kids, and move to the suburbs. Finding and keeping friends in your 30s is quite a challenge.

Some tips:

- move to a city - things are much much easier in a city as people are more transient, groups aren't as established, and new people arrive all the time

- it sounds like you have some friends - ask them if they have any friends in your area you should meet platonically

- the easiest way to make friends is an activity: you mentioned a hobby, but it can be anything - a running group, the gym, board games, etc. The more non-nerdy, the more likely you are to find non-nerdy people

- if you're like me, you struggle to make friends because it's not "easy" like it was in college. Friends in your 30s take work: reaching out, texting, scheduling, planning, etc.

- it sounds like you're not in therapy. So let me be the first to tell you that you're depressed (that "apathy" you're feeling is depression). Which is fine, it happens us all. But go to therapy because that's how you solve that. Just try it for a month, no pressure.
Why would he beat the batter for 15 minutes? Did flour back then not have as much gluten?

This is all the info I could manage to find about this on my own: (mangled the link since the site is jam-packed with ads and trackers)

www.realsimple (dot) com (slash) food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/pancake-secret-ingredient-gluten
We need it for all software, not just software the author has chosen to be libre.
I've found the opposite. DDG will often just ignore my quotes entirely
Auto formatters support paragraphs, but they don't support I'm going to give this paragraph 2 blank lines because it's particularly important/complicated/blah.
yikes. that's web security 101 level stuff.
So instead of using prepared statements or even just escaping, the programmers just disallow any character that could cause SQL injection?
I've read and sent that PDF so many times.

A fun snippet that jumped out at me this time:

> With public key cryptography, there’s a horrible, fundamental challenge of finding somebody, anybody, to establish and maintain the infrastructure. For example, you could enlist a well-known technology company to do it, but this would offend the refined aesthetics of the vaguely Marxist but comfortably bourgeoisie hacker community who wants everything to be decentralized and who non-ironically believes that Tor is used for things besides drug deals and kidnapping plots.
you don't need "web3" to solve sign up problems; there's already oauth from web2 :-)
Culty
Further ideas for activities:

- activism: go canvas for a politician you like

- charity work: lots of people down at the soup kitchen, the local thrift shop, etc
For those interested, here's a discussion hosted by Peter Attia, MD featuring Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.

Biomarkers of aging and epigenetic clocks[1]

Description:
The biology of aging, rapamycin, and other interventions that target the aging process.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukGZpByD1RQ
I thought OW was museumed. I guess I was wrong. I have no idea how its code gen compares with DMC++ these days.
I am having a similar problem as OP (in my 30s now but yearn for the social environment of 20 somethings) and am debating digital nomading a bit to change my environment, as where I live seems to pose a lot of psychological inertia since I spent most of my life here and fall into the same patterns - everything seems like I've "been there and done that". The idea of weighing the ROI and being responsible for my own fun is a much needed reminder so thank you for this comment, I really needed it.
There is a very loose correlation between software quality and success. Well written, useful software doesn't guarantee success, nor is it even necessary in many cases. Combine that with highly talented software makers earning some of the highest salaries in the world, and you get your answer. As far as I can tell Quibi had incredible infrastructure and programming, and god knows it had the funding. But a 100% uptime and the ability to stream to millions on launch day didn't mean anything because the product was not wanted by consumers.

In some other industries the competence of the contributors is much more closely tied to the success of the company. Software is not like this. That's why you might see docs, lawyers and stock-brokers entering in partnership; those professions have the quality of work tied directly to outcome.
While I completely agree with all your other reasoning. It should be pointed out that PEP 8 is not intended to be a styling guide for user code, it's intended to be a styling guide for the standard library: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#introduction

It's nice the broader Python community generally agrees with PEP 8 but it's always a little weird to see it referenced as an authority on styling user code when it is not it's intention and does not claim to be.
Since awareness is part of the universe, (You are awareness and you are real), and since there is no way to construct awareness with just time, space and matter/energy, then there must be four fundamental primitives from which the universe is constructed, space, time, matter/energy, and awareness. Consciousness must then be self-organizing behavior arising from a chaotic assemblage of primitive elements of awareness. Since there is nothing like primitive elements of awareness in the world of classical physics, this primitive element of awareness must exist on the quantum level. Perhaps this is why some quantum behaviors are hauntingly evocative of awareness.
I'm not sure how well this will be received on HN, but if you're looking for a meeting place with folks that generally skew toward more community integration / more vibrant social lives, and which doesn't require already knowing someone, I'd suggest picking up a sport. Granted, you'll have to contend with the stereotypical "bro" types, but there'll also be well-adjusted young professionals in a similar position as yourself, and sports naturally lend themselves toward friendship building. From personal experience, whenever I'm in a new city, I find a local basketball run and before long am going out for drinks / food / concerts with people I consider friends, and have even found roommates in this way.
Imo he shouldn’t pull it.

If he is uncomfortable sharing the platform so wants to remove his music fine, I’d just say that without the “you can’t have both of us” implication.
That's hilarious. Sorry to drag you into such a can of worms ;)
FWIW, I don't think it was the moral or ethical thing to do. I didn't intend for my post to come off as if I thought it was. I shared this story in the context of process breakdown, not "stealing is ok".

As for my thinking, it was impulsive, I was a fresh grad and didn't have much money, I was upset about the price, I thought the cashier was being rude by completely ignoring me. I felt like I attempted to engage with the process of buying the cable in the correct way and the process broke down in my favor. I was not going to go out of my way to fix it.

Again, none of that makes it the right thing to do. I wouldn't have considered walking in and stuffing it into my pocket, but feeling like I did my best I shrugged my shoulders and went on with my day.
An ironic detail about the positions they're staking is that one of the pieces of misinformation that Rogan was accused of spreading was speculating about whether covid escaped from a lab where it has been enhanced. Subsequently, the WHO endorsed investigating that possibility. What if it's found to be true? Are they also opposed to talking about true information before it gets approved by their preferred authorities? That's a repressive and anti-science attitude.
Flour was not milled as finely or consistently so more mixing was required and gluten development was not as much of a concern.
CERN likes to say April 30, 1993[1]. The web was the first "killer platform" (built on top of the internet) that enabled virtually all killer apps to come - to the point where the general population uses the word "internet" to refer to the web (depending on how you view mobile apps).

The web is a platform that stands on top of the internet (which is at OSI model layers 1-4).

Blockchain is a platform that stands on top of the internet too. Difference is that after 13 years no one has been able to create anything of utility with it other than trade tokens.

There's no point in bringing up the history of the plumbing that is the internet from before either of these dates. Besides, as other commenters have noted, the realities of connectivity in the early nineties are so radically different from the release of Bitcoin in 2009 it's absurd to compare the two.

Yet, even when you do, the web still grew at 10x the rate of blockchain in terms of user adoption.

[1] https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
> The first amendment does not protect you from the actions of other private parties, it protects you from the government.

Nobody in this thread was talking about the First Amendment. The concept of freedom of speech is much broader than its particular realization in US constitutional law.
But when the government mandates usage of a private company, what’s the difference?
I'm hungry for more analysis of DAOs. This article covers a nice set of ones including a few I hadn't heard of.

For anyone who gets interested in one of these concepts, I recommend finding the group's Discord and popping in to ask a few questions yourself.

However the depth of the article wasn't satisfying. Regarding SPICE DAO:
> "The group’s plan was to produce its own version of the film, with creative decisions voted on by the token’s holders."

From having dug into the SPICE DAO's Discord, I'm surprised this is what the journalist led with. It's an intellectually dishonest take on what the group was trying to do. Having poked around a bit, the people leading the DAO clearly understand intellectual property and were buying the book as something of a parallel project to getting licenses. But there seems to be a big push to paint them as complete idiots. Not sure why though. Maybe they are complete idiots, but not from what I've seen.

From my limited experiences with DAOs, they're not a magical solution to anything, and it will take time to figure out exactly what they're useful for. Nonprofits, hackerspaces, and corporations are all entities that work on mass coordination of incentives, resources, and labor. It's all hard work. DAOs may offer a new toolkit for this type of coordination, but they're unlikely to be a panacea. I am deeply curious to learn which problems this toolkit turns out to solve.

Edit: oh check out Orange DAO, mentioned elsewhere in this thread
Honestly I can see this being a feature of the next gen of code formatters—dynamic reflow, like e-books.
What a trivial distinction.

Either way you had to go back that far to find another president that didn't start a new war.

It would be remarkable if it was 20 years.
Burn out. Or maybe some kind of clinical depression.

1) covid's almost over, and that'll help

2) Burning Man? I'm semi-serious here.

3) After 10 years away from writing code, I took a full stack contract to do something esoteric and difficult, without a tight deadline. It took me nearly three months to recover 100% of my coding capability, and after the contract ended, nearly three months to recover my social skills.

It's a very very hard job. To be better than the technical problem is much, much harder than being better than (say) competing bankers or lawyers. The opponents are not human when you write code. They're harder to defeat.
Starchy carbohydrates, unfortunately, are one of the two ways to consume way too many calories way too quickly.

It's hard to eat 2000 calories of steak in a sitting. It's almost impossible to eat 2000 calories of lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, etc. in a sitting.

It's really easy to consume 2000 calories of potatoes, wheat, or rice in a sitting.

The other easy way to consume way too many calories is to slather your food with butter or oil. A tablespoon of oil or butter isn't terrible and may even be healthy for you--a quarter cup, however, is approaching 1000 calories. That's not so good. And people tend to use whole sticks of butter in cooking (1 stick is 1/4 cup) per dish or easily put a quarter cup of salad dressing (mostly oil) on their vegetables.
Vanguard UI is so bad for actively trading or even checking your positions that at this point I can only think its somehow part of their brand where they think they would actually lose customers if they updated it.
Yes, we should all be opposed to true information before it gets approved by prefered authorities. This is how religion starts.
That's actually an idea. Gonna try that out next time I have this problem. I just hope that there is some way to automatically fold. I will also need to get a good keybinding in place for unfolding, in case I do want to read that log line.
Locke is a bit early for this, but if you like this kind of thing, then you'll love Townsends' channel about 18th century living, focused on cooking.[1] Seriously, they have over 18 seasons worth of "18th Century Cooking"[2]

1. https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson

2. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4e4wpjna1vx3DFU7r7gj...
This was a Linux fsync implementation issue. FreeBSD did the right thing.
Looks more like a crepe than a pancake.
Altos Labs raises $3B in its first month of existence
Armored Caboose Designed to Protect Navy Nuclear Waste Trains Begins Final Test
It should be added that this is because ssh-rsa uses SHA1, which is broken, and not because there's a problem with RSA itself.
I think, I haven't ordered food via phone for 15 years or so.

We have some okayish delivery websites here in Germany that don't even require a sign up.

Open the website, enter my address, choose a shop, choose food, and pay.
Honestly this is my favorite mouse, I love it for everything other than gaming.

I even tried to use it on windows for a long time (using the Magic Mouse utility app someone wrote).

I love how it scrolls in both axis, I love the gestures.
It could do with a middle Mouse button though
Bitcoin is also a laughably primitive blockchain, and Ethereum is holding back potential applications with it's innumerable flaws. You're right that "it's not early" as crypto hasn't been able to progress as fast as other tech because it's being hampered by its own success, in the time-honored worse-is-better tradition.

Blockchains are unusual tech in that it's strangely hard to upgrade them. In 2017-18 it was a common belief that some Bitcoin fork would "win" and become the "real Bitcoin", under the moniker "it's not the network, it's the ledger". Turns out it _is_ the network AND the ledger, unfortunately.

However, I maintain that the technology is still _immature_ and in that sense "it's still early": there is still some extremely low-hanging fruit in scalability, safe computing and cryptography that Bitcoin/Eth can't touch. BTC and ETH can absolutely be dethroned with better tech just like other giants that seemed unstoppable at the time.
> short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc.

Heed well the wisdom of one Benjamin Franklin:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-00...

in the dark all Cats are grey
A dog is probably better for socialization.
Well, if we assume that as they can read better they can prepare better, and that they’re relatively time rich as students; whereas in my group we all work, have families etc, it might be harder to make that advantage count?

Whatever the reason, I do envy their kanji skills!
> accidentally growing patented seeds

First, that's moving the goalpost. Second, "who would have guessed a multinational corporation would win in court against peasants the world over..." You're just repeating their side of the story.
Its ludicrous exactly how curated the news from "reputable" sources are getting.

Oh, the largest truck gathering protesting the mandate and instead we're going to cover this one man who died refusing to get a vaccine to try and scare the shit out of our population. There are hundreds of thousands of people refusing to get the vaccine, one of them is going to die, its called a pandemic for a reason.

I can respect each channel being a little biased, but what we see today is so obviously blatant in its one-sidedness. I've already set my Youtube settings to ignore news from golden age news channels, I dont even want to see that propaganda anymore.

I'm hoping we are entering an era of more independent and decentralized news networks, because they are the only ones actually covering the news these days. The big news networks are too scared to go out of business if they don't preach what the money man tells them to, and I'm hoping more people come to this realization.
If you're frequently finding other peoples' dictation of your orders poor, perhaps the problem is you? I don't have this issue.