skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting and weird: pessimism/cynicism seem to take over the "can do" attitude. Lack of ambition is just a manifestation.

I'm not sure about the root cause, but I have noticed something else much more frightening: there seem to be a lot of people who seem to hate society and civilization (ex: count how frequently the Unabomber manifesto is resposted here of all places!).

They come in various names ("accelerationism" etc) and seem to only want destruction, maybe because deep inside, they hate themselves?

I can't help but notice how the types map so perfectly to De Beauvoir types: https://fs.blog/simone-de-beauvoir-ethics-freedom/

> The sub-man is the one who, to avoid disappointment, avoids in engaging. If he doesn’t try, he doesn’t fail.

> The strange character of a universe with which he has created no bond also arouses fear in him. Weighted down by present events, he is bewildered before the darkness of the future which is haunted by frightful spectres, war, sickness, revolution, fascism, bolshevism. The more indistinct these dangers are, the more fearful they become. The sub-man is not very clear about what he has to lose, since he has nothing, but this very uncertainty re-enforces his terror. Indeed, what he fears is that the shock of the unforeseen may remind him of the agonizing consciousness of himself.

This type is frequently present in Rand books: they don't even want to try anything.

Now, they seem to have come back in greater numbers in the modern world!

In case you are curious, the typology is nice to read: next is the serious man:

> And the result is that he never gets this validation because there is always someone with more. The serious man cannot ever admit to the subjectivity of his goals, that he himself identified them as such because to do so would be to acknowledge the subjectivity of his own existence

That defines perfectly well the "techbro" but also the control freaks: "since, despite all precautions, he will never be the master of this exterior world to which he has consented to submit, he will be constantly upset by the uncontrollable course of events."

There's also the adventurer (who doesn't care about others), and the passionate, the closest to freedom, but who fails to "accept the eternal distance he has from the thing which he wants to possess. Love, happiness – freedom comes in recognizing there will always be a distance between us and these things yet aspiring to them anyway"
I really don't understand why they would remove it because it probably doesn't cost anything to keep it available. I don't think they keep updating it.

Borderlands 2 stopped updating the game on Linux, so you couldn't play coop without Proton with friends on Windows.
Yeah, I think if they wanted to launch disposable starships they could do that right now and probably for lower cost than SLS. But just like SLS there isn't much market for a billion dollar ultra-heavy payload launch. It would be a waste of time to even demo that.
Enabling laws are dangerous. The German chancellor had less than 50% of the seats and needed more power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
NASA absolutely got to set some specifications on the cargo and crew Dragons, and I'd expect there's at least some consideration to their potential requirements and quiet communication with NASA in Starship's design as well.

There'll be quite a few specifics on the HLS award variant (which, hilariously, still manages to shoehorn an Orion capsule into the plan, at least for now). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
The original story was discussed here:

The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150343 - Jan 2022 (600 comments)
Elon Musk actually advocated direct democracy.
Pointing out things like privilege tends to be seen as a sore loser mentality, regardless of truth. Sore losers have no place in hustle culture.
I wouldn't say slowly... It seems this thing is becoming a dystopia quite quickly.
I recall times when I worked at the office. Friday was a dead day. No one was interested in doing anything but waiting until 5pm. People were wandering around the office like zombies, having endless coffee-breaks and meaningless chats.

I guess that it's quite common situation for office workers, unless they are under strict surveillance and control(f.e. Amazon, EPAM).
It really depends on the type of work. You can't pump out creativity and it's actually an advantage to be well-rested.
Do you work 76 hours?
> Small-scale sustainable farms produce more food per hectare than industrial farming.

I thought that was only true in poor and developing countries but that large industrial farms in highly developed nations produced way more than everybody else. Have you a source you could share as this is a very interesting point?
Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?
No, you aren't. I sympathize with them. Its a lot of work to create, and they should get their money's worth. But it takes time for me to decide whether I really like a font, and I'm not going to pay $60 for the chance to figure that out. I wouldn't pay $6 either, though I might if I had more money to spend care-freely.

Would be wonderful if they could charge 1/x cents per character used up until some fixed price point. but what an intrusive business model that would be.
This site finds the midpoint between date/times as well as the difference between them. Also, time units can be added or subtracted from one date/time to get another. All of this is done through the JavaScript Date object which leaves to trace of the original time zone in arriving at the offset in milliseconds since 1970.
If doing the difference between dates in days, round the difference to the nearest day to avoid problems with daylight savings time not being in effect for one of them.
https://wjporter.com/misc/MidPoint.htm
This could perhaps be integrated with PGP keyservers
But something like a filesystem should probably be built on RDMA to get the kernel mostly out-of-the-way. Then you should see performance like this:

https://www.microway.com/knowledge-center-articles/performan...

And the speed of light is 1000 feet per microsecond, so even the largest data centers won't add more than a handful of microseconds.
> it just means more people would be working in the farming industry and the cost might go up.

You say that like it's a small thing. Keeping most of the population out agriculture and allowing them to produce other goods and services is the primary benefit of the agriculture industry.

> But industrial farming is not to provide food, but to provide raw resources - I mean this very article is about growing corn to turn into bioethanol to mix in fuel for cars.

Less than half of the corn produced in the US goes to ethanol production. Most of it goes towards feeding people - either directly or indirectly. If we include other produce, then the vast majority of the agriculture industry's output becomes food.
I would say at the very minimum, you need to have middle class parents who don't need your support after you get out of college and hopefully no school debt. It is certainly much much easier to focus all your energy on your product, when you don't need to worry about bills.
Is it really a good use of an agile employer's time to come up with linear compensation schemas for the workers? I would be perfectly fine allowing the employee to use the bathroom given it costs me a couple percentage points less...
This is an impressively efficient comment. It is as if the goalposts have been motorized.
I think he means the practice of shadow banning. Not that I agree there either, but I agree that it is abusive.
While what you say is true, its not actually why these things happen. Government projects are inefficient as a result of how power structures naturally work. Nothing more.
> Firefox conquered massive engineering challenges and aggressively fought its own users for its current position as an also-ran/historical footnote.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give. I still use Firefox, but from switching from a secure password-sync system to driving out Brendan Eich to the Mr. Robot fiasco to deprecating the powerful old extensions to almost completely eliminating extensions on Android to constantly changing and damaging the UI (at least on Debian the packagers eliminate a lot of the nonsense), it increasingly feels like either they don't want me to use it — or they simply lack adult supervision.
A huge problem I think is that just entering the market is terribly difficult.

It's not a setting where you can get a million or two and see if it works out. Trying this requires pouring lots and lots of cash into it, it can all go up in flames, and even if it works you're then competing for a small market. If you just want to make money there are probably much easier and less risky ways if you have that kind of budget. You need the rare combination of somebody who is really into space tech and can get the funding for it.

And even if the thing flies, it's easier said than done. NASA tried to make the shuttle quickly and cheaply reusable. It didn't quite go to plan.

And even after Musk proved it can be done... not much happened elsewhere. Whoever else also wants to do it either needs to have some reasonable expectation they can compete with SpaceX, or needs to have basically unlimited money to spend on a passion project like Blue Origin.
The Netherlands to drop all Covid restrictions by Feb, 25
I don't see the contradiction. These are orthogonal issues.

Apple protects customer privacy from app authors through strong access controls and permissions model.

Side-loaded apps would benefit from all of these protections just the same as apps from the app store.

Your comment implies the only thing Apple has done to improve privacy and security is curation of the app store.
Congress mandates specific technical details to force contractor choice and factory location in right district. For example RAC 2 (Saturn V reboot) won the NASA engineering trade off but congress mandated RAC 1 (shuttle tank, engines and boosters but without orbiter) becomes "SLS", to give jobs to shuttle contractors in their districts. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNZx208bw0g
They already have a value added tiered price model. They just need to add a free tier.
"I do not think there is much evidence that misinformation has become more widespread, that this increase in misinformation is due to technological change, or that it is at the root of the political trends liberals are most angry about. If anything, people seem to be better-informed than in the past"

I agree. Who has the truth? Government or media? Or neither?

What has become worse is the centralised control of information. Which then leads to those centralised sources complaining and publicising of the issue.

On the other side, you have governance structures that require the legacy media to support their messaging, as the govern the populace.

Both work hand in hand - one provides the message the other the megaphone. In the past 2 years, the government has bankrolled the largest campaign in history, and the media have been willing recipients.

Complaining about misinformation however, works for both parties - it provides a self-supporting justification their actions.

Truth and faithfully representing reality has very little to do with that "virtuous" circle between media and governance.
I want to add: If you look at the tools and theoretical underpinnings spaceX uses to develop their vehicles, they didn't develop them themselves.

Numerical simulation methods, especially for hypersonic flow, powder-bed fusion, CAD etc. - those were invented by other people and for the most part all of the numerical methods involved come from DoD work, where they were first developed and verified. FEA? DoD. Finite-Differences? DoD. All kinds of clever methods for mechanical/thermal/optical simulation? DoD.

It's almost sad how much of modern engineering depends on that basis.

Edit: If you look at old papers for numerical methods, especially in wave optics, most of the time you see a fighter or a bomber in the results - gotta estimate that radar cross-section for when the cold war gets hot.
The decline of the West continues
I know a future web designer when I see one!

As a side note and you're probably not interested in this, but since you mention the total size: your avatar/favicon can be compressed down. to 14.3kb (saving 18,6%) which keeps the Toal just under 50Kb!
Featured, Fine, Fu… could be any of those. Deliberate ambiguity is fun for a lot of humans
This is the longer article https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-... based on which the submitted post is written
If workers were more productive working less hours you wouldn't need the government to do anything - businesses acting in their own interests would do this automatically.

The government doesn't know how to run businesses better than the businesses themselves.
My point is that we can't simply change subsidies from corn to other things without thinking about the other things that would need funding in order to do that. I personally don't think all of it is bad: It is a food and feed crop, after all, but I think we could do with more variety in such crops (not so much reliance on corn, and definitely not for ethanol)
> Am I on the right track? :)

The caches are local to each AZ so you get the low latency in each AZ, the other details are different. Unfortunately I can't share additional details at this moment, but we are looking to do a technical update on EFS at some point soon, maybe at a similar venue!
> You already have this now - always had it. There's nothing new or interesting about what you're "proposing".

That's not remotely true. There's a real stigma about part-time work and most employers would just say NEXT! if you said "please can I work 4 days a week for 80% pay?".
Canada was already on track to open up. It follows Europe. People are already quipping about protestors wanting to take credit by likening it to protesting the darkness at midnight and claiming victory at 6 am.
Yeah, that’ll have much better support.
> it should be trivial to rotate keys

This is exactly what we're rolling out in the next few weeks. We already have it trivial to rotate API keys [1], and we have a JWKS endpoint [2], so rotating the primary JWT private key is next on the list.

[1] https://userfront.com/docs/api.html#api-keys

[2] https://userfront.com/docs/api.html#json-web-key-set-jwks
Rather than creating a central "government porting server", you could make this a "cost of doing business" of someone wishing to provide an email service to the public.

In the event that an ISP or digital services provider wishes to cease providing email service, they could be required to provide minimal access to enable updated provision of either a forwarding email address (which the provider would forward mail to), or an MX to redirect the sender to use. This would avoid the need for a big central "porting server", and retain the simplicity of doing a DNS lookup for one or more current MX records.

Given spam challenges, the former is likely unattractive (who wants to use their own IP ranges to relay potential spam to former users?), but the latter could likely work, or be made to work.

I realise the MX approach doesn't quite work, and you'd likely need to relay the email, but this is more akin to how the phone number porting system works - you ask the number block owner on each call, and they can either accept the call, or point you towards the correct destination network.

This topic is of indirect relevance and interest to the UK telecoms regulator [1], since many households rely on an email address from their ISP, which could become a barrier to switching, or result in long-term extractive pricing from users who have no real choice other than to pay a former ISP over the odds for email service to retain an old address.

[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-new...
That's just the same straw man that you are also arguing against!

As for your anecdotal evidence, it does not count twice through repetition.
It's a good idea to run SVGs through SVGO before you use them. In this case, the robot SVG data can be shrunk by almost 50% by using SVGO (or svgomg https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/) with a precision of 0 and using the 'prefers viewbox' option. I didn't try the others.
I have a high barrier of entry to my shoebox personally. Totally agreed that 99% of notes are throw-away, but the 1% are absolute gems.
Can you explain how umbilical cord tissue differs from placental tissue, and its potential/known uses? I realize this reply will probably get lost being 3 days later.
Wow... So like magic? Why aren't all successful businesses already doing this if they can get more productivity for less time?
This is excellent, much clearer and nicer than all those "minimal" style personal websites.
It's a huge advantage for sure but not required. Much like two startups in the same industry where one of them has raised 10x the money vs the other.

Having money:

- gives you more chances to pivot

- more time to find product/market fit

- more time to not need to get a "normal" job just to pay your bills
The comment you replied to said exactly why this won't work: “If you are so cheap to the point of asking to get your data harvested, chances are you never going to be a high-value customer.”

Though I think “high-value bit of cattle” or “high-value mark” are closer to how the stalking side of the advertising industry sees us!
I'll echo the comment that every startup founder I've worked under has come from extremely wealthy parents.
> Free Storage an order of magnitude larger that anything anyone provided at that time which was an unbeatable proposition

Gmail's free storage was two orders of magnitude better than the competition. Nearly three orders of magnitude bigger than Hotmail. They launched with a gigabyte against Hotmail's 2 MB and Yahoo's 6 MB.

We're so used to not worrying about email storage anymore that it's easy to forget just how small they used to be.
When you dial a number, you generally look up the owner of the number range in a list, then initiate signalling contact with them. They may take the incoming messages, or they may point you towards another network the user can be reached on (i.e. if they have ported their number)

In essence, in the regulated telecoms space, the number block owner retains responsibility for routing to the new network after a number port.
> Yeah, but if I remember correctly, actual farm operations were profitable, right? The marketing is just extra, or what it evolved into.

Not really, there are different levels of profitable. Some extremely efficient operations can be profitable at scale, but no one is getting rich.

The places like you describe (have half a cow from one in my freezer now, from just outside Chicago) operate on marketing to upscale customers via advertising/co-marketing deals at fancy/local restaurants.

They also operate a number of farmers markets booths at about a half dozen markets in the city each weekend, and that is both a marketing and sales angle. This is where they pick up a large amount of their weekly subscriptions, and folks like me who order half a cow each year.

> I assume the biggest draw is the lifestyle ideals. It seems a common dream on this community.

I agree the idyllic dream sounds pretty great. However I'd suggest trying to not jump feet first into it. My parents were organic market garden farmers (one of their specialities was mushrooms), and if you need to at least break even your job will look far more like marketing/sales with a bunch of back-breaking physical labor in between than farming or gardening. Animal husbandry is just as involved with the bonus of random emergencies popping up at inconvenient times.

The successful farms in the space tend to focus their time on the "business side" of the operation, and have the standard hired help the large farms have to actually run most of the farm itself. If you've ever visited a "small farm" that did weekend tours this is typically the model they are utilizing.

At "hobby farm" level it can be pretty relaxing if you have no need for the income itself, and don't mind putting good money after bad towards equipment to make your life easier. I've seen these operations work out, but lots of times these folks have an extremely hard time integrating into their new community and tend to move on in a few years.

Just trying to provide a different perspective. Farm life is hard, and involves long hours for very little financial remuneration. I'd only even consider doing it as an absurdly over capitalized hobby.
> Defense contractors are a form of capitalism too.

But different; the US is the best funded / most expensive military in the world by a big margin, and the defense contractors know it and develop weapons and price them accordingly. It's why they use fancy weapon systems instead of tried, tested and cheap Kalashnikovs.

SpaceX is the Kalashnikov of rockets, if you think about it.
> it's probably more efficient to reduce churn

That would be lovely. Unfortunately, many places would rather you move job than give you a raise. It's cheaper in their accounts, and that's what (ah) counts.
Write once run anywhere, was Java's slogan in the nineties. And I still find the amount of abstraction JVM provides fascinating. At least since it became well defined memory model, you can write complex pieces of software and they behave remarkable identical on a lot of different platforms. I am aware that the API border to the operating system has always been the weakest link regarding practical portability. But I wouldn't call that misinformation.
XHTML is invalid HTML (2004)
You already have that right. At least in my country, by law.

The TOS is a layer on top of that right that corporations abuse to make that right conditional to their own laws.

EDIT: Arf, just looked at your comment history and now I understand I'm loosing my touch. One person answered:

"Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account because it's not what this site is for."

I missed the troll :)

Ok, you win. Have a nice day.
Was this written by the Neal Stephenson, famous sci-fi author?
"So what you’re saying is that the market doesn’t work?"

I definitely do not back unregulated markets, and in general, do not think markets for food work. It isn't just food, but other things that are general necessities for the modern times. Utilities, roads, and medical care are other examples.
Science Fiction Science Fiction? It gets a bit meta there...

but yeah, something something, shoulders of giants.
The strange thing is if you want to spread the money around to all the right districts, you could just as well do multiple low-cost projects. By letting single organizations do a whole project it should cost less. OTOH like someone said, it's harder to kill a project that's spread across so many areas.

SpaceX can just provide cheap launch services and we can have more large projects to send up!
Admins and mods are banning untold users every day for any and no reason at all. It is a really terrible place for discussion now, even if you somehow manage to find a small subreddit which permits nuanced discussion. It will inevitably be banned or the mods replaced with Reddit-approved mods and all nuanced discussion banned. I hope to see a Digg-like exodus soon.
There are all kinds of things "wrong" with the way we raise corn in this country. It's environmentally unsound (among other things, it's killing the Gulf of Mexico). It's not economically viable, absent significant government subsidies. It's the source of the worst (high fructose corn syrup) and second worse (too much meat in our diet) food induced health problems in the country. And it is, as the posted article points out, at the center of a huge "clean energy" scam.

We could contribute a great deal more to feeding the world, and doing less damage to the environment and our health, but alternative uses for much of the land that is in corn in the US.