skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Books, TV, video games were self limiting compared to the modern internet—especially social media—delivered via smartphones.

So make that argument against social media on smartphones, not against all screens, and modern media only being "feeding distraction to the masses" (a direct quote from noduerme).

> Anyone who has taken trips to foreign countries before smartphones and GPS would have been forced to talk to _people_

Speaking slowly and loudly in english at someone in a small french village asking for the bakery isn't something that we should mourn losing. The meme of loud americans/english travelling to places and expecting everyone to speak english predates most people on this thread, and was the reality for most people.

> To live a full life means to be in contact with the physical world, and to act within it.

There is nothing about modern media formats - tv, video games, many parts of the internet, that stop you from doing so. As a child, I grew up watching TV programmes, playing games and reading books that inspired me to explore and take on new experiences. I'm never going to go wild camping in yosemite, and that's fine, but I was never going to do that in a pre-smartphone world either.

> apps almost always will try to increase your engagement with your phone, and because time isn't infinite, this means decreasing your engagement with life.

This is not a tautology. it only decreses engagement if you min max your life (which would be at odds with what you're saying).

> You can't see the water your swimming in, but there are some of us who still can.

To use your analogy, you can't see that the water you're swimming in is the same water your parents were swimming in when they were telling you the same thing about <whatever>.
False dichotomy; they could have done neither. NOT operating an old coal plant NOR building a new plant would have produced zero emissions.
I suspect that, for most locales, they're beating the market. There's a good chance I'd count for 15+ years of experience, and thus they'd pay me much more than my local market normally pays me.

On the other hand, I had a company with a similar salary structure approach me. They were based in a distant country with a much lower cost of living. I pointed out that their salary was about half of what I normally earn.

They didn't "get" it that they were out of their game trying to recruit me.
The Model 100 is a completely different kind of device than the pocket telex.
> You are forgetting that the human body is nowhere near 100% efficient at burning fuel to put power into a pedal.

I'm not, because the parent poster explicitly said "That's not based on made-up calories but actual work from a power meter on the bike."

Which seems absurd, hence my comment.
One of the first to use bayesian spam filtering techniques if I remember correctly. Probably only gotten better since then.

Still using spacer gifs though hah.
Find other defense startups on Crunchbase (e.g. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir-technologie...) and see who invested in them.

Also, maybe it'd be more common in this industry, but asking for an NDA at the idea stage is a big red flag in VC (i.e. "ideas are worthless"). This might not apply to you, just a heads up.
Double down on the IQT comment(have co-invested with them in the past). Their specific charter is to invest in startups like this. Though they don’t typically lead rounds, they have a network of firms that they have co-invested with and will help connect you to the right folks.
Sure, but we were talking about fuel cost.

>Starship's methane is cheaper than Jet A.

Is this true yet? I'm honestly unaware of it. I've heard they were planning on it to be quite cheap when they find a way to extract it from the atmosphere, but don't know how far they are through that.
One day the price of Bitcoin is gonna crash and all that work, all that electricity is gonna go to waste.
That's a good demo, but it isn't much use for making audio content from ebooks.
> rapidly developing so lots of nice [buildings] and projects going up

This is also very true -- it's modernizing rapidly. For example, the first crypocurrency trader I ever met was in Vietnam, and there were many touristy but nice hotels with things like roof top bars/clubs, the younger people were very technically focused (social media, smart phones etc) where as the older people were very much paper (and some email) driven. There is a sharp contrast between generations compared to N.A. where most everyone of my friends' parents have a smart phone and use computers well enough to get by.
That's not why they're called greenhouse gasses, though. They create the greenhouse effect for the entire planet.
While we're picking and choosing who gets to consume electricity, let's get rid of video gaming, casinos, porn websites, etc.
The article explicitly states that a group, which includes a law school, literally implicated Omni Air in the torture of immigrants:

> A complaint filed last year to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties by a coalition of immigrant advocacy groups and the Texas A&M University School of Law details the harrowing experience of three migrants deported via Omni Air, alleging that ICE “is using The WRAP in a manner that constitutes torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in violation of the Convention Against Torture.”

How is this not consistent with the title?
I'd be suprised if most people on 4chan's /g/ and other anonymous technology boards wouldn't frequent hacker news on a regular basis. The individuals behaviour just depends on the sites social norms, so they're not a nuisance here.
I remember going to a meeting with fellow students I never met before.

It was at a time I applied for jobs after university and so I thought, I might wear a collars shirt to the meeting, to get in the mood.

All of my fellow CS students (aged 25-50) were wearing tshirts and generally more casual attire.

The first thing I was asked: Oh, do you study management?
Intel is throwing in the kitchen sink, but is the turn around plan reasonable?
I've got a MacBook Air and MacBook Pro from 2011 and 2012. Neither is supported by Mac OS X anymore but Fedora 35 works perfectly on them. Both have Broadcom WiFi chips.
We even got the root node ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco
I'm not sure I've ever seen a 80211n device that _didn't_ support 5GHz.
Algonquin-Basque Pidgin
Nice. Got in about 14 years go but not active for a long time in the beginning. Hackernews is a really nice place.
The days when every new Windows feature came with a snazzy UI to configure it are long gone.

Realistically, Server 2012R2 was the last release that had full parity between features and matching configuration 'screens'.

Since that time (so: Server 2016, 2019 and 2022, and to a lesser extent the consumer SKUs), configuring new features has required PowerShell and/or WMI. This trend is unlikely to reverse anytime soon. Mostly because features are increasingly complicated.

With Windows 10 and, especially, 11, the GUI parts of the configuration have been redone on a "whatever looks good and is usable for 80% of non-advanced users" basis.

That this now requires "web" technologies is disappointing, but unsurprising. There just isn't a good "native GUI" story right now: not in the open source world, but especially not with Windows or macOS.
This post and the subsequent thread are great. Sadly, HN is part of my internet/screens addiction, but it is nice to step aside and reflect on how life has changed between pre and post internet. Thanks for you well thought out comment.
Because they all live with their parents still. Moving out is more expensive than it used to be and peoples expectations are different.
It's burying the lede to suggest that young people are having less sex. The salient fact is that it's young men who are skewing this average down.

Women, on average, are doing perfectly fine in the sexual marketplace, along with the top 10-15% of men.

edit: The above was my reflexive response to the headline. Now that I've actually read the article, I have to say that the article is very good and quite comprehensive, but it seems that it merely dances around the above issue in the "Tinder Mirage" subsection, but doesn't actually directly confront it. An unfortunate oversight.
Because turns out the 60s/70s were actually the outliers and now the pendulum swings back towards a modern puritanism.
That's not nessecarily true. Bigger (cardinality?) doesn't mean more or less inner structures. If anything, it's the assumptions you choose to make that determine how much you can say about an object.

A reason why the complex numbers is tame in certain contexts is that it's algebraically closed. Discrete theory also tends to be more difficult imo since by taking its limit, you should still recover the continuous theory.
That's not the point. Softbank has been bleeding money for years, pissing it off on some of the worst possible investments. You know what's happened to them ?

Fuck all, because they simply have so much money that they don't really give a damn.
I'm not sure that's salient to this conversation
You don't need Flatpak on FreeBSD. Flatpak was created for a problem that doesn't exist on FreeBSD. There are not a thousand different FreeBSDs with varying kernels and software installed.
The irony being of course, that cash is itself a promissory note.
The case for building skills on more than 1 cloud
They have basically been licensing L&H then Nuance until they bought it outright.
> ...but not wisely concerned about the security risks of running your own SaaS on your own server, and have enough spare time and energy to meticulously implement proper security procedures, and keep it up to date, safe and secure, 24/7.

Run it behind a VPN? Use a properly secured containerized image? Implementing good security is much easier at small scales than at large scales.

> Do you really believe that most regular people have the free time and technical skills and security chops to "easily run your own server instance" safely and securely?

Who's talking about "regular people"? We're discussing what solutions we -- users of HN -- find most effective for our own use.

> Linux is only free if your time is worthless. ;)

My experience, especially in a business context, has been quite the the opposite. Implementing complex projects with proprietary vendor solutions involves a vastly greater amount of time dealing with requirements analysis, project scoping, contract negotiations, support escalations, etc., only to be locked into something proprietary and idiosyncratic, a sealed black box where even trivial modifications require another round of analysis, project scoping, etc. usually with a heft cash payout.

Conversely, the time we spend setting up and maintaining self-hosted FOSS solutions improves our own knowledge and skills such that every subsequent project becomes incrementally easier, and therefore much faster to implement.
Oh please. This is absolutely nonsense. I have lived in Dubai. Used a credit card and when I have left, I have closed the credit card.
I meant more from training hard for long term. Most people are not at this level or pushing that hard. Normal people would definitely benefit from lifestyle changes outside of the gym if they are tired and worn out.
I'm sure it depends on the games you want to play - competitive games where anti-cheat is a thing, sure, but if you're ideologically against having kernel level anti-cheat then that's not that Linux gaming is bad, it's just that gaming as a whole is bad.

Most single-player stuff I've tried has worked fine on Linux with either Lutris + Wine or Steam + Proton. The only games that haven't are super small indie stuff where I just assume they're coded a little poorly in some way.
Kinda reminds me of the whole Flicktype debacle. Pretty much every company of a certain size has their fair share of bad management and traitorous corporate ladder-climbers. We, the users, are powerless to stop this.
> I think the best way to handle these is to take down their names & social security numbers & photos. And save that information in a book.

> Once it is realized to be a crime, round these guys up, put them in jail for lifelong sentences.

It is disturbing you think like this.
Will the Steam Deck be supported?
Odd. I found it completely tedious and stopped watching after a couple of minutes.
In my experience Fedora or Ubuntu just work, until they don't, usually after system update. Then you're in poorly documented territory, often deep in the bowels of GNOME. If video or networking broke hopefully you have a backup system to refer back to. Maybe they've gotten better recently, but I've had much better experience with minimalist setups where breakages are far less frequent and easier to fix on the rare occasions they happen.
Numbers wise looks good to me. Amazons recent base cap has thrown recruiters sideways and numbers instantly jumped in reach out emails.

Turns out yes, compensation should be increase for hard to find skills that people use to create huge revenue. Shocked.
SV started as a defense contract with HP, which was definitely not three guys and a garage at that time.
Well said. They shield themselves well, and they package it up nicely for business interests and tourists to tolerate it or never experience problematic situations.
This is warm-and-fuzzy sounding sophistry. JFK didn't just say, "Screw it we're going to the moon." He put billions of funding and hired smart people to do it. The bad things that will happen to you is typically not an irate man shipped to you in a box. The first rule: don't lose the principal. That is, don't do stupid things that will get you hacked, whether the loss be small or large. I don't understand the necessity of QR code for a URL, they are worse than URL shortener. Is there an actual, valid, use case of QR codes, I can only think of 2FA key generation, and even that could be done pointing your camera at a string of digits? With OCR, you and your phone can see where you're going. Nobody is stopping you from going to fun, unsafe places, don't get robbed doing it, that's all we're saying.

Edited to add: I think what made the QR code take off was restaurants putting them on their menus in the pandemic, so they could do touchless, menu-less ordering. Their ubiquitousness and the harmless environment in which they are encountered (restaurants, food, drinks, friends) acclimate people to using them and formed a habit and a perception when there had been none. It's not a new danger; unsafe URL had always been a danger, now it has a new benign look.
It also integrates great with LXD (a nicer way to use containers).
The number one feature of Kubernetes is that you can extend it, there are almost no limits to what you can do in Kubernetes, it's a platform for platforms. Nomad doesn't compare. Your enthusiasm about ZFS is roughly how I feel about Kubernetes, and why "traditional" approaches seem pretty backwards to me now. ;)
Funnily enough, as extremists like you continue to gain a foothold in policymaking, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general will become even more necessary to provide a safeguard against such unhinged power trips.
After some bad experiences I will never visit an Arab country again. They'll have to do something against the sexism, constant heckling and the bad state of law before I even think about going there. Or they can do whatever they want, they don't have to change just for me.

I'm 6 ft 6 and I have a blonde wife who's just a bit smaller. Even though we behaved very polite and dressed like locals it was like we had a big target on our backs and were looked upon with resentment everywhere we went.

I will not mention the countries we visited but it was pretty much the same everywhere.
I, for one, dread the future where the closest thing we have to personal desktop computers are fucking web kiosks.
Was also here on the 1st day, the same day I decided to start-up 15 years ago!

Took me 7 years to create an account though. Wish I had done it sooner!

Especially ALWAYS reading the comments BEFORE the actual articles! Thanks!
I don't know if this is just advertising, but I'm the main developer behind https://mobti.me/ , which is a distributed mob programming timer. I'm aware of mob.sh, and have been asked if there would be any integrations. It has always seemed like it already has a timer, so I kept saying no, and now I have more definitive proof.

Anyway, I have a few mobbing tips that I use daily (have been consistently mob programming for 2+ years every day, and my previous job was pair programming all day for 2 years, as well):

- No heroes in the mob. If the mob cannot function without a specific person, then you are not mobbing. The only exception may be when a mob is first brought together to work on a new problem where only a single person has domain knowledge, but that shouldn't be relied on beyond a sessions or two.

- Respect the timer, but be flexible to finish ideas. Strict timer adherence can sometimes kill the mood, but when someone takes over, it can also kill it. Always acknowledge if the timer is up, and if you need to finish something, ask the mob if it's okay. Don't continue if people disagree.

- Prefer high level intentions. Don't tell people "make this variable, call it foo, and use it fetch from this endpoint" if instead you can say "can you fetch this data and store it?" - people can always ask for clarification, but they should be free to figure out the problem on their own.

- Ask for corrections after your coder is done writing an idea. If someone has the right idea, but is writing the wrong code, let it play out for a moment. Maybe the code being writing is considering a problem you haven't, or at the very least, the person writing the code can explain it when it's done so the team can decide if it's good or not. Trying to throw in corrections as someone is typing is a lot of cognitive overload.

- Reflect often, and honestly. After you're done a session, see how it went. It's okay to call someone out for being too bossy, or highlight if someone isn't being heard, as long as it's done for the sake of being a better team. Maybe the timer is too long, maybe there are too many people, maybe not the right people, and all these sorts of things should be thought about as a team.
Meh idk. Look at any long distance runners. They are skinny. Based on my own ancedotal evidence when I am running often I tend to be 20lbs less than when I don't.
The article almost exclusively talks about the US.

One reason that isn't mentioned in the article is because the US is fundamentally based on puritanism and a lot of its values, especially concerning passion and sexuality are still prevalent in its culture.

The "All American" OJ and corn flakes breakfast and circumcision (used as a form of genital mutilation to prevent masturbation) by Kellogs is still practiced to this day. In the US, sex is heavily politicized.

On one hand, everything is hypersexualized, but there is nothing genuine about any of it. When you get to the basics of it — sex is wrong. "Look, but don't touch". Everything is relegated to the sphere of fantasy and imagination.

Especially teenage sexuality is something that's vilified to no end. You can't expect adults to have a healthy sex life if everything they know about sex so far is that it's some sort of forbidden fruit.

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Eh sure. Might be wrong. This is my experience with people I've interacted with.
This is why they bought it. Go back and check the interviews after the aquisition years ago. Whether you think that's realistic or not, Zuck doesn't care about things like gaming.
This looks pretty cool but I've always thought if Dune got a 4X treatment it should get a full galactic setting, not just Arrakis. After all, only a fraction of the first book is really set on Arrakis* (spoilers) and so much of the politics that makes the series interesting happens off-world.

Nonetheless, I'm excited about the prospect of a new Dune strategy game.

* the collapse of House Atreides, Paul's exodus and the Fremen uprising
And how do you tell if >> is a shift operator or two angle brackets?
Disable javascript and the entire article loads on the economist.
Traditional companies paid manager more, but supply and demand of engineers vs managers means that more and more middle management is making less than engineers.
Agreed! It talked about choosing hardware and I figured it would go into a deep dive of the OS install, issues they encountered on the way, pros and cons of each... But it just basically ends after the hardware section.

Feels like it's missing ~50% of what you'd expect from an article like this... I'm not really sure what the point was of it...
If you are okay with it, please share the name of this testing company. Not specifically to "name and shame" but instead, so others can avoid using them.
I don't think conspiracy theorists are surprised about this turn of events.
1. Some devices don't have a removable USB-A cable

2. Why throw away something that is perfectly working and useful?
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Oh I agree that he should be jailed for fraud, especially considering he admits to it, no argument from me there.

> I'm not fond of the continually extended jail time

This is kind of the point, because the bank (and I'm guessing ministry, politicians, etc.) seized assets, ignored or outright altered the terms of contracts, and participates in other shady business, the jail time seems like a convenient (and effective) means of suppressing push-back.

The spoils end up in private hands, those that were in charge of the banks, ministries, courts, etc. It is not only Dubai, you can see similar behaviour all over the world. But hey, if you want to play with the big dogs, you might get bit.
> But it doesn’t seem to address the real issue (to which I also don’t have a final answer): the jock/nerd thing is still playing out.

I think you have some unresolved emotions regarding the "nerd/jock thing".
Ask HN: How to legally translate materials and make it accessible for many more?
An urgent problem nowdays is that really few are trustworthy in the current media scene. Alternative (not mainstream) media, youtube/rumble/odysee etc have some really good content creators, but they all focus on a single language.

How can I/we make their work accessible for masses (for other languages)? I have no right to translate and post their material, but to make a translation available they have to do extra work each time. I doubt someone like Russel Brand with 5M subscribers is going to even recognize such an attempt in his email/comment section and it’s impossible for every translator candidate (who might do a great job but has limited time so can do 30mins of translation/month) to deal the with each content creator.

Any ideas?
It seems to be wholly lifted from Pete Blaber's "The Mission, the Men, and Me" (https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Men-Me-Lessons-Commander/dp/0...). For what it's worth, the book is fascinating, and I took away some valuable leadership lessons from it, but, much like most "corporate values", I sincerely doubt it'll see successful implementation in Facebook culture.

Founders invariably suffer from some cognitive dissonance around the nature of their "shared goals" (eg: the "mission") when compared to those they employ. I can recall a cofounder insisting on including a section in performance self-review, wherein she expected us all to list how our personal dreams aligned with those of $employer.
I understand the logic, but I think it’s probably better to just focus on enforcement against scam perpetrators regardless of the mechanism they use (I remember seeing a lot of pyramid scheme scams back in the internet of the late 90s).

I think cryptocurrency is broken in a lot of other ways and may even in in a solarpunk future need to be banned in order to stop a hash-rate arms race disassembling the plane into a Dyson swarm, but even then it’s best to focus on the principles behind the problem rather than the specific technology.