skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fairly obvious if you read through their "promise":

> We promise to do everything in our power to ensure that any content you publish on the platform will continue to be available on the web forever, at the same permanent link, as long as you want it there.

If the company stops existing, there is no "We" anymore so realistically, they don't have to continue trying. If all of them gets hit by buses (or all by the same bus), I think it's reasonable to say they did everything they could in their power, but their power is now non-existing so probably you content will be soon too.
The longer something takes, the longer it is expected to take. Delays compound on themselves, it becomes harder to plan further into the future. Costs skyrocket. More opportunities for bad actors to enrich themselves.
Thank you for the great recommendations!
>I don’t know where to start/am worried about starting from a bad point.

Start from the basics. You will get plenty of ability to analyze real-world problems from learning Newton's laws. Lagrangian mechanics rarely even applies in engineering contexts because it can't do friction, air resistance or other dissipative terms.
Lenovo ThinkPads actually have manufacturer support for Linux for quite a long time. (to the degree that there is actually a BIOS menu option for Linux sleep states specifically labeled as such) I've used ThinkPads for the last 10 years and had perfect support running Linux Mint.

Don't get me wrong, it will be nice to have another manufacturer to choose from with excellent Linux support, but as it sounds, they aren't there yet with this new distro. So... I'll keep using ThinkPads for now.

Also I despise glossy screens. So I'll probably never want a macbook anyway.
IMO the problem is why such stubborn holdouts exist and why can't the government work with them (are those holdouts being paid or otherwise motivated to hurt public good? organized? do they have pathological distrust to the government, how can that be worked out? etc.) rather than the governments not having the crazy power to just do anything they want if they think it is "public good". The latter is horrifying, I fail to see how it is ever desirable (even if it occasionally leads to positive outcomes, it cannot be trusted to do so reliably).
It is possible to work very hard without doing anything worth doing.
This is why I'm flabbergasted by people who oppose immigration to the United States. We are lucky to be a country that young people want to move to. Additionally, I've road tripped 100k miles all over North America. One surprising thing was just how empty the place is, especially the Western US of course, but also places like Western Pennsylvania. Outside the major cities, the US is sparsely populated. I know it doesn't feel that way to people living in major metro areas or at least it didn't to me until I drove around and had a look.
I think we both agree that we shouldn't be protecting the wealthy. I just think we should do it another way. IMO, high housing prices exist because of the lack of supply. I think it's possible for the government to increase housing stock and have reasonable property rights.
> Have more children. Have them early if possible.

People can't afford to do either.
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. Helped me out of my sort of self-inflicted isolation and to heal . I also love Siddhartha by the same author, they both helped me look at myself and life in a completely different and more positive way.
Cutting through spiritual materialism

Opening the Heart of Compassion

Both very high in the calling me out on my bullshit metric
The downside of a system that allows to build quickly is that it allows to quickly build really stupid things as well. For example in the 70’s Brussels decided that the city should really look like Dallas and quickly destroyed complete neighbourhoods to build inner city highways and skyscrapers …

I guess high speed disasters like that are part of the reason why nowadays some people are afraid of going too fast with important things
> I’m just not so sure it’s necessarily that straightforward.

Not to sound snide, but I also don't think it's as straightforward as linking two correlative effects. High grades in school is also often predictive of economic background, race, gender etc... that themselves are correlated to birth rates. I don't see here much reason to believe that providing early childhood care would decrease birth rates.
We knew we needed to replace it in 1989 after Loma Prieta. In 2001 the Nisqually quake damaged it and made its replacement mandatory. It wasn't decided to build the tunnel until 2009, it then took until 2019 before it opened.
Use the package manager your OS ships with and stay away from customized install scripts from various 3rd parties. This is not the first time this has happened, most famous one was probably that Steam bug some years ago that deleted everything for people.
Developed societies seem to be shifting into a more "selfish" paradigm, where the question of the day is "what can this situation really do for me?". Day to day actions are framed in these terms, and the result is that raising children becomes a harder and harder question to justify in this paradigm. Even in this thread, having kids is seen through this odd eugenics-style paradigm of - well, I have to counteract the balance of idiocracy style effects and have a responsibility to carry on my family's genetic material.

Children are expensive. Children take away a lot of your otherwise "free" time (although spending time with them can hardly be considered an objective "waste"). Grandparents don't want to put in the time either, they want to go on cruises and fully "enjoy" their life (along the paradigm of "what can this really do for me?").

Ultimately we end up with parents who want to offload their kids, stuffing them into (expensive) daycares earlier and earlier (despite what research says are negative effects of such early child separation). We have lost the traditional support system of older generations being around, living with new parents, and helping in a meaningful and impactful way with child raising. We have prioritized large inefficient housing, mostly as an investment vehicle, and have discounted the less economically-linked investment and rewards that come from raising children.

In any case, this is a perfect storm for dropping fertility rates, and it seems at this point these factors are so ingrained in developed economies that it can be considered a natural consequence of a population who has pivoted towards wealth building and economic priority.

Despite this shift towards selfish economic efficiency, is anyone really happier? Really really tough to say.

I can say that despite the cost, the career impact it had, and the completely changed dynamic of how I spend my time - raising kids has been the highlight of my life. I've never really been one for considering pure economic and personal efficiency though, and I've noticed I'm more and more of an outlier among my social circle.
Better living through chemistry.
Meditations by Marcus Aerelius
Yes, I'm sure that with properly constrained and well-tested data spaces, it could produce outstanding and very helpful results.

But accurate reconstruction in the wild is just sooo far away. And for good reason - it would need to have insane amounts of experience and exposure to every bit of unusual data that existed in the world to get it right...
So far this appears to be a "choose your own difficulty" game. I've deliberately chosen to "git gud" at melee, since I've always sucked at melee. Could level to 99 and just blast through things, but where is the fun in that?

Elden Ring has taught me calm and resolve in the face of overwhelming odds. Also, the value of a battle honestly fought. It's a great teacher, and an amazing game.
JWST is never in the shade of Earth or moon.
> public transit . . . individualistic frontier mentality

A century ago, most American cities had some kind of tram system. And the cities were connected by railroads - actual passenger trains. People were sold the idea of automotive independence. That notion was completely manufactured for our consumption. We didn't have the bureaucracy in place to keep mass transit in place, so when people used it less, it lost money and was largely torn out. Without bureaucracy in place to give people time to think, we're stuck with the swift wisdom of the market.

When I lived in Seattle, I was half a block from an old commuter line that's buried in asphalt now. The city just installed "innovative" light rail a few blocks away. Progress! /s

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demis...
Yes, the same for me - this book was the most influential in my life!

I spent three years of my life reading this book from cover to back three times and it was a different experience every time.

That was in 1985 and in Germany, during my education as a typesetter. I was 20, into computers (ZX81, C64), the Internet was still years away and this book just mesmerized my brain.

The German version of GEB is also a typographical marvel (printed by Klett-Cotta, fonts Syntax and Weidemann) - much nicer than the US version.
How is the comparison to doublespeak absurd? They are literally making contradictory statements while refusing to make any logical association between them. That's exactly what doublespeak is.
That sentence does nothing to explain causation.
Mind Magic by Bill Harvey: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3573948-mind-magic
This is backward: the way the incentives are built, anytime the market value of $reward + $fees BTC is $value, the miners will spend ($value - $margin) * %total-of-pool to mine that block.

It could only consume 'all excess energy' if the block reward is absurdly high, which it isn't.
> you can't because it's ruinously expensive

Crudely speaking, birth rates in poor countries are higher than in rich countries. An within countries, birth rates amongst the poor tend to be higher than the rich.
Thanks! I like Drucker's communication style. I'll check it out. Amazon delivers it tomorrow!
I’m not exactly sure what that has to do with disputing the quoted sentence. It’s actually what I was talking about. Everybody knows that Apple has "internal APIs," giving them access that non-Apple software does not have. This does make it difficult for independent developers to offer competing functionality (this has happened with me), but I have not felt that Apple has deliberately targeted competition. It's just that they have the ability to deliver something that serves the user, and their internal access gives them an advantage.

As an independent developer, I can certainly understand why I would not be allowed to access some of these private APIs, and I don't feel that it is because Apple is afraid of any competition from li'l ol' me. I have always assumed that it's because access at that level may bypass some security methods.
Show HN: Search Domain and Username in the same place
It’s not that expensive. To be honest having kids make you make a lot of fiscally responsible decisions. It separates the wheat from the chaff.

That said as soon as my kids are 18 I’m getting a really expensive sports car, but maybe a used one because years of parenting have ruined my ability to wastefully spend money.
I used OhMyZsh for years with the Agnoster power line theme and over the years it got slower and slower. Tried Fish about 6 years ago and immediately spent the rest of the day tweaking an Agnoster theme to my liking because everything about it was better than Zsh and waaaay faster. My fork is here [0] for anyone interested, though the readme and screenshots are from the original.

[0] https://github.com/drcongo/agnoster
Periodic btrfs or zfs snapshots are an easy solution to this class of issue, and simpler than full off-site backups (which are also important but can be done less frequently).
"I'm having kids because of the movie Idiocracy, and inspired because Elon Musk did the same" has to be peak Poe's law[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Have no children. Never have them.

Unless you’re wealthy and/or live in an are insulated from the effects, you’re signing kids up for a world that is going to be drastically different and worse due to climate change.
Even if they aren't both working, it allows the home partner to return to being a full time homemaker, and all that that entails: pursuing hobbies or volunteer opportunities, managing the family social life, planning parties and outings, etc. All of these things are potentially much more fulfilling and life giving than spending up to a decade burning yourself to the ground waiting for multiple kids to finally be in full time school so you can have your days back.
No map loading for me - too much traffic? Safari on iOS.
That one piece of good news. When it comes to fertility, babies, and even deaths ... wars just don't matter. Even WW2 made a tiny dent in world population.
This only has value if the end result is the crime or infraction is acted on. It seems the trend lately is to stonewall, obfuscate, excuse, and/or forgive the elite and other people in positions power.
Marketers are censoring journalism and everyone is just fine with it
If anyone is interested in comparing and contrasting, the Standard Ebooks tooling has the same completions for:

Bash: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/compl...

ZSH: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/compl...

Fish: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/compl...
Highly recommend The Glass Bead Game. Less well known than his others but very good.
Because there ain't no money in it.
> That's a grim take

reality is grim

> Our evolutionary cousins (eg. gazelle) are still being born and hunted

because they have no choice.

We do.

> When I had no money I didn't wish that I'd never been born

"make a lot of poor kids. They won't wish to never be born"

doesn't sound like good advertisement to me...

> My parents didn't have college degrees or loads of resources

That's why they had a lot of kids.

I am not talking about "reverse darwinism" which is BS, but about the fact that even the gazelle you talked about know that focusing on a few individuals is the key to helping your offspring. They make a lot of them, so that some of them sill survive.

It's very simple logic.

> Wishing for an ideal environment to raise children is pretty much a modern invention that doesn't correlate to history and nature.

We agree on this: you have to be young and reckless to not consider all the things that could go wrong before actually doing them.
The opposite is also true: you’re competing for housing with childless people, who can afford higher rents. Less kids=more disposable income=higher tolerance for rent increases
I used it when I was trying to reverse engineer fortnite replays files.
https://fortnitereplaydecompressor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...

Unreal engine encode the network packet like it's a BitStream, when it want to write a boolean for example, it will write a single bit. The following integer won't be aligned.
> Have more children. Have them early if possible.

Pretty complicated when the housing market and labour market are such that, on average:

* You don't own a house (= less money)

* You only have a fixed-term contract (= low financial stability, banks less likely to lend you money)

* To get a job, you will likely have to move away from family/relatives (= no support network)

* You & your partner likely have to work full-time (= less time for child care)
Hard disagree. Giving preference to/against candidates of a certain race is exactly what most people understand as racial discrimination.
i doubt elon musk is actively involved in any of his children's lives
They look pretty pleased with themselves.
Whether it was random or intentional it worked out.
Maybe. The way I see it, transparency and fairness takes far more time than nepotism and corrupt behavior. How would you suggest that the government be more fair, transparent and fast?
Gonna have to go with Dune. So much wisdom presented in such an engaging way.

Ecology? Check.

Emotional intelligence? Check.

Logical intelligence? Check.

Leadership? Check.

Power? Check.

Family? Check.

Love? Check.

Politics? Check.

Badass desert world and technology? Check.

> ... there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
There should be an open source gas station firmware framework written in Rust.
The information security industry must expand to secure this piece of national security infrastructure.
You seem open to it which is good! One thing I would like to clarify - it isn’t “just in your head”. That’s a common misconception.

These are long term emotional states that cause real physical changes that show up on scans. Myself, I had an EMG that showed nerve damage as evidenced by a plateauing signal on the ulnar and median nerves. I slept with wrist braces for months. Then someone referred me to this and I’ve needed nothing for many years with taking no precautions.

Emotional states can very obviously cause physical changes - it’s why people blush for just one example. Or why people get sick to their stomach when they’re in anxious. This is just a less obvious psychogenic physical manifestation.
A very good overview of the different solutions can be found here: https://ying-zhang.github.io/time/2021-02-revisiting-sync/
seems to be more of a pushing the envelope than snake oil to me, but what do i know
Many people who bought a house in their 30s thinking they’re going to flip it in 30 years for 4x their purchase price are going to be in for a surprise.
> So, all I have been able to gather from all of this is that YC/HN remains incredibly ignorant of what Bitcoin and crypto avails, and will draw conclusions based more on that ignorance then take the time to actually look into what is actually taking place.

And yet, you people think crypto is seriously going to "catch on" for the average person? I'm sorry, but "you need a certain IQ to understand Rick and M- I mean crypto!" isn't going to magically make crypto useful at all. The fact that crypto people have to go into long tirades full of technical jargon just to answer the question "Why?" tells the whole story.
What if we need to build mass transportation solutions in order to get Americans off of single occupancy vehicles? What if we need to build more housing in our cities so that housing becomes affordable and the homelessness problem is reduced? What if we need to build solar and wind farms so that we can turn off coal and natural gas generators?

I don't know how you can propose doing literally nothing at all as the solution to the problem that has us on course for disaster.
compulsory education is hardly an incentive to child bearing. if anything those who have kids wish to decide what is best for kids without state compulsions
I can't think of a feature that would help me convince the team to migrate more to Rust.

Rust is young; it learns from the mistakes of old languages and picks the best.

E.g. Python's default arguments were declared once; JavaScript's are recreated on each invocation.
Same here. It was working when I first visited 10 minutes ago, but I got an error at some point and now it won't load (multiple browsers, multiple computers).
increase wages how?
I did where I live now, and only got 100/500 (perfect score on the major road, no idea where the rest were). I did my childhood home and got 99/500.

My suggestion would be to stick to majors and semi-majors (longer through streets). It would be more fun that way.

Also there may be a bug, for the one road I got in the second try, I put the marker dead center of the entire road, but it said I was 4 meters off and gave me a 99, even though the green line was under the pin.
> why such stubborn holdouts exist and why can't the government work with them

Because if the government can't exercise eminent domain then those people are incentivized to extract maximum value from the government over the land. They may not want to sell it, or they may charge an exorbitant price.
There is no evidence of any of that happening for gas stations specifically, which is what I think the OP meant. I would also call bullshit on that.
I said no such fucking thing, and you said you hope I don’t die very soon, implying you hope it drags out, and you haven’t identified any half-truths. Get bent.
I'm from the Clockwork team, thanks for listing the relevant papers.

Accurate clocks sync enables true one-way delay measurements (instead of RTT/2), this allows for edge-based network visibility. We launched Latency Sensei beta – a sensor, monitor and auditor that provides visibility into cloud deployments. The gallery has cloud fitness reports on GCP, AWS and Azure. Some interesting reports include: 1)how VM colocation impairs network bandwidth, and 2) tale of 2 cloud regions, London vs Singapore. Take a look and we'd love to get some feedback https://sensei.clockwork.io/user/gallery/

On Congestion control, an edge-based solution is coming soon. If you're interested in a private beta, email us at hello@clockwork.io
map not loading for me.

latest version of chrome. have tried incognito
Disheartening to see software people praising removal of options using among all things incompetence as justification.
I'm bookmarking this one for the next "just trust me" discussion.
Democrats and Republicans each have things they do well and things they do bad. Roads are generally a Republican thing, and roads are visible.
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro that was running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I had already upgraded it to 8GB and a 256GB SSD, but the software problems (SSL, web browsers) were becoming intolerable. I had tried to upgrade it in the past without success.

Then I read where you can install El Capitan on these systems and it will do a microcode upgrade. There's a free download on Apple's site (sorry, don't have the URL handy). I downloaded it, ran it, but it still wouldn't install right.

But the u-code upgrade did allow me to install Mavericks on it whereas before that wouldn't work. So it's a reasonable system for someone to use again and I have it listed on eBay. Probably won't get much for it, and it's a lot of trouble to take pictures, fiddle with eBay listings, etc., but at least it will get used and not just thrown in the trash. I hate throwing away a system that's usable. I'd give it to someone I knew who could use it but everyone I asked already has a computer.
> How about we increase wages so people can afford to work less?

If you want people generally to work less and earn more, how are you going to reduce the amount of work there is for them to do? Also how are you going to provide the additional goods and services these people will be able to afford (inflation? What dat?) if less work is being done to provide them? Sounds fascinating.
“Britain Stands Alone”
Very well put. And the feeling of accomplishment of conquering a boss is shared by _everyone_ who plays this game. Beating Radahn or Malenia in ER or The Nameless King in DS3 or O&S in DS1 was always a magnificent feeling and one that everyone else in the community knew and appreciated when found in one another. It would cheapen it so much if I knew you could just turn a slider down and really diminish the community experience.

Agreed, go play something else if you want an easy game. This ain’t it.
Anything that eliminates (the need for) errors of some sorts.

e.g. somelist.map( function whatever) dying when somelist is undefined/null, vs smartermap( somelist, function whatever ) that returns empty list if somelist isn't there

or easy autocomplete of names of things

etc.

but.. the problem is, one has to be somewhat "enlightened" (or burned) to use the above in a disciplined way, instead of the seemingly easier "let me type/invent it" ..
That's a rather limited view of the role of unions. One of their biggest accomplishments was the establishment of a standard 40 hour work week as the norm. That was mostly about work/life balance, not safety. And that certainly isn't codified in labor laws, given the remarkably loose overtime rules for most salaried employees today.