skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that you're making a both-sides argument while complaining about people making both-sides arguments. I mostly hear "both sides, both sides" coming from one side in particular. The other side just blames that one side.
I flagged the article for clickbait…
Linode was founded in 2003.
In the strictest sense, OP is of course correct. In the age of global satellite coverage, nothing is unknown in quite the same way as the west was to Lewis and Clark.

> People seem to do this sort of thing pretty often in the Arctic.

The arctic is a different beast. It is impossible to survive for long in the arctic without either a supply chain or substantial reserves, and expeditions can last for at most a season.

However, the United States has a lot more empty public land than people seem to realize. Even in the densely populated Northeast, you can walk into the White Mountains or Adirondacks without a map, leave the trail, and probably spend years exploring in a mostly self-sufficient manner. Especially if you commit to turning back whenever you encounter people or trails. And that's to say nothing of the west or the great deserts.

Just because a map exists and trails are cut doesn't mean you have to acknowledge their existence. Remember: Lewis and Clark, for the most part, were traversing already inhabited land.
You're just getting old. THere is more opportunity out there for exploring tech than ever before. Being afraid of tech is like being afraid of hammers, war hammers or carpenters hammers can be made. The real thing to be afraid of is humans.
I did the exact same thing. I would work in Berlin and I would go back to Switzerland every second weekend. I much preferred the train.

Partly because airports in Berlin are shit.

If you go at the right times you get a lot of space, you can put your feet up and have a nice table as well.

It is more expensive then flying however.
Tried to find -- this was sometime 2020 / early 2021, and from a variety of sources (academic + gov), and pretty sure done by Freakonomics bc it was so weird. Interesting bc casts doubt on basically any expert wrt modern USD vs other currencies.
It will get better, I promise you. Have you tried a smell training kit? I'm doing that with an almost meditation, thinking back to childhood and such with each smell. That could be helping along with just time. It's like severing a nerve, eventually it will reconnect (depending on case)
> I'm not sure we could handle charging 50k electric cars per night in many medium sized cities.

You can scale up electrical infrastructure relatively easily (especially compared to installing a subway or cable car system), and it will be a lot more popular politically to upgrade this infrastructure than to force people to use buses.
Pretty much nothing (including emacs!) We're only supposed to use our work computers for IM, email, and ssh to the VMs (hosted by the VM team) where we do the actual work. IMO: this is the optimal way to do it. The engineers know how to build decent machines and it separates our work from the mess corp IT creates and also decouples our capabilities from the PC hardware which has many other competing constraints.
Why the two sides are so different is one of the Moon’s most enduring mysteries.

How much can be explained by the earth shielding the moon from impacts to its near-side?
That's a bit narrow. It's probably about ownership.
Oh man, it's StumbleUpon for the indieweb! I love it! I'll definitely using this in my spare time. My own site is part of the webring but I do love just being able to click a button and land on something surprising.

Thanks for sharing!
ML Reproducibility Challenge 2021 Edition
> but that was absolutely sufficient for many businesses.

yes, but I am glad about how many job titles are obsoleted for many businesses due to how compute instances are managed.

much smaller organizations used to need a full blown database administrator or two, and other personnel dedicated to keeping the server up. or you were doing it all yourself and spending your time on that.

much higher barrier of entry than today where you have an untold number of computers spun up for you in an instant and a bunch of cached versions on yet more computers in the CDN and another process keeping those caches updated, with you just thinking its one single instance used because you're on the hobby plan.
> do you look for inspiration from the problems you face?

I find ideas occur naturally and percolate to the top depending on their urgency. I don't execute on 100% of my ideas, just the ones that seem important at the time.

As for external sources for inspiration, I find my own subconscious is a good well to draw from, as 'external' ideas get implanted there over the time, the more I read and absorb from the web & podcasts etc.

I find when I pay attention to some topic for prolonged periods, I feel compelled to act and do something about that topic.
Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union
OK, I've read Snow Crash and work in I.T. and as best I can tell the metaverse is still this broadly conceptual thing that may or may not happen in the probably distant future. Right?

There's not any one place where a critical mass of people 'plug in' to play / work / socialize, right? Of all things, Minecraft is probably the closest thing to a definitional metaverse I'm aware of.

Every metaverse article is just $somethingsomethingNFTsand$Crypto. I guess they're selling ads, so that's cool, but what are we even talking about at this point?
I'm not so sure. Considering even niche cesspools Kiwi Farms have (laughably transparent) CCP propagandists, it's not a stretch to think a place like HN would either.

I think it's safer to assume bad faith on the part of anyone deflecting or trying to change the subject with whataboutist tactics (if not because they are literally paid propagandists, because this tactic is never conducive to discussion) and go from there.
The difference is banks will always be bailed out by the government. It's the Ponzi that keeps on giving.
well the amazing vaccine at best works for 4 months, if that. considering i've recently had covid with minimal issue, i'll take my chances with natural immunity.
Not to mention the lack of memory on microcontrollers.
Who's actually buying $1k phones every year?
I would expect a person who runs an architecture YouTube channel to be vaguely familiar with major styles of architecture, yes.
I think the problem is on the other direction. Austria is nowhere near Scandinavia.
A Brief History of the Military’s Unsightly ‘Birth Control Glasses’
Not ended. They were eased. https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-business-health-...
I think it is just logic that comparing/connecting international nationalists creates an implication in their belief system that comparing/connecting liberals or fiscal conservatives does not. (I suppose that may cause a Streisand effect.)

Erdogan also has many identical campaign methods, can I compare him to one of these leaders but not the other and if so how does your nationality not play a role in your analysis?
There were 2000+ COVID deaths a day for months. At its worst (January 2021) the US was seeing nearly 4000 COVID deaths a day.
> The MD / CEO’s password is unlikely to be Password1 nowadays.

Well, yeah. It’s been 10 years, and we need to change the password every 3 months, also, you told me not to use ‘Password’, so the password is now ‘CompanyName40’
I would think it's being an megasavant, sort of like Kim Peek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek

Not capable of functioning independently or surviving for any long period unassisted but having a brain and cognition setup that allowed for amazing feats of mental wizardry. If you could have that ability and function normally in society you could do some astounding things.
The best ones all work on Linux.
Ask HN: SSN breached, what should I do now?
Today I got a credit monitoring alert indicating that my social security number, driver's license (number and state), first and last name, address, and phone number were found "on the dark web".

I'm likely more careful with my personal data than most: I enable 2FA everywhere (with an authenticator app where available), use a unique email and a long random password on all my accounts, use DeleteMe for personal data removal, and have a credit freeze in effect with all reporting agencies.

I'm very concerned now that so much of my personal data is in the wild, and I'm not sure what to do about it. Any ideas?
Was I imagining things or were we just talking about supply chain problems a few months ago?

Didn't we all go through that period early in the pandemic where spot oil prices briefly went negative?

Weren't "bullwhip effect" articles regularly making the rounds on HN or did I dream that all?
Fascinating. Are there upcoming plans from any space agency to improve that 64PPD with upcoming or existing satellites or Earth-based capture of moon topography?
It's like car crashes and mass shootings. Both are preventable. But we just choose to ignore them because doing something about it would be too hard and not fun.
The feds shut down the entire facility after the allegations came out. It wasn't a case of one doctor.
That is an argument with some merit, but I don’t believe it applies here. Rogan brings on many polarizing guests, they happen to be mostly conservative. It’s not like he’s bringing on only moderates from all branches of politics
Don't Fund War
This is hilarious. Something so simple, that even on Win 98 it was just a given.
I'm sure that's what the CCP says about the Uighurs.
> They’re outside of the “tech” industry. Look at companies 200-300 on the Fortune 500; their IT group uses boring tech.

If only it were so... A lot of teams in these companies are heavily into fad-chasing, so your random internal web app that has 1 user per hour will be deployed in fully-scalable manner on the company's k8s cluster (which is shit, because company didn't put nearly enough people into keeping it running).
Consider that your wife may have died instead, and you and your kids happen to be in the 80% that it barely touches.

It’s actually wild to me at this point given the extremely clear data readily available that you are still “not convinced” though. Amazing!
I live in the Bay Area and it's fascinating to me how BART is just a miserable piece of shit when it comes to noise. Head to Oakland and visit any of the areas where BART is above ground, particularly in East Oakland, and stand there for 10 minutes. The sound of this train that runs dozens of times a day is all-encompassing when you're within a few hundred feet, but can be heard over two miles away.

And that's not even considering the sound BELOW ground. They've improved it, but ride BART around the Fruitvale switch, or anywhere it turns underground really, and the screaming and screeching noise becomes your whole world for a minute or two – impossible to escape.
This title sounds very disconcerting until you realize the “brain damage” is actually damage to the nervous system (located in your nose).

I lost my sense of smell years ago from another issue, it’s a minor inconvenience for me now. I say this not to dismiss the dangers but to balance the alarm in this hyperbolic title.
I guess not, but you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero with 512MiB for £10. That's not $1, but it's definitely still "within relatively easy financial reach of a kid" territory
Isn't this easy to visualize? Think of driving down the highway. There'll be certain features that you remember in more detail than others. Trees, for example, will generally just be trees with the exception of a few "interesting" ones.
And between income tax, payroll tax, sales tax, you'll be taking a substantial cut in income - for housing which is more expensive, colder weather, and less sunlight.
It is actually the other way around since a lot of other boards use no proprietary blobs, either out of the box or can be easily adapted to do that. The RPi Foundation are without doubt good at making hardware, but they're even better at letting users believe they're the only player in that field.
Emerging economies? You means ones that have crappy grids?

Wind/Solar + battery is a dream power combination for the third world. No reliance on a substandard perpetually underinvested grid, corrupt companies, corrupt/oppressive central governments.

Starlink as well should be a HUGE boon to the third world. Again, buy dish, plug it in, pay money, get internet. I can see remote third world villages with solar/wind/battery + starlinks + a couple 5g towers and BAM, that is a modern power and communications infrastructure that scales from 1 to 1000 people.

Rooftop solar is a sneaky liberating technology from a government/politics standpoint, in the sense it empowers individuals (literally and figuaratively) without the government imposing corruption, and generally speaking has minimal/no impacts on your neighbors and surroundings.

I know MSR / LFTR is designed to avoid weapons-grade isotope chains in its breeding so are somewhat proliferation safe, but it's still a breeder reactor, I'm sure smart nuclear physicists could figure out how to make plutonium in them.
> The Lego-if-I-cation of digital hardware is a relatively recent thing.

That happened in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms
The perception of inflation slowing on a month to month basis is an illusion caused by the release of oil from the us strategic reserve [1].

Just like QE is good as a short term solution to economic problems releasing strategic oil reserves to push down inflation (as it relates to oil) is a short-term fix that will likely exacerbated the problem in the medium to long term.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-strategic-oil-sal...
That is misinformation. While there can be benefits to vaccination after infection, recovery from infection does produce durable cellular immunity in the vast majority of patients. Antibody levels always wane over time, but there's more to immunity than antibodies.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/

I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated but the reasons to get a COVID-19 vaccine have really nothing to do with the reasons to get a shingles vaccine. Shingles is caused by the varicella herpesvirus which remains dormant in the body even after the acute infection has cleared. That virus works in a completely different way than SARS-CoV-2.
L0 Series
When I was young, I was really into gadgets, especially Palm OS PDAs. I had the specs memorized on their entire lineup, I was on top of the latest news and rumors, I was plugged into the community forums.

I loved that scene because every new model meaningfully changed the way technology allowed me to interact with the world. Grayscale -> color, adding a camera, adding enough storage and pixels for media, etc.

Eventually smartphones became indistinguishable black rectangles, where a new year's hardware means nothing. Then smartphone software became so mundane that I don't really care whether I'm running the latest OS because I can't tell the difference.

Tech is maturing. We're no longer fumbling around, looking for new local maxima - we're getting closer and closer to the global maximum of what today's technology can accomplish. We're certainly not there yet, but the exploration phase is over until something new comes along to upend the game.

And technology has left enthusiasts behind. Normal folks don't want their smartphone to have an experimental hardware module with no clear use. They get excited that the latest social media app lets them play a better status game with their peers, or that a group scheduling app saves X minutes per week across their team.

I don't think there's a way out. Niche/fringe technologies can still be very exciting - the crypto crowd is having a blast, and PinePhone has some people excited. But if crypto doesn't catastrophically implode, it'll eventually mature enough that all the fun parts have already been solved and all that's left is boring, marginal improvements, where folks try to eek out another dollar.
I think most people remember the basic concepts and then they fill in the details using what they know about the situation and participants. I have remembered events a certain way that in my mind was very clear. But upon reviewing said events in old video, it turns out I got quite a few details wrong. Sometimes two people will recall the same event very differently. Which is why I think our justice system relies far too heavily on witness testimony.
> He's not dumb enough to paint himself into a corner like that.

Mostly agree. but given the bluster of the on air pundits, some of them will need special briefings.

> Comparisons to the winter war will permeate twitter

Perhaps, but I don't think people realise just how bad Finland was for the USSR. The land gained was nowhere near worth the effort.

> Thats where all the fighters with swastikas tattooed on them were anyway
I've never understood this bit. Yes, the Azov have ultra nationalists in them, but then the some of the Donbas fighters appear to be wearing Totenkompf badges. If you're going to be anti nazi, don't wear SS badges.

But that aside, are Russian state parading captured "nazis" on TV yet? surely you'd be doing that to show progress no?

Especially when parents and wives start to realise that their significant other isn't communicating anymore.

but I digress.

The real issue comes from holding all that land. Its not like the populace are going to take it lying down
I think it's two things

Is the workflow automation tool big enough that subgroups of users are still a big number of users to service

Of those subgroups, does one (or more) stand to have a better product experience if someone focused on their core use-cases / workflows. (e.g. Reclaim takes a bunch of calendar automation around scheduling and makes a product that reduces the work needed to optimize your calendar).
Is that what happened here? My head went in a few orbits over this comment.
In Ukraine, Elon Musk’s Starlink finally found its right place, right time
Most useful thing I've ever learned about memory: every time you recall a memory, you change it. Memory is not a fixed or static 'historical record'; ultimately, it's unreliable.
How you choose to see what separates the two "sides" is quite interesting.

You'll in fact find that it is not Vax/Anti-Vax but:
1. a group that needs the comforting reassurance of authority for security
vs.
2. a group who regard their autonomy as paramount and see no need to have arbitrary rules forced on them.
this makes sense to me, the thrust of this paper.

Reminds me of another paper which has impacted me deeply:

https://josh.works/driven-by-compression-progress-novelty-hu...
> what are people being exposed to that uses -single-dash-long-options?

Go's 'flag' package -- although double-dash is silently accepted on the command line.

The deeper issue with 'flag' is that it rejects the BSD convention of a short/long option pair having guaranteed equivalent semantics e.g. -h/--help. The library just won't let the programmer create such a pair by means of its standard functions.
Dendrite – second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go
For the same reasons people actually pay for their worktools, and specific software or cloud certifications.

Plus the GPL version is good enough for the said developer to learn Qt if it happens to be out of cash.
99% of smartphone innovation over the past decade has gone into the camera so "influencers" can post better pictures.
>Large groups cannot “process” anything; individual humans do that.

That's too reductionist. Ultimately "humans" do it, like ultimately atoms do chemical interactions, but there are absolutely "group dynamics", they have been studied quite a lot, and an "individual" in a group context can operate totally different (and has different options, tradeoffs, etc) than an individual alone.

A very basic example: a human can forget X.

A group, on the other hand, has a collective memory (institutional memory), and even if an individual forgets, it takes many individuals forgetting to erase something.
>The immunity can wane and the virus can mutate. Same reason you would get a shingles vaccine or a yearly flu shot.

aren't the current mrna vaccines based on the old 2019 variant of covid?
Trending up, with big holidays in the coming weeks, just like the December timeframe.
Hey I appreciate your answer.

Regarding your first point, I disagree. I think the intention is clearly to provide a direct benefit, but that isn’t always the effect. One example which seems to be entering the zeitgeist now is student aid. The presence of additional student aid has a high correlation with the rise in tuition over time, but I think we’d all struggle to say it was commensurate with to the cost.

Addressing your second point re: social security and perhaps generalizing my first point slightly, I think the statistics you cite are reductions in poverty vs simply abolishing the benefit. I don’t think they measure the counterfactual scenario of there never having been social security to begin with, and those current seniors having had their take home pay increase by some portion of the 15% of their gross pay which otherwise went to SS. Additionally, it doesn’t take into account the future debt servicing cost of current SS recipients on future generations.
automatic sub. loving the format of unzip.dev
What does that have to do with the post I was responding to? I was stating that typical employer-provided healthcare in my experience is very good. They said:

> I have NEVER used employer health insurance and anyone with major medical conditions would be foolish to depend on employer coverage in most cases. The offered plans are basically a big deductible with some minor coverage for non-catastrophic, no surgical coverage, nothing chronic

Which is just completely untrue unless the best employer you've been with is a regional fast food joint.
mRNA vaccines for novel disease being developed in days doesn’t do it for you?
> Could you think of something which happened in 2008 which might have impacted the velocity of money in the global economy

You and the comment you’re responding to agree on the Fed’s balance sheet being insufficient per se to explain core or non-core PCE. It's a complicated phenomenon.
More detail on axons:

> Each neuron in your brain has one long cable that snakes away from the main part of the cell. This cable, several times thinner than a human hair, is called an axon, and it is where electrical impulses from the neuron travel away to be received by other neurons.

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain/brain-anatomy/axons-cable-transm...
Yes, you do need a certain level of indirection to achieve the things you mentioned without polluting your code with non-business concerns such as transactionality. But the key differences are:

1. Application startup is faster because you avoid reflection.

2. It's type-safe because you avoid reflection, so you get compile-time errors instead of startup errors (or worse, startup errors only in certain configurations).

3. It gives you more inspectable behaviour. You can see how the entrypoint of the application wires together components. A lot of this can be hidden, spread out over multiple places and hard to understand otherwise.

Also, I'm not the person you originally replied to, didn't call DI a circus, and actually think that DI is a useful concept per se (that some FP purists maybe under-appreciate): It could just IMHO be done in a cleaner way (and a more deliberate way, not everything needs to be wrapped in 5 layers :)) with functional constructs instead of reflection hell. :D
1) Is the alert for real? From an reputable source and not spoofed? Not phishing?

2) Welcome to the New Normal[tm]. Do what you are currently doing (2FA everywhere) and watch your financial statements for unauthorized charges.