skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays 'affording' a 'cheap' state school is guessing if you can walk away with 20-50k of debt vs 50-150k. My younger brother had solid scholarships and still walked out with 25k. I graduated in 3 years and luckily my parents covered the last tuition check and I still had 15k.

At this point I've paid my debts and still welcome relief for students who didn't have the same opportunities as me.

There is no 'cheap' 4 year school anymore. Costs can be mitigated by going to a Community College for an associates/first 2 years then bridge that into a 4 year program but if you want to go for research, engineering, or many other more dedicated programs then being at the 4 year school all 4 years leads to many more connections and opportunities that some feel are worth the cost.

Borrowing beyond ones means isn't always fully understood by a group of 17-18 year olds, especially those who may be first generation college students or from school districts that have spent 2+ decades now losing resources for educating students on college options in order to focus on the kids failing out. For example, many college apps I completed in 2011 needed a letter of rec from my counselor who I had talked to once as a sophomore but spent most of his time working with students on the edge of failing or dropping out. It's archaic just like how the US college system operates as a capitalists dream and not a public service.

In terms of fair, well policy hasn't been fair in a long time either. The 2017 tax bill raised my taxes and pushed a trillion plus surplus back to the wealthy - a much worse outcome for all then cancelling student debt without a deeper plan. It may not seem "fair" to you but that doesn't make it bad policy.
Turkiye has much bigger problems on its hands than how the rest of the world spells their name
This isn't a truck for people gallivanting across the country with a camper in tow or the kind of guy that the local Sunbelt Rentals manager is on a first name basis with.

This is a truck for someone who has a commuter sedan and a Toyota Tacoma or Honda Odyssey parked in their garage somewhere the houses cost a million bucks and there are more Black Lives Matter signs than black people, i.e. the kind of person who would have bought a crew cab half ton a decade ago if daily driving one didn't make them feel like a backwards hick poisoning the climate.

I'm sure it will "do truck stuff" as well as any other F150 (OEMs don't play fast and loose with the reputation of flagship products like the F150) but the range will obviously be subject to the same tradeoffs as every other EV. but these are demographics that break out in a cold sweat at the idea of cramming five people in a compact car. They're gonna use the thing at a fraction of it's capability. Towing 10k will be a once a year thing if that. That should be fine for now as most buyers will just want to tow to home depot or the boat ramp.

The range will creep up over the coming years as batteries get better until finally the EV truck also makes sense guy who's towing the camper cross country.
I think that is pretty common on resumes and I've never heard anyone raise it as an issue. Some examples I've seen include "cycled across europe" and went back to school to work on a new degree, but then decided that they didn't like marine biology as much as they thought they did. There's no reason most employers would be concerned about reasonable life choices.

What employers are concerned about is people problems and problem people. Dealing with problem employees is very unpleasant and a huge time sink. Since difficult people tend to have difficulty staying employed, time gaps and short engagements on resumes are a somewhat reasonable heuristic. When there are more applicants than you can interview, you have to prioritize the list somehow.
I had to turn off direct messages from people I don’t know. I still get constant friend requests from scammers trying to get my crypto.

To be fair, anyone holding their own keys needs to be top notch on their opsec. So they should be wary of any random messages anyway.
Your desire to be right is interfering with your imagination.
If I’m interpreting[0] that article correctly, it sounds like if a company uses a Tesla patent they must agree to terms that grant Tesla access to derived works. Considering the enormous risk Tesla took by building the first EV company, it seems like fair use to me.

[0] not a lawyer
A couple years ago someone wanted to switch us off of Saucelabs because it was Expensive. I don't know how many 4-10 person meetings we had about it but it was a farce, and eventually I called them out on how many $5-10k meetings we'd had in order to try to save $25k a year.

The opportunity cost in these situations is usually harder to quantify. But for me it was distracting from cloud infrastructure work that had price charts associated with it, and contracts that also had dollar values associated with deadlines.

I think what annoyed me the most was that I had to point all of this stuff out to finally shut it down. Were were in a transitional period and people were trying to evaluate every sacred cow at the same time. That sounds like progress to some but like a recipe for burnout to me.
There are good points here, but the equal protection clause has nothing to do with this issue. There are standards in contract law that apply (and are state-specific). Those could be statutorily changed.
> I wonder how do people come to a decision that it's a good idea to start their own text editor when vim and emacs exist.

It's really a smaller decision compared with the point of view that text files as source code are "holding back our tools - https://dion.systems/dion_format.html

So these guys are really thinking big.
Animal feed, along with fresh water and land usage is a major issue, as you have suggested.

Less animals for human consumption = less feed, water and land required for animals. This opens up resources and agricultural land for vertical farming specifically for human consumption.

Humans currently consume 55% of the calories from agriculture, with animals at 36% and the rest for biofuels.

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel...
I have a generator that can power everything in my house except my air conditioning. It plugs into the side of my house. The total cost in todays dollars is less than $1k usd.

I’ve used this generator to power me through outages that have lasted days.

It’s been relatively low maintenance and the maintenance that exists is taught in YouTube videos.
Yeah now if only I saw more articles about T1 routers and less crypto currency fights, disingenuous political threads and arrogance in ignorance.
Investors don't give two hoots how many hours your people work, they care if you reach the goals you promise you will (which translates near directly into likelihood that their investment has some return).

The key insight is that working more hours doesn't lead to more work being accomplished, because there's a saturation region to productivity. Couple that with the fact that there's a negative return for sustained overexertion, consistently working excessive hours actually is less productive for individuals and teams.

But if you don't believe it, measure it.
Is red light therapy real? It always sounds like magical wishful thinking to me, but I'm seeing more and more references to it in places that look legit.
Over-consumption of available resources? https://www.overshootday.org/

(which will have various consequences like social unrest, wars)

That the world moves more and more to totalitarianism and surveillance and brainwashing? (China, Russia, Turkey, ..., ordered by population, the list is very long, depending on what critera you apply)
My relatives found this out the hard way last week, they made a low-calorie cake which was sweetened with xylitol, which their dog got into -- they left it on the kitchen table for a few minutes to cool and he managed to jump on and gavone half of it before they saw him.

They had to take him to the vet where they fed him charcoal and pumped his stomach. =-/
> It is revealing itself.

This is why I'm more optimistic these days since I think the speed of information is going to keep any dangerous movements in check and a minority. Because opposition can band together online, there really can't be a growth in a "join or die" kind of sense as a growing movement would impose.
I powered my house for a couple days with my hybrid Camry on much less than a single tank of gas. Hooked it up to the breaker through an inverter.

The "generator" in this setup automatically turns on and off according to need. Mostly it was off.

I wasn't running the house at full normal electrical usage. No AC. Kept the lights and fridge and computers on though.

Of course you can do this with any kind of car. But a hybrid (not a pure electric as in the article) is surely ideal.
Mainly the same reasons as you, but in terms of actually interacting here - I like coming to a place where my default position is to assume whoever I'm talking to is smarter than I am. 99% of the time they are and it broadens my horizons.
I've been feeling this same way recently. Used to love checking here, seeing people's projects, finding the new trends and ideas. And I don't think hn has changed but more my perspective on the software industry (and the world?).

I literally cannot think of the last time software has changed and made my life better. And there are endless examples of it making the world worse.

All the issues caused by beloved industry giant AirBnB breaking regulations and ruining local neighborhoods. Software being the thing that caused the worst plane crash in years. Endless privacy violations from essentially every company. I've had to deal with Google's support recently and that was AI hell.

Even products I consider good are only getting worse. I still have a decades old Photoshop because you could actually buy it back then and the new features really arent worth it.

Software seems to be just a very efficient tool for the shareholders of the world to "capture value" and to find new and innovative ways to make our lives worse and more expensive.

These days I mostly read out of habit and because there's always something happening (unlike the discords/forums im in which are nicer but less poppin') and really compared to other places its still nice

But the right-wing anti-woke crowd and the optimistic "tech will save the world" types are hard to stomach for me.

I've been dreaming of quitting the industry altogether, though there are a lot of benefits for staying. Maybe find one of the incredibly rare places that actually have a vision for the world (non-profit?). Even where I work at an accessibility company that ostensibly is making the world better it really feels more like spinning wheels and corporate power plays more than any real desire to do anything good. Because honestly, if the customer went for a competitors product that would be fine?

Anyways sorry for the rambling. Things seem bleak and hopeless and regardless of whether things will ultimately get better (maybe? im not convinced) they will certainly get worse for the foreseeable future. I don't want to be part of the group making it worse and tech companies pretty much are. Yada yada captialism

Certainly worse things to do than read hackernews tho :p
Ah! Apologies, I did not read that properly.
You can already see this trend in the western world. In our county, we may have rezoned 1/2 of our farmland in the last few decades.

It's just a pity they all turn into housing developments. We should really be setting aside more as green space.
I wonder how the performance is compared to an X86 chip.
So this was the impetus for your original comment. You just wanted to point out that Mosul didn’t belong to the Kurds. What a waste of time and energy and it’s very transparent and counter productive.
they need at least perform fdatasync before replying to a client, imho. so I do not think it's every x seconds. I am not deeply familiar with scylla so maybe I am mistaken.
I'm a brit, I don't know much about stuff, so, what is implied by 'yankee'? I wasn't aware it was still used - Is it an insult? And something to do with the civil war? Why are you considered a 'damn Yankee' by Marylanders?

I assumed redneck was an insult but it seems not always from what I've heard. I guess it is here. But what does it mean?

These may seem odd questions but I truly don't know. TIA
Yeah, that must be a huge boon to tesla orders. Go on a website, click some buttons, wait, and your car is delivered. People underestimate a low-bs process.

I hate having to wheel and deal. I usually go through craigslist or some other marketplace since I buy used and it's so much better than having to worry about coatings, etchings, addons, and warranties.
And the lifetime TCO of a $40K F-150 is lower than a free 15mpg truck. Insane. No wonder they have a massive waiting list.
Postgres Docker Container Migration Cheat Sheet
I learned German pre-internet, but with the onset of the pandemic, I started watching German media (mostly the news). A good deal of "office English" is incorporated into the language, but nothing prepared me for the ZDF Heute Show (a German news/satire program, reminiscent of The Daily Show). The German-English wordplay is sometimes pretty funny, but presumes a high degree of English proficiency (which I found surprising for a state public television station).

I wonder how the Germans feel about this. The closest I've seen to irritation with English was some good-natured ribbing of someone who coined "registrieren" rather than say "abonnieren" (a French loanword).

On the other hand, I thought German has its own (at least slang) terms for all things video games, but checking Duden, I find "Das Streaming"?!
stupid question incomming: isn't that a '+= await' problem?
> The technical CS/Programming discussions have some very good comments

I agree, save for a few topics, cryptocurrency seems to devolve into two different circle jerks, and anything mentioning Rust is at risk for nice spat in the comments.
I couldn't agree more.

This reminds me of how the UK defines poverty as "60% of the median income". I couldn't imagine a more moving goalpost. By definition, there will always be x% of the population in "poverty".

I don't think anyone is in absolute poverty in the UK and life is so incredibly easy and comfortable here.
I prefer my coffee black, with a decent amount of Robusta (method: ~12h full immersion cold brew in summer, 4 minute full immersion french-press otherwise), dark roast. Robusta adds something that is simply lacking otherwise.
Microchip has been copying Cypress in new ATSAM* microcontrollers, with op-amps and comparators on the chip. I think this is about as far as programmable analog circuits will get in mainstream applications. Just adjust your signal to a good amplitude for an ADC, and do everything else digitally.
> 500 gallon propane tank implies at least 7 days of runtime but much more if we conserved. I can’t believe we lived without this

How unreliable is your power grid? It's a lot easier having someone else manage the entire infrastructure. Unless you're in an area with common widespread natural disasters there's no reason to expect a 7 day outage ever.
Roku doesn't have this problem, I highly recommend it.
Turkey, so Asia/Europe intersection.

Where I live in Turkey has too much of them especially on warmer seasons and humid weather, sometimes making it unbearable to just sit outside without getting constantly bitten or hearing their irritating sound.
Time to hoist the jolly roger again.
>A 9 kW generator that costs $1000 is going to be an open-frame, bottom of the barrel model.

Not even close to bottom-of-the-barrel. In fact, pretty standard, and can last forever.

>requires a lot of maintenance.

Lots of maintenance? Like what, changing the oil and plug once a season?

>If you don't, you'll have to bury a LPG tank, or have an unsightly blob in your yard.

You seem to have very particular tastes about "sound" and "looks", so go ahead and spend $20k for a backup system. But don't try to tell people it can't be done for far cheaper, because I've been running my house on a backup system with a $1000 Generac portable coming up on a decade. The generator I replaced was from the 70s.
That’s not true for all distributions.

For example if instead of halving the probability of each value as he does in the video we take 1/20 then we get the expected value as the sum of 9/20^2 - 9/20^2 + 90/20^3 - 9/20^3 + …
Here the series is absolutely convergent since the positive terms sum to 9/10 and the negative terms sum to 9/10.
Been using Fork for several years now, and it’s great. It’s exactly what I look for in a tool: capable, yet focused and fast, with everything being as it should right out of the box. It never feels like it’s getting in the way.

I use it along with Secretive[0] to keep GitHub SSH keys in my MacBook’s Secure Enclave and add a biometric prompt whenever pushing or pulling. All together it’s extremely smooth and unfussy.

[0]: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
> If you try to run a small farm in marginal land it just doesn't pay any more

This tells us something profound about the world. Due to enclosure of the commons, everyone is forced to be a worker and/or capitalist. (I realize there are many parts of the world not like that yet, but we're on our way there.)
I've been programming for 57 years, and I still copy other people's code to get started.

To start a project from scratch, pick something that is entertaining and gratifying to you. Write a program to solve Sudoku or Wordle.
The former Spanish monk who built a cathedral on his own
I remember zmodem was slightly better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM
Awesome, thanks for taking the time answering my questions! Appreciate it.
Show HN: My Python 2D/3D Graphics Engine
> the community could fork it, change the name and carry on development. But it would no longer be "4coder"

4kdcoder?
For me, a cargo trailer is something else I have to buy, register, fix, and store. A truck isn't really any more expensive than any other vehicle which can carry 5 people comfortably. A Ford Maverick is comparable in cost to a small car, a Ford Ranger is comparable in cost to a mid-sized car, and a Ford F150 has more passenger room than pretty much anything that looks like a "car".
I use Q*bert for AI Pedagogy! It's very easy for kids to understand that a human player might not be able to make it to level 99, but an agent can. And they grok the concepts of game state space expansion, pathfinding and rewards easily. Even 10 year olds can be introduced to pretty advanced algos: expectimax, gridworld and deep q learning (as far as they can be expected to understand at 10). But, it's really the joy at playing a classic that delivers. No battling with interfaces. Just pure fun ready to dive right in with minimal prompting ;)

https://archive.org/details/arcade_qbert
Unless there's cameras everywhere in the fridge (plus advanced object recognition that knows that that bundled up pack of goat cheese inside a ziplock bag is in fact goat cheese) or people are scanning items as they take them out I don't see how that would work and both things seem kinda unlikely so it's weird they'd start with the easiest part which is hook up the thing to the internet.
Not just oil prices, but minerals too.
Groundwater: Depleting reserves must be protected around the world
Obviously sold as the $13K Tesla Powerwall doesn't include an inverter either. They upsell you to a "Powerwall+".

Also:

> Tesla’s residential energy products will be sold as a bundle and will exclusively work with one another. This means that Tesla Powerwalls will not work with other manufacturer’s solar panels. Additionally, Tesla will not sell any of its Solar products without a Powerwall,
I come here mostly for the comment section. Often I'll find some genuine nuggets of wisdom & occasionally nuanced discussions (but this is getting rarer). I also use HN to aggregate links better than I would be able to on Google/DDG/Reddit/etc.
> Why are there so many lost/doomer threads recently.

I suspect layoffs and recession is hitting home.
That's creepy as hell
I have definitely been in situations where I couldn't update the ruby version in a timely manner, but have been able to bump a gem version (like in this example)
great examples... as farms are being abandoned in other places, maybe farming is undergoing consolidation to bigger farms that are growing by cutting into sensitive and more valuable forests, justifying the net effect that farmed land is going down. Surely some forests have to be more valuable than others.
Ask HN: Does anybody balance farming activity with software development?
Over the last ~five years my wife and I transitioned from city to rural life. Since leaving the city our priorities changed; we've become more focused on caring for our bodies and the environment and participating in activities that support those things (growing food, foraging, hunting, caring for the forest).

I have a software development practice: I build Tap [0] and do generalist web development consulting. Over time I see the farm and the software activity supporting each other. I'm curious, if there's anyone on HN that's further down this road than I am. How's it going? What does your practice look like? Do you continue to enjoy farming and development? Has one or the other taken over?

Thanks!

[0] https://www.tatatap.com
Vega64 or Vega56 seems to work pretty well with ROCm in my experience.

Hopefully AMD gets the Rx 6800xt working with ROCm consistently, but even then, the 6800xt is RDNA2, while the supercomputer Mx250x is closer to the Vega64 in more ways.

So all in all, you probably want a Vega64, Radeon VII, or maybe an older MI50 for development purposes.
More importantly, the generator could be rented. 99% of my trips are well within the range of a EV. However for that final 1% renting a generator would be useful to get the rest of the way. Many of those trips are to do other things where a generator would be handy, camping trips for example.

An EV+generator is very useful for those who need a generator: generators are most efficient at 80% of their maximum load, in some cases they will burn more fuel at 50% load than 80%! Thus a generator could charge the EV as needed and turn off.
>I also disagree that the social fabric is at risk of collapse.

Social fabric is something that needs to collapse every generation or two and get rebuilt. Imagine living in the social fabric of 1940s. No thanks.
> I don't understand why Americans don't do direct bank transfers

we do...
you can't "spin up a new instance" with farming. The ripples are just now reaching the shore. This will be a longer period for recovery than most people understand.