skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Define the market small enough"? A quick Google suggests the market for mobile phones is a trillion dollars a year, which is mostly run by two OSes.
The Government Fiasco That Nearly Closed the U.S. Air System
This was a student health fee that also covered health insurance for students (dental too). It was a basic program through Aetna Student Health. Also included urgent and basic services on campus as well as mental health services.

I was also an online student that only attended on campus class for 1 weekend per semester. It made no sense to make everyone pay the fee that included significant amounts of benefits that weren't needed by online students (the online MBA program was structured toward those currently working). This was on top of the $41 fee that I paid for the "Rec Center"...which again would never be used by me since I was an online student.
First music I ever "streamed" and still excellent. Thank you, Rusty!
hah! was just wondering what happened to monkeyradio... iirc it was one of the winamp developers who did the selecting...
How big is your land?
My experience in higher ed is exactly the opposite. Funding is quite easy to get for STEM research projects through grants and other research programs.

Projects that just "align with political talking points" tend to be much more challenging to fund because there's significantly less money available in those domains.

Economically, an educated populace produces positive externalities on society. As such it makes sense for the government to fund and subsidize it to some extent because it produces a good ROI for both the society and the individuals.
In many of those countries there are so many cars because they’re needed during peak tourist season

And guess where those tourists are from
Recruitment, Retention, Finding the Right Job, Onboarding People in Remote Envi
I have some friends that need white noise to sleep, and the sound of appliances gives them some of the same feel. Until it beeps. Then they clench their teeth and aggressively finds the nearest pillow to press down over their ears.
> I will admit that when I hear people using English terms and even phrases in my language, I fear that is another nail in killing the language. I could totally see proposals to discard the language after a significant portion of ideas could no longer be expressed in the language.

I remember two colleagues conversing in a foreign language in the office (Arabic I believe?) and telling them I almost understood what they were talking about since so much of it was English technical jargon. They explained to me there is simply no translation for these words in their language.

I commend the French for making the effort of defining words for these new concepts. What I wonder is if some English terms will stick long enough to be known, in a few centuries perhaps, as "Americanisms".

English itself borrowed heavily from French centuries ago (and some authors even tried to create a version of English free of Latin, Greek and French influences; it's worth a read [0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English
Yeah, XMODEM... I had to implement YMODEM for a client of the company I work with a few months ago... Over BLE. It is every bit as bad as it sounds like.
> bigger risk

Only if the economic system is a giant ponzi scheme that depends on continuous, infinite growth.

Really, high population is the source of an enormous amount of problems. We should absolutely be focused on decreasing our population. The planet can support us at our current (and higher) populations, but to be frank, liberal democracies and capitalist markets at-scale are incapable of organizing production in a way that doesn't destroy the earth.

It's funny, there was a post recently about "unsolved problems in economics." Nowhere was there a mention of the biggest economic problem in existence: externalities. Why? Because capitalism is incapable of solving the problem, and the economists know this, so they don't bother talking about it. They pretend it's an issue of state, when the profit mechanism itself is the cause for most externalities.

If we want to preserve our current precious economic order, we need lower populations.
The other side of the "not showing up" story has merit too. I had a (former) friend that did the same, and asked why people hadn't shown up.

The pay is terrible. In his case, it was below minimum wage. He argued he could get better labor for minimum wage, so they could either take it or be replaced.

He was also renting them the same place they were renovating. It was a slum, and he was using their labor to improve it so he could kick them out and replace them with someone that would pay. Not exactly a thrilling proposal.

There was no safety equipment provided. It was an old building, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was full of asbestos (and maybe why he didn't hire a reputable company in the first place).

The place was filthy. Human feces in a bucket kind of filthy.

> Any solutions to this problem need to be more realistic about the motivations and intentions of the group they're trying to assist.

There's a grain of truth here. My phrasing would be "Any solution provided needs to be better than panhandling." Doing difficult physical labor for below minimum wage doesn't meet that criteria. Even at minimum wage, I don't know if it's better.
Our personal mythology can attribute great significance to qualities, like being good at school, and use that significance to explain life outcomes even if that's not a particularly reasonable conclusion. Just like mythology uses simple ideas to explain complex natural phenomenon (e.g. Apollo's chariot pulls the sun across the sky) our personal mythology can use a simple idea to explain more complicated ones (because I was gifted I never tried hard and so I am not X).

Without knowing more about the author's life and what she presumes her alternate life would be, it's hard to really make sense of her position in this article. If she had been challenged more and learned the value of hard work she would be... what? What would be different? From her "About" page we see she has an English degree, is a mother of two, and writes articles like this one. If she had been challenged as a child would she have three kids? Write more articles? STEM degree?

I've watched bits of the Johnny Depp trial and one thing that has stood out to me is how miserable his life seems. On the outside he's a super-famous movie star with tons of money and a beautiful wife - and on the inside... On Lex Fridman's podcast Kevin Systrom said something about becoming a billionaire that was along the lines of life being similarly hard as it was before.

The author of this article seems to have an average life. Most people have average lives. Even people at the margins, your billionaires and movie stars, only have superficially extraordinarily lives that are, at core, fundamentally similar to the average person's life. So, in what sense does this author think her life would have been different had she been challenged more?

Suppose the author couldn't play music well and her parents forced her to confront her weakness and learn to play the piano. My intuition is that she would be in the same place in life but would remember, kind of, how to play a couple songs on the piano. The article strikes me as dodging responsibility - "I was not challenged and therefore am not a hard worker." If you want to work hard, then do that. Challenge yourself. And, if you can't do it now, why do you think you could have done it back then?
Sending memory metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
I very much agree with this. I think approaching landing pages as storytelling makes them a lot easier to approach and understand (still hard to do well).

Everything should be in support of telling the main narrative, while also keeping attention. It's a balance as you say; a dry story isn't very interesting, irrelevant attention grabbing isn't very interesting either (or very briefly to be followed by disappointment and confusion).

What's challenging with landing pages is that for a lot of products the story of the product just isn't that exciting, you can add bells and whistles but that isn't going to make your story any more interesting. Finding a good narrative is imo half the battle.
My choice is the VCS client in JetBrains IDEs, like IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm etc.

IntelliJ Community Edition is even free and open-source, so for Java coding it's perfect, but pretty good for Clojure, Python, PHP too.

The JetBrains IDEs are cross-platform, including Linux and cross architecture, including ARM, because the JVM/JDK is cross-arch.

The sticking point for me is how well it deals with the 3-way resolution of merge conflicts.

It also has a magic-wand icon, which seems to resolve 95% of conflicts automatically and correctly, presumably doing something based on common ancestor commits.

BUT what makes both this 3-way merge interface AND the commit interface really great, is the ability to edit in-place, with all your custom keybindings, syntax highlighting, linting and code intelligence tools!

You can auto-complete code, look up docs or the source code of function definitions, even in JAR files, without leaving the context of the commit dialog.
If you need to do something more involved, like refactoring or jump to definition, u can always get to the source code with F4 from the commit dialog or from within any commit context.

You don't know what are you missing out on, until you experience it!
It's a significant reduction in mental overhead, imho.

Now the cost of all this convenience is that you need to download hundreds of megabytes and IntelliJ CE has a substantial startup time and memory consumption, since it indexes your code. It also sprinkles your repo with projects files under a .idea folder.

I will check out Fork regardless, because it's good to know what's out there and what are the different set of tradeoffs it choose. Then I can choose and/or recommend it for different situations.

It's the same reason I'm learning vc.el and magit too. If you need to do some git surgery over high-latency SSH, then it's hard to beat Emacs with TRAMP...
> The short answer is: administrative bloat. That's where all the money is going. Universities employ far more non-teaching staff than ever before. A large bulk of this staff is essentially dedicated to marketing the university to prospective students, a zero-sum competition with other universities.

Do you have a citation for this claim? The Ed department publishes higher-ed expenditure data, and it doesn't show "far more" administrative expense on a real per-student basis compared to 10 or 20 years ago:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.a...
Ask HN: Do you use /newcomments on HN?
I’m struggling to find a reason for HN’s comments page (/newcomments). Do people actually use it? If so, what is the reason behind why you use it? I very rarely visit that page and find it a bit overwhelming since it’s a live firehose of ongoing discussion. What purpose does it serve?
SomaFM is one of the sites I like to donate to when I can. I also use their Amazon affiliate link as an Amazon bookmark. Drone Zone has been my main background music when working for a couple of years now!
I was going to share a link to a harbor freight 9kw generator for $869, but now I see that that is 9kw starting power and only 7.2kw continuous...
Wait, the claim doesn't match the little data presented and the primary claim is not examined or supported.

1) The Omnibus bill passed in 1993, but from the graph tuition was already increasing at 200% greater than inflation, and appears to have started in the mid 1980's; and

2) Why would the fact that the loans are now from the government mean that universities no longer had to compete on costs? The bill ultimately goes to the student in either case.
Batteries + solar means that you're producing your own electricity every day too. You can't do that with a generator unless you start cooking biodiesel in your garage.

For you light maintenance of a 10kW generator might be easy, but for most of us it isn't. It still has a ton of moving parts, each of which can fail and will be hard or impossible to replace in an emergency situation.

It's like backups, you really don't have them unless you've restored them once. With a solar+battery setup you're testing the system every hour of every day. With a generator you need to actually schedule a test time every X months and make sure the fuel is still valid.
The problem here is the closure on totalSize and where you're awaiting, totalSize is going to be 0 for all files and then you await for the result of getSize, so in the end totalSize is going to be equal to the size of the last file that completes the getSize call.

To fix this, simply await the result of getSize first, and then add the result to totalSize using +=
You can do resource control with cgroups. With systemd based distros you can use "systemd-run" and pass various flags that define the exact limits. Non systemd distros can use libcgroup or use the sysfs cgroup interface directly.

The IP address situation can be handled with the "unshare" and "ip" commands. Unshare allows putting a process in a new namespace and ip allows configuring the interfaces and moving them between namespaces.

Both of these solutions do not require any container runtime which is a big advantage efficiency wise!

I am not saying that using docker for these purposes is bad though, I just wanted to mention some lightweight alternatives in case anyone was interested.
Nokogiri is one of the most security-sensitive parts of any Rails codebase, since it's used for parsing and sanitizing untrusted HTML and XML documents. Accordingly, there's a lot of scrutiny on it (and its upstream dependency, libxml2). That said, as far as I'm aware, almost all of the recent vulnerabilities I've noticed have been related to XSLT and other obscure XML features that most people probably don't use (and aren't enabled by default). So there's a combination of both 1) lots of scrutiny on the library itself leads to high security standards and 2) the goal of fully-featured XML processing adds a large attack surface that may not be relevant to most people that leads to a lot of vulnerability alerts.

Personally though, I've been seeing almost 10x the amount of alerts for useless "vulnerabilities" like ReDOS in nodejs projects though. Either way, alert fatigue is real.
C# can't do everything Go can, also it's a language that keeps adding features every 6month or so, which can be good or bad.
Yeah, but done at that scale, it'd be quite a thing to watch :-)
I didn't know that, thank you for clarifying for me!
In 2019 there were 3,747,540 natural births in the US.

There were 2,854,838 natural deaths.

There were 31% more births than deaths.

The natural population growth isn't declining yet.

And even if it was - as long productivity increases - that's all that really matters. Population can decrease like in Japan while GDP increases due to productivity growth.

Population growth != better living standards. See the Malthusian Trap that was the popular way of thinking prior to the industrial revolution. Population kept increases - yet people just kept getting more miserable lives.
But once the water becomes hot, you need to continue to heat it intermittently to keep it hot. So it’s only a water heater for a few minutes, after which point it becomes a hot water heater.
... the most significant is the way it allows the user to go on browsing while it downloads items not immediately needed in the background. Rather than forcing you to wait for a graphic to load, Netscape, loads a page's text first, allowing you to scroll down the page or jump ahead to another URL while that nice looking, but perhaps not immediately necessary graphic, loads a piece at a time and without the need to wait for the page to paginate.

This "continuous document streaming," combined with Netscape's ability to download several documents or images at the same time has the effect of dramatically reducing time devoted to waiting, and increasing the time spent exploring the Internet's bewilderingly diverse content. Coupled with an overall performance increase optimized for 14,400 kbs [sic] modems, this makes Netscape, by far the speediest Web browser currently available.
with 1 powerwall and 4kw solar, i could get through 3 days just by turning off the AC and the hot tub.

i'm sure it was way more expensive than a generator, but a generator doesnt generate daily profit for the next 20 years either...

PS i've also done 3 day camping trips in my EV so if i needed AC i could have it any time.
Another place to look is DSD/mbelib, although to exploit you would have to transmit on a frequency they were monitoring and any replies/confirmation would have to come from another path (Internet). Since a common use case for that software is monitoring public safety frequencies an exploit might actually be practical for law enforcement agencies.
I am mostly happy about iOS but damn, I really really want to run a real Firefox Nightly and all the lovely addons on my iPhone and iPad.
> They're not the only place to buy and listen to consume media content -- Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Plex, Blu-Ray, Bandcamp, iTunes, Soundcloud, and a billion Spotify Connect devices are all out there.

Yeah, let me try and consume ebooks on the go with my Roku or Chromecast. Definitely feels like the same market as Android/iOS...
If you think supply shortages were bad when some shifts had to stay home due to covid exposure just wait until those workers don't even exist anymore.
> We're already short on housing

The US has plenty of housing. It's just not where the jobs are. With the automation of agriculture and moving manufacturing to other countries, the employment map of the US changed rapidly in the past few decades, and our physical infrastructure hasn't caught up yet.

> The only way to do that would be to almost completely stop immigration and population growth.

Even with immigration, US population growth is nearly flat now: https://www.brookings.edu/research/u-s-population-growth-has...

Assuming current trends continue (and I see no reason they wouldn't), the US will probably be net negative relatively soon. I know so many young people who have no plans to have children because they can't afford it and don't want to bring them into a world they think will be in a worse state than the one they grew up in.
UK plans to regulate stablecoins just weeks after Crypto becomes worthless
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> It seems that universities are just profit maximizing entities.

Most universities are nonprofits; universities tend to be research maximizing entities, with teaching as a distant second function.

There are institutions with teaching- (as opposed to research-) centric models, but they tend to do at most undergraduate, vocation, and/or professional education, not academic graduate education, and (somewhat ironically, in context of the comment above) tend to be far more likely to be profit-centric businesses.
There are some social bubble dynamics that affect the discussions you read, here and on various subreddits or other forums.

1. People believe there should more abundant affordable housing. BUT...

2. A lot of people here despise rural people, as a matter of cultural tribal affiliation. And also a lot of people here hate cars, which is 50% environmentalism and 50% about despising rural life as a matter of cultural tribal affiliation (I suspect that car hate would persist even if zero-emission solar powered vehicles became the norm).

Therefore, we need more affordable housing, but only in the "cool places" where I want to live. Basically, I just want my rent to go down, and cultures that I don't like to cease to exist. Or this seems to be the line of thought, if you distill it down.
Philosophically, sure. But legally, not at all.
Wow, this sounds super cool for rustacean noobs like me.

https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/

If you have an O'Reilly membership the ebook is available at no additional charge:

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-rust/9781...

Otherwise $30 is a little steep for an ebook.
> High calorie and/or high fiber foods require complex rhizospheres which is currently only found in healthy soil.

What is your source for this claim? Major grains (wheat, corn, rice, etc.) grow fine hydroponically--I've actually seen modern conventional agriculture described derisively as a hydroponic system using the sterilized natural soil as its inert medium. That description seems basically correct to me, though I don't think it's necessarily bad. Production of grains in systems analogous to hydroponic vegetable production would certainly be possible, just currently uneconomic:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2002655117

The major benefit of hydroponics is in achieving very high yield per acre. This is important e.g. when growing perishable vegetables in expensive greenhouses near densely-populated areas. For grains that are readily dried, stored, and shipped, it's currently far cheaper to cultivate more acres in remote areas at lower yield per acre.

The "petrochemical" claim is also confusing. The point of hydroponics is that the plant gets nutrients from the solution, not from the inert substrate. Typical hydroponic substrates may be plant-based (e.g. coir) or not (e.g. rockwool), but in neither case are they providing significant fertility, nor making significant use of petrochemicals. Obviously their energy inputs for production and transportation often come from petroleum; but that's true for almost any human activity today, including organic agriculture. A few niche applications do use petrochemical-based substrates (e.g. phenolic foam), but very rarely.

The synthetic nitrogen fertilizers dissolved in the nutrient solution often use hydrogen from natural gas, since that's the cheapest source, but could use any other source of hydrogen (e.g., electrolysis of water) instead. Here's an article studying those economics:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2021.5808...
An option to consider is to get a referral from your local bar association and let them know you are looking to pay on a flat fee basis.
When i come to the page and let my eyes naturally scan through, the phrase Dead Simple sticks out, which is probably not a great catch phrase for this app. It'd be cool if instead, a GIF showing the user experience led me right into trying it out with the "enter address here" section.
I run it on my NAS computer in a ubuntu server vm. It was 20 minutes to set that up and another 5 to install and point my router's DNS to it. Maintenance is a monthly login, and a biannual update after puttying into the box.

If you want a one-purpose device for it, then you would be looking into buying a SOC computer like a Raspberry PI 3 (should be cheaper than the 4) and about an hour to set it up.

One little thing I have done is set my router's secondary DNS to 1.1.1.1, just in case the power fails or the PI goes down. When I set mine up I completely forgot to set ESXI to auto-power on the VM, so after a brief power outage I had no internet for almost an hour because I had no redundant DNS configured. I got blindsided by my own mistake. Now everything is on a UPS and the VMs are correctly configured in case power is lost long enough to require a shutdown.

https://pi-hole.net/ has more info on the install.
Indeed. It’s frustrating that you can’t really object to it, as the company can just refuse to do business with you, and there aren’t viable alternatives who won’t do the same thing. Thus we have very unilateral contracts where the companies have all the power, and the consumers basically only have whatever consumer protections their state laws provide.
Supersonic passenger flight is having a Renaissance. It's actually an example of the argument your arguing against. They did say supersonic flight was going to happen. It just took a bit longer than we thought.
Can Google's Store even handle the number of SKUs that Amazon has? Amazon has to have millions of titles.