skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to believe that startups were meant to solve painful problems. But the most painful problems in the world aren't even discussed here.

Not all painful problems have technical or market based solutions. I'd wager most don't. Those problems are outside the realm of startups.

> Myself, I've lost hope. My hope that 'things will get better' is lost.

Are you so sure things are actually getting worse? I'm not particularly convinced. I'd agree we have some major problems - decay in our institutions and a growing lack of trust, in particular. I think the perception that everything is crumbling is mostly driven by more powerful/pervasive means of injecting vitriolic narratives into society rather than actual crumbling. Just the same, I wouldn't choose to live in any other time. Would you?
Yes, you can lock and unlock LFS files using file context menu. There's also the ability to see the list of locked files (and force-unlock one, if needed).
Interrupt Ansible mid way and then change some configs. That's a situation where you probably need to rerun from start and hope for the best. With nix you can just rerun and you would start mid way through your build process without any side effects. Also Ansible cannot easily do iterative changes without rerunning everything or knowing yourself what has changed. With nix the changes get computed and everything that is necessary will rebuild and restart.
World of Warcraft 9.2.5 Patch is encrypted for secrecy
It sounds like you're blaming the jr devs or the fork app, but really you should be blaming the tool, git, for allowing users to mangle their repos.
Your father? If related and around, please tell them thank you for many years of exploration and learning.
Something to think about:

It is traditional for landlords operating malls to enforce "percentage leases," where the tenant business pays a flat fee plus a percentage of sales, or a percentage of fees with a certain minimum rent.

Structurally, Apple and Google are doing the exact same thing. If you want to operate a store in their digital mall, their terms require you to pay a percentage of sales.

This is not a monopoly position any more than saying a mall has a monopoly position on its customers. There are other malls, there are locations not in a mall, there is mail order, their is web-based online selling.

If you don't like the lease terms, don't run your business there. The fact that Apple and Google have very large malls that are highly valuable places to run a business is irrelevant: Both platforms run web browsers where customers can buy whatever they like, and you can use a "computer" to shop online to your heart's content.

This isn't a welcome argument for those of us who are inconvenienced by the fact that when we visit Apple or Google's mall, some vendors choose to promote their products there without selling their products there.

This isn't a welcome argument for those of us who want to sell our products there but dictate to the landlord the terms of the lease.

But at the end of the day, I believe this is why we have to put the open web first. Making applications on other people's platforms always has been and always will be digital sharecropping.
I personally think that proprietary solutions that want to lock you in their infrastructure rank lower than standard software containers.

It probably makes sense for your business though.
I can’t speak to trends in ABV for wine, but I can agree that the THC content in most cannabis is much greater than I prefer. And, despite living in a state with legal recreational cannabis for several years, it’s only gotten harder to find low-THC product that isn’t basically zero-THC—generally grown for high CBD, which is great for those who want that, but it’s not the light buzz product I want and never can find.
What's going to be the real stickler when this finally comes to a courtroom showdown is that Google and Apple are competitors in this space.

First, they let their competitors onto their platform without charging extortionate fees. They wait for them to become large and well-used on the platform. Then they change the fee structure so that it's no longer profitable for their competitors to compete on the platform at all. This leads to customers switching apps for their needs.

It's abuse of market power from being the marketplace/platform owner.

As I always say: a market or platform owner/operator should not be allowed to also be a competitor within it. The incentives get messed up and abuse will always follow.
If no one is in absolute poverty why did 2.1 million people have to ask for emergency food aid over the last year?

Why are 13% of English households and 25% of Scottish households unable to afford heat and light?

Life may be incredibly easy and comfortable for you, but it's certainly not incredibly easy and comfortable for everyone.

Post like these are exactly what reinforces pessimism. There are almost hallucinogenic levels of reality denial happening around the world - often based on "I'm not experiencing any difficulty personally so how can anything be wrong?"

Problems can't be solved until they're acknowledged and reality is engaged with.

If that doesn't happen problems that are over there can suddenly start appearing right here.

It's smarter and more efficient not to let things get to that point.
Way better IMO. Clear variable names. No golfing.

Breaking down things in clear steps is underrated I think.
Personally, yeah. But this is a rare case where I am happy to respect and celebrate all preferences, because what really matters is brand-agnostic gummi bear supremacy. Black Forest are great too
You make some good points and I agree with your ballpark figures, but you seem very stuck in a status quo mindset. The entire NIH budget is about what we are giving Ukraine in aid. High-frequency trading alone saps billions from the economy. We could easily find money to triple our science expenditures if we wanted to.

And yes we'd need to evaluate faculty success differently so that we would no longer require each professor to run a lab of a half dozen grad students in order to have enough publications for tenure. But that's easily doable via a collective decision.
Uno Identity Manager
https://github.com/withuno/identity
Thanks for pushing the Ruby space further!
they are talking about a D-Sub 9 connector, which I haven't seen on new PCs since the early 2000s. If your motherboard has pins they are probably undocumented. And that's likely the best case scenario.
The only downside is the serial transceivers aren't self-powered like the USB ones. The upside is that their barrel connectors expect the same 5V and can be easily adapted to USB-port power.
Such extreme short-term thinking, resulting in the propping up of monopolies. At school no less. The point of school is to support society, not corporate earnings.

Not to mention any so-called deficiencies could be remedied in two years by directing 1% of the budget from private jets to FLOSS.
https://agfundernews.com/the-economics-of-local-vertical-and...

For greens, an conventional farm is $0.65/lb and a greenhouse is $2.33/lb.

> Assuming a 40-45% gross margin for a typical supermarket produce department, retail prices for greens would need to be approximately $1 a pound for conventional, $4 a pound for greenhouse, $5 a pound for vertical, and $12 a pound for container-grown. A typical head of bibb or butter lettuce weighs less than half a pound. Therefore, the lettuce can be grown in a greenhouse or vertical farm and sold at retail for $2 to $3 per head.

> Although greenhouse or vertical farming is three to five times more expensive than growing on a conventional outdoor farm, it still allows for competitive pricing to the consumer with other vegetables and sides.

The yield can go up, but the cost per unit goes up too.
I think you nailed it. If the question were posed as "Two envelopes with $A and $(A+1)" then there would be no talk of ratios and no "paradox" would ever emerge.
There are lots of malls but realistically only one app store per Android or iPhone.
For everyone who needs: JSignPDF[1]. FLOSS multi platform software to sign PDF's.

[1] http://jsignpdf.sourceforge.net/
One technique that improved my process a lot, particularly for system-level problems, is swim lane diagrams. I worked with someone that created them for _everything_, and at first it irritated the crap out of me because for some things I felt it took longer to write the diagram than to write the code. But, when things are complicated it is so helpful to see a process overview with minimal path ambiguity.
If you are lost, maybe you should evaluate where you are in life relative to other people. There are all sorts of levels to life and this exercise might provide a sobering effect. Everyone has challenges in one way or another but some are truly in a worse position. This might lead you to being a little bit more grateful and that you easily overcome these problems.
I think the blog post might be onto something, but I agree that I don't think it's all of it. My friend and colleague were just talking recently about how something happened around the mid to late 1990s in the US with college, but it's really hard to put one's finger on one thing or even one set of things, or why they changed around the same time. It's like higher ed just started getting insane around then in several different ways, from cost, to funding, to administration, to culture, to everything. Some institutions managed to resist the insanity longer but it seems like it's spreading.

I agree that cuts to public universities are also a big part of it, but that doesn't explain similar trends with private institutions, unless you explain it in terms of "inflation afforded through competitors" that private institutions could accrue. That is, public university funding is cut -> tuition increases at public universities -> private universities can increase tuition by comparison. It seems this would then lead to comparative budget surpluses at private universities though?

There's also a lot of trends that seem to have happened around the same time too that don't have anything directly related to state funding. For example, federal grant funds started ballooning around that same time, and the feeding frenzy on indirect funds and pyramid scheme of grad student funding started coming into play.

I'd love to have a single coherent explanation for why all of this started accelerating together in the late 90s. So far I've just chalked it up to political-administrative culture in the US (healthcare started seeing similar problems around the same time), but I'm open to the idea there's some sort of unidentified sociopoliticoeconomic explanation. I don't think it's just the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 though.
Ugh, not even populating the header is a terrible way to save one penny. This one I'm using came with the rear panel bracket and everything.
Did you ever try to patch a software in debian or create your own package? Debian had no native and easy way to do that unless nix. If you have a standard cmake project you can be done in 10 minutes packaging it. Also applying patches is very easy with overlays while also keeping your software up to date and propogate the changes through the dependency chain.
> But how many people actually need a 3 ton vehicle?

Much of this is marketing from the Big 3 over the last 25 years. They've been driving consumers to larger truck platforms with marketing for decades. The truck platforms are cheaper and easier to produce than alternatives. It allows them to share parts across more of their portfolio.

A lot of the marketing over the last 30 years has been targeting fragile egos. I thought maybe we jumped the shark when they started selling baby wipes in black packaging as Man/Dude wipes but apparently not.

I have no doubt that in the near future Huggies and Luvs will convince men that it's tough to wear black diapers and crap their pants while doing many things.
Can California’s high-speed rail project ever get back on track?
What would remain 3400 years from now if a modern city like Tokyo, London, or New York were abandoned today?
You don't need to be anything to be happy. And you can be unhappy with all the fame/money/freedom in the world. Happiness is a choice, but it requires work.
Can you provide a link for this, please (I'm not saying it is not true, I just want more context)?
I guess Amazon thinks they should be the only one able to charge a large fee for access to the store. Last time I looked, Amazon commission charges topped out at 65%!

https://www.authorimprints.com/amazon-kdp-royalty-pricing/
Looks like something out of a Marvel movie.
Yeah, Shale supports generating models from JSON Schema for now, XML is work in progress and should be ready in two or three weeks.
I look after dozens of E1 lines and hundreds of ISDN2 lines.

Quite often when we have faults, I have to teach the BT Openreach engineers how to use the diagnostic equipment to track down where the fault is.
Netflix didn't work it out — you can't sign up for Netflix on a phone.
This is my first submission ;)

I didn't even notice somebody else submitted my own lib before me ^^
At today's prices? Soft white, which is what I normally grow, is currently selling for around $15 per bushel. I typically expect around 100 bushels per acre. So $180,000 if you had 120 acres of it. But in a normal year, yeah, that's not too far off. Corn and soys are where you make the money. Wheat is normally grown around here just to keep the soil healthy.
I would argue that this Wikipedia article is misleading and that it confuses more than it clarifies when it comes to resolving the paradox.

In particular, I am disputing the fact that "no proposed solution is widely accepted as definitive" (exact quote). Indeed, the switching argument (or at least the argument as it is presented in the Wikipedia article) makes a clear and precise mistake that I claim any trained mathematician will immediately agree on once pointed to it.

This mistake is explained in the following comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31566226,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31567251 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569991.

Once you have identified it, this mistake is all but subtle. It is not about infinite series or Bayesian reasoning. It does not require a 30 minutes rebuttal talk. It is simply about misusing the very definition of an expected value in a way that could be qualified as a typing error (see linked comments). This error can only go undetected because of the ambiguity of the English language. Most of the fancy mathematical discussions I've been reading are distractions. This paradox is about language and not about any deep mathematical fact of probability theory.
What’s going on with self-driving cars?
Pandemic Housing Boom Hits a Wall with US Buyers Priced Out
> It's smarter and more efficient not to let things get to that point

Thoughts like this give me hope.
Saddling people with a lifetime of student loan debt is a moral hazard that has already occurred. Moreover, college students are already taking out more debt, and universities are already raising tuition, despite the lack of forgiveness.

Would a one-time forgiveness cause an increase in college costs? I don't know, maybe? And if it did, by how much? I don't know, do you? Maybe the problem needs to get worse in order to put pressure on Congress to finally address it comprehensively. And if Congress still refuses to address the problem despite its getting worse, then you can no longer argue that we need to wait for a comprehensive solution, because that's not coming. Perhaps the occasional forgiveness event is the best and only thing we can do in the face of persistent gridlock. I hope not, but...
Youtube finally trying to get in on this action, though I suspect they will fail as they seem to be doing with other attempts to copy TikTok. Livestream retail really should've been Vine, but Twitter bought and killed it, almost mindlessly
Hi, I'm one of the authors.

"Unsafe" has a very specific meaning in our book -- it doesn't refer to security or to the fact to a feature is inherently bad.

It means that the cost/reward ratio of teaching a certain feature and using it in a large codebase to which multiple engineers contribute to tends to be negative.

There's nothing inherently bad about 'final', but it's easy to overuse it for no real benefit, and it can cause reusability issues in larger companies where inter-team refactorings cannot be done automatically. That's pretty much it. There are also some excellent use cases for 'final' described in the book, but they are very niche.

Hence the "unsafe" categorization, i.e. I wouldn't teach this feature to a new hire :)
AMD-Powered Frontier Supercomputer Breaks the Exascale Barrier
Go to McDonalds or order a club Sandwich at the Mariott. Those are your best bets on in Shenzhen.
I list it separate from luck because there's actually a lot of control we can exercise on our environments. A lot of people are very bad at this. Our default is often to cope rather than make a change. People get into bad situations mostly due to luck since you never have perfect information before saying yes to a new job, a new partner, a new city. But then once the bad situation is clear, people don't make a change because they have too much ego (this is who I am), fatalism (this is what I deserve), obligation (only I could do this), misplaced optimism (I can fix it), fear (it would only be worse), and adaptation (I'll get used to it).

Sometimes quiting a job is just as important for your career growth as accepting a job. Be a great quitter.
XMODEM is a terrible protocol.

I was needing a reliable protocol to move binary data out of an Arduino into my PC and researching XMODEM I found so many things wrong with it, particularly no sane way to specify the file length and a checksum scheme that is totally inadequate. The buffer size also is a bit big for a machine with tiny RAM.

I wound up rolling my own version of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Level_Data_Link_Control

with much smaller packets and a carefully chosen CRC which is adequate for the task. Retrospectively I was shocked that we accepted XMODEM back in the day.
> pasteurization

You mean pasturization. Pasteurization would also be unfortunate though.
> And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse.

If you mean political division within the US. There is a hyper polarization occurring where the far ends of both main parties are taking the reigns.

As someone that is opposed at a fundamental level to most state power, I'm OK with this development. You see more and more federalism occurring because of inaction or intractable disagreements with the federal government, from immigrant sanctuary and drug sanctuary on the left, to firearm sanctuary on the right.

There is a wide scale sorting process occurring where the red states will become more red, and the blue states will become more blue. If in that process, the federal government is neutered and people are able to choose governance with their feet, I view that as a net benefit to humanity.

There are arguments about what this means long term for security in the rest of the world, but I am less concerned with European and Pacific affairs than with our own. Additionally, I can't name a positive benefit to the US policy of foreign intervention over the past 20 years, whereas the negatives have an extremely long list.
The response to these types of articles always reminds me of that video about the purported ex-KGB agent talking about "demoralization"--even when shown "facts" in front of their very eyes, the demoralized are unwilling to believe.

An example of similar journalism--here's a cover story from the Madison, WI local paper "painting a picture" of the "troubled" life of a "local activist" after his arrest went semi-viral a few years ago: https://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/in-his-name/

For some reason, "empathy for the unfortunate" has turned into "a complete inability to prescribe moral judgements against anyone who meets a certain set of criteria".
> zssh

TIL:

* https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=zssh
Reinforced concrete is probably more durable than unfired clay.
If one envelope contains 4 times the money of the other envelope, then by swapping you either gain 3x or lose 3x, where x is the amount of money in the smaller envelope. Even in this case, the average return is +3x -3x = 0.
What about things you already have...like say health insurance. I went back for an MBA ~2009 while working a full time job. I was forced to pay an extra ~$300 per term for health care even though I already had it through my work. No way to opt out. When my tuition was ~$2,500/term...another $300 doesn't seem like that much except I was paying out of pocket so every dollar counted.
For heinous reasons that I won't get into, my team recently finished implementing YModem-over-BLE for our embedded project.
NLNet funds some of the most interesting and diverse projects, including some ideas that have massive potential like Femtostar [1] which is an open version of Starlink, and Precursor [2] which is device which now physically exists and is arguably the most secure personal computer ever designed in modern times.

I browse through their projects all the time when I’m looking for interesting, cutting edge work.

[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/FemtoStar/

[2] betrusted.io
"Yankee" is a term used in the south for a northerner.

It is usually not used a positive way.

Much the same, "redneck" is not meant in a positive way up north.

As with many insults, the group the insult is hurled at can own it, and take it up as a term of almost endearment.
What percent does Amazon charge authors on kindle book sales? And competing bookstores on Kindle device?
Medical issues
To understand Git's sourcecode I need to understand the theory and the problems of diffing so I am trying to solve the problems before looking up the hard fought answers to algorithmic problems.
That doesn't solve the login headaches, though, and in fact it makes them slightly more headachey as my browser of choice (Firefox) doesn't seem to play well with the AutoFill API on Android.
Would a faster computer improve outcomes for victims of natural disaster? How much is left undiscovered about weather?

Research spending is based on the potential for discovery. As a species we have studied weather since the beginning of time. How long have we been doing nuclear research? A century?

Is there even an opportunity cost here? Or is it an economy of scale? As we build more supercomputers the costs go down. So NOAA and ORNL both get what they need for less.
In the vast majority of countries it "complements" or "supplements" it. There are very few countries where private healthcare is allowed to replace public care. Israel, Slovenia, the Netherlands and few developing countries are the only cases.

There are other countries with a system between complementary and duplicate where private insurance may also pay for duplicate care, but you still aren't allowed to not subscribe to the public healthcare plan.

Duplicate healthcare insurance is deeply toxic and
let's blame the victim, right?
"SumatraPeter" is just a user with "Sumatra" in the name not the developer. The actual developer's comment is:

> For standard windows controls (like buttons or menus) Windows provides the necessary code to support accessibility features used by screen readers etc. Everything else (like PDF text rendered on screen) needs custom code. This code is not easy to write and there is a lot of other code that needs to be written.

Based on your first link it seems they started working on support as described and could use some help finishing it.