skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I wrote in my original post, I like site like Lunchclub.
Because it is a "single-player" experience where I don't need constantly be hyper-engaged, but can go in and say 'today I want to do x".
Which feels more natural to me.
Let's say I enter a lunchroom at work. There is Cathie from Accounting, Mark from Sales, and Marlene from IT. I can chose with whom I will eat lunch based on what I want to talk about that day. In opposite of yelling into the room / writing on the wall "Hey everyone, I want to talk about my a-ma-ze-ba-ll-s performance the other day" and then wait who replies / likes first to choose lunch.
The cost of keeping small non-perishable items around is zero. The cost of re-buying them is nonzero. The environmental cost of sending perfectly functional items to landfill and consuming energy to recreate them is definitely nonzero. (And the financial cost of disposal is also nonzero; it's just priced into your taxes.)

You also seem to have forgotten that there was a pandemic. I expect 99% of passport-owners went a full year without using it because there was nowhere to go. Earlier this year there was a couple of weeks where you couldn't expedite a passport request for any amount of money due to the backlog created by people who'd allowed their passports to lapse during the pandemic all trying to renew at once.

Which actually shows another problem with the "just buy it again, bro" plan: In addition to being wasteful, it's risky. There's no guarantee that you can just re-buy things, or do so expediently and for a reasonable price, or that you'll have the liquidity to do so. Shortages, buyouts, mass layoffs, inflation and price spikes are all things we've seen many examples of in the last few years.
My business card runs Linux
> and it's impossible, by design, in a public-key-crypto-based system.

I think anyone believing otherwise should spend a few months as front-line tech support dealing with forgotten passwords and then (perhaps) reconsider.
And as well, if the FaceID doesn't work & the PIN is prompted for, "Emergency" is available in the bottom left.
If your goal is to stop stealing from the poor to give to the rich, then yes, any inflation is bad. That might not be your goal. Your goal might be to continue stealing from the poor to give to the rich, in which case inflation is good.
1997 Was the Dawn of the Modern School Shooting
I guess you're probably thinking about someone like me - someone who got started in 90s, or perhaps even earlier.

I don't hate the competent developers at Microsoft (of course they exist, there have been source code leaks) - I just very strongly dislike the machine that is Microsoft. I don't think the machine has reformed.
The US is extremely lucky to have never had to put any of this into practice considering they've dropped live armed nukes by accident on mainland US of A several times .. and at least one should have detonated (but failed, by the narrowest margin) to detonate.

These are accidents in Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, etc - see "Broken Arrows".

#1 Lesson: If a nuclear weapon does detonate, don't immediately assume enemy action.
What good does endless surveillance do if you ignore the crime it sees? No one is going to be intimidated in good behavior by a bunch of cameras if they know nothing will come of what they see.
I can see it being optional.
The problem with state in objects is that in more complex systems you often need to change a bunch of related state at one time. When it's all bound up in individual objects that manage their own state this becomes very complicated.
Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
That's the opposite of what happened. You may want to double check this. :)

> people want to be outraged, but they don't want to pay for outrage

Some prominent Substacks have tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Glenn Greenwald is apparently clearing (after Substack's fees), something like $100k USD/month. Matt Taibbi has even more paying subscribers, so will make even more; Andrew Sullivan is close behind. Last year Substack announced they had over 1 million paying subscribers (generally around $5-10/month), and the top 10 newsletters were at that point generating over $20m in revenue/year (ie, averaging over 2m each).

As it turns out, a non-trivial amount of people are willing to pay for writing, whatever the reason is.
He is very clearly talking about this specific game. How you interpret the text you quoted as general is hard for me to understand.
> Where do you think it's going to go when you are dead?

Hopefully to someone else with a similar penchant for collecting junk.

> Waste is created at purchase, not at exit.

Waste only becomes such once it loses all potential for use.
Many, many nations allow 2nd trimester and late term abortions, though those are always extremely rare and often have complicating circumstances. I don't tend to respect people who use the fringe case to argue the mainstream point as I find it disingenuous.
Mad Max 2.
I don’t care about my /etc/shadow since my machine isn’t network accessible. I’m much more worried about:

- The login cookies I have for my email account, my bank or my GitHub account

- My password vault

- My ssh private keys - which could be used to mess with production systems or make changes to repositories on GitHub without my knowledge

All of this data is extremely small (handfuls of bytes) and could cause lots of harm.

Giving malicious javascript the power to exfiltrate any of these secrets would be a disaster.
> Tires are generally lasting 50k, 60k, even 85k miles.

I would not want to be in a car with a tire that lasts 85K miles.

Tires come in all kinds of compounds for different conditions but in general, the grippier the tire (i.e. better braking, better turning) the shorter the lifetime.

Race tires take this to the extreme, maximizing grip at all cost and they only last as little as a few hundred miles.

That would be silly for street use of course, but the general pattern stands. Less wear = less grip. I buy top performance street tires for maximum safety, the tradeoff being they'll last about 15k-25k miles depending on the car.

Other factors that have a big influence on tire life is car weight and acceleration. EVs are both very heavy and (most of them) fast accelerating. So tire life is bound to be less than on an otherwise similar ICE car.
Google and Amazon keep sending me emails, so I guess not so much slowing! GCP site of the house for the latest role, Engineer, SRE type.
McDonalds corporate actually employs chefs to develop new menu items, and a large part of the process is figuring out how to work within the constraints of being able to consistently reproduce a menu item at thousands of locations, sourcing the necessary ingredients via the McD supply chain. I'm sure it's an interesting problem and a chef working at a fine-dining restaurant may very well find it a nice change of pace compared to feeding a small number of rich, pretentious jerks.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic with these posts, or if you're just actually out of touch.
The upgrade-in-place plan is made more difficult the more distant from Ubuntu you get. Suse has a great ecosystem, but the transition costs would have been quite a bit higher.
My career has benefitted in many ways from writing even if not directly in terms if money. It’s not really my issue that I’m competing with others who want to directly monetize.
I am curious if there's any evidence ARM is fundamentally immune to this sort of exploit, or if we're just not looking hard enough yet?
Well the united states went from 1860-1900 with deflation and things were pretty good. The us went from wartorn backwoods country to world power, so it's not clear to me that deflation is necessarily "bad for countries". Re: conspiracies. There is also no conspiracy to make suvs more and more atrocious but the incentive and competitive structure made it so that entire classes of cars disappeared (e.g. station wagon) that's not an argument that the station wagon is inherently bad (the Toyota Prius V is a fantastic vehicle), it's just not what people chose because of mass action.

Countries chose inflation because it's less obvious way to tax people, and because screwing over labor makes you short term competitive in trade markets (they took er jerbs). Especially as other countries inflate. It's an easy choice to make.
RISC-V Linux on ESP32
That’s not true anymore in the recent iterations
My wording was probably a bit wrong but there is no concept in wifi of ownership so by owner I meant the person who set it up but not exclusively them, just that they would have it.
I don’t think the point of democracy is to be moralizing and shaming everyone
No one ever said there wasn't West-on-West subjugation. There's a rich history of that, too. But that is not what we historically consider to be the multi-hundred year era of colonization than killed untold millions and impacted the lives of almost every non-Western person on the planet.
Implementing the Delaunay Triangulation was my first task on my first programming job. Good memories. Spent way too much time over-engineering it against degenerate cases and floating point issues. And then in the end I think it never ended up in production.
I so often type "nevermind" instead of "never mind" that I created a shortcut on my computer that replaces the former with the latter. I have met many other people of my generation (early 40s) who also thought it was a single word. I think we were influenced by the popular Nirvana album, which used the single-word spelling.
> I hope you remember the option in BIOS called "Master Boot Record Protection".

Well you obviously don't remember it. This option was from the DOS era and would have done absolutely nothing for a protected mode OS like Windows since 9x much less NT.

> Precautions were taken, the worst case has been avoided and that's not an argument supporting not having any precautions.

The main precaution here is that operating systems stopped allowing unprivileged executables from writing to the boot sector. That's what made sector boot viruses disappear. That is my point, and anything else is élucubrations on your part. Sector boot viruses were most definitely not a common thing when SB appeared.

> Sure, as long as you can launch before the AV or perpetually keep it at bay without making noise.

What? Do you think the AV is going to let you write arbitrarily to the hard disk but apparently not do any other destructive/ malware action ? I don't know what type of operating system you are running, but most likely it will prevent writing to the boot sector to all unprivileged processes, AV or not. To overwrite the boot loader you literally would need to beat OS level security AND any potential AV, while for most malware payloads users worry bout you only need to beat the AV since the OS couldn't care less.
Yes you have https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28480214

I thought your alternative was "interacting with people around me," but now you're listing websites? Websites that link to NEWS articles?! That's just reading the news with extra steps.
> With a DSLR battry life is measured in months (I go on vacations and don't even bother bringing a charger) since the camera doesn't need to consume any power most of the time.

That's more than a bit optimistic. With things like lenses with IS, etc., it's quite easy to use a battery a day with a DSLR. My 5D4 would run down the charge on two batteries on heavy use days (like weddings, to be sure) but a full day walking around SF would need a charger.
I liked Suse before Novell acquired it. Is it still good?
uhm, rabbitMQ?

the problem is just Kafka being heavy?
Heh, I wish that had ever been the case for me. Sometimes it feels like WinDbg freezes every other command. Plus, getting it to reconnect to a kd after it freezes and I kill it was such an exercise in frustration that if the target machine were my own repro box instead of a stress break remote, I would have just hard-reset the machine or (if it were a VM) restored it from snapshot.
No. They are as academically rigorous but not nearly as good for networking or upward mobility
This is an exceptionally old document, referencing the 2013 launch expectation, but it contains a bunch of interesting information on the platform database and the communications segment. [1]

Apparently, they have to have accurate ranging to receive from JWST. The interesting portion:

"Ranging is required for JWST, using alternate ground stations in the southern and northern hemisphere. For LEO and L2 missions the accuracy of the ranging is dependent on the tracking of the spacecraft across the sky. For the JWSTs L2 orbit, 21 days of tracking equals about 15 minutes of tracking for a LEO spacecraft."

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080030196/downloads/20...
That's like AOL dailup territory right there.
NASA engineer seen using Framework laptop
Well, my wife's first book is 90k words, so, right around the size of those thrillers (it almost was going to be 120k+ words, but it started getting too tight to the time she had booked for an editor for her liking).

But you're still not wrong, in general (although 70 pages might be a bit on the low side, on average). At least her next project is going to be a novella for an anthology at around 30k words. But her next novel will probably be similar to her first. She's going to try to release 3-4 her first year, and a couple novellas, while working a full time job. Of course because of that she's not doing too much besides work, write, market, stress, and sleep right now.
Yes, it’s far too readable to be actual functional programming.
I thought I was pretty clear.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2022 Edition
Starbucks closes 16 stores LA, Seattle, others: 'challenging incidents'
Yes, actually. I’ve cut back several larger subscriptions that I had started during the pandemic. Either didn’t need them anymore or didn’t want them. some of the subs included shipt grocery delivery, talkspace, paramount’s streaming service, wasabi storage, some servers I trimmed down off DO, and a bunch of domains I didn’t use anymore. I have plans to do another round of spring cleaning. I realized my business account bleeds about $2k a year just on tiny bullshit. Death by a thousand cuts or something.
At a previous job, someone (with the permission to do so) installed this on a shared server, which led to one of the more ridiculous security incident tickets I saw there.
I have this in my `.zshrc` on my personal machine. I get a kick out of it:

```

function command_not_found_handler() { figlet "lol, $1" }

```

(I think the bash equivalent is `command_not_found_handle`).

This overrides the function that usually prints the `zsh: command not found: foo` message, and instead, mocks you, by printing "lol, foo" (but in big ol' figlet letters).

SL is in a similar, but admittedly much more elaborate, spirit.
The majority of calls today are “missed calls” in that I do not answer them. My iPhone allows me to automatically send anyone not in my contacts list directly to voicemail. I hear a lot fewer offers for car warranties this way.

As soon as I open my phone, I see a count of missed calls and I can check if any were real. I would not want my phone to make noises to try to attract attention until then.

Perhaps that feature is becoming less useful to people?
Not playing video games
Maybe Redpanda or Redis pub/sub?
I have no idea how I am able to type words on a computer keyboard. Its just something I somehow picked up with practice.
Tor books are all DRM free, and have been for a while. It's nice to be able to archive purchases. Also when using an ereader where artwork isn't always very accessible you can just open the zip file and look at it with a better image viewer. A particular bonus when artwork is really good, or if printing out a map will make reading more enjoyable etc
I have to say, I would laugh in a salespersons face if they told me the heated steering wheel was a subscription service.
I just finished Planet B which I quite enjoyed and I think is very approachable for casual Sci Fi readers.
I am still getting the mails too, but as a hirer myself, I can tell you the mails and LinkedIn job postings are the last thing to get turned off.

Right now probably isn't a great time to negotiate an impressive comp package with Big-G, Facebook, Oracle, SAP, or Netflix.
Audacious 4.2 Released
Your freemium plan can be devastating to your competitors and discourages potential new market entrants.

It is also the fastest way to build an ecosystem around your company’s products.

In some cases, the person who introduces your product to an organization isn’t the one who will make the decision to pay for it. Freemium lowers the barrier to adoption for the former.
Whatsapp and IG
That was just Pritzker's proposal for the state's portion of the elementary and secondary education general fund. There are other funds to account for, as well as the federal's contribution which are past proposal and have been enacted. Better source is to grab straight from Illinois.gov's site [1].

Look at: Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, Table I-A Operating and Capital (xls) - Cell J373 + Cell J438.

Total Elementary And Secondary Education = $27.7B.
Total Higher education = $4.7B.

So ~$32.5B for FY22.

[1] https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/budget/Pages/BudgetBooks.asp...
Seems likely. Decades ago I had a discussion with someone about working at STSI, and the draw for me was that I would be working in CL.
As much as I loathe MSFT and Windows, I'd jump at the chance to be a low-level C programmer again.
The actual point is that this is a classic social battle: One person is offended having to adjust to X and the other person is offended if they don't adjust. So how do we solve this, who is objectively right? Either you put maximum value on people's emotional welfare then you'll side with camp A or you side with least amount of energy expenditure then you go with camp B or various other partial camps exist as well which will all have their own social media campaigns to win the war. As you can probably tell, I consider this all a waste of energy so you can guess what camp I am in but I'm also in many partial camps that still respect people's names that they want to use. Lots of common sense should be factored in ("hey, what if Turkey decides to change their name every 5 years? Every 5min? Every 5 seconds? I still have to adjust?") Anyway, we can be pretty sure that whoever is talking about this issue on social media is already part of their battle camp and not going to make fair arguments. Kind of how you immediately went to an unfair position by implying that you'd call him a totally different name (=Bob), and how his position is supposedly that "we dont care about what people want"
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077029

(1.75 hours before this one; 36 points, 6 comments)

[Currently on frontpage]
Clearly you needed to be born a little earlier so you could instead have been influenced by the proper diction of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
SRE is software reverse engineer, correct?
I tried to search more regarding Rodete then found this[1]

> … was to get off of Ubuntu's more classic LTS release cycle, and move to the freely-rolling waters of Debian Unstable. An underpublicized but very real reason was that the Google Linux team had a number of Debian Developers on it, who reasonably wanted to be closer to their primary love and affiliation

:blink :blink

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/j4liv4/whats_going_...
Sorry, I don't get what how that's harder.

newData = f(oldData)

VS

newObject = oldObject.f()
at this point they'd need to pay me to get me into dealership so I wouldn't get that far
A Smoky Summer in Alaska
Good point. I'm going to start allocating tens of megabytes of random data all over my address space at the beginning of execution so that I too can gain this advantage :)
Is enabling the same as normalization? Surely normalization is acceptance into culture whereas even in dysfunctional organizations the individual actors all think that they're solving problems and not taking any shit.

The pity is often how the most qualified talent for resolving poor behaviour is so often subordinated into slopping out the pigsty. There needs to be a foundational next step.

Edit: since Fairchild we've been scared of merely assembling raw talent under a thin layer of management capabilities and from this is developed the pseudo matrix management system that e.g. Microsoft operates.
Yes. I've been using it for over a decade and it's still great. Like Fedora it's leading the charge in modernization (btrfs, /usr/etc, snapper, Yast, etc) and like Arch it has a big set of up-to-date packages, except they're in the main repo instead of an untrusted AUR.
Yeah the Atlantic has clearer writing.

The New Yorker has 'better' writing, but I can't stand it.
In the last day, a video came out in NYC also talking about this [0], AND our local nuclear power plant, during a system test, "accidentally" alerted everyone over loud speakers on beaches that something had gone wrong, which they later issued an emergency alert to correct. [1]

Three is a lot of nuclear-related warnings/drills for me to come across in one day. It is three more than I recall having seen in the last ten years combined.

[0] https://youtu.be/N-5d7V4Sbqk
[1] https://www.wmur.com/article/seabrook-power-plant-false-alar...
Show HN: Sun Clock: a 24hr clock that shows the position of the sun
Sun Clock is a 24-hour clock that displays the position of the sun, and sunrise, solar noon, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for your current location. It also shows the current position and phase of the moon, and its rising and setting times.
I'm pretty burned out too with my work (mostly web dev stuff). I've been meaning to get "AWS certified" or learn Kubernetes, but like you, it all seems so crazy to me. I used to love old school "linux administration", but this new wave of tech gives me no interest.

Curious how you get an offer such as this? I've thought about changing job roles, but I really suck at leet coding so I've never really bothered. I figured that as a 40 year old male, no one would hire me for a role unless I was already experienced. Is that not the case?
This is pretty good, was called PostWomen ;-)
All the cool kids statically link everything now anyways.
iOS 16 allows to look up a saved password.

https://images.macrumors.com/t/3REfPfn3TRhO5oOFqVsyqdR9qcI=/...
Site Reliability Engineer. Basically an extremely high-level sysadmin.
It's all IR. It's color-mapped over RGB, but the sensors are IR.
alias sl=ls

Watch productivity skyrocket
The joke was that there would be more memory to sift through.
You can take the cellular modem in my X1 out of my cold dead hands and not a moment before. Open laptop, connected - no matter where you are in the world.
I'm sorry, but on what basis, other than geographical location, are you differentiating between the colonization of Ireland and other British colonies?

> But that is not what we historically consider to be the multi-hundred year era of colonization than killed untold millions and impacted the lives of almost every non-Western person on the planet.

Ok. So again, I ask: what's the difference? There was a seizure of lands, systematic eradication of culture and language over the course of several hundred years, mass discrimination, and millions killed in conflicts and famine. What part of that makes it distinct from other instances of colonization?