skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This link below. Look at the statistics related to this question:

Thinking more generally, do you think abortion should generally be legal or generally illegal during each of the following stages of pregnancy.

Then compare those stats to this question:

With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?

A majority identify as pro-choice, but apparently do not believe that choice should extend past the 3 months of pregnancy.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
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The vaccines were heavily politicized and the politicizing of them was not coming from a place of legitimate concerns, clearly shown by the same groups embracing snake oil cures with the only info backing them making the vaccine studies look like the most thorough studies ever done in the history of humanity. There were No worries about side effects for the sketchy snake oil.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”: The story of NodeTiles
The Rise & Fall of The Ball Pit - Theme Park Crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uahX7iEl_fI
https://montaigne.io/ is my small project!

It's a third iteration of it.

For a few years I had following setup:
1. keep files in dropbox
2. sync them and publish automatically using montaigne.io

Now I switched and instead of Dropbox I use Apple Notes. Because it's easier to write, and mobile UI is better and it supports tables and images out of the box.
My intent here is to not be hostile or seem dismissive, but rather attempt to show you what your responses appear like to your customer base.

An answer of “The best explanation we have right now is that you incorrectly applied the update” does not inspire confidence.
RAF Cranwell 'halts flights' as tarmac melts in UK heatwave
None of the RER tunnels are shared/repurposed?
I've been blogging a while now (~18 years), I find it worth it from a couple of perspectives.

1) Writing forces me to think through things clearly and when doing things like walkthoughs I often find things where my understanding wasn't quite right, so it helps there.

2) I often return to things I wrote a while back where I can't remember the details of a specific topic.

3) I appreciate when other people take the time to explain things, nothing like finding a good blog post when you're researching a topic, so this is my part of helping out.

4) Getting the odd message from someone saying they appreciate something I've written about is nice :)

5) It's helped my career. I now work in a field where I'm paid at least partly to write (security advocacy), and I've had companies approach me to talk about jobs based on them having read something I wrote.

In terms of the tech. I use, I keep it super simple. Jekyll and GitHub pages, so there's no server maintenance, just write markdown and publish.
Yes, welcome to mid-career. You realize that you aren't paid to program, you're paid to solve business problems. Those are best solved ASAP, where code is tool (which you see as a scalpel, they see as a blunt object), you are a laborer (not an artisan), and ultimately answer to bean counters.

I survive by trying to get the highest pay possible, giving just over the minimum so as not to appear lazy, and playing musical (job) chairs until I find a company with good/bad tradeoffs that don't irk me.

If it didn't pay "retire-early" money, I would be doing something else.
Curious that that coincides with three generations. “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.”
It sounds like we agree on everything here, but I’m not sure what you are saying is a “completely unrelated issue”.
Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres
I actually feel pretty good about it.

All the faceless individuals who are involved in moving parcels probably have to throw them around constantly, stacking them, lifting them, moving them, taking them off, putting them on different pallets, trucks.

With no idea what's inside them, they probably don't care so much about being gentle. Or they might think "It must be well packed, people would know better".

Yet suddenly? The box has "fragile" written on it, indirectly, and people care. People take the time, they make the effort, and they genuinely try not to smash your (presumably new) TV.
Issues of standards are not really depending on funding but on organisation and leadership.

The issue mentioned above, and many others that have made the news, are down to the Met police management and leadership, which is not supposed to be political. The Mayor is effectively the Police and Crime Commisioner so he has a direct involvement, and again is currently Labour if we want to assign political 'blame'.

My point is that immediately blaming the Tories for everything and anyhting because "that's what you get when you vote Tory" is a knee jerk reaction.
A PC in your pocket: Librem 5, a Free Software phone
My main pet peeve with Monzo is that it is App only which can be quite inconvenient. I wish they also offered a webpage. I hope you will consider that with Bigpay too.

DBS ain't too bad imho
Highly recommend watching this as it was a great presentation. Thank you for posting this
AMD does use the same node as the Apple now. But that will most likely change with the M2 pro or M3 at the latest.
Most EU countries have something like this (iDEAL, Bancontact, Swish). Works great but breaks down when you need to do a cross-border payment (e.g. you are German and want to order from a Dutch shop).
To use entirely different terminology, I think people are just way more laissez-faire about software issues these days. Realistically, most software runs as a service now, and people are generally I think more happy to be more pragmatic rather than idealistic. I think GNU was generally aligned to the mainstream 'tech hacker' outlook in 2002, but it isn't in 2022.
> Also, you can call the place in advance and just come to pick it up, no wait time

Two way drive time, plus, depending on parenting situation, possibly needing to pile kids in and out and both ends, is not negligible time.

> I understand that time is important but as some point you still have to go through life.

Yes, and personally prepping every meal, or picking it up, is not the experience of life everyone wants to focus on. There's time to prep meals with the kids, or while they are home doing something else. There's time to pick something up for them. And there's time to schedule a pizza delivery that arrives about the same time as the babysitter. And lots of other things, that are sometimes right for some people.

> Making a pizza with your kids can also be quite a nice experience

Sure. But it is not necessarily the right choice every time you or they want to eat pizza.

> better than putting them in front of candy crush while you do unpaid extra hours for mega_corp_of_the_day

That's hardly the only reason to order pizza; holy false dichotomy, Batman.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/third-party-ideas.en.html

"The Free Software Movement does not endorse Libertarianism".
Maybe it is but maybe not.

With physical SIM mailing to a physical there is at least some kind of verification to ensure that you are the one who owns it.

With digital only there is more chance of fraud. And I don't even mean it when the phone number is used to confirm identity for a bank and other institutions. That can be dealt with. The fact of someone stealing your number is enough to cause a lot of damage in some cases.
this a great inside, thanks for sharing
Right, because there isn't a minimum wage in a lot of those places. I found out that the lady who took out the trash in my office made about $2 per hour when I lived in Singapore (one of the most expensive cities in the world).
It's all about tradeoffs isn't it. Can't have diverse, extensible, open ecosystem like x86 and get every ounce of performance and power efficiency - something's gotta give. But the good news is you can get pretty close with great Engineering and competition keeps that up. Maybe one of the many x86 vendors will build such a system - Lenovo and Microsoft are working with AMD on their new custom designed Thinkpad Z series lineup and I hear good things about it.
Why would anyone pay you to research something that isn’t useful to them?
I had tried to use Guix on one of my personal computers (instead of my usual, Arch Linux), but unfortunately since my knowledge of Guile Scheme was lacking, I had difficulties.

My pain points were essentially:

- The documentation was great from a reference standpoint, but unfortunately it was rough from an introductory point-of-view. I had great difficulty successfully setting up my own packages.

- Some tooling (such as asdf-vm[0]) didn't work, and it wasn't clear as to why. Note that this was something that I expected and was ready to work around as needed

- While I understand and agree with most of the GNU mantra of free software, it was simply difficult and unwieldy to use my laptop since it required non-free software (including but not limited to WiFi drivers). There is a "nonguix" package repo which can fill this need, but many of their support channels/forums prohibit discussion of non-free software.

Going forward, I really like the idea of Guix. I think if I were to try it again, I'd use it as a package manager on an Arch System, and get comfortable with the more advanced administration tasks before I installed the standalone OS again.

[0] - https://asdf-vm.com/
In the UK, most offices, shops, cars, and (intercity) public transport already have AC but it just doesn't get hot enough for long enough to justify installing it most homes.

Portable AC units are relatively new to the market, but I can see them becoming more popular in the coming years.
Meanwhile, in the USA, Western Union used their telegraph network to build out a system of synchronized clocks. A long pulse on the line at the top of the hour engaged a solenoid in the clock that pulled the minute hand back to :00.

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/25/100-year-old-atomic-clock/

And, since this is HN, it's worth mentioning that this was a subscription service.
You might want to read the entire thread before commenting. The argument here started with a statement that under the Shah there were problems for regular people. And someone posted in return a video implying it was like paradise. I stated it is obviously much worse under the current regime but pointed that OP was correct that there were major problems under the Shah as well. Not sure why that is so controversial.
For the curious, I took a fairly detailed look at GnuCash for business accounting a while back: https://lwn.net/Articles/731126/
I'd wager that more jobs are pointless than we might initially think. And that most of the profit is made by people who don't positively impact anyone.
I don't recognize the contest name although I did math contests a long time (over ten years) ago.

Why aren't AMC/AIME/USAMO/IMO mentioned?
Only superficially. Adams is a standard "I want my kids to have the opportunities I never had". The other one is, well, there's a whole lot of other responses that go more into what the other one is.
Yes, a lot of people (including myself) like to be skeptical of extreme claims.

Environmentalists making sensational claims from single studies tends to be counterproductive because if they are found to be wrong, they are used as ammo by climate skeptics. If they are right, then they will be backed up by other studies; so it is better to wait until certain before publishing things like "all but gone."

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They didn't claim it reduced damages to 0, but down 70-80% from before.

You should tell Samsung to print "Nuclear bomb" on their boxes...
This is true, I am not there to be subject to the OPs high-volume concert in the middle of a forest, and I suspect it’s ideal for both of us that I am not, in that the major problem/damage to his speakers may not originate with a firmware update if I were.
D'oh!

Yeah, there was a mark on the screen but everything was fine.
If you're lucky your carrier has a self-service portal/app that allows you to get a new e-sim, otherwise you're out of luck. On iOS devices your esim can be transferred between devices on the same icloud account, but there might be some deauthorization step that can't be done if your phone is smashed.
What kind of analysis do you need for it?

Were people stopped from going outside when they saw fit? Yes.

Were people forced to wear articles of clothing (masks) that they might not have wanted to? Yes.

Were people forced to take vaccines even if they didn't want to? Yes.

These factors are absolutely against the freedoms and rights we enjoy in a modern society. No amount of mental gymnastics and redefining of words is going to change that. The question is whether it was justified.
It makes no sense that they are still limiting this to one external display. That’s the dealbreaker for me. My GF needs a new laptop and I was hoping this would be it. But it’ll have to be the 14in.
If you write a list of philosophical ideas that are relevant to you that mentions libertarianism more than other philosophies, and you find that you have to explicitly say you don't endorse libertarianism, then that's a good indication that many people see you as a libertarian.
God it gets tiring - Did I say booting Linux on M1 was a herculean task? I even used the words daily driver - making that a daily driver is definitely a herculean task - it is still not there - the GPU driver piece is pretty herculean by itself.
I found that TikTok provides better content since YouTube has become so saturated with 10+ minute videos where the first half is literally paraphrasing some other source. As an example, I recently been looking at trucks and found better, more personal content from creators on TikTok that I actually care about (like experience, driving, interesting angles). It's similar to when I search for something and add "reddit" at the end, I want to see real people say real reviews, not some blog articles where every link is a referral link.
No, ball pits are ubiquitous at most indoor play parks here too, the author is extrapolating their disappearance from fast food restaurants, and correlating it to the 90s rumor mill. These rumors were definitely a thing, but more than just ball pits have been removed; most McDonald’s locations have had their entire PlayPlaces removed, due to the fact that people don’t sit down in fast food restaurants anymore, and also a general race to the bottom in terms of economics to remain competitive.
Yep, in many many cases it's more important to have all the clocks be the same than it is for them to all be correct - it's just with the rise of radio clock signals and NTP it's easiest to make them all be the same by making them all correct.
> I wish there was a way to do it. I agree that the educational value is simply off the charts, but even low-level competitions are way too hard if you won't train, and most kids understandably won't.

It does require a different approach for most kids. An effective approach would involve some or all of the following components:

- interactivity
- visual imagery
- gamification
- social problem solving
- customized problem set

Technology will probably need to play a major role since teachers cannot do all of these for a large group of students.
> "prison city"

Perhaps they meant "closed towns" which have existed even in the late 80s.
Their deposits API ain't too bad. You can create bank accounts, get your transactions etc.
How would you attack it? It’s hosted on GitHub with ssl encryption and any changes would require someone to merge malicious code that would be obvious to any maintainer of the project. Everything is hackable to someone motivated and well funded but github should be pretty dang tough to penetrate.
Now we are fucked? Now?

The people scolding the masses for using plastic bags at the grocery store are still riding in private jets. For media events and fancy dinners. Jaunting around the world in planes fueled by dinosaur juice, financed by human suffering. But this is nothing new. Dinosaur juice just means that no humans are having to row inside the plane. That and physics, but if it weren’t for the physics, Amazon warehouses would look like damn good employment compared to the flying contraptions of the elites.

We have been fucked for a long time. Generations upon generations. The environment is a symptom. This is a systemic issue.

Nothing can be done? Well, you’re dumping a meme on the internet claiming that all is lost. That’s doing something. Harmful. Could spend the same effort to point the finger at those most to blame. Yes, one finger. One finger can open many eyes. Shoot, maybe you hate my idea, find it frivolous, and thought of a better one. Fantastic! I don’t care. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I won’t be offended if you do something more productive. That’s the point. Do anything but roll over.

What if people decided it was about more than the environment of Earth? Do you want this species shitting on Mars next? Earth may burn in a fire but the disease can still spread. We only have one Mars, too. And plans are already being made on how to carve it up.

Or what if the powers that be found eco-friendly ways to drain the livelihood of the rest of humanity, should we celebrate that the planet is saved? At least hell could be lush and vibrant?

Again, the environment is just a symptom. As is your attitude. The real problem is not being addressed. So neither are the symptoms.

“Look at this internet warrior typing angry things.”

Sure, why not. The plankton isn’t dead yet so I might as well.
Ecological footprint is where BPs spinoff/appropriation comes from.
Data-centric IDE screams like Excel!
> I noticed that Rubles are mentioned multiple times in the article, perhaps the author is Russian.

It looks like the article is available in both Russian and English (language selector in the top right).
Your argument is oddly one-sided and does not include any of the issues with the Shah. At least try to look at it objectively. I understand you hate the current regime, we all do, but it seems you are unable to view history correctly because of it.
What spaces are anonymous?
Far as I know Ryzen 6000 chips use 6nm node - 7000 series will use the 5nm node and they are not out yet?
I've noticed this too compared to when I was younger there's a lot more mental games in playgrounds, replacing the physical, more "risky" activities.

I guess it's easier for schools/cities to eliminate any possible risk of getting sued at the expense of childhood development.
> One of the few things Trump did correctly was the early pandemic handling while the cries of "stop travel from China" was called racist and unnecessary.

Except it was because by that time the horse was long out of the barn and the China ban failed spectacularly. cases were already here and also coming in from Europe. If it didn’t fail why did we get a Covid pandemic?

At that point what was needed was massive testing rather than the denialism the trump admin presented. And they failed massively at testing and public education.
Agreed, I think the market is ripe for a nice affordable portable one. Doesn't even need to be energy efficient either considering it will only be run for about 20 days a year.
Same boat here. Sadly, I feel like most ppl on tech are very cynical/depressed. It's often unhealthy imo. I try to avoid comments on tech sites
> If you start taking pride in the state updates, the endless meetings and approach that part of your work with the same pride you would approach coding then you may find some of the stress disappears as instead of always fighting the system you flourish within it.

Taking pride in useless make-work turns you into another useless make-worker, making life suck more for anyone who is still actually trying to get anything done.

It’s good advice if you want to suck the soul out of everything you do and become a cog that works 20% of the time, producing less than 20% of what you’re capable of, but getting along really well with management drones holding endless meetings.

Responsibility for actually shipping something will shift to the next guy who hasn’t yet embraced the futility of trying to get anything done.

He’ll be the one blamed for not shipping and for not being a source of joy in the endless meetings.
Whatever the living wage is for that area.
Business would be happy with literal slaves. Thus, their opinion should never matter.
Here's one from 2022:
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2...
Ah yes. You are right! It does use 6nm.
I work on a web/app-based personal finance tool, and just to clarify a few things regarding data aggregators (third parties that aggregate your financial data into personal finance apps like Plaid, MX, Finicity, etc).

There tends to be two main ways these aggregators interface with banks. The first is via screen-scraping or reverse-engineering internal APIs. The second is via direct integration (ie Oauth-type connections). Understandably, a lot of the HN-crew is skeptical of "handing over" their credentials to third parties, but for Oauth integrations, it's worth noting that:

- you're redirected to the bank to enter your credentials (ie the third party never gets a chance to see them)

- often, you get to choose which permissions to allow (ie read vs write, read only, which accounts)

- the banks have signed off on the integration

So even if you decide you're not comfortable with the screen-scrapes / internal APIs because you don't trust the aggregators, worth considering the direct ones.
Exactly my point. Research is not being funded, because money is not interested in science.
Apologies for improperly excerpting your quote, if that was the determinate clause!

...but it does not look like they do those things either.

You'd have to ignore all of the reasons it makes no sense for Apple to make decisions like that, in order to believe or even wonder about such a thing.

If you had said "I wish Apple would work with Asahi to make their distro a full-fledged citizen on Apple's desirable hardware." ... then I would have upvoted your comment and moved on.

Instead I saw you describing a hostile and active thwarting scenario, which is unfounded and nonsensical.

I won't even address your "thoughtless hardware design and resolve not to help anyone else", except to say that ... you're doing it again, and you're still wrong.
Rambling warning.

I think there is a lot of overlap in what you're saying and what the article is saying. In both cases, coffee is a means to an end. In contrast, at the beginning of the article, the coffee was the end for the author, not the means. Getting a perfect cup of coffee was the goal, not because it produced gratitude, mindfulness, and existential affirmation, but just as a goal unto itself. This is apparent in the author's realization that the time and money he was spending on coffee wasn't worth it. It was, of course, worth it for the goal of getting the best coffee money can buy, but that isn't actually a meaningful goal.

Your goal is also clearly not to find the best coffee money can buy. Yours is more like experiencing a simple honest pleasure, and fine coffee helps you do that. I don't think that in any way contradicts the author's realization that for them, bonding is the goal, and cheap coffee helps them do that.

I think in many ways the conclusion is the same... don't make things an end unto themselves. Optimizing a thing is a great goal in terms of being specific, measurable, attainable, and all the other things people tell us our goals should be... but if it doesn't actually mean anything, then it doesn't matter if you optimize it. Don't lose sight of what's actually meaningful because you're optimizing some clear metric.

I don't know if I'm making any sense, but I'm really glad you shared this because I think it's a great alternate perspective that still echoes with the same underlying meaning.