skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Didn’t mean to suggest they were trying to become social media, rather they were trying to capture the some of the short-form video screentime that’s mainly served by social media today. They advertised themselves as “quick bites” of video.

I’m sure their strategy could have been better and Covid certainly hurt them quite a bit. But in my view none of that matters because the concept was DOA.
I was in the same position. Always justifying delays to "I learned something new". Totally forgetting the goal: ship a product. Actually putting money at stake (instead of just time) finally shook me out of that.
The problem is that the operating system packages itself often depends on some version of a dependency. You can perfectly pip install something globally, but globally installing a library means everything else on your system is affected too.

There are solutions to this (pipenv being a popular one, though sadly often not explained to Python newcomers) and there are alternatives for that as well. You probably don't actually want to install a package like a package manager, most of the time you want to install an application and the specific requirements for that application, which is exactly what pipenv is for.

Your global package manager and your global Python package manager don't agree on what version is "the latest stable version" of a package so you just can't expect global package installs to work like that. It's like trying to make pacman, apt, and dnf work on the same file tree: you can probably get it done, but the end result will grow unstable or unusable within days.
This is one of the most short-sighted views on taxation I've ever read.

Tax enabled the infrastructure and social structure that made your income possible in the first place.

Tax is a fee that the government uses to invest in its country to stimulate economical ans social development. Paying tax will in the long term benefit your net. income.

Effectively, the 'poor person' is netting $80,- for their time.
The 'other guy' nets $90.000,- for their time. Those are the only figures that count, and they look very bad for the 'poor guy'.

Some people think they are 'better' persons because they pay more taxes.
I argue, they are persons who took home way more income: the tax is just a fee that they pay for being allowed to live and work in their country. The price for the opportunity that they received to earn $100k.

If you feel "better than others" because you pay more taxes, you are a very sad individualistic person.
Gas prices 1932 - 1971?
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion.
Interesting principle thanks
Thirdly, there's also drought related issues - here in Switzerland, a nuclear power station had to reduce its capacity because it could not take in enough water from the local river without endangering the fish stock therein.
There are some big graphs with lots of items that the article defines as cost of living
I like that thinking.. I am going to create my own history kinda like how the man who claimed to have conned everyone was lying about him conning everyone (and thus conning a different set of everyone :) )
I disagree that TCP are an evolution of pipes. Pipes are unidirectional and have 2 file descriptors, which is way less confusing than TCPs behaviour with respect to EOF, shutdown and write()/read() error behaviour.

A socket API that gave you two unidirectional fd's for a TCP socket would have been a massive improvement.
> Mills will no longer be a single-sex school at the undergraduate level. Several of its signature majors, including women’s studies, ethnic studies, art history and dance, have disappeared. This fall, in addition to about 325 Mills undergraduates, 533 Northeastern students are scheduled to spend a semester at Mills.

Very surprising that the women's studies major is disappearing from Mills!

Seems like this is largely about location — the option to do a semester at Mills will be a great opportunity for the internship-oriented university. They'll be able to establish partnerships with SF and Oakland-based companies, which will be great for students.
We got $1200. The people who didn’t work at all got $30k plus in unemployment.
> 30 years ago people would have said yes perhaps (American dream)

I can relate to that... in the 80s USA was the dream for us kids. But now... I'm so glad I don't live there. France is indeed extremely generous. I wish more french people would realize this.
We could imagine an infinity of possible theories that might explain why these Russian people reacted with fear at Gagarin's landing. But being possible doesn't mean something is correct, or even plausible.

Rather than space aliens, I find it far more compelling to consider that:

• Russia had been severely traumatized by WWII, less than a generation earlier. Tens of millions died in combat and of starvation.

• After WWII, Russia awas again severely traumatized by Stalinism and his political purges. For a decade, anyone who was even suspected of stepping out of line was oiable to get imprisoned or just executed.

• During the 1950s and early 1960s, the CIA was attempting to train Russian expatriates in the West to return to Russia as spies and organizers of underground resistance in the event WWIII broke out. The program was a complete disaster... The CIA trained and equipped dozens of young men, and then PARACHUTED them into Eastern Bloc countries,after which none of them were ever heard from, ever again. (It's assumed they were all immediately caught and executed.)

So in the early 1960s, when some dude in a parachute lands in your village, I think it's far less speculative to assume that they were afraid Yuri Gagarin might be a Western spy.

No need for space aliens... And no need to insult the intelligence of these Russians by lumping them in with ol' Karen up in Lethbridge, who was such a simple rube that we all laugh at her for calling the police on a Stormtrooper.

Honestly, I see why the "space aliens" narrative is appealing: It's funnier! It's hilarious to imagine old timey Russian villagers, hiding in fear of space invaders.

Unless anybody reading this happens to be Russian, in which case we'd be making up silly stories that mainly serve to depeict their parents or grandparents as a bunch of simple, stupid, gullible pigeons.

And I just don't see the point in that whole line of thinking, when we already have much more plausible theories, already.
Thing is, these externalities will hurt the people causing them. That turns the problem into a tragedy of the commons, rather than pure externalities. That gives some hope for a fix. Because tragedy of the commons has easier incentives than basic outside externalities.
Good point. Does the poor person have a choice not to eat? To not pay for health care? In your attempts at sarcasm you quite clearly indicate what's wrong in US society.
Someone in marketing would tell you that they aren't trying to convince people to buy things they don't need (that's an expensive way to pay for customers to abandon your product, generally) but that they are helping people understand that the problem they've had for a long time is solved by a product.
Thanks. What were the top items in each phase, I'm curious to know the details.

Also, did you find that those things were specifically effective, i.e. did 'Twitter' bring you material attention?

Sorry, don't mean to bother, just that I've worked with agencies as well and found them only somewhat effective.
Have you considered that your comment may have been downvoted because you come across unnecessarily hostile, not because of some absurd attack on your person? Similarly, any space is a good space to discuss and spread awareness on mental health — even if only one person finds an idea to help them, whatever their situation may be, it's already a massive positive.
This is very interesting!

I haven't used this feature, is it possible to twist this to find a time associated with a table state so that you can then query the table at that time (allowing you to answer a question like what was the value of X the last time Y was true)?
Cooling seems to be one of the first things to creak in hot weather. Our fridges at home were struggling, and some of the local supermarkets had fridges out.

Maybe that’s an obvious observation but I would have expected they had a little more operating range right at the point you need them.
> Bluetooth is said to borrow its name from [...] Early programmers adopted "Bluetooth" as a code name for their wireless tech [...]

Maybe the author should have at least glanced at Wikipedia to find out by whom this "is said" and who these "early programmers" are.
People seem to complain a lot about Bluetooth, yet I owned dozens of devices of all vintages and they all played nicely with each other, except for a cheapo pair of MPow earbuds off Amazon.

I even managed to transfer old school photos off my ancient 2003 NEC flip phone to my current Android phone even though the former uses Bluetooth 1.1 and the latter 5.1. I also fondly remember using Bluetooth in school to transfer ringtones and wallpapers to that phone from my Windows XP PC, or to and from other kids' phones and it always worked.

Maybe I was really lucky, but for all its apparent faults Bluetooth has always served me well and I personally can't really fault it for its intended purpose.

As former SDR developer who dived into Bluetooth firmware at some point, I can only attribute the connectivity issues some Bluetooth devices have to just poor firmware design with insuficient testing, or most commonly, bad antenna design with insufficient real world testing from the device manufacturer (experienced RF graybeard engineers are expensive $$$, and most HW companies are sweatshops who pay their engineers peanuts, so there's the main problem that leads to the infamous Bluetooth connectivity issues IMHO), and not to issues with Bluetooth tech itself, fact confirmed after lengthy discussions with our HW guru in the lab. From my experience Sony, Bose and Panasonic put great thought into antenna design while Samsung and LG can be pretty hit or miss. I have not looked into Apple's though, so I can't say, but from the rest of their HW design and the talent they usually have in the HW department, I can assume it's top notch as well.

The 2.4GHz spectrum is way more crowded today than it was in 1999 when the first Bluetooth version came out, so getting uninterrupted real-time audio streams reliably on it is hard, but not impossible.

One thing I can fault the Bluetooth SIG is that the spec is very complex and full of optional bits which could lead to many pitfalls for the uninitiated engineers and worse, gives developers too much freedom in implementation, meaning your widget might not play well with another widget because each took their allowed freedom in different directions, though Bluetooth chips from reputable manufacturers who know what they're doing, like CSR, TI, SiLabs and Nordic are nearly bulletproof in this regard, provided you also do a good job on your antenna design.
Oracle trying to not look evil.
Kids are like 80x or more likely to kill themselves than to be killed in a school shooting. It's not even close to the top of list of real issues affecting the country. It's just an easy one to get clicks and political favor that doesn't require us to do any real socio-cultural analysis - just ban guns!

I think active shooter training time would be better spent on counseling, therapy, PE, recess, or just literally letting kids fuck off and hang out with their friends for an hour.
"School shootings are mathematically irrelevant", what a take.
Depends. I use an IDE from Jetbrains, their "Local History" feature makes it fairly difficult to lose anything, even between changes on uncommitted files.
“Exogenous depression” is supposed to be experienced by about a fifth of people at one point or another. What if many persistent cases of depression were actually exogenous? That might be more interesting than parsing the difference between despair, hopelessness, anhedonia, and depression.
People lament their functional redundancy in society. Markus Persson Notch got depression after he became a billionaire. The workers lament their redundancy because they can be replaced and abandoned all the time.

People want to be needed, instead we have become isolated individuals that need no one in particular.
Note: MBNA Canada is owned by TD.com (one of the 5 major banks in Canada) and not the US MBNA.
In my estimation, it's likely that they've looked at the numbers and are essentially 'firing' FF customers b/c they don't drive enough rev.

CIBC (another bank here) has been doing this for at least 15 years by offering seemingly 'cheaper' banking services using the same systems but different brands (eg PC financial). The downmarket brand seems cheaper on the surface but they take away all the costly things the flagship brand gives away (eg in-person banking, no fee transactions, etc) and charge [more] for them.

Our telcos here do the same thing with MVNOs (eg Rogers, the flagship brand, owns Chatr, for poor ppl).
I’m a little confused. 40C is fairly common in India where I live. My air conditioning works fine here even in relatively high humidity. Is there something special about how a/c units work in the UK? Are they rated for lower ambient temperature or something?
Inflation is providing cover for price fixing: Economists
How am I able to run npm install/nvm install if I haven't already installed Node? I've seen way more machines that come with Python than I've seen machines that come with Node. You need to install and configure nvm, just like you need to install and configure Python.

The difference is that pip comes from a time when package managers were still universally global, while npm and friends only operate on directories by default.

If you want a systemless Python then you'll have to do it manually. I don't think it happens often enough for it to have a tool like nvm. Nothing prevents you from downloading the binaries, stuffing them into your user folder and setting up the right environment variables in your .profile, except for that it's a pain and probably not worth the effort.

Edit: apparently pyenv is a thing. I haven't ever needed it myself, but it seems to do everything nvm does and more.

If you just want to restrict package installs, versions, and configurations to a single project, virtual envs are the way to go.
Your OS loads a microcode update in to the CPU very early in the boot process, it's not a static firmware. Unless the microcode malware is sophisticated enough to block e.g. windows update, debian mirrors, then updating the system and rebooting to load a patched microcode would be sufficient to flush this out.
Oh, good thing it hasn't happened yet then, that means we can worry about it later while we focus on p r o f i t s.
I really like this. I think a change to the input questions could solve this — clearer, more specific questions like "What's changed?", "Is it worse/better?".
I can find articles saying there will be a surplus, and the shortage will continue, so not sure. I would agree that there will probably be a lot of unbalances in the supply before the situation settles.
30m2 is absolutely tiny though - that's 323 sqft.

I should hope they can 'kinda easily' rent that.

Remember that in the US most decent jobs (certainly any which would pay €60k in France) include health insurance so then universal healthcare isn't such a big benefit either.
The US could of course choose to be more like Europe in that regard. But you should know that Europe has the exact same challenges for the exact same reasons. People don't want to be nurses or harvest strawberries or do anything that is a combination of under-payed and hard. That work gets done by people willing to do the work. There are lots of seasonal workers from Eastern Europe that show up to do that work in e.g. Germany and the Netherlands, lots of foreign nurses and doctors as well. The UK decided that it did not want to be in Europe anymore and now it has a labor shortage. Because it literally closed the borders for that labor to enter the market that until recently was able to travel and work there.
Actually there is something worse than a deadend job. Having a job you are financially dependent on but where you aren't assigned any work so you must constantly come up with ways to look busy and productive.
My grandparents generation was motivated to work, but only because they were actually getting paid enough to buy homes and cars and college educations for multiple children outright.
I can answer this.

Ruby is my favourite language!

Am I a haiku
Ibm.com homepage history in screen shots
That reminds me of Douglas Adams’ fictional Anthem “spreadsheet”, that generated corporate anthems from business data… :)
You mistake the concept of money with the concept of wealth. Not the highscore-like number on your payslip is what matters - but what you can get with it. Just ask someone from Zimbabwe how they feel being a vingtiollaire [1].

So ... yes, technically, if you earn 37500 Euros post-tax, you are the 2%. And if you live in Laos, you're living the good life. In Paris, however, things will be hard.

[1] https://kagi.com/proxy/5653f337-ac74-470a-8651-231e5f3fee60....
Portable units have terrible efficiency. Unfortunately that is often the only option in apartments.
Is there any reason to use the hardware over the software?
I don't think there's anything I'd exchange for having to suffer more ads, but you do you.
Turbolinks is one of those things that seems revolutionary to begin with, until you need to start implementing hacks in your server in order to deal with edge cases.

Things I remember from the last time I had to deal with these libraries were redirects and hard-to-debug JavaScript issues due to so much JavaScript relying on document ready/onload events.
Well, yes and no.

Imagine the average software developer earns $140,000 but due to some historical oddity, a company needs to hire people who'll develop software while people occasionally spit on them. They actually had a team of people doing that, and getting paid an average of $130,000, but they laid them off during the pandemic. Now they're finding it impossible to hire.

In a sense this is a money issue, in that I'm certain they could hire software developers who'll let you spit on them for, say, $1,000,000 a year.

In a sense it's not a money issue, in that if they could just remove the requirement to be spat on they could probably rehire for only a modest increase in salary.
> Marrying somebody means inviting a third party, the State, in private affairs. Now, marriage can be convenient or recommended for religious and tax affairs, particular convictions, and for the protection of kids (then...).

I would think that marriage rates would drop rock bottom if the incentives are removed.
> people tend to connect more stuff to L1 on average.

I just plug into the wall socket and it works.

How could I choose to connect things to L2?
TCP connections also have 2 file descriptors, they are just on different computers. It seems quite natural to me to think of a socket as two pipes joined together.

As with so many things in computing the abstraction leaks a bit when you get deeper into it but as a first intuition for beginners I think you could do way worse than "a socket is a bidirectional pipe to another computer".

I'm intrigued by your idea of making 2 file descriptors for each socket btw. Why would it be such an improvement in your opinion?
GDPR compliance and all - we encrypt and delete stuff... or at the very least "lose" encryption keys 1st.
But .. how would that work ? What does "language-abstracted" means for something which is specifically about a language ?

E.g. moc in c++ looks for your classes with a Q_OBJECT macro to generate the matching reflection & metaobject data in a .cpp: how does that work in a language that doesn't have preprocessor macros, or maybe even classes, e.g. Scheme or some BASIC dialect ? In addition, moc is only necessary for languages that do not have proper reflection & code generation facilities - if they do, it's entirely unnecessary as the metaobject code can just be generated in-language as part of the bindings you're mentioning. E.g. consider the python Qt bindings: they don't need a moc. Same for D.
From TFA:

> Scores of people owned what was then called a home computer - those very special machines produced between the late 1970s and late 1990s aimed specifically at the consumer market: ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Atari, and, overlapping with the business side of things, PC:s and Macs. A lot of us used our machines for little more than playing video games, but even in doing so, many of us developed a very special relationship to our machine in particular and digital technology in general. I believe this relationship to be unique to this particular period in time and that it resulted in a very particular kind of computer user.

> We love naming generations and ascribing vices and virtues to them. Boomers. Millenials. Zoomers. I propose that in the overlap between Generation X and Millenials, there is a home computer generation.

I was born in the first 20% of the Millennial generation according to Wikipedia. We didn't always have cable and we didn't have a Nintendo until the late 90s but we always had a desktop PC. The first PC I remember using was a 486 that my parents bought from my uncle. He was running a little custom computer shop named after a Clapton album. My first PC memory is playing Pharaoh's Tomb with my Dad and wondering what the incantations on the post-it really meant. I remember how excited Mom was when we got our first computer with a whole encyclopedia on CD-ROM and a hard drive big enough to "hold a library". I got my own PC in the mid 90s. A no-name Pentium. It was a hand me down from Dad's coworker, he made me promise I'd learn something with it. That was my first experience with Linux. Mandrake as I recall. I wasn't old enough to drive. In high school I took a computer tech class, learned HTML, how to build PCs, helped wire the building for Ethernet, and then inherited the journalism lab for my junior and senior years. One of my first jobs was in a local computer shop. I worked for the IT desk at my college. After graduation I did onsite tech support for Dell before starting my career in data engineering. Which is a path that was suggested to me by one of my gaming buddies.
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The posting snippets of text as images, which then get zoomed and cropped despite taking up enough screen real estate to be legible in full, is a wonderful advancement of the shiternet.

In 1979 someone apparently wrote:

> nts to work

> - disgusted

Thanks tweet thread!!
Under GDPR the retention policy means the account has to be kept for whatever time stipulated by the law (10y), but then the data should not be retained any longer, hence deleted.
Yeah, downregulation is one of the last steps in desensitization.
I'm still annoyed that most bluetooth headphones haven't figured out how to provide stereo sound at the same time as using the microphone. There is definitely enough bandwidth in bluetooth 5
Quoting the Unabomber was a strange choice considering the main idea isn't unique to him and stands on its own merit:

"Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs."

Examining the social factors that contribute to pathology isn't controversial nor does it downplay the role of drugs in reducing harm.
If you're building your own vision, that's working too.