skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will power comes from the brain, too. We are lucky that wasn't the part that she needed to relearn.
A tiny smatters of Linux distro are smushing both /tmp and /var/tmp.

That one is never a good idea, not even in production servers nor embedded world.

/tmp gets emptied with each reboot.

/var/tmp is about surviving across reboot. But the app would run just fine if it were ever to be emptied.

# Alternatively

Some have said that /var/cache would be the more appropriate use over /var/tmp.

But /var/cache is used for daemon cold restart and reconstruction of internal structures after reboot, restart, reload, or worse, Ethernet cable disconnect under only systemd-networkd (daemon gets killed by systemd). Your prized networked daemon falls into this category.

/var/tmp is generally for session-specific (that are expected to survive across reboot) as opposed to daemon’s internal structure. ISC DHCP client is one.
Same thing for public transport in metro areas (great if you’re looking for a new place to live): https://www.mapnificent.net/
Yes, those are frontend developers, we all agree with that.

Should every frontend developer be reinventing date pickers from scratch just to demonstrate how good they are? I don't think so.

That's why I said 99%. Maybe there's an 1% or even less where it makes sense to reinvent it because you're Airbnb or Amazon or Google or you are in the date pickers business.

But yes, you are still a frontend developer if you don't do your own datepicker and focus on shipping your company product. And date pickers are built by frontend developers. What's your point?
Bald man here: I got clued in when I accidentally started A/B testing with a baseball cap.

It was strange, every so often I would have a day where people were noticeably warmer on average. They would laugh at my jokes, they would help carry a conversation, they would let me have the stage in a group discussion without pushing in -- it was amazing. This only happened every so often, and I chalked it up to luck and chance and some days just being better than others. On one of these good days, I was busy regaling my enraptured audience with a tale about a covey of quail we were raising when I got an itch on my head. I lifted my hat to scratch and a wave of revulsion washed over people's faces. Instantly, they lost interest, glanced away, and looked generally uncomfortable. Someone even coughed. I stumbled but kept going, however it was clear that the story was now unwelcome so I abortively wrapped it up. I made a few attempts to restart conversation but got the "good day" responses were gone, I got only the typical lukewarm responses. I went to the restroom to look for something on my head that might have caused the reaction, but it took me some time staring in the mirror and searching until I found the culprit.

Peoples' enthusiasm didn't return until the next day, when I ran the test again, this time intentionally, but with the same result. It was reproducible. "Good days" happened when I covered my thinning hairline. To be clear, these people included both men and women and they had known me for years. On a conscious level, they knew exactly what I looked like and that I was balding. On a subconscious level, though, they treated me very differently depending on whether or not they had recently seen my hairline at its worst. Once I started paying attention, I realized that this behavior was universal, and a bit of introspection revealed that the exact same instincts were active in my own mind.

Appearances matter! Incidentally, I've found that women tend to be much more understanding as they often have had similar A/B experiences with makeup, while men will often just chalk my observations up to confidence, reversing cause and effect.
I don't buy it. Dwayne Johnson one the highest-grossing and highest-paid actors of the 10s is bald. Along him you have a host of action actors that are bald. Top tv shows like Lost and Breaking Bad featured bald main characters. Just to name a few.
This is the strong argument against high speed rail in the USA.

We don't even have anything close to regional rail, and highspeed rail would consume all public capital that would be used to improve regional rail systems.
It might be intimidating for a second (it's got an accented vowel!), but the concept actually seems welcoming.

A lot of cooking is essentially variations on a theme. If you can make béchamel, you're now also only a step away from a bunch of other sauces (Mornay, Soubise, etc), simply by adding different ingredients. The technique for making béchamel is similar for espagnole and veloute, but with different liquids in the first step.

Extracting out this general principle is, for me, a thousand times more comprehensible than memorizing that (((butter + flour) + milk) + onions) -> soubise but (((butter + flour) + milk) + cheese) -> mornay.
> Cost of the train is $42 (coach) each way. Cost of gasoline would be ~ $24 each way.

The cost of driving is more than just the cost of gasoline.
Not your disc, not your game.
You only need to pay for the games (at full price because there's never a sale!) and your internet connection. You can play at 1080p for free. You need to subscribe to Stadia for 4k and some free games.

In the end, I agree with you, it's just not quite as bad as you painted it.
Since you seem knowledgable on the subject, do you know of any open source or cheap integrated circuit simulators and/or design tools?
Because being 100% data driven means that you're removing ideas and opportunities that exist outside your datasets.

It's not realistic to have a dataset large enough to cover all situations, especially not those areas and opportunities that you don't know exist. That's also way Googles 20% projects was such a good idea. It allowed to business to grow and develop in directions they couldn't possible predict.
It's pretty pathetic how the algorithms were supposed to be this passive thing that just worked and if used properly would be showing people what they want to see. But instead it was so obvious how it works that people became very aware of it and change their behaviour to not give any bad input into the algorithm.

I don't know how many years it's been now that I pop into an incognito window to watch a YouTube video of which I don't want similar videos suggested to be for the next 3 months. Tiktok is the same, where if you see something that doesn't interest you, you have to not only not like it, but also don't give it too much attention or that will be taken as a sign that more of that will keep you more engaged.
Right but that's partially technology and partially habits.

My wife literally has track of zero printed / film photographs she ever took. She's got zero clue where they might be. Not even "shoe box somewhere" :->

Whereas, I have all my photos of last 20 years (since I first took a digital shot) chronologically sorted in folders by year then event (e.g. "Photos/2022/HalifaxTrip2022") on my NAS. It's barely any effort to organize in that way (no fancy tagging or sorting, just year and event, or generic yearly photos /photos/2022/2022_Photos as catchall), yet Typically it takes me seconds to minutes to find some obscure photo somebody remembers or wants, and near instantly for big events like trips, birthdays etc.

It's all about how much one treasures those photos / how obsessive compulsive one is :-). There's certainly ways to manage digital photo libraries, whether manually like I do, or automagically like Apple or Google do.

(we also print albums through Costco of fun trips etc. Nothing about digital prevents that)

To be fair though, When it comes to discussion about cloud and gaming though, it's an utterly disingenuous comparison. I fully and permanently own and control my digital photos in an universal format and can switch and back them up from provider to provider seamlessly. This is empathically triply not the case for stadia games.
Or if you could click to "lock on" to a station and then zoom out
> TikTok is successful because it understands the power of video without the legacy mental model of television: longer videos punctuated by attention-breaking ads. YouTube is still firmly operating in this legacy model.

There's nothing legacy about long videos and it's not television that introduced them.
Not recognition with regard to fame, recognition with regard to your peers in the field.
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I use it as well, it is not 100% compatible, but all the main features that I need (basic things) works fine for me. If somebody stuck with vscode but wants vim key bindings I hightly recommend to try it.

What I noticed that people build "their own" IDE installing and configuring third party plugins and spend a lot of time to maintain this configuration. And there is no guarrantie it will be better then what is already supported in vsCode for example. So as an alternative one can go other way around and just install vim plugin.
No one would ever need that much RAM.
Alzheimer’s Controversy Reveals Pressures of Academia
How many game sales did stadia even have. If it’s less than 100m usd just issue full refunds for all game purchases.

Might sound crazy but the 100m would be more effective to the brand than spending 100m on marketing.
So would solving cancer, so why start at baldness ?
Are we materially further along on fusion than we were 10 years ago? I know we're making some strides with magnetic / vacuum sealing but I'm unclear on how much novel insight the research has surfaced, versus just iteratively improving our ability to physically prototype it.
These articles always seem so tacky to me. Perhaps my observations are rare but in 12 years of being in software engineering I can count on less than one hand the times when "special guides" like this would be necessary and usually it was at a company party.

I have however watched a switch from people not really caring about women at a company to deliberately avoiding except in cases where they can be complete observed. For example, it's not uncommon to only have a 1-1 with a woman in the open, or in direct observation of another person. It never used to be this way, and I feel like guides like this help to create this environment. I wouldn't call it animosity, but given that its even easier to be fired now for even apparent harassment, there's far more people unwilling to even try.

Much like everything else that likely had good intentions, drawing too much attention to differences is often just as negative. It rubs me the wrong way that for some reason our industry believes women need special instruction to "survive". Like, no matter how much so-called "progress" we make women will always be different and special in a way that makes them less capable (in this case, to navigate a culture safely). It seems demeaning.
> burden

The slow boot and shutdown times, and the interminable upgrades are almost inhuman.

It seems like you can upgrade Ubuntu to a new major version faster than Windows can install a month's worth of fixes.

Especially when the Windows updates are unannounced and suddenly it's going to take 30 minutes to leave your desk instead of 30 seconds.
HN hates crypto too much to realize the importance of self ownership and custody.
> (I'm unemployed, what's the rest of y'all's excuse?)

I'm in a meeting right now :-)
Since a bag ("sac") has no exit hole ("cul"), and so a "cul-de-sac" is a (I guess 2nd degree ?) way of saying "way with no exit".
Voice doesn't seem too well. It had no new features in a long while, and some essential features, like connecting to third party voice number, still require logging into old website... I use it daily but I worry that it will be gone any time.
I agree this is a facepalm, but not for the reasons you say.

It's embarrassing to generalize all users of quality camping / search and rescue gear as gun-nut psychotics. My wife pokes fun at my "shooter pants" all the time, but I bought them originally for the Urban SAR team I was on, and loved them enough to use them for camping, jogging, yard work, etc etc. Just high quality.

It's equally embarrassing to gatekeep against the guys who "likely don't train" because you are actually validating the "tactical nerd" stereotype they're referring to. You're just saying: "No, they aren't the ones the article refers to, WE are".
What looks like the main (?) reaction (from the graphic on https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-022-00999-w) :

R-C(=O)COO -- (CO2, "NH3", CN-, H2O) --> R-Hydantoin (?) --> aminated amino acid --> alfa-amino acids

where R = {H, CH3, CH2COO}.

(ps : Apologies to any chemists reading this...)
> You probably made your product very hilarious (and probably hard to sell) for the entirety of the Romance-speaking market...

Not quite the entirety of it: "magicul" means "magical" in Romanian.
> train connections from Czech Republic to southern Germany are missing all together.

This is a huge problem IMHO. You always have to use the route via Dresden/Prague - it was different in the past - Would be really great if there would be some Eurocity Nürnberg-Pilsen or Munich-Budweis.
Is that driven by preference or cost? In my own case, I moved to a smaller town (mostly) because it's a lot cheaper. Most of the denser areas I would prefer to live would be significantly more expensive than rural Appalachia.
Stadia has crossplay on several games now, though I absolutely agree their marketing has been an embarrassment.

All I could think during the entire pandemic was how Google should be showing off how easy it is to play games on Stadia. Lower the initial barrier to entry just a smidge and it could have been as simple as texting a link to your family groupchat and then you're all playing a game together in your browser. Even grandparents can figure out how to click a link in an email to open a webpage.
GIF is lossess iff the input has at most 256 different colors. That is the maximum color palette size and not sufficient for most cases.
You know this SUV, the Pajero? IIRC they changed its name for the chilean market, because there "pajero" is well established slang that translates roughly to "wanker", but with extra connotations of laziness and weakness.
I think it's fairly safe to say that most true data-driven companies sustain their innovation and business over the years. They have little incentive to take many risks and will hold their own throughout time.

That's to say that real innovation is being more data-inspired. Taking risks with what is known based on your intuition/opinion.

A timeless read on this topic is Clayton Christensen's "Innovators Dilemma".

I think the exact same phenomena applies to investing too. You can sustain your growth by making moves purely off data, but your big wins may come from being "data-inspired"

This blog somewhat covers these ideas in more detail: https://amplitude.com/blog/data-driven-data-informed-data-in...

The irony in this all is that nobody can tell the future and therefore what we know in the current moment is the best thing we've got. Even those with more experience, resources, and knowledge can be disrupted. That's the beauty of the world.
And that is why nobody should every uild anything critical on Google's services. Any of their products but search can evaporate in a second. Even Gmail and Google Docs/Drive/Apps/for Work/or whatever they call their office suite these days.
Suspect that the service saw poor growth or even shrinkage of users. Costs were fixed to rising and nobody provided an answer on how to address. So google cut it.
So much rain that the sky runs out of dust ...
It's not that you can't do it, its just low effort noise without a solution. Often times the downsides are apparent and the complaints don't add much without some discussion of alternatives.
Good on you for letting your kid be bored. Constant stimulation is not good for anyone, especially kids! These devices are creating an attention crisis with a lot of kids nowadays not able to focus and sit down for even a few minutes.
what are the odds of surviving a brain aneurysm
Yeah. The biggest difference I've noticed between our era and those in the recent past is that balding men now just shave their head instead of living with a bald spot. Big improvement IMO.
Off topic, but I just learned that the author of Watchmen (Alan moore) wrote some superman stories. The one I’m trying to track down right now is “for the man who has everything.” He described his writing process for it in detail in his great, short book on comic writing
Ouch? In todays economy that kind of title inflation can get you places. You might run everything you touch into the ground, but hey who cares?
No need for laws, all the digital game stores are going to migrate their users to game subscription services regardless. It's much more clear legally speaking that you walk away from a subscription service with nothing, and it lets platforms drop support for problematic content. Nobody wants to be responsible for your digital library.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that the criticisms here come from a place of actual concern rather than a cultural distaste for the kinds of people the author perceives as buying "tactical" stuff.
I had big hopes for Samsung’s QVO line but they’ve barely done anything with it. They’re often not much cheaper than EVO. And the 8TB drive is almost £200 more expensive than 20TB of spinning rust. I could get 30TB+ storage for the same money.
> Our results are consistent with younger people being generalist repeat consumers who do not often look for very novel music compared to what they know, but the music that they do know is relatively broad. Older listeners are specialist explorers, who look for a specific and potentially ossified set of music but are also constantly discovering and turning content over.

I'm not a data scientist but I find it very hard to look at all those charts, many with a very narrow y range, and come to such a black and white conclusion.

Sure, the researchers might be pressured to extract "actionable" categorisations in order to justify their salary, but since they released it to the public, you bet we're going to see hundreds of "young people are X, old people are Y" articles citing this study.

Why can't they say "a larger percentage of younger listeners (...)"? Argh, I guess that's why I grew to distrust the whole social and medical sciences fields.
Fascinating how clearly you can see this with the 5hr limit from Dusseldorf being pretty much exactly the French border from the Atlantic to Switzerland
I like to go camping and there is just so much "tactical", "military" and "survival" gear in the stores, it's incredible. Must sell like sliced bread. Different strokes for different folks.

> "Most of the stuff we wore and used in the military fucking sucked and broke all the time, so I'm not sure what that even means"

Right? The only "military" thing I would like to also have as a civilian are the Zeiss binoculars. They were old but still really nice (and are expensive, like most good optics). And the cookies from the MRE were quite nice, too. :D
Maybe I am misunderstanding some of the intent. But yes, a rail from NYC to Miami is far, but when you chunk it up, it makes sense. For a NYC-Miami, you could have stops in Philadelphia, DC/Baltimore, Richmond, Raleigh/Durham, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Orlando. It would really depend on the route. Like a NYC-Portland OR or Seattle, you can make some pretty good stops from NYC to Chicago, but once you get past Chicago, there probably is any really good population centers for stops there between Chicago and Portland/Seattle. So in some areas, those distances can be justified, but for sure we have some that can't be easily justified.
I'm not convinced high speed rail would ever work in the US due to how entrenched the car culture is, regardless of the terrain.

In Europe with we have spoke-and-hub railways - want to get into London? There's almost certainly a local station near you in the suburbs. Then jump on the Eurostar to Paris. Get to Paris, and then get a local line back out to wherever you want to go.

Right now, it would have to be airport like terminals, and a multi-decade (if not century long) plan to connect the city centres.

In the US, drive to the new high speed mainline station outside the city, where there would have to be as much parking as an airport, and then get the high speed line to the destination, and then... hire a car?

Building a mainline station in many US city centres for high speed lines isn't going to work right now. There are too few local lines going in, and nowhere to build super-sized car parks.
There's a lot of people taking this article seriously, but I'm pretty sure this is satire:

> So should we just abandon all technical terminology in computing? Maybe. Here’s an irreverent guide.
It would be a pity to lose the income from those 95% steam customers.
> If you absolutely could not write to /etc, then you would never be able to change your password.

Since we're talking about Linux, I would refrain from using absolute clauses like "never".

systemd-homed allows you to create "portable" user profiles which contain everything pertaining to a particular user, including his password. So user profiles (including your files, etc) can be moved between computers simply by rsync'ing that directory, or putting it on a network share.

`homectl passwd` (which changes a portable user's password) does not require writable /etc.

I think I've seen a few other solutions like that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-homed

https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
Favoring a Western lens or English language sources is racist, whether the word was used or not, insofar as it favors white people and the people white people care about. You might disagree with that definition, but it's not like the commenter above is the first person to use it that way.
What do you consider a "baseless rumor"? There's an anonymous source behind this one, and while we obviously don't know who the source is, I wouldn't consider that "baseless". Take it with a grain of salt, sure, but that's true for any rumor.

Also, you seem to be implying that you also have an anonymous source at Google (or are one yourself). Either way, the credibility of your comment isn't any better than that Twitter account, even if you think HN commenters are "higher caliber" than people on Twitter.
That's sort of already the case. Normal apps aren't really supposed to read it, the kernel hides the implementation, and get/set/etc is all system calls.

It's tooling created for security and forensics that tries to manually read it.
Sounded like they are about to become homeless. I'm less concerned with teenage gambling than I am with teenage starvation/death.
Seeing it from afar, basically just Libs of Tik Tok, it doesn't seem that fun. (Although I guess the point of that is to highlight extreme stuff.)
Oh ok, looks like this is called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucherer%E2%80%93Bergs_reactio... - mentioned in the abstract.
I hope someone working at YouTube see this. I was watching Shorts and it's infested with literal horse fucking videos from countless India spam channels. NSFW example: https://youtube.com/shorts/8Pd4s07vIq0?feature=share
We all have neglected the networks while claiming to have “the biggest rail network”. Well, now it’s the slowest, and probably the most underfunded.
The missing connection to South Germany don’t make sense though. Just take a train to Berlin and take DB anywhere.
Google could have side-stepped this by offering a Game Pass-style all-you-can-eat subscription service instead of full-price games. While I'll be bummed if one of those subscription services goes away, I won't feel as if something I own is being taken away from me.
Judith Durham, Australian singer and songwriter famous with The Seekers in the 1960s but active ever since, had a stroke.

Afterwards she could still sing but had lost the ability to write songs.