skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They had a similar plan to blow a second Panama Canal through the Darien Gap with nuclear bombs. Just batshit crazy stuff.
People don’t have the attention span to watch anything over 30 seconds anymore
The sad part is that most VCs would totally fall for these ideas.
As I grew older, there are certain things I have learned to enjoy more, such as slowness, inaction, loneliness, boredom.

Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there's more: It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as rather good. That limits the number of "meh" moments drastically.
Beware though that setting the ground floor of your emotions lower doesn't mean it lowers down the average "feeling of happiness" in your
life.

The thing I reject the most today is the constant pressure for action, movement and performance.
I used to love them though but now, nearing 40, I see them a way to escape rather than embrace what life has to offer.
I have a set of Montana plug cutters, also designed for hand drill use: https://www.montanabrandtools.com/collections/plug-cutters/p...

A fun game to play, when cutting plugs in bulk, is to see how many you can cut before one breaks off and jams up the cutter. This is a bad thing because you have to break your flow and spend a non zero amount of time chipping the jammed plug out of the mechanism.

I can do at least five before it goes wrong and I have to stop and get out a chisel to clear the jaws. Oh, for a drill press!
“Co-working space for cats doing startups”

> Scratch

> The PURR-fect Place to Meowtivate Your Business

> The concept of a co-working space for cats doing startups is one that has been gaining popularity in recent years. The idea behind it is simple: provide a place where entrepreneurial felines can come together to work on their businesses, share ideas and resources, and receive support from like-minded individuals. Such spaces typically offer a variety of amenities and services designed to cater to the needs of feline entrepreneurs, including comfortable places to sleep, plenty of toys and play areas,

https://www.deck.rocks/display?job_id=3612&hash=734430274305...

I’m disappointed it’s not using Dall-e to create matching imagery…
This is so exaggerated as to be silly. The cost of "things" has many components, and only a small fraction of them trace back to the hourly wage of low-paid domestic workers. Increasing low-end wages by 10% does not result in 10% additional inflation.
Tweeting would become absolutely illegal. “Thinking about moving to Dubai. Apartment secured.”
Previously posted:

Use Turbo Modula-2 Instead of Turbo Pascal Under CP/M? (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704733 [2018, 21 comments]

Also interesting:

Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956128 [2021, 115 comments]
>It seems rather that you don't know what kubernetes is.

The company, for which I helped migrating to k8s, pays me 6 figures to keep maintaining it, thinks otherwise (also look at my username ;) ). All of our developers love it because it replaced some weird hacked together deployment stuff.

Which part do you think he is right or wrong?

It just seems that in every thread people moan about k8s. But it seems that it's usually people who are overwhelmed by it, which is a legitimate reason not to use it. But just saying that it's generally bad is what starting to annoy me a bit.
Just for fun, here's the Modula-2 example converted into OCaml in a few minutes of effort:

let size = 8191
let flags = Array.make size false
let prime = ref 0
let k = ref 0
let count = ref 0

let () =
print_endline "Type Return";
ignore (input_char stdin);
print_endline "10 iterations";
for iter = 1 to 10 do
count := 0;
for i = 0 to size - 1 do flags.(i) <- true done;
for i = 0 to size - 1 do
if flags.(i) then
prime := i + i + 3;
k := i + !prime;
while !k < size do
flags.(!k) <- false;
k := !k + !prime;
done;
incr count;
done;
done;
Printf.printf "%d primes\n%!" !count

If one didn't look closely it could easily be mistaken for Pascal/Modula-2. OCaml lifts a lot of imperative constructs directly from that lineage while adding its own FP flavour i.e. immutability by default meaning that mutable values must be ref or array values.

Another aspect that OCaml lifts pretty directly from Modula-2 is the engineering of its separate compilation via its module system. By comparing the compiled interface files, a build system like dune or ReScript can figure out the least amount of recompilation needed to build a project from a dirty state.
HN won't let me reply to your subsequent comment, but 83% of the US population lives in urban areas - I'd be willing to bet in most of those, the closest school being anything like a 4 hour walk from home is very much an anomaly.
FWIW, my partner grew up in rural Japan where her school would have been pretty close to a 4 hour walk away, so she took the only realistic option available: bicycle.
An ad that locked the browser on my iPhone telling me I won various prizes lowered my trust of Vox as well.
This saw is indeed awesome. I picked up a Festool Kapex for $900 just before finding out about these; it’s not even close.
> while it was tedious to develop, mostly because I cannot run docker on my work PC

Have a look at tilt.dev You can get it to build in-cluster too so you only need the CLI. I've really enjoyed its workflow.

Or try podman-remote. Should be easier to get those CLI tools on your work PC.
The goalposts are “good working conditions”. You can track this with retention, which is notably terrible at Amazon.
>Historic raises in the minimum wage did not cause an inflationary response in goods nor currency.

The "historic raises in the minimum wage" were also very conservative and decried by proponents of $15/$20/whatever minimum wage as being too low. A one time pay bump won't cause serious issues, but giving in to ever increasing demands for minimum wage (ie. $15 last year, $20 this year, $25 the year after) will.
Do you honestly believe that Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, who just shot himself into space on a private rocket, is worried about his personal safety because of the president of the teamsters?
Ask HN: Why not add salt to lakes and swimming pools to reduce drownings?
Would this be feasible?
The world, is full of goodness, hope, progress and humour. But, you need to accept that in between all the media (news) that focuses on the negative, and bad noise.
Look at a parent playing with a kid, look at a kitten, look at a doctor, look at a teacher. Saving, creating, improving lives, in spite of the negativity of the 'press'.
Thank you for clearing up my cognitive dissonance. I mean, how many people had jobs programming RPGs? How many people possibly played role playing games on AS/400?
God, yeah. It's very difficult for me to look at retro game hardware design decisions without obsessing over "what if?" scenarios.

My favorite (and by that I mean, "most agonizing") what-if's concern the Genesis/Megadrive.

I don't have handy links, but:

- There was some sort of hardware fail that prevented clear sample playback. The sound chip could play back crystal clear samples but in reality, this was impossible to achieve thanks to some issue (DMA? bus? something?) and in reality, sampled sounds on the Genesis sounded like butt

- The Genesis' limited color palette and number of onscreen colors relative to the SNES and even the TG16 was kind of painful. I remember reading that one reason for this limitation was the need to include backwards compatibility with the SMS in the Genesis' video chip -- a feature few if any cared about or used. Arrrrgh.

A Genesis with color to rival the SNES/TG16 would have been such a fearsome beast.
Hmmm. Just got home. While driving I noticed several bad drivers. I immediately assumed they were holding their cell phone in one hand and looking at it. I was right. Then I thought of making bumper stickers: "Do you hold your spouse's hand as much as you hold your phone while driving?!?" Then I reached over and held my wife's hand.
Could it not also be that unions are having a hard time gaining traction because Amazon is taking illegal anti-union measures in their warehouses? The NLRB gave merit to complaints of illegal activities like threatening workers who were voting to unionize: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdejj/amazon-repeatedly-vio...
I played with Kaboom a while back and found it fun. I was disappointed, however, to see that the little song that used to be on the front page of the website is gone. Kaboom devs if you see this - bring back the song!
I've only ever heard people complain about "CEO X made $Z million last year, which is 40x the average employee pay". These complaints reference the total comp package, IIRC. To the extent that this is what people are talking about, a study that looks at this larger figure seems useful. It would be good to cut things up more ways, if it gives different results.
That’s definitely frustrating, but what did you expect? You lived in one city and worked in another. The “simple” solution to this is to live and work in the same city.
It is mentioned on author's website though. https://www.fornjot.app/blog/the-world-needs-another-cad-pro...

>There is lots of interesting space between "hobbyist" and "can justify to spend loads of money", and I tend to find myself right in the middle of that.

Feels like an indie cad era is upon us. Plasticity, mart3d, antimony ..

>A CAD application, especially one with a custom CAD kernel, is a huge project.

What I've always found amusing is that there are actually quite a few geometric modeling kernels and every one of them costs a ton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_modeling_kernel
The disintegrating cube
Never thought about this actually.

Any reason for this compared to say any of our neighboring countries?
Our k8s based deployments go so much smoother than our VM based deployments (Ansible). We have centralized logging set up for k8s, but not VMs. We have post-update health checks for k8s pods, but not systemd services. Et cetera.
Why do you expect that your laptop from 2006 need to be supported by wayland ?

Why are you angry on wayland ? Because they try to make things better for normal people ?
Considering that at the same time that inflation has been at the highest in years, corporate profits have been the highest ever. Maybe those two are much more related than wage and inflation?
> Hey, I gave to a charity. Why don't local politicians give me tax breaks?!?

Aren't charitable donations tax deductible?
They are so slow, though. DB2 and API performances are atrocious. This is a machine designed to run batch jobs, and nothing else.
hahaha!

that was so cute

edit: ops i forgot there is a thumbs up button… so how about vehicles having a simple lock checking if driver phone is being used? that would save so much accidents
Haha I got suggested for "freight" and "shipping" due to having "Cargo" (the MediaWiki SQL wrapper, not the package manager) listed on mine.
Nice, that's a good way to look at it!
There's also less people that have to own cars. If NYC didn't have subways it would be unlivable given the density.

Also for what you've described to be true, you likely lived in a high income area since they provide easier access to where most offices are situated. If you're commuting in from the outer boroughs into Manhattan, driving is way slower given the traffic (and way more stressful, and then there's the parking situation).
+1 https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulSellersWoodwork

I started watching his videos about 10 years ago, and while I've shifted a bit toward using more power tools in recent years, I still use his foundational hand tool techniques all the time. He can be a little preachy about his "hand tool only" woodworking philosophy, especially on his blog. If you can overlook that, he has a ton of skill and is good at teaching and demonstrating that skill to others through his videos.
I was working at a recruiting startup years ago and we got a cease & desist letter from LI asking us to stop crawling their public data.

Initially crawling them was very easy (we had ~100m profiles). With time crawling became harder and harder on the technical front. They obviously invested millions of $ in technology to stop being crawled.
I requessted “AWS notification system for Site Reliability Engineers to monitor complex distributed systems” and got a “NotFoundError” [1].

Here is the job [2], just in case it resumes later. Maybe this is simply a transient error.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/rIpsbzm.png

[2] https://www.deck.rocks/display?job_id=3830&hash=633348059441...
I've always wondered how this isn't more of an issue for the common archivers and news sites...
yes, 5x is probably off, but 2x is likely typical, even if you create optimizing mutation helpers like setAttrs(el, prevAttrs, nextAttrs)
SD card and SSD's have a latency on the order of 500us, while even a Raspberry Pi 3 has a memory latency[1] of around 200ns. That's three orders of magnitude difference in latency, which would destroy performance.

In addition, memory bandwidth is still at least an order of magnitude higher.

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11296737
Appreciated, and I love rice and beans, and I honestly could eat that and only that for the rest of my life, if, you know, it was handed to me. Now this is going to make me sound lazy, but here is the problem. Let's say you've got an empty kitchen, and you're hungry now. You hit the grocery for rice and beans. You can make the rice and eat that, but the beans won't be ready to cook until tomorrow at the earliest. The point here I think is that it takes a plan and a routine; you have to know that though you bought the beans today that you can't cook and eat them before they soak a day.

Bad excuse. Honestly, I have never done it, and that is probably the only issue. I have no experience with the bean (other than frozen cut green beans), and thus it somehow terrifies me. It's like anything. What if something goes wrong?

I'm just not adventurous with food. I know how to make pasta, create my own dishes with it. I might pour a can of lentil soup over pasta, usually pretty bland even with all the salt Progresso uses, and who knows what else. I doubt many would find my meals palatable, but it prepares in 15 minutes or less depending on the type of pasta.

Anything more complicated or that takes more than 45 minutes to prepare is like rocket science to me. I never understood how my mother could cook 4 things at once and everything is ready at the same time within an hour. Sorcery.
To pair with a book: blank paper and something to mark it with

To pair with a stick, when old enough: a knife.
RM2K, BYOND, and Zelda Classic were essential early 2000s internet culture. They got me hooked on software engineering.

This is such a great project. I hope we'll see these become more accessible and live on for a long time.
While you're at it ask your corporate boss if you can use his private jet since it is your labor making him wealthy after all. I'm sure he'll be very generous.

I agree that powerful people aren't great but it seems ridiculous to imagine that union bosses are the worst offenders.
Uh, no I do not, it just seemed like a relevant movie reference...
HN messes up whitespace, so you'll have to indent this to make if preserve the newlines.
LinkedIn's motto should be "Making Derivatives out of Career aspirations"
seriously, everything you do on it are fired off in ALL the tangents like a jelly fish and just desperately tries to tangle onto something. Could be poisonous I don't know, does feel like it when it's done indiscriminately like that
Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
Hawaii gets last shipment of coal: Expect to pay more
The same story these days with drones and VTOLs. We know how it will end (and the drones and VTOLs will liberate our streets from cars (except for some small golf-cart likes) and our Earth surface from asphalt), yet it is still a long way to go for the population mentality which right now has even hardly reached the stage of the Red Flag laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts (or in grief stages - somewhere between Denial and Anger)
You could make the same argument about bags of coke and keeping hookers on retainer.

At a point you need to draw the line admit what is simply corruption.
One thing the video gets wrong (or omits) is the implication that ads only care about how we think about their brand. But advertising agencies are made up of people with their own goals and ideals, that like to slip their own message in. The same can be said about the company that commissions an ad, in fact. People don't become perfectly obedient drones that care only about their employer as soon as they receive a check.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.

...but the giants are getting bigger for every generation and it takes longer and longer to climb to the shoulders.

Some people make it, some quit half way and some don't even try when they see the monumental effort needed.

It takes huge effort and tons of time just to stay current on world events, never mind popular culture and hobbies and other interests. Combine that with 8-10 hours of work every day (including commutes) + family time + sleep and there really isn't time for epiphanic thought.

A bit over a hundred years ago we had people like Sabine Baring-Gould[0], who wrote over a hundred books and published over a thousand papers. He was born to a rich family, though, which did give him the time and resources. But at the time it was possible for him to learn much of the existing knowledge and expand it radically during his lifetime.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould
The average length of the 100 most popular TikToks is apparently 15 seconds, which should tell you something. Apparently the increase to 10 minutes max was only very recent (up from 3). Either way it's hard to see how a musician could become successful just by staying on TikTok.
> Private transport represents freedom, public transit represents control.

I think you have this backwards. Public transport gives freedom to many many people who are unable to drive (can't afford a car, too young to drive, too old to drive, etc.). In the US if you can't afford to drive your freedom is vastly curtailed precisely because we do not have effective public transport in most cities.
I fall asleep pretty much instantly. Isn't thinking about things distracting you from sleep?
LinkedIn may or may not be scraping. Just remember that scraping is a pejorative word for what Google does, also known as "indexing".
I live in the burbs, I also live .25 miles from the grocery. When it's just me and my spouse I'm happy to walk it, we do that on our daily walk anyway. When it's me, my SO, my son, and his SO which it has been all of the pandemic and after... it's too much to carry. Way Way too much for my SO to carry who likes to do the shopping. Car gets it done easily.

I lived about 3 blocks from a grocery in a downtown core for 10 years and rarely drove and walked it then. It was actually more of a hassle. My mom lived about 5 miles away. She'd pick me up on Sundays and we'd go shop. She'd cook dinner then drop me off at my apartment in that downtown core. This was a lot better.

Basically the car was great for the stuff you buy a bit more of and walking is great to pick up the stuff you want for this meal. Then again there were 5 restaurants on my walk from work to home so I just ate out all the time.

Most places are also not SF weather wise. This was in downtown St. Louis. It would be 85-90 the warm part of the year and sub 40 the rest of the year. Walking with heavy grocery bags in that weather or in winter requires changing clothes. Or pop in the car and get more moved and no sweat (literally). You go 5 blocks with a granny grocery cart in 95 weather and you'll need a shower when you get home.
The Thing is not the Beetle. Different cars.
I've always said that it reinvented the mainframe by turning it inside-out. I did some work on an IBM 360/370 running VM/CMS and I can see a lot of parallels in how both systems operate. Most of the architecture is an interface that is implemented by some pluggable piece of software and there's also all of the resource scheduling and management which is a first-class component. This makes the system very flexible and reliable.

And I think k8s is here to stay. If what you have is a bunch of containers you can easily push that into k8s. It's not any more complex than any other solution you would use to deploy them.
There is some interesting discussion in the analysis portion of the paper that resonated deeply with me.

>However, the fact that participants underestimated the potential task motivation during the thinking period may indicate that people avoid thinking not because it is aversive but because it is expected to be aversive.

>Such an inaccurate expectation may lead people to unnecessarily avoid spending time thinking in their daily life.

>For example, the current widespread availability of the Internet and mobile phones makes it extremely easy for people to kill time when they have nothing to do, and our results suggest that people’s continual engagement in electronic devices may in part reflect inaccurate metacognitive beliefs about the value of not doing anything

I found that hiking helps me break the addiction (or dopamine hits or whatever you prefer to call it) to the internet. I observe a similar effect to that described in the paper (not because it is aversive but because it is expected to be aversive) -- the act of filling my water bottle an getting in the car sometimes takes every ounce of my will, but after I am over that I absolutely enjoy the exercise and sense of clarity it brings to let my mind wonder for a few hours.

As an experiment I just changed my HN bookmark to point to this story, to remind me that I shouldn't be refreshing HN for the 12th time today, and then add one more click to get to the homepage.
We need chips in everything.
Cars could work without them but would be much less efficient and bad for the environnement.
Lots of very important medical devices rely on chips or full computers.
I would like to see the media industry roll back to a lower tech leaving only the big and very bias information go through. Imagine how hard it would be to keep them accountable.

Is it possible to live without computers? Yes, but you don't want to.
I tend to be an extreme minimalist and my answer will be boring: upgrading my iPhone every 5-6 years (I tend to buy new and keep until I get full iOS updates) always brings me immense joy.
How would salt reduce drownings?
Long live and Prosper

William Shatner 91 (alive)
Nichelle Nichols 89
George Takei 85 (alive)
Walter Koenig 85 (alive)
James Doohan 85
Leonard Nimoy 83

TOS main actors live long compared to people from their generation
https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html
There have been 26 Climate conferences, and USA has broken it's promices every single time. You quit the paris accord, while China is on track to meet its climate change goals nine years early.

Get your head out of your rear, and stop complaining about farmers in 3rd world countries who 'will be granted exemption' so they can go from having 1 farting cow to 2 farting cows and actually afford a meal every day - they still produce less pollution in their lifetime than you do in a year.

I am sorry for being rude, but you are a total hypocrite, and untill you sort out your shit, no other country is interested in what you have to say.
> Most people that work for Amazon in the warehouse like working there.

Isn't the retention rate at Amazon warehouses abysmal?