skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "slavery" is even less apt since it implies a tie to a specific person or entity that owns you and controls your every action.

Look - I agree that neither word is an exact fit, but I think this is a misunderstanding of slavery at large, and a view exclusively through the lens of European slavery, and slavery in the colonies (ex: islands and the US).

Historically, slavery is a really complicated thing, and almost every society had some form of forced labor, performed by low tier members of the society - the details of which vary dramatically.

Slavery (outside the narrow scope of the US history of it) is absolutely not "tied to a specific person or entity that owns you and controls your every action".

Ex - Pre-colonial native american tribes had all sorts of forms of slavery, everything from "we're going to sacrifice you and then eat you" to "you have been captured to fill the role of the warrior you killed in battle". In the later case, they were often given duties and responsibilities markedly similar to the person they replaced, and in some cases end up formally adopted by the tribe in question.

Further - looks at places like India, where african slaves were brought over not for manual labor, but for military use (dating as far back as the 12th century). That enabled them far greater social mobility. Just take a look at cultures like the Siddi - West coast african slaves who rose to become rulers in India.

Basically - ditch the high school view of slavery - it's all the rage in the media right now because it's a wonderfully divisive topic in the US, and diverts attention from other serious political matters. But historically - it's very euro/us-centric in tone (and not even all that accurate within those cultures...).
Well, environmentalists killed nuclear reactors.
What if it is government sponsored media and there are rules that it must be independent from politicians?
There's also an additional benefit: Making sure the software doesn't stagnate. At big tech company... open sourcing tech helps hedge against a dead-end proprietary solution.

Converting over from a dead-end proprietary solution to the industry standard does cost a lot, but it's kind of secondary to velocity.
I was shocked to discover they use the exact same set of techniques as the French, but with totally different names!
The search for storage has been ongoing since the sixties (in one form or another) and the current approach (started about ten years ago) is "planned" to lead to a decision 2031. Knowing how well such projects usually go in Germany and the massive pushback, especially from Bavaria in the last few weeks (not unfounded - one year before the exit-decision it was found out that our current storage was an absolute disaster), the storage site will probably be found when we don't need nuclear energy anymore (either because we found better solutions or it's too late anyway)
The DoorDash app is way worse though. It’s tracking and time estimates are awful, much worse than Uber.
The thresholds for the rewards were insane anyways youd have to make like 15 orders to get anything
Maybe in american suburbs it makes more sense, but in old cities like europe electric grids are not designed to feed into the network, and the installations are small, thus no economies of scale. The money spent on subsidizing them would be better spent on large installations
Do you have a citation for your "unsafe" claim? Ungrounded doesn't automatically mean unsafe (or, in the UK, illegal).

In the UK we have 3-pin plugs, but different appliances have different rules about grounding; class II double-insulated devices don't need to be grounded (afaik) and this link[1] talking about macbooks says:

> "The macbook is a class III appliance, meaning that it is powered by a safety extra-low voltage supply. The low voltage guarantees that coming to contact with energized parts poses no risk in normal circumstances. The actual appliance from a safety perspective isn't the macbook, but the power brick."

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/355824
Since I just re-watched it: he ran it on a P4 from 2003.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911
So why isn’t the focus on making more places where people want to live?
Interesting. Any research or other non-anecdotal sources you can point me to?
I did this for 27 months, from 2019 – 2021! I'm in my 30s & no kids (dedicated my life to the startup – which is table stakes these days). I'm in the USA and a key was to work with UK/Euro engineers for the startup, which let me arbitrage both COL and especially timezone. COL wise I fit two uk/euro eng salaries + my own humble costs into my USA eng salary. Timezone wise I got on zoom to Europe from 7am-9am ET Weds-Fri and 7am-12pm on weekends. Which left me weekend afternoons for my own startup deliverables – we had a long term paid pilot which my team supported but I had to personally deliver to ensure success.

Living wise, for the six months leading Covid I had to be in the work office in Baltimore, which was 2 hours away from my home near Philadelphia, so I had a second apartment 10 mins from work/gym where I lived Monday – Thursday. This made it really easy to focus as there was nothing to do but work, exercise, eat, read and do email, talk to fiancee, go to bed, zoom at 7am. If anything, WFH starting in 2020 made it harder to focus. I also don't drink.

Relationship wise, the startup existed before my relationship and deeply influenced mate selection/compatibility.

Job wise I was an eng manager / product manager for an early stage cloud product which I shepherded from concept to post-revenue and early sales, it was not a soft FAANG job, it was intense but I was able to get everything done in 40 hours a week, near flawless delivery, never dropped a ball. Yes I am uniquely skilled/driven but most founders are, that's why you're doing it right? Burnout was not really an issue for me, probably because of deep belief and conviction in the startup and willingness to do "whatever it takes" to succeed. (We are succeeding, btw!).

Mental health wise, through Covid we all gained weight and I had some depression due to the relentless beating of corporate life. Hired a psychologist to help me process those frustrations and also work through my everyday failings as an entrepreneur (also normal). Eventually the startup made enough progress to raise some money and transition out of the job, but I think I could have sustained it indefinitely if that's what it took.
Is this like the mm/dd/yyyy date problem, where ideally names would be ordered from the most general part to the most specific?
Assange's current status is that the UK has approved his extradition and he's appealing it. The US did appeal from a previous decision Assange had won blocking the transfer, and it won that appeal something around a year later.

Again, if the position is that the whole prosecution is unjust, a mockery of the First Amendment, chilling to journalism and free speech, then fine. But saying the US is responsible for the delay in putting him on trial is strange to me.
If you’re interested in doing this legitimately, on latest devices, and without needing a jailbreak you should sign up for the Security Researcher Device (https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...)
I've become a big Google meet shill. It works great, it's easy to get people onto it, quality is quite good. I've heard it can fall apart with really big groups of people, but never had any problems up to about 10, and beyond that I don't really care.
it is tough on the teeth, pepsi and coke are as far as I can tell the worse with phosphoric acid and around 2.5 pH and on the order of stomach acid. Obviously -volume- counts too. however at least he's avoiding sugar which also contributes to building up a lot of plaque which is a constant supply of acid rather than a diet coke which the saliva would neutralize pH up pretty quickly back to 7
Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible
I've had this with all my Apple laptops over the last decade or so at least. Even my current 2021 M1 Air.

There's usually a tacky staticky feel to either side of the touchpad when it is plugged in.

I know from a previous Mac that had this that using the extension power cord it comes with stops it. Meanwhile if I make contact with the wife's arm with one hand she can tell when I touch and remove my other hand from the Air.

It isn't one of the things I find impressive about Apple, but I live with it.
Experts never have "the answer". Science changes over time - see the article and how guidelines for what's OK grew stricter.

You work with what you have right now.
I was recently in the market for high end rainproof hiking gear, and most brands are only offering PFAS free rainproof coatings.
Let's say you can build a rental unit for 300k. Third parties can't do this now. So individuals can come together, form a collective (LLC), and fund the development of a building they will live in.

Let's say they need 10% down only to do that construction. 30k each. What is the stat, 50% of people have less than 5k in the bank?

It took me 1 year of working with no college debt to save up 20k for a house. That was fast. Where do I live until I have 30k to build? My family? I was working on the other side of the country. What if you don't have family? You are homeless until you can afford to build?
I'm pretty sure interacting with storage directly (not through the filesystem) should require admin rights.
It's just easier, it's not as powerful but it is "good enough" and much less steep learning curve.
Doesn't the very current issue of Ukraine and Russia using a nuclear plant as a war zone give anyone pause?

It seems so obvious to at least think twice about this.
I also think a very large majority of people on this planet are tired because of an unknown deficit of vitamines and minerals like Omega 3, Zink and Vitamin D
I really like this idea and want to see if it is possible to come t live as an online service where CEO finds the right CEO shadow.

Couple of years ago the idea of CEO Shadowing was mentioned on Kernal. https://kern.al/idea/shadow-a-ceo-lessons-courses-programs
Since then no one picked it up, not sure why. But I'm interested and want to make a real living application for CEO and who want to be CEO Shadow.

Is it worth it?
>in 1995, Carmack spent $9,995 on one the first 1080p monitors… It provided a 28" screen with 1920x1080 @ 85Hz… Essentially, Carmack was able to trade $9,995 of 1995 money for a monitor that put him decades into the future.

“Decades” is a bit hyperbolic. I got a 22” that would do 1920x1440@80 for under $1000 in 1999. I’m also skeptical of that non-4:3 resolution quoted.
This was another thing that attracted me to `make` for this task. I figured that, as long as the dependencies were all declared properly, I should be able to run multiple jobs in parallel.

I didn't pursue this very far as there were other problems with doing this, but I'd like to pursue it again. The problems are all with the target system, `make` does the parallel execution work perfectly.
> for medieval engineering? Are there other examples like this?

Nails. This single Roman fort in Scotland had nearly a million iron nails, all of them hand made:

> When it was excavated in the 1950s by Richmond, a large pit was found in the summer of 1960 containing 875,400 complete iron nails (Square shaft) ranging from 50–410 mm (2–16 in) plus another 28 (round shaft nails) weighing 7 tons, together with other iron objects, including cartwheel rims weighing a combined total weight of ten tonnes (Inchtuthil Nails by “Roddy Fraser”).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchtuthil

That's just one fort in a remote frontier of the empire. They were mass producing stuff like this, by hand.
Yeah there was a viral video awhile back where this young woman on a family farm was sitting in her tractor talking about how everything worked. The tractor has more computer screens than my desk ever had and a GIS system.

> That extends to most people that make things; they know who it goes to and how it gets there, but the person who gets it doesn't know where it came from and how it got to them.

People who make things seriously, at least. People who think groceries come from the store and haven’t thought past that will still be able to cook a meal while a more serious home cook or a good professional chef knows more about where their ingredients come from. But this only goes a couple levels deep at most. The chef might know where the farmer’s fertilizer comes from (I think that’s part of what’s implied by “organic food”) but the farmer will definitely know. But for petrochemical fertilizer, there’s a whole petrochemical supply chain before that which the fertilizer manufacturer will understand even better than the farmer.
> Your strawmen need work.

Your reply is a strawman and factually untrue, as I was responding specifically to someone who called for the massive reduction in human population — justifying that with environmentalism.

Ironically, you’re the one engaged in fallacies while gaslighting.
If you get the longer extended power cord, this one IS grounded ;)
> most developers from Asia do not really expect or care about privacy and are super quick to drop any quality standards to meet deadlines

You started a hellish, tedious flamewar with this. That's exactly what we're trying to avoid here.

Please edit general putdowns, casual swipes, and flamebait out of your HN comments, and stick to what you can legitimately say from your own experience.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Too bad the Rust pan has not been invented yet, with zero-cost abstraction enabling lightweight non-stick cooking on bare metal ;)
The native version is definitely more performant, from my experience.
Altgr is great to set up shortcuts in the IDE. It's completely unused and no overlap with native shortcuts in the IDE
and yet millions of people use it every day just fine. It's not any more of a resource hog than emacs when you load up enough lsp's and add ons to make it useful and modern.
IMO Russia wants to force Germany to open north stream 2. It would look like a political win for Putin.
Another example people miss is plumber's tape. That tape is effectively all PTFE.

Literary every plumbing system in the last 20 years or more has all your water inlets lathered in PTFE along every joint of the pipework.
Can't help but observe on how incapable are human societies to make long term critical rational decisions.

It never really made sense to say "we are going to phase out nuclear entirely" instead of "we'll focus on how to build safer, cheaper and more efficient nuclear".

The decision to go off nuclear was capricious and it seems that the speed with which sentiment is changing only proves this.
I'm thinking "use rsync instead of github" myself lol
> Money is quasi-energy

Except it isn't. Energy is only one of the resources that goes into making things. Other costs, like materials, labor and cost of capital, are also important. Nuclear has the problem that these other costs are significantly higher than for renewables.
In Bazel parlance you would write a "rule" or setup a "toolchain" which has the linker args passing setup in it. 99% of code does not need a specific linker arg though and optimizing the happy path for letting you do anything, rather than having a simplified flow that most users care about, makes things more confusing.

If you instead had a way to say "this one specific thing I am building is special and needs `$magic_extra_arguments` added to it" and the rest of your code is "normal" things will be pretty good.
I like this idea but I think it should apply to rental income and not property tax, i.e. tax any income from rent higher. I know a few people that own multiple homes but have kids or friends of family staying there.
The way to make IPv6 take off is to make IPv4 addresses astronomically expensive.
Does it factor into things like if you were to use an HDD on your computer, you'd have to wait longer to complete tasks which spends more energy and resources?

And it's not just the energy of the SSD vs HDD to complete a task. We need to assume that once the task is complete, you will shut off your computer. The screen and the processors use much more energy than storage.
Certainly the parties involved would have a better understanding of the time and space under discussion, because they would have taken part in the decisions about sourcing and logistics.
yes, but no underlying libs, just pure bash... "How hard can that be"...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409842
or be forced to bend to their idea of what a project is and which build tools I need to be using, I concur 100%.
I'd really like the author who has no idea what is going on with Dissociative Identity Disorder to not go about mentioning DID in the same breath as schizophrenia.

They are not related in any way. Schizophrenia is explicitly neurochemical and treatable with medication. Schizophrenia is something you can be genetically predisposed to and born with.

DID and related dissociative disorders are based in trauma and are NOT something you can be born with. While trauma can cause neurological changes, they are not neurochemical in nature, and they DO NOT respond to medication. There is no medication for DID, and its incredibly irresponsible to equate these in a crackpot Jungian-style bicameral mind theory blog post. I discovered Jung's bicameral mind shortly after becoming aware of my own dissociative disorder, and while it provided a nice distraction and piece of thought, it ultimately has nothing to do with my disorder.

My alters ARE NOT VOICES, they are not hallucinations, they do not present audibly. They are me, they are my thoughts and feelings and preferences presented in different ways from different points in my life. They present as internal thoughts and feelings the same way anyone else would think and feel internally, and we (my alter states and dissociative people) organize them as individuals because the dissociation makes that easy, but they are all me. They are my competing emotional states that arose because I was forced to hold these states inside me to survive my ongoing abuse.

If the author is reading this, DO NOT bring up Dissociative Identity Disorder with schizophrenia and then go on to refer to both as "the schizophrenic". That's frankly insulting to me, people like me, and the INTENSE trauma we went through at the hands of rapists and abusers (usually parents and family members) and your entire piece is trash just for that alone.

I wish I had enough karma here to downvote your post.
Maybe Ignacio from San Francisco needs to relocate so that he can be more competitive.

The free market does not have to support their lifestyle, programming is a meritocracy and a better, cheaper programmer will eat your lunch. Welcome to the treadmill, start running.
I'd love to see someone crack the partial fast update modes of the Boox tablets.

They run Android apps, but only the included, closed-source apps like the note-taking app and browser get fast screen updates at high quality. If you try to install a third-party note-taking app the experience is crap.
When you're the market leader, you get to define what's reasonable. If you're the industry-leading solution and your users struggle to do a simple, common task, then it becomes conventional wisdom that the task is "difficult." If you are the second-place solution and users struggle to do a simple, common task, then your software is not ready for serious work. If you are in second place and have elegant solutions for cases that the industry leader struggles with, then overall that is an advantage, but you'd be surprised how many people write off your innovations as not being really useful precisely because so many people using the industry leader get work done without them.

See: Jira versus every single one of their competitors.
Yep, this is a very natural way to think and why Georgist policies have not been enacted.

I'm a programmer, as most are on this website. The thing that mostly interests me is when incremental changes don't lead to global maximums. As are most who study AI and say, Agile development. When is it that prisoner's dilemmas occur?

I pay attention to things like programmers who fix the bug they introduced fix the bug at a deeper level[0], I pay attention to Simple Made Easy[1], I pay attention to the systemic effects[2].

I point out that the Land Value Tax is so simple and yet fixes so many things. It fixes an inherit problem with society at a deep level. You need to pay attention to the incentives and how they mold the eventual outcomes. Land value taxation leads to correctly aligned incentives.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128729

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854

[2]: https://youtu.be/PCwtsK_FhUw
Are you sure you've got an actual mac charger? Mine has always been 2 pronged, and used it in Scandinavia where we - for a lack of a better word - have very good electricity.

Then one day I bought a cheap knock-off charger and instantly felt a tingling when touching the chassis.
Further evidence that I am so clueless about the workings of many tools I use every day
It's not considered "unsafe" until there's enough sponsored scientific studies. Until there's enough ontological awareness, funding, time, & inclination for these studies, it's considered "safe". Welcome to public perception through the lens of Positivism.
Had the same buzz on all my MacBooks in Germany for over a decade.
Yes, and all of those things can be scaled up.

I will further say that for your argument to be correct, it must be correct not just for Li-ion batteries, but for all possible storage technologies. You have not, and indeed cannot, make that argument with any level of honesty, since you do not know the bounds of such technologies. This does not stop you from making it though, which is very sad.
The podcast 99% Invisible did a good podcast covering the Red Car.

From their overview article on the episode:

>...Henry Huntington took his money and headed for Los Angeles. He purchased the biggest transportation system in the city, the Los Angeles Railway (LARy), and then incorporated it into a new company called Pacific Electric. Huntington also started building hundreds of subdivisions on the periphery of Los Angeles and used Pacific Electric trains—bright red trolleys—to connect the subdivisions to downtown Los Angeles.

>Over time, though, Huntington had built so many subdivisions that his Red Car couldn’t do a good enough job connecting the city’s disparate areas. The Red Car was never designed to be a comprehensive system like the New York City Subway; rather, it existed primarily to get people in and out of Huntington’s subdivisions. Angelenos who could afford cars found it was easier to get around by driving. The Red Car fell into disrepair, and was mocked as a “slum on wheels.”

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-...

A book that covers this in more depth is: https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/24015/HENRY_E_HUNTI...
Imagine where electronic ink displays could be today if E Ink wasn't such a terrible steward of the initial technology.
Please don't react to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. It just makes everything worse.

Also, while I have you: can you please not use HN primarily for political/ideological arguments? It looks like that's what your account has been doing, and it's not the intended use of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It’s hard enough making a ML model consistent with itself.
Gradle misses almost all of these cases. In my experience it is a very unreliable build system that relies on magic and state in the daemon it starts. You can not trust Gradle to build something from source, edit it, and build again correctly. I have seen many time where you build, edit, build, edit, build, edit, push to upstream and it fails in CI because it fails on a clean build.

If you need to "clean" the build system it has failed.