skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially the effect is the same, but one reason is reducing conflict. A bidding war over water rights, for example, might mean that some regions don't get enough water to survive while others get enough to keep their golf courses green. Historically in the American West, that kind of thing has led to people dynamiting canals and so on.

A more balanced option might be setting a minimal delivery baseline for everyone in the watershed, with prices rising steeply above that baseline for the remaining water. This would encourage adoption of recycling, aka 'toilet-to-tap'...
And to keep it simple, even real-life relationships enhanced by tech seems somewhat "bad". I suppose a useful example of tech improving real-life relationships would be LinkedIn: LinkedIn (and others) _might_ help me amplify my achievements and accelerate my career; but somehow that seems unnecessary also.

We don't really need a lot of relationships otherwise, and if we had free time because of other tech, we could spend more time with people or even invest in career. Tho one could argue, the careers have increasingly been about building said dystopian tech.
As an addition to your excellent idea: recommend recipes with ingredients that haven't inflated as much as others.

I read somewhere that this summer strawberries have inflated a lot less in price compared to other fruits. It then led me to having this conspiracy theory that this is why I saw nonstop promotions for strawberry related products/promotions this summer.
On Leading a Purposeless Life
Ouch... That sounds very heavy.

I wonder why they were testing this if it's exactly the same as the production system? Because if I read it correctly that's what they're saying now. That makes no sense. There must be something beta in there.

At least it sounds the thing was chock full of cameras and telemetry recorders so it shouldn't be hard to find out exactly what happened, and prevent it in the future.
> Try this thought experiment and it becomes clear: imagine something that worked like the Segway, but that you rode with one foot in front of the other, like a skateboard. That wouldn't seem nearly as uncool.

This turned out to be prescient: I commuted to work today on a vehicle made by Segway (a Ninebot scooter). I'd argue that more of the appeal is that it lets you go as fast as bikes (without breaking a sweat), rather than the dorkiness, but I think the two are related. Admittedly I felt a bit dorky the first time I rode it, but now I'm convinced that it's the ultimate vehicle to have in a city.
I would like to defend arch here.

In my experience, Arch's main focus is on upholding a simple consistent architecture. There are tools that do something like the bare minimum required work, and then excellent documentation so that the end user can correctly perform the remaining required work manually (or via their own scripts).

As a result, there are certain features that will probably never be implemented. For example, if you wait too long between upgrades, your signing keys will be out of date. The solution is to upgrade the "archlinux-keyring" package first. Should pacman automatically do this? It would be nice, but it would also introduce a special case into pacman. Would that special case be abused to do unexpected things?

Another example is installers. Writing a basic installer for a single machine is easy. Writing an installer that covers any machine is very hard. Writing an installer that covers any machine with any configuration the user might want is impossible.

Put another way, everyone likes that Arch has up to date packages and an excellent wiki. Would either of these exist if there was a bunch of extra complexity that needed to be integrated? Is there any need for an excellent wiki if installers automatically resolve all your problems?
> Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

I think this is the part that needs to be rethought. What do we already take for granted now, that never should have been?
Up until last year I had no smartphone and I only got one because work required it for on-call notifications. Now I use it for nothing except that and a camera (it's a personal device that I ended up purchasing).

I never felt disconnected, family knows to email me and that if they send me a picture over text it comes up as a 1 inch square that I couldn't see.

What's your definition of an awkward social situation? For me I don't consider anything I routinely do as awkward. For example, standing on line waiting for a cashier to be free is normal behavior. I just stand there looking at my surroundings.
I'd like to see us treat autonomous road safety the way we treat aircraft safety

To do that you need to increase your standards for being a car driver up to being a pilot. Since most accidents would involve human error.
Doesn't something like localstack.cloud help with this need? I've just recently inherited some NodeJS lambdas and am thinking of looking into that to debug/develop locally.
Why is caste not a subset of national origin or race? Do Indians who discriminate on the basis of caste also discriminate against non-Indians of a lower caste, or is it solely confined to other Indians? If not directly a protected class, why would this not clearly be a disparate impact type of case?
> Wouldnt it be nice.

This response seems to indicate that you wish it were, which seems like an acknowledgement that it isn't identically distributed. In which case, it seems a bit premature to jump to "straight up racist hiring practices" being the only explanation for disparities between any given field and the country-wide demographics.

> Or are you suggesting that some races / genders / etc are better at some things than others?

No, it seems to be you trying to suggest this. I'm pointing out that there could be alternate explanations besides "straight up racist hiring practices" that could cause any given application pool to deviate from the general population. This could mean anything from small-number statistical sampling fluctuations, to lack of aspirational representation causing a demographic to enter the field, to general structural suppression in society etc etc.

Very few companies are directly in the position to directly influence the development of people who will be in their application pool in several years time.
I ended up shortly after editing my post to exclude that sentence because it was a bit more subtle than how I was putting it. Caffeine is definitely a library that makes me jealous of the JVM ecosystem on a regular basis :P
A recent comment by dang mentioned that some users request specific usernames that are already taken (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32133471 ), and there was a bit of pushback and confusion about it.

I'd agree, the impact is minimal, but if you're an avid reader of the site, it's easy to start recognizing usernames if you're that sort of person. Situational for sure.
This is exactly what I'm running :^)
>A large part of even non-trivial applications do not do custom drawing - and many do not do any custom drawing at all.

Then those parts will be easier to port as well, so there is not much benefit to having this backwards compatibility when more benefits can be gained by porting. This is why most GNOME applications have ported.

>Even if that is the case, it still has all the other backwards compatibility issues i mentioned.

Those issues would be even worse by trying to hack various things into GTK1.

>The effort i mentioned here was on designing backwards compatible APIs and libraries

My point was that some things are impossible to design in a backwards compatible way. For example, anything that leads to certain assumptions getting hard coded in the app. You cannot API design your way out of those type of problems. The app has to be rewritten or ported.

>it is not like i expect any Gtk developer to suddenly come across my posts and somehow get enlightened or something

Keep in mind that GTK developers have very likely already weighed the benefits of what you are suggesting and have decided that it is not worth it, for various reasons.
> "With Ubuntu, I would’ve had to upgrade (...) five times to end up with the latest LTS release.* And these release upgrades don’t always go smoothly either."

I read this in the exact moment I was upgrading to 22.04.1 end it stopped due to lack of space in /boot. A rare case of synchronicity in my life.
I do not have a cell phone. I do have a land line telephone though, and also email. I can also write a letter if it is necessary (e.g. if the email and telephone do not work).
> Arch doesn't have an installer, and seems almost militantly against providing one, or a lot of other little utilities that could improve the user experience

This just changed! The archinstall package is included on install media now and is not considered experimental (according to the wiki page history, that happened on 2022-07-08).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/archinstall
> By this definition, the end of the line is a totally passive consumption of endorphin-inducing pablum that blots out the real world.

Doesn't seem all that different from 99% of media consumption thats existed in my lifetime.
Which is why MBO is ultimately not a good management tool and is clearly not serving many organizations as well as they need, especially when applied to the management of Systems/Software Engineers who are all too aware of this fact.

If you want to be successful, you have to focus on intrinsic motivations of these kinds of staff. By and large, they do not respond effectively to extrinsic motivations. They may respond "positively", but not necessarily "effectively". It's difficult, though, in a world where any non-quantifiable evaluation is rightly viewed with incredible suspicion. It forces managers and leaders to walk a hard line.
I marked it as permanently closed after I got it to show on the map. The business still shows but has a red "permanently closed" banner on it but the address is still marked and correct in google maps
The were two main problems with the launch of the Segway. First it was just too big and bulky for most sidewalks. And second it was way too expensive for a consumer product.

The first part might have been overcome by launching it in Japan where sidewalks are much wider and multi-use (pedestrians and bicycles) is the norm and expected "rules of the sidewalk" are already in place. The cost though would still have been hard to swallow.
It's certainly my favorite. Pragmatic, simple, and complete. What's not to love?
This is the most condescending piece of advice on HN. Why do you bother commenting knowing that it really doesn't help anyone?
No, they have not always done this. But the supposed caching benefits of CDNs have always been overstated.
If you really want to do research then no question you need to go to grad school for at minimum an MS. If you are still a student that means getting in touch with ML professors at your school and trying to get published before you graduate. Top ML programs in the US are extremely competitive and you likely don't stand a shot of getting in without a few NeurIPS/ICML/CVPR papers.

If you just want to work as an ML Engineer then take as many courses as you can on the subject before you graduate and get internships/apply to jobs. Nothing special here.
I did for a few years; I think it was beneficial. Give it a try, you can better cultivate your internal experience and your external presence. I got a new job and wanted to stick the landing so I am using a smartphone again now; it definitely takes some effort not to get addicted.

You do get a lot of PITA situations where your bank, some venue, or something else expects you to use one. You learn to either ask the employees there for more help in these situations and just avoid services that don't accomodate.

I don't really travel a lot outside of my state.
The Tu-95’s props are paired for counter-rotational torque balance. The second prop does not add additional thrust.
Hmm. That seems odd to me. There is no technical or physical reason for digital hearing aids to have this issue. It makes sense for the cochlear implants, but not for digital hearing aids - which are no different in principle to headphones on transparency mode.
I push my Arch installs hard. I install a large number of applications. I even have Arch Linux running in a proot on my Android phone. I have had occasional breakage every 6 to 12 months. It is usually a vendored binary that depends on an older version of some library. And that library changed its ABI upon a minor version upgrade. Arch has packages for old major versions of libraries. For example Telegram Desktop and Ungoogled Chromium can break, but rarely. Breakage is resolved within days on stable.
It's an open legal question for state and federal courts today, so it makes sense companies are struggling with it. The legal language is ambiguous at best, and corporate lawyers/HR exist to mitigate exposure and not take a moral high ground.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/u-s-civil-r...
Some reasonable multiple of actual net revenue. Not to zero, anyway.

Soon electric cars will not be a novelty, and Tesla's poor build quality, poor reliability, and poor repairability will start to be remarked upon.
> Makes me wonder if there's a market for the equivalent of health food where we go back to social media and deliberately avoid "recommendation media"

See: https://www.are.na/
Right near the beginning:

> Till the year 2012, Airbnb was just a React website.

React wasn't released until 2013.
The initial version of the CX-3 was developed here. (The final shipping version, not so much.) This was before my time so all I've really done is clean up the aftermath.
Not trying to be dismissive but you do get to make choices about the kinds of things you work on and the companies you wish to associate yourself with. I feel a tiny bit better knowing I'm not contributing to some of the more heinous products the tech industry builds. And I feel really fortunate to have a group of friends who share this attitude.
If you're not the manager and don't have a strong voice in the team, it may not be reasonable to expect to be able to make changes in how the team operates.

Most companies of a certain size and technical complexity end up settling on circulating a document outlining the design and soliciting feedback, rather than setting up meetings. I agree that PR's are too late for design feedback. You could try the document approach for features you implement, and see if people respond and it makes your work easier. If that works, perhaps others will pick it up too?
While I agree with your definition of "stable", in my case its effects are reversed: I much prefer having to deal with one change from time to time, than having to apply a big update where possibly "everything changes" all of a sudden. Although, granted, this is much more likely to avoid "yoyo changes", where a rollback is necessary because the new shiny is actually broken.

I didn't take notes and don't remember the specifics, but I have a small VM running on some cloud that only hosts LXC containers, so not much is installed on it. I did an update from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04: multiple dozens of packages were removed, and multiple new ones added.
Do you ever just stop and think for a moment after reading or writing something? I do, taking small pauses to think in between looking at things is a regular part of my workflow.

When I do pause, I can stop and do a few pushups. It helps me focus a bit better, and there's no context loss because I'm not doing or thinking about anything new. It's not much different from leaning back in my chair to think for a minute.
Lets face it, the ideals are great but RSS kinda sucks. Its stable, its sturdy and maybe this is my own ignorance but I can think of a lot of missing features the average user would expect.

I don't think there's a standard practice for caching, serving deltas, or anything other than polling the feed. Keep in mind I mean standard as in any generic reader will implement it.

There's no cross application protocols to share subscriptions, progress, already-read, or any other kind of state across apps.

Privacy is a problem. The feeds are generic and public. OAauth could probably be implemented into clients these days such that a generic feed reader could access private content but there are no standards for it.

Monetization is a huge problem. No one wants to scrape pay walls and no one wants to serve free content. DRM sucks but content providers are going to demand it so it should be integrated.

I'm fairly surprised I haven't seen a crypto-wallet integrated RSS standard with these features. How did that not make the cut for crypto ideas?
My last clean Windows installation was in 2007 with Vista, and since then, I ran in-place upgrades to get to the next immediate version. It survived multiple mainboard changes and moved from MBR IDE HDDs to GPT SATA SSDs. (With the help of Acronis/Macrium images)

The next big move would be to change to a Mainboard+CPU with Windows 11 support and an NVMe disk. I wonder how feasible this will be.
Precisely. The best part about it (linux distros) is that you can actually fix your issues, while with windows/apple you have to suffer until you get a bug fix, since you don't control the software that runs on your computer
The irony is, Linux users Were the highest paying customers before the transfer to IGN.

Their contribution easily made up to half of all sales money wise.
You absolutely can. Its a great platform for this.

There may not be as wide a variety of libraries as you would hope, but that's true of any smaller language.

The main thing you need to be able to do is have the wisdom to avoid the footguns. They're quite different from the footguns in other languages. in general, using Haskell well requires a good bit of experience with it, and knowledge of who in the community are selling false solutions.
FYI, that text is completely incomprehensible in Russian. It looks like the chip designer translated an English phrase word-for-word using a dictionary, didn't conjugate verbs or decline adjectives, added some gratuitous misspellings, and ended up with Engrish type nonsense.
> whats worse is how smart some of the people are

Smart people can use instagram, I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Podman allows for Kubernetes templates, so theoretically you could use Helm for this potentially.. otherwise, Minikube on Podman. I wish they had Go templating in the compose files though, that would be rad.
I'm so glad the gap between "we can keep very-long-term records" and "AI now dominates content creation" is going to be large enough, even for very recent things like video games, that I'll have enough excellent "content" to last multiple lifetimes without ever having to pay attention to the AI stuff.
Yuck. Everyone I have known who worked for L3 was a jerk who loved the smell of their own farts. They picked up all of the nastiest colleagues I had in engineering school. I have a very bad impression of this company. Don't they make the 1990s style "secure" phones that the government relies on?
What % of first year salary do you charge on average?
Aside from the price and lack of a real problem it solves, which have been mentioned, the segway also occupies an in-between space where you can't safely ride it on a road, but you're in everyone's way and annoying pedestrians if you use it on a sidewalk (plus, American cities are often pretty terrible about even having sidewalks in places where you might conceivably want to use something like this).

I remember we featured this as one of the futuristic new tech pieces at Disneyland's Innoventions, which I used to work at from 2000 to 2002. Virtually nothing we featured there ever really took off. Aside from the segway, we had Sony's AIBO the robotic dog, which was cute and fun to work with, but real dogs are too awesome for any meaningful portion of the market to want to replace them with a robot. We had an Internet-connected toaster that printed a weather report on your toast. Someone clearly had the sense that paper news was on its way out but people largely don't want to be chained to their desk while eating breakfast, but did not anticipate that general-purpose computing devices would become so small and mobile as quickly as they did, and something as niche as only serving the weather would never have a place. We had very early flat-screen TVs back when plasma was the only option and they cost around ten grand for an entry model. Those sort of eventually caught on when they were replaced with better and cheaper technologies that consumers could actually afford.

I remember reps coming out and training us to use this for our showcases. It was novel and all, and the basic tech in terms of using weight-shift detection and gyroscopes seems like it should have good uses elsewhere, but I couldn't help but get the sense that, like the current top comment says, my body can already do this, and doesn't require extra storage space, charging, a place to dock, doesn't take up the space in a crowd of a 900 pounder. It's great technology, but the application makes no sense.
> I recently switched to an arch flavor because the AUR had a lot of little small utilities that make life better on wayland.

Same for me after more than a decade on Ubuntu. Switched to Manjaro Sway so I could have a better life in Wayland.
> TL;DR: new antibiotic candidate effective against gram-negative bacterias, which are generally resistant against most antibiotics because of their thick cell walls and efflux pumps

Aren't mycins something very well known and not novel at all?

I see them listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antibiotics along with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminoglycoside that explain they work against gram-negative bacterias
Overall, I agree, but cybernetics is practically a regression at this point. In a nutshell, it was an exploration to bridge gaps between the biological and the mechanical. In human terms, it's designing machines for us, and changing our approaches towards them. Martial arts have explored the concept of a tool or a weapon becoming an extension of the body, which is essentially disciplined Taoism. Today, we are so ingrained with our tools and machines that we worry more about form factors and user interfaces as if they are getting in the way of a neural impulse and its desired digital result

Also great suggestion on True Names. It predicted how people would interact and present themselves online before the Internet or even BBSes were even around
> The real reason the Segway didn't take off, in my opinion, is that it didn't solve any real problem.

This can't be the answer, since it doesn't explain the huge explosion in non-bike forms of electric transportations.

From scooters to electric skateboards to hoverboards to a number of single-wheeled designs. These things are absolutely ubiquitous in any major city, US or Europe, right now.

These all fit in the same practical niche as a Segway, yet are cheaper and cooler-looking.
Same here, regarding the misperception of Boom being acquired by AA
Let's be clear though, in India these come on the form of explicit quotas. In some states, even if high caste applicants to university got 100% of the non-quota slots, they'd still be underrepresented because so many slots are reserved for caste. It's like if tech companies noticed their share of Asian tech workers was well above the 6% national average, and set a cap of only 4% Asians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
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Hey HN, I made a bunch of these converters over the past couple years. It originally started as just one, but then I kept seeing the domains for sale/expire, so I kept expanding.

In hindsight, not the smartest idea when a bug happens I have to push it to 12 sites, but either way I think this is the last one of these since I am burnt out on converters.