skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But a lot of the coastline is tall enough that you can usually find a safe place nearby if a tsunami warning sounds.

On the bright side, you won't need a siren, If the ground drops by 10 meters over the course of 5 minutes and you can't stand up because of the shaking, you can be sure a tsunamui up to 30 meters high will be there in an hour or two.
I'd like to believe you, but just looking at the network requests for your markdown tool, I see

facebook, google, simpleanalytics, stripe, sentry, checkoutpage
I have autosteering on for my 3 series and it really makes the drive easier.

that being said you have to pay attention and you have to be ready to intervene. it doesn't try to kill me often but it does happen occasionally

such a shame for those to die this way
I do think personal electronic vehicles (PEV) do fill a need. I have a lot of friends that use these to replace traveling short distances with a car. Like Paul noted about his friends unicycle they don't get much shit for using them.

The problem with Segways I think are analogous to when I travel on the sidewalk with my bike. You're too big for most sidewalks and moving fast, so people have to hurriedly shuffle to get out of your way. It's annoying and they respond crudely. Segway I think also attracts further attention because it's a known-expensive device. It doesn't occur to most people that I paid $2k for my bike but that doesn't stop cars from being passive aggressive for, again - taking real estate from them.
We're already living in a dystopia. The tech world reflects, and sometimes magnifies, that reality.
Not to mention restricting water use for agriculture would more than solve the problem for residential users.
If I had no morals, I'd already be selling crap like "nuclear power filters" and useless resonator circuits for "charging water" ;)

But I prefer useful contributions to society.
More capital would finance building more factories to enable building out faster.
There is a great documentary on Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway Personal Transporter, that I highly recommend:
https://moviewise.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/slingshot/

My two cents about the main reason the Segway didn't take off is that many people attacked it out of fear that it would take over sidewalks and put pedestrians in danger. It doesn't fit comfortably in a shared sidewalk, or bike lane, or road with all the other transportation options available. And the high cost made it impossible for it to become the dominant alternative transportation form. However, it works well in warehouses and for policing/security.
Hunger Stones in the Elbe are already visible. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641331544/drought-in-central-...
The social cost of looking like a dork is higher than the social cost of riding a child's conveyance (razor-style scooter). The childishness of the scooter also makes it less intimidating to people.
Review: Das Keyboard's New 'MacTigr' Is a Mechanical Keyboard for Mac Users
Personally, I blocked most websites on my primary browser on my work computer, and I set a maxvisit and minaway on my hackernews profile. So I get 20 minutes of slacking off on hackernews, and then I get booted off for a few hours, and the other time sucks are blocked.

I've also turned off history auto-suggestions in my search/URL box, so that when I look for a website it only suggests relevant work locations I define in my bookmarks.

I can (and often do) open a secondary browser to waste my time with, but I don't do it quite as impulsively. And when I'm ready to go back to work, I just kill that second browser window, and I've effectively removed myself from the distracting context
Arch wiki is what made me switch to arch - I was tired of translating from arch-wiki -> whatever debian flavor I was using.
Others have already mentioned that the connectivity in these places is really good, and that's often why you go there.

The other reason is you have employees there who can go fix things when they break. In the early days of Square we had everything in a single datacenter in Mountain View and our office was in San Francisco. There were times when something broke in a bad enough way that someone had to drive to the datacenter. It was a while before we built the scale and redundancy to put a facility on the east cost, or in places where we didn't often go.

But you're right, per square foot it's often quite expensive.

At a certain scale you still buy space in the city for connectivity, but then you buy IP transit, or even dark fiber, to connect to a cheaper and larger facility. That could be in the same region, or it might be out in some farmland with cheap power and good tax incentives.

We've seen lots of datacenters built in Washington and Oregon because the electricity is famously cheap hydroelectric. Like $0.02 - $0.03 per kWh. Last I looked a few (5-7?) years ago, industrial power in the Bay Area was closer to $0.10 per kWh and in Ashburn VA it was $0.08.
Yes, I got rid of my smartphone a few years ago. Personally, my challenge wasn't so much social media, but that I simply couldn't handle being so connected. Ultimately, I have a self-discipline problem, and I know it. I shattered my own concentration, attention span, and memory, and I _still_ feel like I'm slowly putting myself back together.

There are certainly downsides, I wrote about it a bit[1], but for me, the upsides are worth it all. Not everyone suffers from the same issues, of course, but I've been pleased at the changes in myself and my family.

[1]: https://kyrofa.com/posts/my-phone-isn-t-as-smart-as-yours/
My specific fear is when AI is good enough to emulate human interactions, we decide we'd rather have rather build relationships with AI than humans. I think the humanity of this fear separates it from the Douglas Adam quote.
Putting "up to 20" in the title would work.
The fact that counting calories is difficult, or that some food labels might be wrong, is not evidence that CICO is incorrect. Just as the fact that different people burn different amounts of energy does not disprove CICO.

I'm astonished how many commenters are desperately trying to find loopholes in simple laws of physics.
I don't think I've ever done an Ubuntu release upgrade without having at least one thing break. Admittedly, my sample size is rather small because I stopped using Ubuntu for that very reason.
SelfControl.app
I wonder if it's the same sort of problem as smart glasses, which were just too obvious-looking to gain traction. Like, if a Segway were slimmed down to basically fit a person profile, and were half the price, would it have been a completely different story?
I own a smartphone, but do not use it. It stays at home during the day and only comes with me during road trips (for use in the event I'm stranded). I don't check email on it, nor social media (and I'm not on Facebook).

Friends and family who want to contact me can call (or leave a message) on my landline, drop by for a visit, or meet up somewhere like a coffee shop (where I ask that their phone is put away).

The people that matter keep in contact frequently, and we have more meaningful interaction and conversations where everyone can enjoy the moment. Just like in the 1990s.
Yea. That’s a common input that I get often.

BUT, a lot of my musically-inclined folks having gone hearing aid have to experienced and then commented on superiority of analog hearing aid over digital; and analog are continuous spread spectrum, and I concur.

I suspect the narrow channelization / narrow pass filter but multiple of them to blame in digital hearing aids. Analog however takes more power consumption to perform at same dB output.
> Isn't the whole premise of modern social media to get you to engage in stuff you would not normally engage in

I think "whole premise" is a bit of an exaggeration, but there is only so much "organic" engagement to be had. Some social media (e.g. Tumblr) don't try to reach too far beyond that. They're content in their niche. Facebook and TikTok, on the other hand, have infinite ambition and infinite appetite for engagement. They're well beyond the point where they need to employ manipulative dark patterns (and keep inventing new ones!) to keep those numbers up.
Or Gentoo with their"slot"s.
> I think you mean they switched to using the DTAG network as upstream - essentially giving them the same treatment as their customers in Germany. And also disconnecting from local internet exchanges in the process.

Yes, this is what I was trying to say. It's a while ago, so perhaps I remembered the details incorrectly.
Addiction becomes more problematic when 'everyone is doing it', as you say with food/games, these are things everywhere in society and are hard to get away from. I'd say it's just as difficult to get away from social media since there is no general stigma that it is bad.
"This is just wrong. Innocents being injured or killed while testing this tech is more akin to a negligent murder"

Meatbags do it all the time.

Two people die in a car accident every minute [0] and nobody cares.
(Actually, two and a half, but that's just too gory.)

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi...
Is there a reason why you wouldn't be able to use environment variables for this? Or am I misunderstanding your issue?
This is how life was evolved. How you exist. 4 billion years of band-aid fixes, dead ends, cycle after cycle of living, trying, reproducing and dying. Beautiful, amazing, tragic, and full of terror. It's how the world works. Humans are just part of it.
Casteism is generally a smaller problem in urban areas and in South India, so technically casteism is a smaller problem in places like Bengaluru where the IT tech companies are based. A major reason for the issue might be based on the fact that there was a major immigration of upper caste Indians to the US around the time of the Cold War who kept to their old ways.
If you don't use the same Docker Compose file for Production, don't use it for Development. Your two different systems will diverge in behavior, leading you to troubleshoot two separate sets of problems, and testing being unreliable, defeating the whole "it just runs everywhere" premise.

Docker Compose is fine for running smoke tests/unit tests, but if Dev and Prod run differently, there's really no point to using Docker Compose other than developing without internet access.

(It goes without saying that Docker Compose only works on a single host, so that won't work for Prod if you need more than one host, but single-host-everything seems to be HN's current fetish)
I block distracting sites/apps from 6:30am-6:30pm, with browser extensions/app blockers.

It's a pretty simple and free solution, takes maybe 10 minutes to install and configure.

Yes there are fairly easy ways to get around the blocks, but 90% of the time I'm able to respect the block and so it saves hours of time daily.
eScooters do many things that the Segway didn't:

+ Have a reasonable price point. Hundreds, versus thousands.

+ Operates in the wet. Including the very wet, like hail. You can even test it offroad without necessarily needing to use the offroad equipment.

+ Familiarity. You don't need to learn to ride them, because it was likely you'd already ridden something similar.

+ It's easy to safely fall, when you inevitably make a mistake. You may not even hit the ground.

+ You can go a reasonable speed - you're not looking to replace walking, but jogging.

+ More familiarity. The imagery of riding a scooter is more of playing around and having fun, than dorkyness or awkwardness, because the device looks unfamiliar and like a new experience. Which makes you more likely to try it, at least once. More people trying it "just once" the more no one notices if you pick it up, because it becomes common.
Local stack seems to be invite only
I'd like to invite you to consider that with the (I would say) utilitarian view that one less death is an acceptable MVP, you are implicitly saying that you'd be ok with products being sold in the full knowledge that they would autonomously kill tens of thousands of people per year.

While it may be true that perfect is the enemy of good, there is also such a thing as setting the bar too low.
This.

The easy way, usually, is installing the previous keyring packages from the archive.

And maybe peruse the "news" page for any manual intervention required. There aren't many, so for a year of missed updates it should be quick enough.
I expect the same, but on the other hand many things related to X configuration have improved since then (dpi, multi-screen, etc), so I was hoping the result would be better. I need only xfce, appmenu and plank anyway.
same argument could be made for the .com bust in the early 2000s, and of the bankers for the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash, this is sensationalism. Money isn't real, things are worth whatever people are willing to pay for it and it doesn't have to make sense, its why we have things like fine art and luxury goods, value is subjective.
geometric algebra is replacing quaternions because GA handles tons of edge cases that quaternions don't?
SMS is part of the service frame - every time your phone talks to the cell tower to go "here I am, I am IMEI 12345 and I have sim ABCDE!" there is a 160-character frame for it to send a SMS message, and every time the tower goes "hello IMEI 12345/SIM ABCDE, I see that you are in cell ZXCV!" to track your equipment's location, there is a 160-character frame for it to send a SMS message to your phone.

Well, we can't just trust your phone that its plan is valid, so there is also a service frame where the tower says "Sorry 12345/ABCDE, your plan is inactive!" that uses the same frame... and it has a 160-character frame for SMS too.

SMS is literally free for providers to implement, it is just an inherent part of the phone's ping/pong process of talking to towers. So there is certainly no requirement for an active plan of any kind. As long as your phone is on the network it is notionally capable of sending or receiving an SMS, the provider just won't let it... but usually service messages ("your plan is inactive, go to this website to top up!") will be allowed.

This is on top of emergency service - 911 calls (or local equivalents) will work regardless of plan status. Actually I'm not even sure you need a SIM card at all, or if that can be done simply by IMEI...

Basically: just because a sim doesn't have an active plan, doesn't mean the SIM or the phone isn't active itself. There is still information interchange happening, and that carries SMS frames.
A monastery built atop Neolithic structures clearly points to the mostly-forgotten invasion of the pixies’ domain by human settlers. They didn’t always live in the barrows and the standing stones, you know. Those are simply their last retreat into holdfasts that humans do not know how to enter. As with most territory wars, it was far from bloodless. I agree that calling it a genocide is a stretch.

But the pixies remember. That’s why they sometimes lead unwary travelers astray. The humans who live there now, some of them anyway, are aware of the pixies’ presence if not the full history, and try to keep relations friendly by offering gifts. An uneasy truce has been maintained this way for millennia.

Personally, I think they’re biding their time until the humans go virtual, uploading our minds into our own rune-carved megaliths; running on silicon and freeing up space. At that point the situation will be poetically reversed: the pixies will re-inhabit their ancient lands, this time without any bloodshed or battles. We will retreat of our own free will. There are, however, whispers of rumors that the clever, headlong rush towards the singularity is not driven by human minds alone…
Unless your 22 years of experience included observations of "most developers from Asia", then your comment went far beyond your experience in a way that was guaranteed to be provocative. It's hardly a borderline call to say that that is flamebait.

Flamebait with racial/ethnic/national generalization is just about the biggest provocation there is. It's bog-standard forum moderation to ask users not to do this. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I get that some people don't like tinkering. They want something that will always Just Work. Some of my friends who were long time linux uses switched to macs and stayed there.

MacOS wasn't that for me- brew was the cause of no shortage of pain, but even that could have been lived with. It's also not exactly stable- one company I worked for (about 7 years total) had a blanket request that people not update OSX to new versions for a few weeks or months while it was tested to make sure that the bugs had been ironed out- anyone who upgraded before then was on their own if they ran into issues.

Even that, I could (and did, when I had to) tolerate.

I hate the UI. It doesn't jive with how I want to operate. Settings exist for some things, but not others. It's just not my cup of tea, and I'm happier tinkering a bit to get exactly what I want.
First thing I noticed as well! I think nowadays younger developers mostly simply equate "web frontend" with "React" subconsciously. :)
There's really not very much magic involved. The root filesystem is just a collection of directories and files. The kernel is just a binary blob, usually stored in /boot. You perhaps need an initial ramdisk tailored to your configuration, but that's usually just running a script. The only really arcane bit is bootloading the kernel. With modern x86 systems EFI does it, and so you just need a correctly formatted fat32 EFI partition.
Someone gets seriously injured. Has surgery, lives! Years later has complications. Needs more extensive treatment. Lives! Years later later has even more complications, dies.

Is the moral of that story "never interfere" to you?

Nothing lasts forever. Maintenance is needed.

[edit to add timeline, per response comment]
I don't see how it's "transphobic" to acknowledge that transitioning is an attempted solution to a mental disorder that we should not be appearing to encourage people in. There is a difference between being accepting, kind, and equal in treatment towards trans people, and encouraging it with young people. It really is a different subject than "mere" sexuality.
Both of those statements are false: synthetic fuels exist now. Last I checked you could buy synthetic fuel for about 2-3 times what regular fuel of the same types cost. Germany was doing synthetic fuels in WWII. South Africa did them when under embargo for their racist policies. Now they are mostly used by racers - where allowed they are enough better to make a win against regular fuel (assuming great drivers and well tuned cars).
Thank you for fighting the good fight. Words (should) mean things!
Because we've been dealing with these issues for a long time and they have failed to create the dystopia's predicted. I will acknowledge that life has gotten worse for some people, but overall things have gotten better.

The dream of the panopticon has been realized- but it was not used to monitor people and force them into better behavior through fear of an all seeing eye. It's been used so that Amazon can charge you if you open a bag of chips in their store and start munching when you get your purchases.

Nuclear weapon stockpiles will always be there, but the overall counts have been decreasing. Anti missile technology has also gotten better over time.

The world faces crises, I won't deny that. But this isn't the first time that it has happened. There have been two world wars already, with devastating weapons unleashed in each one. There have been multiple plagues throughout history. Every time has been awful, but every time people have also been able to pull through and build a world that was arguably better than the one before.
Yeah they do.

Established companies will have at least one senior HR person who can OK that level of spend.

Small startups might need approval from from an exec like the CTO.

30-35% is pretty standard though so most companies will have a process for it.
> I never quite understood how competitive bidding processes usually end up with similar outcomes.

Its not competitive bidding processes; government contracting before competitive bidding became the norm with exceptions requiring justification was much more prone to this kind of failure (to the point where it wasn't even a newsworthy failure.)

> If the government needs a Dell server

IF the government needs a Dell server, there are generally exceptions to bidding requirements that would allow a sole-source purchase, direct from Dell. While this might have has much bureaucratic overhead as bidding arrangements, its completely different bureaucratic overhead.

OTOH, Dell mostly sells commodity servers; and the government rarely just wants to buy a server, it wants to but a server with specified forms of support. So, what actually happens even if the government official for whom the purchasing is being done expects that a Dell server with first party support from Dell would be the best option is that there is competitive bidding processes where vendors able to provide a commodity server with the necessary functionality and support bid.

Actually, that’s not really true either, because basically no government is doing competitive bids for a server. What they actually do for many things, and commodity servers and associated support would usually fall into it, is a have master contracts that are either sole-source or competitive bid with set prices and schedules for a high level part of government (GSA does this at the federal level, and some of them can be used by tribal, state, and local government as well, either generally or for specific uses; most states also do it at the state level, and individual state agencies and local governments also do it), and individual programs that need something just buy off the master contracts made above them. At the scale of a single server, if it wasn't off a master contract, they wouldn't have a high-formality post and bid, though if they didn't have a sole source justification they'd probably need to solicit quotes from multiple vendors.

> Quite why there isn’t competition I don’t know. Maybe writing bids really is that expensive?

It’s expensive for a genuine competitive bidding process, which tends to be long, drawnn out, and have a hard requirement for at least three bidders, at least two of whom will fail. Maybe not considered over the long term, with multiple opportunities, some of which succeed, put you have a lot at risk, and a long time between putting resource in and getting sales out, so not every business can do it.
yeah that's basically describing broadcast tv & radio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139615

Some prior discussion from a submission I made on the segway a few months ago
It is dead and has been replaced by atom, which at least has a valid media type!!1!

I guess the biggest problem with either is that it can be used both to deliver content, best consumed by some news reader, and it can help to just discover updates, without actually providing the content.

It seems to aspire to the former, with all added complexity involved, especially for the consumer. However, what would be needed most is the part that helps with discovery.

Imagine a browser that automatically picks up all feeds it comes across, and presents the user with a facebook-like timeline of interesting items as references to the original sources. With no activity required, but simple options "show less of this and more of that". Of course, why would a browser want to create that kind of user-engagement.
This post shows how to add send real-time notifications to your users in django.
As wonderful of an argument as just stating a 3 letter acronym is, which part of this article is FUD? And targeting what?