skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with you from a usability standpoint, and while it is possible to make this work well, for larger-scale services it is rarely without costs, and for the most part - people don't seem to care as much as you'd think.

While it can be frustrating, I doubt much revenue (relatively speaking) was lost due to this issue, which means for most apps and services, it will likely not get done.

(I'm not disputing the merit of your arguments, just explaining why this will rarely get done well in real life...)
Nice site, interesting.

Not relevant to Italy though, where trains (when they start, which is not a given) never-ever keep their schedule. Sigh!
>> I don't see how this could grow 100x.

This only means it's not large enough to be investible, that's not necessarily a problem and doesn't mean it's an inherently "bad" idea.

Small ideas can net the individuals that work on them just as much as working on large ideas... the workforce might be smaller but once you divide it up it's all the same. If the idea provides value to the world, you like it, and can grow it without investment, go for it.
They have a dedicated page where they offer torrents, so pick one of the currently available hostnames: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=libgen+torrent&ia=web

Obviously, folks can disagree on the "straightforward" part of your comment given the overwhelming number of files we're discussing
> Salaries in large urban districts are often well above area median, and when accounting for benefits and pension, quite impressive.

I'd disagree. Some anecdotal evidence - I'm from a HCOL suburban area with a nationally ranked public school system. Teachers here are generally considered "well-paid" by teacher salary standards. Many of the teachers in my area literally cannot afford to live here, and have to commute 30-40 minutes in.

My mom was a teacher there. She was making about $80k a year at the end of her career, with 2 masters degree and 20 years of experience teaching (so she was pretty much maxed out on her salary). Her pension is something like $20k a year (also maxed out due to her YOE). My dad was in between jobs for some time in there, and my parents, who are frugal people, struggled to make ends meet on just my moms salary, borrowing against their mortgage for the year while my dad was unemployed.
To add to this, the original Witcher is the game that made me decide I was never again going to install a game directly. It was going to be steam or gog, and I've kept to that over the years with few exceptions (rpg maker games, etc).

As a freelance developer I would run vmware with a dedicated partition for the VM. The VM was linux and the partition itself was either ext3 or reiserFS (can't remember).

Since Windows didn't recognize the partition, the DRM for witcher repartitioned that drive so it would have a "secret" partition to track who knows what.

That affected my ability to earn money and was doing things to my PC I would never have accepted if asked.

compared to that, steam is a godsend. I understand people complaining about steam, but to this day I'm still a huge fan of steam for what it forced the gaming industry to accept.

I still prefer GoG due to its policies, but steam is fantastic.
I'd say about 6 months.
Are there any ultra realism simulators for other professions (aside from soldier)? I’m thinking cargo ship captain, electrician, kindergarten teacher, phlebotomist, etc.
Gross. Individuals are responsible for avoiding spoilers, not the community. Having a fixed time when episodes become available probably causes more spoilers anyway, once that time passes it’s open season.

Plus that’s how disappointment and resentment are formed. You wait a week to watch the episode and then they kill off all the WW in a single episode, makes the years of build up feel like shit. If I could binge the season from the start I might not have stopped watching it because you are not sitting there almost expecting a letdown for the next week.
I don't mind a second chance for submissions, but resetting/falsifying the timestamps of comments is horrendous.
Been that, did that, and now I'm out.

FANG's are fundamentally mature, and the key thing to understand is "Price's Law" which states that half of the work is done by the square root of the people. It's a brutal reality, and you will find yourself with a tremendous amount of muck to deal with.

The first challenge is to respect this as a fundamental property of big companies and a self-fulfilling despair.

My advice is to focus on a period of time towards just building and maximizing wealth. Find opportunities, talk to people, do what is asked of you, try to push limits on making things better. Once you have a nice bank account, then you can take freedom.

That's the enduring aspect of golden handcuffs because it's brutal to be bored, but then you have more freedom to explore and pick better opportunities. Right now, I'm living a monastic code machine lifestyle and it's pretty great.

https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/07/02/the-path-of-the-mo...

The second challenge is the discipline to suffer. My bias is to accept that there will be a time in your life where you must maximize your discipline, build wealth, and then balance for the later years.

I'm 40 and basically retired. Granted, I want to improve my cashflow as I recently hired a private chef, but that's a great problem to have.
Thanks. I actually have this installed. It does so many things and is pretty incredible!
It's not all-or-nothing. We must be able to understand that nuclear disasters are bad while also not being overly freaked out by them.
> without ever having to work again by the age of 50.

While that may be true, it's important to note that the pension is only salary (and usually only 80% of your terminal salary) and not benefits.

So you'd spend a significant part of that money on getting health insurance.

Most teachers who have earned full pensions wait to retire until 67 anyway so they can get Medicare (and not Social Security, because they don't qualify for it since they have their pension unless they worked another job as well).
> Teaching in its rawest form has been automated away

Wishful thinking. If kids magically taught themselves there would be no schools. Some do. Most don't.
It would be great to see a resurgence in reading, or other forms of entertainment.
Belgium's system works way better than the Netherlands (or Germany's, both are very similar) btw. It's pretty good.
I just stopped reporting edid on my display and wow it looks so great now, thanks!
Probably gotta give it to RMS then. He's kinda the OG in this area. And if you must use the innovation parlance, then he is the innovator for pretty much all user freedoms on computers.
> TFA explains what DB cursors are and why they are faster than page offsets (because they skip DB entries)

Except that no such information appears in the article. Here's the entirety of the explanation:

>> Once you’ve been returned a cursor, you can provide it in your requests to act as a farther-along starting point within your data entries. The server is then able to efficiently skip all entries that come before your specified cursor value
> They were "ramming the boat," Storkson says. "They [hit] us repeatedly ... giving us the impression that it was a coordinated attack."

Sounds exactly like the beginning of that ScFi book The Swarm :)
> I can download any show or movie I want

The golden age of movie piracy has already passed. It is becoming quite hard to pirate 10y+ movies at a good quality. Also, streaming services do offer remastered film versions rarely available for pirates.
Nice work on a cool side project! Just my 2c, but I would find this more useful as a place to validate and support early pain-points, as opposed to solutions. Validating that a genuine burning pain exists for a small group of people - with access to early adopters - would be really helpful, and I think would provide a nice play to do discovery. Going solution-first puts the cart before the horse imo.
Sometimes we all need to be slapped with a fish in the face in order to see how credulous we are with our biases.
This is the system working as it should. When you are a physician, you have an incredibly high burden of care towards your patients, and you have an ethical and a deontological obligation (in some cases a legal one, though doctors do have a lot of leeway, for patient-centred care, in Canada) to give them the highest standard of care.

As far as I can tell, these are all examples of serious breaches of this duty. These physicians didn't just accidentally cross some fuzzy line, or slip off a tight rope. They were way off in their conduct. Heck, with the exception of one, they apparently didn't even show up in court.

In all of the above cases, it is the public and the patients who are being protected.
This is a huge concern to me. Not sesame street, but that only popular content is being retained on these services. It feels like the opposite of what a digital library should accomplish. We are losing niche content which is arguably the most interesting. Instead we get a bunch of watered down mass appeal content.
Sure, and the excess deaths above help a lot in doing that.

Still, while waiting for patients to die is an cheap way to shorten backlogs, it does leave not instill confidence…
There's a finite amount of tax money available, so disproportionately allotment to a few special children effectively robs the other children of resources.
Sure but I've heard it claimed that even being asked to step on the scales by your doctor is an example of fat-shaming or a body-shape obsessed culture. Granted in some cases (where the reason for the visit is clearly not weight-related, as per examples in the article) it's possibly something we should be calling out, though I'd think the doctor's attitude and demeanor is key.
It’s a bit more complicated. Normally with our friends we split the bill in half 50/50 no matter what we order. These friends though always pick wine much more expensive than we would.

I like my friends, but they are wine snobs.
Someone could say that maybe we started giving something to people around that time?
But it also leaves you hanging, I bet more shows get dropped because people watch a filler episode and feel like they spent a week getting excited for no reason, or worse the anticipation creates a recipe for letdown. Like watching porn before having sex.
Books provide a primitive form of automated teaching, although we've expanded on the concept considerably since the advent of the book.

You have not heard of automated teaching as a thing because we invent names for automation. The automated kitchen servant isn't called an automated kitchen servant, it's called a dishwasher (among others).

Likewise, automated teachers are not called automated teachers. They are given names, depending on the teaching method at play. Automated teacher is used here as a generalization as the specific automation is immaterial.
This article has a bit more information and terminology.

There used to be advice around "progressive disclosure" in conversation. You say something e.g. very-slightly-risky to disclose, while also asking e.g. a less-risky-to-answer question. The other person then has a choice of gradient toward more or less disclosure or inquiry, and whether to answer or ask more.
The agreed upon Bible wasn't formalized for centuries after the books themselves were finalized. And denominations, to this day, disagree about which books are canonical.

Also, almost every Bible is a translation of source material in Greek or Aramaic into the reader's language. Over time, the manuscripts used for translations has changed, as manuscripts have been discovered and compared, which has meaningfully changed the content of editions over time. The best contemporary editions have copious footnotes on how the source material was reconciled.

If you want to dig into this, the Wikipedia article has a lot to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Christian_canon...

The podcast History in the Bible is also a very interesting secularist exploration of the origins of the Biblical books and the process by which the canon (or really canons) emerged: https://www.historyinthebible.com/
Update from original tweeter:

> Long story short: Two features (one from iOS 12, one from iOS 16), and one name: Continuity Camera.

https://twitter.com/eternalstorms/status/1560304401922854920...
I suspect they never did care about this issue at all but they're trying to walk a tightrope trying not to piss off foreign investors (IIRC Goldman Sachs partners had something to say about this law) and the core PAP voter base, which tends to skew heavily in favor of "conservative/family values" and against this.

Then again, times may be a a-changing.
It is weird that we are willing to spend $600 a year on something that is essentially a distraction, really a negative influence on our lives (not to get on a soap box, though, I do it too and I also buy alcohol and junk food, similarly bad for you and costly).
Many others predicted excess deaths owing to people skipping regular checkups/missing out on cancer treatments, etc etc. This was widely reported and debated as a cost of lockdowns. It's implausible that there would not be excess deaths owing to this effect. In which case, the question shouldn't be: "what is causing these excess deaths?", but "are there _excess_ excess deaths?". I.e. are there deaths which _can't_ be explained by several years of significant numbers of people not seeing their GPs?

Added: I do agree that we shouldn't assume that mRNA vaccines are safe just because we want them to be, and large scale studies are required. But then large scale studies are, of course, happening. There'll be NHS reports on the long term effects of these vaccines for decades.
This is a weird kind of reflection/parallel to the Powell Memorandum from 1971:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...

> Business has been the favorite whipping-boy of many politicians for many years. But the measure of how far this has gone is perhaps best found in the anti-business views now being expressed by several leading candidates for President of the United States.

> It is still Marxist doctrine that the “capitalist” countries are controlled by big business. This doctrine, consistently a part of leftist propaganda all over the world, has a wide public following among Americans.

> Yet, as every business executive knows, few elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate stockholders. If one doubts this, let him undertake the role of “lobbyist” for the business point of view before Congressional committees. The same situation obtains in the legislative halls of most states and major cities. One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence with respect to the course of legislation and government action, the American business executive is truly the “forgotten man.”
This cherry picks what's traditional.

In the late 1800s, the term "yellow journalism" was coined to describe completely fake news published by Hearst and Pulitzer. (There were good yellow journalists on both sides.)

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

People seem to think that we had general consensus in the 1950s. Watching TV was easier than reading and had better pictures than radio. Yes, the television news tri-opoly of the time managed to feed Americans more or less the same pap. People were told the same "news" and told to buy the same products. Unless those people lived in the south, of course.

https://southernspaces.org/2004/television-news-and-civil-ri...

I reject this forced consensus. I don't want the public to be fed propaganda for another cold war and like it (thanks, TV's big 3!). I'd rather have a thinking public that gets lots of things wrong and rarely agrees than a captive, mesmerized public that thinks "all the right things" because someone told them to.
There is very much such a thing as “cloud computing”. The “cloud” isn’t just a bunch of VMs. There is an entire offering on top of the VMs. Your average consumer is not going to spin up a bunch of Linode VMs and create their own backup solutions.
Isn't the problem with the NHS that you don't have enough doctors?

Money can solve that, but it isn't the only option.
Fair enough. I don't really care for movies, so I wouldn't go through that trouble, but I don't recall having encountered any audio CD with copy protection. Would those work in a regular, old-style cd-player, like, say, in a stereo?
Instead of the cursor being an ID, it could directly encode whatever column(s) you are sorting by. Then you don’t have to locate any record in particular, you can always return records that sort after the cursor.
Is that worse that believing that people should be judged by their understanding of the deeper meanings behind the AMC prestige crime television series Breaking Bad?
It's made me sit back and wait until the season or series ends. I prefer to watch on my schedule rather than theirs.
On the bright side, there's more opportunity and mobility in the UK. Just have to get off your ass and hustle.

But that's something most people don't use or even like. A stable job and better safety nets are preferred, and here DE/FR/etc excel.
I was most surprised that HBO Max is merging with Discovery+. Given enough time all these splintered streaming services will probably end up as one again just trying to make the bottom line work.
It is to an extent. I'm not saying acme.sh is bad just that if there is a tool in Go, Rust or C that does the same thing and is more efficient then I'm picking something that isn't wrapped in a bunch of shell code. Same with tiny webservers.
VPNs are for securely connecting to machines on an internal network from an external one. Apple isn't a part of your internal network so this isn't actually an issue.
I disagree with the threshold you mention. 50k£/year isn't exactly "rich", and even less so given the current conditions with regards to inflation, housing prices being through the roof, etc.
Good point on that, as a potential motivation for more pixels.
> Uber has engaged in some pretty "creative" (i.e. unethical) business tactics to muscle their way into the taxi industry while avoiding both regulations and the payment of decent wages. They moved fast, but it was only a matter of time before government regulators (and their own reputation) caught up to them. Transportation is, indeed, something that's going to go back up in price in the short-term, if only because Uber and the Uber-wannabe's were using a business model that was never sustainable. I'd expect considerable contraction of this market as multiple companies fight each other for dwindling profits.

I want to push back on calling Uber's methods to avoiding regulations to be unethical, separately from discussing the wages. When they were starting, taxis had regulatory capture with their de facto monopoly. Lobbying over many decades prevented fair and healthy competition for out-of-date reasoning (like medallions and landmark tests). To break this corruption required illegal (and gray area) techniques, but I don't think it's unethical to destroy something that is unethical itself. Not all positive change can happen from following all the laws. Had they gotten shut down in the beginning, I think that would have been a major societal negative, and other ride-share companies coming on their coattails would not have happened.
That depends on where you live. In the Midwest, most (if not all) parochial private schools pay teachers substantially less than the public schools pay teachers. And it isn’t like the public school teachers are making enough either. But to say private school teachers get paid well is very incorrect for the large midwestern cities
use grouped targets https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Multiple-... rather than sentinel.
I'll bite. What is the mechanism by which the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine could harm peoples health months or years down the line?
The middle ground fallacy does not apply here. It only applies when one of the two things being considered is incorrect.
Air Force may put Angry Kitten in planes for electronic warfare edge
I think both Windows and MacOS are in weird places. Linux is Linux and I don’t see it suddenly becoming a better option for the masses any time soon so I don’t know what the solution is.

MacOS could be great with some small tweaks to the finder and modernization of how windows, full screen, and external displays function. They just need to do a comprehensive rethink here because it is clunky.

Windows is actually for maybe the first time in decades not that clunky anymore—yay! But Microsoft is still Microsoft and bugs are plentiful. For every bug they kill they implement two more. And not just small edge cases, normal every day functionality just won’t work for multiple releases. Outlook crashes when I pin an email? Xbox app won’t download game updates? And then there are all of the house ads, but those can usually be hidden away.

Linux, well, is Linux. I get it, you have it setup perfectly, for you. And it is super stable, for you. And it has come a long way in usability, for you. It just isn’t a suitable alternative for your average user.

Both Apple and Microsoft I think are taking for granted their operating systems because they are not the revenue drivers they once were. Instead they are the platform that all their revenue drivers hang on to.
> it's available for a limited time, maybe 1 week, maybe the last few episodes, then it's removed

As Gabe Newell famously said about Steam, the solution to piracy is not DRM, it's making a service which is better than piracy. Hence, the success of Steam, and the iTunes Store, and so on.

The above model is not better than piracy. It's far worse, and it costs more, and so the return of popular piracy is inevitable. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
if they did countries wouldnt ban vaccines being used for < 18 or < 40 etc.
Saw musical improve live in the 1990s. One keyboardist live to accompany. Not a musician so I can't say about expected chord changes vs. transposition, etc.
https://usesummit.com/
It may not be obvious why it failed, but it should be obvious that it did fail.
This has a lot of good insight, but I was struck by how differently I experience

> “What’s up?” is one of the most dreadful texts to get; it’s short for “Hello, I’d like you to entertain me now.”

The typical response to "What's up?" from myself and, uh, nearly everyone I know, is some variation on

"Not much! What's up with you?" or

"[trivial recent happening, quickly related] So, what's been going on with you?"

...and that's because "What's up?" is nearly universally a way to prompt someone to ask you that question back, so you can tell them about the thing you really want to say without it seeming sudden or forced.
Looking at bigger/higher res monitors getting worse "ratings" over here (obviously they use more power lol), yeah these labels are dumb as hell.
At least NetBSD make (also used by FreeBSD, and packaged as bmake in some distros) has the same optimization:

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-9/usr.bin/make/com...
Your soul doesn't die, but there is moral injury and it can heal. I spent a decade in big tech letting my soul languish with a few spurts of expression, and it took a solid six months and ketamine for my soul to flourish.

At this point, I can't even express how grateful I am and full of joy since my life is just so great. Yes, I suffered, but it is was so worth it.

Here is the core problem in my life: I hired a private chef which tilts the retirement math out of whack, but I have three decades to solve this problem. It's a fantastic problem to have, and if I had taken opportunities to be happy then I couldn't be here maximizing my own personal creativity.

Right now, I'm building my own platform to mess around and have fun: https://www.adama-platform.com/ and I'm exploring the nature of what I like to make and embracing myself for random detours.
FTX grew revenue 1k% during the crypto craze