skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficulty with this argument is what we mean by "quality". It's tautological to state that hierarchies select for "qualities that enable you to be higher on the hierarchy"; it's much more debatable as to the nature of those qualities (and, indeed, that the existence of the hierarchy itself doesn't change the fitness surface, so that the advantageous qualities are different to what they might have been without it). See, eg, the amount of energy antlered deer (especially males) expend on having large, healthy antlers, purely to compete with other male deer. "Having large antlers" is a "quality" that has very little adaptive value outside of the conditions created by the fact of a hierarchy itself.
No, I am talking about real UI update and rendering, with all the complications, bells and whistles.
I do something similar, though I use the "defaults" as the starting point and add overrides in local files which aren't checked in. Something like this:

# .dotfiles/.bashrc
# shared baseline config...
if [ -f ~/.bashrc.local ]; then
. ~/.bashrc.local
fi
I send everything to Pocket.
NASA delays launch of its SLS rocket amid engine issue
> We can deal with the ecological issues.

This is a refrain heard so often (as a wild herd of fifty thousand elephants goes trumpeting through downtown Salt Lake City).
Contracting for US-based companies.
Speaking of trackpad issues, I resolved mine using this utility on Fedora.

https://gitlab.com/kirbykevinson/libinput-config
An interesting way of expressing a pretty simple idea: if some small group cares about something that doesn't matter much to anyone else, they're likely to get their way. And why not? If nobody else cares, then it doesn't matter whether this vocal minority gets their way or not.
Many online communities have financial value because they trade eyeballs for ad dollars. What is the financial value of a digital community like HN? Is there a way to estimate its worth in dollars?
CSS Classes Considered Harmful
How the Zoox robotaxi predicts everything, everywhere, all at once
>Quite a few

Good, then you know that everything classified is only for protecting important things and not hiding embarrassing things right?

>Yea sure. Totally. Nuclear secrets, CIA operative locations, all plans and contingencies and movement of assets across the globe.

Why not? The point of a clearance is to prevent foreign spying, not government oversight. Do you not believe all Americans are equal before the law?
Its not designed for crew to exit the ship once it lands on mars.

I do not have high hopes in that design.
Most people's phone internet usage is like 95% on apps like Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok etc. and they are well used to their ads.
Brave ads and the crypto rewards are opt-in.
My point is that a lot of them aren’t experts, they’re just educated enough to sound like one.
So, "The biggest advertising company in the world cracks down on [...] adblockers."

I don't understand why people are surprised about this.
check roadmap section. if someone was trying to follow that road map there should be at least minimal activity.
Ask HN: What is modern data stack?
Effect of Endowments on Financial Aid, Admissions, and Student Composition
I'm missing one very important cost on the contractor side: unemployment insurance. I don't know about German law but in the Netherlands all the numbers are comparable, except that your employer is required to insure you against loss of income. This insurance runs up to 1/3 of your insured income, which would put your taxable income at about 87.000. Of course you don't _have_ to take this insurance but if you want an honest comparison it should be included on both sides.
UK government projects suffered significantly from Waterfall planning, with nothing to show for it at the end.

This lead to the Government Digital Service who cite the failings of Waterfall.

> Using waterfall methods means you may spend 18 months building a service that no longer meets government policy, cannot work with the latest technology and does not meet users' needs.

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery/agile-gover...
Well, the cookie popups are only there because of regulation.

You are right about all the rest.
The solution to a problem is never the commercialization of sentient beings.
Is it that different? You're pouring hundreds of millions into a single private company, enriching its share holders, and some of the money is making its way through various state's industries.

There's just less of a democratic process behind distributing the taxpayer's money.
With Firefoxes market share continuously declining, and AFAICT no real indication they're going to be able to turn things around, I fear it's only a matter of time before they pull an Edge/Opera and turn into another Chromium reskin to cut costs.
Not today we’re not:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/world/nasa-artemis-1-launch-s...
Those things don't add up to a factor of ten thousand.

Off topic, but why do you consistently spell "which" as "witch"? I sympathise if it's ESL, but if so: the latter refers to pointy hats and pentagrams, not a determiner.
I wonder what the issue is/was. As an aside we seem to be having storms developing in the Atlantic for what has otherwise been a very quiet hurricane season so I wouldn't be surprised if Artemis has to be moved back to the VAB and we miss the next launch window (Sep 2).

As excited as I am about the prospect of another super-heavy launch vehicle and a manned return to the Moon, the whole SLS/Orion project still feels like a giant waste of money. We're $40 billion in and each SLS launch costs ~$4B.
There have been some Defense missions that sent “unlabeled” payloads to LEO, but I agree with you. The learning and takeaways from Nasa launches are highly underestimated here in the comments. Also, ask any Nasa engineer if they’re in a dead end job/industry; you’d be remise to find one.
Iceland's deserts (yes, deserts) are turning purple
The references in the comments to germ theory and the bible make clear a more serious problem: once you've created such a manual, how do you get whoever it's aimed at to care? Why should they respect you as a source of knowledge and not someone within their civilization?

To the extent that we have a "manual for civilization" in the present day - and there are lots of really unresolved questions! - the same problem applies.
I still enjoy the Thinkpad T series. They’re older and not sold new but they’re tough as rocks and meant to be user serviceable. Plus, reduce, reuse and all that.

If you’re doing bleeding edge graphics engine programming or ML it wouldn’t be my first choice unless you can deal with an external GPU.
I don't use ad blockers, I only block trackers. So if you want me to see your adds better not try to track me. If your site complaints about it, then I don't see any reason to use it.
Not OP, but front end JavaScript frameworks are the first thing that comes to mind as an inefficient antipattern that was forced into the dev mindshare by (effective) mega-cap marketing and jr devs who didn’t know any better.
It’s funny how they rationalized SLS for the longest time because Falcon Heavy and Dragon 2 hadn’t flown yet.
Yeah, Son is pushing the limit of diversifying. 300m in Wag and billions in Wework?

Maybe it doesn't matter because it is the stupid money from Saudi.

But he is destroying his reputation and Softbank's. But then again the reputation might not matter since they have stupidly huge money.
Have you tried this in Kerbal Space Program? Refueling is one thing, but once you start assembling stuff in orbit, things get more complicated.
It’s fun to see nasa “facts” vs others. The nasa “countdowns” are comically unreliable - when you get to x minutes left in the countdown there are NOT x minutes left. They should just call their stuff phases.

Listening to nasa administrator Nelson go on about how effective SLS is - also a bit mind warping. On what measure?

The Biden admin has some bug going on about spaceX - Kathy got demoted / sidelined a bit at NASA after doing commercial crew - she or many others in nasa far better administrators. Instead we get sn old white guy Nelson - and I’m an old white guy. His claim to fame is sls support. Ugh
Obama wanted to get rid of Constellation and did not want SLS.

He knew that there needs to be a new approach. And the new approach he put in place works excellently.
I wonder if there would be a market for something like ublock, but instead of removing the ads, it removes just the content and puts it on an entirely new page - a bit like 'reader mode'. Obviously it would probably need logic for every web page, but that could be croudsourced
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine
From my understanding, I won't say about myself that I am an introvert. Like I don't feel uncomfortable on a stage or talking to people. It's more like I just don't have a need to stay in focus or like getting much attention. That's maybe part of the problem too. Like someone else mentioned, you cannot seperate completely the attention of my project from my person, but I would like to. So it's not directly that I am uncomfortable with attention. But first of all I think one have to deserve it. It's often the problem, like the loudest get more attention, besides they shouldn't get it. Difficult to say all, most comments pointed more the problem out: I am really in between, like to want attention and on the other side not.
I thought the same and rewrote this in JavaScript running on the client only

https://bunkerbewohner.github.io/js-up-goer-five/
Issue with one of the engines.
Startup's Modified Trees Grow Faster, Store More Carbon
It's a valid argument in the context of the comment being replied to. If you look at the parent comment, you will see that they are specifically claiming that TikTok is different than other social media companies in its intrusion on privacy.

>No it does not apply just as well to almost any social media.

>TikTok is unique in its control of the user experience, its use of data, and its popularity.
How did you hold the items securely while sanding them down? Standard hand vices or some kind of custom jigs?
I have the XPS 13 Dev Edition (9310, from mid 2021) and replaced Ubuntu with Arch Linux.

1. The fingerprint reader needs some older and/or patched versions of the corresponding tools/daemon. I fixed it upon setup, but don't really use it so didn't bother checking if this works now with the latest vanilla versions.

2. Something related to Bluetooth causes random CPU lockups (I think the kernel/driver is the culprit), so I have it disabled.

(3. IIRC the Wifi wasn't properly supported by the mainline kernel for some time upon release - but I bought the laptop quite late into the product cycle, so this didn't affect me)

4. The WiFi chip does not support promiscuous mode

If it was really as Linux-compatible as the ads suggest, everything would work out of the box with mainline kernel & upstream versions of user-space tools.

Mostly they probably should have picked a better supported WiFi/BT combo chip (e.g. something from Intel) instead of using a chip that barely works (yes, it's soldered on and I the dev variant probably has the same PCB as the non-dev variant).

Besides that, the UX is quite good. As you say, sleep works well (but I'm expecting that from any decent laptop; I know, I'm expecting too much). The touchscreen is awesome in Chromium (too bad Firefox doesn't touch-scroll, but maybe that can be reconfigured in about:config).

[edit] light rephrasing, added 4. + last two paragraphs.
I used to deploy SPAs like this and I consistently had problems with cloudfront's cache clearing. Projects would not update for random amounts of time and at different times for different clients. I thought I was pretty good a trouble shooting stuff like this but over months of effort I could never get it to work update when I invalidated the cloudfront cache no despite trying many different approaches.

In the end I have switched to hosting on Netlify, which is easier to set up, not that I particularly care about that, but when I deploy my live site updates immediately.
It is a percentage. Smallpox kills roughly 30% of infected people. Doesn't really matter if if 100k, 1M, 10M or 100M are infected. Roughly 30% of them will die.
NASA Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed
I don’t know the numbers, but I suspect between the PG era and now, the size of this community has increased by at least an order of magnitude. Probably a lot more.

For sure things have evolved, but this site and community is still working afaict. I suppose it depends on what minority opinions you’re referring to.
I bought a fairly beefed up Dell xps 15 a year ago and put Ubuntu on it as I usually do. It's an amazing laptop with the only drawback being shockingly crappy battery life. Not sure if this is the laptop's fault though or Linux power management. I mostly use it docked so it's not a big deal for me. Overall I'm super satisfied.
>>massive ponzi scheme

I am pretty sure that is the case for almost all the economies of the world that are based on fiat currency combined with debt fueled growth. Which is pretty much all of them.

At some point this dangerous game of musical chairs of sovereign debt will end, and it will be bad for all of humanity
My personal laptop is Dell XPS13 Developer ed. It's nearly a year old and works like a charm I can install anything I want, I can watch whatever. Battery wise last a lot.. 5-8h average depending on what I'm doing.

At work I'm force to use a MacBook, a lot of dev tools don't work very well or doesn't work, every dev has different weird issues, every other day we have a different thing that doesn't work some of us had to request to replace the MBP for a different one because it was very slow and the battery only last 2h if you are lucky.
You ate my back button on iPhone and I couldn’t return.
The reasons why it's postponed matter. It was not weather, but clearly technical issues the program is struggling with.

50 Years ago...With less experience, more challenging technical issues, doing something never done, the Kennedy Space Center to the Moon line, had no scrubs and typical schedule delay was 1 second. Think about that...

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37482/reason-of-ap...

"...Only Apollo 17 had a long launch delay of 2 hours 40 minutes, Apollo 14 of 40 minutes. Most delays were less than a second..."
I don't know it first-hand but from conversations I had with a deflector and friends in South Korea it's hard to overstate how devastating the feeling of a North Korean in the "free world" must be when he/she discovers that there is actually no purpose provided to him/her.

South Korea helps deflectors with "integration" and initial funding. But your prior education is of little value, you have no network and are stuck in a alien world without knowledge how it works.
If you can't find a sustainable way to make money for yourself, noone cares. You will lose everything and end up on the streets.

With such a prospect it's not surprising that some want to return to North Korea, mostly when their money is gone. It doesn't necessarily mean North Korea is better or more social, it's just more familiar and predictable to people who grew up there.

Good read on that matter, albeit ~10 yrs old now: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Facing the Devil’s Test: The Truth According to René Girard [pdf]
Some things I'm silent about, other things I'm not.

Articles like this often fail to differentiate that there usually isn't one large blob of people that are chatty about all the things all the time. Usually individuals have their own specific issues that they're interested in and passionate about and will default to the consensus or be fine with any option for the rest of it.
HN's active but not obtrusive moderation is pretty special. dang's gift for patient explanations is quite special. Not unique, but worth note because its so rare and worth emulation.
> then the value of all currencies relative to goods and services will fall. Owning anything which produces goods and services, at any price, becomes a good bet

You’re describing inflation. OP describes accounting trickery around currency conversion.

In the short run, yes, inflation boosts revenue.
This is well known and why equities are a decent inflation hedge. Decent because in the medium term, as in months, inflation raises producer costs. (Supply-side inflationary pressure, what we saw in the early recovery, raises producers’ prices before consumers’.)

> a negative discount rate

Inflation doesn’t cause negative discount rates.

Also, negative discount rates don’t produce infinite valuations. DCF is a chained present-value calculation. $100 in 5 years discounted at -4% is worth $123 today [1]. (This is how inflation compounds.)

That bet, however, requires not only negative rates today, but assurance of that being the case for the next five years. If you’re getting infinities, you’re using a simplified model which assumes r > 0.

> seeing the beginnings of a worldwide currency crisis

This doesn’t make sense. Fundamentally. Currency crises are a relative phenomenon.

You can posit some other crisis, like a worldwide collapse of governments, the sort gold bugs and now crypto peddlers have pitched for centuries. But there is no more evidence of that now than there was in the 19th century.

[1] 100 / (1 -4%) ^ 5
Perfection is the enemy of good enough.

I don't know how old you are, but someday, you are going to be approaching seventy years old, and look back on the long arch of your life and realize how much effort you put into things that didn't really matter at all, and didn't put enough effort into the things that do, like art, love, and friendship.

I've spent the last forty years of my life working on embedded systems in telecom, on technologies that reigned in the marketplace for some brief period of time, then were relegated to the dustbin of history. My father-in-law worked at IBM, and within ten years of his retirement, everything he ever worked on was obsolete.

Other than fundamental math and physics, everything is ephemeral.

Love, art, family, and friends will endure. All else is dust within the span of your lifetime.
I doubt the scripts are simple, it’s not easy to make such things idempotent.
That's quite an interesting approach. And congratulations on getting Meta to sponsor your project. Even if they are only giving you $9/month it must still feel like quite the validation.
Relatable.

I have the same problem, except it's not "I'm jealous that somebody gets more attention" but rather "I don't get attention and I have no idea how to change that". Doesn't looks like I'm the only person with this kind of issue, either.

I often see high-effort blog posts with, like, one or two comments under each post. Sometimes none at all.

To give a related example: https://twitter.com/tom7 does super high effort funny things for SIGBOVIK — e.g. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDxjbXAqTPg — and yet his personal blog of 20 years at http://radar.spacebar.org/ has at most 5–10 comments per post.

I used to have 500 followers on Twitter and they would respond to things sometimes/often... and even then I felt like the attention would be very lukewarm. In the end I gave up, deleted the account, and decided that I'm just not going to rely on strangers for attention at all. I still think it's possible, it's just that I personally either don't know how to do it, or have some kind of a background issue (ADHD? anxiety? attachment issues? something else starting with A?) that prevents me from somehow asking for attention naturally/consistently. At least that's my current theory.

Eh.
Block Ads on iOS on DNS-level using .mobileconfig profiles
Encrypted DNS Party
These are encrypted DNS over HTTPS (and some DNS over TLS) configuration profiles for Apple devices created for your convenience. I can recommend using their mullvad-adblock-doh.mobileconfig for hassle-free DNS-level adblocking on iOS.
I open the link -- the whole page is covered with a message I could barely get closed "WEVE DETECTED AN ADBLOCKER" meanwhile the key piece of the article is someone else's YouTube video. How many people would be looking at this article if they weren't freeloading off someone else's content and it had no A/V? Give me a break.
To me it looks very real: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rvmKpUhryN6qQmNffvqnXH-970...
> something that was specifically tested during the dress rehearsal

Something that should have been tested during the wet dress rehearsal, but because of a hydrogen leak issue, they never completed the wet dress and this was not tested.

Hmm, skipping tests. SHIP IT.
On Android, I've become a fan of Kiwi browser - It's a chromium fork that includes the ability to install chrome extensions on mobile. I've been able to keep the same extensions for ublock origin, bypass paywalls, and just read that I do on my desktop chrome environment.

It's open source as well.
I use RPi 3B because of lower power consumption than 3B+, 4B... It is around 300mA. I connect power cable to USB from router that has 500mA output. It works great.

RPi 3B+ has sometimes problem with stability because of higher power consumption.

Official power supply of RPi is 2,6A if I remember correctly, so 3,5 is not even possible?

Btw, many routers support sleep mode. It is not necessary to run router/connected RPi 24/7.
Ok. Fair enough. I will definitely give Odin a try.
The GDPR cookie pop-ups that make navigation on mobile often nearly impossible was a major assault in the remaining open web. The EU bureaucrats that drafted it never created anything constructive in their lives, only regulated. As a result, less and less of the independent web is getting traffic, everything is consolidating in TikTok, Instagram and similar apps
> "...Only Apollo 17 had a long launch delay of 2 hours 40 minutes, Apollo 14 of 40 minutes. Most delays were less than a second..."

NASA is out of practice (and it's not being run by Germans anymore).
no story. just stopped caring.
https://brave.com/speed-reader/
There’s a lot to explore in the solar system. Several satellites orbiting every planet and several interesting moons. Building “smarter” robotic missions to explore…

Seriously, with a little imagination …
In my perception (i come from Soviet Union), the most "East European" Eastern European country is Slovakia. When someone says "Eastern Europe" that's what comes to my mind. Czechia is too rich and too liberal, Poland is too religious and too conservative, Romania has too many issues with minorities and simply does not constitute a single picture (different parts of country look like different continents), Serbia is hopelessly stuck in the past and developed a hermit mentality, Hungary is a true oddball in every sense of it, but mainly is that it has it's own imperial past - not one of it's occupiers - so does not match the humble, hardworking and simple "East European" image.
According to SpaceFlightNow

> “SCRUB. NASA launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson has called off today's Artemis 1 launch attempt due to an issue with an engine bleed on the core stage.”
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/08/29/artemis-1-launch-live-...

Given the other issues (crack in the interstage section, comm link issue) mentioned in the live thread, I wonder how many engineers are secretly relieved the launch was scrubbed this morning.
I think the politcaly relevant points were:

* Hunter Biden appeared to have sold access to Joe Biden to Chinese officials

And suppressing that story before the election was a form of “election interference”
It’s completely unreasonable to not be able to play audio through your built in speakers in 2022 (or even 2002). The things people will justify to keep using Linux is insane.
I agree, but I don't think this is a reflection of the website as much as it is a reflection of society as a whole. A society becoming less tolerant of opinions counter to those which the mainstream media spin. Cancel culture is a phenomenon which really does trickle down to individuals and their behaviour, both online and in real life. In the past you could agree to disagree, but not anymore it seems.