skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a public school in one of the 10 poorest counties in the US. I lived well below the poverty line with food insecurity. Socially it was somewhat hellish & there were definitely more than enough teachers that gave zero fucks about anything, but also teachers who cared more than you could ever imagine.

I came out of it with full ride scholarships for mechanical engineering, to a University ranked something within the top 20 of whatever with regards to their engineering programs in general, & of their various fields, their MechE & ElecE were regarded as the best (within the engineering college, realized my poor wording could be interpreted in another way). I also received - actually, was harassed with - endless offers from military recruiters to go down a navy nuke/Air Force officer path, w/a $30k-$40k enlistment bonus, just for being in the top percentile of the ASVAB test - offered by my public school, that I reluctantly took.

Public schools, administration wise, are in general part of the problem. But cunts of parents raising shitty little cockgargling douchecunts of kids that inhabit the public schools are the larger problem.

I don’t know the best solution to the problem, but burning down public schools even more is definitely not it. I think giving a baseline pay of $70k/yr, a $20k or so one time “bonus”, as well as a “if you hate being a teacher, here’s $15k-$30k severance to quit, but you can never be in any position dealing with public education systems again” to every teacher may be a decent start.

Sorry for the poor articulation & vocabulary in this comment, quite tired after a long day & in a good amount of physical pain.
> Drawbacks: Obviously the main drawback, for now, is that you need to have a wallet and use things like Metamask, but even more that adoption is still quite low and it can be hard to promote something like this at a bigger company.

I would think a major drawback is that it’s illegal in large parts of the world. Certainly under the GDPR (but I think this predates that by decades and also applies to ¿parts of? the USA), companies aren’t allowed to keep employment data around when they no longer have a use for it, so when or some time after people leave the company, the data would have to be deleted.

That’s not a feature blockchains are good at.
> In addition it's almost impossible to have a civilized discussion, it often feels more like two people standing in different corners of a public space screaming insults at each other, and various crowds cheering them on.

It's depressing seeing friends fall down conspiracy theory rabbit holes, or publicly wallow in their racism.
"The difference is subtle"

I noticed the difference immediately — but not in a good way. I just felt a much stronger preference for the version on the left, the true monospace. I initially put it down to the indent — that "n" beginning "num" just looks horribly placed wrt to line above it — but, on reflection, I think it's the 'sans' properties that make it less pleasant for me — like the "i" and "l" in "while" that are much rounder and, of course, without even slab serifs.
It's a problem, but for all the problems with Mastodon I try to think of the equivalent problems with email (since I think it's the analogous for federation). What keeps you from having github@example.com for your own domains?
> what is the true cost of that to an entire civilization when scaled up to the whole planet?

What indeed? It's not 0. It's not infinite. But the cost of trying to reduce covid (and hence long covid) cases to 0 is infinite. It's a hard problem and entirely unclear where we should draw the line.

I truly do hope you (and all other affected) will get better.
7 years ago I deleted my FB account. The mental relief was immediate.

Since then, I deleted all my social media accounts - LinkedIn (in some insanely magical way I'm still employed!) and twitter.
Being the old fart I am, I had no other social media accounts.

Not taking any needless selfies, not posting crap, not waiting anxiously for likes or comments, not reading BS from people I don't know just because some algorithm decided that's a good content for me for reasons I have no control over.

Life is so much better.
I self-moderate people on social media who go into politics too often.
Luckily my family mostly moved to messenger and keeps the discussion to personal matters (kids, illnesses, activities etc)

The few times we talk about politics, are calm and measured discussions even though we disagree on many policy issues.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216255
Mastodon on TruffleRuby just works now
Also works for eggs: But yeah, many wrong assumptions. Who blasts the water while it's cooking? Nobody, you boil it, add pasta, bring it back to boil, turn down the heat significantly. That's very far from 80% reduction, you only reach that without turning down the heat, in which case water splashes out of your pan constantly. Very misleading article.
Be kinder, this kind of attitude is exactly what is causing deep societal rifts.

If you want to live in a heavily-moderated place and you'll blindly accept while you are fed what the latest ever-changing Truth is (even if it contradicts what came previously, even if it contradicts logic, reason or scientific understanding), then go wild.

I don't agree with parent's takes, but calling them "stupid" is needlessly derisive.

Some people don't like this, that shouldn't be seen as a Bad Thing.
Are you saying that computational science boils down to parallel multiplication of arrays? That makes sense to me intuitively, but I’m just checking here.
Assuming you have a four-burner stove, you could split your water five-way, and use four pots and your electric tea kettle.

If you want to push, you could improve the efficiency even more. That would require a capital investment into additional stoves and/or electric kettles. You'd probably need something like kubernetes for orchestration as well.
I'm not familiar with that but I assume it would actually be spend on things such as this
There have been a few times - reading blog articles or pieces of code - where I've been tempted to write to the author to show some appreciation, but have shied away from it thinking they might take it as creepy or parasocial. It wouldn't, of course, I can write a quick "hey, I really liked this" note without coming across like a maniac, but a little voice always stops me short. I'll try to ignore it in future :)
pro tip: start liking underwear ads on Facebook. you will get to see good looking ladies instead of whatever bullshit you usually get
Show HN: Game of Life on non-square topologies with 2^32 update rules
Hi HN, when learning Golang (and topology), I ported a simple GOL in C (https://github.com/Jeadie/GoL) into Go. I then added a bunch of features
- Playing on other fundamental polygons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_polygon#Examples_o...)
- Considering all possible update rules (of which, there are many).

Looking to get back to this project soon. Would love some feedback + ideas.
For one, I'd love it if people posted their Mastodon handles here. Mine is @stavros@mastodon.social.

For two, and this is just out of curiosity, what's the reason for mentioning you're trans? I don't mention I'm cis when I introduce myself, it seems like nobody should care.
It is totally feasible. I never had Facebook or Twitter and the likes and a know many people who stay away as well.

A friend of mine does not even have a phone, i meet him regularly, he has a job in IT and does just fine.

The Family has a Group on Signal, then there are a bunch of other groups on WhatsApp for friends and work.

Chat apps differ from social media in that they don't spam you with other peoples crap.

And i don't need lists of "friends" which i never see on whatever social media site.

Who cares about people you never see in person?

I have a contact list and just call or write if i want something.

The contact list is synced via CardDav to my calendar so i don't forget birthdays which is about the only useful thing social media provides.
I see this a lot, so I'll probably write a blog post on it sometime. But the short answer is that not everyone is good at art, but they know exactly what they want, and they want it as soon as possible.

There's no motive to harm artists, it's just that the tech is ready and there's a niche for it. Artists can actually benefit too, they can use this tech for inspiration and for a starting point, if nothing else.
I don't have Facebook. I don't have Twitter. I don't even have Instagram, or TikTok. I stay away from all kinds of social media, aside from Telegram to chat with my friends, and it's been this way for the last 10 or so years... and boy do I get confirmation that I made a very good choice very, very often.
But... you are here in HN with the rest of us. Why are you reading the comments of people you couldn't care less about?

Of course, as someone who never uses Twitter and yet has been here since 2013 I have a good feeling of what your answer is likely to be. But my deeper point is: people get out of Twitter the same that I (and maybe you) get out of HN. Different strokes for different folks.
Requiring licenses and insurance seems like a great way to STOP people cycling places...
Commoditize Your Complement (2018)
The default public interface for many small businesses these days seems to be facebook for the simple reason that it is free to have your page on there. They don't get much else though unless they are willing to be interacting with the local community 24/7 or paying £30 for their random posts to be shown to another 12 people, etc.

I had the idea of having a local site for small towns where every business could have its own free page and post stuff that everyone could see for free. But, having dealt with a few local businesses and realizing they just don't want to make any effort at all, like I should do everything from providing imagery and content at no cost, I quickly released it was a non-starter. Facebook is actually the perfect solution for these kind of businesses after all.
Interesting for small commute.

I am from France and driving a Piaggio MP3 400cc for 10 years (and other stuff before). New laws in Paris are pushing people to buy electric. For example, since this summer, parking in the street with a motorbike/scooter is paid if it's not an electric engine.

I'm myself waiting for the delivery of a Super Soco CPX. Its range and power isn't what I wanted, but I guess I don't have a choice, my MP3 is failing (50K+ kilometers) and I guess I need to transition to electric too. I tested the CPX, it's not very powerful and has only a 70km range (1 battery, can have 2 batteries for 140km range if you need). It goes as fast as 90km/h (130km/h on my MP3) and will prevent me from taking the highway to get out of Paris. But I guess we all have to make an effort !

Oh also my back will not thank me when it's time to get the 20kg battery out and take it home to charge it.
> The base system includes all necessary core functionality, and is updated as a single unit. Additional optional software is installed from ports or packages and managed separately.

For a desktop X is core functionality.
You have a very one sided view of what true friendship is and how they are built. It's difficult to build stable and lasting friendships fully remotely without constant IRL interactions where you get to experience all sides of the person and the relationship, including the darker sides, which you might not like. Constant IRL interactions in both fun and in challenging situations help you see all sides of a person, the good and the bad, vs online where people have a much more curated and groomed presentation of themselves especially when not fully anonymized. Maybe your online buddy is some weirdo who stalks girls in his free time or scams old people of their money. IRL you have a much better chance of sniffing weirdos out from their general behavior and by observing how they interact with others, not just with you, which is how I dumped a lot of so called friends who despite treating me well personally, I realized they were scumbags in general to others. Online you can't really screen for this.

Just think about where the strongest life lasting bonds are usually made by people: school, university, military service, sometimes work, etc., places where you're constantly together sharing a common struggle through which you build life lasting camaraderie and get to know people thoroughly and having each other's backs, along with a dose of willingness to self-sacrifice for a vulnerable friend in need. Just ask people who served about the bonds they made there. If your friends aren't willing to make themselves uncomfortable for you when in need, then they aren't your real friends. We all know "those people" who're great at having a good time and will always party with you, and keep saying you're "bros" but the moment you need some sort of help, they'll ghost you or make up excuses why they can't help. Those are just fun buddies, not friends. Same with your exclusively online gaming buddies, work colleagues, etc. are just that, gaming buddies and work colleagues, not friends. They'll have fun with you while things are good, but won't sacrifice anything IRL for you when things are bad for you like a true friend would. You need to make distinctions between fun buddies, and real friends which tends to be mostly formed IRL and will also be by your side when things are bad for you.

Saying people you know remotely are your friends is like saying the girl on tinder you've been chatting up for weeks is your girlfriend, when you haven't even met IRL.

Sure, in this day and age you can meet very interesting people online, on reddit, etc witch which you share many things in common and you can end up getting to know them well and share secrets and many intimate details of your life, and yet we still have a loneliness epidemic of epic proportions despite this. That's because once people with exclusivity remote friends switch off their laptop/phone and come back to the real world, they realize that despite all their so called friends, at the end of the day when they're vulnerable and in need, they're still 100% alone.
> It would be much better to redirect them to a page that explains that this particular instance is not accepting new users right now and that they could check back later or simply choose a different instance at https://joinmastodon.org/servers.

On mastodon.social, this is exactly what I get when clicking "Create Account": A short paragraph saying that registrations on mastodon.social are closed right now, and a link to joinmastodon.org/servers.
When Apple says they build products that they want to use, thats because they sell an experience.

So when a journalist complains their Android-using parent has a bad experience, of course the default answer would be "buy them an iPhone".
He just spent $44 billion to eliminate any firewall between him and his audience. His whole thing is turning a dashed off thought on Twitter into a binding commitment that causes dramatic changes.
I'd like to add some context here: the whole cooking pasta with the stove off became a major talking point in Italian social media some months ago (I'm serious). It all started with a popular science educator posting a video on Youtube explaining the science behind it. Then some influencers decided to promote the idea because of reasons such as climate change and the energy crisis, which in turn started being ridiculed for the same reasons you are mentioning. Barilla just jumped on the occasion for some easy marketing both at home and on the international market.
Sigh Clearly I haven't licenced my username from anyone because I'm not an entity trading in the same market as a very well known pre-existing brand of the same name.

I'm just some anonymous putz asking an honest question in good faith.

Since HCL don't seem to be using the Lotus name right now, it wasn't clear if they actually bought the rights from IBM during the sale of other assets.

It seemed at least plausible that this new venture might have licensed or bought an unused, established name for market recognition.

If that is the case then I think it's a great bit of marketing and I'd like to know more about how they pulled it off.
There might be as many people from Pakistan, East Africa, or China who have to migrate because of global warming this winter too. Not sure whether they’ll go to Europe, but millions isn’t an exaggeration in those cases.
> I mean Musk has to cut something, makes sense that he would cut the stuff that doesn't affect the revenue first.

It makes sense from the Randian perspective where external costs don't exist. It may not make sense if you're thinking more holistically and taking into account external costs.
There’s a problem with the definition of “social media”—we no longer differentiate between messaging apps and what we used to just call “social network sites”, which are generally understood to be content feeds that are optimised for infinite consumption. I think that people would generally agree that messaging apps are not as harmful as the latter, but it’s usually the latter that most people are trying to avoid.

I understand the need to communicate with loved ones, but really, you don’t even need to “keep up” because living one’s own life and reaching for one’s own ambitions should be time-consuming and tiring enough. And then I’m not willing to listen to any perspective that justifies the need for content feeds in one’s life—no news feed is innocent and all news feeds are just utilities for ads. If you really want to know what’s up with someone who matters in your life, you can and you should just ask them directly.
I set up a system with two SCSI drives and one USB to mass rip a few hundred discs. Modern Linux can't handle media changes over SCSI without interfering with an existing transfer so I had to synchronize disc swaps on those two drives. I wouldn't attempt it with only one drive.
Home is your personal feed from people you've followed (including their boosts/retweets).

Local and Federated are sort of the "Explore" page (on Twitter) equivalent, except it's chronological instead of algorithm-selected.

Local is just what you said, public toots from your instance.

Federated has the known public toots from other instances. These are the ones that are known to your instance because someone in your instance follows either (a) the person that posted it, or (b) a person that boosted it.
Yes, you’re right, I forgot about those!

They are mostly historical curiosities now, right? Not as cheap as simple resistive cookers, and worse in about all respects than induction ones.
I’d say that for coding the critical bit is not “things lining up” — it’s a bad practice anyway — but wide and clear punctuation (`[{(` &c).
Well, that sounds fairly staggering. Do you have a source link?
It's gotten to the point where simply reporting information that is unpleasant for one group of people is treated as biased and political.

Report about the cost of housing driving people to homelessness? That's the "left-wing media".

Report about people grifting off of BLM protects? It's the "right wing corporate media".

And those stories can very well be in the same newspaper or news show.
This sounds oversimplified. sudo is complex, and people had a simpler usecase, so they used a simpler alternative.

Some people need the complex features, and it's fine, and maybe they're fine with the risk of a difficult to audit codebase and risk of catastrophic failure, and we don't need any new alternative, so they can continue to use sudo as it is.

"The core of the problem was really that some people like to use sudo to build elaborate sysadmin infrastructures with highly refined sets of permissions and checks and balances" -- tedu https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas

So a rewrite of sudo is Rust could add value by allowing it to add complex features, and keeping memory safety, even if code auditing would stay complex, and small logic errors can have catastrophic outcomes.
Here in Germany people still freak out about it

Wrong. Wearing a mask is nothing compared to what you have in China.
Does anyone know what happened to the author of the tool? Her blog and her GitHub account activity cease not too long after this incident.

Would be a shame if she had gotten bullied out of the craft.
> also know that they have no way to control or influence it

So they know what it is but nothing about how it works, should've specified I was talking about knowing how it works in my comments above

What's missing from your collection of quotes is that at the end of the day it all comes down to a public vote, whether in the EU parliament, national parliaments, referenda etc

The "secret lawmaking" still needs to be voted on in parliament, the Eurogroup is still made up of national ministers which answer to their parliaments

If people were the slightest interested that would change how those actors behave, as it is almost nothing MEPs do matters because their re-election or lack thereof will depend almost exclusively on national politics

> MEPs aren't allowed to change law or even start the process of changing the law

They are allowed to (and do) amend legislative proposals in almost all cases and can block a draft from becoming law in pretty much everything except foreign policy

What you're referring to is the lack of formal legislative initiative which does mean they can't amend an existing law on their own.

However amending laws requires anyway passing a new law which in turns requires the Council to be in favour as well. And if there's enough support that a majority of parliament and a QMV in the council wants something the commission will in practice make a proposal

But you know what else the parliament could do if they wanted? They could refuse to vote on anything or approve any budget unless the commission makes a proposal they want. The reason they can't do that politically however is that people don't know about how this stuff works and don't care about it. So if MEPs wanted to do that they'd end up being criticized by national leaders that people actually listen to and they'll bend or lose the nomination for the next elections or the election itself
Do you have any indisputable example of this? (as in quick, smart reasoning in real time, so it could not have been written by someone else). It makes sense to me that he would be smart as in raw reasoning capacity, but all the content I have been linked him to made him look pretty normal or even less smart than the average career engineer.
You don't need to diet precisely because your body and hunger mechanisms are calibrated properly, and yet you somehow twist that around into disparaging people who don't have this luxury.

It's trivial to retrospectively say "oh I've never had this problem because X Y Z" and gain leverage over people who do, but it's naive at best and malicious at worst to assume that people struggling with weight aren't aware or trying the very same thing.

To me it just reads as more just world fallacy bullshit.