skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very relatable what you wrote. I became a digital nomad in my mid 30s. It was great at first, but then it got to the point where I engineered too much freedom in my life. The result was indeed paralyzing. Suffered some of the worst indecision in my life, in my mid 30s!

During covid times, I met my wife, we had a son together and now we're a digital nomad family. Having a family removed a whole range of choices that let me narrow into the obvious and not have to stress out about what to focus on. In a way it's been more liberating, to take on these constraints and responsibility. I know it sounds counterintuitive but I think Jocko got it right with "Discipline Equals Freedom".
Forge of God and Anvil of Stars are 2 of my favourite books, as is Eon.

He really helped me soar among the stars. Thank you Greg Bear, rest easy now.
I don't know about Spotify but you can set things up so that Apple Music is it's default music service, i.e. you can pretty much play music in the same manner as if you had an Amazon subscription. It's still pretty unreliable but you can do it.
I have to say that as someone who is getting older (I think I'm actually in your ideal age range in that I'm legally old enough to be president but under 40), I'm looking forward to getting out of touch with rapidly-changing technology. If it were rapidly-improving technology, I'd be much more excited.
I've not been on social media in .. ~8 years or so, if we ignore link aggregators at least. Even with link aggs, i've been deleting my accounts semi regularly on both HN and Reddit, and making several accounts, in an effort to distance myself from caring about Karma/etc and add noise.

Ironically, unrelated to this Twitter stuff.. i've been searching for a social network recently. Specifically a semi-niche (Blender) community, moreso than a social network.

I was reasonably attracted to Twitter as a fair bit of the community that i'm interested is there.. but these days Twitter feels.. chaotic.

I was hoping there would be a Blender instance on Mastodon but no such luck yet in my searching. Some random Discord communities also seem viable, though there's something about the Twitter/Mastodon interface i enjoy.

edit: I suppose i could just pick a sane default on Mastodon and keep an eye out for other instances blender artists are on.
i gotta have one now
Come on. The corporate media chooses what gets reported on.
Please downvote this person
> Very frustrating when there is a lot of potential

this is my experience as well. Often my Alexa gets told to F-off.

ME: "Alexa play music"

Alexa : Playing Spotify...

Nothing..no music.. repeat asking it to play music.. nothing.

> The push for engagement is what is killing it for me.

It had potential, but instead of getting the basics working they keep focusing on everything else?

I dont care about Alexa telling me about all the new things it can do when it cant do the core reason i bought for reliably.

Now it is relegated to telling me the weather, being a kitchen timer, and adding items to my shopping list.
IQ is a dismal measure of intelligence (2019)
Circles and Pi
> you'd have 80 women interested in 20 most attractive men.

This is just not true people have so many interests and diverse tastes - male and female - and those outweight sheer looks, even if it were possible to get 80 women to rank 100 men I suspect you'd find that there was no "best 20" that they all agreed on.

Some women like pretty boys, other women like muscular boys, some like fat men, others like nerds and geeks. It's all so variable, and awesome!

Even if you did sheer looks won't matter if the man wants loud techno, and the woman wants loud rock. Some people want drugs, raves, cigarettes. Others want bondage and pain. More likely some want pop music and fancy meals, and others want yoga and vegan food.

Attraction might matter if you're choosing between people with identical lifestyles and tastes. But there are so many things that are more important (smoking, or not, vegan, or carnivore, metal or pop, pop vs. jazz, drugs vs not, vanilla life vs kinky life, etc, etc.)
> As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead.

This will launch the inevitable nightmare of pro/anti-helmet subthreads.
This kind of sounds normal for starlink. Do you know any neighbors, etc with an account? They might be able to file a ticket.

Alternatively, call the bank, claw the money back, and use a different email/phone to establish a new account.

Their might be an address you could contact (they have to have one on file for lawsuits, etc).
Sure is strange how the guy who makes nearly 100 mil in donations to government figures seems to get preferential treatment from the government.
Not surprised, we already have phones with voice assistant. I don’t think the average consumer wants 2 different things to talk to.
Um, maybe the donations are the answers to your questions?
I'm from a generation that used all-physical systems (pen/paper/articles...). Now everything is digital. So, for example, for work that need intensive digital research and such, our actual tools are almost "unhealthy" (I did not say unproductive) to use for any length of time.

That is why we need to experiment with better tools for information manipulation and discovery (I did not say tool for thought).

I'm, like you, quite familiar with the explosion in digital music. Don't you think we need better designed "tools for music creation" to explore this infinite ocean of sound possibilities that has opened before us? I believe we do.

It is very similar for Knowledge. But given the more fundamental, "personal" and malleable nature of "thought", this will take a lot of guess work (and stupid ideas). In the long term though, I believe we need these better tools to adapt ourselves to this almost unhuman ocean of (mostly outer) information.
I’m quite curious how this will end in the UK. Regardless of how much Brexit has to do with this, I think the lack of actual Brexit opportunities and the contribution it has to core inflation is at one point going to change the political landscape.
Why have all major browsers removed RSS aggregation?
I miss that feature
Thanks to this parody, I finally saw how the interface changes when you're finally able to downvote :D
In my experience, voice recognition isn't really the issue. It's comprehending what you want it to do beyond a formulaic wizard's incantation.
It was meant as a factual description. I'm open for suggestions to word this differently.

Regardless, this is not meant as Starlink bashing, this is a process somehow failing.

Edit: you are right, the word "scam" is used too often. As a start I changed the title.
Backing the right idea may not get you anywhere, though. Ideas are cheap.
His mother is also the founder of a Super PAC: https://www.influencewatch.org/person/barbara-fried/
"Gaming companies contributed to the death of LAN parties too. They killed the "split-screen" gameplay that would support 2-4 players on the same machine."

Even consoles suck with this now. It seems like none of the big games support more than 2 players.
Twitter seems to be at an ATH of users and is dominating the news cycle.
Citizens United is irrelevant to these donations, as they were done personally by Sam Bankman-Fried and others, not by FTX.
Sure, I'm not a FinTech COO/CEO expert, so it is entirely possible that the optimal management style for PayPal is Dan Schulman's style.
One thing I noticed with my model 3 was that the rates I was quoted varied WILDLY by company. Deltas of over $200 a month.
Yes, you should do it and others interested in old games and tools that are closed source should try emailing their authors and asking them to consider open source. I've successfully convinced people to open source SEImgTool, an old utility for extracting images from firmware files for old Sony Ericsson feature phones, BFSunpack, a tool to extract game files for the 2006 game Flatout 2 and I think I contributed to open sourcing Dink Smallwood, because I remember asking the author and now it is open source and there is a lively community around it. Still have work ahead of me convincing Sony to open source the above mentioned firmware, whoever owns the rights now to open source Flatout 2 and I could stand Supreme Snowboarding (in the US known as Boarder Zone) being open sourced as well! One can dream. But also, one can act and ask and sometimes it works!
Elizabeth Holmes also faked blood test results, so it was more than just a scam.
People in areas like I grew up in often drive >100mi in a day since the nearest WalMart and decent chain restaurants are >30mi away. Major cities are 150mi away. My parents are currently driving around 250mi every single week day to get medical treatments in the city and will need to for the next few weeks. A hotel would save them that drive time, but driving is cheaper than that, so that's what they do. They wouldn't "charge while they stop to eat" because restaurants are much more expensive than their brown bag lunch they took.
I don’t understand if I should click or press [-] What does it do?
To keep a company alive vs shuttering it? Seems like it’s something that these folks are willing to do for the organization and Musk. They chose to stay despite an offer to go voluntarily with a severance package. Who does that? Can we give these SWEs the benefit of the doubt that they are intelligent enough to make a decision that is in their best interest?

I honestly do not understand why it’s getting the hate here, it’s like the least controversial thing he has done. Although I guess it’s on par for the cadre of folks with Musk derangement syndrome on here.
Thx for pointing that out we will revise it ASAP. Much appreciated!
It can be pursued by those he didn’t donate to just as well. E.g the republican controlled house

The DoJ and AG do seem focused on particularly bias driven matters though

Edit: funny the negative response this comment elicits. Everybody in their own bubble these days
My point was that for every update, nixpkgs will have to be fixed if the build steps were changed. Currently, it is done by the actual software maintainers. Unless they all start building nixpkgs, it will be too much work to maintain.
That’s what this site is. You’ve been talking to a machine all this time. Do you really think a person would have this much time to argue day in and day out over systemd? That that many people care wherever or not Go has generics and which other languages does them best? That rust somehow is the cure for everything from game engines to the common cold? Think about all the times a “person” stated something was Turing Complete and how it made zero sense to you. It’s been machines all this time.
The definitive hacker news mindset takedown. A cold bucket of water on silicon valley. I miss it so much, mostly because it was so insightful.

Alas, no one will know because... you didn't pilotfish-post on firstpost comment.
Do HN readers even grasp the fact that most people in the world don't have a bunch of Tesla chargers on their highways? That you're writing your comments on the global internet?

That some people drive into nature where there is no electricity whatsoever?
Whats your source for these numbers?

America has a lot of people who believe evolution happened but was guided by god, and very few (1 in 9) who belive it was just evolution with no god, but the ones that belive that there was no evolution lean fairly heavily Republican.
If you enjoy having to repeat yourself 3 or 4 times to get it to actually work.. you can connect it to Spotify.

It use to work great, but the last year i find i need to repeat "play music" several times before if actually plays something.

Usually it tells me it is playing music, but doesn't...
Some stuff in the media today about a Swiss style deal with the EU.
The "apps" wouldn't be expected to handle this failure in a microkernel OS either, only the driver process would. Since it's outside of the kernel it has a much better chance at doing so. At the very least, you can just kill the driver and restart it, which is effectively like restarting the system just without interrupting the programs that don't depend on it. This actually has been done successfully so it's not just a hypothetical benefit.
So, fewer donations overall now.
At least Skoda was able to communicate in February, that my potential Enyaq order would come erliest mid 2023.
Knock yourself out, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33585286
Or complained about accessibility
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30778924

interesting that the page barely mentions the blockchain, which seemed to be the key selling point on the page at launch.

I guess nowadays you should use tea if you wish that nix had fewer packages and more blockchain?
It's not a defect caused by insufficient work, but an intentional market segmentation for price discrimination.

It's imho really stupid for AMD to do this given their situation in the market. At least it's fairly easy to bypass.
Unfortunately I don't know someone with an account.

I think a second try could work. But I'm not in a position to do so yet.

2 good suggestions.
Is it an American fraud? I thought they were based in the Bahamas.
I also played a lot if Halo LAN parties on consoles. I don't think I ever had a PC LAN party (probably too young).
I’m curious what’s on your mind when you mention geothermal being limited. How many years is “limited“ and how does that practically affect things?
I cannot care less about "embarrassment" when I publish code.

Code is code. Everyone has its own style. Every project has its own constraints.

I guess you didn't write bad code on purpose. You wrote it because it was the best way at the time.

And, frankly, if someone mocks you because of code you wrote somewhere, it's a good sign to ignore them. I don't mean code to be included in some other projects, but code that you wrote for your own eyes.
So you think it was AntiFa who stormed the capitol after Trump called for a violent insurrection, huh?
And Hyundai/Kia like ruining their reputation by skimping in costs in ridiculous ways, like deciding to leave out basic hot wiring prevention that’s universally standard on cars these days. The result, TikTok videos demoing how to steal the cars for “lolz” and a rash of Hyundai/kia thefts.

Edit: although to be fair Tesla has a terrible reputation for weird part substitutions
One thing it's missing is a reply to the comment saying "have you read the article" asking whether they have "read the Hacker News rules" as it forbids asking if someone has read the article.
Yup the author describes how it's possible to see such a correlation even if they were uncorrelated. But the same would apply if they were slightly correlated. But I am neither intelligent nor beautiful so take my words with a grain of salt!
Brexit has removed one way to keep wages down - import more people.

I don't think that the central bank solution of putting up interest rates to reduce the number of jobs is going to help, people still need to eat.
And now you have a story/memory that the new generation doesn't. Working for something arguably makes the experience more rewarding too.
Not exactly wise to swear at it. You don't want it to start holding grudges. It can easily start withholding information. You never know.
You're missing the https://xkcd.com/1831/ guy, there's always one especially when it comes to non-computer subjects like medicine x)
after all this the UK is seriously proposing free movement of people (among a pile of other things) again?!
Aisle (1999): An interactive fiction game that ends after one command
It is very hard to predict the path of an S-curve. If you don't estimate when it takes off and when it slows down just right you will be way off on your view of what will happen.
*here

Back in the day nobody on HN would so egregiously misspell words. This place is turning into Reddit.
No need to put it in the passive voice (unless you for some reason want to obscure who was actually performing the action).

Trump lied to everyone about Trump, and Trump lied and continues to lie about the results of the election, and Trump called for a violent insurrection and attack on the US Capitol.

There, fixed it for you. See? Who performed the action is now much more clear now that you've learned to avoid using the passive voice unless you have something to hide.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/passive-voice
> The clump of molecules on the table we denote with the term "apple" doesn't care that our brains have deemed it similar enough to certain other clumps of molecules to be placed in the same category. If all humans cease to exist, the clump of molecules may still be on the table, but there's no one left to consider it part of any category.

Correct. If all humans cease to exist, the human-made abstraction of "the apple" passes away. But an apple--the one on the table--is completely unaffected.

The difference here is that between an abstraction and a concrete instantiation of said abstraction. The abstraction of "the apple" is indeed a subjective construct which would pass away with humanity. But OP said "an apple". "An apple" is a part of the physical universe. It is, like you said, a clump of molecules. Molecules that can be measured objectively.

An apple is no more subjective than the orbital period of the earth or the length of the standard meter.
I wish I could, in the true spirit of NH, down vote every comment I don't agree with on this tread. Unfortunately, that would really count against karma. But it's tempting :)

That said, the parody shows nothing down voted. Is that part of the parody? Or an oversight?
No, geothermal will never work.

Someone posted a more informed comment on Hacker News about 2 months ago. The idea is that if you drill to 5 km deep, let's say, you find very hot rock. But once you extract the heat from that rock, new heat is very slow to come because rock is a good thermal insulator. So, you'd need to produce secondary holes. Lots of them. In the end the math just doesn't work out by orders of magnitude.
Both the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt are under $30k brand new.
No. This is a widely repeated misconception. That investigation was opened months ago:

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/159372959492171367...

I'm trying to find the original source for this but I can't. Matt Stoller is literally The Anti-Trust Guy on Twitter though.

Also, the U.S. is currently engaged with the Bahamas in a jurisdictional battle for SBF's seized funds:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bahamas-regulator-says-it...
> Condemning it entirely and finding a new way to structure Society should be the aim

Never gonna work. It was noted by Plato over 2000 years ago that in any system where the leaders can own property, they will use their political power for financial gain. And he has been proven right over and over again ever since. Plato even admits that his ideal system, where the leadership is not allowed to own property, is impossible.
Can the Alexa hardware be hacked to turn it into a Linux machine?
Dave Letterman did a whole series of crushing things with a hydraulic press. Quite entertaining.
Will Twitter Fail?
I live in Europe and .. from my perspective it really isn’t. Chernobyl traumatized Europe and if anything they are all looking away from it.
It’s irrelevant anyway. There should be a loud and clearly vocalized response from a Government department stating they will prosecute the fraud.

Has fraud ever been more obvious and clear cut than in this case?
Rationalise your loss of freedom to family life as much as you need to.
Nice, but no political comment in the entire thread, so not really representative.
And Poul Anderson was Bear's Father-in-law! I'd loved to have heard a discussion of such concepts between them.
Hardly matters when almost every time it's slow server performance.
Wasn’t citizens United about how much money can be donated too? So it’s relevant, no?
I'm pretty pessimistic, given that they've cut their moderation teams so close to the bone. Asia-Pacific in particular has gone to near-zero, and that's an enormous source of CSE content. It's hard to believe that Twitter will really have much capability to handle this content (let alone responding to police reports about it) unless they do something to build this capability back up. On the other hand they chopped out some low-hanging fruit by removing hashtags and getting a burst of good PR, which seems good but probably not sustainable.

Seems like in the scheme of things the loss of moderation capability is the real story here, but I guess we can always be hopeful that the reality will match the short-term PR.
We're all curious about it. It probably has to start with the main opposition actually acknowledging that Brexit is harmful. At the moment they've all been ordered to shut up about it.
POST THANKING PARENT FOR LINK TO ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT.
This. I...love this
TICO-80 rocks! The TIC-80 support for multiple programming languages inspired me to write a TypeScript -> Lua transpiler for PICO-8.

https://github.com/tmountain/pico-8-typescript
"What killed the LAN party? In short, Halo 2 and Bungie."

I still played halo 2 and 3 at Xbox LAN parties. So existing groups didn't really go away, but I could see there being less of a draw to new groups forming.
The area beyond the white line is littered with the deranged and
abandoned equipment of dozens of fruitless investigations. I have gone
there to pray, to indulge in my own apostasy against rationalism, to hope
that my words can reach into the transformed matter and information

Trying to reconcile my own feeling that I sinned against Fiona Task-
Felder, as Thierry had sinned against so many... I cannot make it
sensible.

No one will understand, not even myself, but when I die, I want to be
placed in the Ice Pit with my sister and William. God forgive me, even
with Thierry, Robert and Emilia, and the rest of the heads...

In the Quiet.

Man I'm sad he won't write more but I appreciate how much he gave us.
That's #15 on the list.
I'm happy about the death of split screen gaming. It was just an awful experience. Especially when your friends were screenlookers
Hard brexit was not grounded in reality so ultimately this has to happen.

The Conservatives should've stuck with May's compromise - now Labour are likely to take power.
Progressive political causes didn’t get the money. Biden and 1/3 going to Republicans got the money.
Yeah, wow.

“Authenticating your GitHub entitles you to unique NFT reward badges, including one with rare artwork specific to how soon you authenticate.”

Not touching this then.
These days, most people don't even use a mic/chat let alone friend someone.
This is the type of insightful wisdom I come here for! I’m so glad we’re so much smarter than those Reddit people.
> And a funny anecdote: a few months ago, Instagram started pitching ads about very high end, luxury items, probably thinking I had hit a jackpot or something. Simultaneously, I was thrown into a new cohort on dating apps. As if I was now eligible to a whole new level on the social ladder.

Maybe you can game this by googling stereotypical rich person questions and browsing luxury goods, then watch as you start getting better matches.
If we read “that market” as the category inbetween walking and a full car, it exploded way before. I’m thinking rental bikes fleets (which later got electric assist) provided and maintained by cities for instance, with heavy investments in the infra that started in the 2000s, not far from when Tesla Inc. saw the light.
It's a good thing they fixed that problem and became the powerhouse that they are today. </sarcasm>
Minor nitpick: that's Team Fortress Classic (Half-Life mod), not the original Team Fortress.
If you need to know one thing about management it is

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

If you peel away all the controversial things about scrum in software development you are left with "finish what you start". It's also a common practice in cafes and restaurants.
I have no doubt there is precedent and law on the books that would allow the US to prosecute this
Geez the influence of Joe Biden is wider than I imagined.