skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seven years ago I wasn’t married, didn’t have kids, nor a mortgage.

Now I have all of that.

Decisions are often made for me as I prioritize meeting the demands of higher minimum income and time spent with family and kids.

For better or for worse, growing older and gaining extra responsibilities acts as a forcing function. You need to prioritize more ruthlessly.

Choosing what to spend time is harder! The opportunity cost increases as you have less time available to spend on yourself. Choosing, therefore, becomes a bigger gamble.

If you’re relatively free in time, you should come up with a framework on making decisions on what to work with. It will depend on your goals - making a business, learning an instrument, learning skills to further your career - whatever. Make a goal and act in ways that furthers your goal.
It’s missing the part where someone suggests stupidity and obtuseness on the part of anyone who questions free markets outside of theoretical experiments.

Similarly, it’s missing the comment from a woman-identified person that is followed by negging from male users.

Edit: proving my point
I’m sad not to read anything about Rust and Kubernetes.
The author mentions that they don’t want something similar to Twitter.

I feel like they should give Mastodon a try. It differs from person to person, but for me the Fediverse is a lot more personal, equitable and smaller due to the way federation currently works. That seems in line with what the author wants, no?

Related article: https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introd.... Feel free to submit.

Furthermore, the author says that they don’t want QTs due to the toxicity they generate. Mastodon fulfils that too.
Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy
As a ruby guy, does it really matter which language it's written in if it works?
I’d choose “idiocy,” but yes.
Off-topic aside, but why do people complain about back-button hijack when you can long-press or right-click and get out of the site? It works on any browser AIUI.
Obligatory xkcd reference.
It's not always. For example "8th gen" Intel has both Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake CPUs, some gens have a mix of 14nm CPUs for desktop and 10nm for Mobile. It's honestly pretty confusing as to which Lake follows what at this point as they are slight refinements of slight refinements.

AMD is at least making it so the second digit will indicate architecture (the first will be year released).
I always assumed [-] subtracted a point from that comment.
You wouldn't be able to know how many years exactly from the core drilling visuals, for that you'd need to assay the cores for the grades, build a mining block model and then develop a mining plan from that. It's more of a qualitative "oh dam they've struck gold a lot of it" sort of thing that would move markets. Disclosures to markets in mining need to be done publically and with proper backing of data, legacy of BreX salting their core samples and reporting the motherload of gold mines.
> And how does it make sense for a space pioneer to support a political party currently dominated by Young Earth Creationists?

What is the correlation (or contradiction) here? I do not know what a Young or Old Earth creationist is and the corresponding Wikipedia entries are more rabbit-hole inducing than I’d like to endeavor upon.

I do understand the general thesis of the author’s lament, his ideological influences aside.

I think that social media as it is popularly perceived is dead for anyone who wants to use the internet with some sense of dignity or literacy.

In my opinion, the future of social communication online will be led by the “anti-social”; meaning people who do not care about protocols, engagements, “The Fediverse”, the “SmolWeb” or anything like that. They are driven by a basic interest in sharing files/data/whatever via the internet. There is no glowing, humanistic, vaguely vogue vernacular associated to it.

“I’m going to send you a tarball of my grandparents favorite recipes in OPML format. If you don't know what any of that means and don’t want to learn, how could you ever fathom putting in the effort necessary to prepare their 7 cheese lasagna? Things take time, Allen!”
Try writing books about coding. Now I have to tell people "No! Don't do it that way!"

The right way to make Android apps has changed completely, and the documentation and tutorials are good now.
I think I had a fever dream like this once…
Depends on which language, in c++ you can inherit from the type of a closure as it's just another object type
This is a great comment. Over the last year I have become a creator. I teach and translate Afghan folk poetry on TikTok, I livestream code contributions to a complex open source project on YouTube, and I'm thinking of starting to stream myself working through difficult language learning textbooks as well.

After seeing the positive impact I'm able to have in people's lives; showing them that open source and Rust are not so scary, getting teenagers in exile and diaspora reconnected with their languages and roots etc., I'm no longer comfortable making blanket "social media bad" comments anymore.
The correlation goes the other way as there is a very long list of health problems that lower cognitive performance.

The population of everyone without Down syndrome is both smarter and healthier than the total population. That extends to things we don’t think of as lowering intelligence like high blood pressure: https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/high-blood-pressure-linked-cogn...
> In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment.

I thought you had to click the [-]. How do I press the [-]?
I do it, as I like the idea that if one other person finds it useful then it's worth it. I don't put my github on my resume, but my username is my name so it's easy to find and definitely has come up (sometimes indirectly) in interviews. For me, the best interviews have had good discussions about the good, the bad, and the why. From the perspective of trying maximise my desirability to all employers, it has definitely "hurt".
Fentanyl Vaccine Breakthrough – Potential “Game Changer” for Opioid Epidemic
> The reason why lan parties stopped was because it was hard to move a tower around.

No, no. The effort played itself. As OP said, it was a cultural change with companies piggy-backing on it. Split screen is not a major reason, no, I don't think so. But luggaging towers? That's not the reason.
Mercury doesn't form discrete molecules with itself; like most (all?) metals it just shares electrons with its neighbors.
Another one, adhoc struct declaration in the return type of a function:

struct bla_t { int a, b, c, d; } make_bla(void) {
return (struct bla_t){ .a=1, .b=2, .c=3, .d=4 };
}

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Pha7dPzeq

Also to be pedantic: "= {};" is not valid C (at least until C23) and fails to compile on MSVC - GCC and Clang accept it as a non-standard language extension though (the proper form would be "= {0};").
As a Perl guy: yes. :(
> People being pitched on why they should stay with Twitter weren't offered more money but instead were urged to be excited about Musk's vision for Twitter and its future potential...

If I’m considered critical to help in hardcore startup mode not only dig out of a multi-deca billion dollar hole but clock into a multi-billion dollar profit, there will be cash money over the barrel and non-dilutive non-screwable share grants——not options, shares——beyond the usual compensation.

That’s just me but experience taught me to ignore everything business people tell you during compensation discussions except the Benjamins on a written contract your attorney vetted and signed off upon.

Until you have F* You Money, blandishments of living your dream, making a dent in the universe, visions and so on don’t pay for housing, healthcare, childcare, good education, college, and retirement.

Asking employees at the precipice of a recession to stay on a highly risky venture under Gigapress scale, physiological consequences pressure with zero material upside except to leadership is of course going to net few takers.

If I had $50M in the brokerage account, I could take the risk of flaming out and not finding a job for a couple years during the recession. I wouldn’t do that even if I had $2M, the drag on retirement with a SWR would be kind of noticeable, when there are still job openings that would compensate at least enough to tread water until a better opportunity came along with drastically better work life balance. Musk could light all $44B on fire and his personal physical lifestyle wouldn’t appreciably change; maybe give up his private jet and subscribe to a fractional jet program type of First World Problems that he’d shrug off until he made the wealth back. Probably 500 employees of the ~2000 remaining took the offer to buy a runway to find another job.

Running a global scale infrastructure and the adtech business which drives it on that few employees will be challenging. I know adtech has amazing operating margins, but pulling that off would be Craigslist leverage on 11, and they don’t have a multi year runway, more like a one year runway if that. Unless Musk envisions some radically fundamentally different way of operating adtech with profoundly higher leverage ratios, and pulling that off with a fundamentally different technical infrastructure vastly less labor intensive to develop, operate, maintain, and innovate upon, I’m not sure I see how to get from A to B.
I like the idea of not having to drive a car regularly, and I say that as someone who enjoys randomly driving around the Texas Hill Country occasionally as a pastime. That said, it's not all that clear to me that eliminating a major friction associated with one of the most intense uses of energy - individual transportation end-to-end in a car, will help to save energy. If it was all derived from a clean, renewable source, that would be one thing, but that is not our current situation.
Just last night I unfollowed everyone on Twitter and kept only the lists I use for travel. There are some hard to replace twitter services/accounts related to weather, travel, roads, snow, etc.

I have equity in my Tesla. I would replace it with another vehicle that connected to the supercharger network, but no one has taken Elon up on that.

Elon’s an issue, but open social and algo feeds are the biggest problem. Not being able to get away from recommended content is an enormous problem. It’s the open dunking, hot takes and karma posting that finally did me in. Elon’s just another tweeter, really. But I don’t need it. I don’t want exposure to any of it. And I’m won’t endure another election cycle on social media.

And truth be told, more than half of the posts I write on HN I delete immediately. It feeds on a part of me that isn’t necessary to keep alive.

I have some creator accounts. I’m a YouTuber. One of the benefits of that platform is I don’t have a super direct & immediate conversation with my audience or the accounts I follow. I consume a lot of YouTube, but the hard work and displaced temporalness of the content makes it generally more thoughtful and kind.

Twitter has this sense that it represents the current global POV, which I never get on YouTube. It is really hard work to put together a 10 minute YouTube video, usually 4-8 hours, and keeping/growing an audience is easier when you aim your tone a bit higher. The disconnect and lack of immediacy removes a lot of the bad temptations. Not all of them… but it’s better for me.

It’s not just Elon on Twitter, but Elon was my tipping point.
ISP Study Reveals Arbitrary Costs, Fluctuating Speeds, Lack of Options
It’s missing a comment from someone who dismisses someone else’s comment by starting with “Ehhhh no.” It’s also missing someone making a funny joke and then being downvoted because HN comments need to be serious contributions to the topic.
An internet attempts a third-rate mockery of Hackernews. Hackernews pulls a "this, but unironically", earnestly replicating every joke comment in the original article, right down to the obligatory XKCD.
Ettore Majorana: genius and mystery (2006)
Apple Silicon supports the ancient Intel 8080 through a secret extension
The president of the United States and leader of the right wing party attempted a months-long coordinated multi-level effort to overthrow the election, and he’s still the de facto leader of that party. It is utter nonsense to suggest that party hasn’t gotten more radical.
Used to host a LAN party on Halloween. Gave teenagers something to do except get into trouble!

Would rent a hall at the fairgrounds, set up tables, grill outside, big screen. Bring lots of copies of game DVDs!

We'd go all night until dawn. Those were the days.
In the car analogy, it's more like learning and understanding the limitations of the Otto Engine so that you can build a better one... IMO. :) BTW, in aviation, where reliability, constancy, and longevity, they still use magnetos and carbs... :D :;
So many tropes! :-D
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556860
This is exactly how JavaScript arrays work.

I'm not convinced it's a good idea in general because usually the author will have a good idea about how the data will be accessed and what kind of data there is so if you can choose up front you may as well.

Plus having runtime analysis like that can lead to weird and unpredictable performance characteristics.
The Japanese Kei car seems like the ideal to me. Of course, safety amongst the land barges that Americans tend to prefer is a big issue sadly.
Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew
Why was this post written in English? Should re-write in Rust.
LAN parties in the 90s were an excuse to get drunk and smoke weed.
We spent more time on setting things up and dealing with issues than actual gaming
It depends.

See https://gcaptain.com/greenpeace-finds-north-sea-gas-leak-cau...
Yes, I can elaborate, however, this information should have been taught to you by the age of 2. Silly HN.

A tangent is simply a line that touches a non-linear curve (like a circle) at only a single point. It represents an equation with the relationship between the coordinates “x” and “y” on a two-dimensional graph.

The tangential velocity is the measurement of the speed at any point tangent to a rotating wheel in a circular motion. Thus angular velocity, ω, is related to the tangential velocity, Vt, through the formula. Tangential velocity is the component of the motion along the edge of a circle measured at any arbitrary point of time. As per its name, tangential velocity describes the motion of an object along the edge of the circle, whose direction at any given point on the circle is always along the tangent to that point.

[1] https://me

[2] http://me

[3] localhost:8080
n-gate.com used to have more detailed (per article) HN satire.
To make a forge for knife making.
“We renamed the title from The Eleven Sexiest Mistakes Stupid Morons Make When Designing Flow Control Protocols -dang”
How about just adding a disclaimer at the top of the readme that the code was written 15 years ago by a much less experienced version of you?

You can add that the statute of limitations for this code has (in your humble opinion) expired, so those wishing to judge you might want to look instead at your more recent projects.
Wow. I just realized the [-] feature. This changes everything about HN!
I usually just go back to my shell and press up :)

atimes aren’t completely useless, just useful less often than mtimes.
I am looking for an RDP equivalent for linux desktops. Almost every remote access tool I have tried comes up short in comparison.
Each of us started out writing shit code. Don’t sweat it. Your ideas and code add to the lexicon, whether it’s written perfectly or not. Publish and don’t look back.
Why do sites do a back-button hijack if it’s possible to use the long-press menu-select feature?

Because it’s nowhere near equally convenient or standard to do so.
For us it was WoW that killed it.
There needs to be at least one person in the thread reminding us about pg's submarine essay.
I think the real problem was that the product just wasn't what people imagined it would be.

When Alexa was first announced in 2014, I thought, "OK, right now it can only do simple things like play a song on Spotify or tell you the weather. But they're going to iterate rapidly, and in 10 years we'll be talking to it like a computer from Star Trek."

The rapid progress of GPT-3 and friends seemed to confirm this.

But here we are in 2022 and... we're nowhere near Star Trek, nor even GPT-3-ish levels of conversation. There seemed to be a failure of imagination: you wanted some cool sci-fi stuff, maybe shared storytelling like AI Dungeon[0]. But you got triggers for home automation, which 90% of people don't care about.

[0] https://gpt3demo.com/apps/aidungeon-io
We had four on a projector in a room, and then another couple down the corridor on a TV. Glorious. Lots of yelling between rooms.

After each game, the stats screen would motivate all sorts of trash talking. 20 years later, we still talk about the time someone called out at the friend with the lowest shots fired count: "You know the bullets don't cost anything, right?"

I can never understand why modern CoD lacks so many great post-game stats they could otherwise be showing.
The other morning, Alexa had a yellow notification. I asked her to read it, but I was still groggy in bed, so barely listening to what she was saying.

I only registered the phrase 'do you want me to add this to your basket?' at the end. No idea what it was, but she was trying to randomly sell me stuff while I'm chilling at home.
The exception for me is that epic Code Red supply. Me and my friends usually drank coffee (not that we turned down soda or anything, just wasn't typical).
Their next GPUs will have ROCm official support btw (Navi 31 and 33).

I understand your feelings though...
I haven't used Alexa in sometime, but the current state of Siri leads me to believe that after a decade of heavy investment, core technology just isn't mature enough for voice assistants to provide much value. Ex, siri is great with a simple command like, "hey siri, play something I like." But struggles mightily to do anything beyond...
It's missing a thread where someone makes a very simplistic analogy, followed by 300 replies discussing the analogy but not the concrete point.
He was one of my favorite authors. I remember reading "Eon" many years ago. I thought it was the best book I had ever read. Then I read "The Forge of God" and found it even better.
How the U.S. – Chinese Technology War Is Changing the World
Exactly! I just have one up vote for you :/
The iPhone was higher on the innovation scale in the sense it took competitors 5-10 years to catch up, and half never did.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
It's possible to use Apple's virtualisation framework when running native arch VMs in QEMU, for example setting -accel to hfv, seen here: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine

UTM should also support this.
Rung home.
Multiplayer games with dedicated, community servers were very special. If you frequented a server, it wouldnt be long before you made friends with the people on the server.

I made many good friends in the battlefield 2 and team fortress 2 days through a couple dedicated servers. People to this day are SHOCKED at how many friends I have on steam.

It's because we all showed up at the same time to play games together, in commune. It was our coffee shop. It was our church.
Real-life GPT3
That is cool. Satisfying to figure out an optimization like that!

A little off topic, but on my M1 Macs I have been using Lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima to get shells running in a Linux container.

Google has done a very good job adding containerization to ChromeOS. I keep a Lenovo Chromebook around for quick access to Linux. I find myself doing this more often than SSHing to a VPS.
“Firefox nightlys does” had me in fits.
> localhost:8080

Whoa, I just checked that link, and there's some really offensive stuff on there. Is flamebait like this allowed around here?
I think that the fact that you have managed to finish and ship more than 1 game is amazing in itself.
"...me understand time slowing down as speed increases in Anvil of Stars."

For me it was Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
I distinctly remember several of my friends dropping out of our LANs due to their WoW addictions. It was sad. Eventually, it became about half of the group, and the LAN parties stopped.
Would someone explain to me why Trump is worse than Biden?
A search tool
A few hundred dollars is quite significant at the low end of the market. Backup cameras as mandatory, so all cars need an screen and once you have a screen it’s cheaper to remove buttons.
One of the usernames is "scificharacter".
This is the most likely factor. A teacher has to teach a decent class size. Overall, boys are more disruptive. So yeah, it makes sense that teachers consciously or subconsciously reward those who make their work easier, by behaving better and following instructions
And what exactly is the vision? Elon keeps changing it by the day.

Twitter itself has already been built. What new thing would they be building? A slightly different content moderation system? Slightly tweaked steps for verifying accounts? I'm not sure I see anything hardcore about any of this.
NIMBY Keto.
I disagree. My monitor's weight was around 20kg and it was a lot of work, to get it together with my large tower into the car.

Even though we enjoyed the gatherings, we hated doing the grunt work before and afterwards.
Ask HN: Starlink Signup failed, no recourse
On october 27th, when I first heard about Starlink for RV's, I immediately signed up at starlink.com and paid €480. I filled in my email and my phone number, but to date I have not received a confirmation of receipt from Starlink. The payment was a direct transfer.

I have gone through the (not great) starlink support pages, and one can apparently only contact starlink through an account that becomes available through the confirmation email. Naturally I have none. It also states that if that confirmation email wasn't confirmed, the order would be cancelled after 7 days (it hasn't). There was no email in my Spam folder.

Now it's been over 3 weeks. I am a customer but as far as starlink is concerned, I am not. They obviously did their utmost best to not need a helpdesk, having generous procedures in place for when things fail. There is no one to talk to, not even a silly bot. This is all great when it works, but when you fall on the side where things don't work as intended, as I do now, it doesn't exactly feel great. It feels like a scam, it's indistinguishable.

There is also a potential for a scam. If I somehow filled in a slightly wrong email address someone else could, in theory, have taken over my account, and could have redirected the shipment. The point is, I'll never know, and I was not made aware of such risk while signing up. Indeed the signup experience was strangely feed-forward, without an email-confirmation step. In the end it felt like I was supposed to dump €480 into a void, with nothing to show for, except a bank transfer. I was forced to rely on the reputation of the brand, only.

I think the above is a relevant data-point to many of you (non-scammers), because it represents an extreme case, even beyond Google, one where not only the non-fallability of software artifacts is presumed, but also the non-fallability of the organizational process that led to its 100% no-contact design.

That's sure to have some relevance to the community, but of course I just want someone to talk to and solve what could have been the smallest of issues. Any advice on how to proceed next is appreciated.

Edit:

- as commenters have mentioned, there is a reset option, by email or phone. AFAIK neither works.

- I'm pretty sure I filled in everything correctly, and at the correct site. Never had this kind of problem.
And what purpose would that have ultimately served?