skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friends bought a relatively large olive plantation. They had a ton of savings, moved from NL to Portugal and went 'all in' It took them more than a decade before they really got the hang of it. By then their savings had depleted and they had no other option than to flee forward and really make it a success. It worked, barely. There is no such thing as a 'crop that essentially grows itself'. It may seem like that to people that visit supermarkets rather than farmhouses, toolsheds and plantations. Any kind of cash crop will require money invested upfront (land, plants, this part seems to be covered), money until maturation (irrigation, fencing, possibly pruning depending on the crop), money to harvest. And if you're lucky they pay-off from the harvest covers all those other costs, or hopefully at least a substantial fraction. And if it doesn't there's always chapter 11...

When you're used to the kind of income that software can generate farming anything seems like very hard work, even when it works well.
> For some reason they put a bunch of DC chargers in the city and none between which is the inverse of what you really need. Is there a grid capacity problem in small midwestern towns or did they just get the priority wrong?

Likely ROI--Return on Investment. You can predict quite well the usage of chargers in cities from other charger installations. In between, not so much. On my latest trip between San Diego and Austin, the fast-charging stops were almost completely empty. This is in constrast to the summer, for example, where most of the fast charging was completely full and not a small amount were broken.

People have forgotten that gas stations at every convenience store is a relatively new thing in the US (starting about the mid 80s). Prior to that, part of the advantage of the Turnpikes and major interstates were regular gasoline station placements. And that happened because the governments subsidized them.

The ironic part is that "gas stations everywhere" has been absolutely terrible for groundwater--contamination is now ubiquitous. Paying gas stations to dig up old tanks and replace them with electric chargers would be a big environmental win.
I searched a bit and this is what I got: https://www.reddit.com/r/systemd/comments/qg1g88/poettering_...
This all looks bad enough that I'm not sure it's reasonable to separate their "politics" from the people.
It’s getting to the point where we need to intentionally design people’s young lives to include some actual strife to reset their suffering metric so that someone being slightly unkind stops being treated like battery.

In other words the whole “right of passage” where you’d dump a young teenager in the woods with a knife and a fishing pole and tell them “good luck” needs a modern equivalent.

Human beings seem to have a sort of suffering constant where it doesn’t matter how awful or easy your life is, you find about the same amount to suffer from regardless if you’re a billionaire or an orphan foraging in a garbage dump. People with really comfortable lives are finding troubling things to suffer from and it needs to be addressed and soon.
From YouTube videos I've seen Telsa's already can drive autonomously. You can give it a destination and it will drive there.
for me, it was having kids that made it special, I enjoyed the atmosphere, extra attention at friends houses as a kid - but the anticipation and excitement of my kids transformed a festival I didn't grow up liking.
Sure, you do stuff for and with your kids during the year - but this became a two-way time - that has endured to their adulthood (not just the 'presents').
> The developers also pride themselves on catering to advanced and experienced computer users, which is actually a refreshing take in my opinion

Am I too old?

My first linux install took me days to get to the point of showing a desktop. Not catering to advanced users is the novelty in the linux world imo - and it’s not entirely there yet.
Seems to me the central idea is to pay attention, especially when someone hits their head. Get them to medical care pronto and if you can't, give them an aspirin, put them to bed and check on them periodically. Did I say "get them to medical care"?
The posted extension is about using vim key bindings to navigate links and other useful common commands. Firenvim is about embedding an nvim instance in an text input field. Apples and oranges.
fbdev would only work on BIOS systems if you were using vesafb or had a hardware-specific framebuffer driver loaded. Vesafb would tend to cause problems with suspend/resume and needed to be configured with bootloader arguments (the kernel had no support for transitioning to real mode and the protected mode entry point for VBE basically never worked, so either the bootloader or the 16-bit kernel entry code needed to be used to do the mode setting). The -vesa ddx either ran in vm86 mode or used x86 emulation code so could do more setting at runtime. I don't know of any cases where vesafb would work and -vesa wouldn't. I did a bunch of the hardware enablement work for Ubuntu back in 2004/2005, so real world deployment experience here is in the millions.

I've no idea what you're talking about as far as EFI fb support goes. The spec literally does not provide a mechanism for a running OS to get anything other than a pointer to a linear framebuffer and the metadata you need to use it. There's nothing more to support. What quirks are you talking about?
> You don’t pay $250M, you borrow that amount providing some collateral proportional to your risk of flight.

No, you don't. Even with a fully secured bail bond (which is not a norm in all US jurisdictions), you (or someone acting as your surety) provides the court with a legal claim on property with a value at least equal to the bail amount. When (as is the norm in many syate systems) you engage a bail agent as a surety, the fee may be risk sensitive, or it may be a fixed percentage set by law, depending on state law.
Sorting is a standard distributed algorithm, it is basically quicksort but you move some data between servers between the steps. The aim is to create ordered buckets of data that you then send to servers. The first step is to find good pivots, so sort the data and select data points at the median and different percentiles from each server, then fan out those pivot candidates to every server. Now since all servers has the same pivots they can create the same buckets, and send the data they have of each bucket to the corresponding server. The buckets wont have perfect balance, so you typically want a few times more buckets than you have servers to ensure that you don't overload one of them, that is the fast way. Alternatively you can do another fan out step computing the number of items in each bucket among the servers, and split large ones into smaller buckets using the same technique as before, this will always work but requires a bit more communication between the servers.

As for distributing heavy computations, Google has done that to compute your search results since almost the beginning. Fan out a request to a huge cluster of servers that all have different parts of their data in ram, then they filter and return the parts of the data that is relevant to you. It is totally possible to do it and return a response to the user in a fraction of a second. Typically it takes a few milliseconds to send data between servers in a data center, you can easily fan out a request to a few hundred servers, let them compute and return something 15 milliseconds later. It costa bit to run that though, Google can afford it since search is worth so much per request, so you got figure out if your usecase is worth that much compute. But it doesn't cost that much more than running the same work on a single server, it depends a bit on how well your servers are collocated.

Btw, frameworks for distributed computing like Apache Spark are way too slow for this, you have to hand roll those. But it really isn't that hard to do, there are programming competitions involving those, a correct solution to these kind of things takes like 30 minutes to write if you know what to do and you have done all the boring infrastructure work to ensure you can contact servers and access the data. That is why most programmers never work with complex algorithms, because the boring and tedious work on all the other parts takes up most of the time and manpower.
The feedback loop is to build more houses further away on a road with low traffic.

The road will be full to the point where the cars automatically slow down for safety, and then it will be a heavy traffic, mostly stopped road
I have had “Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations” by Brian Fagan (2009) on my bookshelf for a while but haven’t found the time to sit down and read it. Just noting the book here in case others are interested and want to look into it :-)
You are not making an effort to appreciate the opposite point if view. An order of magnitude for a young, decentralized, trustless and permissionless network is quite an engineering feat.

How complex? -> Turing complete.
Also there is more to L2s than batching. Their aim is to maintain the security guarantees of the L1 without sacrificing availability. Plus, Zk proofs and merkle trees allow for great data compression in the rollup.
The biggest issue I have encountered with educating CS college students is that some groups will be hostile to recursion.

This is unfortunate, because recursive solutions neatly transform into dynamic programming solutions. An entire category of so-called "leetcode mediums", tons of interview questions, can almost always be boiled down to a recursive solution and inverting the execution order.

The problems compounds when you also try to teach induction, because it requires many of the same muscles as recursion and it is by far the easiest method to make sure your algorithm is actually correct.
Primarily the problems with FB's metaverse are design (no legs? really?) and goals. I'm sure that on a purely technical level it's probably first rate. But as usually is the case, the biggest problem is people.
While I agree with the basic idea, it seems that in practice it's been taken over by ascetes who throw the baby out with the bath water and impose pointless restrictions on themselves just for signalling.

If you want software to have less complexity, you don't choose a language which gives you options, you choose one which removes ways to make mistakes. That means, emphatically, not C. You don't have to choose Rust, which is complex indeed, but allows your code to be less difficult. If you want strictness, choose Haskell. Or maybe go the middle way and do OCaml. Or maybe Ada.

I don't understand how the suckless community goes from "vulnerabilities are commonplace" and calling out masterminds to writing C, which is famously difficult to code without stepping into undefined behaviour.

Or maybe I do: this checks out if minimalism is more important than vulnerabilities and simplicity.

Similar criticism can be applied to sticking to X11 compared to Wayland, regarding vulnerabilities (any application can see any other) and performance (any application can block the entire server - try ssh -X on a high latency connection to see).
Keep trying, you can do it. Need a constant pool of patsies we can arb against.
I live in Florida, im good.
Given the exhaust noise, I would put some quotation marks on "solved":

https://youtu.be/hHhf223jGIE
The main problem with nice tools like this is the bootstrap problem: unless something is already on every teammate machine or unless something is so obviously essential that people will go through the extra hassle of installing it (and making sure you have an up to date version of the tool!), you'll always have the incentive to make it do with something simpler or piggyback to something you already use (your build system, make, shell scripts, etc).

When I read the title here, I though this project was about multiplexing multiple shell scripts inside a single shell script, literally without a "runner" you have to install.

I wonder how would that look like
If the wages rise then prices rise and then you don’t have basic income anymore
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34114940
You make a good point... but when I read that one of those 16K administrators has the title of "associate vice provost of inclusion, community and integrative learning," I can't help but feel that things have gotten out of hand. And when I see that the "sticker price" of attending elite US colleges has risen faster than pretty much everything else and is now ~$80K/year, I can't help but be shocked.

PS. I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Even though I disagree with you, I find your comment valuable.
Got it. So just make sure your vehicle is constantly consuming energy and you'll never have an issue... unless the power is out for an extended period of time.
Probably shouldn't have brought it up unprompted in the first comment on the thread then.
I enjoy that the commercialization of American Christmas has, a little bit, freed it from religion. Now it’s just the default Western end-of-year holiday! And we can all enjoy that :)
> amazing word building

There are some misfires. And though I assume you meant to say "world building", the word building is a particular weak point. He decided that, in an alternate history where the word for electricity derived from the Arabic word for amber rather than the Greek one, it was perfectly plausible for the modern form of an original "anbar" to be "anbar". That can't happen.

If you want to see a series of novels with strong word building, check out Katharine Kerr's Deverry series. ;D
> If someone can find a way to do something like Nix, but simple, I'll be interested. Even if it's just a on-rails version of Nix.

I doubt it's possible to substantially simplify Nix and still cover all the use and edge cases it does. Maybe GUIX since it had the benefit of learning from Nix and uses a more familiar (for HN anyway) Scheme, but I haven't looked at closely.

It seems that if Nix/OS works for you, it works really well, but if there are use/edge cases where it doesn't then it can be a lot of added effort to wrangle it.
No idea what resolution those cameras are, can they be as good as our auto-adapting eyes together with our brains? They are pretty neat features after all, trained right. And will we loose our abilities if we don't keep working on them, building our feature set?
> Wasn’t Windows back then dependent on vendor supplied device specific display drivers for anything above basic VGA?

In theory, yes, but the reality was starkly different as I recall (I worked there in the late 90s). In my experience, Microsoft was doing a ton of heavy lifting helping vendors with device drivers.
> I work with Linux day in and day out for work, and finding my way around Nix, configuring new packages / basic features, etc. just took too long for me.

That was my experience as well.

On top of that, getting something like nVidia's latest drivers working with everything else on Nix seems daunting, so you become fully reliant on the community (which may be lagging behind wrt the newest versions).
What KMS driver will attempt to bind to unsupported hardware, and which other KMS driver would you be attempting to replace it with in that scenario?
> But when you examine it, it doesn’t really make any sense at all. It’s a great way to perpetuate inequality, especially wholly unearned inequality.

This paragraph doesn’t make any sense at all either.

The reason is that there is no meaning whatsoever to the concept of earned inequality, and therefore no meaning to the idea of ‘unearned’ inequality.
And when you live in a world with 8 billion people, that’s a lot of food to sell.
Well, one of the original founders (?) of SL went from their to FB but I'm not sure what his original role is. I doubt that there was a fork as we think of it. Everything I've heard (second hand or third hand) is that the old SL server code is really messy and wouldn't migrate over well -probably better to simply take the lessons (social and technical) learned from SL and start over from scratch.
You never started your car and just let it warm up before setting off in winter? How much energy do you think that uses?
Luckily the engines still generate plenty of heat and EVs use modern heat pumps.
I don’t know a single person who still used a real tree. The artificial ones look incredible these days and are infinitely more sustainable, less messy, look better longer, and can be chosen to suit the room perfectly. If you’re a nerd like me you can even embed them with WS2812 RGBs and an ESP32 WLED controller, which would be way too much effort for a temporary “real” tree.
I use dwm (the suckless tiling window manager, certainly “minimal”) on a variety of high DPI screens, and there’s no problem. Just set Xft.dpi in your .Xresources file to the “real” screen DPI or to anything you want to scale as you wish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_furnace discusses that.

I think most mirrors cast this way still would need treatment. For example, the mirrors of the Giant Magellan Telescope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Magellan_Telescope#Mirro...) are being cast using this method to get a rough (for modern astronomy. For example https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/supp...: “after the casting, the surface “roughness” is about 2.5 millimeters, or a tenth of an inch, on average. “The polishing and constant measuring are what turn this amazing piece of glass into a mirror,” he said. “By the time we finish polishing, it will be accurate to better than 25 nanometers”) shape for them. That way, there’s a lot less glass to pour, the remaining glass cools down faster, and less glass has to be removed afterwards.

(For the GMT, an additional complication is that six of the seven mirrors will be off-axis. I don’t know whether they spin them off-axis, or accept that more grinding will be necessary to give them their final shape)

Instead of glass that solidifies, you can also use a container with mercury or another reflective liquid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-mirror_telescope:

“Liquid-mirror telescopes are telescopes with mirrors made with a reflective liquid. The most common liquid used is mercury, but other liquids will work as well (for example, low-melting alloys of gallium). The liquid and its container are rotated at a constant speed around a vertical axis, which causes the surface of the liquid to assume a paraboloidal shape. This parabolic reflector can serve as the primary mirror of a reflecting telescope. The rotating liquid assumes the same surface shape regardless of the container's shape; to reduce the amount of liquid metal needed, and thus weight, a rotating mercury mirror uses a container that is as close to the necessary parabolic shape as possible. Liquid mirrors can be a low-cost alternative to conventional large telescopes. Compared to a solid glass mirror that must be cast, ground, and polished, a rotating liquid-metal mirror is much less expensive to manufacture.”

Disadvantage is that you can only point the mirror straight up. Also, there’s evaporation of the mercury.
concurrency ranges from 23k to 45k or 49k at any given time. God only knows how many of those are bots/scripted agents though.
Or fake it until you crash...
If we’re going to make contrived analogies that don’t really match the nuances of the situation then how about being glad that your boat is now taking on water at a rate slower than you can bail?
It’s not a technical problem, it’s just an effort and cost thing. As soon as people start demanding it, the problem will be solved pretty quick.

I’ve seen new developments advertising electric car chargers already.
I agree. Why do people even
think to treat hours
as fungible? “Time is money” is a criticism of over capitalist thinking, not a playbook!
Because if I can just right "this product might not be safe for people with food allergies" on a package and not have to worry about legal consequences, why wouldn't I? Magic anti-lawsuit boilerplate on every box!
But it was on level one charging (110v). A level two charger, even a slow one, should be able provide enough current to heat the battery and still charge the battery at the same time.
> I understand but you need to be able to borrow $250m.

No, you just have to have the court believe the combination of penalty, security, sureties, and non-financial conditions is sufficient to assure appearance.

In some state systems, the court may be constrained to only accept full secured bond when there is a penalty amount (or, if not so constrained, may have a practice of generally doing so), but that is absolutely not a requirement or the normal practice in the federal system.
As much as I like suckless software (not necessarily the community) it is a pretty contentless article:

- I like Suckless

- I like Alpine

- I like Void more now

- Here's a script
> (2) didn’t notice the religious metaphor.

There are processions of angels bearing the corpse of a dead god. The alethiometer is specifically stated to function through divine grace. It's not so much a religious metaphor as an out-and-out religious story. What's not to notice?
'all kind of chaos that can happen if your engine freezes and you try to drive it immediately.' the coolant in ICE vehicles is called antifreeze, only an idiot would substitute H20 for that in cold weather, or any other time for that matter as it is designed to help protect the interior of the engine.
It's a different environment. Astronauts are passengers, not drivers, and they rarely need to make sudden actions while multi-tasking the way car drivers do. If they made all-glass cockpits for fighter jets I would agree with you, but they don't.
I experienced a similar episode but not with alcohol.

I surround myself with things that are of these words: good, love, kindness, peace, serenity, tranquility, purity, loveliness, wholesomeness, cleanliness, positivity, light, fruit, right, proper, meant, should, high.

Reject dark, evil, bad, negative, low, death, darkness, sinister.

It's a duality you need to escape. Pick the good side.

If you surround yourself with light, your life gets brighter. I cannot imagine surrounding myself with anything negative.

If you keep walking where you're going, you might get there. If you pick the side of good, then you should end up somewhere more positive than walking toward darkness.
Its mostly that, and the fact that you live up to a day where family comes together. Also knowing that everyone around you is kinda doing the same, like a common moment.
I feel bad we didn't get dang anything.
This probably not the right place to post this but on a tangent- is nihilism intrinsically bad? It seems like the most logical thing, nothing has meaning and everything just is.
18mpg is 21mpg with U.K. gallons. My fairly large Skoda gets 45-50 in the real world, maybe dropping to 42 if I’m pushing it to 85mph on the motorway.

Even back when I owned a mid 80s Nissan around 2000 I was getting 25mpg (us gallon).

Why is US mileage so awful?
Ok, maybe I should have said very minimal and near ineffective strain relief. A cheap braided USB-C generally has 2 or 3 times the length and thickness.