skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me describe to you a system I've seen myself. I think it was created around 1985, in Cobol, by 1 company, for only that company. Afaik, it succesfully runs today.

At the start, there are screens for what we today call issues: 80x25 terminals that input, edit, prioritize and assign changes. Nightly batches provide management views of what is being done where.

Other screens let you check in and out code files, tracking history, linking to issues and people, and managing which versions are on local dev preprod and prod. Nightly batches run the compiler for changes.

Promotion to preprod requires quality checks, where e.g. no new deprecated calls are allowed. Promotion to prod requires a manager sign off, where the input from the test team is validated.

I have not seen this level of integration until github matured. In some ways, github is superior, in other ways the deep integration with their procedures and tech choices is still superior.

That's more than 3 decades, maybe even 4, that this system paid off. It survived the departure and replacement of a whole generation. It survived all attempts to managerial reorgs, and thank god for that. It came from a time that computers where so expensive that having the manpower and long term vision for this was a good choice, even for only 1 company. Unfortunately, it also makes new people relearn everything they know about version management.
In Spain if your lunch is composed of sandwitches for a quick one, in some places of south Spain you can get a lunch for two for $12.

Also, on some Chinese Woks I could get a box of rice with chicken and some vegetables+addons such as onion rings for 12-13 euros. The box is pretty big so it can be split nicely without feeling yourself half-empty afterwards.
I guess it depends on how specific you want to be. The Windows C runtime is a component of the OS.
The type suburb we build today are one of reasons. At least it enforces that behavior in parents.

Then there is also “no screen time” so the kid will not learn how to behave online, not able to detect scammers, understand things like privacy and trust, etc.

And there are also laws: you might get in trouble if you leave your 15 year old alone overnight. And when 17 not more than 2 nights. But they can join army at 18.
What are the incentives not to, does America have good redundancy packages or something?

Has Twitter services actually deteriorated? I don’t spend much time there
Ask HN: How did you do on your 2022 New Year’s resolutions?
Everyone gets excited to set new resolutions but I am wondering how people did on last year’s?
> And the fact that the vast majority were for one candidate.

That struck me as weird too. Why would so many of Hutchinson's votes be second-rank, with no first-ranked candidate? Hutchinson was the incumbent; one might divine from tealeaf reading that these voters knew about Hutchinson, and based on his record, did't care to rank him first. But they didn't like any other candidate well-enough to give him first rank.

I think perhaps naive voters treat the ranks they award like gold stars on a student's workbook; more a mark of approval than a vote in election. But who's to say?
> SpaceX is launching stuff at an incredible rate. That's the great thing, but it also means that as they continue to launch, the amount of 2nd stages left behind will only increase.

You seem to be saying that all entities globally should as a whole launch less objects into space, as you imply that putting more objects into space is a net negative. That's fine to think but I strongly disagree that we as a planet should launch less objects into space.

> There is a large number of second stages in orbit that are not coming back any time soon.

I agree, which is why we should push for regulations that require satellite operators to have plans to de-orbit their satellites at end of life and/or not launch to orbits where the launching stage cannot quickly de-orbit within a set number of years. However simply pushing for all countries to launch less things into space, as you seem to be saying, is not a good idea.
Do people drink along with it? Is it on TV or is a vaguely good copy available.
https://archive.vn/ebBES
I took Zorin for a spin just to see what it was about.

When i'm not using my hackintosh, i will be sticking with Ubuntu Budgie.

Zorin seems to be based on Ubuntu anyhow, and their MacOS look/feel isnt as nice as Budgie?
That is not true. All executives are standard, W2 employees. They may have special employment contract provisions, but irs rules would not allow the executive of a company to be a contractor.
Let's have a contest then. Pick a (relatively simple) web product and your "fastest" language. I bet I'll build it faster with pure Python.
You’re looking for a book club. Do a web search for “book club app” and you’ll find plenty to explore: https://bookriot.com/book-club-apps/
Unless their ability to remain in the country is tied to their job…
This refusal, at any cost it seems sometimes, to accept certain conflicts as being a necessary part of social interaction drives me crazy sometimes. Because without adressing the conflict, tensions will only build up until it really gets nasty.
Oh, it sounds amazing to have people who only vote to avoid a penalty. I'm sure they'll make sure they know the issues and do their research and not who they see the most on TV or offers them the most free stuff
It's interesting only for someone discovering something like sliced bread and that I can sort of guess / expect their only net experience as an adult began when social media was a definite thing.

I've rewritten my comment because the article itself is so scattered, and I still haven't decided if by clicks they meant a mouse clicking a like button or does click mean typing keys or merely someone opting to not click a new link where some person has written some more stuff, probably because they are already burned out for the day.

However it was interesting when the author refers and reflects on another blog concerned with the death of the internet which was much more engaging even if they waffled on a bit. It posed an interesting question, albeit indirectly, what is the internet?
Ask HN: What are you working in the service of?
> Australia is not in Europe

Maybe not by geography, but by Euro♡ision, it is?
Or hopping over it with both feet after the first few times stumbling.
> It's a grift that keeps on grifting.

Nice! Filed - I'm sure I can use that one someday.
And then the nuclear plant explodes and all the little cows fall over!
Not “the Autobahn”. A mere 600 meters of it, in a single project, designed for a bus.
Some states have open primaries, eliminating the need to join a party. I wish my state was one of them, because I hate the political parties.
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 09 Part 2 Aion_ Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

I should mention that for many, his late work is completely insane, and he has indeed suffered psychosis at his latest years.

I should also mention, anecdotally speaking, you can experience dissociation and suffer peculiar dreams just by reading through this.
The genuine answer is to held criminally liable the responsibles for allowing an unsafe flight to take off.
And most child sex abuse is perpetrated by family
And seemingly (though it is not very clear from the article) what he actually did was a completely different thing.

If I get the essence right, he altered prices for goods paid with his credit/debit cards that were actually delivered to his home, nothing to do with roundings.
This is great commentary.
> core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes and corruption from third-party applications or a faulty update.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they just mean they mount the root filesystem as read-only, and have a separate partition for /var and /tmp ?

That's a reasonable idea, although I'm not sure it merits an entire distribution. Is there anything else to Vanilla or is it just this?

> The GNOME Desktop is the perfect environment for your daily tasks

Maybe if you're a GNOME developer, and even then I kind of doubt it.

> designed to be a reliable

But it's based on ubuntu, which uses systemd, which is something not to be relied on, in many respects; see:
https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Arguments_aga...
Hah! Love your nick! I haven't played games in years, but, I really enjoyed half life and the bioshock series (and portal, absolute classic).

Any others to recommend in that vein?
Ah, now I get it. My apologies.

American Tax Payer seems a bit of a stretch though.
Splitting hairs, they’re on your side
"Calling the cops on an unattended child" is so very HOA-cul-de-sac American that it's hard to even fathom for a non-American.

Over here (in the Nordics) kids walk/bike to school every day. In Finland the limit is 5km IIRC, after that you get a taxi or bus ride. Kids travel alone to their hobbies, again by walking, biking or public transport.

I do use Apple's Find My on my offspring, but only to see how much of a warning I need to give them to get home for dinner (are they next door or at their friend's house farther away).
Deceptive marketing/monetisation, as in using psychological tricks to get people to spend money on things they don't want or need. Basically how every modern app and game works nowadays[0].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlTA&t=1s
McDonalds is a mega fast food retailer but they still have employees. Linear scaling is linear in costs and profits.
I have a similar New Year's resolution as (1). Send me an email about freelancing gigs, maybe we can share some or do some together or just talk about strategies.
vell how would man know if zee sketch is funny otherwise?
Rate of return is irrelevant. Affordability matters.
Stop reading 24 hour news.
No they don't, bank loans create new money directly.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
What matters is solving the issue. People don't need to talk to 'other people' or 'cheerful whatever'. The issue is the issue. That's where the focus should be. Fix the issue and everything else is going to be perceived as way in the background.
tcl.tk is my favorite usage, here.
I skimmed the post. Looks like asp.net approach of registering all dependencies up front (with various lifetimes/scopes).

Still looks very verbose. But then asp.net has had a decade, and this project is new.
And lest we forget: The hackneyed Disney Christmas Show at 1600 hours sharp on the 24th of December. In this household, Christmas officially starts when the mouse from Cinderilla squints and runs the thread through the giant needle's eye.
These are generally the only two times of the year I have anything to do with live TV.
Godt nytår!
> Sounds familiar.

I cannot decide whether it's an honor or an insult to be called a _fascist sympathizer_ for opposing the authoritarian suppression of speech.
Porn addiction can be much more damaging to people's lives than cigarettes.
Can confirm, it's a huge tradition to watch it on NYE in Germany.

It's almost as popular as watching Tatort on public viewing events in bars on Sundays.

I'm also legally obligated to like it, it comes with the citizenship :D
Zicke-zacke, Hühnerkacke!
Sounds like the only immutable part is the non-writable filesystem of the root partition, which is updated by having a live and non-live copy (A/B partitions) with the live updating the non-live and then switching on reboot. Similar to how Android works with its read-only partitions.

From a whole filesystem perspective I think it's not accurate to call this immutable though, as you can presumably work around this with bind mounts that can be used to mutate (but not persist) any part of the read-only filesystem while the system is still running.
He didn't cut toilet paper per se, he just fired the janitorial staff which is responsible for replacing it in the restrooms. And then never got a replacement janitorial staff.

I would not want to see what state those bathrooms are in at this point.
I feel, and I think it's a common thread for my generation, that we have grown weary of drinking from the information firehose. The internet has become like high fructose corn syrup for our brains. We're fat with it. So I want to consume less (low quality information) and create more.

I like the idea of "note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work"[1]

My resolution this year is to read more and to write more, and to write better. With the main purpose being to "think better".[2]

More than any other blog I go back to Andy Matuschak's. A close second is Buster Benson's[3].

[1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes?stackedNotes...

[2] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7kEFe6NfUSgtaDuUjST1oczKKzQ...

[3] https://buster.wiki/me/
>Their client area often doesn't work. I can't login right now

Email/password? Haven't had any luck with that 2-3y I've tried Freenom. Google sign-in works fine.
We probably do better than dentists. ("gum gardeners")

At least our customers just don't know what they want; theirs straight up lie about what they do.
“I’ll kill that cat.”
> It's almost as popular as watching Tatort on public viewing events in bars on Sundays.

I have never even heard of anyone doing that, I’d say dinner for one is vastly more popular.
I've been fantasizing about making a similar career switch for quite some time. I actually had the opportunity to do so 3.5 years ago, but decided to go for a more "boring" offer in an interesting city in another country. That decision has been fantastic for my social life, but professionally not very fulfilling.
This is a grifty, reddit-tier comment. Try to keep it classy here on HN please.
initially, i was going to try to 'launch' a side project each month of 2023 but after getting my first one to MVP for 1/1, i realized that's probably a pretty unrealistic goal (even with simplish ideas), haha. i guess i'll just work on side projects like normal and not stress about it.

as a real 'goal', i want to invest more time into being active in community stuff. i feel like i've never truly been a part of any community
The current debate is about an agreement mentioned in memorandum 93 ( https://twitter.com/JonCampbellNY/status/1608327624526548993 ), which describes changes that were not part of the amendment in May 2022. I also thought it may just be a bad summary of those changes, but it details changes that were not done in may. So it is either a very badly written memo, or there is something more going on than can not currently be seen in the public paper trail on the senate website.
I just realized that I'm old, and apparently since too long on the internet. I know way to much of the linked sites and quotes…
-- no need for apologize - https://github.com/ajleahey/twitteradvertisers/commit/47cb9f... - the person who made the list - plus submitted - clearly watching the thread --
My blog sometimes appears on this website and generates some interesting discussion. I most recently wrote about making database tables smaller, and I plan to write more posts exploring what “make it smaller” means to me. It’s usually about the size of the problem space, and the economics of expediency.

https://jezenthomas.com/

I plan to make the business calmer by further establishing a culture of conscientious writing among my colleagues. I’m a big fan of 37 Signals and I often (but not always) follow their lead in business. I have been pushing (and leading by example) for written pitches paired with fat marker sketches for proposed feature development. Previously we have plugged insufficient specification and iteration directly into high-fidelity UI design, leaving developers to infer product behaviour from graphics they see in Figma. I think this hasn’t worked.

I also plan to continue aggressively cutting features. I would rather sell half a product than a half-assed product, and I think the benefits of paring a product down to the good bits has a positive compounding effect on both the user experience, the developer experience, the sales pitch, etc.
In dwelling places and computer hardware and software, I have developed a preference for maintainability and compatible interfaces over performance and shininess.

This bathroom is fixed. It is not configurable, which means that it's great if it does exactly what you need and is a problem otherwise. I'm 6'5". At various times, there have been people living in my house ranging from baby-sized up through me. It looks like this is optimized for someone about 5'5" tall. Bucky was 5'2".

This bathroom has no ventilation options other than a bizarrely placed under-sink fan. It lacks many affordances - a place for towels, natural light, an electrical outlet for small appliances, any consideration of disability or infirmity - and because of the unified construction, it cannot be changed.

It's an interesting design, but the reason people didn't adopt it is that it isn't adaptable.
You totally can?
At the point that the US government prosecutes you, the cat is out of the bag and they don’t care about making you put the canary back. What they care about is punishing you, with jail time or a large fine or some other penalty, to discourage other people from attempting the same “loophole.”
> usually broadcast shortly before midnight.

That’s cute. It’s been a while, but last I checked, there were 10s of broadcasts of it on the different stations throughout the afternoon, evening and night in Germany ;)
Not really true.

Sure, some experiences require a car. But there are tons of things that don't, even in more isolated areas. When I lived in a fairly rural neighborhood, there weren't tons of kids, but one or two families typically. You learned how to get along with them and become friends. You could go anywhere in the neighborhood if you told your parents. You could even ride your bike on trails to the local college a few miles away (once you got older 12+ or so). You could shoot off model rockets in the local open space (not exactly a park, just an open field). Go fishing, build a fort in the woods at your friend's (yes, using sharp tools), play some sort of unorganized sport, etc. You couldn't have a real job without a car, but I certainly made money other ways such as babysitting, selling bird houses, etc.

I later lived in a rural town. Even though there was more stuff to do there, I went out less. More of the things cost money there and there was less open space. But you could walk to stores and stuff.

So the option is there, particularly if they aren't already biased to only participate in preconceived ideas of what activities should be.
Not on New Year's Eve. It's always on December 23rd.
They only care about safety issues during flight. Flights that dont happen are not a "flight safety" issue. The safest trip is always the one that doesnt try to leave the ground.
Tell HN: Happy New Year
Happy new year from Sydney Australia!
More vacation. At least 1 big weekend a month off to a remote location (fri evening -mon morning)
> You could run parliament on probabilistic lines, too.

My instinct is that this would have significantly more negative effects, to do with the ease under that system of making radical policy changes.

Though more likely, it would fall into a pathological state where most votes are votes on whether to retake other votes.
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the world in 2023?
What are some bold predictions you have for next year?
I also saw it unfold and used that as the basis for my post. I’m not surely what meaning you hope to derive from continuing to pretend that story is true but I hope you find some greater meaning in life than defending an old lie.
I feel the same way. I've been doing web-related stuff for about 13 years now and have lost much of my interest. Started dabbling with electronics and embedded systems about 5 years ago and it completely re-piqued my interest in writing software. I'm still doing backendy web things for money but would love to move away from that. Any recommendations for moving into the embedded field professionally? What sort of companies are you working for?
And it is wildly popular, about 1.7 million viewers (population ~5 millions), around 80% of those watching TV at that time are watching it. And it always aired at 21:00. In 1992, NRK tried to air it earlier, but they received so many calls from the public that night that they re-sent it later in the evening
I currently live in a van because I can't afford rent or a home. The past few weeks at -10 degrees has been rough. So nice to see that corporations are buying the existing homes and governments are restricting the amount of homes that can be built so the corporations shareholders will have a safe place to park their money while inflation is at 10%.
Boy this version of government and capitalism is awesome. Let's do drinking water next!
> I'm surprised immutable systems aren't more popular.

They once were, before the internet made software updates "easy". There was a time when software was released (and often embedded without any option for upgrade/modification).

But immutable (mostly correct and reliable) software is more expensive and takes longer to develop, so it is out of fashion. Instead we now push out alpha quality MVPs and depend on updates to resolve known and unknown unaddressed issues as well as promised by not delivered features.

To be a little fair to developers, the user expectations these days are 10x or more greater than they were pre-internet-update days. After all, we now carry "supercomputer" devices in our pockets which also make phone calls, and we expect features and integrations which previously were not even imagined.

Even cars are now becoming update dependent for features and bug fixes. This is approaching a breaking point, I think. It will likely happen; there will be regulation and/or revolt; there will be a return to write-once approaches.
Microeconomics suggests there are multiple common scenarios where consumers are priced out of the market entirely. If you can't afford rent then you can't afford to move. People homeless to appease shareholder value.
> I got the impression that many Germans believe it’s a well-known sketch

Certainly. I’ve now known for several years that it’s mainly popular here, but I’d never have guessed it.

> since it is in English.

As usual in Germany, dubbed versions are very common
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly." — MA

(NB. dude was Emperor of Rome and couldn't really escape it)
Depends on how concentrated they are.
If you're anywhere near El Cajon I know a guy that'd teach you for free/some odd work around the shop
That's funny. I'm Dutch too, and it was a big part of new years eve in my childhood. We watched it every year and loved it. I don't think I got the final joke about the 'procedure' that happens upstairs after the dinner :)
I always thought that almost all Dutchies had the same experience but maybe I was wrong
You're not thinking about the human element. Parsers are implemented by real people, and they make mistakes.

If a format is human-readable and text based it's both far more likely that a) the spec isn't actually complete (because there's an implicit "sensible" option), and b) people don't read the spec anyway and guess the "sensible" option.

There are countless examples of bugs and security flaws in HTTP that wouldn't have been a problem with e.g. Protobuf.
Now that's innovation
None of the prior comments talk about addiction. Just porn consumption.

Addiction to anything is bad, simple.
NATO can beat Russia, but because Russia can hurt NATO feelings with nuclear strike NATO choose to sit on their asses and leave Ukraine to fight.
1080p unfortunately
I disagree. I think College should equip you with the soft skills you need to succeed no matter what the degree. Computer science grads need to know how to negotiate their salaries and engage in technical communication.
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash covers this in pretty hilarious detail.

http://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html