skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>5th graders are supposed to call tech support in the middle of a school day to figure out why something is working.

I'll presume to assume the above was meant to say 'something isn't working', but it makes so much more sense as written.
Very doubtful that our society is paying an efficient amount for colleges. We are probably overpaying (destroying value/resources) by a factor of ten.
Yeah. The article tosses out this one anecdote of a Windows laptop being easy to fix but I guarantee no K-12 IT department is doing bootleg ChromeBook repairs. Also the main alternative here is probably a tablet not a Windows much less a Linux laptop.

As for the life cycle I think laptops are on something like a 3 or 4 year refresh cycle where I work though in practice it’s pretty loose.
Plants that feed the cattle are overwhelmingly fertilized using fertilizer derived from petroleum products, so it’s not an accurate picture that the feed plants are carbon capture methods.
What was Vic's bold vision?
Causality will be tough here. I could also credit the certification regulations just as much. And truth to tell, construction techniques are vital, yet we don't value the construction workers in this way.

That is, it is a whole system. And largely comes to costs and known building techniques. After all, certified engineers built "galloping gerdy."

(And I didn't even get into maintenance costs and application. )
This might be pedantic nit-picking, but: I think bed leveling/heating, nozzle temperature, choice of material, etc. are parameters that the printer manufacturer should have optimized (and, IME, good ones do). I think the end user's chief responsibility is slicing (infill patterns, layer thickness, etc. as you noted), indeed it is in this sense the end user can be said to be in the same position as Intel/Samsung, not so much the hardware maintenance but knowing the slicing tricks for getting complicated geometry to come out just right.

For example, when you're making a cube, the sharp ends are places where bad things happen. When making sharp movements, the nozzle will tend to leave ugly trails and in other times cause warping. So here you can do a trick to save yourself: mouse-ears (extra material around the important edge, so that the bad artifacts happen instead on additionally-created non-core-geometry). At ground level, you use brims.
As maintainer what is keeping me from using this as a replacement for bug bounty platforms like hackerone, is the missing payout functionality. this is quite hard to do if you serve bounties worldwide (lets say researcher is in Indonesia, while my OSS company is in US) without significant bureaucracy and admin overhead.
Anyone know a solution to this that does not involve commercial bug bounty platforms or something something crypto?
Nice just woke my partner up who has a cold with the music
I would be interested why hackernews is so strong against cryptocurrencies. I am not sure but I assume most readers are from the US where the benefits are limited. Personally, for some time already I'm supporting a friend in Colombia financially and last year I switched to sending him Bitcoin. It's so much easier, cheaper and faster for both of us.
The apartment rental market seems like it comes pretty close.
Yeah the problem is I'm in the Toronto area. I thought about renting AirBnB or going to hotels for those 2 nights I would have to spend in Toronto every week, but prices in Toronto are insane.

I would pay the same amount of money for 4*2 nights in Toronto that I pay for a 4 bedroom house in my city for a month.

This is my plan Z, but I can't do this for very long.
> I think school was better with everything on paper.

I'm pretty sure writing notes on paper is better for learning. Something about engaging more of the brain through motor skills.
It is also the fact that both wetlands and melting permafrost emit methane, and both sources seem to be increasing their emissions as the world warms. This is a scary feedback loop, and that’s before we get to things like undersea clathrates.
Anyone who changes relative priorities for emissions reduction based on new information is a climate denier?
Beef and dairy is still horrible for the climate, yet maybe a few percent less than previously thought.
Memory mapping is a poor way to make a database[0], not all storage can be memory mapped, and this doesn't provide any of the functionality you expect of a database like indexing and concurrency control.

[0] https://db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022/
I finally figured out how to take notes
Anyone remember One Laptop Per Child?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...

Give a TED Talk, go on 60 Minutes, and then change the subject until the world moves on.

> “I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written,” Negroponte finally admitted. “And yes, it has been a disappointment.”
No one designing defaults for a home distro will tune it for the server use case by default, so raid 5 considerations are totally irrelevant to OP's question.
better to have programs that renew low-mid laptops every 2 years. They get abused in the school setting, and battery gets bad after 2 years.
> science is quite settled that anthropogenic climate change is a real ting.

This study seems to suggest there has been a lot of research into how methane causes warming, but little research into how it may cause cooling.

> The corresponding climate impacts, however, have been only indirectly evaluated and thus remain largely unquantified.

Then - right off the bat - this study finds a substantial cooling effect.

This hardly rules out the possibility of additional undiscovered cooling effects.

It suggests to me that additional research is needed into how all these greenhouse gasses may have cooling effects.
Agreed.

Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.
Is this an op-ed? It looks like the author is a columnist and this is a story in that column…
I think there's some theoretical utility to the concept, but the problem seems to be that the software is so bad kids would actually be better off with pencil and paper and old-timey physical textbooks. 99% of modern consumer software is godawful and kids seem to get the worst of it, presumably because the people who are actually subject to using the software (kids, parents, to some degree teachers) are so many steps removed from the """decision"""-makers who bought it, to say nothing of the rent-seeking ghouls who """designed""" and """built""" it.
At this point we have to consider people who deny that climate change is caused by humans to be climate deniers, since they are advocating for no change in behavior which is the same as people who outright deny that it's happening.
I agree. But it's pretty obvious they're legally allowed to do it.
It would be a really cool coincidence if the temperature at which water boils happened to be the magic number that killed most bacteria (unless it killed them because it boiled water they depend on to function or something), but I don't think that's the case - I think that boiling is something that's easy for humans to do and to perceive that also happens to be above the safe threshold and kill enough of the bacteria that harm us to make it a useful break point, even if the actual 212* isn't especially relevant.
They sure do. Many of my customers are small companies or startups shipping desktop apps, they come to us to get a tool that takes the pain out of desktop distribution [1]. Often they're doing things with hardware. Electron apps do count but actually a lot of our users aren't using it.

https://hydraulic.software/
Sending applications and not hearing back does not mean the job market is bad. Maybe it's your application, resume, experience or the timing etc.

Does any of the listing of jobs here look good for you?

It took 4 months for a fortune 100 company to get back to me to say the job was no longer available. I was already working for them in another job.

Good luck.
70% of Americans live in houses:

https://www.builderonline.com/money/economics/80-percent-of-...
Or Linux, or Android, or Windows via WINE on Linux. And I'm sure Chromebooks would also run iOS and MacOS if Apple allowed it.

Did I miss anything?
In the video, they literally said they asked the question in private before hand. Highly suggest you watch it before commenting further.
I recall reading a news article a while back about, I think, Aedes control measures being taken. And CA has a decent website outlining control strategies[1], as well as a dedicated website for West Nile virus control[2].

Meanwhile at least one private company and at least one California city have released Wolbachia-infected mosquitos [3],[4] or are seeking approval to release GMO mosquitos [5] to control viral transmission or Aedes breeding.

And Alameda county, at least, has a decent webpage up outlining its program [6].

Mosquito control, in general, is probably somewhat complicated by not wanting to eradicate the native mosquito species.

1 - https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Mosquitoesan...

2 - https://westnile.ca.gov/

3 - https://www.businessinsider.com/wolbachia-mosquitoes-califor...

4 - https://www.wired.com/2016/08/california-city-fending-off-zi...

5 - https://www.californiamosquitoproject.com/

6 - https://www.mosquitoes.org/programs
have you considered the possibility that other people have a more severe form of tinnitus than you.

besides, putting suffering in scare quotes -- i.e. macho posturing where you pretend the suffering is not real -- is not what stoicism is about at all.
Can't get more than 2 messages into a conversation before "oh shoot the other side did not respond in time".

Is it overloaded or is the average attention span less than that of a tik tok now?

Neat game regardless.
Summary: Our lives are made up of scopes we move between. Humans are highly adaptable to their present scope. "Good [scopes] reward us for spending time in them, they give us new ideas, offer new perspectives, or simply make us feel human." Instead of getting trapped in a bad scope, find a good one.

I coulnd't help feeling infantilized the whole way through this
Coinbase CEO Won't Rule Out Relocating Company Away from U.S.
That is such a wild idea. I wonder if you dance with one eye covered or learn a language solely thru input from right vs. left eye (and ears) would it matter? Or what about musicians like Jimi Hendrix who played their instrument backwards?

It seems un-testable in terms of eliminating any sort of placebo/expectation effect though.
SELECT * FROM BOOK WHERE CHAPTERS=READ and KNOWLEDGE = ATTAINED
I don't see how mandating hanging 10 Commandments isn't establishment of religion. That's what I quoted above. That's the issue.
Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

"... the concepts of “planetary boundaries” (PBs) and a “safe operating space for humanity” ... are intended to represent Earth system processes, which,
if crossed, could generate unacceptable environmental change
potentially endangering human existence

The nine PBs currently recognized are the following:

1. Land-system change;

2. Freshwater use;

3. Biogeochemical flows - nitrogen and phosphorous cycles;

4. Biosphere integrity;

5. Climate change;

6. Ocean acidification;

7. Stratospheric ozone depletion;

8. Atmospheric aerosol loading; and

9. Introduction of novel entities.

Of the nine PBs, five are in the high risk or increasing risk zones,
with agriculture the major driver of four of them and a significant
driver of the remaining one. It is also a significant driver
of many of the PBs still in the safe zone.

Reduced meat and dairy consumption is likely to be crucial."

While methane is often cited as the most harmful aspect of animal agriculture, it's only one of many. Let's not forget about increased usage of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics, ocean dead zones, as well as the spread of zoonotic diseases. Additionally, animal agriculture can contribute to soil degradation and erosion, damage the water cycle, and lead to droughts and depleted aquifers.

Furthermore, it's essential to recognize that consuming animal products is no longer a necessity but rather a personal choice. This choice not only results in the loss of lives of gentle animals (as only those were chosen for domestication), but it also damages nature and wildlife.

So probably not much.
I believe that there can be real software engineering. And in many places it has uses.

But how most of the sotfware done, is not really engineered.

And I think we might do better if we were more rigorous with what is being build, probably slower, but better off and lot of it could be replicated for close enough use cases.
Good question. I've no idea but if I was the author I wouldn't bother with concurrency, I'd assume single user only and always; a database without concurrency is still perfectly good database so it's hardly making the book title a lie.
food for other animal(fish)/insects
All plants we eat are fertilized. We can stop fertilizing and all die.
Show HN: I made a website for letter writing and slow communication
After struggling to keep in touch with a friend who moved away to Japan, I set out to build something that enabled deep conversations without the pressure and required scheduling of instant messaging
Canonical really seem to have lost their mojo. They've had a long-running tendency to forge on ahead regardless with fingers in ears, instead of listening to their userbase about what they actually want. Forcing snaps on users being a prime example of this behaviour. As a consequence, many users are jumping ship to other distros, and who can blame them?

In fact, I'm in the same camp. I'm imminently replacing a very nearly EOL 18.04 install with Arch. I've tried a non-trivial amount of distros over the course of my Linux days (since Fedora Core 5) and Ubuntu has probably seen the most install time over that period, but my time with Ubuntu is now at an end. Snaps suck.
How long is the ebook version?
The reason your comment is bad isn't you pointing out some "truth".
The reason is your comment being misleading. You pretend, the accuracy of climate models was insufficient for any relevant conclusions to be made. That is just nonsense.

The interesting part is people clinging onto anything calling that impending climate catastrophe (or its human cause) into question.

Individual subjective short-term benefits outweighing rationally obvious mid- to long-term consequences is usually considered the domain of teenagers. Or of people living in very uncertain (life-threatening) circumstances, devaluing any future considerations.

Either way, those opinions can't carry weight in such a context, as their reasons share no common domain of validity with global long-term considerations.
Well, one's a decently comprehensive book and the other's SaaS aimed at embezzling your employer's learning budget - wider lang support but lower quality.

Maybe the problem is the format...
I like this. I added my own parts to clarify and solidify my stance. "Unless I have created a harm, I have a right to choose what to share and who to share it with. I have no interest in the "suspected guilty until proven innocent" mantra.""
Part of a good software team's toolbox.

Others:

https://direnv.net/ -- when you cd to a directory, do things like set variables.

https://asdf-vm.com/ -- manage and use specific versions of software. Can work with direnv too!

https://pre-commit.com/ -- git hooks that I personally found easier to manage than Husky.

https://github.com/qoomon/git-conventional-commits -- enforce standard commit messages. Works with pre-commit!
I understand it's better than traditional remittance services, but did you try (transfer)wise? I use it monthly and it's so good - fast/cheap/easy - that I haven't felt any draw to crypto.

Doesn't bitcoin's volatility affect your use case?
Could GPL be amended to be compatible with ZFS? Something along the lines of a legal shim. (Clearly Linus already said no to this in extension.)
It's opinionated, but it's not _that_ opinionated IMO. You can write awkward Java, shiny C, or whatever idiomatic Go is. Most people I worked with were from .net/Java worlds, and learned just about enough Go to be able to subject others to their coffee bean ideologies.

There's somethings the compiler will fail on like unused variable and the likes, but for the most part you need added static analysis and style checking -- some of which ships with the Go compiler.
My first bot convo gave itself away by using the word "chillsax". No human has ever typed that word.
Similar boat, after about a decade on Kubuntu I switched to Manjaro, and there had been very little downsides (things like Postgresql major upgrade requires manual migration for example, which I didn't notice while updating the system) and a lot of advantages (or just one really, the AUR). Moving your right dotfiles (KDE ones are painful though) you can do the switch in less than a day and the change won't really be noticeable.
Snap server is non-free software.

Without reverse engineering the protocol, it is impossible to host your own snap repository.
Not automated, but I wrote software to make it fast for me to find things using HN Search and keyboard shortcuts. This comes up a lot!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35500297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34527279 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33269207 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30535024 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370676 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441182 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27726982 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27284079 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236708 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886074 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245003 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158300 (Feb 2021)

(and yes of course I used the same software to find these)
Not discussed here is car seat and seatbelt requirements. If you have multiple children in car seats or boosters, you’re going to have a hard time getting more than one in the backseat of a sedan.
There are many careers that can be attained without college. And there are many careers that can be attained after college that will easily pay for the loans that were taken. The problem seems to be individuals taking loans and either not finishing school or making a bad decision in a degree. I don’t see why that burden should be placed in the taxpayer
Also the BBC Micro in the UK.

The key things with these devices was the accessibility and the ability to "get under the covers" and use it.

It wasn't a device to delivery courses, it was a tool - just as much as a hammer in shop class was a tool. Yea, we all played Oregon trail... but I've still got fond memories of Rocky's Boots ( https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Compa... ).

Chromebooks and smart phones (I believe) are too far away from the computing of the device.

With the Apple ][+ I recall wanting to make a program that showed maps of the world in low rez graphics... and the corresponding learning more about loops than the librarian understood and using the DATA block along with READ to read it and learning how to compress 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 into 255.

There are a couple things going on though with the expectations. I could write a program that would look amateur but comparable to what was professional at that time using BASIC. The web of old that we fondly look back to with Myspace didn't take masterful skills to get to what was similarly acceptable.

Today, to get something that is vaguely comparable to what you expect when you use a computing device takes a lot of work. Swift Playgrounds and Scratch aren't enough. There is a high discouragement factor and the expectations of what someone who wants to do what I did with BASIC or simple web pages back then is a lot of work.

I would be tempted to say that instead of general computing and scratch we should look at teaching kids Excel... and I might get some flack for that. The main thing is that with Excel you look at what can be done and it's not too far from making a column have the values of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16. You can get something that is useful without too much work and without expecting it to look as nice as a fancy page or game. And as they learn how to do more, you can introduce them to =LAMBDA.
The intent of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 was to make all passenger vehicles in America more fuel efficient. But auto lobbyists convinced regulators to make a subtle change to the bill’s text. While efficiency standards for cars would be written into the law itself, the standards for trucks were to be set by regulators at the Transportation Department.

In short, because SUVs are built on a truck frame and are considered trucks, they are not held to the same fuel standards as cars.
Yes I thought about that, I got my resume reviewed with a recruiter friend, also with an online service, I got some small feedbacks but overall they said my resume is good.

> Does any of the listing of jobs here look good for you?

By "here" you mean on HN? Yes I applied to a bunch, but it's hard to find someone who is hiring in Canada remotely. Most are hiring in US only (even the remote positions). I'm actively using this site: https://hnhiring.com/
>Russia’s foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights

What a chilling statement.
My 2015 Intel Macs supported new OSs until the last version. They still get some updates and I make a point of basically just using them as browsers.
If you're using linux (though you could on chromebooks too)!

Otherwise, that's only until 2025, when Windows 10 support stops. Considering microsoft decided that throwing away tens of millions of devices is worth it in the name of security (while touting how green Windows 11 is, lol).
OpenAI will sign a business agreement and run an instance with isolated servers, for HIPAA compliance. That being said, you can run LLMs on-prem.
> You know it’s the same plant right?

Yes, exactly like "potato" or "apple" is always the same plant, and they don't each have literally thousands of different cultivars bred for different purposes and use cases.

Oh wait.

> There’s only so many ways you can prepare and handle wine. The real variety comes from using other plants for the fermentation.

Ignoring that neither of these is true, you have hardly given any hint at any sort of knowledge and understanding of the "only so many ways" of preparing and handling anything, be it wine, potatoes, or tea.
Bingo.

Microsoft as IBM is a horribly outdated take.

Because of MS, they helped me love desktop apps again: VSCode, Outlook, Edge, and the ever so controversial Teams.
From models, basic physics, and observed effects scientist make forecasts about climate change, and they adjust models based on observations.

If scientist make 100 forecasts based on current models they won't all be spot on. It might turn out that say 85 of them turn out to be pretty close, 5 of them turn out to be wrong in that things actually turned out worse than the models forecast, 5 of them turned out better than the models forecast, and 5 of them didn't happen at all.

The "deniers" look at those last 5 or 10 and dismiss the models and all conclusions from them as worthless, ignoring that the models got it mostly right and that the things they got wrong are nowhere near important enough to change the overall result. They at most just change the timeline a little.