skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh you're young :)

In the olden days we used to have (and some of us still do) have Google Alerts on our names to see if it pops up on Google.

The system remembers the results and notifies you of any new ones that pop up.

It also used to be a good tool to keep track of specific topics you're interested in, nowadays there's too much of everything for it to really work.
> The cloud is often just as complicated as running things yourself, and it's usually ridiculously more expensive.

This was obvious to anyone who was willing to do the maths from the beginning. One big reason for the success of the cloud that no one has talked about is that developers often have a disdainful view of the IT department and the operation people. So pushing DevOps, let them go around those people and have the instant gratification of getting all the computing resources they want when they want it immediately without going through the IT department and operation people.

Ironically, some of those developers are starting to get sick of managing the operations and want to just go back to focusing on development. Thus, the pendulum swings back.
What's interesting is that I recently watched The Red Pill Documentary. I recall when it was released that the director, Cassie Jaye a self professed feminist was pilloried absolutely everywhere for giving a voice to Mens Rights Activists. The actual documentary is quite milquetoast.

What it is, is her engaging with the ideas around how in some ways men are disadvantaged in modern society. It's fascinating to me that the fundamental issue in the red pill is, whenever someone tries to point out where society is failing boys and men no-one listens and they get shouted down.

As pointed out by Corrine Barraclough, of the Australian tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, who said in her review of the film that "the message of The Red Pill is compassion" and the film made her "wonder why feminists tried so hard to silence this crucial conversation."
What a cracking article. I nodded so much my neck hurts.

I'm 50 and although by HN standards, not a proper nerd (I'm a ..."web generalist?" - more project manager who can dabble in code than anything ey) and I've seen all this stuff come and go for 30+ years in the web industry.

The thing I've always done is stuck to the core trio of technologies: html, CSS and a smattering of JS when you need it. Then it's PHP for serverside.

For a very large proportion of cases, this is perfect. It's solid, known, reliable and built to last.

Granted, I build websites and not web apps. But for me this highlights the oft-quoted truism that you use the right set of tools for the job. There's no reason for me to go all SPA on my builds because that's not what I need. Ditto with React or Kubernetes or Docker. It's just adding complexity in my scenario that isn't needed.

Then there's another side which I have in spades same as every other nerd - curiosity. So yeh, I've fiddled with htmx and docker and microservices but because I'm interested in finding out more.

The crucial point comes when these two parts collide. And then really the only way is to ask - boringly - "is this the right tool for the job?", when I take in all the factors: sustainability, ease of deployment, documentation, etc.

So yeh, beware the bling of new tech blindness. Most of the time it's the boring old stuff that is best suited for the job. There's a reason after all why these technologies are still around...
Any reorderings or optimizations of floating point code could potentially change the results even without 80-bit precision active.
There's a whole cavalcade of retrospectively obvious ideas, and this fits rather snugly - it had never occurred to me to use bidirectional improvements via disagreement as a deliberate rather than accidental process.

It forces both sides to argue in good faith, it forces clarity, and even in circumstances where no possible agreement can be reached, it pushes arguments on either side toward their strongest and most reasonable forms.

Of course, it does require that people on either side of a given argument need to be willing to engage and to do so in good faith.

(Captain Hindsight out.)
My childhood conditioning was also something which recently unraveled for me.

The first time I had a heart-to-heart with my father, the center of my chest felt viscerally tender.

Mother stole a car and sold it to pay for a cocaine addiction. Father was such a workaholic that he simply marked her behaviors as "strange"... like her taking phone calls into a closet.

After the divorce my father had custody and remarried to continue his absence. (Normally left before I awoke, and I went to bed before he returned. He was even normally late for family dinners on holidays. When he was home, he was sleeping or watching TV)

Sometimes stepmother would return from work and vomit anger onto me and my stepsister. (Only about 2 years ago I realized it was Verbal Abuse)

Re-encoding memories was crucial for my awareness, and mental-emotional progress.

It's challenging at first, but after processing a few traumas, now when a deeper layer surfaces, I know I can immediately bring it to a therapeutic resolution.

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
> The benefits of exercise might not be immediate, says Singh, but they should show up within weeks or months. Beyond that, the longer people engaged in exercise, the less beneficial it became for their mental health. This may be because they were sticking to the program less, due to waning motivation or, perhaps, injury. It could also be because the exercise itself began to feel less novel and more repetitive.

Not mentioned here that I think should be considered is how much of the benefit was just due to _novelty_. If the effect wears off over time then at least part of it may be going out and doing something different.
I was expecting something like this but better - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/trapped-a...
> (that humans are sexually dimorphic and ramifications of that)

We're actual a bimodal distribution. Even not accounting for intersex folk it's a lot less binary than most people assume or was covered in 8th grade bio.
To offer a different perspective: I find XML simpler in that it tends to correspond more closely to most arbitrary data models. From ADTs to C structures, there are product types and sum types to encode, along with more or less arbitrary basic types, which have text representation. With XML you get a straightforward way to encode all those, while in JSON there is no single agreed upon method to encode sum types, but you get something like string-indexed arrays (or hash tables) instead, which are normally implemented on top, using simpler types (and are not restricted to strings). And a few arbitrary built-in types, but you have to use strings for others anyway. And no built-in extensibility, so ad hoc hacks are used when it is needed. It would be particularly awkward to use for documents, too.

I preferred JSON initially myself, since it seemed a little less verbose, I did not care about extensibility, did not consider its usage for documents, validation, did not care about using it for different data models, and it just seemed simple (FSVO) and straightforward. But then more of XML made sense. It is not perfect for everything, either, but the decisions behind it seem more justified to me than those behind JSON (though JSON still fits JS, at least).
I don't think there's a super large environmental cost from nuclear reactors... it is an awful lot of steel and concrete. But amortized over typical lifecycles it's not much emissions, even if we don't yet have ways to zero out those steel and carbon emissions.

As for "economies" I can't quite understand what you mean by that.
XML is very much misunderstood. The hype that surrounded it was for a good reason, because XML is somewhat unique as a concept. There was nothing like it and still isn’t. It is not a data format or something like that. It is a notation tool. Normally you invent some syntax and parse it to get what is called “abstract syntax tree” (AST). With XML you work directly with an AST. Parsing from text is convenient because you can get a rather concise and elegant result. XML is normally way more verbose, although not that much, if well done. Yet the expressiveness is exactly the same.

Notation is what you need when you manually compose some data for machine processing. XML as a data interchange format is a misuse. Yet XML as a data description format is what it is very good at. The difference is that data interchange goes from one machine to another, but data description is what goes from a human to a machine. Data input, in other words. Complex data input. Language-like data input.

This is why XML is widely used, for example, in user interface frameworks where you need to describe very elaborate data structures. Markup is another obvious example; here you also have complex data structures tied to a piece of text. Yet markup is just a special case.

So if we are to add something to this article’s sentiment it could be an observation that we are also prone to misunderstanding things and jumping too quickly to conclusions.
Germany is not the country with the highest co2/person in the EU. [1] Where did you get this information from?

Further, comparing electricity prices in Germany to France is a moot point, because France has a fixed consumer price and pays the rest using taxes.

More further, France is importing more electricity from Germany than Germany is from France. Ironically, because their nuclear reactors are failing. [2] So most of your points are probably false.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-....
"LTSpice is all you need," in the vernacular of the times.
I checked terraform and lambda stuff in 2016 and then decided to continue with ECS bcz as an entrepreneur i find it to wonderful and time and money saving you know.

Easy to deploy and also you can utilise cheap spot instances to fullest.
Boston, NYC, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Anchorage, Portland, Rochester, Syracuse, Erie, etc.

Take your pick. There are a ton of American cities where solar does not work like how you imagine
In the future we will never use less energy than yesterday for every day that is coming.

While we are currently building alternatives for energy, we still use a lot of substances derived from oil.
This is an idea many have had before but it doesn't quite work. When you do this, you tend to lose all the performance gained from speculative execution. It's essentially data-independent-timing as applied to loads and stores, so you have to treat all hits as if they were misses to DRAM, which is not particularly appealing from a performance standpoint.

This is not to mention the fact that you can use transient execution itself (without any side channels) to amplify a single cache line being present/not present into >100ms of latency difference. Unless your plan is to burn 100ms of compute time to hide such an issue (nobody is going to buy your core in that case), you can't solve this problem like this.
When Time Machine backups over the network, it creates a disk image and writes to that. So I don't understand why you would need APFS drivers on Linux?
> You should always base your decisions on nothing more than the desire to keep yourself in existence. Also, each scenario should be taken at face value. The situation will be as described - there are no "tricks" - and you do not need to worry about other 'what ifs'.

> Strange as it may seem, it has been discovered that reincarnation of a sort does actually occur. It seems that there is some immaterial part - call it a soul - in all human beings.

In the premise of this fictional reality a soul exists; as does reincarnation. It has a 100% success rate to "keep myself in existence" vs. a 30% chance via cryogenics.

I was told there would be no tricks, to take each question at face value, and to keep myself in existence. I did so. I was then "tricked" via mid-witted word-play.

I'll up the ante, and reduce this problem further: there is no "you." "You" are not in existence. "You" are a collection of atoms in the singular universe (a single entity, where the grouping of its individual parts is a purely subjective matter, and open to interpretation by different pieces of itself). "You" will continue to exist, because "you" are just a collection of energy that is neither created nor destroyed -- simply rearranged.

If we take this to the extreme, your choices in this hypothetical philosophical reality do not matter. "You" will always be in "existence."

I feel the meme with the bell curve is apt to be used here -- and the author of this tomfoolery is squarely in the middle of it.
Meh. Switzerland voted for vastly expanded surveillance powers a while ago. (Some) political parties portrayed those who voted against this as unpatriotic and careless. It did the trick.
It could be that parenting isn’t as much of a factor as growing up poor.
It’s a mistake to use timestamp for sorting versions instead of revision_id imo
> Why is the top ranking comments in this thread not even about the original article?

In short: Because it got the most upvotes.

Sounds trivial but there is a deeper point to it. "Top comment" isn't about who gave the most praise or the harshest crisicism or the best summary or the most controversial take on the topic. It's about what the collective HN hivemind found was moving the conversation forward in the most interesting way. That's what's getting upvoted. If that happens to have mentioned another article, well, so be it.
> Boys will be boys, no matter what the world does.

You are saying this based based off of.. what exactly?

I disagree with this entirely. The world has a huge effect on what boys do. In a social media world driven by likes, clicks and endless consumption, you have to be very careful about what is said or done as it is easy for something to be take out of context, and magnified for the whole world to see.
You go to https://www.google.com/alerts and create an alert with your name.

Then you'll get an email every time a new result with your name appears in Google's indexes.
Two examples immediately spring to mind, Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson.

I’m sure both have had some moderately useful things to say at some stage of their life for some folks, but a quick look at their Twitter profile tells you everything you really need to know now.
I'll never forget the night that I was crying for some reason or another, and my Dad came in and said I was nothing like himself or my big brother, and was more akin to my depressed alcoholic mother (obviously he didn't say this, but he said I was more like my mum and that's how I perceive her to a point).

Unfortunately I was raised by two people so opposite on the emotional scale that I still have no idea how to regulate my emotions so I just don't show any.
> It’s that there are a small amount of men in the modern world who need a warrior ethos and the ‘tempering fires of warfare’ and other such cringe imagery employed by those pushing hypermasculine ideology.

No one is pushing that, other than those that push that as a strawman.

> The majority of men don’t need to be ‘redeemed through violence’

You are so far off the mark that you're crossing over into speculative fiction at this point.

Ever heard of testosterone? Do you know what the effects are?

Okay, sure, it doesn't result in a bloodlust, but it is largely responsible for active aggression. As a society we channel this aggression into sports where it can be safely bled with limited violence.
"Mass to energy transfer systems".
Even that statistic vastly overstates the risk of hydro. From elsewhere on the ourworldindata site:

> This rate is almost completely dominated by one event: the Banqiao Dam Failure in China in 1975. It killed approximately 171,000 people. Otherwise, hydropower was very safe, with a death rate of just 0.04 deaths per TWh – comparable to nuclear, solar, and wind.

The Banqiao Dam failure had much more to do the 1970s Chinese Communist Party incompetence and the Cultural Revolution than anything specific to water power.
Yeah there are so many copycats. You have to do your research.
Children should obviously carry a 10ft orange flag whenever they’re around cars. If not, it’s their fault if they get hit.

/s
There is plenty of land nowhere near cities if that is your concern. If housing could even be built there at all given the terrain.

There are very few on most similar terrain in the Bay Area and there are no wind farms blocking development there. Why haven't houses been built?
"RFC 3021: Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links" was published in December of 2000. Most systems have supported it for a long time, with Netgear (swearing under my breath) being the biggest outlier and straggler.
People aren't having enough children. Every extra hurdle is going to reduce the number of people who end up parents.

> Potentially break the cycles of bad parenting

You can't break cycles of bad parenting, because they are 2nd order effects of cycles of trauma. And cycles of trauma have been a fundamental part of human civilization since we've existed. We absolutely should teach compassion, good parenting 101s and basic logistical upskilling as a part of high school for both men and women.

But, expecting humans as a whole to suddenly start acting with decency is not going to happen.
They work if you have control over the client and can either explicitly configure them to use a proxy server or if your client is ok to speak to a different domain for which you have the legit certificates. With the Netflix app both of this won’t be the case. When using it with a browser for which you can change connection settings it might work.
Yep, not a resident though. There seem to be a constant stream of articles about housing issues in the Bay Area, don't recall any attributing the issue to wind farms, but I'd be interested to read any I might have missed.
A rack of H-100s needs space too, and certainly more cooling than a programmer it replaces.
There is an extension to make the non-old Reddit web experience tolerable: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...
Yea don’t even bother convincing them.
Does something like that exist for other platforms? Web, Android, Linux?
Furthermore, the reservoirs can make good sites for solar PV: having power distribution already present, reducing evaporation and enhancing PV output by cooling.
> then dry with gentle hot air.

Do this in another room than the bin of alcohol is in.
> I would consider myself well-equipped to judge whether these "kill all men" people were "secretly serious" like those neo-Nazis are. Genuinely, they really weren't.

I know you have said you don't agree with it, so please don't take the following as me accusing you of excusing the slogan or agreeing with it, I'm trying to further conversation and am interested in your thoughts and really don't want to come off as accusatory.

Even if it is 100% definitely, totally, absolutely, meant as a joke should we be making allowances for that? Lately we have culturally been moving away from jokes that are about genders/races/identities being considered acceptable... or at least we have been for all identities other than "white" and "men", such as in this case where this whole group of people will listen to someone saying "kill all men" and just understand it is a joke and let it go by.

I actually do understand why someone who feels frustrated by certain things might make a joke like that, and I have nuance enough to understand that context and audience matters, and that often things said in jest are a way to emotionally deal with something without any desire to cause any sort of hurt (emotionally or physically) to the people being joked about.

For me at least though that sort of joke is frustrating and hurtful when I have had to listen to years to (an often overlapping set of) people talking about how men have a responsibility to speak up when their male friends make those sorts of jokes and tell them to stop. "Silence is Violence" and all that sort of thing.

I guess what I'm getting at is you may say that people upset about people saying it don't understand the people saying it, but I do. I do hang around these sorts of people, some of my good friends belong to the local socialist party and their social circles include these sorts of people. And it still does upset me, not so much because of what they are saying - although it isn't a great thing to say - it's the hypocrisy of it that upsets me. I have legitimately heard the exact same person have a little rant about how misogynistic the phrase "bi--- be crazy" and also make jokes about how "the straights aren't ok", etc.

I think people in general, and myself especially, would be a lot more receptive to "oh it's just a joke" if those people hadn't spent a bunch of time policing what was said as part of comedy shows and stuff because as of right now it feels like a lot of people have decided that certain groups I am in are the only acceptable targets for this sort of thing, which is just... incredibly frustrating.
The Fukushima cleanup cost half a trillion dollar and displaced 120000 people. It is simply not sustainable to "price in" the risk.
> "Have you always been so sensitive about being a N**?"

Please don't. You severely misquoted by using the ** here. The original word was "Negro", not what many peoplr (including myself) might have thought when reading your comment.
My main TimeMachine backup (for my and my wife's MBPs) is over SMB to ZFS (RAIDZ2) on my NAS. Running pretty well for 2 years or so now. The only issues I've had seem to be related to running out of space with the quotas I've set (so I make sure I leave some space for my wife), since the ZFS snapshots prevent the TimeMachine's auto pruning mechanisms from freeing up space like it expects. Thankfully I was always able to ZFS roll back and find a recent a known good snapshot, manually prune old ZFS snapshots to make space, run a Time Machine verification, and keep going (after making a manual "known good" snapshot).

Thankfully, I recently discovered the ZFS refquota setting that seems to have resolved the wonky dance above and lets my quotas work as TimeMachine expects (though extra space is used for my ZFS snapshots, which is fine because the TImeMachine stuff is only a small part of the array's storage).

The only other issue I've had is with ZFS on arch (kernel upgrades / dkms issuss), so I recently moved to NixOS an it's been solid so far. TimeMachine backups over Tailscale are pretty sweet!

Separately, I have a second TimeMachine backup to an AirPort Extreme-attached USB drive.

I also use restic for cross-platform backups to the same NAS above, which then sends ZFS snapshots (of the TM + restic data) to a remote server.

Finally I have a USB drive in a safe that I manually take out and run a locally-attached TimeMachine backup to every month or so.

Keeping everything backed up was a (tongue-in-cheek) part of my wedding vows -- stakes are high.
The thing that helped me was accepting that we live in a damaged world. It's okay to be damaged yourself.

To expect otherwise is to expect a fish not to be wet.

Take care.
Any way to see what it's doing without downloading the lha? Hard to look at archives from my phone.
The context is irrelevant, the test itself is the thing that matters.
the SQLite db files are definitely not plain text. (only in a cryptographer's jargon, but even that is not true, because they might be encrypted internally using an extension)
There have been multiple catastrophic failures of dams, which I was writing about. The last one left about 600 square km (150k acres) flooded with major epidemiological (well, plus landmines) risk and 6000 square km (1.5M acres) of irrigation loss in farmland.