skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, don't Californians move to other states for the same reason expats move to Costa Rica or Thailand? Because they are much richer than the locals, so they can have an outsized lifestyle for their money. Coming in and outbidding for the nicest houses certainly doesn't sound like refugees fleeing a collapsing government. I don't understand how people can see that and think people are "escaping".
This is probably boosting metrics so removing it would put them in the sights of management whether it's intentional, or not.
> staggered that we've reached a point where people think it's OK

I did not say it is OK. I said that is what likely happened.

Legally it is a word of difference if they put their hands on you and force you into a room vs if they say "We need to ask a few more questions, follow me this way." in a no-nonsense manner. The second works against a teenager some of the time.

The first is illegal (depending on circumstances) It is very hard to write laws which prevent the second one.

> It's horrific the power corporations have over us.

It is. And not just in this case.
There is a fundamental disconnect between people such as yourself, and the grievances about our broken system that we have today.

I agree, in a vacuum, there is nothing wrong with the concept of lobbying. I would go out on a limb (well not quite a limb, I have family members that were lobbyists) and say the majority of lobbying that occurs in the US is actually good.

But where it's bad, it's really bad. The loudest and most influential voices are the ones with the most money, and sometimes that's good, but a lot of times thats bad. They promise golden parachutes and shower politicians with money so much so that even if the politician gets burned, they are promised a career at the lobbying firm or with one of the "hookups". Again this is bad, because now instead of being accountable to the constituency, our politicians are accountable to their benefactors.

There's a lot more reasons this is wrong, but this is the primary gist. I hope we can all agree this is an issue.
Yep, this was my bad. I thought Vala was dead because of a certain post (I think it was this one [0]), and because I rarely ever heard anyone mention it. I suspect I was wrong. I've been tossing around the idea of switching Vale's name to Valence to help avoid confusion.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Vala-Bassi
I used Facebook when it first came out. I thought it was pretty useful as an enhanced version of something like friend finder. I moved away very quickly when I first graduated high school and lost touch with a lot of people I had known. When Facebook opened up to non-university users, many of them showed up and I was able to reconnect. But to me, that was its purpose, re-finding a pre-existing social network of people I'd known from school. Once I had their real current contact info and had met back up with them, Facebook didn't serve much of a further purpose. The people I actually care about I'll see in person every few years when I go back to where I grew up to visit. I don't need to know what they or anyone else is doing or thinking on a daily basis in-between those visits.

For all the people thinking "hey, you're on Hacker News" is some kind of gotcha, I think it's useful to distinguish between what all these things are. I'm on Netflix, too, which is a centrally-hosted platform that distributes algorithmically-curated media. That isn't nearly the same thing as a social network. Hacker News is a link aggregator that you can comment on, effectively serving the purpose of a newspaper, but crowdsourcing both writing and editing. You can't follow other users. You can't tag other users or receive notifications (and I don't want notifications). I don't have a profile and don't think anyone else does. We don't send each other direct messages. There is no personalization. I don't see any meaningful way in which this is similar to Facebook or Twitter. It's more like an industry conference, but ongoing, virtual, and anonymous.
Kessler Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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Even if she's been asked about it numerous times, context is key here - how was the production of the music video shoot handled? How much input into that scene or clip did she actually have, or provide, when it was shot? How long did she hold the phone for when shooting? If the answer to many of those is little to none, then I don't expect her to remember shooting that scene. To then be asked about it numerous times years later would be surprising to her, especially if you don't necessarily know that it's been going around as a meme (not every celebrity enjoys paying attention to what's said about themselves online - we don't know whether or not she does, but I won't assume she's up to speed on everything written about her).

It doesn't impact her life at all, it's just noise on the internet to her, so why should she care?

I mean, that's actually a great question for you - why do you think she has to care about what Excel is, and why do you find her not caring about it so egregious that you would call her an idiot? And further, is it not OK to be OK with being ignorant to some things you just don't give a damn about?

Edit: Can people also not be flippant when an otherwise throwaway moment in their life is suddenly seized upon by hordes of people, some who call them an idiot for it? I don't think I'd fault someone for that reaction, myself.
In my own case: Btrfs performance got absolutely terrible once I was up to a few thousand snapshots. Never had it lose data, but I also never ran it long enough to lose a disk.
Imagine an immaculately-formatted legal brief, complete with citations, that consists entirely of the phrase "fuck you" repeated indefinitely.

That's all the reasoning they need.
> Its almost as bad as people believing that Walmart, Target, etc are closing their stores because of "so much theft" as if shrink budgets weren't a thing.

I may not be understanding your point here, but having a shrink budget and closing due to theft aren't mutually exclusive.

It is possible for theft to exceed the shrink budget and make a store too costly to operate.
LOL, I'm sure Thomas Jefferson's redress of grievances was all about the bribes and grift required to legalize gambling.
Seriously. Yosemitie camping is glamping unless you're actually doing the wilderness.
You're misinterpreting my Afghanistan comment. I'm not talking about the tactical situation on the ground, but the kind of human folly that happens with overconfidence at the strategic level when you aren't actually clear about what the national objective is. You are also continuing to sidestep why it's actually in the US' national interest to keep this war going as long as possible. I can see why it would be in, say, Poland's. You make it sound like we're just giving some upstart rebels some M4s and M995 and letting them have at it, but what we're really doing is building them an modern military from scratch, complete with modern air defense and (last gen) fixed wing.

>Like what is the downside for supporting the Ukrainians or Koreans for the next 50 years? Like $50 Billion/year? We absolutely can pay that.

This, right here, is the kind of folly I'm talking about. As the war progresses do you not see how we have to keep walking up the escalation ladder as Russia - correctly! - sees this conflict as one that is more and more a direct one with the United States? There isn't even the pretense of balancing the human cost and escalation risk with what our security objectives even are, because the latter are left nebulous or undefined and the former is written off as just a cost of doing business (perhaps literally). Indeed, that seems to be the tone of our "elites" who wish to bring a country actively in a war into NATO, perhaps with the intention of immediately invoking Article 5 - all without any debate among the citizens of member states who would have to bear that cost. Never thought I'd see it, but "forever wars are good now" is I suppose the natural progression of how Americans (I am one) would deal with losing.
>The Switch simple can’t do the same things that an Xbox or PlayStation can do. Many of those consoles top selling games would not be playable on a Switch, because they’re high performance games that require high performance hardware, and the Switch simply isn’t a viable substitute for that. Even for the most graphically demanding games that can run on a Switch, they can only do so with comparatively low resolution and frame rate, which in case you didn’t know, are major selling points for the segments that Microsoft/Sony are competing in.

Absolutely no one is arguing this and it's not the point. You should give the commentators on this forum more credit than thinking we aren't aware of the power/capabilities differences.

The "high-end console gaming market" is what is what people are taking issue with. It's such a limiting segmentation and is arguably not a very good definition. There's a console gaming market as a whole, with a subset of it being high-end, that competes on user's gaming time. In my view, that's how it should be defined. There's also the mobile gaming market. Are we to now say the Switch shouldn't belong in the mobile gaming market because of screen size and power capabilities? It doesn't make sense to define the Switch in its own, standalone market. What would it be? Mid-tier portable gaming market? One that has no competitors and it has a monopoly in? That's not practical nor reflective of gaming purchasing habits.

Segregating the market based on capabilities breaks down in many ways. The argument shouldn't be that the Switch should belong in its own category because many people who own an Xbox or a Playstation also happen to own a Switch. Nearly half of Xbox owners also happen to own Playstation console (myself included) so does the fact that there's an overlap now mean that Xbox and PlayStation should be somehow in their own category? Of course not. Nor should the argument be about how it's played. One can that the Switch can be played in a portable manner but I just as easily play on my Playstation or Xbox through my iPad locally or even the cloud. Yes, it's not a popular option but the capabilities are there. All that's left is arguing about whether or not something can play AAA games in higher fidelity. If fidelity is something a gamer is truly after, they'd be buying a PC.
Actual FCC filing:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/106294...

Some interesting quotes:

As an initial matter, if the Commission updates its rules, it should adopt operational information sharing requirements that would enhance space situational awareness and collision avoidance for all satellite systems. For example, the Commission should require operators to register themselves and publish contact information on Space-Track.org to ensure that other operators can reach them in the event of a potential conjunction. The Commission should also require all operators to publish their ephemerides and reasonable covariance data...

Evenly applying requirements across operators would also curtail the regulatory gamesmanship that is unfortunately rampant in the Commission’s satellite dockets. This gamesmanship is encouraged when interested parties believe that they can force burdensome or restrictive conditions on their competitors while avoiding having these conditions applied to their own operations.

Unlike an effective performance-based metric, applying aggregate collision probability would arbitrarily and needlessly cap the size and capacity of responsible systems to the detriment of American consumers with no corresponding benefit for sustainability. These arbitrary caps would further drive satellite operators to license overseas while punishing U.S.-licensed operators and limiting their ability to effectively compete.
There are, in my opinion, two types of people. Those who have never seen Threads, and those who have seen Threads at least one time too many. You probably should have stayed in the former category :)
Yup and well, it's evident he has zero trust in Twitter's value and user retention based on his behavior. He knows Twitter is the "bad one".
"SpaceX’s orbital communication satellites performed maneuvers just over 25,000 times in the six-month period between December 1, 2022, and May 21, 2023"

snip

"Of the 25,000 maneuvers, over 1,300 of those were to avoid debris generated from Russia’s November 2021 anti-satellite weapon demonstration test."

From the rest of the article, how is it not clear? 5% of their maneuvers were from avoiding something that was one solid satellite and is now thousands of smaller pieces of said satellite. If one of their birds is hit in a similar manner, it just became a larger shooting gallery. It's such a concern, there's a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
I agree with you, it looks weird, but my point was that it's correct HTML syntax, even though you cannot expect it to work if you open an Angular template in a browser, but an HTML parser can tell you it's syntactically correct.
It’s not that it’s a hardship to press right a few times, it’s more that I’m trying to understand, academically, how to make a “respectful” skipping tool. Because I believe both that in-content ads are the most user respecting ads and deserve better engagement/treatment than “universally skip”, but also that users are not morally obligated to consume ads even for ad-sponsored content (is’t the advertiser’s, and only the advertiser’s, problem if users aren’t interested).

Sounds like the requirements would be: 1) it plays every new sponsorship pitch once, which you can still manually skip, and 2) it maybe asks you whether you want to skip on a per-instance level?
The point is that legal opinions differ on whether CDDL and GPL are compatible, but Oracle are well known for weaponising legal ambiguities.

Edit: Ultimately unless it goes to court, all you can have are legal opinions - there is no legal authority.
I skimmed the article, so not sure that it hit on this point. But "solve your problem" might be better understood as "join with people doing things, solve their pain points." You're making those pain points to be yours. Even better if you can join multiple teams of people over time doing roughly similar things and identify common pain points.
We can call this odd thing that keeps happening "the Elon effect".
Smash the like and subscribe buttons and ill tell you.
A leopard can't change its spots.
I'd love for there to be a search engine where I could cut and paste any news headline/article title and the search engine could point me to a news source that's not behind any paywall.

And I do not trust the archive links here as that snoops my browser for things that I have not explicitly been asked to allow to be done and given the choice to not have that done!
Nobody is claiming that 100% of people can be trained to run a 100m in 9.58s.

But there is some number of seconds which 90% of people can be trained to run 100m below.

And it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a much lower number than you think.

Likewise not 100% of people can develop the mathematical horsepower of Von Neumann. But 90% of people can attain some level of proficiency in higher mathematical concepts… how high a level would that be? Higher than most high schools aim I would suspect.
What do rights have to do with it? We'd prefer the world one way and one rich company would prefer it another way. Who wins? The rich company, turns out.

These people -- the blogger, his friend, etc -- could easily 'exercise' their rights, as you say, in a good way, or a bad one. They choose a bad one, for greed. There's nothing better to dislike than "somebody did a bad thing on purpose."
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As per the specification, you are right. As per the actual implementation, no :D it is as cheap, if not cheaper to set it atomically on 64-bit.
Honor to Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III!
In the US, I believe that would not be legal under GINA (the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008) https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Genetic-...

(Edit: per tssva—LTD & life are generally state laws, GINA is health ins and employment)
It’s not like what you said hasn’t been tried by various companies. The most successful product ecosystems however have been the ones that can say:

- hey devs, we have hardware that is known that you can optimize for and don’t need to troubleshoot against untold permutations of random hardware

- hey gamers we give you a consistent experience on here without having to think about settings and debugging drivers

- hey investors, when people buy into our ecosystem for even one game, they’re more likely to buy even more games within that platform

That’s a lot of wins that overshadow the potential of wider sales. often wide isn’t as lucrative as focused.
One is syntactically correct HTML, and the other is not. That's was the only point of my comment
Yes, but it doesn't need to apply anywhere else for people everywhere to be able to access the software. It only needs one place where it can be openly worked on.
It does have a lot to do with quitting WhatsApp - because WhatsApp is the platform that is the de-facto application for this in some parts of the world.

Absolutely increases it's stickiness.
There's a huge difference between some random techie self-hosting their own website and email for personal use, and a server full of people who spew hate and actively attack others.

If you're worried about getting the same treatment as KiwiFarms...maybe don't spread hate or dox and stalk people??
Yes, all satellites are designed to do this, but it's the frequency that makes it interesting. If geo-sync satellites had to maneuver this often, you'd be hearing about it as well.
I refuse to sign up for linked-in because I'm still salty about the years when 2/3 of my inbox was emails asking me to sign up.
I hail from a formerly communist country and one time during his youth in the 70s my dad hosted a few Americans for a short while. He asked them at one point if they're not worried that communism could get a foothold in the US, to which one of the Americans replied:

"Nah, if it happens we'll just start selling hammer and sickle t-shirts."

Looking how it's currently normalized that every activist of any kind has a book to sell I'm beginning to think that at some point they really started selling those Ts.
Everyone left, im sure san francisco factored that into the denominator and didnt use statistics from before covid
Nice thought, but the reason apps like Apollo were popular had to do with functionality that you could only get through the API, like auto-banning users who interacted with specific subs. You can't emulate that through screen scraping.
I think some transparency is good. I prefer to know what keeps my manager up at night, ie: what are the big problems they are solving. That way I can help or offer context etc.

Likewise, I'll share some of the problems I'm working on with my reports. You don't hand these problems down though, you just talk about it and solicit feedback & ideas.
In theory I'm interested. In reality, 99% of games I care about will be remastered/ported or even remade 20 years later. $60 in the grand scheme of 20 years isn't even an afterthought.

I'm fine enough with piracy being the nuclear option if we run into situations like with F-Zero or Legends of Dragoon or whatnot. But there are official options for almost every other game I would be interested in re-visiting. I still like owning a disc the same way I like owning a physical book, but I'd be lying if I said I ever popped in a disc for any 10+ year old game. It's more of a sentimental gesture to display on my shelf than a means of preservation.
Even though schools are rapidly moving to using Google Sheets?

I met someone younger than me (~23 or so) who's a very bright intern, whom never used Microsoft Excel (after seeing this thread, I had to ask). They know what Google Sheets is, but know nothing of Excel.
I would keep it! But alas, I have to remove it at some point today. I plan on keeping a record of all of them at https://verdagon.dev/blog/easter-egg-notes though.
Pretty much everywhere else they pretend to not have lobbying or bribing, but just end up doing it behind closed doors.
A month ago the story was limiting national distribution etc....... that escalated quickly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301974
N=1, though I suspect my case is going to sound a lot like the other complaints you might find. I thought btrfs looked great so I used it for the root and home filesystems on a laptop running OpenSUSE. (This is modestly significant, because SUSE specifically supports BTRFS and I figured it would give me a better experience.) Now the home filesystem never gave me any problems. The root filesystem, however, broke to the degree that I ended up reinstalling. Twice. I couldn't tell you the exact error anymore, unfortunately, but it looked like running out of space left the fs in an unrecoverable state.
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Hospital costs would benefit from some transparency/breakdown, but for medicine in general it's the increased complexity, more scans, more things to test for. But these tests are not cheap (nor fast enough). Manual labor is still required (to draw blood, to ship the vials, to put it into the test machine, to collect the results, upload it, review it, consult with the patient.

Then there's a lot more old people with a lot of complicated cases, which require a lot of person-hours.

And we still don't really have turnkey solutions. Sure, we have nice vaccines, but they are not 99.99%, there still are complications, there still are ridiculous inefficiencies (why do we still don't have combined yearly multivalent boosters for influenza+covid+others)?

Education also suffers from this overcomplication, but it's mostly because of credentialism. It's perfectly possible to watch lectures at home, complete coursework at home, and then go to some place fill out a test, and then do oral and practical exams. Grading can standardized (high-school exam is already done this way here in Hungary, there's a PDF booklet issued to teachers conducting the exam; and profs and TAs already do the same basically verbally).
And if you look at how many nukes there are, and factor by how many would actually work (maybe not that meny of russia's for example), it would be very far from global annihilation.

Sure, the whole global economic system we have now would be totally disrupted, and we'd spend a few decades rebuilding certain areas, or cordoning off others, but life would go on.
Agreed, what a way to sour a decent message with an awful example.

> Government, acting in the best interest of their citizens, were trying to curb an addictive substance. CEO of generic tobacco / drug / oil / gambling company, realizing that this would hurt their profits, decided that the best way forward was to effectively bribe those in power to put their company's profits over the well-being of society.

If this is true, I'd like to thank the author for inadvertently pointing out the real source of the sports gambling problem: people like Jason Robins.

We don't have a sports gambling problem, we have a greedy CEO bribing lawmakers problem.
The USA is the "Kardashians" of countries.

Its all fake. Lies, ego, corruption, vapid vanity.
I agree, specifically the part where they note that probability of collision was greater than 1 in 10k but that they were unable to address the situation (forcing an Earth observation satellite to maneuver).

edit: Maybe I'm being unnecessarily salty, but it's worth noting on their track record.
My uncle, who is disabled, made $10000 in Vegas last month. My second cousin won the lottery 7 years ago and bought emission-free vehicles for her entire family. Was gambling bad for them?
lmao true enough but idk about mercifully. I'd rather read kundera any day he's kind of overblown sometimes but it's better than a 400 page fantasy-justification for author standin having sex with teenagers.
Why is it not really suitable to a lot of applications?