skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was baffled by the tone of this article -- mostly the implication that the mildly-affluent traveling on and off for a few years in their 20s is a brand new phenomenon -- until I realized the author is approximately 23. Sorry Gen Z, travel wasn't invented in 2022, although it may feel that way after being locked down for several years.

The real question, sort of brushed on in the article, is how much the influencer business has changed things. It seems to be a lot easier to monetize your travels and cover some of your expenses than it used to be.
Those batteries are really annoying yes. Also these battery devices tend to be unstable. Every week I have to either re-pair something or swap out a battery.

When I get my own place I'll get KNX.
The Art of Rooting Android Devices by GPU MMU Features [pdf]
Any time I heard about Novaya Gazeta, it was always them doing incredibly brave journalism. Sad to hear they got shut down for good.
This is loading and endless loop of Captchas for me. Anyone else have this issue?
Great news! I'm not using the full feature set (e.g. hyperscript) but really like the general approach as opposed to usual suspects like react or svelte. One of my last projects runs just fine on htmx + 3-4 stimulusjs controllers for all interactivity
Because they're not both style info? Html is a markup language, it applies semantic structure to your content, CSS styles html.

Classes are a tool for selecting markup to style. Sure, you can create a class for every single CSS rule you write, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.
A layoff is a reduction in force, ie we need to lower headcount by 10% so bring me 10 names at this 100 person company. Firing someone for performance/attitude/don't-like-you-anymore reasons isn't a layoff.
"Kick-starting the USB revolution" doesn't mean the same thing as "innovation."

They only included USB on the original iMac, which was a death-knell for the legacy connectors, and quite controversial at the time given the iMac's place in the cultural zeitgeist.
Most of the resources people are competing for are also produced by humans, so I don't think that reducing the population would necessarily improve the collective standard of living, because you reduce the supply of goods and services just as much - or more - than you reduce the demand.
>You know who should really be doing the moderation work?

>The very people in that very local community!

Don't be silly! Then people might get the idea that they own their own community instead of passively accepting what they're told. They might even get the idea that they should actively participate instead of mindlessly doomscrolling and receiving the all important consensus shaping on what to purchase this week.

And who wants that?
One of the techniques when you file a patent is to come up with as many variations of an idea as possible. You don't even need to have built those ideas into an implementation. So maybe I say "This patent is for playing a sound right when a button is pressed" but I expand it to "and right before and right after, based on some cadence, or a configuration", etc etc etc. This makes patents both precise and very broad, leaving little room for someone to go "ah but I did it differently".
Demo video by @ThomasKing2014 (the author),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_AMrLbo3v8
People on HN (and elsewhere) said bootstrap was terrible when it was the most talked about CSS framework. Now it's tailwind.

The top comments will always be negative.

Don't give too much weight to this when choosing what tech to use.
Zettelkasten for Normies: What Normies Really Need to Know
Teens much more likely to believe online conspiracies than adults

Which "adults"? Right or left wing?
Relevant OldCoderGuy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSzlE2pM-rY
After reading the linked website for like 2 hours I still can’t tell if this is a joke or for real…
I used to work for Facebook (I regret it). I didn't work at Menlo, but I would travel there often.

One time, leaving main campus by Uber, my driver, a young 20-something girl was talking about how she wanted to get a job moderating at Facebook. She thought it would be a great place to work. I told, "please don't. There is so much toxic stuff that gets past automated moderation, that I can't imagine anyone having to live with that."

I don't know if she ever got that job, and I left years ago, but I think about her every now and again, hoping she didn't take the job.
Jumping on the train. Companions in general are very annoying, and having four is next level annoying. I’ve run into the same issues, makes the game not fun when you go to pick items up and initiate their power. Especially when their powers have a tendency to kill the frame rate. I know you can dismiss them but since some parts of the gameplay center on their mechanics it’s very annoying. I could do without companions in an open world game.
I assume they're angling for a salesforce acquisition as they move towards being a micro-hosting service like salesforce.
From the article:

It wasn’t that the idea of it “seemed crazy” to me. During my time at Novaya Gazeta, four of my colleagues were killed. I organized the funeral of Khimki journalist Mikhail Beketov, he’d been a friend. I knew that journalists got murdered. But I did not want to believe that they could kill me. I was protected from this thought by revulsion, shame, and exhaustion. It disgusted me to think that there were people who wanted me dead. I was ashamed to talk about it. Even with loved ones, let alone the police. And I felt how exhausted I was, how little strength I had left, that I wouldn’t be able to go on the run again.
Do you have a direct phone line to your local power company, and do you have to ask them for permission, before turning your rig on? :-)
Two big things that affected the cross platform experience and perception of speed at the time were the twin pillars of the late 90s web, Internet Explorer and Flash, both of which had superior optimization for Windows and x86.

The introduction of Safari is an underrated milestone in changing that, and I would suggest the Mac didn’t really match the Windows browsing experience inclusive of Flash until the introduction of Intel Macs.
Where is the buzzword here?
37 years is anything except normal, however looking him up (he is trivially found on Facebook) he retired as an E-9. That rank is exempted from Time In Service (TIS) limits as they serve all Commanders as advisory and enlisted liaisons. He also states he is retired Civil Service, so they may be conflating that time.

In other words, he probably served for 37 years but a huge chunk of that was likely as a Flag (Admiral/General) advisor and liaison, not as a firefighter, and some as a DOD Civilian.

As for the cancer, some cancers can be cleared by a Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) and allow further service. I served with an individual who got brain cancer at ~30 and went on to finish his career and retire at 40.
A research team led by Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis at Pomona College, found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter—now known as X—nearly half of Twitter users identified as environmentally oriented had ceased being active on the platform. These active users, which the researchers called “Environmental Twitter,” were defined as posting on the topic at least once in a 15-day period.

https://www.pomona.edu/news/2023/08/15-environmental-users-m...
They’re designed to show you content you like so you watch their ads…

But sure, only compatible cultures should talk to one another?

So which cultures pair well with yours and which don’t, then? Who would you kick off the Internet/social media?
Linus Tech Tips' former employee Madison on her experience working there
Boosting concrete's ability to serve as a natural 'carbon sink'
There are public resources available; from what I understand Bloomberg did a report on this a little while back? My evidence is anecdotal and only referenced against third-party reports of the same kind of content. There is one that I think is kind of funny, which I'll link to here:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/594/136/8d7...

Grapes on the vine bit? Sure. But Jesus turned water into Wine? That's closer to truth? No, it's closer to a well-known consensus. Whether you believe in god, or not, you know the bible story and find it inoffensive (playing the averages with that "you"). So the Community Note stands. But does it correct the invalidities of the tweet? No. Does it do anything meaningful at all, other than brand the tweet as "unaligned with our community's thoughts"? No it doesn't. So why wasn't a better Community Note chosen? Whatever reason you come up with: that reason is part of the failure. Whether it was "for the lulz" or just because it was "palatable", it doesn't matter.

For a more serious example, you can look at the kind of Community Note attached to Jordan Neely's death. How did that note add context? In what was was it more truthful? Does every video of a person need the context that it doesn't include their actual death, or is that only for people who recently died? If so, when should the note be removed? And, honestly, why was it helpful in the first place? Who needed that information? That a bunch of people can agree that a note is "not incorrect" doesn't mean that a note should be applied.

This is the problem with criticizing Community Notes - or anything that actually deals in truth. If you say anything about it, you are attacking something that people have put trust in. Which is to say, you are attacking their trust and self-confidence in said trust. I understand that is frustrating for you, but I'm not passionate about this at all. I would love for Community Notes to be a better idea than it is. I'm sure someone will come up with a way for it to be. But until then, I'm going to call out the complexities of the complications as best I can, without regard to how it will frustrate anyone's trust.

Put simply, if you have a problem with one of my "lots of assertions", we may be able to discuss it directly. But dismissing them all is not a good way to start.
The first 3 links are press releases by an academic PR office publicizing a recently published paper. They literally link to the scientific paper they reference, and being the second step in the science news cycle (https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174), their representation of the contents of the paper is usually fairly accurate. This is not a valid criticism of the GP.

Edit: The second link is actually a paper.
Especially impressive about westerners is their honesty about the shortcomings of their own nations.
So you equate laws protecting individuals against businesses and laws protecting government against individual, really?
The threat is there if you don’t pay the damages. It all comes back to cages. Without the cage there is no damages payment, without the threat of damages payment there is no patent.
Couldn’t this be fixed by requiring an implementation to patent?
Have we reached peak coffee?
It drives me absolutely bonkers when I see someone complain about some new apartments "because water". I live in a city in the west where there's a pretty severe housing shortage, and water is also a concern.

But when you dig into the water issue... it's all agriculture, and even there they have so much leeway to eliminate waste. I saw an exhibit at the airport of a "pipe" they dug up less than 5 years ago that was made of wood squeezed together with bailing wire.

The "Total Water Use" chart here is pretty similar throughout much of the West:

https://www.centraloregonlandwatch.org/update/2021/5/5/droug...

And denser housing tends to use water more efficiently.

Edit: dug up a picture of that pipe I took. https://photos.app.goo.gl/PisNhiA81Rsw45Rx8
I took 3 months to go backpacking in Central America after I hit a dead end in my career. I talked about it in the first interview when I came back, and I think we spend more time talking about my experiences backpacking than we talked about programming in that interview. I also met my wife (who was also backpacking) on that trip, now happily married with 3 kids and making about 4.5x more a year than I was when I quit to go travel.

I think there is a point, probably somewhere after 6-9 months where employers might see it less as a fun 'sabbatical' and more of like "this person doesn't really want a job", though.
Aaaah php, cpanel and html/js : the mother of all buzzwords: serverless server side rendering.
It’s currently £2 per play so £54 for 27 tickets.

Matching two numbers on the last draw was rewarded with a £5 prize and a free lucky dip, but I think the £5 was only because it had rolled-over too many times.
> but whether the medication works when taken isn't

But this is irrelevant, arguably. It doesn't work if you don't take it. People don't take it if it's a bad medicine. In which case, I think it's fair to say "this is a bad medicine that doesn't work"

I know many people feel otherwise, but I'm baffled as to why... btw, many doctors agree with me. IMO they're ahead of the curve on this issue.

> and that was the topic being discussed.

No, that's not the topic being discussed. I'm talking about whether this entire way of thinking makes any sense (it doesn't).

That's especially true when there's real reasons these treatments fail. That makes them bad. That makes them "not work".

It's totally reasonable to question the entire way of thinking. This is happening with obesity and drug abuse, also. Is there any point we'll put our biases down and stop blaming the patient for our failings.

Also, I'm a little shocked that you think you can dictate what we're talking about. In any discussion these topics are always negotiable. Things that you feel are irrelevant, may not be.

It's fair to argue against the entire way of thinking, and how we should be interpreting a concept like "a medicine working". You can try to reframe, but I'm always going to take issue with this assumption that patient behavior is irrelevant to the concept of a medicine working.

This is also an issue because this whole "they were fine until they decided to be stupid and stop taking their meds for no reason" stereotype hurts people, especially when you pretend that their negative experiences are "irrelevant"

> Convincing people to agree to treatment that's in their own interests is fascinating and raises moral questions, but is also completely irrelevant.

I never mentioned this, it's a total strawman. I also question your assumption that it's in their own interest, which you are very ill equipped to judge. Please remember all the times in history we did horrible things because we thought we knew someone's best interests better than them.

I think I'm being more reasonable than you're giving me credit for, and you should consider these ideas further, instead of being so dismissive.
Counterpoint wikipedia. Reddit. Various smaller forums

But i agree that i cant see it working for facebook which isn't really modeled as a community.
Do you think that the frontend crowd similarly thinks that you build dead simple 5 page websites with a Rube Goldberg setup of back-end frameworks?

I certainly do.
A better link, not paywalled:

https://www.science.org/content/article/hear-classic-pink-fl...
Growing large amount of edible plants, feeding those to animals for months or years, and then eating the resulting meat is in itself pretty inefficient. A lot of water, energy, and, in extension, carbon emissions could be saved by just not eating (so much) meat. Humans are perfectly capable of living from an entirely vegan or at least vegetarian diet and it is much better for the environment and the climate: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-di...
Additionally,

1. Your car is easier to repair

2. It is easier to find mechanics for repair

3. You get the treasure trove of pre-existing repair videos/guides in case something goes awry and you want to DIY.
"Failure to signal" - one of my pet peeves of car drivers. IF they signal at all, it's commonly only if there are other cars around. They don't signal for cyclists or pedestrians. Then there's the problem that too many drivers don't know what the hand signals even mean.
I dont doubt so. but I dont this one account is part of it. Too old and too active.
Company's rights aren't human rights, in fact companies right is antagonists to human rights.
I'm stunned that one can be burned out at 26. Assuming a four year degree and graduating at 22, you only worked for four years and are burned out?

And if you're a typical graduate with $50k in debt how can you take that much time off and still cover your debts and rent?

This smells like one of those "im 26 and own my own home because my patents have me $100k" kind of stories.
No, it wasn't a joke, not all of us share the same beliefs when it comes to this war.

I was alluding to the fact that the Russian liberals, like this lady is, usually get attacked from both sides, and it seemed to me that the OP was unhappy with some of her literary performance in this article (an attack, in other words).
Unfortunately the agri lobby is huge and powerful, so I don't expect to see water prices increase for them anytime soon.
>Basically discounted medicines are medicines being sold at the market price insurance companies pay in practice. But there’s an incentive for insurance companies for list prices for medicines to be sky high, and given the market power of insurers as buyers, those incentives extend to manufacturers.

This goes way beyond insurance companies. There's an entire class of middlemen known as PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Managers). They are probably the largest contributor to medication pricing being a complete scam and disaster in the US.
Of course the scam is so profitable that CVS now owns both an insurer (Aetna) and a PBM (Caremark).

PBMs are so bad, that in some circumstances, pharmacies can owe the PBM money after dispensing a drug.
Pacing is different then the kind of exercise your run of mill doc was prescribing.
Depends on the framework and what you're using to render the html with. For example, in PHP Swytch Framework, you can just `$this->rerender($state)` in an api response.
State-Sponsored Attacks on Privacy Are Growing
Who in the US profits the most from Alfafa exports to these countries?
Don't see how that follows. Typescript treats code as either TS or JS depending on the file extension. But that doesn't mean nobody who has JavaScript code would switch to Typescript. The idea is, you migrate one file at a time. With Circle it's even more gradual, since you can migrate one file one feature at a time.
While admittedly a popular song, I'd argue it's not the epitome of Pink Floyd.

I'd like to see them do this experiment with Brain Damage/Eclipse, climax of Echoes, or Celestial Voices.
That is the trivial part (and any tool even worth talking about already implements it).

The problem is things like “create this instance in parallel as a replacement for this one over here, then shut down the original, detach a volume from the original and attach it to the replacement then run command X on the replacement, stopping for manual intervention at any phase the running system reports it is running at reduced redundancy”.

This is not an atypical requirement for infrastructure as code beyond the basics, but none of the declarative tools come close to addressing it without a bucket load of external coordination.
Great feature, regrettably obscured by a lack of discoverability.

The norm used to be to show shortcut accelerators right next to their menu dropdowns. That would naturally advertise those most useful to the user, without getting in the way.

Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this is NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're opening your app to try and get something important done.
Most applications that would leverage this (e.g. server-side rendered Rails or Laravel or Django) already have those templates as partials for their views, so leveraging the functionality is trivial.
Gift Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/magazine/pfas-toxic-chemi...
Yeah, there is a _well trod_ backpacker circuit through the developing world. I went traveling with nothing but a well worn copy of Lonely Planet, but you can do it with trip advisor now, they have hostels and such covered very well.
Stock iMac had 64Mb RAM, 5400 RPM based hard disk, and a poor 2D ATI based video card. And Mac OS 8.1. I actually purchased it (I was young and naive), and the Mac version of Unreal (game) to network play against my homegrow PC (Pentium 200, with Voodoo Rush video card), and the game performance was night and day (in favour of Wintel). MacOS 8.1 was so bad, I ended up installing YellowDog Linux on it, collected dust, then eventually gave it away.
That system is for training, it will probably spew tokens like a Terminator's machine gun.
It's just playing a sound on the keypress, but each note in the song has an individual sound assigned to it that matches the song. In Beatmania iirc, the sound assigned to each note is the section of the song itself, meaning if you miss a note, the song stops playing until you hit a correct note.
> If Nintendo were to hold a patent on this bullshit and thusly prevent it from being implemented in any other game, they'd do the gamers a favour.

I wonder if there's "real life" of such patent (i.e. patent a process or method to ensure it is never used because it's so bad).

(as for the example illustrated: I absolutely agree that it is a terrible game mechanic that's doubly infuriating since the previous game had a perfectly serviceable system)
I’m driving a 16 year old Honda with over 200k miles. Runs great.
There's a "skypack is dead?" github issue from 9 months ago. Maintainers haven't answered so I'd say yes, unmaintained. https://github.com/skypackjs/skypack-cdn
Hi! Netmaker here. At the time of this writing this is true, but we're making some licensing changes this sprint, which I think will make people very happy. We started with SSPL just because it's much easier to go from more restrictive to less restrictive, as opposed to the alternative.

However, several months ago we moved all of the client-side code to Apache-2.0, and are about to make the server-side code FOSS-compatible.
Because admiting wrongdoing of Russia would go in face of their "America bad" mantra.

It is really funny to see western leftist pointing American imperialism here and there and when obvious non-American imperialism start happening all the western leftists are trying to bend over backwards to justify how Russia is not doing imperialism, how SVR and GRU squads can't be compared to what CIA is/was doing. Their doublethink is palpable.
Electric bikes are pretty unsafe in reality for 90% of the United States.

It's not going to change overnight.
Not a "win" in the financial aspect of the game:

"... they matched just two balls on
three of the tickets, the reward being three lucky dip tries on a subsequent lottery, each
of which came to nothing. Since a ticket costs £2, the experiment represented a loss to
the authors of £54.

This unfortunate incident therefore serves both as a verification of our result and of the
principle that one should expect to lose money when gambling."
Travel industry techie here.

If you play your cards right you can be as recession proof as the adult industry.

We’ve had record MoM profits out of the pandemic.

The “quit job to travel” is a meme that keeps on giving, and there is a well established industry that will pander, play up to it, and take your money.

The more we can convince you you’re burned out and that you’re sticking it to the establishment and travelling will solve your problems, the more money we can take from you.

Simple as.
>You can't believe that this isn't how HTML evolved to as a hypermedia.

That is why I wish HTMX to be merged into HTML5 spec. For something like 98%+ of the web it will be good enough. You then have a small JS library for the other 1.9%.

The 0.1% left is just pure JS Web Apps.