skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both were this; the idea that breakfast cereal is good for you was largely a marketing creation, and it’s likely that the fact that it has become more difficult to lie about that to people in ads is likely at least partially responsible for the decline.
It's always weird reading HN with over inflated egos, and those on good salaries.

I've been in debt for over a decade. For some that money would be chicken feed, but for me it has ensured I'm in perpetual debt. I never have spending money. Wear clothes until they totally fall apart. Found a pair of shoes that I have repurposed. And sometimes have barely anything to eat for weeks. If I'm lucky I get to the pub once a year. Can't afford Christmas presents etc.

Then I read that Boris Johnson will struggle for a place to live when he retreats from being a prime minister where he struggles to live on his 200k salary. And in the following months earns 5 million for doing a a few speeches.

Some of us indeed can have nothing but never have to worry.
I don't think that's a uniquely American trait.
>it would work similar to taxes on cigarettes, alcohol etc

The money that these things cost to the public health service is easily quantified. I expect the taxes to reflect that.

>making low CO2 alternatives much more attractive

If there were "low CO2 alternatives" you wouldn't have to tax stuff, you could just force people to use them, and no one would really complain. Like it happened with CFCs. But taking a train instead of driving your car is not an alternative, it's rubbish.
I can vouch for this from personal experience. Back when I had my Nexus 4, the built-in keyboard surpassed the current Gboard by a long shot. I'm not sure what happened along the way, but the spell-checking capabilities of the completely offline and lightweight keyboard that Google shipped back in those days were miles ahead.
For me:
- Birlik which is a turkish store for pretty good bread, vegetables, legumes
- Wurstico for meat products
- Brunnenmarkt for meat/veggies
Java 8 will be out of support in 7 years. It might seem like a lot but for enterprise systems it's nothing.
Those are already an issue that Spotify has.

https://www.engadget.com/spotify-almost-removed-white-noise-....
> The idea that only certain foods are acceptable for breakfast is silly, and considering the bizarre history of cereal it's nice to see cereal in decline.

I should add that this take is particularly absurd when talking about breakfast cereal, which is a relatively modern product and it's adoption was mainly due to marketing than actual health benefits, let alone traditional diets.
It would be impossible to enforce that issued certs are submitted to certificate transparency logs and this would break the security model around the ca system.
Ignoring the combat-duty service records of President Theodore Roosevelt and his sons, President George Bush Sr., President John F. Kennedy and his brothers, etc., etc. - did you notice that I specified service in front-line ground combat battalions, in places where major wars seems all too likely to start?

Major wars might be far less likely if America's ruling classes felt that they had some real skin in the game, and people they cared about could easily get killed.
iPhone 15 on the big screen (via USB-C DisplayPort)
I think people _may_ have missed the joke here (it was dead) but cornflakes started off as a ‘health food’ marketed to do, well, just that (along with various other unlikely things). Lying about health effects has been an industry mainstay ever since.
Hence my 2nd and 3rd points.

Also DNS uses dynamic linking unless configured otherwise, while being OS specific, then that are the libraries that rely on cgo.
Or in proportion to how much value they create.

They're paid in proportion to how much unique value they gatekeep.

Hence why Silicon Valley's masters were so keen on everybody learning to code in primary school and getting more women into the profession. They dream of making us more of a commodity, so that as the chief gatekeepers of the tech economic engine, they get to keep a larger slice of the pie we create.
Ask HN: Many POSTs in the console while writing a question in perplexity.ai
https://www.perplexity.ai is super cool, no doubt

I am just curious on all POST I see even if I do not do anything: just curious: is my question sent to them even before I hit the submit? .... If I write a question, and correct it before submitting it, can they read the full question?

I often copy my code there, then remove sensitive data, then hit submit: I am wondering if I should remove sensitive data before copying it there
The current trend is to financially punish people, particularly the poor, for their impact on the environment/climate.

By that logic, having kids should be brutally expensive, as it's the absolute worst thing you could do for the environment.

If we're seriously talking about 'degrowth' at this point, a managed decline of human economic activity, then population degrowth - significantly reduced breeding - should be the top priority?
This is a ridiculous hammering of numbers, designed to pass some ideological message totally devoid of any root in reality.

USA total CO2 emissions are less than 14% of global emissions. You aren't doing the environment any favors by pretending that it's by targeting a subset of US population, that you are going to change anything relevant on global emissions.
continued fallout, the stress and lack of tolerance for continued support is likely related to the more difficult macroeconomic environment

all we have are correlations though
Well, science is more specialized than business, for example there is only one "MBA" but at least a hundred masters in science.
> Because a small group of people refuses to fly commercial, more CO2 emissions are produced than the entire country of Uganda.

Commercial flight is not great for CO2 emissions either. Because a small group of people flies instead of walking or bicycling, a lot of CO2 emissions are produced.

I bet the sum total CO2 of commercial flight is way higher the sum total of CO2 from private flights. Neither is necessary.
Never mind being paid to have children. I'd just like to have the means to support a dog. It's bizarre to think that in a nation like the UK we'd struggle so much.

We have put off having kids and now have probably missed the fertility window, because we have never been financially in a position to support some. And it's a horrible pain for the pair of us.
"""Montserrat is a lot nicer when you're not being held for ransom by pirates. """

"""Despite his qualifications, Dombey lacked one important attribute: luck."""

I love the writing style. It's rare to hit that right balance of sarcasm and academia.
Even comparing traditional sysadmin work — where operations are even more crucial — to software engineering, it’s easy to see that engineers tend to get paid more, get treated better and have more freedom.

Obviously there are reasons for this, but it seems to boil down to broad generalizations in how the C-Suite sees your role, and very little in the particularities of the org or employee.
> people like me refuse to have any children because society refuses to pay us to have children

If you see it as a financial transaction, it’s probably better to not have children.
Eurostat has a food price monitoring tool:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/website/economy/food-pri...
The same in the Netherlands vs Germany. I live on the border. And often German grocery stores have (organic) vegetables, produced in the Netherlands, for much less than these same vegetables cost in the Netherlands.

Part is VAT, which is higher in the Netherlands, but I'm confident most is due to the fact Dutch people will simply pay more than Germans.
>So now I get my partner to pre-chew most of my foods for me.

Umm... what's stopping you from chewing them yourself?
Totally agree. I love my iPhone but autocorrect is absolutely the most painful and most infuriating part of the experience. I am constantly fighting with the autocorrect… sometimes repeating the same word 3 times because I’ve typed it correctly but iPhone really wants to change it.

Same with proper nouns. If I deliberately start a word with a capital letter it’s probably a proper noun and I know how it’s spelled, don’t correct me.

Fix this shit, Apple, it’s the one part of iPhone I really hate.
> The "breakfast of champions" slogan, given how popular it became, sounds like it would make for an interesting case study where people agreed to marketing (...)

I thought it was pretty clear that the "breakfast if champions" slogan was simply a reference to how they paid athletes, specially olympian medalists, to endorse their product.
I thought that fat had been un-demonised and overtaken by sugars and ultra-processed foods.

Looking in my stock cupboard, the raw fats I do get are probably the best bang for the buck nutritionally.
> They will expect you to do all the real hard work while they sit in meetings all day making UI mockups and architecture diagrams

You could also look at this the other way.

They are the ones doing the real hard work i.e. making tough decisions, dealing with stakeholders, incomplete and poorly conceived requirements whilst you just get to build what's written down on a page.

Everyone plays their role in companies and assume they are the indispensable ones.
Sure, tax the 0.1% in proportion to the damage they are doing, but don’t use that as an excuse for the rest of us to sit back and think we’ve made much of a difference to the overall problem.
Contrary to urban myths, modern Windows is much more secure than random GNU/Linux distributions.

The only Linux based OSes that are on pair with it are ChromeOS and Android.
> Ah sorry, I guess replying to people supporting microservices

Again, at no point did I make an argument for microservices.

> that's just SOA

Absolutely not, from your own reference:

> Each service provides a business capability.

Spinning a high memory task off into it's own process is not a business capability. Microservices are more granluar than SOA services, your describing a microservice.

> That says exactly nothing. At Netflix scale their most random "trivial" endpoints are easily doing scale that entire SMEs won't ever deal with.

You said microservices are for when a microservice would have the support equivelant to a medium enterprise, this is not true even at netflix scale. They absolutely have services owned by very small teams, or else they wouldn't have more than 1000.

> When FAANG is your case study in any technical discussion in a public forum, you're default wrong.

Well who do we use as a case study on microservices then?

> Any useful technical discussion needs...

A technical discussion requires nuance, not turning into a black and white one side versus the other.

Yes, you can have multiple DBs in a monolith, but you tend not to. In microservices you are basically forced to.

It's a crude and expensive way to force modularisation. However, that is still what it often achieves, it gives you infra that you can keep other people away from and lets you be in charge.
I'm on your side of the argument, but I take issue with the black and white "You pay for an x-box and own it". For any computer hardware that I pay for, I don't feel lime I truly own it unless I can run my own code on it.
Technically, I can rent an EC2and do that, but MSFT won't let me run a hello world on an X86 computer :/
Bill Williams [1], perhaps best known for his 1983 game Alley Cat had CF, and suffered greatly because of the disease. He was 37 when he died. His book "Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken Disciple" is about his experience with CF and his faith.

The Digital Antiquarian has a well written article about Bill Williams' life [2].

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Williams_(game_designer)

2- https://www.filfre.net/2016/01/bill-williams-the-story-of-a-...
> Back then The West to the last moment had many prominent authors praising Soviet advancements in many fields until the very end and the collapse that was a complete surprise to many.

I hear you. But I am not worried about whatever economic modellers say, or what prominent authors write. What I am worried is when huge companies, predominantly preceived as western ones, spread their arms and swear there is no way they can make their gizmos in the USA.

Look at Apple for example, most valuable company on the whole world and 44-47% of their production sites is in china. Did we had anything like that in the Soviet block?
How will you guys use WINE in the future when all Windows software is 100% cloud-based?
I suffer from allergies/hay fever for 3-4 months of the year. When I was a teen I used to take cetrizine which would sort of help, but it left me feeling groggy and tired a lot, which was in some cases worse than the allergies.

Fexofenadine became available OTC available in the UK in 2020 and the pharmacist suggested I try it. I don't even carry tissues anymore during the summer months. If I ever miss a day though, it's immediately obvious.

It's not life or death, or anything like it, but it's a wild improvement in my qualify of life.
A manager at an In-N-Out burger restaurant makes more than most developers outside of Silicon Valley ($160000) - and tbh I don’t complain about that because I’ve seen the speed those guys put out burgers in Mountain View on a busy day!
Meanwhile, the private jets continue to fly, and the little people think 'well, there's no way I'm giving up my car/meat/heating/AC while the elite are still globetrotting via private jets and superyachts', and our leaders still refuse to set a half-decent example.
With traditional products there were three kind of parties involved: Producer, dealer, and consumer. Renting was a concept between the latter two. At an increased logistic effort between them (returning the product, more but smaller payments) the number of products bought from the producer is reduced.

With dealers included, exhaustion occured between producer and dealer. With dealers removed and products rented exhaustion no longer occurs at all.

That's a significant change, much more so than removing dealers or a switch to renting alone.

Producers retain full control, and individual consumers lack the negotiation power dealers had, which is an issue if there is no eqivalent alternative product from a different producer.
I think it's figuring out where to put them or installing them yourself vs building the locks.

Most things have accounts (database, servers). Are you using separate ones or a global admin?
Totally makes sense.

I was totally unaware of this industry. I knew about network leveraged recommendations, internships, etc.

Nobody in my circle ever used these services, despite some of them being able to afford it.

Thanks for all your responses and insights.
You also pay for installs of unused Games. The issue is also about ToS changes, intransparency and a felt shift in values with Unity.
China Has Unmatched Supercomputer Abilities, Third Exascale Machine Online
> Americans also said mad for angry, another English usage that died out in the old country.

> The expression I guess, meaning that one supposes or agrees, is often used to stereotype Americans in British books and movies, but it was current in England during the seventeenth century

My parents were refugees and survived in the country I grew up in by keeping close with the tightknit community of their fellow countrymen. They kept the language and the culture of their homeland alive, and taught it to their kids, so that they would never forget their roots.

The problem: the language of the homeland changed in those years, and what my siblings and I actually learned is outdated, funny-sounding, and almost unintelligible since bits of english are thrown in there too. A conversation with a native is hard. I guess its funny how language changes, and how it is preserved most by those who are no longer part of it's development.
I've got some home brand "100% wholegrain" oats here that say they contain 1g Sugars per 100g, less than half 1g per 40g shown in your table.

And even 1g per 40g is double 2g per 40g, not 'nutritionally identical'.
Site isn't mobile friendly. Graphs overflow without a scrollbar to see all the content. I prefer https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
So place a limit order.
>If you're just running a homelab and you don't have poor quality wall power or something you aren't really gaining anything from ECC ram either.

It has nothing to do with the quality or reliability of the mains supply; ECC increases reliability via protecting data integrity from bitflips caused by cosmic rays etc.
Oats are low GI and breakfast cereals are high GI
A move somehow reminiscent of GNOME 2 move that prompted jwz to coin the “CADT” term.

His essay seems to never get old.
Umm yea sorry, can you explain the pre-chew food.

Why not blend/mince the food if it's a digestion issue
You could maybe call it piracy if Britain was issuing the letters of marque after the fact or something, but it would seem to me this is "legit" privateering as they were at war with France at the time.

I'm probably splitting hairs though. The popular opinion has always been "it's privateering when we do it, it's piracy when they do it". One man's terrorist and all that.
I'm very thankful to my high school self for choosing computer science. I feel lucky I happened to be interested in computers. If I was born 5 years earlier, I may have made a different choice.
Yeah shorter radio edits have been around a long time. As an artist, if you want to make longer songs just release 2 versions, sure there are some just chasing dollars who do not care about that

My gripe is the newer recommendations algos seem worse than those from 10 years ago, like there was nothing wrong with simple "people who liked this song also played these songs" I listen to many genres so I think my listening profile is a bit diluted/varied
Django.

- I know Python very well.

- I know Django quite well.

- Django is extremely mature.

- The Django REST Framework is quite mature.

Other stacks I've used: None, because I only started taking this kind of stuff seriously a year ago.

What else I'd recommend: Whatever you're most familiar with.
> So it must be us and our elders. And since we aren't going to pay ourselves to reproduce, I guess the bill then slides to our elders.

I think it is pretty clear that employers must pay a fair wage.

If you work for a living but your income does not allow you to survive, let alone support kids, then your employer is failing to meet his end of the social contract.

It's entirely stupid how minimum wage simply does not cover the cost of existing, specially in times of record profits.
Apologies, I'm afraid that one was lost on me!
I didn't say he organizes everything, I said he provides money and hype. I also accidentally implied that he was picking the best engineers, which I didn't mean to do.

His "choices on what to focus on" are at best extremely vague and at worst extremely wrong - when he insisted the Tesla Roadster be made out of carbon fibre, resulting in the car costing over $100k, that was the wrong thing to focus on. When he focused on "let's bore small underground tunnels for cars", that was still wrong. When he decided "let's build electric cars" (and then bought a preexisting electric car company, whose starters presumably were also focused on electric cars), that isn't all that impressive.

So in case it wasn't clear: I'm calling Musk a celebrity figurehead, whose personal talent is fully displayed in his management of X.com.
Well in war there's chance to have greater return than loss by pillaging your enemies. Not so much for those broken windows cases.
I think it's important to highlight how the myriad of bad ideas in JS and newbies implementing them really is no fault of the newbies. It should be obvious, but I wonder whether people reading posts like these interpret them as hostile towards the newbies. It's the technically challenged pseudo-leadership out there that is to blame for most of it. The running head-first into "DX" while still consistently having some of the worst developer experience known to man as a whole and not seeing this, this is a by-product of a largely inexperienced but overvalued senior layer in the tech world that find big voices either via Twitter or more directly via pseudo-lifestyle dev channels on YouTube.

Some of them flaunt credentials that would fall apart immediately in real conversations but they are the ones that host the conversation so it can't really come up. Not all dev YouTubers are like that, of course, but I'm sure a few come to mind as people are reading this.

On top of the above I think people aren't considering that software is often a reflection of values[0] and that people disguising theirs as "best practices" does not make them more valid than others. It's perfectly fine to not prematurely pessimize your solutions and that often requires making choices that some people will see as wrong because they have different values, for example. This is not only fine as a personal value but many businesses reach a point fairly fast where an ever-growing part of their work is performance oriented, despite what a lot of people tend to think. Solutions that see no real use or have no plurals tend to reach this point much slower or never than solutions that do.

The above is also interesting to think about; a lot of people don't value reasonably fast software because they've largely never experienced it. It's not an uncommon reaction to marvel at simple solutions that have no real optimization put into them but simply aren't written completely wastefully from the beginning, because they're so much faster than what people are used to.

[0] Bryan Cantrill - Platform as a Reflection of Values: https://vimeo.com/230142234
as an italian... ugh!!!
Coincides with the rise of the MBA
The truth is that even the "extremely" rich Americans do not consume "extremely" more than the average American. Elon Musk is, give or take, a million times richer than the average American. But he doesn't consume a million times as much food as the average American, nor does he fly a million times more, nor is his living space a million times larger, etc. Sure they consume more, but not orders of magnitude more.
> your project is so big, that salaries for ops would be higher than cloud cost.

Couldn't it be the other way? On lower scale saving significant amounts of time just to save a few hundreds or thousands might not be worth it. OTH if you're paying millions to AWS hiring an extra person or two to save 20-50% (or whatever) might be a very good deal.
Looked this up in 30 seconds rather than relying on the ever-common HN anecdote with a certain narrative:

Germany has 627 per 1000 capita.

Austria has 572 per 1000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...

And here's distance traveled by car in each country, again, basically identical:

https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-secto...
Maeklong Railway
Just more gatekeeping and elitism. Same reason that "C" devs sneeze on Javascript devs and for some reason act like JS devs "aren't smart enough to write C" as if that's the real reason.

Bruh, write a game from scratch including engine? Why don't you write your own network stack and display drivers from scratch while you're at it? Hell, you won't truly know how the graphics are rendered until you build your own DirectX/OGL clone.

There's a reason we do the work; so that other people can use it and build upon it. Everyone starting from scratch again is only a learning exercise _if that's what they trying to learn_.
There is a slight danger though. Suppose there is a baseline climate change, Earth is getting gradually warmer on average.

Then there is some yearly variation, say, this year above average by 3 degrees, 5 years later below average by 3 degrees.

If you call the yearly variation climate change, then five years later your opponents will say "you see, it was a hoax".

It is a bit like presidents taking credit for the stock market going up. Then when it inevitably goes down, it makes them look bad.