skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft doesn't like taking "no" for an answer. No matter what setting or app you try to get out of your way, they default it back at some point to bother you. No, I'm not going to use Edge. No, I don't want to send feedback on Teams, but since you'll never just leave me alone, I'll keep giving you terrible reviews saying to leave me alone and quit asking, etc.
This sounds like guesswork around peoples motivation. Not saying you are wrong, but I'm making the argument that this is a pretty big claim (people being motivated not by wealth or status or curiosity but by extreme wealth). I just don't buy this claim. I don't think it's been a motivation of anyone who has made (say) a billion dollars, to only make another billion. Perhaps be the biggest company or invent the greatest product or have more money than the other billionaire who is an asshat, but just the money itself. Never heard of that. Every billionaire since the dawn of time has written memoirs. They might be lying, but I doubt any of them said "After 150M I just felt I had to make another 500M". They all say "after making successful product A and being set for life, I really wanted to make thing B". I have not read all the billionaire memoirs, and I'm sure memoirs usually claim you were in it for the thrill or the curiosity. But still.
What makes Bitcoin a "waste of energy" and a data center hosting TikTok or Reddit not?
Love Canal
Is knitting an achievement?
> New bitcoin from mining is halved every ~4 years, so every four years miners can afford to spend only half as much electricity to mine from that revenue.

Not exactly. Miners are paid out of the sum of block reward and fees multiplied by the market price of BTC. Every ~4 years the contribution of block reward goes down, but that doesn't mean that the price goes down, or that the contribution of fees stays the same.

If it was block reward alone and the "energy problem solved itself" then the blockchain would be completely vulnerable to a 51% attack and it would instantly become worthless.

The expectation is that the contribution of fees will go up as the block reward goes down, although it remains to be seen how much direct fee the market will bear. Currently the actual cost of a BTC transaction is hundreds of dollars - but most of it is socialized via inflation. It is unclear if the market will bear paying hundreds of dollars in transaction costs instead -- and if not, there's no reason the 21M coin limit can't be raised to continue doing exactly what has been happening so far.
I would disagree. The most US was willing to do was to cause some inconvenience. If US really wanted to stop Viet Cong infiltration then they should have built a proper demilitarized zone between Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
It is kind of meaningful on its own but probably should be kept in context as much as possible before the concept has a chance to drift.

>scale-chasing incompetence by visionless brunchlords

There.

It may not be award-winning journalism but this is the kind of creativity that does stand out above the crowd.
Almost as if, morality is something ingrained in every human being in some way, maybe as some higher rules of overall fairness. And fairness is something I can see in our small kids, they didn't have to be taught that.

Or maybe medieval catholicism with their rather primitive views and morals would instill proper fear in everybody. Which was then often overcome ie by greed or envy, but never could go completely away.
my hobbies are way more meaningful than boosting corporate profits
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East Germany, North Korea, and the USSR are wonderful examples of how this idiotic idea fares in real life.

Unless people there somehow have much lower IQs than their neighbours, who do vastly better, the difference in outcome must lie in the system that co-ordinates their work.
> be with your loved ones, pursue your passions, travel the world, or really set any goal you want for the remaining decades of your life

They are pursuing their passions and setting any goal they want. I don't get why so many people in this thread are dismissive of different views.

> feeling empty because there are no meetings on your calendar, no OKRs to hit and no bosses to answer to

This isn't the part that people miss when they stop working. You can at least try to argue in good faith.
Their relationship is with your credit card provider- no one's giving AliExpress or Temu their bank info.
I don't see a super explicit one, but: https://activities.esa.int/4000140241

> The proposed activity is to evaluate the usage of Rust programming language in space applications,

> The design of the system will be guided to support potential future qualification activities.

> This application will showcase the viability of the developed RTOS and provide input to a Lessons Learned report, describing the encountered issues, potential problem and improvement areas, usage recommendations and proposed way forward.

Looks like it's not intended for real applications, but instead to gain some experience. What better way to ensure that you don't ship the prototype than by doing it on hardware that is similar but different enough to ensure that it won't be used in production.

Just a guess though!
it's completely opensource so you could host it yourself and retheme things.
> 106M people by 2050 and 75M by 2100

of those, most will be old. Population before WW2 was a much healthier mix of old, working age and children.

Who will cater to all the old? Who will pay for the social safety net programs?
> With declining birthrates it's going to be not only "correct" but essential for people to continue in the work force.

This is a point I wish the article leaned into more. I disagree with your position, but it's a discussion that needs to be had. Our existing social safety nets, like you said, are incompatible with the direction society's going.

My opinion is that we're in a place where high levels of automation mean that we have the tools to start moving towards a post-scarcity, or at least reduced-scarcity society. It won't happen overnight, and maybe not even this century, but the idea that we've replaced many lower-paying jobs with automated solutions which are much cheaper (typically a fraction of the price for similar or better throughput) in the long run, while an affordability crisis is in full swing, seems like we're missing some clear ways to pump more money into social services while letting those companies using this automation get away with really harmful behaviours.

And yeah, I'm an optimist about post-scarcity, but I'll die on the hill that it's worth the effort to at least try and direct ourselves towards that.
you didn't read the article, did you
Who uses libvirt with anything else than qemu? Xen has its own much better UI tools, like the xl toolstack, or xcp-ng with Xen orchestra.

If you mean libvirt can provide single UI to different hypervisors, that is true, but I don't see any technical reason to have single UI to different hypervisors. It just provide familiar clicky UI for nontechnical users who do not want to bother with learning hypervisor features and its dedicated tools.
I tried out the Vision Pro
> Genocide is explicitly defined as "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." The immigrants are not arriving onshore and butchering the natives.

No, but when immigrant/coloniser diaspora becomes large enough in numbers they rise up against the natives and start displacing them, most often violently. As seen almost always throughout history, or in the news tonight.

> It's just Nature.

Nature is nature, and human policy is separate from that. Displacing enormous amounts of people to "fix" some imaginary GDP number is as far from nature as can be, unless we argue that war and genocide is a natural behaviour among human beings. Which unfortunately I think we can. Then again if it's "just nature", then why do people here argue for organising mass migration to Japan. Let nature have it's course then?

As for the rest of your comment, you are arguing automatically based on what you have imagined that I wrote, even though I tried to clarify to you. I don't know how I can get my point through, so you can understand that I connected organised foreign colonisation / mass migration to Japan with genocide. Because one usually follows the other.

Even an outright military invasion can be less of a threat to a nation, since some conquerors only want to extract resources and tributes without taking over the land by putting their own population there.
Cool, thanks for making it mobile-friendly—though on my (small) phone screen, the tutorial dialog covers half the play board and couldn't he completed. the actual game works fine.

Been awhile since I played actual minesweeper, but shouldn't revealing a tile with a number on it which otherwise has empty neighbors also uncover those neighbors? I could swear that's how the original works.
Is there an internet movie song database? I'd like to look up a song and see what movies and tv shows that song has been in. I thought I saw something like that many years ago... but wasn't exactly what I wanted.
Same here perhaps samsung did something in my case?
I think the argument against can be boiled down to this hypothetical analogy:

A few friends and I like your home better than ours. It's much nicer and safer than where we currently live, so we move into a few open bedrooms.

Now that we outnumber you and your family, we vote to change things in the common areas more to our liking. Some changes are small and happen over time, others more jarring and immediate. You like some of these changes in some cases, but sometimes quite the opposite.

Is it a foregone conclusion that this situation is for the greater good? If so, should your family be pressured or forced to accept?

Who has the power to make that determination?

After all, you were only there first so what gives you the right to prevent others from moving in?

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Personally, I can see the argument for both sides.
I was a big believer in Helm for generating Kubernetes resources until I looked up and saw that we had created an impossible-to-validate, impossible-to-reason-about DSL in our values.yaml and that's when I realized we were at the end of our rope with Helm. We switched to Pkl for our Kubernetes resource generation -- it's delightful to maintain and reason about our deployments before execution time :)
I am "retired." I didn't want to be, but no one in tech wants to work with oldsters, so I had to take my butthurt, and admit that I'm not going to be working for anyone, ever again.

Best damn thing that ever happened to me.

I had enough to retire, when I did, but had no intention of doing so, for another ten years.

That was a bit over six years ago, and I am wondering what all the fuss was about.

The "retired" was in quotes, because I never stopped working. I just stopped writing code on someone else's orders, and started writing the code that I always wanted to write. It's a lot more professional, high-Quality, documented, and bug-free, than anything I ever did, when I was being paid to do it.

And I really enjoy it.

I have no intention of ever stopping. The coroner is gonna have to rub "YTЯƎWϘ" off my cheek.

I know three chaps that retired from my old company. They had worked there for 30+ years, and moved out of state, to relax. They were all in their sixties.

They are all dead, and achieved this transcendental state, before they reached 70.
What happens when a tasklet take too long?
Nice implementation. I like it.

In addition to source/topic customization that others have already mentioned; it would be nice to be able to ask follow up questions on a news story that one would like to know more.
Love this. I'll be reaching out. :)
Was looking for someone to get the fckeditor > ckeditor reference.
If I was rich I could hire a security contractor to steal Bitcoin keys. Or hire a mobster to hit someone with a $8 wrench until they give me the keys. Or hire underlings to create a scam investment vehicle to steal Bitcoin. The opportunities around!

In fact, I'd wager that the majority of opportunities for the rich to enrich themselves exist outside of the pure economic simulation world that bitcoiners use to motivate the existence of Bitcoin.
I think that the description ’mini-Mao’ fits both the ambition to blocking others from excess wealth and the behaviour we are seeing from some billionaires. Extremes promote extremes.

Getting lots of people to make lots of small decisions is not easy and the masses are not necessarily that sensible. Delegating decision making to a chosen representative is the least bad system seen so far, but has a way to go.
No preemption means that any realtime guarantees are handled by user space, as the kernel relies on that yielding to hit time guarantees. It means it doesn't have to do much of the "difficult" work for a realtime system.
I had the same goal and developed FoodCoach (TheFoodCoach.app). It tracks nutrition (not calories) based on a picture of a grocery store receipt.

The high level goals are to increase protein, increase fiber and decrease sugar. Super simple. Tracking takes <5 minutes per week, for the entire family. With the receipt it recommends foods to buy more or buy less to help the user hit their protein, fiber and (low) sugar goals.

I used no-code Appgyver and have been very disappointed in its robustness. The backend is all hooked up. Everything works, but I've learned I'm not good at marketing. There many better (and free) sources of information to obtain nutrition data.
Worth noting the performance characterizations of an individual machine can depend on how it’s maintained and how the operator chooses to set it up - so this may not be a completely level playing field.

On the other hand, if you’ve figured out which Medieval Madness in your city you play best at, you can leverage that information to your advantage :)
I mean, maybe not fully, but its mostly back to normal at this point https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Radiocar...
In general a doctor is going to recommend and proceed with a hip replacement because it has been proven to have a positive outcome on quality of life, even considering the risks associated with surgery.

Someone getting a hip replacement is getting one because their existing hip is substantially impaired.

Yes it's better than their situation immediately before the surgery. It's probably not better than when they were thirty.
Oxide and Friends: Helios [audio]
Show Notes

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to discuss Helios, the operating system that runs on the Oxide Rack. Helios is a distro of illumos (derived from OpenSolaris, derived from Solaris, etc.). What's a distro? Why did Oxide choose illumos? Plenty of cross-generational appeal in this episode!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

- The Helios github repo
- Hacker News thread its release
- OmniOS
- Rust Tier 2 support
- Bryan's talk on holistic boot
- Oxide and Friends: Holistic Boot
- Oxide and Friends: Shipping Rack 1
- The Quality Death Spiral
- Oxide's "St. Louis" branch of illumos
- Bryan's sleeper bug from 1991
- illumos books (How's this for some SEO?!)
I can tell YouTube to never recommend a particular channel again, but, sadly, I can't tell YouTube to never show me another Temu ad.
Some of the time, companies think it works. I have no faith in how much/whether companies track the number of times a user simply closes the tab because they got a shitty popup while they were trying to _read about the product_. (It happens to me all the time: Hit a product page, semi-curious, I'm reading about it, then BAM, a popup asking me to sign up for a mailing list, so I close the tab and move on.)

Companies are far more likely to say "We got X people signing up for a mailing list, it must be working", and don't bother whatsoever to measure (a) how many of those signups are just bots and (b) how many potential customers they just turned away by nagging them. I would bet any money that these metrics are either not measured or simply ignored.
The draw of games is exploring unique new worlds, and gaining a sense of mastery over them. What's not fulfilling about that?
You are comparing the transaction cost of credit cards/banking/trade to the transaction cost + infrastructure cost of bitcoin. Credit card companies, banks, financial institutes have millions of employees that drive to work, HVAC in their offices, etc. that is not required with bitcoin. This is ignoring all of the rest of OPs point that preserving the dollar system has countless other external costs.
How many orders of magnitude more is the number of transactions supported by the existing financial system?

Visa alone can process 24,000 transactions per second. Bitcoin can handle 7
Thanks! Topic filtering definitely on the way. Sentiment is a really cool idea -- especially if you want to filter by it. Will have to think about that.

My thoughts on language/country: Will stay away from this from now and focus just on English US. I'm a one man shop and this is fully a side project. With the low concern of misreporting something, I want to make sure I understand everything on the site.

Would be required in the long term vision though for sure.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!
> The move isn’t about rejecting our white supremacist history

That's clearly the motivation. Per the article: "The movement really began in 2020, when the group Bird Names for Birds successfully petitioned the AOS to change the name of a species of grassland bird then named after Confederate Maj. Gen. John P. McCown to the inoffensive (and more descriptive) Thick-billed Longspur."

> it’s about giving things names that are informative and meaningful with regard to the bird itself.

This is an after-the-fact rationalization to make the change seem more scientific. But names in general aren't mnemonics, they are just... names. Just consider the base names of most birds: duck, heron, eagle, hawk. The name itself tells you nothing about the bird, they are just sounds attached to a particular shape of bird (maybe they have some historical etymological meanings, but if so, they are not generally known). Yet people have no trouble remembering what a duck is. They don't need to call it a wide-beaked water bird.

This can even apply to names that are supposed to be descriptive, e.g. I had no idea what "pileated" meant until recently when I looked it up, but I've known what a pileated woodpecker is since I was a kid.

The same, of course, applies to all sorts of parts of nature: e.g. it's Mars, not "red planet", grass, not "bendy skinny plant", etc. (p.s. when are they coming for the planet names? We've claimed entire other worlds for the Roman empire!)
I've more often passed over people for being overly specialized than the opposite.

For example, I expect anyone that knows a "modern frontend framework" to be able to learn the others. HOWEVER, if someone has ONLY done React I assume (based on many previous experiences) they will be unwilling or unhappy using something else (Angular / Svelte).

If they look like a fit otherwise I'll probably still do a call with them, but I'll be looking to prove they're very openminded and not stuck in their ways.

Anyone that is married to a specific tech/language/etc is sus to me. Note, this is just an example, it is not specifically an attack on react (although it is currently a common framework that people get married to).
No, OpenOffice is the Apache project that shares ancestry with LibreOffice.

I’m talking about the Microsoft product that is now sold under the Microsoft 365 Online brand.

It isn’t a perfect replacement but for the times I’ve used it, it’s been pretty good.
It's also a bad situation for SpaceX if the lack of clarity could get their people shot at in future conflict(s).

Along the lines of the other side asking themselves "is that rocket delivering cargo over there a military target?".

If SpaceX is 100% clearly non-military, then any SpaceX branded rockets delivering stuff aren't going to be (clear) military targets.
That is indeed the comparison I was trying to make. The average citizen should (if our democratic system worked correctly) wield just as much political power as the oligarch through his vote and so should be able to wield that power, collectively with the rest of society, to limit the economic power of the oligarch.

Unfortunately as our system works now the oligarch wields both substantially more political power through lobbying and general corruption in the government and courts as well as clearly wielding more economic power. What I am saying is that we as a society should endeavor to reduce the misbalance in economic power between the oligarch and the average citizen.
I can see that. Idk when the unrealistic expectations started kicking off on HN and Reddit - maybe COVID?

But the market seems fairly normal scale of things outside of a couple large employers who tended to hire juniors at the expense of more experienced engineers (Google, Meta comes to mind, and some teams at Amazon), so this might be their first time in a market like this in their careers
Yes, it absolutely is.

It's much harder than it looks. Even when you are skilled at it, making a significant knitting project is still a very large time commitment. Because of that, creating a knitting project and giving it to someone you care about can be a very deeply meaningful act for both the knitter and the receiver.
I agree that a stable, cohesive community is a sign that the site is failing but I think we've hewed too far to the side of "barely holding it together" on this spectrum. I feel that it dissuades new, quality contributors from joining and instead attracts contrarians and arguers.
> Not everyone's lucky enough to love their jobs

I agree, but I know a whole lot of people who are no longer working but who struggle to fill the gaping void in their lives once filled by a job and ameliorated by a paycheck.

So they do often turn to the shiny objects, and are doubly disappointed when the expensive things they do or buy fail to produce lasting satisfaction.

Sadly, I can report that more than one person in my life who retired at the top of their field is usually to be found bent over their phone, playing weird videos from Facebook at full volume.

There may be a correlation between excellence in a highly competitive career and failure to connect with other seniors at the community kitchen, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure that there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for growing old _contentedly_.
Right, but the financial system is actually used by most people in the US. Bitcoin, a small fraction of that...and this figure does not include all of the energy expended to process bitcoin transactions.
Lots of the same stuff as Amazon but way cheaper.
I love this, and it brings an interesting twist to an old favorite. What initially tripped me up is the cells at the points are considered a neighbor. Of course as I write that it makes perfect sense, but because of the irregular nature it's a bit harder for me to register them as such. Not a complaint, just an intriguing side effect of the irregular grid.
Traumatic? What are you talking about?

And it’s easy to argue (EDIT: more like assert without evidence) that cherry-picked aspects of the status quo for the last forty years is the linchpin of everything.