skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author makes the case for guides, but not for audio guides. In my experience, these dumb things down, are slow, and add fluff like background music and sound effects. Selfishly, I would prefer if museums provided an interesting written text that would let me dig deeper into artworks if I want.

When the artwork is significant enough to get a Wikipedia article, it will often be better than audioguides. I’ve been to unesco sites where the wiki article was more accurate and up to date than the paid tour guide.
There is a huge debt that the military budget might be diverted into instead. It's likely this military budget that ensures the debt can be never repaid.
gaslightning...
Tim Ewald – Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools (2013) [video]
You're misconstruing what census.gov says.

If you look into the "definitions" section it defines "Housing Unit. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters."

and "Householder. The householder refers to the person (or one of the persons) in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented [...]"

49% of people aged 30-34 aren't homeowners, 49% of us are homeowners or renters.

> The avg American is completely priced out of owning a home right now.

You haven't disproven this statement in any way, you've just linked to some statistics that show we can still afford rent.
We don’t need kids to work the farm

even if we did, kids are expected to go to school now. they changed from being a work asset to a cost center.
The L.A. River was paved before WW2.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-01/why-we-t...

For some time now, Los Angeles and Orange County have been in the process of adding soil and plants to the bottoms of the concrete channels.

Here’s the website for the L.A. river revitalization.

https://lariver.org/
Where were you that PGP was banned, or encrypting emails was illegal?
What surprised me about Tracy was just how easy it was to include in a C++ project. Just compile and link a single .cpp file (TracyClient.cpp)
Never change the article path without a redirect.

If I honor you with a well deserved link to your article in a section that requires the context, insights and perspective you provide it should not be made into a mistake to be avoided next time. I should not have to do the work for you - because I wont.
You’re benefiting from other people’s sacrifice. Your end of life care is entirely dependent on other people having and raising functional children.

And these are all pretty weak reasons — people with kids do all of the things you’ve mentioned.
The things that stop me from buying a Remarkable or any similar products are:

* Too expensive. I want to have one everywhere in my house, all wirelessly connected so I can just pick one up and scribble a note anywhere. I may carry one also, but mostly I'd rather have something I treat as paper and keep them handy to places I frequent.

* Stores data in the cloud. I want to create personal notes, I do not want to share my personal notes with a cloud.

* Wireless sync is not trivially easy. I should not need to manually sync it, configure it for a wireless network, connect it to the internet, or make backups, or manage the network, or manage the device.

* Good organizational software for the notes. Many ways to sort notes/drawings, ways to search them, writing-to-text converters, drawing recognizers, all local and protected by good default encryption.

If you're going to replace paper in my life, it's got to be as ubiquitous and easy to use as paper, as reliable, and offer advanced features as well. Otherwise it's an unnecessary expense that is more difficult to use and requires maintenance time.
You don't really need permission to take a port; you can run your service on 80/tcp if you like.
Ah, I have a hard time remembering that the millennials have taken the boomers' place as the oppressive older generation.

Gen Z doesn't have a monopoly on spending their 20s in a scary financial situation. Let's see what the numbers look like in 10 years—if prior trends (the data I linked to above) are anything to go by, I expect them to be roughly the same as they always have been at about 66%+/-3%.
Longer buffers allow for jitter in processing further upstream. If you get a buffer every 0.6ms, you need to be able to process it always within 0.6ms.
What does FeedMe offer that's better than the freshrss mobile web view?
I'm not familiar with the term, "weird code smells". Do you mean that the code looks shoddy?
I came here to say what you just did. Hardware modularity is incredibly useful in the face of unstable product requirements. Focusing on integration, optimizing form factor can come once the requirements are locked in (if such a condition ever exists lol).
You’re still completely dependent on other people having and raising children to exist. It is selfish.
Well, that cousin is from my wife’s side. She does have dozens of first cousins from my side, but we live far away from them, so she has only met some of them once or twice for short periods of time. Nothing long enough to form a connection. Plus, she is older than all of them by about 5 years, so there is that too.
I don't see how that "no managers" core can be true.

Many of the principles, like "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale." are valid even for solo developer projects. Agile came out of older practices, like Rapid Development, which definitely could be used by solo developers.

Several of the principles do imply the existence of multiple people - #4 implies business people are distinct from developers - but still apply to a two-person company, like married friends I knew who ran their own software company where the wife handled the business and the husband the development and there was no manager.

If there are no managers, then either everything they do is Agile (because there are no managers) or nothing they do is Agile (because "Agile" can't be applied). If the former, then a solo developer following waterfall is Agile. If the latter then what alternative principles can be applied to solo- and partnership developer projects?
4 was rounding from 3.7, so I think that seems like a bit of a petty correction.

Humans will not go extinct (I hope), but HN is full of some of the smartest people and these are their trends, and I hope that of the people who do reproduce, the techno nerds are among them. The future will need them.

I worry that the Great Filter is not about technology at all, but that in every planet with a species that has evolved into a higher intelligence, that at the cusp of being able to seed their galaxy, they willingly do not pursue it, because the level of analytical thinking required to achieve it also leads them to disinterest and abstinence.

In regards to your last sentence, that is true. But I would ask, who would be around to appreciate that fact?
> we no longer look to our children for entertainment

Anyone bringing kids into the world for entertainment value is doing them a disservice. These are humans, not pets.

Parenting is hard.
I'm convinced sleep has something to do with it. If sleep is an issue, then stress is likely also a factor so I imagine a racing mind with no rest is was does it.
I think a better estimate of cost would be to take the number of developers, multiple by an average salary, add the costs of marketing folks and management, add the costs of offices and then multiple by 3 (profit margin).

That would give the base a amount that companies building the replacement software for OSS would need to earn.

I doubt very much that would be a figure around 177million.

Also what happens now is that companies take OSS, modify it in house and then either give back those changes or use them as a competitive edge. Would this be possible if the software is sold with a restrictive proprietary license?
RSS can do that too!
This so much this! Experience is such a wonderful thing.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.nytim...
Ooooh! This seems cool, going to try it.

One of the things I like about HN is that to get a "complete social feature-set" you have to build things layered on top or around it.
I've also argued that "agile" means "not waterfall".
The whole reason for the off by one error in the standard joke is that we forgot to use a mutex.
It makes no sense to estimate the total cost of the proprietary equivalent of _all_ that is currently OSS at $177M. It would be spread over at minimum thousands of companies and each company would try to get their margin, needs to be rewarded for the risk they’re taking, etc.

The HBS method to get to 3.5X isn’t sensible (as the author points out, not everyone would build) but the truth is somewhere in-between.

The COGS of software would be significantly higher if there was no OSS. But everyone knows that already. I don’t think any new information has been created here.
Yes this is my read too. It’s largely a cultural problem, not a resource one. The baseline expectations have gotten so high that not have a giant house and the latest electronics means you somehow can’t afford kids.
Time Ewald makes a case for "Programming with Hand Tools" in this talk he gave at Clojure/conj 2013. He too makes a connection with wood working.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw

Summary:

For most of human history, furniture was built by hand using a small set of simple tools. This approach connects you in a profoundly direct way to the work, your effort to the result. This changed with the rise of machine tools, which made production more efficient but also altered what's made and how we think about making it in in a profound way. This talk explores the effects of automation on our work, which is as relevant to software as it is to furniture, especially now that once again, with Clojure, we are building things using a small set of simple tools.
Related, from Molly White's excellent review of Chris Dixon's Read Write Own [1]:

> RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.[...] It's profoundly weird to read RSS's obituary as a person who checks her very-much-still-alive feed reader several times a day to get everything from cryptocurrency news to dinner ideas, and who rarely encounters a website that doesn't provide a functional feed.

[1] https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chr...
Even better, invent tools so we can still hump like rabbits but not be burdened with the results. Good stuff. Evolution gonna take a while to figure out a response.
> Presumably in the absence of OSS, companies would write far simpler software than the OSS they presently use.

Simpler, but also worse. Part of the beauty of sharing common code is that you only need to prevent a problem once and then it can be fixed for everyone. If you write it in-house, it's easy to say "oh it's fine, nobody will ever attack this, it'll only be used under boring conditions, we'll never hit those edge cases" which is great right up until the day when it suddenly becomes very painfully untrue.
My estimate for diy solar is 3-5 years and 10+ years if I pay someone else (in NZ).

Unfortunately I can’t diy myself with connecting to network (unless I get massive battery which pushes payback to same 10yrs or so).

DIY simply not feasible for many people, esp in places with stringent laws or where houses changes hands frequently.
Maybe they're just not into it?

that's exactly what i mean. they just were not into it. it's definitely not that they just were not lucky to meet the right lady to settle down with.
No one was about to invade Russia, not today. But NATO is by definition an alliance created against Russia, and it has a long history of trying to initiate regime changes in its enemies.

You have to remember that Russia is a federation, one with much deeper internal divides than the USA. The closer we are to Russia, the easier it is for us to fund, train, and arm Russia's separatist elements.

If NATO was officially present if Georgia, do you think it would ignore any pleas for help from chechen separatists trying to defend themselves from the butcher running them? Or would we actively work to try to make Chechenia an independent country, over the next 10-20 years?

And Chechenia is far from the only vulnerable place.

Note that I am not saying this would be a bad thing for the people of Chechenia. It is quite likely what a lot of them want. But if Russia were funding, arming, and training the IRA, or Texas's secessionist fringe, would the USA or UK be happy to allow this? No, empires are fundamentally built out of people who try to maintain their empire.
Jonathan Katz Moses, Stumpy Nubs, and The Wood Whisperer all have different videos like that. And then there's all kinds of channels that do pro, journeyman, novice builds of the same idea, sometimes as competition.
Cool, besides monthly subscription, it would be highly appreciated if you have alternative, such as pre purchased tokens.
Summary:

For most of human history, furniture was built by hand using a small set of simple tools. This approach connects you in a profoundly direct way to the work, your effort to the result. This changed with the rise of machine tools, which made production more efficient but also altered what's made and how we think about making it in in a profound way. This talk explores the effects of automation on our work, which is as relevant to software as it is to furniture, especially now that once again, with Clojure, we are building things using a small set of simple tools.
I believe OCR as "the" core is just an opinion.

This device allows you to do all your work offline. You do not need an account to use it. You can ssh into it. You don't have to ask permission to transfer files to/from the device.

This device is the WORST e-reader... except for all the rest.
Off the top of my head: not being able to biologically, thinking that they are not able to provide worthy living conditions for the children, abuse in childhood and being afraid of exhibiting the same behaviour, having sick parents/siblings who need a lot of care leaving no time for children, not wanting to increase the burden on the planet... or just plain having the freedom of choice.
Questions from the distant future: "Why is there this hardcoded 16-bit field in the UDP header which is always 443? Why do we have an IPv6 header which is always followed by a UDP header which is always followed by a QUIC header? Why not just merge the three headers into one?"

And then RFC99999 defines a "new protocol" in which there is just a single header, which happens to have the same byte layout as IPv6+UDP+QUIC, with a bunch of fields like "reserved_01BB" which "always contains the bytes 0x01BB due to historical backward compatibility reasons"
> I expect them to be roughly the same as they always have been at about 66%+/-3%.

No, graphs like wealth inequality, income to housing cost ratio, national debt will tell you that numbers will be very different.
I think the reality is that you have to focus on indie devs and businesses at the same time. Can serve indie devs via integrations with open source projects they use already or just regular interactions with them online.

However, for businesses, it's seemed to us so far that we really have to do dedicated outbound.

TLDR: cultivate favor with the indie devs and shoot darts at businesses!
No, it is tangibly more difficult. There’s a complete lack of other children in many cities. We live directly next to my oldest kid’s school, and we have no other kids within a mile. The nearest park has no regular group of kids who show up.

I live in one of the largest metro areas in the U.S.

Community is gone.
For sure - with both parents working and no societal support really where do you find the time
No, I'm not. I'm citing the numbers in the table entitled "Quarterly Homeownership Rates for the U.S. and Regions: 1964 to Present"* (emphasis added). That table is talking about homeownership rates, not householdership rates, and the definition they give is this:

> Homeownership Rates. The proportion of households that are owners is termed the homeownership rate. It is computed by dividing the number of households that are owners by the total number of occupied households (table 5 and 6)

Here's the table: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtab17.xlsx

And for the benefit of others, here are the definitions: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/definitions.pdf

* EDIT: I was also citing "Homeownership Rates by Age of Householder: Fourth Quarter 2022 and 2023", which is likewise about homeownership
You mean, they've refused the delusion that previous generations utilized to do horrible damage to our planet and long term way of life?
The Top of the DNS Hierarchy
Management by objective
Stadia was dead-on-arrival (regardless of any technical merits), the uncertainty, money and amount of work required on games leaves developers skittish about unreliable platforms (or companies). Especially with something as a new techonology like with streaming games where people were more or less rightfully concerned about latency.

All their product killings had already gotten someone to register the killedbygoogle.com domain on 2018-09-12 , that's a month before Google Stadia was even in closed beta. People were already joking about when they'd close Stadia when it was released.

Adding insult to injury, everyone saw the absolute fuckup with the Terraria developer. You have an indie developer (that iirc was _featured_ in the Stadia promotions) who loses his work Google accounts making it impossible to work and in frustration announces that the game is dead (apparently his account and the game were re-instated but after a month people had lost track and the image damage was done).

And yes, Google had some big-name contracts outside of just indies, but viability of a platform is always evaluated by it's entire scope (and iirc EA wasn't on board from day 1).

Google has a huge image issue with being humanly unreachable, we accepted with when Google was a cool perky upstart with a do-no-evil creed that hadn't messed up enough yet, but it's far harder to swallow from a big company that we know are only doing it's automated account management to save money (and is so insulated that it takes a _month_ to unfreeze an account of someone that is even supposed to be your partner!).

https://www.polygon.com/2021/3/18/22338396/terraria-google-s...
It's in-between, but not in the middle

But if everyone knows, what's your estimate how much higher that would be? M, B, or T?
Should this apply to everything? Someone buys a cupcake. Instead of eating it they throw it away. Is the person that made the cupcake owed something more than the $ they already got for it because the cupcake was not eaten and so their time fell into the void?

How about all the people that built a house or car that a movie production destroys? (less often now that everything is CGI).

Also, if the movie sucks, it often reflects badly on all of those people. They try to get work on a new movie, people look at the old movie, see it sucks, don't hire them.
I cannot do "work" without Ctrl-Z and/or git reset --hard
> Fundamental to the whole premise of taxes is that they are applied to net profit. If a company spends $1 to make $10, they get taxed on $9. If they spend $8 to make $10, they get taxed on $2.

Yes, the key word there is net profit, and the ways to calculate net profit for tax purposes are prescribed by law. Not every single penny a company spends is automatically a deductible business expense. Some things are, some things partially are, some have to be amortized over time, some are not deductible at all. There's thousands of pages of tax law delineating this and it is not in the slightest without precedent to declare a particular expense non-deductible.
Yes, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
VPN/VNC/RDP, nothing to do with KVM
Regarding your last question, in the world of data science there are three types of analytics, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive. Prescriptive analytics techniques, like optimization, tell you what actions to take to achieve a desired outcome. So after descriptive and predictive analytics research activities are done, their outputs become inputs for optimization. After optimization research activity is done we have a complete solution for our problem.
At what scale? There are definitely countries that will cease to exist on this path.

Immigration is zero sum and soon everyone will be competing for the same pool of people.
It's notable that it's in Chinatown. I lived there a decade ago and currently work close by. There are few drug addicted homeless people who reside there. The news makes it sound pervasive for political reasons, but it's actually highly localized. I would bet on job displacement, personally.
interesting .. I'm the oldest of 5 myself and have just one daughter, but I can't really imagine having or wanting more.
Young people paying a massive portion of their income (significantly larger than previous generations) just to have a roof, and gaining zero equity in the process. Hence "renting", as opposed to "owning".
Anecdata from Germany checking in: I have 2 kindergarden aged kids. They have 13 cousins. I don't even know how many second cousins.
I think aviation as a whole is ripe for massive disruption. I think the end result will be much smaller planes that do point to point but the exact 'how will it happen' is still an unknown. This will force regulatory changes too since a lot more smaller = totally different airspace management and cockpit requirements (please allow autonomous!). My personal bet for the disruptor to do it is is on electric. Look at the graph of battery capacity/kg/year and it is clear that electric will out-pace JET-A in the not distant future. The benefits are massive when that happens since (as the article points out) developing engines is a huge part of the challenge. Electric engines are going to be vastly easier to design and certify and provide massive new options since they can be mounted in new ways making aircraft more efficient and cheaper to build and operate. They will also likely change the altitudes and speeds that aircraft fly at since the same issues that impact turbofan engines don't impact electric (there are other issues obviously though).
I also hope that this dies out. While I used to put my photo as usual for years because this is how we do Lebenslauf, then one of my immigrant friend got severely discriminated(with clear evidence, guess the HR lady was new hire), so I started leaving my photo out in protest.

While I got some issues for a while about “better knowing our colleague and avoid hiring scam(?)”, eventually this stopped after I got some experience.

Now, if someone asks me for a photo or is concerned(one of my parents is immigrant background so I have a slightly hybrid name), I just tell them to know me better in person when I am in Office and they can take a photo with me when I meet them.

That all being said, the photo was more of a cultural thing in the past, it was useful for identification and filing purposes as well. However, in modern times the practice stuck and gave ways to discrimination.
Here he is fresh out of the pub to collect a few bounties:

https://i.redd.it/qdut4kswbpga1.jpg