skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another option: abandon your responsibilities. Modern capitalism demands that you spend your time competing, and lots of people are not able to keep up. Return to natural state of leaving behind the infirm to die.
Which they are apparently are, given how many chancellors the UK went through. Thinking for yourself is a lot easier if the guy you're thinking about is removed from power when you've finished your thoughts.
AWS was working “fine” for about 10 years without live migration, and I’ve had several individual machines running without a reboot or outage for quite literally half a decade. Enough to hit bugs like this: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00092...

Anyway, depending on individual nodes to always be up for reliability is incredibly foolhardy. Things can happen, cloud isn't magic, I’ve had instances become unrecoverable. Though it is rare.

So, I still don’t understand the point, that was not exactly relevant to what I said.
The problem with space guns is you can't just yeet rocks into orbit. Any orbit that starts at the surface returns to the surface. So you still need a disposable rocket and avionics and fuel in every payload to change the orbit once out of the atmosphere. Only now the rocket needs to survive being literally shot out of a gun and then traveling at orbital velocity in atmosphere. That puts a pretty high floor on the cost per shot.
Papers only work because they know exactly what the view portal is and can design the layout relative to that. Unless you have an a3 sized screen this will not work very well online.
Classic story of a startup taking a "good enough" shortcut and then coming back later to optimize.

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I have a similar story: Where I work, we had a cluster of VMs that were always high CPU and a bit of a problem. We had a lot of fire drills where we'd have to bump up the size of the cluster, abort in-progress operations, or some combination of both.

Because this cluster of VMs was doing batch processing that the founder believed should be CPU intense, everyone just assumed that increasing load came with increasing customer size; and that this was just an annoyance that we could get to after we made one more feature.

But, at one point the bean counters pointed out that we spent disproportionately more on cloud than a normal business did. After one round of combining different VM clusters (that really didn't need to be separate servers), I decided that I could take some time to hook up this very CPU intense cluster up to a profiler.

I thought I was going to be in for a 1-2 week project and would follow a few worms. Instead, the CPU load was because we were constantly loading an entire table, that we never deleted from, into the application's process. The table had transient data that should only last a few hours at most.

I quickly deleted almost a decade's worth of obsolete data from the table. After about 15 minutes, CPU usage for this cluster dropped to almost nothing. The next day we made the VM cluster a fraction of its size, and in the next release, we got rid of the cluster and merged the functionality into another cluster.

I also made a pull request that introduced a simple filter to the query to only load 3 days of data; and then introduced a background operation to clean out the table periodically.
Sanders correctly identifies the problem most of the time, and I mostly even agree with his solutions. However, he is one of the least effective legislators in the entire senate.

https://thelawmakers.org/find-representatives

Winning, as we have recently and very painfully seen AGAIN, depends on building coalitions. It does not help that Bernie is not a Democrat. You could argue that he should be considered a Democrat for the sake of party self-preservation, but he literally is not one. My opinion is that his unwillingness to declare himself a Democrat is a reflection of his inability to find and muster support for his causes. Hard pass.
There was a brief period in history when Being In A Band was a big deal. That's bracketed by, perhaps, the British Invasion and Myspace Music. Before that, musicians were low-paid background music systems. After that, anybody could do it at garage-band level. In between was the brief era of the Rock Star. The nostalgia here is for that era.

Not a new observation.
Why do right wingers think democracy is about beating some other party, rather than improving the lives of citizens?

You're implying that unless the major left wing party kow-tows to the emotional needs of extreme right-wingers, then they should be allowed to destroy the country because mummy wasn't nice to them?

How about actually focussing on improving things instead of crying about every little thing.
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The GP isn't making a statement about how voters feel disillusioned in the electoral process in general. They are making a statement about how one of the two political parties has spent 4 years telling their supporters that the 2020 election was stolen because of rampant voter fraud.

It doesn't even matter if you agree with the claims that were made about voter fraud, I can't think of any good faith argument by literally anyone on the political compass that it didn't cause people to lose faith in electoral process.
I think the results demonstrated that it would have been an uphill battle for a white man as well. I think this result was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the 2022/2023 inflation surge.

Edit to add: I now think that. It isn't what I expected to happen until the results actually came in last night.
The same could be said for Germany and Austria. States - as in "nations", not necessarily US states - can have shared culture and history.

Texas is the one that comes to mind as the strongest, but it's far from unique in that regard. Louisiana pops to mind next. Other examples of states with very strong cultural identities off the top of my head: Oregon, Utah, Tennessee, Florida, West Virginia, Michigan, Maine, Vermont, New York, Illinois... you get the idea.

I'd say about the half the states have a strong, unique identity. The remainder are similar to their neighbors but the farther you travel the more apparent the differences.
I have ideas and experience but no time. I will tell the intern what to code and he/she will code it up for me. Example:
I want a webpage with all youtube links posted to HN in last 24 hours.
He will make it for me
http://blogsearchfrontend.interviewblindspots.com/vanavil/hn...

Another example. Go to all common crawl, identify all webpages related to NCSU, download images in them, run YOLO to remove human faces, run Falcon model to remove logos and see what comes up. Intern will code it up for me.

https://blogsearchfrontend.interviewblindspots.com/vanavil/n...
These people try and illegally enter the US through the southern border because a CHANCE of a life in the US is better than dying in Mexico to your local cartel.

No amount of border wall or lawfare will change that for Mexico (I personally believe we should be working hard with Mexico to re-assert law and order, that WOULD reduce illegal immigration). No matter what we say, the horde of bodies will continue.

So what are you going to do? Are you going to shoot them? How many strangers will we shoot, how many mothers and children, just to insist that we really care about that border? Will America be better when we kill a thousand people a day in the south? How will doing that improve the economy?
I'll try one last time. You say "I don't think kids can consent to medical gender transition until they are 18" (I won't quote it a fourth time). I say that I disagree (because I could totally imagine a 16 year old be able to consent).

Do you understand that?
I think they meant that Hetzner is offering specific machines they know to be faulty and should have EOLd to customers, not that they use deprecated CPUs.
I'm surprised there isn't a 3DS mod to bodge in a fancy modern panel with enough DPI to hit the lowest common multiple of those screens' resolutions, such that it can pull off a full-coverage integer-scaled mode for both DS and 3DS games. (There certainly exist enough mods that do this for GB/GBC!)
Meanwhile the governing party in my home province in Canada is doing this:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/06/UCP-Members-More-CO2-H...
Isn’t arcball rotation the gold standard for rotating 3d objects?
My favorite "title drop" in a song is in How Soon is Now by the Smiths. After an instrumental break, Morrissey sings, "You say it's gonna happen now? What exactly do you mean..." You can almost hear the next line should be "How soon is now" but there's a pause and then he sings, "See I've already waited too long..." The title captures the mood of the song but is never actually said. It feels intentionally left out.

On the movie front, No Country for Old Men does something similar.
Increase the minimum wage, strengthen the overtime rules, etc.
There's also the fact that their games keep leaking a week or 2 head of release, so people can play them earlier and with better performance by downloading the leaked game and playing on an emulator.

I think Nintendo has a case to make that Switch emulation is costing them real money.
I’m using a Samsung phone. A lot of the software on my phone (especially the software I paid for with the phone) is made in South Korea. I don’t pay for a lot of apps, but the apps I paid for were made by developers from France, Spain, Japan, Austria/Germany, and the US, one each.

My computers are running Windows, sure, but my most used software would be Firefox, built by people from all over the world. Second place would probably belong to JetBrains Rider, made by a company headquartered in Czechia.
He is a successful politician. The party is giant and complex. To me, the biggest factor was his support of wealth taxes, which puts him firmly in a different camp than Biden, Warren and Bloomberg, and caused him to be opposed by everybody with power in the DNC. That is the only "line" they really mean to fall into, and it doesn't even affect the average American.
Perhaps your account has more Youtube XP.

> But, yes, they should be easy for YT to detect & block automatically - it's frustrating they (and other scams) get to stay online so long.

It's the Google way. It's impossible until it suddenly isn't.

Break up this monster company and regulate the resulting companies until they behave.
You can argue that all government contracts are a different form of subsidy, but in common parlance people do not use the term subsidy when describing government contracts.
The Low Fertility Fallacy: Why Panic About Birthrates Is Overblown
That this is "an all-time low".
Ah yes, I guess only Mayflower descendants can call themselves Americans. Or maybe only natives (er, which ones). Or something. Your comment is really insulting to Americans like me who are Euro/Native mutts.
Literally anything but the metric system, huh? ;)
>having a very thin skin is not a good trait to have

It is if you get leverage from it. There is a perverse incentive to have thin skin - in fact, you can get flak for not having thin enough skin, these days. I once heard someone call it "reverse CBT". I invented a game called "Take it Personal" to demonstrate how easy this is, where the participants say anodyne things to each other and are tasked with taking offense. It is an easy game, if an unhappy one.
No. Orbital mechanically, no.

> Debris in orbit collides with other objects in orbit, creating debris in orbit. That's a cascade

For the same reason not every nucleus that fractures on neutron bombardment sustains chain reactions not every orbital configuration supports a Kessler cascade. In LEO, it’s virtually impossible: you get a nuisance, not SOL.

Note that Kessler posited his syndrome before we could computationally verify it. We can now. It’s not a real threat in the long term, and is more of an insurance question than existential issue for spaceflight in the medium term. It’s pertinent in the very short term, militarily, which is partly how we know it’s very difficult to trigger across even limited orbits.
It's pro-ukrainian in relation to the alternative, which appears to be the eventual complete dissolution of Ukrainian sovereignty?
This is how baseless rumors start. You're speculating without a hint of evidence.
Apparently being a clown and a liar wins elections ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is power, if not the ability to do what you want without facing consequences? If other people already support you or are indifferent, no power is needed to do what you want.
I think most conservatives have a strong idea in their mind of who their idealogical opponents are: ivory-tower academics, liberal business people and politicians, and all the plebs who side with them to push ideologies and social policies they don't want (policies like people born as men competing with women in sports).

Harris did nothing to distance herself from being strongly associated with that liberal cohort. Regarding social policy and ideology, she came off as being far-left to the average conservative.
Imagine if a round-trip flight from the US to Europe didn’t cost $500, but only $5, unbelievable, right? This is exactly what Starship will do to space travel. Many things we see in sci-fi, like lunar and Martian cities or orbital cruise ships, could soon become reality.

Personally, I can’t wait to see a massive, kilometer-wide telescope in space or nestled in a crater on the Moon. We might finally figure out dark matter, dark energy, anti-gravity.
>Republicans push class divide so to keep their voter base uneducated and poor.

Dems almost exclusively Lord over academia as something so valuable that the people that do jobs that keep the lights on, water running, and the floors steady are tired of hearing how much knowledge they lack. They say this in the same breath as they accuse republicans of keeping the sacred university knowledge from trades workers
Curl 8.11 Released with Official WebSockets Support
Would you call that a subsidy still if the government saved more money than it provided as the subsidy?
From what I understand, people are much more into physical media in Japan. Nintendo also actually finishes their games and gets a working build ready before release so the carts actually have a game on them that don't require a patch, which is unfortunately not standard across the industry.
Over half who voted chose him.
Another anecdote: my straight white male friend who isn't a tough guy left a job (building commercial ACs) as an electrician because the whole business was full of dudes bullying whoever they could. Plus the management just didn't care about worker safety, and the workers took it as a point of pride that they were ruining their own health. Toxic as hell. He found a different job with less machismo bullshit and more safety and is much happier. But that job is also overnight shift; if he was a single parent that'd be nearly impossible, luckily his wife can stay at home with the kids. This is in rural Virginia, not a ton of jobs around.
Investing niches.

I worked many years as a quant. Strategies based in unpublished findings tend to be very profitable. But once that info becomes widely available it is just a matter of time until getting diminished returns. Thus there is a high incentive to not publicise.
Full ACK. Frustration is as human as an emotion can be. But that shouldn't lead to patronising sexism. To me, democracy is a life-long lesson. I see it as a pendulum, necessarily swinging from side to side to avoid a particular political party to establish a dictatorship. The USA, as the stereotypical two party system, demonstrates this pretty nicely. Democrats and republicans seem to pretty much take over in an alternating pattern. However, the life-lesson mentioned is, that if you're not completely centered, there will always be times when you have to cope with your political opponent having the reigns. I consider that a worthwhile challenge, to accept that you can't win all the time. In fact, its not acceptance, its the knowledge that you shouldn't win all the time, which goes much deeper actually...
It's run by the son of Charles Gave, Louis-Vincent. Fairly well known in France. Successful investors. Check out Charles's philanthropic project, the Institut des Libertés.
Honestly at this point we start getting into a long discussion such as benefits of unionisation and why we should support it alongside collective bargaining and the fact that rising the minimum wage floor raises wages of other low paying jobs.

At some point though I’m throwing academic sources to the voter at which point I’ve probably lost the discourse because it’s hard to reason about.

The reality is I don’t do any of the above. I’m not even interested in debating the point anymore. People don’t want to hear long winded academic discourse on the best economic approaches to anything.

I’ve bluntly completely lost faith in American democracy. The candidate with the biggest budget has won consistently and the biggest budget comes mostly from corporate donations via PACs.
i think the nytimes landing page does a good job at looking and feeling like an analogue newspaper
That's exactly what I meant. The money's right there.
Your position is "the position of the majority is wrong."

No we don't need to change the system on the basis that it leads to outcomes you want.
I appreciate the explanation; it makes sense with this context.
> But it can also breed instability, as you can upgrade other people's stuff without them being aware

This is why Google embraced the principle that if somebody breaks your code without breaking your tests, it's your fault for not writing better tests. (This is sometimes known as the Beyonce rule: if you liked it, you should have put a test on it.)

You need the ability to upgrade dependencies in a hands-off way even if you don't have a monorepo, though, because you need to be able to apply security updates without scheduling dev work every time. You shouldn't need a careful informed eye to tell if upgrades broke your code. You should be able to trust your tests.
Yes, this. If you really listen to people, both sides care about the same things they’re just drinking different flavors of kool aid.
Those are definitely reasonable reasons to lose confidence in elections and feel disillusioned, but voter ID laws won't help you there (which was GP's point).
No question that NASA was pivotal to SpaceX’s success, especially COTS program. However that wasn’t subsides. They only got paid when they could deliver. Had they fail to launch Falcon 9 or cargo Dragon they would have gotten no dimes from NASA.
We can ignore the reasons they give; they're well-established liars. Here are some patterns the tariffs fit afaict:

They like to shift the tax burden away from wealthy constituents and onto everyone else: Republican states tend to use sales tax, which taxes everyone at an equal rate, rather than progressive income tax. Most/much wealthy income comes from capital gains, etc., which are taxed at a relatively low rate. Most of everyone else's income comes from wages, which are taxed at higher rates ('income tax' should be called 'wage tax', to avoid confusion), including welfare taxes like Social Security, etc.

They are populist nationalists and want to increase nationalism and disrupt international institutions and cooperation. Tariffs ideologically do the first and practically do the second.

> The libertarian view of tariffs is that they limit free trade, and are often used for inefficiently for market manipulation than as a funding source.

Also, tariffs are like sales tax: They tax everyone at the same rate.

> If you or anyone can provide an interesting survey on some principle approaches to tax policy I would be grateful.

Sorry, not off the top of my head ...
70% of Republicans think Trump was the fair winner of the 2020 election. They are just collectively massively misinformed.
Thats scary if true, any sources? My google-fu is failing me. :/
Not to diminish or confuse the challenges of caregiving, but most of this is also be generally good advice (if not complete) for someone burning themselves out at a very demanding job, startup, school, etc.

Most of it is also good advice in general.

Maybe something significant about saying it to a particular group like this is to both remind of general good advice, and to clarify that, even though it seems you're in an exceptional situation, the good advice still applies or may be more important now than baseline?
That's fair. I missed that when I read it.

I still stand by my point, but now it should be more directed at the author of the article and not the comment I replied to
> It's called a directory copy. Cut + paste. I'd add a tag with a comment pointing to the old repo (if needed). But probably after a few weeks, no one is going to look at the old repo.

Not in my experience. I use "git blame" all the time, and routinely read through commits from many years ago in order to understand why a particular method works the way it does.

Luckily, there are many tools for merging git repos into each other while preserving history. It's not as simple as copy and paste, but it's worth the extra efford.
I think the "turnable" approach would be fine if it included an extra roll control. Probably preferable due to the ease you point out; this overcomes the limit you point out.

My personal preference, and how I've set up my visualization engine (For chemistry vis projects and similar): Move the camera; not the object. FPV controls, plus a roll axis, with crouch/jump for up/down. Works best with a videogame controller, but FPS standard + Q/E is fine too! Full control, and intuitive if you've played those sorts of games. This is full 6 axis.
Of course, I don't want super powerful people in the US to not have the country's best interests in mind.
The answer probably lies in the wealth distribution in Japan. In the US 50% of the nation owns 2-3% of the nation wealth. For Japan I haven't been able to find this number, but I bet it's closer to 0.5% and that's why common folk there are permanently stressed and cannot afford kids.

There's an interesting analogy between lifecycle of nations and stars. When there's few people, they are dispersed over the land - that's the gas cloud stage of a star. As the number of people grows, the gravity pulls them together, they are forced to interact more and form a society with rules. Further growth of density starts amplifying certain animalistic traits, and a government is created to prevent the descent into anarchy. The gov essentially cools down the society, slows it down, and prevents certain runaway reactions. But the mass of the nation keeps increasing and its star slowly turns into a white dwarf: a super dense and rigid structure where not much is happening.
Yeah, it isn't obvious from that section, but I know it's referring to apex because its oauth client ID also has "TITANFALL3" in it.
Maybe. I don't see Elon saying that much. Mostly it's politically charged crap.
That wasn't really my point though. The discovered deposits, well expected deposits since its based on modelling data, could easily lead to a massive mining operation to extract it. That will do damage very similar to the exact kind of fossil fuel extraction that is a main argument against fossil fuels and for alternative energy sources.
How about movies where the title drop is the very last line? I can only think of one (it's not really a spoiler, but SPOILERS I guess).

The last line of My Dinner with Andre is "my dinner with Andre." I think that only works because the whole movie feels like a stage play, and there's something very stagey about that choice.
Are you interested in talking to people to understand, or do you prefer to just pontificate as to why people would engage in "nonsensical" behavior?
> But Saturn V's purpose was not getting things to orbit.

Yet it was used to put Skylab in orbit.