linuxhansl

Social media has become tribal media, where people form strong tribal structures and stay within those. IMHO that has caused the great division we are seeing in many places. Maybe "cult-media" is a better term even.

Instead of coming together we ignore (or berate) each other, which in turn gives rise to the many extremist and authoritarian movements we are witnessing these days.

Late reply... I think lack of education is part of it. The other part is that we are bombarded with content designed to keep us glued to the screen, and the best to do that is to feed us stuff we either agree with or that causes us to feel self-righteous indignation :)

Not sure how else I can phrase it... We have to stay away from false equivalencies. I am not, and was not, saying that we should tolerate fascism! We should not, absolutely not, and what is happening in this country right now is a travesty.

I'll try to make it simple: Fascism = very bad, voting for a fascist = very bad, only conservative ideas = not good enough, only progressive ideas = not good enough.

Moderate conservatives and liberals not coming together is what causes fascism in the first place.

No, no, and no. This is exactly the problem!

You define conservative ideas as fascism in one swoop and now "they" are all evil, all discussion stops, and you fall in exactly the trap you accuse the other "side" of. We do not need sides. There is no "The Right" as much as there is no "The Left".

Of course we need to not allow fascism (and the populist MAGA nonsense), I have stated nothing to contrary.

For the record I tend to be strongly liberal progressive (see my various comments, although I keep politics on HN to a minimum). But I also realize that only liberal progressive ideas are not enough, just handouts do not work, people want jobs through which they can support themselves, we need a working economy, reduce debt, etc, etc.

So, again, I wish we would come together instead of drifting more and more into extremes. If we did come together, we would not have a problem with fascism in the first place. We would not be so easily divide by populists smoke bombs like trans-athletes or alleged violent immigrants.

This is not "hopelessly naive" but intensely practical and necessary.

This Left vs Right - us vs them - does not serve us well.

It seems to me that what the world needs is a mix of conservative and progressive ideas. Instead of calling each other names or label each other, we could also work together.

In the end we all have a the same goal: Preventing harm. We just happen to have different ideas about how to go about it.

I fail to see what bearing the actions of other projects have on what the IA might or might not do.

So far the IA is providing an important service: Insuring the historical data is not lost. Until this actually changes there is no need to go after it, in fact it hurts us all.

This!

Turned off "Discover" on my Android phone. Was weird first. I felt like I might miss out on something, some important bit of information. "Sometimes it does show me interested things" I thought. And, true, sometimes I get shown a scientific article that would missed otherwise.

But just like when I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts years back, I did not miss any important event.

> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended?

Yes as long as they know to observe traffic and know how to use the subway.

Almost all child adductions are parental kidnappings. This "will nobody think of the children..." neurosis is just that, a neurosis.

I like the Lenovo P16 gen2.

It's not cheap and rather heavy, but very powerful. You can get it with lots of RAM, a powerful graphics card (for LLMs), and a CPU with 24 cores (32 threads). And you can get it shipped with Fedora or Ubuntu (although wiped it immediately and installed my own Fedora).

Curious what the bad Lenovo experience was. I've had various Thinkpads since the early 2000's and they all worked for me.

Fun. I started using Linux at 0.98 (forgot the patch level), in 1992.

Had a modem and connected to a lot of bulletin boards. I felt very much a like "WarGames" hero, calling phone numbers and all :)

I still remember the day when I used ppp to connect to the actual Internet for the first time. After a lot of trial and error, I finally pinged www.linux.org, and it resolved the hostname and returned the ping. I was silent first, and all I could say then was "whoa".

Oh fun times. :)

The US have lost their soul.

I agree. My apologies. I didn't mean to diminish the damage they are doing.

Is that really a surprise to anyone. DOGE is theater, a stage show.

Seems like a bigger delay is the #$%^&* hub and spoke model. Not too long ago I could catch a direct light to many, many cities in Europe. Now, I need to fly into a hub first - often passing right over my final destination (then having unboard, reboard, and fly back, easily another 1-2h).

And don't even talk about the security theater. Sometimes twice (although that gotten better in that there isn't a 2nd check.)

And, yes, I noticed that pure flight times got longer, about an hour on transcontinental flight. All this time I thought I made that up, but at speeds mentioned in the article this is about right.

Is anyone surprised? It's not like it was a secret, and a majority of voters still voted this government in. Maybe most thought it'll be better for inflation and chose to ignore or belittle the crazy. It seems we're getting the crazy now - and not, yet anyway, a single action of inflation.

While I absolutely do not like what is happening right now, I cannot agree with your general statement. Could you elaborate?

The US has proper separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. The legislative has a per-state and popular representation. Which part of this is "inherently unstable"?

The only part lacking a proper proportional representation (as in a parliament).

Oh man. So much fuzz over a site that shares video snippets. Is it just me? I feel like I am witnessing some kind of end of US society.

Fear disseminated by politicians and social media (pick whatever we are supposed to be afraid of this week.) Paired with an addictive desire to be relieved and distracted from this fear, in part from the same politicians/social media.

Regardless of what you think about this step I find it disconcerting that we can now disagree on facts.

For example:

- whether crime is up or down

- whether the earth is warming or not

- how many people live in poverty

- what the rate of inflation is

- how much social security or healthcare costs

- etc

These are all verifiable, measurable facts, and yet, we somehow manage to disagree.

We always used to disagree and that is healthy, we avoid missing something. But in the past we could agree on some basic facts and then have a discussion. Now we just end a discussion with an easy: "Your facts are wrong." And that leads to an total inability of having any discussion at all.

Fact checking is not censorship. Imagine math if we'd question the basic axioms.

I dropped of Twitter, and Facebook in 2014 (or around that time); and I have not missed a single important event since then.

People think they need Facebook, X, whatever to stay up to date. Not so. I have a few online newspapers/sites I scan a few times a week, and that's it.

IMHO (and it's really just MO), Twitter, Facebook and alike are a 100% useless waste of time. (Maybe Facebook had some use in the beginning for staying in contact with more "friends" than I could have by other means.)

I feel better for it. And as I said, I will guarantee you that won't miss anything important going on.

Slightly off-topic:

I am always baffled with the widespread use of Chrome.

On all my machines (including work) I use Firefox. Even on Android I disabled Chrome, so that the feed will have to use Firefox.

Chrome is neither faster nor more convenient than Firefox, so it is a bit of a mystery to me - I guess on Android it comes as the default.

“Every [democratic] country has the government it deserves.” ― Joseph de Maistre

Parquet itself is actually not that interesting. It should be able to read (and even write) Iceberg tables.

Also, how does it compare to pg_duckdb (which adds DuckDB execution to Postgres including reading parquet and Iceberg), or duck_fdw (which wraps a DuckDB database, which can be in memory and only pass-through Iceberg/Parquet tables)?

"its" not "it's".

"its" is a possessive pronoun in this context. Sorry, couldn't help it, please don't hate me.

I did various journeys - initially alone, then with an experience guide. Mostly to explore a childhood trauma - mild, but traumatic enough to leave me with a stutter.

There were indeed some "bad" trips, although I really do not like the term "bad". IMHO there is no bad journey, it is stuff that needs that wants to be seen.

Nor is the journey itself what counts, one cannot expect a quick fix from a 4 or 5 hour journey. What really counts is the preparation (4 to 8 weeks) before, and integration afterwards (again 4 to 8 weeks). In my case I also paired it with years of therapy and meditation.

It takes a lot of courage, especially to continue after an unpleasant experience (fear, grief and loneliness in my case). In my case I kept coming back and allowed myself more and more to let the bad experiences happen. Finally I just learned to be with what is, and accept things and myself the way it all is. With that came a measure of peace and insights I had not experienced before. Along with visions about the structure of existence.

But I'll stress again, just popping a mushroom won't get you there :)

Work for hire copyright duration of 95 years (from publishing) or 120 years from creation is outrageous.

I just donated money to the Internet Archive.

Sorry, that's what I meant, but formulated badly... Do people really think that Tesla has a 10x future revenue upside compared to BMW.

And yet today BWM's marketcap is about $70bn (~53bn Euros) vs Tesla's $690bn. Is there really 10x the potential?

Edit: My formulation is confusing. I meant whether folks really think that Tesla will eventually have 10x BMW's revenue.

So basically this is saying that the CAP theorem is irrelevant because a partition is not really have a partition (since the load balancer still can reach everybody). Hmm...

I agree that in modern data centers the CAP theorem is essentially irrelevant for intra-DC services, due the uptime and redundancy of networking H/W (making a partition less likely than other systemic failures).

Across DCs I'll claim it is still absolutely relevant.

My son got his first official letter when we was about two weeks old. It was a bill from the hospital for his birth: $8,000. He was directly charged on that bill, not us parents.

And that was on top of the $24,000 bill that we had received from hospital. So $32,000 for a no-frills (from a medical viewpoint) birth and that was many years ago.

The health insurance paid 100% of both bills, so we ended up not following up.

Releasing some software open source, having it gain popularity (just from being open source) and then saying you can't make money of it seems disingenuous to me. The project would not have been as popular if it hadn't been open source in the first place. You can't have it both ways.

Making money directly of an open source project is indeed difficult. But that also isn't the promise of open source. The promise is that many groups come together to work on an open source project for mutual benefit.

I had the privilege to work on several open source projects for my employer. Some of these were pretty important to what we are doing, but they were not the direct products we would sell. That worked remarkably well!

I still work on open source, for work, and some in my spare time.