skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t even know where to start with this post:

- This isn’t even necessarily a hack. At best, this is a mild inconvenience to the user accounts that you are locking out, on what appears to be a legacy system, due to a quasi-brute force.

- You are “hacking” this company, without their permission, because you want “payback” that Amazon didn’t hire you for what you perceive to be a racially opinionated interviewer. Despite whether this theory (yes, it is purely speculation) is true or not, I would imagine this is HR 101 and a company as large as Amazon would go to great lengths to ensure that this is not the case.

- Your sense of entitlement goes even further, despite having illegally “hacked” a company, after all of this you expect a payment from them?

If anything, this post reaffirms that they made the right decision in not hiring you for the role you were being considered for, and guarantees that you won’t have an opportunity to interview again.
Download managers, ICQ.
Ironically I just took a look at Snap and out of five consecutive advertisements, four were for Tiktok.
At least in the US, when I die, my possessions become the posesseions of my estate, with my heirs the beneficiaries, after all claims against the estate, including outstanding debts and estate taxes are satisfied. If my estate takes a significant amount of time to settle, it will need to pay income taxes, etc as well.

I don't know what a religious figure has to do with government policy with regards to human organs. At least outside of a theocracy.
Again, many are born with inherent advantages such as innate intelligence, health, mental stability, and an environment that fosters success. The merit they are capable of developing is made possible by a combination of these things. That being the case, it is inevitable that Meritocracy rewards the fortunate for being fortunate. The difference between Meritocracy and other frameworks to select the powerful is that the people born with the advantages listed above tend to win instead of simply those born into wealth/power/beauty/etc. (Though those with wealth/power/beauty/etc. do actually tend to win anyway because this provides them ways to develop merit or proxies for merit or ways to circumvent merit).

There is simply no framework that does not provide someone with certain characteristics systematic advantages to gaining power.
Interesting- why is it blocked at work?
Good call. I don't use emacs either, so the shortcuts don't come to mind as easily as they would if I did.
As a DevOps, you get to play with all the tech, but you also have to be on call. (One pro and cons, depending on where you devops) It's been fun, I'm really about automation {the larger set of automations}, and it's been foundational and transformative for me.

Kelsey Hightower had a good talk about what DevOps means in a post Kubernetes world. I think it was a DevOps conference in Seattle iirc. It's on YouTube somewhere

https://cuelang.org (DevOps futurology)

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof (my work)
Nobody cared in advance; I'm assuming it is a manufactured controversy, but I'm just speculating that it started with a database of dirt on public employees that someone used to create the situation, as part of long running efforts to create chaos. Not with some random person doing something for no reason.
That assumes the call centre isn't entirely filled with 12 year old ex-governemnt auction underpowered desktop computers running pirated copies of Win7, instead issuing staff with modern remotely managed laptops...
In college I had to use labVIEW; a visual language normally used for automation. I found it significantly harder to work with compared to programming the robot in C. Part of it has to do with my familiarity of the language / learning what the shapes meant, but another part of it was trying to juggle the programs layout. Eventually, everything became a big mess and was hard to maintain.

Using labVIEW over C did have some benefits. It seemed like streamlined concurrency is a major advantage.
Oh? I heard that's the only one from someone I know who worked on RN there
Following up on amessina1's post,

I'm one of the TSEs who handle networking cases. True to what was said, I was hired with very little networking background, but plenty of development and hardware information.

I've since taken the mantle for handling most of the cases dealing with Interconnects and VPNs. I enjoy it too!

Oh, yeah, we're hiring: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&q=Te...
Real-Time Currency Rate Conversion API
> trusts more than any other.

do you think it would be possible without the military might? any historic precedents?
That makes sense. Denominations larger than $100 have been eliminated in a lot of currencies because of money laundering. I remember when I received a $1000 bill in Canada in the 90's. Only time I ever saw one.

However, I did notice that some countries still have large denomination bills - Singapore (1000, until recently had $10,000 bills), Switzerland (1000), Brunei (10,000).
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)
Does LiveView require a connected websocket between the client and server for the client to
be functional? Is there support for synchronous communication between the LiveView client and server? If not, does this scale for websites as the number of active users increases to a large number?
Whoever controls the gravity well controls the world - I'd sure as hell rather that be my team, and not the other team.

There are no effective international institutions. The human race hasn't figured out any way to unify on a global level. There are no world police - just scattered teams with nukes at each others' throats.

If history is any indication, being on the losing team means being on the wrong side of obliteration and conquest. Being on the winning team matters - a lot.

This is the prisoner's dilemma, without any benefit to cooperation. The US has the wealth and the industrial base to spread throughout the solar system faster and more aggressively than anyone else.

Whoever militarizes space first controls every other nation's access to space, and has the ability to deny access to opposing nations.

I'm thankful the US is doing it before China.
This comment is really, really confusing. If it builds once Nix, it will build again with Nix... If you can find a derivation that builds on one machine and not on the other there's usually a fundamental difference - either in CPU arch, your nixpkgs config differs (overlays), etc. Or I guess you could write a build script that non-deterministic ally fails, but that has nothing to do with Nix's maturity.

Nix ensures the tooling is called the same. I can understand having a non-autotools project that is more difficult to write a derivation for, but "Nix can't wrangle messy libraries" makes absolutely no sense, either from a "make compiling reliable" or anything at use-time.

Do you have a specific example in mind that is less hand-wavy?
For sure. The first talk therapist I went to was right after it father died. The receptionist warned me he was very old, which I did not find to be a problem in and of itself. I don't know if that is the reason he told me basically that I would get over it and not to worry too much. After two sessions, I stopped going. I went to psychiatrists for drugs still for many years, getting slightly better then much worse as most people in drugs do. It took almost fifteen years before I went back to a therapist (last year) and started taking her seriously. Talking to my drug dealing psychiatrists I did not take too seriously, except for one. She did both therapy and prescriptions. She got mad at me when I asked for a slight increase in my dose. That was the last time I took drug dealing psychiatrists seriously. I left her soon after and a year or two later tapered myself off the drugs and started recovering on my own.

In retrospect, I truly wish I had not gone to any therapist and definitely not to any psychiatrist. My normal drug dealer was much more helpful and much less harmful than any of them prior to the therapy I started last year. Psychiatry, especially, is a fucked up profession and when the two are combined and done by the same person, the conflict of interest prevents it from working. I will likely never see a psychiatrist again. Regular drug dealers have more scruples.
It's based on economic might.

To participate in the US growth story you have to contribute in USD.
So they're releasing the code?

But what about the art assests. Moving to the future, those become more valuable, particularly as coding becomes more advanced. While coders have a habit of happily rewriting things to make them work better, visual stuff has a lot more nostalgia factor, as well as actually having them available makes the progress made on the code side seem a lot more real.

Surely this isn't the only game where code is only part of the issue (if it is, I really don't know what the plan is in this instance).
Not 'engineering' programming, but real engineering programming. I did a lot of that. Automotive, aerospace, space shuttle, power stations and such.

No syntax or type bugs, just logical or more like physical bugs. Because you are modelling physics, and sometimes the model is just not good enough. Still vastly better than traditional C++ models.

Problems: No diff tool. You can hardly see what changed. That is like shipping updated lisp images or binaries without source code to the devs. You also get a lot of windows, like 30 for a typical small model.
One of these days, I will write a blog series on this novel concept.
I got hit by an owl one night while calling coyotes - I was sitting in thick brush, wearing a furry bomber hat and using a mouth call that simulates a distressed rodent. I got lucky and it just grabbed the hat, but it sure surprised the hell out of me and after that I switched to an electronic caller for night hunting. After I bought a night vision rig I was astonished to learn how many owls were swooping on my sets at night.
Oh dear... so you have to write a Nix package (and learn how the language and package management work) just to modify global config files, instead of just editing them? That sounds like an absolute nightmare for a local machine, though possibly a great tool for automated systems.

Also, if there's no /nix/etc... then what is Nix modifying? sshd (or any other more common program; I'm just using sshd as an example to understand the rest of the system) won't magically know to look at /nix/store/efgh5678-my-sshd-config-2.0/etc/ssh_config, right? I thought you'd at least need a symlink like /nix/etc/ssh/sshd_config to link to it. Unless you're saying Nix modifies your system's /etc/ssh/sshd_config directly and makes it a symlink to the immutable Nix store? In which case, wouldn't it just trample everything your own distro's package manager does in that folder?
Please stop doing flamewars on HN. You've done it repeatedly, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is for.

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>The Fed seems to have no issue printing money to prop up financial markets

You're misunderstanding what the Fed does when it trades USD for Products in short term/long term arrangements.

There's no net creation of money from the Fed.
Looks fun, but, extremely paywalled.
Running Docker Compose Files from a UI – (1 Minute Video)
Yes, having run qmail for most of the 90s, I'm pretty familiar with what was contemporary. I was being hyperbolic. And yes, there's a lot of code out there with the same class of flaw.

My point is, the right answer isn't to say "that will never happen" and get surprised down the road, the right answer is to say "that shouldn't happen" and do something about it.

So, sure...don't wait till the header gets to 3.9GB. Absurd. But 100MB? 10? 1? I think I'd get antsy at 1MB. Especially since RFC2822 implies lines can be no longer than 998 characters. So...you know...someplace between 998B and 1MB would be reasonable to punt. Especially at the time the code was written.
Please stop using HN for religious or racial or ideological flamewars. It's not what this site is for.

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>> “ PINs will also help facilitate new features like addressing that isn’t based exclusively on phone numbers, since the system address book will no longer be a viable way to maintain your network of contacts.” [1]

Any idea when more information might be available on this? Asked moxie years ago to add this and know 100s of other have too.

Worth noting the FAQ as it relates to the PIN length is not correct, “How long can my PIN be? There is no limit. Feel free to add as many characters as you want.” [2] ...tested it and longest PIN I was able to create was 20 characters all numeric.

[1]:
https://signal.org/blog/signal-pins/

[2]
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I was involved in establishing a bunch of build and deployment infrastructure at my org that's currently based around large (300mb+) "bundle" Debian packages, but that bundle package is composed of hundreds of small sub-packages, most of which don't change day to day (it's extremely convenient to ship them all as one big unit for versioning sanity and ABI consistency reasons).

Nix seems like it would be a great fit for this use case, but there are a number of things about it which give me pause, particularly when it may be possible to get at least some of its advantages by applying the lessons learned to a system built out of boring, old-school packaging tools.
"...echoing objectives set forth previously in the Made in China 2025 program"

In other words, this isn't a suprise, just that this is the latest push to fulfil the existing plan.
Moon is a Harsh Mistress is definitely what I look to too, also. Even if the US is becoming more authoritarian over time, it's far from the worst Great Power. We do deeply, deeply shitty, immoral things constantly.

Compared to the Soviets, Mao, German Reich #2 / #3, Napoleonic France... the world could do worse for the First nation to take the moon.
We've asked you repeatedly not to post flamebait to HN. If you keep doing it we will ban you.

Religious and racial flamewar is particularly unwelcome here.

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A Python package for object oriented headers. HTTP Style. 2.2.0 released
If they are clustered using erlang clustering, yes. https://erlang.org/doc/man/global.html

Note that this works by taking a transaction lock on the entire cluster, so it's not recommended if you're making requests frequently. It also doesn't respect netsplits, unless you instruct in code to fail with a deficient cluster membership.
https://archive.is/1uFwR
My comment was in response to "Who would hate on YCombinator." To expand on my answer: All of the employees who were duped into taking a low salary in exchange for the promise of valuable equity are the ones who would hate on YC.
What features have you had problems with?
It is, perhaps they didn't use cache to store previously built packages and build everything from scratch. With no cache Nix will start with building compilers and glibc until it has everything to build the actual application.
For a moment, pretend the Fed and the Treasury are one institution instead of two. Call it "the government" for simplicity.

When the government spends money into the economy, it creates money (also, increases demand). When the government taxes money out of the economy, it deletes money (also, reduces demand).

The main issue is how much is created over how much is deleted, in a given time frame.

Assume more is created than deleted in a given time frame, so there is a net demand increase over that time frame.

Now compare the net demand increase to that required to bring the economy up to the full employment level. If the net demand increase is less than or equal to that required amount, there is no inflation. If it is more, then there is inflation.

If you didn't have any taxes at all, the net demand increase would be massive and inflation would happen much more easily.
I've been leery of CBT because it seems like it's too focused on how the patient thinks about their situation and not on actually creating a situation that's worth living.

It seems like for many people the issue isn't so much that they are sad or in pain so much as it is that their life lacks any sort of meaning or direction. The problem isn't so much the presence of something bad as it is the lack of something good.

In your experience does CBT engage with those sorts of issues?
In my experience, nixpkgs packages are modified with the bare minimum to get the upstream code to work.
Nothing preventing the government from buying up lots of bitcoin with its money printer and then periodically dumping some to control the price of bitcoin...

Could do the same with real estate and the stock market...

Source: see gold.
> It is pretty easy to be confused. Especially since it is also a language yet all the other replies at the time have writing have failed to mention that.

The OP mentioned it. It helps to read the OP if one wants to avoid confusion.
Another good example of bad science related to water is "water memory" (published in Nature!): the idea that water could hold onto the "shape" of molecules with which it was mixed. Fun times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory
1. Elite suppression of the upper-middle class (upper-middle class pays most of the taxes). Imagine the kind of market competition / wage pressures they'd face if doctors/lawyers/engineers only had to pay the same rates Warren Buffet does.

2. Assault eugenics on the poor (even if they get big refunds in April, they are still subject to withholding on their meager paychecks). More time wrestling with payday lenders and scrambling to get their 39 hours in == less time making more babies.
While this is true if you are building new versions of dependencies on an existing system, in many cases in high security environments you want to start with a clean build environment every time. Cached dependencies might be considered to be a security risk. Bootstrapping an entire Nix environment can take a lot of time.
It's not efficient for large scale things. It's like communicating with memes, you can't exactly write a news article with just memes.

It's useful to allow more "citizen devs" (regular folk with little exposure) to come up with prototype high level proof of concept apps,including UX design. It is a big deal in the corporate arenas I've had exposure too,but I think widespread adoption is still years away.

You will always need non-visual languages to do things in a featureful and scalable way.
They've currently locked money of mine due to new identification laws (I assume) in my country. Their online ID service was looping and they refused to resolve it by email There might be some critical support things which they handle by phone only?
Both alarming and yet fairly expected with Google 2.0.

Thanks for the good explanation of your thought process and relevant background.
Periodic table. Rare gases for mobile devices. Metals for "non-mobile" devices. Most everything else is just random across the table, some of my preferred devices get "special" names like fantasy metals.
Flamewar like this is not ok on HN and will eventually get you banned here, so please don't. It's also extraordinarily tedious.

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I had an excellent week with Elixir building a really silly game:

https://hn.lddstudios.com/

MIT Licensed. Source:

https://github.com/ldd/hn_comments_game
I loathe to be so critical, but I have no idea what this is.

I'm sorry to say but this is a bad article - either that - or nix itself is a mishmash of things impossible to explain.

I just see red flags everywhere.

If it's 'A' - then maybe take some time to do a high-level introduction and some context.

- 'Everything depends on something else' - really? Most 'installed software' doesn't depend on a whole lot else. Does the author really mean server software? Development environment?

- "The easiest place to start is the Nix Store. Once you've installed Nix, you'll wind up with a directory at /nix/store,"

No! That's not easy, because what he&& is Nix, why and how would I install it, and what is the 'nix store'? Starting to explain something by introducing a whole bunch of other unknowns without description or context is going in the wrong direction.

- "This directory, /nix/store, is a kind of Graph Database. Each entry (each file or directory directly under /nix/store) is a Node in that Graph Database, and the relationships between them constitute Edges."

WHAT? We are now 3 layers deep in a rabbit hole of unexplained things.

- " Nix guarantees that the contents of a Node doesn't change after it's been created."

What is a Node?

If the issue is 'B' - i.e. the inherent overlap of technologies that Nix makes it hard to explain ... well maybe it could be broken up.

Take a minute to give some context for what Nix is, the kinds of people that use it, what problems it solves, and then have some exceedingly basic introductory examples so that people have a frame of reference for what you are talking about.

Then you can step by step, go into the weeds.
Re. Money in a bank account not contributing to scarcity: I think that logic checks out when you observe money as a resource in isolation.

If you think of Money as a proxy for "captured value," then one way to look at it is how much "captured value" is "captured opportunity for wealth creation," which has a certain distribution % chance across the entire population.

In that sense, total aggregate money at any point in time can be viewed as zero-sum.
This is only sort of true: I’ve found that Nix on a Mac is great except that about 10% of the derivations just don’t work: some are excluded explicitly as broken and some just fail in strange ways and need lots of debugging.
First: It depends on what you mean by "easily"

General installs from Nixpkgs aren't going to be highly-idiomatic. You can install two different versions of coreutils, but one of them is still always going to be first on your PATH. So, if you want to specify the version in each command like this, you'll have to override the expressions to write a version number into the name of each binary. (But, yes, they're both on your PATH. If by "easily" you mean you could run `type -a` and pick the correct full path for each and then run them in a pipeline like this--yes.)

I guess you could also build the path of each into an environment variable, or maybe create a wrapper for each with the version name included.

Second: This is an awkward example because people rarely use multiple versions of coreutils concurrently, so there's just one version at a time in a current version of Nixpkgs.

It'd be easy to put more than one python or ruby or postgresql in the same expression--things people are more likely to need (and thus multiple recent versions are all available at once)--but you'll (probably) have to work a little harder to do something like coreutils. (i.e., copy in a complete expression for each, or pull each version from two different commits in Nixpkgs.

Nix makes it fairly simple to override an existing expression to change something like the version/commit used, but it breaks down if there are substantive changes in what's required to build them. Given the nearly 4 years between the early 2010 release of 8.3 and the late 2013 release of 8.22, I'd be surprised if they'll build with the same expression.
I don't want to have to ban you again, but if you keep posting flamewar and/or ideological-battle comments to HN we're going to have to. Would you please use HN as intended?

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The first year and then it would be factored in.
Would this use the [[]] linking or the standard markdown syntax? See example below. Edit: Also, what benefit does linking give?

[link text](/another-page)

vs

[[another-page]]
What would be "factored in," to what?
Related the 408 just had its test flight!

https://txtav.com/en/newsroom/2020/05/first-cessna-skycourie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_408_SkyCourier