skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can say this but no nation as a whole has the balls. That's the power of fighting off an invasion from a rich country. I can lose ten for each one of yours and you will lose hope first.

To say nothing of the fact that the first American soldier who dies to stop climate change will cause, by his death, the crucifixion of your "liberal tree huggers". Your internal politics will fracture and break you. You are too weak for this.

And if you're European, your populace doesn't have the appetite to use guns and bombs to stop climate change anyway.
Energia
Therapy.
I was secretly hoping the author would end up with an average second hand car of let’s say 10k and donate 70k to non profit orgs that would let’s say plant more trees.
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I really like OP's idea of giving lifetime annual grants to a lot of promising individuals to use it towards whatever they want. Since they are federally funded, all their work should be eventually open sourced and patents expiring after X years. Universities and private companies can then compete to provide grad students/employees to these individuals in exchange for a fee or other revenue sharing arrangements.

Not only can you save all the time writing grants, it can lead to interesting outcomes like individuals with grants banding together to collaborate on large projects.

I don't know how to setup a repeatable process to identify such individuals though.
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I wonder if the justice department would go after somebody who overtook Donald Trump or other high profile official. They might make the case based off national security as the legal rational. But, otherwise I do agree with your point.
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Here's a screencap of Philip Kaplan's newsletter from 2017 where he claims a friend at Instagram helped him get @DistroKid, which was registered but inactive:

https://i.imgur.com/9mNY7lJ.png
Once you accept human nature for what it is, etiquette makes sense.

Truthfully, to not accept the scientific findings on the human animal (social, not always rationally, powerfully influenced by appearances, emotion, etc, you know — human) is irrational.

Lol which doesn’t make it any easier sometimes ;).

My two cents.
I doubt the low level customer service is a cushy FAANG job. Probably all contractors as well.
Aka punched in the face.
You might be interested in the Slate Star Codex review: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...
This was at a company with a very large number of employees in the Seattle area. I’m including my 401k+match (which may not be completely fair because that’s what we have instead of pensions since SS is so paltry) and signing bonus.
Wow that's ironic and thanks!
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Deutsche Bank suspected of facilitating funds to ISIS in Iraq
Fascism != libertarianism

It mystifies me how /pol ideology gets called libertarian. I remember when words meant things.
University entrance: The ‘taboo’ about who doesn’t go
I know him. He's the poster on here, not just the tweet.
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I am a big proponent of public spaces, and I definitely agree we should expand them, make them more accessible, and publicize and fund them better... so I agree with most of your comment. But still, I don't agree that "Without the mythology being railed against in this article, we wouldn't have the dedicated librarian staff that make the system work". This only slows the death of the system, it doesn't fix it. Maybe if it was completely gone we would see more clearly how necessary it is. But in the current state, and except in some big cities like the example you cite, the system doesn't work. I think there's too much symbolism, the "book" is a symbol with too much weight for culture, and defending that symbolism (this is the kind of culture I see from librarians most often, though that might also be mediatized), only distances the debate from the really important issues. Sometimes that's accidentally obviated by those that are too close to the problem, but I really believe we are lacking truly conscious debate in this area. The most important institution is not the library, it is the public space. I think this is a more sensible way to frame and try to communicate the problem.
> because the best people at playing the etiquette game are the ones you shouldn't trust.

Evidence?

This assumes that “the etiquette game” is fundamentally untrustworthy, unimportant, or trivial.
They do? I have tried that in Gmail but it seems some domains are whitelisted so you can't mark them as spam.
Sure, sometimes you do get an obviously easy pick.

But what I'm talking about are the amateur snuff clips where a small group of men armed to their teeth and dressed in camo stand in front of tied, bound and kneeling young men, the latter of which are then executed, one by one. And it's only later you learn that the young men were serial war criminals and rapists who not only committed the acts themselves but forced their victims to commit them on their own families, before feeding them a hand-grenade brunch.

For us it's disgusting and horrifying. For the societies where it happened that's evidence of justice having been carried out.

And the worst of it? If material like that was filmed on a Hollywood studio lot, you'd give it PG, or "15" at best. After all, what's not to like in a some good old-fashioned vigilantism?
The lower-level jobs aren't as "cushy"; I don't see an engineer doing this but I can definitely see a junior in a lower-level customer service or similar administrative role do this.
I guess I missed the xenophobia and racism in his twitter feed. That wouldn’t surprise me however I’m just not sure what you are referring to specifically.
Not libc. The stack probe was inserted by the compiler when compiling the vDSO (part of the kernel, but mapped into user processes) with certain ricer^Whardening flags enabled.
I'd love to have APL or K on a small calculator like the HP-15c just for the cool factor. With an SD card slot it would make for a really cool portable programming computer.
There’s something from Facebook/WhatsApp coming out in November
Right, but I never heard of a risk of shortage. Though I may be out of the loop. Is it expected to be an issue in the future?
This never made sense because people are different.

Plenty of awesome people with valuable skills would be unable to do half of those things.
I lost my Insta account a year ago. I have explored all possible ways to fix it. Really all. Was working on it for six months. But Facebook didn't provide any real way to restore the access. Even though I had my phone number verified before. If you don't have good connections or can make a social media storm, it is impossible to get the account back.

But it occurred I was authentic enough to remove my account. Not to regain access but to delete it - yes. Which I did.

It is one of many moments during last year's Facebook gave me the cringy feeling I am not a valuable product for them
You could try saying to yourself every time you feel yourself starting to spiral.

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
> "What makes people homeless is police tearing down illegal houses, not poverty"

This is a very good point, and i never see it mentioned - people will generally create their own housing out of whatever they have avaliable. These take the forms of refugee camps and slums, but they can and sometimes do evolve to something respectable over time - after all thats how housing began at the dawn of civilisation.

Now if the person's right to create his own shelter and solve his own problem has been taken away, then a substitute must be provided.

Every now and then we get people who make a mudhut or a tree house

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7826923/amp/Man-fights-live-inside-self-built-tree-house-council-bans-bushfire-risk.html
Also an interesting study compared what people bought who didn't buy meat, as vegetarian diet tends to be cheaper too. This brought the carbon difference to within 2%. I can't find it but think it was from Swedish researchers.
It seems bashtop is being deprecated in favour of a python based program for ease of maintenance and it actually uses less cpu. Makes sense if it's doing a lot of work in bash.
My favorite threads are debates like this on science aspects of global warming other issues as well as ask/showme's. I think it's good to have a decent mix of tech before political, but a few sprinkled posts that are more scientific leaning or to spark debate from the people with a lot of the power to enact change via business/tech is def. beneficial.
I'd assume there would be bots or just someone trying to sign up with that username by random chance, so they didn't want to leave the username available for a moment.

I'd assume there is a proper, transactional (as in database transactions) way to swap usernames like that but the person who did this most likely didn't have access to it (for good reason) and just did an email change + password reset on the original account.
> This isn't a crazy outcome and it matches up well with traditional property laws.

It isn't a crazy outcome in the context of current IP law. I personally think it's an outrageous outcome and shows a clear weakness of that state of law.
You can look at the present day as a loud echo of the end of the Cold War. Today's "hinge" is in large measure the culmination of Putin's revanchist asymmetrical war on the West. If he fails to get his man in America, and if Europe contains the nationalism in Hungary and Poland and passes a "European Magnitsky Act" in response to the poisoning of Navalny, we will see the end of the Putin era, and eventually see Russia join Europe.

Or will see the power center of the West shift to Europe, and a more powerful, and expansionist Russia threaten peace in Europe.
I do have a domain but I don't want to enter my private IP addresses on a public DNS. Hence I just have server.internal to point to the correct IP address on my local DNS server and have service1.server.com, service2.server.com, etc. all just CNAME to server.internal.
I suppose that does alleviate my concerns.
The Four Types of IT Work
I see a lot of comments on HN the last few years that just assume the dynamic vs static debate was settled at some time. It never ended. Static typing merely became trendy because dynamic typing was the trend for many years (Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript). Like all fashion, things that are trendy will once again become untrendy, and the cycle repeats.

With that said, it's important to note that type inference is not new. I was doing type inference with Scheme nearly 20 years ago. I believe the reason it never took off in a serious way is because it combines all the downsides of dynamic typing with the downsides of static typing. Types are meant to document code. Without the annotations, you can't look at code and know what is going on. Which, ironically, is the complaint against dynamic typing. In addition to that, you get the pain in the ass of having the compiler always complaining. And because it's inferring types, the error messages are towers of baffling nonsense. It's the worse of both worlds.

One thing that never comes up in these discussions is the idea that creating good types is a skill itself. Much like naming variables, if you don't design your types correctly, your entire code base suffers. It's much easier in a dynamically typed code base to "nudge" the data in a certain direction than in a static type system where all types are locked down at initial design time. In addition, certain type systems are much harder to master than others. I've worked with dozens of TypeScript developers and not a single one really knew what they were doing. They were appeasing the compiler and little more than that. There are also plenty of footguns in TypeScript that even TypeScript experts continually forget. I could continue on the weakening of the value of TS (via "any" and "ts-ignore", etc.) and how these completely muddy any sort of metrics one may have on deciding whether types are "worth it" or not (or the fact that such metrics do not, in fact, exist). But that's enough ranting for one day.
You can also supplement with iron slag cement and silica fume from iron and silicon production, respectively. Those are probably not going away.
Yeah, same here in DC. But, at least here, you rarely refer to the building that way. Mail will be the numerical street address, not building name. In casual discussion, we'd likely say "I live on the 2000 block of Constitution Ave" instead of "I live the Yuppiemont Building" (Watergate and similar high profile boilings being the exception).
You just confirmed my point.

Android app stores other than google play aren’t remotely on a level playing field with the Play store.
I think it's like money, more makes you linearly happier but only up to a certain point, after which the curve flattens.
I’m curious, is the ‘true’ sum types, I mean where true is in quotes, based on the premise that lazy language can not have logically true sum types? Or is it in the quotes for some other reason?
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Understood. Sorry for the confusion.

RE: PPPoE - in general most AAA systems already work with PPP and since ISPs generally have to support legacy infrastructure too, and multiple access technologies, they "force" all users to connect with PPPoE for billing and data collection for identification.

For example, a national ISP in my country uses PPP for xDSL (which is a dedicated medium) and GPON (which is a shared medium, however the authorization and speed limiting is done by the ONT S/N), none of which "need it". You can also mix GPON and DSL logins and it will work, even between users.

The only logical reason for this, from what I can see, is that they are forced to sell access to their infrastructure (being an ILEC) to other ISPs, so they use PPP to route traffic from users of other ISPs from the BRAS to the corresponding network gateway using a MPLS tunnel.

For business fiber, not based on xPON, there is no requirement for a PPP session, and instead you get assigned an IP address range that you router should use, and the fiber is connected with a SFP+ module to your router. On the ISP's side, your "port" is limited to accessing their intranet for management and remote control, and your assigned IP address range.
Speak for yourself. You might accept them, but I do not. Not being on Facebook has its problem in a society that is mostly on it, but it is possible.
In the general public I routinely see claims that we have until 2030 to save the planet!

Are there really science papers claiming worse?

Meanwhile the IPCC worst-case scenario is that world GDP in 2100 will be 8.2% lower with a +3.7°C temperature increase, compared to the aspirational +1.5°C increase.
I think if you understand the job creep, or like yourself if you understand the role they can play in democracy and free speech, the relevance will be understood. A surface level 'why do I need libraries I can just google', which I (possibly wrongly) assume many people have, might cause the questioning.

Then again, often when municipal libraries are threatened in some way, there does seem to be an earnest community outpouring of support for them. Perhaps the understanding and appreciation is there, but just quiet.
Every time I sneeze while I'm chewing, I'm reminded there is no god.
Have a viable exit plan from working life. You don't always get to choose when you can no longer work.
I run both Postgresql and Oracle databases and Postgresql gives me no trouble whatsoever. It just works. I learnt as I went along and never had any trouble.

I keep a copy via streaming replication and do daily backups.
Keep in mind that etiquette is highly subjective and culture-specific. As English speakers a lot of ours is derived from traditional British customs, even if you’re not a native of a former colony.

For instance, saying “excuse me” before you barge in front of someone to get something off the shelf at a shop. I’m American, so that is obvious. I live in Estonia, and here you either 1) stand awkwardly and wait for them to move because you don’t want to interact with them or 2) just shove in front of them and grab what you want and leave.

The first time I took my then girlfriend to the UK she did that and the woman she dove in front of looked at me like “WTF?”. I apologized and then had to explain to my girlfriend that that isn’t acceptable in English-based countries. She was genuinely confused and asked how she should do it instead. Even though she speaks English fluently, there is only so much you learn from Cartoon Network (I kid you not, many have learned English that way) and YouTube. She wasn’t trying to be rude, she just genuinely had no idea it was coming off that way.

The same also applies to standing in lines, getting on and off public transit, and many other things.

Edit: oh, and table manners. My $diety, the table manners... I don’t expect you to be able to set a formal place setting (though I can), but we aren’t animals, you should know how to use a napkin, not to double dip your chips, etc.
This is called "fractional sterilization" and while interesting for historical reasons is probably not something you really want to have to do.
> The fact that a house needs to be pressure tested seems insane.

What's the alternative, building intentionally leaky houses? Better to be able to control the leaks to your benefit, aka active ventilation.

> Sure you can leave the windows open, but that defeats the purpose.

Actually the purpose of wind-ows is to let the wind in - no pun, that's the actually etymology of the word,
(also in Spanish: ventana originally meant "for venting").

Even in an old air-leaky house if you don't open your windows, the ventilation is happening through your walls, using them as an air filter which they were not designed to be, and in the process pulling moisture through them, which can cause all kid of bad stuff to grow in them. You shouldn't rely on such passive depressurization for ventilation, as it depends totally on pressure differences between indoors and outdoors.

> Most modern houses need air condition or at least ventilation systems, because they need to be so energy efficient, that there is no other way to get fresh air in.

There absolutely are ways to get fresh air in and dirty air out, including the following:

- Exhaust ventilation systems (i.e. whole home extractor fans)

- Balanced ventilation systems

- Energy/Heat Recovery Ventilation systems.

The poorly ventilated houses you are referring to were built between the 80s and 90s - yes they have ventilation issues. I know this because I own such a house and have fixed the ventilation issues with solutions from the list above.

Today in most areas, some form of mechanical ventilation is required by code on new construction, and has been for 15 or so years.
I suspect a lot of the rise is fueled by autocorrupt on smartphones. It changes every damn time on iPhone, and it takes effort to get it with no apostrophe.
You don't own stuff that you post on the cloud the cloud is just somebody else's computer
There certainly is if you're talking about knowing the difference between lanes, or between an elevated section or the surface street below, or any number of other things that affect the speed designation of the roadway.
Or, even more annoyingly, when you Google something and the first result is the exact problem you have, with the answer being someone pointing out that the solution can easily be found by googling...

People like you seem to forget that not only the question-asker profits from an answer, but future people as wel...
I'm all for that: the approach of paying them not to do it, either with tech or money (pure dollars or carbon-taxing imports and your local production or anything like that).
And a significant portion of that ends up being spent trying to convert people, instead of helping them.

I took up my own 10% donation practice despite having left the baptist church because my leaving was a matter of principle, not a way of getting out of social responsibility. But let me tell you: having seen how that money gets used when it goes to the church, at least in the evangelical sphere, it is laughable to put it in the same category as real charities that actually work to improve real people's lives.

Every expenditure, every event, even the stuff that might otherwise fall under actual charity, all of it was to the end of converting people. All of it. They would talk about this explicitly: the primary purpose of painting that school, or handing out food to those disaster victims, was all about getting attention so people would become Christians. All of it. It was manipulative and shameful. That is not charity, much less "effective" charity.
On the same day, there was also a rocket launch explosion: https://whataday.info/e/2958951
It links to this article with a graph showing that Brazil and South Africa have some of the worst income mobility in the world: https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat...

I live in Colombia and was in Brazil recently. They're both amazing countries with great people. Go to a comuna or favela and you'll quickly see that it's incredibly difficult for lower income people in these countries to climb into a different social class.
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I've often pondered this. Might be going out on a limb here but tech workers aren't typically the sorts of people espousing the tenets of Fascism. Why is it that the companies they work for invariably end up leaning that way?

I don't believe this is something inherent in Capitalism either. If I had an issue with any other kind of business the experience would be vastly different.
There are ways to do it. Sometimes you just need the tech to exist and you just need to drive down the price. Subsidies to build solar have done a great job in that respect.

It's just not enough until it becomes crazy cheap, though. You have to be way better than fossil fuels to match up because of their advantages.

And no one has the power for global subjugation. No single group of currently allied nations has that power. So that's a safe thing. It simply can't happen. I doubt America could even subjugate Mexico, which is next door.
Those instructions don't strike at the root. What you should do is remove the motd entries in /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/sshd
Meditation (!)
I have seen this happen firsthand on several occasions at several companies, and it’s a well documented risk vector. You see it for things like username takeovers, and also ad account reactivations.

Typically it is not the people with cushy jobs, but those working for vendor companies (moderation, customer support, etc) who have little investment in the company, are barely making minimum wage, and are more than happy to flip a few switches in the dashboard for a few thousand (or less).
I understand its not exactly proof, but its the best I could do lol.