skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reporters literally can't believe it when founders making piles of money say that they started their companies to make the world better. The situation seems made for mockery.

To be fair a lot of startup origin stories are so ridiculously fake that they seem like they could have only been created as a mockery of earnestness. Like the founders know they're lying, they know everyone else knows they're lying, and they're just doing it anyway as a weird flex or whatever.

Say what you will about Bezos, but at least he was honest that he just put every CPG product into a spreadsheet and discovered that books had by far the best unit economics and flywheel potential, rather than making up some bullshit backstory story about childhood literacy or whatever.
>>> But we've had disk quotas before that mostly worked?

AWS has quotas on everything, including quotas on EBS storage per region.

You will realize that after you spin up some instances with disks and it's failing because you've hit 10 TB of EBS storage. Have to raise a ticket to raise the limit.
RustCrypto: cryptographic algorithms written in pure Rust
> Do we really believe it’s not possible for a politician to be addressing the problem of “improving people’s lives” via the intermediate aim of “gaining political power”?

In my limited understanding the writers of the US Constitution held exactly this belief: that the government would be run by imperfect and self-interested actors. They introduced mechanisms like separation of powers to play them off against each other to the benefit of the governed. It seems as we've moved from that focus on outcomes to judging people based on the purity of their motives.
The intersection of centos users and IBM customers is likely quite small.

Even the tech teams inside large organizations aren’t IBM’s customer.
Cheap quickly discoverable mistakes that actually get fixed are a fantastic way to learn - about the tech, about the market, about software in general, about yourself.

One cheap, but mostly invisible mistake that lingers isn't a problem... but they can pile up.
Show HN: A pen-first virtual environment for thought/collaboration
This has been brought up before and the answer was for enterprise customers. It allows other ways to login based on your account.
List of fugitives from justice who disappeared
Yes. RedHat bought the CentOS brand afew years ago
What service is dark mode the default on?
An Unconventional Introduction to International Relations
I would be suspicious of running essential business operations on a free version of a product the company also sells licenses for: I’d always be wondering if they’re going to change strategy on me.
Post starts with a non-question followed by a question mark?

This map is a map of the USA. Underground electrical service is extremely rare in rural areas of the USA. We have these things called utility poles. And we use them.

On what planet do GPON prisms cost more than switches? The whole reason it got popular was that it was even cheaper than active optical. Here's a 32-way prism for $14: https://www.fs.com/products/11528.html . That's under $0.50/customer. You pay a bit more for the weatherproof enclosure for it that mounts on a pole.

Frankly, GPON is for losers. 144-count ADSS is so cheap now it's stupid to build GPON/EPON/BPON these days. Most of central Washington State (Grant County) has a dedicated strand of fiber to each household -- it's future-proof. Just do it. GPON is a scam by large telcos who are afraid that unless they have the whole neighborhood sharing something (i.e. a fiber) they'll be forced to let each customer choose a different provider for that customer's strand. I predict that we will see stupid telcos keep rolling out GPON even after it becomes way more expensive than dedicated dark fiber. It's greed and bamboozlement.

Bamboozlers gonna bamboozle.
That's not quite true and/or not a difference from countries with VAT:

1. Dealers (who are buying cars for resale) do not pay sales tax on cars. When you sell a used car to a dealer, the dealer doesn't pay sales tax on it. When you sell a used car to an auto recycler / scrapyard, they don't pay sales tax. If you know of any states that are exceptions, I'd love to learn what those are.

2. A quick Google search (by no means comprehensive, so I could be wrong) suggests that most countries with VAT also charge a land transfer tax.
I think it's interesting that PG seems to so often focus on the whole "nerd" thing.

Maybe it was just a happy accident of my adolescence, but the whole "nerd" stereotype never seemed to apply to anyone or be used against them.

People were singled out for other reasons, but academics or interests along those lines was never one of them.
I'm upvoting you because I think you make a fair and well-thought-out argument. With that said, there's certainly a hand-waviness to "soft" fields like gender studies or ethnomusicology (I took classes in both, just out of curiosity).

And no matter how much you think Derrida or Focault contributed to philosophy, I would argue it pales in comparison to their Analytic contemporaries (Godel, Lewis, Anscombe, Moore, etc.). I was extremely skeptical of philosophers like Nietzsche and after a couple of semesters, I definitely appreciated the Continentals a bit more -- but not enough to take him (and his ilk) as seriously as I take the aforementioned. The problem lies with falsifiability: it's too easy to claim one just doesn't "get" whiteness, or critical theory, or what-have-you.

PG studied philosophy, often talking about it in a very positive light, so the claim that he doesn't see value in humanities is -- apologies -- bogus.
>I wonder why the CentOS people agreed to this and did not walk away.

Cynical answer of money aside, someone else mentioned the project was running into resource issues so they may have chosen RedHat over a slow inevitable death.
>> Still, a lot of people start out programming with complex IDEs and end up being unable to run their code without the "play" button of their IDE.

Yep. Another thing I hate is IDEs that build their own project files that tie you to them. A good IDE works with standard tooling, not as a replacement.
The rules for wa/ga are much simpler and easier to internalize.
Perfect English is difficult, but that's the case for nearly all native speakers too. English is nothing but fluid and fault tolerant though, useful communication still happens even with quite broken English.
The most frustrating part of Linux for me is all the damn mental CPU cycle I have to spend keeping up with the naming and positioning of the various distros. Often it borders on drama.

The other day I commented that I took my Pinebook Pro off the toy shelf and loaded up Manjaro. I commented on HN about how much I liked the user experience. The first reply I got was something about the drama with some dude named Phil. Alternatively I’ll put my head down for a while and forget about the lineage of the various options and then something will crop up about this or that distro is going away, being repositioned or whatnot.

Why does this matter? Because I want to use it for real work and I don’t want to spend time planning a long term OS strategy. There are other things to worry about. I’m far from alone in this. That’s why folks reach for Mac OS and Windows.

Downvote away, but I really do want to love Linux. I just don’t want it to be so hard to love.
This is in harmony with job advice I give to my sons.
Fully disagree. Making a living doing what I find truly interesting is perhaps one of the greatest blessings to me in life. One of the better ways to do that is to turn it into a business, or at least a nice self-employment gig.
Next step they’ll stop publishing the RPM spec files or change the license on them.

Edit: why the downvotes.
Well, Norway collaborated with the nazis and sympathised for some of their ideas at the time, for example Norway had been experimenting with eugenics programs since the 20s when they started to sterilise mentally hill patients and made it legal in 1934.

But the king of Norway and members of the army escaped to London and directed the resistance from there.

Ask the Jews that owned the houses and nursing homes that were confiscated for the Lebensborn project and the kids that survived it (not many), what they think about it.

Others had it worse doesn't mean they escaped the war and its consequences.

If the eastern block is where you draw the line, you could argue that many parts of Europe escaped the war.

But it would be historically false.
About powershell's verbosity: My pandemic project is yet another pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell, marcel: https://marceltheshell.org. It's "home" is Linux, not Windows.

Marcel is also somewhat verbose. It exposes Python functions on the command line, so when you need to write such a function, it starts getting long. E.g. if you want to sort files by last time modified:

ls | sort (f: f.mtime)

There are abstraction mechanisms to help deal with this. E.g. this defines a command to sort piped-in files by time.

bytime = [sort (f: f.mtime)]

So you can then do this:

ls | bytime

Still kind of wordy. I'm thinking about a way of having flags expand to filters. That would get things as compact as bash.
“Prepaid BTC” isn’t very useful when it’s so volatile. You buy a $100 prepaid card and tomorrow it’s worth $50. Sure, the amount of BTC would be the same, but it’s buying power would change too much too rapidly.
> Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project

That seems about as auspicious as one could reasonably expect. Awesome news.
I hope I don't end-up having to switch my servers to Ubuntu. yum/dnf is just so much easier than apt-get.
that's not a hack?! :)
The anti-virus industry created the EICAR tame virus for this purpose.
https://www.eicar.org/?page_id=3950
its mean to match, not be evil, and be in a separate category.

so maybe we need an EICAR for PII?
Beaked Whales are fascinating creatures that most people don't even know exist. I'm not even remotely surprised that a new species would be discovered, given the little that humans know about even the more common species' range and behavior. I was lucky enough to see a group of probable beaked whales on a cruise off the Pacific coast several years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaked_whale
Klarna plans to tell credit agencies if repayments fail
In the end, your are gonna write regex either way :D
yeah for people just wanting to do work and not have the os be the hobby it is trying at times.
That's not a bad idea. You could set it up to delete all Lambdas (assuming you've got a CI/CD system capable of redeploying them quickly later) if the billing goes over. Of course, this may hurt you more because of the outage it would cause. Up to you really.
Just this, always.

https://www.theonion.com/any-idiot-could-have-come-up-with-t...
A comprehensive list of Rust cryptography libraries:

https://blog.logrocket.com/rust-cryptography-libraries-a-com...
Title: "Here's the mathematical proof".

Article: "While there is no mathematical proof [...]"

Can we stop with the clickbait titles?

You don't arrive at a mathematical proof just by saying the words mathematical proof.
> he just typed in a chain of academic words he thought represented useless academic research, and then told himself these "tee-hee postmodern bogus."

Yep. That rubs me the wrong way too.

One characteristic of truly earnest people is that they're non-judgemental and open to new ideas and experiences. If one can get past the boilerplate, there's some really cool ideas in postmodernism. I think PG is being the opposite of earnest in that pithy, incurious takedown.
Church and Community
Hello!

Temin is a tool I built for myself that acts as a virtual environment for sticky notes, graphics and virtual screens (running Chromium). Technically it's two tools, as the HTML5-based drawing app is separate from the virtual environment. I use Temin mostly for big picture thinking, making stories and planning.

I built it when I was having trouble getting a grand vision of the future out of my head (standard 'future of computing' fare). In the real world I kept running out wall space before I ran out of ideas, and for whatever reason all the digital tools I tried weren't working for me.

I find adding/exploring/editing thoughts a pleasant experience in Temin. I'm not sure why, I have some pet theories that writing by hand in environments that are low on typeset words and clinically straight lines and boxes is a big part of it, but who knows. Outside of the articles that crop up on HN from time to time on the benefits of handwriting[0][1][2][3] I have nothing to back any of that up.

95% of the time I use a Microsoft Surface to input stuff into Temin and place the stuff I made using a desktop PC, but the I/O you can use is pretty flexible. I developed it as a desktop app, but as Unity can export to WebGL I spent some time recently getting a browser based version semi-working. The desktop build is embarrassing, the WebGL build doubly so, but it kind of works.

Switching between FPS, CAD/nolcip and pseudo-2D mouse mode isn't very intuitive. In fact, the whole UI/UX is bad.

Due 99% to my poor coding (the way the client and drawing app checks for updates is ridiculous) and 1% being on a $8 p/m hosting plan if this post gets more than a little interest it'll revert to a less feature rich version where you can't add/edit new sticky notes. Or maybe it'll just fall over. Who knows, Temin is the first piece of software I've developed.

I'd like to see if there's a market for Temin beyond myself and a couple of friends, but I don't really know what I'm doing so any thoughts would be appreciated.

I guess I'll just start rooting around LinkedIn and Twitter next week and reach out to any organisations/individuals who I think might be interested in it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519008

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714990

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031483

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8760392
It's around $80k, plus computer and travel

https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/budget/
I don't think that's unintentional either. All my targeted ads lately have been for VPNs, and anecdotally every single one has made a huge deal about the dangers of roaming the internet when not "protected" by a VPN. Every single one of my non-tech friends who has asked about security and privacy has had similar misconceptions too.
Have you ever read a codebase that accomplishes very little, yet has a million layers of abstraction? With classes like `MainApplicationBeanInjectionFactoryBuilder`?

I think the scathing point was that much can be written about nothing, and one way to obscure your content is to use language such as "hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness".
Just use Ubuntu
Tor doesn't automatically turn your connection into an exit node when you connect to it.
Aaron's comment: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
"Here's the mathematical proof"

Read the blogpost

I was deceived! :P

But on a serious note, it took two seconds for me to turn back on light mode. No thank you, GitHub.
Yes! Definitely agree -- I just wanted an easy way to quantify what I was seeing and contrast ratios are simple enough to understand and discuss
Almost as good as the ole classic dropbox comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
AFAIK even the dynamic parts are translating whole code pages rather than emulating them.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/rosetta-2-translation/
why not using only the password?
I think you have too much optimism regarding the value of people's earnest expressions. Children are children and so their earnestness is cute and endearing (in most instances)--adults are far less charming and far more petty, self-indulgent, spineless, fickle, fearful.

Social media is a cesspool largely due to all this earnestness. Fear of retribution and shame is helpful in mitigating the self-absorption embedded in most people. We'd all like to think there's something special in all of us and that the world will benefit from the light of our creativity if it was set free. Truth be told, very few people are capable of much past mimicking and repeating what already exists.

People should appreciate the template of conformity that allows them to find a place in the world and not let advertising, that often leverages the idea of uniqueness to sell things, diminish the value of their mediocrity. No, given the proper "freedom" to be "earnest" you wouldn't be the next Picasso or Steve Jobs. We know because if that's who you were, that's who you'd be. Some people seem to find success in art and innovation operating in the same repressive environment, so maybe the environment is not the problem. Maybe earnestness just isn't your thing and fear/conformity is the better strategy.

*grammar edits
To be fair there's a ton of hand-waviness on HN about the hot new web framework MongoDB xyz thing. It's not that different, IMHO : ).

> PG studied philosophy, often talking about it in a very positive light, so the claim that he doesn't see value in humanities is -- apologies -- bogus.

True but with the Analytic / Continental divide in philosophy you still get a lot of folks on the Analytic side of things who think that anything not quantifiable in the way that they are used to is bunk.

Also I'll just throw out, in terms of impact, Baudrillard's work kinda hits the nail on the head when it comes to the internet. You can't quantify the impact of literature or more qualitative philosophy as easily, and, one can only know as time goes on.

I'm not the first to say this, obviously. Baudrillard's quote seems scary-accurate of today:

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory.”
Any sane IDE 'find usage' is miles above your simple grep: just try that on any sypbol with a name common enough, and compare the results...
Some people take lifetimes, even multiple reincarnations to come to the conclusion that they are buyers, not sellers. Some people are born marketers and are very good at persuasion, hyperbole, and other tools to sell a product/service.

Others are natural consumers: they develop tastes and grow to be rabid shoppers. It's good to sit in the middle of these two opposites, but often better to decide which extreme you want.

I know I've made the decision too late in life, when I wasted a vast portion of it trying to sell some product/service/idea when really I just wanted the latest Porsche!
> It would mean a catastrophic interruption to the customers application exactly when its the most popular/active. And theres no practical way to determine whether the customer is “trying it out” or running a key part of their business on any particular resource.

This could be ameliorated by using namespacing techniques to separate prod from dev resources. For example, GCP uses projects to namespace your resources. And you can delete everything in a project in one operation that is impossible to fail by just shutting down the project (no "you can't delete x, because y references it" messages).

Aggressive billing alerts and events, that delete services when thresholds are met, could be used only in the development namespace. That way, fun little projects can be shut down and prod traffic can be free to use a bit more billing when it needs to.
Great point, thanks for the perspective
I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
Never heard about xonsh, it looks really cool. Seems like a step in the good direction (from python to shell). It needs a few steps more to attain the elegant perfection of the shell language, for example, removing this "type" stuff from the variables ;)
I’m honestly surprised they don’t just make RHEL free and take the CentOS market for themselves. Gate the current RHEL specific features behind support contracts and call it a day. Why make your customers have to migrate to pay you?
>The Linux man pages are upside down. Examples don't come till the very end, if at all.

You only learn the tool once. Every subsequent time you visit the man page, the information you're probably looking for is frontloaded. Just scroll to the bottom if you want examples?
Really well said, thank you for your comment.

I'm sympathetic to the "we survived worse we'll survive this too" but it certainly is quite novel in many ways. I don't want to be cliche at this point but I'm sure the Roman Empire thought they'd survived worse too.

I don't consider myself one of the "scared of AI" people but I do approach it with caution. Even if "AI" doesn't gain some power, there's no doubt that using technology some _humans_ have gained _enormous_ power over others that hasn't historically been possible, even for the most vicious of tyrants. History has also demonstrated that some people can be really nasty when controlling others.

By no means am I saying FB, Twitter, etc are controlling tyrants. The idea that people don't do well with power seems relevant though.
The IBM bean counters have spoken and Red Hat is to be squeezed of every last drop of revenue. I bet they are demanding Red Hat employees apply for patents for everything they are working on too.
Doesn’t the expansion of the universe explain this? I don’t understand the paradox.
The guy who came up with the tool used to help decipher is not a major in any of these fields.

Moreover, this kind of puzzle is generally done by hobbyists, while some of them are scientists, it is not the scientific approach that guides them.

The investigators have most probably followed the puzzle hobbyist trail considering the time and resources that have been used for the investigation...
Exactly! Whoever said humanities academics have a monopoly on obscurantism?
And CloudLinux is doing the same, https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-communit...

edit: RockyLinux and CloudLinux are joining forces,
https://www.reddit.com/r/RockyLinux/comments/kanvwb/cloudlin...
Personally I love the Guthub dark mode settings. I really like the background to be near total black, and they got a nice balance from my perspective of what I find really enjoyable.

I say kudos to GitHub. I wonder how much they may have gleaned from telemetry with VSCode and user settings there. That’s a wealth of information for this type of decision.
I agree. Engineers are under educated. This is not going to improve.

Poor and middle class kids don't have the luxury to soak up as much education as they feel like before choosing a topic they are interested in. That is a privilege reserved for the wealthy.

We go to schools that are pragmatic, teach us some basics, and the get us out the door to do cog work.

Look at all of the comments you have drawn. Let me spell it out for you: your expectations are too high.

Society is not designed to create compiler engineers you can hire fresh out of school. It is churning out bright scrappy people who are hungry for class mobility, a decent standard of living, and an interesting job to smash their brain against.

Maybe look for one of those instead of expecting a perfect candidate to drop out if the sky. You have a cool as hell project so I'm sure you could find a brilliant person willing to learn.
Your wish has been granted: awk '{ print $2 }' can be replaced by 'cut -f2'. And all of the commands are part of the set of POSIX command-line utilities having been included on Unix systems since basically forever, with awk (the one true awk) having been introduced only in 1983 or so.
Open Source and Business: needs strict rules – here is my manifesto
A literary man creates new meaning out of words.
You can do this in the shell by combining tools in new ways.
You can not do this easily with an IDE, it only has a predefined meaning.
Using an IDE is not literature but transcription.