skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, didn't mean to promote grub, which sure has its own issues.

If the boot-loader is meant to decrypt the root fs however, it won't be trivial and GRUB might be the best bet. At least it isn't listening on network ports ...
I think the risk-to-reward ratio is pretty low for having an illegal automatic weapon. It takes a lot of trigger discipline even for average trained soldiers to not to quickly waste most of their ammo with fully automatic weapons.

Then again, just because it's not smart doesn't mean people don't do it.
"Are you around for a call" tells me that you have something to discuss that you think shouldn't be discussed over IM. In practice, it means something deeply confidential (usually related to HR or legal).

"Are you there" means you're an intern or, worse, a full timer who hasn't figured out how to properly communicate yet who has some random question for me that you probably think is urgent but probably isn't.
You're already in one of the best communities there is: Hacker News. Don't underestimate what you can learn just by carefully reading the threads here.

I went from "idea in my dorm room" to interviewing and hiring executives in their 40s and 50s within 24 months. The best lesson I learned is that there are way fewer "rules" than you think, and smart, disciplined, focused entrepreneurs can accomplish way more than they assume. It's reasonable to reflect on your inexperience in order to prevent mistakes, but you should never feel intimidated by it, or let other people intimidate you. The world (and YC's portfolio) is full of "inexperienced" people like you who have built billion dollar companies that disrupted industries and became pillars of the economy.

If you post contact information in your profile, I'm sure at least a few people with relevant experience would reach out and offer to be a resource for more specific advice. I've done that a few times here with mostly successful results.
I don't mind manure, but pesticides and other chemicals could be nasty. Also farmland is monocrop desert in USA
Fun fact ... "VisualAge for Java was implemented in Smalltalk and the Team facility used ENVY/Developer under the hood" [1]. Of course eventually that product and team morphed into Eclipse.

I was lucky enough to play as small part as a college-age intern working at an Object Technology International [2] Lab in Sydney.

I soaked in the pair programming, watching the screen flash by. I read every book they gave me (e.g. The Toyota Way, this was before XP / Agile books existed). I was amazed they actually paid me to work on these problems. I was so proud to make contributions and still remember fondly the hand-drawn diagram of the architecture passed down like a relic through the team. I am still inspired by their passion and commitment to delivery.

I definitely would not be the person I am today without the career defining experience working for Adrian Cho [3] and Dave Thomas [4] during that time. Periods like that are rare in a career - grab them if you can!

1 - https://paulhammant.com/2017/09/01/smalltalk-envy/
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Technology_Internationa...
3 - https://www.adriancho.com/
4 - https://www.davethomas.net/
I’m so tired of seeing these posts. Private people can criticize whatever they want about Facebook and the crappy things they do. Commenting isn’t some “illegal activity” when it’s critical of legal activity.. Legality isn’t the ultimate shield against, guess what, criticism.
One could also argue that it's utterly rude and disrespectful to the other persons' time to just type "hi".
Value types and Loom (lightweight threads) are two things that will shape Java in profound ways for years to come.

2-4 years for value types seems quite long but the changes to the spec to accommodate value type is much more broader in scope so that’s understandable.
They were deluded by their political puppet masters into thinking they were actually showing up to defend the constitution by intimidating corrupt politicians who knew they were corrupt.

They didn't bring guns because their goal wasn't to overthrow the government.
In Bay Area, every time approaches to our three busy airports are changed there is a lot of bellyaching, mostly from rich areas like Saratoga and Woodside. Usually summarized by "Why don't you fly over those places were poor people live?"

Made worse because well off areas tend to be in the hills, and so planes are lower over the ground.
Remaining open source but banning the user who leaks the source code from the repository could work too, no? (the RedHat way).

So as a user, you can start some work based on the insider version and be confident that you will be able to release your work even if the insider version never goes public for some reason, instead of relying on a promise that the code will be released in an open source license.
The former I agree with. The latter I've always interpreted to mean the former.

I guess this is where our experiences diverge. I've never encountered what you described with the latter; it's always been someone who followed up with a call.
Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
You are correct but there's an interesting question here with ramifications worth thinking through. Would we stick to this view if 90% of the world's population used it instead of the current 34%? Is there any % at which we might question your three statements? And if selected, why that figure? Seems odd that one person, a single smart lucky entrepreneur, would continue to be the moral arbiter for postings by its users irrespective of any view taken by democratically-elected governments anywhere. Of course one trusts that soon, alternatives will arise and allow those who want to, to jump ship.
1. Due to network effects, there's an argument that some types of online services are natural monopolies [0], and should be regulated the way we do for electricity, water, etc. There are reasonable arguments against such regulation (in any domain); but it's potentially within the purview of the state to set "rules of the road" for the market, which in this context could mean digital due process, algorithmic transparency, interoperability, etc.

2. While I don't disregard Barry Goldwater's argument against the Civil Rights Act [1], the fact is that right now we do actively interfere in the marketplace to mandate transactions not be constrained by "protected categories": race/gender/creed/etc. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to proactively extend this protection to include political alignments or even epistemic opinions.

(One of the things I find most curious about CRA, is that while most of its categories are "immutable characteristics", one's faith is more a matter of choice than genetics. If I claimed my religion was "I worship $POLITICAL_PARTY", would it then be protected? What is the scope of what defines a "faith"? In a neighboring FB banning instance [2], Lincoln Cannon even describes how his inciting post advocating decentralization derives from his Mormon beliefs.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/19/archives/text-of-goldwate...

[2] https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/01/facebook-disabled-my-...
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I know. It’s not that software engineering can’t support organizations like those. It’s by the time it is possible to articulate a request for proposals, the distinguishing feature is relationships more than competence because there is not a shortage of competence at the scale the organizations operate. The “service market” is almost certainly liquid.
At Laguna Seca, the limits come down with every passing year. There are very few 'unlimited' days (think: major race series), the number of limited days goes up, the dB limits for the limited days come down.

If you want a laugh, do a Google Image search for "laguna pipes", to see the elaborate contraptions people bolt to the back of their track cars to redirect exhaust noise away from the sound meter to keep them from blowing sound.

I've never had an issue, as the car I track is quiet and stock. But plenty of stock vehicles made in the past few decades are well past the limits already, and I feel the frustration of those who used to have a "legal" car, but keep getting tripped up by the lowering and lowering of sound limits.

Overall, I simply cannot fathom those who are annoyed by the sound of the track. It's on a HUGE expanse of land. The complainers must be many hilltops away. I don't doubt the sound carries for many miles, but it's very much "background noise I choose to be angered by and whine about" versus actual nuisance.
> What’s missing is not some omniscient decentralized master system, but a standard framework to rapidly conduct data negotiations between private parties and systems.

What is the difference? You seem to be recommending a protocol (maybe with some level of human involvement) between two centralized systems. OK now that sounds more like federation than decentralization, but still, there's not much of a distinction.
FWIW they also have a PDF: https://www.mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/Mighty-Earth-...

Or just check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill#Criticism
They already did, but I'm not into voiding my warranties.
Protests in Russia: Video of the Day
I guess I'm one of those people who don't get pocketknives, in the sense of whenever I am at home/office/restaurant/bar/cinema/friend's place, there is either no need for a knife or one is available around. Would you say my lifestyle doesn't require a pocket knife or am I missing on something. (It's a genuine question, I hope my writing doesn't carry any unintended negative tone).
And if it's anything like some other naïve bot detection algorithms I've seen, it might be viciously biased against non-English-speakers. To the extent of, say, labelling anyone primarily using Arabic or Cyrillic alphabets as a bot.
I found some of the 'sizing' snippets in the example came across as disingenuous: if you KNOW the size of the file, mmap it initially using that without the looping overhead. And you presumably know how much memory you have on a given system.
The description (at least as how I read the article) implies bolt is a truly naive implementation of a key/value DB
Is the book worth reading?
Perhaps a part 2 would dive a bit deeper into os caching and hardware (SSDs, their interfaces etc)
If you would like some advice I am more than happy to connect. I've written books on SaaS selling and SaaS customer success, and if nothing else know a lot of folks in the space.
Diet soda (aspartame) does nasty work to the brain. It's best to avoid totally.

Large observational study referenced in this article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-red-light-distri...

Some decent primary sources in this article, specifically interventional animal model studies:

https://ketodietapp.com/Blog/lchf/artificial-sweeteners-the-...

This interventional study was ended early on ethical grounds because the depression caused by diet soda was too severe:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8373935/
Show HN: Colorpedia – command-line tool for looking up colors
Btw, congratulations! my venture is also a saas digital only
Or maybe it was the content of his posts flagging the right ML features. At the scale of any large entity, you're going to get things that fall through the cracks because of human error or machine error. Unless the mistakes are happening all the time, how they're handled is more interesting than that they happened.
This isn't my first rodeo - can I scam you into a reverse mortgage?
What the Mysterious Color-Markings on Storm Drains Have to Do with Rachel Carson
Wow, this is really inspiring! As a college student under lockdown, building something like this would be my dream. I have so many questions: How do you manage to juggle the responsibilities of school and running your business? What kind of technical expertise do you need? How did you find your idea and gain traction? Do you have employees?
Yeah good point... It depends on the role too, I think..

I tend to do in-depth technical work and as such I need to concentrate often. Basically this thing: https://imgur.com/xvNRKIT

I can imagine that if you're in a more collaborative role, this can be completely different.

And yes I hate it more when I'm on Busy. In our company the status seems to matter none at all.. Even when I'm on Do Not Disturb (one grade more than Busy) people tend to keep pinging when I don't answer.
i have been using a uniball eye pens for so long now..... the only thing the tip gets destroyed if impacted
It's not really the Ship of Theseus. The question OP was referring to is about the self and the continuity of consciousness specifically. Derek Parfit first proposed it in his book Reasons and Persons.[1][2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_Persons
Absolutely - standardisation is the path to ubiquity. From the screw thread to the accidental standard (ISA) of the IBM PC.

It removes many of the barriers to competition and reduces the risk of large players creating monopolies.

I think it’s fair to say that much of what we see in tech is deliberately engineered to avoid standardisation in order to protect competitive advantage.

Wired did an interesting article on standardisation years ago.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wired.com/2002/01/standar...
I was lucky to see and work with this IDE in a real project, long after it stopped "existing". The company had code written using Visual Age, and it needed to be ported out of it. Wasn't too bad, considering how old it was.

Now I look at VS Code (Disclaimer: I haven't looked at the source code of Electron), and there doesn't seem to be much innovation visually. Most IDEs seem to follow the layout of websites - a left sidebar, a main section, and an optional right sidebar, with a footer.

Note: If someone here builds a different UI for IDEs, I will be an enthusiastic beta tester.

Behind the user interfaces, a lot of things have changed for the better. Integration with other tools in the DevOps pipeline, ability to test quickly, autocomplete tools that understand frameworks, technologies and even contexts - all that has happened behind the scenes.
I know someone who not only does this, but, even when I respond instantly, they often take minutes to respond.

The process can take minutes of standing-by, which is a hard interruption to whatever I was doing, before getting info that could've been in the first message.

Thus far, it's never seemed the right time to say something or paste nohello.net URL. :)

We used to have a related problem on technical IRC channels, and sometimes the channel title would include a message to newbies, like "don't ask whether you can ask a question; just ask the question".
For me, it was Google. You can make an obscene salary by any reasonable standard and not put in that much effort or stress, especially if you're smart.

I'm not in a phase of my life where that's what I want, so I'm currently at an intense research-focused co, but I half-joke about going back to Google to retire in a few years (esp once I have a family).
Ah interesting. If you get a chance could you share a link to the story about the skin update made by Tencent without consulting with Riot?

Also, what is CRP?
Thanks, yeah I discovered HN about a year ago and it is a wonderful source of entertainment and valuable information
Relate it to free energy minimization, that's very hot right now. Read Smolensky's 1986 article in PDP on the harmonium, it was the first restricted boltzmann machine.
The only reason people care about Facebook disabling their account is because Facebook has all the users and their data in its silo. In Mastodon, A disabling federation with B isn’t really the same sort of problem because it’s not a global action across the network.

What A defederating from B is like a website blocking your IP. Facebook banning an account is more like your ISP turning off your internet access.
ZuckFeedsBGone – Browser extension to spend less time on social media
I've wasted countless hours scrolling through the Facebook news feed (and Instagram) over the years, so I decided to make a browser extension that nips this activity in the bud. So far, it's been effective. I spend much less idle time on social media after the week or so I've had it installed.

Following Jame Clear's guidelines of "Start small" and "Make it easy", this extension simply gives you the option to remove certain elements of the Facebook and Instagram websites, for example, the Facebook news feed and stories; and the Instagram explore page and suggestions.

Hope it can help others too, feedback welcome!
Free, and open source.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zuckfeedsbgone/koo...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zuckfeedsbgon...
Eh. Most of the Red Hat projects people complain about are targeted mainly at desktops, as opposed to servers. And when it comes to desktops, Red Hat’s biggest competition isn’t Ubuntu or CentOS or whoever; it’s Microsoft. There are far, far more users using Windows, who might be convinced to switch to Red Hat if it works well, than there are users using other Linux distros, who might be convinced to buy support if the packages they share work poorly.
If the throughput of the network equals the throughput of your device, you'll never catch up if you go offline at all. At 90% capacity it will take you 10 hours to catch up for every hour you are behind. Taking long periods of catch up time for outages isn't acceptable. At 100x capacity most conventional equipment right now would fail to complete its initial synchronization before the participant gave up.

The security of the system comes from decenteralization, so its goals can't be reached if its only workable for the best funded 10% of the participants. Moreover, the operating cost of a node are only compensated fairly indirectly and are a public good (if everyone else runs an honest node, you don't gain from running your own). As a result, it's not sufficient to just be not-astronomical, it has to be fairly close to painless.

Node's ability to keep up is also only one part of the equation. Bitcoin's long term security is absolutely dependant on transaction fees paying for proof of work. With functionally limitless capacity the natural price of transactions is essentially zero-- as has been demonstrated by competing systems which have found that they can only fund security with inflation.

Most critically-- while you can make a fine argument that some moderate increases (more like 2x or 5x than 100x) are viable without too much increase in security risks-- those kinds of changes (heck, even 100x) don't categorically change the situation.

But we do have technology to categorically change the situation, tech that was thought of and made accordance for before Bitcoin was ever released and has always been part of the long term plans-- regardless of whatever lies motivated parties might want to tell you-- tech like lighthing adds essentially unlimited transaction throughput to Bitcoin because it doesn't require public broadcast for each and every transaction. I was talking to someone this morning who is doing a test sustaining 400 transactions per second.

> and that was the sentiment expressed by Satoshi any time he commented on it.

Sorry, that is just a flat out lie-- at I pointed out in a prior comment literally the last public statement Satoshi made on the matter of scalablity/resource usage was: "Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices."

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg289...

There is a long history of the position I'm presenting, going back to many of Bitcoin's earliest participants.
I am sure you meant it in good faith, but your link provides an appalling slander on the reputation of Dr. Wei Hock Soon, a solar physicist of good standing. The lurid claims that a coal company bribed him to produce results that were false and favourable to them is demonstrably untrue. In the interests of collegiality and civilised conversation, please retract it immediately.
Just over 15 years ago, I arrived late for my student orientation, realized I forgot a pen, and whispered to nearby students to borrow one. That’s when Pete passed me a G-2, and said “keep it”. I had no idea then, but quickly discovered: this was a Better Pen. Thank you Pete!
My point was in my original comment. Let me rephrase it to help you understand. Before cryptocurrency, all ledgers were stored in a central database where the admin of that DB could modify or delete anyone's currency. I assume you understand how cryptocurrency works, but to reiterate, the DB is distributed, and if anyone deletes a particular transaction on their server, they will be out of sync with the rest, and their copy rejected as invalid.

Some sort of distributed validation mechanism could conceivably be created which avoids any single point of control for a piece of content. And in fact you could use the BTC blockchain as a proof of concept - post a message with your transaction that gets encoded in the blockchain. It now becomes impossible to delete or modify. It is essentially uncensorable. You could delete it from your copy of the blockchain, but the real blockchain is the consensus of all nodes, not your particular copy.
This seems really neat! The diagram in [0] has a typo in the header though, and I'd argue it doesn't make sense to use a chloropleth on states without normalizing for population.

If this is something one can easily spin up, though, it'd be nice to be able to have this for congresspeople too; though I suspect a lot of their promises are "work towards proposing in committee [...]"...

[0]: https://trackbiden.com/promise/100-million-covid-vaccination...
An Ode to Restrictive Schemas
Would probably look a little less sharp...C-flat?
Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests
There's a happy medium, where you can give some indication about the nature of the request while recognizing that the person may not be available to tackle it right away:

Co-worker: Hi, AA. We have a client with a problem, and I could use your help to do X, Y, and Z. Are you available?

If you don't reply after a few minutes, it's clear that you're not available and they can seek help elsewhere with an on-the-clock or on-call resource.
Crap, I'm not the only one. A "Hi" conveys no actionable information. It's impossible to triage.

It's disrespectful of people's time, even though the sender thinks it's being polite.

The further I get in my career, the busier I get, and the more painful this becomes. Relentless prioritization is the only way to get the right shit done.

I need to choose and pick where my attention goes to, so please, just ask!
I'd laugh if it was an astroturf campaign sponsored by Monsanto, roundup smell is now enshrined in EU law!
I don't think you're disagreeing with the post you're replying to.
Here is a piece of actionable advice.

Join a supoort community in your area. You are looking for something for entrepeneurs in holland ideally. These usually have a price of admission like $300/yr but can be worth every cent

For example, ecommercefuel is fantastic for ecomm sites. Mastermind may have something to offer for your geography. Its going to boil down to reputation and how much you put in too.

You need a forum of entrepeneurs for people that are dealing with the same issues as you: payroll issues, VAT issues, engineering best practices, accounting advice, dealing with fraud, chargebacks, churn prevention, sales , banking contacts, brand registration and protection, outsourcing copy, and most importantly, advice on how to hire key staff

As you can see, its a lot. You need a whole village to figure that out. I am not sure whats out there for EU virtual "villages" for SaaS, but HN may be able to help.

From one entrepr3neur to other: if you dont have a crm already for sales leads, and your sales cycle is not self serviced, try the streak plugin for gsuite.

Good luck.