skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Reflecting on the arc of his career, Shannon confessed, “I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room. I was more motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together. Or what laws or rules govern a situation, or if there are theorems about what one can’t or can do. Mainly because I wanted to know myself.”

This is one insight about actual geniuses that shun the "classic" trappings of life that has always intrigued me. They are essentially coerced by their own neurology to aim for academic pursuits, because anything else cannot scratch that itch. Money and power are nice (and Johnny von Neumann loved his parties and loud music) but in the end it's just not that stimulating in comparison to hard abstract problems. Social relationships still have their draw as well, but you have to hit the knowledge-pipe regularly or face withdrawal.

For people of that caliber, living in pre-modern societies must have been equivalent to torture. For the rest of us, it would have been like watching paint dry for our entire lives. Sounds like sour grapes, but in a way I am grateful not to have to deal with all of this. Looking at von Neumann's example again, the fear of death still caused him to lash out irrationally and in the end even he could not escape the human condition.
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Can we talk about client-side certificates? (2020)
My somewhat heterodox political views and the criticisms they inform would be tangential at best. I don't agree that I'm smoothing over anything here. That said, I don't think it would be any less rational for someone to support Trump than support Biden. Assuming that all Trump supporters are somehow more irrational than others, that we could filter posts for rationality based upon proximity to Trump is troublesome.

People don't have to be less intelligent to be victims of media manipulations. Carlin, the American comedian was being glib.

I'm something of a news junkie. I observe the drama in the same way others might watch a daytime serial. From this view, I have to admire the craftsmanship that goes into spinning and developing media narratives, the way they expertly play upon the heart-strings of the masses. Often times the viewers are all too willing to indulge their outrage. Putting aside the concept of intelligence entirely, the masses who have little time or curiosity to observe the news in-depth, are poorly matched against the master propagandists. They've had decades to hone their craft.

As you say, you're concerned about the status of democracy in the US. Yet here comes the new narrative of domestic terrorism, buoyed by the same fears expressed in this thread. The masses are outraged. The image of Trump as a Hitler-like figure has been burned into their minds by repeated invocations of Godwin's law. After repeating this ad nauseam, Biden now proclaims that Trump is like Goebbels,

“You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge”

Even I have been called a Nazi for challenging what I see as irrational. Posters here have insisted that I check my privilege in regards to race. All of this without knowing my identity, race or experiences.

While I share your concern about civil society devolving, I see it as coming as a reaction to Trumpism. The intolerance is easy to see from where I stand, and I'm no fan of Trump. The comparison to ISIS is part and parcel of this intolerance. I find it somewhat ironic that you appeal to valuing democracy (I read that as civil society) while indulging the assumptions and fears I've outlined above.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/joe-biden-trump-jos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brgZSzmAA3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnA-ghhW_WI
I wish there were real high-quality Linux and Windows themes imitating Windows 3.x, 98 and XP (and some other old OSes perhaps) realistically, not just "kind of like that". I would even pay money for such if I were satisfied.

Ideally, they should also be easy to combine in different ways. E.g. I want Win3.11 pixel art icons, Win98 window&panel styles and WinXP non-antialiased fonts - these 3 things make me feel orgasmic.
Sure. If the question is "How did John Delorean start manufacturing snowcats?", then I completely butchered the quote.

If the question is "How did John Delorean get his start?" it seems to me like "at General Motors" is a better answer than "by buying LMC".
Good faith got us the 1/6 coup attempt. It's time we hold public figures to a higher standard. This is not the time to joke about violence against journalists.
The point still stands. If you're handling a thousand passengers per day, you will obviously have more efficient transfers options than if you're operating an oil rig doing occasional personnel transfers. It's not a serious objection.
I think you’re right that OSS is a customer requirement in many domains today. But I think the consequence isn’t that companies will open source despite the AWS threat — it’s that tremendously valuable software will never be built in the first place.
Such power may be used largely for good today with minimal false positives, but "the greater good" thinking is what drives most villains in fiction.

Governments using private companies to decide who deserves to die based on ML algorithms without judge or jury is morally reprehensible. Full stop.

They live in another country so they don't deserve the same rights we superior americans do, right?

This behavior only gets to continue to happen because of "we require secrecy to do our work" excuses which are code for "we know the public that indirectly funds us would not approve"

I grew up going on jobs stalking people with my private investigator father who mostly worked fraud cases for insurance companies. Public places, license plates, collecting evidence of an injured person walking just fine... then prosecutors can use that evidence in court where it belongs.

I am not saying this tech should not exist, or can't be used to serve justice in the right context. I am saying those with that kind of power must have maximum transparency and a high level of accountability.

I think the NSA does important work too, but power in secrecy is a breeding ground for "the greater good" thinking. It is so easy to overstep and do things like tap lines to Google datacenters to spy on private citizens with no evidence it has ever stopped a single terrorist attack.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, who took power? The one with the most access to signals intelligence. Now that country is a surveillance state dictatorship disguised as a democracy.

The US keeps trending this way too recently.

Who will be the Snowden of Palintir to give it the public scrutiny required to make sure their powers stay in reasonable bounds?

If a Palantir employee is reading this, maybe it could be you.
Sure, here you go -> https://remoteleaf.com
Just note that TimescaleDB is olap (columnar compression), scylladb is oltp with async-fsync and Postgresql is disk-fsync-on by default.
Launch is going to be one of the most inefficient parts of the burn, both due to the required impulse and also due to the thermal state change of the engines. I wouldn't be so quick to hand-wave this away.
We should also be informing and encouraging people about healthy practices which boost their natural immune system capabilities and overall health. I haven't heard many including this angle in the "how to deal with covid" strategies.
(disclaimer: I work at Materialize and I work with Differential regularly)

Differential dataflow lets you write code such that the resulting programs are incremental e.g. if you were computing the most retweeted tweet in all of twitter or something like that and 5 minutes later 1000 new tweets showed up it would only take work proportional to the 1000 new tweets to update the results. It wouldn't need to redo the computation across all tweets.

Unlike every other similar framework I know of, Differential can also do this for programs with loops / recursion which makes it more possible to write algorithms.

Beyond that, as you've noted it parallelizes work nicely.

I wrote a blog post that was meant to explain "what does Differential do" and "when it is or isn't useful" and give some concrete examples that might be helpful. https://materialize.com/life-in-differential-dataflow/
I couldn't care less about the insides, unless I'm doing a Back to the Future DeLorean replica. I care about the iconic exterior. As long as the shell is the same as the original, I'd pay the markup to buy one.
Yep, I remember that game well: switch to Hog Dog Stand, then see how long you can tolerate it before eyeball bleed forces you to revert.
Do you really think refusing business based on someone's race is the same as refusing business based on someone's violent rhetoric?
"Because you haven't yet punished all offenders, you can't punish any of them."

Am I getting your argument right?

Parler was the most gratuitous because:

1. They had a combination of very tight censorship of dissenting voices, and complete laissez-faire for violent and racist rhetoric as long as it was right wing.

2. It was used to organize a violent and very public revolution against the United States of America, which resulted in five deaths.

You almost certainly knew all these things already. The likely reason you are supporting Parler in this comment is because you agree with their political stance.
When I first started playing around with OS X the appearance section of the control panel seemed unfinished, and I naively hoped they would add more color options in a future update. Nope, just aqua or grey!

At the time I'd been using Internet Explorer for Mac and really wanted to see the color-configurable interface happen system-wide. I thought it made sense to let people set their interface colors to match the fruit of their iMac if they wanted, since you could do that in OS 8 and 9. Eventually the computers themselves lost color/individuality as well.
I don’t like how opinionated these articles are, both the announcement from Elasticsearch and AWS. I’d prefer a simple summary of changes and reasons for these changes, with as much objectivity (and as little blaming) as possible.
But do they really, in all cases?

Due to the market share of AWS for many potential customers it will come down to a decision between

a) click here in the aws marketplace and have my service added to the invoice my company gets every month anyway

b) start the painful process of onboarding a new vendor, get a quote, have procurement haggle with them for months etc etc etc. (overstating it a bit, I know)

And that is where to me it becomes a question of using/abusing your position in the market to a certain extent..
I read the oauth2 rfcs. they are not like that iso 8166 date standard that everybody thinks they use but few have shelled out $104 swiss to buy it.

The notorious problem w/ client side certs is that somebody has to verify who you are and sign your cert, you need to trust that signer to be both honest and competent. It will be contentious because it is a tollbooth that hits you for $10 or it will be like the turbo knerds who sign each other's certs at conferences; free as in beer perhaps but not inclusive.
Super impressed with your story and how much progress you've made. It sounds like you're constantly taking action, even though some might argue about the pivots or hops you've made.

I'm curious about a few things.

I'm most curious about the tactics you all used to find potential users and customers to talk to. Aside from using the YC network, were you going on LinkedIn and doing cold out reach?

Less important but how crappy/embarrassing were the MVPs you were showing people?
rqlite is mentioned here quite often, multiple times last year. I don't think this entry brings anything new.
A webcam upgrading from a 50 cent ISP (Image Signal Processor) to a $2.00 one and a $3 lens instead of a $2 one (numbers based on conjecture from the average selling price of a low-end USB webcam) doesn't mean you need to build in a battery, a cellular antenna, a Wi-Fi radio, a desktop-grade CPU and GPU, give it a sturdy all-glass design and add speakers to it.
RISC OS 3.11 (which was approximately contemporaneous) went a step further and allowed users to define the system palette LUT arbitrarily using the !Palette utility.

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos311#appearanc...
I’m not going to disagree with you on the usage of package managers. No only is it easier to install, but easier to maintain.

But, isn’t cgit basically read-only? If so, that doesn’t seem to be particularly risky. All of the main interactions with gitolite are through SSH, which I’d expect to be the main area of attack.
The most likely explanation for Amazon changing its approach is that the issue was taken over from risk-averse managers who hoped Parler would do the right thing by closure-hungry executives who were not willing to wait and were willing to risk a lawsuit and conservative backlash.

The more interesting question is why Parler were willing to risk being shut down in this way. I see two possibilities: either they did not have a realistic understanding of their situation, or they preferred to have Amazon pull the plug rather than being responsible for unpopular moderation of their users.
Nope, I am volunteering the trillion dollar market cap corporation to do that.
Have you looked at the API documentation or user guides? It seems like you've commented on marketing aspects without looking at the product itself.
Too bad that the article doesn't dive into what kind of transparency (if any) the Military allows entities to analyze such decisions to kill people. Anyone know any source?
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Or they have moved to the next level up and seen one size does not fit all?
Suppose a group of passengers started a violent revolution against the pilot, and killed a flight attendant. Would you say that the pilot was being reasonable to throw them off the flight?
> "other developers are pretty unwilling to learn that chain of they didn't grow up with it."

Funny, I've been running into this problem while trying to switch people to docker. Maybe we're all a bit guilty of this in our own way.
I harbor no illusions that my limited purchases are going to change the world, but I do try to stick to only buying locally (Europe, in my case) produced clothing, and I prefer non-synthetic materials, preferably organic if possible. I'm not fanatic about it, but I do prefer to know that some care was taken and that worker conditions are at least somewhat decent, and that my clothes didn't come from halfway around the globe for no reason.

Ideally I would get all my clothes from thrift stores, but I've only really had any luck with shirts. Pants in my size are rare as hen's teeth in thrift stores.

> "the clothes dryer has a similar impact on the lifespan of clothes that smoking does on people"

It's the combination of heat and agitation, especially if you let the dryer run until the clothes are completely bone dry. Look at how much fluff collects in the filter, that is fabric that has been beaten out of your clothes. With that sort of treatment, it's no wonder clothes start to look threadbare after a while.

If you're the camping/hiking/bushcraft type, dryer lint is absolutely amazing tinder, so at least it has some practical use :-)
Congrats on the release! This was one of the 'app ideas' hanging around in my notes that I hadn't gotten around to prototyping.
> > I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room.

Being a genius is a good thing, and also not having “ego” motivations is looked upon favorably. So this is like an egoless brag.

Also: look at what I managed to do indirectly/without even trying.
Nice hack! Congrats on the hug of death.
On the origins of money: Ancient hoards full of standardized bronze objects
A R package for adding Bernie Sandners to ggplot2
Yeah, unfortunately the JetBrains IDEs don't really work with this workflow yet. I'm hoping one day they will ...
Themeability doesn't rule out consistency. As long as all UIs use the system theme, they look consistent, no matter what that theme is. A good example of that was Windows XP and all the funny and atrocious themes you could put on it with WindowBlinds.
After watching a computer chronicles episode with win2 or win3 MS marketing employee pitching the new options.. it felt exactly like the most recent apple/android talks (grossly: custom backgrounds, colors).

My conclusion: whenever the core product is done, the company will sell you the 'make it your own' pitch, because that's the easiest path.
On the Windows side, isn't it a side-effect of the shift from standardized common controls to WPF that happened around the vista time-frame? It's much harder to provide consistent user theming against non-standard controls. Similarly, on the early web you could theme sites easily with your browser settings, but as theming power shifted to web developers with CSS, that capability melted away.
Well, now I have to ask an old boss if he called a rep, he didnt spend quite 100k+ but we did get a twenty grand single server from dell about half a decade back or more, and now I'm curious, I think it was about 20 grand, I don't think NVMe's were mainstream at the time, or anywhere damn near affordable. I suspect he did buy it directly off the site, as he has other hardware we'd have gotten (mainly workstations).

In a way you could say the ones not calling a rep are subsidizing your cost for the server.
I know nothing of consensus algorithms and distributed systems so bear with me please.

> rqlite uses Raft to achieve consensus across all the instances of the SQLite databases, ensuring that every change made to the system is made to a quorum of SQLite databases, or none at all.

What I understood from this sentence is that, if we have three instances, rqlite will make sure that every change is written to at least two. But what if two changes are written to two different pairs of instances? Then the three instances will have three different versions of the data. For example, change X is written to instances A and B, and change Y is written to B and C. Now A has X, B has X and Y, and C has Y only. How do you decide who is right?
Then I'll just say I'm surprised more shows don't do it.
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The x dotnet tool [1] is just used for publishing (+ downloading) your directory to a gist (and does things like handling binary files + directories + ignores build folders, etc), but you can manually create the Gist yourself from https://gist.github.com + all the language examples are gists you can access from https://gist.github.com/<gist-id>

But .NET 5 is also a quick & non-invasive install on macOS / Linux / Win https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0

[1] https://docs.servicestack.net/dotnet-tool
Congrats on the launch . Amazing work ,
> What you are presenting is the worldview of someone who is biased.

"This site we host was just used to plan a violent revolution. It's more trouble than it's worth, let's dump them."

Is this what you mean by "bias"?
>Looking back, I feel like this trend of less aesthetic configurability has diminished the sense of user ownership from the computer experience, part of the general trend of the death of “personal computing”.

This, and end of story. What's personalized today are things like the extensions for your browser and your Google account. OSs are becoming terminals.
Congrats on the launch . Amazing work
Unfortunately, that does not imply they are right.
The reference to Powerpoint caught me off guard too, if only because of how informal that is.

"Should we kill him?"

"I dunno, where's the slide deck? Are the slides convincing?"

...that just seems like an absolutely terrible way to decide between life and death.

I know that on the one hand we're just talking about a file format, and the data has to exchange hands somehow. But it bothers me that the same tool I use to convince my bosses to, say, pay for a monthly subscription, is also being used by someone else to convince their bosses to approve killing human beings.

Perhaps the reason this bugs me is it breaks the illusion of expertise and sophistication. It proves, once again, that people are just people, no matter what job functions they happen to have.

(Also: It raises certain questions. Like: Is a person more or less likely to be killed if their powerpoint deck is ugly? Does typography impact these decisions?)
You can back into the price from used gear.

Ebay has them for 3.2k and CDW new for 3.6.
I'm not convinced Assange is innocent of that, I don't think it should be a crime. A lot of Navalny's anti-corruption work involved hacking and "stealing" the emails of corrupt politicians. Do you have a problem with that, too? Manning's "theft" of secret files exposed crimes of the US government to the people.
For Pennsylvanians, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has a nice PDF listing native plants by type of site (sunny/dark, dry/most) and some notes for each plant (preferred soil type, if they're used by pollinators, etc.):

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/docum...
> This type of behavior is outside the acceptable norms of how political debate and civil discourse is meant to be carried out in our society.

What behavior do you consider inside the acceptable norms, and what behavior do you consider outside?
Have you tried only building / testing the services which have changed?

My daily work is around this, as the monorepo and build/test times grew to 8+ hours. We have been through several iterations on how to manage this back down to about an hour or two. Wondering what your experience has been there.
I think its more that laptop manufacturers don't care because no other OEM has made a selling point of it. Its a virtuous circle - some people care about a specific feature, some OEM makes it a selling point, more people start talking about it, OEM B calls an emergency meeting and asks for the feature to be in their new laptop line, they spend advertising $$ promoting it, more people get to know about it and ask for it, more OEMs start including it.
Nice article from Kim Mai
I think addressing this is the right idea at the wrong scale. The problem is information and media literacy more broadly. Think about who benefits from the general societal rejection of expertise and what that means for information and media literacy.
> We culturally don’t feel the same degree of responsibility trad engineers do.

True, but all incentives are aligned not to (sadly).
Have you tried Chicago 95?

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
My journey went like this:

I ran git in a container "like you're supposed to" with https access but I wanted better management than adding user access to apache.

So I decided to upgrade to gitea. It was a pretty involved installation but I finally got it going. I set up a gitea cotnainer and was able to use it for a while. But one day it stopped working and I had to spend a bunch of time diagnosing why mariadb wasn't coming up. I can't recall exactly what i did (something with ib_logfile) but i finally got it going.

And a few days later when checking on it, I noticed it was using a bunch of cpu time. Apparently it uses resources just sitting there idle, like 5% cpu.

In the end, I made a git container again. I just used SSH access and one user: git

# pacman -S git
# useradd -m -G wheel -s /usr/bin/git-shell git
# systemctl enable sshd

repos are in ~/git/foo.git and ~/git/bar.git, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for the hosts I give automated access to, password for others.

$ git clone git@gitmachine:git/foo.git

I liked the idea of git+https. And running gitea seemed like it would be like having my own git infrastructure!! But in my experience, git is easy with a minimal setup.