skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’d rather be doing if I didn’t have to work everyday.

For a while, then it would lose meaning.

I tried not working, it made me feel very empty inside. Human need goals. We aren't made to be idle for a long time.

I'll try to explain that better: "Fuck you" is when you refuse or sever a social connection. Don't do it too often. Because when you don't need any social connection, you have successfully create your gilded cage.

I've learned from my mistakes: Now I'm still retired but I work here and there, doing consulting or helping people, and learning biology.

It feels much better.
Perhaps in the resume/interview best to highlight outcomes (supported N users with 99.9% availability solo with $x a month spend) in favor of tech used. "Evaluated kubernetes and [tech du jour]" also gets the keywords in there.
Yes I should have added I bought a desk light which also helps the poor quality camera significantly!
Commercial products ignore critical bugs all the time. A bug being an impact to income is a relative thing for everyone, corporations to sole proprietors. As is response to your customers/community. Not everyone needs or at all provides stellar customer service.

Maintainers may have a degree of involvement necessitated by their business needs. However, the loudest people screaming for support are very rarely even the same niche as those funding a project. So ignore the whining; listen to the constructive bits if they're there. Delete messages en masse and move on with your life.
Different people that are not actually invested in this cause are not putting energy into the migrant children internment and won't. They move on to the controversy du jour.

It is unproductive to shoehorn that observation into this article as if this article, or author or poster or community as a representation of the "Broader political culture" contribute to that observation. If it did, I would agree with you, and I felt the need to check.
There was a bug in an older version of SQLite that CheckPoint was able to exploit. That bug has been fixed for a long time. It was fixed even before the referenced talk was given. They had to use an older version of SQLite in that talk so that the attack would work. The CheckPoint attack was a clever new idea, to be sure, and so more recent versions of SQLite have added new defenses to this kind of mischief, such that even if new bugs in SQLite are found, there will be defense in depth and attacks similar to the CheckPoint attack will still be unlikely. And yet for some reason, because we had that one bug, long ago, people keep saying that SQLite is "unsafe" years after the bug was fixed. Why is that?

See https://www.sqlite.org/security.html for tips on safely opening SQLite database files that have been tampered with by a hostile agent.
You could do a periodic reset / relaunch of the app so the demo starts from a clean slate after few hours / days.

I understand you sell support / hosted package. If you say you can't support a demo install, that would send a wrong message.
I can't imagine any amount of money being so great I couldn't spend it. I could buy islands, companies, maybe even build a city in the desert of Nevada and call it New Vegas.

And even if that wasn't enough, I could just gamble it on everything. Why not throw $100 billion into nuclear fusion research?

I'm confident I could spend the entire world GDP if I had it. I'm not saying I could do it well, but I sure as shit would have fun doing it.
Do you think he is saying Shakespeare or Wordsworth or any great novelist should have written in this style?
If you want to restrict Graham's argument to non-fiction, I'll happily grant you that.

But let me give you a bit more context:

As a Frenchman, when I think "Essay", my mind almost automatically reaches for two authors: Montaigne and Pascal (e.g. in his Pensées).

"Simple" is probably the last qualifier I would use to describe their works. They're not simple. They're complex, rich, beautiful, copiously quoting from classical authors and yet often crystal clear. They have the same quality poetry has where replacing a word by another damages the precision of the message and images conveyed.

That is also true of non-fiction prose in longer form. I shudder to think what could become of Tocqueville's writing style, a peculiar mix of classical and romantic, if it were translated into "simple" language.
You're probably not going to find a lot of sypmathy for this point of view.
> I think the article is talking about internal documentation rather that user-facing documentation.

I'm not sure why you have that impression, both of the exemplars are user-facing.
IIRC the email spec requires all characters to be ASCII.

Technically your email address isn't bob@[mailbox].kz, it's bob@xn--h78h.kz which your browser and possibly some mail clients will render as bob@[mailbox].kz. But xn--h78h@emojimail.com will always just display as xn--h78h@emojimail.com.

For the domain part, browsers and email providers have collectively agreed to render domains of the form xn-[stuff]-[stuff].[tld] according to the Punycode specification, but no such rendering exists for the username.
It seems as if 100% of your criticisms have to do with exactly the issue in this article: Nobody supports resource forks but MacOS. So yeah, working with resource forks on systems that don't support them sucks.

This is why I miss them, but understand that they're not used any more.
Yeah, I saw that too. Notice how that normally gets folks crucified here.
Given the cost of mainframe operations vs. cost of cloud, no, I can't imagine anyone adopting a mainframe. The mainframe is extremely expensive compared to say, AWS - especially if you're running AWS' auto-managed services. Let me put it this way - we're looking at a multi-year, $1 billion project and we're able to justify it. Keep in mind too that we're a regulated utility and the regulators agree with our analysis. Trust me, whatever your AWS bill is it's a pittance compared to what your IBM bill would be.
I just ordered some from a few sources, and hopefully one of them is good. Found one on Amazon, one on Etsy, and one from Bonanza. They're supposed to have great shelf life, so I guess they are well suited for e-commerce.

I felt like if I made them and didn't like them, I wouldn't know it was me screwing up the recipe or not.
Feels like part of the "hidden gems" tour. I live in Sweden for 8 years. I've been to an observatory and planetarium. I regularly visited Stockholm. I asked friends in arts. Nobody seems to know about this.

Kind of embarrassing to find out about the SSS from HN.
nasa astronaut Frank Culbertson sees Twin Towers collapse from space [video]
I once got stood up for a round of interviews — I showed up, waited, emailed them multiple times to let them know I was there, and then 30 minutes later they wrote to me to ask if I could come in another day (rather than meeting me at the front desk where I was sitting). At the time I was just annoyed that they had wasted my time, but in retrospect, the real red flag there was that no one took responsibility — “there was a scheduling conflict” was as much as I got. I went to the next interview but when I got a weird feeling about it, I withdrew from the process.

You can learn a lot about an org if you just watch how they treat you and each other. That’s the lesson I took from this article as well.
Perhaps there is a larger fight to fix the curriculum. In the mean time, the kids need to be somewhere that they can safely explore.
What is "far-left" about this article?
As a common trope in tech, it's at least as old as 1999. From Cryptonomicon:

The subject heading of Avi's first message is: "Guideline 1."
We look for places where the math is right. Meaning what? Meaning that
pop. is about to explode we can predict that just by looking at age
histogram and per capita income is about to take off the way it did in
Nippon, Taiwan, Singapore. Multiply those two things together and you get
the kind of exponential growth that should get us all into fuck you money
before we turn forty.

This is an allusion to a Randy/Avi conversation of two years ago
wherein Avi actually calculated a specific numerical value for "fuck you
money." It was not a fixed constant, however, but rather a cell in a
spreadsheet linked to any number of continually fluctuating economic
indicators. Sometimes when Avi is working at his computer he will leave the
spreadsheet running in a tiny window in the corner so that he can see the
current value of "fuck you money" at a glance.
That's interesting, never thought of it that way.

Upon ruminating on that concept, I think at the core, fuck you money and UBI are - I can express myself and nothing can financially ruin me or make me homeless.
ARIN makes you justify an ASN (you need to have at least two ASNs that will connect with you, making you multihomed). If you've got an ASN, you qualify for a minimum allocation, regardless of use. That's a /24 for v4 and a /48 for IPv6. Of course, ARIN doesn't have any /24s to assign, but you need to qualify to have them transferred when you find a seller.

There's otherways to qualify for an IPv6 delegation, but GP wants to be multihomed, at least a little.

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/
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It would be easy to dismiss this as an individual person’s reaction, but I think it speaks to a real problem.

It seems like the incentives are getting worse. Things like DeFi are moving money around, but is that finance actually enabling anything to be built that improves the world other than more financial instruments?

Right now it looks like the crypto space is capitalism at its most extremely negative. All the downsides - exponential increase in consumption of natural resources, money making money without adding value, wealth being accrued arbitrarily to those who happened to be in the right place and time, and seemingly none of the upsides - people being rewarded for solving human problems.
And there's no limit to what can be done with enough money.

Have, say, a billion or more to spend? Start your own damn space program.
Riding into a storm: why climate change is threatening pro cycling
At that point 45 was upper limit of my RHR. The lowest short time span value that I remember was 38. I just did not like it at all.

Curious if I get downvoted for this as well.
To those who are down-voting this comment, I submit this anecdote from my personal experience: https://twitter.com/jf/status/1364306091417296899
I agree that we should go further than just decriminalization. Heroin is extremely cheap (were it not for being illegal). Cities that provide safe spaces for its use (and clean needles) decrease health problems for its users (and thus for the population as a whole). We could also provide the heroin (reducing life-threatening fluctuations in quality and the incentive for petty crime).

The book focuses on arguing for one thing: decriminalization. I think it succeeds hands down.
Infracost: FOSS Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests
Because they want to limit the availability of instructions to hack their product for now?
whoops, got my culinary knowledge put in place.

1) yeap, confirmed that's it

2) this was in Sri Lanka, they did also have sambal that is closer to the one with onions done in Malasya/Indonesia but this one was with coconut and no onions, more dry than wet, just fine strands of what seems semi-dry coconut with spices (smashed chillis?) and they served it in many regular places along the dal tadka?

The idea I have is that it was called sambal as well but I might be wrong or be the tourist name? (and india is big and has many different types of different cuisines - one thing is common throughout though, vegetarian food is good and varied anywhere)

Well yes, I actually ate it many times (not for lack of other choices but it was a dish I enjoyed eating repeatedly). There's others I liked a lot but can't remember the names if I'm being honest. I know it when I taste them though ahah.

Thank you for correcting me, I have to go back and do a proper research and take notes of it.

> In some ways they are more nutritious

This is one of the things that I think separates vegetarian cuisine well done from others. You never feel like the dishes are lacking in taste, texture, or that you haven't got enough "food" to keep you well fed while still being usually light on the body.
Those don't use LZMA. For LZMA there is 7z, xz, and lzip.
> I do think that the genre needs updating to make new MUDs more accessible

I know what you're saying. Iron Realms MUDs are a good example of a MUD with modern conveniences.

But on the topic of a different sort of accessibility, you can play MUDs with a screen reader. I was playing http://www.balzhur.org/ (Spanish) two years ago and found out most of the people I was meeting in it were blind. Just using a stock screen reader to read out the game at incredible speed.

Aside, playing a MUD in the foreign language you're learning is a fun way to get daily drill. Especially once you try to engage socially ingame. Having someone depend on you in real time in the game really makes your brain gain levels quickly.
I would guess such writing in the humanities is exactly the sort of style he’s taking aim at.
Outside of financial bloggers, you can trace it back to at least the 1920s:

> Humphrey Bogart used to keep a $100 bill in his dresser drawer at all times—a decent chunk of change in the 1920s. He referred to it as his ‘fuck-you money’, because it meant he’d never be forced to take a crappy part. According to Bogie, the only good reason for making money was “so you can tell any son-of-a-bitch in the world to go to hell”.

Ten points for whoever spots the source of my quoted section.
I have noticed that 7-zip offers the best compression ratio out of the options you listed above when set for maximum compression. I personally am happy to hear this news.
Also, theres a lot of presumption, thinking you can rewrite a classic author just to fit your modern sensibilities.
> You assert that the Stock Market offers nothing.

I never said that, I said it was crap. Things that are crap can still offer things of value, they just do so in a crappy way. Global capitalism is a prime example of that.

I did say—in a different thread—that to a worker, the stock market offers nothing of value. I still stand by that. To a worker the shareholder-board of director relationship is such that it monopolizes job opportunities. The average worker has no choice but to hand over the fruit of their labor to shareholders and hope that their union will successfully negotiate a better wage—or worse hope they are allowed to unionize.

As to your example of the Dutch treasure ships, we don’t live in a Mercantile world any more. We now have insurance companies which offers insurance on ventures like these. And if the risk is to great, the Dutch traders could ask their government to insure them to a point (and in return pay higher parts of their profits in taxes).

There are more questions that arise when you bring this mercantile example to the modern setting: How are the Dutch traders the once that are making the millions off of this scheme? I would want to ask how much are the farmers growing and drying the spice making from this? Perhaps they deserve more. Perhaps the farmers should band together and use a more favorable distributor that offers them a fair share of the profits, rather then relying on these shady colonialists. Maybe the profits being made up in Holland shouldn’t be going there in the first place. Maybe we should standardize shipping such that distributors could rely on a global trade network, say by buying a container at a freight that departs from Bangkok and heads towards Rotterdam every 2 weeks. Then maybe the Dutch treasure ships won’t be needed at all, and their old unfair business model can rot along with their falling stock prices and their aging ships.
> UBI is how you make sure everyone has Fuck-You money

Erm no, it's probably only barely what you need to survive, nothing close to what people refer to as FU Money.
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Here I am thinking I have been using 7zip on Linux for years. So p7zip is a third-party port?
What a strange time for a company with lots of US customers to schedule a maintenance window.
> "Most readers' energy tends to flag part way through an article or essay."

> "When you write in a fancy way to impress people, you're making them do extra work just so you can seem cool."

> "So you can't assume that writing about a difficult topic means you can safely use difficult words."

I can't understand why someone writing about writing simply is using a word like "flag" that is completely jarring and never used colloquially. While you can sort of surmise what it means from the context, I still had to look up the definition to confirm. And if it might be meant as a way to naturally teach someone the word, why is that lesson buried in an essay about writing simply? I guess I'll chalk it up to him not realizing how obtuse that word is, couldn't think of anything simpler like "wane", "fall", or "recede", and didn't want to change up the structure of that sentence.

I just can't imagine how that irony got past any editor.
> Clever conspiracy seems less likely than sloppy stupidity

Oh come on, there is documented State representative meeting with NYT direction...
This is actually how lots of photographer artists operate. For instance it’s common for a piece to have 3 editions, and I don’t know of any cases where the artist just decided to produce extra copies after te original production, except for at cost to replace a damaged edition for a collector. It would be professional suicide to devalue work like that. The same goes for film, where a handful of editions may sell, and the collector essentially buys the right to display and loan the work in certain contexts.

That is nominally dealing with physical world realities, and the complex social norms at work through networks of galleries, museums, and collectors is a big part of what drives and maintains value and there’s really no reason that the title and provenance systems that work for photographic prints can’t work for digital art in the same way. In fact it has for a couple of decades already without NFTs.
I think he is talking about a lot more than essays and business writing. Beyond that, I can't say much. I do not know Paul Graham and haven't even read all of his essays. There are certainly people who don't like Shakespeare's style. I don't know if Graham is one of those people.

He could have written a slightly clunkier essay that allowed me to understand with greater detail the entire collection of types of writing that he is discussing. He didn't want to write that essay, which is of course fine.

To be clear, I'm not "for" or "against" any writing style for the same reason that I don't get into religious wars about programming languages. I think this is a good essay with some solid advice for many different types of writers. But it's also, ironically, an essay that can be used to demonstrate why one might sometimes choose to write a bit less simply. Or, to write simply (plain words and simple sentences) but without trying to "jump into the reader's brain without them noticing".

It's really the combination of "Write Simply" and "saltintesta" that I think deserved at least a bit of a "well, sure, but realize this approach can be a footgun".
>When you have more than you can spend, many things lose meaning.

'When He got to the tree, he looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, hurry down. Today is my day to be a guest in your home."'
My mom, who lives in Shanghai, orders 'nai pian' on taobao as one of her favorite snacks. Apparently it's yogurt chips (not yogurt balls) and it's very popular, and people generally think of it as being from Mongolia, but eat it like potato chips that happen to be keto.
> Can you suggest something that goes well with Cinnamon?

Sure! I have to admit is not a spice I use too much. (Brings back nostalgia of rice puddings etc). But it is quite an autumnal spice, so think of it like something that would go well with those flavours.

For example pork loins with apple can use a little clove or cinammon if you want to have it enhance the sweetness of the apple.

It also works well with nice autumn soups, butternut squash, pumpkin, carrot. All of those can have some cinammon and round the flavours of it.

It is also heavily used in some Indian dishes. Very flavourful sauces with gram masala, can again have cloves and/or cinammon added. I think it's quite varied the spices that different regions use but anything from butter chicken, to Korma to a more European style tikka masala can work with cinammon in certain combinations. But because the sauces are quite rich, you will notice it less.
We always had official posix 7zip (aka p7zip)[1] support for linux, is this a different version or a new release?

Edit: read the description, so it is a different port, any any apparent enhancements though?

[1]: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
You can technically wrap the promise and spin lock on it till it resolves. Aka forcibly wait on an async function in a sync function. There are some npm libraries that provide it. I've used a couple times (for some hacky scripts), though obviously don't use it in the browser.
I'm not sure I agree with the author about FU money not equaling FIRE money. I've always thought FU levels of money let you say FU at a level that could hurt your career, not at a level that could only hurt your job.

I've got a healthy savings account, but I couldn't say FU to my boss because I'm not sure how that would affect me getting another job.
One main thing will: Your fraud is public record.
I think early 286 chips didn't go up to 8MHz. The IBM RT PC (the ancestor of the 6000) was only introduced 2 years after the AT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC
Your mind is really gonna be blown when you learn about backups.
Oh, that cuts to the quick.
Had similar marathon 8 years ago and it is draining.

Now, being on the other side (hiring folks for a startup), I would argue that some of flags are a bit misleading. Examples:
“Undue pressure to accept an offer letter” - interviews are not free, companies are investing eng time into evaluating each candidate and once they find great one, they really want them to join. They also do not want to be part of a bidding war, so it is natural to impose limits (some folks do go overboard). Recency bias also tells us that if you sit on the offer for a long time and continue interviewing, chances of you accepting the first one are going down.
And something I learned only recently - offer stage is also part of the interview, it shows how 2 sides will be working together in the future.

“ Not enough clarity about your role” - normal for growing startups. I tell the candidates - here is what we do, pick something you like and run with it. Of course it is biased towards entrepreneurial types who thrive in uncertainty, but that is the state of many startups.

Mostly agree with other examples. One fun thought, they had 60 interviews. Assume some were 1 hour phone screens and some 1 + 5 hours virtual on sites. If we do 50:50, the industry spent 30 + 30 * 6 = 210 hours of eng time + debriefs, outreaches, negotiations, ... I think statistically, it is not in the interests of companies to participate in such marathons as ROI will be low.