skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned Latin in a public high school in the 70's, took 3 years of it. The teacher taught us correct pronunciation as best he could. It was actually the most popular class in the whole school due to the quality of the teacher. Sadly I don't remember much now.
The Capitalist dream will occur and they will all lose their jobs.
Yes. You also may have missed the part where the author describes trawling through forum posts from decades past in an attempt to gather data on past hiring practices in addition to today's.

It's also possible (likely, even) for the time that a topic starts showing up in textbooks to be different from when it starts showing up in job interviews.
Totally disagree. If you have a job, whether public or private, you can be subject to exploitation, bad treatment, shitty salary, unreasonable demands etc. You have as much need of a union as anybody else. Especially since a state is more powerful than any company.

You are twisting logic in a crazy way here by suggesting anyone employed in the public sector is the government. The administration of the country and those doing it are very different from somebody being a public sector worker. A public sector worker has no more power over those running a country than you as a person employed in the private sector.

I think the most fair system would be if workers got to elect 50% of the board and shareholders the other 50%. That would mean both parties get equal say. It is the money of the shareholders but it is the workplace and life of the employees. It would also encourage cooperation towards the common good of the company.
A lot of people seem to think the difference between Deno and Node is trivial, but having actually used Deno, I think they're wrong. Here's why:

- Typescript as a first class citizen

- An actual `window` global with familiar browser APIs

- Sandboxing w/ permissions

- URL-based imports (no need for NPM)

- Bundling into self-contained binaries

- Things like top-level-await which Node.js still treats as experimental.

- Better-designed APIs than the Node standard lib (esp. when it comes to promises instead of callbacks)

To me, those aren't just minor details. This has the potential to create a new epoch in server-size JavaScript.
Accurately calculating the risk of a lifeguard job seems tough to me. It seems to me it’s a rather binary risk. You either don’t drown or you drown, but obviously the less probable of those outcomes is very serious. In other dangerous jobs, there is more of a gradient of danger.
Why so much taxes? On top of income and capital gains taxes...
Agreed. I once read a "science article" on whales. The article claimed "since whales are not humans, they cannot be lonely and therefore..." blah blah. I closed the article, immediately after I read that statement. Pretentiousness of humans is mind boggling.
I’m not surprised and about time. Churches are taken over by the GOP propaganda and used as a blunt weapon to spread lies and false information by the GOP to steal their votes.
I'd say that was a middle class person doing a working class job, depending on the details.
I think you're just confused.
I don't think it has to be this way. The move to hybrid and remote working can be a huge advantage for everyone, from parents who get to spend more time with their children instead of spending it fighting for seat on a train, to young adults who are less likely to find themselves priced out of the housing market by nessesity of living relatively close to work.

At the moment we are living the worst type of remote working. We can't have a once a month get together or pub session. We can't work from our parents house or even a co-working space because it happens to suit us that week. Lots of us have children and other family at home (or have had for some of this period) who wouldn't normally be around.
I think this is what I thought the Internet would be back in the early 2000s. Lots of sites operated by people who want to make useful stuff without having to report to someone else who doesn't even know he owns a share.
My problem with this perspective is that, sure, the bible had some teachings that could be considered an improvement at the time. But if it really is a divinely inspired text, the teachings wouldn't be just a slight improvement of the norms at the time, but would consistently teach equal standing of every person.

And considering we have the old testament which was full of, let's be honest here, barbaric teachings but apparently were appropriate for the time. You would think by now we would have the New Testament V.96 that would contain teachings that are relevant today, not forcing you to pick and choose just the good parts.
> Because increasing the demand for electricity more than necessary increases the cost to all of us––both the direct economic cost in our electricity bills and the environmental and societal costs. This is true whether the energy is renewable or not.

If my mining operation is completely disconnected from the grid, how will that have any impact on grid supply pricing? (not focused on the upfront capital or operational costs, just the mining energy itself)
Apparently it wasn’t that hard after all. HackerNews people are not shipping experts.
> There is a sense of community that (for the most part) only religion has been able to maintain in the information age.

Would it not be healthier to center that community around something real? It doesn't have to be something serious, but something real would be good.
Just create the branch locally for your incremental changes and then when you are done, connect the remote repository to initiate the PR.
>Most people however dont mind them at all and they practically do zero harm.

They don't do zero harm though. The git blame history gets thrashed. If I see the last change one line 15 of a file is associated with a commit titled `Enable TCP connection reuse`, I'm going to wonder what a change to a line throwing an unrelated exception has to do with that. This means I'll waste time investigating a red herring. If I need to see the blame to find out who to ask about the feature, I also get garbage direction.

The same preference for semantic commits applies to things like optimizations. Don't sneak in keep alive timeout changes in the same commit as `Add email notification support`. If a bug turns up on the email feature, I don't want to waste time potentially looking at the wrong thing.

> However, forcing people to split it into two commits likely means it wont ever get done.

That's not been my experience. They either get corrected at code review time on first release, or someone will make a semantically isolated commit for the fixes and include them in a future code review/pull request.

> Because who wants to go through previous commit files to check for typos in other peoples code. People wont, either they fix it as they are noticing them or not at all.

Not sure what point you're making here. You don't need to go through previous commits to see typos if they're still there in the current commit.
> This is only achievable by learning and training from a very young age and being a minimum gifted for it.

I passed lifeguard certification in my twenties. I am not a 'gifted' swimmer and the first time I got into water was when I was ~14 yrs.
Is this really the type of thing where an anonymous author can't have any credibility? It's an analysis of bitcoin and its energy use not a claim about personal experience.
There's something to be said for building the entire warehouse to support automation, versus trying to build a robot that can work in any warehouse.
> It's a cheap and easy way to reduce transmission rate

Calling them "easy" or "cheap" dismisses all the negatives. It's not cheap or easy for people who have to wear them 8+ hours a day at work.

There are now a set of children born into a world never having seen a strangers face. Plenty of data out there on how important seeing faces is to infant brain development.

It makes many activities a pain in the ass. For example I could never dream of wearing a mask while working out at a gym... I don't care what "the experts" say it is disgusting to even consider wearing a mask over my sweaty face. Experts who say it is is fine to do so are just gaslighting the public.

It also is just ugly to look at. It is a constant reminder to be afraid.

It was one thing if it was a few weeks. But this has been going on for almost 9 months now in many places.

Calling it "cheap" and "easy" just shrugs off and dismisses peoples feelings. It's a form of gaslighting, really. Gaslighting has been a constant thing for the entire duration of this. Anybody who expresses anything other than max-doom and max-panic is told in no uncertain terms they are crazy and need to shut up, stop thinking and blindly listen to the "experts".
And the aging of their experience matters. I mentioned upthread that I was trained as a merchant marine officer. However that was three decades ago and while a lot of my training will still apply, industry practices move on and a lot of the stuff I learned is long since outdated. A lot of times I start to type a reply to something relevant and have to smack myself into remembering that things are probably done differently in 2021 :-)
And that still isn't something that fits into the OSI model unless you ignore everything about the OSI model other than that it involves layers.
> Would you even be able to move food through this proposed canal safely?

Yes because that’s not how radiation works. It doesn’t transfer. In fact food is regularly irradiated.

It might not be good for the crews though, and the radiation would eventually flow out to sea and infect our food supply.
> The client needs to wait for the result of a DNS query before it can do anything else. The bandwidth is irrelevant, the problem is the delay.

You're right. But the article seems to claim the number of queries can be reduced with a higher TTL, which is why these should be enforced. Fair enough, but so what? In any case, the TTL is irrelevant for the first query. For the next ones, if you allow yourself to rely on the previous result (the "soft-invalidation" I mentioned, for lack of a better word), it shouldn't have any impact for the user.
It looks like the people that freed the ship yesterday were not that bad at estimating scale.
I use this with .bashrc aliases to quickly fire up the proxy:

# Temporary Firefox session commands.
alias socks-proxy="ssh -D 50000 -N me@some-server"
alias firefox-proxy="firefox -P \"Proxy\""

Then I open two terminals and run `socks-proxy` in the first and `firefox-proxy` in the second. The Firefox profile "Proxy" has to be configured to use the localhost:50000 SOCKS proxy on first run.

While we're here, I also have an alias that generates a random profile directory for Firefox in a temporary directory, to use websites that detect ad blockers:

alias firefox-throwaway="firefox -no-remote -profile $(mktemp -d)"
A lot of the creationist arguments stem from "irreducible complexity" or a misunderstanding of natural selection (the "eye just formed itself somehow"). Both of these things sound reasonable when explained in isolation to someone who grew up with religion, but natural selection is much stronger (light sensing cells benefit survival way before they're an entire eye) etc.

It's the 'watchmaker' argument - things must have come from a creator because nothing can ever just exist. This always ignores the natural follow up - who created god then? There is no good answer for this (and it just creates an infinite regress).

Religious steelmans are weird, because the arguments out front are not the real objections or even the real debate (which makes things confusing). The real debate is more about belief in belief, tribal affiliation, perceived morality, and identity. The arguments out front are mostly rationalizations to try and explain away contrary evidence.

Religious people are arguing from a position entirely driven by motivated reasoning. They're not trying to uncover the truth, they're trying to defend what they already know to be true.

You see this occasionally on the atheist side too (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4Bwr6s9dofvqPWakn/science-as...) the difference though, is the evidence is there if you care to look.

If there was real compelling evidence of supernatural behavior I'd change my mind, but whenever it's been claimed and tested - it's bullshit.
Neither side wants voter ID
Fraud is key all around
That was a trip from 2016.
Also lifeguards are viewed as an expense, who deliver no direct income to the city/county. A developer has his/her work translated into direct value to the company.
The people that freed the ship yesterday were apparently not bad at all at estimating scale.
Minorities , are shockingly, still human and not exempt from tribalism and racism themselves.

Dog whistles are a thing, and well documented. Your characterization of it as a way to say it's not a thing feels to me like white fragility. It's akin to saying sexual harassment isn't a thing and is used by women to paint men in a bad light, as long as it's not overt.
It's worth noting that, for a long time, it's been rare for a company to compensate employees for their home office (rent/house cost + heat + electricity + everything else). I find it unlikely that, when most people are suddenly working from home, they'll decide to pay for those same people extra to have an off-site office.
FWIW regarding your edit, I read your comment as faint and ironic praise. Specifically I had to laugh at, “ this is why they are so effective and so poorly thought out. I guess it's still better than "ideals" that nobody follows.”
Just like breaking segregation rules in the South was Illegal or for blacks and whites to marry during segregation in South Africa.

I agree that laws matter, but I think people get too hung up on laws at times and don't take into account the profound importance of civil disobedience to advance society forward and get rid of immoral and unethical laws.
If you want to deterministically shift load, you use routing, not DNS, to manage your load.

That’s what is missing from this discussion.
That does seem like a really good idea. If I make a protected branch that requires signed commits I really only care the signatures on the commits you'd see with `git log --first-parent`, as those are the ones by people I trust.
I think load balancing in that argument happens via “clients picks a random IP” and failover happens via “transparently try another if they can’t connect”.

So that would be both load balancing and failover, why doesn’t the argument hold up?
> why has the media never asked politicians to produce some kind of end state to restrictions?

Except perhaps for a brief period at the beginning of restrictions, every state imposing restrictions, at least that I am aware of, did so with a concrete set of milestones which governed step-down.
I very much doubt the pay scale is based on risk. Something not quite right about this... something in the water maybe.
You have to get tickets to get into Temple on the Jewish High Holy Days too. I know because I take my kids. It doesn't mean we are religious though. I just like to take them for the singing and to see the blowing of the ram's horn, fond memories I have from my own youth.
What kind of news publication costs several hundred K a year to subscribe to?
> There’s a good chance you’re totally disconnected from the programming scene.

That made me grin -- 'the programming scene'. What a club!
Your article hit home, very good read. Does your blog have an RSS-feed, or is there somewhere I can 'follow' you?
> They generally taught that you reached your faith through logic and exploration and doubt of faith until you hit the point where you realize you can't explain it all with logic

I'm fine with this... until they start proposing that the explanation for "you can't explain it all with logic" is "therefore there is an almighty God" rather than "therefore we don't how it works yet". At this point, my level of faith approaches zero (I sit somewhere along the lines of agnosticism or apatheism, depending on my mood) so you're losing me completely.
Exactly this. Humanity is reaching the point where we can truly transcend our biological limitations, yet many follow ideologies that tell them to not even consider this, and instead put their faith in some sort of magical after-death utopia obviously born our of generations of wishful thinking.
You misread. I did not make any conclusions in my post.

I do lean towards the opposite opinion. But I'm in no position to judge definitively whether the net effect has been positive or negative so far, I'd need to interview a sizeable and representative sample of women for that.

Responding to your points:

1) What's missing from this argument is how we get to this point. IMO, the reason public shaming was used by the movement as a way to achieve justice, is because from their point of view, there was no other way to achieve justice. It's a classic example of "taking matters into their own hands" because the system failed them. Public shaming isn't the end goal, it should be a wake-up call to restore faith in the system.

2) I don't feel like anything meaningful changed in how I interact with female coworkers since metoo. But I only have my own experience to go on, so I won't make any big claims here.

3) Even if this is true (citation needed), it seems irrelevant.
Barislx
Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (1996) [pdf]
Sure it will, about the time it takes students to get into interviewing roles.
Maybe the whole system of basing pay on supply and demand needs some serious adjustments based on the societal impact of a job?

It’s not that I’m unhappy with my cushy tech job and the life style that comes with it, but making literally 5x or 10x more than a nurse or a janitor and pretty much anyone who does essential and often backbreaking work is fundamentally unjust and cruel.
All your data is intercepted by the US government and shared with everyone they choose to.

There, now you can relax.
Federal employees are not regulated by the NLRA but rather the FSLMRS. The FSLMRS explicitly denies the right of all federal employees from striking or even discussing a strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_Labor-Manageme...
I disagree. In any tool some things are easier and others are harder. The easier ones will be done more often. We can parcel out blame between users and tools, or we can be more productive and work to improve both.

Git add -p reminds me of ed. And sure, you can technically write anything in ed. Still, there's a reason we improved on it.
I disagree. In fact I spent some time looking online and I think there are more technical discussion I've ever seen online. There is more open source code then ever before and most of that discussion happens in the open. Many of the biggest contributors have these discussions online. I simply haven't seen the discussions disappear from public view as you seem to. Maybe you just aren't looking hard enough to find them?
The reason fundamentalists are so appealing is because they at least try to maintain some level of consistency.

How does one know which parts of the bible to accept or which parts are metaphor and which parts are literal or which version of the bible to believe? At least the most literal interpretation always tries to be consistent.

What makes any interpretation better than scriptural literalism? Is it the fact that some happen to agree with current social trends? Seems like the source material is flawed and unnecessary in the first place.
I wrote an article about using SSH through websocket:

https://rumpelsepp.org/blog/ssh-through-websocket/

Further, with socat IP traffic can easily be tunneled (trough websocket :D):

https://rumpelsepp.org/blog/vpn-over-ssh/
That's Bay of Bengal, not Suez. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sujeeva-salwatura-49341a36_fa...
For proof of work the cost of the hardware is substantially irrelevant, it's eclipsed by energy costs after a month or two of operation.

POS proposals all have participatory floors. E.g. the ethereum proposal requires participants lock up about $60,000 worth of ethereum to participate.
Oh, definitely. Existing operations also absolutely can leverage that in order to amplify their reach and capabilities.
Ask HN: Anyone also seeing an increase in scams when raising funds?
I'm a co-founder of a startup and we already raised money a couple times - still seed stage. Recently we saw a sudden increase in scam artists approaching us. Of course this is a small sample but I wonder if other founders here are seeing the same pattern? Also I want to explain the scams so people are aware of them.

1 - The bitcoin Russian millionaire:

We were approached by two people telling us they represented an investor from Russia which was interested in our company and wanted to invest $1 million. We ended up meeting them in person and they told us who the investor was but we never got to talk to him directly. They said such investor made big money in bitcoin and was looking to invest in several companies. We did some online search and the information matched somehow. Next they wanted us to deposit 75k in a bitcoin wallet so they could use it as proof of collateral. By then we got wary of the whole situation, but because we met them physically and they seemed to know about our company, product and industry we thought it could be legit. They offered to setup a bitcoin wallet for us which of course we refused. We setup the wallet and send them a small transaction so they could identify us and see our balance for the 75k. Their next move was to say that our wallet was no good and it had to be setup in a specific app and then we knew it was a scam. I'm not 100% sure how they planned to steal our money. We think they might have hacked one of our phones before approaching us. They seemed to know what they were doing and looked like nice and educated people.

2 - Old school scam:

Through our network we were referred to an investor. He said typically he likes to lend money first to the company and later he comes in as an investor. We received the contract terms that looked pretty reasonable. Once we tried to move forward he started asking us to cover his "cost" first. Clearly a scam (not even a very elaborated one).

Anyone here have similar stories?
> I can't reproduce this from a core dump or via a debugger.

Because you don’t know how to debug. Time travel debugging does exactly this.
I don't think it's possible(or perhaps just practical) to be a politician in any system and not lie at least some of the time. Even if you had a democracy, there's a very good chance that the populous hasn't the faintest clue of what they're talking about, in which case the politician's next course of action is to allow their constituency to hang themselves or to deviate from their proximal wishes knowing later down the road they will be better off. Simpler than that, it's usually not that practical to inform a population on all the nitty gritty details behind legislation, in which case you will inevitably get embellishments for the sake of moving things along, rather than allowing things to get held up because the 80% majority fails to grasp the issues.
They were supposedly also squatting r/OPNSense, which is why the official subreddit is r/OPNsenseFirewall.

Just checked:

r/opnsense is a private community

The moderators of r/opnsense have set this community to private.
Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions.
> I have a pet theory that much of the conspiracy theory following we are seeing is actually a weakening of church

Except the vast majority of conspiracy theorists I know are devout Christians and the stats seem to tell a similar story.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-qanon-has-attracted...
Remote work is here to stay. Manhattan may never be the same