skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content is not the problem, there's a ton of content out there (even more now that self publishing is so easy). Discovery and discoverability are both the big problem and where the industry has been - be it books or music.

This reminds me of indy musicians who are able to make a living by working with and for their relatively small groups of fans. It's the approach pushed by the Beatnik Turtle guys in a book 15 years ago (Indie Musician Survival Guide or something like that), but I know both published and unpublished authors who've done the same (notably a few books in Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden Universe, which was then picked up by Baen).
As the article notes, at least one box had the name and contact information of the owner on the top. It's not clear if they all were marked similarly, but that is one instance where there was no need for the FBI to open the box at all. They simply could've returned the locked box to its owner, as they had no legal authority to do anything else.
The single biggest thing keeping the root servers working is the very model this law would disrupt.

Indeed, you want ecosystem diversity. You don't want every operator of a pool of root servers doing everything the same way because if someone figures out how to disrupt those operations and if everyone is operating the same way then poof - they all fall down.

Top down planning/regulation has it's place, but it's hardly the solution - and brings zero value to this topic.

Indeed, in 40 years the model has worked just fine - surviving technical, political and legal challenges and no one was the wiser. There is zero in this law that would improve upon that record.
As with package managers, there seem to be half a dozen different, competing type checkers for Python now...
Ford and Toyota don’t belong in the same sentence when it comes to the quality of its vehicles.
Thanks for the tip!
Posting link here for the reference:
https://us.pycon.org/2021/summits/typing/

Hope they post the recordings somewhere later.
> Similarly where a language with first-class support for types might have `type Foo<T>`, Python makes you write `T = TypeVar("T"); class Foo(Generic[T])` or something like that, and it gets more confusing when you only want one of the methods to be generic and I can never remember whether that `T` takes on a single type across all uses or which scope I need to define it in, etc.

I don't know about you but I find PEP 484 very clear here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#scoping-rules-for-...
Boyd's stuff is really interesting but yeah, he doesn't provide quite as much of a unified theory of everything as a lot of the Pentagon people seem to think. imo one result of the over-bureaucratized nature of the US military is that ideas that would be considered fairly basic in other contexts are treated as incomparable advances there

[edit] which reminds me of the IDF/Deleuze thing - the grand insight they got from reading Difference & Repetition was that... they could blow holes in walls instead of going around them https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/art-war-deleuze-...
I assume they were planning on liquidating seized assets. They could sell the nests at auction.
Is 3D still a thing? It really wasn’t for me.
Personally love those huge wonky Ides not made for this, that some newbs use. Edit at memory Adress, thing triggers write commands constantly.
Like all good Army manuals this one has a training plan! It starts on Chapter 12.

Seriously though. The goal isn't to make every soldier an expert. At the most this will be discussed for a few hours in Basic Training, and units that are in the training phase of their cycle can spend a little time on it.

Basic training is the Hello World of military training. When Soldiers aren't deployed the spend about half of their work hours on training that is planned and executed at the company (~120 person) level. The Platoon Leader and Platoon Sergeant will most likely incorporate this into other activities. Other specialized training programs (SAPPER, Ranger, SF, ...) will use this document extensively as part of their training.
Unless you're really shaky I wouldn't think you'd need VR in a 50mm lens, especially with a D750 where you can push the iso quite aggressively without much impact.

You can get a 50mm f/1.8 for about £90 used, you can find the 50mm f/1.4 D for a similar price too.
I agree but with one caveat: If the difficult to integrate tool/library is open source, then one probably shouldn't ask likely already overworked maintainers for even more work. In those cases, one should probably be the change one wants to see by contributing the features, refactoring or documentation needed to ease integration.

If possible anyhow.
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I've believed for a bit of time now that the only real reason for the FED to pursue a 2% inflation goal (and I personally believe inflation is far higher than 2%) is to reduce the US's increasing debt burden over time.

If the debt were far lower and more manageable, inflation wouldn't be as necessary a goal as a mechanism to try and reduce its actual value over time.

As this article discusses a bit, inflation is a great way to rob the middle and lower class of value in a way that the upper class is more able to avoid (though not completely) especially due to lack of wage growth at lower levels.

Or perhaps stated in a different context, the target inflation goal might be very different with a much smaller debt.

Now that the US (and many other economies) are addicted to near 0 interest rates, and with all the increased spending (regardless if anyone thinks the spending is "good" or "bad"), I have difficulty seeing how we can dig out of what appears to me as a bit of a hole even with the potential productivity gains the current spending is supposed to spur.

Raise interest rates at this time, and everyone takes a big hit especially as the US is spending a ton more so that's not really an option anytime soon. Keep them low and the only solution to the next economic downturn is to again spend our way out, only furthering the need to keep interest rates close to 0 (making this a bit of a vicious cycle).

No one knows where this ends (I certainly don't and I think any economist who says otherwise is lying whether they know it or not) but the rising cost of the majority of goods that people spend on (health, education, homes and rent) scares me quite a bit as a young adult looking at the next 20 years as I think about wanting to establish my life despite my own luck in having a high paying career in software engineering.
It is hand written.
The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
It's interesting contrasting the economics of product placement in big budget features with something like the way these guys market themselves.

https://www.vivaladirtleague.com/

Right on their front page they offer various 'packages' for product placement in their skits ranging from background placement to full skits about a product. It seems like they do pretty well for themselves. They went from almost zero budget to being able to pay casts and crew and their production quality has increased dramatically. Their videos do tend to contain some pretty obvious product placement and some from some pretty big name brands.
This is so relatable. I hunt out obscure books, but that's because I love really old surreal things and that is not the norm. And that's why only a few books get all the sales. Because they are the ones that turn up on Goodreads/etc. It's not bad that it works out that way. It's just, how do those other authors turn up on goodreads?
Long story short, options have so many more ways of buying and selling due to complex spreads that it's still worth it to have in person trading.
Who is "y'all"? If you mean "some HN commenters", then sure—some HN commenters post all kinds of crap. This is the internet.

If you mean anything more than that, I'd like to know who. It doesn't describe the community as a whole. If you mean the moderators, it is deeply untrue.

Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? It leads to extremely poor-quality, indeed vicious discussion, which does zero good and only contributes to destroying this place. You don't need swipes, putdowns, snark, or personal attacks to make your substantive points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The author of The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound $5262/month: https://www.patreon.com/puddles4263

The author of Azarinth Healer has 3317 patrons at $2 minimum: https://www.patreon.com/RhaegarRRL

Basically, you can look through RoyalRoad, Scribblehub, WebNovel, and various other places where quite a few people seem to find success. And that's not even mentioning the people who write novels and publish them on Amazon.

>None of these are conventionally established authors as far as I can tell.

They're not. Or at least were not. They wrote web novels and acquired success because people liked their stories.
It is for this reason I consider “zoomers” as an appropriate label for the Gen Z kids.

But here is something else I also know: the modern way in which kids develop through the teenage years is already screwed up, even without the internet, smart phones, and social media. It seems normal now because it is normative.
FBI Confirms DarkSide Ransomware as the Culprit Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack
And that is, kids, how MS Windows piece-by-piece was slowly transformed into a Linux distro.
Yes. Many of these graphs reminded me of stuff I was producing as a strategy consultant. In some cases you wonder if organizations that have too much money spend it purely on philosophical questions, unrelated to any business reality.
I'm not at all a fan of ServiceNow, but it's primary use is for huge organizations, up to and including entire government departments with hundreds of distinct contractors and client agencies. There is no practical way to use Slack bots to manage ticketing and work tracking when you have tens of thousands of users and Slack is not approved for any kind of controlled data (PII, PHI, CUI, Classified, Proprietary) and doesn't offer a self-hosted version.
> said I had to wait until they brought a k9 out (thought he "smelled marijuana")

You know what really blows my mind? Is that in some states, possession of merely a dimebag of weed can get you a prison sentence and that "smelling marijuana" is used as a justification for bringing out the drug dog.

Meanwhile, in Oregon, I literally have an ad for a weed shop on the back of my grocery store receipt. Proof: https://imgur.com/gallery/b1sicuL
What value would regulation bring to a system that is currently working, has worked flawlessly for over 40 years and shows no need of imminent "improvement" from a law like this.

Exactly what problem would this law saw? So far all I am seeing are vaugue assurances and warm feelings but zero substance of how it would improve anything.

Indeed, if history is our guide any change is far more likely to hurt rather than help. Therefore it is incumbent on those seeking the change to defend it - how exactly will this law "improve" things. Please be specific and factual and leave feelings to the poets and philosophers.
The majority of the (long) tl;dr focuses on, and is under the assumption that non-EU RSOs will object and not comply with the NIS 2 directive and... have to shut down or block access to EU? Is there any substance to this actually happening? Is the NIS 2 directive an unreasonable burden on critical infrastructure such as those who run the root DNS?

I've never really heard of this "NIS 2 directive" but it seems completely reasonable, and it's even unclear whether non-EU folk like NASA would even be under scope. The only way I can see that being tested is if NASA (or whoever) seriously screw up and have a breach, and get attention on them. If that happens, then good! They deserve the scrutiny!

This reminds me a lot of the FUD (primarily) American's were spreading about GDPR which ended up being mostly empty.
Wait, why are these things mutually exclusive? He was both a physicist and an engineer! He literally used his knowledge of physics to physically engineer novel devices.

As for your surgeon example, I sure as hell hope my surgeon identifies as a biologist. If someone's slicing me open, they better be up-to-date and involved with the literature. (To your point, after speaking to my fair share of medical doctors, it seems a frightening few actually do this.)
The link is pointing at the comment section for some reason. Remove ?comments=1&start=40 from the URL to see the actual article.
Half the problem is that the BigDecimal class is kind of horrid in Java, and so is Map.Entry. The language lacks features that would make them more workable, like operator overloading, implicit constructors and destructuring/pattern matching.

Now, the first two are very fair not to want in a language because they allow programmers to bring in an unlimited amount of user-defined complexity.

Some destructuring however, would just make it easier to work with what's already in the language and libraries.
I would not let me kid on there if it ever came to be. But, let's pretend asking FB to not do this works, won't some other entity seize the opportunity. The incentive to pipeline future customers is simply too great?
The only effective way is parenting and common sense legislation, just like was done for tobacco and should be done for food and medicine. But I know that when it comes to the internet, legislating is fraught with hazards and unintended consequences.
Short fiction was being bought by magazines with large reader bases. Magazines have essentially died as a medium over the last twenty years, and fiction magazines were on their way out well before then.

If you've got a larger reader base and lots of competition, you can pay a lot for content. If you don't, you can't. The various TV subscription services are playing the same game that the sci-fi magazines used to; they pay a huge amount to produce content for recurring revenue, in fairly tight competition with the other streaming services to have the best stuff. (Think the expanse vs the mandalorian vs unbounded quantities of star trek.) The primary medium for consuming sci-fi changed as it went more mainstream, but also magazines died generally.
I check a 100 books out of the library each year.
But probably read just a third before they are due. Book greed!

Pre-covid I'd mainly use the new non-fiction shelf. Since our libraries arent open in person yet, I mainly get book ideas from book reviews like in HN or NYT.
I'm always just a little skeptical when somebody says they're "working all the time" and then mentions a packed travel schedule. It's possible that they're spending all of that time in airports and on airplanes working, but it's just as possible that they're spending it watching movies or reading novels, too.
I don't see the problem being with them having those tools. I see the problem being how the system doesnt provide correct/adequate training and turns a blind eye when those tools are misused. There needs to be accountability.
This is the conclusion I'm starting to come to as well. On the one hand there are things they shouldn't be exposed to until they can handle it themselves, but on the other hand they're going to learn stuff through friends or alternate routes of access. I'm not sure how I'm going to teach them how to have a healthy relationship with technology, besides trying to model one myself.
Finally! Was using https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent before and now probably can migrate out of it since github was holding me back.
I've also been really excited about a solution only to realize that my excitement was with the underlying technology rather than the customer experience.

I remember this feeling with early web apps. I was excited about being able to update one system rather than several desktops. For the customer, however, the overall UX was actually a slight step down because of the limitations of HTML and javascript.
What have I done for you lately?
There's no relationship between role specialization and working hours. If you're being overworked then push back, or look for a different job.

In general it's best to "shift left" with quality control activities and write automated functional and system test scripts simultaneously with product code. Otherwise developers tend to write garbage, then pitch it over the wall to testers and wait for defect reports to come back. That back and forth is a total waste which causes long release delays.
Saying that the line can sometimes be hard to define doesn't mean there isn't a clear line in the vast majority of cases.

https://www.logicalfallacies.org/continuum-fallacy.html
Essential content strategy for startups with The Hustle’s Steph Smith
Lots of older Dell switches run NetBSD as NOS. Newer ones use Linux.
And then Charlie walks out and goes "Ooooh, uh oh, uh yeah, guys you know what... I think I know what they mean. Last week when everyone was talking about the virus, I had just watch this really cool cyber hacking movie on TV last night, so I kinda zoned out and didn't know what our next scheme was, so when I went home I paid someone on the darkweb for a virus just like in that movie-"

Dennis: "How the hell do you have money to pay people on the darkweb Charlie?"

Charlie: "KittenCoin"

Dennis: "Oh god dammit, KittenCoin? You did that huh? Alright, checks out. Anyways, so then what happened?"

Charlie: "Well then I didn't really know what we were doing still, so I just emailed the file the russian kid sent me to your email, but I totally messed up the address cause my fingers were all sticky with peanut butter at this point and-"

Dennis: "WHY WERE YOUR- You know what, not only do I not wanna know, but I'm also gonna take a stab at how this story ends. Charlie, are you telling me you made a scam cryptocurrency and then used the profits to pay some sketchy russian hacker for a ransomware virus which you then emailed to a random address with a subject line something along the lines of "FOR FRIEND, IMPORTANT FILE, FOR PLAN, GIVES MONEY", which obviously enticed the random receiver to open said email promptly starting a massive email worm that managed to spread its way into the government's oil pipelines?"

Charlie: "That's... Uh, yeah, yup, yup, that's pretty much spot on dude, I'm pretty sure."
Sure, anyone can call themselves that, but if you give me a resume with only SQL on it and you want a programming job, I will definitely start asking about other languages and trying to gauge general experience.

I don’t really care what you call me but I will call myself a software engineer because I have a depth of understanding in how to solve problems with software in a consistent way. I’ve always had an engineering mindset, I grew up in a family of engineers. It’s just the term I prefer.
There is a possibility that crypto goes nowhere. There is also a possibility that it will change the world.

Good for you that you are certain of the outcome. You can make a lot of money knowing something that others don't. :D
DPreview was owned by Amazon last time I looked. They exist mostly to pump up the camera market and generate sales.

Their writing is very much in the vein of "your gear is inadequate if a new version has come out."

They are really the bottom of the barrel. They continually write about how some new piece of gear is so revolutionary because it allows you to take a particular photo and it was impossible before, as long as you didn't know about the 50-100 year old technique to get around the issue that actually works better even if you have the brand new camera.
Friends don't let friends use Eclipse.

But less flippantly, what other tool is workable for Java?
Trends are trendy, film at 11.
I don't agree. Self publishing has not only arrived, in some genres it outsells trad pub books.

One discussion:
https://mashable.com/article/self-published-authors-making-a...

From that article:
"According to Amazon's 2019 review of its Kindle sales, there are now thousands of self-published authors taking home royalties of over $50,000, while more than a thousand hit six-figure salaries from their book sales last year."

And 'self publishing' encompasses more than just Amazon, etc. --there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of authors selling books directly online.
Shrinking at a rapid clip though :-) But thanks! It may also be good to know several root operators provided a ton of feedback on this post.
That does make sense if you're a large corporation. You might not want to develop an OS from scratch, but Windows and WXWorks requires a license. You could go Linux, but what about the GPL? You might be okay, but why risk it. That leaves you with the choice of any of the BSDs.
You control the client. Don't ask my server if you don't want to. I'm not making you do it.

If you want to ask my server, send me information in the protocol that says that you want me to meet a certain standard and I'll blackhole the request if I can't meet it.

This is how SSL/TLS works and it works well.
who says its irrelevant for the future? some experts are saying the quarantine is going to be semi permanent in some form or another.
I love the assumption that there is "a better model." This reeks of the quintessential "let's solve a problem that doesn't exist."

Here's an even better and more logical idea - for those who have concerns about the current DNS root server arrangements, what specifically are they? And what would you propose as solutions to their perceived deficiencies? Bonus points if you can raise actual technical arguments and not just feelings.
When I read books, I enjoy it a lot more when I read a "known great" book. It's easier to just pick up a Dostoyevksy, Kafka, Saramago, or Murakami or whatever. Chances are I'm gonna like it, or it'll be entertaining enough.

When I try to explore my own likes, it ends up being frustrating because it takes a lot of trial and error. Consequently, I have no insensitive to read books that are recently published. It makes a lot more sense to wait for people to read books for me and tell me what are the great ones every decade. Meh, it works for me. Yes, I end up reading mostly 19th and 20th century stuff, but it feels sufficient.
The PEP is clear, it's just extremely unintuitive that, within the scope of declaration, a type T can be many different types.
With respect, I'm keenly aware that they think differently, and as for the disconnect, it's because they're an adolescent with a brain that is still figuring out their body. Unfortunately, Pavlovian reinforcement is sadly sometimes necessary to get a point across, especially when its a repetitive issue.
> The problems for which I'm less optimistic tend to revolve around shoehorning typing into existing Python syntax--e.g., to get a callback that takes kwargs you have to define a protocol with a `__call__` method that takes kwargs because you can't express it with `typing.Callable`

You might be interested in the discussion over here then -> https://github.com/python/typing/issues/769#issuecomment-741...
> Many books that were written 30 years ago are still immensely enjoyable today

I'd argue that there's a large amount of books that don't age out of their value. There's a lot of good material out there written over a hundred years ago that's more enjoyable that the average modern book. Even books which are tightly coupled to their time period are all still relevant and valuable today.

A funny example, I was reading an author yesterday who discussed a social issue at a local university, and quoted a professor who shares the exact name of a well known professor today who comments on similar issues.

Most of what I read is well over 30 years old, if not older. And very much of it still reflects the world today.
Quite. So I'm puzzled by what mistake the 'skilled programmers' are making, when confusing DFT and FFT. Implementing DFT in quadratic time?