skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bash scripting is so bad that being better than it is actually setting the bar rather low.

The only thing more remarkable than bash's cruftyness is the number of people who have developed Stockholm syndrome towards it.
This assumes it's not a DNS problem, and it's ALWAYS DNS.
Right, but I was talking about the MARGINAL cost per subscriber... those costs you mentioned are fixed costs, and they are the same whether Netflix has one subscriber or a billion.

The marginal cost per additional subscriber is basically bandwidth, which is pennies.
That wasn't true everywhere though, in the USA in the 1950's it might have been true but in the rest of the world?

Whenever I try to think about these large scale systems I end up realizing how difficult it is to predict the outcome. Everything people are buying has to be produced. Everything produced needs people (or automation) producing it. Somewhere there is an equilibrium.

What's happening globally has an impact (e.g. we possibly had a better standard of living by taking advantage of places that had a lower standard of living). Competition (and inequality) has an impact because not getting ahead of the game can put you in the bottom rungs where you're really doing badly. In a game where only the top 20% are doing well there is fierce never ending competition to be in that 20%. In a game where everyone has some guaranteed basic standard of living you would expect the competition to be less fierce.

Another note is that people used to work crazy hours during the industrial revolution. Similar story there, you had to get some work if you didn't want to be poor, and it was easy for employers to take advantage of employees.
> I used all the extra earnings to secure a moderate income outside my job.

How? You make it sound straightforward, but I wouldn't know where to begin.
What book? Sort of irrelevant question, but curious. Anyway, I think the general idea is that this advice only works in today's world where interest rates are below inflation, and property appreciation is above both.
That's an elegant idea, except that people who gamble money they cannot afford to lose usually cannot afford the legal process to claw the money back. Maybe they claw back an additional 50% that goes directly to the lawyer who helps them?
I love coding on my own projects. When it comes to work, I get so incredibly anxious about not being able to deliver a good solution. I obsess over every detail fearing I'll make the wrong choice ("this _could_ be a foreign key but should it be?" "Redis or postgres for this very crucial counter data") that most joy is completely stripped away.

I admire and envy those who can hear unclear requirements and get excited about needing to solve a problem.
Get a monitor with two inputs and PiP capability.
What makes you think other civilizations would be focused on rapid expansion like humanity?
Yes, lets escalate! Maybe we can cool our warming planet with a nuclear winter.

Or... We could try locking our doors on the internet.

We could try limiting our attack surface. I would suggest NOT centralizing a large portion of our economy atop a leaky, damage-prone pipeline from the actual 1950s.
No, not necessarily. You can be psychologically influenced by a society imbued with religious moral undertones to the point where you unwittingly want to "prove yourself" to "some omnipotent other." I think it's fairly common, actually.
Well, whatever they used to do before they connected everything to the internet. What about just do that?
> Dr. Compton said the committee’s dismissal of cases over time validated its methodology.

What? This makes no sense. That some of the accusations have been proven incorrect doesn’t mean the remaining accusations must not also be incorrect.

If a doctor has a documented history of falsely diagnosing a patient with X and that doctor diagnoses you with X should you get a second opinion? Or take it at face value because the doctor has “validated their (clearly flawed) methodology”?
True, but that's a technical problem with the phone system (I've never heard of a mailed scam like that.) Trivial to fix, except for the powerful collections agency/cold call lobby that feels like they have to have the ability to lie about their phone numbers.
How to manage resource for project and program in Jira
I don't believe the way America has embarrassed itself on the world stage is American propaganda. Russia has repeatedly exploited the stupidity of a few within the upper echelons of the elected American government with a few well placed agents and bots backing up those messages online.
It sounds like a plausible mechanism by which students in poverty experience poorer academic results though, even if it's not the only mechanism.
Hiring 2 full time developers and 2 full time artists.

Have them add online play, and better art. Right now it clearly looks like an indie hobbyist game.
The animal is old and secretly yearns to be young. Its the nature of the beast.
Being the only intelligent life means that it's far more likely that we have a long and promising future. If there is other intelligent life out there... we have to ask why they aren't _everywhere_.

Because unless we're missing something big, it would be clear that intelligence is either perpetually stuck in their own tiny tiny corner of the universe, or kill themselves off before they can reach the rest of the visible universe.
So status.discord.com redirects to discordstatus.com - so it already is on a different domain. But the domain matters very little unless your DNS infrastructure is offline. However, then you have to assume your status site and domain have to have their own DNS. Unless you're really dedicated, you'll have some SPOF that can take down both (think even different domain registrars).

What most companies need is a solid status page that's hosted in very different infrastructure... that is very static or can scale very fast. Often the do the first... but not the second. If something like discord is down and 10 million daily-active-users all try and check the status page... they'll just DDOS that out of existence as well. Again, if not well built
I would take a look at pulumi if you are looking to infra as code in js / ts
But if we had precluded the emergence of other civilizations in our neighborhood, wouldn’t we have known about it when we were taking resources away from those other living creatures? Based on that theory, a prerequisite to preventing the arising of other civilizations is the knowledge of the existence of other living beings at the very least.
would it possible to create something w/ a GUI like Ghost but hosted on Cloudflare pages/workers? It's hard for me to understand why something as simple as a blog needs a server
Allowing remote monitoring and troubleshooting is too convenient
I have a similar memory where I made a sprite jump by pressing the spacebar! I played with it for atleast ten minutes without getting bored!

Recently I made a small music player and till now I have played several songs on it just because the software is programmed by me!
You don't have to assume that they all do. You can assume that .1% of them do, and it works out precisely the same.
I wasn't arguing to the contrary, my second statement was tied to my first.

Reducing or eliminating nuclear has the negative effect of increasing emissions and reliance on fossil fuels to fill the immediate and long term void that would be left.

Renewables do a wonderful job, but they can not, at this point, take on the share that Nuclear has to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels should nuclear be elimated.

As said, perhaps in the future. But not at this moment.
dark matter is like 96% of the universe by mass...
If You Live on the East Coast Keep Your Gas Tank Filled Up (Pipeline Shut Down)
Acuity can be improved with more work on focus.

Memory can be improved with exercise and various aids, some of which help you pack more into working memory, while others get your data to be close at hand.

I submit your intelligence is what it is.

What this all comes down to is work. While there may be a ceiling for all of us, defined by inability to grok no matter how much work is done, the fact is below that point work has real, tangible benefits.

You can improve your wisdom dramatically too. Processing either your own experience, or that which others share, can give you seriously potent mental tools, rules of thumb, contexts to reason with.

Think of wisdom like you do tools. It is a labor output multiplier. In our youth, we are rarely wise, but we also are white hot nimble. When we are old, we have a body of experience to draw on.

Wise people make more with fewer moves, generally see lower risks and costs and can often gain the benefit of time. That is time for the work needed to be relevant, vital.

All these things combined can really add up. I have changed careers a few times and take these things very seriously each time.

It pays off.

Whatever intelligence we have is likely to be enough, unless our goals are severely misaligned with our basic nature. In my experience, this is rare given one gets to hard work and sets clear priorities.

And that is the last thing. We lose a little of that youthful nimble mind as we age. It does not go away, but it does require priority to manifest and serve the function you need it for.

When you perform these works, make them count. Be present and give yourself time to play, explore, shake off inhibition.

Trust you will get there.
> You could have an air-gapped system and still have remote access

You're suggesting the gas company run their own network, and then you assume no employee will connect that network to the general internet for their own convenience? Not happening.
The lifestyle that the typical American lives 30 year old lives today is well in excess of the one lived by today's 90 year olds when they were 30. We're not trying to "keep up" with the 1950s in any sense.

And also, any inflation graph I look at shows no "doubling in price" at any point. Or anything that looks loosely like it.
Isn't the universe potentially infinite?
Call me skeptical, but why all of a sudden would a government go from “swamp gas” and “weather balloons” to “we don’t know what the hell it is”. Seems awfully contrived.
I'm not sure how that would work-- each section would still need to send its petroleum products to the next section, making it effectively still one pipeline. Unless I misunderstand your statement?
The have a pretty good blog post about improvements made and de-coupling they have done:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo-tunnels-that-live-forever/
nice timing for this "cyber" attack on an oil pipeline company.
Picking the strongest padlock in the world [video]
Getting an accurate portrait of Canada as a whole is very difficult, as healthcare is a provincial responsibility.

As a Canadian however, it would not surprise me if most of the people traveling were upper class people trying to bypass the waiting lists.

You have to understand that this is inevitable as long as our systems don't have the same level of fairness and people are allowed to "choose" their system. Of course privileged people will choose the system that they can benefit from most, whereas unprivileged people cannot afford to choose.

This is not to say that our Canadian healthcare systems are perfect (far from it), but rather that some of them attempt to promote fairness (in service quality and rapidity), thereby negating the greater privilege of wealth relative to less fair systems such as yours.

This practice of healthcare tourism does of course take some pressure off the system for unprivileged people, so it's hard to say it's all bad on the whole. But don't expect the situation to change regardless, as we are also ruled by the wealthy, and they do so like to have freedom of choice.

By the way, the position on the waiting list is often adjusted according to the urgency of one's situation, so people who travel to reduce waiting time would not have been in critical condition on average, not to mention they may simply be traveling to get services that are legislated differently in Canada (as I believe cosmetic surgery can be, depending on the province).
that's a nice free service we're offering you here, it would be a shame if anything happened to it.

not that big of a stretch.
"Multiple sources have confirmed that the ransomware attack was caused by a cyber-criminal gang called DarkSide, who infiltrated Colonial's network on Thursday and took almost 100GB of data hostage."

re: "infiltrated Colonial's network"

I have been reading some of the other reports of this incident from different publications.

Many of the stories include a line about attackers downloading "100 GB in only 2 hours" as if that was being downloaded from the company's on premises servers.

Eventually I found a story that disclosed the data was actually downloaded from a cloud provider.
The 90 year old didn't have bosses calling them at 2am when they were 30.
Jumping on the Facebook hate wagon is what gets you clicks these days. Apple stated their policies, Facebook did what they asked and complied. It is their business model and revenue being threaten, I don’t understand what else should be done on their end. Mind you, with this policy change and Apple being on their privacy-morale high horse, the other day I found out for Apple to track you for personalized ad targeting is an Opt-out instead of opt-in like they request from all app developers on their platform.
How do you not?

You're living this life anyway, might as well try to learn from and compare your various diets.

Unless you eat the same meal every day for your whole life, I don't see how you could not learn something from it.
You are right, not all money supply increases are equal. However, I have thought about this more in the context of proposals around UBI or other wealth redistribution ideas. The common complaint about them is around just what you talk about, that distributing wealth to poor people will increase disposable income and cause inflation from not being able to keep up with increased demand.

I wonder how much of that is true in our modern economy. Between our incredible latent productive capacity and the sizable chunk of our economy that consists of non-rivalrous goods, I wonder how much of the increased demand we could absorb without causing inflation to rise substantially. For example, how much would food prices go up if poor people had more money? We can produce a lot of food, and the demand for additional food is not limitless. Some of that money would go towards digital goods like Netflix and video games and other digital goods, which are non-rivalrous.

Of course it would have an effect on inflation, but I am just wondering how much.
Fair enough. I was mostly trying to point out there is no ‘local’ bat population tied to coronavirus. I appreciate you’re trying to look at it with critical thinking though.

I don’t know the reason that lab is located in Wuhan specifically. But if you want to find the answer, I think you have to look into who funded the research.
I love coding too, basically for the same reasons. There’s something about creating things from scratch, making them better, and debugging issues that can’t be matched by other hobbies. You just have more control and speed in working on things versus physical things like working on an engine.

That said, I don’t like the business of coding. Doing coding for a living strips away a lot of the joy out of it, but this is why I have side projects and why I have learned to treat the business of coding as a job first and coding second.
Or we’re early... How is that not an obvious possibility?
You say “under attack,” I say “standard world power shenanigans”
Thanks for this +1

To also add,, I have been told meditation can help and I would also like to start that.

I find that I lack focus, memory and interest. My curiosity and desire to learn has been replaced with "CBA" for want of a better phrase.

I want to be better, smarter and able to understand situations better.
That is exactly my question! How much are people spending on digital goods, and what percentage of extra income would go towards digital goods.
Lost revenue would be justified by execs as cost of doing business. And they'd probably buy hacker-insurance to cover some/all of that risk. They'd pay for the hacker-insurance by getting a shittier employee benefit plan, and cutting the employee 401k match by 2%. For each quarter they aren't hacked, they'd probably receive a credit from the hacker-insurance company, which would be distributed to execs via performance bonuses.
Yes. I've worked in a very regulated industry before and it ended up being less secure than any other I've worked in. Checking your secure email required so many hoops people would just text each others personal phones instead, etc.
Or they are everywhere, but our technology is too primitive to see them. Or we just have not collected enough data yet to make out the patterns.
One of the explanations for Fermi paradox is that we just got lucky to be one of the first civilizations to the party. A few billions years from now Universe will be filled to the brim with life and sentience.
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This is a great idea and caused me to go down a rabbit hole of learning what it would take to actually register a new gTLD.

Short version: The ICANN would need to do a new round of gTLD registrations. This is unannounced but rumored to begin some time this year.

Then, a corporation would need to apply for the gTLD string. This application cost $185,000, non-refundable, in 2012 [1]. Smart money is a steeper fee.

Next, they would actually need to be approved for the gTLD. This requires a company with enough funding to pass the ICANN's audit, and enough technical chops to maintain name servers with enough bandwidth and availability to serve the traffic generated by the new gTLD [2]. There is also a criminal background check and anti-cybersquatting check [3].

Finally, they would have to win in a contention process that involves any other registrar applying for the same string. This may be settled by an auction [4].

The buzz around the 2012 process is that it was generally a waste of time and money - many of the gTLDs far underperformed expectations by the registrars. Further, many of the corporate-owned gTLDs are unused (such as the 76! owned by Amazon)[5].

There were a few winners - the ICANN themselves made a hefty sum of money - some $212 million left over in 2020 [6]. Some other companies figured out the right way to "game" the contention process and intentionally lose the auction for the string [7]. Finally, a company named "Donuts, Inc", won some 270 gTLDs under various subsidiary companies. With such a massive portfolio, they were able to capture a few big winners (such as .guru) [8].

[1] https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs... point 2.2

[2] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/gtld-drd-ui-10se...

[3] https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/guidebook-full-... module 2

[4] https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/guidebook-full-... module 1.1.2.10

[5] https://domainnamewire.com/2019/02/28/new-tlds-five-years-in...

[6] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/annual-report-20... page 33

[7] https://www.circleid.com/posts/20130603_icann_auctions_or_pr...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donuts_(company)
Sure, there are such a thing as real deadlines. Regulatory deadlines are one example. Contractual deadlines with penalty clauses can be another.

But, the type of deadline you point out (we said we'd give them $STUFF by $DATE for $PRICE) is often flexible, if not artificial. For instance, maybe you can work out a schedule where by $DATE, you deliver $SUBSET_OF_STUFF for $LOWER_PRICE, while continuing to build out features to satisfy the original request, ending up delivering $STUFF for $PRICE.

Admittedly, this can be tricky. But, it can be done. I've done it before. Once a client has already agreed to a deal, they're generally inclined to stay with you, provided you're working in good faith with them. This can be somewhat of a sunk cost mentality, but it doesn't really matter as long as you're not taking advantage of that to soak them for cash.

I guess the moral of the story is that any contract is amendable and re-negotiable, if you approach it right. If it's not possible to deliver by $DATE without killing yourself and your team, then it's time to consider re-negotiating. And, as you said, in the real world, delays happen; clients may be willing to accept some small delays.

Even regulatory deadlines can sometimes be a little flexible, but that's a whole higher level of negotiation, and government agencies sometimes don't have the discretion to delay enforcement of new regulations, or the incentive to work with you to get you into compliance. In that case, the choice comes down to either a one-time push to deliver what's needed (and, you should be explicit that it is a one-time push), or temporarily eating the fines while delivering on a realistic schedule. I've never been in this type of situation, but I have dealt with government agencies before, and it can be a pain.
The USA is absolutely a nation state. Cocal-cola, mcdonalds, Christmas, enlgish, etc. are well dispersed throughout the entire population. We have a uniform culture, although not as uniform as much smaller countries, but uniform nonetheless.
Yes, you can go to a professional mental health therapist and receive CBT
I think it’s odd that I’m being downvoted.. I’m not advocating murder, I just wonder if ransomware criminals (assuming they aren’t actually state actors) wouldn’t be at risk.
i think there are two concepts being mixed here, and i am not quite sure how you relate the two:

if i understand you correctly then you seem to suggest that embedding smalltalk into a c environment is not trivial because smalltalk has its own runtime.

that is something that i agree with. but here is my confusion: how is that different from CORBA? doesn't that also just allow connecting two distributed runtime systems?

so my understanding is that it would be possible to have a c<->smalltalk bridge just like CORBA, (and that's the same kind of bridge in the pike based platform i mentioned between java/php<->pike) but both are different from embedding smalltalk outright.

all that said, from what i understand objective-smalltalk is something different entirely, it is a smalltalk environment with an objective-c based runtime, more like clojure or other languages on top of java.
I found an interesting thing with Firefox (on Linux/Wayland), one window with 1000 tabs uses significantly less memory than 100 windows with 10 tabs each.
Not sure what is so fun about it, given that after 4 years in development C++/WinRT still doesn't have Visual Studio support that can match MFC.
French public sector is a swamp.

They are, or were, capable of serious technical advances, such as Le Minitel being way ahead of its time.
> the other day I found out for Apple to track you for personalized ad targeting is an Opt-out instead of opt-in like they request from all app developers on their platform

That's crazy. I haven't heard about this, do you know of any articles about it? I can't find anything on google.
Fermi was operating under the assumption that travel between solar systems would not only be possible, but it would be desirable. The answer to the Fermi paradox might be as simple as "solar systems are too far apart".
Consume less media. Your chances of making it to 70 if you watch out for cars and take basic care of your health are extremely high.
Sure, but given that humans are only about 500k years old, that makes us the only intelligent life so far.

The lack of any other intelligent life so far means that we have no evidence one way or another that we will succeed or fail. Better than if 100 million civilizations already tried and died.
It's a lot easier to pull the plug on on-premise systems.