skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ardour project has used Freenode for more than 16 years as our primary coordinating and realtime support platform.

I (the project lead) also used IRC back in the 80s and early 90s.

Here's what IRC is to me (I'm not speaking for everyone involved in Ardour):

* a protocol
* an accessible server
* a channel (or two), with a founder and at least one operator

If those things are all functioning, then I really don't care at all about anything going on "behind the scenes". I don't care who does what on the server, I don't care who owns the server, I don't care what the plan is for the ownership of the server. I don't care if there are controversial channels somewhere. I don't care if the server admins are fighting. I don't care where the servers are (*). I don't care about channel creation policies. I don't care about ANY of this, as long as those three things continue to function normally.

The only exception to this is when there is (as there was last year or the year before) a coordinate DDOS attack on the servers. In the situation, I do care that the server admins are competent and have the tools to do what needs to be done. In the case of that attack (which IIRC also somehow centered on Christel in some way), the Freenode admins did what needed to be done, and I thank them for it.

The service that Freenode offered the FOSS community was to make those 3 things available at no charge for our projects. This was (and remains) enormously valuable. But nothing else about Freenode is of importance to me. It could be owned by Google as long as those 3 things work in the right way. I prefer to be using an infrastructure maintained by people with some ideological preference that supports the work we do, but realistically speaking, on a day to day basis, it makes no difference. I'm the operator in #ardour, and as long as the network ops stay out, allow me to set channel modes and other policies, their existence is something I can remain almost entirely blissfully ignorant of.

I don't want to have to care about what is happening at Freenode at all. What we get from IRC is completely orthogonal to the beliefs and behaviors of anyone behind the scenes. I'd prefer that it remains that way, but it seems as if everyone behind the scenes is telling me that I'm supposed to care.

(*) anyone imagining that IRC has any degree of privacy doesn't understand IRC. Ergo, whether the servers are in the US, or the EU, or southern Africa makes no difference to the content that I'm willing to read or write on an IRC channel.
>blame EPA regulations

To elaborate, since I've even had to explain this to some "eco-conscious" engineers:

This is also partially why trucks have gone from steel to aluminum, which is lighter (to gain a marginal increase in mpg), but also requires larger shapes (moment-arms) to achieve the same amount of strength and resilience (crumple zone rigidity & required crumple zone size, etc).

Of course the other side effect is that using aluminum frames/engines won't last as long, since they deform easier, so all that saved energy from increased mpg doesn't make up for the wasted embedded energy from decreased useful lifespan.
In Firefox:

Cmd + D creates a bookmark.

Cmb + B shows existing bookmarks that you can edit and organise.

They sync through your Firefox account too.

It's a great system.
> I would imagine that a theoretical physicist on LSD would sound like these comments. I love it.

I don't need LSD!

> When we discuss statistical mechanics it is kind of understood that the ferromagnet we try to describe is not placed on the innermost stable orbit around a black hole

If your theory of statistical mechanics requires that, then your theory is wrong, or at least badly incomplete. That might not be a problem you need to care about for practical reasons, but it is a problem.

> I guess one can say that the essence of a physical system is not always in the fundamentals of physics?

Depends on what you mean by "essence" and "fundamentals" - you're not going to have good time trying to analyze a computer [0] running a game-of-life sim in terms of it's constituent quarks, obviously - but there's usually something useful to be learned from the underlying physical laws.

0: (whose primary descriptive quality is that it's)
I'm having a hard time following anything.

Andrew claims they brought a lawyer in after their access to the DNS was revoked and their request for that to be undone was denied. They supposedly have had access for 5 years without issues, and according to Tomaw it's something they'd "probably never do anything with."

Why should Andrew accept that, even if the only thing Freenode Ltd. owned was the domain and name? If they didn't do anything nefarious for 5 years, what changed that made the domain takeover now necessary? Especially since the person taking over the domain apparently admits Andrew wouldn't do anything to it... or was that exchange fabricated?
My biggest confusion about 'proof-of-stake' is... if there was never any 'work' done, where does the 'stake' come from?

Does 'proof-of-stake' need to be 'bootstrapped' by a period of 'proof-of-work'?

If the 'work' part is very simple and requires little effort, then couldn't I generate a 'stake' that's just as large as someone else's very easily?
> No comprehensive supercharger network. This is a real big deal still.

I agree- this is really going to be a big deal, especially with how large the F-150 EV battery is (150kWh). For comparison, the Chevrolet Bolt hatchback has a 66KWh battery with a similar range as the F-150, which makes sense, because the Bolt is much lighter and aerodynamic.

The vast majority of public charging stations in the US ("Level 2") max out at under 10kW; these are great for smaller cars used for commuting to-and-from the office or local shops or whatever. This isn't so bad for the Bolt, but the F-150 will recharge (from a range perspective) much more slowly.

There are very few Level 3 "fast" chargers around. These typically charge at 50kW until the battery is at 80% capacity, then slow down to 10kW or so. Public chargers often charge per minute ($.30 or so), so you get the best bang for the buck to get off the charger once you hit 80%. So, let's say your F-150 is down to 20% capacity, and you need to charge up to 80%. 60% of that 150kWh is battery is 90kWh- that will take nearly two hours ($36) on that fast charger.
If you scroll way far down on the campaign page, there's actually a table of Spintronics Physical Units:

Spin Volt = 0.1 newtons

Spin Coulomb = 10 meters of chain

Spin Ampere = 10 meters of chain per second

Spin Ohm = 0.1 newton-seconds per meter

Spin Farad = 100 meters per newton

Spin Henry = 0.01 newton-second-seconds per meter

Spin Watt = 1 newton-meter per second
I live in Colorado and received an offer from DigitalOcean a couple of years ago for a remote position. The pay was okay--roughly the same as the job I had at the time. But they insisted on keeping a non-compete clause in the employment contract, which can prevent an employee from joining a competitor for up to a year after their last day at DigitalOcean.

Think about that for a second. You get a job at DO, working on cloud infrastructure. If you leave that job, you can't join another cloud provider for a year. Your options are A) ask DO for explicit permission to take a new role anyway, leaving it to their discretion, B) live in CA where these clauses are invalid, C) change industries with your next job, or D) take a year off between jobs without pay.

Apparently these contracts are not uncommon in NY, MA, WA. But it was the only time I've personally encountered one, and I was not okay with limiting my future job options like that, so I turned it down.
Figma: Shift + 2
“Man plans, God laughs”.

Centrally planned well meaning ideas seem to invariably fail.
I want a Star Trek TNG style utopia.
> I don’t wish to be on irc 24/7 contrary to what people might or might not think.

then why acquire freenode?
Easy way to solve that is making sure there’s a record of all accredited inspections that potential buyers can access. So you have a do-over after fixing something but there’s a trail for the buyer.
Panel features a large tablet-like touch screen, advertisement highlights over the air software updates... Definitely not what I'd like to have.
It just goes back to my point, though, what is "the network" and what can any one person or group of people hand over?

The ssh keys to the servers? Sure, but that doesn't mean freenode ltd now owns the servers or the software running on them. They've just been given operational control over them (which I guess is exactly what Andrew wanted at the end of the day) but who exactly owns "the network" if that's even possible is still incredibly murky, at least to me.

A "network" is a very nebulous thing when everything is informal and run by volunteers and sponsors.
> except those strange ones that buy Chevy or GMC.

I mean it philosophically. "Everyone," to a rough approximation, are customers interested in a pickup. Whether Ford, Chevy, Ram, Toyota, etc.
I agree that would be even better.

Unfortunately I don't think such a vehicle exists yet, while hybrids and even plug-in hybrids are common, they aren't designed to be used as power stations/offer multiple 110v outlets.

This new F-150 is rare in that the manufacturer actually supports its usage like this. If you use a Tesla as a glorified battery they will actually void your warranty.
Even black pepper is good. Drink tea with black pepper. If you have a lot of cough with phlegm, just chew 10-12 black pepper seeds (peppercorns?) - of course it’s hot but it clears up the phlegm quickly.
Huh, this is great. Thanks.
What's funny is that when nuclear power was in its early days, oppenheimer (A-bomb man) warned about nuclear waste. had we listened to him and attended to the problem with greater total-priority in the 50s. we might have actually had a thriving nuclear power sector that replace pretty much all non-nuclear power due to increasing financial feedback loops into r&d which would have inevitably resulted from a better, safer, more profiteable nuclear power industry.

the problem is with electric cars, that the state of the art batteries of any given generation will be replaced by much much better technology in 10 years.
how can you require expensive limiting 'recycling' protocols without killing a necessarily HIGHLY TOXIC and POLLUTING industry. Electric cars and batteries are the future. but they are dirty as well despite what most people have been taught to believe.

the truth however, is that all this pollution is worth it.
I've clubbed it out of the title above, and added it to HN's debaiting software, so in the future it will get automatically dropped. (Most of the time.)
You mean the noprops deck? Curious - I can't make head or tails of it. Can you explain its plan?
I’ll preface by saying I think Proof of Waste schemes should be illegal. Proof of Stake schemes eventually over time become de-decentralized because as with PoW there is incentive to having a large stake (as demonstrated by the large private mining pools.) Eventually what you have is a clique of large powerful players in control of the financial system. You’ve basically reinvented banks but you made them extremely inefficient along the way. I don’t see any way how decentralization schemes eliminate the potential for organization, as centralizing inside a decentralized system is beneficial and highly efficient vs. remaining disorganized/decentralized.

Decentralization seems fundamentally at odds with natural order and thus maintaining its decentralization costs energy. Compare that to USD which backpacks on the energy spent maintaining a nation, the cost of USD is essentially amortized by the simple existence of the US.
Here's the list of Paris museum that are free (always or on certain dates): https://www.parisinfo.com/decouvrir-paris/guides-thematiques... (in EN: https://www.familinparis.fr/en/musee-gratuit-a-paris/)

All those owned by Paris city are free to all, always: https://www.parismusees.paris.fr/en
How to Help a Group Have Useful Postmortems?
I consult for a startup that wants to begin having postmortems. In this particular case product and engineering people will be at the table. The desire to create a retrospective reflection and learn from it originates from a place of surprise and frustration. Everyone is walking in with some negative feelings. LOTS of feelings.

This is the first time I will be the only person who has been in such a meeting before, and there is groundwork I want to do before the meeting.

If you were involved in starting postmortems or were around when they started happening, 1. What were the main roadblocks? and 2. What was specifically helpful in creating an environment where people believed they were not there to be blamed?
You're not missing anything. TFA is wrong.
For the first one, are you considering the Electrify America network? I follow a guy on YouTube who takes road trips using the EA network. The issues he has are not so much that the stations don't exist, but that the charging is slower than optimal and buggy due to bad software. He's still able to roadtrip though, just with more hassle.
The best I can piece together so far:

* freenode was run by elected volunteers.

* Lee stepped in to sponsor/fund the Freenode Live events

* Some assets were sold/transferred to Lee in the process of this

* Former staff admin leaves, new staff admin is elected

* New staff admin attempts to take control of assets they (reasonably) assume they should have control of

* Lee (reasonably) perceives this as control of assets being taken away from him - it's at this point we discover more about which assets were sold/transferred.

* Recent events driven by elected leadership discovering they're not actually leadership.

Essentially freenode has had a leadership vacuum for some time, and has been perfectly comfortable with that. But nature abhors a vacuum ..

You might note I have two groups marked as (reasonably) in opposite directions. As far as I can tell this is an information gap - what was sold/transferred was kept very, very quiet, so I do believe each side was behaving reasonably with the information available to them. So I believe what we're seeing this week, is what we would have seen during the actual sale, if these details were made remotely public at the time.
This is why problems should be tackled directly. There was no reason to force vehicle manufacturers to meet arbitrary efficiency standards.

If the goal was to reduce fossil fuel consumption, then fossil fuels should have been slapped with a huge tax.

Immediately the automakers would have been incentivized to produce more efficient vehicles.

Of course, it’s politically impossible to do the right thing due to the general public wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
Essential Characteristics of Successful APIs
Deadly fungi are an emerging microbe threat
You're 5x more likely to kill a pedestrian in an urban area than a rural one, and 2x as likely to do so after 6:00pm.

The relative risk of being killed by a light truck compared to a car is only 1.45 (i.e. 45% greater) and is 0.96 for a heavy truck (in other words less likely than being killed by a car). Buses have a relative risk of 7.97.

So living in a city and driving at night is custom-designed to kill pedestrians and selfish to do so. Encouraging public transit is even worse.

Or you could just, you know, not turn this into a giant moral argument.
I own an F150 Platinum with the 6.5ft bed (most are only 5ft beds), and my truck won't fit in my standard size garage. It is simply too long.
My friend interviewed for an SDE 1 position but after interview, was then offered a role of SDE 2 on the team, since the team was hiring for both, and he was more qualified as a 2.

I think this is an example of flexibility that people bring up. Not that they shouldn't publish the range, but my friend had no idea the other range was open to him.

TO be clear, i agree that they should have to explain "why" if they chose the part of the range, like you say, but i think it misses some edge cases that are not uncommon.
I don't follow how an "async backend" would help over threads in this case. If you mean using actors everywhere and moving that into client code, you effectively have a new framework.

Likewise, async IO has high throughout but often trades that off for increased latency jitter, since requests can block each other because of the limited thread pool. This is less a problem with threads because of preemption (though they of course compete for shared resources like database time).
Israel truly is an apartheid state. And will continue to be one as long as it has the US blessing.
My solution to that aspect of time wasting is to write it down. I don't think I am unique in this aspect but sometimes my contemplations are circular, the deeper I go the more I have to rehash my thoughts, which wastes time.

I find it writing it down eliminates that problem significantly. Depending on the thought I follow two different approaches.

1. Write down what comes in mind, each thought a separate point. If it's causal, like A -> B -> C, I will re-arrange my typed up thoughts to match the pattern. So it works like a sorting queue for thoughts.

2. Mindmap. Usually when I am trying to think of all the likely scenarios, which ends up having multiple causal trees, and sometimes thinking about a 3rd dependency will make me think of a similar dependency on a different tree...that's when a lot of the cyclical thinking happens, so writing it down like a mindmap is like a weird breadth first approach.
I agree that it's basic information -- but that's the most important information to have! This blog post was essentially constructed from the replies I sent people who asked me to help them.
I wonder if they use movies and tv; recordings where the script is already available.
Very good website.
I see a lot of "rent one for a day" type of comments. I paid $4k for a 93 F150 a couple of years ago. I live on a 1/4 acre lot in the suburbs and just the amount of stuff I've hauled to my small property over the last two years would've far surpassed the $4k in rental charges. Mulch, compost, rocks, lumber, etc. Lots of back and forth with not knowing whether I'll need more or not... so many unknowns in-between. Take into consideration the time it takes to rent a truck, sign all the forms, repeatedly argue with the rental rep about why you don't want their shitty insurance, and the anxiety of renting a truck to haul items that could potentially damage the rental. I've probably put on about a 1000 new scratches, dings, and dents in the short two years I've owned this thing.

On top of the landscaping and project work I use it for, it's perfect for going dispersed camping in rough areas that need high clearance. I would never be comfortable risking a rental for such activities.
From what I've been told, suicide is often impulsive, and when it's not impulsive it's an escape from some kind of psychological or physical agony - like you're in a burning building and jump out the window. If you're in a room that's on fire, then knowledge that it won't be on fire a month from now won't keep you in the room. I think it's a tough subject to generalize.
Declarative Development Environments with CDK for Terraform
As much as I think a body-on-frame truck is way more practical, some of what you're describing is really a matter of attitude. As far as I'm concerned, dirt, scrape marks, etc. in my SUV is just a sign that I'm making good use of it.
We’re North Indians and we do use black pepper. it may be used less than in the south can’t say.

And like you said, in some festivals with fasts, meals use just black pepper and pink salt.
Yeah - for mature sales teams, sales follow up is actually more of a use case for us than cold outreach.

Bit different for founder sales though.
Why is snowplowing absent on all the EV trucks? Are they not capable of the heavy duty use or is the market not ready to buy them?
ephtracy (the creator of MagicaVoxel and now MagicaCSG) doesn't open source their tools, as far as I know.
I am actively interviewing someone with 4 years and someone with 20 years of experience for the same role. Our needs are quite specific but it is not our first or last hire in that area; as long as someone can fill them we are willing to be flexible about to what extent this particular hire fills our overall need and will adjust accordingly down the line.

Given the stage of my company, our hiring plan, and the fact we hire remote across the US, we absolutely could have a role with a salary range of $80k or more.
Yes, but in what way can their incentives become misaligned from yours?
Similar features to Tesla - is there reason to believe Ford will do a worse job?

Can you at least disable the OTA updates if you don't want it?
how many VCs can fit on the head of a pin?
Context: startup, 50ish employees.

We don't necessarily want to advertise all open positions to an internal selection process, particularly more senior managers.

The record keeping requirements in CO are concerning, particularly job description records. In particular, we don't yet have a full time HR person (there is a dedicated person, but that person has other job duties).

There's 49 other states.

edit: one more reason. We had a failing exec. Not enough to merit immediate firing, but failing enough that it was clear he or she was not going to last through the next round. We needed that person to continue doing a mildly-failing job while we found a replacement, due to lack of another person who could take on those responsibilities.

Not sure how you manage something like that with an internal hiring announcement.
freenode became a harmful organization which upholds harm, and now they're scared of dying
I'm telling you it's the truck's fault that the driver can't see the crosswalk.

There is a such thing as good and bad design. If I sell a hammer that shoots a bullet whenever you swing it for no good reason, I'm responsible for people getting shot.
I can understand Twitter taking a cut, but Apple and Google deserve no part of this.

Hopefully this is more fuel for the rage machine that will shut this racket down.

Device manufacturers should not be allowed to do the following:

1. run monopoly marketplaces on their devices

2. run any payments gateways on their devices

If Apple Pay and Google Pay continue to be a thing, the DOJ needs to force the companies to be broken up into distinct business units. Let these organizations compete with Visa, PayPal, and the like on equal footing.
freenode is harm, not foss, there's a difference
> Why would CGPA weight this much after 7-8 years

An indicator of consistency / consistent performance was what I was once told by an HR of a billion dollar agri company that also screened candidates based on their scores starting from 10th standard / grade (in India the 10th and 12th school exams are considered important "markers" in our education system as they are national exams). Huge variations between a candidates score in 10th, 12th and every semester of college was treated as a potential red flag by them. Candidates with good experience and qualifications weren't immediately disqualified but were asked to explain the reason for the "fluctuations" in the interview. Experience did matter more, but their logic was the job gets more and more stressful as you rise up the ladder, and so it was important to consider your grades too as they reflect something about your personality.
Most of gfycat's traffic these days is .mp4 files that pretend to be gifs. Even if you upload a gif, its converted into .mp4 because its a far more efficient transmission codec.

I'm sure there's some javascript / backend logic that handles some corner cases. But... yeah. A lot of self-looping .mp4 stuff seems to be solved. The <video> tag has been getting more and more consistent these days.

I just do some hobby stuff though. I only test on the stuff close to me (chrome, edge, firefox, my phone). So I can't say too much about reliability on older / more obscure platforms.
Renting is a hassle, and its cheaper to buy if you need to rent more than a couple times a month.