skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no FAANGs in France because France is part the EU, and the anti-trust laws try to protect competition between smaller actors spread in 27 countries.

It can be argued whether it's good or bad (people keep asking for 'the Airbus of X' while the Commission plays its part and prevent such actors from emerging.)

However, as usual, don't placate US expectations on other parts of the world.
You would not say that Michigan needs to create a culture of education, because all the FAANGs are in California.

Also, the financing culture (and maybe structure ?) seems to prevent the pretendo-valuations of "unicorns". I guess companies here have to go to such extremes as "making products that earn money". Yuck.

I'm curious what would qualify as a "startup-scene" for you, though ? I'm living in a tech-hub in France, so I can tell you there are startups, but what is your threshold for a "scene" ? Number of employee ? Size of campuses ? Number of meetups ?
If you get stuck on the infinite loop of actively trying to get to sleep, which does not work, try what I do: grab a book, forget about getting to sleep and assume you'll be reading it until morning. Usually I doze off in a couple of chapters. It helps to use an e-reader with low backlight.
I'd also add in that there's no need for a constant 24 hrs news cycle.

Further, many of the cable "news" TV stations (MSNBC, CNN, Fox, etc) are largely opinion and analysis and not news anyway.

I encourage people to (a) Read their news as much as possible, including opinion pieces and (b) If you watch/listen to news, find specific news segments (e.g. your local TV station's new hour). Tune in for 30 minutes to an hour and leave it at that. Tivo it if that's an option for you.

There's no need to have a cable news channel playing all hours of the day.
That is not true about vscode anymore. It is fairly performant now.
Not having Bluetooth would cause accidents, as more people would use their phones while driving.
One of the interesting things about the infrastructure bill that has been proposed in Congress is it talks a lot about universal high-speed broadband access in the same way that, back in the ’30s, the recovery bills from the Great Depression talked about telephone access for everybody.

Does anyone know about how this legislation worked out? Did it really get more people telephone access?

I'm skeptical of any praise toward the New Deal, because it's almost universally praised by just about everyone, but then you dig into it and you find out that agencies like the NRA[0] were so bad that even their proponents had to admit they were a failure, and the "successful" programs that lasted, like Social Security, pale in comparison to more modern programs like Australia's Super.

I don't hate the idea of the government delivering internet, but more like they deliver water or electricity, at the municipal level, rather than some set of national, overarching subsidies and regulations that will probably create perverse incentives all over this very large country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administrati....
I wonder if videos are a little overused as tutorials. Videos aren't very searchable (yet), and they are unreliable to scan through (in most scrubbing implementations I've seen), so while they are nice to get started, they are hard to return to later to brush up on something.

I love this podcast + text approach in theory. A podcast to talk through the material, and a really well written page to reference. The CSS Grid page is a great example of this.

Aside: As someone who has been in web dev for a while, sometimes I feel like what I need is an "unlearn CSS" tutorial, to erase some old habits.
Compilation of All the Email Swipes for Founders
French Paradox
Sublime easily handles files that make my Vim slow to a crawl. Agreed on using sed/awk/(rip)grep/other pipeline tools where it makes sense.
Or alternatively '*',⍨⊂⊃K which I think I prefer over ⌽, but neither seem that 'better' in my mind anyway.
Toyota has pivoted marketing for the Tacoma as an adventure vehicle rather than a work vehicle. It is awesome for that. Small enough to get around in a city, but big enough to fit four sets of skiing/climbing/backpacking gear. You don't have all that crap in the cab getting snagged on stuff or falling into the foot wells. No skis knocking my elbows while driving. I've had mine packed up to the ceiling of the camper shell. I used to live out of it. Now I usually spend 10-15 nights per year in it rather than getting a motel for $100/night.
People who live in the country, which is OPs point here.
With Teslas, you plug in your destination and it provides directions with charging stops. For example: I drove over 600 miles from Portland to Berkeley starting at 25% battery. It routed me to three charging stops[1] and included times for both arrival and how long charging would take.

If you have the navigate on autopilot feature, it automatically drives you from freeway onramp to exit. It's far less mentally taxing than driving manually.

1. https://i.imgur.com/n8QmiPb.jpg
You mention you've donated millions. Presumably this is distributed across multiple projects. How much has freenode received from you?
This is amazing. Did y'all use any kind of static site generator or documentation tool (e.g. Antora) or was it hand rolled?
Freenode was staffed by volunteers but it was never managed by them.

They were recruited by management.

Let’s not rewrite history any further, please.
Live blog: Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies in Epic legal battle
The stated motivations of the researchers make it seem like they are not interested in advancing the security of open source software, but rather undermining it.
I guess it depends on how you read "Your OS." I read it as "Hobby osdev project."

"Port your OS to EC2," as I read it (I live in weird weeds so this may not be how other people read it) implies an OS you've written ("your OS") that currently doesn't run on EC2 (or you wouldn't need to "port" it - that implies, at least to me, getting something running where it doesn't currently run).

A lot of the hobby OSes out there, even if they're 64-bit, don't always support the latest and greatest drive controllers, interrupt controllers, etc. So if you don't have NVMe support (or virtio block device support - not sure if EC2 supports that or not), you won't be able to read the disk. Legacy ATA/SATA interfaces are often what's supported.

I would have expected, based on the title and what it implied, a list of the hardware supported in various instance types. If the virtualized instances support virtio, mention it. If they only support SATA or NVMe, mention that. And perhaps some references to the relevant specs to implement those.

But if all you have to do to get your OS running is just put it on a disk image, then I'm not sure it really qualifies as "porting to EC2." Just "Installing on" would be more useful phrasing for that.
How long was the duration between the 90s purchase and the next purchase? 20 years?

This was fascinating to read!
you can use the money to buy any kind of culture-related thing, any book, movie, etc from any country
It's okay to advocate for things you , especially when people are confused about why you would like it! I like my Tacoma as well, no, I do not work for Toyota.
Yeah I don't think that Ford even makes a 2-seater anymore in anything other than their XL/fleet model. You can buy the "extended cab" in the XLT (the base trim sold to consumers), which is the 2 seater with a small bench in the back, but even those are really hard to find, you don't see them often.

But after you get above the base model, the only thing available is "crew cabs" which is the full 4-seat SUV size interior.

Really trucks have become 4 seat vehicles now. The super-crew (4 seat) cabs are essentially standard at dealerships. The only way to get a 2 seater truck is by buying one through a fleet program. And right now that would be essentially impossible. Trucks are hard to get right now and most dealerships won't sell a fleet vehicle to a consumer because the demand for fleet trucks is too high right now.
If you don't remember the quadratic formula and don't want to look it up, the graphical intuition is super simple, if you're comfortable connecting the graphical to the algebraic bits.

A quadratic equation is the same as finding where a parabola crosses zero. The formula for that is messy unless the parabola is centered around x=0, in which case it's easy. Then it's just a "standard" parabola (y=x^2), stretched horizontally and/or moved up and down. The equation for that shape is 0=ax^2-k, so x^2=k/a, which is super simple.

So then you just have to figure out how to turn your original problem (a parabola that's not centered at x=0) into the easy one (a parabola that is centered at x=0).

The answer is to just slide your axes over until it's centered. That is, define a coordinate z = x-c such that your parabola is centered at z=0. To do that, just plug in z+c=x into the original equation, and solve for a c that makes the middle term disappear (you want to end up with y=az^2 + 0z + b, per my second paragraph). Now you have the problem that's easy to solve. And there's the added benefit that whatever problem this comes up in is likely easier to think about in terms of this z than in x.

This method is just some trivial steps, which makes it really easy to remember. It's easy to slide a shape left and right, and it's easy to solve x^2=k.
I'm not following - how would a smaller (and presumably lighter weight) truck have worse fuel economy than the giants we see today?
We've Been Evolving for Millions of Years, So Why Are Our Bodies So Flawed?
Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt for the wrong person
I think it depends on how you frame it. If the Linux Foundation thinks this kind of research would generate useful information for the kernel project, then the developers' time wouldn't be wasted, just used in a different, yet productive, way.
I concede that this is not an easy question, because the developers may have different opinions about the usefulness of this exercise, but at the end of the day, maintainers can run their projects how they see fit.
I actually had a Fiesta ST before my truck and because it required premium fuel (it would run on standard fuel but burned it quicker and had less power doing it so it was pointless) the actual $ cost per mile was similar to the truck I have now but with shorter range because of the much smaller fuel tank
Not disagreeing, but there are a few other really good (if not great) Duck (and Mouse!) artists in Italy, South America, and other places, including Fabio Celoni, Corrado Mastantuono, and Casty.
But blending in can also be a form of signaling. I mean, pretty much everything is I guess. From Zuckerberg’s t-shirt and jeans demeanor to my favorite form of signaling which are those that wear their faang badges to malls and restaurants on weekends. It earns an instant eye roll. I’ve made my point on signaling poorly and disjointly in the thread but my original point was that buying a brand new vehicle, whatever it be, has a lot to do with image and what you want to signal to others. You can signal that you want blend in or that you are different. It’s mostly harmless, but when you do so with a vehicle, you consider actual perf second.
Facts About Tardigrades
I don't think that (1) is true at all - you have the same problems in building a collaborative application using a web app as you would desktop software (e.g. let's say that you want to do multi-user real-time collaboration - you're going to need to use CRDTs no matter if you're writing C++ or JavaScript).

(2), (3), and (4) are true (they're why I've stopped making my tools available to others), although from a business sense, which is separate from a pure quality sense.

(5) can be addressed with some basic tooling and meta-tooling. I don't think that these are that hard - and, more importantly, the web has a complementary problem, which is that you have to do a lot of engineering to get things you get for free on desktop (most notably, persistence - compare the ease of setting up a database service for your cloud app with just writing to a file on desktop).
SF just has fewer trucks, which is why you probably don't recall too many incidents. Nationwide, increasing number of SUV/trucks is a major problem in ped safety.
Before I switched entirely to Vim I used a remote editor plugin for Sublime that let me edit files over SSH. Didn't work for every case but was handy for editing webpages live on my dev server before the age of Vagrant and Docker.
It shouldn't. It was an isolated (and IMHO, stupid) incident.
As far as the trim is concerned: I also wonder what the cost for the 4-door model will be. All of the marketing photos are 4-door "Super-Crew" models. Currently a Super Crew truck with the base trim and 4x4 starts at $42k. The electric version sound like a bargain if they are actually talking about that version of the truck.
Have you been around people who actually use trucks for work or leisure? They aren't just hitting the side of their trucks with 2x4's or dropping gravel from ten feet in the air like commercials. Lots of people use their trucks for pulling trailers that carry thousands of pounds of their stuff. They use the bed of their truck for carrying things that are long, heavy, grain, sawdust, smaller animals, there is a wide variety of use cases for a truck and a lot of them don't affect the aesthetic of the truck.
... why not just rent one for the day ?
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. I feel the exact same way. OTA updates for my vehicle gives me the shivers. Why not build the fucking thing right the first time? Why does every machine need to be a supercomputer? At what point does it spend more energy thinking then it does getting me from A to B when I push down on a pedal?

I do really think the idea of an electric truck seems cool, and the F150 looks capable, but I'd rather not have yet another connected device. Give me dumb toasters, dumb refrigerators, dumb laundry machines, dumb vehicles. I'm tired of this "smart" bullshit. It doesn't need to be smart because I can tell it exactly what I want.
I couldn't unravel it in a 10-minute skim, over lunch just now.

I speculate that one of the causes of this confusion (which is eerily familiar, from countless other disputes in community projects) is that people involved in community project disputes tend not enlist professional communicators to represent their perspective, and the disputes don't tend to be covered by investigative journalists. And outsiders just aren't interested to unravel it. Many individuals invest much of their lives into community projects, sometimes with little else left, and aren't prepared for suddenly being subject to the court of public opinion. And the public generally isn't invested enough in the matter, to work long to understand it.

Anyway, it sounds unfortunate that Freenode appears to be going through a rough time, and I hope good comes out of this period of its history.

FWIW, before Freenode started, lilo was on other networks, and I recall him asking how to create a nonprofit organization, which I assumed that was what became Freenode. I think the intent was to have a legal structure that would permit an IRC network to sustainably represent particular community interests.
Original Title: How to use weird hacks to make your code unreadable.
hex, base64 encoded strings, etc
And then you have to pay tax to the government on top. Not much left of a 10$ ticket...
Ah, figured it out: it's at the top-right on https://web.archive.org/web/20210228045521/https://freenode.... covered by the Wayback Machine's own toolbar. This is the same location and the same level of prominence as the logo for Private Internet Access, their previous sponsor also associated with Andrew Lee, was placed in for about half a decade between around April 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160413123025/https://freenode.... and January 2021. It certainly wasn't just limited to https://freenode.net/acknowledgements so the claim that this is some shocking, unprecedented new practice that justifies the entire admin team quitting and encouraging everyone else to leave and sponsors to do stuff like delete their mail server without warning seems completely unfounded in actual evidence.

I guess everyone just decided to trust the Big Reputable Freenet Operators over that evil Andrew guy without bothering to check; though to be fair I only happened to notice because initially the other Private Internet Access link in the footer, which had no Shells equivalent, was the only one I could find and it turned out to go way back.
I'm really into mindfulness. I downloaded the Calm App[1] recently, and it has been really beneficial. I feel like Alan Watts[2] would be really into it, if he was alive today (RIP).

My routine is waking up at 6AM, taking a cold shower, and then sitting down on the tile of the bathroom, freezing cold, and thinking about my next startup. I feel like this is my way of Beating the Averages[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calm_(company)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
This is a great essay! Completely agree with all of his points and really wish well-crafted software got more respect.
As an ex-freenode staffer, this is simply untrue.

You took over with zero transition plan, and no engagement with staff - none. You had had no involvement in the running of freenode until this week and had no relationship with any of the team.

You marched in, announced that you were saving freenode from the "hostile takeover" of their own consensus-based, transparent, self-organisation, and SURPRISE they decided that they didn't want to work with a mystery absentee landlord who rocked up, proclaimed themselves, and demanded their land back with a team of lawyers.

You have no track record on freenode, of working with the ex-staff team, and clearly don't understand the community.

Why else would volunteers who have been working on a project for ACTUAL DECADES FOR FREE ALL WALK OUT OVERNIGHT? This is not what people do with things they love unless something very odd is happening.

As far as I'm aware no-one damaged everything - and went to pains to leave in an orderly line. They just didn't want to work for you when you swooped in.

You even had the head of staff working with you to let you figure out how your new toys work. Any damage to data or infrastructure is, I think, the responsibility of the management.

Which if you are to be believed has been you for years anyway.
Don’t think that Twitter will suddenly stop showing you ads just because you paid them. They really are fundamentally an advertising company. The microblogging thing is just how they get eyeballs onto their ads.

We’ve been here before, with cable TV. And before that, with newspapers and magazines.
> Long story short, former staff were upset about a logo but the logos were there since the start. I wanted to share that.

https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/489

"since the start."
I've read several articles about when is the best time of month/year to buy from a dealer. Some say end of the month is best, because people are trying to meet their quotas. I've read an article written by a hostage negotiator about how to get the best price from a dealership.

I can list off the top of my head a good 20 or so considerations that would go into buying the right truck for my needs. All of them are more important to me than the famously shitty minutia of the actual sale process. Buying a vehicle is a whole can of worms, and Ford's site forces me to open than can before I can even start imagining life with my fancy new truck.
>Crumple zones don't help pedestrians.

Not the kind you're thinking of.

But the top half of the bulbous front end that basically every modern car has is mostly empty space and flimsy plastic to create what's basically a crumple zone for pedestrians.
I would define fairness as equality of opportunity, for every person.

Hence the previous comment's tautology that fairness will not be an objective good for most people, because (a) most people prefer their own self interest, (b) the status quo provides majorities advantages that minorities do not share, and (c) objective fairness will thus come at the expense of the majority (who are by definition more numerous than the minority).

It's interesting most people are interpreting my comment as a preference, vs an observation.
The ownership chain of Freenode was

1. Rob Levin/Lilo, personally

2. Open Projects Network

3. ???

4. PDPC

5. Christel, personally

6. freenode ltd.

7. Andrew Lee (via freenode ltd)

After PDPC, what christel personally owned to transfer to freenode ltd to sell to Andrew Lee is... hard to define. A domain and a website, sure. But christel didn't own the servers, did not employ people, and does not have any agreement with the users, something which continued into freenode ltd. And apart from the users, operators, servers, and domain, it's not clear what an IRC network is to own.
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Spring 1993 to Spring 2001.
Child’s burial 78kya suggests emotional attachment
Ohio’s 53% vaccination surge tied to $1M lottery; NY and Md. announce lotteries
Yeah, but imagine a gambler that wins once and never plays ever again in the same casino. What if he takes his money to another casino? He could lose or win. Let's say he wins again, and goes around the city playing in different casinos. In the long run his earned money will be 0. So, win in the first casino and then stop.

The gambler dies, and his son gets the money. Now his son is a new gambler who lives in a different city. If he plays in other casinos he could win or lose, but in the long run his earned money will be 0 too.

It means that for a gambler to actually win he must win only once, then he must not play ever again, or any other gambler with his money, since entropy is "connected" to that money, because money makes part of the same system.

Transform that money into energy and give it to the gambler demon, what will happen?

Now how much money/energy does it cost to create one of these demons?
We know that cotton top tamarins have at least 38 calls, the calls have a grammatical structure, the calls are learned, and comprehension comes before usage mastery. That pretty much qualifies as a language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton-top_tamarin
I had a trailer for my Dodge Avenger. I have a truck now. Believe it or not, as a person who had periodic need for a trailer, it's easier to be a person with periodic need of a truck bed.
This is also simply untrue.
Correct.

Though I see no reason why EC2 would barf on it, as long as you support the proper hardware. They just don't include a lot of legacy hardware you find on a more standard bit of x86 hardware.

Now, if you wanted a really interesting article, discuss how to port your OS to run on the EC2 ARM instances!
There is no noticeable latency. You will notice it even if you are looking for it and you will need to really concentrate and draw lines very fast to see the difference.

In general writing and even drawing latency is not something to worry at all. You can write and draw naturally.
It is far from perfect; and yet, it's the only metric comparable between different countries, assuming you can trust death counts -- which I do for most countries. It's not a good proxy, but there is no better one that I've found (nor that I'm aware anyone else has found).

Every other measure has all of the problems you listed, and in addition it is subject to testing policy differences (including who to test, cycle threshold, and other variables), diagnostic policy differences (e.g., in the UK, death within 28 days of a positive PCR test is classified as death from corona, regardless of what happened since; Death more than 24 hours from a vaccine is assumed unrelated to the vaccine), and explicit number fudging.
Nobody is designing market specific hoods and radiator core supports. Maybe a little of the front body plastic but nothing substantial/structural.
> As you can see I was approached by freenode

You were approached by christel.