skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change isn't en existential risk, the way we deal with it is developing new knowledge which as a by product allow us to go to the moon or mars. Furthermore there is a whole other perspective on space which is military and includes china who is not going to hold back.
I like that one a lot. My other favorite (as an American) is:

Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages?

A: Bilingual

Q: What do you call a person who speaks one language?

A: American
Well, we still can't get two people of opposite political parties to agree to any long term policy on sustainability. Expecting millions of businesses and/or billions of individuals to follow along as part of a long-term coordinated effort is, IMHO, a super hard problem too. I can't say going to/living on Mars is any easier, but they're both hard problems.
Isn’t communism ownership by the people? I thought totalitarianism or fascism is where the state owns the means of production.
Yes. If you don't want to be using google or google using you, which ever way you look at it. It's better than chrome, but suffers same thins as firefox like default settings.
Why can you not have downtime-free deploys? You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown

If your server is incapable of gracefully exiting, that's not a K8s problem.
What makes you so sure that the downvotes aren't because all you posted was a comedic reference?
You still don't understand my point because of some quibble you have about your immediate experience of surveillance, and not how it operates on the backend, how it impacts society, and ultimately your life in the long run. Mass surveillance is silent, unblinking, all-seeing (like Hal in 2001), all-knowing, all-correlating.

But it seems that if your personal experience is not impacted, then it's all fine. I dunno, maybe it isn't all fine compared to you, but your comments downplay and deflect.

> Mass surveillance _is_ worse.

Well then I am confused about your point, because it seems like you want to agree but argue, needlessly attacking someone trying to raise awareness.
My contention, which is counterintuitive and very possibly wrong, but I feel strongly enough about it to defend it on a message board, is that exploits are so cheap that state-level actors are in fact not meaningfully price-sensitive to them.

It's true that you can't charge $2MM for a Firefox exploit right now. But that's because someone else is selling that exploit for an (orders of magnitude) lower price. So NSO can't just jack up exploit prices to soak the IC.

But if all exploit prices for a target are driven up, everywhere, my contention is that the IC will shrug and pay. That's because the value per dollar for exploits is extremely high compared to the other sources of intelligence the IC has, and will remain extremely high almost no matter how high you can realistically drive their prices. The fact is that for practically every government on the planet, the dollar figures we're talking about are not meaningful.
It’s the title of the article (well, at least it was at the time of submission), minus the last clause because it was too long otherwise.

The current headline is “Bezos thanks Amazon workers and customers for his vast wealth, prompting backlash”, FWIW.
Discount?
Off-topic feedback on your side project - audiobookmate.

I really enjoy the layout of the site, and it feels very natural to navigate. A feature I'd appreciate is a small modal popup on-hover whenever my mouse sat on top of an audio book's cover for a couple seconds, providing a synopsis and maybe the reviews for the current book I'm hovering. (See Goodreads for an example of this)

Otherwise, great job on both sites.
> One flaw with the analogy [...] Many people who attempt it have literally no idea they will when they wake up that morning.

Can you elaborate? That sounds pretty much like the people in the analogy to me. They jump because the alternative they face right now is more terrifying for some reason. It makes sense that not all methods of suicide fulfill that criteria (being less terrifying than the alternative), even if they are all methods to end your life.
My rule of thumb is that if you give me an honest estimate, then it’s my job to make it work. Negotiate scope, change implementation, move resources, increase cost, whatever. But I need estimates that at least reasonably correspond to reality in order to make my case successfully.

The biggest issue I have is developers making business decisions without realizing it or without saying it — saying no to something because it would take too long or be too expensive, without first asking how much time/cost can be consumed

The same occurs with estimating — they’ll give a risky estimate instead of a safe one, because they’ll unilaterally decide the stable one is unacceptable; and not bother mentioning this with their estimate, or knowing what the rest of the timelines look like.

The other half of the problem is that people tend to only want to give one number (and people typically ask for a single number), but what you really want for project planning is the median +- margin of error timelines. The 1x,2x,3x rule is just a hack to work around that unwillingness.
Who cares if he had parents invest in his company?!? Why do people jump to that immediately trying to prove what an “evil” guy he is. Guess what...Bezos’s parents paid their taxes on their incomes and saved the money and chose to invest in their son. Why is that a negative? Right place at the right time - there were millions of people in their 20’s in the late 90’s, thousands had $250,000 in cash to start a business, but only 1 turned into the biggest most efficient company in history. It wasn’t luck man, it was talent. The ignorance seems to be on your end believing it was luck.
But the problem is that the premise of web falls apart if you have to install a separate app for every kind of content. I want to be able to have a hyperlink on my website to a TikTok video or an Instagram post and have people actually see it rather than go "ugh I have to install an app to see the content you are linking to". I want to be able to just click around the web without having to ever think about the boundaries between "apps". This is also why a lot of us hate authwalls: "oh god another account I need to set up"... it doesn't take much time to set up an account, but in a world where every single damned website would want an account you will never be done with it. The dual reasons then why you don't spend much time installing apps is because on the one side the web works well enough that people just link to stuff on the web and it works most of the time... and yet on the other side you also see people choose to centralize things into places that are easier to link stuff from, including apps people are more likely to have installed, which is a background force of centralization.

The world people (like you) seem to want is one where the web is essentially dead and everyone just sits around in some subset of waller gardens that they don't really leave, with some minimal amount of hyperlinks available to get content in and out of other products. I have a link to a map, well, you better have Google Maps installed or it won't work. That just seems like a depressing failure of vision to me: the goal should be to get the web to the point where it replaces all of these stupid apps we have to have, so no one ever has to decide if an app is "installed or uninstalled" ever again: all content is immediately consumable at all times with nothing other than a URL. And we could be there if people with vested interests--like Apple--didn't stop actively trying to hobble web standards so people were forced to install more apps constantly.
How do you pay back loans without income?
It’s been a long time since I read the Communist Manifesto. Do you mean to say that Marx’s goal was violent overthrow? I thought he described more of an evolution of systems until the workers paradise was reached.
“ It's more like the Catholic church only wants virgins and people who can't be proven otherwise as priests right now.”

But let’s be honest it’s unspoken that they prefer straight virgins right?

Actually it’s spoken. Quite verbose in fact. The church is constantly attacking gays and for them to be non-bias in this case is completely out of character and you are giving them way too much courtesy.
They’re not saying “let’s do things the way we’ve always done them,” they are observing that people seem to have a huge intrinsic drive to explore.

It’s cousin to the famous phrase, “why do we climb the mountain? Because it is there.” It’s not a rational thing but it is a very real part of being human nonetheless.
Which models are attainable in particular? I've always wanted to have a Video Toaster capable machine (A4000T especially) but I can't seem to find them anywhere.
The Decadence of Economics
Actually do you mind expanding on the quality of yacc, bison being awful. I dont mean that as passive "oh yeah?" line to "trap" you. Language front-ends (and their tooling) is something I am pretty passionate about and having developed parser generators in the past (and working on something now) I just wanted to explore specifics that make yacc, bison unweildy for others.

Just to start off - I still find their debugging or their (lack of) ability to reason a huge barrier to wannabe language developers. But I am still unable to put this in concrete terms. My last few months has been immersed in reading a ton of papers and I still see the papers use bison as the staging ground for most new ideas (menhir these days seem to be gaining popularity) so curious what is keeping yacc/bison in their throne position?
We are building a marketplace for home cleaners. I am solo developer on the project and I would like some feedback. Are there issues with design, is it easy to use?

https://app.homespritz.ca

Currently we are only in Alberta Canada, so if you want to search an address here's a random address from Calgary: 2205 33 Ave SW
Calgary, AB T2T 1Z9
It was more about migrating the existing microservices than some example app, runs in docker compare today. Getting the respective platforms up was not the issue. I don't think weeks were spent, but they were able to migrate a complex application to K8s in less than a week. Couldn't get it running in Nomad, which was tried first due to its supposed simplicity over K8s.
Yes, exactly! And then when you don't buy his new windows, he calls the cops and tells them to be on the lookout for your silver bmw with illegal tinted windows.

So, @hannasanarion, what's your job title as muse? Given your posts, I'm gonna go ahead and guess "Head of PR"?
One more reminder: there is no such thing as anonymised data.
Alder Lake looks seriously impressive if the rumoured performance is even close to accurate, so I wouldn't count them out just yet - that being said, they will never get a run like they did over the last 10 years again.
HTML meta headers used to be the solution to this kind of stuff, like the <meta charset="UTF-8"> tag for example (which contains information you can also provide in a HTTP header).
Well said.

The #1 rule I used to follow is
I am on this control what can I do here and is it clear.
The #2 rule is
What is my next step from step #1 and is it easy to find where I currently am.

Break either of those and the GUI will be confusing. Disappearing controls makes you think something is wrong. I would typically go with disabled and a clear indicator of the something else needing to be filled out. If that was not achievable a tooltip on the disabled control to tell the user what to do.

The way to achieve it is to pretend you are on 2 hours of sleep and not very computer savvy.

Now you can go too far and make the whole thing a busy mess and then it is unclear where to even begin. A good rule of thumb with that is left to right top to bottom, keep scrolling to a minimum. Most people get that. One I was using just yesterday was jumping around in the page and the 'finish' control was in the top left and scrolled off the page.
This is neither a constructive comment, nor the cleverly sarcastic wit that you think it is. Are you unable to add anything useful to the conversation?
Why is a comment that makes assumptions about its readers and makes typical bragging points of meaningless things like learning syntax at a young age near the top? It felt like I was reading a parody towards the end.
But not to the BRK boys, who underweight tech.
I didn't know pooh-pooh was a genuine logical fallacy before now!
You are very clearly either totally fucking delusional, or a muse employee.
Brinkley Act: Bans US broadcasters from being connected to a Mexico transmitter
"Prior to World War II, Dr. John R. Brinkley controlled a high-power radio station, XERA, located in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila (Acuna City), on the U.S.-Mexican border, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas. The programs on Brinkley's stations originated from studios in the US, which were connected to his transmitters via international telephone lines. Brinkley ran a popular but controversial program offering questionable medical advice to his listeners. Since Brinkley's transmitters were licensed in Mexico, which at the time had very limited regulation of broadcast content, his broadcasting licenses could not be directly threatened by the US government."
I think there was more willingness to defend these kinds opinions on principle based on the 1A and, importantly, defending someone on principle wasn't conflated with supporting that PoV. But now that is no longer the case. Now people claim that there are exceptions and also that while the 1A exists, it does not protect individuals from repercussions (job loss) even if state jobs.

I think that is a significant shift (even if yes, we do see a free pass for the likes of Sarah Jeong[1] for example.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45052534
I'm no super genius, but it does sound like simply changing the tax code to require paying back all loans before changing the cost basis would be both easily and less possibly catastrophic than all of a sudden taxing unrealized gains.
An Interview with Frank Capra (1971)
I feel like Apple has generally done a good job containing churn to the superficial parts of the OS. That said, I wish the Linux/BSD mindshare had chosen to invest its desktop efforts into creating a rock solid OpenStep implementation.

Had GNUStep or something like it been able to marshal the resources that have been poured into multiple rewrites of Gnome & KDE, I think we’d have the basis for the low-churn system we wish Apple had provided us.

Maybe if someone like this had come along 20 years ago things would be different https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
I knew it!

I'm working on a tool called amna (https://getamna.com). It manages your Chrome Windows for you as part of tasks. However, it does so by giving you a new profile of Chrome to work with Amna, without any extensions. Kind of like a brand new browser.

It's funny because most people who try Amna are like , whoa, how did you make Chrome so fast? They just don't realize that they have all of these unused and bloated extensions slowing them down. And ofc, after logging into Google, it syncs all their extensions and you're back to a crawl.
Finding customers can be done with a telephone. It is often more important than building the the thing you are trying to sell. Because building the thing doesn’t solve the finding customers problem.

It really doesn’t solve the building the thing problem either because without feedback from potential customers you probably have the building the wrong thing problem to some degree.

A devops tool is targeting businesses more than individuals. Talk to the relevant businesses and solve their actual problems.
Good luck.
If you are exposed to too much C you can't see the C-thulhu.

Undefined behavior is normal. The whole relationship between .h and .c files is sick. How you use the "extern" keyword is arbitrary. strcpy is Turing complete. It took a while for people to realize templates are Turing omplete. I'm not sure where the grammar fits in the Chomksy Hierarchy since you have to look at the symbol table to parse it...

Good C looks like poetry, but beginning programmers shouldn't be subjected to any of it. I certainly hate cleaning up the mess!

ALGOL, PL/I and similar languages put a lot of work into specifications but nobody really knew how to write a specification that could be implemented back then. C was an early attempt at specification + implementation that was "minimum viable" (almost?) and ready in time to be the bridge between microcomputers and minicomputers.

Probably the best idea in C was that you didn't have to agonize over I/O in the language specification but you could just leave it to the stdlib.
> Sadly, with how things are with the courier and customs dep. here they can charge 30-40% of orignal price to receive electronic items

Something I never really understood, when going to less developed countries, why are customs always trying to fleece everyone? Normalized bribes, byzantine bureaucracy, astronomical import duties on computers and essential products.

What's the goal with this? Is there some kind of long term strategy I'm not seeing? Do they not want investments or a tech sector?

The unemployment and brain drain these countries suffer sure paints a bleak picture.
The obvious disadvantage is that the drone is programmed with a source and destination point which are easily extracted from the machine. Cleaver LEOs could probably get to the receiving point within the window when the drone is expected and, if not, the points are probably pretty close to their base of operations.

When interrogating a pilot the pilot can clearly signal distress to compatriots and is likely going to take longer to actually disclose their intended destination.
I’m working on my own learning platform, and am amazed by your ambition! Best of luck, creating good coursework is just plain hard. I never had that appreciation until I tried to make good learning materials.
Do they need to sell to pay their taxes? Government could just accept the shares as payment in kind, plenty of uses for them without selling: sovereign wealth fund, state pension fund, employee owned trust.
For Bezos (and the wealthy in general), the interest rate on the loan is lower than your capital gains, so you can just keep rolling the loan forward forever.
That would be a great time barrier to remove.
I would wager that a lot of this wood is also being used to make Chinese 'stencil' pianos; China is the only location where piano manufacturing is still growing
Misinformation about Alzheimer’s disease and Aduhelm must be limited
If anyone has data and/or thought on how well do options market work as prediction markets, would be keen to know and understand.
> Why can you not have downtime-free deploys? You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown

> If your server is incapable of gracefully exiting, that's not a K8s problem.

Also whatever load balancer/service mesh you have can be configured for 503 rerouting within DC as necessary too.
Do AMD even have optimized packages available? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of what Intel get up to but AMD's profiling software is dreadful so I'm not exactly surprised that Intel don't even entertain the option.
... oh damn, that does match up to when I felt iOS abruptly lost its way and headed down the road to becoming a complicated, full, multitasking GUI OS, rather than a light & simple thing-becomer.
I agree. An ideal is far from reality.

I like to get deep into low level stuff, but my employer doesn't care if I understand how a system call works or whether we can save x % of y by spending z time on performance profiling that requires good knowledge of Linux debugging and profiling tools. It's quicker, cheaper and more efficient to buy more hardware or scale up in public cloud and let me use my time to work on another project that will result in shipping a product or a service quicker and have direct impact on the business.

My experience with the (startup) business world is that you need to be first to ship a feature or you lose. If you want to do something then you should use the tools that will allow you to get there as fast as possible. And to achieve that it makes sense to use technologies that other companies utilise because it's easy to find support online and easy to find qualified people that can get the job done quickly.

It's a dog-eat-dog world and startups in particular have the pressure to deliver and deliver fast since they can't burn investor money indefinitely; so they pay a lot more than large and established businesses to attract talent. Those companies that develop bespoke solutions and build upon them have a hard time attracting talent because people are afraid they won't be able to change jobs easily and these companies are not willing to pay as much money.

Whether you know how a boot process works or how to optimise your ELK stack to squeeze out every single atom of resource is irrelevant. What's required is to know the tools to complete a job quickly. That creates a divide in the tech world where on one side you have high-salaried people who know how to use these tools but don't really understand what goes on in the background and people who know the nitty-gritty and get paid half as much working at some XYZ company that's been trading since the 90s and is still the same size.

My point is that understanding how something works underneath is extremely valuable and rewarding but isn't required to be good at something else. Nobody knows how Android works but that doesn't stop you from creating an app that you will generate revenue and earn you a living. Isn't the point of constant development of automation tools to make our jobs easier?

EDIT: typo
At the amounts you're talking about (100s of millions of $$), virtually all of that stock would be subject to the federal estate tax, with the vast majority of it at the 40% top rate.

Those unrealized gains you're talking about are one of the main reasons the estate tax was enacted ~100yrs ago...
Unit tests and "type systems" have very little in common with Kubernetes and GraphQL.
Essentially this repo is a robust wrapper for FFMPEG, which is what most programmatic video editing tools use in one way or another.
Contrary to popular belief, options trading is a good way to reduce risk according to most expert comments I've read. But it can be very frustrating for ppl who want to try for the first time. I do sports trading in the UK and wanted to get into stock & options. But the jargon is so off-putting.
For anyone reading this thread who may be in a similar situation: I wrote a script that allows you to use GitHub Actions as a computer. Any work you do can be committed to a repository and saved for later.

It can either boot up a command-line, or a complete desktop interface. Both are available entirely over the Web (and thus a smartphone). All you need is a free GitHub account. Both are also available over Tor in case you're in a situation where things might be blocked.

https://github.com/jstrieb/ctf-collab

I originally built this for doing competitive hacking challenges with a friend, but I have also used it at libraries, and from my phone. In general, it is great for when you need a desktop but don't have one, or for when you can't install things on the computer you're using.

Hopefully this helps others who need access to such resources for learning!
It is a handout. It's a handout you agree with, but it's a handout.
Yes, you absolutely should, unless you are already making a ton of money in a more fulfilling job.
I'm hanging in there with Firefox as a matter of principle. Since Gecko is the only alternative engine left. However under Linux I feel the performance is worse then under Windows. On Windows Firefox performance feels closer to Chrome's performance.
Your capital you used for collateral on the loans accrues value quicker than the loan's payments.

Hence that 1% effective rate.