skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. I only worry what is yet to come...

Civilization is built on so many implicit assumptions; we're going to experience which ones will be broken.
That’s a Strawman argument. There’s a difference between having doubts and actively and willingly creating and distributing lies.
Due Process is an interesting indie-developed tactical FPS, somewhere between Counter-Strike and Rainbow Six. Its main differentiating feature is semi-random maps (and a unique art direction for this genre).

Every week, the developers proceduraly generate new maps using a theme / tileset (e.g. convenience store, chemical warehouse, gameshow studio), then remove ones that don't survive a playtest. A dozen or so maps are introduced each week and there's no way to choose one, making the pool too large for memorization to be useful.

At the start of each round, teams get some time to look at an overhead view, draw a plan on the map, and decide which of their limited resources to use (night vision goggles, breaching charges, barbed wire, etc.). While the layout is random, different areas on the map will have unique features, like a vault that can be opened with explosives or by pressing a button elsewhere, an arcade room with dim lights and cabinets for cover, or a bulletproof cashier's window.

I've been following the project for years and bought a copy when it entered early access last year. It has a friendly community (for now). Big recommendation from me. https://store.steampowered.com/app/753650/Due_Process/
The 1920's version of a millionaire is like a billionaire today.
depends on if we're in an entrenched shooting war on the ground needing frontline infrantry. usually, that type of service doesn't come with a sign-up bonus
Not so much "preventing" anyone from hearing it as much as disparaging the bill in public discourse alongside buying off politicians. Mostly because word about bills like this tends to go around anyway thanks to all the orgs working for the public good. E.g the EFF, etc.
Oregon declares state of emergency as another ‘extreme heatwave’ looms
I think you may have misunderstood. It's not defence spending now, but preceding the rise of silicon valley. Vast amounts poured into radio and signals tech in Silicon Valley before integrated circuits even existed. Companies like Shockley and Fairchild laid the groundwork for SV long before home computers or business machines.
Will any non-human mammals survive in these places? This sucks.
Pfft, just step outside and you'll never have to worry about tea for the rest of your life!
Working in data science I can safely say that that vast majority of people who feel like that have impostor syndrome at the very least really don't know what they are doing. A true imposter theoretically knows they don't know enough, and wants to get away with it. I think it's fair to say people with "impostor syndrome" aren't truly malicious impostors.. but there is this frequent assumption having "impostor syndrome" means "I actually do know what I'm doing".

I find the real issue is that being an expert no longer matters in most roles, so true experts increasingly have disappeared except in a few, mostly academic or skilled trade areas.

This is glaringly obvious in data science where I have been to many large, respectable companies where nobody understands any of the real fundamentals of what they're doing. It's just a bunch of automatons feeding data they don't understand, into models they don't understand, to be used in products they don't understand. But it's ridiculous to blame individuals for this. This is so pervasive in the culture that I have often found myself needing to guess which incorrect or not quite right answer to give in job interviews.

People working at places like this are right to feel that they don't know what they're doing, because they rushed through a boot camp to learn the basics and stopped there. At the same time they shouldn't feel like impostors because they aren't succeeding from some malicious intent, but because the system is broken. Most of them are dying for an expert to give them advice, but because of the broken system this is impossible.

It's not just tech either. We see this in "skilled" trades (to be clear, the quotes aren't because I don't believe these trades require skill, but because they have been transformed into something that increasing does not... even when it should). Plumbing for example used to be a field where it was a big deal to have connections with an experienced, expert plumber who could correctly solve your problem. Currently most "plumbers" are giant companies with a few real plumber's having their "assistants" who can hardly tell a leak from a faucet looking perplexedly at the drip in your ceiling take care of all the calls.

If you really care about knowing something today, the burden is all on you to learn it and there will be no reward other than your personal satisfaction. It may even cause you hardship from time to time when you have to pretend you don't understand something to do your job in a satisfactory way.
Master Weaver's Thesis Book, Systeme DE LA Mecanique a LA Jacquard, 1848
Oh you mean the same time I graduated into a shitty job market with thousands in college loans?

No, I made smart decisions about purchasing a house in a good low col area and fixed it up.

Honestly, this whole idea that anyone who's achieved some success is just down to luck is pretty disheartening. Do you think this is a good approach to improving your life? I don't see any advantage to thinking this way.
There was a post the other day on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oxdwd3/w...

The thing that this particular comment brought up was the mindset of someone not beset by imposter syndrome.

So, from that post:

* Able to determine their own self-worth

* Does not compare themselves to determine their value

* Does not see failure as a bad thing, rather they see it as an opportunity for growth

* Confidence in their ability to deal with anything that may come their way, regardless of whether or not the outcome is favorable (like getting fired, for example)

* Does not worry about things they have no control over and accepts them instead

* Knows that doing their best is all they can do

* Does not derive their value from the opinions of others

* Does not let fear control their actions

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I'd like to blame social media for the prevalence of some of the problems that establish a contrary mindset to the above... but... get off my lawn.
Maybe by our institutions admitting their mistakes and being open and honest about their conclusions.

Do you know how many anti-vaxxers talk about Biden and Harris saying they'd never take the vaccine last year until it was fully FDA certified, or how masks likely don't work because the CDC and FDA said they were mostly worthless to anyone who wasn't a trained professional (before changing their viewpoint, without explanation, last summer)?

How many newspapers, online, and tv presenters either don't even bother with corrections, or run them on page 11 in small font at the bottom? If it hurts the ax they are grinding, they'll never admit a mistake.
So don't use the family plan?
1Password fills iframes based on their domain rather than the parents. If you have an entry in 1Password it will use the value for the domain of the iframe.

I’ve gone so far as to test this.

In my opinion this is the right security model
Not all cryptocurrencies have the same problems. Not all require massive amounts of computational power to "mine". There are many cryptocurrencies (and many of them popular) that don't work on proof of work, and don't require massive amounts of energy to function. This is sort of table stakes knowledge to be able to competently speak about cryptocurrencies at this point.
That's not really a problem. For better or worse, no major economy on Earth is completely libertarian, so countries can make democratic or otherwise decisions about what constitutes waste - even if they're inconsistent or seemingly arbitrary. Sucks for the people who disagree, but that's the social contract for ya.
1rem is the font size of the html element, which if you don't set it otherwise, is relative to user-agent decisions about what 1rem is. Which could be related to screen size or density, but it's up to the user-agent, I don't know if any adjust it so automatically by default (although it would make a lot of sense).

It is, in actual practice, based on user preferences though, if you set your browser to display fonts bigger, 1rem will be bitter. 16px or pt... might not be? So hard to keep track, this stuff is such an accretion of workarounds on top of legacies on top of odd choices.
In many European countries AC in homes is a fairly new phenomenon (20 years or so).
I don't think it's comparable to the first example and I don't think it's affirming the consequent.

It's more like a paradox where you start to loop. Similar to a sentence such as "I always lie".

Or it's kind of like a Dunning-Kruger where the premise would be that:

1. Smart people think they are dumb.

2. Dumb people think they are smart.

So you start to loop between those never being able to figure out if you are actually smart or dumb.
I am a 1PW subscription user and am happy with the product (however, seeing they are moving to Electron means that is very subject to change...)

but

Saying that "customers voted with their wallet" and chose subscriptions is disingenous

Ever since they've had subscriptions they've made the standalone license page extremely difficult to find on their site. They really didn't give regular users a "choice"- they dark-patterned them into thinking subscriptions were the only option

As forthcoming / down-to-earth as these posts from the company seem- they are full of spin. Their impossible-to-find standalone license page is a topic they seem to be avoiding.

Edit to add this small addendum: It just really bothers me on an emotional level to constantly run into this juxtaposition as a user of software/hardware: liking a product but being extremely disappointed in the company offering it.
Wonder where can we download the bunch. Should be fun to read.
Living in a big city isn't much of a problem, only real difference is that almost all your equity will be in your house / real-estate assets. And that can be just fine - in certain areas the real-estate market has performed as well as the stock market, for the past 20-30 years.

But it's difficult to retire on that - unless you decide to sell your house, and move somewhere cheap.
Dictating "truth" leads to 3 diseases.

1. People get stressed out.

2. People clutch their favorite bullshit in an unbreakable deathgrip.

3. People dictate their bullshit to everybody within earshot.

OTOH, truth tastes better than bullshit. Clearly. Given the freedom to experiment people will come around eventually.

So let's provide the people that freedom.
one of my main gripes of the boring route to wealth is that it's so disincentivized in our society. By saving money you miss out on the present opportunities of consumption, but in many ways we subsidize those who choose present over long term choices. Ex: if you choose to work overtime to save for your future (above 401k money), you pay a greater marginal tax rate on those earnings... Ex2: there are many programs that come in times of disaster to support those who did not have any foresight to be prepared. Those who took present opportunities are subsidized in their lack of foresight, while those with foresight are denied the same resources.

It's an inversion of logic because above average intelligence will never be understood by the democratic masses, therefore the best a politician can do is reward average behavior.
I didn't say there were enough for everybody to do it. If we want to talk about margins why are you quoting an average at me?

Without an absolutely insane distribution $400/mo average has some pretty strong things about the bottom quintile.
Air conditioning accounts for less than 5% of the average home’s energy use in homes that use it (the US is a good source of data here, with hot summers and 90% of homes having air conditioning).

Sure, let’s make it more efficient where possible, but let’s stop pretending air conditioning is some evil we should feel guilty over.

If you want to really save energy, focus on the heating side. It takes far more energy to heat a house in the Midwest from 10F to 70F in the winter than the trivial amount it takes to cool a home from 90F to 70F for a few weeks in the summer.
Shark vs charlatan.
Why are people like this.
Elliptic Curves
My Masters Thesis in 1972 was “Rational Points on Elliptic Curves”. It’s been sitting on my shelf for 50 years. A month ago, I discovered that EC’s are now the basis for encryption. Been fun exploring what’s been done since 1972. However, based on what I know, Cryptocurrencies are a dangerous scam. Way too many ways to cheat people who don’t have a clue what they are paying for.
FWIW, Keychain Access supports secure notes as well.
Anyone taking odds on whether author has a trenchcoat and samurai sword to accompany all this irrational crypto hate?

Innovation is never perfect. Unix declared itself a multi user operating system but failed system calls used to crash the kernel for everyone. It has a design flaw boys I guess we screwed up when we didn't throw the whole thing in the trash.
> It should be illegal to waste resources this way.

Don't try to pick winners and losers. Add externalities back into the cost of energy. No crypto PoW miner will keep mining when it's just completely unprofitable. By making choice high energy expenditures illegal, all we're going to do is subsidize someone running their AC all day to keep their residence at 68F or driving a mile and back, while we play whack-a-mole on society's social mores.
What’s a DPA, please?
For me, as an Argentinean visiting NYC, LA and SF, the overwhelming “superiority” of SF in terms of entrepreneurship was seen in the small details. Like riding a bus and siting next to someone that was coding their startup (real example). Or driving a few miles south and visiting a biology/lab in a garage (also real example).

The VCs and all that is probably true. But the air you breath on SF is different.
"Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?"

US neo-parties prioritize party+profit over principle, and the gentle babes run in herd.
The only ones that can barely compete are phone manufacturers that can pre-install their store. I'm thinking of the Samsung app store in particular, which even has some relevant exclusives[1]. Doesn't really weaken your point though, it's effectively an absolute monopoly.

[1]: e.g. https://galaxy.store/csp
there is no reason to work hard at anything if u cant leave it to the family. else i will collect unemployment and smoke weed all day
I was surprised when I moved to the US from Sweden. to login into your bank you just use a regular password.

For other government-related login you usually just use your SSN, if someone gains access to your SSN you are screwed. Compared in Sweden I will happily yell out my SSN to a cashier :)
Hasn't Github gone down a lot this year? What do devs do when that happens?
Right?? What kind of maniac is in charge of product there?
The vast majority of extinct animal species is like that. Fossilization is an incredibly rare event.
Extreme events are rare by definition so I don't think the energy use is significant in exacerbating climate change.
The idea is not as crazy as it sounds.

Some argue that as soon as central banks launch a digital dollar, said dollar becomes programmable.

One major change is that effectively the central bank becomes the main bank for everybody, fully centralized. As such, they would have far more insight. And they can push money to you directly, like a stimulus, when needed.

Yet also allow this money to have an expiry date, so you have to spend it before a certain date.
Well. Count me up as one who was a die hard Bernie supporter who has made a very hard right turn as my former home (as a progressive Dem) seems to be arguing in favor of censorship at every turn.

If you want more people like me keep thinking you can stifle speech on the internet.
Wasn’t it Barcelona the “SV of Europe”?
That's nice technically, but awful in terms of usability.
Thank you for pointing me to that thread. I'll make sure to respond there as well.

I did (incorrectly) assume that the parent was talking about Electron, so that's my bad. That being said, our decision to move away from licensing is absolutely not being driven by VC funding, so the parent comment is also spreading misinformation. We were building a subscription-based model all the way back in 2014, and we're phasing out licenses for the host of reasons that were mentioned in the original article.
Coincidentally, Facebook just released a solution to this problem:

To remove these dependencies, we’ve built a new dedicated piece of hardware called Time Appliance, which consists of a GNSS receiver and a miniaturized atomic clock (MAC). Users of time appliances can keep accurate time, even in the event of GNSS connectivity loss. While building our Time Appliance, we also invented a Time Card, a PCIe card that can turn any commodity server into a time appliance.

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appli...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140732

I didn't even know that a "Miniaturized Atomic Clock" was a thing.

Looks like they cost a couple thousand dollars, but that's probably not a bad price for what you get.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14830
https://archive.is/ThdBX
The English language is more widespread than Fahrenheit, so that's a weak comparison.
I'd support this if app developers were also required to release their apps on all the available stores and obey the policies of a particular store for users who obtain the app through that store.
I'm currently using Gosu.ai in LoL ...it does provide some in-game commentary, basic strategy while events occur in the game. It does try to identify the "strongest" player on either side as the game progresses. I don't think this is crossing the line and could be helpful to new players. Crossing the line would be something like "Ezreal has 194 health remaining, your ult can finish him." There are other plugins that tally up the gold spent by your team and their team and try to estimate some gold advantage but it doesn't account for how much gold players are hording in their wallets.

I just tried Sempai.gg but it died about 5 minutes into the game (went black) and now won't restart. :-) It seems to provide similar information/analysis as other similar apps like Porofessor and other Overwolf plugins. I'd love to chat with the team about a wishlist of interesting stats culled from my own game history that could be useful to me.
If you think DAI is exciting, check out Liquity : it's entirely managed by smart contracts and economic mechanisms, with no governance managing interest rates like with Maker.

One Explainer video with the founder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXLTE-5BkhA

I think DeFi is really getting interesting.
That’s not what inflation is.
Yes, just accounting better for negative externalities (that is, making externalities internal) would solve a lot problems. But, given how hard it is to get people on board to pay for something that was seen as free or close to it before is (see CA trying to fix messed up water rights), I don't have high hopes for that.
> Why? Because I measure myself against 1) role models that are ahead of me in many ways - I've always done that, and it's how I grow, 2) against those with strengths in areas that I have weaknesses.

I don’t think this is why you feel like an imposter, rather this is a rationalisation for why you feel like an imposter.

It’s possibly to do 1 and 2 and not feel like an imposter, so this can’t be the whole reason. It might be necessary for some people some of the time, but it’s not a sufficient explanation.

You even called yourself out on it later in your comment where you say it’s a fallacy.

I’d hazard a guess the real issue is some kind of underlying generalised anxiety.
Counterpoint: I wish to install say Facebook messenger, because my friends use it and I can't get them to change to something sensible.

With an appstore monopoly, Apple can say "you must respect the users privacy, not use these apis and only request location permission through us and if denied you must still have a functional app". If Facebook wants to be on the iPhone at all they will have to play ball.

With an alternative app, they can just require that I install their store and accept their terms.

I am between a rock and a hard place, and I would like to choose the Orchard in that case.
> (however the equivalent in emacs itself is ctrl-Q, probably for bad reasons)

Good reasons:

1) Q is mnemonic for Quote.

2) emacs began life on non-Unix platforms (ITS, TOPS-20, Multics), and was only ported to Unix later. Ctrl-Q is inherited from the original ITS emacs.
YouTube Shorts as a copycat service has been quite interesting to see develop. I think it works well alongside existing long-form content, sort of as an alternating filler to take a break with after watching a few longer videos.

It wouldn't surprise me if in the past, people went to TikTok/Instagram instead to fill that gap, which now is potentially being fulfilled by Shorts. Curious to see how metrics change over time with the rollout and if it has any impact on TikTok / other general short-form video app usage over time.
That’s not the point of vernacular architecture. Read or skim the wiki. The beauty of it is adapting to the surroundings to maximize environmental benefits as a way of preventing environmental externalities or other damages — at least in the sense of climate.

So to respond to your glib remark, no I’m not seriously proposing 2m walls for everyone. That’s ridiculous. There are better ways of building. (We actually have the technology to make net positive energy buildings with sophisticated materials and capture techniques.) The point of my comment was to show the ignorance of modern building techniques in a desert that was doing just fine until modernity started mixing in concrete. Vernacular architecture doesn’t have to be applied everywhere, but we can learn from it and implement what’s convenient.

On a parting note, I like to think of my old building’s thick stone walls built from rock probably quarried at the time on the other side of the hill. We have a southern exposure, and yet the rooms remain chilled without air conditioning so long as I shut the metal blinds at peak heat, and we are warm enough in the winters that we don’t need space heaters everywhere. The same can’t be said for my friend across the city in a newer apartment building that likely isn’t made with hefty stone.
It's not like the DoD is going to be flagging FB posts. It's likely a program designed to disrupt foreign interference in our affairs. It's an intelligence program. In this space, it's specifically ISIS recruiting efforts.

I feel like you have a gross misinterpretation of what the DoD's mandate is...
Back in 1972, elliptic curves were useless abstract math. Amazing to see what’s happened since calculators and computers have became available.
KeePass ( https://keepass.info/ ) with something like Nextcloud ( https://nextcloud.com/ ) or any other solution for syncing password databases across devices.

Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates are free, as is Apache/Nginx/Caddy to reverse proxy Nextcloud or any other solution (if a web based interface is needed). You might also need something like ngrok ( https://ngrok.com/ ) for publically accessing the instance if you're behind NAT and are hosting it on a homelab, or alternatively just put it on one of the VPSes that you're using, if you have any.

Personally i'm using a similar setup (a WireGuard VPN tunnel or two in there as well) on my pre-existing VPSes, so the effective costs are 0$ for me. And the file based approach is actually superior to any (possibly) dubious browser plugins in my eyes.
Just use an sshfs mount and a local editor.