skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're leading a company of young, mainly unattached folks and don't have other companies depending on your product, then yes, it's more like a gold rush where you all prosper together and the downside of flying the company into a mountain is 'oh, well, we tried and we learned, let's move on to the next thing.'

It's a different matter if your company is staffed by family breadwinners and you have customers that would have serious deletierious consequences if your firm failed. You don't even need to fail, just go through a rough patch and lay off some the workers you hired and trained, or, fail to deliver a project that negatively affects a customer. These are nerve-wracking for CEOs that aren't made of the stuff that can lead firmly through these situations.

Perhaps the better notion is that startup CEOs that really do react poorly to the 'hard stuff' need a plan to move the burdensome work to a 'professional CEO' and step into Chairman/CTO, or somesuch. Keep the fun, keep the equity, offload the hard stuff.
Meaning, illegal from your point of view?
A small lathe is about $250 so unless you are using a Pi or Pinebook, that is unlikely.

Your computer does _different_ stuff than a lathe. We need both computers and lathes in modern life.
I think this misunderstands the hard part of running AWS. You're paying for the software, sure. What you're really paying for is the hundreds of oncall engineers supporting you at all times, and the culture of ensuring that those services keep working.
What kind of performance?

We always got our all star creatine.

I didn‘t notice any changes in workout performance from tadalafil or l-citrulline and I consumed insane amounts of them.
And WSL is not UNIX.
I knew the comment, even before clicking the link
hey thank you for saying this, I also though the tone was pretty off.
There is only weak evidence it increases sildenafil half life -I shouldn‘t have mentioned it.
This legend circulated across the entire Eastern Bloc in general, and possibly beyond it. It's not based on anything.
Paraphrasing your comment: "ok, you're right... but that could change one day!"

Thanks tips.
> on-device wrongthink scanning is a thing.

Yes, it's horrifying how the authoritarian Chinese government forced this.
I read them, and I still don't get them.
I'm not sure there's a consensus, I expect it depends on your astronomical area of study. If you study the whole universe, than our solar system at 4.5B years old is pretty recent compared to the 14B years of the universe, so there's no ancient history of the moon.

I'd say if you studied the moon, anything that happened in it's early lifetime is ancient so the protomoon and first billion years into it's existence, maybe.

I guess it's similar to how people studying evolution class Humans as a recent event, but people who study humans class the the Pyramids as ancient history.
Mind sharing how much you paid for that domain? I'd imagine it'd have been pricy.
Thanks for pointing that out! English not my first language.. I changed all of the above into something better, I hope. :D
> It’s hard to imagine with the amount of H2O on the planet right now, but if it can happen to Mars (the atmosphere is stripped away), it could happen here I suppose.

Mars' atmosphere isn't protected by a strong magnetic field because the planet isn't geologically active, unlike the Earth. Gasses escape from the Earth into space constantly, but not at a rate that will leave the Earth like Mars before the sun becomes a red giant.

In billions of years, the sun will expand and probably blast away the Earth's atmosphere before possibly engulfing it later.
> unproven allegations of poor behavior of a beneficiary in another state and absent any court judgment instructing them to give him the money

Which is why I highlighted this particular instance, because neither of those are true. The allegations were proven to the satisfaction of the court, and there was a court judgement.

In reality, what the South Dakota law seems designed to do is create enough uncertainty, delay, and paperwork that most people give up and go away. Which seems like what the California DA did.

To me, this feels like a case of stated aims by South Dakota (protecting trusts' privacy) vs actual aims (shielding money from litigation, in order to attract more trust business to the state).

It is absolutely possible to create a system so byzantine that it can simultaneously be technically legal (we pay all valid claims) but realistically illegal (our processes are so convoluted that it's effectively impossible to validate a claim).
But those are actually hard problems, whereas this is a feel-good bill to placate a certain segment of your voter base.
Yes, what's the point of this?
When exactly is "around midday" in a NOAA.gov announcement that has a timestamp in UTC and mentions New York to Washington state as affected areas?
Re loneliness I knew zero other executives or business people when I started. I had a great support network of close friends and family, but no one I could confide in. What I think helped me cope (when I could cope) was keeping front and center how privileged I was to have chosen this mountain to climb. I've since met people starting startups literally in the middle of warzones. Can't complain I've had it too rough. Neither has Ryan from the stories which is the point of the cruelty.

If he has had it rougher than it seems, let's hear those stories! Would make for much better blogging than this.
> the assumption that people will collectively care about something they don't individually care

This is not an assumption, they'll have to do the right thing when society is properly setup. Can you chose not paying for your car registration? Can you drink on the streets freely (in USA)? It is just a mater of time before we agree that unlimited profit is bad for our future and outlaw it.
Huh, maybe the thinking that everything has to be perfect is rooted in products where people do pay for what's under the hood? I.e. literally cars.
You are effectively saying: the thing we’ve been scaling 100+ years scales better than the things we’ve been scaling for 20 years. I agree.

But, put 100 years of scale into solar/wind/batteries and the world looks very different: we’ll easily have 1 billion BEV and they’ll easily traverse the Nullarbor.

I think scaling looks very different in the renewable space, I think adding 10Kw a billion times over is the better way to scale, and have a truly distributed energy network.

Large scale power generation should be for large scale industry.

If you wired up enough panels around the world… you don’t need a lot of storage (except for balancing) because the sun is always shinning somewhere.

Regardless of what the solution looks like. My original point: drilling, refining and delivering oil globally is no where near the efficiency of local generation and consumption.
It's actually customizable via the PYTHONBREAKPOINT environment variable and sys.breakpointhook(). The default does pdb.set_trace(), which gives you a built-in debugger prompt (not a REPL) at that location. But it can be set to execute arbitrary code, and most Python IDEs make it behave like "normal" breakpoints.
ESET says new Linux malware found, but infection vector unknown
I recommend the book:

Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

Generally, all scientific fields have immense issues related to the walled gardens and limitations created by their peers.

I also recommend this discussion between Eric and Brett Weinstein which highlights just one example of the major issues:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JLb5hZLw44s
so many new programming languages come out that are almost identical to existing ones. Where's the crazy ideas (aside from the esoteric languages, which are different because they're intentionally difficult). I'd love to see more entries in the areas other than OO or procedural languages (or even just a variation on those, like an actor-model language). There's so many ideas in the programming language theory space that deserve a swing.
Yeah I've been using a cheap 40" 4K TV as a monitor for like 8 years now and it's been great.
The US didn't use soft power to censor Soviet cinema within the USSR. It's an absurd power.
> Scholars in fields where many papers are published annually face difficulty getting published, read, and cited unless their work references already widely cited articles. New papers containing potentially important contributions cannot garner field-wide attention through gradual processes of diffusion.

That's why change in the sciences, and similarly in commerce, industry, the arts and most human endeavours, often has to take the form of generational change, even when the raw facts would suggest otherwise to the naive observer.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.
this seems like a potential area for innovation; Self propelled consumer ICE lawnmowers are plagued by open differentials, front wheel drive, and a complex drive system (belt and clutch attaching to a constant speed motor)

Electrics, on the other hand, could easily have independent front and rear motors, if not each wheel; an independent ramping and traction control system from the main motor -- and even an isolated electrical system (via capacitor) such that grass load and wheel speed are indepedent.
I'm also super interested about how code looks like in elite organization! In my previous work place I felt exactly the same as you.. Lucky for me there are many seniors with years of experience under their belts where I'm currently working.
The reason is that Norm died a few days ago, I guess people have been rediscovering his content which pushes it up in the algorithm.
Global organisations are to nations what words are to individual humans, both in capability and purpose: they get used, not corrupted, by government action.

Actual corruption can still happen by individuals within organisations, but that (continuing the metaphor) is like coughing or stammering while you talk, and isn’t desired even by the user.
I remember some ~20 years ago, only going thru their HOWTO was very revealing about the system innards and I remember having a blast. I never went trough a real LFS install because I lacked an extra box at the time, but it is something the lingered on the back of my head since.
Nice! any suggestions on how?
Show HN: Explore random selections from Project Gutenberg
Every few weeks, I hunt YouTube for Norm Macdonald material I haven't seen yet. I've been doing this for a few years now. My family usually responds with an eye-rolling "OK..." when I want to imitate one of his long routines, but I had great success over the years with his moth joke [0] and the professor of logic joke [1]. Last week, I wanted to look up some details about his SNL dismissal on Wikipedia and skimming over the article I suddenly realized that some personal details about him were now written in the past tense.

RIP.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxD3pT8C9-A

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oseqh7SMIvo
Nano-5.9 Is Released
I would contest the claim that being an asshole is something that “happens to” a person, rather than something that the person chooses to do.
Are you sure? It seems to me that they were probably replacing some text characters with their own sprites instead. They could still be text characters, just redefined for their purposes.
Voxsteroid – Online asteroid light curve generator
Lockdown Privacy: Blocks trackers/ads in all iOS apps, not just Safari
A database is the wrong solution to this problem. The problem is spam detection and blocking.

This solution is simple and good. A developer on the receiving end of a "add an item to this list" bug report has a clear, well-trodden way to do it: update the text file. They have a modern editor that handles big files just fine. They frequently deploy new code to production, including testing it.

Moving to a DB means that it needs an interface in production, because presumably Twitch doesn't let their devs run random commands on production boxes. It means ACLs and a sync between dev and prod. It means another moving piece when Twitch spins up a disaster recovery test.

The full-powered, industry-standard solution is an AI-based spam detector with some sort of lag on blocking (e.g. shadow banning). This requires inputs to train on, such as reports from Twitch moderates, which might need oversight. It requires ML engineers and quality heuristics. This stuff is getting cheaper, but it's a hell of a lot more expensive than an ugly text file.
Peregrine Rewrite – The Python-like language that's as fast as C
In the C standard, a call has arguments and a definition has parameters. That is:

f(this_is_an_argument)

int f(int this_is_a_parameter);
I'd recommend Norm's book Based on a True Story. It has a similar, dreamlike feel to it and is a confusing and fun read.
xkcd/386 urge is strong
If you feel this way (I have no opinion either way) that's cool, you can buy toys for your kids and give gifts in a way that matches your values.

The state compelling stores to present toys in a certain way does not seem like a useful answer to the perceived problem.
The article didn't come across as a complaint to me, rather a description of the emotions they experienced while in that role.
This snippet has been constantly criticized and somehow it makes me think that the people who loudly complain about it have never worked in any kind of big company - which is fine but it shows a lack of empathy, experience or both. You can go to any big company around the world and you'll find duct tape because you know what, if it works, it isn't terrible to use/update and doesn't leak millions in lost revenue then there's no valid reason to spend dev time on that.

This most likely was a temporary solution that grew over time and was left like it, they just kept adding new combinations. It works. If you want to add a new combination you just add it and run a migration (or similar, I've not worked on Twitch but I assume it's not the most difficult thing in the world if it's still like this).

I understand that this can feel like an itch that you really need to scratch (I also feel it) but if you literally see the source codes of any big company you'll find stuff that anyone can criticize from their chair with little effort. Let's now go build a tremendously successful platform like Twitch without cutting a single corner ever and see how that goes.
> Nor did Kamala Harris throw doubt on an existing and proven vaccine

They did exist, were 6+ months and several stages into trials & were given temporary authorization only 2 months latter.

She fomented fear & distrust about the safety of vaccines to score talking points in a debate. Not sure why you think she should get a free pass.
No one mentioned machine learning yet so I will. Recent language models are incredibly impressive, I’m really excited to see where we go next.
The problem with doing this on HN is that you can’t delete or edit comments after a few hours, so there would be no way to remove the proof besides a reply to your own comment (which also doesn’t work once the thread is old enough to not allow comments)
I was expecting cops to arrest him for being stoned.

Also, YT recommended this video: https://youtu.be/SA7bKo4HRTg

It might be the best 5 minutes of your day
Hackenbush: A window to a new world of math
Also you end up with gooey ABS to leech VOCs into your toy. :/ I really worry about that method.
The vast majority of Canadians would disagree with the characterization of simply getting a shot in the arm as an "invasive medical procedure". Please, stop the over dramatization. It's embarrassing.

Children, babies and pets get needles all the time. It's literally a fact of modern life.

You know what isn't a fact of modern life? Polio.
To be fair, this is just one of the many examples of UNSC being broken by design. In a similar vein, US tends to use its veto indiscriminately to cover up for Israel, and Russia does the same for its client states and allies.
> I legitimately wonder how many people feel free from lock in after they finish paying $75k to Canonical for a 12 node OpenStack "private cloud build"

Here’s the part where it’s not lock-in. We stopped paying for support from Redhat when we got big enough that our own SRE expertise to run our own open stack cloud.

You know what the impact was on our applications running on it? Absolutely nothing.

How much do you pay Canonical to use grep every month? Inexperienced developers have just been conditioned by cloud providers to think that an IaaS platform must cost something in payments per month to some tech company. It does not.

This is no different than Windows vs Linux on servers. I can’t wait until 20 years from now when all of the proprietary shit looks ridiculous in hindsight.
After we see “mental illness increased when lsd, magic mushrooms and MDMA are legalized”

These drugs have huge potential to mess up a person’s brain if not taken with caution and under direct supervision of experts.
I use it for bodybuilding. Helps with the pump. It's in a lot of pre-workouts.
Recommendations.
Citrulline isn't on the WADA prohibited substances list.
Interestingly enough, the video is from Udacity - which also benefits from hype
I spent many years with PIC chips, starting with PIC16C84 and a homemade EEPROM programmer on my DOS machine. One thing I like to this day is that the PIC chips were extremely well documented, and the documentation style was consistent across their product line. This in turn made bare-iron programming relatively easy.
Is that a large market segment?
Several modules from servo have been inserted into firefox proper.
> We have North and South Korea because of a US invasion

No, this is demonstrably false. Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910. After the war, Korea was partitioned -- much like Europe -- with North Korea occupied by the Soviet Union and South Korea occupied by the US along the 38th parallel in 1945. Except the nature of the respective military presence was very different. The Soviet Union and China brought in large quanties of military equipment and troops, while actively supporting communist guerrillas in the South (but there were never more than ~5000 such guerillas). North Korea invaded the South on June 25, 1950 with ~200K troops and 75K PLA troops of Korean ethnicity, whereas the US had 2-300 troops in all of South Korea. The North attacked with 280 tanks furnished by the Soviet Union, whereas South Korea had no tanks, as the US refused to provide them with any prior to 1950. The North had 110 attack bombers, and 150 Yak fighter planes provided by the USSR. The US did not give any aircraft to the South, and there were only 22 aircraft in the South. The US had basically a token military presence in South Korea as it was not interested in either invading the North or building military bases in the South. You can read more at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Prelude_to_war_(195...

To call this a "US invasion" is absurd. Moreover, somehow trying to make this about the boogeyman of "fighting fascism" or even "civil unions" is bizarre -- what is the state of civil unions in North Korea or China? What is the state of freedom of expression? Or freedom of religion? If you are going to be using words like "fascist", then they are much better applied to North Korea or China than to South Korea or Taiwan.

Please don't spread this type of disinfo on public forums.
>Why not just forbid the use of store imposed gender labels?

Entirely? Or only for the "probably shouldn't be gendered toys"? Going with "entirely" doesn't seem right because like it or not, people have a certain kind of toy in mind when shopping, and they want easily know where the barbies are.
The "tell" would be if he said those other men were The Band, but he didn't know that at the time.
As an Amazon engineer who frequently goes oncall, this is Amazon’s true competitive advantage.

The company works because every night there’s 1000s of engineers sleeping with a pager by their head.
Need more details. Matching AWS service for service would be overkill I imagine, so what services does this need to have. Is hardware virtualisation is must-have.

The way I made systems/applications before AWS existed was to create bootable images. I could already use a hypervisor, Xen, because the OS fully supported both guest and host, all virtualisation modes, before Linux did, and before AWS existed. But because I am not a hosting provider I saw little need for virtualisation. The OS I used also had "unikernel" capability, before Docker, etc. existed. As it happened, this inexpensive, self-determination was not to be the future, instead we got "the cloud". Sharing servers with other "tenants". Less expensive for the hosting provider, but more expensive and more limited for the subscriber. No argument, the "limited" part has improved since then, but it is still expensive (for continuous use that is, spot pricing was a neat benefit of "the cloud").

Anyway, I "deploy" images to "local bare metal" which is a laptop, RPi, or some other smaller form factor. I can use unikernel for some kernel drivers in userspace. Basic filesystem is embedded in the kernel, and larger filesystem is on the USB stick filesystem in compressed format. Updates are easy enough. I put two kernels on the USB stick, one is the running kernel and the other is the update kernel. Same for the larger filesystem which may contain servers and configuration files. Can update or go back to last working kernel/configuration by selecting one or the other in the boot menu/renaming the larger compressed filesystem.

Here is someone running a search engine out of his living room. AKAIK, his setup survived a sustained HN thundering herd, hug of death without a hiccup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552805

The expense of AWS is an obvious point of discussion but another one not mentioned here is control. When I create images for bare metal I do not need to jump through any hoops as I would in order to create an image that will run on AWS. Nor do I need to fiddle with all the AWS knobs. There are no silly marketing names for every program I run. I know the system I am creating as well as I know the OS and the software I choose. That is much better than how well I know every aspect of AWS which just gets more and more complex every year. AWS documentation is as cringeworthy as it it is voluminous. The ever-increasing complexity of AWS, including the "tooling", is, IMO, How To Create Lock-In 101
Anything China touches is automatically discredited.