skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"From Scylla to Charybdis" is also a phrase still used today in Greek.
I’ve never had a cat that didn’t drink out of the toilet.
Thank you for sharing your experience Will.

Fortunately there is a growing body of evidence that MDMA and psychedelic assisted therapy could revolutionize the treatment of mental health disorders.

Unfortunately, for the last 50 years, governments, industry and the military industrial complex (together with the MSM) have spread lies and scaremongering to block the therapeutic use of these life-changing therapies.

Here is another video for anyone wanting to know more about the topic:

(Lecture by Prof. David Nutt: The New Psychedelic Revolution)

https://youtu.be/1JjzVcfei60
YMMV, but feels to me that cstross's Cassandra pessimism has increased rapidly each year, with good reason, but some of these pieces are overly-sensationalist. I still remember his whole bit in 2017 about how Hurricane Harvey was going to destroy Houston - how'd that turn out?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/08/houston-...

But I will say his 2015 piece, "A different cluetrain", still holds up with grimmer and grimmer shades of beige*:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-differ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9106983

* a 2013(!) piece: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/02/politica...

Populist demagogues and pandemics might come and go, but the automated, over-financialized, post-political bureaucratic intelligence state is here to stay so long as civilization looks the way it does now. That piece has a lot more deep, systems-oriented thinking. I'd say cstross' pre-2016 predictions still hold up so much better than the more "ripped from the headlines" attempts in these later pieces. His 2017 three-parter in particular has some embarrassingly sensationalist, hand-wavy stuff.
While I agree with your sentiment, he made the "mistake" of MIT licensing his work.
Repelling scam savvy people with CGI renderings of monuments to previous crypto scams and a slot machine with a flashing "Scam Alert" is unusally direct.

It's almost like they've gone beyond filtering out the savvy and gone straight for the making sure nobody feels sorry for the "investors" angle
It's not just objects getting more and more distant with time, it's spacetime itself stretching at every point.

So, during it's 120M years journey, the photon had to travel the initial distance + new distance added by expansion rate.

So when the photons we are receiving now left that star, that star was closer than 120M light years away. And that star is now further than 120M light years.
It's cool to think that first contact between two space-faring civilizations could potentially involve a mutual exchange of detailed historical imagery that neither civilization could have captured on their own.
Maybe it should've been Eggs or That Which laid the Egg...

To expand to dinosaurs, chickens, and Bronteroc's.

Assuming there's just chickens, and we're talking just about chicken eggs, then the chicken came first. Chickens need a mother to hatch the egg, to create the egg in it's womb, etc. An egg cannot exist without a mother to birth it.
Indeed, and some of them are inertial reference frames. ;-)
> I find it funny how so many HNers suddenly jump out of the wood work to respond to allegations that these subreddits are supported by foreign troll farms.

+1

I mean, the /r/antiwork subreddit features mostly posts reporting how people quit their jobs following a history of workplace abuse, or red flags during hiring processes.

Moreover, the subreddit isn't even exclusive to reports from the US.

Are we now supposed to believe that there is no such thing as a bad interview or poor working conditions anywhere we look?

Why are these accounts so hell bent on gaslighting everyone into thinking that there is no such thing as an abusive boss, and quiting a bad job or rejecting a job offer is unheard of?
Tell me something I dont already know. Anyway this link (https://bfy.tw/SKWq) will help you on your way. :)
It depends on what kind of games you like, but in the past few years ones that I've enjoyed that have great mods are: Rimworld, Slay the Spire, and Factorio.

A good way to find games that have mods is to look at the "Steam workshop" page on a steam game listing. Here's the listing sorted by games that have a "Steam workshop" (which is kind of steam's interface for managing mods): https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category2=30
> Assuming the package is released under a Free Software licence, what grounds would there be for a DMCA takedown?

Noncompliance with the license, e.g. by removing required copyright notices/attribution in the code (this has happened in the past). Or straight-up uploading someone else's non-free code.
I think package managers such as npm should require package maintainers to sign a legally binding agreement that they're not going to willfully do stuff like this.

There's no other way.

Why? because determining if a package is malicious via static analysis or other automatic means would be the equivalent of creating a solution for the halting problem.
The point is that the founders apparently intended for large whales to disguise their purchases. This means individuals bought into a system that was advertised as being decentralized, when it was apparently intended to merely /appear/ to be decentralized. Remember Ethereum is planning on moving to "proof of stake".
Pointing a dyndns at your home connection for vhosting toy apps and sites on existing hardware with no additional cost is a long tradition in tech.

Not everyone wants to give monthly Danegeld to Bezos.
I'll go as far as to say that Starlink is now so good i honestly believe it's going to change the other industries and not just its own.

As an example I've been looking at properties outside of suburbia since testing a friends Starlink terminal. I know i can get proper broadband on par with cable anywhere. It's changed my personal long term future plans. I think it's going to change a lot of things.
Low earth orbit (where Starlink and the ISS are) actually has a fair amount of atmospheric drag. Random google searching suggests an inert Starlink satellite (or fragments of one) would come down in 5-10 years.
Yaneer Bar-Yam - the guy even has a Foundation-sounding name!
I like that they provide a set of examples that show why their system does not work.
A few commenters here mentioned they work on creating minimized versions of svg icons. They published a few github pages in this regard. Would love to see them mentioned again.
Port 25 is blocked by default for many ISPs around the world, and it makes sense. Look at it this way: If it was open by default, a lot of IPs would be blacklisted, making them basically unusable for email anyway.

You can always rent a subnet or a server including network and host mail yourself.
When I learned that the entire digestive system is external....my mind exploded... because it's basically an open hole straight through a person and is considered an externality.
This is excellent.

Another commenter pointed it out, but it rang true for me; it is difficult to make an ugly drawing in this style. Very nice.
What consideration, if any, should package maintainers receive in return for legally binding themselves in this way?
Who? OTP is a one time pad. You’re the first person I’ve ever seen make the claim that it’s an analogy for the concept of xor.
I believe we used an XGP printer at MIT to print out solicitation letters for a Chorallaries[1] tour in the early '80s. All I remember was that it was a very large device, and was reputed to blow toner into the cable runway under the raised floor.

[1]: http://choral.mit.edu/
Pin your NPM/yarn dependencies
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-...

same time?
Genuine question to the people who voted “no”. Could you please elaborate on why NPM would not be allowed to retain the two packages?

If I understand correctly the libraries were under an MIT license. Is that incorrect? (The source seems to since been removed from Github and it’s too late in the day to go digging.)

If so, what is the legal reason for them mot being able to ignore the author’s wishes?

ps. The OP is asking explicitly if they are allowed. Not if they should. —- I do think that they should not retain the package, but I’m not sure about the allowed part. So please do chime in.
It is Vim vs IDEs now and we think Emacs might be on the good side.
The publication of their package.
Maybe, but it was under the pretense that the project was intending to be "decentralized", not controlled by whales who followed the founders' advise of disguising their purchases.
Do you think Mingus might actually be infected by a brain-altering parasite that is causing him to betray us? He does sound kinda sus.
The Bored Apes are selling entry to a community not art.

At any rate, as far as I can see artists I enjoy in real life like Refik Anadol are benefiting from and creating interesting art around them. Most NFTs are of course crap (as per sturgeon's) or simply not about art in the first place but I just don't think that means as much as people with an axe to grind think it means.
Yes, obviously my statement excludes the state. I’m glad you understood that but I’m not sure it needs clarifying…
And per the MIT license, he offers it “WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND (…) INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO (…) FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE”
Unless someone find a way to replace devs with a machine there will be demand. And for the good and the bad there are efforts and partial success on doing that like tools to develop sites using only a GUI.
Is it really ao hard so believe non skilled jobs have it this hard? Retail sucks, most service jobs suck and exploit workers. They found class consciousness through anger.
> But this is all predictable. (Except for COVID19 which was wide-screen WTFery, like the second world war—September 1st 1939 was not in fact predictable from September 1st 1929, for example: all that was predictable was that another European war would sooner or later see France and Germany at loggerheads.)

I can't understand what this is saying. Not sure what 'wide-screen WTFery' is, but lots of people were predicting a pandemic, even covid-like if I remember correctly. I suppose that does not absolutely prove that it was predictable and not just unreasonable predictions being made by scientists and experts which just happened to be right by pure coincidence, but still.

He also seems to say with the WWII example that it's not predictable if it can't be predicted to a very precise date. By that definition sure probably covid19 could not have been predicted to a date or even year. But he claims everything else is predictable, but he is making some pretty wild predictions with very vague timelines. So I don't understand his criteria for predictableness.
You can use arrays.

$ ls -la "foo bar"
-rw------- 1 u0_a298 u0_a298 6 Jan 10 00:22 'foo bar'
$ cmd=(cat "foo bar")
$ "${cmd[@]}"
hello

Edit, since someone pointed out you the article is using dash, something I overlooked, you can still avoid eval by using set to overload the script args:

$ set -- cat "foo bar"
$ "$@"
hello

Not sure how this would work if you still need the values of the current args. I don't think there is a way set a variable to be the current "$@" to be used later. However, if you don't need the current args any more, this is a possible solution to avoid eval.
In medieval Norway most individual settlements were almost totally self-reliant. Some could go for years without any interaction with outsiders and such interaction as they had was mostly about things not essential to survival. (Probably the same is true for the Incan empire.)

Things are different now, yes.
Yeah I intended sarcasm. The only amazing thing about crypto is that so many people fall for it.
> They buy the product from someone else and that's two separate relationships, Upwork now suddenly wants to pretend that they weren't part of the transaction after all and that the relationship ran directly from buyer to their supplier but that isn't the case.

Upwork asserts that they own the relationship between client and freelancer/agency, to the point that freelancers or agencies must pay Upwork thousands of dollars if they want to move their client off of Upwork.
I highly doubt that, does Open Camera does ML?
> Don't understand that line - Chickenpox is not vaccinated in the UK

I am always a bit surprised when I read on this site Americans taking offence that some crazy reckless people do not vaccinate their child against this and this. And I am like "Oh? there's a vaccine against that? Over here it is[1] considered normal to catch it because it is considered mild and just watched and cured in the rare serious cases."

> Charles Stross is from the UK so I am quite surprised he doesn't know this

Furthermore, it appears that the vaccine is rather recent, thus it cannot be that "we're generally vaccinated in infancy", let alone that he was. Strange.

------------

[1] 'is' or 'was', for over here too, in the name of fighting presumed anti-vaxers, more vaccines have been getting mandatory. It's a strange political mechanic to witness, because imposing rather useless vaccines has been a major factor in creating anti-vaxers, which didn't really exist before that.
Ask HN: How important is online pseudonymity to you?
I'm a developer active on Twitter, and have a Substack, both under my real first name.

I'm beginning to feel that the benefits of pseudonymity far outweigh the costs. Thoughts?
I’ve got a really strong, and I believe relevant opinion on this.

I’ve been running jsonip.com as a free simple IP lookup service for 11 ish years.

I used to be very politically active (shout out to Indymedia). Nowadays the sentiments are the same but the outreach, it is lacking.

After Trump got elected, I went through the same phase many people did: shouting into the void on Facebook and Twitter. I was pissed off and wanted to feel like someone was listening to me, rather than doing anything about it.

After a few months, that passed. And I honestly looked around for what I could do.

Well it turns out I had (still have) a free simple api service that serves a couple million requests per day. It’s not much of an “audience” but it was something.

What I ended up doing is adding some simple anti Trump messages to the api response. Yeah, on the surface this seems dumb and juvenile but let me out it into perspective. It’s my service that I’ve paid money every month for a decade. When in a situation where you have no voice, I feel it’s valid to use what you have.

Now here’s the critical intersection with the topic at hand. I absolutely never did anything that fundamentally changed the api. I had no intention of breaking the client contract just to get attention. I added a couple extra fields, but in no way did that break anyone’s usage of the jsonip service.

What this author did is really juvenile and crass.

It’s a 13 year old level of maturity that leads someone to break the software chain that many downstream clients rely on. How many hundreds or thousands of build breakage alerts went off when they did a package upgrade because of this? How many thousands of human hours were spent because of this?

There’s some minor argument being made in this that the author is pushing for some type of remuneration for their work, and I am entirely behind that. Maybe they should fork their packages into a paid model. Maybe setup a Patreon account. Maybe get a job at a company that uses their software. I dunno. But there are more mature and legit options for getting paid for your work than breaking the toolchain for who knows how many people and ruining your reputation at the same time.

… /end rant
>>It's the same with twitter, there is a committed vocal and angry group, but it's not real life

>What about this https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation ?

>1. Resignation rates are highest among mid-career employees.

>2. Resignations are highest in the tech and health care industries.

Your source doesn't really contradict the parent comment. The top posts in the subreddit don't match the demographics in the hbr article. Looking at the top 30 posts this month and filtering for anecdotes, I see:

1. some sort of office worker that works weekends

8. something about a skilled tradesman

12. salesman at a dealership

13. a worker at some sort blue collar job (mentions "work boots" and "work pants")

19. someone working at starbucks

20. someone who works as a "Underwriter"

21. someone who has an "engineering degree" but was offered a $40k/yr job

23. someone who is being asked to wear uniforms

26. welder

29. police academy

I'm not sure about you, but from the sampling of these posts, the anecdotes seem to be mostly people working blue collar/retail/service jobs. Programmers and doctors are not present at all.
"incumbent players" typically the person who uses something that can be trademarked first, wins. Match has been around forever. I don't see how this other company got a trademark. And yes it is confusing.

As far as being cloned, yeah I'm not surprised. If they can't aquire you, they will try to clone you. That is how competition works. IP laws help prevent that.
> sometimes exclusively hosted Gov content needs to end.

but then do you somehow draw a line somewhere arbitrarily on internet access as the requirement that the citizens have to privately provide for themselves? You currently have to pay for it, and if you don't, you also don't get access to the exclusively hosted gov content on the net.

Of course, i'm exaggerating, since the ISP "should" not have the ability to censor this content.

I think for important announcements, channels such as radio or emergency broadcasts is the way to go. For discussions and other political content, the gov should not mandate a specific place for it - and leave it up to the people's choices.
If you have the artist's address you can always check that the NFT originated from them. I don't even understand why anyone (mostly non-crypto people) would think it prevents copy pasting.
> In theory, this was enforced by copyleft requiring derivative works to also be free software. In practice, companies use software with permissible licenses instead because then they can reap the benefits without any requirement to pay it forward.

If you want to fix this, stop contributing to permissively-licensed software. If you have a change you want to make, make or find a GPL fork of it and contribute it to that instead.
Like, I understand it. And he could easily have done something much more malicious, like running a ‘rm -rf /‘. This seems on the level of a very misplaced prank.

I feel like people (and especially corporations thst have freely used the library for years) are overreacting a bit.

This is just a warning signal that we depend on random packages too easily. The only thing standing between many products and disaster is the decency of maintainers.

Nobody wants to acknowledge that (me included) since it’ll mean my job becomes much more of a pain.
> At the very least, it takes them under a minute to break your app, simply by deleting their package. Read the article. This is not the first time it's happened, and it's not going to be the last. [0]

That hasn’t been true for 7 years now, it was changed after the left-pad incident and that article everyone keeps quoting is from 2016. Deleting a GitHub repo or a package does not remove it from npm as part of their policy.
You are saying "scary", but I think "alarming" is more appropriate.

It's an alarm that should be buzzing through sleepy programmer skulls. It should alert them to the fact that it's no longer the small company that respected programmers, where you felt your account was yours, and your repositories were yours.

The rules have changed with that acquisition, and Microsoft exploited the good reputation of that small company and the inertia of its users. Step by step, the site became more "social", and started suffering from the usual issues. Step by step, we see the same bigco policies that treat users as worker ants. When an ant starts making up a mind of its own, queen ant sends some soldier ants to cannibalize it.

Now, I realize here on HN the tired old rants of Moxie are considered gold. But if you want to skip being treated like an ant, run your own server, maybe support upcoming federation protocols to kill this centralization and bring down the nest, or at least migrate to some place that respects its users in the meantime.
Changing your keys, I suppose.
It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but check out "Minus the Gym":

https://youtube.com/c/MinusTheGym

Ryan teaches great exercises that require little to no equipment and are great for building strength and muscle.
Why not? If it can be seen from just a few miles outside the atmosphere, and the light continues to travel without obstruction through the vacuum of space, couldn't it be seen from millions of light years away as well?
Perhaps a sort of trusted authority could validate that...
I feel like this effect is multiplied because, when I’m tired, I am much more likely to want fast food because it takes less effort, not just because it’s greasy and salty.
Serious question, what could possibly get the "covid media, government, HR (et al) complex" to give up on covid. It doesn't matter if it becomes mild and endemic, this seems to already have happened, but people only get more excited about it. Only when some major media event (Trump 2024?) takes people's attention away will we ever see this start to end, and it will live on in theatrical government and HR policies for decades. The rational aspect of a covid response is long gone, it really doesn't matter what changes wrt the disease itself now
> If NPM gets a DMCA takedown request they will absolutely have to fulfill it.

No, they don't. Honoring DMCA takedowns allow benefit from an additional safe harbor from any existing infringement liability for the alleged infringing content, but are not mandatory in their own.
Upwork seems to be a haven for scammers to get work done for free.

If someone has stolen money and made purchases (which is generally the purpose of theft), then recovery procedure should be with law enforcement. That will be the police. Of course this takes time and effort, so what you are expericing is a company trying to shortcut the process and leave you holding the bag.
I think that dynamic languages played an important role in pushing for the development of mainstream static typing that didn't suck. ML's been around for a very long time, but there was seemingly little interest in pervasive type inference in languages actually used in industry until they had to compete with the concision of dynamic typing.

Actually building large systems in dynamic languages? Probably going to turn out to be a mistake though.
This can be resolved by just pinning version in npm, right? I mean, it's a malicious attack that compromises trust in the maintainer of the package, but it's not the end of the world for any team being conscientious of their dependencies.
NFT Fantasy 2: How Games Communicate
Is it smooth or crunchy?
> Is it really ao hard so believe non skilled jobs have it this hard?

What makes this gaslighting attempts so mind-numbingly pathetic is the fact that even some FANGs, which are supposedly references in terms of high-quality, highly-paid work, are renowned for their poor working conditions and hiring processes. And they have been known for that for around a decade, now.

If this is an expected occurrence in high-quality work in fields where the job market is firmly on the worker's side, why are these guys trying to fool everyone into believing that abusive workplaces are completely unheard of in other less fortunate sectors?
straws have two holes. let's say you had a y split straw. does that have one hole or two holes or three?
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