skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRC, the protocol, is really simple. It's so simple it's almost the most minimal chat protocol you could possibly layer on top of TCP - it's literally a live message routing protocol with the least support for the notion of persistent users possible.

There was a joke on bash.org that IRC is basically multiplayer Telnet and ... they aren't really too far off.

This has good and bad things about it:

Good: it's extremely flexible.

Good: it's extremely efficient - your major IRC servers at there peak were probably one machine, possibly single core, and handled 20,000+ active connections. Protocol is extremely proxyable and tunnelable.

Good: It works well over dialup. If you can get .002Mbit/sec between you and the server you can use IRC.

Bad: no real concept of identity - everything is based on IP addresses and current connections. Connection drops, you're gone. Things have arisen to address this (NickServ, etc.) and using a bouncer has always been a thing.

Good: no real concept of identity - if your IP is cloaked or you're not accessing from your home IP, you're very anonymous.

Bad: First user on a channel is it's op and it's owner and can control the channel. If all ops connections drop, someone can take it over. DoSes/DDoSes to disrupt channels have been a thing. Things have arisen to address this on modern IRC (ChanServ) but before then, any really serious channel had to have a network of bots with out-of-band coordination to protect it (eggdrop).

Bad: Doesn't support file transfer directly. This is done with another protocol DCC which is hard to work with over firewalls, etc.

Bad: Media and link support is up to clients and requires non-IRC protocols to be effective. You're not posting pictures in IRC channels unless you are using a client that supports it such as thelounge, and even then what thelounge does is upload your pictures to a local server.

Good: Mature IRC clients give you a lot of control.

Bad: Mature IRC clients are complicated.

Bad: IRC is one of those protocols that arose before encryption was considered a basic need. Modern IRC supports SSL but all it takes is one client connecting non-SSL to ruin it like email, unless the server is SSL only.

Bad: Mature IRC servers tend to be from the age where the Internet was ruled by universities. So, DNS is relied on for security and identity far more than it should be. Configuration of mature IRC server daemons I find somewhat complex and difficult.
Those companies were willing to hire me. Hopefully this doesn't arrogant, but those companies can't hire someone of my caliber. They're mediocre companies that can only hire average/mediocre people. I wouldn't want to join a company like that full time, but I could see it being fun to hop in and help them out with a big project.

For example one company was a media company that you've probably heard of. For their next growth phase, they have two separate legacy PHP systems that they need to integrate and they need to modernize their front end. Their development team isn't capable of doing that project. They've been spinning their wheels for a few years. I thought it might be fun to go in to that company, understand their systems, architect the new solution, lead/coach their team through building it. I could also help them set up automated build systems, introduce React and coach them through learning that. Maybe help them hire some more modern developers as well. That kind of thing.

I've got a lot of experience doing complex architecture and also training up junior developers, so it sounds like projects like that could play to my strengths.
Ask HN: What tools are game changers for communication in fully remote teams?
I work at fully remote company. We do a lot of meetings. In those meetings, people go on and on talking about complicated workflows and technical discussions. However, I'm sure most of the others don't follow completely. Voice quality is sometimes bad. I'm sure people who work fully remote can list additional problems.

In physical offices, we have whiteboards that help us explain and keep others' attention, we have facial expressions that help us know when people have difficulties understanding, etc.

So have you discovered a tool or a way to significantly improve communication when working with a fully remote team? If so, please share your experience.
> They did write the code to fork elongind in such a way that it no longer required systemd; they did write the code so that GNOME could run without logind like every other system; they did write the code to fork of udev from systemd again so that it could run without glibc.

It sounds to me like the bazaar system is working fine qua its own standards, then. Red Hat writes what they need to solve their problems, party X writes what they need to solve their problems, the code is shared, everyone gets what they want.

Except: It sounds like what you really want is for Red Hat to solve your problems, not only their problems. That's definitely not how this stuff shook out historically. And it opens a door you might not want to open, because now you need to ask yourself why users liked systemd, and what obligations you have to support beyond your own needs in your own software.
I think that upwork will first try hard to recover money from the client (and they will get the client into collection if the chargeback is fraudulent). Then, upwork will dispute chargebacks if chargebacks do not seem to be valid (so-called friendly fraud).

But if the chargeback is valid and the client is really using a stolen CC, they will check if there is some suspicious activity in the relationship between the client and the contractor. If there is no clear proof (no screenshot logging) and similar login locations + VPN, then they will assume this is orchestrated CC fraud.

So Robin committed fraud and scammed the contractor. Sadly, Upwork will not protect a contractor if the contract and the scammer had a “trusting” relationship (no screenshots, etc.).
The only person responsible for your health and happiness is you.

If you're pushing yourself to the brink of burnout and mental breakdowns, you aren't giving yourself enough time to recover. Period. Take it seriously because it can spiral out of control.

There's this thought that once you cross your threshold of a mental breakdown, you become fed up. That's usually what burnout manifests itself as. It seems like it's showing in your work where you aren't landing things based on your expectations. It could also be that we're in the middle of a great reshuffling and things aren't really stable anywhere. Who knows?

You are ultimately in control of your own destiny. To get over constant failure, you fail more. You fail until you succeed. You keep going. But you need to do this in a way that is sustainable so you can wake up every day to make an inch of progress rather than nothing at all.
This makes sense to me. Running a light client at the OS level isn't needed.

Is there some benefit to users from OS integration eventually? ie "Pay With Ethereum" in the same way Apple Pay / Google Pay / NFC works, does that benefit from running a light client?

Sure, maybe the incentives aren't there because Apple wants Apple Pay money but whoever does implement it will make their device more useful.
Besides Tex there is also git. Written only as a SCM for the linux kernel it went on to be used basically anywhere.
There is intense concentration within the industrial agriculture 'toolchain'. John Deere, CNH Industrial and AGCO, the next largest competitors, sell 75-85%+ of combine harvesters in the US. Plus, there are things like tie-ins with Bayer/Monsantos data science platforms that smaller vendors can't or don't offer.

Tom Philpott describes this really well in 'Perilous Bounty': there are lots of farmers who are price takers. Their only way forward is to hope to survive weather and price cycles by producing more, more efficiently. This ironically leads to overproduction and poor returns.

Whereas JD are price makers who can use their consolidated power to set terms and prices within the market. Farmers don't really stand a chance.
Got it-- new info, of course

Also sounds like you're an earner, survivor, tough-as-nails individual too
> moving here should be a well thought out decision and preferably not based on a single not-entirely-correct HN post. There are trade-offs and there's more to a country and to life than low taxes...

While I definitely agree with that (and in fact my own reasons to move to Bulgaria back in the day were not about taxes at all), could you elaborate on the not-entirely-correct part? What exactly is not correct?
Without actual data this is just a debate without substance. At least my anecodal evidence is backed by something real. The racism argument seems to come up every time a minority group splits from the path laid out for them.
and you can compare some cultural stuff and see if you like it.
https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/

.bg is pretty middle ground (culturally and societaly) between (very) east and (very) west, with all the pros/cons of that. A bit more towards the west.. as situated in south-east Evropa (the original Greek word of Europe) after all, but it depends. A little bit of south as well..

As said elsewhere, Quite some things might be missing or not working but then.. you might not really need them. After being around the world, i am back here, for.. the vitality and variety of life that happens.
Not that it is easy, but it is interesting.
YMMV
A friend sent this link and he seemed excited about it to the point that thought it was important i read it. Checked your website and the only projects you have there are garage flips. There is nothing new there. My another Armenian friend who lives in LA was telling the people were flipping garages to rent as studios even 20 years ago.

so idk. your story doesn't make sense compare to your website and your 'case studies' :)

any construction company can do what you do today, flipping garages is not a rocket science :) doesn't really need 2 architects, needs one Jose who knows how to do drywall and another handy-man who can do electric, plumbing etc.

Good luck!
I think the "constant failure" comes from comparing myself to all my peers who have been successful, gotten rich, been promoted, written books, etc.

I don't expect to be the best of the best, but obviously some people are thriving at these places. Why am I failing?
Had you tried BOOZY, then BOOBY would have been the correct answer. It's dynamically filtering the list of available words and trying to prolong the game as long as legally possible.
Are you using the same dictionary? I used the same technique, and got:

NARES
DOILY
TOUCH

And then VOUCH / COUCH / POUCH / GOUCH / MOUCH.
Then all of mining would just move to places like Venezuela, where a lot of drug trade (per your example) already goes on, and they would get even more money for their extremist endeavours. Sad.
I was under impression it was 1-3% profit tax + 5% dividend with an upper limit of 1 million euros? Or has that changed (again)?

Also, 850 pcm seems kind of high, at least compared to what I saw on olx.ro.
True, but phoning home for telemetry to make better devices and out-compete the market is not great, but phoning home to censor and repress discussion on human rights violations is all together evil.
Schelling's Model of Segregation
Exactly! Long before remote attestation is used for half of the things we're talking about here (eg prohibiting Adblock), its functionality will have been normalized for other seemingly-necessary uses. People will be wanting to buy devices with RA, similar to how they currently want to buy computers with secure boot and HDCP so they can watch better quality Netflix. And that's the scary part.

It also makes it harder to spread awareness of the threat, since the really concerning implications sound farfetched. Not thinking about it too hard, why would anybody buy a computer that restricts what they can do? Well, the Market finds a way.
I am talking about the complement of the plot.

I am saying that every student should be doing these tasks. The students without these skills should be learning them too.

Then no one is being taken advantage of. Then all of the students are more marketable. These skills are useful to academics too: successful junior faculty will one day need to stand up their own labs with their technical skills.
Is there another merchant bank you can switch to that might be more friendly / reasonable in the case of fraud like this fighting on your behalf?
you have to call them.
Yes, that's why we're working to make it better with proof of stake, sharding, validity proofs and so forth. It won't happen overnight but we're getting there. Why not help improve things instead of critiquing the current state?
Unfortunately, the link is dead :/
I don’t see how they are unrelated at all. It sounds like you are saying they just don’t ‘feel’ like the same thing, but I see no reason for that other than racism.
Oh yeah, it's pretty bad. We'll throw in media queries at some point to make it a large map with a list of messages beside it.

Radar Chat is almost entirely useless on desktop since it's rare that they have high resolution GPS, but there are some use cases. The main one is that when a user first visits certain channels there is a default origin location, particularly useful when showing "beacon" messages that the user can see regardless of distance. Here's an example:

https://app.radar.chat/#/channel/glbra-stem-pipeline
Thanks. The notes are stored locally with IndexedDB.
Is this actually an extra layer of security? Is it harder to get read access to another user's file with 0600 permissions, or to read memory from another user's process? In my limited understanding they seem equivalent (at least on Linux).
Thank you for sharing the link to the source code. My simple site generator is based on my wife's project makesite.py[1]. In fact, I used her site generator for a few years. Later I reimplemented makesite.py in Common Lisp. As a result, it inherits the design, layout, minimalism, and simplicity of makesite.py.

[1] https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite/
New York City spends close to $30k per public school student. They should be able to afford anything with this kind of spending.
I think your criticism is mostly correct. The "defense" is mostly to say that the blame should be spread between the Bradford Pear, the birds that are spreading it, and the other species that are cross-pollinating it. It's a good history, though!

There might be a little more of a defense in the follow up article, which isn't clearly linked from this one. It's still mostly a deflection rather than a defense, but it does included suggestions for intentionally cross-breeding it to make a larger, edible, less invasive fruit: https://www.thefruitexplorers.com/blog/making-callerybradfor....
Ask HN: How do GPT-3 generated pages rank in Google?
Retiring on startup stock at 30 is as about as far from normal as possible.
Ah, I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out!
Exercise Alters Brain Chemistry to Protect Aging Synapses
I guarantee you regardless of which state of the 50 you're discussing, red/blue/whatever, that people still went to bars, to indoor dining, to parties. In New York the national guard was sent to SUNY Oneonta to forcibly quarantine the entire student body because the administration was unwilling to enforce lockdown.

Also, "communist tactic"? The red scare is still with us but to see that shit on HN is always alarming. If holding people accountable so that they don't sacrifice grandma and the immunocompromised for "the economy" (whose economy? certainly hasn't benefitted me) is necessary then I'll do so gladly. If you don't care for public health or the people around you why should I?

The federal government and most governors didn't do shit. It sounds like you live in one of the few places that tried, and got fucked by the sobering reality that a constant 33-40% of this country can not handle epidemiological outbreaks while we sport a pretty weak central government.

US might have a low death rate because of fancy hospitals and some of the best specialists on the planet — it never needed to infect this many people or kill a million Americans. If COVID is no big deal I don't want to have to "never forget 9/11" or whatever bullshit people refusing to vaccinate or quarantine say.

And for the dig at communism, China's zero-covid policy worked. Westerners can say the numbers are cooked, with a population of 1.4 billion you're not going to hide 1 in 3 getting infected. That's the number in the US as of the end of 2020, 1 in 3. Vietnam's zero COVID policy was also working, until they ended it for the economy. Maybe profit motives are unethical where human lives are concerned? By what calculus do you get to determine which outbreaks are worth the bare minimum of germ theory and which ones we get to sacrifice our families and neighbors to for the economy?

I'll end with the note that there are outcomes beyond death. My boyfriend and I contracted COVID before vaccines were available (he works in healthcare) and he couldn't smell or taste for a year. Made eating very difficult. My grandfather can't walk a block anymore, and hasn't been able to in months, but survived. My coworker started to lose her hair in clumps and was embarrassed to wear a wig, but survived. Personally, as a 23 year old with no comorbidities, who was fit and had no physical issues—I'm still recovering a year later. My run times aren't the same, I have a lot less lung capacity, I developed clinical depression. I lived in Argentina for a time and caught swine flu as a child. I'd easily put this as worse. During the infection even putting on a shirt hurt. I'm happy most people are vaccinated now and unlikely to have severe outcomes, but the risk of exposure was totally unnecessary.
Again: Your anecdotal argument is totally meaningless.
I find it interesting in terms of illustrating the bureaucratic considerations of the times. It gives color to the “Novax” portrayal in that he seems to have received state correspondence from Australia that he was free to enter under the circumstances. Instead, he’s now detained. If this can occur to him, it gives some color to how this pandemic might be playing out for everyday citizens.
I have the same problem as you right now. Long break from work during the pandemic, joined a new company, and have only managed to merge one tiny PR in my first month. It feels terrible.

What I’ve figured out is that I need to have a new way to measure myself. I wanted to be a hotshot from day one, and impress everyone by cranking out new features. But on a project this complex, it will take half a year to ramp up and become an important part of the team.

In the meantime, I’ve realized I can’t simply call myself a failure every day. I need to find smaller goals that I measure myself against, like learning a new part of the codebase, building a relationship with another developer, building a little prototype that might not get used, and so on.
You are using Upwork as a broker. They get a slice by being the middle man. Their job is to ensure stuff like this doesn't happen.

Tell them to fuck off and find another platform; and pay them nothing.
How do we know that some of us are not actually gamers who've had access to their true memories temporarily disabled?
Jesus. I didn't know about that, but it totally makes sense. Like when systemd devs told Linus he should change his kernel to fix a bug in systemd.
I've tried opening up to a couple peers, there's definitely a culture gap where they're successful bay area dev guys who aren't used to hearing about people failing (like really failing, not "my startup ran out of money so I joined a FAANG") or being vulnerable.

Agree about merging smaller PRs, I did recently find a backlog of stuff I can crank out to keep myself sane.
It’s a “No” to “Did you care to read the discussion and make a meaningful contribution?”
I don't think any responsible bank would let you withdraw using just an account number. What kind of security would that be? My bank certainly doesn't - allowing a debit requires me to authorise via 2FA - they obviously can't just take money.
how about https://github.com/winnekes/itypescript

(also obserablejs) for a different take on it.

I have a feeling notebooks are not as popular for javascript since it's quite limiting relative to what a code sandbox can do.
It was when software delivery involved distribution of physical media. Now that it's all done over digital networks, people have moved to early deployment models where failure in the customer's hands is all but ubiquitous.
It works well for me by using screen and irssi on a server and then using mosh on the smartphone to connect there, as well as irssi-notifier for notifications. Has worked well around the work, including traveling in africa, from high speed trains in Europa and airplanes above the Atlantic.
And before you say "but that needs a server". Yes it does. A little VM as a shell host that is cheaper be month than the cheapest nitro package on Discord. Not even one coffee per month. If you don't think it's worth to have control over your communication for that price, I can't help you.
Kakitype et kydoniaty: Photography with Persimmon Tannin or Quince Tannin
Yes it is. It helped me discover the "New mac smell" candle. It improved my life and helped me reach perfect nirvana well before the 40-45 hours if its burn time.

This message has been written from across the Universe at the Heavenly plane.
They're supposed to eventually become leaderless, but they're not for the time being, especially as it relates to protocol evolution.
No people are truly free, and that's ok. No one should be allowed to walk down the street and attack others. It's not "truly free" in the sense of "absolutely free". It's "to have the correct freedoms".
> The US never really locked down after maybe the first two or three week period.

Absolute bullshit. Everything in NYC was closed for three months; bars, restaurants, and schools were closed for much longer than that.
How does it work if the account is closed, company out of business etc? Does the bank eat the amount? if so, seems easy to abuse.
Thank you!

I'm working on building a portfolio site at varun.ch :)
> While I am not so sure about Lithuania (lower GDP per capita than Bucharest ...)

Why are we comparing a country with a city in GDP per capita terms? And is this meant to imply that standard of living is higher in Bucharest than, say, Vilnius?

I would assume two cities with similar GDP per capita (as Vilnius and Bucharest) can have wildly different standard of living depending on many other factors.
With a greedy solver (minimize word pool for the next step), I got ARISE (168) -> BLUDY (13) -> COMET (2) -> NAVAL (1) -> CHUNK.

I think five steps is as good as it gets, as 5*5 is about the size of the alphabet.

Edit: I stand corrected. YEARN (216) -> FLOUT (12) -> CHAMP (1) -> HUMPH.
Suggested feature: export as a plain text file like https://www.editpad.org
Link the commercial certified UNIXes that adopted first such ideas, you mean.
I've finally migrated away from the last of my irc channels the last remaining people except for one holdout agreed it's time to move on. Things have been way better since the switch..I wouldn't go back, a new bar has been set
And if you don't need/want to compile to x64 bit

Delphi Community Edition only allows x32 compilation

I downloaded it to try. It's not a huge limitation for most usecases I would imagine.
You have to assume that comments are out of date, then it's easier to make use of them.
The post is from 23rd Dec and on the home page I can see a post where the author recommends freelancing using upwork.

If this is true and the debacle had been happening for the last 40 days, writing a post recommending upwork is the last thing I would be doing.

Secondly, why wouldn't the author get hold of "Robin" and make him pay. The post doesn't even discuss him attempting to do it.