skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd encourage you to re-read what I wrote, because I've very intentionally avoided telling anyone what they can call themselves.

Part of this whole respecting preferences is that individual terms have to be treated separately. "Indian" is different than "American Indian" which is again different from "Indian country" or "Indian law". Someone may dislike some or most of these without necessarily disliking the others. The ones with specific technical meanings we're unfortunately stuck with in context.

Another popular example of this sort of issue is "Navajo" itself, as many would prefer to be called Diné or some derivative thereof.
In the US, we had Lingo - a game show with almost an identical premise that ran from 1987-2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(American_game_show)
If you've ever worked with Windows GUI settings, it should be obvious that they really suck and memorizing a command line tool is much easier/faster.

People use the terminal because it's easier to learn and use than countless GUI windows.

The concepts aren't hard. People aren't stupid and there's no reason to treat them like they are.
Was going to say this - there are a lot of hex head screws out there whose slots are now nearly perfect circles.

I use some in the shop, but they're exclusively ones where the head can be a full-depth socket, at least as deep as the screw threading is wide. And when I have to tighten or loosen a hex head, it's always with a T-handle wrench to ensure I've got the thing squared.
I'm confused about why you think I believe otherwise.
Even private individuals have been smacked with GDPR fines.
Jesus Christ this is infuriating. Now I have to go find a different password manager that will just take my money, be profitable, and not become another fucking SV unicorn horror show capitalist wet dream.
Super interesting re Mikrotik adapters. Those (S+RJ10) are exactly what I run, so very relevant, thank you!
Eight hours of free-time AND eight hours extra mental energy.
Yes, we do have above average IQs in the sample with autism that is not Asperger's. Intellectual disability is a co-occuring condition that is not a criterion for autism.
The US was "winning," defined narrowly in terms of military statistics, throughout almost the entire war - casualty ratios were vastly in America's favor, and every military target that was selected was taken and destroyed. Bombers flew with nigh impunity.

That carried public opinion until 1968 when business interests started realizing that none of those things corresponded to anything good. Very similar to Iraq and Afganistan where unquestioned military dominance led to the destruction of the ruling order which led to ???.
The key hint for me was "the type of script people put on GitHub with a $5 price tag" :)
What exactly do they have to gain from that?
Coming soon - 1Password stories
I was for a few years in college a data entry clerk making $12.50/hr. It was effectively copy/pasting with some extra clicks and being a computer science student at the time I wrote an excel connector that did ~80% of my job. It only required me to intervene on especially hard data entry stuff (lots of math or formulas). There really was no benefit to tell anyone I did this. Not because I wanted to be lazy but it would just mean more data entry and not what I wanted to do (automating other people's stuff).

There's loads of these BS jobs out there especially when numpty salesmen are involved. It was relatively soul crushing because it didn't really afford me any extra time to do school work (cube farm yay) but I was able to basically zone out and make money, or stash some homework problems and work them while appearing to stare intently at the screen. I don't harbor any ill will towards them though unlike most of these /r/antiwork losers. They were friendly to me and it was just the culture there that "if it isn't done manually then we dont need a person to do it".

I ended up getting a couple raises and only left when I got my first real SWE job. I got in touch with them recently and there are still some scripts running some important IT processes I wrote many, many years ago running today.
My personal filter is messages that read, "Hi [name], I love what you have done for [current company]..."

I develop B2B software in a niche market. How could you have possibly seen any of my work?
My job as an intern was to write an Nginx plugin for a specific type of filtering for high performance- boss was abit of a masochist ;)
Scott Alexander's Discussion of Eliezer and Ngo on AI Risk
This has nothing to do with my personal philosophy and everything to do with what motivates people. Some people are bad yes, but the vast majority of people are not, and would not do bad things if they felt they had alternatives.

Why is it important to you to focus on the bad people, when there are many, many more people who aren't bad?
The blame belongs solely on opensubtitles.org for using a list to block users and getting hacked. They probably have their reasons but still I feel it is hostile to users that care about privacy.

Firefox Relay is a disposable mail service, so it makes sense to include it in a list of such services. I wonder how they handle mail aliases like GMail allow with + or . as separators.
Unfortunately true.

I really hope that Bitwarden improves their UI and UX, because I really want to like it. But their Collections and sharing feature is very unclear, especially once multiple people/orgs are involved.

I'm afraid to use it because they co-mingle everything in UI and I dont accidently want to share a personal password with another org.

Being worried of sharing a password accidently is very scary UX
There is no way to build a cheap AI controlled fighter jet while still retaining any degree of usefulness. They can perhaps be made marginally cheaper but building airframes, engines, sensors, and weapons will still be extremely expensive. MQ-25 unit cost is in the $150M range.
At least we’re attempting to improve the privacy of people. If companies keep abusing their power, stupid laws will continue to be added.
I read it as Hashicorp Vault, but for all employees, not just (IT) engineers.
And he's working from home, so "clock in" basically means logging in.
I definitely see where you're coming from!

We think to build this we need passion and perspective. We're extremely passionate about this space. As you mentioned, being parents would have definitely helped us deepen our perspective. While it's no replacement to being an actual parent, we try to gain this perspective in the best ways we can (we've spoken with 100+ parents, continuously seek advising from pediatricians, occupational therapists, and experts).
1Password still even exists ?!
Exactly. As a kid, I thought I hated the taste of water. Our municipal tap water was terrible -- it was safe, but no one drank it because it was so unpleasant.

On the other hand, NYC and SF both have excellent tap water. And other cities are somewhere in between, or at the extreme end can even be dangerous (Flint MI).

The same is true of well water. Some of the best-tasting and perfectly safe water I've ever had has been well water. And as you mention, it can also come in all sorts of off-putting flavors. And it can be contaminated and dangerous (biologically or chemically).

People talk a lot about the variations of coffee or wine or beer, but I think the variations in water are even more interesting (and sometimes contributive to the others).
Your company ran a paid hackathon? Were you able to do whatever you want? Or was it a crunch to get a project launched?
Unless you think that things are always getting better, it is necessarily implied that some things were better in the past.
You might consider finding another example.

The plastic straw banning was not because they are plastic pollution. The problem is the unique shape of the straw getting into the digestive system of animals, and killing them. Plastic just made these things linger longer in the environment. Paper straws have similar problems, except a lot shorter and with a chance to digest before killing the animal.
The correct Systemd solution would be to create a socket unit but your solutions works without modifying the service code
Selling a couch on craigslist would easily be a "friends and family" transaction rather that a commercial one.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or would simply love to get entertained and see it as a comedy. I personally found Steve Balmer to be too obnoxious to watch for a whole presentation.
The Brooklyn Nets and Canon's volumetric capture puts players on a virtual court
How is working a job that you know is completely mind-numbing and pointless to enrich some other person meaningful in any way?
If you worry about the power waste, have a CO2 tax. You don't think some people's use of power is right, but perhaps they don't think your use of power is right. Is that really something you don't want to be a fundamental right, this concept of being able to use electricity as you see fit?

The idea of banning something because of a chip shortage is an even more extreme attack on the rights of others. One person makes specialized bitcoin mining chips (they can't be used for anything else), another person buys them. And you want to bring people with guns into it because maybe the person making the chips could be making them for whatever you want? Please, think deeply before asking for force and violence to be involved in a bunch of people peacefully going about their own ways and interests.
LastPass was bought for $100 million and had some security howlers.

"pass", on the other hand, has no funding and no security vulnerabilities.

I'm pretty sure it's more secure to use apps engineered with a deliberately tight scope that arent lavishly funded than egged-up VC bloated monstrosities.

You wanna bet that building in electron is gonna keep 1password more safe? I wouldnt. The attack surface on that thing is gonna be huge.
Wow I didn't know this research had gone so far compared to when I last looked at it over a decade ago. Really interesting to note that the researchers are jumping from 4 week tests with the Lambs into the long arduous effort to get approval for a human test. Seems rather odd to not perform longer term tests for stability of things like biofilm buildup and other complications. It may be policy at their institution to not run tests like this for more than 4 weeks, but maybe that just means they need to find some other venue for longer tests.
Interesting. The service I use isn't there lol I'm afraid to tell anyone, now, lest it be put on the list.
Great article Matt!
Look up the GeologyHub channel on YouTube. He had been warning about the risks of landslides and the explosion risk they cause the day before.
> Shouldn’t some sort of Universal Healthcare come before UBI?

Good question, I don’t know, but maybe yes, especially if it takes longer to implement UBI than healthcare. OTOH, if a UBI was enough money to cover both healthcare and living expenses, and if it was achievable and could be implemented just as quickly, then there’s nothing wrong with that. Realistically UBI is probably much more difficult politically, and more expensive, so you’re probably right.
Yup. In fact just today my partner was struggling witha problem with 1Password that she uses at work, asking why it wasn't as simple as BitWarden.
A few things come to mind (I use bitwarden myself).

- "Folder: No Folder" is a bit confusing, it would be better to just require a folder when creating an entry.

- Collections vs folders is also a little confusing unless you spend time to figure it out.

- 1password shows the password reuse notice right there, instead of needing to go the web vault of bitwarden and specifically click on tools.

- 1password shows the password strength right in the entry as well.

- 1password has nicer display of the items in the vault, with sections by letter.
That was a quick answer to Bitwarden's post that gathered some upvotes earlier today!
I hope he read David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs.
People are unable to realize a script can be written because that's "not how teams work"? I'm very confused at what you're trying to say.
+1 for sikuli. Very nice little tool that makes it very easy to do something that would otherwise require a lot of specific knowledge
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tribal-land-us-mexico-border-drug-...

https://news.azpm.org/s/30767-drug-cartels-target-indian-cou...

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/drug-cartels-targeting-ind...

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article2...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/993059731/u-s-mexico-efforts-...

https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/crow-leaders-call-for-m...

https://apnews.com/article/missing-in-indian-country-north-a...

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976053675/human-trafficking-c...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/ahwatukee/2020/02...

https://www.courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/investigations...

I could literally go on for thousands of small town stories, or tens of thousands individual family stories about murder and trafficking. This is happening in reservations all over the US and along southern Canada. All of the lower 48, I'm not sure about Hawaii or Alaska.

Along the west coast, lots of illicit marijuana farming, and lots of truck stops and trafficking logistics and meth manufacture elsewhere.

I don't know why we haven't seen a journalistic investigation into the big picture. I've spoken to native friends who have family on reservations who see cartel members recruiting youth, meeting with elders, and crazy shootouts.
Excellent, problem solved. I was thinking somebody would have to contribute UI changes to an open source project, but it turns out flaming people on the internet is much easier.
I ordered a Framework laptop and hope that this the laptop that will stay for decades with me till I die.

https://frame.work
The EU and especially Germany make it harder and harder for startups and indie makers to survive.

Now when you start a project in Germany, not only do you have to have an "Imprint" on your site which shows your private address (if you work from home or are a digital nomad) but you also are at a disadvantage because you cannot use all the free tools that startup founders outside of the EU can use.

Has anybody here in Europe considered moving to another country or setting up a company in another country because of this?

How do all the famous indie makers from Europe handle this? I never find any information on their sites with an address and they all use Google Analytics.
Satellites are the SR-71 successor. Lower speed persistent reconnaissance is provided by the low-observable RQ-170 and RQ-180 drones.
Good question - ChoreMonster actually got acquihired in 2018 by Verizon and then immediately shut down. We are quite bit different though, with choremonster parents would assign tasks and then kids would complete them for either small game rewards (like monster farts) or extrinsic rewards like more screen time. We try to build a full game experience (like pokemon) as the motivator but are also trying to lean away from just the parent assigning kids chores and help children feel empowered to create / select their own habits or hobbies that they would like to do!
> like things were better in some mythic past.

It doesn't need to mean this.

We've got so much choice in how we structure our lives now.

Choice mostly makes things better. Lots of bad outcomes become less prevalent.

But some good outcomes become harder to find, and one can rationally have nostalgia for them.
Years ago I was hosting guests from Airbnb. Due to my location I got a lot of English language students coming to Canada for 2-3 long immersion courses. One guest shared with me that one of their assignments was to engage with hosts, even if they weren't planning to ever book; obviously these people eventually did, but it's a bit problematic as it's time not compensated for - sure, it's built into the cost of business but without an agreement to accept such practice conversations it's verging on dishonest.
I include my email address along with the job postings I write[0].

Given that my name is in the email address, it's that much more egregious when I'm not addressed by name in an introductory email.

I recognise that hiring works differently for everyone, and unfortunately the process is painful in many (probably most) instances. That's not something I can change, but I can at least try to make it work sensibly for my own company.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28722397
Matomo makes the same case, but in a much more tasteful way: https://matomo.org/google-analytics-alternative/
We mostly used ARP poisoning from inside the network. They never found out and we quickly could just disable the whole network of the school if we wanted to. What fun would that be today with all the remote schooling? Nope, we are not going to do a test today...
The name reminds me of Yiddish spelling (על for "el/le"). I think in Israel this specific spelling is out of fashion (but it's nice to see it)

Is it to be pronounced "wordale"?
True love is something that takes work. Sure some people mesh better than others, and if you picked your mate mostly on aesthetics you may realize that having someone you like to look at is not the way to sustain a multi decade relationship. I think when it comes to a partner, you have to just decide that you are always willing to meet them where they are. Its not always where you want them to be either. The flipside of course is that your partner should feel the same way and be willing to endure your ups and downs
And what exactly does he owe them? The company exists to enrich the owners by extracting wealth from his work.
Nginx optimization: Understanding sendfile, TCP_nodelay and TCP_nopush
Be honest about your feelings, but still strive to be deserving of her, that’s what I try to practice :)
I mean, hey, SCOTUS decided in Citizens United that political donations were constitutionally protected expressions of opinion, so all bets are off...
People are focusing too much on whether the story is actually true. It sounds plausible to me, but the real story here is that a heck of a lot of processes would benefit from having a programmer look at them.

Programming is the new literacy. People who can do it are on a different plane to people who can't.
Building applications is a complex problem. If you want a secure system, then security details have to be carefully considered at every layer (DB, API, front-end). Doing that requires expert security employees/consultants, time and money. On the other hand, profits are driven by new features, first to market and sales.

Companies can build insecure systems (that are profitable) much faster and much cheaper than they can build systems that are profitable and secure.

It has been my experience that security is seen as a necessary evil. It's not seen as a benefit or feature that customers want. Security employees/consultants are often seen as road-blocks or obstructionists. I think this is largely why technical security has been replaced by compliance. Just check the box mentality. When they get hacked they can say, "but we were compliant and we'll do better next time".

IMPO, that basic conflict explains why systems are repeatedly compromised and why companies nor customers really care about good technical security.
Western philosophy maybe but Western science owes its early foundations to al-Biruni, al-Khwarizmi, ibn Sina, etc. That all began to fad in the 11th century as the Islamic equivalents of the gnostics eclipsed the equivalents of the scholastics. Then the Mongols came through and killed all the city dwellers in the region. But an awful lot of what later western scientists would build on came from that region.

EDIT: And I'm not actually sure you can say central Asia didn't have a big philosophical impact. I seem to recall that ibn Sina's argument for the existence of God came to be pretty popular among Christians and Jews as well.
I can think of many times where VC capital has improved a company, in two ways. The first is in allowing a company to scale far more quickly than it could have naturally. The second is in creating connections to other companies, essentially getting a foot in the door to convince those connections to use the company's product.

But rarely improved the product. At best you have a company that does keep it's soul, and continues to improve the product as they would have on their own. Far more often, the product and pricing structure is made worse in the long run through VC investment. It's not necessarily VC interference that is solely to blame, the change in size and scope that tends to come with such investment is a massive hurdle on its own.

Of course, taking VC capital is almost certainly necessary to continue to exist, given you are competing against others who will take that capital and quickly use it to out compete you if you do not. I just view this as unfortunate, when I find companies that grow at a more natural speed to generally create better products.
Real inflation is like 20% in the US; none of us are retiring any time soon.
I chose NGINX as a web server in my book, because if you don't know what to use, use NGINX. Thanks Igor for all your work!
It will be interesting what they can do with (or without?) access to Tolkien's IP outside LoTR and Hobbit. I forget where things stand, but can't remember the family ever being amenable to this kind of thing. The good part is that we know the ultimate result but there's a lot of stuff that can go into things falling and people dying with good writing and/or effects.

Unless they're going to go "all Kelvin" and make something in the spirit of Tolkein, etc. Fortunately, given the internet, we'll know in microseconds.
I'm not sure how you define expensive.
https://www.fs.com/c/10g-sfp-plus-63

20 bucks over MMF, 27 bucks over SMF doesn't seem expensive.

If you want to do it over single fiber rather than duplex, it's 40 bucks:
https://www.fs.com/c/bidi-sfp-plus-64

25Gbps is 39 bucks over MMF, 59 bucks over SMF.
40Gbps is also 39 bucks on MMF (more expensive on SMF)

I don't think any of these are very expensive.

The cards are also ~same price between SFP+ and 10GBaseT from places like startech
(outside of that, the 10gbaset ones are actually often much more expensive)
Gosh. I'm in the wrong business. I should create my own "store your password" company. How hard can it be?
Java was designed for set-top boxes. It later transitioned to web applets. Then to web servers.
"Bread and circuses":

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bread+and+circuses
> I did try to improve the office productivity as a whole a few times by patching up the wonky database they used for accounting, but got shut down each time because of fear of change

I too have found that accounting is where new ideas go to die. They don’t really understand the technology that their jobs are bound to, so any increase in perceived complexity is just a no-go.
How Buster Keaton Became a Digital Meme
No. It was not calibrated to equalize genders, but for language ability and age.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/clinical-research-new-test...
Because central bank shenanigans made the whole economy a sham.
base64-encoding data only poses a 1% overhead[1] when the data is subsequently gzipped, so this is hardly an issue in practice.

[1] head -c 100000 /dev/urandom | base64 | gzip | wc -c
You mean the paper that she co-authored that makes the same mistake, one that was roundly and harshly criticized by scientists and statisticians?

The normal distribution does not entail there is any such concept as a "default human".

Furthermore, that paper shows the corrupt logic inherent to a lot of woke criticism. You're tarred as a racist if you claim there are biological differences between races, while these same people cry that existing science is racist because it's not accounting for the biological differences between races.