skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they become highly prone to viewing the world as much worse than it is and sowing discontent

So pay them to keep them sweet so they can accurately portray people's live back to them as being wonderful?

I don't think it takes poorly paid journos to "sow discontent". The fact is people need their material needs met and a sense of self-respect to be content. Many people really do not have those 2 things.
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I should visit JET sometime. Of all the systems on the machine I worked on (https://hsx.wisc.edu/), the coil current feeds were the most difficult. Trying to cram that much current through a small piece of copper with a discontinuity takes years of effort.
I have a private CA for all internal hosts. It's a bit of a pain to run, but it's neccessary because "internal" includes VMs that run colocated servers and many services to mutual authentication.

It's hyper annoying that it's barely to not possible to include our own CA into mobile Browsers so that they can use internal websites.

The alternative would be to depend on LE where neccessary, but this introduces an external dependency that I would rather avoid.
Yes they can. That's why I said "unless he is interested on his own".
I believe many parents are so set on "preparing their children for the future" that they forget about "now" and force their children to become adults too early. Children can learn programming or other skills later but playing with toys or outside is almost exclusively enjoyed in childhood. I don't want my child to miss out on them.
Do you remember having to explain to people that soft shell 5.25" disks are floppies and hard shell 3.5" disks are also floppies, not hard disks?
Learning 10k pictures (1973) [pdf]
> there were articles dragging people for making charitable donations

You mean articles stating correctly that donations are not a sustainable way of financing and tech billionaires should instead pay higher taxes? Cause that's the articles I remember and that's not an unfair article. Just one you and others may not agree with.
Likely as part of recruitment efforts. "Come be part of the green future, at the U.S.Army" or similar.

Though, even if accidentally, this helps with emissions (AFAIK, DoD vehicles don't tend to be subject to same emissions standards as us mere mortals), that would be a win, too.
There are three disciplines that come together in the tech industry: programming, computer science, and software engineering.

Programming is the act of writing programs, and is a skill like any other. Some folks are good at it; some people struggle with it; most people can do some of it if they learn and try hard enough. Programming is what creates value for 95% of the jobs in the tech industry, and if you get good at programming (and programming on a whiteboard) you'll do exceedingly well.

Computer science is the theory of computing; it is a branch of mathematics. Djikstra is famously (wrongly) attributed with saying "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." Many (but not all) amazing computer scientists that I've worked with are terrible programmers and software engineers, but their value has been outsized. Any good programmer can integrate a Raft library into your code for consensus. The computer scientists are the ones that not only apply the correct CDRT theory to your custom-built database, but can prove that it converges consistently.

Software engineering is the practice of delivering the right software on time and on budget; good software architects think in terms of software engineering. In the 1980s, when computers were going in to _everything_, military projects were at the forefront because Reagan ensured that we were spending mad cash there. It was like the dot com boom of the 2000s; you just couldn't go wrong bidding computerized systems. Because they were new, the contracts were cost-plus, and the military-industrial complex screwed the federal government blue with cost overruns. Anything with software on it typically had budget overruns in the 500%+ range. Not wanting to be screwed blue, the Feds reached out to CMU and said "How do we stop this?" So together they built the Software Engineering Institute to put some science and best practices around delivering software. And the SEI screwed them blue, coming up with CMM and a bunch of other bad ideas, but also some good ones along the way.

When thinking about the skill sets of the teams I'm putting together, those are some primary aspects I look at, and the ontology by which I think about them. Of course, there are lots of specialties in each of them, and many people have experience and skills in several of them.

It depends who you're talking to, of course. The goal of language is to create shared understanding, so you need to have shared definitions, whatever they are. Nobody else shares my definitions, so I mostly keep them to myself if I'm not pontificating.

If you're speaking to a recruiter, you are whichever one of them pays the highest. If you're speaking to an academic, you're a computer scientist (perhaps a mediocre one). If you're telling your mom what you do, you're a software engineer because it makes her feel good.
I went to high school with a guy who is big in the self described Left-wing journalist Twitter.

I remember very distinctly watching an article - well, the ideas core to that article - he'd written percolate from New Republic to The Atlantic to The New York Times over a period of about a month. What was interesting was that in his original article, the concepts he presented were presented as radical, and as a thought experiment. By the time it made its way down to the NYT a month later, those same concepts were presented as obvious solutions that "both sides" should agree on as a matter of course, and any disagreement was just intellectual folly.

The conversation about these ideas had already happened on Twitter; NYT was just reporting the score.
Shrugs.

Hasn't this always been the case? Some rich kids do drugs, some rich kids tweet. So, what?

They are little puppets in a larger game. If you think these rich kids make any of the decisions that give rise to braindead quibbling over who can use which bathroom or what pronoun ought to be used for years on end - you are wrong.

These are just distractions. The question to ask is, who is paying for these distraction generators and why?

You can't get status from just living in New York and tweeting. You need to be part of an organization, that many people are funding, protecting and enabling.

If you ignore it, it makes their entire effort futile. It is easy to do too - just find something that actually interests you instead. Don't fall for their cheap tricks and help your fellow friends/family do the same and it'll magically resolve itself, sooner than you think :)
This is a great article. I didn't know about the urine-trap toilet (discussed about half-way through). It's a very elegant idea that adds very little complexity to the conventional toilet. Dare I say a solution that finally isn't full of sh*t?
This reminds me of the statistic that men are on average taller than women. This is actually a useful heuristic for making policy at a mass scale.

It is worse than useless as a way of estimating the height of someone you just met. The actual experience should completely invalidate any priors, which are trivially insignificant at the individual level.
Yeah, I think OP probably mostly does web development through the browser, where there’s just one trust store to worry about.

As soon as you need some automation involving backend services or even just curl and some scripts, this gets tougher. (And please please don’t use `curl -k` to disable checks… if such scripts accidentally make their way to production, you may as well not use TLS at all.)
Current Starlink satellites operate at 550km. They launch them to 210km. The linked post talks about this in detail.
FWIW I am wholly willing to concede, in retrospect, that all the downvotes were because of the way I formulated my comment.

(Not least because I snarked about Marco Arment yesterday. ;-)
What is the source for the claim that so many American journalists under 40 live in the area encircled in the map in the tweet? The source for wages in journalism having gone to hell? The source for unions restricting the supply of labor? If so, why hasn't all the journalist unions he see forming already restricted the number of journalists and increased their wages?

I also think the author's characterization job status is wrong. Journalists mostly hang out with journalists so whether journalist is a high-status job or not is irrelevant since they are all journalists. Working for Google has high status in some circles but probably not among Google's own employees. Furthermore, only a tiny fraction of all journalists write for the Washington Post or other recognizable papers. Not a lot of status in writing for marketing agencies or obscure trade press magazines.
Obsolete rainfall records blocking cities’ climate change preparations
That's not untested insofar as that's how I've always seen self-signed certs managed in an org.
Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that frustrate you
Predictable isn't good enough.

Predictable is a reason for a government regulation.

Without that, you need quantifiable.

What is the probability of a polar vortex this year? (P)
How many hours of high prices would that cause? (H)
What will the price be during those hours ? (Pr)
What is the probability that our grid uplink will go down and cut us off? (Pd)

So, on the profit side: P x H x Pr x (1-Pd)

Liability:

What is the probability that our failure to winterize will cause a blackout? (Pb)
How much damage will that cause ? (D)
How much of it is our legal responsibility? (L)

Pb x D x L

Now: how much will winterizing cost? C

The big question:

C ?>? Pb x D x L + P x H x Pr x (1-Pd)

Complicating factors: in Texas, L is 0. For everyone.
And P,H,Pr, and Pd are all non-zero, non-negligible, but not quantifiable.
not if you use wildcard domain in the cert. LE already support wildcard certs
This is cool. I guess there's some utility in keeping things separate as well.
It's probably reasonable to assume that car touchscreens are designed more to "look cool" at the time of sale than to actually be usable over the life of a vehicle. Car salesmen get to show off all sorts of high-tech bells and whistles, and that's more immediately impressive to buyers than the long-term practicality of physical knobs and switches.
Here's a link to the storm report: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/archive/2022/02/04/kp.ht...
"Recalled In Place"
The journalists with access to political power are in D.C. The cultural and business journalists are in New York and the entertainment "journalists" are in Hollywood. All speaking in the main, of course.

I moved to NYC from Chicago, no cow-town, and there was a massive increase in the number of cultural journalists and writers I meet.
Does one country have all the smart people needed to go it alone?

(This is not a further joke about Brexit I pinky promise)
The only value they necessarily hold is that faith alone yields salvation, i.e. fuck up all you want if you ask for forgiveness. maybe you can include some obvious ones like 'dont murder'.
Age verification is to Tories as abortion is to Republicans.
That was my experience, too. Opposing the racket was a reason that a couple of my professors wrote their own textbooks. Only a few did that, but a lot more wrote and distributed their own problem sets so that students could use any edition of the assigned textbook, or even a different textbook if they had one from another school.
It is interesting to see the overton window slide in real time.
On this day in 2004: the first story about Facebook
IIRC Tesla's touchscreen UI is running React Native?
Please don't. I've been in orgs doing this and it sucks. There seems to just be to many edge cases, and to many custom scripts for setup.
Private CAs are the enterprise solution, but that can get expensive or difficult to manage for a home setup.

You could get a cert for a wildcard subdomain and then use whatever private subdomains you want on your home network
The obvious advantage being that WTF-16 -> WTF-8 conversion maps all valid UTF-16 to the corresponding valid UTF-8 and only unpaired surrogates will produce invalid UTF-8 - but only invalid because UTF-8 explicitly disallows encoding those surrogates and not because the actual encoding differs, so you can almost always treat WTF-8 as UTF-8.
Regardless of the biochem possibilities I wonder about the engineering realities required to collect, isolate, purify, and distribute the urea and other nitrogen rich compounds from the waste stream.
If you map A: but not B: do you still get B: mapped to the same drive, as you would in a computer with only one floppy drive, or does that magic only apply to drives that hold removable media?
Public Benefit Corporation vs. B Corp: What's the Difference?
Same here, Tailscale and their DNS LetsEncrypt service does all the HTTPS management for me. Works just fine really.
I wouldn't communicate it to the employer, but at the end of the day you're not obligated to work for anybody and can choose to reject an offer for any reason that suits you.
> I’m willing to argue that the reach, imprint, pageviews, and followers; the eyeballs that your work generates, is the prinicipal source of status within the modern journalist community.

I would not argue that, not among peers. Like any profession I suspect writer's peers may be jealous of one another's page views but are still going to be ultimately judged by the quality of their work. And their peers will likely judge better than most what is thoughtful, thorough, researched writing and what is hackish.

> Status skews even less equally than income…

> Status can’t pay the rent…

> Twenty-two year-olds will often accept status in lieu of wages…

I guess I don't see the world through status-colored lenses or know anyone who does so the rest of the article and its points were built on a premise foreign to me.

The author also appears to misrepresent unions in my opinion, portraying them more as a "protectionist" mechanism for workers, a way to fend off other workers with lower skills. When corporations held (hold) all the cards a collective of workers was the only way the worker had any bargaining power.
Key Supplier of Wafers for Chips Says It’s Sold Out Through 2026
How would the IRS know?

Are they keeping track of whether I got married or divorced, or had a kid, or a death in the family, or a disability? Of whether I bought or sold a house, took out a HELOC, or started a home office, or installed solar panels?

Are they keeping track of whether I sold something for $5 on eBay, or of how much my sales tax was for groceries, even when I pay in cash? Do they have a file keeping track of my charitable contributions? If I'm a teacher who uses their own money to pay for classroom supplies, the IRS already knows this? They know whether the kids are at day care when I'm working? They know how much I spent on medical costs during the year? Whether I took a college class?

To the extent the IRS knows, I would consider that a bad thing.
We're mostly dev or ops here, probably at least average ones. Entitlement is the default state for us.

But anybody should be entitled to refuse a job interview for any reason he wants.
An example might be someone who once said "Labeling records for language is fascism!" but now fully supports blocking the distribution of content they now find offensive.

Some people cannot see the contradiction, to them it seems a matter of "but thats what we want" alone.
> That’s in part because urine is rich in nutrients that, instead of polluting water bodies, could go towards fertilizing crops or feed into industrial processes.

Huh? We're already producing way too much fertilizer from farm animals, which leads to the situation that countries like the Netherlands [1] and Germany [2] experience a massive oversupply of dung that has to be shipped sometimes hundreds of kilometers because otherwise the fields near the dung sources get way too much nutrients or the dung runoff fucks up river ecosystems.

How about using what we actually have right now in abundance instead of building highly complex systems designed to capture tiny amounts of human urine?!

[1]: https://www.noord360.eu/2021/02/10/guelletourismus-warum-deu...

[2]: https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/drecksgeschae...
Not OP but I imagine they mean TRAPPIST-1 and perhaps Proxima Centauri.
You should take a look at GoboLinux: https://gobolinux.org/

"GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that's installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way."
Thinking through those interrelations for manufacturing processes was my hope for this:
https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/
https://www.oscomak.net/
https://openvirgle.net/

And earlier, this:
https://pdfernhout.net/princeton-graduate-school-plans.html
https://pdfernhout.net/sunrise-sustainable-technology-ventur...

Still think it is all a good idea. Glad the "maker" movement is making some progress in that area. As I noted on the LibrePlanet mailing list a few weeks ago:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2022-...

Someday after I "retire" I hope to have more time to work on all that.

Tangentially, on a super earth with more gravity, they would have an easier time going into orbit energetically using mass drivers or laser launch systems instead of rockets. And in any case, how big a seed do you really need to make a space infrastructure if you are patient? And the ground can communicate to space with radio or lasers (like for telepresence) which are not affected much by planetary gravity even for super earths.
> And engineering teams don't notice that their solutions are suboptimal until their product hits scale.

A lot of engineering teams scale prematurely. Maybe their complicated engineering playground will indeed scale to 100M users, at the expense of being extremely complex and costly from an infrastructure point of view, where as a more "boring" stack may not scale to 100M but will handle up to 10M in a much simpler & cheaper way.

The more complex solution makes sense if you're sure you'll hit 100M, but megalomaniac founders' dreams aside, this rarely happens and they end up dealing with the unnecessary complexity & expense of a stack whose scalability isn't actually required.
It is way past time to rethink our end-user computing devices to assume zero trust (the way browsers have to), without passing the ball back to the user in form of "access grant prompts" which everyone under the sun reads as "click ok if you want to be able to run this app" anyways.
HD radio can broadcast images for the radio station, etc. that is displayed when you are tuned to that channel.
SpaceX is so much more than just the capital. It's the capital plus the unwavering vision of the leadership. The latter is much harder to find.
This seems to be only about writing jobs. I don't think of those as "high status" apart from the wages, but maybe I'm alone here. I thought he was going to focus on roles like non-tenured professorships and post-docs, mid level non-profit jobs, and the clergy.
> as there is little demand for published research in journals

Not sure what you mean by this - for advancement in academia this is 90% of what hiring or promotion committees demand.

> journals demand payment from the writers themselves

From the institution, not the authors.
I've added code to my RSS reader to rewrite Twitter links as Nitter links instead. No sign in necessary.

https://nitter.net
> the British had began banning the extremely common rituals of burning widows alive, burying alive of lepers, and honor killing of family members

+1, you are right about this. Banning these was an undeniably good thing for the Indian society.

> British pumping huge sums of money into modernizing the country and offering a western education to Indian children for the first time

this is a load of BS though. You make it sound like they were there out of their infinite benevolence to do good for the Indians, when in fact they looted the country indiscriminately...
This reads more like a haphazardly-inserted, boring and vanilla anti-Trump virtue signal rather than a thoughtful critique on Christian values.
But again, you admitted that you're at least a team. SquareSpace and Wix (for example) is appealing precisely because most of their users are solely the one maintaining the site, at least when it comes to the editorial and design side. They precisely don't want to know the warts of manually-maintained CMS (and I knew Joomla, it's not pretty) or how to maintain HTTPS, they just want it to act as if it's Word or Photoshop.
It sucks to grow up and see people trivialize your condition. While its effect varies by person, I think most people on this side of the fence would agree that, had their family (and society) was aware of and acknowledged their condition much earlier in their life, it would have saved them a _lot_ grief, anxiety, depression, self doubt, and unnecessary failure.

Please don't receive parent as hostile, I can assure you they are not. We've all grown up being told we're lazy, overstimulated, and lacked discipline. Please understand that your question "Is ADHD Real? [..] I am still wondering .. this is a real disorder [..] ?" can be perceived as a gaslight, as it seemed less an earnest question and more of a comment, really.
Create a self-signed certificate on the server

Install it as trusted on each client
Thanks for the link.
Actually, didn't even know that WhatsApp changed their backup mechanism, which previously used a mechanism that allowed e.g. google to obtain the messages.

Overall, the concept seems to be the same: use a secret, only known to the client to secure data stored at a untrusted location.

The major differences include:

- closed vs open source (it's easy to validate the mechanism in the implementation whereas you pretty much need to trust WhatsApp that they don't leak the key)

- WhatsApp uses a third party provider for storing the data whereas with Matrix your Homeserver is responsible for messaging and the backup

- only the main app can access the backup whereas with Matrix any of your clients can independently read and write to the backup (because there is no main client)

- WhatsApp stores everything in the backup, a Matrix client only the keys, because the messages are stored somewhere else
Rome Formatter and Rust Update
This is what I find most plausible as well. If we just look at facts we currently believe to be true, then we know there are enormous distances between planets and no fast way of travelling between them. Then for a lot of probabilities you want to assign to the likelihood of intelligent life emerging on a Goldilocks planet, the universe would look exactly like it does today. I.e. we’re all on isolated islands on a fast ocean, and it doesn’t matter how advanced our tech gets: we’re still all limited by the laws of physics so we all think we’re alone.
Thanks for this, it fixed it but ofc twitter will soon find out and break it again. Even though, they know majority of internet users don't user uBlock Origin. I feel they'd still come after the few that do :/
Jet facility achieves fusion energy record
Managed Detection and Response
I suspect they are talking about this:

https://radiodns.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Guidelines-o...

Essentially small images sent OTA that allow stations to "Brand" themselves on automotive receivers.
The Boring iPhone SE
How to Solve Software Bugs with the Scientific Method