skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting framing between "Virtuals" and "Physicals", but this is perhaps an over-simplification. Are doctors and nurses not "Physicals"? They deal with physical people every day (in fact, they perform "physicals" on people) and yet I'd guess they don't feel a strong affinity with the truckers (supporting neither their cause nor their tactics).

Also, I think the analysis downplays what is somewhat unique about this protest, which is that the truckers have access to large objects which can cause disproportionate disruption in arbitrary locations.

Hospitality staff, for example, don't have that tool at their disposal, and I assume they are more likely to live in cities (the land of the "Virtuals"), despite doing physical and noticeable work (which would align them with the truckers, under the article's thesis). Would they even want to carry out a disruptive protest if there were a (similarly justifiable) vaccine mandate applied to their industry?

The article's lede was therefore probably buried at the end, therefore, where it says:

> So expect the Virtuals of the ruling class to double down on trying to exert control, moving with all haste to develop new and innovative methods of information management and coercion to try to eliminate every human vulnerability from the machine. Self-driving truck startups are about to have an excellent next funding round.
> Immiserating debt destroys lives, and destroyed lives makes all of us worse off.

I agree, but it was the choice of the people who borrowed to risk destroying their own lives, and it is not remotely fair to ask the rest of us who worked hard, made hard choices, and sacrificed things we wanted to pay back the debt of those who didn't.

I worked my way through college and commuted from my parent's home so I could afford it. I also went to a much lower-tier state school where I could get a scholarship.

I would have loved to live at school and have that experience. I would have loved to go to a higher-end but more expensive school where I didn't have a merit scholarship, and to be able to go without also working. But I sacrificed those things so that I could graduate with as little debt as I could, and I worked hard to pay that debt off.

How is it fair to now tell me I have to pay off everyone else's school who chose not to give anything up?
You could open the link in a new private browsing window and enter an incorrect guess.
We've been using Temporal for the past year and have found it to be an absolute joy.

Being able to model business processes--some of which may take multiple _years_, and require human approval/rejection steps--using procedural go/java/js, and knowing that once that function starts executing, it is basically indestructible (barring the complete destruction of temporal's backend database), is just really cool. Being able to outsource a lot of the complexity involved in using event sourcing to manage distributed transactions frees up our developers to worry about just the high-end business logic.

Congrats to the team! I'm excited to see Temporal gaining some more traction.
Please keep the discussion substantive. Thank you.
Agree. I was in the games biz for 15 years and found that the skills I learned were highly sought after by non-biz companies. Especially knowing how to make software run fast and being able to invent and implement unique solutions to hard problems that you can’t just download a framework or library to fix. I will also say that the smartest and best developers I have ever worked with was in the games industry. However the pay and life balance is better outside of the games industry so I switched.
textbook whataboutism. Both options are shit. That means choose neither of them, not that we gotta take one.
There are two statements involved:

* “It would have been a politically unpopular move domestically”

* “there was no alternative to end the war”

They are both true.

Well, there was another "option". It was for the US to invade the Home Islands and fight against the Japanese:

> In addition, the Japanese had organized the Volunteer Fighting Corps, which included all healthy men aged 15 to 60 and women 17 to 40 for a total of 28 million people, for combat support and, later, combat jobs. Weapons, training and uniforms were generally lacking: many were armed with nothing better than antiquated firearms, molotov cocktails, longbows, swords, knives, bamboo or wooden spears, and even clubs and truncheons: they were expected to make do with what they had.[63][64] One mobilized high school girl, Yukiko Kasai, found herself issued an awl and told, "Even killing one American soldier will do. ... You must aim for the abdomen."[65] They were expected to serve as a "second defense line" during the Allied invasion, and to conduct guerrilla warfare in urban areas and mountains.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall#Ground_forc...

Having the Japanese throw themselves against the US invasion and American troops slaughter them to defend themselves is not a viable "option" in my mind. Perhaps you feel differently.
I don't know anything about construction, but I do know that my landlord is based in cayman islands.

Why do we allow tax-heaven based shell companies to buy housing in areas where we officially declared a shortage, especially when we know much of that money is either stolen, or comes from dictators, or is doing tax evasion? It can't be helping the problem
Your leap from NFT to DRM makes no sense.
It seems very buggy.

- lots of country guesses raise an error saying it doesn't exist. Such as "brasil".

- if you zoom on the map, there are flashings of the underlying map layer with country names...

- I got to find the exact match of "French Guiana (France)"...
What do you think about Cloudflare Access?

I haven't used it personally, but it looks pretty neat -- authenticating proxies in the cloud, no VPN needed. It seems that I need to implement authentication in my webapp is to (1) have my app listen on localhost (2) set up cloudflared on the same host (3) check the right HTTP header for authenticated user's email. And in return this gives me SSO and full logging (including per-request, something that Tailscale cannot give me)
FIRE is financially independent and retired early. It's a whole movement of people who've realized if they make enough money, invest wisely, and avoid lifestyle creep and the hedonic treadmill it's possible to retire much earlier. Cost of living is way less in Kentucky, so this person was able to amass enough capital to retire there already, but is jumping back into work so they can save up enough to FIRE (it's a verb too!) in the much more expensive (and nicer) California.

Cherry Keys are a popular type of switches for mechanical keyboards.
Better:

for f in *.png; do convert "$f" "${f/%.png/.webp}" ; done

Quoting the arguments lets it correctly handle file names with funny characters, including spaces. Using the `${parameter/pattern/string}` parameter substitution means the shell does all the work itself without invoking an external command (other than convert, of course). The '%' in the parameter substitution requires the pattern to match at the end, so "foo.png.png" becomes "foo.png.webp" and not "foo.webp.png" -- an unlikely corner case, but you might as well do it right. ("foo.png.blah" doesn't match "*.png" in the first place.)

For elaborate commands like this, I typically run it once with an "echo" inserted ("echo convert ..."), confirm that the resulting commands make sense, and then hit up-arrow to edit the command and delete the echo.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par...
Ah, I didn't think of incognito, thanks!
There's that much different countries.
Lmao. Got it in one guess.

#Worldle #26 1/6

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Why is solar not likely to decrease much? If the historical experience curve continues there's still room for a factor of several decrease in its cost.
There is a talk by an OSS person (I forget the details), where they make the argument that AWS selling hosting for a particular piece of software increase the market for that software, which means that while AWS takes some share of the pie, the size of the pie is bigger so the original author's share goes down but the size of their slice goes up. So I'm not sure in every case AWS selling hosted software is actually a bad thing for the original authors.
I would take as much math as you can and try to actually learn it at a deep level. no matter what path you take from here this will suit you well.

Besides that, have fun go to parties try out hobbies and just generally do whatever you feel like. I personally wish I had spent more time learning an instrument at that age.
I agree with you that student loan forgiveness is unfair and wrong, but this is not a helpful response, and you know that. Why even post it?
There's a variety of sources from different parts of the world. Paid accounts can customize or add their own RSS sources, so you can read r/anime_titties if you'd like.
If you can remember 194 shapes over the span of 194 days then hats off to you :).
The difference is, Amazon apparently performs useful work. Bitcoin is literally an energy-wasting contest.
You run out of countries.
Is there a way to play previous day games? It's a bit sad when you just discover the game and can't try it out on 2/3 games.
Been playing this for the past few days.

Today's (17 Feb) is easy for me. But gosh, last few days were really tough, mostly countries that I'm not aware of or don't hear a lot.
And if "file" is the name of an existing directory, it creates an empty file called "file/null".

"touch" exists for a reason.
And that's why you add storage. The cost of storage need not be that low to push new nuclear entirely out of the picture.

https://model.energy/
This can be said for stocks as well, but stocks are not a ponzi scheme.

A ponzi scheme is where interest on the investment are funded by other investors in the scheme. Unless you are talking about some interest earning crypto program, maybe THAT is a ponzi scheme. But the crypto you buy and sell on an open exchange is definitely not.

Learn what words mean.
Your script fails if the files referenced by $f contain white spaces or a newline.

You should script defensively, for when this is run on Windows or elsewhere [maybe Android] that will break this assumption.

Newlines can also be part of a filename. For extreme rigor, use find -print0 and xargs -0.

I have covered some of this here:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/parallel-shells-xargs-u...

(Somebody took me to the Hacker News front page for this, and nobody said that I made a mistake.)
> The entire point...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

Prescriptivism is perhaps helpful when starting out on a project and you need to prune down a vast tree of possibilities, but once you already have a thing, prescriptivist declarations are pretty impotent at helping you understand how that thing works.

If your bash script has some tight loop, calling out to external tools can incur a huge performance overhead. Rewriting in bash can aleviate that. How do you re-write it in bash? Well... this article provides good fodder for thought!

> like a bar of soap that never gets wet.

Here are some uses of soap that would be hampered by it getting wet:

- Make-shift lubricant on that sticky cabinet drawer

- Draw temporary markings, like a crayon

- Potpourri alternative

- Fragrant seal on your letters

- Deterrent to puppies chewing on your chair legs
> If you are an employer and see a student that dropped out of college without a very good reason, then that is a very strong negative signal.

This is an argument for Caplan’s signaling theory, not against it. You literally said that whether or not a job applicant graduated is a very strong signal to employers.
I don’t need a house that lasts 100 years. My estate will be selling it in 50 years, if I don’t sell it in the average ownership duration of 10 years.

Lasting a long time does not mean a structure is better in every way. Old housing can be a challenge in terms of safety, cohesive design, lifestyle fit, land use, environmental concerns, etc.

In Japan, for instance, it is popular to frequently tear down housing rebuild it, and it works well for them.

I have lived in and fixed up many old houses with strong bones. They might stand for hundreds of years but everything attached to those bones is a patchwork of afterthoughts.
Not true. I was picked more than once out of a competitive pool of talented people because of my game development experience. It made me unique and stand out from the crowd.
It’s here:
https://joebiden.com/beyondhs/
> Like you can't, afaik, have a VPN do application or request aware auth of an HSTS enabled endpoint.

The application can be made aware of the VPN identity.
I just want to specify International Atomic Time, relative to some universally-agreed-upon epoch, in nanosecond units.
With a spreadsheet you can see the result of each computation, and you can easily manually tweak values if you want to play around.

Programmers might have an easier time checking a program for bugs than a spreadsheet, but most economists aren't programmers, right? The stereotype I have, at least, is that the experts for this domain are happier in spreadsheets than python. And it seems to me that the main issue for this sort of think would come from economics rather than programming issues.
They are too distracted by politics and a CEO that gets a raise despite the current performance stats.

I am enjoying Chromium Ungoogled with uBlock and Metamask which gives me the best web app testing and crypto facilities. I am a bit wary of Brave.
Or if your goal is to not hire irritating smart-arses. It seems a way to filter candidates on ideology. You can't get away with asking if people believe in god or climate change or affirmative action or abortion rights. But a question like this prompts people to bring up any strongly held beliefs on sensitive topics themselves (sensitive topics are where you find your views are contrarian). Once the topic is raised, your unconscious biases do the filtering even if you are not doing it deliberately 'to ensure a good team fit'.
Prove the causal link that lowering the risk of student loans (by forgiving student loan debt) drives more people to take them out.

You're also missing the illegal behavior on the part of the for-profit institutions. That's what we, as tax-payers, are on the hook for. And we would be on the hook for it regardless. You want to complain, complain about the for-profit institutions that defrauded these people illegally for us to have to clean up.
perl? write once, read forever.
I'm surprised they'd even let you run a cluster without dedicated master nodes. It's basic good practice and their docs emphasize this quite clearly.
I'm pretty sure that a very high number of the people who would get general college loan forgiveness are privileged people who made poor choices.
Like all of these daily games, you can change your system date to get a new round.
You're right, all this assumes the marketing material is an accurate description of the furure.
Sprinkling in a dose of reality we must conclude that with maybe only two launches ever, SLS will turn out to cost much much more per launch.
You might be a little overoptimistic! Remember you've been promised flying cars, but cars today look almost identical to those from 130 years ago.
Check it out, same NY court officer

https://twitter.com/_elkue/status/1494021798924623872?s=21
https://twitter.com/nycbikelanes/status/1494022728185270277?...
This. You buy a 4"x4" post (nominal. Actually 3.5"x3.5") at your local home improvement store and it has wane on all four corners and the pith running down the middle.

Translation: it's made from the smallest possible tree you could plausibly saw a 4x4 out of. And the pith (the center of the trunk) running through the middle guarantees that the post will split along the radial plane as it dries.

If you go to a better lumber yard, you get better lumber. Except, apparently, for 2x3's. They are universally crap. Source: built a chicken coop with 2x3's and bought from a local outfit because they deliver inexpensively. Everything else was gorgeous compared to the box home improvement store. The 2x3's were pretty much the same.
does this only work if labor markets are efficient?
My district does have an influx of people from Africa, I will admit.

I rented one of my houses to such a family, but that is a story for another time.

...I will say also that our 8th grade scores put the other districts to shame (among the highest levels in the area), but the high school was our downfall.
When do you get a yellow square? I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so I took a look at the code.

Here's what I found: For each guess, Worldle calculates a proximity score from 0 to 100 -- higher is better. Each row is basically a quantized proximity score meter, from 0 to 100 in increments of 20. If you get at least half-way to the next increment of 20 (i.e. to the next green square), you get a yellow square, too.

Example: If your proximity score for a guess is 63, you'll get 3 green squares and two blank (white or black) squares, i.e. GGGBB. If your score is 71, you'll get three green squares, and since 71 is at least half-way to 80 (i.e. >= 70), you'll also get a yellow square, so GGGYB.

The proximity score is round(100*(MAX_DISTANCE_ON_EARTH - d)/MAX_DISTANCE_ON_EARTH). Though that max distance is defined to be 20,000,000.

This is the important part: https://github.com/teuteuf/worldle/blob/67db30bdf79c0965c19a...
This was great! Thanks for putting this together.
Off topic, but the "Data Handling" landscape has become extremely confusing. By Data Handling, I mean

- Collection
- Distribution
- Processing
- Storage
- Querying

Earlier, it was SQL + Software, but now, its a myriad of systems, a myriad of methods, with overlapping functions and a whole slew of libraries that come with related tools.

I do understand that the underlying need for all this is the sheer volume of data that is being generated in the world. But as an experienced programmer, but newbie to the big data section, I find it overwhelming.
Well I know what project I’m working on tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!
The intrinsic value of crypto is that is the first form of electronic cash that isn't a proxy for bank to bank transfers.

It's intrinsic value comes from being an excellent form of currency and store of value - easy to store, fast to send, easy to verify, easy to hold personally, difficult to create more of, etc.. Up until Bitcoin there were not digital forms of money that came close. Physical forms of money are hindered by being physical which means transportation and validation are more complicated.

It's not easy to find a form of money that has all these properties above, Bitcoin and other crypto currencies do which is WHY they are valuable. That is their intrinsic value - being good at being money.
That’s true, but I guess my point is that Hidden Service addresses are harder to misuse. If you get the address from a trusted source, like the Azure dashboard, then you’re connecting to the correct machine. No need to rely on people being meticulous enough to compare hex addresses.
>They're investing massive amounts of money, and they seem to be miles ahead of everyone else (well, it doesn't seem like there is anyone else).

Who are they ahead of? They have a standalone headset which has fairly limited performance, and FB Horizons which looks like something you could make in Unity in a few days. With things like VRChat, Neos, Cluster, and others available, they definitely aren't ahead and are lagging very far behind in my opinion. Their increasingly poor reputation will even limit what they can do in a VR/AR space.
That is not a logical conclusion at all.

The average person will do it enough times until they learn, or they will pay someone else to handle it. I am sad when people lose their coin, I would prefer it not to be lost.
They'vevbeen running ads demanding regulation on cable and streaming services for a hot minute, I don't think they want to hide or distract from it.
Is it cheating to look at a map? I got a very nearby country so I looked to see what was around it which shows the shape quite clearly. I guess as an educational tool, it’s still very good that way. I now know how those countries are geographically related, in an area I don’t know very well.
"The game is, given a bunch of bits of the hash output, identify which of a known set of input produces that hash output."

No, it isn't. You don't have a list. This game generates a fully random password. I did one just now and the answer is "]=-CrGl0Sv.'L:". You don't have that on your list. This is Passwordle, not Wordle. Passwordle does not operate on a fixed list of answers.

Technically, it's drawing from a smaller set of possibilities than a full 256 bit search space but it's still large enough it won't matter.

You can not enumerate the possibilities for Passwordle.

Yes, if you cut the search space arbitrarily by something like 110 bits or so, the math works differently. So? That's not the game.

The difficulty of this game, and for that matter of reversing the hash in general, from a constant list is uninteresting. The whole point is stranding you in an infeasibly large search space.

Your strategy completely depends on having a list of precomputed hashes for the entire search space. You don't and can't, so your strategy is completely nonfunctional and useless. Pounding on the details of your nonfunctional strategy will not make it functional.
> A ponzi scheme is where interest on the investment are funded by other investors in the scheme.

Where does the "value" of Bitcoin come from? From being able to sell it to new "investors" at higher margin than you originally "invested" into it.

The Bitcoin network creates no actual value. Everything is percieved speculation on its (apparent lack of) usefulness. You cannot convert Bitcoin back into the energy that was used to compute it. It's a wealth transfer mechanism from those who don't understand how it works to those who do.
I'm at a loss for how trimming budget can ever really lead to increased performance. "Do better" is not a plan. And if you are behind, as in most areas of life, things are more expensive to catch up. I'm not aware of any case where this is not the way of things.

Such that, in large, I would expect areas that have poor families to, in fact, be more expensive to educate than areas with well off families. Many of the kids are literally having to catch up. Not just learn the curriculum, but catch up on a lot of learning they never had access to.

"Do better, or perish" is the way of small businesses. Where most of them fall into the perish scenario.
I'm not in any immediate danger of being overdrawn, and I still detest automatic billing in general. (I do it for one bill where there's a significant upcharge for not doing it and switching providers isn't easy.) If I'm spending or giving away my money, I want to sign a check or at least tap a button every time. It's insulting to me for a charity to say, "Here, giving what you want is a bother, let us just take care of it."
>from a medical perspective it seems like a tradition that would best be left in the past.

Personally speaking, I think this argument is extremely poor.

From a medical standpoint, basically anything that's not shutting yourself in, working out moderately and eating an exceedingly boring diet should be left in the past as well. Good food (Obesity epidemic), extreme sports, any profession with any notable level of risk (Advice from medical professionals is exceedingly slanted to the side of caution), any drink with an alcohol content above 0.

Acceptable levels of risk are part of everyday life, and we're certainly not going "there's a nonzero risk so I refuse to do it" every time you cross the road or leave the house, is there?
Antidote to the Great Resignation and a plunging birthrate is a robot revolution