skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my first real "programming" book, and my first O'Reilly animal book and it changed the course of my life in a real and tangible sense. I read it cover to cover and did all off the exercises, and then moved right on to Learning Perl. To this day, I watch people struggle with regexes or dismiss them, but I'm done finding what they were looking for before they can finish complaining.
> You can safely ignore this guy.

Thanks for telling us this. We might have thought for ourselves based on the content, but now we don't need to.
Russians using VPNs for truth on Ukraine starts fights among friends and family
Another wonderful tool is "entr". It just runs a program when files change.

It's incredible.

I use it 20-40 times an hour to do very fast Dev/DevOps development:

- "run Pytest when Python files change"
- "I forgot how to use ps, run my-ps.sh when it changes and show me the output"
- "rebuild all these Kubernetes resources when I edit the YAML files"
- "run fast lint, then unit test Python files, then invoke one and show me the results"

Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/06/28/entr/
It's disappointing that the only alternative you consider for not buying gas is to drive some other kind of car.
This comment went into some more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30740164

I mentioned this to the article author, and they edited the post to include the Reddit announcement.
If you are interested in using fzf in neovim, check out this project: https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua.
AT&T is deploying streetlight-powered 5G small cells
I would hardly bring the Balkans as an example of "the West". That's a mix of Soviet / middle Eastern cultured countries.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised to hear about racism, rape or organ trafficking in any war zone.
No-one fighting a war is innocent, not even if you control the media like the West does.

There was no evidence, only allegations brought up by the prosecutor you mentioned.
That's a matter of repository policy, but yes, Flathub (by far the largest and most popular repository) allows for this. I believe that they generally put a disclaimer that it's not an official package in the description, and allow the upstream developer to claim the application ID for themselves if they wish to maintain it.
If Microsoft officially starts publishing their apps to Flathub then we could have a watershed moment for Flatpak adoption. One central app store for Linux. Pushing Microsoft to take over maintaining the Flatpak for Edge is only a good thing? HN should be supporting the Edge authors.

Flatpak is really special technology. Joy to package, excellent end user experience, and completely open.
That’s not the same thing at all unless the cops also stole your house and never let you return.
Land value tax would solve this.
How does that compare to something like Gentoo? Just trying to get the sense of the use-case and perception.
Fears that dash for wind power could endanger lost world of Doggerland
But an automated tractor is not going to stop for a mother bird protecting her eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vU-BuWY7wjw

https://v.redd.it/netuqk4d5qn81/DASH_720.mp4

I actually feel that is a real problem and shows the little things developers don't take into account and why self-driving cars are going to kill a bunch of people until they debug it, with you as the beta-tester.
> that seems intentionally rife with opportunities for abuse.

Lets say you are <8ft away recording an officer interaction or arrest that isn’t particularly dangerous and another officer asks you to stand at least 8ft back for safety, and you comply even though you don’t think the situation is potentially dangerous, the harm isn’t all that great so the potential for abuse is minimal. If the officer decides to fine you, you have video for your defense if it helps prove it really wasn’t a dangerous situation, so the potential for abusing discretion is there, but once again the harm is minimal.
China is dealing with terrorism in a far more graceful way than the U.S. ever has. They're doing it with education and jobs.
Posting seems to have been removed. Fortunately, however:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220318235002/https://recruit.a...

And yes, it literally says:

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA seeks applications for an Assistant Adjunct Professor on a without salary basis. Applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position.

An astonishing ethical (and intellectual) lapse on the part of someone at UCLA, in other words. It's easy to see why it got removed so quickly.
Conti ransomware gang leak: 60k messages online
Another great "foley" movie is Rajio no jikan (Radio Time) or sometimes called "Welcome Back, Mr McDonald: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133170/

Its the story about a team of B-list celebs putting on a radio play where everything goes wrong. The most famous celeb requests a slight change in the script, and it snowballs. The CD library is locked so the new sound effects required have to be made by the security guard who used to do foley back in the day. Good movie!
Evidence is all just a click away, if you care to know.
Imperialist term for Ukraine
Probably a few problems worth addressing (the assault being one, the idling another) but in the mix would be the timeframes and budgets expected of couriers. The city sets rules, Amazon sets expectations of time and cost, and the brutal area in the middle is left to drivers maintaining vehicles, dealing with rising fuel costs, trying to find a place to park near the delivery target, etc. I have parking when it's something I need to do once that week; can't imagine having to deal with it constantly every day while on the clock. I'd say that pressure carries over when they cop attention for a separate issue such as idling.
Besides ones already mentioned, a suggestion I'd like to throw out is the writings of GK Chesterton. I've heard many engineers cite "Chesterton's fence," the idea that you shouldn't get rid of something until you understand why it's there in the first place (which, naturally comes up a lot in software engineering). I haven't come across many engineers though that have actually read one of his books.

His non-fiction books are easy to read and full of lots of wonderful turns-of-phrase. A lot of what he wrote back in the day sounds like it could be written today. There is a fair amount of his books that was very of-the-moment, making references to people from the time that I suppose were well known then that you need to read around.

I've only read two of his fiction books (Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man who was Thursday), both of which are really funny.
What is this clickbait garbage?
Exploitation via Git's core.fsmonitor, affects IDEs, shell prompts and pillagers
I think this might be true. But the USA is not simply a democracy. It’s a liberal hegemony, and that brings a whole set of other problems.

I believe that an objective look at US foreign policy shows that US always looks out for #1 (itself).

It helped overthrow an elected socialist leader in Chile in 1973. It made up reasons to invade Iraq. It defended Kuwait, a monarchy. It interferes in other countries all the time. When the dictator supports US interests, it leaves them be. When a democratically elected government resists them, they try to tear it down.

So I think what you mean is democracy is good for advancing human rights for CITIZENS of that country. The empirical evidence is not super strong for advancing human rights in general.
Refrigerated trailers have their own separate engine.
We literally did that with the US highway system, it was just right after WW2.

Same goals, same trade offs, same sometimes major wins, sometimes pointless spending.
https://archive.ph/P8qJi

Original headline(s):

Russians are using VPNs to access the truth about Ukraine. It's leading to fights between friends and families.

Some Russians are breaking through Putin’s digital iron curtain — leading to fights with friends and family
> Starting a company and growing it to the size of Amazon is extremely difficult.

That is almost certainly true. But what you don't get is that there are dozens (maybe many more) constantly striving to do just that. When some of them of succeed, why would you be surprised? Why would it be surprising or special when a system designed to cause people to strive for this kind of success actually results in it happening to some of them, and not to most of them? There's nothing remarkable about the fact of a particular corporation's success: there was always going to be a corporate success, just as there were always going to be way more corporate failures. That's how the system is designed. That's what it is there to do. It's not a reason to idolize or even respect those who happened to be on the winning team.

Before you say much more, you should probably be aware that I was the #2 employee at Amazon.
I really liked this comment from the summary:

> OKR is an strategy-alignment exercise, not a strategy-creation activity.

I think my company has been treating it too much like the latter.
Only made it a few minutes into the video before I reported it as child abuse. They guy’s a child, and working children is illegal; hope the sick individual behind the camera gets time.
If we're lucky they'll pioneer growing babies entirely in vitro, no humans needed besides their DNA (which is branch of research I'd really like to see but morals in the West prevent that)
> an enormous multiplier over market value

“Market value” requires willing participants. If a seller doesn’t want to sell at a particular price and the good isn’t fungible (which housing is not), they aren’t getting market value by being forced to sell at a price determined solely by the buyer.
I don't think crediting packagers is a common thing it general. I can't think of a time an article / company credited packagers when telling you to apt get something.
Commercial/Proprietary software support, mainly. Certain companies or institutions may require Windows or MacOS only. I prefer MacOS ecosystem (*nix-like) to Windows.
This is a myopic view.

My state recently started charging for bags. Guess what? People carry groceries in their hands when possible. Many bring their own bag plastic reusable bags.

It’s not just the energy required to create them. It’s that they’re virtually indestructible. They litter. They fly away. They break and leak plastic everywhere in the environment leading to microplastic found in blood of wildlife.

And this is just scratching the surface. I know it sounds like an educated view and it’s not entirely wrong but there’s more to it than what appears. Plastic is a problem and the less of it we use the better we and our next generations will be.
Wow! Thanks
I directly attribute daily meditation to reading The Tao of Pooh. It was a parting gift as I left to go travelling.

Although I didn't settle on Taoism, like you, it introduced and opened my mind to what I saw as an alternatives to religion.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but controlling WireGuard with systemd-networkd makes it 'always on', which means you can't easily turn it on and off. This was a deal-breaker for me, as I don't need it active all the time.
In my case, when I moved into a new apartment and was waiting on new furniture, I never got used to it. Yes, the first few nights were the most challenging, but the challenge never abated. Over a couple of months I tossed and turned way too often as a result of too much pressure in one spot or another and I started to develop rather consistent back pain almost daily as a result of this arrangement.
USPS is great. I run a small ecommerce business and each year a package or two is lost (out of hundreds, maybe this year thousands). So far USPS has been responsible for one and UPS the rest (I don't ship on any other carrier). As you mentioned, the USPS carriers are almost always friendly and helpful.
That's a subjective and misleadingly useless response.
Volvo takes it to a new level. They don’t crank up the heat to whatever you set it to unless you’re actually driving. Idling doesn’t help.
> we could have a watershed moment for Flatpak adoption. One central app store for Linux.

Because that model worked so well for iOS and Android?
Large selection of well designed and user friendly applications. Stuff just works because software and hardware is well integrated

Not to mention consistency. On all other competing platforms consistency across applications tends to be rather bad.
The goal is usually narrowly tailored laws “no recording officer interactions/arrests within 8ft when it’s potentially dangerous.” There is still a small amount of discretion, but what you propose is a very broad law with total discretion “it’s illegal to endanger people.”

They didn’t make recording illegal, any more than a speeding ticket makes driving illegal. They made it a finable offense to record within 8ft of a potentially dangerous police interaction.
So another law to take away rights and pervert the intent of rule-of-law. What is next, taking away the right of women to vote? Making Ponzi schemes legal? Legalizing fraud? Making non-white people illegal? They just keep trying and trying until they get it one way or another and it keeps getting more and more blatant.
I'm sure Japan is not at China's levels but in the time I lived there are I saw several lines get completely, several stations get rebuilt (A good example would be Shinagawa Station) and an 11km underground highway built. Meanwhile it's taken SF 10 plus years for SF to build a tiny 4 station line (the Central Line) and it's not done.
Refrigerated box trucks don't have a separate engine for the box.
This would be a great way for corrupt politicians to funnel large sums of real estate money to their friends and donors (or to trigger wild speculation bubbles anywhere people think eminent domain is likely to be applied).

I do think these payouts need to be well in excess of market rates (in order to properly compensate people for inconvenience / related expenses / opportunity costs, but tripling or quadrupling property values is a bit far fetched.
It’s much better this way. The cost borne to the driver was very high and now he will probably not do this ever again, instead of needing to be told.
For me The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen really upended my thoughts and opinions on systems in the United States.
Prosper comes to mind: https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publicatio...

They didn't fall apart but got fined.
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office

> The IRS Whistleblower Office pays monetary awards to eligible individuals whose information is used by the IRS. The award percentage depends on several factors, but generally falls between 15 and 30 percent of the proceeds collected and attributable to the whistleblower's information. Awards can only be issued once a final determination can be made, and as such, award payments cannot be made until the taxpayer has exhausted all appeal rights and the taxpayer no longer can file a claim for refund or otherwise seek to recover the proceeds from the government.

Know someone with $100k of unpaid taxes? That's a $15k - $30k payout.

(edit) The report for 2020 - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5241.pdf

In 2020 they had 593 claims, 169 awards. They collected $472M and paid out $86M (18.3%).

This is down from 2018 where $1.4B was collected, and $312M payouts where given.
Why did we shift from discussing the US to "the West"?
What's funny about "all the world's a VAX" is that the VAX could trap on integer overflow. I suspect that C compilers on VAX never set that mode though (it's a flag in the status register).
It's an American problem to the extent most of the economic opportunity is in that kind of city. (The recent growth of remote working does help.)
>"To be clear: SEC "whistleblowers" are rats in the colloquial sense: they come from inside the companies themselves, and report malfeasance to the SEC in exchange for a cut of the penalties."

Put it this way. I'll deal with it when I see it. For now this is too abstract for me. In any ways if they only do it because they get rat money I am not very fond of it.

>"Similar, what we're talking about is an actual crime in NYC"

And it is a crime to be gay in Barbados. So fucking what? If I was in jury I would go for nullification right away and fuck this law. I have my own moral compass and am trying to follow it in how I perceive other humans.
I'm not a systems level programmer but I personally super appreciate this kind of dialog and communication about the flaws in the programming language from prominent members in the community. I've seen it a lot more in Rust (and C++) than in most other languages. I wonder if there is a correlation between how much a language grows and changes to how many blog posts there are from prominent members in the language community outlining flaws? (Tangentially, I would love for a search engine where I could track metadata like this)

I personally think that way too often the discourse from the core team / stewards / BDFLs etc is wholly positive about their own community + the technical merits of the programming language they are representing. A healthy dose of "here are some flaws" is very refreshing and humbling, and makes me appreciate the community more.
This is how NYC raises money - when the revenue dips they send out the sidewalk inspectors, health inspectors, tow trucks, etc. and write up a bunch of fines.

Most restaurants have a way to signal the kitchen that an inspector has arrived and they'll quickly toss everything they are cooking into the garbage because it's cheaper than getting a fine. Former mayor Bloomberg's planned crack down on soda drinks was more about issuing fines for not serving precisely 8oz of liquid - though the next mayor dropped it and all the special order measuring cups for the health inspectors went to a warehouse.

I've witnessed a fleets of NYPD tow trucks clearing out streets of UPS and Fedex trucks. They know what time the delivery companies hit various parts of town and they are ready for them.

Recently the New York fire inspectors have started fining landlords for debris in the hallways (debris = amazon deliveries left at the door). So now if the delivery comes to the door you have to get it before the building super throws it away to save the landlord from being fined, if it gets left by the mailbox then the food delivery people steal it on their way out. No winning.

About ten years ago there was a good samaritan going around feeding parking meters to keep people from being fined. He was arrested and taken to jail. They let him go without charges but not before he spent the weekend - because the person who processes releases doesn't work on weekends they said. I think he sued and ended up settling out of court.
The point of picking a Linux distribution is buying into a package management scheme. If you want to pick the “flatpak” distro fine, but I’m sticking with apt or nix
Small correction

>demanding "where are your papers" to +brown people in general+ under Arapaio in the largest county in the state.
>You can’t go round claiming to be Microsoft and then add a disclaimer in the notes field that you’re not actually Microsoft

The developer_name element is for the developer of the application that is being packaged. It is not the name of the maintainer of the flatpak.

>The <developer_name/> tag is designed to represent the developers or project responsible for development of the project described in the metadata.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Met...
Sure I agree electric engines produce even more torque.

Just give it a few years for the whole thing to be economically viable and for them to convert their diesel trucks to EV trucks.
I agree with your last point - with an added dash of being wary of getting dependent on sophisticated tools that have one vendor.

I'm not skeptical of the idea at all, however. I see it as the rough analogy of mathematicians using proof assistants. This is a coding assistant.

It's generally true that the vast, vast majority of code one writes is boilerplate or otherwise rote. The core logic and control flow that defines the meaningful bits of any complex program are nested in the middle of tons of error handling, logging, data munging, incidental book-keeping, and other very prosaic tasks.

It will not just be handy to have a friendly intelligence assist in these tasks. It doesn't require much "intelligence" (of the sort required for figuring out what the program should do in the first place and how to architect it).

Once the technology gets firmed up a bit, the productivity multiplier will be palpable and impossible to ignore. Programmers using these tools will complete tasks faster than ones that don't, and the market will shift.

Further extensions of this technology lead to automatic generation of unit tests, automatic refactoring, etc. These all exist as very specialized tools that are explicitly coded, but it's clear to see that adding a bit of ML-driven intuition to them would greatly increase their scope and effectiveness.
The sacred pool of Ba'al: a reinterpretation of the ‘Kothon’ at Motya
From TFA:

> Needless to say, this most likely an oversight so I have not concluded that this was intentional, yet

I don't see a point of disagreement. Developer != flatpak maintainer. Putting themselves there would rightly have them called out for misappropriation.
That is an incredibly easy way to waste money.

Political donor: Hey Mr. Politician, I am going to buy some massive apartment complexes. Do me a favor and put a road through them, would you?

Politician: Sure thing, there's an election coming up and I do so love helping out our citizens! holds out hand to receive wads of donations
Most people don't:

a) spend a large amount of time idling.

b) drive diesel a truck.

c) run a business that requires idling a truck (i.e. commercial trucking literally gets paid to idle).
The movie Blow Out (based on Blowup) is about people not appreciating foley work that was there.
ha, more like people just noticed, standing in this society has always been a game of reading comprehension or affording a lawyer that has done so already.

there are several sectors where non-state actors are deputized to enforce compliance of private citizens, for decades at least.

its more interesting to me that someone just noticed and cared enough to apply it to other areas of life, and that everyone else just noticed this method will have durable consensus in our constitutional framework.

so I guess... surprise?
Unfortunately it is not. One group has a monopoly on violence and is only being (slightly) reformed because of overwhelming video evidence of abusive tendencies.
what was your bp readings if i may ask?
Same! As you mentioned: "What is my next thought going to be?" was my trigger as well.

If this book seems too woo-woo for some, or the term God triggers you, you should check out a book called Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Here are other meditations that leads me into the present moment:

- Am I alive?

- Do nothing for 30-60 mins

- Who am I?

- What do I know for certain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vKWk6tc2zY might be a better video
The most bizarre part is that he took issue which the Liskov substitution principle which is just the intuitive definition of what semantic subtyping means. This isn't some crazy clean code "functions should have less than 20 lines" dogma, subtyping without semantic subtyping is just nonsensical.
Any sources to explore the nuances ?
I get the same results as the author if I pass the matrix to eig (R2020a, Intel Mac)

>> lesp = gallery('lesp', 100)
>> any(imag(eig(lesp)))
ans =
logical
0
>> any(imag(eig(lesp')))
ans =
logical
1
None of what you quoted from Solomon about the impermanence of our material acquisitions sounds profound -- it seems obvious.

Of course, the answer is always obvious when you've been provided it beforehand.

You state that as-if you somehow shipped from the womb knowing wisdom, when in fact that implicit knowledge you take for granted has been lived and transferred by your ancestors and most certainly derived from your own social and spiritual milieu.