skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wording from the post that started this discussion is:

> Is "one hand in back pocket at all times" to avoid a circuit across your heart?

To which I responded:

> it doesn't matter if the circuit appears to "crosses your heart", because some portion of it will still flow through your heart regardless.

Which, as we have by now agreed, is the case.

The dispute is about whether that 'portion' is enough to kill you, which I avoided making concrete statements on. I didn't take a stance because the answer is "it depends". The variables that make up the answer are vast, and many folks have survived lightning strikes and died to static discharges thanks to those variables.

> being a bit smart about it

I will still contend that working on live wires with bare skin at all is the opposite of "being a bit smart about it".

If your really being smart about it, and can't avoid it, use tools and protective gear created explicitly for working with live electricity. Or call someone with that gear.
"Demo" can mean a lot of things. Getting hands on a VIP pass at an airshow meant I received, as an 8 year old, a rather comprehensive demo... of JAS-39 Gripen multirole fighter jet. Just the seat I sat for half an hour cost $250k.

Sometimes you can get yourself into really interesting places :)
I wish. You have to get a third class at least once before you can use Basic Med though.
Sorry, it's in the video, but the oil/coal producers & related polluters who use the apathy to further limit change that affects their profits.
The difference doing ops setting up a couple of Lambdas or Fargate containers vs provisioning your own servers is substantial.
You mean the scary prompts that I just mash "Y" on???

(can you tell that I've shipped Debian packages before?)
It’s not bigotry to discuss facts, and people who hide child abuse with the claim that it is bigotry are child abusers who ought to have their crimes published and prosecuted under the law.
small, surviving on crumbs.
Check out 0patch by ACROS Security. They do support Windows 7.

> A patch (also called a micropatch) is a small package with a few code instructions that replace a vulnerable section of code in a running application. A patch therefore fixes a vulnerability.

> A licensed patch can get applied to a module(usually, a DLL–dynamic-link library) inside a running process in order to eliminate a vulnerability in that process. This means that the vulnerable code section in the module inside the process is replaced with corrected code from the patch.

> 0patch does not change executable files on the file system. It only modifies code in memory of running processes, which allows it to easily and quickly apply and remove patches without even relaunching applications, much less restarting your computer.

https://0patch.com/

User Manual: https://0patch.com/files/0patch_Agent_User_Manual_21.05.05.1...

Windows Central article: https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-7-approaches-end-life...
Seems like the battlefield has moved entirely into EWF whith these
sorts of things around. Everything comes down to fast RFDSP in jammer
pods to screw with their radar.
I don't know that you should get relationship advice around computer gaming from some random dude from hackernews, but if you're willing to hear it anyway, I'd communicate your struggle with your spouse - it's very important she understands your struggles and concerns, and can help you. With that, maybe work on figuring out if you're using gaming as a way to relax or a way to escape. If it's escape, what are you escaping? Maybe that's the sort of self reflection you should do, and the sort of topics you want to talk to your wife about. Being a team is hard. I've been married 10 years, and we just had our first son this year, so I'm at least not talking out of my butt.
https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmNzCMsDDddNZPRh6q7vzZEbDaE...
My only life's goal is to become a hermit in the woods.

Hopefully by the time I hit 45 I'll have saved enough to retire, uninstall VS Code forever, and enjoy the woods for the rest of my life :)
Thanks. My original article made its way as a separate submission a while ago but barely got any votes :) My conclusion is that a single (very long) post might have worked out better from an engagement perspective as opposed to the series, but would also have been much harder to make coherent. Thanks for reading!
This didn’t stop happening to me until I had kids. I realized they’re the best meaning I’m gonna get. I’m not an amazing parent but I’m a “better than I expected” parent and encourage anyone on this site to have children.

Also personally I discovered there’s a bunch of foods I ate that cause me to start ruminating about things like that. So that helped some.
Haha, I do not enforce the ban. You are correct. If I untar'd something I'd be sitting there with a space there and I'd look like a fool. In practice, most of these files are in my `~/Downloads` and I don't really keep them around there very much.
> Sounds like the engineers were just entertaining themselves with shiny toys rather than solving the problems they actually had.

This is often the problem when hiring too fast. New employees don't have context or direction but generally people try to be productive, so they start inventing work.

Management team is new too, and not built up either direct or handle the bandwidth and they also are lacking the direction. Senior leadership and founders are likely busy hiring more folks and potentially trying to sort through the chaos described before.

IMO, pre-product market fit company shouldn't have 500 employees, maybe not even 10. These things don't become easier with more people, usually everything gets harder and slow. You also shouldn't have massive marketing or sales force before you actually have product to sell and have figured out your sales motion.

It seemed that Fast was just trying to shortcut their way to be the next Stripe by hiring people instead of actually working on the fundamentals like the product and business.
I am truly curious what terminal app in Linux you feel is better than Windows Terminal at this point. While the terminal experience in Windows languished for many years, Windows Terminal has quickly evolved to be one of the (if not the) best there is on any platform.

But I certainly could be missing out on a great Linux terminal. If there's one that is better than Windows Terminal, I could switch to it under WSL/WSLg on Windows 11.

Bonus: Windows Terminal's release notes occasionally include some fun nuggets like:

> You spoke up about the scroll bars being WAY TOO THIN, so we chonked them up

> Our confidence in the settings UI's Save button has led to us no longer backing up the settings JSON file. We won't be deleting the 61,000 backups we did leave on your hard drive, but what's a couple thousand kilobytes between friends?

> The breadcrumbs have been picked up and will no longer navigate you to strange cottages

> No longer will dropdown menus and combo boxes fly wildly off the screen if you scroll or drag the window! Rejoice!

:-)
Nice! In many instances for me searching through subreddits is the only way to go. Did not realize a lot of us do it. Not sure it warrants a new domain though.
What are the most common sources of microplastics that are retained in the human body? (Excreted microplastics concern me less)

I would expect it is mostly synthetic fiber from clothing, followed by processed food, but seems like we probably don't have that data yet.
That and in ~2004, ILM, along with the other LucasFilm and Games --> Lucas Presidio... during which a lot of SGI machines were scrapped.

Source: I was the designer of the datacenter and network cabling infra for the Presidio.
I've never heard Andreesen say anything I thought was particularly insightful or intelligent. He seems like a caricature of a Silicon Valley programmer who got lucky and made a bunch of money who now thinks that makes him a genius thought leader for the rest of his life. I hate his tagline "software is eating the world" If a homeless person standing outside a grocery store said these things you wouldn't listen because the sound like the ravings of a crank.
> I'm probably missing something obvious

No, you're not. The article is actually just braindead enough to suggest that shipping your build and cryptographic signing steps to third-parties is more secure.

This isn't just wrong, it's almost criminally devious (and blatantly in service to the ever-growing surveillance state).
I understand maybe I exaggerated. It seems that in the US tv is clearly more free than in Russia tv. But it has many people and opinions that you don't see on tv. representatives of other parties (The Green party, even maybe communist party USA (yes, there are such :)) with the exception of Democrats and Republicans. You rarely see Richard Stallman on TV, Trump is banned in many sources, of course there were reasons for this, I take into account his eccentricity, but I am still for freedom of information...
Germans intercepted Russian troops discussing killing Ukrainian civilians
You don't need to "install" anything. There are portable apps out there.

Also a friend told me that base64 encoded zip archives copy-pasted through pastebins and the like aren't generally blocked by most scanners out there.
Good list and thanks for sharing. I have my own list (https://www.programmingbooks.dev) with some overlap.

I disagree with the usage of the wording “should read” in the title. Reading programming books is great and a great way to learn but implying that everyone should read these books can be counterproductive as it might turn people of from reading as it can be interpreted that one is not a good engineer if one hasn’t read them.
The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’
I’ve only ever seen defense of advertising by the people working in the advertisement industry or those exploiting ads, as seen by the comments here.

Every other human on this planet is fucking annoyed by ads, or has evolved a blind spot for them and ignores them.

When was the last time anyone in your social circle said, “I saw an ad for it, let’s buy that!”?

The ads racket employs some of the worst of societal ills: Manipulation, deception, greed, vandalism of public spaces, wasting people’s time without their consent, all to advocate a cycle of endless consumption… not to mention how some ads systems are just a front for spying.

If an individual displayed these behaviors, he or she would be considered extremely creepy and disgustingly clingy (SIT HERE and PAY ATTENTION to me for 30 seconds!) but the ads industry literally selects for and rewards these traits on a massive scale.

Please, stop this guessing game of violating people’s privacy trying to figure out what they want to see and when it should be forced upon them, and just develop better search/filter/discovery/consensual recommendation systems: Let us TELL YOU what we want, dammit.

But of course that would only benefit the product creators and service providers and consumers, not the ads people whose livelihood depends on flattering the naked emperor for his non-existent clothes, so here we must suffer.
I wouldn’t drink/eat alcohol if I live with 40° degree in the middle of Africa.
I simply love Cinnamon these days.

I gave Plasma a go but felt it was designed like the mid-2000s MS products -- tons and tons of features but buried and not discoverable.

Gnome3 is a joke. More and more reduction and laggy on every system I've used it on.

XFCE has never been my flavor; I typically use LXDE when its needed.

Xmonad and openbox were a lot of fun for awhile. I'd probably still use Xmonad if I had time to tinker.

Cinnamon, the fork of Gnome2, gets a lot right in my view. Or maybe I'm getting old.
it should be 'touch true'.
shortest true ever.
That's the magic question.

1) Carts are slow to evolve but they will.

2) Bolt/Fast contain user based information, consumed from their use on other sites. So there's a 'network effect'. If they've shopped at ABC.com before your store, then you already have their CC data ready to go in their car. Sort of like Single Sign On but for carts.
I cant recall what the port was... A serial port? I cant recall - but just that it was on all O2s and it was just knocking out the plastic cover to get access to it.
I do the opposite. Because VSCode helpfully highlights the bits that were changed, I don't want to lose this indicator because of a commit, so I often postpone commits until I am ready to move to another part of feature. Then I use 'git add -p' to make multiple smaller commits, and finally push to remote origin. I don't treat commits as safelines, instead I try to make them logical explanations of the reasons for the changed code.

My safeguard is "undo", but I rarely need it. If I do, I just copy the contents of the file to a new one (ctrl n, ctrl a, ctrl c, ctrl tab, ctrl v) before undoing the wrong path - because any change on older version will break redo history, unfortunately.
Does this mean running a VPC in each AZ connected via Transit Gateway is 100% cheaper than a single VPC w/subnets in each AZ?!

Regularly see EC2 interzone account for 1/3 of EC2 cost this would be a huge win if so (albeit totally ridiculous).
Even hydroelectric power isn't entirely predictable:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/06/california-shuts-down-major-...
Got it. I Google around and surprised to find vendors who basically build workstations from market components. Not sure whether they are mainstream though.
Not saying that this doesnt work but i'd hate to be part of the system inflating the already too expensive housing prices. It's just living off the unfortunate who dont have the income to purchase their on home, therefore being forced to rent and not accumulate any wealth.

But oh well, life aint fair.
>Sure. The question is why they didn't do that until ~1970, which is when I think that era started.

I'm American so I can't speak to the specifics of what happened in Canada, but I imagine it is similar to what happened in the US.

It is all related to the post-war suburbanization of the population. In the early part of the 20th century, homeownership rates in the US were in the 40% range. By the 70s it jumped to roughly 65%. Large swaths of the population went from being lifelong renters in cities to buying single family homes in the suburbs. Owning a home became a symbol of American middle-class life and the government both supported and encouraged this transition. Obviously a constituency that makes up 65% of the population is going to see more political power than one that only makes up 45% of the population.
con man as CEO is usually a good indicator
Great points on both. Uber, indeed, did not have engineering levels beyond senior engineer until year 2 or 3 as far as I know (I joined later, but talked with several early engineers while there).

I was trying to play devil's advocate but I have to agree that pre-product-market-fit, these levels are likely an overkill and distract from the real problem: validating product-market fit.
Spent several minutes trying to find the price. It's hidden under the "Support" menu for no reason that makes sense.

Looks like it starts at €3600 per year for the basic plan, but you can't buy it, you have to "get an offer" which is newspeak for have a salesperson call you for several hours to upsell you.

Definitely not a replacement for my $14/month Dropbox account.
I'd had the 1.0 commit sitting on my machine for a while, this post gave me the activation energy to bump it. The grammar is fairly stable now.
If only housing had the same kind of price drop
Yeah but were the prices sky high to begin with and still sky high now? That's the usual AWS hustle.
> Also, their support engineers are unwilling to help you unless you run Windows. They always insist on remoting into your machine using some Windows utility, even though the issue is with their cloud instead of my machine.

That last point sounds like enough of a reason to never touch then with a barge pole.
This looks nice, congrats on shipping :)

Did you know that "Redditle" literally means either "with Reddit" or "Reddit it" in Turkish depending on context and is actually the perfect Turkish name for a service that does something using Reddit?

As a similar example, Turkish for "Google it" is "Google'la". To google is "Google'lamak".

PS: The suffixes le/la are the same, vowels in suffixes generally adapt to the word that the get attached to due to vowel harmony.
I'm not a psychologist but my understanding is that addiction and destructive habits usually have a deeper underlying cause. Gaming itself is not a problem of course but excessive gaming is.

Perhaps instead of tackling it head on, it would be valuable to observe the problem and ask yourself "what could be causing this?" are you using games to fill a void? Perhaps there is a romantic/professional issue that you don't want to deal with? Maybe you are struggling financially? Of course I won't pretend to know but you this could be an interesting psychological exercise..

My point is that, if you want to change your behavior, you need to grasp two important points:

1. We can "hack" our brains
2. Very few of our traits are "permanent", thus it is futile to "label" oneself.

I've personally used the above to change many of my own habits: improving my social skills, improving my relationships, learning to exercise, etc. We often forget that we are incredibly adaptable creatures.

I highly recommend that you checkout https://fs.blog/mental-models/ regarding various mental models, it could be a great starting point for you.

The last thing I will remind you is: be kind and patient with yourself because change happens slowly!
not sure where the proclivity to underestimate Russian military technology comes from. it certainly was a sterling hallmark of US leadership at the time of the cold war.

Russia has been making in-house AESA for a decade. they started with APAR radar in 1963, just a few years off from the US.

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Zhuk-AE-Analysis.html

they also sell the only radar capable of (on the open market) detecting hypersonics, the 59Н6-ТЕ mobile radar.
We agree on this.

I have however had jobs where I really did have to work on energized equipment. Sometimes 480VAC 3-phase, but more commonly single-phase 230/240 VAC 50/60Hz or 120VAC 60Hz. I was appropriately trained for this work.

Some homeowners are too stubborn to do the proper thing when handling electrical equipment. You're not going to change their minds!

The precautions I mentioned previously were some of the more convenient and generally applicable rules that are taught to people who have to work with equipment that is less safe. If followed by stubborn homeowners, they will also be safer. That was my whole point.
There is speculation that the Phoenicians made it to present day USA thanks to their advanced seafaring capabilities. [1]

Nonetheless, the same Phonenician explorer spirit contributed to the shaping of what is modern day Lebanon today. The Lebanese, as early as the 1500s and 1600s had strong ties to the regions of Italy and France. This is why Lebanon has been more on the West-leaning side than other Middle Eastern countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Phoenician_discovery...
It doesn't compile Ruby code to wasm code, it compiles the Ruby interpreter to wasm, so it'll be roughly the same performance as as the Ruby interpreter on Windows or Linux.

Also Rails is plenty quick these days, tons of people running it at massive scale.
Airbyte acquires Grouparoo to accelerate Data Movement
People talk about how the Haber process of fixing nitrogen has averted starvation, but I wonder if in a century we'll be talking about how the Haber process created a plague of overpopulation.
MacOS is missing the common use of the control button.

I just need control, alt, and a meta button ("Windows" button).

What is this option and command nonsense?
Hold up, what do you mean with "gender and queer issues" ? I don't consider those as "issues" but as "nature". Obviously (most) societies have estranged LGBQT people for centuries, so they had to go underground for most of that time. Obviously more people are coming out now that it's not nearly as dangerous for them.
I use Linux at home and Windows at work, because I have to; however this is just one of those "it's cool to shit on Windows" posts. Most of the points are half-assed semi-criticisms.
Yep that shear number of possible confounders is why it is so difficult to draw any sort of clear relationships between any particular pollutant and any particular health outcomes. It's not necessarily always conspiracy by corporations to thwart the research, it's genuinely difficult to study any affect because there's so many confounding pollutant exposures, metabolic pathways, and outcomes.

An interesting question is that would the risk of these outcomes be worth the massive amount of savings and productivity that plastics have had on nearly every industry? Then there's also the use cases where plastics are nearly irreplaceable, or at least not easily replaceable without incurring a huge cost increase for example in medical applications (think packaging for syringes, vaccines, surgical tools, or anything that requires contamination control).
I don't think the problem is when to reboot when necessary. The problem is many reboots shouldn't be necessary. If you update a service, restart it. If you update a kernel, reboot. While Microsoft has gotten better at not rebooting every time, most third party installed programs haven't. At least not when I last used a Windows desktop.
Agreed. My mistake, I thought you were emphasizing how the VP isn't democratically elected, on my first pass read.
I am equally eager and terrified to know if a new superweapon to surpass nuclear weapons could or will be invented in this century.
Windows NT4 and 3DS MAX R1 was releasted in 1996.
I keep thinking about this, and I really wish it was that simple.

Maybe attacking it from the other angle, recycling and collection, might yield better results..

But people will always toss their junk food wrappers which blows into the creeks and etc, there's a huge need for a societal wide change and look at this stuff.
Oh this post brought back so many fun memories of college days playing Flight Simulator on SGI boxes in the computer lab. Having used IRIX on SGI Indy, Windows 3.1 on PCs seemed like a toy.
One of my favorite tweets brought to life:

> u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the truth
Is it necessary that we do?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs
Real estate.

Real estate becomes worthless if nobody is willing to rent it.
1. Accidentally enter invalid birth date

2. Refresh page for the next 15 years until birth date is valid
It’s not like you’d be distracted by Twitter, just knowing how it works you could probably work it out with a few skilled glass makers.
> But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy

I think this is the secret to living well. Find the humor, find the positives, be jolly even in difficult circumstances because life is short, so why not laugh as much as possible? https://moviewise.substack.com/p/facing-lifes-difficulties
A sane approach to Rails test fixtures
It hurts readability because l and ł are completely different
> we're a cockroach team

is this a reference to
http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html#:~:text=nuclear%...
Indeed. The unix world would be a much happier place if the creat system call normalized the strings it receives to replace literal spaces with non-breaking spaces, and similar stuff. Regular users wouldn't notice, and it would simplify tons of shell scripts.
If you're using it for product research, probably not the best idea - I'm betting that people who append site:reddit.com to their queries are not the only ones who've noticed it being a better place to find information sometimes... marketers will, if not, already have, heavily infiltrated popular subreddits, especially to manufacture consensus on good products.