skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with industrial control ladder logic. It literally is a language based on old ladder electrical control diagrams which were popular for industrial machinery. They were easy to follow as the logic sequence went from top to bottom. The rungs are a circuit and the vertical bars are the hot and return lines of the control power supply.

|----||----||----()
X1 X3 Y1

The above program is a series of two "contacts" (like a switch), the "-||-" symbol, and the output "coil" which is meant to symbolize a relay coil. Simple bit logic: if X1 and X3 are true, Y1 is set true. There are many more symbols like comparisons symbols such as -|<|- which will allow you to compare register/variable values as well as timers and other function blocks.

Fun fact I learned: Many (all?) rail signal and control blocks are written in ladder with ALL valid states of that rail block predefined in ladder. The logic is simple but the task is incredibly critical. Supposedly it is much easier to visually verify/test the program using ladder vs a written language.
There is a lot of waste in companies and there is a lot of waste in communist regimes, but they have very different root cause. Markets cannot eliminate waste fast enough, big companies take forever to react - adjust or die - and countries similarly. Also in most cases waste is not eliminated as first measure, but start with stupid cost reduction in valuable areas, while the real waste will be the last to go. Why? Because most of that waste is on purpose for political reasons in both cases - the communist party member or the nephew of the VP that occupy positions that are not needed or they don't qualify for, that is on purpose.

Also $500k engineers should have as the only purpose in life to do engineering, working on projects that are found by management to be important, not to find themselves something to do. Most engineers are bad at business decisions and it would be a waste of time and skills for them to do it anyway. An engineer with business knowledge is no longer an engineer, is a product owner or a senior architect, etc.
It's funny you say that today, I was just thinking about it. Family provides a ton of emotional cushion, perspective, and motivation. They're a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. It's far easier to motivate yourself into working hard for them than your own material desires. And you don't lose your dreams to them in the process, they become part of them.
It's ironic that your video about a comment being removed for mysterious reasons has a comment on it that is blatant spam, complete with a link to a porn site.

It's unfortunate that it's probably impossible to get an actual human being from YouTube to explain exactly why your comment is being removed.
Ok, but where does Dunbar add insight. What would be different in our approach without Dunbar?
Very nice!

The wife and I compete with the daily Wordle and Quordle so this will be a nice addition.

Thanks for making this!

Is there a dark mode by any chance?
This hits too close for comfort. I'm 31 now (oh my god). If I want to do the things I want to do, I just need to start doing them.
I don't think the problem is the language but rather the fact that it should have been a pure library to begin with. The fact that libraries are used by many languages isn't surprising. What's surprising is that using the library requires compiling to another language.
And giving the contract to some friend of Eton who can't bring the project to fruition
Anecdotes about the VNET Era
What the point? Exceed your potential. Set goals like becoming rich, climb a mountain, start your company, fail many times if it takes it. Take 6 months off for around the world travel. You said you dont have the drive as before. That’s your choice. Drive is something we can choose and cultivate. If you’re happy the way you are then that’s one thing but I for one am not going to lean on my insignificance when compared to the universe to justify why I don’t do things. If you want it, go for it!
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I’m not a skeptic but recognize Hume has a point, and if one doesn’t take epistemology seriously then one is merely a dogmatist. Dogmatism has become an acute problem in our institutions as the OP indicates, and surely you’ve heard of the replication crisis as well.
If you can DIY things that would cost someone else tens of thousands of £s/$s then imagine how much you'd need to earn to get that money after tax, and then add that total amount to your salary. That's the equivalent of what you're earning.

One reason why I don't like using salary as a comparison is it doesn't reflect people's life circumstances, except at the extremes. It's just easy to measure.

And good luck with the roof!
https://xpz-wiki.uk.to/
This is a wiki/encyclopedia type of site for the X-Piratez mod for OpenXcom.
The game has many thousands of items and tech to research. And it is hard to understand which tech is required for another. At some point I will build a tree of requirements feature.
Yes, but what about the million new customers you're going to get next week?
Is the word "piquant" still relevant to this use case? What about "picante" in this context?
Let me preface with the fact that I loved both games in their different ways. While
I understand your critique for the Witness being “plotless”, I found it a bit less depressing than the plot for Talos, which actually made Talos drag for me in the second and third acts. Also while there are meta elements in both, the meta elements in the Witness were far more striking than the ones in Talos.
I read a two thousand year old book this morning that said we shouldn't measure our life by our wealth.

I just watched the news article about the dinosaur, extinction event, find.

And still, many will make wealth their goal and waste their time pursuing success. I wasted enough headspace on it myself. Work hard, be grateful for what you have, enjoy what you have while you have the health.
Many operations are INCREDIBLY slow. Creating a VM. Mounting a disk to a VM. All take easily 10-30x longer than I'm used to with other clouds. This is especially annoying with Kubernetes as it likes to move disks between VMs which... takes a while on Azure.

Many, many, backwards incompatible changes in their Kubernetes platform. I've had to recreate clusters about twice a year so far. Lately it's been better since they finally got node pools working (about 2 years after all of their competitors).

They can't get their network stable. Things like `kubectl port-forward` or `kubectl logs` hang after 4-30 minutes of inactivity (i.e. the tunnel is open but no packets actively being sent) which, according to Azure, is "working as expected". This makes the tooling utterly unusable. It has to do with the way Azure's load balancers deal with idle TCP connections.

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.
What bothers me more is when someone generalize about a large country with a lot of different regional styles. I've been told stacked enchiladas aren't authentic or traditional, when as far as I can work out, they're just kind of localized to in New Mexico/Chihuahua area. And authentic (American) BBQ isn't served covered in sauce, when they actually are just talking about Texas-style BBQ. Just because that's what you've experienced doesn't mean it's the only authentic way to do it.
Nice blog posts. Do you have an RSS feed somewhere?
I accept that you know of about 12,000 people...

Clearly, language is more than just a three-fold improvement on grooming, but Dunbar's number is plausibly relevant to the origin of language.
I did not know that. Maybe it would have been better to spend more time trying to find the original comic (I guess maybe an image search. Doomscrolling @bruised_blood is a lost cause).

[EDITED TO ADD] I tried image search. No dice.
In 1964 importance
https://www.prestigecity.gen.in/master-plan.html the prestige city bangalore
StandByCare – Efficient Caretaking via App
Doing it right now. Entire company is migrating from AWS to Azure for reasons I can't discuss, and I'm currently tasked with this migration in the team I am in.

Honestly? It's quite fun. Despite considering myself more of a programmer than devops, I really like the devops stuff - as long as I'm doing it as part of a team and I know the domain and the code - and not being that general devops guy who gets dropped into project, does devops for them and gets pulled into another one to do the same.

Working out all those little details of switching from AWS to Azure is fun and enjoyable and I also feel like I'm doing something meaningful and impactful. Luckily there's not much vendor-locking as most of the stuff lives in k8s - otheriwse it would be much trickier.
Was on here for a while. Seems like a sound idea.

Few suggestions:

- adding topics to pick fights on. (One-click fights > typing the whole thing in some cases)

- timer to the bottom on mobile screens

- mono text

Cheers!
https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/ioccc-obfuscated-c-contest/...

The compilation command line for anyone curious. Clever.
Especially as more senior engineer I would love to discuss issues like this and talk about pros, cons and trade offs of different decisions because that’s the world I live in. But from my experience most interviewers aren’t interested.
Available for... ok I stop here.
I've done the same just with a different provider. And I see a trend, people go for the lesser evil out of the ones available.
This could be a direct ancestor of NFTs
> How do you create something people want?

First identify what people actually want, then create that.

> Solve problems in your own life

I have several problems, which people don't really care about.

> or solve problems that you think about a lot, have some expertise in, etc.

This is orthogonal to what people actually want.
How about LeMon.de in German?
New Windows 11 security feature requires a clean install
you miss the aspect of time. life is not a theorem, it's a process
Second this. I kicked about and achieved hardly anything before I had children.
Funnily enough I got the exact same situation happen.

My wife got me a guitar as either a nice decoration piece or something I could actually use if I wanted to. I never had the opportunity to learn that when I was a kid, so I tried to learn it.

Quickly I realized I'd need to practice at least an hour a day for years before I could play one single song from my favorite band. It just made me quit after a few months.

Worst part is that I knew that when I started. I told myself "I'll practice just a bit and when I'm 50 I'll be good at it".

The problem is that I realized I did not enjoy practicing it every day. Drills, exercises over and over. It seems to me I enjoy the idea of being a person that can play the guitar well, but I don't really enjoy the journey to that.
"An AI-based malware blocker with no whitelist"

What could possibly go wrong?
Currently Le Monde diplomatique (https://mondediplo.com/) is the only world news I'm reading, it's always a joy to get it in the mail, and I really appreciate the quality of journalism and analyses.
Besides what a sibling comment said, in Germany the local (~county) governments gathered sloppy statistics (put people with unknown vaccination status in the unvaccinated column) and then justified that to restrict the freedom of movement of the unvaccinated, criticize them and make them into social pariahs. They’ve said they’re sorry though.

Corona has given Western governments a taste of power and they’ve used that to silence critics and restrict civil liberties - often based on faulty data.
I was reading the article and I was thinking over and over how enjoyable was reading it. I even continued reading it after having a pause because I got distracted by something else (something that almost never happens).

Then I remember how "monetized" (meaning ad-ridden) articles are full of filler to artificially keep you on the page. And reloaded the page without ad-blockers. And there it was, the page has no ads. And that's why the content is good, and engaging, and a pleasure to read.

So not only ads are a source of malware, but also of badly written articles. I want the person writing the article be focused on the quality of what they write, not on the amount of words they can cram. I would very much prefer an internet with less content than an internet with shitty content sponsored by shitty ads. And I would really pay for a search engine which allowed me to filter out ad-ridden websites.
or from 12 hours to 30 minutes. changes everything.
Daimler stopped development of combustion engines almost three years ago: https://electrek.co/2019/09/19/daimler-stops-developing-inte... .
Volkswagen will not develop new combustion engines: https://paultan.org/2021/03/23/vw-to-stop-developing-interna...
Opel (as part of Stellantis) is going all electric in 2026.

The combustion engine was let go some time ago.
:) Final tip.

The lard or (even better) duck fat used to preserve the meat can indeed be used like butter. But, by far, the best use of the fat is roast potatoes.

Parboil peeled (preferably floury) potatoes. Whole or cut works. Àdd fat. Jiggle around in a pot to rough up the outside of the spuds. There is no such thing as too much fat, use it all. Roast until crispy and golden brown... 30 to 90 minutes depending on heat and specifics of the potato.

Serve with butter, gravy, onions, sour yogurt, etc.
Is that an attempt at a thinly veiled insult in a form of a question?

Or do you really think that one of the most powerful countries in the world is “normally” somehow full of ignorants? I’ll answer - not any more than where you are from.
Yeah, but it was only for a side-project, so I only had a single VM to migrate.

I went from AWS (cost ~£25/mo) to Microsoft Azure DE because I didn't want any user data to be subject to search by US law enforcement/national security. I thought the bill would be about the same, but it more than quadrupled almost overnight even though traffic levels, etc., were the same (i.e., practically non-existent).

What was happening was Azure was absolutely shafting me on bandwidth, even with Cloudflare in the mix (CF really doesn't help unless you're getting at a decent amount of traffic).

In the end I moved to a dedicated server with OVH that was far more powerful and doesn't have the concerns around bandwidth charges (unless I start using a truly silly amount of bandwidth, of course).
The three top comments here are positive.
> [...] ultra-pasteurized or UHT (which most German milk probably is) [...]

In Germany there's a difference between fresh milk (pasteurized & homogenized) which is sold refrigerated and "H-Milch" which is UHT and sold unrefrigerated.

Most people buying milk to drink get the fresh stuff. It also tastes much much better IMO than the UHT milk.
I am glad to see this. It is good to have a diverse set of news sources. Some others that I have consistently used to broaden my perspectives are https://restofworld.org/ and https://www.aljazeera.com/
I rarely reopen threads to see what's new, but that's maybe because I'm not in US timezone, so discussion is mostly over by the time I start reading so I can take couple of minutes to go over comments and I'm done.

Shameless plug: If I need to track what I've read so far and to see new comments, I've made a chrome extension that helps me out with that [1].

[1] https://github.com/kklisura/hn-comment-tracker
I think your definition of "meaningful" might need to be revisited. It seems it was forged from the perspective of a younger self whose understanding of what was likely or even possible was ungrounded.

You've now adjusted somewhat to the new reality but the sense of what would really be valuable is stuck in the past. It's ok to, and even necessary, to adjust your sense of what's valuable and meaningful. Yes, you probably won't make world scale changes, but that doesn't mean the more ordinary things one can do to serve others is meaningless. It's just different meaning.

There's a book, Ordinary by Michael Horton, the first two chapters of which were instrumental in helping me make a transition like this. That book is coming from a Christian worldview so some will object to that perspective. Unfortunately I don't know of anything like it from a secular perspective that I could recommend.
https://cdevroe.com/

20+ years and counting. I have my film photography portfolio there. But I've been blogging (and microblogging) from my own domain forevs.
If you’re going back 6 million years on evolution, would it make sense to push back the start date for Tesla’s work as well?

It seems the right parallel to evolution might include predecessor inventions in vision, computation, and beyond.
https://blog.melnib.one/

Just my occasional ramblings. I've had many websites and blogs over the years, but I find myself no longer having the time or motivation to keep up with them.
All those methods require you to already have lots of money.
An NFT way ahead of its time.
Facebook owner Meta targets finance with ‘Zuck Bucks’ and creator coins
Brain charts: mapping the rapid growth and slow decline of the brain over life
Go back and benchmark your old Intel CPUs with security mitigations enabled. You'll lose 30-60% performance in syscall heavy and other common workloads while Bulldozers barely change.

Intel gained an unfair advantage and built their reputation by taking shortcuts with security. The FX series weren't marvels of design engineering, but they weren't nearly as behind the performance curve as customers were deceived into thinking.
Oh god quadrupled from £25/month for a small low traffic project as you have described sounds like daytime robbery!
hope the Intelligence Services in your country are good at seeing the difference between "critics / opponents of the intelligence service" and "enemies of the nation." From their perspective the two are so often similar.
What you wrote reminded me of this extremely powerful (to me at least) bit by Jim Carrey on the latest The Weeknd album (which is about being in a state purgatory):

Heaven's for those who let go of regret
And you have to wait here when you're not all there yet

And if your broken heart's heavy when you step on the scale
You'll be lighter than air when they pull back the veil
Consider the flowers, they don't try to look right
They just open their petals and turn to the light
France uses a lot of electricity for heating and it’s not going great it would seem, since a lot of their nuclear power-plants are down for maintenance.
https://rembrob.com/ Digital watercolour art from photo uploads. Side project of mine for learning image processing algorithms and cloud hosting.
Mine's https://cramer.tech
It's mostly for publishing my photography for friends since I don't use social media apart from HN. I plan to populate it with lots more content soon, photography as well as writing. Built on GitHub Pages and Jekyll from the Student Pro Pack, might build something from scratch once that runs out.
(I'm a U.S. citizen so this refers to the U.S.)

Could you be a bit more specific about how the intelligence service "protects me from malicious actors"?

In terms of threat actors it seems:

-> People are subject to ransomware attacks. There are viruses.

-> There are scams occurring on a daily basis in and outside of the United States.

-> Large companies act maliciously (illegally abusing their market power and then treating customers maliciously)

In terms of threat actors within government:

-> The existence of intelligence service is itself a threat, since who knows what its decisions will be in five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years?

-> There is no accountability to any insider threat actor. People have no protection nor recourse if they were targetted. (You could think of a few famous public cases.)

It doesn't seem to me that there is any inherent protection from malicious actors. With the military, there is a chain of command that goes to the President, a civilian leader elected by the people. Whenever an intelligence service is secret, doesn't that accountability just disappear?
https://ayushsingh.dev

Made it with Zola.
It would seem to me (probably naïveté) that if you have a variable part of a file the variable part should come after the fixed parts …
>But he’s on the side of science and reason, so he’s our ego-maniac.

Humility and the ability to recognise and accept when we're wrong is one of the fundamental characteristics of science. People with big egos are the enemies of science.
For Apple Music it's probably a case of Hanlon's razor, it's been buggy and busted forever.
Totally absurd claim without any basis in fact whatsoever!

Startup spend (should be) dominated by payroll, maybe server costs. This isn't 500% as expensive in California vs Italy, you made this up.
This was a reason I left a job. The company I worked for was focused on government RFPs. During the Obama administration there were promises to support small minority and vet owned businesses. The company was failing to win any contract of substance. So one day we bid on a contract to provide dell servers. Out of desperation, the other members of the team decided to go lower than business could allow.

Turns out we finally won something… which we weren’t ‘designed’ to win. Dell came screaming in on the phone asking what the hell we were doing. Dell had written the RFP and ‘partnered’ with a small company to basically win the contract outright. That’s when I learned the system was rigged and it still favored big companies and their selected friends.
Interestingly this method has been dated back to the Mesolithic era (roughly 12,000 years ago) and seems to have been a widely used (as in world-wide).

Further reading for those interested (best search engine term is 'intertidal fishing weir')

https://www.thoughtco.com/fish-weir-ancient-fishing-tool-170...

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

https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Fish_Weirs
No. Leadership is not a frozen thing. And leading a tiny nascent project doesn’t have remotely the scope required to hit these levels. It is absolutely not the case that “start greenfield projects” and “grow to 7/8” are connected.

And yeah, growth to these levels is hard. The expectation at Google is that the majority of engineers never hit 6 in their entire career.
Nuclear Science merit badge requirements [pdf]
Sure, just come and say hi! https://sonnet.io/post/hi

I also publish my bullshit meeting notes on https://potato.horse
Beeware Projects: https://beeware.org/project/projects/
Given how much agricultural productivity has improved, I wonder if these descriptions of meals are more aspirational than everyday.
That's weird. I use package.el and it only ever updates when I ask it to.

The solution to this is too keep your elpa/ directory under version control.

I use this hacked-up script to help me do that: https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/master/site-lisp/up...
Can’t imagine fighting a war of annihilation being as hard of work as being a high school athlete?
This article is basically an ad for Parity, and doesn't contain any details on how those savings were actually achieved, any way to verify that the number is genuine, or any way to know whether the same savings could have been achieved with improved processes with or without blockchain (which is very likely).