skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with gTLDs is that there is no ceiling on the registration/renewal price for those domains. If a given gTLD takes off because, for example, someone writes a blog post about how great it is to just use it for your family's email addresses (great idea, by the way), the owners of the gTLD could quadruple the renewal price next year. Of course, some people spend tens, hundreds, or even thousands a year on domains anyway, so I suppose this only applies if you're particularly price conscious.
I'm having a serious "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" moment on this one:

I don't think that representation of the Ewell paper is quite accurate, though admittedly it's been over a year since I read it.

Despite being Jewish (would have had different significance later than during his time!) Schenker was a proud german nationalist and in his own words considered his method one of the ways german people could assert their superiority over other cultures.

The Ewell paper is actually pretty clear that schenkerian analysis is technically valid and quite valuable for many purposes. But also that its origins were in an explicitly racist project, and that applying it without understanding that frame could get you racist results even if you didn't intend them.

It's easy to go after this paper because it sincerely uses "critical race theory" vocabulary, but it's a solid contribution to answering the question "why are some fields so incredibly white even if no one intends them to be that way?"

The essay both-sides it, but Ewell's paper is researched and professional even with its flaws, while in context Jackson's response was fairly nasty and defensive, basically just accusing Ewell of black antisemitism.

I've been following this particular one for years (grew up on schenkerian analysis, in a musical family) and I am definitely not neutral on it. Ewell's moral rigidity on this is unpalatable sometimes and I think you could fairly call him a hothead. But the author's description of the conflict is a lot more "balanced" than the conflict itself really deserves. This is essentially an academic raising a painful point within a field that he clearly loves, and others trying to shut it down because of the embarrassment they feel it exposes them all to.

Seeing how the author misrepresents this issue to make their point makes me not really trust the rest of it. I just happen to be somewhat informed on this one.
Maybe because tons and tons of software build with GNU make, not with Ninja, and if you want to be able to build that software, you need GNU make?

Also, Ninja by itself is not really a replacement for GNU make. Rather it's a tool one can build such a replacement on, so the comparison is a bit off to start with...
I think anybody who is depressed should try: (1) aerobic exercise (30 min a day is good, 2 hours a day is great), (2) therapy, (3) antidepressants.

Depression is bad enough that you should attack with all of those.

If you are going to try meds it is fine to see a primary care doc, but to get the best results you are probably going to try something, wait two or three weeks, change the dose, wait, change the dose, maybe try a different medicine if the first one doesn't work for you.

You get much better results if you do the above then if you just try 1 prescription.
Given the title, I expected the story to end with positive confirmation that the two people were in a cult. Not "and then they invited me to join a private discussion group, I ghosted them, the end".

Again, I'm in material agreement that talking with weirdos is generally a losing proposition for any number of reasons. But I don't understand why he's so certain these people were in a cult. They could've been in an MLM. They could've also just been weirdos with a private discussion group. Heck, the "sex" possibility listed at the beginning isn't even proven false. We don't know. The story has an inconclusive ending, which is odd given the title of the piece.

The bait-and-switch of the title gives me the same bad vibes that the author got from the people in the story. And the end of the post feels... forced and perhaps even dissonant. I dig deeper and the guy has a formula for the good life. A personal subreddit (?!) and a substack that all appear to be about nothing in particular?

Does this guy want something from me or is he just a harmless oddball who likes talking into the void / to his small audience? Probably the latter. Most weirdos are harmless and I'm glad they exist even if I don't want to engage with most of them. In fact, maybe he's aware that he sometimes comes across like this and that's why he wrote the post? And the title is, I guess, pretty mild as far as clickbait goes. No harm, no foul.

It's kind of funny that I get the same vibe from him as he got from these people. And even funnier that I'm commenting on a post that gives me odd vibes claiming I never engage with people who give me odd vibes :)

In any case, I remain unconvinced that these people were definitely recruiting for a cult. But maybe that's not even the point of the post.
"We started with the open source product Alacritty, though for now we won't be sharing our source code. ..But depending on the telemetry we receive we might decide to make the source available at some undetermined point in the future! Maybe."

Talk about a bad taste. This is basically the Elasticsearch licensing fiasco waiting to happen again.

So many red flags, I don't have time to list them.

Bottom line: The company attitude is not open, and bears the whiff of the aggressive Docker-4-Desktop fiasco and financial investment recoupment strategy.

Lots of things can change, but organization DNA doesn't.

See also: Microsoft, Uber, Apple. Things don't really change.
Agreed. I had a friend who got into Landmark, and they're not subtle. She eventually recovered, but it took years. Religious groups and Scientology don't start out that slow. Chabad does, but their target group is limited.

Some kind of scam, I expect. It seems so retro for a scam. You can scam so many people online for so little investment that a labor-intensive scam like this seems obsolete.
But only for the US or very few big countries.
https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=scp&profile=yolo&j... tho
I've migrated from yarn to pnpm two days ago and I can tell the difference when I first hit install. I am working on a workspace so I have multiple packages with nested dependencies. For this case, I thought yarn (the classic version) is the ideal solution that was until I discovered pnpm. Thanks to its non-flat algorithm the packages have clean dependencies. Previously in yarn if you install `foo` in any package you can reuse it later in the workspace even if it's not listed in the package dependency. With pnpm it's not the case, which means a clean dependency tree and serving the purpose of what's workspace is meant for. If you want to share the dependency you can install it in the root which makes sense to me. Another big advantage is the recursive/parallel command something I couldn't do without Lerna. And it's fast. install once and it's there in the disk, so if you manage multiple projects, dependency installation is not something you wait for it's just there.
It is quite fast tbh and non-sluggish terminal is nice-to-have.

I've tried one terminal rendering benchmark I had at hand [1] and on my MacBook Pro it was 17x faster than iterm and 3x faster than wezterm which is my daily driver.

[1] https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/192
> in the absence of that it's legitimate for the issuer to assume that when the client asserts that a key was generated in hardware that it was telling the truth

You want the credentials to be non-extractable. The client wants to extract the credentials and use them somewhere else. Blind trust in an unsupported assertion from a client with diametrically opposing goals is not much of a security model.
yes, I got one like this too.. and, he wants stock in the companies of his "students" .. which he self-invites
As a very long time occasional Smalltalk user (on my 1108 Lisp Machine, Commercial on early Mac, later Squeak, then Pharo), I agree with you, except that Pharo has nice git integration that I can recommend spending the time to set up.

Also, I used to create Squeak headless standalone applications - plenty of tutorial material for this.

Lisp used to get a similar bad rap, but SBCL has good app packaging available and the commercial LispWorks makes it easy to build small standalone apps.
If you use solar power in a climate like Germany you will get that kind of math.

Let's say you use 8000 kwh per year, and you have the solar capacity to create 8000 kwh per year. Assume you already have a normal home battery of ~14kwh so day/night is not an issue, the solar production during daytime charges the battery and all night time power comes from the battery.

Now your big problem is that 70% of the 8000 kwh solar per year is produced from May to September. You need 670 kwh per month for usage, so in those four months you have just under 3000 kwh too much. Then in April and October the panels roughly produce what you use. And November to March you have a total shortfall of 3000 kwh.

So you need seasonal storage capacity of about 3000 kwh to be able to run an 8000 kwh yearly usage on solar in this climate.

The other option is to buy much more solar panel capacity than you need, then you can use a smaller battery which in total could be cheaper since solar panels aren't that expensive anymore.
What makes you say that? It was not a federal crime. Also, in leadership and government, symbolism is an essential form of communication.
Iraq and Afghanistan were mistakes

"mistakes". An easy way of glossing over out and out aggression. In both cases, The US attacked those countries that were not an imminent threat.

Iraq: the US did not allow the weapons inspectors sufficient time to investigate first. Thousands of US troops' lives were wasted for nothing.

Afghanistan: The Taliban asked for evidence of bin Laden's guilt. The US refused, and attacked anyway. So again thousands of US troops' lives were wasted for nothing.
3 aircraft carriers in, 0 kWh out.
That sentence doesn't even make sense.
It's a bad thing in this world where we've created so much bureaucracy, so many rules and so much enforcement discretion spread across so many levels that everyone is always doing something against the rules or could be considered to be at someone's discretion and processes of sorting these things out "fairly" is so onerous as to be something that can be used as a weapon (either by a snitch or by various parties in the enforcement processes) by itself.
"Rules are meant to be broken" is a great maxim in my opinion. It's the expression of truly democratic attitude towards rules. Something that's "technically wrong" but taken by the majority as not an ethical issue deserves to live because it questions the legitimacy of the rule. How any progress happens.
Strange that both of you would say that. He's a ruthless result-driven executive that doesn't accept excuses. If it's at all impossible for something to get done, he'll get it done.

I'm not at all a fan of him, but his power is in execution. A vision is worthless.
I'd say given most schools track records it's better to prevent the onset bullying than it is to just forbid bullying...
Very nice!

Any ideas on how to measure energy consumption of programs in a GNU/Linux OS? I know of `powertop` but it measures total power consumption (its per-program table is inaccurate)
Yeah it's not a search engine for answering questions, but for finding documents. You'll get along with it better if you see it as something like grep for the web. This is something I'm very intentionally trying to accomplish, as it's something I feel Google has gotten worse at.
I haven't used Krell, but Shadow has been great for me. Been on it a couple years now.

My company is in the smarthome/IOT space and we use React(Native) + Clojure and ClojureScript for all our apps, dashboards, servers, etc.
> for either minor or nonexistent offenses

On the one hand, society institutes these rules and we supposedly claim to be rule following people.

On the other hand, people who try to have the rules enforced are labelled as "snitches."

Your answer to why tragedies occur but even when people knew, nobody did anything.

Do the rules matter or not?
Nope nope nope. They're not fine. Nix is really really hard to use. I worked for a company that ran all the ops with Nix managed by some of the contributors. Every time I wanted to do something I'd have to get DevOps to do it for me. I've never ever had that level of difficulty doing stuff outside of a Nix environment and I really, really tried. Most of my colleagues who are fairly decent developers struggled with it too. It's the only tech I advise against when it's mentioned nowadays. And I want to like it.
Literally you are correct - that phrase is a bit of English-language rhetoric.

But neither has fusion power shown anything even remotely resembling the real-world promise of fission power - which went from the first major attempt at a proof-of-concept reactor (Chicago Pile-1, Dec. 1942, ~1/2 watt thermal power output) to powering a large, high-performance warship (USS Nautilus, Jan. 1955, ~10MW on the propeller shafts) in just 12 years.
You implying that a quite prolific 90-year-old scholar is a "Youtube philosopher" comes off as pretty ignorant or foolish. Sowell did most of his work before Youtube existed, and AFAIK has never directly engaged with the platform in any way.

And again, I never claimed to be free of ideology. At the same time, you haven't done anything to pin down my ideological constraints.
Is there any examples of using something like a server farm to heat a building in the winter? Removing heat from a server farm through heat exchange with a cold building seems like an efficient combination of two interests (building needs heat, servers need to get rid of heat). Of course this becomes a problem in the summer months...
> Absolutely nothing works better, it's the best by a ridiculously large margin.

Is this really the case? It seems that to find mistakes in software for various interaction patterns, truly exhaustive automated tests would likely work far better by various measures (coverage, reliability, reproducibility, reusability etc.) and at the same time do not have the extreme downside of privacy invasion. For example, see a section from the Age of Empires Post Mortem https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/the-game-developer-archives... :

"8. We didn’t take enough advantage of automated testing. In the final weeks of development, we set up the game to automatically play up to eight computers against each other. Additionally, a second computer containing the development platform and debugger could monitor each computer that took part. These games, while randomly generated, were logged so that if anything happened, we could reproduce the exact game over and over until we isolated the problem. The games themselves were allowed to run at an accelerated speed and were left running overnight. This was a great success and helped us in isolating very hard to reproduce problems. Our failure was in not doing this earlier in development; it could have saved us a great deal of time and effort. All of our future production plans now include automated testing from Day One."
To be fair, rarely do people have an accurate grasp on what normality is. Just the breadth of human experience is impossible to capture much less experience and process, not to mention the experience of people that is never expressed (I may be having a bad week, but I wouldn't express it, much less share it openly with coworkers)
I'm not sure what the basis is for those standards, but even accepting them,

> It's part of a well-rounded education to learn some basics, of course, to understand the scientific method, and the conservation laws.

Very few people know those things.
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As a man, if any female stranger ever initiates a conversation in a cafe, I can safely assume that she has some kind of ulterior motive. That may sound cynical or sad, but that's life.

Thus I can shut down this kind of interaction long before I feel obligated to meet people for brunch even though it feels awkward.
For me, HZD (and most games really) facial animations really fall flat when the characters smile. They look so.. plastic.
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No you can log in with your local username and password. Use the local IP and port. It lets you log in without contacting plex
There is some truth.m to that. Tutorials need to decide where to focus on React but want to make you feel like you are building something cool so they will bring in style frameworks to assist so you can focus on the react.

I assume this is also true for jquery/angular/vue and other library tutorials.

Maybe just for fun they should use alternative frameworks!

Then on the job, well unless you are a designery company it will be devs who do design and will happily delegate that thinking to a framework. Again not a react thing but a general dev thing.

I have seen this too in desktop apps of 90s. Just use MFC or some popular toolkit.
Context is definitely important. If I'm in a situation where I'm obviously just trying to get some work done in a coffee shop, I'd going to be very skeptical of a stranger who insists on striking up a conversation with me. It's just too pushy and frankly kind of creepy.

However, I've also done some backpacking on the Appalachian Trail several years ago, and it's far more socially acceptable to start up a conversation with random people you meet along the way. It's understood that we're all strangers but we have a shared goal of hiking the trail, and what else are we going to do when we stop for the night other than chat a bit with the other people in the area?

Had almost nothing but positive experiences speaking with random people while hiking, except for one nutcase (trail name was Mountain Lion) who was carrying a firearm and disclosed to me that he was kicked out of the military for mental health reasons (got to appreciate his honesty, though). I made sure to put as much distance between the two of us ASAP. Later found out he ran out of food, tried to steal from other people, and had to get airlifted out after getting injured. Good times.
Usually this first time this lie comes up is when someone realizes the commutator of traceless matrices is apparently something with a trace....
Like I said, prestige.

When you're the richest man in the world, and your main companies are on track, what is it that motivates billionaires?

Prestige. Visibility. Legacy.
I'd say so, I find myself using it somewhat regularly.

It's pretty easy in vim once you learn how to use visual block mode. That or using Sed to replace text in a selection or the entire file.

http://paulrougieux.github.io/vim.html#Edit_multiple_lines
How do these people not have reclamation systems yet? Helium supply has been constrained for years upon years and is not really going to get fundamentally different in the future, so reclamation is kind of a no-brainer. And helium is gone forever if you don't catch it on its way out the door: it does actually escape the atmosphere. It's not like other resources that can be theoretically later reclaimed from landfills and the like.

Now I am starting to see why the high vacuum/helium greybeards back in grad school thought there should be criminal penalties for wasting helium... the incentives here are just misaligned.
I've tried one very basic terminal rendering benchmark I had at hand [1] and on my MacBook Pro it was 17x faster than iterm and 3x faster than wezterm which is my daily driver.

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/192

So it's not all that bad ;)
They beat Color, a favorite anecdote of mine who only burned through $41M in a year before closing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs
I use it not infrequently for crafting big ol bash pipelines to put into scripts, specifically via emacs’ `shell` terminal emulator.
> Chabad does

But they also don't sucker you into giving away your money or guilt you into doing things you don't want to do.
"Send Download link" is a huge red flag. The only reason to have such a button is to send spam.
I've worked in IT support and had issues with parents who let their children use their work computers for school having the chrome browser locked down by the school.

The only fix that worked was exporting the logins and passwords, deleting them from Chrome, and then reinstalling chrome with a different login. I don't want my coworkers work data in the hands of their children's schools' IT dept, and I've let them know that this can count as a data breach (fortunately, so far none of them have been privy to any important data).

Suffice it to say, don't let your kids use your work laptops, and don't log into your child's school accounts on your work computer.

This should be really obvious but apparently it is not.
Imagine being born into several flawed systems, risking everything, and many had a lot to risk to fix one aspect of a system and being judged because you didn't fix everything. You act like the founding fathers created slavery on their own. The freedom given to the world by the US and by extension Napoleon was not some inevitable thing and its not something that will necessarily persist either as we can easily judge from mankind's very limited written history.
Sounds great, until you realize you are switching to eventual consistency for your whole application.
In emacs a shell is like a text buffer where you can simply search or move around as you would do in a text file. To get command history you'd just execute `history` and then ctrl+s (find) it, or move to it with the cursor.
https://www.rbc.ru/ and RBC tv channel maybe called somewhat like independent source... But reliable news source on tv does not existed at all on almost all TV channels in all countries, they all promote profitable to them point of view... Only if you watch different sources you may try to imagine something close to reality.
May no programming language ever introduce “foo” or “bar” keywords, lest mayhem be upon us.
It's a political cudgel.

People arguing for the bill believe those against it want to give 5yo kids a lecture on sex positions but in reality there's a lot of material to cover in the window they're banning that isn't the heavy sexual content they have in mind.
Read the article. This isn't about breaking the law, it is about filing frivolous complaints about expressing opinions you disagree with or reporting people for things which aren't even against the rules. General harassment.
Yep. Every discussion I've ever had with a "free speech absolutist" has gone like this.

"What are your thoughts on false advertising laws?"

"That's fine, because fraud is a crime and therefore not speech"

People have bucketed "things I think should be legal" as "speech" and "things I think should be illegal" as "not speech" and then this makes it trivial to say that all speech should be legal because the definition is circular.
You're not wrong, especially if you live in NYC or most of California. But this is a cultural thing.

Roberto Benigni type people are real, they might just not be around where you live. Consider moving. Whether you move away or towards where these sort of characters congregate is of course entirely up to you.

If you would like to know which places to seek out/avoid feel free to chime in.

P.S. - Please don't go to Rome and expect it to be filled with Benignis.
How's that for a short march through the institution?
Which he's not happy about.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1510314535671922689
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