skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sure would be nice if companies like Cloudflare would help offer something to this effect.
I think it's the sheer amount of programmers using JS. It's also a very approachable language, so it makes it easy to learn the language before learning good practices.
It's the same shit, different generation though; 20 years ago it was the internet, video games and mobile phones, 20 years before that it was cable TV, 20 years before that it was free love and weed and rock & roll and shit.

I think 'we' should, at least to a degree, suck it up and let kids figure things out for themselves. Cable TV didn't give me square eyes, video games didn't turn me into a school shooter, and I don't believe mobile phones fried my brain. I don't like rock & roll though, and free love has never been a thing.

Which is the other thing; a previous generation was throwing a tantrum because the youth was having sex more and more, nowadays people are throwing a tantrum because the youth are having LESS sex. Which one is it? Neither?
You switched from passive voice "Her story was elevated" to the active voice "Who in Duncan's community elevated his story?" This raises a question of fact - who got Breonna Taylor's story heard? How did they do it? Did someone attempt to share Duncan's story, and get rejected? Why?

It's easy to speculate. For example, Duncan didn't fit the racial narrative the media is comfortable with. This framing achieves several goals that the more accurate narrative, that police violence is evidence of severe problems with our justice system. The racial narrative pleases left-leaning viewers, it also plays better to right-leaning viewers because the problem of individual racism is still big, but much smaller and easier to accept. Or, they can love to hate the story.

A general failure of the American justice system is just not a narrative anyone wants to hear; it's too big. That narrative is one that challenges the mainstream view that the police are the good guys, and that American justice is fair. It's like "climate change", as a subject - much easier to pick it apart into anecdotes and pass judgement on individuals, which feels good and has no effect, or ignore it entirely, rather than confront the true scope of the issue.

Ultimately the problem is that "news" has shifted firmly from a "public service" of broadcasters, that loses money, to a for-profit endeavor chasing audience, aka "content". The former service tells us what we need to hear, but the latter only tells us what we want to hear. And precious few of us want to hear the truth, especially about ourselves.
If anything, if you had a dog 100+ years ago, it's because it provided value to you, in the arena of herding, hunting, work, and protection. Survival value, not anything close to modern notions of pets. That means your dog was a valuable asset, keeping you and your family from starving.

Royalty and rich people got food tasters, but only a dumb rat bastard would treat a dog like that. Plus, dogs have shorter intestines and more potent stomach acid, rendering safe many food sources humans cannot eat without getting sick. After seeing a dog chow down on a rotten carcass, you're not going to think of them for testing the edibility or safety of things.

That's not to say dogs haven't died like that through history, but it's not a thing people would do deliberately. Food used to be hugely more scarce than it is now, and a large majority of humanity got by with very little. To use a dog for testing new food would have been foolish or cruel.
So, I'll agree that suburbs are likely quieter than the city, but those particular items definitely vary by city and neighborhood.

I live in the densest neighborhood in Austin (West Campus). Sirens are rare, and car horns are moderately uncommon. Construction noise is near-constant during the day, as are big trucks related to the construction. Car noise is ever-present, but more of a problem on the larger roads. (I'm currently sitting outside a coffee shop on Lamar and the traffic noise is indeed constant and terrible.)

The two biggest sources of noise pollution in my neighborhood are 1. the construction and 2. leaf blowers. Leaf blowers might be third if you split the construction-related trucks into their own category.
This was exactly one for one the statement we heard when it was made public that domestic agencies do spy on the population, which is far, far more relevant than Russia or China doing it, obviously.
Big projects in general seem arduous, or just big software projects? Is it a problem of not being able to focus and do deep work?

I ask because it's a very common problem and the solution is much different than most of the advice that has already been given.
A large number of people apparently believe that the experimental method was something invented in Renaissance Europe. This has always seemed like ludicrous nonsense to me. Local peoples around the world have certainly conducted experiments for centuries if not millenia before then.

For example, consider pottery, and the invention of glazes. It's generally thought that the invention of the ore -> metal process involved potters experimenting with different glazes and finding lumps of metal after the firing process was complete.

With toxic plants, well, most peoples kept domesticated animals and would probably use them to test the toxicity of potential food sources. Feed it to the chickens, pigs, llamas, etc. and see what happens. Soak the potential food source in water, see what happens. Try adding other substances, like charcoal or clay, and see what happens.

Why don't people recognize this? Simple - infantilization of native peoples as a justification for the ravages of European colonialism.
There are very few of us that have to deal with the headaches of our own choices. Even if you are staying at the same company for a decade there is a good chance you moved on to a different team.
This may not be the whole story, but one of the reasons is that JavaScript does not have a standard library. Corollaries are: several different module systems, application frameworks and bundlers exist.
It's also one of those companies built by acquisitions.
I agree with your point about a year or two being nothing in Enterprise timelines

But to chime in, I much prefer the Quarkus/Vert.x ecosystem if I have a choice, due to developer experience and the overall ergonomics.
I tried. Maybe too close to the debacle when Devuan was newborn. Ran
just like a regular Debian, without init-hijack as advertised. But I
soon ran into maintenance problems. The box I put it on soon couldn't
be upgraded and (through my own fault of pulling in dubious backports
and fsking my apt-sources file) I ended up back in the ninth circle of
systemd. Probably due for a fresh try.
Import AI is good
https://jack-clark.net/
>Remember, kids: most of the software you have ever used is no longer functional. That browser you used 10 years ago doesn't run today. That server software you used 10 years ago is EOL today. Services come and go. Code dies.

My Multics and MVS Tk4- runs pretty well, my DosBox and Nintendo Emulator too and hell have you checked FreeDOS?

>Services come and go

Yes

>Code dies

Don't have to.
The first Iraq war could credibly be argued as improving USA commercial access to resources. A more tenuous argument could be made for our current ongoing occupation of Syria. However, which of these African interventions has improved the access of USA interests to natural resources? I can't identify any? Were you going to suggest Libya?

This thread is funny, because at the top the "fallacy of USA government competence" is invoked to argue in favor of our ghastly policies, and here you argue in favor of those same policies by assuming such competence. CIA, "special" forces, and less well known unsupervised services aren't in any sense a part of our government anyway. They are separate entities, and they pursue their own agendas.
USD supply isn't really limited. If you mean that societies can choose to change currency, yes, of course.
> People pushing carbon offsets seem to have a lack of understanding of how global element cycles work.

They're the same as people pushing for mass adoption of EVs, they're not looking for a long term solution to the environmental problem, they're looking for a short term solution to extend their market for one more generation.
The fierce, messy fight over “healthy” sugar tech
It's less of a problem, but it bites as soon as you need to pass a data structure from one C to the other. That's less frequent, but does happen.
Interesting. My recollection is that Chef and Ansible both completely ran roughshod over Puppet, and that Puppet is now in the "antiquated tools that used to be relevant" bucket.

Anecdotal, yeah. But DevOps is my daily work, and I like to think I keep an eye on the tools ecosystem.
How did landscape maintenance workers perform that task before leaf blowers?
McMaster-Carr seems to have done it OK
Many folks like to outsource DNS hosting for smaller sites, which doesn't afford logging capabilities. Out of curiosity I chose to self-host DNS on one of my domains. I noticed many queries for MX records, and naturally assumed it was spammers looking for domains to send mail to. Looking at it again, I could see where maybe they were ultimately looking for which domains lack SPF and DKIM, perhaps checking MX first.
>treat it as authoritative forever without a mechanism for correction!

You write to the blockchain that there are 2 ice cubes on your desk. The ice cubes melt and evaporate, as ice cubes do. The blockchain says there are 2 ice cubes on your desk, so that must be truth forever and ever!
The design of the original Transformer model in the Attention is all You Need paper was predicated on efficiency (all layers the same size, combining word/token embedding with position in the input stream harmonic embedding). It is good to see improvements!
For example Bangladesh

How can that be a meaningful or illuminating example, though? The US has a completely different history in which race and racism have played a central role, for both ill and good. Bangladesh as a country is younger than Loving v Virginia.
Those numbers are a little deceiving. It’s likely that those modules are upstream of a popular module or two. It’s not like they are installed by projects directly.
It doesn't matter if it's AWS or an application.conf, you still want to manage the state of your infrastructure.

That management might be Terraform and Helm, but it could easily be argued that a module for Puppet or Ansible would have several advantages.

Unfortunately, instead of nourishing their open source roots they went corporate and began making enterprise products instead. It is an easy way to profitability but at the same time will make yourself less relevant for your user base. Compare with Docker Inc. and Elastic NV.

They had the misfortune of doing this at the same time as Python was edging out Ruby's mindshare, also visible in the slow shift from Rails to Django over the decade, thereby doubling down on the road to slow irrelevancy.

This is all pretty unfortunate since the sysadmin tooling in the cloud native era leaves a lot to be desired, but it is what it is.
It was a riot.
'I know they have at least been screened for basic weapons.'

Bad assumption.

Flight crews, terminal restaurant workers and gift shop workers, and maintenance people who go through back gate get to avoid the theater. And even TSA walk around their own theater.

Who thinks bad people can't bribe or compel someone to carry a backpack around?
I just squared the proton to electron mass ratio and rounded it to get that.

It's a common trope for physics crackpots to try to find closed expressions for things like the fine structure constant, electron/proton mass ratio, etc. The latter is completely nonsensical today because the proton isn't an elementary particle.

I got thinking about the "crackpot physics" subject again because about two weeks ago there were a series of crackpot physics posts to Hacker News by a woman. It might be "You've come a long way baby" but I'd want to check that it isn't a trans woman before announcing that.

(... certainly you see more men than women in real physics but you have Emmy Noether, Lisa Randall, Elise Meitner, Vera Rubin. It's men who get the idea that they are 'very special' and have 'unique insights'.)
International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions on officials (2020)
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So in my honest opinion, go ahead! If your book or book series is digestible enough, I could potentially be interested in reading it. There could be a lot of value in it, even if it doesn't reach such big audience like books from authors as Tony Robbins could. Most people won't even care about what you're trying to write, the yt links I posted (the first one specially) will explain why :).

If it's meaningful to you, and you've got a lovely partner that understands and supports you with that, go for it!
Idk about web hosting and web servers, but a significant portion of the population at some point used torrenting software.

I feel like at the very least it should be possible to make tutorials for how to make and seed torrents (and why you might want to), and people can send or post torrent files or at least magnet links in places that already exist, like telegram (the app, not telegraphs from before phones were common) or email or sms text messages or forums or qr codes or anywhere that you can post at least a magnet link.

I feel like if people want bad enough to share and receive large files they can learn the basics of using torrent programs (and I've also seen more than one Android app (Libretorrent being one of them, and you can get it on the free/libre/open source Fdroid store if you want to))

Another thing to consider is that irc and matrix exist and I think they claim to be peer-to-peer, but I'd suggest taking a good look at whether that's true and what their limitations are, with irc seeming particularly limited when I tried it years ago (what do you mean it doesn't keep any history? I can't see what the convo was right before I showed up? That's dumb. Oh, and I can't see any messages somebody was trying to send me if I wasn't online and in that irc room at the time? That's super dumb. And where's the edit button? You mean I can't edit what I sent if I did a typo or sent a message before it was ready or something? And I can't even delete a sent message so I can redo it and replace the messed up message? What decade was this written in? Oh, like decades ago? Ok, maybe that makes some sense, but we have standards for our communication apps today)
Oh, and it was very obviously made by people with a commandline-first mentality, and you either know what command to tell it or you don't, and if you don't and you don't understand any help text there may or may not be, you're at the mercy of whoever introduced you to irc, especially if you're not used to thinking the way hardcore/old programmers think (which makes help text less than helpful).

No, I think those aren't exactly what I'd be looking for
> It's not clear whether the FBI agents who searched Abou-Khatwa's house were doing him a favor by eschewing a front-door entry. The agent's testimony makes it sound as if the main concern was the impact that knocking down Abou-Khatwa's front door would have on his wealthy neighbors.

From the article that you definitely read.
What makes you so sure? Even if there's data showing improvement, this would be data from a supremely untrustworthy source with a long history of manipulation and deception.
Well in fairness some Bitcoin holders are building vast factories of mining capacity, and their argument is the mining is spent on pro-social anti-authoritarian censorship-free wealth movement. Other Bitcoin holders are putting in a lot of labor to create the most compelling narrative of a genuine rags to riches opportunity. Is there $5t or whatever in total market value to that? Not sure.
Notably this article is about offsets, not cap and trade.

Cap and trade is fundamentally different from offsets in that there is a central authority who decides precisely what caps every company gets before trading starts, so every transaction which increases one company's cap by 1 ton is guaranteed to decrease another's.

Offsets are a decentralized attempt to quantify how various actions would lower the world's carbon output compared to some estimate of what would happen otherwise. The cheapest offsets prey on this ambiguity in the various ways the article suggestions.

The other big difference is that cap and trade is mandatory while offsets are optional. There is so little offset-buying happening now that the markets are artificially cheap. Companies currently claiming to be "carbon neutral" would certainly be unable to afford doing so if it was required of every company (similar to if the "cap" was universally zero carbon, a clear non-starter today).
Author here. That could well be a better design - especially if we need to explicitly "bless" packages anyway.

One tricky part about that approach is it generates some weird semver problems. Lets say package A uses package B to interact with the filesystem. Package B has some problems, so the author of package A replaces B with B2 (a fork of B).

From a semver perspective, this is totally fine because the exposed API of package A hasn't changed. And this is also true with the capabilities system I explained. But how would we do it in package.json? If the root package needed to explicitly bless B2 instead of B, that means package A must have broken semver compatibility. Maybe each package expresses the permissions its direct dependencies have, and it sort of ripples out getting more specific in the dependency tree?

I think its a good idea, and there probably is a solution here somewhere. But I'm not quite seeing it. Want to write up a sketch of how you imagine that working?
No, Hacker News has been consistently wrong on crypto for a decade, and will continue to serve up these kinds of one dimensional narratives that are wildly detached from reality. The reality is that fiat is in trouble, and crypto is poised to bring about a fundamentally competitive monetary system to the central banks, among many other phenomena most people are still ill prepared for.
Oh, I love your response. Thank you.

My workflow was as follows

- Remote into server and develop from there

- Git to different location, could even be same server

- Occasionally pull on local machine for redundant backup

This allowed me to

- Segregate builds for my testing and the business's UAT

- Allowed me to always have a stable build locally that I could look at from home

Before, I did develop on my local machine and push to a server. Some part of me still thinks that's the proper way to do it.

But I am always seeing what works best for the current situation and developing directly on my server served me well once upon a time.
It's popular in the gaming industry because it handles large individual assets better than anything out there.
To the passing reader: I'd strongly recommend both, and would be less quick to dismiss the artistic merit of the movie in question. Whereas Marvel movies try to overlay a meaning onto plot, this to me feels like the reverse: the creators had something to say and found an unbelievably imaginative way to say it. There's quite a bit of depth, and lots of space for you to find something meaningful to you different than the person next to you. Personally, I wouldn't even watch the trailer.

There's an element of coming to terms with one's lost potential, and the backdrop of that against the meaningless of existence that I found really relatable and powerful. I laughed, cried, I was moved.
I'm also not sure why this is a thing. With all of the various sensors, etc. in cars, there's safeguards to prevent me from typing an address in the GPS while moving, so why can't there be something that turns your headlights on while driving at night above a certain speed.

On Saturday, I drove from NJ to MA and saw 3 vehicles on the highway at night with only daytime running lamps, and one with no lights on whatsoever.
The Christian bible doesn’t condemn suicide. Most of the mentions were written in a period where society didn’t combine suicide with something inherently bad. Even in the more recent parts you can see Mathew praising the suicide or Judas because it was better than living with the guilt.

Obviously organised religions have found ways around what’s actually written in the bible, and you won’t have a hard time finding Christian’s who think that not killing includes yourself. That is an interpretation though, and unless God spoke to you personally to clarify it, then it’s frankly a lot worse for you to judge someone than to leave that sort or stuff up to God. Even if you are on some misplaced quest to save souls then Jesus already has you covered by dying for your sins.

Contrary to what you may think I don’t have a problem with religion, but I do think people who use religion to spread hurt are assholes. Considering that religious texts were written, selected and curated by people I frankly think it’s on the individual to interpret them. If your interpretation leads you to harassing dying people then you should stop and become a better person instead.
Ah yes, I forgot, number goes up in the short (10 years) term is the necessary and sufficient condition for any good investment. /s
Because not all nodes are equal. 10% of the nodes are responsible for 80% of the transactions.
Years ago, I started using ArchLinux because I wanted to spend a lot of time tinkering with it. I was a student so had plenty of free time, and Arch's installation process and lack of any assumptions about what DE/WM you might want to use was a great opportunity to get to know Linux a bit better. And using AwesomeWM was even better; now I had to learn a new programming language just to configure my desktop!

Years later, I stick with the same setup for exactly the opposite reasons. I don't have as much time to tinker about with my setup and in those intervening years I have gotten Arch + Awesome running just the way I like them.

Distro hopping can be fun if treated as an end in itself, but as a means to an enjoyable and stable OS experience, it is self-defeating. Chances are you can probably achieve roughly the same user experience with any of the major distros, if you try. Package managers are different, but all ultimately adequate. It might be the case that some distros are more or less compatible with certain hardware, but I feel like that problem has become less significant over time. The main thing to differentiate distros these days is probably where they lie on the spectrum between highly stable and bleeding edge.
I’m going to start saying that all this was about kids, not adults.

> Why you and other people support this atrocity? Forgive me, but I have nothing to say except big "fuck you" to you and your ilk. You're as complicit in my family's demise as people who support Putin in the destruction of Ukraine.

So, I live in a country with a reported COVID-19 death toll of almost one million.

Are you suggesting that supporting measures to avoid the spread of the respiratory virus causing such deaths, puts me in the same league as Putin sycophants? That’s nonsense.

Also, I want you to understand that what you just said in so many words is that, because COVID-19 might not affect you personally, you shouldn’t care.

Now, I doubt these measures would harm you. You harmed yourself by not being able to cope. And I’m not arguing here that the Australian government did the absolute right thing, I’m arguing that if losing your routine is going to kill you, you might want to take a hard long look at yourself.

Me? I actually lost weight and became more active, and my kids are happy and safe. So please excuse me if I don’t pity you at all.
VS Code with remote ssh. This is actually my default workflow. I always rent a small vps and work/code on it over the remote ssh plugin. Worke perfectly