skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.

Lambert: You admire it.

Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

Parker: Look, I am... I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug.

Ash: Last word.

Ellen Ripley: What?

Ash: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.
This is really inefficient, two bitflips in the same location will result in a bitflip. For 3x the space surely there's a more resilient scheme that can handle more.
I wish a lawyer would write up some standard verbage the industry could all agree on for this common clause in contracts. Put it on a pretty webpage with an explanation of how it's fair and protects both parties. Include some horror stories people can point to to disarm the "it doesn't matter" argument.

I'd rather see the contract say that work delivered to the company belongs to the company, no exception. This protects the companies future interests, they clearly own everything their employees have delivered. A conflict-of-interest clause, a NDA, and a clause stating I can't take company data to use elsewhere can cover all other concerns without limiting my ability to be a free individual in my free time.
`The funding game in academic science is kind of miserable. Researchers eager to maintain positions for their post docs and grad students etc pay high levels of attention to which way the funding story is going -> ie, telling funders what they want to hear is the key skill. This is not always focused on new ideas. That's because it is pretty horrible not to get funded, so getting funding is a top priority?`

I think this is oft, but not always, overstated (note, not the bit about the funding game being miserable - it is). I've had a relatively successful track record as new faculty, and my best scored grants are also my most daring. Significance and Innovation is one of the criteria the NIH reviews on, and funding is tight enough that a "meh" score there can torpedo a grant. Getting to know what your funder (and most importantly, your particular program officer) wants is critical, but what they want is not always "safe" science.

The advice I give my trainees is "Learn how to tell your story" and "Stop blowing off your Specific Aims page, it's the most important."

`Then there are compliance costs (you need to train your researches on project costing / job codes for payroll, procurement processes with federal funds etc)`

Almost all of this is handled by departmental staff or a sponsored programs office at every institution I've ever been at, using the indirect costs that Hacker News is always so fond of talking about.
> Hopefully the bubble will burst -- but who knows? It could drag on for a very long time.

The median home price in Canada is $800k and rising, while in the US it is $400k and rising. Housing prices in the US could easily double.
"On the hook" right up until the point they're about to go bust, then they hand over responsibility to the government to rescue them from their rampant speculation.
Came here to say this. After reading SEO riddled garbage for years, this was a pleasant surprise.
Does this mean you're storing a backup of your NextCloud as a large encrypted blob in your gdrive?
I travelled a fair distance to sign a contract with a third-party that I was contracting though for a major bank. They handed me a bunch of documents to sign and left me in a room for a while, I read them all thoroughly (took hours) and flagged up several things that were just plain wrong, stuff that made no sense and, similar to the OP, some clauses that suggested they wanted my first-born.

They were happy to change the details to fit what I wanted and we all went away happy. The thing that surprised me was when their intiial response was, "No-one has ever mentioned these before and we've been using these for years". I mean, the wording of the contracts could have gone very badly for me if things had gone south and we ended up in court.

Kind of makes me wonder if anyone actually bothers to read what they are signing.
One thing of note for my cohort is that those around my age (34) graduated either into or around the Great Recession. When we started school, it was all 'do what you love/any degree will do' and that changed while we were in school, so we are kind of a fucked micro-generation.

Also of note is that I have a professional graduate degree, as do many of my colleagues, which tends to have higher student debt.

While we've had three years of deferments and that's been awesome for people like me (and presumably you) who've been comfortably employed the whole time, a lot of people were also impacted financially by the pandemic so it ended up being a wash. Think of increased childcare costs as schools randomly closed, people who work in academia/local government being furloughed, etc.

I will say that those who have done the best financially have been those who left the US.

I'd also say a lot of the problem is housing. Planning can only get you so far when rent goes up every year more than your wages do.

Also this doesn't address the point that my sister's friends, who are just as irresponsible, are better off.
All he’s saying is that they were more widespread and generally available in places like mainstream stores and University bookstores.

Are you really disagreeing with the best possible interpretation of this?
Where I’m from most people have built-in ovens where the bottom is just above counter top height, making it way more convenient to deal with.

The vogue thing now is to even have dishwashers in high cabinets so they can be placed at a more ergonomic height.
Closer to "not in my backyard", until and unless it absolutely and directly benefits ME
You can’t create a society welcoming to immigrants with sympathetic, cosmopolitan liberals brow beating everyone else into toleration. As someone from a Muslim country I’d never move to a place like that.
Yeah, the default scaling options are unacceptable. I was able to work around it by installing GNOME Tweaks (absolutely bonkers that this isn't installed by default) and changing the font scaling factor, but until I did that my 4k monitor was really hard to use.
Sure, I absolutely take your point and as a lover of language generally feel similar leanings. But by the same token, everyone seems to be everyone else's audience these days, so there must be some reciprocal onus on an audience member to realize that a person calling to "defund the police" in Minneapolis might not agree with the statement "law enforcement is universally bad".
How does qemu-user's performance compare to Rosetta 2? The latter is marketed as nearly native performance because it performs binary translation. But I read that qemu-user also performs binary translation.
Psylocibin mushrooms are easy to propagate (as far as mushrooms go) and I’m not aware of any other psychoactive chemicals found in mushrooms that won't kill you, so what is it that you are concerned about? I've never heard of someone buying "counterfeit" magic mushrooms.
One objection I have perhaps in line with the GP here is that they are literally bringing in "browser" things with Textualize -- layout is done with CSS Grid and they are actively working on supporting more and more CSS.

One view of things is that means the Textualize developers were probably web developers and they wished Text UI programming was similar.

The most mainstream Graphical UI on desktop that allows using CSS for layout is Electron which is basically an entire Chromium browser running a single web application with HTML, CSS, and Javascript heavily involved.

Therefore, one potential "end-game" for Textualize is to add enough features that it becomes a browser itself or to be supplanted by Electron adding Text UI support.
Wasn't that around the time Sean Hannity volunteered to get waterboarded?
The Bay Area was nothing in the 80s either. NYC wasn’t even a desirable place to be during that time either.

People who pick just what’s attractive at the moment are pretty short-sighted and I have no sympathy for them.
lol, it is, but people that are trying to market things to me frequently want to know about my problems so they can appeal to them and thereby sell me things.

I don't see a products section on their site yet, but they refer in several places to what they are making as products, so I'm assuming they may want to market them to me in the future.
1. Generally speaking, dates are useful, but this is a link to article from 2008, so I'm not sure if previous submissions dates would be all that useful.

2. All links are to previous _discussions_, none are to discussion-less submissions.
Most of the stuff I have bought from Ikea seem to be mostly carboard packaging. Which isn't actually that horrible for recycling when it is uncontaminated like stuff used for flatpack furniture is.
So unaffordable housing is a law of nature? How depressing.
Yeah, that's pretty much it -- usually nobody stress-tested this before they just sent it out in a rush to employee #1, who's probably a referral anyways
Scrape a lil more off my backside, please. Of course I understand that as soon as I bend down, I have given consent and two enthusiastic thumbs up!

You could either enjoy the hint of vulgarity there or the lack thereof; otherwise lazy reading, imo. Unless you are of the opinion that the only way a company can make money is through intrusive/abusive data analytics.
While the base (ash in this case) can be locally produced, africa as a continent isn't a big edible oil producer/exporter, and that's usually the expensive part in soapmaking.

And one could argue that plant ash isn't the most sustainable source of base in making soap.
I’m sure they had some plans for it, but a little thing called COVID detailed most plans. Who knows, maybe the owner isn’t even with us anymore and their heirs are still figuring things out.
What if the rotor destruct system fired when you weren't ejecting tho?

I can't find the specific incident easily by Googling, but I read a long time ago about an incident, possibly with F-16s, a training exercise where suddenly a sidewinder fired uncommanded, and took out another plane.

You would think that would surely be human error, but investigation showed that apparently something just shorted out.
The issue isn't settled yet? Huh.
That's not a proper sort. A sort is not just a function that takes in a list and returns a list that is sorted. The result must also include all of the elements that you had when starting. That property isn't checked by the code you linked.
No. If you are not in-the-know of linux trivia, this will be highly arcane to you.
I know its more complicated, I was not trying to give a full history.

As I pointed out in my original comment:

> But unfortunately they went with Java and instead of making a chip to support GC they tried to make a chip that implemented Java.

I think in the 2000s Azul hit on how to combine high performance JIT, high performance GC with a number GC specific updates for the hardware and the OS.
>In any case, who knows what would have happened if he’d stayed on board, considering that nobody seemed to care about the limits the doctor set?

He would've been much safer, though maybe he would've passed out (which I fully recognize as an unpleasant experience.) Ejecting from a jet would be a very hazardous day for any job.
I use https://kevinfiol.com/reader/#dailies

It's a personal fork of Bubo Reader by George Mandis. It's essentially just a Node.js script that fetches the latest stories from some RSS feeds I have stored in JSON, and then deploys a static site to Github Pages as a single HTML file. I use Github Actions to have it automatically run every 2 hours.

Bubo Reader: https://github.com/georgemandis/bubo-rss

My fork: https://github.com/kevinfiol/reader
Us median _household_ income is 60k
I'm not much for eating oysters, but these are the kind of leaders we really need. People with the will and means to inspire real, practical hope in our future.

These are the "first movers" who really matter, those with the vision and confidence to make positive changes in their community and surroundings. People with the hope and confidence to give us hope and confidence in our future.

So while I may not be much of an oyster eater, I commend Mr. Malinowski and his successful efforts to restore the waters of our precious land. From the harbors of New York City to every corner of this Earth, our land is worth saving. Our future is worth protecting and our people deserve hope.
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I was stationed in Rwanda for several years, and visited your operations centers several times. Truly awesome stuff, that's also helped Rwanda in a bigger way, by giving the country well-deserved recognition for its propensity towards innovation.
UCL notes that the policy changed on 1st January, 2022.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-science-research-support/...
They do this in planes, but with different coders for the three inputs in case of human coding error as well.

Unfortunately, humans tend to make similar errors at similar areas of code when given the same specs.
I always have a contract when I teach my classes or consult. I always protect my IP. They can pay me for ideas or coding, but I only grant full ownership to IP that pertains uniquely to their business. Anything “generic to software testing” is an idea I own and grant them a non-exclusive and perpetual license to.

I also push back on drug tests and insurance requirements and background checks, although for the right money I will relent.
This is such a good point. I've been pushing back for quite a while, and have generally had a positive response where the company revises the contract wording to a more acceptable level.

I feel that the principle of least privilege would be a good point for employment contracts to start, rather than the current approach of "try get control over everything employee might think of whilst employed, even if it's during their own time and unrelated to the business"
There are a couple of techniques that I have used in the past that have worked well.

First, don't edit the proposed contract itself. Instead, add a rider that specifically overrides the provisions you don't like. Something like "Intellectual Property. Work produced by employee shall be considered work-for-hire. 'Work" is defined as..." Then add a line to the bottom of the rider that says "If any portion of this rider is in conflict with the main contract, the terms of the rider will override the terms of the contract." The benefit of this approach is that you avoid the back-and-forth niggling over particular words in the main contract, and you often overcome the other party's resistance to changing the language their lawyers said had to be there. It's stupid, but it works.

The second technique is simply to say, "this contract isn't large enough to justify these provisions. If you would like to bump the contract, we can talk. Otherwise, no." This has worked for me in negotiating software licenses. I haven't tried it in an employment situation. It works because it forces the other side to acknowledge that their demands have costs, and they can have what they want only if they pay for it. They never do.

I am not a lawyer. Heed this advice at your own risk.
This really is annoying. Maybe the solution is a smarter PDF reader that can detect the printed page numbers and use that for its own numbering?
>"Although this may be considered an unflattering characterization…we have found no evidence to contradict the basic general principle that men will do whatever is required in order to obtain sex, and perhaps not a great deal more. (One of us characterized this in a previous work as, ‘If women would stop sleeping with jerks, men would stop being jerks.’) If in order to obtain sex men must become pillars of the community, or lie, or amass riches by fair means or foul, or be romantic or funny, then many men will do precisely that."

I hate to be the person to point this out, but this ideal has all of the same problems as the incel plan. Women are going to find whoever they think is attractive attractive and there's nothing you can do about it no matter how high or low your social aims.

Yes, a lot of people would love to rewrite human nature to make pudgy men with stable jobs the peak of male form but that is as ridiculous as it sounds. :-)

If you want to do anything about this it's going to have to involve changing men.
ZFS and BTRFS have nice online scrubbing features, but nearly every filesystem these days is journaling, including NTFS and XFS (and its contemporaries). Journaling means every block has a checksum. Sure, FAT32 doesn't have that, but no one should ever have the expectation of data integrity on FAT32. You can run checkdisk on journaling filesystems to scrub for errors.
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The OP no longer seems to succesfuly link to any communication from Google saying to "hang tight".
Just because it's real, that doesn't make it right. You're missing the entire point: maybe the issue isn't the gutting of the middle class, but the expectation or encouragement of higher "education" even if it is unnecessary for a huge chunk of people.
I always go SOARE GLINT DUCKY WHOMP. I've never missed with this (so far).
Friends don't let friends self-host email servers.
I assumed my mild hyperbole would need no explanation, but perhaps that was optimistic. Conceding the author's claim as he made it and you quote it, I think there's still a discussion to be had here.

> It's not hard to imagine it being rigorously tested on several platforms with modern CI tools.

It's not hard to imagine a lot of things! But when I looked at the repository earlier [1], I saw a very thin unit test suite that hasn't been touched in eight months, and very little evidence of CI in use at all - and, of course, what checks there are can only exercise the apparently small subset of logic that the unit tests cover. Certainly, if there's anything examining actual behavior in any terminal environment, I saw no sign of it.

Perhaps you'll be able to point me to what I missed. Assuming I didn't, though - for a UI framework that seems designed to have me build my entire application on top of it, this doesn't really inspire a great deal of confidence. As I mentioned above, the risk is that if it turns out to support many fewer terminals than claimed, I'm forced to choose between at minimum significant and potentially near-total rework, or telling those of my users who have terminal-related trouble that I can't spare the time to support them.

If this were a pure open source project, I wouldn't raise this issue in this way. (I'd more likely spend some time looking at how I might build the basis of a CI setup like the one I describe - that might be a fun project, assuming I could find the focus time to spend!) But Textualize appears to be a company which is currently hiring, and which I assume intends at some point to sell some product or service. I think that makes it fair to apply a similar standard here to the sort I use when vetting any vendor. What would you have me do instead? Use kid gloves, and implicitly insult the team behind this project with the assumption that they can't fairly be expected to live up to a standard like that?

I grant they're an early-stage startup, maybe still a one-man band at this point, and likely haven't had time to get to the kind of detailed testing I'm asking about. That's fair, but that also leads one to suggest that the claims being made at this stage are somewhat ahead of what can reasonably be supported. I'd be a little hesitant about that personally, but then again it's not my company, my product, or my project.

[1] https://github.com/Textualize/textual/tree/main/tests
This is absolutely true. I took a survey through MTurk from Google, from back when they were reworking the "ad" icon on search results. They wanted me to quickly select the first non-ad, with different "ad" icon styles (same color as rest of text, different shapes, etc).
These sockets cost $60 a piece.[0] Four of them alone is already ~$250. Add manufacturer markup, and you’re looking at an extra $300 to the consumer.

If manufacturers want to make RAM replaceable, they should be putting SO-DIMM slots (which cost single digits),[1] not BGA sockets. After all, the average consumer is more likely to know how to procure RAM sticks than raw BGA RAM from DigiKey, Mouser, etc.

[0]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001841972537.html

[1]: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/10033854-052FSLF/...
> In the end there is no need to do anything special about locks as they can implemented in the user-space unlike the file descriptors.

If you get semaphores from create_sem() you will need to give them back, you can't just say "This shouldn't be an OS resource" and throw it away, exactly like a file descriptor it's your responsibility to dispose of it properly.

Speaking of which, depending on the OS, your file descriptors might also just be implemented in user space. They're just integers, it's no big deal, of course you must still properly open() and close() files, the fact it's "implemented in user space" does not magically mean it isn't your problem to clean up properly.

Likewise, if you opened a sqlite database, you must close it properly, you can't just say "Eh, it's only userspace, it will be fine" and throw away the memory without closing properly.
I think Fedora release is officially supported for 13 months, which allows one to upgrade every other release, or be a release behind at all times, if desired.

They seem to do go a good job updating major components for latest-1 release: kernel, Firefox, etc.

However, I noticed that say Chromium updates are not as fast or at latest version. So using Fedora that way might not be best choice.
"I've never heard of someone buying "counterfeit" magic mushrooms."

Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

First, mushrooms can be misidentified, due to carelessness or ignorance. A misidentified mushroom can be poisonous. So that's my primary concern.

Second, it's easy to just add whatever chemical you want to non-psychedelic mushrooms, so it's quite possible that you'll get some non-psychedelic mushrooms with some mystery drug added to them.

Third, if someone on the street (or even a friend) offers you something they claim is psilocybin, there's no way of knowing if it really is psilocybin unless you test it.

Figuring out the substance's purity/dosage is even more difficult, as labs in the US that do commercial drug testing aren't legally allowed to report purity, and reagent testing isn't going to tell you.

The amount of psilocybin/psilocyin in mushrooms also varies greatly, so going by gram of mushroom weight (dry or fresh?) isn't very reliable.. especially if you don't know exactly which species each of the mushrooms are and someone's just selling you some mystery "magic mushrooms".
> Click the "I reject cookies" button instead. The GDPR requires that it be as easy to retract permission as it is to accept. Since the website has an "I accept cookies" button that only requires one click to complete, they must also have a "I reject cookies" button.

As for when that'll be a reality, they are working on that: https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/new-cooki...
We used to have tons of eucalyptus trees in my hometown in northern Mexico. Then an unusual winter arrived 10 years ago, temperatures dropped to -24 Celsius. All the eucalyptuses died and with them a big percentage of our vegetation and shade. I don’t know why we are so obsessed with foreign flora in our cities.
That is correct. However, the plane with the delgation crashed because the rules were not followed.