skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One part of my personal creative process I didn't find discussed or mentioned in the post is about having a goal for one's creative endeavor. I've found the idea of sitting down to simply 'write a song' or 'create something' doesn't work for me. What does work for me is having a specific goal and working towards that goal. The goals don't have to be overly complex, but I need at least some nugget of an idea that I can consciously refer to during the process to keep me on track (I'm easily distracted by 'possibilities' and 'choices'). An example of such a goal would be that I wish to write a song that has a verse with a more minor feel, use the I–vi–IV–V progression for the bridge, make the chorus upbeat, have a Joy Division meets the 50s vibe, and write some lyrics that tells a story that starts with driving somewhere.

This method isn't foolproof and sometimes I have ideas that don't work or result in bad songs, but occasionally the final product is good enough that I can introduce it to the band and incorporate the new song into our practice/performance setlist. Having a goal that I write down gives me an idea of what I want the final product to look/feel/sound like while still leaving room for spontaneity, as I'll edit the goal if I think of a better idea. A side benefit of this approach is that it makes it easier to communicate the gist of the song to other musicians when they ask what it sounds like and/or what it is about.
It is, I have been doing diff of files from different remote machines using meld and gnome gvfs mounting for years. It works out of the box and is really mature.

Only thing app that wasn't working well with gvfs was libreoffice. I don't know if it is still the case but it refused to handle a file gvfs mounted on my NAS regardless of the protocol (ssh, smb, nfs).
> Your product is great!

Great to hear, thanks!

> Is it possible to make other media uploadable to folders?

We thought about it before but we've de-prioritized it in favor of collaborative-editing features. But I totally understand your use-case. It would be a great addition to our product. Stay tuned! :)
This is really clever. There are definitely huge gaps with existing product analytics tools once you veer away from their primary ICP – just ask any B2B PLG company about account-level analytics...

Looks like a great solution for IoT companies!
Abloy is also available as a standard knob lock or interchangeable cylinder core for some Schlage/Yale locks, https://securitysnobs.com/Knob-Lock-with-BiLock-or-Abloy-Pro... & https://securitysnobs.com/Abloy-Protec2-Schlage-Interchangea...
Looking at the homepage, here are the 5 servers that are advertised as (I assume) the biggest:

> Politically incorrect (i.e. chan culture)

> Gender-critical (i.e. transphobia)

> Shitposter club (advertised as loosely moderated)

> Free speech extremist (not moderated)

> (Along with a meta server about new features for the platform itself)

Without judgement from the content of those spaces, I would argue that those are the exact kind of culture and content that people are worried will become rampant on Twitter. If someone doesn't like what Musk is hinting towards, this is the last space they would be interested in joining.
That’s right. I actually had forgotten about the front plastic, but am remembering now that you mention it. The lighting from the LEDs wasn’t completely uniform (I had six LEDs, three on the right and three on the left, I believe), but good enough.
Changing the locks to my house / apartment is the first thing I do for us, my parents and our kids.

Personally I most of the time choose the Abloy Protec2, since I love the technology and the keys too.

I never understood "security people" who would spend a week hardening their OS but did nothing about their locks.

If you want to "get into" the art of opening locks without violence (most of the time :) ) I would suggest attending a meeting of the fine folks of ToooL

https://toool.nl/Toool
Australia is in a very tight spot with China. And China is now in a security pact with the Solomon Islands which will give China the ability to blockade Australia (and New Zealand) from the United States in the event of war.

* edit * the reason this is significant is because: When China goes to take back Taiwan, the United States will need to be able to use Australia as a major logistics hub. Any inability to do so will significantly hamper, delay, or prevent aid to Taiwan.
Amazing! Niche tech books definitely have a market in them. I wrote a generic "teach yourself to program" self-help book and sold ~100 copies my first year.

Started with 0 audience, 0 idea of how to write a book and ended up turning it into a fairly sizable newsletter (1k+) and made a couple grand for my month or two of time spent.

I wish I knew much more about self-publishing when I published it, but for my second book, I'm very prepared this time around and have strategies to help it perform better that I got from a book called "Published".

https://www.amazon.com/Published-Proven-Blank-Published-Auth...

I think the real challenge of self-publishing is advertising, marketing, and simply getting your name out there. The writing part is fairly easy!
Can you share what's broken on this config?
>What on earth is the point of that?

Monkey brain sees shiny things. Monkey brain releases dopamine. Monke brain happy.
Biggest mistake of my life, too, but I got off easy. I attended a community college for 2 years, then transferred to a state university, to get a 4-year Computer Science degree in 2011. Complete waste of time and money. I made no friends; I knew more about programming than most of my teachers; and it turns out I hate computer science (enjoy programming, though!). Mercifully, I was already employed in software before my first year, so I made it out without debt, but if I could do my life over again, I wouldn't have wasted that time and money in the first place.

When asked, I now tell young people not to waste their time with college. Almost no one I know works in the field which they studied in college, they're just steeped in useless debt. It's a scam.
From the mailing list[1]:

> CouchDB opens a random network port, bound to all available interfaces
in anticipation of clustered operation and/or runtime introspection. A
utility process called `epmd` advertises that random port to the network.
`epmd` itself listens on a fixed port.

> We recommend a firewall in front of all CouchDB installations. The full
CouchDB api is available on registered port `5984` and this is the only
port that needs to be exposed for a single-node install.

Pretty basic stuff, you should really be firewalling off all but the required ports for it to work. Kind of sad that after a half-century of "information technology" we still need to be told that a deny-by-default policy is the only one that works. And yes, bad defaults are of course to blame here, but the real problem is overly permissive network rules.

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/w24wo0h8nlctfps65txvk0oc5hdc...
All the "research" there says is that they couldn't find a GDP correlation between countries that spend 1.8% on defense and ones that spend 2.4% on defense. There are a hundred million billion factors that go into what your GDP growth looks like. It seems obvious to me without that study that defense spending would not be the deciding factor.

You cannot examine the what the world would look like if there was no military spending; that's a counterfactual. But we know from essential economic science that spending money on non-productive activity does not serve to increase the general economic welfare. In the US alone there are 2 million people serving in the military. Many are endlessly training for a war that most likely will never take place, others are glorified janitors, and the rest are in administration running the training and janitorial work. Imagine if the labor productivity of 2 million people were put to better use. Building houses and products and services that we all need and enjoy rather than mucking about in a field somewhere with $12000 of equipment on their back. (The division of labor is a major argument in economic circles against mandatory conscription)

Of course, militaries are important. The events in Ukraine prove this. But I don't think there is any point in trying to argue that they are good or irrelevant to the economy.
Been using this in alpha with the Flycode team to help us ship changes and start working with new languages in our apps. Huge time saver for our dev team and great enablement for both product and design to be able to get changes in quickly. Love it so far.
I've just added more information on how the App works on the front page and abobut-us. I'm not using any Microsoft fabric UI icon anymore and I'll be adding as soon as I can a Privacy page explaining we don't share user information with license suppliers unless they accept an offer and allow us to do so.

Thanks for the feedback.
> Also, the fact that everything I want to tweak requires buying an app?
I had to pay for an app in order to properly emulate middle clicks on the touchpad! That's bonkers!

Yes I have noticed this too! I love my MacBook, but the idea that I would pay what, $20, for the top tier window snapping app is completely ridiculous. That’s something that should be built in to the shell!
Other than what sounds like potentially lower fees to sell your cow overall. I don't see how this actually changes much as far as fraud and costs to move the cow and such goes.
So what sounds more plausible:

- Lots of people happily use "a dumpster fire" where you have "hours spent in the terminal… still no scanning" and are completely unbothered by serious issues you are describing.

- Your exaggeration is absolutely ridiculous.

Criticism is fine, but at least make it sound vaguely plausible.
Thanks for linking to the site.

I just updated it to include the new version. It's called 19.1 in their wiki and I'll just copy that version number for now.
Not much substance here. Just “hey Twitter has all this data on you, now that Musk is buying Twitter maybe you should delete it cause Musk bad man.”

Does’t grapple with the idea that Musk isn’t the problem, Twitter having all this data on you is the problem.
I went to college in the early 90s when it was 5x cheaper, inflation -adjusted. It was the best decision of my life. No way I'd be where I am without it.

But times and technology has changed. The antique system that is education needs to be completely upended. And, in the process, be made affordable again.
It is unnerving how many people are OK with governments using surveillance tech but draw the line with private corporations. At the end of the day they are just organizations made up of fallible humans. Either using advanced surveillance technology worries me deeply.

Corporations have an increased ability to do things w/o oversight, but the government can literally do whatever it wants when it wants as long as those in power allow it. Government has the monopoly on power and violence. This concern is increased even more in democracies where there is great division. One side can abuse government to enforce their aims on an unwilling opposing side.

Additionally, corporations generally just want to make money so they are fairly predictable and easy to contain (i.e take your business somewhere else if you don't want to deal with them).

Government operates at the beck and call of political whims which, let's face it, are more often than not emotional and knee-jerk reactions. Lastly, only government can make it illegal to avoid surveillance and put you in jail for it. The worst a corp can do is close your account or something.
> The fact we haven't put humans on Mars yet is disappointing

Statements like this exemplify how out of the touch with real life Musk supporters really are.

The obsession with vanity projects will run the U.S. into the ground.

Also the similarities are startling in the obsession and fixation

Mars = Silicon Valley border wall.
I was based out of Holy Loch, New London and eventually the yard at Newport News. Never heard it, so maybe it was a WestPac saying
I've always been fascinated by the civilizational miracle of free and open source software, which has been made possible by centuries of striving (and for the most part, achieving) to build a world in which the creative elite is not only allowed to work on pretty much whatever they want, but incentivized, financially and culturally, to do exactly that.

How do we explain the phenomenon of a culture which holds individual property rights in high esteem giving rise to a movement fundamentally opposed to the notion of intellectual property altogether? The fact that the output of the latter has been immensely useful to the former explains the continued existence of the free software movement, but it does not account for its emergence.

Is it coincidental or a necessary precondition that individual rights be enshrined in law and respected by custom for miracles like free software to happen? I'm leaning toward option two, especially given the author's salient point regarding the recent actions of countries that do not value individual rights and rule of law. I would venture to guess that the vast majority of free software contributors living in such places are politically at odds with their respective governments, whether they feel at liberty to admit it or not.
The article is pretty clear that "analysts" don't think Mexico has the capability to develop lithium production at scale in a near time frame and therefore it would be a populist move.

I'm all for nationalising resources (really am) but you need to have the upfront capital and trained workforce ready otherwise they are just kicking out Bacanora and replacing them with nothing. The other examples in the articles (Bolivia for example) have failed miserably at extracting the lithium themselves. It's not oil. You can't just plant a big straw in the ground and pump it out...
> What I would actually expect of Microsoft is to follow the Apple way: have one single central place, ideally at setup and later in the System Preferences, where tracking, analytics and other optional crap can be disabled system-wide.

This is still GDPR non-compliant, you should have a central place to _opt-in_ tracking, analytics and other optional crap if you so desire.
> Does that imply that Linux is not stable?

The desktop environment is not, no. Various applications one is likely to run on it are not, compared to some closed-source alternatives, including those provided on macOS.

Heavy Linux on the Desktop user for about 10 years, here (~2001-2011). I still try it periodically. I see a lot more bad glitches, X/Wayland crashes (may as well be a whole system crash, on a desktop), and application crashes, on Linux than elsewhere. I find it's most stable when I build up from something minimal and hand-configure everything, but I just don't have time for that anymore, and stopped finding it entertaining years ago.
.. or you can try Next Generation Shell (author here):

fetch("cars.json").filter({"color": "red"})

# or

echo(fetch("cars.json").filter({"color": "red"}))
You got the gist, and I'm a little offended it was a counting joke instead of a crayola joke. I really enjoy my purple flavors.
You could run a build of the new LineageOS official Generic System Images. That way you wouldn't be relying on random xda users, though some things might just not work properly with a GSI.
More like a point in the cycle.
>but if you split all your customers into people who have ordered washing machines in the last month and people who haven't, the first group is almost certainly more likely to be ordering a washing machine in the near future

If, after 30 years of putting our best minds on the problem, this is the best we can do, then the entire advertising industry deserves to be burnt to the ground for making zero progress while wasting untold riches
>HELP SOLVE WORLD HUNGER

I read the plan from the UN on how to solve world hunger and it basically was 'keep giving us billions a year so we can buy more food' which is idiotic and in violation of the 'give a man a fish, teach a man to fish'

What I have been considering, I wish I could entrepreneur and try this.

Could there be a fully automated system in which produces food? Sure I've literally been to greenhouses that didn't need humans in a day2day fashion anyway. But this greenhouse was not sustainable in the 50+ year range.

What I've been wanting to do is build a fully automated aquaponics system. Very low input requirements other than the costly LED lighting and energy. Theoretically could produce tons of food at tremendously low cost.
I wasn't aware of this so I looked. A CD I bought recently for $11.99 was $15.09 for a "Hi-Res 48K" version on Qobuz. Another one I bought for $11.14 was $9.99 in "CD quality", a third was $12.59 for the CD, $11.99 for "CD quality".

I couldn't find a definition of "CD quality" or "Hi-Res 48K" on the FAQ so don't know exactly what I would be getting. But as you can see, buying on CD is still about the same price as downloading files yet the artist usually still makes more for CD sales (from my understanding). That doesn't count the fact that I sometimes buy used CDs for much cheaper and the fact that I get to read the album credits.

I still think buying a physical CD and ripping it is a better deal if I want to control my music and don't want it to disappear from a streaming service with no warning.

I'm disappointed that this option will be going away because when it goes away, the cost of buying downloaded files will go up even more.

bandcamp is a good option for the artists that use it.
One point of view arguing for a non-stem degree is that it teaches you to read, write and think. And there is some logic to that thought. Even if you spend 4 years just learning about, say, Sociology, you have to read up on a debate, summarize the background, have an opinion, be challenged and so forth. And you are on your way to 10k hours.

Now film school might have a component of that, or maybe it is teaching you how to launch projects and bring people together. Or perhaps it is "worthless" as the author claims. I have never been to film school so I cannot guess.

However, it seems the author's issue may be a change in curriculum: "A degree in film is absolutely worthless for obtaining work in the film industry. What matters are connections, professional experience, and the ability to raise large sums of money. Those aren’t things film school can teach you."

Perhaps the film school should add some courses on networking, fund raising and an internship at film shoots?
>How come that an average interaction on (moderated!) social media is significantly worse than an average interaction in real life? It's about medium structure, not people.

How is it not both? Give people a medium wherein they can be semi-anonymous, or otherwise removed from the immediate social impacts of their actions and words, and they are awful. It seems to me that you need (a) distance from social impacts and (b) people willing to be awful.

How is it not both? How are people not responsible for their own actions online? I don't get what you're saying.
Just like a year ago or so when people left WhatsApp for Signal.

I did and am still missing the interaction with 98% of my contacts.
> Would add that had Ukraine kept its post-separation guns, millions today wouldn’t be dead or displaced.

Makes you wonder why we demanded ukraine disarm and give up its nukes after the fall of the soviet union. Makes you wonder why sanctioned india when they developed nukes. Makes you wonder why we currently prevent japan, korea, germany, etc from developing nukes.

> To say nothing of the millions who will likely face starvation for lack of the grain Russia tramples.

Isn't russia the biggest producer of grain? Who is sanctioning or trying to sanction russia to prevent russia from trading their products around the world?
> * Return from sleep will rearrange the order of the connected monitors, even though they have not been disconnected, if the laptop lid is not opened.*

macOS will, for me, happily rearrange windows even without sleeping it. Just returning to the machine after ~15 minutes (all while on external power) is sufficient to get a "hold on for 15 seconds while I rearrange the windows like a mad OS".

Meanwhile Linux can resume from sleep pretty much instantly, but Linux is the one that has all the trouble, according to folklore.

The lack of Alt+Tab kills me to this day. Cmd+Tab just doesn't work as well.
> out of the box

Shouldn't that read "outside the box"?
If I had that kind of money I'd build one of these

https://www.nersc.gov/assets/pubs_presos/sharp2011.pdf
Learn O(f(n)) notation and caches, and you're good to go. Judging by interviews, they don't teach the caches part in CS.
No kidding!

This part in particular jumped out at me:

> To work around this statelessness, you can wrap a sequence of independent values into an array, iterate over the array, then wrap that result back up into another array so you can pass the entire sequence as a single value downstream to the “next filter”.

This is literally just describing a map. A technique so generally applicable and useful that it's made its way into every modern imperative/procedural programming language I can think of. The idea that this person fails to recognise such a common multiparadigmatic programming idiom doesn't fill me with confidence about the design of zq.
I wouldn't say its not stable, as much as I wouldnt say you have no control of macOS, its just less so, generally speaking.

So many variables (mainly who's using the computer and for what) go into this that its impossible to speak for everyone, but yeh generally speaking macOS is more stable than linux. You might have experienced more stability, whereas someone else might have experienced more control using macOS than on linux.
From the article:

> Since taking power in 2018, López Obrador has fought to reverse resource reforms under previous governments which opened up the oil and electricity sectors to private investment. He has pushed a model of development that gives primacy to resource exploitation by state-controlled companies.

This would appear to be anti-capitalist by definition.
Thanks Criticas, you have gotten my cogs and gears moving. The CEO will definitely exit with the company - but surely the exit bonus will come through for all employees at the same time (or just after) the proceeds of the sale are split amongst all other investors/shareholders?

Also how is the question of being retained by the new company related to the exit bonus? Surely that would be down to the current administration, as the new company would have nothing to do with it.
I think the cows are self-driving.
> Getting strong audiophile equipment review vibes

From the OP, or from the discussion here? Serious question. Because it's genuinely not clear which you mean (for me it's the latter).
The main reason I switched over to a windows box (after WSL2 was released) was because I hate dealing with obtuse hardware and driver issues.

I am a software engineer, but I work in user space and have zero interest in managing hardware issues. When I plug in a device to a Mac or Windows box it just works 95% of the time or more. I never have to touch textual config files, I never have to adjust DNS settings and routing settings to work with the VPN, when I plug in my headphones it plays audio through them, and my webcam works nicely. I don’t have to use the terminal to get my GPU to kick in at appropriate times.

I have tried to make the switch to Linux so many times, I love the computational model, but I’m too busy to spend my time working out the user experience, and too cheap to use a Mac now that WSL2 gives me a real Unix environment on Windows.

“Cheap, User Friendly, or Dev friendly, pick two” Was my mantra before WSL2 made windows dev friendly too… I’m not a fan boy for Windows, just too lazy to care anymore. I’d be happy to try Fedora…but I have my doubts…