skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once did an online IQ test and then got interrupted by someone else after five minutes and I quit the test, my score was apparently 88. I don't trust online IQ tests, I only did it because someone annoyed me into taking it and someone annoyed me out of taking it.

I honestly think IQ scores primarily measure how much you want to score well on an IQ test. You can improve your scores by 10 points according to scientific papers just by being more motivated and not quitting, not being distracted and so on.
In my local hardware store, they sell remote controlled light bulbs where you can change color temperature, RGB too. Of course you can find similar products online, including Amazon, AliExpress... Look for RGBWW. These exist as LED strips too.

No apps, networking, or anything, nothing to configure, just IR remote control.
I think you’ve made a fair criticism: my argument is sort of “two-wrongs-not-making-a-right” at worst and badly under-contextualized at best.

There’s been a shift in tone on here over a period of time I couldn’t precisely identify, years at least.

The technical debates always got, uh, quite spirited at times, but there was a sort of “hey, so-and-so did well, good for them. With a little luck it’ll be my turn before long.”

A kind of recognition that while a little envy is only human, it’s still in the best interest of everyone to build rungs on the ladder rather than kick them out.

And that’s not completely gone, but there is this creeping zero-sum kind of sentiment that just seems to be growing over time. This kind of narrowing of all bad feelings onto lucrative/prosperous people and ventures. There are some godawful industries in the world: finance, pharma, health insurance, big agribusiness, lobbyism, the friggin Sackler family, whatever Blackwater/Xe is calling themselves now.

But that stuff is discussed quite rationally. OTOH recommender systems, internet ads, crypto-money: people get really, really heated up about that stuff.

I’m open to alternative theories than the one I’ve presented, but the way I see it mass murder via OxyContin is a way bigger deal than cryptocurrency and FB ads put together.
Agreed and it even responds to global player hotkeys! Love it.
Yeah, I put the "anti democracy" in quotes bc I wasn't quite sure. I'm looking for a term for this sentiment. Any suggestions?

I'm not sure libertarianism, conservativity or "right wing" hit the mark either. It is a strong sentiment anyway.

Perhaps "anti democracy" fits better when the thinking in question gets exported and adapted to this side of the pond.

Here most governments are mostly relatively functional, representative and quite a bit more socialistic too. Here the thinking I'm referring to tends to manifest as distrust of government and media, skipping voting or giving "protest votes" to strange fringe parties all contributing to the erosion of the said strong and representative government.

I was also a little bit thinking about USA when I added the "at least it should be". I can see the point better in that situation, though I can't completely agree. I would add erosion of public education to the list of things to get rid of btw.
Ciaramella DSP web playground
In Denmark it's used to warm nearby homes.

The heat is valuable and literally throwing it into the sea seems like a big waste.
One of the fundamental issues that I’ve encountered in all of the puppet managed environments is that people would remove resources from the configuration without first explicitly setting them to “absent”, effectively leaving them in an unmanaged state of the previously management configuration. If that state differs from the default, a new machine would end up with a different configuration, potentially breaking things.
I don't think my degrees are worthless either, as at the very least they exposed me to certain types of content. However, my experiences (non-SV) have been that even if these degrees show one can pick up difficult things fast, hiring managers basically wave it off. They are looking for individuals who can effectively step into most of their (absurdly bloated) tech stack by tomorrow.

Maybe it's another story in SV/US, but capacity to learn seems to be about as useful to hiring managers as knowing how to bake eggs.
"At some point she decided she'd rather stay there permanently."

I don't know anything about you or your relationship, but in my experience that is not how a healthy relationship works. The couple decides together what is best for both. So right there that seems like a huge red flag. Another thing is. Have you talked with her about your difficulties? Finally, it's probably a good idea to talk to a therapist (or a good friend) to get some outside perspective. Hope you get better soon.

Edit: Also, most foreigners share the same experience of moving to Japan.
It's funny how the concept of "distro" is losing importance now.

Do people really care if their docker containers run Ubuntu? Debian? RH? Not really

Also 90% of the pain in (traditional) distros seem to be the UI stuff (Window Manager, drivers, audio, etc). Not saying the other parts are not complicated, but upstream does most of the work there.
Rest of world has a really good article about people from emerging markets that chose Luna because their home currency is unstable.

https://restofworld.org/2022/argentina-nigeria-terra-crash/
The real story of Pinocchio
AFAIK, musikcube is the only thing available on Windows. Have been satisfied with it in the past, but now I just use Spotify.
I use and develop on devuan. I can't see any reason to add systemD, a so-called init system that uses binaries and extends it's tenticals in to every part of the OS. You aren't running linux anymore, you are running systemD. It is an abomination, and I will never adopt it.
A city made up of car parks.
The nth hex digit takes O(n log n) time. But it doesn’t use much space.
The first "exposé" is enough to discredit this person.

> The "exposé": https://dailykanban.com/2016/06/08/tesla-suspension-breakage...

> Tesla's response: https://www.tesla.com/blog/grain-of-salt

Keep in mind too, that this blogger gave us the totally unbiased “Tesla Death Watch” blogpost.
Not just expensive, but way overpriced, dim and anti-interoperable.
Sure, we will
The article leads with Tesla using portable diesel generators to power superchargers on a holiday weekend to meet demand at an essential stopping point between LA and SF—essential because Teslas lack the range to make that trip without recharging. What were they supposed to do, strand their customers in the middle of the Central Valley because demand that weekend exceeded normal capacity? “Hahahaha enjoy Bakersfield, suckers!”

Elon has done some dumb and insensitive things, but this article is a hit piece.
You do not want systemd for your critical server need.

Some problematic things remaining are:

- pull an Ethernet cable and watch weird state enter via systemd-networks

- your long running custom-made daemon that spent many weeks building up cache goes down when Ethernet link state change

It does not enable IP address to stay truly static IP when netlink device goes down.

Nor does it leave the IP route table alone.

Caveat emptor.
Why would it be snake oil? They don't take any cash from the employee.

As for balance it depends a heck of a lot on the particular shop you're joining.
People don't really take Elon at his word anyway. They lap up his mystical attitude towards starry eyed goals.

He appears to be a really science and tech oriented guy and he is technical but people dont come to hear it. His conversations in the public focus heavily on symbolic action, mysteries of the future and innovation and very little on analyzing fundamental technical challenges.

His presentations are like Steve Jobs with a focus on mysticism but the public takes Elon's technical and analytical ability for granted, like a protected trait. None of his fans really want to get into the nitty gritty and his PR strategy seems to be fine with that.
Could you elaborate on the poor usability of the --purge flag?
Reposting other people's work is extremely looked down upon in Japan. Danbooru-like sites won't survive a day if hosted in Japan. (People do secretly use them though.)
Not suggesting it "should", I was just pointing out that it's not a complete drift detection tool.
Right now, we're based on PG14 (14.1 to be precise).

We're looking into supporting PG15 when that comes out too, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that as we still have a lot to do.
Nah we good.
"Brush up on CS fundamentals" means "grind leetcode" which is already table stakes for getting a job, and about to become more important. In a recession, companies will crack down on candidates with interpersonal skills and confidence but no competence.

Interpersonal skills and confidence are deciding factors after you've filtered out the candidates with low technical skill, as determined by leetcode, whiteboard, online coding exercises, etc.

Once again, I've seen enough candidates talk the talk, and then get caught typing in answers verbatim from Google or SO, to know that eliminating coding exercises in the interview process is folly -- it's opening the door for bad hires who can't code and who waste everyone's time.
I think that my imagining of the tool is sufficiently different to think that it isn't the same tool at all, and different workspaces wouldn't even be a thing. The composer UI in this case would provide a way to logically separate infra into different code bases but it would still have to know about all of them.

Edit: and actually, without a state there is no concept of a remote state. All codebases talk to the same "service" so circling a bunch of infrastructure and saving it to a specific git project would be easier than connecting to a bunch of remote states and reading specific resource days from them. Even if you're code repo doesn't declare a resource, the omniscient IAC service "knows all"
I prefer the version where this whole thing started with the elonjet kid wanting a Tesla to take the account down.
Trump says he doesn’t want to be on Twitter, even if Elon let him back on. That possibility is just being used as a political scare tactic now.

Otherwise pretty spot on comment. Thanks.
I can't recommend this presentation enough!
Reminds me of the old IBM mainframes (until the 1990s) that were liquid cooled. They had an ingenious approach called TCM (Thermal Conduction Module) with the silicon chips directly attached to a cooled substrate.
If you're looking for security you shouldn't be doing a startup in the first place. It's pretty much the riskiest move you can make as far as your career goes.
Edeka, Rewe, Aldi and Netto: Card payments are no longer possible
The article links to "101 Tactics for Revolutionaries", which wants a Wordpress login. Here it is in the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130413172018/https://thinkpurp...
I think I know how you feel. I'm not a native speaker too, and for a long time I was not confident on how to properly communicate what I wanted.

Regarding HN, I think, you want to cut the fluff (contrary to what others said in the comments). You ask a question to get an answer. Here are two aspects of it:

- If you ask something, I expect you to have put at least some time and thought into your question beforehand. This could be a quick google search or go to Algolia [1] and see if someone asked a similar question before you. If you find something, but the question remains, attach it to your post. Others then don't have to start over again and can give you a better answer (or follow-up question).

- If you want to show good will (without clustering your post with disclaimers), actively avoid absolutisms. See what I did in my fist sentence in this comment: I can not possibly know how you feel. But I can tell you that I think I know it. I'm taking a step back and communicate that I might be wrong, but this is how I feel/ observe/ think/ reason/ etc. - you get it.

Edit: For example [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
But why? Are we aiming to have mega-cities of 15M people like Asia? I've been there, no thanks. It would be better if people move to other cities if SF doesn't make sense.
“Empty Status Chasing” is a pretty important motivator for a lot more people than they’d admit in public. Status correlates with wealth, fame and opportunity.
I have the nanoleaf bulbs too and they’re very responsive via Homekit/Thread.
Well that’s sort of true but the algorithms that decide on which pixel has which colour are better than just the number of underlying RGB pixels…
I do not think you understand the difference between being able to buy the gun in Walmart (or rather Biedronka in hypothetical nightmare land) and the ability to procure one by looking for dealer on the internet or accessing foreign internet shop. The former one allows impuls buys and the later one has a barrier of entry. And proper layered barrier of entry (no guns around to take or buy, peer pressure to not have gun, illegality of possession of most types without licence) is in my opinion a key to understand why I'm not afraid to send children to school here.

>> they're no joke and I recommend every Polish resident consider one for self defense

Defense from what? Poland is rather safe country at this point and most of what's going on here is simple robberies which when combined with easy access to guns would quite easily change to manslaughter galore.
And I like our gun statistics and would love them stay this way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...)
Kind of okey.

* Started working on side projects again. Need to develop a workout app for myself so I can track my activities at the gym and make sure I get enough variety in my exercises. Maybe I can turn it into sth. releasable that could help others with similar physique as I had (skinny/hardgainer type) to gain some muscles. Feel like there could be more out there to help people who are naturally rather skinny to get success at the gym. Also started working on small game-dev projects just for fun for now. Making a few prototype games, exploring mechanics and seeing if any turns into something fun that I want to invest more time into.

* Mixed success at managing my mood and anxieties, working on not falling back to coping behaviors and instead just accepting the thoughts and feelings I get. Feels like I'm doing a LOT already but it's still tough sometimes. Also, working hard to not get overwhelmed with what's going on in the world. Being honest with myself I have very few excuses though because I'm healthy and privileged (work, education, living in a rich country).

Work is okay and I like the team I'm in. It's not particularly purposeful but on the other hand not stressful at all right now and they offer quite a supportive environment (home office whenever I want, out-of-company counseling). Looking forward to reducing my working hours to 4 days / week (again, very privileged). Other software devs are probably making much more money than me but maximizing my income by switching jobs is not sth. I'd want to do now.

That's it for now, have a good weekend!
macOS Web App
> Do people really care if their docker containers

> Also 90% of the pain in distros seem to be the UI stuff

Is it only me who see a contradiction here
There has been so much fun made of the infinite monkey theorem [1] over the years, but look where we are now !

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Snowflake is a BI data platform, which doesn't require low-latency and fast response like systems powered by RDBs do.

Apples and oranges.
This thread is replete with ad hominems, mind reading, and speculation ("admit it, Musk's bid for Twitter was to unmuzzle Trump". No proof offered though).

I'm okay with Musk. If you're not, fine. Why the need to constantly assert evil intentions by those you disagree with? It's gets tiring.
> There's a significant backlash at least in the startup space to "whiteboard coding"

Good.

Whiteboard coding is probably one of the least useful methods I have ever seen to evaluate candidates. It tells me nothing about the persons actual qualification and can be gamed.
From now until 2024 there will be PLENTY of outlets willing to support Elon hit pieces, I’m afraid.
You could work in some way without a state but actually the state is a feature which helps you.

Imagine you go down the ansible route and you write idempotent ansible code than you could argue: “See. I don’t need state. My code is idempotent. I just use this playbook to apply”

Now think of deleting resources.

You could have a delete playbook maybe. Then how would choose whether to create or delete stuff?
Maybe a colleague gives you a ticket: “please delete”

Now there are various scenarios:

You do your thing (on your laptop) and tell everybody else in your team to not run the CreatePlaybook as you have to run the DeletePlaybook first for this one machine. Afterwards you delete the actual machine/resources from your ansible repository and tell the team: “please use the newest main branch”.

So: Here is your equivalent to terraform state, the coordination effort on your side since you are the only person who currently “knows” what’s going on with deletion/applying.

So your next idea is: “no problem, I make a Pipelines which runs the playbook on your behalf”. And the pipeline will update maybe the Git repo accordingly in some way - after the run (since ansible needs to know in the run, what to delete).

Everybody can see the pipeline . The pipeline will ensure you sequentially apply the playbooks to coordinate with your colleagues.

Next problem: how does the pipeline know which playbook and resources to run on?

You create a selection box for your hosts and for the playbook yaml to trigger the pipeline.

=> there is your state.
Your ticket information are transferred to your manual labor to fill in the correct items in your selection box. To reestablish want went on you now have to look in the ansible code and the pipeline Paramus and pipeline logs.

More examples are: you only want to update some stuff with your ansible playbook. Therefore you might introduce tags on the resources and the playbook knows how to handle those tags. The extreme case might be:

TTag:state:present, tag:state:absent.

Then you can run a single playbook which can call the deletion and installation playbook for you and everybody is happy that you have everything visible in Git.

Problem here: your 2 step process to decommission things from git. First a commit which sets state:absent. Then run the pipeline and then another git commit to delete the code.

So what I am saying is:
You can do all of this with ansible for sure. But you will have state somewhere:

In a Ticket, a Pipeline log, in git, in a wiki

I am not saying absible should not be used. It makes sense to configure things. (I personally would wrap a terraform hull around my absinble code and call it, just to have terraform handle the locking for my playbooks)

But just watch out for the hidden state in your workflows and better make it explicit.
This is why people love GitOps for traceability.

You can all do this by hand and document your process in a Wiki for your colleagues so that they known what the “tag:state:absent” means for them.
Or you can rely on somebody who has done this for you already and maintains documentation and what not.
With every cloud service there's a management overhead too. Just different skills you need to learn.

I've done SRE/devops work in various capacities including consulting longer than cloud services have existed, and my experience is that I've consistently earned more from clients who insisted on cloud services because they consistently need more help. Nothing is driving more demand for devops consulting services than cloud providers.
None, except what’s in my broad market index funds. Still willing to call a spade a spade.
> In fact, crypto is completely dystopian because there is absolutely no space for cash in it, and further, by being distributed and therefore pseudonymous at best, it actually opens massive privacy and security pandora boxes.

I don't think crypto positions itself as the only option (Bitcoin maxis aside). So there is definitely space for cash, space for tokenized USD, space for collateralized algo stablecoins.

Why distributed implies "pseudonimous at best"? Have you looked into what can be done with zero-knowledge proofs? With MPC?
As TFA article mentions, we already have Ansible and friends. You can use Ansible with AWS https://www.ansible.com/integrations/cloud/amazon-web-servic... if you want to
Terraform having state is a trade-off:

Pros:

- it can manage resources where not all information can be queried

- reading state is almost always significantly faster

- it can identify deleted resources

Cons:

- state can go out of sync

- every resource type has to implement state well while tracking changing features, so it’s fragile

- fixing broken state can be a PITA

Without making these trade-offs, terraform would only be able to support a smaller subset of the providers it currently does and perform poorly.
This may be true. I've heard it enough times that I forget to question it. But it's fun. :)
> (not that scrum was more predictable in-practice, it just seems that way)

I use the phrase “the illusion of predictability” a lot when I talk about Scrum. Sadly, some people really cling to that illusion despite overwhelming evidence that it isn’t real.
The thing that gets me is the way he propagates the idea that one person is responsible for his successes. There are many brilliant people and teams that work for his companies, but he doesn't promote them like they clearly deserve, instead wearing this persona of "of course I'm a bit weird, but I'm so amazing because I'm so successful at these things". To me this strikes me as narcissism/egocentrism, and I'm not surprised that he flew into a rage when the diver told him where to stick it because that seriously impacted on his ego.
The fact some systems do it, doesn't mean it is correct or optimals.

The latency of NFS & EBS or EFS is actually the reason many businesses *do not* use them for their databases.

I've seen deployments that had to go bare-metal because the tiny latency of EBS caused their compute times to rise exponentialy (doing AI training).
I simply change the font settings in LXQt Appearance Configuration. This generates a Fontconfig file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, which most applications respect. One exception is my favorite terminal emulator Kitty, which can be easily patched. In freetype.c, change the last line of get_load_flags() to "return base | FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME | FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO;"

I assume other desktop environments support something similar.
People would very loudly insist that DAI cannot possibly fail and that it's not like all those other stablecoins that failed and this time it will be totally different.

Then the peg would break
My friend Alexander created an easy docker file[1] for an OSM tile server. I use it for nearly two years without problems.

[1] https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server
Is it possible to add an Excel-like spreadsheet data entry mechanism for ad-hoc data analysis (rather than receiving datasets from elsewhere)? If not, how should I create datasets?
You haven’t mentioned whether you have a proper mic. If you don’t it should be the first thing you spend money on. There are many options at many different price points. Lots of people use a Blue Yeti which is around $100. Shure MV7 is a good option for a bigger budget.
Actually not even fiber. Just 1gbps coax.
People who make posts like yours should be required to disclose how far in the red they are in their Tesla short position.