skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We shouldn't have to speculate as to why he was banned, as the CoC requires communication to him about why. If they're breaking CoC to get rid of the guy (and likely because the CoC prevented them from doing so in the past), it's hard to justify no matter the reason.

And to be frank, filippo's contribution to this thread places a clear reason why- drew was incredibly rude in the second link, but his arguments were not bad faith. He clearly meant everything he said, and I would even argue that he was right, although his method of engagement was unacceptable.

More importantly, the exchange was 3 years ago, and the more recent exchange showed him engaging exactly how I would expect a professional to. If the 3 year old exchange is the best filippo could find, it indicates that drew has changed his tactics for the better. So why the ban?
By the time the KGB come knocking at your door it’s already over.

What we need is an amendment guaranteeing our right to encryption and privacy, so that the KGB won’t even know which door to knock on.

Back then your arms were pretty well matched against the government. Today, not so much. Civilians and their small arms are no match for the KGB or modern US military. If we really wanted a way to check the physical power of the US military we’d need a bit more than some semi automatic rifles. They are literally in their current form just play things for the wealthy who don’t want to give up their gun hobby, and liabilities for the rest of civilian society due to the criminally insane.
Excellent point on hardware support. I'm running several years old Xeon chips in my server, and ESXI is already complaining they might not be supported in a future release.
Speaking of performance per dollar, what does the nuclear fuel for an NTR cost?
Doesn't work. Can't enter my post code as it forces a numerical only input on the form and my postcode has letters too.
Disclaimer: this article is wrote by the Director of Product Marketing at Hedera, which is a web3/crypto company[1]. Take it with a grain of salt.

[1]https://hedera.com/
A solution would be E.G. subscribing to a community (an endpoint URL, or what Discord likes to brainwash consumers by calling a 'server') should trigger background actions that allow that community's chosen point of contact to have push notification capabilities, and to maintain that forward until your subscription is expired.
> I guess just because I'm critical of Tesla?

No, it's because the ESG stuff seems more about virtue signaling than doing actual good, and the fact that that one main list includes oil companies but excludes Tesla is really compelling evidence of this.

Other downvotes are probably for stuff like "the fact that they still use oil based or CO2 emitting roadways". I mean... c'mon.
If you're always spending money (soil), there's nothing left for someone else (the farmer) to steal.
Borderlands 3 does this thing where enemies are scaled to your local client level. So like if I’m level 30 playing with a level 20 friend and he finds a level 22 enemy, for me it’ll be level 32.

Which certainly seems another step removed from logic.
One field I haven't seen anyone mention yet is cybersecurity. It's a huge problem, and one that could really use more people (and not just security researchers).
Whether they are "normal" is an interesting philosophical question. There are lots of things that are unusual or rare but which we still think are "normal variants" - red hair, left-handedness, coronary artery location, the location of the appendix.

My rule of thumb is that it's not a medical problem unless it causes a problem for you.
> I was going by Wikipedia's dates, which give the actual use of IPv4 on ARPANET as January 1983, which I believe postdates the actual use of SMTP on ARPANET.

This is documented on RFC 801 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc801), which literally just mandated use of the previous NCP until 1982 and then switch to the incompatible TCP/IP protocol stack in 1983. Imagine doing that with IPv4!
> It also took me a while to get

Thanks for the feedback. I redesigned that code block, making it a side-by-side diff. Is it easier to understand now?
> The first guy you meet outside the cave tells you to follow the guidance of grace. The graces around the main storyline literally point to the next grace or way to go. If you follow the road you'll get there.

That's kind of my point though, because, at the beginning of the game, going straight to Stormveil Castle is not the optimal path. The optimal path is to go through East Limgrave and then Weeping Peninsula to get some levels and some gear. Guidance of Grace leads you away from that. Pretty unintuitive for the very first waypoints of the game.
I don't see those responsibilities as being equally emphasized at a given point in a team's lifecycle.

Early on, the tech lead will be primarily an engineer and hiring manager: there's not enough people to really need a process yet, and so the tech lead lays the technical foundation while building up the team with the right people.

As the team grows, the tech lead will reduce their engineer responsibilities and start focusing on project management in order to deal with the complexities that come from a larger team.

Once the team is at a steady state, both in terms of people and process, the tech lead can focus on people management, primarily by training people to take over the other responsibilities.

I'm not saying there won't be periods where a tech lead is being stretched too far as the team transitions between these phases, but if the stretching persists for too long then something has gone wrong.
I wish there was a successor to Freelancer. I played Elite: Dangerous, Everspace, Everspace 2, and many others, but nowhere did I find a universe that felt actually alive, where it seemed like NPCs had a purpose and did things by themselves. Silly little things like calling up other ships and they would tell you what they are shipping, their home base and destination made Freelancer feel so alive to me. It also had a story, even if it was in places a bit forced.
Would be awesome. Likely won't happen though.
> Not just the tax burdens, the exercise price as well

Sure, but the exercise price is effectively set by the taxman. If you set it too low, they’ll just charge more tax.

See
https://assets.fenwick.com/legacy/FenwickDocuments/409_Valua...

“Employees, officers, directors and consultants who receive stock options with exercise prices that cannot be shown
to be at or above the reasonably-determined FMV
on the date of grant face immediate tax on vesting
at a combined federal and state tax rate as high as 85% or more.”

The game is rigged in the taxman’s favour.

If the tax was calculated at the exercise (or grant!) date but only due upon sale of the shares (or using those shares as collateral to loans etc), the system would be a lot fairer. Especially for illiquid shares in private companies, where it may be years until you could receive cold hard cash for your shares.
Hi op! I work at Angaza, a social impact company. We've built a Saas platform which enables life-changing products, such as solar home energy systems, to be sold on payment plans in off-grid regions around the world. Angaza helped pioneer this industry by creating an embedded software solution, now open source, which connects a solar home system battery pack to a payment plan.

Our product has helped millions of people gain access to clean and affordable energy for their household or microbusiness. We've also expanded our platform to support other impactful consumer products, such as smartphones.

We have U.S. and East African teams. We're still a small, less than 100 people, but we support customers in Africa, Asia, South, and North America. Recently, I've been helping our customers in Sierra Leone handle a currency redenomination by the country's central bank.

One last thing; my team is looking for a full-stack senior software engineer. Here's the job description: https://jobs.lever.co/angaza/8e4f159d-4085-4766-a813-0657eb5.... Good luck with your job search! There are a lot of great social impact companies out there.
I hope you'll be more optimistic about government outcomes, at least as far as opposition is concerned. I think I'd fall under your bucket of people that are "opposed to climate change", and I put that in quotes, because, it's not that I don't believe in climate change or anything like that. I just don't believe that the current "green" initiatives are the correct way to go about solving climate issues. I do however consider myself an environmentalist. I care more about the non C02 pollution that we are causing than simply trying to reduce C02 emissions.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find organic opposition to tackling environment issues that aren't related to the relatively abstract C02 pollution issues. I say organic because the corporations responsible for pollution will always find ways to manufacture consent that protects their own best interests. But, your stereotypical human-caused climate change denier is likely someone that hunts, fishes, or resides in a rural area, where environmental and conservationist concerns are taken very seriously, regardless of political affiliation. Your opposition is only going to come from people whose livelihood is affected by pollution controls. A broader swathe of people will always oppose addressing C02 related climate concerns because it affects literally everyone's bottom line in the form of rising cost of goods with energy prices going up, and it has abstract consequences, rather than concrete ones like your local streams being poisoned, or your well water going bad because the aquifer has been contaminated.
I may sound cynical but here's an alternative to this:
2% annual pay rise and you get laid off/become unemployable ( because of the youth cult) when you hit 50. People are truly sick and tired of waiting 10,15,30 years to get somewhere.
I'm not saying it's good, but that's just how it is.
* I'm hardly noticing the taskbar change - "it's different now, okay, let's move on important things" - may be it'd be better if I can put it on right side of the screen, not on the bottom, but so far so good
* Windows (literally Windows of Applications) management became much better - the mentioned Groups by others, in general ability to snap them to parts of screen with mouse or by Win+Z shortcut
* Windows management with external monitors - when you detach it and reattach (say I often take my laptop from workdesk and come back) - Windows just move things automagically for me.
* WSL is evolving, while I'm not using much of new features - say WSLg has no practical value for (yet?) - I'm not a ML/AI developer and have no interest of running Linux GUI apps, but I see others around me really find it useful on daily basis.
* Notepad can read both UNIX & Windows style endings
* Start menu looks a bit more usable now - I often open files/folders just by invoking menu (with Win key) and typing like "some_notes_file.txt" and usually it brings it to me after just "some" part of file name.
* keep being rock solit - both of my laptops are on Insider Builds (and I was on Win10 too) - one on Dev channel (alpha versions), main one (where I type this) on Beta channel - seen BSOD may be 3 - 4 times.
Sincerely asking: why is this an issue of ethics? What about algorithmically generating porn would be unethical?
> RAI's security depends on an asset external to the RAI system (ETH), so RAI has a much easier time safely winding down

Yay, we've "discovered" currency boards [1].

(The thoughts on negative rates are genuinely interesting, given their relation to present thinking on the subject.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_board

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282613501_History_o...
The paper contains an experiment analyzed according to the pre-existing theoretical framework for that kind of experiment, and it also contains some phrases phrased in the language of constructor theory. You could take the constructor theory language out and have the same paper.

In the scientific sense, it is not enough to show that your system agrees with experiments to say it is true, you also have to show that the alternatives do not agree with experiments. Constructor theory is metaphysical because you'd get the same analysis whether you used it, ad-hoc intuitive thinking (in practice, people do not need instruction on universal principles like cause and effect), or some other alternative. All of the non-intuitive weight in that paper is borne by the QM stuff that exists independently of constructor theory, and in contrast, if you changed that the answers would start coming out wrong.

I am not proposing that this captures the essence of positivism, but one test that you can apply to check new ideas without going through the trouble of understanding them is to see whether they introduce any new conclusions that could not have been obtained under previous frameworks. If not, they may be metaphysical re-arrangements of existing ideas.
Words aren't an application, just because it's not generally used doesn't mean it's "not good for adoption". Further, where it's used and who it's being used by matters a ton when it comes to linguistics. Finally, latino was originally coined in the 40's while latinx is only what, 15 years old in some cases?

But none of this matters because your claim was: "latinx seems like textbook virtue [sic]signalling especially when most Latin-American people don't even like it".
If there is one practice that I'd like to see more encouraged, it would be for websites to start giving other forms of account verification beyond "we will send you an email". Zoom bought keybase, why couldn't push for a "login with keybase"?
Why can't sites send a link via matrix/xmpp/whatsapp/signal message? The only service I've used so far doing it is njal.la.
I was very happy when that was added, I have started using it for anything I sign up for.

Doesn't fix everything that already has my email, but I am hoping it helps to expose companies that sell data more. It is hard to hide behind "well maybe you accidentally did it" when I don't think there is a way on iOS to use the same email in multiple places?
What's the deal with the service network? I've only had good experiences. In one instance they sent a tech out in a service vehicle and in other cases they either gave me a loaner or a $100 Uber voucher (due to the pandemic parts shortage, my car shipped without some non-essential components--it was that or wait until they had the parts before accepting delivery).
I agree. I don't see any way that Bolt benefits from having outstanding loans to employees for early option exercise, so all this criticism of them seems misplaced. Say what you want about their business model, valuation, etc., but this looks to me like an honest attempt to help employees with early option exercises. Stock options are risky at any juncture, but I appreciate having the option to exercise early as the tax benefits can be substantial.
I'm not! I added the caveat to defense that not everyone thinks it has a positive influence, but the rest are hard to debate with. If you have reasons why they're negative, I'm open to hearing!
Almost 20 years from the unmissable "Farbrausch (.theprodukkt) .werkkzeug" - the procedural demo creator

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12511
I use a combination of a .dotfiles folder and syncthing.

my .dotfiles folder has a script in it that symlinks the dotfiles and folders out to the right places, then installs any tools with asdf and the .tool-versions I save. usually gets any Linux setup up and running in a few seconds.

I then have a workspace folder that stores all my code and projects. I syncthing that between my computer and a 3rd server computer as a backup that has weekly backups running. the 3 way sync makes it easy to not lose anything, or if one machine goes down when I need my most recent files.

Since I use WSL on Windows, the same stuff works mostly the same. The script I have is tailored to my preferred distros. I have currently a fedora one, but I also have an Ubuntu and a Arch one for when I used those or need to get my stuff setup on them. I try to keep all of them updated. asdf really helps with tools.
You may find the following journal article relevant and interesting:

"Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality"
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37902464/2002383...

In short, late in the 19th century and early 20th century, the physics philosophy of Ernst Mach held great sway. Mach's viewpoint was the very viewpoint that you describe: the only things we know about are our own perceptions and proper formulations of physical theories consists at the fundamental level of descriptions of these things.

Mach had a significant impact on many physicists' understanding of what they were doing and also had an impact on the development of logical positivism in the field of philosophy.

Einstein accepted Mach's philosophy initially. But gradually he came to see it as untenable given his own work in physics. The article linked to above describes how and why his viewpoint changed over time.
so good you posted it twice? XD

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31510616
Lame, no worky. Maybe cuz I’m browsing on a phone instead of computer? I get no list, the only thing that changes with time period is a general description.
Practical power beaming gets real
I'm more weirded out by the fact that you believe google is performing this DDOS for no actual benefit and are choosing to defend it anyway.
describing people who publish original thought as "anti-something-important derogatory-name" sets off alarm bells for me. Is conformity really that precious? are public writings so black-and-white ?
Why not? Greed is universal and it's a chance to buy in for pennies on the dollar. We don't know their strike price or 409a or any of the other relevant details.
Would you suggest that all companies write their own office suites? Manage their own SSO solutions? Manage their own mail servers? Manage their own expense system (Concur)? Manage their own payroll (ADP)? Every small company manage their own benefits (Insperity)? Do whatever Workday does?

The health care organizations overwhelmingly use third party EHR/EMR systems and schools use third party companies for enrollment (Blackboard).

It doesn’t make sense to bring any those in house.
Telegram is backed by xmpp ;)
As a programmer I agree, but as management that's a hard thing to tell. If you were the boss would you allow Lisp? Scheme? Erlang? It sounded like a pretty important piece of code, even if small. The complaints about being forced to do C++ and how painful that process was shows that it's at least non-trivial.
Fascinating read. What a privilege to have traveled the world at a time when modernity made doing so possible cheaply, but hadn’t yet taken ahold of the destinations. A historic window of opportunity that’s all but closed.
Yeah, to be fair it's not as black or white as I suggested. But it's super difficult to gauge the actual impact of your work anyway, most of the time.
I don't know -what impressed me about VS 2022, is just how amazingly fast the new UI is - everything is instant now, it's by far the greatest speedup I experienced in a new VS release. Probably it helps that they moved to .NET Core from Framework, and to 64-bit as well.
I was part of Symantec when we were acquired. I didn’t agree with all Broadcoms moves, but they empowered us to really cut the fact and focus on what we were good at.
Super good labs, very step by step into networking, looks very very explorable[1].

Does P4 under the hood[2], for mad flexibility & perhaps able to mirror/run-the-same-network-config that you deploy in your real network architecture.

Has a Kubernetes edition called Megalos[2].

Lot to love here. Neat project.

[1] https://github.com/KatharaFramework/Kathara-Labs/wiki

[2] https://github.com/KatharaFramework/Kathara-Labs/tree/master...

[3] https://github.com/KatharaFramework/Kathara/wiki/Megalos-(Ka...
One of the neat bits from this is going to 340 Mya and look at where the Appalachian mountain range runs.

You can hike part of the Appalachian trail in Spain https://www.geologiadesegovia.info/the-international-appalac... and Ireland https://iatulsterireland.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Appalachian_Trai...
The Thin Blue Line is related to white supremacists. Wikipedia cites a collection of incidents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line#Appearances_and...

You might be able to claim that it's not primarily about white supremacy, but there is no way to claim that it's not related.
The Bolt recall isn't a GM issue, it's a LG battery issue. Which... GM isn't the only company using LG batteries. The Hyundai Kona, for example, got hit with a similar recall. Ditto the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. Ditto some home batteries. I'd be unsurprised if Ford has to do one for the Mach-E.
Agreed 100%. I have spent my entire ~15 year career working in the clean energy space. Salaries in the industry and pretty low. While I would love to one day own an EV and charge it with some solar panels on my roof, buying a home on my salary is a pipe dream right now.

Another issue is that these problem domains are constrained by government policy, not by private investment. For example, the US solar industry is really hurting right now because of tariffs and a recent anti-dumping investigation[1]. Imagine working at a company in this space and watching all your projects get put on hold over an issue that has bipartisan support in the Senate (a very rare thing), but an executive branch that wants to be "tough on China" (yes, believe or not I am talking about Biden). We are literally putting an entire industry on hold so we can prop up a handful of domestic manufacturing businesses.

If you really want to help, you have a few options. Make a lot of money and become a customer of companies that are doing good. Buy an EV, put solar on your roof, buy clothes and goods that are manufactured sustainably. I am personally not a huge fan of carbon offsets, but even if I don't think they are effective in their current form, supporting that industry does allow for motivated professionals to spend their time on that problem.

You can also volunteer in your free time. Lots of organizations out there that could use some help. I regularly volunteer for beach cleanups. But if you want to use your technical skills I am sure it would be easy to find someone in need of those as well.

And thinking outside the box. It is possible that one of the biggest contributors to reducing our CO2 footprint in this current century was Netflix. "Netflix and chill" was a fun meme, with the idea being that you would hang out at home and watch Netflix (among other things) instead of going out. Imagine the number of vehicle miles avoided because of that meme! So if you want to have your cake and eat it too, consider working on projects that keep people in their home (especially if it keeps people working from home, imagine all those commute miles avoided).

And another outside the box idea. Join a company that is doing bad things (whatever that may mean for you). Then work your way up the ladder and change the company for the better from the inside. If ladder climbing is not for you, simply become an internal advocate for change. Or more cynically, make them less efficient. You could do this by simply being ineffective at your job. Or you could more actively steer projects in suboptimal directions.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/america-first-c...
Elon Musk is planning a 24-hour Tesla restaurant in Hollywood
Abstinence doesn't work at a societal scale.

See also: drugs
Org-brain: Org-mode wiki and concept-mapping
Show HN: A portfolio website for architects and interior designers
Did someone try to remove amyloid plaque from the brain of an Alzheimer's patient and see what happens? I've heard of studies that disproved the amyloid theory.
Fuckers. This is a big deal IMHO and the CEO is trying to brazen it out.

Big fail as far as I'm concerned.

What should I use instead is now the burning question.