skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a boast. I have found out pretty much every person whose words inspired me is a huge shitbag. Assange and Appelbaum are terribe... ESR I never met and got a lot out of "how to be a hacker" etc, but he too offset that work by being terrible.

Imagine spending ten or more years of your life, jumping from precarious position to precarious position, as folks exhaust you, then jump to something better, then if you ever ask them just to... fairly interview you for something on a different team than theirs, they don't.

Ever since I left "civil" society all people do is make a show of doing courtesy interviews they could treat as free consulting sessions (paired with acting like victims if I then get annoyed they didn't do as I suggested and their bank fails or their agency gets their computers blasted full of Russian malware).

These posts come from a place of caring, and hurt. I seriously considered leaving the country when Trump was elected, I had felt trapped behind enemy lines since 9/11, and it was a mistake that I did not.

All that happened is my emergency fund was drained as folks used me like a prop as they have since childhood.

Have you ever had to do a remote interview at gunpoint, because a company that claims to care about diversity refused to even do a flyout, since one of your coworkers was the daughter of a senator?

Have you ever had someone stalk you for over a year, then had a local business with "no hate" and pride signs says "Oh, well he's not bothing me".

I got into all this... stuff... because allegedly people were less homophobic or whatever, but all I've seen in the "hacker" community is folks who got in back when it was harder to get caught, amassed wealth, then kicked the ladder out.

I'm not boasting, I'm depressed as hell because everything I used to take joy in just makes me sad.

I'm "creepy" because I lurk a lot, but OTOH I left 4chan around then... in fact I've left a lot of things looking for less radicalized people, and it's been a consistent problem that folks murmur false concern like "get therapy", when every therapist I've seen agrees the core issue is instability -- if you don't have consistent income, and you don't have consistent income because people make emotional, irrational hiring decisions, then well... if I stay silent, my situation won't improve.

At least when I write, I get feedback and can learn, and possibly attract the attention of some less angry gatekeeper.

It's not at all a boast, it's a very bitter anger that being present and not participating and eventually maturing is a more dangerous path than... whatever the opposite was.
Social media maybe, advertising not always (having been on the other side, thank god for advertising matching us with eventually happy customers), lending can be but also can help expand a business so...
After FB bought WhatsApp I’ve had multiple occasions where shortly after having conversations with people about products I haven’t searched for. The only place I’ve discussed it. Is in a whats app conversation. I got advertising in Facebook for those products.

For example when looking for an apartment I told my agent (non business account) that I wanted safety catches on the windows. I immediately got advertising for safety catches and window gates.

I don’t own cats but in a conversation with a friend who owns cats I said she should get one of those cat tree things and scratch poles. Right away Facebook starts showing me adverts for cat toys.

This is not stuff I’ve searched or googled or anything. Just mentioned in WhatsApp. Maybe WhatsApp whats differently in America but in Singapore I get advertising in Facebook from conversations.
What about Ipads? Mobile, but also big?
Putting on your oxygen mask before helping others is not a helpful analogy. You do this because if you don't get your own mask on you'll pass out and then both of you will be fucked. It's just the rational choice even if you're benevolent and want to help others.

If an american is thirsty and a canadian is bleeding out and you prefer to get the american some water, then that's a pretty dick move. If, say, all of europe is facing a severe energy crisis because of a war with russia against which the United States already has a significant interest; and you oppose sending european allies gas supplies because it'll raise prices at the pump for americans; then that's a pretty dick move. If you say the US should drop out of NATO because it pays the most and it can probably defend itself, that's a pretty dick move.

It is complicated, of course. But it ends with countries justifying their invasion and genocide of other countries because they have something your own country wants. Or maybe just because they think they're the best and nobody should exist but them. It'd be nice if more people were interested in being a good global citizen rather than grinding against the nash equilibrium at every step.

A lot of it is supremacism. And a lot of it takes another leap of ugliness saying whose a "true {country}ian", which becomes a racial, linguistic, or religious thing.

I don't think nationalism is particularly overrepresented in america. I do think radicalism individualism where you just can't comprehend doing things that benefit your neighbors over yourself because a cooperative society is stronger as a whole is somewhat uniquely american. and it's embarrassing.
What you dont think safemoon brings you safely to the moon ?
They now have 13 Falcon 9 first stages that have flown 13 times each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...

And another 26 that have flown 12 times each. They've really succeeded in making reuse routine.
Sorry, that wasn't clear.

Tesla/Musk have blamed a lot of bad press and negative comments on smear campaigns, which they say are orchestrated by short sellers.

If that's true (which it probably isn't), SpaceX doesn't have any short sellers that would want to orchestrate anything. They don't because they can't, as you said.

So the general PR situation for SpaceX is wildly different from Tesla in every way. People still love SpaceX.
Something has changed in Monterey so it is possible to use virtual webcams even with Apple apps (Facetime, Safari, etc). See https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/05/06/camo-1-6

So it should work not just for iPhones.
Never allow a TV or monitor to connect to your Wi-Fi network and you'll be able to avoid these two issues
This criticism was addressed by Nick Cammarata of OpenAI, who said that:

> “it’s all about the prelude before the conversation. You need to tell it what the AI is and is not capable [of]. It’s not trying to be right, it’s trying to complete what it thinks the AI would do :)”

He did some "prompt engineering" and came up with:

> ‘This is a conversation between a human and a brilliant AI. If a question is “normal” the AI answers it. If the question is “nonsense” the AI says “yo be real”’

which lead to better results. Here is an article about these "Uncertainty Prompts":

https://arr.am/2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
How many more decades is it going to take for something useful to emerge from it?

The commercial applications of emerging technologies like the printing press, the self-propelled steam engine, the automobile, the airplane, the telegraph, the telephone, the cellphone, and the internet were immediately obvious, despite those technologies emerging with many, many, many rough edges.

How many more decades will it take for crypto to figure out a use case that it didn't have on day 1, and that isn't a scam?
I tried this out for a bit and it was definitely interesting. For flowcharts that are closer to a pure tree it's blazing fast and simple to work with, more than anything else I can remember trying. Though for more complicated flowcharts that break out and remerge it can be very confusing to both edit or read. If the the tree-style or pure linear is more your use case I highly recommend trying it out despite its demo state, even if just to export the topology into a tool that will draw it fancier if this isn't "wowing" you on the looks side of things.

The "make a salad" example is an exception to the above but I think it gets away with it because the branched paths are of equal length and overall it's not too large. Once you get even slightly off this, like the Mars example where a branch is 1 box longer than the other, it can easily fall apart. Such branching and reconnecting topologies tend to result in things in the editor moving around on you a lot while you're trying to create the paths which can be disorienting as well. Other options such as code2flow which have already been mentioned here can get away with as much on the fly restructuring as they want because they separate graph construction and graph representation in the UI whereas this combines them. Maybe an option here would be a toggle to disable overall graph auto-layout but keeping the keyboard shortcuts and auto default placements? Or maybe it's just best to focus on where it's unique.

An "easy win" feature add for knotend might be a set of shortcuts to change the symbol and maybe some automatic ones like terminals or decisions that get set based on their connectivity in the drawing (unless otherwise manually set). As it is now everything is a rectangle which typically means "process" in flowcharts.
> You should write professionally.

The last time I tried, someone DDoSed the site hosting my writing sample, I got kicked off two social networks, and I was nearly murdered. I am exhausted.

I did everything I could. We have a new mayor, so theoretically the cops should give a damn if one of the qanons who stalked me is outside, but I had too many meltdowns prior to him coming into office.

I'm scared to do anything. Every healthy decision I made was ratfucked by sociopaths, criminals, or agents of foreign power. I am writing professionally, my profession is being the exception to every rule but never in a way that takes me out of precarity.
I like UML activity diagrams, which let you express data flow as well as control flow, and also asynchronous activities with fork/join and events, among other things. See for example https://www.visual-paradigm.com/guide/uml-unified-modeling-l....
SpaceX has set the bar very high for their competitors.
Two words: Dick Tracy.
Hahaha yeah

I've seen some interesting things out this way, like a 1980s IBM computer still running some dBASE II app in an auto parts store for it's inventory on a green phosphor screen, which I'd love to do some videos about
Don't forget how much higher screen resolutions are these days. Color depth also. Those 8 MiB systems were driving single-buffered displays with perhaps 800x600 resolution at eight bits per pixel, with a color palette and dithering, which requires about 480 KB to hold the framebuffer image. Most applications would render directly into the framebuffer. A full HD (1080p) screen at 32 bits per pixel requires 8 MiB just to store the framebuffer (16 MiB with double-buffering), and that's not counting any of the input data or code needed for rendering. Figure on two or three times that to hold separate textures for each window (depending on the window sizes and how much they overlap) so that they can be composited live with desktop effects.
Graph layout is extremely complex and there is no good automated way to do it yet (or ever). Even specialized software like plantuml, cytoscape or gephi (depending on the kind you want to do) struggle on some graphs that a human can layout decently well by hand.
Unbiased reviews of consumer electronics is about the least dystopian thing I can think of.
From rogue employees or management?
If it seems in good faith yeah, I used to rarely vote. I noticed shortly after I changed that I got kicked of Reddit, so I guess my opinion matters... people don't silence you if they're not scared.

I always boosted people other than myself IRL too, so why not do it here? At least in the "cyber" realm there's a record of it.
Well yes, but then you're basically buying an expensive monitor and will need a second device to be the "smarts".

I personally use an Apple TV for this, but in general this can be frustrating for users that just want their Smart TV to work without spying on them or implementing centrally triggered scheduled obsolescence.

This is a bit like saying you should "never" turn on your new car's engine and should immediately swap it out for a third-party one, because every knows Manufacturer X leaves ticking time bombs in their engines.

This is why consumer protection agencies are created by governments!
This just seems like a roundabout way of saying: water fasting results in loss of muscle and fat tissues. By the internal logic of this thread, and since I don’t see any way to intake protein on a water diet, where is the nuance?
I don't understand. How much time do you have to reply in chat? Can you detect silly replies to reset the counter, like replying "."? How many red flags disconnect the chat? Can the other person see the red flags?
None of this is evidence of decryption.

At best it’s circumstantial anecdotes pointing to Facebook extracting topic metadata out of your convos. This can be done clientside, no decryption necessary. (And it’s easy to prove that it’s being done if that’s the case)
It could be worse :-)
For example, in Devanagari, the sequence

• U+0915: DEVANAGARI LETTER KA (क)
• U+093F: DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN I (ि)

gives कि where the vowel sign not only attaches to the letter, but (in this case) happens to be to the left of it.

Similarly, the sequence

• U+‎0915: DEVANAGARI LETTER KA (क)
• U+‎094D: DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA ( ्)
• ‎U+0937: DEVANAGARI LETTER SSA (ष)
• ‎U+0941: DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN U ( ु)

gives क्षु where the shapes of the "characters" are indeed modified based on which characters appear next to them.

This is kind of touched upon in the second section in the original post titled "Indic scripts": https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-l...

This is handled in traditional printing (and in modern Opentype fonts) by simply having separate pieces of type for every possible combination of consonants (there are a few hundred, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Devanagari_conjun...), and then having separate pieces of type for vowel signs (which have to have different lengths depending on the width of the consonant cluster, but a handful of lengths for each will do), the same way any good Latin-script font will include ligatures like ﬁ, and will also include separate glyphs for the accent marks (things like ´ ` ¨ ˆ ˜ which can be placed over letters to give é à ü î ñ and so on).

Incidentally, Gutenberg's very first Bible itself used nearly 300 letter forms, including ligatures and variants of several letter (see e.g. https://www.oldbookappreciator.com/libraryofhistoricaltype/e... )

(About "cursive" vs "separate" letters: conceptually it's not such a big difference, because there are only finitely many letters/characters in the script, so as long as you carefully specify the ending position of each glyph for each possible choice of following glyph, you produce the appearance of everything being joined. Indeed that's how traditional printing and modern fonts do it too. And for that matter, cursive fonts in English: try playing with https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cedarville+Cursive which if it had been made with slightly better kerning rules would likely modify shapes of letters depending on adjacent letters. Maybe one of these fonts do it? https://fontsgeek.com/search/?q=cursive )
Just do your user research to see if it’s worth detecting non-touch input and resize elements. If you do this, you’ll be doing it for all larger widths, not just your guess at tablet. You don’t want to do it based on device detection because so many tablet users prefer keyboard and trackpad input (but again, try to find that out for your app/site’s user base.)

Lots of “gotcha” questions being asked that are symptoms of less-than-thorough responsive and multi-device development, I have to say…
> I don't know why startups don't hire a DevOps/SRE/Syseng/Sysadmin/Architect contractor right off the bat.

It's entirely likely that they are doing this, but the DevOps/SREs that they're hiring are prescribing the tools that they know and have seen work in the organizations that they're coming from.

I've been an SRE for nearly a decade, and I honestly couldn't tell you in detail how to set up a pet-VM deployment with automation and guidance about who deploys to it, on what cadence, etc or who operates it, etc. In my first DevOps job, we were doing something like this, but it was a hot mess--that startup hired the wrong sysadmin to bootstrap us, and the next guy they hired moved us to AWS ECS (running on Fargate) and that was a dramatically more effective solution for us. The point isn't that ECS > pet VMs, but only that we were able to find a successful path with ECS where we were unable to with pet VMs despite hiring someone who allegedly had that experience. For that organization, ECS (rather than pet VMs) was the Very Boring Solution (mind you, I'm not a particularly big fan of ECS either).
"Organizations spend disproportionate time on trivial issues" - cn parkinson

not sure how it's relevant here though
Graphviz has a syntax for directed graphs, it’s fairly intuitive. Not sure why it couldn’t have a text box on one pane and an immediate graphical view on the other.

I’d definitely be interested in that!
Because it's too thick. Think about why iPhone should have that ugly camera bump. MacBook's display is too thin to have that.
It's really frustrating that media types are deprecated and I'd like to see it revived as a media feature. I understand the impossibility of picking the perfect layout for a website based on a broad category like "desktop|phone|TV". But in practice I think it works fine. Certainly better than assuming the device type/user preference based off some other feature. I'd love to hear that this is a solved problem and I'm just behind the curve.
This is a cool idea. If you add the ability to be notified for a breach of SLAs, you might be able to turn this into something people would pay money for.
The example of a mother working from home[0] feels very modern. It's strange to know that we drifted away from that direction at some point.

0. https://youtu.be/b6URa-PTqfA?t=303
HDMI can carry ethernet, so not connecting to wifi isn't a 100% fix.
In MA.

A pint of ben and jerry's has been $5 for me; going up to $6 during supply chain woes.

A good ice cream shop is more like $5, but the cost scaling is weird and you can normally get like 3x more ice cream for 1.2x cost with larger sizes. The scoops are large. Per volume I think its much more expensive in other countries personally.
Apple already did this as discussed, but I’m going to make a different point:

This whole idea is against what Apple wants to be and so I think they will kill it (“evolve past it”) as soon as they can. Using an iPhone as a webcam is below Apple’s threshold of sleekness.

Apple would be the kind of person who doesn’t have anything in their pockets because that would “ruin the lines”, and when they need to buy something at a store instead of carrying a credit card they just call their lawyers and tell them to buy the whole thing so they are free to take whatever they want and write it off inventory.

When they interact with someone who is not as sleek, they look down and imply they are poor. “Why would you carry around that big thing (card) when you could simply buy the store? I don’t know if we should associate with each other...”
The engineering study has 30 pages of general relativity calculations, whimsically asking how the mission architecture would change if the solar system had a black hole. Bit unexpected.

https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/uploadedDocs/papers/588... (appendix 11.2.2.1, "Relativistic Oberth Maneuver")
You're counting flights instead of boosters. They have one (B1060) that's flown 13 flights and two (B1051 and B1058) that have flown 12 flights.
GoPro is too clunky to carry around for use with a laptop.

Meanwhile, sensor and lens from a smartphone camera can fit in a small enough form factor that it makes sense to carry it around alongside your laptop.
Ha, you want an anecdote?

Years ago, when I worked at MSP serving quite a big federal customer... We received a ticket what $companysite.tld isn't working. Pretty unusual, but the first things first, so I just type $companysite.tld in the browser. It works fine.

Okay, ignore then.

But, no, 15 minutes later we receive an email with a tons of people in CC and a lot of !!!!s in the subject and body what the site is still down.

I again check it from my machine (which of course was in the MSP office, not on customer premises), it works fine, DNS, tracert, yada-yada.

Our network team replies what $companysite.tld responds to ping so everything works fine from their POV. Duuuh.

Okay, I hop to the management station located in the customer's DC, test the site there... and it doesn't work there. Just a blank screen, no errors, nothing. Which is pretty strange because the site is hosted in the same DC. DNS resolves to the proper records, ICMP works including traceroute...

Well, long story short, after 30 minutes of head scratching and dozens of emails with ever longer list of people in CC it occurs to me to hit F12.

I open the developer console, switch to Network tab, type in $companysite.tld and I see what the traffic is starting to flow just fine, only to stall to a halt at... googlefonts.com (or whatever TLD they used).

At this point I just calmly sent an email explaining what the site was working just fine, it just wasn't able to properly load from the customer premises because of the block of Google services.

To summarize:

somebody from the customer ordered to block Google services on the network level (don't even ask);

network team (certified Cisco CC** folks!) implemented it by dropping traffic instead of denying - so the firewall would notify the client station about that and the browser would abort the request to googlefonts.com and wouldn't wait a full timeout for each request (don't forget DNS records resolved just fine, if they sent NXDOMAIN for it there wouldn't habe been even an attempt to connect);

network team diagnoses the availability of the web-sites by using ICMP ping... but that wasn't the first or the last time when I was quite... disappointed of their qualification.

While it is very rare for major CDNs to go down, it happens, and even more shenanigans can happen on a network level between some client and your website (and proliferation of DPI by various countries, agencies and enterprises doesn't help here too).

So if you are on the payroll just host the fonts (and honestly - all assets, if applicable) with the web-site and sleep soundly. Of course if you are paid for each "incident", then Web3.0 is all yours. *grin*
When you’re charged with making product iteration in your org more efficient (as a senior dev might be), a lot of what you end up doing is lifting certain things from hard-coded to config and DSL driven. Carefully and selectively introducing dynamism to overall statically typed and compiled codebases. These are almost always interpreted by our statically typed codebase though. We would never run a dynamic language runtime by itself in prod.

I use Go at work but mostly Python for personal projects currently, and am pushing towards Clojure for personal projects in the future. But that’s because personal programming for me is a cathartic escape from the straitjacket of zero abstraction power and the tedium of manual error handling; I care about my own satisfaction more than I care about scalability to a team of varying skill levels in that context.