skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not art in general friend? Why are we so focused on video games?

I nearly did an MFA in Creative Nonfiction -- I used to sit in a coffee shop that was eventually gentrified away to become the site of one of the largest banks (out of towners, of course) and read stuff like Truman Capote's "In True Blood" or Vonnegut's "Cat Cradle" as I played with various wifi and bluetooth attacks on my cute little Eee PC that fit into my very unfashionable cargo jorts.

I had a privileged position that paid a whole twelve dollars an hour -- enough that unlike my friends, I didn't have to work two or three jobs, and was able to save up to attend my first hacker convention after paying for rent and food.

The CFAA has long since expired. And I did each attack once, to learn how, then avoided using them again absent a very good reason to abuse my access. Looking back a decade and a half later, I am not at all sorry for the things I did those mornings over a quad espresso or whatever.

Moving on:

Being nonproductive is cool and good, but I'm an Epicurean[1], not a hedonist[2] -- you need to balance chasing pleasure with less fun stuff, and the issue seems to be arguments over what I will term "the ratio". (sarcastic finger quotes) or you'll end up addicted to opiate, diabetic, or suffering from some other induced ill that makes you unable to enjoy the simple things in life rather than smoking weed, drinking espresso, and in continual wonder at the joy of knowing how stuff works.

//[1] Epicureanism argued that pleasure was the chief good in life.[8] Hence, Epicurus advocated living in such a way as to derive the greatest amount of pleasure possible during one's lifetime, yet doing so moderately in order to avoid the suffering incurred by overindulgence in such pleasure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism#Philosophy

//[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism
Inflation: Looking Under the Hood [pdf]
The vaccine for this is very different, stabbing your arm 15 times and all…
It’s get screwed by Amazon or get screwed by some union boss. The only winning move is not to play.
Because there are plenty of times they make things worse?

Let's assume the absolute best of intent, no corruption, etc.
There is some good, of course. I won't deny this. I'm not going to talk about the upside, but please don't whataboutism me simply because i'm going to talk about the downsides - you asked whether it is irrational. It is no more irrational than any other moral/ethical/etc viewpoint that someone chooses over a financial one. I am plenty aware of the history and good they have done, and the horrible labor practices they helped put an end to.
I just do not happen to be an ends justify means kind of person.

their are a few countries where union equivalents have an explicit goal/requirements/etc around societal good - i have no issues there, the rest of this is about the ones that don't.

For unions, overall, their goal is not to help society, it is to protect and help their members. They have no duty to society whatsoever. In the extreme, that ends up bad for anyone not their members.

That is, they do everything they can only to get their members more money, more benefits, protect their jobs, etc.
This sort of thing comes at a cost too.

So they make it harder to fire bad cops, bad teachers, etc.

When a municipality or state would be bankrupted by paying pensions, the unions will force them into bankruptcy at a cost to everyone else.
The unions will first force them to raise pensions, too, to unpayable levels. The state/municipality has essentially no practical power against its workforce in that situation, so it agrees, again, at a cost to everyone else.
The unions of course, do not care about the consequences for anyone else. They want it paid anyway.

I have no issue with pushing for a living wage, etc. But again, it's for their members, not for everyone, except where they believe it will generate more union membership.

So sum total, they do not care about anyone else. Literally. It's not their job.

This is awesome for their members. Horrible for everyone else.

So no, it's not irrational. Not everyone wants to group themselves with organizations designed to literally not care about anyone else.

Follow the US-style unions to their logical extreme - everyone in society in is a union, divided by job. Yay!?

I think that ends very badly for society - you really think the unions won't paint other jobs/unions/etc as the enemy?
They do in plenty of cases already!
So - i think it will end up the same sort of strong polarization/hate that exists across political affiliation, but across jobs instead. Great.
"Architecting programs as folds or traversals can be powerful."

This is my own idiosyncratic view but lately I've been fiddling with the proposition that the defining characteristic of functional programming languages is the definition and pervasive utilization of recursion schemes via composition as the primary organizational method for code. That is to say, such programs do not just borrow a few recursion schemes here or there (like chaining a map with a filter and calling it a "functional program"), but that the entire architecture is oriented around operating on data via such recursion schemes, stacked on top of each other.

So many of the previous touchstones keep getting moved into non-functional languages, like "functions as first-class citizens" (almost everything has this now) and "immutability" (less common, but common enough we can say with confidence now that having immutable values does not turn a language "functional"), but the destination languages remain quite distinct from something like Haskell.

From that point of view, lens is a development you'd expect any such language to eventually come up with and make extensive use of. It isn't the only way to compose recursion schemes together, but it's certainly one of the basic tools.

(An interesting element of this particular heterodox view is that this enables one to imagine a "pure functional language" that is not based on total immutability, though whether that's a good idea is another question.)
I said the usage of the phrase stands out. Culturally, historically, China was known for producing "junk" products of lower quality throughout the majority of the 20th century. It used to be a common phrase in the 60's & 70's. Seeing the phrase in the article, and used in the same manner as during the 60's & 70' invokes those decades old attitudes.
This is sadly accurate, and why I only use cash and cash-purchased pre-paid Visa gift cards IRL.
I don't disagree that it's more difficult for some people than for others, but ultimately it's as simple as calories in < calories out. Multivitamins are cheap, rice and beans are cheap, frozen veggies are (usually) cheap.

In a lot of cases a truly healthy diet is cheaper than the tasty but atrociously unhealthy "cheap" foods. Yes, you do sacrifice some variety and flavor, but it's more than doable.

The world isn't fair. That sucks, and I'm all for working to change that, but until that change comes we have to accept it for what it is. If you throw your hands up and don't challenge anything because you were born with a disadvantage then you're only contributing to the issue. It's much easier to throw your hands up when you're told over and over again that it's not your fault and is all the cause of immutable externalities.

I don't think it's wrong to point out potential related factors but it is wrong to shift any of the blame to those factors, thereby removing it from oneself.
This kind of thing makes it dead simple, too!

https://grapheneos.org/install/web
I'm not interested in repeating it, I don't want to cause further violence against marginalized communities. Enough people have already quoted it from the article in the comments.

And maybe ask yourself, why would a social construct have any impact on a disease?
Why is bare metal a nightmare? I have a project coming up which must be on bare metal so was thinking of doing this. Also, if it's so bad, what's better to use on bare metal? Thanks
Probably because it’s not as fatal.
The patent system works currently...
Two objects close together would definitely have been my guess, but my orbital mechanics is too weak even for KSP.
If I were designing a system like this, I would not trust clients to perform legitimate analysis nor report legitimate results.
I didn't say you wouldn't ever step on someones toes. Just that you don't have to care about it. Let the other person rant and rave and realize you aren't beholden to that person.
The Treachery of Images, as I understand it, is a visual/linguistic joke on the multiple definitions of being.

By distilling language down to a most basic, simplified statement, the artist (Magritte) is seducing the viewer into a first impression ("This is a pipe") and then contradicting it, on the basis that a picture of a pipe cannot be used for anything which a pipe can (e.g. smoking).

So yes, similar lines to the Borges map fable.

I included it because at a base level, parent seems to be stubborn about the definition of terms, on which it seemed to opine.

And PS, je ne parle pas français.
This is 100%, extremely, dangerously, completely, utterly not the case in any North American union I've witnessed in North America.

(it probably explains why it is difficult to have meaningful conversations and everybody attacks each other, if we have such radically different experiences and knowledge of union laws and procedures)

FWIW, from my experience, In North America, it is the whole point of a union that "everybody gets the same" --> pay scale in particular. To make it explicit - if I'm in a union, I know EXACTLY how much anybody in any particular position makes. I can look it up in the pay scale table. I know how much my teacher cousin makes, I know how much my government friend makes, I know how much anybody at my brother-in-law's factory makes, by looking at the pay scale table.

I would be eager to hear about other countries. Maybe unions are different in Europe or Asia or Africa etc. As I indicated above in a more detailed post, I am 100% supportive of unions in general, and have had 100% negative experience in North American unions in particular.
I was having the same (different age range, early 30's) symptoms, and I was able to eliminate my problems by cutting out coffee entirely. I can still drink caffeinated tea without issue. When I first quit coffee, I cut out all spicy foods and beans. Now I eat spicy foods and beans occasionally without issue.

Naturally, the doctor that did my colonoscopy didn't recommend trying any of this, just wanted to slap me on some new drug that messes with the immune system, no thanks.
I think it is implied in the article that only the motor is massive enough to excavate a crater. The similarity in size of the craters suggests they were created by objects of similar mass.

At least one early rocket design (Atlas) had fuel tanks so insubstantial that they had to be pressurized until they were loaded with fuel on the pad, and a loss of pressure could be expensive...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkdz63agHY
Sounds like something from the movie "In Time". Chilling to say the least.
NASA to Launch Capstone Mission on Monday June 27
We have forgotten how to eat. The trope is eat a well-rounded diet, which includes carbs, but being mindful that anything processed is likely going to put you over the limit of sugar intake for that day. That's because carbs are an easy substitute for a meal -- pasta, pizza, bread... then add on a few beers or a glass of wine, some candy, fruit, and not to mention sugar put into everything processed to stabilize it or make it more palatable. They fill us up but don't add a lot of nutrition.

Our bodies just aren't meant to digest this much sugar. It's starting to transcend food groups too. I swear certain meat products are replete with carbs because large-scale hog and cattle operations are feeding their animals almost exclusively with corn or other grains, and I'm not sure they can digest all those carbs either, so it is passed on via bioaccumulation to us when we eat it. (I might be totally off the mark here.)

The cynical part of me isn't surprised that the USDA doesn't care. Sugar is a huge business for American farms. To the extent that we subsidize billions of dollars in corn, wheat, and beets, it's not surprising that the cycle continues because the economy relies on the energy these staples condense into processed and cheap foods. It's an externality that we're taking out on our bodies and has profound implications for underserved communities.
I think going in the direction of low trust and strict identity verfiication is a mistake (although, given the trajectory taken by social media thus far, is likely to be the path we continue on). IMO a much better bet is to shut down or discourage participation in large, "flat open space" social media a la Twitter or Facebook, in favour of smaller, closed pseudonymous communities (like you might find on Discord).

Moderating a community that's grown beyond a certain size requires draconian and unexplainable automated systems, because the alternative is finding enough paid moderators to hammer it into something resembling a coherent discourse. Moderating a community of a few dozen, or even a few hundred people, can work with a much smaller number of moderators, and it's likely that those moderators could even do it for free. You could even have such communities be tightly knit without the need for identity verification, because any sockpuppet accounts would first have to prove themselves worthy of inclusion, or risk being banned.
While I can understand some of the arguments made about juniors getting some extra benefit from having everything close to hand, the sheer pace of the hit pieces against remote the last month or so is hilarious and very telling.
They are certainly talking about the US. I know this nightmare all too well.
>>Barristers have been operating a ‘no returns’ policy since April in protest at their pay and conditions. This means that they are refusing to pick up cases if other barristers are unable to represent a client – for example, if another case has overrun.

>>On Monday, barristers are due to start wholesale strike action over funding concerns. Four in five criminal barristers voted for the walkout.

The ability of public sector unions to hold the government and society at large hostage with strike action like this is why public sector compensation has grown so much over the last 60 years. In the US, federal government and private sector compensation were comparable in 1950. Today there is a massive gap between the two.

In the 1950s, very few public sector workers had the privilege to force their employer, i.e. the government, into collective bargaining, while today, most do.
Google Insider: AI escape bad things
This is correct. I don't really know why I included the statement at all. It certainly doesn't apply to me. If I was half as good at software development as I am at ops/sre, I'd be making a lot more money as a dev.
Random Factoid: it's extremely rare but the reason why the moon appears the same size as the sun is that the sun is 400x wider than the moon, but also 400x farther from the earth than the moon is.

Our moon holds so many mysteries. Just the very fact that such a large object can be so close in proximity to us while also orbiting is mind boggling.

https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2000/10/why-is-the-...
That, plus if I open dev tools and look at requests for even this site, the only things that small are three of the images (the orange Y in the corner, the vote arrow, and a 1x1 somewhere).

It wouldn't be possible to get that request rate outside of a microbenchmark, just because of the network speed the pi supports.
For the flex, as they say. Because Seiko figured out how to make a small, wrist-bound TV. It could only hold the screen (not speakers, or a headphone barrel, or even the antenna assembly), so that's what they put on the wrist and moved the rest away. Also, there's an aspect of 80s opulence at play with this. So they did it because they could using the best of what they had at the time.
Then you'd read Verhoeven's intent correctly. Heinlein was an unabashed fascist and nationalist, and Verhoeven gave him his future fantasy exactly as he intended it (military glorification, unification, responsibility to the state as the highest virtue), and white-washing away any implications of that life.
> Is this the reason that companies are pay interest is because the more coins they hold means their validator percentage in the network and so their profits go up?

That's about it. But the profits are usually a fixed percentage of your earnings which is the same for everyone holding the coin, so it's more like the central bank paying out interest for deposits, which does not actually increase currency value (you lose value by not depositing).

> I was under the impression that PoS meant there was no need for special/custom ASICs in the same way that PoW mining has. Is that not true? What types of custom servers and hardware is necessary for participating in PoS validation?

Usually no ASIC is necessary and in rare cases GPU can speed it up a bit. However, you often need decent amounts of RAM, CPU and disk to validate transaction validity and run smart contracts, since smart contracts handle a lot of state like balances of accounts and that has to be computed. So it takes the same amount of resources like a regular database would do.
This becomes the interesting piece. What can you do with this known side effect..
Which is good right?! Nope! Labor markets can reach a point where each job added does not create enough productivity to cover its cost, every next job after that is inefficient ("slack").

With an unemployment rate as drastically low as many right to work states, wage inflation becomes a big issue, so companies hire less efficient employees.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/could-rising-wages-scuttle...
Hopefully that one is filled with the names of lawyers
IMO the wristwatch was perfected for the average user in 1989 with the Casio F-91W. Ten dollars, ten year battery, does time and date to a reasonable accuracy, has an alarm, a stopwatch, and a light - for ten dollars. That value is insane.
How are others supposed to know what Canadians use when Canadian don’t even know. Officially everything is metric. Unofficially, it’s a mess.
Tenet would fall solidly into the "completely dumb" time travel category for me.
I hate helm. Writing helm charts sucks. We use kustomize, but still YAML at the end.
Keto is not a fad diet nor a hot take. I've been on the diet for a decade and I know plenty of others who have as well. There is quite a bit of research around it and it has been in use for a century or more. It may not be for everyone and that is totally fine. But it's just a normal diet.
Idk, but there's an interesting project, wuffs: a programming language specifically aimed at efficiently and safely parsing document structure. There is a PNG decoder [2].

1. https://github.com/google/wuffs

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714831
This was my EXACT thought seeing the second Captain America. Taking down all of Shield/Hydra should have been an Avengers movie, not the job of a single dude.

Should have been a much more down to earth story about him adjusting to modern day, getting his groove back and taking on some minor baddie.
Configuration hoisting and library layout to avoid circulars is tricky. The way I structure my libs, lets say ./foo is my main lib, I'll have ./foo/types/.py with most of my primary schema models (I use Pydantic heavily). Then ./foo/config/.py manages application config. Basically everything is pulled in with env vars / config files - I rarely use CLI flags for application-level global configuration - the rest are passed in to entry point functions.

What this means is I can import my AppConfig class anywhere (except types and config submodules) without circular imports, construct them, and they will be initialized with the configs from the env.

Occasionally I have to bust out ForwardRef annotations and model.update_forward_refs() but that's pretty rare. Basically, the imports are structured so that it's as close to a DAG as possible.

Definitely check out pydantic, it makes it really easy to do 12-factor style application config.

I haven't done a lot with CLI-flag global config, but if I had to, I'd use something like dependency-injectors to wire it all together.
Why would you think that? If M$ had the same position as google even more things would be closed source and more connected with law enforcement and less private.
Definitely, I agree with you. Some protection is better than none, but this is a very hard goal to achieve. Fundamentally, I believe that the goal can only be achieved by normalizing unions - if you know that there‘s a high chance the next warehouse you open will unionize as well, the gamble becomes unattractive fast.
That's my theory too. Almost any diet will work because people will have a more controlled and thoughtful approach to eating vs the average diet where people eat all kinds of crap and too much.
0.001%, sure.
What about using k3s as a minimal cluster?
I'm not associated with the nuitka folks, but I want to mention that I've successfully used it to make self-contained executables for python projects. I haven't used it for anything huge, but so far it's worked flawlessly.
Cert manager
It's very obvious too... of course junior employees don't do as well as veterans when you take out the entire physical support system. Like.. duh? What you need to solve this is merely competent managers/mentoring culture.
Surprising no one who has been paying attention.
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I would say CCP junk. The CCP tries to conflate their corrupt totalitarianism with the Chinese ethnicity in order to claim all criticism of them is racism.
Just because you are fine with being stalked and sold by private corporations does not mean everyone else is and should be more or less forced to endure it.
That would leak your IP nevertheless. People can figure out that you're serving a specific website by inspecting your certificate on handshake without actually connecting.
You got me interested, but no. 5/10 states with lowest unemployment are RTW.
> So nobody in the world has good centralised sorting. That's our reality.

Yes. That's what people are trying to solve.

But that's irrelevant. Your original comment was claiming that manual sorting isn't a pain because it's the proper thing to do. That's just nonsense. It's the proper thing to do (for now) but it's also a pain.

Would you have said washing clothes wasn't a pain in the 1800s? It's basically the same thing. Something annoying that you have to do because the technology to do it automatically hasn't been invented yet.
>If you live every day as your last, surely you would only engage in short term pleasures instead of pursuing longer term hobbies/goals?

Isn't that the entire point of the exercise? Is there necessarily any better payoff, either way?
Notes on building an open data portal for a French police force [pdf]
Before remote, the office was already increasingly hostile.

Open floor plans, some groups having shared seating, and offices for roughly no one.

Now, it’s worse. Everything is “reservable equipment” of garbage monitors, windows keyboards, and 400 dpi mice.

I suspect it’s harder for a junior to succeed anywhere today vs 2012. The office is not built to foster development or innovation. It’s an exec’s idea of what a software factory looks like, and it’s a bad one.
Referring to a discarded booster as space junk is very much on-brand for The Register, irrespective of who launched it.
Sure, but people here are talking about exceptions as a control-flow feature of high-level programming languages like Python. It has nothing to do with cpu exceptions or interrupts.
I’ve used http://www.duckdns.org/ with a raspi for this purpose.
What’s they do, strike oil?
Austria Returns to Coal Era as Russia Curbs Gas to Europe