skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how much of an understanding you have about what is going on there.

The Russian speaking areas do not want to be part of Ukraine after the 2014 coup. The one that was full of Western intelligence and US politicians, including the wife of Iraq war proponent Robert Kagan who is currently serving under Biden.

Many of these areas were part of Russia up until the Soviet Union, most particularly Crimea which was part of Russia from the 1700s until 1954. The people there are Russian. And, there wasn't really an issue until the coup which outset a democratically elected president. After that Russia took Crimea back (with a vote by the locals for whatever that is worth). The other breakaway republics were indiscriminately shelled for over 8 years. Over 14,000 people were killed which is nearly 3 times the amount of civilian casualties Russia has inflicted to date.

Also, Russia has been invaded along this (open) route a few times over the past couple of hundred years. Hitler and Napoleon. Millions died. Putins older brother in fact died as an infant during the Nazi siege.

So when Ukraine starts talking about getting nukes, joining NATO, have literal Nazi brigades attacking the breakaway republics and amassing hundreds of thousands of troops in the East to attack the breakaway republics and "get Crimea back" the Russians will just sit there? No, they will not. Now, again, their other aim is to get exclusive control of the Black Sea and take the oil and agricultural rich areas of the east, as well as increase their population. And we handed them a figleaf like dummies. They have a lot of legal ground. Putin is actually a lawyer (a fact lots of people don't know).

Let the people chose their destiny. Like we did in Kosovo when we wanted to put an airbase there. But no, that doesn't apply in this case. So it has heated up to this. I hope it settles down but the longer it goes on the worse for Ukraine. We should be urging peaceful settlement, not adding fuel to the fire.
> Oh hell, cachaça in general is such a strong liquor

In my experience it runs from ~80 to <120 proof (and most commonly ~80), which is in the same range as rum and bourbon, unless you're in a state/country with some crazy restrictions I guess?

Everclear and Bacardi 151 are waaaay stronger than any cachaca I've ever seen.
But why is it that some VC are clearly better at this dice rolling? ex. Sequoia

Again and again they seem to be able to discover these home runs or is it that they are able to use their vast network of influence to manufacture success?

It all reminds me of poker. High stacks dictate/influence/restricts other participants with less stacks.
IIRC Churchill said about the US, hoping for entry into WWII: 'They always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities.'
Don't use it; or do, I'm not your English teacher.
It's one day, and it hasn't happened yet. I'm sure we'll manage. Our Met Office are drama queens. They always have been [0], but they're getting worse.

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books/content?id=CSvCYDh4KkMC&pg=...
That doesn't take this into account, no. `curl wixsite.com` returns a "Could not resolve host" error; it doesn't return a response code, so the author would consider it invalid, even though `curl www.wixsite.com` does return a response (a 301 redirect to www.wix.com).
> So far away, that I believe there are no nonstop flights between New Zealand and Europe because planes can't fly that distance non-stop with a full load of passengers and luggage

I did some research few years ago when flights Sydney <> London were under consideration. There's def planes that can do Auckland <> Helsinki, Warsaw, Istanbul (decent hub) and maybe even Copenhagen. Trouble is for whatever reason airlines think they first need to serve UK first!

Personally, I'm having some time off from NZ until housing market normalises (lol).
So cool.

I recapped my original Mac Plus but the floppy drive is toast. I picked up a BlueSCSI kit that I have yet to assemble — it ought to allow me to boot from a "hard drive" (SD card on the BlueSCSI, I think) and so bypass the floppy drive entirely.

I think I would like to get a THINK C up and running again and write a game using the old Mac Toolbox.

I built a decent Mac look-alike (under emulation, Raspberry Pi + miniVmac) that might actually make for a better environment.
You might find these comments interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371343
Im not an OpenBSD insider, but this feels very much like what that team have reluctantly and yet repeatedly concluded that they need to do. LibreSSL and OpenNTPD and pf, for example.

There's also the risk implicit in a stack with no single authority, which is a difference between a combined OS and runtime like the BSDs and the Linux distros. RH and Canonical do the lords work keeping up, but its never really going to be the same as the BSD people and their tight coupling.

This probably makes me sound like a BSD bigot, which is not my intent, but it does seem to me that there is a cost to all this flexibility that Linux pays a high price for.
The fact that the title had an "-- or --" and took the whole screen on a 1080p desktop display hinted me to this...
I'm currently getting my BS in Computer Science with the University of Florida's Online Program, and I think that there is a duality between academic CS and applied CS, where the overlap is massive but college isn't particularly required. I find that many courses and tutorials online cover the topics well. Although these non-degree courses may not be of equal rigour, I leave them understanding the fundamentals needed to succeed in say an internship. By self teaching, I have proven that I know enough in my Freshman year of college to acquire an internship.

That being said, I think that someone with CS knowledge is always going to be more valuable than someone without. I really like teachyourselfcs, while in high school I skimmed a lot of the material preparing for what I had in store. I think that it's entirely possible to get good at CS with this method, but the issue is feedback and the stress associated with self teaching. Self teaching isn't always so glamorous as it is made out to be, a lot of people need the backbone of an actual program with structure than be thrown into a text book with courses that may go along with said text book. I think that entirely dismissing degree programs is equally as unwise as saying they're required, there is a lot of gray between the lines and I think that people should approach the issue with their strengths and weaknesses in mind.
On one hand you suggest that we can solve grid battery storage if everyone contributes their personal vehicle battery packs, then on the other hand you suggest prices to support that based on current time of use billings curves. You of course realize that if everyone was contributing power during these times the amount you'd earn from it would be a tiny fraction of what it is now. On top of that, you're assuming a very, very high premium for the power you're selling anyhow. PG&E in California does offer time of use net metering at a much lower rate, but it's not going to be the prime CAISO rate for obvious reasons.

I ask again - would you do that? Do you think your neighbors would do that? Do you think it's reasonable to base an entire power grid on that? What about if power starts to get cheaper on a particular day? Do you let the grid reach brownout status based on individual market pricing of individual actors?

Or do you just build some dedicated storage stations like any reasonably designed system?
There's not really a benefit to "except", since the stacktrace you get on the panic tells you exactly what happened (Mutex was poisoned). Repeating that in a custom error string doesn't make the behavior much better.
I think it is possible to write both for SEO/monetization and fun. SEO/Monetization because you hope the post/article will drive traffic to your site/app or something else and fun because you're writing about stuff you're interested in.

For example, in the course of building my App, I have encountered different issues and/or learnt a whole lot of different things. I end up blogging about it because figuring out the solution was quite interesting which can be fun on its own. The feedback would come from people who read the article or comment if you tweet about it.
What block layer cache?
>I tend to believe most technology revolutions boil down to: "we made a crappier version of x technology, but it's stupidly cheaper" - cheap enough to throw applications at it.

I like this lens, although I'd stop short of saying it's "most" technology revolutions. Rather, it's a counterweight to the common perspective that revolutions are made of radical novelty; the reality is that both forces are important.

My favorite example of this is the home computer. When they came out, they barely did anything; in a world where a "computer" already meant (in some cases) a nice Unix system with editors and compilers and preemptive multitasking and all the sorts of things we still take for granted, they were more like Arduinos. Absolute rubbish. And yet, university researchers abandoned their mainframes in droves to do their data processing on silly little home PCs. Why? Because crappy though they were, they represented freedom. You didn't have to plead to be allowed time on one, or worse hand over your batch FORTRAN program on a giant stack of punched cards (don't drop them) to some overworked secretary in "data processing" and wait a whole business day to get your printout of "error on line 5". Buy a microcomputer, and your allocated time was 24h/day, and your data turnaround was instant. You could even write your thesis on one - bye bye typewriter!

Worse (i.e. cheaper) is better.
The Errol Morris documentary "The Fog Of War" about Robert McNamara is amazing. Even though McNamara was in his 80s when it was filmed, his mind was still razor sharp. McNamara was highly self-reflective and was not someone to whitewash history, even his own.

The documentary covers various phases of McNamara's career, including his contribution to the Tokyo firebombing raids in WWII, and a short bit about his work at Ford Motor Company between the wars, but the Vietnam war part was the biggest section.
You are hating BCL because it's not loved by anyone. It's like the poor kid who were supporting the prodigy that is the Borg, but is actually supporting the Borg ecosystem on its back, where the prodigy kid just grab all of the acclaim.

That's just typical of almost all human involved affairs. Some dudes hard support but get 20% of what they deserve. Whereas some few get 800%.

As for BCL, it literally had no investment since 2010, yet still reliably March on ward with little support, in which case 99.99999% of software would simply die into oblivion. BCL just shows it's power and strength.

To name the importance of any single software for Google's success, the 120k lines of CPP code in borgcfg stands on a high peak that look down upon all the other dwarfs with ease.
Not only do courts order specific performance but the exact judge hearing this case ordered specific performance in a merger where the purchaser attempted to pull out claiming a material adverse change.
I bet John Deere knows all this as well since their tractors can provided that data right back to them. Scary to think your tractor letting them know when to time food stocks, fertilizer, etc or just sell the data to third parties.
yes, correct!
Attributing most success to luck also doesn't seem to be very productive. What's the end goal?

If your end goal is to put down the success of others and make yourself feel better for not achieving the same level of success, then I guess this article is great for that.

However, if your end goal is to maybe one day be as successful or more so, then IMO this article isn't that useful. I strongly believe in the saying that "experience is a poor teacher," and in that case it's worth seeking out the successful experiences of others even if it's not an exact template we can follow.
Problem is not that some people do bad things; problem is that Americans who do evil things go unpunished. It wouldn’t look so bad if you weren’t so fixed at protecting your war criminals from justice.

Also funny that you mention China, a country with incomparably better track record when it comes to foreign policy.
i dont i just accepted my fate
OMG I was just thinking about this idea. I'll have to check it out.
I clicked through without knowing this article was about one of my favorite subjects- the elucidation of the structure of DNA. I'm glad to see this article, because there are too many people out there who think Franklin was somehow wronged and was supposed to get some publication credit or a Nobel Prize. She got an acknowledgement in W&C 1953, and is the author of the next paper (which is also about the structure of DNA). Nobody stole her results, she had presented them at a seminar. Etc. etc.

I get in arguments about this with people who are trained in science and they absolutely refuse to even look at the evidence- they're just convinced she's been cheated, and don't want to see any of the historical record demonstrating the real situation,.

I also appreciate that the author of this article included at least one woman scientist who truly was wronged. The other interesting case is Barbara Mcclintock, who published amazing work about chromosomes that was ignored for decades. At least in that case, the next person to rediscover jumping genes did a thorough literature search and popularized her work, leading to a late but worthy Nobel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock)

(watson was still a dick and from what I've heard from the folks who knew crick, he was an asshole)
> How many lives were destroyed (or at least harmed) by hustling junk bonds?

Zero? What evidence do you have otherwise? None of his crimes were related to the issuance of high yield bonds. It's not like penny stocks being pushed from a boiler room...he helped create a market for higher risk, higher yield bonds. Historically, they have done pretty well in a portfolio.
You might throw in a few more comments about how synit is a replacement for systemd and d-bus.

Seriously though, is "not being systemd" such a strong part of the project's identity that it bears being repeated so much?
I think this is the first of his stories I've read, and what a treat.

I love this part of his autobio at the end:

> He still stings from having to provide proof to the French authorities that he was not a bigamist prior to getting married. Most countries have such a thing as a Wedding Certificate but in France, there is also an official Certificate of Unmarriedness, and it is a right old bugger to find someone to draw one up when you’re not French. In the end, he persuaded a British consul to sign a letter stating that the aforementioned – a person he didn’t know and had never met – was, as far as he could guess, probably not already married, perhaps, maybe, I dunno, I hope not. The French authorities accepted it without further question.

Back to the story, sometimes here in California we have the opposite problem, where someone really is dead, deceased, an ex-person, pushing up the daisies, kicked the bucket like Jimmy Durante [1], but no one will let him Rest In Peace.

Every week or so I get a piece of mail with an offer for guaranteed issue of a life insurance policy for an acquaintance who died a few years ago. He never actually lived at my address, but through a chain of events his forwarding address was set to here.

Since they are so insistent, I am tempted to fill in one of those applications on his behalf and see what happens. Maybe they will bring him back to life? After all, they do call it Life Insurance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w00Kab17aeI

"Did you see it? He (slap) sailed right out there!"
I have a CS masters. I got it because my undergrad degree is in math and I wanted to round off my skillset with some CS. I don’t know if I needed it, but I enjoyed getting it.

The only problem with CS masters is that there’s a CS Ph.D. So it really doesn’t have a lot of value when competing for jobs.
African kings on medieval and Renaissance maps
This looks surprisingly similar to the unfinished research that I did:
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/18842
Elon Musk Opposes Twitter’s Request for Expedited Trial over Stalled Deal
Swedish grandmother has 40Gbps Internet connection (2007)
It could be evidence that the idea of VCs may not be a reliable way of investing.

Nassim Taleb stated that in 2009, within an 18 month window, banking industry lost all the profits it ever made since the beginning of banking as an industry.

Such a catastrophic event isn't out of the question for VC either.
Single most inane social media feed out there.
One of the reasons people are angry is because the supreme court ruled that anti-choice protesters were legally entitled to protest in front of doctor's homes.

But protesting in front of supreme court justice's homes is apparently not legal...
The conversation is about problems that BTC solves.
That says more about the framing of success stories than anything else. When your third company sells for seven figures, you get to say your first and second were learning experiences rather than things you had to give up because they weren't going to succeed. When you're a unicorn, you get to build side projects or embark upon codebase rewrites involving more people than most companies ever hire, and people will praise both your desire to explore new ideas decisiveness when you fire them and shut them down rather than dismissing it as a petty distraction (and something you gave up on). And the most successful startups get to say all the many investment and acquisition offers and commercial deals they passed on weren't great opportunities, and have reason to even believe it.

If we're doing airplane bullet stories, it's like trying to figure out how to fix airframes by looking at the aircraft that didn't get hit at all...
I think you're missing two fatal problems in this "publish all raw data and code" mindset. I don't think the desire of commercialization is high on the list of fatal problems preventing people from publishing data+software.

1) How do you handle research in domains where the data is about people, so that releasing it harms their privacy? Healthcare, web activity, finances. Sure you can try to anonymize it, anonymization is imperfect, and even fully anonymized data can be joined to other data sources to de-identify people; k-anonymity only works in a closed ecosystem. If we live in a world where search engine companies don't publish their research because of this constraint, that seems worse than the current system.

2) How does one define "re-runnable processing"? Software rots, dependencies disappear, operating systems become incompatible with software, permission models change. Does every researcher now need a docker expert to publish? Who verifies that something is re-runnable, and how are they paid for it?
I'm happy the Luckey is developing new defense tech, just as I was happy he developed VR tech. The country benefits from his talents. That doesn't make him beyond reproach. I'm sure he is right about some aspects of Big Tech wanting to please China, but his own experience as a Trump supporter in SV might be causing him to overestimate the effect.
Stop trying to educate me. I just want to be entertained. Tell me that I am smart.
At this point, what sources have good track records? My heuristic for trusting the media is "don't do it."
That's what I heard from some Ukrainians and locals in Lithuania. Some Russian speakers even getting some services refused.

My partner is helping a family who recently started looking for housing - the phone hangs up immediately after hearing Russian. There could be many reasons - people not wanting to deal with migrants, mixing up Ukrainian with Russian language or plainly not knowing either language. Most post-Soviet kids can't even tell the difference between two, let alone understand it.
If things continue the way they are going, 2030's could be as eventfull as 1930's
The misleading and faulty explanation in this link talks about the “desire” of a point on the wheel to move in a certain direction. Now that’s some magical thinking.
Oh god, flashbacks to an early 2000s machine room absolutely full of the bastards.

Thankfully, all entrance doors had an earplug dispenser...
Ancient Yiddish humor:

Old man, dying, calls out to God, "Why couldn't I at least win the lottery?"

And God says, "Why couldn't you at least buy a ticket?"

People complain because there isn't a formula for success and the propaganda stories promise one, but don't deliver. It's not their fault that they don't deliver, because no one can. It's your fault for even thinking there was a formula. And it's their fault for encouraging you to think that.
Reminds me of an excerpt from Cioran's The Temptation to Exist: "Only the illiterate have given me that frisson of being which indicates the presence of truth. Carpathian shepherds have made a much deeper impression upon me than the professors of Germany, the wits of Paris. I have seen Spanish beggars, and I should like to have been their hagiographer."
How “See a Satellite Tonight” Works
Only a handful of judges have ever forced reluctant buyers to close on an acquisition. One of them is Judge Kathaleen McCormick, the chancellor assigned to hear Twitter's case against Musk.

https://bdnews24.com/world/americas/2022/07/15/judge-in-twit...
> You can hold elections, people can have fancy titles, but frequently there's still only one person if you're lucky who will "run" for office. And so they can't be fired, and if/when they burn out and quit, the organization may crumble.

I think that in these cases you don't actually have an organization, you have an elaborate ritual to convince a single person to facilitate the activity that you wish to happen.
not entirely. e.g.

cd tab tab directories listed

cat tab tab files listed

(this^^ is on Debian, it can probably be changed but I've not looked into it)

it's pretty annoying when I'm halfway through and want to use tab tab as a periscope to see all file+dirs
The odds are astronomically small. ESA has at least 5 other missions aimed at L2. [1]

[1]: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hersch...