skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The higher up the ladder you go, the more important your skill of "foresight" is.

If the hiring decisions are made on simple heuristics such as budget in so hire more, budget gone so fire more - it's not surprising that most engineers don't like their managers, which was my original post.

We can argue all day long about what management could have done but ultimately the bad decision was made by the management chain, not by the employee. In a fairer system, the expectation is that the bad decision makers go first.
Not my story but seems vaguely relevant.

Apparently the lyrics to Sheryl Crow's "All I wanna do" song were taken from a poetry book found in a second hand book store.

After the song hit, the poet got sued by the person he'd based the character of Bill on.

> The lyrics of the song are based on the poem "Fun" by Wyn Cooper.[1][2][3][4] Cooper was inspired to write the poem by a conversation at a bar with a friend and occasional writer, Bill Ripley,[5][6] in which he said "All I want is to have a little fun before I die", which became the first line of the poem. In a 1994 interview, Cooper said: "The poem isn't really about him. Or me. They're different people. They're people you can sort of see as ... well ... objective correlatives. Symbols of people like us, or what we could have been, or what we would have become if we continued to drink and do nothing with our lives."[7][8]

> Toad Hall Studio, where the song was recorded, was next door to the Pasadena Playhouse.[9][10] Crow's producer (Bottrell) discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in a nearby used bookstore in Pasadena, California. Crow had written a song called "I Still Love You" but was unhappy with its lyrics; she used its melody and adapted the poem for her lyrics to "All I Wanna Do".

> The song earned Cooper considerable royalties and helped to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints.[7] After the song became popular, Ripley brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against Cooper for some of the song's royalties, which ended their friendship.[7][11]
Many of them offer k8s out of the box.

I still think that orchestration should live outside containers, whether within one box or several. BTW systemd has some vestiges of container orchestration built in.

OTOH there are other approaches; say, LXD directly assumes an ecosystem of processes within a container, more akin to a VM than to a single chroot-ed / jailed service process.
Not necessarily. I did a quick conversion of the Calculator Textual example to Lazarus' LCL and if anything Textual seems to be using more memory[0] (i did use the PSS as a comparison - ideally i'd boot into a VM running a minimal Linux distro to avoid any interference by background stuff like systemd, etc and record the free memory before and running each one, but i don't want to spend that much time on it and PSS is a decent approximation for how much memory a process that shares memory with other processes would need).

Note that i only converted the UI, i didn't implement the calculator logic but that shouldn't make any practical difference.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/MkfN4pO.png
The Verity Stob Cruft Index: “a suitable metric, an index of cruftidity.”
I wonder if this is compliant with CAN-SPAM, let alone GDPR. Would like to see a web unsubscribe option added, though overall I'm not too upset about it.
> contained peanuts and not sawdust.

It is incredible (in the strict sense: hard to believe) to discover that many foods are "fake", or contain things that are not supposed to be there.

I suggest a few readings:

0) the book "Real Food / Fake Food" [0]. This is just amazing. Highly recommend it.

1) the book "extra virginity" [1]

2) article about "truffle fraud" [2]

3) article about "fish fraud" [3]

The list could be almost infinite, of course.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Food-Fake-Youre-Eating/dp/161620...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-Wo...

[2]: https://www.eater.com/2019/5/28/18638762/truffle-fraud-fake-...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/revealed...
We have essentially replaced being with each other in many different ways. People used to play music to us, now we listen to it digitally, we used to laugh, cry, get scared by the stories people told us, now we watch tv shows & social media. Not saying that's bad but we have replaced the need for each other. We have become more atomised and alienated to each other. Much of chemicals in our body (perhaps that helped us bond)are fired for content consumed from digital devices.
The many derivatives of CP/M
> Worst "book" I've ever read, legitimately.

[...]

> I only read 5-6 chapters

So you didn't read it.

As others have mentioned, the first couple of chapters are definitely not the best. But yeah, the book isn't for everyone.
I've used SHA-256 HashCash before, for PoW authentication on an API built to support a mobile app. The nice bit about using HashCash is increasing the difficulty for successive failed attempts.

I implemented this in response to our API being hammered by exploratory bots/scripts sending malformed requests. By adding this, it dropped failed requests by 99%.
Here's an idea. Order from restaurants that actually exist

If you haven't seen it and knows where it is then don't order from it
The main pattern is trying to construct a false dichotomy, implying that, if you don't do what they want, you're a horrible person in some way - and forcing you to basically say "yes I'm a bad person" in order not to do something. That is absurd. Not doing something is a default state, and the choice of not doing something should always be the default.

I have an irrational level of hate towards everyone who is trying to construct such a false dichotomy in communication with me. It shows basic lack of respect for me as a human being, it is manipulative, and ultimately it's just communicating in bad faith.

No tolerance for confirmshaming. Everyone who participates in such activity is a bad actor in my book.
Hah... this reminds me of the following (perhaps most interesting for people speaking german):

Bitte geben Sie ein sicheres Passwort ein.

Leberkas

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort ist zu kurz!

Leberkas-Semme

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort muss mindestens 1 Zahl enthalten.

1 Leberkas-Semme

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort darf keine Leerzeichen enthalten.

50drecksleberkassemmen

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort muss mindestens einen Umlaut enthalten.

50drecksleberkässemmelnzefix

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort muss mindestens 1 Grossbuchstaben enthalten.

50DRECKSleberkässemmelnZEFIX

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort muss mindestens 1 Sonderzeichen enthalten.

50DRECKSleberkässemmelnZERFIX!!!!!!!

Entschuldigung, Ihr Passwort darf nur Grossbuchstaben enthalten,
die nicht aufeinanderfolgend sind.

KreizKruzeFixVerdammterScheissDrecklatzkannstMiGleiKreizWeisSonstWo
WoslnDesFiaAScheissSystem50DrecksleberkässemmelnZeFix!!!!

Entschuldigung, dieses Passwort ist bereits in Verwendung. Bitte wählen Sie ein anderes.
Strongly agree with others here that you skipped better options.

Also, since time immemorial, databases are cylinders and data comes in cubes.

For logo purposes, these are both strong, while the second adds “personality”:

https://i.imgur.com/j6P4Oh4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/kM23GZV.jpg

I really like the design breaking out of the strong circle, and your hard hat idea was great. That last one could have been your logo “as is”!

Though you could consider replacing the green cubes with cylinders, or simply hand add rubix cube lines to these green cubes to make them data cubes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=data+cube&t=ha&va=j&ia=images&iax=...

Thanks for sharing the process!
Not a Yoking Matter
I think it can be both. The point being, whatever it is, it's not the higher standard it's supposed to be. The lack of will to strive for that standard is where things go sideways.
Bruce Willis’ Stoic Roles Masked His Silent Decline
As others, I'm running ZFS with native encryption on my daily driver Linux box (Arch).

As others have said, I like the benefits, which are easy send/receive, etc (but mind the bugs some other commenter mentioned).

I will also give a few drawbacks / points in favor of using LUKS.

In my case, Arch usually has up-to-date kernels. These are not always compatible with the latest stable OpenZFS release. Issues go from benign: ultra-high CPU usage so my 980 PRO ssd is slower than spinning rust to the module not compiling at all.

Another drawback is that booting with systemd in initramfs doesn't support zfs native encryption. There's no support for using a TPM [0]. So you have to type in your password every time you boot up the computer. If you want hibernation to work, you need a separate swap, encrypted separately, so that's two passwords to type in.

Systemd recently got support for TPM so can automatically decrypt devices. I have this set up on a separate machine (with ext4) and it's nice.

---

[0] I know not everyone likes the idea of automatically decrypting the drive, but that's another debate. If your threat model allows for this, it can be done with LUKS but not with ZFS.
Zero-Copy All the Things
Nonbinary Wiki
Automatically design presentation slides as you type the content
I haven't run ZFS + LUKS but I'm running ZFS Native Encryption.

There is an outstanding issue [0] that I've encountered on two separate machines running in this setup. The issue occurs when using ZFS Native Encryption + (NVMe?) SSDs. The issue appears to be snapshots getting corrupted (or maybe failing to create?) occasionally. It happens roughly 1/1000 snapshots in my case. I take a lot of snapshots so this occurs weekly.

I haven't lost any data yet but this issue is annoying because I get spooky alerts from ZFS warning me about "potential data corruption". To clear them I have to manually intervene by deleting the corrupt snapshots, restart the machine, then scrub.

What's most annoying is that this breaks ZFS send/recv until I intervene. send/recv was the whole reason I went with native encryption instead of LUKS in the first place.

Again, no data corruption so far (if you don't count the snapshots that get lost, which I don't, because I have so many of them). Just very annoying and tedious.

[0]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12014
So Zero It's Negative?
What am interesting idea!
Visible impact of Steam Deck on ProtonDB data
There is actually already a (very nerdy, HN appropriate) project cleaning up the garbage patch.

And yes, they also started building river interceptors as that is more bang per buck. They still seem to think they can clean the existing stuff economically too.

https://theoceancleanup.com/dashboard/
The fact that we don’t have as much freedom as we should means we have carte blanche to keep taking freedom away from us? What an argument. A self fulfilling prophecy!

Yes we should have the freedom to keep our lights on if we want as long as we pay our bills. And if we want we shouldn’t have to build a ramp to our business. How are these things even something to argue about?
Go Standard Iterator Interface
" We identified 420 metabolites..." heh heh.

Love the title. "take this blood test and extend your healthy lifespan." Sure dudes! Good luck with that.
Well, we were talking about regression tests, which are much closer to integration tests than unit tests, so I'm not sure we actually disagree. Writing regression tests is still valuable, and still too rare.
A vote in Wyoming is worth 3.6x a vote in California due to the electoral college makeup. This is just raw voting power though, not the "impact" you're likely describing.

Votes in battleground states will always have more impact, but that has less to do with the electoral college makeup and more to do with the fact that we group the votes geographically and allocate them all to the same person. If/when Texas becomes purple, the impact of a vote there will be greater than one from a tiny deep red state, despite the fact that voters have less voting power.
> For a westerner, it might be hard to imagine constantly living with high temperatures like that.

Plenty of "western" countries and regions have similar climates.
OK, thanks for clarifying. I feel that your description of neural nets' inner
workings is a bit idealised and I'm not convinced that we have seen any evidence
that they are as powerful in representing real-world phenomena as you suggest.
But that's a big discussion so let's leave this aside for a moment.

I can agree that a neural net can learn a model that can predict the behaviour
of a system, to some extent, within some margin of error.

That's not enough for me to see neural net models as (scientific) "laws". For
the sake of having a common definition of what a scientific law is, I'm going
with what wikipedia describes as a scientific law: a statement that describes or
predicts some set of natural phenomena, according to some observations
(paraphrasing from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law). Sorry for not
introducing this definition earlier on. If you disagree with it, then that's my
bad for not estabilishing common terminology beforhand.

In that sense, neural net models are not scientific laws because, while they can
predict (but not describe) they are not "statements". Rather they are systems.
They have behaviour and their behaviour may match that of some target system,
like the weather say. But like a simulation of the economy, or an armillary
sphere are not, themselves "laws", even though they are possibly based on
"laws", a neural net's model can't be said to be a "law", even if it's based on
observations and even if it has an internal structure that makes its behaviour
consistent with some (known or unknown) law.

There is also the matter of usability: neural net models are, as we know, "black
boxes" that can't be inspected or queried, except by asking them to analyse some
data. While useful, that's not a "law", because it does not help us understand
the systems they model. If this sounds like a semantic quibble, it isn't. To me
anyway it doesn't make sense to base scientific knowledge on a bunch of
inscrutable black boxes. Scientific laws and scientific theories are not black
boxes.

As an aside, neural nets fall short of what Donald Michie (father of AI in the
UK) called "ultra-strong machine learning" [1]. That's the property fo a machine
learning system that improves not only its own performance, but that of its
user, also. Current techniques aren't even close to that.

____________________

[1] Machine Learning: the next five years, Donald Michie, 1988

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3108771.3108781
Damn, William Gibson called this one with Idoru.

Funny how the idea of a virtual pop star in the 90s barely made sense but now post influencer it’s like… yup totally.
> No heuristic is perfect, but it's fairly easy to quantify empirically from activity/records. Developers who are productive (actually write and ship large amounts of quality code) tend to be valuable and those that don't, aren't.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li... ... large amounts of quality code? How many lines of code a week constitutes a large contribution?
Chess experts are only good at remembering valid chess positions that could result from a game in play. Their "expertise" vanishes why trying to remember chess boards set up at random (invalid) positions.

It could be that there are a few valid states that can be highly encoded in each of these situations, and the autoencoders found them.

This could be highly useful.
In other words, make your website unusable for people who have to connect through VPNs or public networks, difficult for anyone without a stable Western broadband connection, and unpleasant for everyone else.
With XFS and ZFS available on Linux, I haven't used ext4 for maybe a decade.

I wonder what is a compelling case to create a new ext4 volume as of now.
Is the frontend position already filled? The link displays an empty page
>"I'll be able to find a few people that are like me" - consider that you don't necessarily need or even want to find people like you.

I've started listening to 90s and early 2000s punk and screamo and all I want is people that have that same appreciation for the music. Sometimes you really want to meet like-minded people who grok the unique elements of life that you do.
The program is fun, but I'd like it more if it spelled place names correctly.

I've tried building road from Lutetia to Olyssipo (which are totally correct spellings), and the program didn't accept it. The program wants me to type... "Lvteci" and "Olisipo".

Okay, Olisipo is a possible variant, but what in the world is Lvteci?

There is absolutely no reason to use "v" in "Lvteci". Before U/V were separate letters, sometimes V was used for uppercase, u for lowercase; sometimes v was used in the beginning and the end of the words. But "Lvteci" makes absolutely no sense.

At the very least the program should treat U/V and I/J as same letters when typing the names. Or maybe make the search field all-caps and replace u's with V's.
The Antonine Wall is further north than Hadrian's, so the empire did reach further north, at least until 162 CE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall#Abandonment
Is Alpine edge not a rolling release? I'm using it on my laptop right now.
I didn't read your entire comment and realized you suggested the same link. What's old is new again.
That really hasn't been my experience, perhaps I'm just getting hit more by the sophisticated bots than the naive ones. I'm glad that it works for some people.

Recaptcha was also filtering out some legit humans (I logged all posts regardless of captcha status to be reviewed later), so it just wasn't worth reducing the user experience when the captcha bot detection rate was so low.
Git Strategies for Docker
> such a group is a very small minority

They got "master" changed to "main" in Github.
That's the same meaning. Multiple capacitor layer elements are simultaneously imprinted as an array on a relatively large sheet of foil, and then chipped into individual elements, like silicon chips are chipped from a wafer.
ParseThru: HTTP parameter smuggling flaw uncovered in several Go applications
>>And if we want we shouldn’t have to build a ramp to our business.

Are you serious? How is this even a thing to argue about???

>>Yes we should have the freedom to keep our lights on if we want as long as we pay our bills.

Even in an energy crisis? I imagine when you are faced with severe drought you also argue that you should be able to use as much water as you want as long as you pay your bills? What an argument. I'm not entirely sure where it comes from - blatant disregard for the needs of the society over the needs of an individual? Just money? Belief that as long as you pay for something then the greater impact on everyone else shouldn't be considered? I'm so baffled by replies like yours.
> the editor won't accidentally delete one of the brackets ever

There's too much faith in your editor. Also. A mouse is a precision pointing device with some tools built in. By the time you've counted how many lines and characters you need to jump in a specific direction, I've already placed my cursor there with a mouse and proceeded with the task I needed to perform.

Because there's no dichotomy between a mouse and a keyboard as vim users would have us believe. These are two tools that people use, effectively, and together.
I agree with you. But, what solution do you propose for independent solo developers or people who wish to run a blog instead of using FB, Twitter and co to create content? Cloudflare may not be perfect, but it prevented me from shutting down my solo operation without putting a massive cost burden on me. When the first time DDoS hit, I had to beg one of those large cloud companies to reduce bandwidth costs. It took them forever to forgive that abuse and price, which was not my fault, and I was given a strong warning not to repeat such an issue again. There is no easy solution to this problem. At least with Cloudflare, people like me can stay online, but it does cause a problem for a bad IP reputation.

TL;DR: I won't expose any of my projects or API directly these days due to spam, ddos and other abuse.
PSA: If you have been burned enough times using these apps then Perhaps you should give up ever believing they will change for the better. Cook food at home or skip the delivery and eat at a restaurant you know will be nice.

Consider the ratio of experiences you’ve had with any delivery app after the first order, good experiences to bad. Was the food late, cold, poor quality, damaged, or was its price marked up beyond what you initially believed?

If the same thing keeps happening and you expect different results then… well, you know what I’m getting at :)
And RL, graphs, audio/speech, approximating simulations (weather), etc.
Feynman's technique – be super intelligent and smart, and you will be able to understand anything with my technique.
The map misses a road which heads out from Cambridge to Colchester that shouldn't be difficult to spot given that it's called the 'Roman Road'. Even the Romans should be able to spot that.

https://frrfd.org.uk/archaeology-and-history/roman-road/
We have a septic tank; sewage is not "someone else's problem" to the point we can flush trees with abandon. Our trees in the leech field have kept us from having to think about the septic system for 20yr+ since it was installed, which is not the common advice or experience either.

All a question of perspectives innit? If the quality of yer bumwipe is important enough to write about, perhaps you need better things to do with your time?
It's like France, it's in public place only. Your office will be kept at 24.
> You could use the same argument against any modern technology.

Yes, technology is there to make our lives more comfortable, but at what price? Is modern society mature enough to weigh the pros and cons of each technology? I doubt it.
A good reminder that cash-based salaries can sometimes have significantly more value than 'startup with massive options' and 'established company with rsu + blackouts'.

A reminder, I might add, that I personally need to keep in mind.
Ask HN: How did you learn to write?
For years I've wanted to improve my writing. My wife is a professional writer and laughs at how bad my writing is when she edits for me. I can't seem to improve. Have any of you found a good way to learn this skill?
This is more possible with WFH now. I sleep for about an hour a day on work hours and I don't work later to make it back up. Still only get positive feedback about the work I get done.
The thought did cross my mind, which is why I'd also ask for an ID or equivalent. If you don't show up with that specific ID on the day of your appointment, you lose the appointment. And you can use that ID number to deduplicate requests.

If you don't do that, I 100% agree with you - scalpers could then register with hundreds of accounts for reselling, and we would be back where we started.
:::Tangent::: So if you had a new neural network, observing the physical world, and put a simple chaotic physics system within it's field of view, it would learn to encode such systems, and perhaps begin to understand the laws of physics?

So that's why we put dangly things above cribs for babies to focus on.
If it became popular enough, people with weakest machines and mobiles will suffer, while a spam bot can ruin optimized code or ASIC.
This energy crisis is a self inflicted wound- people here have consistently voted for candidates that have refused to build nuclear, have put CO2 caps in place, have made enemies of everybody who could sell us gas, etc. They deserve everything that is coming to them. I have absolutely no sympathy for the prices that they are having to pay.