skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your need to work is tied directly to your need for food and shelter - in other words, biology. You can alternatively grow your own food and build shelter, but that's also work. Sustaining life requires work. Whether we engage in a market where we exchange some of our labor for vouchers that we can use to exchange for the fruits of someone else's labor or do the work ourselves doesn't change that.
> As they say, if you’re not paying for something, you’re the product. If you didn’t pay for RHEL, you have no stake to complain about changes to CentOS.

Why doesn't being "the product" give you stake to complain?
Translating this from agendese to plain English:

We don't want backyard producers to compete with any of our product lines.

We want to feed the population with what we deem healthy for them, and prevent them from deviating from our approved diet.
iOS aside, I'm not sure there's anything to be done here. Apps could simply embed their own browser engine that lets them use webviews in whatever unfettered way they want. And on iOS, it's not unlikely that Apple will be required to open their walled garden to other browser engines in the future.
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For me the new Terminal app is much slower than something like Cmder (ConEmu)
Their cost is 1/3rd more just for running the AC (your electricity use generates heat that has to get out). And savings from discounts probably get eaten up by the costs of redundancy, diesel backups etc.
You can pay lots of mediocre engineers mediocre salaries to ship tons of inefficient mediocre code. Or you can pay a few rockstar engineers high salaries to ship small and efficient software. Basically the WhatsApp model.
Nigerian Fintech Darling Flutterwave Faces Allegations of Fraud and Harassment
> OpenSSL goes to great lengths to make them unreadable once the handshake is finished. Even if you have access to a program’s memory once they are derived, they are useless to Wireshark.

Wait, how can this be? Doesn't OpenSSL need to encrypt and decrypt all of the data that goes across the connection, for the connection's entire lifetime?
In all likelihood it is reaching the soil through the air as particulates.
I don't see the idea of 'alternative protein sources' as necessarily a decline in the quality of life.
It doesn't have to be, but both are, at some level of abstraction, switches that integrate multiple weighted inputs and set an output level that's used as input for other switches.

If this is what we expect, the analogy holds and the implementation details don't matter.
Eating crickets, I'd guess.
> What's a meme is creating a container for any minor thing like npm + some js project. Or to run one Go binary.

You couldn't have picked two more different examples.

Go apps are generally pretty clean statically-linked, native binaries and will be happy to just run from their directory without touching anything else. Containerization is usually unneeded, though if you already have a container ecosystem then they will fit in with no fuss, since the container images are basically glorified tarballs (COPY app/ . RUN foo).

Node.js apps on the other side combine an interpreted language, a messy package management ecosystem, and a fragile and persnickety toolchain that will happily leave dirty stuff in your filesystem and/or your PATH, in order to maximize the risk of dependency-related screwups. Containerization is an absolute godsend for them.
Oh, this is perfect. Thank you so much. It even has a local web interface.

"pip install jiten" and done. Bonus : works in Termux on Android as well.
How does the screen on the Elipsa compare to the old Kindle DX screens? I'm babying my pair of old DXs, and it would be nice to have a replacements.
Looks like a schema for data in a SIEM+ but without the actual SIEM software. I like how the categories are broken down in this and the depth of the fields. Very data first, but there really could be more breadth to the categorizations.
Boeing Apache Attack Helicopter
True, a pure GIMP alone can't do it. But they could account for most of the observed effects of Dark Matter, meaning we'd be very far from ever detecting any. And an extra force (if one exists) might interact with Dark Matter but not to any detectable degree (or at all) with normal matter, leaving things in about the same position (you'd never produce Dark Matter from colliding normal matter).
> Why so many outsiders feel so invested in where these institutions find balance here is confusing and unsettling to me.

Because they’re publicly funded or subsidized—and seeking even more funding—under the premise that they will help students find jobs. Just about nobody is voting to have tax dollars go to schools so kids can learn social science buzzwords.
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indeed, the end of the campaign when you launch the rocket to the next planet.

I might pick it up again when v7 has matured a bit, but I'm happy to have more time to spend on life (and work)
The most fundamental change in American academics over the past 40 years is their wholesale corporatization and the resulting loss of academic independence, coupled to a fundamental change in culture towards secrecy instead of openness (as per the desire to protect profitable intellectual propery aka 'trade secrets'). This is perhaps more prevalent in the science and engineering divisions, but the social wing is now acting more like a corporate propaganda division.

Notably, 'academic wokeness' doesn't extend to criticizing another trend in the USA, the destruction of the middle class and the economic division of the country into aristocrats and serfs. This is mirrored in 'corporate inclusivity' - i.e. the apparent goal is to make the ethnic-racial-religious-gender makeup of the wealthiest 1% identical to that of the poorest 15%, while maintaining the economic divide.

The whole thing reeks of psychological manipulation and state/corporate propaganda.
> ..you should go into meetings only if you know in advance what their outcomes will be. Going blind is a defeat in itself.

yep. If you find yourself in a fair fight it's time to re-think your strategy.
Every algorithm I write ends up being O(2^n)
The medical limit for lead is zero (you can find that statement in various forms on all the major - official, main stream, government, education - sites that have something to say about the subject).

The reason we have non-zero "official" threshold values is for practical reasons: In our times and on this earth right now it simply is not possible. The values are set so that medical people are kind of okay with it - any damages are too subtle and not too obvious (e.g. less IQ as well as most small issues nicely also correlate with age so it can always be attributed to aging, and proving for an individual (and not just statistically for a lot of people without being able to say anything about each individual) that some issue was caused by or was contributed to by e.g. lead is impossible (we can't tag all the atoms and follow them around and see what they do, and even if we could do the first part perfectly, the following those atoms, we still would not know what they actually do just from knowing where they've been, even less so how the local bio-chemistry deals with consequences longer term than we can observe). So we need to have a limit that is low enough to not cause medical alarm bells to go off, but high enough to not bankrupt government and industry if they were told they had to clean it all up. Which, quite frankly, they can't at this point.

Last time I heard about China they have an already huge and increasing problem with heavy metals on large parts of their agricultural lands... (Example, two links of many randomly chosen: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6239058/ or https://www.chinawaterrisk.org/resources/analysis-reviews/he...) and the West had a lot of time where nobody cared about pollution one bit, during and after industrial revolution. The "superfund sites" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites) are just the biggest concentrations. Oh and then there's coal - burning it also has been releasing heavy metals such as mercury for a long time, and it's still going on.

Oh and by the way, please nobody blame "capitalism". I grew up in East Germany, near ash mountains and a river clearly unsuitable to even be touched by a human, everything was dirty and gray. I did not even live in one of the known polluted places (e.g. Bitterfeld). After reunification everything was cleaned up with Western money and methods - ash mountains gone, the river is clear and has nice water plants showing it's really healthy, etc. East Germany under capitalism is A LOT cleaner than under socialism. I say this because in sooo many discussions about the environment always somebody blames capitalism, but it's deeper and orthogonal to whatever system is used I think. People do or don't care about their environment, if it was just about economic pressure, you have them in all systems, because all systems need to produce something.
What a really strange idea. Of course you can. What better way is there to judge a technology other than its failures and successes?

You reserve judging until you're sure that there's no possible route to success left, and for a reasonably general tech that's a really, really long time. You can judge the attempts along the way, so saying things like cryptocurrencies are stupid is fine, but to write off the entire technology as invalid and useless is going too far. Besides, you don't need to. It doesn't add anything to the conversation. You can just say "no one has found a good use for it" and leave it at that. Saying "no one will find a use" is pointlessly negative.

We've had 14 years of promises and so far, nothing. Why would any rational person believe you?

14 years is a very, very short amount of time.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious, the speaker did not ever claim that software code is law.

The speaker talks about the implications of the first US sanctions that target open source software and ownerless smart contracts.
Thanks for sharing your input here.
And that's just the lead...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany_Bay_Groundwater_Plume

I don't know what's worse 'progress' with known costs and done anyway, or 'progress' done in ignorance (sometimes rather intentionally).

It's the future's problem - not ours. Welcome to said future.
GM gives customers no choice to opt out of $1500 onstar subscription
This is why for my home server I didn't get second hand servers but built the following in a 2U case that fits in my network closet:

Asrock Rack c246 WSI (Mini ITX workstation board)
32GB DDR4 ECC Udimms (16GB x2)
Core i3 9100T (25w, low power 4 core part, supports ECC, and quicksync)
6 IronWolf 4TB NAS drives

The 6 drives are in RaidZ2 so give 16TB usable space, and at full pelt the max power consumption is 60W for everything.
thanks for the comment. for what it's worth, I absolutely don't recognize myself in either description.

If anything, I am a pretty good software engineer because I can "literally" see how people think about software when reading source code and pull requests (I say literally because these things are... objects I can manipulate in my mind? it's hard to describe, and it took me a while to realize not everybody sees it this way).

There are many different ways of thinking, and they are right there in front of me, and some people are aware of certain patterns, certain people tend to consistently not realize this approach exists, others just can't back down from rewriting everything in a functional style, when others in the team don't do well with it. When I see programmers argue about style or programming language or framework I am often confused because I don't understand why they can't see that other people don't think like them :)

This same kind of behaviour can be observed all around us every day. I never understood how people get upset at staff at a restaurant, or get angry when someone bumps into them. Don't they realize that the other person didn't do it on purpose, and didn't mean harm? Why do people argue about politics so much? Don't they realize that other people have different values, and that we have a government in place to channel disagreement about them? Why yell at each other on facebook, don't you realize none of this is going to change the other person's mind?
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The cynicism is huge in your post.

Still you gotta admit there is a problem with CEOs making off with huge salaries/stock value especially in very hot sectors, with some of them even trying to dodge taxes. Sure you can make an argument for the increased salary with the increased responsibilities and risk, but there is no cap there and little say from the employees.

When CEOs make a few lifetime's worth of money in a year while the employee makes far less in a year, that's going to raise inequalities and eventually render systems unstable. The balance is not there.
Agreed. In a sense, that is kind of my point: Can physicists explain in extreme detail how the mind physically implements omniscience (instances of which are on display in this thread)?
To be clear, it's mandatory to buy a 3-year subscription to be allowed to buy the car new. It's not required to maintain the subscription to use the car once you own it. This is equivalent to raising the MSRP by $1500 and including 3 years of a free OnStar subscription with every purchase. Viewed in that light, what's so bad about this?
> People are living longer and longer

Not in my country, actually the opposite is happening.
Slight anecdote on test scores. In H.S. a friend and I both scored the same on a college admissions exam. A few months later after studying my score went up a couple points while his jumped dramatically to the highest percentile. I asked him how he managed to make such a jump and he told me he took prep classes specifically designed to help him score higher. I looked it up and the prep classes cost was hundreds of dollars per course.

I bring this up to say that I see many arguments here that diversity means lower test scores. But test scores are a mechanism that can be gamed with wealth. It's nice to think you scored what you did because of how smart you are, but if it's possible for someone to become dramatically "smarter" in a short period of time, then I think it speaks to the invalidity of the system.
The thing is that offering the free thing to begin with is often essential to getting market share, if they followed your advice, they might not have as good chance of success.

In the particular case, Gitlab clearly offered the free repos to compete with Github. They had to get mindshare and marketshare to then get paying customers. If they had not offered free repos at the start on the same (or better) terms than github, would they have ended up with as many paying customers as they did?

So the business plan (whether intentional or not, and I don't know) for many of these companies is to offer a free service in order to get mindshare and marketshare, then once you have a sustainable amount of attention and paying customers, eliminate or reduce that free service. (Or, in other cases, change your licensing from open source to something else).

To me, it seems both wholly expected, and wholly justifiable, for users to find this annoying and manipulative, and complain about it. Of course, users could avoid the free service in the first place predicting this is coming, sure, hypothetically. And companies could, hypothetically, avoid following this playbook if they don't want to upset users...
Some studies suggest that a single-payer system (thus socialized) is more cost-effective than the current free market in the USA: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo....

Also, social benefits like protection against medical bankruptcy, universal coverage, and others are known to have a net positive impact.
When JC Penney decided to lower prices across the board and eliminate doorbuster sales, coupons and other manipulative tactics, their revenue dropped to the point that their CEO was fired.

Let's not forget about A&W and their famous 1/3 pounder debacle.

Unfortunately, treating customers like intelligent human beings is currently not a scalable business tactic.

> Maybe someday

I think we'll always get what we deserve. Some day that'll be better.
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Can you please share your specifics? Phone model, LineageOS version, Android Auto version if you can?
In Factorio, my defenses are usually pretty weak, because they can never keep up with the growth of my factory. Instead, I take out biter camps before they become a threat. So there's not much tower defense about it for me.

It sounds like in Mindustry, taking out camps to prevent an attack doesn't work?

On the other hand, building very compact comes naturally to me. My Factorio journey had been mostly about learning to use more space so the factory stays scalable when it needs to grow. But I'm very bad at that; everything eventually turns back into super cramped space-efficient spaghetti.
No idea, and the email is long deleted.
Factorio has a defined ending which is launching the rocket. Many people play to that point and then stop. It doesn't take that long to get there though as long as you don't get too distracted with efficiency.

The endless part is that launching the rocket is a necessary step for acquiring the endgame science pack, which unlocks the handful of endless research tracks. From that point on the entire game is focused on improving efficiency.
This does seem to be the normal course for services companies, and that's where Apple is headed.
Book summary: Building Microservices (2nd edition)
those in the amazon are being brought to extinction by bolsonaro. those in siberia are subject to putin's whim...
That's an interesting tool, and not just for this one dictionary, thanks.
I’m not commenting to denigrate or dismiss your effort, and I’m sure someone else will find value in it. But this jumped out at me:

> It shows just how much work an engineering team, or even an individual does, that often goes unseen by non-dev teams.

I can sometimes produce a flurry of small and insignificant commits, or spend weeks to produce just one. Frequency or volume of commits probably is a better measure of how organized a person is, and how predictable their task is, than the amount of work they’ve performed. It might be a better measure than lines of code, but I don’t know that it’s meaningfully better.
"and how any sort of quality life choice marks you as an extremist of some kind,"

In a society of limited resources and competition, anything that is seen as noncompliance with the greater good could mark an individual as extreme. There's a herd mentality, and anyone outside of the herd's "normal" will be targeted. We already see it (right or wrong) with smokers, fur coats, etc.

"People are living longer and longer, but I worry that given what one has to do to get there will make them so insufferable,"

I personally think this is mostly a myth. I feel that much of the improvements are due to healthcare improvements in drugs, treatment options, etc. Society level life expectancy is most heavily improved by reducing mortality of younger people. We continually see better treatments for childhood illnesses, better safety equipment (car seats and such), even things like narcan for drug OD in young adults. Midlife care for things like strokes and heart attacks are better now too. The main point is, there are a lot of people around today who wouldn't be if it weren't for medicine or the recent improvements in medicine. The natural lifespan has been long (70+ yr) for a very long time. Due to medicine and technology/machine improvements more people are getting there now. And I'm highly skeptical of the studies claiming stuff like "a soda cuts a day off your life". Have an occasional soda... who cares! Drink 3 day... well, that's not good, but I don't think we can quantify it (especially due to genetic variances, like how many smokers never get lung cancer).
There are plenty of uses. They will change everything, but we are just in the stone ages.
I am sorry, I haven't had the time to look into the details of these slides.

But I am not saying there aren't some great ressources around here. These books and articles (that I talked about) can still offer some good insights. Generally, to gain a deep understanding of a particular subject, you need to read a lot of books and articles (each giving its own insight), try to work the equations out by yourself and teach it to someone else.
:-)

From my understanding of the scriptures, they're supposed to be ultimately punished...
Nobody was using 300 baud in the 90's! Maybe that's why I was confused.
Look, I'm close to as far left as you can get.

But this is leftist propaganda that makes no sense.

I just disproved that ALL billionaires (including the centibillionaires) do not have a meaningful amount of money to distribute to the country (or the globe) in any reasonably fair way.

Singling out the centibillionaires - Musk and Zuckerberg and Bezos and Gates and Buffet - doesn't make my point irrelevant. If you're only looking at them - their contribution is more unequal, sure! But they don't even have half the billionaire total. They aren't even half the problem. Taking their money wouldn't even do half as much!

Do they have disproportionate power? Absolutely!

Are they using that to get even more money? I think it's hard to argue they aren't.

Is that a problem? I think so.

Are they skimming all the money so we have nothing? This idea is laughably wrong, and the amount of times it is parroted is infuriating.
Except Google steadfastly refuses to label any sort of military installation, even the most obvious airstrips.
It can be also Grim ballistic missile, actually. More or less equivalent of Iskander.
Why not let me just import any random skin for a fee? If I'm making money on the import fees, why would I limit myself to just skins that a user has already previously purchased somewhere else?
Not the poster, but I know quite a few native Russians and their description of the corruption and looting matches the posters description.
You will eat the bugs.
You will live in the pod.
You will drink the soy.
You will install the app.
Looking at the actual numbers it seems like the suburbs are a safe enough place to raise the chickens compared to the older inner core of these Australian cities.
They used to run ads on TV about how OnStar promotes "safety".

I wanted to make a parody where a white collar criminal is rushing to the hydrofoil in a GM vehicle and the police use OnStar turn the vehicle off remotely in the name of "safety".
I really only have three minor gripes about the Kindle ecosystem... (Which is why I like it so much.)

1: The desktop applications don't auto-sync. (I really like reading books on my laptop because it holds the screen at a comfortable angle. This is especially the case when reading while eating or doing something else with my hands.)

2: Sometimes the Android app is buggy, requiring that I reinstall. When I reinstall, I have to re-enter all my preferences.

3: Some of the default settings in the Android app are dumb, like showing popular highlights. I always turn that off as quickly as possible.
AWS EC2 is like 6x the price of Hetzner cloud (4x with reserved instances). I imagine AWS has a lot of room to absorb price swings, if they want to.
>Looking at the traffic jam to leave Crimea, it's also obvious to many Russians there.

I think that traffic might show that Russians are afraid that the bridge will be destroyed, so not only they don't believe Putin's propaganda they are now realizing that things will get worse and need to escape while is still possible.

If only they would realize sooner that Putin fucked their future once more with this war and that is time to put him down.
It's mandatory tracking of your vehicle with remote disable. It's not just a walkie-talkie.
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