skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course -- no personal insults.

But, here's the thing in my experience. I might believe believe your software is "bad to the point of harming the ecosystem" (which I do feel about e.g. Wayland, I think they haven't done a good enough job of preserving backward-compatibility, YMMV)

At this stage, it is absolutely my place to say. And very frequently what happens is they put up arguments like yours, even when I have been explicit about the danger, which I do good-faith believe is real enough to get very critical about.
Nowadays to buy one would be expensive, a black market.

But there is a defensive gun in every house in Lebanon. Some regions more than others. It's part of the history and, in a way, the culture.

There is no "random mass shootings" problem though. Innocent gun victims die in other ways, like stray bullets from celebrations in weddings and in speeches of political leaders, or the casual skirmish between the followers of two opposing political factions!
Why is something like Gmail an awful client and what does a great client have (or has not) that it doesn't (or does)?
here is something that helps

the iranian govt is radical islamic, but its citizens are largely moderate and pro US

the saudi govt is moderate, but its citizens are radical islamic and want death to the US
> Thus it is with OSS. Given the lack of monetary benefit, the benefits of writing it have to be elsewhere. In the satisfaction of a job done well. In the beauty and elegance of the code. The timeless perfection.

> Or the idea that OSS presence will look good on your CV and held get you that job. In which case just throw stuff at Github to make a "portfolio". Never to be looked at again.

> I think it's safe to say that the majority of OSS is the later, but we are all better off for the fraction that is the former.

In my case, it's the former, but the latter happens to be a byproduct.

The analogy that I use, when someone asks me why I do what I do, is thus:

Think of me as the old Swiss geek, making cuckoo clocks in his basement.

I like making cuckoo clocks. Like, a lot.

Cuckoo clocks aren't everyone's cup of tea, and that's fine with me. They are my cup of tea, and that's what matters to me.

It's my goal to make the best damn cuckoo clocks available. I hang them all over my house. Every hour on the hour sounds like a Munich Beer Hall band.

If you want a cuckoo clock, I'm your man.

If you don't, that's fine. I don't lose any sleep over it.
Qualities which are endearing in individuals or small teams pursuing open source projects are a lot less charming in corporations controlling aspects of one's daily lives. Larry Wall was never a corporate tycoon, nor did he (to my knowledge) aspire to be one. But even back in the day I found the hubris of e.g. Tim O'Reilly far less charming, even though it was hardly on a scale to threaten society.
It is interesting how the article talks about having to provide excellent uptime and then goes on to describe how the system was designed to be brittle. This is less about a copy/paste error and more about system design.
Update: new code started landing in https://code.tvl.fyi
The machine is not learning out of its own free will to better itself for its own future: the machine is an agent for organizations like OpenAI, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and the rest who are human beings exploiting the free labor of other human beings. If these organizations were willing to pay their fellow human beings a truly fair wage for their labor, then I would not have a problem here. However, these companies have a track record of doing the opposite.
You're correct, it was a bad design. The vendor that built this system had a number of issues in this realm that demonstrated a lack of experience in building for the reliability targets of telecom. This was just one of the easier stories to tell.

STONITH is a good design option, but I think this implementation would've still struggled. The way they were tracking processes was fragile, so the shoot the process lost track of which pid it should signal. And this was a sort of clustered system, so if you shoot the node you take out other services (think of murdering a kubernetes node to terminate one process, you're going to inflict some spillover.)
Staying put may be most efficient but it does not qualify as transportation. Sometimes people do need transportation and that needs to be as efficient as it can be.
https://archive.ph/Ssoqr

Website is blocked by my ISP as pornography

Article's from 2006
The kind that requires another proprietary account behind a nonfree service to get access to.
Another proof that innovation doesn't come from capitalism

Capitalism will make sure the tech is locked down behind patents ;)
I would import box fans into the UK, because they don't have them here. Dead serious. I'm a coder, but that is the most immediately profitable and useful business I can think of that could be successful for $100K.

If I have to explain why, then you probably aren't my target investor. ;-)
> why do testla apologists take offence to this and come to their defence, usually with "whataboutism"?

I think these behaviors are horrible and I'm not defending them. My point is that it's an industrywide problem, not just a Tesla problem.

> Tesla is in the news fairly frequently due to them revoking peoples features, is toyota?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-p...

And if you say one occurrence isn't "frequently", then when was the last time Tesla was in the news for that before this most recent case of reducing one owner's battery range?

> People single out Tesla because they are the "John Deere" of automobiles.

How so?

> I have a Hyundai, i can have it serviced pretty much anywhere, can you take your Tesla to the local mechanic?

For most things I can. Can your local mechanic replace broken parts in the high-voltage system of your Ioniq 5, or reflash its infotainment system?
Behavioral economics also gave us all that nudge non-sense, so not sure that’s a good choice, either.

Economics as a whole would certainly gain from using less maths, but unfortunately I think that ship has sailed by now.
> separated the paragraphs in your post using semantic whitespace

That's not what "semantic" means.

In my post, the size of the whitespace was not semantic. I could have used one spaces, two spaces, tabs, or (as I did) a couple of newlines. All that matters is that there was any whitespace at all -- which is what most mainstream languages do.

In Python, the whitespace I chose would change the actual program.

To repeat: I do not want anything that is literally invisible to change my program. It's easy to glance at code and see "=" vs "==", but it's much harder to tell the difference between " " and " ".
You could also run pools via institutional funds. Why do we need rich people?

I'd think the rich people is a side-effect of successful pooling in finance. If you can get away with fees of >1% for "just" finding PE deals, that sometimes ramps up profits really fast.
"Cardiovascular effects were found in 29.24% of patients, ranging from tachycardia, palpitation, and myopericarditis. Myopericarditis was confirmed in one patient after vaccination. Two patients had suspected pericarditis and four patients had suspected subclinical myocarditis."

It's hard for me to tell how bad this is. I wish there were a way to quantify the harm and compare it to the gains. Are these side effects worth the benefits of reduced risk from COVID? How could that analysis plausibly be done?
The norm is to use library functions like addition, multiply, power, etc., which have hardcoded derivatives. Then the derivative is computed “symbolically” by composing these base derivatives, which is essentially an exercise of implementing calculator logic. I use scare quotes because there are numerical problems with some functions that have to be hacked around with more manual derivatives, like the cross-entropy/softmax function. In those cases, people suggest to use a different library function special-cased out for the situation, which is not really “symbolic” in the typical mathematical sense.
It was just the next jira ticket
I haven't used AWS's version, but the gov version of Azure is terrible. Missing so many features and limited in so many ways and there are so many "gotchas". And no matter how many times you tell a vendor that's what you have they won't admit their product isn't compatible until the second or third time they try to implement.
Kolmogorov compression complexity may show schools of Orthodox iconography
From the abstract:

> students from two schools aged 13–18 years who received the second dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine ... 301 participants for analysis

> Cardiovascular effects were found in 29.24% of patients
Indeed, a huge amount of food. And while we pay midwestern farmers not to grow so prices remain stable and high enough, we hide the external costs of water resources, and erosion keeping them artificially low. Big agriculture is a horribly distorted market and I'm not sure anyone knows what actual societal level costs are for broccoli or pistachios at this point.
Why not point the finger at Windows? Development on Windows is archaic.
It does raise the issue of the 12-year-old emperor, but nevertheless, the right should be granted by regulation. People don't understand lots of things and entrust themselves to different entities to make their life easier. But they should not let go of the rights that allow them to take the matter into their own hands. As long as we're on the topic of children, they have human rights too, for example, and while I don't imagine they exercise them often by themselves, that doesn't mean they shouldn't have them in the first place.
It’s been around for 7 years, so I wonder what adoption is like in the present day.
There are hundreds of other thing in any household that can cause harm if used wrong. Any scissors or knife for example. Touching any exposed ports is something you just should never do.
For reference, in the photograph of the train in Winona, the units are said to be the ES44DC which produce 4,400 horse power, or 3.3MW, and there's four of them for a total of 17,600hp or 13.2MW.
I hate it but where I work WSL is not allowed and Docker requires continuously renewed exceptions.. InfoSec/IT says they can't see what we (or malware..) are doing within..
Or make your SEO good so that when people inevitably Google search, your result is first.
I think there's money left on the table in both cases. Community funding will hopefully grow as users grow and the value grows, a reinforcing cycle, though projects might take time to get there I think. Projects like firejail could do commercial work, but don't.
A non-peer-reviewed study that has no control group and isn’t blind. The people behind ask participants to self-report specifically when they encounter the symptoms the study is looking for.

Of course, hn finds this dogshit interesting because they can vaguely and dishonestly connect it to an antivax agenda.
WFH: I'm down 25kg, walking 6-10km every day before or after work and having an hour of muay Thai training every other day in between my mid day break. Standing desk, and my home office features a bike, elastic bands, kettle, mace, club bells, and pull up bars to help with mobility and general fitness... Often during long meetings.

I do work about 8-10 hours per day, but the extra hours that I now put in used to be hours that I commuted. I've always been fit and loved exercising, but in my thirties due to WFH, I'm fitter than any point in my twenties.
You could try DEC Ultrix. (Oh, did you mean a modern system?)
I originally created a gist with a bunch of curl commands that were difficult to figure out due to poor documentation. So it’s good to see someone creating a cli.

My original curl commands: https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/9427202
The Acela from NYC to DC is "particularly good." I rode it, and it's already popular.

The others... well, check on status of the "high-speed rail" from SF to LA, which was going to be only twice as fast as driving, at most. If it ever gets built.

And that's if you don't factor in getting to and from the train stations, since unlike Europe, most people in CA aren't a tram ride away from downtown.
It seems like this product could be better (less risky) as a set of shared config files or something.
I'm stating a simple concept, which is that if you put some wind and solar into a heavily-fossil powered grid, the first 30% wind and solar are easy, and the last 30% are harder.

But if you do 100% wind and solar, then you have to start spending money on things other than generators. The fraction of cost that is wind/solar generators vs. e.g. energy storage systems, transmission, recycling, etc. shifts from 1 to ~0 at scale.
Did you reply to the right person? I'm with you, friend :-)
It takes 5 minutes to refill my ICE car and 20 minutes to refill my Tesla at a supercharger. That's a factor of 4, not an order of magnitude.

In addition, I don't have to babysit the pump when refilling my Tesla. I can sit in the car in air conditioned comfort and check my email or watch Netflix on the console while the car is filling. I can walk away from the car and use the restroom and buy a snack and stretch my legs while the car is filling. All that is impossible or illegal if I'm alone while refilling my ICE car.

My point is that refills of the two cars are completely different experiences that cannot be compared with a simple time scalar. Refilling the Tesla is vastly more pleasant even if it takes a bit longer.
Explain more about it
> If you see code without empty lines separating different steps, that's pretty badly written Python.

You're describing literally all of the Python I've ever seen. Look at Flask, for example[1].

Furthermore, without brackets, adding newlines in a code block forces me to then add more newlines between blocks (which Flask also does!)

I would rather just have easy-to-scan, clear characters that demarcate a code block.

1. https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/templat...
Yes, and it retains this meaning in french, where amateur is a false cognate of the english word
The caption for that photo says, 'Since then Lewis has photographed trains in spectacular US locations -- but he does extensive research before he goes out with his camera: "Doing research beforehand is important to understand what the railway operations are like," he says.'

Oops.
This quote is not from the page linked above but I found it at https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-t...
Could there be a workshop where you have to have a certain level of experience or training in order to use the tools?

With high risk tools someone could be on staff to do that part of the project
Basically that non-local hidden variables and superdeterminism do not seem like likely solutions to the violation of Bell's inequalities compared to just accepting that nature is random. You have to do a fair amount of reaching in order to hang onto the notion that the universe is deterministic
My guess is that the longer you live here, you will intentionally go years without going through Times Square area :)
That’s fair. I guess at the state level things are better. Maybe even at the federal level democrats care more than republicans. I do however feel disillusioned with how little it feels like the democrats in congress are willing to do to fight for labor.
Not really, you'd still have a problem of building with possibly conflicting system dependencies, packaging (a dev team that can build its own .debs or .rpms is a rarity), ease of deployment / distribution, and running multiple instances. Developers don't want to deal with that crap.
Did people forget what movies the “morchandizing” bit in Spaceballs was making fun of? Because in 1987 it certainly wasn’t The Force Awakens.

Guys are just starting to notice the blatant cash grab additions because the target market for the cutesy ones like bb8 and the porgs is girls and women.
I'll have to look closer, if there is cost savings I would consider it. We put a lot of effort into achieving AWS "Well Architected" so I'd hate to end up in a lesser position by going in a potentially lesser known, lesser tested, lesser supported approach.
It's a shame because I think there is a legitment use-case for micro-lending but there needs to be regulation and enforcement. Also asking for those kind of wide permissions should trigger some kind of additional review - a scam-filled untrusted ecosystem hurts all app developers.
7M people under flood watches while 7M face extreme heat alerts
I'm working in web Dev for a decade. Yet have to see at least single Dev using linux. Have seen several working on Mac, both designers to QA.
Strictly speaking I'm a bit biased, cause work in . net stack. But still.
That’s totally doable in a big city such as NYC. Been in here for 20 years and never owned a car. I do drive occasionally and rent a car for a few days to a week. Always works out for me and my non glamorous lifestyle.
I find I'm most efficient learning a tool if i have a project i can conduct while learning the new tech. So i look for projects and attach tech rather than the other way around.

I find this is what helps me convert from potentially learning 10 things (but going through with nothing) to learning 1-2 things actually.

Unless it's a joke tech you pick up it will surely enhance your "employability / market value".
I guess the (crazy, I know) assumption that I made is that I have some analytical, symbolic expression for a function that describes the state of the universe at every point. This "state" describes some fundamental quantity (not necessarily a quantity we have a name for yet).

Then we express the value of any particle field at every point as a (potentially very complex) symbolic expression that only uses the state function from my previous paragraph.

All of these expressions need only finite memory to store. They describe functions with domain R^n to some co-domain of operators or whatever.

Then I can calculate the value of this complex function at any point with any precision I like, with finite memory, although unbounded - I need to allocate more memory when I want more precision.

Point is, I delay the process of "latticization" (calculating the numerical values at each point of a chosen lattice) to the very end - only then I have to choose how fine-grained my lattice is.
I was discussing live battery drain in BEVs, which rely on running all accessories off them.
My dad used to pick three random words from the dictionary and try to work them into whatever him and his coworkers would have to say during a menial update meeting. One time they were able to work all three words into a single sentence.
I think the parent was talking about dependency conflicts, not issues in OpenSSL.
I wrote a fair chunk of a technical book once, thirty-ish years ago, but technology was changing very quickly back then, and I had too many other irons in the fire to finish it before the content became obsolete.

An idea for a book did occur to me a couple years ago: I thought I might write down everything I know about throwing renegade-style rave parties. What kept me? I'm not certain my knowledge is unique enough to be useful, and I think maybe it's better for people to figure it out organically, as part of a community. I wouldn't want to help people throw such events as a business.
From the readme:

No package manager.
Instead, you configure a set of specifications of what files from which packages to include on your system, and the build system writes the resulting filesystem tree into a git repository. This can then be merged into /, or pulled from another machine.

If you're looking for a package manager, you're in the wrong place.
Yes, in principle you could do that (apart from all the legal troubles...)

In practice we like things customized and only want to see our own savegames available on the list so this is a real issue that could break this especially if large number of strangers were to use it.

Another issue is waste - what if you want to play some game but it was installed on another console that is currently playing something completely different? Installing all games on all consoles seems crazy. Maybe have a large NAS with multiple games preinstalled? If we could add another type of game licensing which would allow for playing the same game on 5 different hardware consoles simultaneously that would be perfect.

Resources would be used to their maximum potential.
Democrats passed Affordable Care Act in 2009 during the only 6 months where they had a tenuous 60 seats in the US Senate required to pass non budgetary laws.

Democrats also almost passed significant child care benefits and tax credits in the original build back better bill in 2021, which of course was voted against by every Republican. Even a single Republican voting with the Democrats would have enabled millions of poorer families with children.

In my entire adult lift (since 2000) I cannot recall a single bill proposed by Republics to benefit lower income/poorer people. I do know they pushed through two wars and a bunch of tax cuts.

I know Democrats tried to reform healthcare as early as mid 1990s (which then culminated in Affordable Care Act).

Seems like pretty conclusive evidence that the parties are not the same at the federal level too, and the voting rules at the Senate level do not leave any options other than severe compromise.
OP here, I posted this a few days ago and was surprised to see it on the front page this morning. Not sure why it says I submitted 4 hours ago when I wasn’t awake, maybe the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)?

But I’m also generally skeptical of high upvote/comment ratios, because as a long-time HNer too I also want to read things that are genuinely interesting. In this case, I can promise you neither I nor anyone on the team is soliciting upvotes for this post.

On that note, if anyone has any comments about the content itself, happy to discuss further.
Yeah I rather meant the implicit assumption that there won't be another disaster in 2022 on the Oder.
This is a false dichotomy.

As great as content addressed IDs are, they only allow you to build DAGs.
Many domains require a graph to be properly modelled, a collision free string of random entropy is the best thing you can get, in terms of distributed-ness, for these scenarios.

There is a certain duality to unique identifiers and content addressed identifiers, both are best utilised together.
no, really. Tracking by Telegram.
I think the USD would have to be in a foreign account
before you get to customs (inside the US) you get your passport stamped (at the border). The person who stamps your passport is not a customs agent.
I made Calcit http://calcit-lang.org/ it's also using indentations to implement S-Expressions. The syntax part is called Cirru http://text.cirru.org/ , just using very similar ideas.
The credit score system is broken, critics say
I've responded to this four times now, it turns out.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'm working on a Nix/NixOS based polyglot Bazel build infrastructure (that we're using in production) and I've almost got `glibc` and `libstdc++` squeezed all the way out. They're like fucking Kudzu (which is not an accident), but I'll get 'em eventually. Once `glibc` and `libstdc++` are all the way gone it will be a hop, skip, and a jump to doing what you're describing.

I anticipate it being ready for open source as a standalone flake by the end of 2022.