skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of bribing for votes, IMO, it's much better, and more effective, to let individuals and families decide for themselves how their charitable donations will be allocated. Local decision-making yields less fraud & waste, and it's just ... right to have charititable donations be unforced. Do fundraising, for the the hand out/up, etc. Local efforts can be both more effective and more frugal, and compatible with the freedom to use our donation $ as we see fit.

The federal government has constitutionally assigned responsibilities that no other entity can fulfill. Becoming further indebted and paying individually-acquired debts, is not among them.
Psychedelic drugs take on depression
I wonder what the Romans could have done with designs for "modern" sailing ships? Though I also wonder how relatively useful they would be as warships absent cannons.
Any chip manufacturing startups? If not Fab, equipment, Fab software, etc?
Interesting how the 1920s seem to be an era of social management experiments everywhere, with basic things like calendar being questioned all over the world. Just a few years later after Eastman's push for a reform in the United States, the Soviet Union actually changed its calendar. The reform affected the definition of a week rather than the month. The reform was not successful, and the changes were only in place in 1929–1931.

My grandfather, who turned 10 in 1929, vaguely recalled how the country briefly abandoned universal weekends, which meant a mess scheduling anything family-related. Everyone had different work schedules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
Maybe IBM's Mainframe? I mean reliable hardware, etc.
Why is Mark Zuckerberg building the Metaverse?
nice, long overdue

hope to see it in other countries, too
Be glad La Terreur is over.

Today is nonidi 9 Fructidor in the year of the Republic CCXXX, celebrating liquorice, you churlish counter revolutionary!

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

Twitter bot that tells you day https://twitter.com/sansculotides
That's not how discourse works here. Take that to reddit please.
None of the millions walking across the southern border are being required to do this. The Biden admin is funding their further travels to destinations all over the US by air, train and bus, and no vax is required.

And yet, allowing this one guy in is going to cause another pandemic or something.

EDIT: I guess pointing out the pointless hypocrisy of the situation with facts is frowned upon
Project / System related:

system level: Ansible, Terraform, & Foreman

software level: docker/kuberettes
No, the Immaculate Conception refers to Mary having been conceived without being marked by original sin, not that she didn't have a biological father.
> Like, dude, you are claiming to solve a Millennium problem, you're gonna have to put a little more effort into explaining, ya know, the breakthrough...

In the abstract? If papers needed to cover everything in the abstract they would need to have an abstract for the abstract and they you’d just end up complaining about the abstract abstract not being complete…
The poor man’s responsiveness: hide the stuff that doesn’t fit
>USENET traced a lineage to PLATO notesfiles.

I am aware of no such connection. Usenet is a product of Duke and UNC, not UIUC. More to the point, its specifications are very similar to that of the near-contemporaneous SMTP. AlbertCory mentions RFCs; both Usenet and SMTP are fully described in various RFCs. PLATO is not.

PLATO did inspire Lotus Notes; Ray Ozzie attended UIUC.
Doesn't everyone use ISO weeks now?
There's quite a bit of software that comes out as Open Source, from some of the National Research Laboratories[1][2][3], the DOE[5], NASA, etc.. But... not everything is Open Source, and I think there is still room for improvement there.

I mean, yeah, it's great that NASA has a Github org[5] and that they release a lot of stuff. But last time I looked, there was still at least a modest amount of NASA code that isn't Open Source that I would probably argue should be. The same can probably be said for the national labs, DOE, etc.

[1]: https://software.llnl.gov/

[2]: https://github.com/ORNL

[3]: https://www.ameslab.gov/cmi/cmi-open-source

[3]: https://energyplus.net/

[4]: https://github.com/nasa
I came here to say this. The newer generation are not craftsmen in the same ways as before. I'm a Software Engineer and it's the same mentality as somebody that is a Carpenter (my friend's dad is a carpenter that I have asked a lot of questions to).

The people that enjoy building and tinkering are more frequently doing this digitally. That is a big gap that isn't going to be filled as time goes on. "They don't make them like they used to" rings true.
Recently I've been thinking about contributing to NetBSD (mainly porting some drivers from OpenBSD for M1 hardware). From everything I've seen, they have a very welcoming and relaxed community that encourages contributions.

I suppose it will be around in 20 years, but maybe only as a research/tinkering OS.
Interesting! How do they compare feature-wise? I feel like there must be things each of them support that the other one doesn't, but I don't know how consequential they are.
Also: hardware is hard, cryptography is hard. Doing anything new and important is hard.
Doesn't work here.

ALARM ~ $ tracepath 2001:bc8:3eff:c0::ff
1?: [LOCALHOST] 0.015ms pmtu 1500
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2: ALPHEUS-COM.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net 15.966ms
3: ae5-3828.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net 4.011ms
4: 2001:1900:2::3:18 77.693ms
5: 2001:1900:5:2:2::4a0a 78.469ms asymm 4
6: 2001:bc8:400:1::8a 78.737ms asymm 7
7: 2001:bc8:400:1::13a 78.635ms asymm 6
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The first 6–8 digits of a credit card number represent the issuer (IIN, see [0]). Merchants can perform a lookup of those first few digits to their own denylist. Citi’s IIN for temporary cards should (in theory) be the same IIN used to issue non-temporary ones.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7812
Lisp, Smalltalk are the first family of important tech fading to oblivion due to time passing and corporate interest. Most people do not think them in such terms but they represent The Real Desktop tech, the user programmable flexible environment to live in to free the power of computing. Without it, like today, our civilization lost an immense opportunity. We need people that work to push desktop systems, single-applications flexible systems where anything is a function, easy to combine, change and extend as the user wish. Simple and powerful enough end users can use and change.

Domestic food production is another, far simpler, not that exiting, but still important: these days some children do not even know where came from something they eat. Without any catastrophic scenario any society need to know at least superficially anything essential to survive. This include for instance basic knowledge about tools for instance to grind and pack meat to make salami, tools to sterilize and store vacuumed foods etc new tools to modernize and made such process a pleasure to do.

Last but not least generic knowledge, generic tools. We have gazillions of hyper-specialist in any fields and veeeeery few able to see the big picture. We have gazillion of tools for doing a thing and only one. We need generic stuff. Standards not made like https://xkcd.com/927/ but made and updated to be useful and spread. This is the essence of most tech, including the generic desktops cited above, including solar panels with maaaany cells one after another, including bricks, simple thing we can use to made a wall, a house, a bridge, ... it's very hard to made anything in such domain, but it's tremendously useful once done. In the past we have seen some examples here and there, nowadays nobody care.
So You Want To Learn Japanese

http://www.stmoroky.com/links/sywtlj.htm
There is no such thing as overpopulation problem. In urban planning we are always considering ways we can engineer cities to hold 100 million people to a billion people. In fact, that would be a great alternative to suburbanism and increase forestry with the extra land. So this whole random idea of overpopulation is alarmism over nothing.

Granted, high population also means small 'mansions' and maybe THAT is their greatest worry.
Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M daily users
Many companies store huge amounts of documents, but every team does it in its own way. One template can quickly result in thousands of variations. If robust documentation principles are not used from the very beginning (checklists / reduction in free text, visual indications, etc), it will be a nightmare to make sense of that data afterwards. Also, there is no value in generating large amounts of text data unless you can easily scan it and retrieve the information of interest
Personally, I have nothing against a CRUD app, you just have to avoid ones of so little or such generic significance that they will be replaced endlessly with commodity churn (a logical thing for a business if they want to avoid lock-in and bidding to be part of that churn is an illogical choice of roles as a techie) and look for ones valuable enough to someone to sometimes need interesting depth bolted on somewhere, buying you lock-in and something interesting to work on.
> Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y

> Apparently it's not as bad as they say.

Maybe so, but people also do incredibly stupid shit on YouTube for attention, so maybe not.
Montenegro Accuses Russia of Cyber-Attacks on Govt Server
Martin Fowler: Key-Range Partitions
Yeah and what I'm saying is that this rapidly rising "skill" is just nonsense. This is not a reasonable way to interact with the embedding space. We will not be doing prompt engineering, hopefully within the "near" future.

This is like copy pasting by highlighting, clicking 'edit' and scrolling down to copy/paste all with the mouse.
With those recent weights leaking for the Standard Diffusion model, maybe there is a chance that we see some really cool startups spinning up!
Is interesting, wish it was updated -- it looks like most recent link is from 2017.
ZeroFOX Takedown Fraud Exposed
Is it in France? In Poland summer is the storm season.
Intel's calendar works pretty well for planning. ISO 8601 [0] defines a week-date system but Intel doesn't follow it.

There's a Google Calendar setting "Show week numbers" that will show the ISO workweeks in the little month calendar at top left.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
In regards to oil company profits, isn't that just normal supply & demand?

Doesn't it make sense that with Russian sanctions, demand for alternative sources of oil should rise and result in higher costs? Even if the oil companies capped prices out of the goodness of their hearts, wouldn't that just end up causing shortages?
Let's not forget who was responsible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
Not tech but I think millenials, gen Z, and younger have lost the know-how to make a dollar independently of mega corps. I never see kids going door to door mowing lawns anymore, for example.
Explain it to me them oh wise one. Tell me about my privilege and how I was able to do all I have done because it was given to me. Show me how I earned nothing and learned nothing and life has been a magical journey. tell me that I could never do any of this if I were not born in a poor US family in a shithole town in the south. I'm all ears.
I mean military as an academic field. The stuff that people might conceivably be worried about making publicly available and thus want exempted.
Actually with a mandolin and skipping peeling you literally could do a carrot in 4 or 5 seconds, but the slices tend to be so thin you'd have trouble eating them as finger food. Anyway I'm keen to try your suggestion.
As I understand it, this procedure would result in a near perfect clone baring a few random mutations in the stem cell which they could probably screen for.

To digress. I want a clone, more than anything. It's only thing I'd pay more than $100k+ for aside from housing.

I submit that society would benefit if every other generation was a clone. If I were raised by my parent-clone I would have matured faster and been more skilled at playing baby-roulette with a natural child.

Whenever I meet a 20-30 year old that has the temperament and calmness of a 40-50 year old I suspect one of two things:

1) their young-ish parents won at baby-roulette and their child had a personality similar to theirs and were able to guide them through adolescence in a more optimal way.

2) their parents were older and maturer and could navigate the personality conflicts in a way that didn't lead to long-term family dysfunction.

but even #2 is rare since not all older parents can handle all personality types, hence my suggestion for a third option: family lines based on alternate generation cloning.
2 previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551475

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32584745
Various species exhibit parthenogenesis under (sometimes unusual) circumstances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

No evidence of human parthenogenesis ('virgin birth') is known.

The immaculate conception was the conception of _Mary_, who was born without Original Sin (that's what makes it immaculate), in order to be clean enough to carry Jesus aand bear a virgin birth. The whole prior sentence should be sprinkled with 'allegedly' appropriately in every clause.
Sadly this was not done by legislation. But maybe that's the point, I dunno
> It is a good sounding language; in other words, it is pleasing to the ear. This has to do with its wealth of vowels, which rules out ugly consonant clusters. It was recently suggested that some vowels should be exported to Czechoslovakia, where a shortage of vowels is imminent, and that some Czech consonants should be imported to Finland. However, negotiations collapsed at an early stage. The Finns would not deal with a language that calls ice-cream 'zrmzlina,'

It's always surprising how many people believe that spelling is somehow linguistically significant. There is no real difference between Czech 'zrm' and English 'zerm', but somehow the Czechs are dealing with an unpronounceable vowel shortage.
I have only one thing to add to this: Kippis!
Software manuals used to be great! I remember getting Windows 3.0 and reading the huge manual cover-to-cover. It went over almost every feature in great detail. Game manuals were fun too. SimCity had a wonderful manual with a nice background and history of city planning.
> Electronics can often be repaired, but we throw them away instead.

A skilled technician replacing a 2¢ part on a $10 board costs more than a new $10 board. Just disassembling that board to recycle parts off of it will cost more than the board originally cost to manufacture.

You also run into the same argument against landfill airbag controllers. A factory that produces a million boards can have very good reliability metrics. A skilled technician not only has more variable output but less accurate quality metrics unless they put a lot of extra effort into process controls.

A recycled board will cost more and be statistically less reliable from a brand new board. It would be more efficient to just mechanically separate them to extract raw materials.
Haha, I was just kidding. I'm still alive and perfectly fine. I haven't been kidnapped by aaarrggghhhhhhh
He’s saying 60k of the compensation is equity and other fringe benefits
I am referring military R&D as an academic topic, not a funding source. So the classified stuff.
My god. I literally had the argument from https://qntm.org/abolish during standup.
Those countries are the very top end of the European market, in terms of worker rights - and a pretty small minority in terms of population.
I'd never fault someone for being content, and if there's a specific tradeoff you're making for that paycut, then more power to you

But otherwise- there's a difference between "trying to make as much money as possible" and "keeping a casual eye out to see if you could be making more money doing roughly the same thing you're already doing". Imagine if you could give twice as much to St. Jude's, or pay off your student loans completely, or both. There's a huge gap between being greedy and letting money rule your life, vs not giving it the slightest attention. It's worth putting in the baseline effort, especially if you're not having to sacrifice any of your other life priorities in the process.
Yes, I found https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hconres13rh/pdf... that clearly highlights this and the fact that the US are a country governed by religion.

I am specifically not trying to be vindictive - I read this official document and was quite surprised by the fact that all federal employees must swear on God (which means, I guess, that an atheist id not bound by the oath?), that it confirms that there is no America without God, or that religion and morality are the fondements of the US.
I'm concerned that this will do nothing but result in fewer government awards and make non-governmental research more difficult to access. This directive still allows journals to charge open access publishing fees, which often exceed 12,000k, and allow grantees to add this to their grants, resulting in fewer grants.

In addition, there will be no upper limit on open access fees, so privately funded
research will essentially be required to opt for closed access publishing so they can avoid the fees. This means it will save nothing for most users of these journals (academics) since now they will have to pay to publish and subscribe.
It isn't being singled out, Rome is the guy's expertise, and he tends to write articles drawn from his expertise.

"Bret is a historian of the broader ancient Mediterranean in general and of ancient Rome in particular. His primary research interests sit at the intersections of the Roman economy and the Roman military, "
If you liked Ignition! you might also enjoy "Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?"
What amazes me is we've had hot air balloons for 250 years and still haven't scaled them into partial vacuum space zeppelins, we're still burning rocket fuel like it's the dark ages
I can't understand why countries like China aren't investing more in researching ectogenesis.

It seems a good solution for the future of their population, the fertility rate will probably never go back to 2.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589499
Dying breed? Though dying bread sounds like an interesting metaphor.
I'd agree with knowledge organization. It's either you have to root through academic texts or try and navigate the spammy internet with no really happy medium. It's almost like there's a complete lack of quality middle ground information. It's either total SEO garbage or very low quality entry level information or incredibly specific/dense academic content and the middle ground is missing.
really? "anti-Rust tropes"?
Re: accented letters

I have been using the US international keyboard both at home and at work. It is a blessing so that I don't have to change keyboard layouts when changing languages, since it provides grave and acute accents (e.g. for French), the double s German letter and umlauts, euro symbol, etc. and also plays nice with programming languages and UNIX shell: for instance, quick access to slash, curly and square brackets with the same modifier key, backticks without modifier keys. Another advantage is that the layout is the same as the US keyboard you are already used to, just that some keys have new effects.
So true. "It's XML, so it must easy to parse and manipulate" is such a naive, even misleading attitude. If what you do is take a byzantine, legacy-encrusted implementation and just serialise its data strucures to an XML representation, very little has been gained.

[edit: but I will grant that almost anything is better than attempting to parse useful content from PDF.]
That just makes the interviewer wonder why they didn’t get the terminal degree… unless the masters is the terminal degree (like an MFA)
I've also done this on my Framework laptop running Linux, it's really convenient. Have it set up for sudo, user login, etc. Just added this to various files in /etc/pam.d

auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
I agree with what you are saying but it would be the perfect encapsulation of US government in the 21st century to eliminate the RealID program after a decade or more of working to get all 50 states on board.
Not exactly connected but the same crowd interested in this topic may also be interested in this tool to store SSH private keys in the Secure Enclave, kind of like what can be done with a YubiKey:

https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

I've been looking for something like this for 3-4 years but only found it six months ago (in an HN thread). I use separate keys for every use case, and now know every time a key is used for any purpose, whether it's connecting to source control or my text editor is connecting to a remote VM.

Only thing I haven't figured out is how to do git signatures with these sorts of keys, but I haven't debugged it at all.
> In a way I can agree with that, but we need to change the narrative. Instead of telling kids to go to college to get a job, we would need to change it to "go to college to learn interesting things." When we tell kids that, that's the expectation they will end up having when they go.

100%

> The demand for college also has to go way down to make it more affordable, save for maybe an act on the government's part. Learning for learnings sake is great, but not $50k great.

An act on the government's part, or less predatory institutions. Maybe both. But it's absolutely needed. Reducing demand for education because of finances is terrible.
> Most cases are simply used where English would use prepositions. In Finnish those are postfixes instead, a bunch of letters tacked onto the end of a word. It’s a case and not a word because there’s no space between the two, that’s it.

That's not how the terminology works. Nobody is out there claiming that Latin should be considered to have conjunctive and disjunctive cases (-que, -ve) in addition to its actual cases. They're especially not claiming that we should recognize an "interrogative case" (-ne) that isn't even restricted to nouns.
I disagree, because I think you can't have it both ways.

I love Sci-Fi, but I generally don't like Fantasy as a genre. As soon as magic, wizards, dragons, orcs or elves enter the picture, I check out.

We can debate the logical consistency of my specific preferences (e.g. "Star Wars is more Fantasy than Sci Fi. The force is just magic!"), but I feel how I feel.

Game of Thrones was the first fantasy book(s) and show that I enjoyed in spite of the fantastical elements, and I grew to embrace them nonetheless. I'm not the only one. The reason why the books and show became such a massive cultural phenomenon is BECAUSE it was loved by people who normally don't like fantasy because the "medieval politics" of it all were beloved regardless of any fantasy backdrop.

I have to imagine this was by design. The tone was consistent, and George RR knew what he was doing. He created a world grounded in reality that forgot about magic, then brought it back in (remember, at the start of the series, all the characters except a few regard dragons and magic and zombies as myth and legend because they've been gone for so long)

So I think it's entirely valid to criticize the internal consistency and realism of his works and hold them to a realism bar.