skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Busy Beaver function is fascinating. Seemingly so easy to define: Of all possible turing machines with N states that eventually halt, what's the number of steps that the longest-running one takes?

It's not "just" that this is uncomputable, given the halting problem. Lots of things in mathematics are uncomputable. What's special about this function is that it will eventually blast through the limits of what any given formalization of mathematics can prove at all, no matter how powerful -- like ZFC + CH + whatever other axioms you come up with.[1]

To be honest, I can't fully wrap my head around what this means. Given that some of these powerful set theoretic axioms are independent from each other, I'm not sure whether ZFC+CH could have a different idea about BB(8000) than ZFC+notCH would. That wouldn't make much sense to me at least, because a Turing machine halting or not halting feels like a concrete fact that shouldn't depend on assumptions about weird infinite sets. But I don't know.

[1] Also from Scott Aaronson's blog, BB(8000) and above are independent from ZFC: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2725
I think the lesson here would be using only ordinary characters in domain names (then what HN does would not matter), if you (and I mean anyone, not you in particular) advertise domain with special characters people will be confused because some companies advertise domain with special characters while you should actually read it with normal characters and not literally plus there is quite a stigma that these special characters are used for malicious purposes to pretend they are different sites. Dunno what's situation in Germany but here in Czechia where we also widely use special Latin characters in language, but they are pretty much non existent from domain names, though sometimes you can see them and they mean you should strip the domain name in your head and type it without special characters.
There used to be and it was great. If you give more notice next time I’ll try to turn up.
That's not an answer to why selection made the decisions it did.
> He is an opportunist

And a manipulator. He's the person who gossips in the background. He tells someone that guy over there just called you a name, and then says the same to the first guy. He's the type of person we all hate.
Isn't that what all environment-related polices are?
How many lives were ruined by Russia?
Poll HN: Do you use SSH certificates (not mere public-key authentication)?
Do you use SSH certificates for work and/or personal SSH logins?

I have just switched, for my personal machines, but dealing with the CA keys is a royal pain.

What on earth do people to do keep their CA keys accessible but secure?

(You can choose multiple options below)
No, I don't use SSH certificates at all, just public keys and/or passwords
Yes, I use them for work
Yes, I use them for my personal machines
I put CA keys straight on SSH-client machines, like a regular public key
I put CA keys on just one machine, and log in to that machine to generate certificates that I use from other SSH-client machines
My work runs software like Teleport or Vault or Smallstep that manages the CA for us
I personally run software like Teleport or Vault or Smallstep that manages the CA for my personal machines
I/we use an HSM for CA keys
I/we don't use an HSM for CA keys
If you think of Motherboard: Tech by Vice as an institution, you’ve got some deeper problems.
> AHK's prime utility seems like hacking optimizations on inefficient-for-power-users gui software.

That's like saying shellscripts prime utility seems like hacking optimizations on inefficient-for-power-users cli software. Every poweruser has always demand for automation, independent of the interface, software and OS.

> because that OS is absolutely rife with annoying gui software written for the lowest common denominator of user.

And yet, Linux is even worse in that regard.
I found a lot of inspiration in this list - each compiled into exe's but ship with the source included:

https://www.dcmembers.com/skrommel/downloads/

And here is my script file (10+ years in the making!), some are the same as from your site (like toggle on top) but with minor improvements:

https://gist.github.com/raveren/bac5196d2063665d2154
Emphasis on the Mediterranean. Right, you have free data roaming in EU, but the world is a much bigger place. Those cruise lines operate all over the world where getting a local SIM card with any amount of data is usually inconvenient or sometimes impossible. Satellite internet is usually the only way you can get online while on a cruise ship in a lot of countries and it is an extremely desired amenity onboard. Have no internet for any reason for an hour (and that happened a lot in some places), thats all fun, don't have it for a day, and you'll get almost a mutiny. Also satellite internet is very much needed for crew and navigation.

My point being that having relatively cheap and reliable internet on a cruise ship is a big pro even if your cruise is in Med. I'm sure that absolutely every cruise line is trying to get starlink terminals onboard as soon as possible.
Oh I thought this was for individuals for some reason.
Nice, thanks for sharing! This looks like a neat way to experiment with backend languages :)
Janus, a time-reversible computing programming language
what part of "sustainability" do you not understand?
But how many rabbits and squirrels are saved by the lack of eagles?
Will do, I hope to make it a monthly recurring event.

If you join the group on Meetup you should get a notification when the next event is scheduled.
i'm very sad, he was a great man, brought freedom to millions of people. hopefully his death will have a positive effect in russia.
In Juneau, eagles are so numerous that many residents consider them pests because they carry off small pets in one's yard and it's illegal to harass or kill them. They have even entered houses.

Of course they also bring in tourist $$ so the relationship between people and eagles in Juneau is complicated.
Thank you.

Well, since today we hear about Garbageoff, so I discussed my opinion from THIS side of things. For sure, many other "players" are also to blame for a lot of the mess my people have found themselves in.
If you try and connect those two sentences with a well laid out argument you might find it less clear than you think. There is a high correlation between people doing well and people who don't spend any time going on strike.

Possibly in a world where the only difference between the US and EU was whether people went on strike that would be a workable position, but there are other differences. Quite a lot of them.
Everything Breaks at Scale
Yeah this makes sense.
I think that people look at climate change the wrong way. Instead of showing people pictures of starving polar bears, brown people on rooftops clutching their most precious possessions, and dry riverbeds in Somewhereland, it should be pictures back home with empty refrigerators, empty shelves, high price tags, flood damage, snow drifts etc. Because even if you think "thuh environment" is all libtard bullshit, you should care about access to food, water and power. How long is the canned food in your bunker going to last?

I know, I know. I'm parodying the stereotypical European's idea of the stereotypical Texan, but there's a tiny grain of truth in it.
Yea I don’t think you can easily explain the problem, I might not have done it here myself:)
Age appropriate content totally aside, it’s the data they collect and sell that I have a problem with.
Specifically, high growth is useful because you can spend a few years there and get experience of doing many things at several different company sizes.

It means you get several opportunities to learn how to do a specific thing, and see how different attempts yield different results. At a company that grows more slowly you'll need to revisit things less frequently, which reduces your opportunity to learn.

You're right though, I don't have experience doing things other than what I've done. I can only speak to how useful my experience has been when going back to very early stage as a first employee, which has a lot of overlap with founder.

And in that sense, I'm continually thankful I have the experience I do in my current position. I think it means I'm materially more impactful, and I can only imagine performing significantly worse without it.
No, it didn't but people who took only one semester of art classes may remain under the delusion that art is about making pretty pictures.

People who need illustration or graphics with no particular style can meet their needs with this tool but that is far from art. This replaces commercial illustration, not artists.
Piece of shit Gorbachev has openly supported the annexation of Crimea. He is one of the factors contributing to the current war.
This is exactly right.

The reason that no nontrivial popular program exists written using shell scripts is because the Unix Way of gluing together separate programs just isn't a sustainable software development methodology that leads to nontrivial useful software.
If you don't use an ad blocker it's your own fault. Paginated articles are not a hill to die on.
> Any attempt to go their own way was immediately, violently crushed. So dissolving the Warsaw Pact when the USSR disintegrated meant nothing.

that’s not completely accurate. e.g. Romania even publicly condemned the invasion of Czechoslovakia. They didn’t support Russian foreign policy that much in the 70’s and 80’s either with no direct consequences.

While obviously it was Moscow keeping the communists in charge, the local dictators supported the suppression of the reforms in Cezhoslovakia largely out of self-interest.
Typescript, Kotlin, C# etc.
If the article does not consider: "slapping the shit out of the monitor when you're angry at the computer", then it's scientifically inaccurate.
As far I dealed with UEFI, it is mostly done, if not completely.
I suspect everybody did that once. Learned to sequence number things and draw a big black diagonal along there top of the deck. And ibm sorters…. Lots of rubber bands and keeping the card box. Like backups, “oh shit” is a harsh teacher.
> similar to how, in scalping, it’s the original seller’s fault for not charging what the market will bear

Absolutely. Unfortunately, people hate scalpers, irrationally if you take a broad view.
Royal Caribbean owns Silversea Cruises, and those guys go as far north and south as possible. Also everywhere else in between. This is s godsend to them, and the guests are going to appreciate it.
I'm sure there are ways, but I guess a lot of nefarious things one could do with a drone product get a lot harder if you don't also make the finished system assembled from those parts and the software controlling the whole thing.
Doesn't match the data...

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...
No, that's "black hat SEO".

Google has a support article with SEO advice:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en/
I found your post very compelling, but ultimately I disagree strongly. Vonnegut's assessment rings true, however the only reason I even heard of him - now one of my favorite authors - is because of the internet. I'm sure he's a much better storyteller than my uncle, but guess what, I can tell stories and thoughts from Vonnegut to all my friends, and that gives me joy. We can comment on movies and games that took enormous teams millions of dollars to make. I can go and be part of that creation under many different roles, even as a reviewer on Youtube. I think many more people have hobbies and produce art now than ever before, and this was enabled mostly by technology.

I feel that this apocalyptic perspective is just us older folks trying to grasp how we would do things we like under different conditions. Kids will find a way to make a career using these models, and maybe now some not-so-skilled but extremely smart person can finally show us their creations in a meaningful way.

And for me personally, I find extreme beauty in these technologies. A fundamental part of our humanity, artistic expression, and we can manipulate it like this? Another unique human trait, language, how enormously fortunate I am to see another part of that puzzle being worked out and reduced to math.
> 1. Press Ctrl P to get to the Print dialog 2. Scroll to "Print Using System Dialog" 3. Click on Page Setup. 4. Select 2 Pages per side. 5. Choose "Letter" for Paper Size 6. Click on "Print"

How exactly does this work? Are you just sending a bunch of shortcuts? Or does autohotkey really understand when it reached "Print Using System Dialog" and which button has "Page Setup"?
I think the average US founder age is 40s. But I'm not sure since most statistics focus on successful founders. This link seems to look at all of them.

https://www.zippia.com/founder-jobs/demographics/
What a brilliant write-up.
Lambda the Ultimate is now running in a new, more stable environment
Ukrainian here. Almost 100% of war videos goes through Telegram, possibly because Youtube does not like videos with blood and murders, and 0% goes from something like torrents or self-hosted.
The writers actor guild strike comes to mind, although I admittedly don't know what writers tend to earn, so you might be right:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_Writers_Guil...

While I tend to agree that for individual optimization, fighting the system tends to be suboptimal, leaving and finding another system tends to be more optimal. The issue is that if everyone does this, over time, all systems will erode against labor rights and there will ultimately be no system to flee to. At some point people have to eat the cost and stand their ground to fight a given system, otherwise you will lose in the long run. We need people who stand up and fight.
That says "successful". If you're just talking about all founders it may be different.
Wow, what does this mean? I mean it for real, what does those sentences mean?

I get the transparency concept but windmills produce flour and are not that common anymore, so why is anyone bothered by them? Also Nimbys sound like critter-like horror animal and Kennedys are ... ex president's family?
I just read the entire address by Putin [1] after the invasion started - it's all about NATO expansion, historical borders or something along that lines make no real appearance in the entire thing.

I know that he supposedly said things more in line with your point on other occasions but I never came across something that convincingly provided support for this point of view. Can you provide sources?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-tran...
Obviously this is in no way an indication, but I use it too, as well as my family members and the one friend who uses GNU too.
Debian manages to feel simple and reliable, and I rarely have issues with it. That's wildly different on other systems/GNUs.
Issues I had with certain machines just stopped occurring.

It's not perfect - subjectively and objectively there are things which could be improved, but I feel like the core values of Debian fulfill the needs of a common type of laptop user, me being one of them. I think that the organization is well equipped to not disappoint my trust.
I remember one called penismighty.com. Which was a silly online community similar to, well nothing, but I guess the closest thing would be somethingaweful.com it even had alternative themes to the site which would lean into the different interpretations of it's name which was awesome.
Exponential compound interest on Technical Debt. And how I avoided it
"Women better act the way I expect them to act or else they are misogynistic" sounds about as misogynistic as one can get.
Clickbait. To qualify as micronation you don't have to be a nation, making the headline look more interesting than it is. It just has to have someone claim it's nation.

My toilet is now a nation in the US.
It will be a sad day, likely sometime in 2025, when Voyager I depletes what capacity remains in its RTG power source, and finally goes silent.
Surely sex is the only one with a clear meaning? There is no alternate meaning. Gender, on the other hand, isn't very well defined.
You need to give some information about the scene to the network.

Camera settings is just a short hand to describe the field of view and depth of focus (at the very least). If you make that implicit you'd still need to give the network the steradians, focal length, circle of confusion, etc. etc. etc. that you want your image to use.

You'd need to understand everything in Hecht's Optics to tweak all the parameters of an AI generated image.
Problem Statements to Solve for in DeFi
something blockchain something healthcare blah

content-free advertisement

can't we use the blockchain to keep spam out? /s
I remember that I always noticed the sound when someone turned on a TV or CRT in my house when I was growing up. I miss that.
Militaristic as a use case, industrial as a design methodology. It's the only system I'm aware of that has a ballistic justification for both damage and armor (at least in 4E, for non-medieval weaponry).

I myself like GURPS a lot. The point buy nature isn't even the major factor here, but the "physics engine" stuff. A satisfying resolution mechanism where quite often when I ask "What's the equivalent for this real-world action" you got someting that slots in nicely. And a 3d6 bell-curve hits my sweet spot.
I am absolutely not saying you can't do this. In fact, GoCardless is an example of a company started by very young founders with little start-up experience, and is now a unicorn.

The difference is that if you have this experience when starting a company, it can help you avoid so many stumbling blocks, and you can skip forward to more mature company stages.

While you can't really compare two companies, I think it's interesting that the company I currently work at (incident.io) has only taken a year to go from me joining as the first employee to 40 people + series A + hundreds of customers now.

There's no way we'd have moved so fast if it wasn't a case of replicating what we already knew worked, tweaked for the environment we found ourselves in.

So yes, it doesn't mean you can't be successful as an inexperienced founder, but I do think it makes a difference in terms of execution.
> but not a world shattering event.

I don’t think anyone involved in the process would claim that it is. But as you alluded to, it’s still positive. And the type of news which fits well on HN.
What's crazy when you read the company memo and the collective bargaining agreement (both linked in the article) is how the company has done a horrible job at wording the memo, that has been picked up by the news.

If I understand that right:

- the company can request overtime from its workers, first by asking for volunteers

- the workers collectively decided not to volunteer, as is their right

- the company can force workers, according to their skills and other factors, to work overtime. There doesn't seem to be any difference in pay between voluntarily accepting overtime and being forced to work overtime (at least none that I could find in the memo or bargaining agreement, I didn't read the law on that matter)

- the problem, then, seems to be that workers refuse to work overtime at all.

A much more reasonable headline, if I understood the story correctly, would be, "workers refuse to work mandatory overtime, and courts ruled that to be a strike, which is forbidden by their collective bargaining agreement".

That makes a lot more sense: workers don't want to work overtime because the conditions are bad and didn't think it would constitute a strike, but the courts disagreed, which seems like a reasonable ruling (IMO, it could have gone both ways before the ruling).
I don't think that will be possible, it looks more like death by a thousand cuts as many different places want their own rules. California, UK, EU..
Supported the annexation of Crimea. Organized highly corrupt privatization of Soviet Union assets. Robbed Soviet working class of their pensions. Handled Chernobyl by throwing people into the furnace and withholding information.

Not sure where you were back in the 80s, but he is one of the etalons of a horrible, corrupt politician.
The Internet Is Growing an Off-Grid Community
It should be fairly obvious that I'm referring to the institution of journalism as a whole.
What stops me from using the first over-18 pin I can find? It only relates to age so there’s hardly any incentive to keep it secret.

Are all non-citizens banned from services now? As a tourist in your country, how do I access services?

Like I said, lots of problems. :)
I am not able to proceed. Getting an error - "Unfortunately, our services are not available for your account. We apologise for the inconvenience caused". Seeing the same error from past few weeks and no resolution after multiple follow ups.
> Many mountain regions with beautiful hiking paths will remain disconnected from internet access for quite some time.

SpaceX also just partnered with TMobile to bring direct-to-phone satellite internet. It'll probably take a while to happen, and the announced specs are pretty limited, but it's basically going to be everywhere.
Async means attendance is optional
To me it’s a different situation, because no previous hard, unique, “ownership” work of these people was used without consent to make this cure.

Think of this instead: a doctor collects a big volume of symptoms and analyses and creates a statistical way to cure people more easily. They publish many examples of their work without licensing anyone (legally and morally) to use it freely. Now some algorithm collects their data and many others data and transforms it into a better method. A doctor suffers from going out of business. Is that ethical? On one hand, the algorithm invented something new and easier to access. On the other, it basically stole parts of their and similar researches on a previously unthinkable scale. We humans copy ideas all the time and this is somewhat normal, but this enormous at-scale capability was never a thing.

Personally I don’t care for optometrists, uber drivers or designers. Nature will find a way. But when we talk about fundamental social contracts like property or accumulated knowledge protection, I think it is unethical to break them, regardless of technicalities. If it’s such a great advancement benefiting everyone, why can’t AI creators just ask permission for 2.3B of datapoints they used?
Perl is HERO. There's a module for everything, but the core isn't as exact/rigid as GURPS. ;)

(Having modules for everything would fit JS, too, but I'm not mean enough to call any RPG out as being the same as that.)
this guy's demonstration (HN discussion [0]) does something that you could use as a template: [1]

basically, first create a Sara character and the scenes separately, then crop+paste Sara onto the background and play around with new prompts and low strength values to merge the images without changing Sara too much

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651556
[1] https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/#
Jesse Storimer has published his books online for free
I disagree. There are plenty of programs that run just fine on Wayland.

I acknowledge the effort that OP has put into this project. And if the OP plans to use X11 for the foreseeable future, then it makes sense to target X11. But for any new project with a wide audience Wayland is a much more reasonable target.
Next up, article on the advantages of eating cyanide.

Doesn't matter about the advantages - the disadvantages far outweigh them.
Pilot study tests brain implants to stop binge eating
sorry for the joke you can e.g. do a search for domain:*.com or domain:*.*
the index will be built up in the first step half a billion documents. we have already indexed more than 15 million domains, some with more than 10,000 pages from the domain. one million pdf documents are already available in the index and the good thing is that you can access all the results, unlike most search engines that only show you a few hundred results.
ActionForms: Stop worrying about finding a developer to setup a simple form