skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now i haven't indulged in that particular platform so i don't know with certainty. Isn't Parler heavily moderated???
I don't like how "I'm a free speech absolutist" has become "I want to force you to read my toxic rants, even when you try to get away from me." You yourself say 4chan is "barely bearable."

What free speech has meant historically is "I don't believe the government should be able to criminalize certain kinds of speech." It never meant "I am entitled to insert garbage into someone else's newspaper or book" until people started misappropriating the term.
49.7 days is equal to 2**32 milliseconds, after which Windows 95 crashes (https://web.archive.org/web/20010331174127/http://support.mi...). That's close-ish to 51 days. Maybe they start the counter with a value other than zero.
Interesting. I don't have a chance to mess with the app, but I wonder if it works because it's syncing individual kdbx files that the user gives access to one at a time rather than a whole directory (including subdirectories). Logseq and Obsidian, for example, would require syncing an entire directory along with subdirectories. My assumption is that they work with iCloud because they're given their own app-specific folder to do as they wish.

If that is the limitation, I wonder if they could get around that by using some type of bundle or archive. Regardless, thanks for the additional information.
A man associated with the BHI killed 3 people at a Kosher supermarket in New Jersey in December of 2019[1]. That said, they aren't doing this in any organized fashion.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110723/documents/...
Who are the programmers behind this average work and who are their superiors?
The real kink in that application of derivative work to me is the entire dataset goes into the model and is to some vanishingly small extent is used in every output how can we meaningfully assign ownership through that transition and mixing. And when we do how do we do it without exacerbating the extant problem of copyright in art? We already can't use characters and settings made during out own lifetimes in our own expression because Disney got life + 70 through Congress.
If this is the intended effect, its bad one.

I just find it interesting because I look at the apple product pages. While a bit janky they work as intended. But they are also applying that effect very deliberately and not to an article for some reason. So maybe that is the distinction.
The lottery is an accepted tax on math morons, as my old teacher liked to say.

And people have "learned" that and somehow think that when the expected return goes "positive" that it somehow isn't silly anymore.

I would be interested to see it change so the jackpot doesn't go UP each time, but instead the number of winners goes UP somehow - perhaps by drawing an extra powerball if nobody has won for a certain period.

The absolute sad part of it is the large percentage of people who play and shouldn't; you rarely see the well-off playing, but you will see poorer people playing (which makes some sense, Bill Gates winning wouldn't change him at all).

Even sadder is what happens to the winners on average; the winner is often someone not good with money and they get given a large amount of the thing they're not good with.
You can always refuse. They have the right processes to deal with that. If they're being annoying there's always "I legally can't due to sensitive data stored on this laptop".
> “When only the rejects use the sites of course it's going to be full of bad content.”

The problem with this theory is that 4chan is older than both Twitter and Facebook.

If unmoderated speech created an inherently better platform, surely 4chan would have captured the market a long time ago and cut off commercial alternatives like Craigslist did.
Rust on Espressif chips – 17-10-2022
Re read Project Hail Mary, great book when you just want something fun.

Almost done with Status and Culture by David Marx, it's a fascinating look at how groups work and how much the hunt for status explains about our lives.
Tips for embedding security into your workflows
Mad annoying when I cracked open an ancient iPad figuring I could watch Netflix on it and oops nope. No indication of why, but I know the answer because I'm the type of person who comments on HN.
'complex systems usually operate in a failure mode' has a somewhat different meaning from "complex system always operates in a failure state".

They usually operate in a failure mode because it's easy to be deceived by the superficial appearances of complex systems, thus it seems like a big bother to drill down the layers, until a failure has occurred. As excellently demonstrated by this 'Factorio' player.
I see testing as a partial solution to the more general question - does this thing work.
In software product development, someone comes up a problem to which the solution is to build something, someone then build it, someone then test it to make sure it functionally works, then someone test whether they are addressing the right problem.
Someone can be same guy or split into different teams. But I duplicated effort in answering the question of "does this thing work"
> Going from a tech job to minimum likely wouldn't cover one's current expenses.

Unless you were foolish you would likely be okay. Your previously high wage would have allowed you to acquire the things that low-wage workers have little choice but to continually pay for. Housing being a prime example. When all you are paying is property taxes and some incidental maintenance costs your cost of living can be tremendously lower than someone who is paying rent.

Life is a lot cheaper when you are rich.
Your analogy made me laugh, but also made me think about how common fatal mental illness is among humans, and contrast that rate with the fatal plane crashes attributable to computing errors.

It's a pretty amazing accomplishment for humanity to have developed systems as complex as modern jumbo jets with "brains" that are essentially more reliable than the ones that created them.
For repurposing iPads to smart-home-ish devices I think that's a great idea.

But for secondary displays? I'd not go there. My wife used her iPad Pro relentlessly, for anywhere from 3 to 12 hours a day, for 5 years, and it finally died a few months ago.

Now imagine you have your iPad's screen always on while your computer is on -- which is at least 6h a day all the way to 18h. How long will these devices last like this?

My number #1 question however would be: how far in the past would this go? I imagine a lot of people have iPads lying around and they use them no more than 2h a day for some videos or music. This initiative could definitely breathe new life in them and help people get the maximum of their money's worth.
I'm not sure what your point is here, but even if you look only at single-dish radio telescopes, humanity already has a better one in FAST.
You don't have to go to that extreme. Although, /usr/local should be its own partition for the wxallowed, and /var/log should be its own to keep some nasty logging from screwing everything up. I have a standard /, /home, /tmp, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /var/log. I also am a heretic so I also do /opt.

It actually isn't that hard. I do wish OpenBSD had a more robust filesystem. I switch to FreeBSD when I need a server with lots of storage.

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the vultr install of OpenBSD only has / and /usr/local
Hence the annoyance. Doubly so when they claim to acknowledge the facts but buy the ticket anyway.
I have no actual knowledge, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the strategy for Android and then people just realized that Kotlin had productivity and correctness benefits so they decided to support it for server development too.
Blender Extensions Platform
In May, the rains returned, and so did the mosquitoes. And, lo, a fifth of them were full of deuterium. They had, in other words, been aestivating.

The next step is therefore to find out just where the insects were holing up while the rains were gone. If these shelters can be identified, they can be attacked. Alternatively, special efforts might be made to ambush the aestivators as they wake up, by extensive insecticide-spraying campaigns at the beginning of the rainy season. Either or both of these could put a significant dent in local mosquito populations—which would, in turn, make malaria less of a problem.

Killing mozzies to rid us of their pathogens is worse than attacking the pathogens themselves, because: 1) let's not kill these little lives unnecessarily and 2) we risk upsetting the ecosystem that we can neither understand nor repair if we damage it.

Let's have vaccines for malaria, or "cure" mosquitos of malaria. Let's improve doxycycline so it doesn't stain your teeth but is still a good prophylaxis. Let's genetically modify humans (with a virus) so we have innate immunity to malaria, and the various "river fever" diseases that are mozzie-borne.

I just think attacking the pathogens is a much safer bet than attacking their vectors via ecosystem-engineering. Our ecosystems are getting hammered enough, we can't risk further upsetting their delicate balances. It's sort of like saying "Let's eradicate heavy metal poisoning by killing all fish stocks and draining the oceans", a sickening, hard-to-undo ridiculously mistaken strategy.
One dev said in one post that they like Uncle Bob.

I think that’s it.
So can you tell us what the use case is? Because I've been watching for far longer than the last couple of years, and I've seen those three narratives being pushed exactly as GP described. If there's someone credible who knows, they're not making themselves heard and it's certainly not clear to me right now what it's for if not those.

> I get it, shitting on crypto has become hip

To be honest if GP was trying to shit on crypto they would've mentioned the ridiculous NFT craze and multitude of shitcoin grifts of the last few years. They're being very charitable by sticking to some very simple things.

> the general trend for bitcoin has been a steady increase in value

There has been nothing steady about Bitcoin's value, wild swings up and down are the norm. I mean if you look at the exchange rate to an actual currency 10 years ago vs today then pretend nothing happened in between, then yes that's a nice steady rate of growth. However that would be ignoring multiple huge, sudden spikes and falls that have happened during this period.
The article suggests this is a single app which offers a single entry point into many disparate systems, which currently flight attendants have to access individually in order to do their jobs.
> exploiting the inclusive nature of the community

This is why standards and boundaries are important, and why inclusivity is not an unalloyed virtue.
Something important to understand about gambling is that the entertaining part is not actually the prize, but the uncertainty between pulling the arm and getting the result. Buying a 20 dollar ticket to dream about a billion dollars for a day isn't a horrible use of money - it's just like any other form of entertainment. It only becomes a problem when people are addicted to that feeling of uncertainty.
ZFS runs on NetBSD, and FreeBSD. NOT OpenBSD.
"I hate what you say but I will die defending your right to say it". In all places, these people are curating comments and posts to push agenda.

It's incredibly tiresome, not just online but in real life. There is no freedom vs control debate. There's just the people who advocate arresting those who teach their children inconvenient truths vs those who advocate arresting those who use naughty language.
In real life, unless you’re recorded, there isn’t a record of what you say. Moreover, people who do hear first hand what you say will recall different aspects and also forget detail over time.

This allows people to evolve and to not be beholden to something they said/thought a decade ago and no longer think.
That's a little over the top, if you want there to be a radio observatory in PR it would still be better to build a new one.
We don't need a free speech platform. People need a choice as to how the content they see is moderated. That's what forums used to do, until we collectively decided to just put all the forums on Facebook or Twitter rather than having separate forums for each interest.

Everyone thinking "we need free speech on Twitter" has lost the plot, and, as you mentioned, the revealed preference of people who claim they want free speech is actually toward heavier moderation (but moderation they like).

Most of them go on Twitter for one kind of content, and on Parler or "Truth" Social for another kind, and they don't really want the streams to cross. We used to have this in the 90's and early 2000's. The question is how to get it back.
While true, is that relevant? This app is free and doesn't even have in-app purchases, so it sounds like it was just built by a person (one sufficiently human to its users that the reviews are directly written to or about "Jeff") who had some reason to care for this community and isn't a "business".
Great article, made this exact same mistake in space exploration before learning to transmit demand and not supply. There are so many principles like this I learned from playing through the game. One area I've been focusing on improving is trying to anticipate how any given subsystem might go wrong and add even simple circuitry to detect condition and alarm/signal to the factory dashboard. Has cut down on the times where I realize some part of factory hasn't been working properly for like 5 hours. Applying this to software development has made me better about getting better about how I use rollbar logging
Same reaction, I'm totally lost.

"it displays information required by crew members to manage their rosters and work lives"

What does this mean? I read the entire article and still have no clue what a "roster" is, why a flight attendant would need to "manage" such a thing, and what data is being pulled to make this easier/better

"‘reserve’ flight attendants "

Also have no idea what a "reserve" flight attendant is...

Edit: Apparently there are some of you you think I actually need these words defined. I do not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seinfeld, clean? Futurama, surreal or absurdist????
Schools are highly regulated. Loans are highly regulated. Education from colleges is accredited and held accountable to third party institutions. Employers training you then charging you isn't regulated at all. It's ripe for abuse and clearly abuse is taking place to the woman in the article.
It seems to me more like a USA thing. Maybe some other countries where there is little or no worker protection legislation, too?
Looks like its pulling data from Jetnet which is a flight management tool used by these Airlines?
Well, projects like the BSDs need a lot of platform support, where even LLVM is still lacking. You wouldn’t want a different compiler for each arch. There simply aren’t that many candidates.
Also a good reminder why exceptions and optionals exist. Bonkers that "I didn't get a response" defaults to 0.
Well, it's not a business, and it doesn't adversely affect the other business so this is fine. The complaint isn't really by the app developer. It's mostly that life is being made hard for the attendants through blocking the developer.
It's funny how angsty 2018 era San Francisco was about ride sharing. Everyone thought it was "big tech is crushing the world", when really it was "vc's and endowments are going to subsidize your rides for 10 years because they are terrified of missing out". Thanks Yale!

Rides were $5 cross town in SF. Those losses? They are still subsidizing them, just by less.
I enjoyed it.

I tend to use test harnesses. I write about my approach, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...

That said, my testing code generally dwarfs my implementation code; whether harness or unit. Part of the reason is that I spent 27 years at a company, where Quality was a religion, and it was very important, not to faceplant in public.

I learned to write very effective tests, very quickly. Most of my test harnesses are "full-fat" applications, that many people would want to ship. I'll often throw them together in a day or so. It helps me to practice for The Rilly Big Shoo.

I use almost every line of code I write, in shipping software, so it is a very practical approach.
I get it on Apple as well. It must be a janky implementation or something.
> The only problem is that all those free speech advocates are actually NIMBY's when it comes to free speech

It's unclear from your comment. Are you saying that Musk and West are our free speech champions and everybody else is a poser?

Because Musk and West do not care about free speech either. It's the problem these rich idiots all claim to have: "I need a platform where my voice can be heard," while their voice already gets top spot on the trending Twitter page and on newspaper front pages.

Of course Michael Spicer said it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqhgTjFkLo
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

It’s a memoir by the co-star of a disney channel show about her relationship with her abusive mother. I thought it was a very sad, funny, and hopeful read. I loved how introspective the author is.
That's what "Coin Mixers" would do in the past, but the good one's stopped operating.
It's wild that they did not hire some image consultants and change their name in the last 100 years. Though perhaps their notoriety is a net positive in the industry they operate in.
Most academics don’t have as many interviews and talks uploaded with them as SPJ but check out Stephanie Weirich’s Strange Loop talk[1] and interview on Corecursive.[2]

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=wNa3MMbhwS4

[2] https://corecursive.com/015-dependant-types-in-haskell-with-...
Because a blockchain can operate in the presence of even large and powerful malicious actors.

The issue here is a social/regulatory/legal one. The current international shipping game is a cartel business, and the cartel doesn't want competition - so they can use government, brand recognition, etc to maintain their moat.

It's not that the blockchain version isn't clearly better, it's that the getting there part is a very difficult and tricky process.
> Yet again, I like that Musk and Kanye kind of people claim that they want free speech because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it.

How do you propose to do that, if you can't hold reddit, twitter et al accountable for the same today?
This is very to my question. Also, his egomaniacle attitude is killing me.
If the contract is reasonably symmetric, which it generally is not for this kind of scam, there isn't a problem.

Example: a company hires someone, expecting at least a year of labor, two weeks of training. Training cost is amortized across the year if the employee leaves early, the company is obliged to employ the employee for that full year unless terminated with cause.

The scam is to pretend the training has some absurd value relative to the wage, then hold it over the employee to retain their labor, while reserving the right to lay them off whenever it's convenient. Hey, training is on us, you're welcome!

That such arrangements constitute indentured servitude was decided by the Supreme Court in the 19th century. It's no different from the company store.
My personal addition: Code isolation

I've "prematurely" split up code across multiple/classes functions so many times before these huge god functions became set-in-stone and unwieldy.

I had a co-worker once who was extremely heavy on YAGNI--and I don't mean that as a pejorative, it was a really helpful check against code solving non-existent problems. They once called me out on a refactor I'd done surreptitiously for a payments flow to split payment states into multiple classes. Serendipity had struck, and I was able to point to a submitted (but not accepted) diff that would've broken the entire payments flow (as opposed to just breaking one state of the flow).

I always think about that every time I question whether I'm isolating code prematurely.
Most of these companies don't actually have a lot of "secret sauce" that can be exported to other companies like this. Maybe they could do it trading on their brand image, but dedicated logistics software companies would likely offer a much better product. Internal products tend to be built to internal needs, and aren't always great quality.
this may be true, but it's very disappointing. As BigCos keep getting bigger and owning more and more data, it is essentially a moratorium on individuals implementing good ideas that provide value to other individuals.

As citizens we should oppose this concept of data ownership; you shouldn't be able to 'own' facts that the public and your employees already reasonably have access to.
They address more than just double spend attacks, but also ownership and control. Without a private key, in a protocol where every transaction must be signed, no changes can be made to a ledger where balances are associated with corresponding public keys.

The human issues that we have from use of the system, fraud, P&D schemes, non-custodial wallets (exchanges) etc, aren't fundamental issues with the technology itself, but with the periphery. Cash can be used to buy drugs, bank accounts can be used for money laundering, financial markets can be manipulated.

We must be cognisant of the fact that where there are people, there will be misuse. Crypto is no different.

> Crypto effectively assumes that people can't be trusted to exchange currency fairly, but can (and indeed must) be trusted to do everything else (pricing, disclosure, governance, etc.) fairly.

Must we assume that pricing is to be trusted? What pricing is this, exchange pricing? If you're using centralised exchanges then the issue is whether you trust the centralised exchange to keep an honest order book, and whether you're able to determine whether the exchange rate reflects the value of the token/asset.

Many people have recently begun trading on financial markets, see Gamestop, wallstreetbets etc, without the proper knowledge required to ensure they're making the right decisions. This is no different from buying BTC because your neighbour told you it'll hit $100k by Christmas.

These are societal problems from people who want to get rich quick and almost always get hurt trying.
Well, even so, getting a DUI while sleeping is strictly better than getting a DUI after a car crash.

Plus, I don't know how American cops work, but hopefully they're less likely to stop and breathalyze a dude sleeping in a parking lot than a guy on the road at 4 AM.

Also, now that I think about it, American cars are huge, if you put the seat all the way back is your body you going to be even visible from the road?
Dental issues have killed more than atomic bombs have...
Further memory protections committed to -current
While I’m a fan of Arch Linux, following the mainline kernel closely causes breakages once in a while. I recall some breaking changes in a patch kernel release with mdraid a few years ago, and just recently they broke the Intel GPU in a patch released for recently released hardware (the new framework laptop, among others).
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does wiggle its eyebrows meaningfully in causation's direction.
It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

One side story. It is third party app that is not authorized by AA. Instead of get permission through a contract, the app developer scraped AA's data without AA's permission.
How can Chrome be considered secure if its "security" entails the equivalent of giving a shell on the PC of all users to a shady corporation like Google?