skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This piece accusing Watts of laziness is just as guilty.

`It’s true that Buddhism, and particularly Zen Buddhism, teaches that we are perfect just as we are, we have merely forgotten our true nature.`

As someone who has studied Zen Buddhism for a few decades, you will be very hard pressed to find anyone practiced in it refer to the words 'true' and 'perfect' so casually.

True is only meaningful with respect to an abstract system of rules, and this extends likewise to perfection. You need an external metric to determine what is, and by the same token, is not, perfect.

Zen Buddhism teaches people how to experience the world independent of that part of your mind that is actively categorizing the world into true, false, imperfect, perfect, etc. To experience your own experience of life as directly as possible, without mediation through your linguistic centers or moral philosophies. Since we're programmers, one analogy would be to reduce all those needless abstractions in the call stack down to the essential turing-complete read/write add/sub and jump instructions.

So Alan is forcing an important point on the Yogi. You can only know or define enlightenment with respect to an abstract system of thought. Remove the abstraction, and there is a complete liberation. No meaningful way to form distinctions. "Doesn’t he see the Brahman everywhere, and in all people, all beings". All becomes one. There is no difference between the enlightened and the non-enlightened in the non-conceptual world. Which is the world that Zen teaches how to experience, if for no other reason than to reveal that it is possible, and provide a renewed perspective on the seemingly ordinary miracle of conscious life.
Well, more or less, at the moment it’s for fun and art. It’s recreational. Odd thing is that SerenityOS has made so much progress so quickly that it may soon be a viable daily-use operating system.
4chan is considered "far right" because they don't censor speech
> Protection of free speech, its intent atleast, is to protect citizens from governments.

I believe you are describing the 1st amendment.

Freedom of speech exists as a philosophical concept outside of the 1st amendment. The 1st amendment is simply the application of that concept to the American constitution.
Sure, you can write the stuff yourself instead of using a third party library. Might be harder than it sounds, though.
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You already gave a great overview of issues. But inventing something totally different from what people know without any reason doesn't make any sense. Look, YugaByteDB, CockroachDB, and some others use Postgres-compatible protocol/dialect. You can use most of standard tooling/query-builders/ORMs to speak with this databases. Why not use Redis or Cassandra protocol? Damn, leaving WebSQL as is would be much better choice. And please, don't say that "Web is different".
I’m going to summarize my earlier comment with this:

SAFe with Scrum teams (how instructors are taught SAFe) merely adds more ceremonial meetings and sucks for everyone.

SAFe with Kanban teams trades the scrum ceremony for less frequent SAFe ceremony and is a much better experience for developers.

SAFe corporate needs to change the way they teach it to address the clearly visible issues coming from the way they currently teach it, based on the comments here.
This is so tragic. I’ve been in Seoul for Halloween a few years ago and it’s taken very seriously - everyone dressed up in costumes, makeup, etc. Streets were full and it was a very vibrant
no questions, but please keep working on that. I'm very impressed with how smoothly the current cowasm implementation is working.

For the future do your have a plans to support WASI and other modern WebAssembly stuff (like WebAssembly Component Model support f.e)?
I'm not sure why you feel the need to attack my experience

When you think killing all of apache2 is a good idea, because one thread OOMs, out of 1000 apache2 threads, of course I question your experience.

Obviously we won't agree here, we're too far apart, so I guess there is no point in discussing further.

I likely won't be checking back.
The inclusions of "Blackest Black 3.0" is just beautiful. I hope the Hex is `-1-1-1`. Or maybe it sucks brightness from the pixels around it.
Another issue is that I prefer being a Dementor on my own…
I wish we'd just call it what it is--corruption. We've got to start holding our country to a higher standard if we want things to improve, instead of just making up new words to normalize it.
That's an extremely common theme in the world. Teachers, therapists, doctors, etc. Often the instructor is completely fucked up, and is trying to cope with that by teaching/helping others. But they still have insightful and good advice, even if they don't follow it themselves. Don't focus on the instructor as some kind of idol that, if their perfection wanes, so does your attention to their teaching. Instead focus on the message and whether it will work for you. Many people find that it does, and it's that direct result that matters.
Does it support RFC 7250 (Raw Public Keys)? I can’t easily tell.
You can't really skip anything. Concepts and techniques recur, over and over again. Half of dealing with the "advanced" stuff is just taking its leading order term and pretending it's classical. Quantum electrodynamics is fun for explaining atomic physics and below, but for everything bigger than a molecule it's useless and classical E&M rules the day.

So... yeah, you've got to start at the beginning. Or at least, know what you're passing by.
> the WIV dispatches did indeed signal that the institute faced an acute safety emergency in November 2019; that officials at the highest levels of the Chinese government weighed in; and that urgent action was taken in an effort to address ongoing safety issues

The WIV is the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There is conversation about whether we have sufficient extractable lithium reserves to replace 2 billion ICE cars. Do you we have enough lithium to do that and back up the entire global grid?
I have zero sympathy for these guys, nor for anyone else running their business on free tier infrastructure. This is the kind of customer nobody needs.
> Spaced repetition and incremental reading don't have to be a conscious effort

> The valuable part looks like to be in the effort of understanding, thinking deeply and widely and summarizing.

Which part of this is not conscious effort? You just made a stronger case for such automated systems, especially for people who don't have good memory or abnormal levels of discipline and motivation.
Thanks for creating awesome software. Being able to script it with python is amazing.

One problem I have been having on MacOS with Android emulator: proxying traffic from the emulator (my own app) will work for about 15 minutes or so... then all traffic ceases to flow, and Emulator / Setting / "AndroidWifi" says limited connectivity. If I forget AndroidWifi access point, re-add it, and restart, it all works again for about 15 minutes. Any ideas how I would debug this?
What stops you from using the older Adobe products that are available for legal free downloads?
uhh what? looks like he's just keeping his stake in the go private. rolling equity doesn't make him a creditor it just means now he has a stake in the private venture. where'd you get this info?
Average weekly working hours: 30.9 hours per week in 2011, it had dropped to 30.1 in 2021, only being below 30 in 2020

Across Sweden, only around 1% of employees work more than 50 hours a week, one of the lowest rates in the OECD, where 13% is the average. By law, Swedes are given 25 vacation days, while many large firms typically offer even more. Parents get 480 days of paid parental leave to split between them

Joe Armstrong, Erlang creator, talked a lot about being able to work on Erlang while being in Sweden because as a parent he was allowed to work less hours a day and had plenty of free time.
then why are nut allergies the most common when there are no GMO nuts? or shellfish when we don't have GMO shellfish? why do whites have higher rates of childhood allergies (6.6%) but blacks are now rising the fastest?

none of this really seems to fit with a GMO hypothesis.
Nothing is black and white. People being rational is fiction. Advertisers force us to eat shit: the very existence of mass media depends on it.

In functioning democracies, the government represents the people and thus anything it enforces is by order of its people. Only in crypto dictatorships does your argument hold. My solution then is to either evacuate or improve the quality of your representation.
What percentage of Republicans physically assault people to silence them?
I wonder if there's an alternative to clap's derive stuff? I really love it (I think it came from structopt), it makes defining and handling the arguments nice and easy when things get a bit complex.
But why exactly?
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not. People definitely do keep pulling fire alarms "for funsies", and that's probably a lot easier to prosecute than "who falsely initiated the 'crowd crush' protocol".
How? OP made a claim but OP hasn’t written a systems programming language as prevalent as D. It’s a baseless claim that’s either the result of inexperience or attempted flame bait. Walter is the only compiler expert on HN and our arguments should at least be thoughtful
Nuclear doesn't make financial sense in Europe either. The French taxpayer is forking over billions of euros to keep their reactors online, as is the German taxpayer. Finland's latest nuclear reactor had cost-overruns somewhere in the neighborhood of 350%

The only place on planet earth right now where nuclear might be financially sustainable is China, where highly skilled construction labor is very cheap, where they are building dozens of nuclear reactors in bulk, and where regulatory hurdles don't exist on account of their... administrative system.

But that is only my speculation. We don't have insight into their cost figures, and any data released by the CCP has probably been massaged.
Don't work 40 years without taking a vacation.
What blue color job is most comparable to SW Engineering?
While performing my job as a software engineer, I often ask myself, why is this job so hard? You need to keep on studying to be able to do it properly. If it is not language features or paradigms, it is understanding the concepts used in existing code, or trying to understand the math behind some algorithm you need. Or it is digging deeper and deeper in code while chasing a bug. Never it is simply applying the knowledge and skills you already have, even after many years of experience.
Then I compare my job to a craftsman like a carpenter or someone who works in construction. How comparable, or not, is it to a software engineering job? Is there a blue color job that gets close in terms of needing to use new knowledge and skills just to be able to execute the job?
Don't get me wrong, I like this job, and it is very satisfying at times when one makes steady progress and one can be passionated, even absorbed by it.
Do you relate, or is it simply me? I chose blue color in the question because otherwise I would probably get an answer like "any type of engineering".
Such an idea has been discussed for centuries. Adam Smith warned division of labor would lead people to become “…as stupid and ignorant as it is for a human creature to become.” by repeating the same career behaviors for too long.

IMO this explains a great deal about current society stuck on the idea re-training is a waste, the habit of re-electing politicians for decades being one outcome of living life “on the career escalator.”

Such an inner monologue becomes a default state of being.

Accepting simple memes like “will work for money” become the norm and “will work to acquire knowledge” becomes vulgar language.
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Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Guess we will have to agree to disagree. Never said he was going to make a profit. In fact the opposite. What you are describing is not an Investor but a Donor. Take a look at these equity investors/donors - not lenders.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/who-is-financing-elon-mus...

Firms like:

Fidelity Management & Research Company
DFJ Growth IV Partners
Honeycomb Asset Management
Sequoia Capital Fund

All these financial companies have accepted money from retirement funds, pensions etc on the assumption that they will get more money in return. Please don't troll me by saying they could have given him money without seeking returns. We both know that just isn't the case.
Nope, not even formal proofs can save you, see WPA2/KRACK.

Using proofs just shifts the bugs into the assumptions/axioms (i.e you think your proof is proving X but it's actually proving Y)
I work in London, UK. The distrust levels in the company I work in are difficult to gauge as I'm contracted out to a client site.
From what I hear other contractors in the client site the level of distrust is simply down to pay. The parent companies that have contractors onsite rarely offered a rise that matched inflation even when inflation was <3% let alone now when it's >10%. I've even seen employees of one parent company move to another for a five figure pay rise and end up in the same building doing an almost identical job.

> I've always perceived opinions on HN regarding work as being of the 'take the money and run' variety, switching jobs as fast as possible and generally having no loyalty in the company

This is not a fair picture to paint of people who job hop. I've never been in the same role for more than three years but that's less about loyalty/money and more about my desire to learn new things at a pace faster than the companies move.
A common tactic in practicing music is to play a passage slowed down, sped up, with varying rhythms, up/down an octave, etc, with the idea that if you have complete mastery you can also play it the way it's written.
Amazing, thank you for sharing
https://archive.ph/xtF0x
I'm not sure how helpful this is?
The service Pantone provides is not really a list of colors. It's the calibration of almost every printer and item that can create color, in every medium and on every surface, against their color library. Not just printable colors either, also things that can't be printed like metal and florescent colors.

It means you can get a book cover and a business card printed, some plastic injection molded, have your car painted and be assured they are all going to be exactly the same color when they arrive.
It's the mapping between pantone names and the real world that's valuable, and this doesn't seem to help with that.
Definitely not. Though I never completed it, I still ended up in as a software engineer in the end. Hobby programming definitely made me a much better programmer during my time in college. However Work definitely took the fun out of hobby programming.
I used to criticize Watts for what I thought was not practicing what he preached: he died of alcoholism. That was until I suffered late-stage alcoholism myself. Fortunately, in the modern era I had available all kinds of help not available to Watts at the time. Very people in those days escaped the ravages of late-stage alcoholism, enlightened or not.

Edit: See also Jack Kerouac
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I don't disagree with you. My entire point is that "play" isn't a thing. It's a behavior we can point to and categorize, but it shouldn't be defined by some post-hoc function. That's a teleological view applied to natural phenomena.

The behavioral pattern exists. It's obviously instinctual. It may exist for a variety of functions, both currently important to human evolution or as a vestige from a previous era. The my entire point is that "play" again, is a social construction placed on top of a observed behavioral pattern.
Oh wow. Didn’t expect to see this here. Earth Abides is one of my favorites, too. Must have read it over five times. I even visited Berkley and the Indian Rock Park close to where the author lived, which is a central location in the book.
Just double checked and I’m pretty sure this not true? Or at least it won’t be as of November 28. Unless I’m reading something wrong?
This is really cool, William! A lifetime ago, we were pondering what it would take to get Sage running in the browser from a static server. It feels like you're nearly there. Is that in the plans?
Link to original statement: https://t.me/durov/190
> What makes you thing they weren't talking about biological sex?

Biological sex is unrelated to the topic at hand, unless of course they were working on some genetics homework, or working on a eugenics project I suppose.

> Which are not applicable in this case, since the sex of the individial in question is inambiguous.

Is it - where do you draw the line? If it's production of gametes, what if she doesn't? If it's hormonal balance, she's now biologicaly female. If it's presence/absence of a penis/vagina, she could have either. If it's X/Y chromosomes, she could be XY, XXY, XX[0], or chimeric.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

More importantly, in what way does her biological sex impact her public influence? I certainly hope her chromosomes or genetalia have little to no impact on her public life.

> A man is defined as an adult male.

From Trans Man in Webster:
Definition of trans man

: a transgender man : a man who was identified as female at birth

Making it acceptable per webster to use singular man/woman for a trans individual.

> Yes, the intent of satire is to make fun of absurd situations.

That's The Onion. The Bee is propaganda wrapped up in "it's just a joke bro". The Onion punches both ways, the Bee doesn't.
systemd has a bunch of other application/service level resource control stuff you might like, besides IPAddressDeny, listed here:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.res...

Also you might like nspawn it's a pretty cool alternative to chroot:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-nspawn

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nsp...
lol bsfr, you really think the middle east would be a paradise without us? it's "the graveyard of empires" with a 3 thousand year track record of being a mess. british and french imperialism obv didn't help but come on, don't be pretending things would be all rosy if not for America. it would still be a mess just with different people in charge.
Totally true. This isn't unique to Meta, as you noted.

Investors can choose to avoid these shares, of course, since they're missing the "possible takeover premium." In the old days, they would have.

I don't see Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders crusading against this, by the way.
I find this just annoying.
Do you have insurance against house fires or vehicle theft? Nah. I think you'll be just fine.

First two sentences from the abstract:-

Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood.
> You don't need to know what kind of web server is running when you send a request and the WEB server don't need to know what kind of client is sending the request to answer.

Exactly. It’s not an API - it’s a way to transfer arbitrary blocks of data. Applications that use http have to build an API on top.

That’s why it’s not even close to a valid comparison, and yet it has still become extremely complex over time.

> Flawed is still better than no solution.

This not the case. In many cases flawed solutions simply fail.
Pantone/PMS colors are used for spot color¹. If you're not designing for spot color print reproduction, you wouldn't need this. If you want to translate a specific RGB color to a Pantone color, there are sites like https://www.ginifab.com/feeds/pms/ which can make suggestions.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_color
The other two books in the Siege trilogy are also fun, though maybe not equal to the “sixteen ways”. All of them have quire abrupt endings.
This is probably not the right reaction (and may well be unpopular), but it makes me angry. I know no one is trying to kill anyone, but it feels like people disregarding others' safety just to get a little bit closer to some amusement. Ideally people would just relax and accept that there isn't room for them nearer the stage/etc.

> everyone turn around, people are being killed

I wonder if this would worsen the danger as people push to get away from the crush while others are still pushing from the back (as they haven't been made aware of the situation). But the fact that people are in the back pushing in the first place still sickens me.
"Treat ideas like cattle... Except this idea."
Look, it's going to get worse as more people get fed up with aggressive advertising practices and learn about safe ad blocking. It's going to be disruptive, and it will put out of business many websites that aren't paying attention. Big ad companies know it and are actively looking for new ways to keep eyeballs and product placement everywhere.

Don't worry about the few people who use ad blockers, just be ready to follow new ad practices when they come.

In fact, If I find a website useful, and it doesn't push aggressive/tracking ads, I purposefully whitelist it. Complaining about people blocking ads on your website might not encourage them to whitelist it, though. Your best advocate is your own work.
I’ve found Vercel to work well for my personal projects. It’s supports dynamic applications and static ones, custom domains, CI for deployment and has a useable CLI all available on its free tier.
> Walter is the only compiler expert on HN

What the fuck?
>How do investigators have any idea how it got there?

They often can't be certain, and I'm sure somebody is in prison because they're DNA was in an inconvenient place, but it's a far superior form of evidence than the other methods mentioned.

Unless a crime is widely watched in person with supporting recordings and DNA evidence, it's basically impossible to be a 100% certain of what happened. That's why court only attempts to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
NASA in 2001 paid $0.67/gallon for liquid oxygen. What industrial liquid aside from water (or things dissolved in water) is that cheap?
Satire only counts if you make fun of both sides? Is Stephen Colbert a propagandist too?
I only say it's impossible in the sense that even the modicum of effort required seema to be beyond the tolerance of moat people today.
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What I find incredible about Watt's history is how so many of his talks were recorded with fairly high fidelity. There was almost nothing that could have been done with these in the 60s, yet they were preserved for 40 years until an appropriate distribution mechanism materialized.

I do like his content but there is almost kind of a defeatist element to it. I often wonder if this somewhat dark shading was, in part, due to the alcoholism.
I'll just leave this here (again). It made its limited rounds at the beginning of 2020, and allowed me to prepare a little bit. Since it was obvious from that article alone, that it would be going global and causing chaos.

This is not speaking about lab-leak. That wasn't on the radar at all, at the time. Just the 'denial' in the beginning from the apparatshiks (globally), and then the
panicked lockdown actionism.

https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

(Loads slowly, give it time.)
Context matters. You can't arbitrarily declare something a gift and expect the local tax authorities to just agree with you.