skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post says that moderation is first and foremost a signal-to-noise curation. Writing long form content in a Twitter thread greatly reduces the signal-to-noise ratio.
I don't understand if the AI knew that by passing a move it would lose or if it thought that all of its supposed territory actually belonged to itself. In the first case the adversary really won the game. The second case is something that can happen between humans, especially beginners. If the players do not agree on the result they keep playing until they do, with some adjustments depending on the flavor of the rules (basically the usual area vs territory scoring.)
I read it as "this was our decision" as opposed to "this is our fault". Basically they are saying not to blame and middle managers, investors, board members or whatever.
>work on your core product instead of this autofellatio

The autofellatio is more likely less work than doing real work. Mozilla's goals nowadays are about tangential matters and publishing feel-good blogs every so often.
> which will return us to our February headcount of almost 7,000 people

I guess about 8,150 employees and 1,150 are being laid-off.
Is this site broken? On my 5G connection in iPhone safari I only see 2000 ms red blips.
I'm in Australia, a great many people retire to a few years in some kind of camping rig - single body or vehicle plus trailer or ... (bus plus trailer with boat plus small car and motor bikes, all ingeneouly towed | stacked).

Outside of the main cities many rural people work across a big area, I grew up in the Kimberley and spent a decade or so in global geophysical exploration across all the continents and many countries - I can get by with a swag but I do like a good minimal fit out :-)

Your jeep looks pretty tidy - clearly did the job!.

and then there's always the bike option (a fellow W.Australian):

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHUosjKQQ0
I would not give up on the government route. The Defense Digital Service (DDS) has remote positions. Other federal agencies (e.g. CISA) hire in a variety of geographies.

Additionally, there are a variety of positions available at the city, county, and state levels.
USDS and 18F are great but there’s also an increasing amount of state and city “digital service” organizations you could look into, which have differing policies regarding remote work. Off the top of my head, I know Colorado and California both have them, as well as some larger cities such as San Francisco, NYC, and Austin. You can probably find one where you live.

https://oit.colorado.gov/colorado-digital-service

https://innovation.ca.gov/

https://digitalservices.sfgov.org/joinus/

https://www.austintexas.gov/department/about-innovation-offi...

https://www.nyc.gov/content/oti/pages/

On the non-gov side, there’s Code for America. They oversee a network of local “brigades” of volunteers working on all sorts of projects, such as automated marijuana crime expungement in places where it has been legalized.

https://codeforamerica.org/programs/criminal-justice/automat...

https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/

They also run a major conference of civic tech orgs every year, bringing together both private and public sector groups.

https://summit.codeforamerica.org/

Outside of the US, there are many other similar groups, such as Code for Africa, Code for Germany, etc.

https://codeforall.org/our-global-network/
At the very least you could be susceptible overreacting because of an emotionally charged issue. Eg. Reddit's boston marathon bomber disaster, when they started trying to round up brown people (actual perp "looked white")

Maybe that wouldn't be your crusade and maybe you would think you were standing up for an oppressed minority. You get overly emotional, and you could be prone to making some bad decisions.

People act substantially differently on reddit vs. hackernews; honestly I have to admit to being guilty of it. Some of the cool heads here are probably simultaneously engaged in flamewars on reddit/twitter.
And it makes the news and... so what.

The people who think the Jan 6 attack was a good idea will add it to the list of other things leftists do that they think justify the Jan 6 attack.

For that matter I'd say that a lot of what "Black Lives Matter" does is also nihilistic. That is, there is not a lot of expectation that things will change because their ideology doesn't believe that things can change and because it won't look at the variables that could be changed to make a difference. What I do know is that some investigator will come around in 20 years and ask "why is this neighborhood a food desert?" but the odds are worse than 50% that they'll conclude that "it used to have a supermarket but it got burned down in a riot" is part of the answer. In the meantime conservatives will deny that the concept of a "food desert" is meaningful at all and also say that Jan 6 was OK because leftists are always burning down their neighborhoods and getting away with it -- except you (almost) never get away with burning down your neighborhood in terms of the lasting damage it does to your community unless your community is in the gentrification fast track, see

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

(It might be the sample I see, but I know a few right-wingers who admit that there is a lot of craziness on their side but it is justified by what the other side does whereas I never hear from leftists that it's justifiable to say that "A trans woman is indistinguishable from a natural woman" because of something stupid a conservative did.)
This has been one of the only consistently successful techniques to break game addictions.
Charge them $10 to create an account (anonymous, real, parody whatever), then if they break a rule give them a warning, 2 rule breaks, a 24 hour posting suspension, 3 strikes and permanently ban the account.

Let them reregister for $10.

Congrats, i just solved spam, bots, assholes and permanent line steppers.
Sure. Go to Walmart and buy a reloadable, prepaid debit card using *cash*.

Register online using a fake name of your choice and any address except your home address. The actual card with your fake name will be shipped to the address you provide.

Pro Tip: You *can* actually use a P.O. Box for this.
Every local post office has a valid street address.
Use it but add your box number as a second line, for example:

John Q. Public
987 PO Street <--- street address of the post office
#1234 <--- your box number
SomeCity, AA 11123

Reload your card at Walmart using *cash* as needed.

It helps to have an anonymous burner prepaid phone number too. Ultra Mobile Paygo is only $3 per month (check eBay for SIM). Very useful for lots of other purposes too.

Enjoy your new identity! You're welcome.
Yes, we did test that and it worked reasonable fast (backup to external USB SSD)
If you are interested in teaching and are based in the US, the TEALs program by Microsoft Philanthropies (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/teals) is an option to consider. I volunteered with them for a few years teaching AP Computer Science and I enjoyed it.
Very helpful and unfortunate context, thanks
I have had similar experiences. I could not get a non-corrupt backup from one machine; it would repeatedly ask me to regenerate the local database from remote, which never succeeded. Oddly, another machine never seemed to have an issue, but that's not an argument in favor of using the software. It is possible there are "safe" versions, but without a way to identify them (all the releases I used were linked from the homepage).
What did they screw up, though?

Their psychic abilities failed? A coin flip came up tails but they bet on heads?
That's literally what the letter is saying.
The last time I got laid off, my severance was basically enough to buy a bus ticket to the unemployment office. What they're doing here is incredible. (Almost felt compelled to name names here but took a breath)
I think the worst one I've ever seen was a nurse I know was given a pen (of bic quality), a $10 giftcard to fast food, and a lanyard as a gift from the hospital during COVID. She was pulling double shifts and exposed to all sorts of hazards (the union didn't come to save them on PPE for a long time). This hospital, by the way, is insanely profitable.

I'm not sure how you could insult people more. Even no gift would be less insulting.
that..

anything that is not moving around and has possibility to be connected via wire should be wired.

Both my and wife laptops while we are working at our home office are connected via wired connection. All the smart TVs in the house are wired, video games are wired.

The only things using wifi here are phones, tablets, the kids nintendo switch when it is out of the dock, laptops when out the office and iot stuff that does not have wired options to begin with..
I have been using Kopia to back up all of my laptops' home dirs to a raspberry pi for at least a couple years now. There is a CLI and a UI. The UI is somewhat funky and could benefit from an "easy mode" a la time machine, but it does work. I recently restored my home dir from it just the other day when migrating from one OS to another. My favorite thing about Kopia is that it performs incremental backups on tens of GB _much_ quicker than plan rsync can and is much more space-efficient to boot.
Example 68: a Company T-Shirt.
DRM makes 0 sense since you can get any content using torrents in 2min. It's not protecting anything, as a matter of fact it's just making people download more since it's a painful experience.

For example on Windows with Chrome you only get 720p playback for Netflix, complete nonsense.
Rust 1.65.0
Our products are popular with the vanlife crowd. We’ve sold to dozens of conversion companies at this point (we sell wire that can be used to hook up all the low voltage devices that get installed in them). So I’ve tried to figure out who is buying these, since as many people have noted, they’re so danged expensive. The best I’ve come up with is: people enjoy recreation. Some people like to go to the lake and might buy themselves a $100k boat. Other people like camping and might buy themselves a $100k van conversion. As for why a van vs an RV, I think there are arguments about size and maneuverability, but really I think it’s just that the Mercedes vans are cool, RVs are not, and people with disposable income like cool things more than uncool things.
Now what is better than a captive user base, and a monopoly on colors?

Could this be the break that the Open Colour Standard is waiting for?
I just started using Duplicati last week as my backup for ~900GB worth of photos, music, and other assorted data in an Ubuntu RAID1 array to Backblaze B2. I noticed it was a little sketchy when I poked at it (i.e. pausing the backup), but didn't realize it was so unstable. The initial backup did finish.

Is restic the best option for Linux backup to B2?
Hmm, ok.

"every social network catering to the far right", "shtick". I presume you mean gab.com, etc. -- the "far right" boogie man, no?

"they soon realize it doesn't work". I presume you refer to "block/take down..illegal..leave the rest", no?

And then an article about badly implemented moderation, boiling down to "things you don't like" and banning accounts.

So, am I incorrect to infer you don't want sites (somehow) banning just illegal stuff, and badly implemented moderation -- you want well-implemented moderation that "just works"?

Which I claim is impossible (from first principles, based on scale), but you still ... just want it!

If that's not a correct interpretation, then clarify, please.
Hongyanhe district heating demonstration project starts
This is a super cool project, it's fun for prototyping with Web Serial API, so you can have a custom web app, custom controllers... sky's the limit.
Is council tax basically property tax? Or is that separate?
Even better in the UK where you don't pay tax on severance (at least, the first 30K).
Show HN: Doola Banking: A new way for LLCs to bank and build credit in the US
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Multiple assertions per test are fine
Curious, what's the thinking behind making projects like this?
Do you build your own apps for it? I'm interesting in understanding how hackable it is? For example, can you write an app that pulls the GPS data from a run off it, or is that data readily accessible somehow?
Oh, my if this deal falls through, the second-best bid for Figma is probably 75% lower. Best to stay indy for all involved (except the VC's).
Good controls of rumours to share the letter on their press page.
This has been a long time in the making, many kudos for all the hard work by the maintainers and contributors!
Really excited about the integration with the ory kratos idp, should make building SSO much easier.
> The reality is there's very little evidence for an actual "broader slowdown". GDP growth in the US was decent in the last quarter despite a huge decline in home sales and headwinds from inflation, and unemployment remains at record lows.

I thinks as a payment processor, they are in a better position than most to predict sales trends. This effect might be restricted to their segment of the market. But if the payments they process are down significantly, then does it matter (to Stripe) if parts of the economy that they aren’t involved in are more robust?

I’m not excusing actions, but they have more data on the economy than most, just from their position in it. They may have thought (their part of) the market was going to keep growing (the mistake), but that doesn’t change the fact that it isn’t.

I just feel bad for everyone affected.
Why so? If you are opposed to Docker, there are containerd and podman.
We had the whole house, back then.

Nice neighborhood. I used to walk to Harrod's.
sure we can. pls drop a note to venkatasubramanian1209@gmail.com
Thoughts on writing an effective performance review at Microsoft (or elsewhere)
What more do you want? They are paying out millions in cash ("out of the goodness in their heart"... ie they don't have to and people shouldnt expect) which is directly reducing the value of the equity, which impacts them more than anyone else by a huge proportion. Handing out equity grants makes no little sense to me and is unlikely what these employees want... "hey you're fired, here's some stock at our latest valuation pre correction".
Can you write your own apps for a FitBit Luxe, i.e., can you pull the GPS data off using your own app, or get it off the device somehow?
“Deeply depressing to watch Twitter employees”
I wanted to add that I know of TEALs volunteers who went on to become full-time high school computer science teachers without PhDs, etc.
I am using the kmod, you can easily switch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/wa6xil/opnsense_2...
> The most natural fit for the Month type here is an enum, enum class or something that wraps one with additional functionality.

And I remain unconvinced that any of those "natural fits" add value.

> Do you?

Yes.

> Someone could have added a #define int float after all.

That would be straight up undefined behavior. Can't redefine keywords. Even a badly defined "i32" is clearly buggy enough that even the most foolish coworkers won't do it, and cleaning up after the outright malicious is at least more straightforward.

You're trying to say that the likelyhood of stupid tech debt from weird backwards compatability nonsense, and straight up intentional chaos, but I don't buy that you even believe it yourself. I have seen plenty of the former in real codebases, and a tiny fraction of the latter. Even the broken-ass codebases that I've worked on that have invoked undefined behavior by redefining keywords haven't gone as dumb as #define int float.

I've seen #define true 1 though.

> Except if you are assingning one month property from another month property you have to check the documentation for both that they math (and not just almost match). Whereas with a strong type the compiler checks that for you.

Even if you have two type-matched "Month" properties, if they belong to dates in different timezones, there's a good chance you've just written a bug by forgetting to account for the difference - and that's a far more likely bug to slip through the cracks than mixing up month index and month ordinal. And when you don't have type-matched "Month" properties, the author will likely write the same code they would've with integers, just with a bunch more casts, if only because they don't want to eat the recompiles of touching a date/time header that gets included goodness knows how far and wide.

Putting it another way: I'd argue that the manipulation of individual months is already inherently not type safe, as it lacks enough context to be type safe.
If it was for some random app or gadget I’d be mad but it’s literally trying to save humanity so I give it a pass. We need to be talking about mitigating and surviving catastrophic climate change more, not less.
Is anyone else having a hard time following along? Can someone provide a tl;dr?
> All of this together allowed me to build and sell already two startups. Develop and maintain easily many web sites and SaaS which creates me nice passive income

A successful entrepreneur, perhaps, but not necessarily a good programmer.

There's really nothing wrong with being dead average. The interview process is backwards in this industry anyway. No need to worry. It sounds like you're doing fine.
I am an embedded dev and use web technologies for visualization. I don't think anyone said one is more hardcore than the other. 15 years ago web developers were laughed at, but that changed when it got far more complex. Saying it today is just a signature for your ignorance.

Still, there is a huge difference in my opinion. C and Javascript are quite different to write, test, debug and deploy. I have not a deep understanding of web development and don't care much about the latest frameworks or the latest approach to solve something. I just use it for visualization purposes, which are fairly restricted on embedded systems most of the time. Quite the contrary to web solutions.

There is a contrast to your average C spin-loop and some exaggerated JS promise chain. Also I think some parts of embedded development are easier, especially bare metal applications. Only static memory allocation for example, predictable common access to shared memory between main loop and interrupt subroutines. On the other hand you don't just execute some unit tests on your machine. You probably need specialized software. The complexity of the system as a whole is far lower than all the monkeys involved in displaying a website. The hardware to use is most often far less general than a webbrowser and you really need to read the manual and system specification of your CPU of choice.

Of course embedded systems also include the usual linux box. This kind of embedded development is far more comparable to classical application development. Getting desktop OS to do I/O beyond keyboard/mouse/display comes with its own perils. In practice these systems mostly interface lower level systems that do specific tasks while providing interfaces to networking. All in all these are pretty distinct worlds in my opinion.
Do you know what the developer story is for Coros? I'd never heard of it until you mentioned this, and it is an expensive device for sure.
I went on an interview some years ago and was asked how I'd architect a certain situation with Models and Controllers. I spent some time discussing why that wasn't the right solution for what they were trying to do, and they said thanks but no thanks.

Now to be fair to them, I was asked to do a certain task and I failed to do that task. It's pretty cut and dry.

But I also walked away glad they turned me down, because if they're going to try and force me to do something a specific way when that way is inefficient, or troublesome or just plain not the best answer, then I wouldn't really want to be working there anyway.
This is brilliant, I had never thought about it like this before. I’d maybe say grow like a tree rather than tentacles although you might have a point in that if you’re speaking with the wrong person it could be pretty cthulonic.
Does anyone have experience with comparing restic and Rclone? I feel like they are similar.

* https://rclone.org/
Reading through your post, I am noticing some trivial English mistakes that are common to non-native speakers.

It's worth knowing that while you have successfully articulated everything, some people will still see your mistakes as red flags for future communication. Some might even assume that you will be making trivial code mistakes, too; despite there being no evidence of that.

That kind of prejudice is common, and difficult to confront.

There is no real need for you to improve your English skills: your writing isn't ambiguous or missing anything. Even so, it's worth recognizing the social dynamic that is likely to happen, and how that affects you.
Probably true, though to different degrees for different folks. I've always taken joy in holding out for the right component upgrades for my PC and related gear to get the best bang for the buck and biggest leaps in performance. It's a lineage that's been going since 2000 or so, where at least one part always gets carried forward, and the rest is gifted or sold at steep discount. It started as me trying to get the most from my limited money, but decades later it's more about minimizing the guilt of frivolous e-waste. My last phone of 5 years sadly got the boot from my carrier, forcing an upgrade. I know I've seen other people take pride in their slow/picky upgrades, too.
There’s also no lack of buyers for stripe on secondary markets.
Is that gatekeeping? It reads to me like they're saying it's not enough to just use a few functions to it FP. Their point seems to be that it's more than just using some functions, which seems reasonable.
This is not purely an AI phenomenon, although AIs are less likely to feel guilty about it. A game from the European Go Championship in 2002 was decided by just this sort of rules-lawyering ("obviously" dead stones were not technically correctly marked as dead, so one of the players claimed they were alive). The result was later overturned to match what a human player would expect.

https://senseis.xmp.net/?DisputeMeroJasiek
https://senseis.xmp.net/?DisputeMeroJasiek%2FDiscussion
yeah now instead of history you can get the app's password via `ps aux` :D

also you still have the `export REPLY=password` in history.

sure you can source it out of file but, well, that file have same permissions (or looser! if you forgot to change) as your .bash_history file.

`cat password|command` is the safest one (or, well, something 12 factor app clowns hate, a config file)
Now that I read it again, the comment was about storing the master password in a safe, in which case, you could stamp it into a metal plate or some other solid that has a high enough melting point. Steel seems like a good choice of melting temperature, with titanium even better. Or try tungsten, for a much higher melting point.
> I know how to KISS (Keep it stupid and simple)

KISS is “keep it simple, stupid”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
I just lost 4 engineers (including myself) a whole afternoon of work to this :(
Why Lisp
I think the font choice is a lot of it, at least. Sile may be a great typesetting system technically, but the examples kind of look, well, like they were put together by someone who maybe doesn't know much about good layout and typography.
Agree 100% with you. Also having talked to recruiters there I found them absolutely disorganised. At least here in APAC. Might be better stateside.
They gave me the impression of not really knowing what org to build and job descriptions/titles/org changed wildly during talks (and then abruptly ended, leaving me with a terrible impression).
The one thing they kept going on about though is how they're the biggest bestest most promising of unicorns and how much they'd be in 'super growth mode'