skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I’ve ever seen that suggested, but it does make a bit of sense. That said, a scrivener was an occupation: a professional copyist or clerk,
like Bartleby the Scrivener.

It’s from Old French escrivain (same meaning) which is in turn from Latin scribere (“to write”), which might be from proto-Indo-European “skribh-“ which is a stem for cutting or separating.

From https://www.etymonline.com/word/scrivener
FWIW, texmacs files are encoded like any other markup language. This makes it the texmacs files very easy for any git-fu.
I see that my citation of that joke was not to your taste. I appreciate the feedback.

HN provides a solution for the long cascading joke thread. To the right of every comment is a [-] link which collapses the entire thread.

Have you watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? I recommend it. There are so many scenes where she or another comedian just bombs. That is part of the life of a comedian, and learning from when you bombed is how you get better at your craft.

Regarding the off by one joke, personally I find it insightful and relevant to the life of a software engineer. Doesn't it get you thinking about all the ways an off by one error can sneak into your code?

Consider your everyday ruler or tape measure. What is the first whole number you see on it? 1, of course. But the ruler doesn't actually start at 1. It starts at 0.

Or consider a graphic system where you describe the coordinates of a rectangle. You may describe these as (left,top)-(right,bottom), or in other words (x1,y1)-(x2,y2).

Now how do you describe a single pixel? Is it (0,0)-(0,0)? That kind of makes sense. Or should you use (0,0)-(1,1) for a single pixel, and (0,0)-(0,0) is an empty rectangle?

These are not easy questions to answer. One of the best explanations I've seen was in Inside Macintosh, written by my friend Caroline Rose.

Here is a discussion with Guido's and Caroline's thoughts on zeroes and ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6602497

Let me leave you with an Amicus Curiae brief filed before the US Supreme Court:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242596/2022... [PDF]

The brief begins:

> The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.
It’s interesting how any criticism directed towards a female always has someone deflecting it or trying to turn it around and make it a man’s fault.
> How do you know the object is compact?

Because we have these objects with huge masses but we can't see them, and such objects have to be compact. Objects with those masses that do not emit huge amounts of light that make them easily visible (i.e., that are not stars) can't not be compact. They either have to be held up by degeneracy pressure, which means they are either white dwarfs or neutron stars/quark stars, or they have undergone complete gravitational collapse and are black holes. All of those objects are compact, and there are no other possibilities.

> No one knows the actual quark degeneracy pressure, so no one knows if stars collapse to black holes or if they get stopped.

This is not correct. I have already explained why: the maximum mass limit. That limit applies regardless of what the actual quark degeneracy pressure turns out to be in an actual gravitational collapse. It is a fundamental fact about relativistic degeneracy.
What Chrome extension do I have to enable to make it so Facebook doesn't know this level of data?

Edit: looks like https://privacybadger.org/ or https://ublockorigin.com/
October 15th 2021 is the date on the article but they got married a decade ago. It is a bit odd.
Every time I have tried deliberately putting myself out there, in a social sense, I just get my hopes crushed. So now I just focus on the few things that matter to me most in the world and live my life. Sometimes all you can do is stop seeing what isn't there and focus on what is.
The last commit is from 2019 so I'd guess the project's dead (hence the doc site is no longer available). The three documents are in the repo:

https://github.com/DBCG/Dataphor/tree/master/Documentation
"The sweetest thing a man can do for me is give me his credit card" says a lot about a person

But that's not what she said.

Then he took me to a bookstore and handed me his credit card. "Buy as many books as you want," he said. No man could have said anything sweeter.

It's not the credit card she liked, but the books, as she was an aspiring writer.
It reminds me of how the U.S. and Britain underestimated Japan just before WW2. They thought Japan was a bunch of funny little men, not really competent at fighting. This led to a very rude awakening in Dec 1941 and throughout much of 1942 when the Japanese Navy proved to be extremely competent and, together with the Army, seized a lot of territory across the Pacific (Singapore, Philippines, etc)
Yes. It's aimed at languages that use parentheses for structure - so it's _definitely_ helpful for Scheme.

We're generally so used to line-based editing, it may be frustrating but it's well worth the effort and once it clicks, you start to miss the features with other languages.

There's some truth in the old joke "If you think paredit is not for you then you need to become the kind of person that paredit is for."
Exactly this! And the part I want to impress: jobs programs are good! Essential national defense is good! I'm not against these things; I'd just like it if we could (1) be a little more honest with ourselves, as Americans, and (2) maybe cut out the middleman and just admit that we'd like a healthy middle class.
Well said!

They get caught up in the image they have created of themselves. I think there is a need for "Social Adaptation" but taken too far becomes counter-productive i.e. you lose authenticity.
I mean we knew it was going to fail the audit. The reason it has failed five in a row is because it has only ever had five. It's a work in progress. The point now is to make sure they actually make progress instead of slow-walking or depending on our apathy to stop caring after the first few times.
Usery is forbidden in the 3 Abrahamic religions, which are Islamic, Christianity and Judaism.

My historic understanding (I am happy to be corrected) was that Jewish people practiced usery with non-jewish people but was forbidden within them, and at the same time it was not practiced at all by christians, and that was an opportunity for Jewish merchants during the crusades to establish what we know today as banking. Christians couldn't travels from Europe to Jerusalem safely without being robbed, so they'd get a note from a Jewish person in Europe and cache it on the other side, and vice versa.

Today, most Christians from what I see do not mind dealing with usery. Most Muslims still stay away from it as it's considered riba.
Orwell, Huxley and Versions of Dystopia
It looks like there's a disconnect here on what we're talking about for "freedom to roam". If you read through the Wikipedia article linked in the comment I was responding to, you'll see that it's about private property, not public parks.

The issue of land being inaccessible by virtue of being surrounded by private land without roads is solved by the unrelated, separate legal notion of an "easement" to allow access. Easements are used regardless of if the landlocked plot of land is publicly or privately owned.

I agree with you in the general notion of "It's bad that this public land is inaccessible and that should be fixed". But just clarifying on the terms.
The anti-musk propaganda here is getting desperate.
... and after that was in serious relationships with Grimes and Shivon Zilis. Musk has four additional children among those two.
>killed in a fire while being presumably locked in their apartments

Horrifying. Is locking the apt still the norm in China?
> I see this tool as a recommendation engine more than a doxxer.

That is absolutely all this will be used for. This is a dangerous tool that serves no real world purpose.
This article makes an interesting point but IMO it highlights 2 phenomema, not 1.

The first phenomenon is that some people seem to be more talented and useful than they are while they are present within the organization.

The second phenomenon is that when people leave an organization, their talents may be immediately discarded; they often end up being used as a scapegoats for any problem which remaining employees may notice after the person has left (possibly completely unrelated to the person).

People tend to over-rate people who are present and over-demonize people who are absent. The demonization probably falls harder on people who were overrated (since it's backed by truth) but it can also fall on people who were genuinely talented and valuable - It depends on what kind of people remain in the company and what narrative serves the interest of those who remain.
"though surprisingly not all board members." reads as naive in this otherwise excellent piece, and shows what board membership is: corruption, revolving doors, and a bilateral way to influence stakeholders.

"Rundell’s take is that the Saudi state is, always has been, and always will be anti-terrorist because the ultimate goals of the monarchy are stability, stability, and stability" yet another naivitè, or rather an inability to think outside the box.
In logic programming monotonic means that adding a fact or rule does not remove an answer.

Like SQL has monotonic queries where adding entries to a relation never gives you fewer answers.

More formally: Database1 subset Database2 implies Query(Database1) subset Query(Database2) for all databases

Which is exactly the definition of monotonicity (x =< y implies f(x) =< f(y)) applied to sets and functions on sets.
Damn; Don't rip apart the facade like that!
Is it more meaningful if your labour is instead spent as a minute cog in a vast and faceless corporation? At least you can wear the clothes you wash.

Don’t get me wrong, washing machines are great, probably one of the greatest inventions ever. We now can lead meaningful and consequential lives, but newly potent sources of inconsequentiality have arisen.
I'm happy to try and walk through my assumptions (although maybe not at this very moment, since it's late here). If you list out the ones that you think I'm making, I'll try my best to substantiate them.
I don't know; I (irrationally) feel like everyone hates me, all the time. My wife, my kids, my parents, my best friend. I'd really love to not feel this way, but it's just the way it is. I've seen therapists, but they're not very helpful. A few of them have been kind enough to point out that this is not true, or logical, so I should not feel this way.
I Had AI Write an Essay on How to Win in Life
‘No one had seen anything like it’: how video game Pong changed the world
I still didn't get it.
This reads like pure hype from an obscure battery startup pushing their own exotic Sodium-Potassium solution, that sounds no furter then TRL3.
All Rogue Amoeba Apps Now Have Full Ventura Support
Weird angle - she wants more ?
> Less censorship

Says who?
Libertarians and Anarchists used to be Socialists in the 19th and early 20th century. Everyone from Kropotkin and Bakunin to Oscar Wilde. And likewise, socialists like Eugene Debbs had correctly pointed out that the governments and political class send you to war while they themselves don’t go.

Many socialists said the same thing during WW1. Why should the working class people fight each other? Turn the guns on your masters etc.

Would be nice to post links here to European versions of this.

Today’s libertarians view modern wars with the same skepticism. Are they really necessary, and if so, can our governments have a referendum by their people before starting one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Socialis...
In my first Agile company, it felt like we developers were inventing features! In fact, a PM was spoon feeding the backlog to us, organized by theme, letting us invent the interesting parts. I only realized it 10 years later.
Executive Managed Seminal Computer System at IBM
Frederick P Brooks who wrote The mythical man month has died.Good bio. Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/6B3pw
It's a bit tedious to work in that climate of uncertainty. Every time we want to use some AWS service it prompts endless discussions.

On the other hand it made us research and use European alternatives such as Hetzner (they have a cloud too, although with less SaaS offerings), OVH or Scaleway.
Good nuanced view point!
the author has a substack, if you wish to read:

https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/
Part of the attestation process involves receiving a cryptographic signature from the CPU vendor. They can only fake it if they break the cryptography. And enclaves (or "trusted execution environments") aren't only on Apple chips, AMD and Intel have their own implementations.
Apologies upfront if I am misinformed/out of the loop:

Why does the Chinese government want to hinder their economic output by forcing their population to need to stay indoors?

Are they genuinely afraid of COVID still or is there a different reason? What's the "truth" if you will?
I read this years ago. It was just republished with a new date
Yeah, there is an easement for the trail.
How do they ignore sanctions?
Most of them is not good, but some are good.
I _WANT_ to harvest IP's of PC's trying to SSH into any of my servers. I want them because then I can block ALL traffic coming from their IP's.

At my last gig, I had thousands of domains and hundreds of servers running on every major (and a shitload of minor) service provider. I custom scripted all these servers to compile all the IP's that attempted a connection, send those lists back to HQ, and then distribute back to each node a block-list table that I could dynamically apply to each edge device. One compromised computer even trying to login was completely blocked from 5000+ domains within 15 minutes.

I'm not worried about my ssh login being brute-forced, but if your computer is compromised I want nothing to do with you.
Depends on the goal of the audit. The purpose of the audit may indeed be just that.
* at current gas prices
I think that might be one of the author's points. The 'cure' for just as often has been either drugs or alcohol, with former often having often lethal effect. Opiates trigger chemical response similar to affection; it's not terribly surprising so many choose to find comfort at the end of a needle.
T66, and motec exhaust! Quite a feat for ECU company to also make those.
You’re talking about a different type of effect where corporations killed all the small players and that’s very true but has nothing to do with the ideological individualism, at least not directly but could as well indirectly but let’s be clear what we’re discussing and if they’re intertwined let’s make that explicit. Individualism discussed here leads people to lonelinese and communities to vanish around them..
It’s not just putting yourself out there though. It’s also figuring out what isn’t working and trying to improve it.

I didn’t write the book on it or anything, but I’ve gone through it in my own life and I know it’s possible. For me I lost weight, got in shape, started dressing more intentionally and then joined a couple of clubs aligned with my interests.

Pretty quickly I discovered which of those groups I felt I fit better with and gravitated more there. Over time, those people became friends outside the group too.

The older you get the more deliberate this process becomes I find.
How does a password cracker brute force against a password hash (say MD5 or SHA256, I know bcrypt is designed specifically for terrible brute force efficiency) if it has a random salt? Is the salt known and just uselessly stored with the password + easily retrievable during a login attempt or database leak?
I welcome this for change from far left woke crap dominating whole platform for years with any opposition against them silenced.

In free platform you read crap from all sides, not just the one you like.

But enjoy your new echo chamber outside Twitter.

edit: for downvoters, yes, I'm aware this describes also majority of HN users and you just can't stand different opinion and try to silence it, thanks for proving me right
This isn't really an actionable response, but what I did in this situation was move to where my friends were. I'm lucky in that the majority of the people I met in college happen to live around a particular area of the country, so I transferred there after much pestering on their part over the last few years. I honestly haven't been this happy in years.
I'd worry this falls under the "just can't take it anymore -> breaking point -> do something irrational" chain of events.
> What specific properties has LIGO confirmed about the event horizon?

Hawking's area theorem is one: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/07/hawkings-black-hole...

> It is not quite clear to me how the gravitational waves of two merging bodies would be different between a merger of normal stellar objects and black holes.

I'm not sure one can be so loose here. LIGO uses detailed models of black hole and neutron star mergers to match the signals against. What are "normal stellar objects" that would yield the same magnitude of gravitational waves emitted during a merge as black holes and neutron stars?

> The EHT image is mostly an accretion disk. I think accretion disks can also form around things that are not black holes.

There's also a huge hole in the middle of the accretion disk. What other object, other than a black hole, has such a large accretion disk but yet no emitted radiation?
If I could add anything of help I would say to focus on yourself. Self love shouldn’t be underestimated. If people can’t love, like or live with the person you love, there might be an issue with your environment, not you. Anyways hope you find compassion
Currently the extension relies on you to set the "good posture" baseline. You sit up to what you think is good posture, set the baseline, and then when you start slouching you'll move from the green to red.
OP, as some one in the same shoes as you, I will not tell you that life will be rosy if only you waited a little longer; for I cannot predict the future.

but may I offer a way forward? How about living out of spite, to outlive all your enemies and detractors, all the idiots who get to breathe air for free?

it's not a happy thought, but it may provide for you to live longer, and who knows, life indeed might be rosy, and if not, at-least you didn't give any quarter to the dumbos, you will have fought the good fight.
Do tools like Coolify or Dokku take care of host level security?
Understanding politics that way is common and understandable. It's also an unfortunate cultural construction of the term, because this understanding is deeply incorrect.

Politics is what happens when people disagree about what should be done, or how it should be done. That's it. That's what politics is.

There are principled and corrupt reasons for disagreement. There are forthright and deceptive/manipulative means of engaging disagreement. All of that is politics.

When someone is advocating for a better PTO policy either because they personally would like something more advantageous for themselves or because they think it'll boost morale and productivity, that's politics.

When someone manages their office relationships to increase their chances or being hired into a higher management position either because they personally would like to advance their career or because they think they can help the business run more effectively, that's politics.

When someone attempts to spoil management on tech stack X and talk up tech stack Y, that's politics whether it's because they know both well and are sure which will suit the business & problem domain better, or because their personal expertise is more with Y than X and it'll increase their value to the organization without further investment.

The problem with assuming "politics" refers to inherently underhanded activity is that it shirks the work of engaging disagreement productively and instead pathologizes disagreement in one way or another -- usually by either pathologizing an opposing position or class of people.
The traded deals are very far from the charity of the west.

The traded deals by the west were based on the benefit to the western countries. It is not a charity. The low inflation, the record profit of the western companies and bonuses are from cheap labour and resources from more desperate countries.
I think this is a fascinating perspective, or at least one I haven't heard before. I can't say I have a lot of experience with the military though.

Although now that I think about it, that's what ROTC is right? They pay for your education, and pay you to gain experience using that education on Defense, then when your obligation is met you can keep going or do your own thing with a patriotism-boosted resume. It's a win-win
NASA discovery reveals there may have been life on Mars
You are welcome, I only learned of it a few weeks ago and it solves a lot of problems. It's still relatively new, so while jupyter notebooks / lab support, using it inside other editors with runnable code blocks is still a work in progress. VS Code looks to have an extension for previewing the markdown, but I dont think it can run python code blocks in it (for now).

I agree with you, RStudio's R Markdown feature was my favorite part about it, easily wrote my assignments for a statistics class with it.

For more about MyST check out the talk I recently was introduced to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UCO1F09M4
Maybe you're trying to be helpful or perhaps virtue signalling, but do you seriously believe "joining an exercise group" can cure severe loneliness? We are talking about lack of deep connections to any other human. The type of shallow connections you make in those places is not going to help anyone with real loneliness. Which is a lot more common now.
This is a really well phrased response, kudos to David.

My 2cents: Certainly have your hands involved in the product, prioritize the hell out of it; give credit to the fact that in order for this to succeed you will need to not be the CTO, unless that's the route you want to go, at which you should spend some of those 300-1000 hours finding a good business co-founder.
The optimization is usually called shapes outside of JS.

The idea is that shapes (we represent objects like C like structs and not hash maps) are used for relatively non-dynamic objects and then we keep the shape metadata on functions themselves (inline caches) which means property access becomes just a byte offset.

See https://v8.dev/blog/fast-properties
A widely circulated video of the presumed victims showed them yelling “Help, (we are on the) 16th Floor. We are out of oxygen. Our child is going to die. We are so out of oxygen.” The victims were said to be calling for help on WeChat. Another video claimed that firetrucks couldn’t get close to the district of the fire due to (presumably Covid) blockage. [0]

[0] https://www.i-cable.com/%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E8%B3%87%E8%A8%8A...
> Twitter has only gotten better.

Good to know. I stopped contributing to their metrics because I am sick and tired of seeing EM everywhere.
When you have the solution for inefficiency / corruption at large scale, 8 billion people can finally stop starting wars againt itself, reverse climate change and feed the hungry people.

In my opinion sound money is the best thing we have to coordinate better at scale, but we are already far above what any animal species can do.