skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We dont like to be remembered of the War on Terror.

See we're fundamentally nice folks who make well meaning mistakes. So when we get out of a quagmire we should be immediately absolved of all culpability.

Unlike those dirty <insert rival country>. They're fundamentally evil and we should remember all their sins going back centuries.
The bigger the circle of the known - the larger the contact area with the unknown.

Ignorance is bliss ;)
is it /real/ curl? Curl in cmd.exe is real curl, but in powershell that thing gets mapped to Invoke-Webrequest
Food delivery and courier services have both existed for a long time and worked quite well. The business model is entirely sustainable if you don't position yourself as a VC startup and light cash on fire in the way that VC startups are expected to.

The service wasn't being subsidized. The company was.
To adapt a cliche: "It's the commute, stupid."

The costs and absolute nonsense of requiring a commute outweigh almost any benefit of daily in-office presence.

A study from decades ago (I wish I could find it again) found that remote work makes good managers' teams perform better and bad managers teams perform worse. It basically correlates to whether the managers focus on results that matter, or on intimidating their workers into doing things that look like work (butts in chairs, not browsing, few breaks, etc.).

I'm thinking that the famous Steve Jobs 'insight' about building the offices so that people from different teams would have chance encounters is BS, especially since Apple now reportedly so heavily silos their information.

And want to save real estate? Far cheaper to give every employee an unheard-of $4K/yr equipment budget than to pay $66/SqFt/yr office space in SF (excluding utilities, insurance, etc.).

Any executive that doesn't get this is just dense, and I'd argue, unsuited for their office.
> How is this not exciting? Breakthrough (and exciting) don't mean "this problem is solved fully".

Breakthrough means making progress. 0.45 points over 18 months on a 18 points scale looks more like random noise than anything else, even if it's statistically significant
IN BERLIN is probably best suited for people in Germany. It is a "Verein" ("registered association", something that I don't think exists in many other countries) which is run by dozens of volunteers (hence the "non-profit" part). So basically you join the "Verein" for a (small) monthly fee and are expected to participate in the activities of the Verein. This is probably also why they require you to join via mail (running a "Verein" is serious business in Germany, you have to have a charter, appoint a treasurer, hold regular meetings/votes for board members, have someone type a protocol of these meetings, etc.)...
If you want them to register anything with RIPE they will also require you to send them a scan/copy of a valid ID (although that can be done via E-Mail) but that is because of RIPE policies as I understand it.

Joining gives you (in this case) also access to some "old-school" things like webspace, shell access, nntp, ftp, ... (similar to what for example SDF.org offers). They were originally there to help people getting access to the internet and building a website (think 90's internet), but they also do housing for individuals nowadays, and help educate people (locally in Berlin) on how the internet works, etc.

I have checked some other LIRs but they often only provide RIPE registration to their "customers" (what that means depends on the LIR but usually you have to have some hosting with them or have an ongoing project that they do for you, or something like that), so for individuals, I think non-profits or "Vereine" are probably the easiest to join

PS: yes, the website was a bit confusing for me too, basically you choose the cheapest offering ("IN BERLIN S" for 5€/month) and use the "Antrag für IN-Berlin S/M/L" from https://in-berlin.de/provider/antrag.html...
However, as I understand it, they also require you to provide a "SEPA mandate" so that they can collect the fees directly from your bank account, and I think if you don't live in Germany that might prove difficult.
Oh for sure, I'm hoping to inspire the game developer community. I know a lot of things using electronics have been tried in the past and it usually comes out as a gimmick, but I tried to design these to hide their electronic nature, hoping to enter the same spot that dice and counters inhabit.

I was going to post about it on some game dev forums next, any suggestions of where I should post?

They don't do wireless as of now, they have to sit on the plinth to get an update. There are options for how to add some form of wireless connectivity.

I'd be interested in continuing the conversation, I'll send you an email, or email me: jonah@wyldcard.io
Autonomous delivery isn't quite hand-waving, but it also still seems to be a ways off. I can certainly see an argument for "autonomous drones will pick up food and deliver it without the expense of a human driver" ... I'm not as sold on "we have to build a food delivery brand with human drivers and lose billions so we'll have an established brand once autonomous delivery becomes a reality".
> Unfortunately Cryptomator isn’t as reliable as Boxcryptor.

I have not had this experience. I switched to Cryptomator because it was a much smoother and more reliable experience for my use cases. What issues did you have?
Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
Well that's your second bad idea. Keep brainstorming but honestly I'd prefer you kept reading The Economist!
I am very excited about this research problem! Feels like many pieces required to make it workable, but all the pieces are out there.

Imagine, Friday you identify a bug, write a test to exemplify the bug. Some ML/AI-based approach generates a ballpark fix for a bug, maybe it doesn't compile or actually fix the bug, but at least it contains all the ingredients required to fix. Then some trial-and-error (e.g. Genetic Programming) algorithm is used to search through many variants to find a combination that is a correct fix. All of this deployed as part of CI/CD. Morning morning you have a nice patch to review. And also, the patch is also the most performant out of a number of fixes found.

Anything about software that is measurable can be optimized, possibly even security considerations as mentioned in another comment.
> inability to delete a file that is open by another process

otoh if you have never encountered Unix, you might be surprised that it's even possible to delete a file currently open by another process.
I used to be an Financial Times fanboy, but sad to say, it’s been going downhill for some time now , for news stories I should add. I used to get the economist, but found with my work rotation (4-6 week remote areas) - I was simply not reading it, then I was intrigued by a colleague reading the spectator- never really my politics, but I gave it a read and have been reading it since, I would read private eye if I could get it (not seen it in Vietnam). I also now read the telegraph- that and spectator and FT all online, again, I take a contrary bevies on any political bias, but the writing is good and enjoyable. Maybe I should take another look at the economist- in the past it was superb, it excelled in all fields, often better than supposedly specialised magazines (yeah - I ditched new scientist soon after graduating)!
There's no way you came to this conclusion yourself, you need to get off the internet
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
> ...Another great option for certain types of projects are used smartphones...

This is exactly what i am about to embark on! I have a couple of used (but no longer using) smart phones....and instead of playing with a raspberry pi, wanted to see what i can do with these devices. The 2 first iodeas i have are:

1. a ready-to-go, backup device. Much like a Go Bag, set up a smart phone to be a hot backup destination...so if something drastic happens - like house fire, etc. - i can just pull the phone, and have a backup literal;ly in my hands, etc. (And, no i won't be doing away with my offsite backup...Remember the 3-2-1 backup strategy is still valid!)

2. a mobile ssh/bastion accessing device. Basically setup a little server to use to ssh, jump to oither servers. This use-case is really not necessary for me; more of just playing. But i can imagine if someoine lives in an area where their mobile access is steady and their mains internet access gets not so dependable....this coiuld be a way to still be able to access other servers (via mobiel data connection of course)....and this doesn't need superfast 5G type of connection, since its only ssh-type of jump connection.

Obviously, there are tons of other use cases....so you so right about thinking about using devices like smart phones....esepcially sinc it also helps avoid these devices going to the trash! :-)
If you save your email, full results will be emailed next week.
In this case, it would have been deleted anyway.

I think I can see the loss:

1. Start zip.
2. In parallel, copy the intermediate zip file.
3. Delete the zip
4. Delete originals

The data was deleted in step 4 and is the loss. It notably would also had occurred had the zip terminated early or not zipped _all_ the files for some reason. The process was not resilient.
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. The problem is that without deep immutability this is still open to abuse/miss-use. When I'm creating an immutable struct I'm trying to prevent future developers from accidental mistakes.
Agreed, the glut of AI text generation programs all capitalize on the misrepresentation of what they do because "AI" holds different meanings in academic and social spheres. And it's better to have a sci-fi marketing hook.
I think the amount of collab could be filled with, come in as needed and minimize meetings. Prior to the pandemic, the meme was how useless meetings were, and it is still largely true. Quite often, the meeting could have been solved with an email. There is often, just no point of being in a crowded office to fill seats if that isn't comfortable to the person. Coming in to join Teams is just a bad use of time.
>maintain the gitlab container along with the rest of the CI/CD

Errr.. I would hope you have at least 1, preferably more, replications outside of your own stack.
I guess this is why they couldn't call it GitLab Enterprise :)
It think it'd be OK to use the stalebot if you're more up-front about it's use and why it's being used. A maintainer should be able to make it known up-front "I don't have a lot of time, so I probably won't get around to reading this issue. And I use stalebot which will close issues I'll never get around to dealing with."

Maybe you could provide that information in the GitHub issue template.

That said, this would be a more ideal situation. I understand that open source maintainers are not under any responsibility to be helpful to contributors... but the world would be better off if they were.
> So I think it's good advice that maintainers should use stalebot, because the alternative is a dead project.

Why not just close issue tracker? Or autoclose everything immediately rather than remind people weeks/months later about their bug, just to discover that they got "pranked"?

Or let issues pile up? Or have separate garbage dump issue tracker? Done by https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Is the concern over the markup?

Or is it that you have a cheaper alternative?
> You make the mistake of assuming that blockchain had something to do with it.

I was trying to be sarcastic!
Personal: < 5 for both desktop and mobile.

Work: 3 Windows each with 50-100+ some in collapsed tab groups. Chrome now pauses and shows a spinning mouse pointer for 2-5 seconds when closing tabs. Restarting it helps a bit.
If you don't mind me asking, what medicine were you prescribed? What kind of topics do you go over in therapy?
Pretty much everybody has signed up to Geneva Conventions and the Chemical Weapons Convention, so while not quite perfect, they're effective. For example, it's virtually impossible to buy chemical weapons, you need to DIY.

But when the Ottawa Treaty was being negotiated, the big boys made it very clear from the outset that they would not accept the terms, so it's been a dead letter since day one.
Because when you are dealing with corporates the amount of time needed can vary massively by customer. A bank or healthcare firm will come at you with endless feature requests, support requests etc. over things they claim is a regulatory requirement / they must have ASAP.

You also might offer the first bank a discount because once you have one onboard its much easier to sell your product to others. They know a competitor has already done all the due diligence and decided you're safe, so the risk they spend months evaluating you to not be able to move forward is minimal.
At least for me, Uber gives me 5 30-40% off coupons every week. I get a free Uber Pass through my credit card. With plenty of places (some heavily mark up and others do not), you would be better off ordering delivery in the parking lot with those coupons rather than getting it from the counter.

So while I spend a lot on delivery, I save it on the food.
Which country are you based in? I can offer advice for Europe and the US :)
> /sarcasm

You mean, they won't even bother selling it for parts? Or why is this sarcasm?
What happened? /s
They do this for any perceived dissent from the current government opinion, like re-tweeting a joke about the latest official pride flag:

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-arrested...
The whole game development community is embracing ai image synthesis, especially for prototyping.
Gifts are both generous and yet fraught with social rules and obligations
I've been diagnosed with ADHD since I was a teenager, but the shift to working from home and additional responsibilities made it far worse, so I started seeing a psychologist earlier this year to help me reinforce organizational skills while adjusting medication.

Some things that have worked for me:

* Less medication. I dropped my Concerta to 36mg which avoids many of the side effects.

* Frequent calendaring, even for personal life. This helps visualize time commitments.

* Use of a pen and paper notebook throughout the day, reducing cognitive load. I've tried a lot of digital note taking tools but I end up spending too much time fiddling with them.

To encourage myself to take notes I just have a loose structure of one page a day.
EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy
Agreed. I think this just revolves around clear communication and expectation setting. Just too often it is all too implicit and ad-hoc, where frustration easily brews on both sides.

It's like wet towels and mildew. Lol. Don't wet them if you're not going to dry them or hang them up. (Disclaimer: I didn't heavily think through this analogy.)
H&M to lay off 1,500 staff in drive to cut soaring costs and rescue profits
Japan uses water to power spacecraft
From the article:

> freeing the techies to move much farther away, to towns where they could afford four-bedroom homes
> but the only reason everyone got excited was because the value of Bitcoin went to the moon

I'm a blockchain minimalist, but I'd say that there are at least 2 other reasons why blockchains are interesting:

1) A trustless, distributed digital ledger.

But it turns out that _in most cases_, we are OK with a trusted, centralized, institutional clearing agent that maintains the ledger. The benefits are numerous as long as we trust the institution/agent.

2) An immutable record of transactions.

This follows (1), though: if you trust the institution, you trust that there won't be a malicious mutation of your records and in general, because the records are mutable, they can also easily canceled or reversed which also turns out to be generally beneficial.

So I do think blockchains do have some unique use cases where they would be beneficial (e.g. I think property (land, home, car) titles is a good one, car accident/repair history), but there are just way too many where they add no value.
I admire this approach, but I am a bit worried that making big public announcements of doing so will trigger a crackdown (especially if Stephen Miller or his ilk are ever in charge of US immigration policy again).
I've been in exactly this situation on production (with a panicked operator on the other end of the phone and any number of other applications that would've been brought down). On either platform, you end up needing to kill the offending program to release the resource. But at least on Windows you know it! On Linux you can unlink the file, realise the problem still exists, and now you've lost an avenue for figuring out the real problem.
Windows has the concept of OpLocks on files, which open the file but can be broken by other access. When used properly that should prevent antivirus from ever preventing file deletion. The deletion would break the lock that antivirus has open.
It takes wisdom to be happy. Smart people are more likely to become wise over time.
Those things are annoying and upsetting to deal with but aren't the root cause of unhappiness. I believe it is the lack of a sense of purpose that is the main culprit, and I believe this drives much of the modern malaise as the traditional sources of purpose: religion, family, survival, etc disappear. A lot of people here seem to find purpose in building great technologies, and they generally seem happy despite working (sometimes) crazy hours.
I totally agree with that. People would be well-served to deal with their inner emotional world directly instead of pushing it away.

At the same time, they do have a lot of inner tormoil even though they have next to no responsibilities or knowledge. They face the same thing everyone else does, the world changing in the face of their expectations or just not meeting them.

There are better examples of the problems uneducated people face and a lot of data to back up their issues with money, relationships, and so on.
The Low Earth Orbit Platforms [pdf]
> people who think 'nevermind democracy' for real? Communists, socialists?

Neither. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756452

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...
That newspaper is printed by a literal cult.
We haven't established that intelligence should imply happiness. We haven't even established that intelligence should imply the desire to be happy. If intelligence enables a person to identify problems, and problems make a person unhappy, then an intelligent person will have at least one factor that tends to increase unhappiness.
Interesting. Most of my Gen Z friends, especially those in consulting, are frustrated that the projects have gone fully remote. It's not fun working long hours on Zoom with people you might never meet in person.

They want to return to the office.
Joy is the emotion expressed when one accepts the courage to be themselves.
Life hack: choose to read books written by researchers about their field of study, rather than by non-experts dabbling in social science / psychology.

Positive Psychology is a great example -- rather than reading one of the dozens of books written by non-experts, why not go with something like The How of Happiness or Stumbling on Happiness - by people who actually study and run experiments they write about.
I can enjoy my fully paid-off house in a beautiful place or I can go back to spending tons on rent or a mortgage? I hope the author understands that wfh is worth easily 50k+ a year to me and I suspect many others.
See another recent thread for my theory (based on what I heard from various Unix vendors at the time) that this was mostly due to fear of MS patent litigation. iirc AIX did have an IOCP-like feature. MS acquired the rights to DEC's patents in this space, handy since IOCP is similar to VMS's QIO.
These results are not used (at least by me) to train models.
Well, I wasn't too interested in the GUI anyway :)
Stale issues should be verified against an up-to-date version of the software. If enough time has passed since the issue was first reported and nobody even bothers to check, that's proof enough of the issue being de facto stale and it does no good to engage in denial of this reality.
One more angle, when you are starting up, every bucks feel like coming out of your own pocket. When purchasing "enterprise plan", your company already attain certain size and you are spending your company's money, money that otherwise would not fall under your pocket anyway.
You are making unorthodox claims and are going to need a bit more citation here. I can also point to the Mediterranean diet that is moderately high in fats (olive oil) and carbs, yet was not considered a disaster.

Further, it's making unwarranted value judgements about surgery - it's essentially an appeal to nature.
> This was a major part of the playbook of Standard Oil; I would consider them a real business.

I also think Standard Oil shouldn't exist. In fact, so did the US government in a landmark antitrust case that you may have heard of.

(on your other points, I'm pretty much entirely in agreement)
You are tone policing. How do you know she didn't "think just a little bit more"? You assert that she didn't think enough because you don't like what she had to say.

Ascribing bad intentions off the bat to someone who wanders into a topic "unprompted" (how do you know? Do you talk to her daily?) is a poisonous attitude. Why are you the judge here? And the trans issue is not a "weird topic." It is highly topical. Many are talking and thinking about it. That just bothers you, apparently.

edit: s/off the bad/off the bat
The drivers and customer support.
I was very unhappy in my 20's, but now I'm pretty happy in my 30's. I'd say it's usually an ego problem. And smarter people tend to have bigger egos. I think that's why smart people are generally regarded as unhappy. Of course there are other things that contribute to happiness, like circumstances.

Another thing I've been thinking lately is that there seems to be a large group of people who don't seem to want to be happy, as if they don't even like happiness.
I was obese for fifty-one years before discovering a simple dietary fix. For most of that time I was morbidly obese. Among yo-yo dieters I may be world class, being on a diet for most of that time, losing and gaining over 100 pound four times.

Two years and a few months ago I tried yet another diet. (I haven't tried _all_ of the others, just almost all.) This time it worked. I've lost 80 pounds and my diabetes is in remission, but that has happened so many times before that it isn't what has me smiling. The difference is that it has controlled my appetite. I don't crave the carbs anymore that used to be my life's breath. I'm not obsessed with food anymore, I just eat two moderate meals a day and move on with my life in between. I feel like my relationship with food has become like the normal, healthy people that I've misunderstood as masters of self control.

Here's the secret: I went on a lately popular but politically incorrect diet, that when mentioned on this site gathers instant opprobrium. But the effect is that I'm consuming a much greater proportion of protein than before, in a more bioavailable and complete form. I attribute my progress to this change to my macros. I'd just never tried it before. But it turns out that it makes a huge change to my satiety, and the rest follows. I don't assert that other obese people are/were obese because of protein deficiency, just me. I do assert that it's mostly an issue of not getting the right nutrients from their food.

No drugs, no surgery, and exercise only now, after great weight loss, for the joy of it.