skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't a crypto investment for the mums and dads! That's the whole issue. They were treasuries - holdings that shouldn't have been at risk. SBF and his asshole friends dipped into them to close positions and shore up riskier trades made by another company Alameda.

People rush to simplify here with 'there are no angels" arguments. It doesn't matter that it was crypto. Those funds were stolen.
For context, even the average American family emits enough to kill one person globally:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/29/carbon-e...
The phrase "pathological tinkerer" stuck in my mind when someone was describing why they didn't want to use Emacs anymore and instead just focus on their work. That's sort of how I feel when I get the itch.
Definitely agree here, but I do a similar thing with a boring Linux distro like Ubuntu where I don't change anything (except maybe the wallpaper, never liked theirs). MacOS is good as this too, especially because utility software that's GUI based is often much more prevalent (and better in general) on MacOS.
The next AMD processor should have an optional Emacs dedicated core.
The energy budget alone would naively suggest to me that it can't.

Why spend all of the money to create and sustain a fusion reaction in a gravitationally subcritical environment when there is a giant perpetual fusion engine running on gravitational criticality alone a scant 93 million miles away?

Just throw down more collectors, improve storage, and call it a day.
The New York Times is an establishment mouthpiece, not Democratic. The message they regurgitate is the ongoing power of the US over the world. They happen to align with the democrats now because the democrats represent the establishment, while the republicans are trying to overturn that.
> You should be able to buy cocaine, heroin, fentanyl at the local grocery store. No question asked. Maybe even subsidize it for poor people who can't afford market prices.

One of the most unhinged things I've read on this site, and that's saying something.
do you use SAR?
Kiss your productivity goodbye. Emacs has lots of half-baked features that you'll be tempted to fix with its LISP dialect. It's so much fun to tinker that you'll wonder where your day went.

The $20 I spend every month on my JetBrains subscription is easily worth it. I can depend on my IDE to be working well and not waste time on fixing buggy features. The JetBrains people are also highly responsive to bug reports.
I'm guessing late 2015. We went to the interim provider while they did a slow planned migration to 100% GCP which was completed after I left in late 2018.
I see the https://metamate.cc/ mentioned elsewhere here seems to deliver to Iceland. Don't know about the cost though, maybe acceptable? They are based in Berlin and seem well stocked?

Edit: You know, thinking about the amount of flights to and from Kevflavik, no matter if commercial airlines, or business jets doing a stopover there for refueling, I feel there is a niche to exploit. For something like a mini UPS/FedEX/DHL using that empty space, which has to be there?

I mean, open https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ point it to KEF, let it run for a day in some tab, and see how much air traffic from BOTH sides of the Atlantic goes there?
No, I've heard that a scrub will not reallocate missing blocks on mirrors. A rebalance was required in the article below, and this situation really requires attention.

ZFS is far friendlier in a crisis.

"We'll even manually trigger a scrub—a procedure that storage admins generally understand to look for and automatically repair any data issues... even though we manually initiated a scrub and let it finish, our array is still inconsistent and even outright non-mountable, because it ran for a little while without a disk and then that disk was re-added. The command that we were supposed to run was btrfs balance—with both drives connected and a btrfs balance run, it does correct the missing blocks, and we can now mount degraded on only the other disk, /dev/vdc. But this was a very tortuous path, with a lot of potential for missteps and zero discoverability."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
HN is generally more excited in a minor release of well-known libraries or of GNOME, than in medical, space, or biology breakthroughs.
Twitter may be hacked and nobody's talking about it
If they're not minimally profitable in some general sense, such that the benefits of building and maintaining them are not at least paid by the benefit of using them then no, they shouldn't be built. Unfortunately, when you factor in the externalities of carbon emissions, loss of habitat, and other biosphere stressors (the biosphere being the life support system for all life, including humans, and which we do not have the means to replace), then most human activity in living memory cannot pay for itself. This is sad, but we can't fix it until we acknowledge it.

We're using up our life support system when we build a highway or airliner, not investing in anything.
unless is one of those things I have to read 2-3 times and it totally bogs me down.
This doesn’t seem like they figured out anything about “high functioning teams”, they just performed a survey.

Like, do these companies actually ship faster, have lower rates of issues, better MTTR, etc? This just says things like “there are more full stack engineers”.

At least the Puppet state of DevOps report gives you a “low, medium, high” categorization. This doesn’t seem to be describing much other than some trends they saw this year.
OxyContin caused something in of the order of 500.000 death in the USA, if I remember well from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Beauty_and_the_Bloodsh.... I wonder how this relates to the number of death related to Fentanyl?

Wouldn't this be a better title?

Washington faltered as Fentanyl & OxyCotion gripped America
Did anyone else's spidey sense tingle when they read this in the article: "All the founders are now engaged in building other companies while often investing in other promising startups. All except Yoo were early supporters of the Rivard Report."

Note the author of the article: Robert Rivard. The Rivard Report is now the San Antonio Report. https://sanantonioreport.org/one-year-later-more-than-a-name...

To be clear: there's no questioning recent events, those are well-documented. The story of the company, its founding, and fate since Apollo bought it in 2016, though. That I'd want to hear another source.
No, I have Fedora install on my PC for some experiments (I've been a linux user for ~8 years before switch to macOS in 2014) and sadly linux experience is far behind from macOS from my user experience.

I don't need full customization or tens of forks of some window manager, or "ricing", or "independence".

All I need is a stable environment for work, media etc. It should be convenient without me spending hours configuring the OS. It should have pleasant UI\UX. It must have seemless integration with my mobile devices.

In my experince linux distros are good in case you only need it for one task and you are okay with constant changes (that will take your time). I'm not okay with this anymore. I want to spent my free time with my family or my hobby. Not trying to investigate why app X stopped working and how should I configure a new fork of this app created due to some drama.

Sorry if this is too emotional.

PS: do we have fractional scaling for Gnome under wayland yet?
Decentralisation is as much a technology as it is an ideology. The technical solutions are relatively mature, but to become ingrained there has to be value shift in appreciation of the decentralisation of power, democracy, and privacy.

And we can't take for granted that society will evolve towards continued progress because it clearly won't without advocates.
Playadito is great. There's a kind of Yerba Mate that is easier on the liver and stomach now called Cachamai, and there's some alternatives too. It normally comes in with extra flavors such as Mint, Orange, etc.

I'm Argentinian, been drinking Mate daily (sometimes several times a day) since I was ~18 (32 now) and that Yerba is great :)
Thank you. I was wondering the same thing and I think the article is overfocusing on "cool bit tricks" while this simple approach works just fine.
Oooo. So is this gonna work like Finch?
> Well a modern IDE does way more than an IDE 10 years ago.

Really? Like what? What types of refactoring, indexing and completion features does IntelliJ have that it didn’t in 2013?
Dangit! I concede…
I'm in the same boat. I learned long ago the following maxim:

"Linux is free if you don't value your time."

I value my time more than my money now.
Isn't the suggestion that if there were not police/criminals as an interface to getting high, there would be
a) the ability to know whether the drug one is purchasing contains a Fentanyl OD (labeled contents from auditable sources)
b) more access to resources for dealing with addiction, less dangerous circumstances, etc

What has drug prohibition done to help the problem of addiction and violence in the United States?
ibuffer sorting by filename?

Also alphapapa has something related...

Ah yes, bufler.el:

> A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them.

https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el
Dog intelligence is not measure by a single number on a test designed with factor analysis. Dog intelligence is basically a vague scent people give to them loosely based on how obedient they are. And dogs have also been explicitly breed by this vague scent. Humans have never been breed to score differently on an IQ test (although some eugenicist really wanted to).

As for the twin studies, they have been largely debunked at this point. There is an inherit bias (pun not intended) where twins are much more likely to be adopted into a specific socio-economic group—confirming the fact that IQ measures social status more then intelligence (for some arbitrary definition of intelligence). But on top of that, it turned out that twin-studies were reeked bad science, everything from forged data to biased sampling.

Like I said, this isn’t science, it is pseudo-science, there is nothing to explore except for historians showing how easily scientific racism was endorsed by academia for well over a century.
I am now a year into using Mac OS thanks to the m1 Air, which had such a list of benefits that I was willing to overlook my dislike of the os. It was worth doing is my conclusion. It's a fantastic laptop, I still don't really love the OS but it's a minor price to pay, it's fine enough and it's not serving ad recommendations or deciding when I should restart my computer like a certain other commercial OS.
> Does that mean driving a car should become illegal, and marijuana legalized?

Honestly, yes. Or at least driving a car should require a much more strict licensing process. My daughter got a license during the pandemic and all that was required of her was driving around a parking lot once and then parking parallel. Skills which can be acquired in a couple of hours just prior to the test. Yes there is usually a written test as well, so there is some reason to believe people know what the basic road signs mean, but to let people loose on public roads traveling at 70 mph after a 5 minute driving test is just asking for widespread vehicle collisions.
I agree entirely that it can be misused. I'm not sure how often it's misused versus used properly. But I don't see why I should give up a useful logic tool just because others don't know how to use it well?

Let me put it this way: Are there _any_ programming paradigms that don't get poorly used? We need to learn how to use our tools well, not reduce them to banality.
Government officials leaking things is one of their essential functions.
Oh man, I can feel the summer time 3rd degree burns just by looking at those photos.

My town used to have a huge slide built into a hillside. It was "controversial" in that it was considered dangerous. After general playground renovations, the plastic substitute was subject to repeat vandalism and it's been removed entirely.
There's nothing to forget though. It's just the same regular commands you use when interacting with vim. Same argument applies to doing it in Python that you'd forget the syntax or functions. If you're not gonna forget python, why would you forget common vim commands. To be fair, I have no idea why he used ":norm" instead of putting it in a macro which is a lot more well known and would've done the same thing.
Thanks! why not fly for existing heroku projects?

I thought that fly didn't actually have a managed postgres, I guess I need to look more into it!
If the same character occurs twice in the window, the second OR will have no effect but the AND will remove it.

The trick is that XOR will leave the bit set if there is an odd number of occurrences, and the only way to have the bit count equal the window size is if every char is unique.
I went back to Windows. Does everything I want and doesn't have the Apple walled garden approach. I have m1 envy but its worth it.
I get it. I'm the same way. my 14" mbp with 64gb/ram is the perfect size/performance for me. I run intellij, docker, iterm2, chrome, obsidian and vscode. If there's OSX under there well...I guess so, but fuck it. I can't remember the last time I opened up system prefs, or any config file on my laptop.

earlier this year I tried fedora 32 on my xps9500(a supposedly great linux laptop). After a freakin week random shit still wouldn't work right. And sleep/resume was like rolling a dice. No thanks.
Political handcuffs.

What can the DEA do to prosecute more internally and externally? We would have to revert back to the ways of less human-rights friendly warfare. We would have to build physical and surveillance barriers. On borders. We would have to more heavily control shipments of goods and overall freedom of navigation of waters. We would have to turn our nation into a prison-island.

As for the ATF, well, only so much one can do for stolen arms… and even then we may have a critical mass problem. Unless we abolish the right to self-defense and start violating civil rights to clear the possession of weapons.

All politically untenable, and so what would rolling up these departments do other than consolidating power? They would have the exact same set of issues.

Much like invading Afghanistan, it’s a winnable issue in theory. After all, Alexander the Great did. However, modern political reality defeats you before the boardgame is out of the box.
Nope. Things work out of the box. I have terminal and homebrew and pip and npm if needed.

Fiddle with hacky drivers and graphics systems like fglrx and qt? No thanks.
It's literally a force of nature. Everything humans have invented is. Within say 20-50 years we will enter the post-human era. That doesn't mean all humans will die, but humans that haven't effectively merged with AI will be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Within another 50-200 years it is totally possible to speculate that some AI or AI collective could invent some nanotechnology that could ingest most of the planet and transform it.

Sensible in what way.. it's not going to go away.. I am trying to use it to write code now using natural language where possible, and creating a website that tech-savvy people or developers can use to generate applications based on davinci3.

But I view the cause of the wars and bombs as inherent animal behavior and motivations (such as resources and hierarchy) shared with chimps and/or ants. Technology is a multiplier.
Definitely. Here in Brazil we brush our teeth 3 times every day (most people that I know). And I do this professional cleaning once in a year/2-years for other reasons as well. No issues. I drink since I was 7 y.o. (some decades counting from there).
I know you’re probably intending to say “nice” with an accent. But given the context I can’t help but also think of Bob Noyce, an engineer’s engineer. See https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12149389/robert-noyce...
> The most interest aspect in the FTX saga, for me, is that SBF was treated very gently by major news outlets (and maybe by government regulators too)...

He wasnt

> until regular individuals in social media started asking

And there is the crux ... until blah blah. "twitter" didnt get them over the line to arrest him. Neither I nor "twitter" can prove a counter factual but it is just a fantasy of people who have read and written too much shitty fan fiction that SBF was never going to get investigated
This is the biggest understatement of the century.
Re solar, also fuel cells?
I've been using Debian for 20-25 years and it never gets straightforward.
Correct. The two hard problems are sustaining a reaction over a period of time and, given that first constraint, having that reaction generate more collectible energy than is being used to sustain it.

We solved the problem of using fusion to create vast amounts of energy in a short amount of time half a century ago, but the primary application for that approach is excavation (and all ways that word can be applied euphemistically), not energy production.
You will be surprised how much digitalocean has access in your cloud infra. We had a support ticket, the support person could see all our pods, namespace and kubernetes objects, disk mounts etc.
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Usually I don't. The issue is that I so often see people who I reckon are brighter than me who fail to recognize their shortcomings or failures, that is they're not good at self-introspection or avoid doing so.

Things I'm reasonably good at are self-awareness and being aware my own limitations (if it were ever claimed that I wasn't much good at anything then no one could justifiably claim those). Being aware of them has often kept me out of trouble.
Thanks, Brett! Really appreciate the reply. I think tracking the 'mygame' directory is the way to go, and I'll also investigate packaging with Zif.
I could see that. Maybe it really is because I'm more of a writer than a computer scientist.

(For context: I dropped out of comp sci and took a job as a web dev ~18 years ago. Never looked back. But have ended up learning more about copywriting and marketing than computer science along the way.)
I use this cut begining and end of pirate radio broadcast recordings (read: big MP3 which I don't want to reencode). Works well for this purpose.
I could have written the same comment and have mixed feelings about turning into the old person who feels that everything was cheaper "back in my day".

I try and remind myself that for the most part it's not that cars are that much more expensive but that dollars are worth so much less.
One of the problems of these centralized exchanges is that so much stuff happens off-chain. The DEX don't have these problems (some of them have other problems)
Background: I've been a *nix user since 1989, and have used focus-follows-mouse and a few window-management hot key combos for the last 33 years. I've managed to use those keys in every *nix WM / DE that I've used (twm, ctwm, kde, lxde).

I tried to use a mac as a desktop about 15 years ago. I was burned out from working 12-14 hours a day, had a new baby, and didn't want to deal with managing a FreeBSD or Linux desktop. I managed to find 3rd party hacks for most of my hot-key WM things, but I was never able to make focus follows mouse work in any sane way. My strategy at the time was to ignore mac apps as much as possible, and run XDarwin with traditional *nix apps and a WM that supported FFM. But using a web browser that was native and not Xdarwin based meant that focus didn't always follow the mouse, and that was enough to cause me inordinate amounts of frustration. I finally gave the machine to my inlaws at the time, and built a new white-box *nix machine.

Oddly, I don't have much of a problem with non-ffm on laptops, just because the experience is so vastly different. So I have a macbook, but I use it mostly for meetings / web browsing and as a terminal onto my FreeBSD desktop when traveling.*
https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY explains the difference between Qplasma and Qtotal. I hope this presentation will be as forthright.
I too visited them during the peak of their success, on one of their big job interview days. While a large group of us were waiting (for hours) we were invited to watch a series of videos of their employees "having fun" doing various contests and adventures. They were especially proud of the video of their new "Chief Brand Officer", who decided to have the company logo tattooed on their arm - like, yeah, a real & permanent tattoo.

I left.
Norvig’s Advent of Code 2022
Not really. Desktop GNU/Linux is a horrible experience that you always need to debug.

I sometimes miss Windows, not due to Windows itself (Windows 11 looks like a horror show), but because of all the apps, especially games.
A lot of people have made this argument -- that he was treated gently -- but to me that looks like good old-fashioned journalism. People have become so acclimated to the decline of objective journalism that when they see it, something seems off.
I don't know. That may be true if you want to be on Arch, with something super custom, but on a long term distro, you make your choices, you customize and then don't touch for years.

I agree with you mostly that I'm not interested in tweaking bells and whistles endlessly but you don't really have to do that in KDE or gnome.
I want to go back to windows, mostly because I miss explorer.exe. Mac’s finder and window management is a mess.

I have tried to use uBar but it’s buggy. Does anyone know of good alternatives?
Well, it’s true…

It’s an empty statement, neither side agrees on the fix for poor mental health and so the ball keeps on spinning.
I think far more good comes from transparent government than harm.

It’s my hope that the private sector compensated Snowden at least 50% of what they made in ad rev for his leaks.

If government is as great as government makes itself out to be the people will be overjoyed to find out all the things it does.
When I write ruby, and I love ruby, I don't do too much condition branching of logic.

- `if` and `unless` are for guards. The meat of every method, (the happy path) is at the bottom of that method.
- If there are legitimately two options that branch on a conditional, I try to make sure that both branches return the same type. (feature flags, a/b feature testing, etc.)
- If I can refactor code to a case statement, I will 95% of the time

This article screams, "I don't use a linter" or "I work at a company that doesn't have a style guide."