skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<< "Should" requires applying emotion and you cannot participate in a good faith discussion if you bring in emotions.

You are wrong about "should", because the word can and does describe non-emotional states ( not everything is deterministic and requires approximator like should ), but your point about good faith discussion is well taken. In fact, I think I should apologize here. There was no rational reason to be bent out of shape over this. Your argument is solid on the surface assuming what you write is taken at face value.

As a result, I took your advice and took myself away from the keyboard for a little while.

As I considered other things, I realized that you are still not correct despite being instinctively right about the business in general ( it goes where the money is ). You used the example of telegraph and I realized that what is wrong with the argument. Papyrus is older than telegraph and yet it is still used to deliver important messages ( like, say, warrants, summons, complaints ) suggesting it is not a question of age, but of utility. I posit that phone is in the same category as paper, because despite existence of email, telegram, signal, video chats, it has replaced telegraph, but nothing replaced phone yet in terms of barebones connectivity standard(s) that can be used across the globe. Unless we consider mobile phones a different animal, which would not be an unreasonable argument to make.

At end the end of the day, if I need to make a call to the old country and various apps don't work for one reason or another ( not everyone uses - or even can or wants to use - w/e app you use or maybe version is off or multiple other reasons ), calling is the way to go.

<< That doesn't mean there won't be some best effort attempts to support customers on the fringes,

I might accept calling is not default, but calling it a fringe might be mischaracterizing things a tad bit ( unless you have some evidence to prove, calls are indeed a fringe channel ).
The cancer warning label thing is one. It's basically slapped on just about everything now so everybody either ignores it or blindly follows it and in both cases the law is not helping the consumer. It has also driven up the cost of producing goods which is passed on to the consumer because companies either avoid the cert and apply the label or go through the time and effort of getting the cert.
I think a great deal of this situation is narrative based. People are generally terrible at predicting earnings six months out as well as recessions and if we get a major recession it would easily be the most widely anticipated recession in history.

First it starts with higher than expected CPI followed by hawkish fed policy. People learned their lesson last cycle and became worried that rate hikes as in past cycles would cause a deep recession and began adjusting immediately rather than wait for a recession. This is evidenced by the fact that the S&P peaked about four months before the Fed even hiked one time.

That’s a very important point that I think many overlook. When you are completely ignorant of impending danger you are most susceptible to damage. When you’re terrified of getting punched in the face you’re going to take drastic measures to protect yourself and in the process likely not get punched at all.

Meanwhile rates have moved very little in 3 months indicating (to me at least) that the bond market believes rate hikes are ending very soon.
> What people who aren't fat do is intellectually recognize that "I could eat forever" feeling, and don't fall for it. That's where the willpower comes into play.

I don't think that is quite right, at least from personal experience. I have a good weight and I feel it's almost impossible for me to gain weight. And personally, I don't really recognize the "I can eat forever" feeling.

I love food, don't get me wrong, but I eat some sort of meal and then once I feel it's enough so that I no longer feel ravenous, I just stop and go back to doing something else. Sometimes I'm even concentrating so hard on some other activity that I forget about eating.

For me, it's definitely not willpower. In fact, once I tried to gain weight (more muscle mass) by going to the gym and counting calories, eating a minimum amount every day over what I usually ate. What happened was that after a short amount of time, there came a day where I just didn't feel like eating.

In short, although I do believe willpower can help you lose weight, I sincerely doubt a lack of it is the only thing that causes people to be fat. I honestly think that people must have a different metabolism and/or a different desire to eat, because I find it very hard to ingest enough calories myself no matter how hard I try. My body just stops me from eating very soon, even though I know I theoretically could eat more.
I still don't understand what's going on
So what? Vast majority of transactions don’t benefit from the vast speed advantages cryptocurrencies offer. Bank transfers are perfectly fine if you’re happy to wait a few days for the money to arrive.

What’s the point of moving goalposts like this?
How would any other signed document let "a previous employer know what a former employee is telling their current employer about what they know from their former employer?"

A non-compete agreement doesn't actually "prevent" an employee from working at another company any more than an NDA prevents an employee from divulging confidential trade secrets.
As far as I'm concerned, if you can hold it in your head, it's probably not worthy of being protected as a trade secret, at least if we're talking about something technical like software and not a KFC recipe. Downloading a bunch of data like the Uber guy is obviously theft, but being able to remember, in general terms, how some software program worked doesn't seem protectable to me: there's no way you could really re-implement it the same way just from memory unless you have some truly superhuman memory skills. Any modern codebase is huge, the product of dozens of people or more, and not something one person can hope to remember well enough to make a real copy.
I work in the slot gaming industry. A lot of ex-video game developers end up coming over. May be worth looking into.
Tech has been one of the most affected by the grow at all costs mentality that is untenable when capital is not essentially free.

In other words, tech saw the largest and fastest inflationary valuation period in decades under loose fed policy. It’s now seeing a similarly fast contraction.

The reason we’re not seeing similar cuts across the board (or at least as significant) is that they also didn’t grow as significantly in the years prior.
I have the Constance Garnett translation (I'm not familiar with the options). I'm embarrassed to say that according to the bookmark I just found in the book, I made it only 40 pages in my last attempt. I feel like I would read it and just end up zoning out and realizing I wasn't really following.
I believe that there is a power swing about to happen where talented individuals may get a lot more powerful and influential in relation to institutions and corporations.

I liken it to how MANPADS allow individual soldiers to overpower tanks for far cheaper, flipping the script on 100 years of war.

It hasn’t fully come to pass yet but corporations hire way too many “credential dead weight.”

In my career I have often been completely outraged at how bad credentialed people are in the pure talent department. Some of the most credentialed people who automatically get top roles really are not that smart versus some of the other people I know.

Corporations and institutions favor credentials. Individuals who have talent are very different and hopefully will go much further in current market.
Not anymore, but I did practice when I was. I know not everyone is wired the same way. I sympathize with kids that are pushed when they’re not into it.
Fair enough, you're right he did originally tweet "Start on Monday, done by Sunday". But to be fair, in the very same tweet he wrote "I'll keep adjusting the list".

Besides all that, any good reads queued up for Jan?
> The NY Department of Labor also doesn't handle complaints if you're salaried above a certain threshold.

Source?
People absolutely are skinny because they intellectually know something, but the word “intellectually” doesn’t mean smart/stupid, it means “apply critical thinking to a situation” as opposed to allowing your animal brain to keep control.

To put it another way, system 1 will eat until its full, system 2 knows what a calorie is, and at least vaguely understands how many calories are in what you just ate against what you need to survive.

Skinny people are not smarter, they’ve either never had an impulse to eat more in the first place, or are able to react to the impulse with the part of the brain that reasons.
I used it to help recover a messed-up Linux instance, copying files over with either Samba or NFS; think NFS kept messing up. But yeah, it'll work as a Windows-friendly file server!
> Same thing happened with "small schools perform better" so they got funded. But turns out it's possible for them to perform terribly for the same reason it is for them to perform well.

And reason(s) would be?
I recently became a solution architect after pursuing this goal for quite a number of years. I love what I do, perform well, have good work-life balance, solve cutting edge technical problems, the pay is great. Wife, kids. Healthy and fit. So, enjoy your nice life, right?

The problem: am Ukrainian. It currently looks like I can get mobilized soon and go to war. If that happens, chances are that what awaits is not domain driven design and distributed systems but trench warfare. Even though I am likely to survive, my mental health and capacity for intense intellectual work may be permanently reduced.

Not just me: it's a trend. Ukraine is a major software engineering hub. The war doesn't care. Tons of talented people have to stop what they do and go defend the nation from the russian horde. Such a striking contrast where you can have cloud solutions and Ww1 style fighting within weeks from each other. Puts things into perspective.
Pressure and super rote methods that suck all the "play" out of "playing music".
Shitty housing/zoning policy causing absolutely insane housing prices.
> What happened to “people are our most important resource”?

That is a line that is exclusively used by dishonest businesses. If people are more important than money the business will cease to exist eventually.
Idk how you can sit here and talk about struggling to manage your weight then say you dont like eating vegetables. start eating real food. stop snacking all day.

the real issue is you just want to eat foods that taste good all the time.
Employers and employees now treat each other like card sharks treat each other: assumed worthless scumbags, to be exploited to whatever extent possible, and treated nicely only as an investment in future extraction.
Irrelevant and certainly plausible.

Quoting the last 10-K filing[1]:

> As of December 31, 2021, we employed approximately 1,608,000 full-time and part-time employees. Additionally, we use independent contractors and temporary personnel to supplement our workforce.

It's really not difficult to imagine how ~1 in 10 can be chopped while still surviving.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872422...
> Staten Island isn't as big as Raleigh or Atlanta

Staten Island (~475k) has the same population as Raleigh (~470k) and is a hair smaller than Atlanta (~500k). This isn’t a density argument. It’s an illustration of New York City’s scale. The forgotten borough is larger than most of our cities.
Same thing. It's about as good as an SF novel written on the SCP wiki could possibly be.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

(The extended universe of this story is the Fifthist Church, which is usually written as a kind of hippie Scientology and has a pretty different feel.)
Wait til someone you love develops anorexia or a similar eating disorder (they may already have and you may not know it), and then you will think of "psychological revulsion to X food" in an entirely different light.

Be careful. You'd be amazed at what harm the brain can do to the body.
I listened to a few samples, too, and my impression is the same: a few sound AI-ish in spots, but often I would not be able to tell that the reader wasn't human. I’ve heard better human-read audiobooks, but I’ve also heard worse.

Most of the books identified as “Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator” seem to be romance fiction. From what I’ve read about the genre, romance novels are written in huge quantities based on standard story, character, and situation templates, and enthusiastic fans often read dozens or hundreds of the books a year. Romance-fiction audiobooks would therefore seem to be a prime target for good-enough AI production. Presumably the stories themselves will be next.
> Another screenshot featuring a torrent related to a 2022 movie reveals the URL of yet another third-party supplier tracker. Some basic queries on that URL lead to even more torrent sites. And from there, more, and more, and more – revealing torrent passkeys for every single one on the way.

What is this torrent passkey used for? My understanding is that torrent trackers were all about sharing peers. You want tracker info to spread. I'm not understanding what this vulnerability exposes.

Edit: It looks like it's actually explained earlier:

> One begins with a GET request to another tracker, which responds with a torrent file. It’s then uploaded to the requesting site which updates its SQL database accordingly.

> From there the script starts checking for any new entries on a specific RSS feed which is hidden away on another site that has nothing to do with torrents. The feed is protected with a passkey but that’s only useful when nobody knows what it is.

> The same security hole also grants direct access to one of the sites tracker ‘bots’ through the panel that controls it.

So I think the issue is that keys to authorize control of the automated software to propagate tracker info is being leaked. It sounds like the end result is someone can write spoofed or spam info into torrent trackers.
What is the point of this?

Also let me go to the dictionary: the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman).

And again I'm not being anti-marriage, it's good overall, but it's not flawless, and there are ways to make its interaction with the rest of society more or less flawed.

The point where prostitution is treated as inherently immoral, because of marriage, is adding too much baggage to marriage. You can have both without hurting marriage in a way that undermines society.
If your eyes got bad, would you get glasses?

My brain doesn't produce the same amount of dopamine as a non-ADHD human's brain. It's morally neutral to fix that with medication, same as it's morally neutral to wear glasses, imo.
For anyone operating exclusively in "the cloud," AWS Graviton2 instances provide a 10-20+% cost reduction for similar performance to the next comparable instance (of course, highly workload dependent), without procurement issues beyond the usual AWS random regional shortages which are generally accounted for at scale already.

ARM instances from cloud providers are very appealing to most large-scale enterprise cloud customers, because they represent a significant cost savings at only a moderate upfront investment.
I also worked on an RSS feed reader that was supposed to work on both desktop, mobile and low-RAM embedded systems (<64MB of RAM). It was also written in C, but the focus was on bringing a synced decentralised cross-platform experience. I ran out of time to continue working on it, but could be convinced to start again.

> Newsboat's authors are rewriting it in Rust. They concluded (last time I checked) that C and some early design decisions were bad for its development now and they want to rewrite it in Rust because this is something that can be done gradually (and, I think, because they liked Rust). Before they settled down with Rust, they even considered Haskell, but Rust won.

There seems to be a common pattern that people believe "program that compiles to binary suffers from segfaults, therefore use Rust". Rust will not fix your poorly designed code, now it is harder to develop and runs slower. Your broken logic is still broken.

> Surprising that this project is in C. Given a chance to start fresh, why not choose a better language? Even Rust, I think, is unnecessarily low-level for an applied, not performance-critical program like an RSS reader. That's why I chose Haskell. Any other high-level programming language would be a better choice than C.

The code could do with some comments, but it's otherwise clean. It has been mostly worked on by Grigory Kirillov [1] and maybe this is a language they like [1]. Given the use of `func_name(void)` and `int64_t` it seems like somebody quite capable of writing C safely. With some regression testing this could be a fast and reliable program.

[1] https://codeberg.org/grisha
You have the history backwards. MS decided to switch to Chromium long before Chrome team googlers went over there.
The more complex the request you can make the larger the DOS attack surface is. It’s a tough problem. We need some more little languages like eBPF to send just enough conditional logic across.
> * I do wish that split never happened*

I too wish the split hadn’t happened, and for Matt’s ideas to have landed in FreeBSD.

Dragonfly today is remarkable, still competing head to head with FreeBSD 15 years later but with a development team literally 1/50th the size.
The largest one is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault
It’s a lot of words to say almost nothing.
> How would a previous employer know what a former employee is telling their current employer...

They don't. What I learned while working for your company isn't your company's property any more. Good ideas almost always eventually spread in our industry. And I think thats a good thing for software as a whole!

You can protect your data, and your code. But you can't really stop someone quitting a job at your company, working somewhere else and reimplementing a software system that worked well. It might take years to do it, but probably not decades.

I honestly think this is a pretty good tradeoff. It means if you build some software, you have head start, but not an impenetrable wall. For someone to compete, it'll take a lot of time and money just to catch up with where you are today. So it'll be hard to do but possible. This leaves the door open for any incumbent to be outcompeted in the market if they stop doing good work.

And thats a good thing! Competition is painful, but it pushes us to make better products for our users. Ultimately thats better for everyone.
Ideology divide between the coasts and bulk of the state, water management, mishandling inner city social issues like crime and homelessness, a sense of smug superiority, restricting residential development while leaving commercial development unchecked, ridiculous cost of living and lack of housing for low paid service workers…
This was really difficult to parse, unusual for rachelbythebay.

The article seems like it's ranting about Let's Encrypt (well it is a little). But a lot of the criticism seems wrong. Ah, the critical quote:

> But what about now? This isn't about Let's Encrypt. This is about me
> finding a supposed alternative and going through the same process of due
> diligence to understand just what I'd be getting into. Somehow, a couple
> of weeks ago, *I found this other site which claimed to be better than LE*

It's ranting about some other scummy service that's never mentioned by name!

It's kind of a scam with accounts and logins and a free tier that only lets you do 3 90 day certificates. Rachel likes the web API better. Well, yeah you still want to steer clear of that! (is it https://zerossl.com/pricing/ perhaps?)

So then why not circle back to LE? The reason nobody seems to care about the ACME protocol is that it does get the job done. And if you don't like the "certbot" client, which can be kind-of a pain, there are like 50 other implementations.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/

So you might not be able to do wildcard domains and the renewal period is a relatively short 90 days (both by design), but it's trouble free and actually free with no draconian limits.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

Well, goodness please use whatever service you want. And if you dislike the code quality of LE enough to pay for a traditional certificate every 2 years, great. But it seems odd to be ranting about LE by name and then throwing a bunch of critiques about another different unnamed service in at the same time.

If you gave up on LE in 2018, you might want to try again. It's honestly pretty decently simple to setup and feels pretty opinionated.
Back then I was one of the promising kid. My teacher had even prepared a few scores for me to practice for the entrance exam of a very good music academy. But I decided to drop it.

Reasons:

- I don't really enjoy the whole stuff very much. It involves a lot of boring practices. I still remember that back in the day, when everyone was enjoying holidays and weekends I had to practice 4+ hours every day. My parents were very pushy about this so very quickly it's a complete chore for me, except for occasions.

- I hate memorizing stuffs. But for music performance you got to memorize most of the stuffs you are going to perform. I was very nervous about this. I won a few minor prizes but never enjoyed the process. I only wanted to play for myself, not for an audience.

- I was not that talented anyway. There were tons of promising kid and I was just one of them.

BTW I never practiced piano again afterwards. It has been over two decades. I might pick it up again and hopefully can play some Well Tempered Clavier again (I managed to play a few of them before I dropped it) -- although I stopped practicing, I have grown up enough to enjoy Bach, the most romantic composer in the world.
None of these are major (private) torrent sites, torrentfreak is just hyping up bullshit as usual.

Just looking at the filenames makes it obvious that these can’t be from any major private tracker, there’s no way BTN or the likes would accept these files.
That beggars belief. Not only does he cite them approvingly, but he takes the time to distinguish between which ones he finds particularly well-founded, and uses them as the summation for his first and primary argument, followed by "NEVER TELL ANYONE I SAID THIS, not even in confidence".

Again: the mail is right there for everybody to read.
https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2021/03/ls223.2.pd...

Labor Standards cannot accept every claim. Labor Standards will not accept claims if you:

- Worked as an executive, administrative, or professional employee and earned over $900 per week
Are you serious?! If my town loses power for two weeks I want fire trucks, ambulances, tow trucks, and especially power company trucks to work! Civic infrastructure should anticipate tail events.

> How do you pump fuel if the grid is down?

Gravity. Siphons. Manual pumps. Etc. Real complicated stuff known since figuratively Roman times.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. The root reason is a lot of tech companies believed that the growth in users from the pandemic would be more sustainable ("buying the dip", as it were): after all heads you win, tails you have to lay off 17,000 people. This is, of course, the tails side of this.
Not explicitly it seems, although it certainly has a lot of the necessary features, like a message passing layer and network mirroring support in HammerFS.
Some torrent sites have ratios, eg you must upload as much as you download. The passkey allows the tracker to keep track of what you've uploaded and downloaded for your ratio.

These torrents also have peer discovery and DHT disabled on private trackers.