skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem I've always had with competitive, hierarchy based value systems. If we value status relative to other humans as a positive good that must be achieved, then no amount of technological, social, or any kind of progress could ever make things better overall. To reward relative superiority insists that the joy of the few requires the misery of many. Anyone who longs for this kind of structure is one who doesn't care for the betterment of any society or humanity as a whole, but rather relishes the superiority of the successful minority of those who found themselves one day at the top of the pyramid.

Every time we applaud some student who got accepted into Harvard, we are implicitly degrading the quality of all schools below it. Even if we lived in an ideal world where every school were equivalent to Harvard, we would cease to care about admittance to any of them except for the one deemed "the best".

I've read stories about people having "glow ups" and realizing they really were attractive all along, an inspiring tale that requires this lucky individual be placed above every unfortunate ugly person who didn't miraculously grow into their features. The point being that the ostensible value of this kind of story, whenever I read it, seems to be not that the individual "made it" by merit of becoming more attractive than their past self, but rather their success is only valid if they become attractive relative to others.

This kind of thinking is pervasive, yet thematically addictive. The climb above others seems to be self-evidently desirable.
they certainly are not because the only stupid definition of race within the human race is by US administration and they're not in the list

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data/race-ethnicity-de...
Rural doesn't mean poor.
Where I live (Very rural part of southern Missouri) the service is oversold and very expensive. I was on the waiting list for 2 years and then they offered "RV" service at a best effort service level. The service was fast and reliable enough but I canceled when they raised the rate to $170 per month.
What do you think of Tom Luongo's thesis on dollar/SOFR vs. eurodollar/LIBOR? https://tomluongo.me/2023/03/21/fdic-insurance-credit-suisse... & https://www.patreon.com/posts/79871723

> On two major fronts, limited insurance for bank deposits and terminally impaired capital structures for European banks, the Fed just positioned the US to be the recipient of major capital inflows as all of the interest rate and credit risk is transferred back to Europe.
I wonder what sort of careers would be workable for coders, other than coding itself.

I'd probably be happy to be a teacher if it paid well.
Functionality for older windows games is a little bit more absurd. I have a few games I kinda gave up on because they stopped working on windows 10, until I chucked them into proton or wine and suddenly those games were working. That was a confusing evening for a moment.
This article doesn't really get at the core of the distinction between tools like Ansible, chef, terraform and pulumi/AWS CDK. There are two languages being discussed here:

- the language the programmer writes in

- the language that specifies the desired state of the infra.

You want the language you're writing to be a good language (ie, a language you are productive in). It's very helpful for the language the config is specified in to be a declarative manifest. That doesn't mean you as a programmer have to write that manifest language directly.

Pulumi and CDK are libraries that allow imperative languages to generate a declarative manifest.

Terraform is a (very hamstrung) declarative language that is also a declarative description of the desired infrastructure state. It is hard to use because the language is bad. But the language is bad for no reason because it confuses the very desirable property that you want a declarative config with the totally undesirable property that you generate that config with a crippled declarative DSL.

Ansible shows another side of this: it's a crippled declarative DSL that executes an imperative set of instructions to get the infrastructure into the desired state. The best you can say about the yaml straightjacket is that it causes you to organize your code with some structure, kinda like MVC web frameworks. But yaml's declarative nature doesn't impart any magic by itself. If you write a step that isn't idempotent, it just isn't idempotent.

If you find yourself wanting to add templates, and loops, and references etc to yaml: this is a smell that you should not be writing yaml. You should use a real programming language to generate yaml. That's essentially what Pulumi and CDK are doing. You can think of your real programming language (python or typescript or whatever) as a macro language that outputs the declarative config.

(For completeness, chef/bash deploy scripts are imperative languages that generate imperative commands to change the infra. Needless to say, this results in a mess usually)
How to change components?
I tried to change them but I don't know how
Nice work, but this way is a bad way, even if there be some similar web builders that are "somewhat" successful
I recall an HN thread in which it was claimed that in fact most phones can, but to enable it means more FCC certifications etc. Can't find it offhand; someone more knowledgeble should jump in. (I'd love such a feature myself.)
Former MSFT employee here. Not every keystroke, but a surprising amount, yes. A startling amount. (Disclaimer: I was on Azure platform, so I can't speak directly to Windows.)

You can disable it (there are lots of articles all over) but the sheer scale of the problem makes these mitigations rather unreliable.

On the other side of the one-way mirror, there's this thing called Kusto which lets you sort of surf through someone's sessions, at least for the web apps. Someone brilliant in my unit hooked it up with emojis, which you could read in columns; it was very nearly like those columns of green figures in _the Matrix_, but, you know, with emojis. Just scan down from top to bottom; dude opens file... dude renames file... dude copies file... dude wanders away for 15 min... etc

Because EU regs, we can't see PII, but frankly if you named your folder 'Bob Bobberson's Bobfiles' whoever is on DRI is seeing your name. "Don't name your folder your name," we always said, to our customers. They always did anyway.

This was always uncomfortable but since the political breakdown has progressed, I've started to worry that these reams of data will either (a) be seen by some True Believer for one side or another or (b) quietly collected by the usual (legal) means, by a federal agency that is itself compromised.

This is in the context where there are literally states with bounty programmes for e.g. people seeking (or helping) women get abortions. How long is it until $10K sounds good enough to a disgruntled layoff-rattled rank-and-file? What happens if those programmes are expanded to include other things? What if you had a folder named, say, "Getting my wife TF out of TX?" What if you did five years ago? Think it through.

The worst part is I'm sure it's no different anywhere else, in 2023, at least so far as commercial apps go. Even some FOSS stuff like Audacity.

That's why I run OpenBSD and NixOS, and have even managed to wean myself off VSC.

I definitely did not enjoy seeing the sausage be made.
The last update broke WSL for me.
> An aggressive ticketing campaign isn't very helpful in a city with a lot of tourists, because they'll just go home without having paid the ticket. Is Interpol going to seek out 30 euros?

I have proposed this before in my city, ticket the e-scoter company for improper parking not the users.

Most of these business have gps trackers on them they will quickly find a way to enforce proper parking onto users.

We need to stop externalizing problems away from companies.
Windows is the only desktop OS i use and that does not happen.
He’s not that old yet, give him time.
I count 36 Super bindings and I started using them for Emacs in 2016. I was using them for StumpWM before that.

Some of it is EXWM specific but about half also apply on a tty frame too. My fingers just automatically type the alternate version when needed.

Sorry if it came off too argumentative. I've been on the other side of this plenty, one person's annoyance is another's show stopper.
What Happened to FreedomGPT?
Domain sold, netlify-apps down, no trace left?!
Anybody knows anything?
Open Core Legacy patcher might help get a few extra years out of your Mac: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
School shootings are non existant in Australia but it's not directly related to banning semi-automatics.

In Australia 12 years can join gun clubs and own weapons when of age, there are classes of gun licence, if someone wants to work as a feral pig shooter they can get a semi automatic weapon.

The significant factors in Australia are that guns are regulated uniformly across all states, all sales either through dealers or privately are tracked, gun licenses can be revoked for improper handling, storage, domestic violence convictions, etc, and can be suspended for a period while allegations of particular nature are sorted out.

So, guns are treated as seriously as explosives, poisons, other dangerous goods, and they are efficiently tracked and databased (unlike the US with inconsistent regulation and no central electronic databses, etc).
It is nuts how refreshing a Server install setup is. It has a single screen asking for a password and boom you are at a desktop.

(Ok so there is the what disk are you installing to and the what version are you installing if you don't have a key but still.)

If so many programs did not complain that I need to pay business prices for having a server OS installed I would much rather run a $50 copy of server 22 off ebay than 10/11.
> It's still 90$ if you are rural.

Rural areas are the only place there is demand for Starlink. Nobody buys 95% reliable internet in a city that has fiber.
So you don’t like freedom of speech and right to assembly.
I put up war time Germany's coal butter up.
Synthetic and could just add well be from scrubbed CO2 and electrolyzed hydrogen, instead of coal and water, as the feedstock/syngas source.
https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/ahead-elon-musks-sho...

This has some more details from the public info:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/future...
So you say "feed", "inject", etc.. but these just alternative verbs for "describing".
What skills are needed? Where is the ingeneering part?
This is only true if you have an extremely narrow definition of "white".
Not really, specially after Windows XP security focus.

Nowadays Windows even runs critical parts of the kernel and drivers in their own little sandboxes, it uses mostly userspace drivers, and every OS handle has a security descriptor associated with it.

Also if running on the network, there are AD group policies that can be really fined tuned to what each user is allowed to access on their computers.

Windows NT linage of OSes isn't the same free ride for all than Windows 9x.
Stopping Evaluation from Blocking in Nix
You got the meds wrong - semaglutide and trizapeptide are glp-1 based meds, sglt inhibitors are a separate class and don’t include those two - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGLT2_inhibitor

Importantly, the issue why my ideas were boneheaded was that typically there’s a lot of unknown side functions and ramifications in biology which are easily overlooked. Glp-1 based drugs weren’t discovered by deliberate hypothesis testing. Sglt2 inhibitors might be but given the number of trials it took in attacking metabolic syndrome using “logic” (avoid fat, avoid sugar, inhibit fat uptake, eat sugar substitutes, etc). This just eeems like a fluke more than merit of following simple logic into complex hormonal systems.

This is true in all medicines. Except antibiotics almost no effective medicine was “invented” by applying first principles the way you would in physics, even if initially it looked like that’s how it worked. Take chemotherapy for example. If the drug works effectively by killing all dividing cells completely, it clearly should kill you, but it doesn’t. It just kills cancers. But that’s because turns out our immune system plays a pivotal role in chemotherapy effectiveness.
It wouldn't remotely surprise me if we don't see a lot of late 90's to mid 2000's vehicles getting run and rebuilt for a long time, kind of like Cuba. Barring perhaps the crashworthiness, for areas with no rust, it's kind of amazing to see how many older GM trucks of that era are still running down the road (I know I've got a couple myself).

It's hard to imagine ponying up many tens of thousands of dollars for a new truck, when they don't really do anything better (or are often worse) than what you have, and the cost of overhauling an older truck still comes out pretty favorably. I wonder if GM is cursing how easy and well understood it is to rebuild and improve a 4L60E or a small block chevy?
To be fair, Thinkpads were built to last back in those days. Won't get the same mileage out of other laptops (or even modern Thinkpads).
Internet without connected power is pretty common around here. Internet is obviously needed for those who work from home. And it's increasingly required for the needs of everyday life (government services moving online, bank branches closing).

So, yes, absolutely - many people without connected power need the internet.
The 2 most important traits that managers desire are agreeability and subservience. Never argue with them. Even the slightest of power corrupts humans.
He has 0.6% chance of dying at his age in 1 year, so it may be wise to put 0.6% of his net worth to use to combat it ($1B/year).

Of course Jeff Bezos is a bit closer, but Jeff investing only a few billion dollars in 1 company (even though it’s the most important company) is also not rational.
Now the fight is a lot more desperate. Higher status can be the difference between affording a house, or not

This is a tragic statement on the way we've made abundance illegal and mandated scarcity instead—points further articulated in more detail here: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...
In the his book "the tyranny of merit" Harvard political philosophy professor, Michael J. Sandel, best known for his podcasts on BBC Radio 4 makes the same argument. Lately, Harvard students have had all their lives programmed to the point where they cannot complete trivial university related tasks without parental assistance and presence. The students that require psychological support after failure (e.g. failing a class or failing to join a ridiculous club) have skyrocketed as well.
It is, but you need people who have made medical devices before, people who have done animal work before, surgeons, etc. You can still move fast and break things, just in an ethical and respectful manner that gives respect to the sacrifice that cadaver doners and animal sacrifices deserve. This is not that.
I would define financial security as the ability to pay for your desired lifestyle with minimal perceived risk. Some risk always exists, but it's your perception of it that either puts you at ease or stresses you out.

Until a year or so ago, a cushy career at Facebook seemed like a pretty sure thing and the opposite of risky. To others, any single source of income is a massive risk.
I wonder how much of those quirks (before autocomplete existed) were determinant in a language going down in usage

While you typed that a C developer could already have written a memory violation bug, think of the productivity increase

C might not have been effectively better (Pascal strings were better) but it had a feeling of increased productivity
They won't unless someone who know specifics actually reports it.
Not stupid, sadly - corrupt. I bet most of the MEPs that voted on that directive are now retired with a fat pension, made even fatter by some "consulting gig" from the folks that wanted that law weakened.

Unfortunately this is nothing new. Democracy has its problems.
I've only ever had second hand ThinkPad T series laptops and a brand new 2015 MBP. The MBP had by far the most hardware issues of any devices I ever had (second screen only on power, running hot enough to cook on it, battery life was mediocre from the start, ...). Every single ThinkPad I ever owned is still ready in my drawer. My ~15yo T420 still has like 6 hours battery life and works like a charm

The build quality thing is only true if you compare them with cheaper laptops. In the same price class you find more interesting devices IMO
> The main advantage imo is you can bring them on trains and in elevators much easier than bikes.

Like a folding bike.
Well, some of/from the big ones are good, sure, but most of them... have nothing with the product. And some of them like on the page 57.
They have been...

https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/ahead-elon-musks-sho...
Could ammonia be used for stable seasonal storage of energy?

The abstract suggests that ammonia is much nicer to transport and store than hydrogen. If we can use it to store summer solar to run winter heat-pumps with a low roundtrip efficiency but even lower costs per kWH of capacity it could really help.
Setup your 10 year old with a ChatGPT and Midjourney subscription instead so they become a talented prompt engineer instead of a systems engineering neckbeard.
Do wsl --update as administrator

If doesn't work the first time try a few times
There are really frequent updates for the project on Twitter. It seems well-maintained for sure...
Battle of the AI Forum Moderators: OpenAL vs. ChatGTFO
really looking forward to seeing starship get up there, then the V2 starlinks which will be an order of magnitude faster and better
I don't know about "None at all". But I sure don't hear much talk about the feasibility or infeasibility of orbital shields/reflectors or other slightly out of the box solutions.
Just for fun, ask ALPACA its name.

"John Smith"

Where is it from?

"New York City"

I haven't tried to turn up the temperature but I assume that's needed to convince it to give unexpected responses.

There is definitely an element of averaging going on in these models and it's worth maintaining awareness of it. This is IMO also the cause of ChatGPTs odd disembodied voice. It's always projecting some modes in the data.
Remember that he’s not actually that smart. Rob Beschizza has the best description of Musk:

“I love how childish and petty it is. There is no depth or human complexity to Musk whatsoever: he's just a rich kid who got lucky and now we marvel at his exertions day in, day out. The New York Times still casts Musk as a public intellectual, even now, because its editors live in a floating world of narrative imagination and are impervious to the facts of the matter. In return, he calls it ‘diarrhea.’ They completely deserve one another.”

https://boingboing.net/2023/04/02/petulant-musk-rants-about-...
Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
This always gets stated - "Removing roadblocks". But if the engineer isn't removing roadblocks on their own and collaborating with other teams, then they get labeled as "lacking initiative". People managers really don't deserve a place in the software industry. More often than not, they are the real roadblocks.
250k in the bay area with family is ok but it isn't great. You can live on it but people want nice houses and schools for their kids,etc... so I get where they're coming from. Even for the single people they wanna retire early or whatever. Everyone has different goals I guess
I know three people in Australia personally that have starlink and are incredibly grateful and pleased they can get it.

The business model is strong, especially with V2 on its way
A meta-recollection related to this (and takes me back to those days) --

The magazine issue linked here has 208 pages. I remember that in the years to come, you could tell how desperately the Apple / the Mac community was doing by the gradually thinner and thinner page count of the magazine on the newsstand.

And then maybe it grew back a bit and stabilized (but never reached this kind of heyday again) as all the ads shifted online at the same time that Apple began to recover.
I get you, I have an openbsd desktop setup I love to death. It just makes me feel empowered compared to windows, I mean, realistically it's not. it is openbsd, it's slow, no commercial software, no backwards compatibility, old software is always needing to be recompiled, nobody else uses openbsd so it is hard to get help.

But it is so comfortable, I know where everything is, The system is simple enough for me to understand every part of it, the init system is a simple shell script, it is right there, you can read and understand everything there is to know about openbsd boot in an hour. My window manager is fully described in one man page.

Windows angers me up every time I use it, linux is a little better, but still has too much magic going on, I love this openbsd desktop setup. plus I have an old thinkpad x131 that runs obsd perfectly, I will be very sad when it dies.
> it's a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout ..

Well yes, but a needed bandaid. That's what happens when governments vacate their role - individuals are left to manage on their own (and the devil take the hindmost).

Australian here like you. Generally appalled by the NBN debacle. Starlink's beyond my means, but if I had a remote job I'd find it a godsend where I live (rural Northern Rivers). Our "NBN" is SkyMuster, which is from all accounts not up to much (even if you can get the NBN to connect it).
I'd think I'd be able to use and enjoy Windows again if I got a Server (or at least a 'Pro' version) to play with and could turn off all the crap they ship with it

But currently MacOS and Linux look more interesting
It’s the Protestant Puritanism of American culture getting stronger. It’s the same with the so called woke religion, it’s just a repackaging of Puritanism.

Just like any culture there are many parts of the American one, but the part that comes from adventure, exploration, freedom etc definitely has been on the decline since about the 70-80s. Control and Puritanism is what’s stronger now.

Personally I hope it swings back at some point.
Microwave popcorn bags are full of harmful “forever chemicals”
I don't know why you assume he isn't investing in solving aging privately.

It's also a huge pet issue for all his wealthy SV friends (Thiel et al), so he may not feel he needs to add anything to it personally.
People need to let their kids out more, but common, a 3 year old at an intersection? That's not what this thread is about. Even in your story you were trying to supervise them and weren't far behind.
Can anyone elaborate why I am being downvoted? It is a fact that Windows Defender is disabled and that you get zero feedback from the sandbox if you try to install something malicious. You cannot even go into Windows Security settings. It seems like it is all entirely disabled.

Isn't that one of the main use cases for running something in a sandbox first instead of trying it out on a live system?
adding onto the "disagree" siblings. that money is status is far too simplistic.

plenty of people are simply not impressed by money. it's not even really a concerted thought, it's just a matter of different strokes for diff folks. people have all sorts of tribes. money is really just one. just a gawdy obnoxious one.
I'd argue they are probably in the best position to talk about the 'empty bowl' status is. I mean if you switch to the admin-view for a moment, status is basically the increasingly rare thing that others cant have by definition. that is statistically impossibly for commoners to have. and their advice of seeking contentment can/is always countered with 'sour grapes' style retort. We need more calming message from people who have been there and done it. after all I dont really need to get a Range-rover when my Hyundai gives me most of what I want.
sounds interesting, thanks.
Morality Starts with Vision