skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the more click-baitey aspect of the article title is that they didn't specify that this occurred 60–80 years ago; it's phrased as if this test recently happened. The US defense agencies today sure aren't perfect, but they certainly aren't this reckless anymore. The fear during the first few decades of the Cold War instigated a lot of poor moral decisions by the US Government that can't just be extrapolated to the organization today.
In my experience, a firmware engineer contractor is much more expensive than a web contractor. But that's probably just a contractor supply/demand thing vs full-time.
Use 128 bit integer in femptoseconds, with epoch being the begining of the universe. And it should be signed, because what if there was a previous universe.

Jokes aside, Unix Epoch shouls be replaced by Tai time on every computer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Apple Knows You Didn’t Mean to Type ‘Ducking’
Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics
Wow! Okay, I've learned some people are using Reddit very differently than I've been. I can see why you would want to archive your data.

As I side note, I have a peculiar fascination with how people use tools so differently, how they work them into their workflows and make them their own.
It's interesting to note how many of these revolutions and coups involved a fall to either communism or fascism. For the most part, these were not positive developments.

Perhaps the declining role monarchs across the world was a causal factor there -- countries of citizens trained to live with a highly authoritarian structure, who because of prior experience gravitated towards fascism/communism (also highly authoritarian)
AI Chatbot for Slack and Discord
FWIW, you can repack the nix-store to be a pile of hardlinks...
So you end up with the value of what you paid. Got it!
My Visit with the Lord of the Startups: Y Combinator's Paul Graham (2014 Video)
No it’s not.

You’ll get old one day. It’s pretty challenging to keep track of what’s real and what isn’t possible with technology.

The guy apologized and said he thought it was a search engine.

He should definitely face some sanctions but someone had to learn this lesson in public the hard way for word to spread.
I don't care whether he is joking, I care whether he is making a threat or not. He did not make a threat. spez understood him as saying "if you want this discussion and situation to go away quietly, pay me this". The Apollo dev was asking "if you're having these costs, why not just pay me half that and have the app quiet down?". One is a threat (pay me or XYZ will happen), the other is a legitimate question.
Gallium Nitride Semiconductors
While karma requirements are easy to overcome, many spammers don't go through the effort to do so.
Idk what subs you hang out in, but in most of the subs I follow one of the easiest ways to farm upvotes is to simply trash on the USA. I see one of those "Stop complaining about your life. There are literally people living in The USA." memes[0] at least once every couple weeks and it always performs well. "America bad" is a very well known trope in the Reddit comments.

[0] https://i.redd.it/you8wci1y7x51.jpg
Ask HN: What is you crazy OpSec techniques?
I am talking over the top, what lengths to you go to ensure you Operation is air tight.
But it's not a random pseudo-reseller? The one github comment from "the founder of Quantum CA" seems to say they are also the creator of HiCA, which is the entity that was exploiting the 0day in acme.sh. And the crt.sh link shows an intermediate CA cert named "QuantumCA", signed by ssl.com.

So QuantumCA == HiCA == exploiters of the acme.sh 0day, it's all the same entity? The intermediate CA could just as well be named "0dayexploitersCA"? Why is it not a huge concern that ssl.com is fine with operating such a "0dayexploitersCA" intermediate?

Am I missing something here?
Bad Data, Not Aliens, May Be Behind UFO Surge
> He gets paid the same to delegate the work to AI.

If he was being paid hourly, he would actually get paid more to go look up those cases in a database.
> I keep hearing about all of these nightmare scenarios, dreamed up by paranoiacs.

Not at all. These are all things that used to be pretty common. That's why medical privacy laws were enacted.

> Fix THOSE problems instead of killing people.

That would be ideal, yes. But nobody has figured out a way to do that.

BTW, I don't think your phrasing is helpful to your cause. It implies it's a black-and-white issue when in reality it's a very complex issue with a ton of nuance.

People die as a result of the lack of medical privacy too, after all.

> the entities inflicting these consequences don't care about medical privacy anyways, right?

No, they don't. But they do care about the huge fines and other legal consequences they risk by not adhering to the law.
what’s the point of even typing such silliness? you just said “confiscate the property of everyone on the _planet_ who has ever had a retirement account”

you might as well propose “we should just snap our fingers and wish really hard for utopia”
Interesting, Are you sure it’s turkiye.gov.tr?
The VARIANT date type uses a floating point number; the whole number portion is the day (days past 1900 January 1) and the fractional part is the time.

Not sure about classic BASIC; I don't really recall there being a specific time type, though I know later things like Visual Basic and etc would just use the VARIANT date type above with a 0 day component.

I like Windows' FILETIME which stores time as 100-nanosecond intervals since the beginning of the year 1601. C#'s DateTime is similar but uses an epoch of 0001 January 1.

I know JavaScript and others simply use the usual unix Epoch but with milliseconds rather than seconds, so time() * 1000.
Getting to the bottom of the UAP/UFO whistleblower story
Isn't renormalization a technique by which divergent integrals can yield finite results? How would it be a mechanism by which anything operates?
Why? You can fit that in a single server. None of the data is unrecoverable. Most is binary cache for built packages and the ISOs can simply be rebuilt from what’s in git. They’re paying ridiculous amounts of money to serve easily rebuilt data.
Part of the corpus is explicit bullshit though, and we don't know to what degree. It internalized conspiracy theory and WebMD alike. In a generative capacity, it only reliably produces fiction. Ever. Fictional stories often take place in realistic settings and reference real facts. They sound real. But they're still fictional compositions.

Using GPT as a reference to anything is the same as using a Michael Crichton novel as a biology reference. It looks right, but why would you waste your time asking questions of something you can't trust and have to double-check everything it says anyway? Nobody would keep an employee like that around, nor would you hang out with someone like that. It's friendly enough, but it's a pathological liar.

There's too much black magic going on inside the black box. We don't know how prompts get tampered with after submission, but it might be worth it to pepper "nonfiction" tokens in prompts to ensure it skews on the right side of things. It certainly responds to "fiction" when you're explicit about that.
Well, there definitely are other transgender influencers paid by other companies who were spared this moral outcry. So what is the ridiculous speculation? That they made a risk analysis?
In the post-truth era, (3) will become increasingly vital because reputation is the only tool we have to distinguish signal from noise.
Nix is easy to mirror. That doesn't address the root problem, which is simply that it's a lot of data.
BINO: Automatic recognition of inline binary functions from template classes
I think it can be. There still needs to be drama and adventure and action. The story just doesn't need to always revolve around saving the galaxy. I think this is why the Mandalorian has been so successful and interesting. He is a character that is never really trying to save the world. He gets sucked into it every now and then, but then again a lot of his episodes are just cool adventures of a person living an interesting life.

There is also the idea about why Disney and these other big companies are buying franchises in the first place. I read somewhere (probably here on HN) that these media companies realized that people like to get invested in a particular story universe. They don't want to have to keep getting used to new universes, they want to see the universe that they like from different angles. So in that regard I think this strategy makes strategic sense as well.
Japan's geography isn't bad for solar.

60% of the islands have a warm climate, Okinawa is super sunny.

They have a ton of roofs to put solar on.

On top of that, they should be good for wind.
Tons might be stretching it. But to my knowledge there are not many alternatives for microcontrollers that have more?
Hopefully one day it will be like Linux. At least they are trying to tackle the driver problem, unlike other most other RTOSes.
The prime minister of Singapore was the target of a breach against a healthcare provider in 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_SingHealth_data_breach
Even at face value, there is a world of difference between downvoting a comment and silently editing it.
A webapp isn't a company. If you have a company, you should have at least half a rack of hardware in a colo. Being 100% on the cloud is a grave mistake.
It seems like, if was making you aware of a problem and then having you deliberately deal with it, it was training your conscious.
All your comments are probably crawled anyhow. You can't delete anything from the internet.
Even the parks are getting sucked down into the mire.. They stupidly made Ride of the Resistance based on the new trilogy.. teaming up with the worst characters in Star Wars is not a winning ride..
We could, oh, I don’t know, build local work groups and refuse to accept US dollars locally.

There are other frequencies we can speak, and geometry we can “draw” on the globe via agency. No need to constrain them to ephemeral value stores and chants of the last 60-70 years.

It’s pretty sad how we set aside our self guided learning to prop up gadgets to prop up some hallucinated figurative view of the world we had foisted on us.

I feel zero obligation to play host to a mind virus that preserves Zuckerberg and crews figurative identity. I only do so as a pragmatic acquiescence given the other primates fealty. It’s gross.
> 1.America is always good. They never did anything bad. They saved the world and they're heroes.

What subs did you look at? My experience on Reddit is the exact opposite. There's even a subreddit where people whine about people whining about how awful America is: https://old.reddit.com/r/AmericaBad/

> 2. Apple is god.

What subs did you look at? Even /r/apple frequently hates Apple.

> 2. China and Russia are very bad.

I do see these sentiments a lot.

> American invasions were justified.

What subs did you look at? What invasions are we talking about?

> 3. Chinese,product, companies are all bad. All they do is copy the almighty American companies.

I see this one a lot. Especially on subreddits devoted to military hardware and any time someone mentions TikTok.

I think the truth is that people remember the things that evoke an emotional response. It sounds like you get upset when you hear people say bad things about China and when you hear people say good things about America. You forget, or just don't read, all of the comments that contradict those people.
I blog and journal using GitHub README.md. It's a low tech solution but if everyone did it, everyone would have content to read.

Just need someone to curate repository URLs.

If you want good content, you need to invite users who are known for insightful informative comments.
You have probably received the response you were looking for, but Kirkbride is another of those contributors to Morrowind lore that helped make it special. Sermons of Vivec, Dragon break, etc.
I'm asking for the math or a source, because I'm not able to verify your claim and it doesn't match my prior understanding. Especially the recycling comment, as utilization is quite low, allowing for massive amounts of reenrichment. It also doesn't match my understanding of the AP1000 which has a similar uranium consumption rate to CANDU 6. Not burnup, uranium consumption. The thermal energy estimate also seems naive and a bit obtuse as you're also including many things that one typically would not account for when discussing energy production. And again, it also seems naive to pigeon hole the entire world's energy consumption onto a single energy source, as if we did something similar for solar, hydro, oil, etc we'd find massively unsustainable numbers as well.

I want straight numbers and links, because something isn't adding up.
How did dial-up ISPs work?
Sure, but someone still has to store it. If the foundation wants you keep the old builds, they still need to pay for that 0.5PB somewhere.
Normal people don’t get that intuitively because it’s not intuitive at all.

For everyone who his looking down on this guy have you ever read a story on the Reddit front page and thought it was a real story accurately recounted by a real person and not a work of fiction? If so you’re equally naive.
400TB of disk and a 100Gbe NIC in a single server is easily affordable hardware for a hobbyist, let alone any kind of organization

yeah, there will be maintenance and setup work, but we've (web software engineers) developed a weirdly extreme fear of self hosting, even in cases where we're being killed on transfer costs
>We need to rethink this model.

Once upon a time, most people who wanted or had something to say wrote their own little website and hosted it themselves (be it in a datacenter or a server in their closet). Some even ran forums and got fancy with server-side magic because that's what nerds do. Even the kids who couldn't afford anything had free, basic hosting services to choose from (anyone remember those days?).

The internet was designed as a distributed network and the denizens then were distributed. You only got as centralized as a given ISP or datacenter provider.

Of course, we all know as more and more commoners came onto the internet they didn't want to bother with developing or hosting or maintaining a website or anything. They just wanted to shitpost, for free, with blackjack and hookers.

And so "free" services like Reddit, Facebook, et al. came about to serve that demand. Information became centralized, because who the fuck has time to be responsible? Offload that crap!

The cost of that offloading of responsibility has now come knocking with debt collectors in tow, with interest.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: We don't need to rethink anything. We just need to take some god damn responsibility for ourselves. Responsibility is power, and with power you can tell commercial interests you disagree with to screw off.
If you every decide to create a scripting language, remember - it must look like C. 0-based indexing, syntax, everything. Gods forbid if you write lisp interpreter! Basically, every derivation from C will be treated as heresy and will cause countless complaints from people who never wrote a line of code in your language. /s

Seriously now: it can be done, but would be a massive waste of time.
Do I have to relocate to nightvale in order to get a job?
Nassim Taleb's critique of the "long peace":

"We investigate the theses of “long peace” and drop in violence and find that these
are statistically invalid and resulting from flawed and naive methodologies, ..."

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf

Our technology is smarter than our politics. We will be lucky if we don't blow up everything.
The place I go to for takeout sushi uses a site on Chownow for online ordering. This SaaS platform charger the restaurant a monthly fee, rather than taking a cut.

I just Googled Chownow, and apparently you can browse local restaurants as well: https://www.chownow.com/
I can definitely see some shifts happening. I dunno, I see that both ways. No super strong feelings.

In general though I just think the fear is way overblown. The damage to society of everyone selling Fear Uncertainty and Doubt is real & heavy, is a burdensome tone. The damage of so many people jumping into the black hole is real. And most of us are not going to be targeted people, and our transgressions even at their worst online are really nowhere near a real danger to us.

But having an online existence, being part of the written/online universe is a risk. Yes. Opting out & becoming nothing is a very easy available way to get rid of risk.

I still think it's a farce of high degree how much fear are swallowing. I think it's colossally disproportionate to the risk. We also don't get to societally wrestle with questions of grace & mistakes & maturation if we insist on the supreme personal security of having said nothing.
No, I am not. I'm saying they don't care about making good movies, only about putting in what market research is telling them they should. My version of things doesn't rely on a conspiracy to push ideological messaging like yours, it only relies on market forces and big companies coming together to create a lazy and bad product that still sold, albeit under expectations (because, surprise, people care about quality).

Just stop for one second and consider this - is there literally no way to increase the quality of the movies without changing the "ideological messaging"? I think there are tons of ways, e.g. by removing the incredibly annoying slapstick humor overpresent in Episode 8. So why didn't they try to make it better? If they want to push ideological messaging, why not at least put effort into the movies, so your messaging is effective?
So if I have 1 mimosa at 7a before a flight and otherwise don't drink for the rest of the month, I'm an alcoholic? This logic is wack
Yeah, they just defrauded their clients and billed arm and leg. Ironically I believe and hope that laywers for the most part get soon automated away by machines because legal language is different to human language.
AWS has repeatedly released new, lower-cost tiers. Indeed, Nix is already using the Infrequent Access tier. That tier already existed when that blog post was made, but it hurts the author's point so they didn't mention it. The cheapest tier, Glacier Deep Archive, is $0.00099/GB.

There are still lots of reasons to consider alternative hosting providers (the biggest one: egress) but that blog post--frequently reposted and annoyingly misleading--is not a good summary of the situation here.
Anecdotal evidence:

Myself and my SO are both under 35. Most of our friends like the show, and they range from 26-41. I know one of my best friends, who's cousins kids watched the show intently, all between 16-20, as he told me.

It was also a weekly discussion point in our friend groups, it was fairly actively engaged.

It was also a gangbuster for ratings[0] and is number 6 on the Nielsen streaming stats[1] with a staggering 837 Million Minutes watched in a fairly short period of time. Willing to bet you don't really "get there" without a healthy amount of people under 35 watching this show.

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/last-of-us-finale-hbo-max-pedro-pascal-h...

[1]: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-last-of-us-nielsen-stre...
> is NOT how it's supposed to work.

I could not agree more. This problem absolutely ruins lives. I've seen people who've suffered terrible injuries beg not to be taken to the hospital because it would result in devastating financial consequences.

> I expect insurance companies to honor their contracts.

I agree with this as well. But that's a separate issue than who is legally responsible for the debt.
I understand and I too have clients. This feels completely different indeed, but that is exactly why I came to think of these things: the power structure is not fundamentally different. If anything, it’s more volatile and I need to watch what I am doing all the time. I can be dumped at a moment’s notice and to be honest, I like it that way because that works both ways. (My wife thinks differently about these matters.)

Thing is, without sounding too negative, because my team mates are all good people, but I have seen some negativity in them along these lines that in my opinion is uncalled for. Without proper care it is easy to fall into a black and white, purely transactional relationship with your employer. To be completely honest, I myself have fallen for it quite some time and it made me deeply unhappy.

I speak to the “bosses” perhaps on a different level now and it’s not like they are living to grind their staff into dust. There is a complexity to their job as well and it would perhaps be enlightening to keep that in mind even as an “employee”.

Perhaps my idea of compromise is that you, as an employee, need to come to terms that you might not be perfect and that there is a lot you do not understand, but that is OK. Try to do a good job and don’t point fingers (“they started!”). Try to imagine how your “boss” feels. We are all humans trying to do an adequate job, barring some pathological types. Not to make your boss happy, but yourself.

But I am rambling too long now. I of course need to add here that exercising wisdom is crucial: don’t let yourself be abused. Everything depends on the circumstances and they are always complex.

Edit: btw I work with small businesses and those are a completely different game than, say, Adobe. I still think the general point about trying to do good without falling into pure transactionalism is helpful.
Yeah they did a season two box not long ago. And there’s the Dungeon Bowl expansion
Not that I agree with the content of the lecture, but you have to read between the lines for that. "Putin is much too smart for that" is a stand in for "it would be very stupid for Putin to do this please don't" that looks like a compliment at surface level.
I usually replace shell scripts with python (using sh module: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/ for calling other scripts/programs).
I wrote this comment a couple years ago, but unless something significant has changed, it still stands.

Be careful. Shreddit does not get rid of all reddit comments, only the ones on your profile. Reddit stores a list of the last 1000 comments and posts you've made to your profile and that list is what Shreddit and 99% of reddit 'deletion' tools use. To truly remove all your comments and posts from reddit, look into reddit-shreddit [0]. Despite the similar name, it is completely different and leverages all your posts and comments from a reddit data request to delete all of your reddit posts and comments. It is infact the only method I have found, except for perhaps a GDPR deletion request, that is truly a complete deletion.

However, this only covers the deletion from reddit itself. There have been periodic reddit archivals ever since it was created. Up to 2015 they were done yearly, ever since they have been done monthly. Since they have always been up for download, all of your reddit data will still be out there, however you can remove your data from the main source of these archives called pushshift. I haven't done it personally but I've seen it said on reddit, you can email the dev of pushshift or dm him on reddit and he will remove your information from his archive.

[0] https://github.com/nixfu/reddit-shreddit
Shameless plug. I've once made a library for this https://github.com/hsfzxjy/lambdex
Yes that would be silly :). But the desktop environment's name is Plasma. KDE is a much more bigger project. It is, among other things, a quite large collection of apps. These pages are about showing off KDE (and others app) through usage profile.