skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For so many years I thought that I was missing an element of secret knowledge about how actual jobs worked, and that therefore I would be stuck forever. But now that I do other work, I see it all for what it is: everything is a system. The restaurant is a system, the content management is a system, the computer is a system. Everything is so much simpler than I imagined it was. I thought I was doing an easy job, but everything is an easy job when you know the system. Other professions weren’t magic. They were systems too.

Reading this article made me wonder if I could hack it as a waiter. I’ve never really done any manual labor in my life - just a few part time jobs as a student that made me realize I am bad at it compared to some of my friends for whom it came so naturally. Driving a truck, building things, interacting with customers, etc. Programming, on the other hand, has always just come so naturally to me that it’s hard to imagine myself doing anything else.

I agree with the author that with most careers there is a system, and once you learn the ropes it makes things dramatically easier. And sometimes the only thing holding someone back is that first opportunity to get in the door and start learning the system. I think writers especially must struggle with this as the career path is not as well-defined as other trades.

> Why don’t websites hire service people to write about food? How do ‘restaurant journalists’ exist, when servers who are also artists are standing right here? A book critic once told me, “a website could never be staffed by service people, the quality of the writing would be too low,” and I wanted to laugh. I suspect it’s easier to teach a waitress to be a writer than an intellectual to be a waiter.

But I don’t really agree with this premise that anyone can be a writer. I struggle to write - every paragraph is agonizing for me. I think I could definitely get better with practice, but if it were my career it would fill me with so much anxiety and self doubt that I wouldn’t be able to function. Same as if I were to be a waiter (assuming I didn’t just get fired in my first week).

I think that the author is underestimating the value of her journalism degree, and her natural inclination that made her want to study journalism in the first place, to her eventual success in that career once given an opportunity.
Little Lord of the Flies moment right there…
You been on the internet before bud?
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There were also wars outside of Europe before WW2. And im fact, if you look at numbers, there wrre significantly fewer wars worldwide after WW2 than before.

The long peace doesn't refer to a period without wars. Just to a period with much fewer wars.
Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin
Convince Yud to sell you a GPU cluster
You can thank slumping laptop sales for the 15-inch MacBook Air
There is no intention that Apple might ever make iPadOS fully(ish) open like macOS is. I don’t see any reason to believe that their VR devices will not stay locked down forever too.
Not sure what is the main use case but it does look great.
An aspect of this that some people find problematic is that many employers use these services to do background checks on individuals before hiring. Background checks are of course customary for some positions, in which case official police records will be retrieved with the candidate's knowledge or consent. For positions where background checks haven't historically been customary, these services will often be used instead, since they are much faster and cheaper in terms of administration, don't require consent and don't notify the candidate that they have been used, and (at least in the past) show offenses that no longer show up in the official records.
Jesus, what are you doing that you're spending $1000/mo on servers? I have a $20 server running fifteen production apps, what are you running, Netflix?
And then being pointed at as a source of all problems. I'm pretty sure I've heard about something similar that was happening in Slovanian countries not so long ago :D /s
They want to raise 3 billions in 3 years to build a Cloud from scratch and with no real USP. What a joke. This guy probably think that you can throw money at a hard problem and it will fix itself by magic. Building the tech that power a cloud service at hyper scale is no small feat. You can have all the money in the world, building a team that can do that is hard and will take time. It's not like he can install OpenStack and be done with it. Also, as others have pointed out, real EU competition exists and most are already on a path to sustainable computing (disclaimer: I work for a EU cloud provider on Sustainability topics).
I figured they did this because it’s desirable for families to have older siblings home earlier.
Remember, remember eternal September…
Instead of placing the numbers in the path, why not use a subdomain, e.g. 5678.example.com, and have that routed using a wildcard DNS record, then let users copy-paste the full ~~~domain name~~~ URL?
Free market competition is impossible without some degree of free speech, so it depends on how you define ‘capitalism’
It seems as though everything has been designed to make sure your eyes don't get tired:

1. When windows are on top of each other, don't put them to far away so there's no effort to change focus distance

2. Don't use square corners your smooth ones so the eyes don't come to a hard stop

3. Use the glass material so it takes on the ambient light of the room

The biggest thing for me is no light/dark mode, the OS just takes on the color of the room. (Might be something we see in the future, MacOS / iOS without light/dark modes but with a glass texture to everything live reading the rooms colour via an always on camera.)
Love that one! That would definitely be the carving of my space in the market. There are so many email tools out there, really setting myself apart in the market was a difficult one! In the end, I managed to do it with affordability and DX.
> I want to migrate to a new community but I don't know which. Where is everyone going?

I don't think you'll find a similarly large or diverse community like Reddit has anywhere else, at least for now. The network effect is very much responsible for this, I'm fairly sure that many will still keep using Reddit until some viable alternative actually shows up.

> Mastodon seems a bit pie-in-the-sky if I may be honest.

Personally, I quite like Mastodon. There is some nice content to be found, it doesn't feel like it's spamming you with advertising just yet and in general it's not a hateful place. That said, Mastodon is more like Twitter than Reddit.

A more apt fediverse alternative to Reddit would be something like Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/

Of course, while the platform is there, the content isn't. Oh well, at least the UI/UX feels fairly user friendly, a bit like using Gitea instead of GitHub.
Weirdly I have personally never considered PhD to be indicator of being particularly smart. Probably above median, but not special. On other hand it sure requires lot of work to be done. Or at least time spend.
"I do not think it means what you think it means ... Phobia suggests imagination of non existing threat."

It's comical that you even didn't bother to check the definitions before lecturing me. As I said, you cannot disappoint me))

"A phobia is an anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation." [0]

"Russophobia, noun - an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/russoph...
To me, minimalism seems like a natural reaction to the transient lifestyles that people live now. A generation or two ago, many would grow up and settle down in the same town or county with 4 years of college being the most time that one spent outside their hometown. If you have a permanent home, it's easier to invest in filling it with stuff.

Today I hesitate to buy anything that I can't pack in a suitcase or wouldn't feel comfortable throwing away or donating to Goodwill in ~2 years.
The ones with fish are great.
Problem is, most of that US GDP is going to a few billionaires.

There's a massive impoverished underclass in the US, who are not going to be able to drive much consumption.

GDP is an incredibly reductive measure.
I definitely agree with you. I would also add that I believe there’s an element of the period of time in which they had the money to purchase their goods. Many goods had been iterated upon and become the best versions while having been around long enough to make an informed decision on high quality products.

Today, we have been in a period of rapid change as technology advances. My grandparents bought the best of the analog world. Their CRT TVs were the peak of consumer sets. The world switched to LCDs when I was looking to buy a TV, which took a long time to catch up to the height of CRTs (not until OLED in my opinion). Their film cameras took exceptional pictures. Only recently have most consumer DSLRs begun to achieve the same level of quality. Their cars had battle-tested V6 engines while the cars I looked at had newer, unproven inline 4 engines that came with carbon build up issues.

So a mix of survivorship bias and cost preference but also the current state of the market. Fortunately for me, I have been able to purchase a nice PVM to play my old video game consoles on, have made use of my grandfather’s film camera and can develop the film at a local studio, and am able to buy a used car with a proven V6 engine since they are still available in the market. When buying products that will hopefully last, I first look to what my grandparents own as a starting point. Often, purchasing older goods let me take advantage of those points you mentioned.

For a current product on the market that is pretty great, I have been pleased with a Moccamaster coffee maker.
Registering for a website is not something most people find so mystifying. Short of being willfully obtuse, I would imagine most people who express discontent with online communities could exert the most cursory of efforts to understand how to do it. Typically it involves visiting a URL and then typing in an email address and a password. Please pass this on if you come across anyone struggling to comprehend it.
If you want to consider non-extradition as measure of real sovereignty, then you’ll note from your parents article that a lot of European countries are on that list. In Germany, extradition of German nationals is barred on constitutional grounds (1) with the notable exceptions of extradition to other European states on the basis of the European Arrest Warrant and to the International Court. Similar exceptions apply in France, which is also bound by the European Arrest Warrant.

(1) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_16.html
> If we add 10-17GWh in 2023, it would be foolish to think we will add the same amount in 2024. The amount added per year will grow too.

According to the Woodmac report I referenced, the amount of grid storage added yearly is going down.

12 GWh in 2023
10 GWh in 2024

Based on what do you think the report is wrong and where is the exponential growth in grid storage going to come from?
I have no idea, my point was that in general the ACME client can't necessarily give you the private key even if it wanted to, because if you provide a CSR the key needn't even be on the same machine, let alone accessible in its execution environment.
It’s not even fine print, there is a big Limitations section almost at the top of the chatgpt landing page with this as first bullet:

”ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers.”

It does admittedly sound innocent, it should be written with a more scary tone on to how big extent it bullshits, not just “sometimes”. Still doesn’t excuse the incompetence of the lawyer in question.
Ask HN: Is there scope for any new social networks?
For all the talks about Facebook dying, Twitter exploding and boycotting Reddit, is there really any room for a new social network that can realistically replace any of these? People have been writing obituaries of Twitter since the day Elon took it over and yet nobody has left it. Elon has for sure screwed up quite a few things at Twitter but it seems to be chugging along fine even with a few hiccups. For the last few days I am seeing posts about users and third party app developers protesting about Reddit's new API pricing. Many subs and apps are apparently shutting down. But is there an alternative for interest based communities like Reddit? Even if one were to build a similar service, will it ever find enough users? New social networks keep launching and some even find favors from politicians who urge their followers to follow them on these new platforms. Parler comes to mind. It seems to be dead despite having an addressable market and enough WOM in that TG. A Twitter clone also emerged in India named Koo. Haven't heard much about it off late. The network effect with the existing platforms is so strong that even Google couldn't break in even after multiple attempts.

Building a social network is not a very technically challenging task. Even a solo developer can build a rudimentary social networking app with bare minimum features. Real challenges are scaling and moderation. It seems the biggest issue facing social networks these days are moderation and privacy. That is where bulk of resources seem to go. Social networks by virtue of being built up on user generated content have to deal with a lot of unsavory content - things that could be illegal. Maintaining a balance between moderation and freedom of speech is a delicate process. National laws now dictate data of local users to be stored in respective geographies and not to be shared with overseas entities. There are demands by governments for censorship and handing over user data. And then there's core issue of keeping the business profitable which often clashes with the privacy concerns that users have.

So in all it seems like building a social network in 2023 is a hopeless endeavor.
Can this be done on the runtime level? Zig, if I recall, supports multi-colored functions. Would it be possible to terminate an awaitable early?
I support the goal but the info in this site is horribly superficial or misinformed or straight up wrong.

Duckduckgo? Thats already more of the same. They made a deal with Microsoft for God's sake.
I don't think they do, but if you think that I expect it's because they're part of a small team who designed/developed the device and software and do not have very little media training and do not appear in front of a camera as their day-to-day job. This might be the first time they're appearing in a published video ever. As a developer I'm not sure how I'd appear in a video, it may well be 'creepy' as you describe, I'd be very nervous and self-conscious about it. I think I'd also feel pretty awful if I came online afterwards and read about how people thought I was creepy.
A vegan+animal activist being a misanthrope is really the perfect bullseye when it comes to stereotypes.
I've been toying with similar ideas lately (haven't we all..) and I was thinking of also making user identities distributed. Or rather you create your identity, for example a DID, locally like an SSH key. Then similar to trusted lists of banned users you would also have trusted lists of verified users. So if I want to be verified I have to find a trusted verifier and complete their process (e.g. captcha and an email, or even a full passport check). This would also allow connecting accounts to actual people across the system.
I think we should also ask what sort of writers do schools train PhDs and students to be? The writing for thesis or scientific articles is different from most other writing. Just as is legal writing for example. They really are not there to teach them poetry... Just to efficiently and in way that passes review to communicated inside the community.
Kruschev was explicitly attacking cults of personality and individuals hoarding too much power at the expense of the party.

It’s hard to imagine how could Mao have not taken this seriously.
No this only creates a tunnel to port 22 of your IoT device. And on that port the ssh server of the IoT device is running, which is by design secure. So this is not really a "backdoor", rather the standard frontdoor which is made secure by OpenSSH. For example, if you have an instance in AWS or any other cloud provier, most probably the SSH port is open.

The other layer of security is possible through a VPN, there the attacker first needs to enter the VPN network before getting a chance to crack SSH. Now here is the practical scenario: An attacker needs to find the credentials to the VPN server as well as the SSH keys to access the ssh server. If one is leaked through some compromised device, most likely the other will also be leaked. Therefore, keep the credentials safe :)
What about stalkers?
There's also McFly which is similar. I have yet to try Atuin so I can't say which is better.
Maybe just don't use browsers owned by giant data slurping companies at all...
Have you seen Bachmut, or what used to be Bachmut? That's a city of 80k (?) - which is quite a large city historically (just go back 200 years, then most cities are a lot smaller than they are today).

Russia has had a similar strategy with other places since they started doing military campaigns 2008.
> The states in the North had all ended slavery by 1804. Prosperity followed.

And so did the Industrial Revolution. What's the causal mechanism that puts codifying the rights you mention, and quest for happiness, before prosperity? With industrialization, the possible mechanism is much more clear for it being the source of both prosperity and the ability for US to keep those rights codified over longer periods of time.
Ironically, this answer is a cache miss.
Considering how understated British insults are, this looks like a slap to the face comparatively speaking.
Did that not cost more in time and labour than just paying them?
Bad coder, ChatGPT No biscuit
Managed k8s probably wouldn't count as a bare bones cloud.
I love Wolframalpha but find his Stephen's ego hard to tolerate.
Breastfeeding is indeed a lot of work. To try to be even, I do everything else. I wish I could do more, she certainly deserves it. We joked I could get hormones...
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But they might be one of the greenest. OVH had to make some trade-off compared to other providers to remain as cheap as they are and while it certainly has an impact on their reliability and security levels, a lot of them are actually positive as far a sustainability goes (use of recycled containers, the use of wood in the DC which was decried when their DC burned down etc).

To put it another way: a DC in a wooden shack connected to a low carbon grid (France) surely has bad security but a low environmental footprint too.
I have no idea whether this person knows what they're talking about, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading that.
It is really easy to exterminate all the humans, especially if they are in a human theme park. Chemically, mechanically, biologically, by radiation, by heat, etc name one.
> For one thing, the IR significantly predated WW1 and WW2. It didn't prevent those, so how'd it cause the "long peace" afterwards?

The Wikipedia article about both the long peace and hegemonic stability theory. Both mention 3 nain examples. The pax Romanica (Roman times), the pax Britannica (1820-1914) and the Pax Americana (1945-now).

The Pax Britannica happened after the industrial revolution was wide-spread. Only the Pax Romana was before the industrial revolution, and it was far from global.

I would suggest that perhaps the long peace is actually from 1820 till now. With both world wars serving as examples where the calculus against war was ignored, and then later proven correct. Which fits with the theory, which says 'industrial war isn't worth it'. If once in a while a big power decides to test that theory, or decides war is necessary for non-economic reasons, you get horrible wars.

Not to say that hegemonic stability theory is clearly wrong. Just to say that the 'industrial revolution means war isn't worth it theory' fits the Pax Britannica and Pax Americana quite well.
> We divide the available memory in two equal parts, use one half as a working copy which accumulates useful objects and garbage, and then at some point switch the halves, copying the live objects (but not the garbage) over

So, generational garbage collection?
FWIW, competing in sports naked was more of a Spartan thing that spread in popularity. Thucydides said that the Olympics used to be actually clothed (like sometime before 450 BC I mean), and that the Ionian style was more luxurious, with a gold thread that was fashionable to tie men’s hair.
> That necessitates optimism.

Only if you’re into mass murder and artificially induced famines. The cultural revolution was another very ‘optimistic’ policy (well from the perspective of some deranged lunatics anyway)

As awful as Kissinger was Mao was just on another level of awfulness…
> as though humans are obviously morally inferior to any possible other species

maybe with great brains should come more responsibility/morality ?
Some Utah school districts still use the k12.ut.us domain in places, for school and grade management: https://skystu.jordan.k12.ut.us/
Promote whichever one of those guys has 9000 hours in Arma III and is a respected clan leader in the game
It's primary function is to prevent election fraud. In Turkey, elections are a serious business with participation rate above 85% and people are meticulous about the process.

Also, in Turkey the address registration is self declaration based and the government doesn't actually check if you live there. So theoretically, it can be possible for a political party to arrange it's voters distribution in such a way that it is advantageous for them. The idea is that citizens should be able to check against such things.
How can I incorporate programming in a linuxadmin job?
I'm working with Linux and SQLs. How can I incorporate programming, learn programming in my job? Something like bash shell scripting and?
Yes. I was fortunate to take a class from him in 2005: Discrete Mathematics. A CS class, incidentally. He has a great personality. The thing that I remember the most is his emphasis on treating software development as an engineering discipline. It wasn't even related to the course subject matter, really, but as an introductory CS class, his working it in has strongly influenced my programming philosophy ever since.

The CS department at the University of Utah is part of the College of Engineering (and rightly so) but, sadly, as I've worked with CS grad after CS grad from there, this emphasis is clearly not shared by the rest of the faculty, nor is it prominent in the curriculum. The graduates are consistently good at theory and bad in practice.
It's not a perfect solution, but I believe poisoning of the data whenever possible is a short term solution. Aggressive blocking in the browser and using ad guard/pi hole helps. But constantly feeding garbage whenever possible into your profile helps obfuscates when you inevitably slip up.

I've read people on here argue against using such extensions. There's the initial argument that it doesn't work, but the Google team banned it from the chrome store so it must have had some effect.

Then there is the argument that it helps fingerprint your browser into a unique user, which actually is only possible any more in Chrome, specifically not Firefox. If you're using Chrome already, it seems like a safe bet that every single website you go to is already being sent to Google anyway, so what does it matter.