skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is really easy to make boatloads of money as a government if you get off your ass and actually play the game.

Step 1 -aquire land and property
Step 2 - Build mass transit / metro and invest in the area, proterty price goes up 3x
Step 3 - Rent out, or sell

If some one refuses to sell land ar step 1, buld transit where you actually do buy land
Yeah, that part is definitely still applicable to PC. Same with the issues surrounding downloads. I was not really making a PC vs console comparison, rather just how consoles suck now. The biggest factors that made them a success in the past in my opinion were that they just worked and you could get a bunch of people playing together locally like splitscreen. They still pretty much just work, but you won't find many new 4p splitscreen games.
> Feels like it badly needs the reciprocal "How to be a PM that engineers don’t hate".

The link to that exact article is literally the first sentence of this one.
> I can’t imagine I’d want this level of complexity in config files.

Lots of people don’t want it in their CSS either. It’s generally considered good practice to make everything the same specificity and avoid !important.
Public security ministry warns Quebec forest fires could worsen
Just for perspective - wildfire are not a part of the collective imaginary in Quebec. Environnemwntal disasters come in blizzards and continuous days of icy rain.

Towns are being evacuated, and significant rainfall is not expected until 3 days. The air in Montreal is grey and foggy from particulate, and the whole province is under an air quality advisory.
And the image shows that the scale is named differently.

So very likely tied to the most common national air quality scale.

So it's explicit in what it shows.
It can vary. Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail show that there certainly is a console-esque audience you can target, even with mobile style monetization. Their success does make me wonder why the West hasn't attempted something similar since the days of Infinity Blade.
Wasn't Windows Registry a (failed) attempt at unifying this stuff?

Now, hear me out. The problem is not the location of configuration. The problem is the crippled and anemic way UNIX (and the likes) programs take configuration. These can only predictably take environment variables and command-line arguments. Both ways are crippled due to size limit (especially the command-line arguments) and structure (you cannot even have lists / arrays in environment variables). This is the reason why every application author believes they must write their own configuration, with their own (crippled) configuration format and logic for locating their configuration.

On the bright side, I think, systemd is moving towards making this mess more uniform. On the not so bright side, systemd doesn't appreciate the difficulties associated with the problem and doesn't seem to have any sort of plan moving forward. So, unit files are kind of configuration, but because the format is so crippled and anemic, they immediately added a way to source random external files for process environment etc.

Finally, systemd, even if they understood the problem well and put a good effort towards solving it are still powerless against the format in which system supplies input to processes. What really needs to change is all the family of execve, execlp and so on. This was always a stop-gap / bad idea, but it was OK for a while, before programs started to require more complex input. It should've died in the 80s... but today it is so deeply entrenched that removing it will take a very long time.

Another problem here is the approach that "everything is a file". So, the only way to provide configuration beyond command-line arguments and environment variables is a file... But, imagine an alternative reality in which OS is capable of providing basic data-structures, which can also be persisted and queried? Kind of like you do it with a relational database? I think this idea is so much not novel that it's older than most people commenting in this thread... And, even though this would make it so much easier for so many application authors to provide consistent and easy to inspect, better tested interface to their programs... nobody's doing that :) Because files are good enough.
Could be. Actually I could argue that Sweden is just one big inefficient company. :) But I’ve worked in a couple of other countries and Sweden is by far the worst in this aspect. Competition and merits mean very little here because jobs are extremely safe (once you get one), salaries differ very little, and even when you’re not working you get so many benefits many people don’t even care too much. So, what happens is that the system optimises not for those who actually get things done, because that doesn’t matter too much, but for those who know how to build an interesting, believable façade.

Let me exemplify with a common interaction from my daily work. Suppose I’m working on a project proposal. Before I do anything, I need to have a meeting with 5 different people from various administrative positions in order to make sure they “allow” me to write my proposal (i.e. if it aligns with the institution’s goals, if it meets all the hundreds of rules that are in place at any given time, if there are other people that “should” be involved, etc.) After that 1h meeting, they’ll all say “ok, great! We’ve done our job. No go and invest the 50h needed to write the proposal, and don’t forget to include our names in it because we’ve helped you so much. This is your part of the job!” So I go and write the goddamned thing and put everyone’s names in it. Then the project gets accepted, these 5 people are posting this thing everywhere, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. as if they actually had anything to do with its content. They get promoted, invited for committees, and the whole shebang.

Now don’t get me wrong, I also get recognition, but my salary is almost the same as theirs. Sometimes smaller. And because it’s so obvious they got a lot of rewards with very little work, it just makes more and more people seek administrative jobs and less seek jobs where you actually get shit done. I understand; why would you care? If I was born here I sure as hell wouldn’t.

Edit: I realize maybe “very little” work is misleading. Maybe they are doing the same thing many times a day. But it’s for absolutely sure much “easier” work than actually getting the research done. It’s the kind of work that you can completely turn off at the end of the day or weekend, for example.
Hate to say it but these remaining users were and are fools for not having jumped ship like yesterday. This is not a serious + competent password manager product/company. Hopefully they had backups or they are in for a world of hurt dealing with the worse mess of being stuck in such an absurd loop.
Outside of HN, people that actually avoid giving Google any data are almost nonexistent. People that use Markdown definitely aren't. There's a huge number of pragmatic developers that use Markdown and Google.
> It is, which is why the FTC needs to approve mergers.

It would make Microsoft more competitive/powerful
systemd configuration lookups are lightweights and straightforward compared to ansible variables lookups rules :
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Understanding variable precedence

Ansible does apply variable precedence, and you might have a use for it. Here is the order of precedence from least to greatest (the last listed variables override all other variables):

1 command line values (for example, -u my_user, these are not variables)

2 role defaults (defined in role/defaults/main.yml) 1

3 inventory file or script group vars 2

4 inventory group_vars/all 3

5 playbook group_vars/all 3

6 inventory group_vars/* 3

7 playbook group_vars/* 3

8 inventory file or script host vars 2

9 inventory host_vars/* 3

10 playbook host_vars/* 3

11 host facts / cached set_facts 4

12 play vars

13 play vars_prompt

14 play vars_files

15 role vars (defined in role/vars/main.yml)

16 block vars (only for tasks in block)

17 task vars (only for the task)

18 include_vars

19 set_facts / registered vars

20 role (and include_role) params

21 include params

22 extra vars (for example, -e "user=my_user")(always win precedence)

‐‐

that is a RedHat-isim
Wow man, that’s impressive. Kinda makes me want to try it all the more now. Is that crazy?
"Xbox is for when you want to play with friends, either in person of online."

What new games can you actually play in person, like splitscreen? Seems most don't allow it, or at best it's 2 player.
where does one go to purchase said diving solar modules?
I don't think most people fully grasp what is likely coming down the pike.

Normalcy bias is a helluva drug.
Sounds like a blog post you should write to share your own experience, since you disagree with OP.
> That’s a lot of news gathering that’s just gone.

Yeah, but now we can cut and paste tweets as independent sources so it's ok
Who should foot the bill for rescue attempts?
The issue is still open, so it has nothing to do with PEBKAC. "A little brusque" is definitely underselling it. That was a fine display of internet assholery.
Epic vs. Apple reported that 70% of Apple's revenue on the App store came from mobile games: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/apple-vs-epic-70percent-of-a...

It really is that big a market.
Coming at it from the other side, we have 20 - 25 Java teams deploying some 50 - 70 different java services in a number of software environments. For the removal of a number of systems on the older infra, we're expecting another 10 - 15 services being onboarded to the platform.

At that point, if every dev-team brews their own bespoke solution for each service, you're looking at a dozen or two solutions and you'll end up with a nontrivial amount of people just working on deployments and automation of their own "just scp jarfile to server". And if the solution of any team fails and the right person is unavailable, you're suddenly bleeding money because no one knows how to get it back working. Yes, "It's just a java service", but I've dealt with at least 6 ways of "just restart a java service" that isn't default init.d or systemd over the years. And most of them didn't work and had a "Oh yeah I forgot, you also have to.." shortly afterwards.

And then - at least in our line of business - you come to the fun section of "Customer Presales Questions". What's the access management for the server? Leaver/Joiner process? Separation of duties and roles? Patch cycles? Failover strategies? Backup strategies, geo-redundant backups, RTO, RPO, ... Buisness Continuity Plans?

I'd have to clock it, but doing 1 -2 of these 100+ question sheets costs more time than integrating with our platform - if you're used to the question sheets. And then one of us can answer 90%+ of these questions based on the standards of the platform.
conciousness is defined by memory
Zelenskyy dressing a certain way and standing in front of a green screen to look like he is in Kiev was just one thing that came to mind specifically because the poster I was responding to was talking about how Zelenskyy was so unique for doing this.

Since that was the aspect of the propaganda that was relevant at the moment, that’s what I focused on. But it is a tiny part of the whole, and yes on its own I agree that it appears quite trivial and inconsequential. But when mass media (including new media) ceaselessly bombards the entire population with tiny things like this over the course of years, then it has a very real and drastic effect. And most nefarious of all, because this kind of propoganda is ever present and so subtle, it is almost invisible. And when you do point out any one of its many aspects you get responses exactly like this: that it is trivial and inconsequential and why don’t I just get with the program, and isn’t it obvious there’s good guys and there’s bad guys and isn’t it obvious who is who.
Cheaper to tear down commercial RE and rebuild multi-family than to attempt a conversion. Floor plates made of high tension steel can’t be broken up for replumbing, usually you’ll want or need elevators & interior courtyards needed for lighting. There are very different water & electrical requirements

Maybe there’s a creative way to do low-income housing meaning only a window or two in the whole unit, no individual HVAC control (set by building) lots of artificial light, and someone more knowledgeable than me would need to explain the power & plumbing tradeoffs. Maybe you could basically replumb & wire on top of the floorplates, taking a few inches from ceiling height?
The problem is that many offices - especially open plan offices - are difficult to convert to living spaces. Few people would want to live in a windowless apartment.
How did I not hear about this before on HN? This is pretty cool.
Only in buildings which could reasonably be converted to have windows for each room without wasting office space square footage.

So, slimmer buildings basically.
Exactly! Like most top universities. And especially MBAs. I wish I knew it earlier and made better use of it.
Living in S.A and our decade long power crisis it is rather noticable to see solar panels now appearing on homes and office parks.

I got 3.7Kw panels, 5Kw inverter and 10Kw battery - only our stove is not on the PV circuit - water heater is already solar based (not PV) and it has been brought some measure of sanity back to our lives.

The worst outages was 6 hours daily.

Should have done this a long time ago but it is now helped by banks tailoring financing packages for such installs.
meh, we have much more stable financial institutions in 2023 than 2008.
Thanks for sharing these. I already use a number of these on your list. Though I don't use copy-by-link for files. For me one of the key purposes of zotero is that its the place where I keep these files so I don't have to keep them elsewhere where they aren't as easily searchable.

I'm excited to try the duplicates merger tool, I've been forever putting off this because the normal way is such a slog. The Tag one also looks good.

To add to the list, my key add-ons are:

- better bibtex, this one is essential for me as a latex user

- zotfile. This one is cool because if you add annotations to a pdf, like highlighting or comments while you read it, then zotfile will pull those out into notes in the zotero entry. This makes it really easy to see both that I've read this document, and what parts I thought were important.

[1] https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/)
[2] http://zotfile.com/
That's one thing I like about "systemctl cat <service/unit name>": it shows both the content and the path of the config file.
Dose/response is a possible alternative.
> Interesting. So what crimes then would putin be guilty of over the Ukraine war?

If you're honestly interested on the topic, I welcome you to Google the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Putin.
OC says "for less than 2 F-35s" - small budget cut to convert buildings into massive amounts of housing, seems reasonable at first glance
All these CMake improvements are the best example of optimising into a local minimum I have ever seen in SWE
You mean like 15 minute cities? We don't need classical infrastructure as we once did when considering the reduction in the costs of solar, wind, and in many places accessible geothermal energy, plus septic tanks, water table access, and satellite based internet, we no longer require massive right of way projects to build these places.

Initial investment in locality based infrastructure creates the market; expansion through time with connected systems, if so desired, would then be an increased capital cost over time, not an upfront requirement. We can generate competition in building whole new cities, like corporations are attempting to do today, which can help stabilize and reduce the growing costs of rent and housing in major metropolitan areas. It absolutely would have an impact - just not when you construct a fallacious form for it to exist in as a failure by design; which is most of commercial and residential real estate given zoning requirements and the massive middle-man industry surrounding it.
A short way in to TFA:

> Ideally I'd like to avoid scanning all the way through the manual page or other documentation for the program to find out, because that's slow and annoying.
> If you are ambitious and want to build a good reputation for yourself in the valley

There is a keyword here: "valley". I am not convinced that it applies everywhere. Also the whole part about "you need promotions to add to your CV" is a bit bullshit to me: being "principal engineer" in one company does not mean it is equivalent to another. I have seen people with two years experience with a title that would correspond to 10 years in other companies.

But yeah, if your life is about jumping between FAANGs in the valley, maybe it applies.
Did you get much exposure to the philosophy of science during your masters? I imagine the answer would be yes, but I am surprised that concept doesn't ring a bell as it sounds quite similar to what Kuhn describes in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, although not necessarily with universities as the institutions upholding scientific paradigms
The web app case is unfortunately more hazardous:

- You're also trusting a large population of Certificate Authorities (CAs), subject to the post-compromise implications of Certificate Transparency. Only one needs to be compromised.

- An app "update" occurs on every page load, giving attackers flexibility and more frequent opportunity to intercept app payloads - perhaps as users cross into networks the attackers control.

- There are currently no sufficient mechanisms to validate the integrity of web app packages end-to-end. Not even under a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) model.

These are all practical constraints we're grappling with while working on Backbone[1], and why deploying native apps is a top priority for us. Nevertheless, we need to reach users where they are, and that means we can't completely deprecate our web app.

[1] https://backbone.dev/
A bit of both. The way they author and the commenters approach this rubs me wrong, because my long C++ and Common Lisp experience - both languages with a standard and multiple competing implementations - taught me that any correct read of the standard is valid, and you can't make assumptions that are narrower than what the standard says.

The approach I presented is a valid implementation of the quoted/referenced documentation, and the approach itself is done frequently in algorithms when optimizing for speed, and when perception of randomness is sufficient - this commonly shows up in gamedev, and sometimes in statistics.

So in short, I'm defending GPT-4 by suggesting it's taking a language lawyer approach to the problem space, not assuming things beyond the letter of the spec. As for why am I doing it in the first place, it's because I'm biased in at least four ways: 1) I like GPT-4, 2) I believe it's doing a subset of what we call thinking, 3) I hate bad takes - which I believe this article is, and 4) I'm a sucker for showing off on the Internet.
Maybe they’re planning to shutdown Google Drive as it is and focus more on the “Office suite” experience. More oriented towards business case, and MD is not a priority for this at all.
>But, long-term, no Ponzi pyramid can avoid collapse.

Both politicians and industry leaders know it will inevitably pop at some point, but since they have short terms while they're in charge and won't be accountable for long term consequences of their actions, they just want to make sure it doesn't collapse while they're in power, so they keep kicking the can down the road as long as their short tenure last, then it becomes the next guy's problem, rinse and repeat. They're hopeful they can make the problem big enough that the government will have to bail them out when it crashes.

It's a result of chasing maximized short term returns at the expense of long term consequences in a zero accountability system. Basically, it's what our system rewards.
Course fees obviously has not declined.
> messages he was sending through Signal were also read.

That the encryption on Signal has been cracked and/or the corporation has been compromised is a bold claim and I am going to need more than someones uncle on facebook saying it is true to believe it.
>Nor does any score in the US - none of the inputs, even bankruptcy, last more than several years.

Ah, it's all good then, the completely arbitrary score handled by private companies reselling data on your every move only exists for seven rolling years.

>Your reliability in paying definitely seems like it would be their business.

Nope. It's law enforcement's business. If I do not pay, they go see the police, and a judge will handle it if necessary.

>This is not supported by the data.

Yes it is.

https://socialchangenyu.com/review/credit-reportings-vicious...
Genuine question: why are there still LastPass users?

I mean, if you have a password manager, it means that you somehow care about your passwords. If you have LastPass, it means that you chose something that was not the default Google Wallet or Apple whatever-it-is-called.

Are there so many LastPass users who haven't followed the news in the last 2 years?
RCU would like to disagree.
Amazing that this guy wrote an article about it and seems somewhat in the dark about it!

This legend was already going around college dorms in the late 1980s.

Absolutely, yes.

I heard it from older stoner-type kids while I was in high school in the early 90s in the pre-web. While not entirely possible, there is close to zero chance they heard it through digital means.

I hope we never get a definitive answer. I hope it stays a myth like the origin of "420".

Also, from the article:

Hardly anyone knew about it,

lol, this was fairly common knowledge in my high school. I swear to god probably five different people told me about the Dark Side / Oz thing.
> The idea that academics are on the right path has turned from something that must be continuously demonstrated to something that is assumed by default [...]

You're talking about a Ph.D. level investigation, not something that is usually considered at the level of an undergraduate in the US.

Most beginners lack the contextual knowledge to recognize even glaring errors. For example, I once saw a distributed application that occasionally updated a central database without any locking. Occasionally the data would get corrupted by simultaneous writes, and the original dev had no idea why.

Consider adding more context if you want to continue to write about dogma in academia. Share your own experence. At the level of generality you are writing it's impossible to engage more because we don't share the same context.
Neither of your claims make sense. If everything is predetermined, you don't need inputs.

If you have absolute free will you are free to disregard or consider inputs.
Without looking it up ... name one.
Yeah, I always found it sort of underwhelming!
Those empty cores could be repurposed as storage areas though. Those don't require windows.
Chyp: An interactive theorem prover for string diagrams
Oh, so is this is a seller that processed the transaction after four years? Or did customs have a big box of AliExpress stuff in storage for four years that they only released when the platform was unbanned.

Related, I had a medium size Ali package stuck in transit for eight months at one point. I’d like to know what even happened to make it take that long. Was it stuck on a loading dock? In customs? Lost in the corner of a warehouse?
That it doesn't matter if Johnny-seven-figures has a bad credit score. It's a non issue to him. Booh hoo he can't borrow to buy a Bugatti Veryon. The lower your income, the worse a credit score affects you. It's reverse means testing, where a bad credit score means you get into loans with higher interest rates which you cannot repay, which gets you worse rates that you cannot repay, etc.