skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those looking for nicer formatting, the article is also available as a three part APNIC guest blog post https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-... (links to the other two articles should be very easy to find from there) or the original blogspot version https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-every-it-person-need... (and yes, the article was originally published in September 2021).

The nxdomain.no version is tracker-free other than my rather short lived nginx log.
Not Canadian here, but isn't it expected that a large scale bulk operation would inevitably be more efficient than a small scale manual one, regardless of any regulatory factors? At the end of the day the goal should not be for an amateur to beat a cutting edge agro corp on price. There are tons of other metrics that big co. can't compete on, such as learning, unique flavor, enjoyment of a hobby, etc.
You know who's arguably the best supply chain mind on the planet? Tim Cook.
Yeah, many conferences absolutely rely on company sponsorships to cover some or even most of their costs and many of those packages cover some sort of speaking slot among other things (booths, logos, swag bags, etc.). And some conferences have a lot of that sort of pay to play going on. But maybe because I'm used to it that seems different from a naked speaking fee situation.
"Be careful what you wish for" is a bizarre response.

The reviewers asked for more evidence. The authors say they will provide more evidence. Great, that's exactly what the reviewers want. "Be careful what you wish for" implies that getting more evidence would somehow be a bad thing.
When you aren't charging your car you can use it to smelt aluminum.
Nice layout, but I still prefer Wikipedia.
> Clearly it's not an evil plan, it's just business.

Exactly. Also consider that Exxon knew in 1978 about the risk of global warming, they briefly considered warning society about it, realised that would cut into their profit, and instead decided on a big misinformation campaign to discredit the idea of global warming. To them, that's just business. They're not sitting there twirling their mustaches and laughing diabolically, they're sitting there looking at their spreadsheets.

And it's undeniable that the US government has had very close ties with the oil industry over the decades. Wars have been started and governments have been overthrown over oil.

I don't normally like big conspiracy talk, but I think it's naive to think that the oil industry is innocent of some of the problems the US is facing. I think they're one of the major driving forces behind several major problems. All just to maximise profits.
I have never tried any *BSD systems. What are they best suited for? Dev environments? Servers?
So what's a microgrant? On futo.org I can find only some links for legendary grants, which I guess isn't micro.
I ran Junkbuster back in the day, back before browser extensions that could do a better job existed, and I still run Squid to this day configured for large objects and long retention times, to cache my apt traffic.
It says "A diner should not take so large a bite that he is
completely unable to speak, if he were addressed." which seems very reasonable. I can speak while having a normal sized bite in mouth, although it's of course less than ideal and not polite these days. But sometimes useful for shorter utterances.
bananas is 4011 almost everywhere. an experienced cashier has the code for ginger root memorized.
Information density, feature density, and distinctiveness. Also it's fun.
I think there are times when people love driving, and there are times when they hate it. It's a good reason to provide better alternatives.
1st row is major 3rd above, not below, the root (2nd row). This setup makes it easy to play root-3rd-5th bass lines of major chords.
I suspect it’s the opposite way around: most people, when they hear “git”, macroexpand it to “github” and don’t even know that there is a (more powerful) command-line interface.

The peer-peer distributed nature is barely known — these days it’s a centralized client/server system. I remember the Internet connection going out at work a few years ago and developers saying they couldn’t coordinate bc github was not accessible when they could easily have synced, merged etc with each other directly.
Same here. I loved books before I got into Sierra adventure games, but I do think that text adventures (especially those in pure console mode, no graphics) are really good for developing language comprehension and vocabulary as a child. I'd say Al Lowe's work with Leisure Suit Larry and and Police Quest did play a significant role in how I sense a "good sentence", and, also, how I sense humor. At the language level, those Sierra games were incredibly good.

I've been thinking about writing a text adventure for/with my son (in our native language, not English) for this exact purpose: fair enough, he's a gamer, but let's also deepen his understanding of the structures of written word.
I was thinking more if we needed to get through them in a rocket than if they crashed into each other
I didn't choose the category, the question was why not work late in life. I proposed one likely downside.

As to immigration and women and others, it can be argued the end game of every able bodied adult working until death is quite dark -- even if it begins with most of them finding some enjoyment in it.

When I'm old I hope my family encourages me to find joy and meaning outside employment, once the finances have been secured for retirement.
The auto partitioning is a bit of a mess for sure.

Really no idea why it insists on splitting it into 5 partitions when just a seperate /usr/local mounted with the wxallowed flag is mostly fine.

Other than that though it's mostly just hitting enter a bunch of times if you ever want to give it a shot again.
Yeah, that's a TAM. And yes, it's insane. His offical purpose is to help you out. His real purpose is to help AWS out by delaying, stalling, referencing to wrong documentation, making you run in circles etc.

The harder it is for you to get some real support, the better he is at his real job. Its a crazy incentive and I'm not even sure if you can evaluate your TAM. My current manager plays softball with them for unknown reasons so we're stuck with the smooth talking asshole. Not that we had one, I've seen almost a dozen in my career and apart from one, all were useless _to us_.
Regarding the hardware, I would not recommend to use a raspberry pi, not only are they hard to get and expensive but as another comment states the RPi rely on SD cards which are prone to corruption. I think it's better to rely on second hand enterprise hardware if you're looking for something cheap.
I agree with your overall assessment but

> The Standard Model is the same kind of thing. Its maths is atrocious: a horrific blend of Einstein summation convention, matrices chosen out of thin air, and complex numbers sprinkled on top just for fun.

This isn't even coming close to describing the mathematical atrocities of the Standard Model / quantum field theories. Those are the easy and mathematically well-defined parts.
Copenhagen theory of moral entanglement strikes again. A company that never gives workers from third world any jobs will never be blamed for their conditions, but another company that offers them salaries twice as high as they had before will be crucified for not offering the same rates as in the first world.

Honestly, your stance is not only irrational, but even immoral.
This might just be the best answer ever for that YC application question: "Tell us about a time where you hacked some system for your advantage?"

Surely they would give this Romanian guy an interview based on this answer! /S
Paywall remover for HN
> Just ship scripts with the package which allow it to compile and configure itself for the host system.

Eek. That sounds awful to me. it is exceptionally complex, fragile, and error prone. The easy solution is to SHIP YOUR FUCKING DEPENDENCIES.

I’m a Windows man. Which means I don’t really use an OS level packages manager. What I expect is a zip file that I can extract and double-click an exe. To be clear I’m talking about running a program as an end user.

Compiling and packaging a program is a different and intrinsically more complex story. That said, I 1000% believe that build systems should exclusively use toolchains that are part of the monorepo. Build systems should never use any system installed tools. This is more complex to setup, but quite delightful and reliable once you have it.
Sure, it can be, I would not bet on it due to the lack of status though.
I'd not be surprised if some aren't entirely false.
I suspect one interpretation of washing your hands is simply with water to get the visible dirt of your hands - hardly anti-microbial
I would also add that, in my experience, anyone who is involved with and doesn't buy into the process (any process, not just Scrum) will be indistinguishable from a purposeful sabateur.
What is the least energy-hungry x86-compatible chip of all times?
"There’s no question in my mind that such software could generate reasonably good murder mysteries, action thrillers, or gothic romances. After all, even the authors of such works will tell you that they are formulaic. If there’s a formula in there, a deep learning AI system will figure it out.

Therein lies the fatal flaw: the output will be formulaic. Most important, the output won’t have any artistic content at all. You will NEVER see anything like literature coming out of deep learning AI. You’ll see plenty of potboilers pouring forth, but you can’t make art without an artist.

This stuff will be hailed as the next great revolution in entertainment. We’ll see lots of prizes awarded, fulsome reviews, thick layers of praise heaped on, and nobody will see any need to work on the real thing. That will stop us dead in our tracks for a few decades. "

from https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/interactive-storytelling/... (2018)
This is a delightful nerd joke that I have decided to steal
Same experience, putting everything related to tech (printers, programming, Wifi, email) into the "IT department", which is seen as a support service to the core business of banking, instead of seeing automation as business critical in reducing overhead and managing risk.

This is why fintech (although a very overused word by now) is such a breath of fresh air in the banking industry, and desperately needed.
No, his disciples were called out. (It was stated so in plain language, you'd have to be arguing in bad faith to claim otherwise.)
I think this is great, though still only about 80% there.

Some helpful additions would be labeling which values are constants, examples of both how and where the equation is used, and numerical representations of the formulae.

When I click on Schrodinger's eq I want to be able to click on the Wave function and see an example of the numerical form, ie a matrix of vectors with toy values.
I am running 2 Raspberry Pis 24/7 for many years. Never had a micro SD fail.
It is a little weird seeing Peter N. M. Hansteen of all people use a clickbaity headline, but it's still not a bad thing to be aware of at least. The man will evangelize his favorite thing, he's a nice fellow.

I think OpenBSD will still be relevant outside of its own OS realm as long as people are still using software that comes from the project (openssh, tmux etc).
> some of the more electorally popular policies

There are no electorally popular policies. We vote for people, not policies, and elections are usually popularity contests rather than policy choices. Not to mention that the Overton window is extremely limited in many cases, especially under the US political duopoly.

> Are we talking about the ultra-wealthy or people who can afford Teslas?

The latter. The point was that one can become ultra-wealthy while still ignoring the vast majority of consumers.

> the middle class where most of the consumer activity happens

I wouldn't say that Tesla is a middle class phenomenon. If you divide the population into thirds, calling them upper class, middle class, and lower class (I'm not sure whether this corresponds with the "standard" definition of class, if there is a standard, but that doesn't really matter for this purpose), there's a ton of money to be made by selling to the top third of earners while mostly ignoring everyone else.

> They wanted to decentralise economic power away from the wealthy and repurposed it to the benefit of the people - that was one of the core tenants of socialism.

Who is "They" exactly? Of course Marx wanted that, but he was merely an academic, not the leader of a country. It's not clear that the actual leaders of Communist countries wanted to decentralize economic power, nor did they fully practice the core tenants of socialism. After all, the economy of the Soviet Union was literally termed "central planning".

> Keeping with the Musk example, there is a big contingent of people who think he makes the best car and they centralise a lot of manufacturing power under his leadership.

The total number of Teslas ever sold is fewer than 5 million, and many of those vehicles were sold to repeat customers. The contingent is not that big, compared with the overall population. In my view, this appears to be mostly the upper income bracket empowering the ultra-wealthy.

> Sure, but that isn't ourselves to ourselves. That is from one group (traditionally the middle class because most of the choices about resource allocation happen there) and to a different distinct group (historically varies).

This is missing one of the main points of the article, which is that being part of the top 10% of earners for example is not necessarily a permanent state of existence. It can be temporary and precarious. I've personally been all over the economic map during my lifetime. Economic status is not static.
They are significantly less expensive - there are also massive doctor/nurse shortages, among other issues. Insurers, especially in the MA space but also in the ACA market, spend a significant amount of time trying to educate ED users about UCCs.

If your local urgent care can’t find a doctor or NP willing to be on call late, they can’t stay open late. Given the shortages, expect the problem to get worse.
> I do prefer the "do one thing and do it well" approach.

I prefer the "do what you do well" approach. If it's one thing, or many things, doesn't matter, as long as it's both efficient and correct.

I mean, if Fossil fails at some of these things, then we can criticise it for its failings, but it appears it actually does the things correctly.

The comparison with GitLab is quite enlightening. Fossil is a few MB, and Git + GitLab (to be feature equivalent) is a few GB and requires far more resources. Then which one does what it does well?

Now, there are a few things I don't like from Fossil, like the lack of a cherry-pick command. I have no intention of using Fossil over Git. I am just stating that criticism should be based on actual misfeatures and not on development "philosophies".
I like the idea of this, but many of the list items come off as things the author doesn't like.

Lets restate some:
"Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions." -> "Insist on doing everything through 'short-cuts'. Never permit official channels to be taken in order to expedite decisions"

"Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible." -> "Insist that things you don't like are irrelevant as frequently as possible."

"Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions." -> "Argue that people are being caught up trying to be precise, leading to documents that are lacking precision"

"Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products" -> "Insist that products are unimportant and so sloppy work is ok"

"Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done." -> "Claim that doing work is the only important thing and that communication is wasteful"

"Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right." -> "When you have the right tools and equipment, use them well, but then claim you are just really talented and that a master can work with poor tools."

"Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skilful worker." -> "Watch new workers like a hawk and never let them think for themselves."

The idea is interesting, the implementation in the article is tepid.
this is advice I hear very often, but where do you buy second hand enterprise hardware?
I went and bought mine second hand from the internet but ive got no idea where to get enterprise stuff
Yes. There’s enough stats out there showing diverse companies do better. Stock price is a commonly cited metric. It’s not hard to find. That is the justification.

What isn’t clear is whether these analyses are well controlled. E.g. is it over indexing on companies flourishing in wealthy coastal cities. I doubt it’s a causal effect personally. But I don’t have numbers either way.
I see that someone has already mentioned that it is indeed "amok". However, another slight correction: "/s" is an internet tone indicator for sarcasm. "sic"(?) stands for "spelling is correct." When simply stated, as a parenthetical like so "caret (sic) and a stick" then it means the writet is confident their spelling is correct. When posited as a question, as in "ammock (sic?)" then it expresses the authors' non-confidence in their spelling and is also an invitation for correction.
Wouldn't those wind turbines partially blind AFB radars?
> People will always flow towards walled gardens (jails), centralised solutions

I think they flow towards coherent solutions. Sadly the titans of tech don't play well together since their profits trump our convenience, so we end up in walled gardens. How we push back is another question, since our convenience trumps forcing them to change.
Stuff like this is always brought up. And while it is true in principle, it doesn't change the above statement. Almost 90% of Australians live in cities and average distance driven per day by Australians is 30-40km. There will always be a small, single digit percentage market for long haul transport that needs alternatives. But the mass market doesn't need better EVs. That's why range has stagnated over the past years. Noone is willing to pay twice as much for slightly less inconvenience once every 6 months. Sure, if we had a working breakthrough battery that could deliver twice the performance for the same price it would be great, but in reality it would only be great for about 5% of personal traffic.
With OpenBSD in particular I like it because from the default install it's got a built in web server [1] which can handle most use cases. I can pretty much just put it anywhere and trust in the secure defaults that it provides, throw my own software on that server, and then have a pretty good standard from OS level to my own software on how secure that's going to be. It doesn't change much [2].

Linux doesn't really offer that. Yeah it's got PACKAGES that offer web server solutions (apache, nginx, whatever else) but then I gotta maintain those. I find myself having to patch everything on my OpenBSD boxes way less if I stick to how it seems to be intended to be used - When all I've got to maintain are my own secure os installation + configuration, and my own software that I wrote myself, literally no packages, it's really cool.

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8

[2] https://www.openbsd.org/errata73.html
That's an understatement. Especially in the Old Testament, God is outright evil in some places.
It’s ironic since that’s the origin of Cities: Skylines. They were building transit simulator games (Cities in Motion series) and turned it into a city builder when they saw the gap after Sim City 2013 crashed and burned.
I think hiring more women has powerfully positive effects throughout an org. I agree hiring "races" is counter-productive. It creates more racism and division than it intends to solve. The idea that I am uniquely Black or you are uniquely Asian doesn't stand up to scrutiny. It's a broad spectrum we insist on reifying. How Black should I be to claim the Black experience?

Leaning on the common struggle as the wage class is what unites. The unique focus on how oppressed each of us are turns us all into victims. It's not really something I've seen in my lifetime before the last ten years and I think it's garbage in, garbage out.
> Information density, feature density, and brand association.

Nice things I want from a page that talk at length about obsd too but it seems I am wrong for wanting them.
They're not saying it doesn't encapsulate more than one thing. They're saying *at the abstraction level of "stuff you need to install and run" it is one thing.
Demystifying Identity, Authentication and Authorisation
Renders just fine on Firefox on Android as well.

Doesn't have a weird zoom or scrolling on the horizontal axis like some "mobile friendly" websites either.
You're right that the tooling doesn't support it well but commits have more than one parent all the time, they're just called merge commits.

They can actually have as many parent branches as you please but conflicts get harder to deal with the more parents you have.[1]

[1]: https://www.freblogg.com/git-octopus-merge
I tried thier ~$100 hammer drill. Failed immediately. Returned and rented $600 version. I learned to stop buying commodity price-competitive tools from Home Depot. But immediate failure of a hammer drill? The Menards MasterForce lasted longer ($50 POS, also returned).
Honest question, do you complain that USA implemented this same type program in 2008/2009? Or do you just care now because this affects US travelers?
Committees can be a good fit for issues where the exact shape of the solution does not really matter as long as it aligns with constrains set up ahead of time. It frees up leadership from bikeshedding to focus on more critical issues and can smooth over company politics by ensuring that all relevant parties' opinion is taken into account.
Well, isn't it the same one as in the car?
It is systems monitoring, not user behavior. This is allowed as per the GDPR, and morally uncomplicated.
Personal opinion as an outsider: Germany seems to be a very risk averse society. They love to plan everything a year in advance and hate surprises. Their lives are so ordered and predictable that they have an unconscious resistance to change, compared to other cultures.
> I wondered if phone designers ever drew inspiration from Doctorow’s specific books.

I'm sure at least somebody was thinking about that because Doctorow's books are popular, but all that specifically happened is vendors discovered if you tell people that the handheld computer you're selling them is a "phone" they'll buy that, and then of course they actually wanted a handheld computer, so they'll keep buying them even as actually they now realise they don't want to make telephone calls.

Both Android Inc. and the Apple secret project to develop their smartphone pre-date Doctorow's novel. Which doesn't mean he knew about them, but it means he couldn't have inspired these efforts.

The handheld computers aren't specifically doing those things, they can just do whatever, because they're a general purpose computer, and the features you listed are among the popular things to use that for. I guess maybe they needn't have happened to have cameras, but given how cheap that is to do it's not a big surprise.

The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from Diamond Age is maybe more directly inspirational, various technologies are clearly inspired by the Primer which substantially pre-dates them because it's from a time (the mid-1990s) where many people don't have Internet access.
What if they crossed out a few clauses and signed, and the employer never noticed. Are you saying that because they begin working for the company, that represents the company's tacit acceptance of the modifications to the contract?