skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If true, lockdowns would have had an effect on those without an appendix?

It would be interest to see how historically contact with X other people has changed over time. I don’t think you need a big city to mix with a lot of people. I imagine in older times there are fewer people but likely to be closer to each other - people sharing beds (not stupidly associating bed with sex) and tribes of families mingling close lower instead of nuclear family. By contrast the city apartment is the hermetic seal around a small number of people choosing to live together. But a modern concept: corporations, jobs and careers ensure people keep mixing up with people outside.
> these gifts have been known about for a long time

No they haven't. That's why it's breaking news when they get discovered.

> In my entire life I have never seen any evidence that for supreme Court justices things influenced their ruling.

How would you possibly know what this looks like when, as you concede, there never have been meaningful investigations into the justices?

> The history of the justices predicts their current rulings and does it amazingly well.

No better than the history of their acceptance of lavish gifts from ideologically motivated rich people.
Ff are mostly written centrally and cached to memory.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg did this as well. Again I didn't see any influence in how she would rule based upon the cases before the court during her time. Just as I don't see it now.

It's actually very easy to have evidence if gifts affected rulings. Are the rulings that they made inconsistent with their past rulings? Would that be absolute proof, no but it would be strong evidence. We don't see that not with past justices who have done the same thing and not with the current justices. Instead we see them rule incredibly consistently.

I understand that there is a very vocal half of the country that doesn't like the conservative balance of the supreme Court currently. There was a vocal half of the country that didn't like the liberal balance of the supreme Court in the past. The problem is this veiled call for scrutiny as an excuse to neuter the powers of the supreme Court by Congress is something completely new.
>1. put it on a drill press and run a 3/8 drill through the platter

I briefly worked IT for a federal police agency and that is what they did.

I don't think I'll do that though plus I don't have a metal bit sharp enough. I'd research how to sharpen a metal bit on a grinder. Get sidetracked and look up how to harden metal bits. Then metallurgy and different metal and what exactly is hardening how does it change the crystal structure. Is metal actually a crystal? and so on....
Slate handles cold weather and lasts for hundreds of years. It also looks fucking awesome.

We don't use it anymore because it's expensive.

Also because no one knows how to handle it anymore and ignorant roofers will break your really expensive slate roof.
I find it surprising that its a percentage of gross income and not net. 30% of gross income will be close to 40% of net income.

The other surprising thing is that landlords will ensure that only rent is below 30% of gross income of a prospective renter. Add utilities and the person will be paying over 40% on housing.
>In my entire life I have never seen any evidence that for Supreme Court justices things influenced their rulings.

I'm not here to agree or disagree with your overall point, but I find it really hard to see how you can confidently state this when, in the very beginning of your first comment, you agree that this scrutiny has only "come now". How can you be so sure that it hasn't happened when you haven't really looked at it?
I tired to check the price, but unfortunately this is only available for professional members and not student members.

Edit: although most STEM universities provide access to O'Reilly, I would have been very interested in the Pluralsight access.
Blockchains are public, they don't keep secrets

you can store encrypted data on the chain. if i sell you a movie, i can give you the encrypted movie and use your public key to store an encrypted message with the key to open the movie. that way i can use a smart contract on the chain to track if you opened the movie.

Yeah, signatures may change. But that only matters to the extent that people do. The chain has no effect.

if the signature is on the chain and the chain is used to verify your ownership claim, then how exactly does the chain have no effect?

What owner?

the owner of the digital asset. an NFT for example, let's ignore for a moment that NFTs are stupid. or a movie. the purpose that it serves is to track the ownership of an asset. sure, you can make a copy of it. but you don't own that copy. if i discover that you made a copy, i can charge you with theft (see piracy) because i'll use the chain as proof of ownership and i can prove that you don't own your copy.

i am not saying that we want this. i am not a fan of blockchains. but to my understanding this is how they can be used.
I was curious to find where they said that, and the specifics, and the closest I came was https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/provider... which just states

> To release and publish the HashiCups provider to the Terraform Registry, you must publicly host the source code in a GitHub repository you own.

without the FOSS part. Do you have a different link?
I am an independent.

My biggest problem with the Clarence Thomas news isn’t that he (or any other justice) is being swayed with gifts. It’s that Thomas has publicly stated he leads a simple life where he doesn’t do any of the things he’s done.

He’s lying.

If he’s lying about this little thing, he’s lying about everything. This means he cannot be trusted with a lifetime appointment to the highest court.
I've always seen open source as more of a spectrum. On one extreme, you have gpl3 stuff coming from the church of GNU itself. Moving up the spectrum you have stuff like the Linux kernel or certain CNCF projects, which can be used in proprietary distributions etc. Above that you'll have company specific licenses like the Amazon software license or whatever hashicorp+elastic are doing these days. At some point you're with RHEL where you need to sign a license to get their source, and above that you're signing ndas, and above that its closed source, and above that they're cryptographically obfuscating their source code with anti reverse engineering licensing.

I appreciate open source in all it's forms, as it's so much easier to 1. Read the code in case of a bug or just to understand your dependencies better, 2. Many of the semi closed licenses still allow you to learn things like syntax for GitHub actions or do analytics or whatever, which is still more value than an entirely closed system, and 3. It allows me to reproduce binaries and independently audit security.

That said, I'm worried about a tragedy of the commons situation. I'm not a fan of capitalism, but at the end of the day I can't pay for housing or taxes in clout or goodwill, and the only way I see likely to both attract talent and survive is one which works within the system while sacrificing their principles as little as possible. These wonderful engineers at elastic and hashicorp and pulumi and every other company mentioned in this thread need to eat.

I'm not saying I have an answer, but I am saying that I respect and understand why companies like elastic and hashicorp are resorting to drastic measures. If the choice is between either of those companies going under or having their source code come with a little bit more restrictions, I'd chose the latter. I'd much rather them have a noncompete clause in their license than have them just shut the window into their source code altogether.
> I've been hacking on and off for a couple years on a side project I'd like to monetize

OK so you want to use their software, make money off it, and give nothing back.

if thats the case, you cant do that any more. you can either stick to personal use, or purchase a commercial license from them.
One thing I notice is that the diff still requires pretty deep analysis. You need to be able to compare xml or JSON over time.

I keep thinking the real power of git-based data-over-time storage is flatter data structures. Rather than one or a dozen or so files, scaped & stored, we could synthesize some kind of directory structure & simple value files - alike a plan9/9p system - that express the data, but where changes are more structurally apparent.

Thoughts?
Wo! Must do some damage.
How does Aruba InstantOn compare to Ruckus Unleashed?
No, but that'd be neat! I don't have GPUs in my cluster though.

My big services are a Ceph cluster, a VPN, Borg (backups) and a K8s cluster (using kubespray).

In K8s I have the main stuff: Plex, Gitlab, Gitlab runner (for CI), vaultwarden (passwords), miniflux (RSS, might be moving to freshrss though), rust desk (remote-desktop), home assistant (smarthome).

My next project is to stream metrics into grafana. I have soil moisture sensors in my garden connected to stm32 boards, I just need to setup the receiving side and I can control my drip lines (they're using opensprinkler) with soil moisture information along with weather info.
> Maybe because illiberal rulings are wildly less popular than liberal ones? And illiberal rulings are often full of logical inconsistencies and ahistorical nonsense?

By definition, virtually nothing post-WWI can be regarded as illiberal in any strict sense in the Western world. Can you please describe what you mean exactly rather than using silly rhetoric?

> The dobs decision was full of historical inaccuracies to justify the decision.

Okay. And? If you read the decision, it wasn't based on historical epistemology in the way you're trying to portray. Please stop promulgating misinformation.
Because SAT math is all multiple choice, which can be reverse engineered. Ask it to multiply numbers too large to be in the memorization set.
The arrest of the Michaels may or may not have been justified, but they were hardly average Canadian tourists. To put this into context:

Michael Kovrig is a former diplomat who at the time of his arrest worked for International Crisis Group, an NGO which is directly funded by a number of government organizations.

Michael Spavor was deeply and highly visibly involved in North Korean international affairs, and reportedly met Kim Jong-Un himself.

Most people will never come close to the government relationships and risk profiles these two had.
If GitHub lets someone run "terraform apply" in a GitHub action. Is GitHub a competitor?
For all IDEs I’ve used, this meant a dead simple makefile, nothing to mess with. When I had to, I had to mess with these fancy envs even more, or they just couldn’t do it.

But if you meant that learning make is harder than using an IDE, then I agree. But why specifically XCode then? Lots of IDEs know C/C++ off the shelf.
What America calls left the rest of the world calls centre
That looks great!

I feel that SwiftUI apps seem to have a fairly “uniform” UI, but it’s actually perfect for this.
The Hairy Origins of Our Sweat Glands
> When the rulings favored the liberal agenda there was no calls for scrutiny everything was just

I’m curious as to what you mean when you say liberal agenda.
The part about IBM in this blog post did change my opinion a bit: https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-sof...
I built a pretty serious "homelab" over a few years, in the sense of building out 24/7 services as robustly as possible. There is an element of practicality for very long-term maintenance if you run i.e. VMs off a different storage layer.

But mostly? It felt exactly like exploring computers in my childhood for the first time (I'm 43 now). I was bumping into things I had never bumped into it before, and it was really satisfying to figure all that stuff out.

I'm a game developer, too, and I realized awhile ago a big part of that is I like technical puzzles, and game development is very fertile soil. But there is a whole new world of enterprise networking/storage/virtualization/etc things that you wouldn't normally bump into in the course of software development.

And as a bonus, I have set up a lot of build systems for friends; being infrastructure-savvy is like the digital equivalent of owning a truck and helping people move all the time.
I have always thought that Dylan showed up drunk, and they started late, so he could sober up a bit.
It was New Year's Eve, 1971.
>Literally nothing has changed.

Uhm, yeah, something DID change: the license and terms. I don't understand what kind of argument this is.
Perils of not being attractive or athletic in middle school
And SAM, and controltower, and of course the aforementioned cdk
Vagrant license changed to BUSL-1.1
That is true, and a bunch of folks (including me) were experiencing issues with Google-related sites blocking with a 403 FORBIDDEN on the initial /64 static allocation from HE.net. Oddly enough, any subnet out of the optional routed /48 you can enable worked fine.

For sites that use HE.net and have more than one IPv6 subnet, I use the initial /64 for the DMZ, so that didn't matter on most of them. Small sites had just been using the /64 though, and I had to renumber those. Total pain.
Don't give away anything you don't want to.
Quick reminder that open source is not a business model. If you can't compete on service, you will always end up doing this to try to slow down your competitors.

On an unrelated note, I've always loathed their antagonistic approach to users and hope their company dies so the industry can standardize on less crappy cloud configuration management tool. But unfortunately incumbents take a very long time to defeat.
Xcode is easily the largest (non-game) app on my computer, and it’s really just a glorified CLI client.
> It's interesting that the complaint for scrutiny comes now when loud liberal voices are upset with current rulings.

FWIW, the scrutiny first came about because Justice Thomas's wife was involved in an insurrection against the government.
> a Makefile and vim (or emacs, or even nano, I'm not going to judge your kink)

The advice is common enough that it has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle.

There is no gatekeeping. There is a suggestion that C is best used for projects that have builds no more complex than a Makefile configuration. There is explicitly no ~judgement~ limit on what ~kink~ text editor one may use to edit the files.
Are they? A couple of years ago, I had to remind some disgruntled friends that a very popular president, at the height of his popularity, put out the idea of expanding the court, and failed entirely. You could look it up.

Thomas Jefferson, who had solid majorities, tried and failed to remove the obnoxious Federalist Samuel Chase.

How about "This pissing in the wind is a subtle way to change a weather pattern you dislike?"
No. We aren't this paranoid. Keylogging could be as far up the stack as the employee's brain.
There is actually a whole podcast called 5-4 that goes over how illogical and partisan the court is and always has been. Every episode is a specific case. They go over the actual arguments and show why they don't work. You can educate yourself there.

Also, you're pointing out that the rulings are consistent with the views of the judges. This is missing the point because what if you have set A of judges with views X and set B of judges with views Y afterwards and they overturn or gut A's rulings? It's an admission of partisanship and outcome bias, which the supreme Court is not supposed to have. The problem isnt that an individual judge is inconsistent, it's that different sets of judges are inconsistent. It be like if when a company changes it's board they go from car company, to gamedev, to crypto, to defense, etc. How would that be a desirable result?
Modern OSes can search within files for text, which mostly obviates using the filename for keywords.
Seems like you missed the part where I literally typed "giving back." Or that I literally contributed part of the hashicorp codebase, specifically vault. And it's been hard continuing to do that at $DAYJOB consistently, so I've hacked on a side project in my spare time (also open sourcing plenty of useful tools during that hacking) as a means to the end of eventually finding ways to keep giving back directly and teaching others to do the same.
That is literally an advertisement.
Irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, at this scale of developer community it's all about mindshare. They could've created a compelling paid support or other product offerings, but haven't, or maybe took too much funding and the VCs forced their hand. Regardless, it's a 1-trick pony. Even though they have other cool shit, Terraform is the golden goose, and they just strangled it.

Now someone will fork it to "Terrafoam" or whatever and that'll be it. MitchellH's vision and expertise is no longer critical to the project.
> For instance, Quake was the first FPS where the maps were truly 3D and could have one piece of floor on top of another.

And you could see both at the same time. The Build Engine used by Duke Nukem 3D could also have one piece of floor on top of another floor (or even going through another floor), but due to how it worked, if both were visible at the same time you would have a "hall of mirrors" effect instead of rendering properly. And also water: while the Build Engine faked it by teleporting the player to another room when entering or leaving a water area, Quake did not need that kind of trickery.

Other than Duke Nukem 3D, other popular FPS games from that era also used "2D map with varying height" (like the Doom family), or even simpler things like rectangular 90-degrees-only single-height maps (for instance, Wolfenstein 3D).
Grumble, grumble. This (at least O'Reilly and Skillsoft) used to be included with the professional membership.

And did I ever tell you kids that Hershey Bars cost 5 cents each when I was in grade school?
Recently, while on my usual documentaries watch, I learnt that the appendix may no longer be considered appendix.

From Wikipedia[1], “The appendix was once considered a vestigial organ, but this view has changed since the early 2000s. Research suggests that the appendix may serve an important purpose as a reservoir for beneficial gut bacteria.”

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_(anatomy)
I use Yakuake (KDE's equivalent) for my password manager at work.

I find most DE's painful without that ability. The main exceptions are i3/sway or cwm, where I just launvh a terminal and then kill it.
We've heard so much abut how people just don't want to work, but it turns out that when people can get decent wages and working conditions they'll rush to line up for jobs. UPS should have little trouble finding and keeping great employees.
This anecdote is a lot less interesting, both because of the separation (you know some people vs they run a company with direct exposure) and lack of detail. I'm sure you do know some people who contribute, but you haven't given any details about their experience that would contradict OP's claim that contributing is hard.
Yes they are. Look at how FDR threatened the Supreme Court during his presidency to get his way. The courts have always been attacked by the left to push their political agenda.
Offer and demand, increase offer to lower prices, basic economics
> And, if it did, we’d have to have a serious conversation about the “or any later version” clause of the GPL and how it makes all software using it not open source.

I was referring to people's understanding of what open source stands for, not what it actually means.

However, I can say that I personally dislike the fact that GNU projects require copyright assignments too, and that they were able to relicense all their projects from "GPLv2 or later" to "GPLv3 or later" unilaterally. I'm more willing to give the FSF that blank check than commercial entities, though.

Also, the "or any later version" means the recipient (user) chooses, not any single controlling entity.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Quake the first shooter to have a separate server where players could join and quit at will? At least that's what I remember at the time. In many games before Quake, if one player quit the whole game would quit. Rise of the Triad was great, but damn, it was painful if there was any sort of network hiccup. Quake was a revelation in that regard.
This is what these companies want you to believe, that it's a fait accompli and you just have to accept it. That's not actually reality, and giving up words and communities to people who want to corrupt them is not the right reaction.
IQ Test – Flex Your?
Hey HN,

In my college days, I'd play a game to rev up my brain. Now, I've built it digitally, and I dare you to get through 4 rounds without a mistake!

Inspired by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's work on cognitive load measured by pupil dilation.

How it Works:
- 10 columns, numbers 0-9.
- Add or subtract a set difficulty level, against the clock.
- Green for right, red for wrong or if you are too slow. ;)
- Stuck? Find the hint.

What's Next:
Thinking of adding multiplication or other twists. Upvote if you're intrigued or send a PR: GitHub Repo [https://github.com/JacMarais/warmup]

Play here: [https://brainwarmup.vercel.app/].

Tell what you think.
Can they just offer the art assets too? Anyone interested is just going to hunt them down anyway.
I go out of my way to visit it when I’m in Cape Town. Wonderful little spot.
> Ruth Bader Ginsburg did this as well.

38 trips to luxury resorts, worth millions of dollars? No. You have no evidence of that. And she disclosed the trips that she did take. She didn't hide them or lie about them. They didn't remain secret until someone interviewed the pilots and hotel employees etc. who saw her coming and going. You're making a false equivalence.

> Are the rulings that they made inconsistent with their past rulings?

Many of the recent rulings have indeed been inconsistent with the majority's stated judicial philosophies, such as originalism, textualism, or respect for precedent. As you say that's not airtight evidence, but it's far more suggestive than anything we saw in the last few courts. Roberts is running a clown show.

> The problem is this veiled call for scrutiny as an excuse

Again you make this claim about others' motives with no evidence. Is the idea of people genuinely caring about judicial integrity so alien to you? Is that the "conservative" (actually very radical) agenda you come here to fulminate about?
I'm particularly fond of this remix myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjN3UclYzU
>like the AGPL?

As I explained in an earlier thread, MongoDB tried using AGPL. AGPL is not a barrier for Amazon, they still will resell your product without contributing. MongoDB ended up using a variant of AGPL that is even stricter (requiring the entire tech stack to be under the same license) but is no longer considered FOSS. Until the attitude changes around what FOSS is, this will keep happening.
It's incredibly transitive and illusory. Right before I left Twitter (now X) last year as Elon took over, I was deep in the throes of "main character" syndrome and this & that controversy and some latest bit of gossip or outrage and whatnot.

After leaving…well, it's astounding how little any of that really has an effect on me or anyone else I can think of.

Throughout history, there are quick cultural flashpoints, sure…but most of the time the really good stuff is a slow burn, a simmer. It eventually rises to the top, but casually, organically. Most "overnight" successes are 5, 10, 20 years in the making. Algorithms are a poor, poor substitute for IRL curation.